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How to Make Your Marriage a Lifelong Love Affair
What makes a woman fascinating to her husband? What is happiness in marriage for a woman? These are just two of the questions Helen B. Andelin answers in the bestselling classic that has already brought new happiness and life to millions of marriages.
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Should be rated zero.......2007-10-08
This is a frightening book. The frightening thing is that women will read this and actually try to follow the suggestions. I am appalled that the writer suggests that women should act like children when they are angry with their husbands because it is cute. I am even more appalled at the writer's suggestions of how to handle an abusive husband. In my opinion, the writer implies that it is the fault of the wife when the husband is being abusive. This is 100 steps backward for educating women about domestic violence. The writer should be ashamed of what she has written. She should be more ashamed that she represents her ideas as Christian. My KJV Bible does not indicate that a husband should slap his wife around no matter how she acts!!! I only hope that a woman who is being abused will seek counsel somewhere other than this book!
Condenscending .......2007-09-10
I wish I could give this text zero stars, because this was one of the most appalling books I have read. Everything from the patronizing manner it was written to the incredulous reinterpetation of Tolstoy's marriage - I felt frustrated reading this book in part due to the author writing as if her audience was ten years old.
One of the biggest issues my grandmother faced after my grandfathers death was that she had no idea how to take care of herself. Maybe some men would like the traditional wife, but if he dies or leaves then the woman is completely vulnerable. I think it is naive and arrogant to not learn how to be an independent woman, especially in this day and age. It is a travesty that there are still women who still read this and believe that in order to be loved, they must show how weak they are.
Christians don't be fooled!.......2007-08-17
I am a Christian woman, born again of the Spirit. I denounce this book.
The author uses more text from fiction than she does from the Bible. Two of the fiction writers whom she quotes throughout the book are Charles Dickens and Victor Hugo. Dickens and Hugo openly lived adulterous lives. Now tell me, would you set your lifestyle to parallel two adulterous authors' fiction writing?
My favorite quote in the book is on page 192 of the 1973 printing. The author writes: "Often men's ugly and cruel actions are the woman's fault and are due to her lack of sympathetic understanding, her failure to appreciate and admire him, her inability to accept him at face value, to place him No. 1, or other things."
First, as a follower of God, I place God first. If you are following Christ, you don't put anyone before God (Matthew 10:37).
Secondly, if an adult is "ugly and cruel" it's because he or she has chosen to be that way. It's not someone else's fault. I find that remark insulting and abusive to women -- blaming a man's wicked lifestyle choice on his wife. What hogwash!
On page 166, the author talks about a state of "Angela Human" and that a woman can make her marriage last through eternity. The Lord told people flat out that those who enter heaven would not be given in marriage, but they are as the angels (Mark 12:25). What the author is bringing to the table is from the Mormon religion, which I caution Christians, has many errors.
Here is more advice for women from the author from page 165. "You must dispense with any air of strength and ability, of competence and fearlessness and acquire instead an air of frail dependency upon man to take care of you.... And it is the absence of this air that permits many a senseless doll to capture an able intelligent man whom one would expect to choose a more sensible companion." Basically, women need to dummy down for men to please them. That's the message throughout the book. Pretend to be incompetent, but all the while use deceptive contrived behavior to manipulate your husband into doing your will. That's the message, backed up with unsubstantiated quotes and fiction.
"Women especially are inclined to be self-centered and think in terms of 'my children, my husband's success, my house, my wardrobe.' Even our special problems dominate our thinking.... We often fail to realize what narrow selfish lives we live." This quote by the author about women may be found on page 132. All I can say -- what a sexist remark.
