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ASIN: 0880883839 |
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Exquisite portraits of irises by the American Impressionist C. James Frazier. Includes original sayings that a mother can refer to time and time again for a morale boost.Comes with a ribbon bookmark and a 24-K gold-plated charm.
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A Journal to Record your thoughts.......2004-05-10
Unlike a lot of the guided journals that are very structured and, in my opinion, thus limiting, this is a true journal providing blank pages for you to record your own thoughts at your own pace. The version I have (without the bookmark) has about 160 lined pages with a serene blue/white background (much like looking at the skies) and inspirational sayings in small boxes every 3 or 4 pages - just enough to motivate reflection, without taking up too much space. Mine also has plastic pockets for 20 pictures - my favorite part of the journal.
If you like to do a lot of writing, this is perfect for a mother.
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Love This Book.......2006-10-04
This is a great book! Just what a mom needs to hear on those tough days.
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A penetrating look at why today's generation looks up to the military more than its Baby Boomer parents ever did.
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A great book packed full of information!.......2003-12-03
"I can't think of anyone who wouldn't love this book. You would probably have to read 50 books to get the same information that you will find in this little gem. Spend just a few hours reading this book and you will learn more about the Military than the average person would learn in a lifetime. A must read for anyone and worth twice the cover price. I only wish I could give it more than a five-star rating.
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In The War on Truth - the long-awaited sequel to The War on Freedom - Nafeez Ahmed provides the most comprehensive and controversial critique of the government's official version of what happened on 9/11. In this extensive new analysis, Ahmed doubles the data and investigates the worldwide web of terrorist networks across space and time. Deconstructing the findings of the 9/11 Commission Report and the Joint Congressional Inquiry, he exposes disturbing liaisons between American, British and European intelligence services and al-Qaeda operatives in the Balkans, Caucasus, North Africa, Middle East, Central Asia and Asia-Pacific - liaisons linked not only to 9/11, but also to prior terrorist attacks including the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and the 1998 US embassy bombings.
Against this background, Ahmed accomplishes the most detailed and wide-ranging study to date of the powerful vested interests and intrigues responsible for the collapse of US national security in the years and months leading to 9/11. Government documents, whistleblower testimony, and the findings of official inquiries are scrutinized to trace the innermost workings of the intelligence community, revealing precisely which government policies and operations facilitated the 9/11 intelligence failure, and pinpointing the specific agencies, individuals and decisions that emasculated the US air defense system. Finally, Ahmed unlocks the underlying geostrategy of the War on Terror - the culmination of a decades-long plan to secure and expand an increasingly unstable system. For anyone who remains uneasy about government policies on, and after, 9/11, The War on Truth is an invaluable resource that will radically alter perceptions of international terrorism, national security, and the clandestine machinery of Western power.
"Nafeez Ahmed's understanding of the post 9/11 power game, its lies, illusions and dangers, is no less than brilliant. Everyone should read this wise and powerfully illuminating book." --John Pilger
"The new book by Nafeez Ahmed, based on very extensive and deep research, is by far the best on the 9/11 syndrome. Articulating and documenting what many feel, and empowering them into action, the book will have an impact on entrenched US empire elites unwilling and unable to take it on. Votes of thanks to Ahmed, and to Interlink!" --Johan Galtung, Professor of Peace Studies; Director TRANSCEND
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Brilliant account of the current wars.......2007-01-05
This fascinating book provides evidence that undermines the usual story of 9/11. Ahmed examines the `war on terror', the alleged intelligence and air defence failures of 9/11, the 9/11 National Commission inquiry, and the US ruling class's strategy for world domination.
The US state has run Al-Qaeda assets for covert terrorist operations. It used Al-Qaeda against Soviet forces in Afghanistan, against Russia in Chechnya and against Yugoslavia in the Balkans. Between 1992 and 1995, US planes flew 10,000 mujehadin fighters into Bosnia to fight alongside Bosnian Muslims.
In 1998, the US State Department described the Kosovo Liberation Army as a terrorist organisation funded and trained by Al-Qaeda. Yet the US state, through the CIA, and the British state, through the SAS, then funded, trained and backed the KLA when NATO illegally attacked Yugoslavia.
US investigators knew that Osama bin Laden was involved in the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center. Yet the CIA and MI6 played down the threat from Al-Qaeda. In 1996, MI6 funded an Al-Qaeda assassination attempt on Colonel Gadaffi of Libya, which killed six civilians.
