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Intimate and intensely personal, the 36 first-person narratives contained in Real Birth: Women Share Their Stories offer readers a window into the complex and emotionally exciting experience of childbirth. Women from a full range of socioeconomic backgrounds and circumstances recount the childbirth choices theyve made and the ways those choices have played themselves out in the real life contexts of their everyday lives. Readers meet women from all over the country who speak to us directlyno interviewer intrudes, no judgements intrude, and no single method of childbirth is advocated. Instead, these women offer us their candid experiences, presented clearly and unflinchingly.
Medically reviewed by family practice physician Dr. Richard Randolph, Real Birth offers readers a plethora of correct information as wellthe kind of real scoop that other books and health care professionals are often reluctant to reveal. The result is a book that reaches across the boundaries of current childbirth literature.
Real Birth is introduced by Ariel Gore, author of The Hip Mamas Survival Guide, and contains an afterword by Grey Brown, author of Staying In. Also included are an extensive glossary of medical terms, a thoroughly researched selective bibliography, and a list of resources of interest to pregnant women.
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What's it going to be like?.......2001-11-08
The day my childbirth class was to start I was put on bed rest. Although I had read a lot about pregnancy and birth, I still didn't really know what it would feel like to have a baby. Reading these accounts of births helped a lot -- I felt I was much better prepared for the experience. I also liked Labor Day, edited by Ann-Marie Giglio, but that collection was relentlessly positive. This book include stories from women who weren't thrilled with their experiences, which seemed more honest.
The stories are organized by where the birth occurred: hospital, birthing center, home. Reading the different accounts reassured me that I had chosen the location that was right for me.
I'd recommend this book for anyone wondering what it's like to give birth.
BabyLounge.com gave Real Birth 5-pacifiers.......2001-06-13
This heartwarming book is a compilation of real women sharing their birth stories. Hospital births, births at home, and unexpected birth places. No matter where or how a woman has her labor and delivery, the end result is the same: the miracle of life, the birth of a baby. The stories shared here are bound to make you laugh and cry, and feel proud to be a woman.
Any mother knows that moms never get tired of the birth experience of other women. It is fascinating to read about the variety of way that women deliver their babies. You'll read about "normal" birthing experiences that take place in a hospital with doctors and epidurals, and you'll read about unusual experiences, such as a woman who gave birth to her baby in a tunnel. With each birthing story you will feel empathy and camaraderie with the women who share their story in this wonderful book.
Any woman who is pregnant or thinking about becoming pregnant will be amazed to read how many different ways there are to have a baby. Reading Real Birth may give a woman a new perspective about the way she would like to deliver her baby and is a must read for all expectant woman.
The author Robin Greene says, "Women share their birthing stories the way men share their war stories." Any woman who has already had a baby will read this book and will feel priviliged to know that she is among the many, the proud, the moms.
A great book about women's lives........2001-03-22
I'm far beyond my pregnancy experience now, but this book gave me a look back. I so identified with these women. What struck me was that these narratives are more than women dealing with the pregnancy experience; these are their stories of the conflicts and struggles in their lives, stretching into the relationships with spouses, other children, parents, and themselves. This is a must-read for all pregnant women, and for mothers of pregnant daughters. Great stuff!!
Greene lets the birth experience shine through.......2000-07-04
Robin Greene should be commended for her skilled handling of the 36 narratives that make up this book. Each woman relating her harrowing/funny/poignant experience of birth has her own voice and style. What was amazing was how different each birth experience was for each woman (and not just regarding the setting that it happened) but at the same time how similar their experience was in terms of it being a life-transforming event. I felt her inclusion of experiences of multiple births and of infant loss to be a choice that really rounded out this book.
Honest stories of all kinds of births.......2000-06-02
I loved reading this book. It has such a wide spectrum of births and the women in the book are so honest about their experiences. Everything from home birth to cesareans, multiple births, adoption, and even stillbirths are included. I love how the personalities of the women shine through. I would highly recommend this book to any pregnant woman!
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Memoirs of an amateur spy: The story of the first OSS spy in the Cold War with the Russians
Irving Isaacson
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In 1944, Irving Isaacson, an Army infantry officer, was awaiting shipment from England to the Normandy battlefield. Suddenly, without warning, he was drafted into the OSS -- the Office of Strategic Services -- the war-time intelligence agency of the U.S. and the forerunner of the CIA. The Memoirs are an enthralling story of Ike's change from a combat-trained infantry officer to a major espionage agent, with a lovely romance along the way.
