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There is a feeling of helplessness in the hearts of many parents. The social problems that they used to only read about in newspapers are becoming manifest in their children's school, in their neighborhoods, and in their own homes. This is the most appropriate time for a book that affirms the importance of good parenting in promoting happiness, self-esteem, and a desire for achievement. Why Parents Matter challenges parents and parental figures to take responsibility for their children. Barber argues that parental investment is an essential ingredient for a child's successful upbringing. Parents must see that the paramount role they play can improve their children's lives and, by extension, create a better community and society. Genetic and societal causes of delinquency are excuses used merely to avoid blame, according to Barber, who supports this argument with clearly explained evidence. In today's world, teen pregnancy, divorce, and crime are undeniable and common realities, but it is time to change these realities. This change can begin with effective parenting. Our world will improve as we more actively parent our children to become responsible, well-adjusted adults. This book offers guidance to parents and parental figures who wish to explore why it is that our youth are in danger and how we can help to inspire them to learn the elements necessary to lead healthy, creative, and balanced lives.
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Most commentators propose a nightmare vision of future warfare: a battlefield of drones and robots with no place for human intuition or will. In this book, Professor Christopher Coker presents a new and radically different view. New technology will free the warrior from the mass slaughterhouse of twentieth-century warfare, and soldiers will once again find their humanity on the field of battle.
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The Cold War is Over, What Happens Now.......2006-03-09
This book is a theoretical investigation of the future of warfare. His term is the Re-Enchantment of war by which he means the re-humanizing of warfare after a period of de-humanizing automation.
I find myself remembering a walk through the battlefield at Kennesaw mountain. Inbetween the Northern and Southern lines were the pits in which forward pickets or skirmishers lay watching for an unexpected attack. The lesson to me was clear. Here were men saying this is my hole in the ground, and you don't get past me while I'm alive.
Today we are involved with a mission in Iraq where every day it seems that one or two soldiers are killed. They are killed one at a time, not in some kind of mass killing machine, but one at a time. How has this changed since Concord or Thermopylae?
The author proposes a great difference in warfare as will be conducted by technologically advanced powers and others. Perhaps. The power at the disposal of the technically advanced soldier is going to make the battlefield a very lonely place. Concentrations of men will become targets. Machines may fight machines, but as the old Army saying goes: Boots on the ground will win the war.
Putting Soldiers Back into the Game.......2005-03-09
This book is a theoretical investigation of the future of warfare. His term is the Re-Enchantment of war by which he means the re-humanizing of warfare after a period of de-humanizing automation.
I find myself remembering a walk through the battlefield at Kennesaw mountain. Inbetween the Northern and Southern lines were the pits in which forward pickets or skirmishers lay watching for an unexpected attack. The lesson to me was clear. Here were men saying this is my hole in the ground, and you don't get past me while I'm alive.
Today we are involved with a mission in Iraq where every day it seems that one or two soldiers are killed. They are killed one at a time, not in some kind of mass killing machine, but one at a time. How has this changed since Concord or Thermopylae?
The author proposes a great difference in warfare as will be conducted by technologically advanced powers and others. Perhaps. The power at the disposal of the technically advanced soldier is going to make the battlefield a very lonely place. Concentrations of men will become targets. Machines may fight machines, but as the old Army saying goes, Boots on the ground will win the war.
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What do Russia, Zaire, Los Angeles, and--most likely--your community have in common? Each is woefully unprepared to deal with a major epidemic, whether it's caused by bioterrorism or by new or reemerging diseases resistant to antibiotics. After the publication of her critically acclaimed The Coming Plague, which looked at the reemergence of infectious diseases, Laurie Garrett decided to turn her highly honed reportorial skills to what she saw as the only solution--not medical technology, but public health. However, what she found in her travels was the collapse of public-health systems around the world, no comfort to a species purportedly sitting on a powder keg of disease. In Betrayal of Trust, Garrett exposes the shocking weaknesses in our medical system and the ramifications of a world suddenly much smaller, yet still far apart when it comes to wealth and attention to health.