The US state is still protecting bin Laden and his sponsors the Pakistani and Saudi states. It only pretends to crack down on Al-Qaeda and to press Pakistan and Saudi Arabia to stop backing Al-Qaeda. It is using Al-Qaeda to destabilise China and India.
The US and British states both made agreements with Al Qaeda that it would only conduct its terrorist activities abroad. But this backfired, resulting in the slaughter of innocent New Yorkers on 9/11 and innocent Londoners on 7/7.
The US state needed a new Pearl Harbor. The Project for a New American Century said in 2000, "Any serious effort at transformation must occur within the larger framework of US national security strategy, military missions and defense budgets ... Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalysing event - like a new Pearl Harbor."
As Jane's Intelligence Digest noted, "given the detailed intelligence ... and the fact that Bin Laden was making very clear threats to launch further strikes against US targets - it seems bizarre, to say the least, that no high-level political decision was taken to focus US intelligence efforts on Al-Qaeda and its international network." Ahmed observes that on 9/11 the White House systematically violated standard air force response procedures when at 9.25 am it ordered an unprecedented national stand down of all aircraft. Why?
How can we trust states that sponsor terrorism to defeat it? If we want to be safe at home we must stop the British state from supporting terrorism abroad.
Not entirely convincing.......2006-07-20
The book contains a wealth of data about the links between US intelligence and Al Qaeda. Much of the information suggests that the US intelligence has been behind the events of 9/11, yet the author falls short of making this conclusion and does not address the lack of hard evidence supporting the official conspiracy theory regarding the 19 hijackers and Osama bin Laden's authorship of these events. More generally, the author does not address the fact that international terrorism is a totally marginal issue in international affairs, used by States to justify increased police and military powers. In comparison to real international scourges, terrorism is entirely marginal. Two figures suffice to demonstrate this fact. About 15 times more people die yearly from snake bites worldwide then from terrorism. About 1000 times more people die from common murder in the United States and Europe than from terror acts. The title of Ahmed's book is thus misleading. However, I gave the book nevertheless 4 stars because the facts contained in the book are very interesting and may be considered reliable.
Behind 9/11.......2006-03-25
There have been a number of conspirachy theories trying to pin 9/11 on the US government itself. This book, skirting the paranoid versions of such a thesis with some careful research into the evidence of contradictions in standard accounts, manages to raise some very disturbing questions with the starkest question of all: what really did happen, and how do we explain the blatant anomalies in the record?
Connecting the Dots.......2006-02-13
Nafeez Ahmed has done what the corporate news media and our public officials have failed to do: offer us a plausible account of how and why America was attacked on September 11, 2001. "It has been said that the intelligence agencies have to be right 100 percent of the time and the terrorists only have to get lucky once," observed Mindy Kleinberg, whose husband died in the WTC. "This explanation for the devastating attacks of September 11th, simple on its face, is wrong in its value. Because the 9/11 terrorists were not just lucky once: they were lucky over and over again." The War on Truth tells us why.
Frightening, Alarming,Ominous, Terrifying.......2006-02-01
This book is a sequel to author's "War on Freedom".Contains facts which are undoubtedly explosive,disturbing.Author says American-led 'war on terror'is a colossal fraud enacted on a global scale.
There was American-Al Qaeda alliance in Balkans during Yugoslavian civilwar.From 1992-95 Pentagon assisted the movement of thousands of Al Qaeda men to fight along side Bosnian Muslims against Serbs.Arms for fighting this war was arranged by the intelligence agencies of US,Turkey,Iran and funelled through Croatia.During Kosovan war Anglo-American special forces trained ,armed KLA[Kosovo Liberation Army].Training continued despite the demise of Serbia's Milosevic regime.
US intelligence agencies deliberately fouled up chances to apprehend Al Qaeda supremo .In 1996 bin Laden was allowed to go to Afghanistan when Sudanese authorities were willing to turn him over.Similiarly other Al Qaeda activists responsible for 1998 US Embassy bombings in Nairobi ,Kenya were allowed to go scotfree.Instead of seizing these criminals US warplanes bombed Al-Shifa Pharmaceutical complex alleging that plant was manufacturing chemical weapons for Al Qaeda.To the contrary we know the plant was producing vaccines and had a contract for supplying to the UN.
In Oct 2001 Anglo-American forces invaded Afghanistan.Osama and his associates were again allowed to escape after coalition forces cornered him in Tora Bora caves.Further author talks about exfiltration of Taliban Al Qaeda elements from Kunduz during Afghan campaign.Pakis airlifted them to Peshawar with American connivance who threw open for this purpose 'special air corridor'.