On page 114, Andelin names several feminine jobs that are suitable for women. She writes: "Another suitable field for the older woman is that of nursing, an occupation which has always been considered feminine and benevolent." Always? How much research was built around this statement? When Florence Nightingale first attempted to help in the Crimean war, it was considered scandalous, because nursing was deemed (at the time) a man's profession. Actually, Andelin should read about the life of Florence Nightingale, who believed she was called of God to help the needy instead of enter matrimony (which was expected of her). Not everyone is called to enter marriage (Matthew 19:10-12). Paul the Apostle wrote that it was better not to be married (1 Corinthians 7).
If you're a Christian woman, your first service is to God. God should be first in your life. When women put men before God, they are asking for trouble. Instead of buying this misleading book, get yourself a Bible and study it all the time. That will bring you blessedness and eternal life (Psalm 1:1-3). Buy yourself a good concordance. Prayerfully ask God how He wants you to be. He may lead you to a good husband; he may lead you to be single. Trust God completely and cleave unto Him. Then, you will know the best life. The only book you really need, as a Christian, is the Bible. But, concordances are really nice for finding scriptures.
You may wonder why I have taken the time to write this scathing review -- because my sister has seemingly put this book before the Bible. She has tried (and is still trying) to live by this deceptive woman's fiction-laden advice. Her life is in shambles. She's tried to give her husband all the "manly jobs" (read "How to Do it" on page 102). He has plummeted the family into financial ruin. She has tried to stand behind a lying, hypocritical cheat. Her life is a complete mess.
I warn you, this book throws in a few truths from scripture (Satan's favorite trick), but is completely overshadowed by lies and fiction. Christians don't be fooled.
This book changed my life!.......2007-08-16
I'm so happy this book is still in print. I read Fascinating Womanhood about 15 years ago as a teenager. Chasing boys, thinking they wanted a pretty girl with a hot body, I was boy-crazy and bulimic. Then a friend's mother gave me Fascinating Womanhood and I studied it religiously. I worked on myself and came to embody everything in the book. Since then, I have seen the results and reaped the rewards in every relationship I've been in. After turning down several marriage proposals I married the man of my dreams and after 5 years and a child, he still worships and pines for me... all because of the principles from Fascinating Womanhood that I practice daily. This book has made my life so happy - thank you, Helen!
You don't have the perfect body or looks but if you become the "fascinating woman" in Helen's book, men will worship you! Another good (but not as good) book to follow is "The Rules."
Lace and frills=good, Plaid fabric = bad.......2007-08-06
I would rate this zero if that was an option. This book tells women how to snare a man with FAKE GAMES. It tells women to pretend to be helpless--to manipulate men into feeling superior. Why in the hell would any guy want to be with let alone marry any woman if this is how she acted? You would never know the truth. And how long could the woman put up this false front? Why would she want to? Why not be yourself and find somebody who likes you for you, rather than some fake version of an "idealized" woman who never existed?
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Destined to become one of the most influential postwar armored cars, the V-100 Commando was developed by the Cadillac Gage Company in 1962 as a private venture, and the first prototype was completed in the same year. It was designed as a multi-purpose vehicle and could function as an 11-man personnel carrier, reconnaissance vehicle, convoy escort, command or patrol car and a riot vehicle. The V-100 was tested and evaluated in Vietnam before full-scale production began in 1964. It saw widespread use in Vietnam by both US and South Vietnamese forces. This title describes the design, development and operational use of the V-100 Commando, including their continued deployment around the world.
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From website to print in Osprey.......2004-10-21
"What started as a website project on the V100 Commando history by Richard Lathrop, the book Cadillac Gage V-100 Commando 1960-71,is the first that presents the history of the V100. Starting as a privately funded prototype design that was patented in late 1962. Continuing with its first military customer, the Republic of South Vietnam Army used it in combat. And the US Army would follow later, recognizing the need for protection and firepower in a mobile package for its Military Police. The US Air Force would order a different version for its needs to protect its aircraft and bases from enemy infiltrators."
There are 39 Black & White photos and 7 pages color illustrations in this latest Osprey, New Vanguard edition.
These images show the changes to the basic V-100 vehicle as improvements were made from lessons learned in combat.