With globalization, humans are more vulnerable to outbreaks from any part of the world; increasingly, the health of each nation depends on the health of all. Yet public health has been pushed down the list of priorities. In India, an outbreak of bubonic plague created international hysteria, ridiculous in an age when the plague can easily be treated with antibiotics--that is, if you have a public-health system in place. India, busy putting its newfound wealth elsewhere, didn't. In Zaire, the deadly Ebola virus broke out in a filthy and completely unequipped hospital, and would have kept up its rampage if the organization Doctors Without Borders hadn't stepped in, not with high-tech equipment or drugs, but with soap, protective gear, and clean water. Most of the world still doesn't have access to these basic public-health necessities. The 15 states of the former Soviet Union have seen the most astounding collapse in public health in the industrialized world. But during a cholera epidemic, officials refused to use the simple cure public-health workers have long relied on--oral rehydration therapy. Many of the problems in these nations can also be found in one degree or another in the U.S., where medical cures using expensive technology and drugs have been emphasized to the detriment of protecting human health. The result? More than 100,000 Americans die each year from infections caught in hospitals, and America has a disease safety net full of holes.
A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist (for Newsday and others), Garrett has deftly turned what could have been a very dry subject into dramatic reportage, beginning with the eerie silence on the streets of Surat, India, where half the city's population (including doctors) fled the plague, while a thick white layer of DDT powdered the ground. Fascinating, frightening, and well-documented, Betrayal of Trust should be read not only by medical professionals and policymakers but the general public, and should galvanize a change in thinking and priorities. --Lesley Reed
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What do Russia, Zaire, Los Angeles, and--most likely--your community have in common? Each is woefully unprepared to deal with a major epidemic, whether it's caused by bioterrorism or by new or reemerging diseases resistant to antibiotics. After the publication of her critically acclaimed The Coming Plague, which looked at the reemergence of infectious diseases, Laurie Garrett decided to turn her highly honed reportorial skills to what she saw as the only solution--not medical technology, but public health. However, what she found in her travels was the collapse of public-health systems around the world, no comfort to a species purportedly sitting on a powder keg of disease. In Betrayal of Trust, Garrett exposes the shocking weaknesses in our medical system and the ramifications of a world suddenly much smaller, yet still far apart when it comes to wealth and attention to health.With globalization, humans are more vulnerable to outbreaks from any part of the world; increasingly, the health of each nation depends on the health of all. Yet public health has been pushed down the list of priorities. In India, an outbreak of bubonic plague created international hysteria, ridiculous in an age when the plague can easily be treated with antibiotics--that is, if you have a public-health system in place. India, busy putting its newfound wealth elsewhere, didn't. In Zaire, the deadly Ebola virus broke out in a filthy and completely unequipped hospital, and would have kept up its rampage if the organization Doctors Without Borders hadn't stepped in, not with high-tech equipment or drugs, but with soap, protective gear, and clean water. Most of the world still doesn't have access to these basic public-health necessities. The 15 states of the former Soviet Union have seen the most astounding collapse in public health in the industrialized world. But during a cholera epidemic, officials refused to use the simple cure public-health workers have long relied on--oral rehydration therapy. Many of the problems in these nations can also be found in one degree or another in the U.S., where medical cures using expensive technology and drugs have been emphasized to the detriment of protecting human health. The result? More than 100,000 Americans die each year from infections caught in hospitals, and America has a disease safety net full of holes.A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist (for Newsday and others), Garrett has deftly turned what could have been a very dry subject into dramatic reportage, beginning with the eerie silence on the streets of Surat, India, where half the city's population (including doctors) fled the plague, while a thick white layer of DDT powdered the ground. Fascinating, frightening, and well-documented, Betrayal of Trust should be read not only by medical professionals and policymakers but the general public, and should galvanize a change in thinking and priorities. --Lesley Reed
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Informative But Practically Unreadable.......2007-02-07
Laurie Garrett's researchers have compiled for her an enormous amount of data which clearly shows that health care infrastructures around the world are no longer in any condition to prepare or protect people from the next terrible plague let alone maintain the status quo among diseases that were once thought to have been all but eradicated from the planet. Garrett threads her way through health-care crises around the world, from Africa to India to Russia, but it is the state of American health care that makes up the largest chapter in the book, and it is the demise of American health care that should be the most startling. We have all known for a long time that something was terribly amiss with health care in the United States, but "Betrayal of Trust" reveals that the problems are much, much deeper than many of us realized, almost to the point of absolute despair. Health care may be tenuous at best in third-world countries and the former Soviet Union, but this is mostly because those countries are impoverished or cash strapped, whereas in the United States, although we are rich, we have allowed our health care to degrade through conservatism, politics, and greed.
