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Filled with drama, this classic account follows every step that led to the disastrous fall of Singapore to the Japanese in February 1942. The Japanese army, though outnumbered by 20,000 men, defeated the British only one week after the actual assault began. "Fortress" Singapore turned out to be nothing of the sort, with its defenders ill prepared and complacent. It was all too ripe for handing Japan its second victory of the war after Hong Kong.

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Debacle.......2004-06-15

For anyone living outside the former British Empire, it is virtually impossible to describe the calamitous psychological impact of the loss of Singapore in 1942. Winston Churchill had touted Singapore as the Gibraltar of the East; it was imagined to be impregnable, yet it was overwhelmed in a relative heartbeat by the Imperial Japanese Army, which rapidly advanced through Malaya (sometimes even by bicycle). Indeed, once the Japanese reached the island of Singapore itself, their main problem was that they had overrun their supply lines and were almost out of ammunition. Much has been made of the "complacency" on the British side that led to the debacle; the simple truth is that Singapore was only ever a trading post, that its defenses were more imaginary than real and that the local British and Australian troops, when put to the test, defended themselves very bravely. Barber paints a vivid picture of the pre-war Singapore, a place where English families would travel down to the same shop every week for Streets Ice Cream; where pink gin was lovingly poured at the clubs; where "There'll Always be an England" was sung on Sundays. Plainly Barber is in love with Singapore's history (as his other books on Singapore attest); from that perspective he conveys the sting of defeat just that more sharply.

Sinister Twilight - The Fall of Singapore

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Sinister Twilight - The Fall of Singapore
Noel Barber
Manufacturer: Fontana / Collins
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Sinister Twilight : The Fall of Singapore
Noel Barber
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ASIN: B000KEX7EC

SINISTER TWILIGHT THE FALL AND RISE AGAIN OF SINGAPORE

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SINISTER TWILIGHT THE FALL AND RISE AGAIN OF SINGAPORE
BARBER
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ASIN: B000S6RIC4

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Sinister Twilight The Fall of Singapore
Noel Barber
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ASIN: B000WE0LDU

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SINISTER TWILIGHT: THE FALL AND RISE AGAIN OF SINGAPORE.

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Sinister Twilight: The Fall of Singapore, 1942

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Sinister Twilight: The Fall of Singapore, 1942
Noel Barber
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A sinister twilight; the fall of Singapore

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A sinister twilight; the fall of Singapore
Noel (1909-) Barber
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A sinister twilight;: The fall of Singapore, 1942

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A sinister twilight;: The fall of Singapore, 1942
Noel Barber
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A SINISTER TWILIGHT. The Fall of Singapore 1942.
Noel: Barber
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ASIN: B000VUR93A

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THE SIX FOOLS

Zora Neale Hurston

Who's the biggest fool?

Is it the girl who floods her basement with cider, the man who jumps into his pants, the farmer who feeds his cow on the roof, or the woman who tries to fill her wheelbarrow with sunshine?

Based on a story collected by Zora Neale Hurston during her travels in 1930s Gulf States, The Six Fools is an outrageously funny tale about a dashing young man who finds foolish folks aplenty and true love!

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Enjoyable! .......2007-01-24
We picked up The Six Fools at the Library as part of our ongoing study of myth, folklore and legends...it's one of the few African American stories that my branch of the library has on the shelf and I'm glad I did. Here we have the story of a young man who becomes engaged and discovers that his fiancé and her parents are fools and so he decides that he's going to go out into the world and if he can find three fools bigger than them, he'll return to marry the daughter. The Six Fools is one of those rather surreal tales that doesn't really make much sense, but are a joy to read...filled with humor and images that will entertain children and adults alike. Does our young man find three fools and return to marry the girl...but of course, the world is full of fools, but you'll have to read to find out exactly how foolish the people he encounters are! A joy to read for adults and kids alike, I give The Six Fools four stars, both the text and the illustrations work well tighter in this story, recommended!
The Six Fools.......2006-02-15
The Six Fools is a story/folk tale collected by Zora Neal Hurston.

This tale interweaves the surrealism of African Folklore and Hurston's abstract style for a story that is full of enchantment all the while set to the tone of a children's book.

The story is creatively spun with Hurston's unique fashion and use of rich dialect. Encouraging the audience to be drawn in at the conflict of the story, which entails the protagonist confronting his future `family to be' with a challenge. He informs them that in order to marry their daughter, he must make a journey in order to find three additional "fools" as big as they. The tale continues and ends with magical word play and wonderful imagery.