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During the Cold War a number of high-ranking Soviet citizens spied for the CIA, providing the United States with valuable information while putting themselves and their families in great danger. In this book a seasoned CIA field operator and station chief looks at what drove these agents to betray their own country. Unlike many authors who write about spies, John Hart knows the espionage profession firsthand, and his penetrating analysis of the motivations involved is based on top-secret operational files. Four major Soviet agents--Yuri Nosenko, the dissident KGB agent who disclosed the bugs in the American Embassy in Moscow and claimed the KGB had no connection to the assassination of President Kennedy; Oleg Penkovsky, one of the West's most important agents who was eventually executed by the Soviets; and Pyotr Popov and Mikhail--are examined in depth, and the cases of six others are discussed. The stories of each reveal a great deal about the realities of the intelligence craft. Hart became so intrigued with the reasons behind the agents' spying activities that he asked then-CIA director Richard Helms for time off to investigate the cases. For a full year he searched for common denominators in the personalities of these Soviet moles that would explain their willingness to take such life-threatening risks. He had complete access to their operational files, including psychological profiles. He studied not only documentation of the material the agents provided but also their own accounts of their thoughts and emotions when they divulged secrets that could damage their homeland. Every reader with a penchant for good spy stories will appreciate this behind-the-headlines look at what makes spies tick. 264 pages. Hardcover. 6 x 9 inches.
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What Makes a Spy a Spy?.......2004-06-20
John Hart is unusual in that he retired after an apparently distinguished career at the CIA and wrote an officially authorized public version of his last assignment (which started in 1971): An analysis of the personalities and psychological profiles of a number of Soviet defectors. His goal was to identify any common characteristics that might be useful in targeting future defectors and evaluating their potential to provide useful and reliable intelligence.
Hart describes three publicly known defectors in depth, one identified only as Mikhail, briefly, and an additional six in a very cursory manner, apparently because their cases are still sensitive. He then seeks to identify common traits among the 10 cases, concluding that they were characterized by many of the following: (1) All were senior and relatively successful members of the Soviet intelligence community, KGB or GRU, having attained a typical rank of colonel, (all but one of the ten were military officers), (2) they felt resentful toward the Soviet system either because of its failure to recognize and promote them further or because it left them feeling excluded from its elite, (3) they were not motivated to defect by politics, religion, or idealism, (4) most had placed themselves in a compromised situation by poor management of personal or government funds and were seeking money to resolve these dilemmas with western funds, and (5) most thought that they were too smart to be caught by Soviet counterintelligence until it was too late. Of the four cases in which Hart reports the outcome, three were executed by the Soviets, only one successfully defected.
In relating these stories, Hart produces some fascinating insights.
Oleg Penkovsky, undoubtedly the most capable of the ten, provided intelligence on the capabilities and intentions of the Soviet leadership during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis that were probably key to President Kennedy's decision to face down Khrushchev's threats. Based on Penkovsky's reports, it was apparent that Khrushchev was bluffing.
Yuri Nosenko, the sole successful defector, was caught up in the paranoid webs spun by James Jesus Angleton who was then the head of CIA counterintelligence. Angleton saw Soviet plots behind virtually everything, including Nosenko, despite the fact that Nosenko had identified the locations of numerous listening devices in the US embassy in Moscow. Nosenko was imprisoned for much of his first two years in the US and subjected to solitary confinement and harsh interrogation. Eventually, Director Richard Helms intervened to end the mistreatment. Happily, Nosenko was exonerated and placed on the CIA payroll.
Hart also offers the fascinating hypothesis that Lenin, in forcing Russia to adopt the European industrial model, transformed Russia, perhaps permanently, from a Eurasian to a European society and nation, ending the Slavophile-Modernizer debate. It will be interesting to see if this theory is correct.
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What a trip!.......2002-05-14
This book was spellbinding! Cotton Collier & Roy Varner make this "far-out" story come to life before your eyes. Throw in a little Howard Hughes and you get a killer story. Those Reds thought they could just sneak up and spy on us- forget it! Must read for CIA fans! I could not put the book down! My thanks for my friend good pal W.C. for turning me onto this mind numbing tale.
More CIA Misinformation.......2000-05-27
This book is one big pack of lies, influenced by the CIA. The mission was a success. The Golf sub was broken into several pieces and recovered as planned. The story that 'the entire sub could be sliced apart by divers while suspended below the moon pool' is ridiculous. And the rated lift capacity of the Explorer was less than that needed to lift the dry-weight of the entire sub.
Read it if you can find it.......1999-09-13
The definitive (published) account of the Glomar Explorer project to raise a sunken Soviet nuclear missile sub. Another book covering the same events, "The Jennifer Project" has little of the detail or drama of this book.
I was a part of the story- it was fairly accurate.......1998-05-29
The book was well written. I was involved with the project from the Charter Flight from L.A. through it's docking at Long Beach, Ca. I would reccomend this book to anyone interested in the cold war period of the 70's.
VERY GOOD.......1998-03-05
I WORK ON AND HAVE PARTICIPATED IN THE CONVERSION OF THE EXPLORER TO A MODERN DRILLSHIP. MY PREVIOUS COPY WAS "LOST", I'M LOOKING FOR A NEW ONE. ALTHOUGH "THE JENNIFER PROJECT" IS A GOOD BOOK, THIS ONE IS MUCH BETTER.