The first photos are Cadillac Gage's first armored vehicle design that was called the "Peacemaker" built on a Dodge W-300 frame, that did not go beyond the prototype stage. These are followed by design patent drawings of the "Commando" vehicle, and photographs of the early production prototypes. One photograph is at Aberdeen Proving Ground and several more of another vehicle that that I had photographed on display the Fort McCoy Museum in Wisconsin in 2001.
The following photos would show the differences in production vehicles that were sent to Vietnam. Later subtle changes in detail to the vehicles can be seen in more photographs and explained in the text.
The V-100 has an inherent amphibious ability and this is show in several photographs of the Guatemalan vehicles in a lake. Other than two photographs of the V-100 with a prototype 40mm grenade launcher turret that are laid out in reverse,(the negative is reversed) the photographs in the book provide an examples of the V-100 that would be of interest to vehicle historians and modelers alike.
In a future publication it would be nice to see more photographs of the V-100s that were operated by the US Air Force, though there are several that are can be viewed on the internet. Perhaps the next installment would feature the V-100s in service after 1971, several are still in service with U.S. police forces, and the development of the V150 and other variants that were produced and exported to other countries in the world.
Osprey's "Cadillac Gage V-100 Commando 1960-71" is definitely a book for those interested in US Armored vehicles, Vietnam, and the origins of the US Army Military Police new vehicle the M1117 Guardian. To paraphrase a coincidence mentioned in the book,"...the first US Military Police to receive the M1117 was the 720th Military Police Battalion at Fort Hood, Texas. Almost 30 years to the day they received the XM706, ...the M1117 mission requirements mirrored that of the V-100."
Reviewed by Franz Tinio-Lopez, June 2002.
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During the three years (1993-1996) Samantha Power spent covering the grisly events in Bosnia and Srebrenica, she became increasingly frustrated with how little the United States was willing to do to counteract the genocide occurring there. After much research, she discovered a pattern: "The United States had never in its history intervened to stop genocide and had in fact rarely even made a point of condemning it as it occurred," she writes in this impressive book. Debunking the notion that U.S. leaders were unaware of the horrors as they were occurring against Armenians, Jews, Cambodians, Iraqi Kurds, Rwandan Tutsis, and Bosnians during the past century, Power discusses how much was known and when, and argues that much human suffering could have been alleviated through a greater effort by the U.S. She does not claim that the U.S. alone could have prevented such horrors, but does make a convincing case that even a modest effort would have had significant impact. Based on declassified information, private papers, and interviews with more than 300 American policymakers, Power makes it clear that a lack of political will was the most significant factor for this failure to intervene. Some courageous U.S. leaders did work to combat and call attention to ethnic cleansing as it occurred, but the vast majority of politicians and diplomats ignored the issue, as did the American public, leading Power to note that "no U.S. president has ever suffered politically for his indifference to its occurrence. It is thus no coincidence that genocide rages on." This powerful book is a call to make such indifference a thing of the past. --Shawn Carkonen
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In her award-winning interrogation of the last century of American history, Samantha Power -- a former Balkan war correspondent and founding executive director of Harvard's Carr Center for Human Rights Policy -- asks the haunting question: Why do American leaders who vow "never again" repeatedly fail to stop genocide? Drawing upon exclusive interviews with Washington's top policy makers, access to newly declassified documents, and her own reporting from the modern killing fields, Power provides the answer in "A Problem from Hell" -- a groundbreaking work that tells the stories of the courageous Americans who risked their careers and lives in an effort to get the United States to act.
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The problem of International Liberalism.......2007-09-24
Samantha Power's 'A Problem from Hell' is a broad attempt to document the major acts of genocide/human rights violations of the 20th century paired with the international community's subsequent negligence in each case. She reports on the Holocaust, the Armenian genocide, and especially her major areas of research- Rwanda and Serbia.