All public responsibilities and services that have been privatized or deregulated have suffered similarly, driving up costs while lowering quality--private contractors must, after all, make a profit; they must get their little bite, their "mordida", and they must stifle competition and pay off politicians in order to maintain hegemony in their fields--but in the realm of health care this means that someone (or lots of someones, usually poor someones) will suffer or die needlessly. It also means that while no one is immune from contagion, the public health system is now too complex, with too many competing interests, to adequately direct any consistent policy of public health. Franklin Delano Roosevelt understood that government exists only to serve the people, and he took extraordinary (and quite successful) measures which demonstrated that government could improve the lives of its citizens. For the last several decades, we have lived under a government that believes it exists to serve business, that in this way, indirectly, the people's lot will improve. But all of those little "mordidas" add up, and so costs and debt have gone up also.
This is all made very clear in "Betrayal of Trust", through timelines of indomitable men and women who took the reins and made things happen; who found cures for polio and eradicated smallpox; who created a generation of Americans with no memory of the sadness of all-too-common childhood diseases and death. But while this evolution from greatness to complacency becomes clear as the reader progresses through the book, Garrett's style of writing is so poor that it is a struggle to get from page to page. Basic grammar and punctuation may not be her strong suit, but at least her editor should have corrected her redundancies (how many times must we read that the doctors in Zaire had no gloves? One...two...three...four...five...six...). And why do academic writers refuse to set off their introductory prepositional phrases with commas? Sentence after sentence runs on such that the reader must stop, back up, re-read the sentence, mentally place the comma, and then go on. Graduate students cringe when they are assigned this book, but the information remains important. Garrett's researchers did their jobs well.
Way scary, but a really good read........2007-01-17
I read this for a University course. I kept it. The public is woefully undereducated about public health and by definition it affects us all. I highly recommend this book.
promising start but poor finish.......2005-10-01
If horror writer Stephen King ever suffers from writer's block, he should read this book's opening chapter, where Pulitzer Prize winner Laurie Garrett describes traveling into the plague ravished Indian city of Surat. The description, which belongs more in the Book of Revelations than in a chronicle of modern day health care, is stomach churning. Irula tribesmen are paid to catch the plague carrying rats - and are encouraged to eat their prey. The rats, being the breeding grounds for all conceivable types of plagues and pestilences that they are, quickly turn the Irula predators into their prey. Even as the yesinia pestis bacterium and its bubonic plague cousin were devastating the city, Surat's Aids-racked prostitutes continued to ply their trade. Life goes on, even in the midst of death.
So, of course, do HIV and other killer microbes in environments like Surat where ignorance reigns supreme. The description of Surat's Ved Road is like something out of Dante's lowest circles or the Pharaoh's Egypt after God's plagues had done their worst. If you can imagine legions of bloated sewer rats letting loose billions of plague carrying fleas, you can begin to imagine Surat.
Surat is not even the scariest place she describes. Although, for example, Mobutu and his ilk let loose the dogs of war, they also unleashed Africa's most lethal microbes as well. Mobutu's Zaire gave us several outbreaks of Ebola, which with lassa, yellow fever and Marburg disease ranks as among the most fatal diseases currently stalking Africa. Although Ebola has inspired Hollywood to make "Outbreak" and a few other B-grade movies that may be soon coming to a movie house near you, the trouble is that our globalized village means that Ebola and its killer cousins may also soon be coming to a slum town near you. Garrett tells us to beware of the coming deluge.
For Russia, it may be too late. If Garrett is to be believed, Mother Russia's failure to provide healthcare for her children is on a par with Europe's Black Death of the fourteenth century. The collapse of the evil empire has unleashed epidemics of diphtheria, flu, typhoid, cholera, dysentery, TB, syphilis, gonorrhea and Aids. Alcoholism and drug abuse compound the situation. Radiation is also endemic - buildings made from waste products produced by Soviet nuclear facilities speckle the landscape of her major cities. Pollution, radiation, and malnutrition are gnawing away at the people's immune systems and Russians' life expectancy continues to fall as a result. Not even the epidemics of antiquity come close to the apocalypse now plaguing that blighted and thoroughly polluted land.