Ms. Thomas has skillfully adapted/translated this tale to a comprehensive yet comical story for children. The illustrations by Ms. Tanksley are vibrant, colorful miniature works of art that can tell a story without dialogue.

Eleanor S. Shields, Black Butterfly Review

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An Account Of The Escape Of Six Federal Soldiers From Prison At Danville, Virginia: Their Travels By Night Through The Enemy's Country To The Union Pickets
William H. Newlin
Manufacturer: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
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ASIN: 0548312729

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This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's literature.

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Cities Of The World, Volume 1: Africa (Cities of the World Vol 1: Africa)
GALE
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Cities of the World: A Compilation of Current Information on Cultural, Geographical, and Political Conditions in the Countries and Cities of Six Con

Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
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Cities Of The World, 4 Volume Set (Cities of the World)
GALE
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Long-term care in six countries: Implications for the United States (Fogarty International Center proceedings)
Robert L Kane
Manufacturer: For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off
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New Perspectives in Special Education: A Six-Country Study of Integration
Cor J. W. Meijer , and Sip Jan Pijl
Manufacturer: Routledge
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ASIN: 0415083362

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It is now widely believed in many Western countries that the segregation of students with special educational needs is problematic. Consequently, there has been a general move towards integrating special and regular education into one system that caters to a much wider range of students. br br b /b b i New Perspectives in Special Education /i /b evaluates the varied results in the hope that teachers and other professionals may be able to profit from each other's experiences. The book provides both quantitative and qualitative information, analyzing the similarities and differences between integration practices in six Western countries: the US, Italy, Denmark, Sweden, England and Wales and the Netherlands.

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The Carolina backcountry during the American Revolution

The Carolina backcountry during the American Revolution

Ninety Six: The Struggle for the South Carolina Back Country
Ro Bass
Manufacturer: Sandlapper Pub Co
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ASIN: 0878440399

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The Carolina backcountry during the American Revolution.......1998-10-19
Mr. Bass begins the book with a general description of the settling of South Carolina, in particular the town of Ninety-Six and the other early townships. He then proceeds with a very detailed account of the actions in the state during the Revolution. Every major action in the state is discussed in detail, as are most of the minor ones. If you want to know how the war was fought in the southern theater this is a great source. However, it can get a bit confusing at times as there are a large number of commanders appearing and disappearing and moving about. My only real complaint is the extensive use of local place names without a lot of explanation of where they are in relation to the present except in the most general of terms. Some of these are more fully described in the notes but many more could and should be there. Inclusion of one or more detailed maps showing all the settlements, fords, forts, ect. mentioned in the work would be an enormous plus. In spite of this defect I have learned more about the history of South Carolina during the Revolution from this one work than from all the other sources I have read combined. This is not a work for the casual reader but for a student of the American Revolution's Southern Theater it would be hard (and if more maps were included almost impossible) to beat.
The Carolina backcountry during the American Revolution.......1998-10-19
Mr. Bass begins the book with a general description of the settling of South Carolina, in particular the town of Ninety-Six and the other early townships. He then proceeds with a very detailed account of the actions in the state during the Revolution. Every major action in the state is discussed in detail, as are most of the minor ones. If you want to know how the war was fought in the southern theater this is a great source. However, it can get a bit confusing at times as there are a large number of commanders appearing and disappearing and moving about. My only real complaint is the extensive use of local place names without a lot of explanation of where they are in relation to the present except in the most general of terms. Some of these are more fully described in the notes but many more could and should be there. Inclusion of one or more detailed maps showing all the settlements, fords, forts, ect. mentioned in the work would be an enormous plus. In spite of this defect I have learned more about the history of South Carolina during the Revolution from this one work than from all the other sources I have read combined. This is not a work for the casual reader but for a student of the American Revolution's Southern Theater it would be hard (and if more maps were included almost impossible) to beat.

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Scott 2004 Valuing Supplement: Extended Values in Six Different Grades for Selected United States Stamps (Scott Standard Postage Stamp Catalogue Vol 1 Us and Countries a-B Valuing Supplement)

Manufacturer: Scott Pub Inc Co
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ASIN: 0894873261

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Features specific valuing information for U.S. stamps beyond the Very Fine benchmark used in the Standard Catalogue. The grading system has been expanded to six categories; Superb, Extremely Fine, Very Fine, Fine-Very Fine, and Very Good. The U.S. stamps valued in the supplement are Scott numbers 1 through 715, C1-C31, E1-E14, F1, J1-J86, K1-K18, O1-O126 (including special printings), PR1-PR125, Q1-Q12, JQ1-JQ5, QE1-QE4a and Federal Duck stamps.