However, Powers is content to simply recount major instances of crimes against humanity that the U.S. and other major Western powers simply ignored (a worthy historical task), rather than to document the major atrocities the U.S. supported/participated in (the far more morally serious and honest task). While she is scrupulous in her documentation of the horrors of Rwanda and Iraq, her sections on Indo-China fail miserably. She provides a lengthy and conventional chapter on the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, without mentioning to inform us about the U.S.'s massive contribution to such atrocities (only side references are provided). Additionally, she mentions in a rather depraved manner, that "In 1975, when its ally, the oil-producing, anti-Communist Indonesia, invaded Timor, killing between 100,000 and 200,000 civilians, the United States looked away" (147). In actuality, the U.S. did not look away: it funded the genocide, and President Carter deliberately escalated the intensity of the atrocities. This is the essence of Power's political backwardness. Pointing to the atrocities of official enemies is easy, it is far more difficult and necessary to point to the atrocities of the U.S. and its allies. Nowhere does Powers discuss Israel and the Palestinians, nowhere does she discuss the Pinochet, or the Contras, or Kissinger for that matter. So long as the the liberal intelligentsia refuses to stare in the mirror, the world will continue to be an arena of exploitation, injustice, and crimes against humanity.
Simply put: One of the books one must read in one's lifetime........2007-05-10
Simply put: One of the books one must read in one's lifetime.
Well researched, not so well argued.......2007-04-06
A 500+ page polemic against American non-interventionism in other people's wars. This book won the Pulitzer Prize, and it deserved to for the sheer amount of research that went into it. Unfortunately, the author's zealotry too frequently leads her to making sweeping, overly simplistic declarations, or even to contradicting her own arguments. For example, she stresses the importance of applying the term "genocide" to mass killings because of its emotional impact, yet she wants it applied so broadly that the inevitable result would be a diminution of that impact. She also applies a remarkable double standard to the Serbs: while (quite justifiably) condemning the (many) occasions in which they were the perpetrators of ethnic violence, she either excuses, tries to undermine the credibility of, or simply ignores the cases in which they were the victims. There are a number of examples of this, but the most staggering one is her depiction of their expulsion from the Croatian Krajina. The single largest episode of ethnic cleansing in the Serb-Croat-Bosnian wars, and what does she give to it? Less than one paragraph - and portrayed as a positive development! I almost threw the book across the room when I read that.
She makes it clear that in all the cases she describes, she thinks the US should have done whatever it took, up to and including sending ground troops, to stop the carnage. But she fails to really think through the logical consequences of her thesis. If genocide really is defined as broadly as she suggests, then there must have been dozens if not hundreds of episodes of it over the past century. Should the US have intervened in all of them, and how exactly - from a practical perspective if nothing else - could it have been expected to do so? Is it really advisable for a country with such a history of imperialism (and with its own record of genocide, certainly by her definition, against the native peoples of its own land) to become the world's cop? If General Dallaire was correct that he could have stopped the killings in Rwanda with just 5,000 more UN peacekeeping troops, then isn't the logical solution to reform the UN so that in future it can and will actually provide those troops? And why just America, what about all the other countries in the world that didn't intervene, either? None of these questions are really answered, at all.
Omission awarded?.......2007-04-03
Despite the Israeli policy towards the Palestinians fits the definition of genocide given in the book, Power ignores the Palestinian case. I wonder if this book was awarded for its contents or its omission. It could be a good book if complete! If you want to know about genocide, read Charny , Finkelstein and others, authors with a wider vision.
a must-read.......2007-03-12
flew through this book...its written with a great style and pace. power goes over quite a few crucial conflicts that still have aftershocks today. i read the section on rwanda in grad school, and it still makes my blood boil. also, power documents the efforts of republicans to block any actions or sanctions on iraq after hussein gassed the kurds and iranians in the 80's - of course now, they reference those crimes as reasons we were right to invade in 2003.
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