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Crowns and Trenchcoats: A Russian Prince in the CIA
David Chavchavadze
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Great.......2000-09-25
As Mr D. is related to a lot of royal families in Europe, except maybe the Dutch one, there is lot to be learned here. It would be nice, now that a lot of things have changed, including, I suppose, his opinion about the faux Anastasia, to have an update.
As his book is mentioned in the reference section of a lot of recent books about the Romanovs, it was a great pleasure for me to finally get hold of it.
Wonderful, interesting reading, written by a very "sympathique" person.
Excellent.......1998-08-12
This book is an invaluable source of remembrances of what happened to the extended Russian Imperial Family post-revolution. Not too much on the spy business, but wonderful detail and many new stories pre- and post- 1917 of European Royalty. Mr. Chavchavadze is related to nearly all major Royal Houses, with complete geneological charts. His style is absorbing, readable, with much wit and elegance. My only regret is that there is no current sequel, after all the events and changes in Russia and Georgia since 1990, the publication date.
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Witnesses: Stanislav Lunev, former GRU (Russia's premier military intelligence agency) Officer, author of "Through the Eyes of the Enemy"; Peter Vincent Pry, former employee of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), author of "War Scare"; & Reps. Tom Campbell & Curt Weldon.
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Powell provides a dramatic account of how he became involved in one of the highest-profile U.S. mole hunts of recent decades. Vyacheslav Baranov, a high-level Russian spy secretly working for the CIA, is betrayed & arrested in Moscow. In Washington, counterintelligence agents search for a traitor in the upper reaches of the CIA. In the middle of it all is an American reporter whose chance encounter leads to the discovery of a double agent in the very heart of the American intelligence community. He describes the murky & dangerous world of spies & counterspies -- a world in which it is never clear whom you can trust -- as well as the lonely life of a double agent, & how the U.S. handles -- & sometimes mishandles--its double agents.
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was this really worth a book?.......2003-05-12
I left reading Powell's "Treason" wondering if his story was really worthy of a book. An meaty article in some highbrow magazine, surely, but a book?
Powell describes his involvement with bringing a Soviet turncoat, GRU Colonel Baranov, in from the cold. Baranov, disgruntled with the crumbling Soviet system, agreed to spy for the CIA. However, before he was able to do much of anything for the CIA, he was outed as a traitor. The book describes Baranov's career, and then Powell's efforts to bring the government into investigating the circumstances surrounding Baranov's arrest, almost certainly the work of a spy in the United States who betrayed Baranov to Moscow.
The main problem with the book is that it ends inconclusively. We never learn who betrayed Baranov. Furthermore, Baranov himself makes for a rather uninteresting subject of study when it comes to espionage, because his career as a traitor inside the GRU and agent for the CIA was over immediately after it began.
Readers will learn something about how spies like Baranov are recruited and operate - both into the intelligence services and then into betraying their countries. They will also learn a good bit about journalistic ethics and espionage (the book's high point). Another strong point is getting what is essentially a street level account of how badly the CIA can bungle seemingly routine tasks.
Overall, the book is well-written, and Baranov's story is a good one. I just don't think it was worth of a full-fledged book, even a short one like "Treason."
INteresting read.......2002-12-07
THis is an interesting read that raises questions about the lines a journalist should--or should not cross--when dealing with intelligence agents. I'm not sure that issue is addressed sufficiently here, in fact. Though the ending is a bit of a letdown, the story itself does draw the reader in and is unique enough to be of interest both to readers interested in spy stories as well as journalism. AN easy short read, so I recommend it.
What an experience!.......2002-11-18
What an experience! Hard to believe it'a a true story. I'm amazed by the author's courage.
I like it.......2002-11-03
an engaging well written spy story that you can read once sitting
A fascinating story by a real journalist.......2002-11-02
A fascinating story by a REAL journalist
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The Swift Runner
Manufacturer: Lippincott
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The Swift Runner
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Swift Runner
Colin Argyle Thomson
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The true story of a Native man who murdered and consumed his own family in 1839.
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The Swift Runner
Orourke
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Where to Watch Birds in Britain
Simon Harrap , and
Nigel Redman
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This valuable book surveys the best birding sites in Britain, covering almost four hundred sites in seven geographic regions, from southwest England to Scotland. The book is a rewritten, considerably expanded, and new edition of the authors' highly acclaimed Birdwatching in Britain: A Site by Site Guide, published almost twenty years ago. The authors describe each site briefly, noting what times of year are best for birding there. They also comment on each site in terms of the kinds of habitats found, whether it is reachable by car or on foot, at what times of year different species of birds may be found, and contact information. With detailed maps of the larger sites and general maps of the regions covered as well as original color artwork and black-and-white wash drawings, the book is an attractive and informative resource.
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Where to Watch Birds in Wales (Where to Watch Birds)
David Saunder
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INFO..........2007-01-31
This is a guide to birdwatching in Wales with a description of 11 sites and information on habitat, species to be seen and access. Appendices describe minor sites, national and local conservation organizations, bird clubs and societies and a complete list of bird species mentioned in the book.
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