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Seventy-six,: "Our country!--Right or wrong."
John Neal
Manufacturer: York Mail-Print
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ASIN: B0006VUILY

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No regrets.

Prevailing over life's circumstances

The Pill, Pygmy Chimps, and Degas' Horse/the Remarkable Autobiography of the Award-Winning Scientist Who Synthesized the Birth Control Pill
Carl Djerassi
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ASIN: 0465057586

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No regrets........2002-10-22
Revealing autobiography of the scientist who transformed the world by synthesizing the Pill.
"I have no regrets that the Pill has contributed to the sexual revolution of our time and perhaps expedited it, because most of those changes in sexual mores would have happened anyway."
Djerassi give us an incisive picture of his personal life. But the biggest part of this book tells the intriguing story of the synthesizing of the Pill and the problems to prove that there were only minor side-effects: a battle with the FDA. A good lesson for every scientist.
He is perhaps too harsh for the environmental fundamentalist. But he remarks among other things that "... in general, life in the modern industrial world has not contributed to increased death from cancer", and that "99.9 percent of all pesticides consumed by humans are derived not from synthetics but rather from the plants themselves".
Also interesting is the story of the Pugwash Conference, whose altruistic goal was corrupted by a struggle between the cold war warriors.
His biggest confession "At heart, I'm still a gambler."
Excellent work, not only for scientists.
Prevailing over life's circumstances.......2000-06-28
To read from the works of Carl Djerassi is to sample the mind of a creative genius the breadth of whose life activities spans scientific research to writing fiction and plays. His autobiography is best read in the context of some of his other works. This review of his autobiography will reference two of his works of fiction, The Bourbaki Gambit, and NO.
These books will never be on the best seller lists. Yet it precisely because of this that they should be read by scientists and engineers as food for thought. These books grew on me. By the time that I had finished them, I had experienced compelling plot lines. More importantly I had experienced the emotions of scientists at the beginnings and ends of their careers. Is Djerassi, at an age where many are spending their days playing golf or reliving their pasts, using science in fiction as metaphor for his own career? Is not the promise of the medical advances of the last several decades the time and the vitality to explore new horizons and to boldly embark on a new career, rather than to ride quietly into the sunset? If nothing else, these works celebrate creative solutions to how one manages one's career throughout one's life.
The Bourbaki Gambit has Max Weiss, professor of chemistry at Princeton University, being forced into a retirement that he neither wants nor is prepared for. Stunned at a sudden loss of all that has been his life, Max considers others in his predicament and hatches a plan to show that retirement age does not mean the end of contributions. The plan? Nothing less than to jointly make a fabulous scientific discovery, and publish it as a sole, fictitious author. Does the plan work? Read the book.
If this was all you read, you might be tempted to say that this is the swan song of an old professor, but NO takes us to the other end of the spectrum. The device for this book is the molecule nitric oxide, which is active in many physiological processes. Specifically this book is a fictionalized account of the development and commercialization of a predecessor to Viagra. urialism. In the end, both husband and wife fulfill their careers by going full circle.
To better understand these works as metaphors for a scientific career, you must read Dieresis's autobiography. The rather cumbersome title, The Pill, Pygmy Chimps, and Degas' Horse, prepares the reader for what comes -- a highly readable journey through a series of defining events in his life. Question: is it better to read the fiction first, or the autobiography? Clearly this is a man the power of whose ideas transcends science or literature. Approach the autobiography as an insight into his mind. From persecution in 1930's Vienna as a teenager; to dealing with the provincial culture of the Mid West at the outset of World War II; to performing world class chemical synthesis from an isolated setting in Mexico in the early 1950's (activities which led to the synthesis of compounds that ultimately became the oral contraceptive); Carl Djerassi defined his surroundings. Lesser individuals may have been victims of their circumstances, but Carl Djerassi took his surroundings and prevailed. This is the message of this autobiography.
Now back to the question -- which to read first. Read the fiction first. Technologists can enjoy these as stories that speak to them. An engineer nearing retirement will immediately bond with Max Weiss, who struggles with the complexities of retirement. A young technologist, one contemplating entrepreneurship, or a dual career couple will find kinship with the protagonists in NO as they struggle with pursuing their visions. Then read the autobiography. What makes the stories so good is that he is writing from experience. The young technologists in NO, working in Israel, could be the young Djerassi working in Mexico City. Max Weiss could be Djerassi at a Gordon Conference poking fun at priority at any cost mentality of some scientists. And the ever cool Diana Doyle-Ditmus represents the ideal for an intellectually and physically active senior lifestyle.
These books, read either as a set or individually, can be an inspiration to technologists at any point in their career.
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