Despite high-flown rhetoric associated with 'War on Terror'West has secretly co-opted,connived with Al-Qaeda.Why is this so?.Ostensibly to secure and expand its vital intersts which has grown to include Balkans ,CentralAsia.Goal has been to destabilise last vestiges of russian power and establish Anglo-American hegemonyin Eurasia.So strategic alliance forged during Cold War with Islamic militants has continued.The botched coup in Uzbekistn on May14-15 2005 where Islamic rebels tried to oust Islam Karimov govt must be viewed from this angle.
Ahmed's research shows despite official denial US intelligence received extensive warnings of an impending Al Qaeda strike including the likely nature of terror assault.But strangely chose not to act.Author refers to Project Bojinka.The plan called for hijacking planes and crashing them on to selected targets:CIA HQin Langly,Virginia;WTC in NY city; Pentagon and White House in Washington DC.This plan lay hidden in a laptop seized from an Al Qaeda operative by Phillipine police and subsequently decoded.The information was passed on to President and senior govt officials.Warnings of a similiar nature emanated from several sources.Concurrently Al-Qaeda men ,prelude to aattacks,were undergoing flightraining in leading flying schools of the country.Local FBI wanted to stop this but was prevented by some high officials based in Washington DC.
Further procrastination by FAA, NORAD facilitated terror attacks.Delay in scrambling air defence fighters prevented the timely interception of errant planes.Few of the fighters were misdirected and govt later resorted to specious reasoning to justify this manoeuvre.Action constitutes clear violation Standard Operational Procedures governing the interception of planes straying from established flight path.
So then ,finally,what is author driving at? Does he mean to say Al Qaeda was given a free hand to attack US? If so it sounds very cynical.How can President harm his own people which he is supposed to protect.My fear many will find this book unpalatable and few may dismiss it as absurd.But author's message to the American people is loud and clear: beware of your govt; it has taken American people for a ride by unleashing a massive disinformation campaign.While respecting author's views ,I feel more research needs to be done to establish wheather there was really a conspiracy surrounding events leading to 9/11.
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Stokes Purple Martin Book.......2007-07-25
This is an excellent book. It's very informative. This is my first year to put up a Martin House. I learned a lot from reading this book.
Purple Martins.......2007-05-29
An excellent book with suggestions on how to attract and keep martins in your backyard.
Landord-ism 101.......2007-02-26
Twenty years ago the air above the narrow street outside our little row house in Costa Rica used to teem with swallows dashing about in the later afternoon coolness. I loved to watch their antics, finding in their effortless twists and turns a vicarious agility.
When we moved house and the swallows were no longer part of our end-of-day joys, I knew that I must someday remedy this situation by having a Purple Martin house that would persuade the similar martins to take us into their company.
It's March, 2007 in Indianapolis and a late snow lies on the ground. The Martins will be here within weeks if prognostications are accurate. From the comfort of my easy chair and a laptop bookmarked to several vendors of Purple Martin houses, I've read through the excellent Stokes Guide.
These people have a rare gift for understanding the bird in question but also for speaking to the level of the interested, reasonably intelligent novice, a reader who knows very little of the topic but is capable of getting up to speed with just a little help.
That assistance comes in the form of inviting prose and beautiful photos, all presented in an affordable format.
I know a whole lot more about Purple Martins than I did just an hour ago and am just about to order that house and telescoping pole. Heck, this frozen ground can't last forever and those newbie Martins will be looking for a place to call home.
We'll leave the light on.
Everything I wanted to know about attracting Purple Martins!.......2002-01-15
My husband and I invested in a Purple Martin House, but didn't have a clue how to entice them to our back yard! I have several of the Stokes bird books and have always found them informative, easy to use, and excellent photography. I found all of this to be true in their Purple Martin Book.The book starts with Purple Martin basics, how to attract, and something I hadn't even thought of, when to expect their arrival. Each section of their breeding range has a different date, the Gulf Coast being approximately Feb. 1st, so I need to get ready in a hurry! Also covered, is their behavior, selecting housing, egg laying to leaving the nest. Dealing with predators and parasites. I don't think there was a "stone uncovered"!If you just enjoy learning about birds, this book is a joy. For me, I am hoping in a few short weeks, I'll be a Purple Martin landlord!
An essential book for Purple Martin landlords.......2000-08-12
Educate yourself before you buy a Purple Martin house. Reading this book is a great beginning. Many houses sold are not suitable and you will end up with a sparrow house. The Stokes have thorough information and nice photographs in their book. I also recommend you join the PMCA (Purple Martin Conservation Association), Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, Edinboro, PA, 16444 if you are serious about being a martin landlord.
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Don't Think of Purple Spotted Oranges!
Martin Shervington
Manufacturer: Marshall Editions
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ASIN: 1840283149 |
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Purple Martin
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"This book is a convenient, one-stop source for scads of martin information and will make informative and pleasing reading for all of [the public] who are attracted to martins, including martin 'landlords.'"
—William J. Graber III, past vice president, American Birding Association, and past president, Texas Ornithological Society and The Nature Conservancy of Texas
One of the surest harbingers of spring is the return of Purple Martins to the houses that people put up across the United States to attract these companionable birds. The bustle of courting, rearing nestlings, and fledging young martins fills the summer months, until approaching autumn lures the martins to their winter range in South America. Then human landlords refurbish their martin houses and wait for another round of this much-anticipated yearly cycle.
Robin Doughty and Rob Fergus here present a concise natural history of the bird and its centuries-long companionship with people. They discuss the martin's scientific classification and names, its migration and range, and its family life. They relate stories of how Native Americans and European colonists attracted Purple Martins and how Americans throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries helped martins survive the loss of natural nesting sites by providing houses for them. The authors also describe how whole communities have become centers for martin promotion and detail the many organizations and resources in print and on the Internet through which martin fans can communicate with each other and learn more about attracting and housing the birds.
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special relationship.......2007-04-02
This finely produced University of Texas hardback is not your typical off-the-rack 'What's that bird?' book.
What bird book do you know that begins with such picturesque scene-setting: 'It is 6:30 a.m. in late April: a strange assortment of liquid chirps, chortles, and muffled yodels threads the dimness about to be burnished. In a nearby yaupon, a cardinal hammers bellow chinks into the still-black earth. Overhead, Purple Martins lance dawn--expressing their invisible presence through these baubles of sound that hang, as do the minstrels, in the dew-rich air.'
The two Texan authors, clearly in love with their land and the birds that fly above and well beyond it, maintain this lyrical tone throughout a volume that is more collector's item than reference book.
93 pages of such reflection, printed on high-quality stock, cover 'Classification: Species and Names', 'Migration and Range', 'Colonial Regard: Early Interest in Martins', 'Martins and Bird Protection', 'Life of the Purple Martin', 'Purple Martin Promotion', and 'Landlords'.
As Doughty and Fergus recognize early on, their topic is the 'special relationship' that binds these migratory and acrobatic birds and the humans who have adored them in this country since colonial times. It seems almost touching rather than tragic that in most of the North American continent Purple Martins are entirely dependent upon human beings for housing.
I first became aware of the Purple Martin-loving community by barely noticing the Martin homes that the Amish around my town in Central Pennsylvania built beautifully simple Martin houses. My wife recently reminded me that Harrison Ford memorably ran into one of these in his car in the film Witness, then poignantly ended his refugee time among the Amish people by bending is newly acquired carpentery skills to build a (replacement?) Martin house.
Now I own the scratches on my leg from having assembled - just now - my first Purple Martin house, soon to be erected in the front yard of my Indiana home.
If THE PURPLE MARTIN is to be believed, Ford's generosity is arguably still to be remembered as Martin dads and moms teach their fledgelings to seek and to enjoy the company of men and women, some of whom welcome their Springtime return from winter in the tropics with almost religious zeal.
Though the authors are both scientists, they have produced something near to a work of poetry, attractive for its high-quality construction and both endearing and informative for the loving labor that has taught us to love these acrobats of the sky, intrepid travelers, loyal friends, witnesses to creation as an act of good love.
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Enjoying Purple Martins More is the first-ever complete handbook for the purple martin landlord. Includes a scout-arrival-dates map, a predator baffle design, and a martin colony troubleshooting chart. This handbook will help you be a better martin landlord, and your purple martins will thank you.
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Writers of the Purple Sage
Manufacturer: Viking Adult
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Westy Martin #6 (of 8). Western Boy Scouts stories.
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5 Books (3 TONI MORRISON + 1 Alice Walker + 1 Harper Lee): 1) Beloved / 2) The Song of Solomon / 3) Jazz / 4) The Color Purple / 5) To Kill A Mockingbird (Unboxed Set of Books)
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