Soviet surgeons, if Garrett is to be believed, never even learned to scrub their hands - even Groucho Marx knew that much. And even if they now know what to do, they can no longer be bothered. Russia's sanitation standards are now worse than Africa's. Because Russia's sewage pipes are mixed, almost as a matter of course, with water pipes, her tenements are breeding grounds for today's super bugs, which are resistant to all known forms of penicillin and its derivatives. As if all of that was not bad enough, Aids and TB - Ebola with wings, as Garrett describes it - is endemic in today's Russia. Russia's hospitals are so unhygienic that being a patient or a worker there is like playing Russian roulette - with a fully loaded chamber.
Nor is that the end of it. Russia has 2 million IV drug users. Ten to 15 per cent of the Russian population has some experience with IV drug use. Welcome to Hell. And to a hitherto largely ignored major Aids epidemic. Mother Russia is at the forefront of the globalized sex industry and of the plagues of globalized sexually transmitted diseases, which are such an integral part of that booming industry. Not only are child prostitutes plying their trade directly in front of the Russian parliament but, with the rest of Russia's lost generation, they are literally giving the world a more virulent form of Aids. Russia more resembles Dante than Dostoyevsky.
There is, in all of this, a great and urgent story to be told. Unfortunately, Garrett does not tell it. After informing us how tiny Estonia rescued itself from Russia's fate with the help of the Swedish Academy of Science, Garrett's book just goes downhill. She spends over 200 pages giving us a potted history of America's health care system from Christopher Columbus and Typhoid Mary up to Hilary Clinton and beyond. Then, for those of her readers who are determined to see the book through to the finish, she spends another 60 pages crying Wolf about biological warfare before giving us 70 pages of largely superfluous notes. Stephen King does not make those mistakes. He sticks to his plot and terrifies his readers. Garrett should have done the same. In trying to put several books under one cover, she trivializes the traumas of India, Africa and Russia and fails to scare us out of our complacency. So even though Bill Clinton and a clutch of Nobel Prize winners endorse the book's fly cover, a smaller book packing a more lethal punch would have served her purpose better.
Betrayal of Trust.......2005-06-25
I really enjoyed reading this book, so much so that I assigned it as a text for a course in Issues in International Health. The writing is clear, and the topics addressed are timely and detailed. As a text, it would be better to have more and shorter chapters. As a source of information, it is excellent.
Not a quick read, but thought provoking.......2005-02-05
I love Laurie Garrett's work and have read both this book and _The Coming Plague_. And I am ready for her next treatise whenever she may print it.
What reviewers say about the lengthiness and sometimes meandering style is true. When I read her first book, I was reminded of a joke I heard when attending an exhaustive, three day long training about HIV/AIDS counseling and testing. One of the presenters quipped that you might feel like you were dying of AIDS even though you never had it.
Reading this book, you can feel wearied and overcome by the problems. But, if you go with her style, where she interweaves facts with stories of real pepole impacted by the very trends she cites, you get a greater sense of the dimensions of the problems and the reality of the issues.
As we watch our president dismantle so many care systems, I think the chapters on what happened to Russia when they did the same have extreme relevance.
The publish date of this fine book means that some of its data is aging but the representation of the problems and trend remain timely.
Read it.
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Good- too US-centric .......2007-09-26
Very interesting book, however the last chapter focuses extensively on the US healthcare system, something that wasn't of much interest to me.
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Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Health
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A Field Guide to the Birds of the Indian Subcontinent
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This is the most comprehensive photographic guide to the birds of India and the Indian subcontinent. Never before have so many of the region's species been illustrated in one book.
The brilliant photographs--most of which appear here for the first time--have been carefully selected to show not only the most common Passerine and non-Passerine species, but also more elusive species and distinctive subspecies. An up-to-date distribution map and a unique code indicating frequency and global status are provided for each of the 668 species covered. The concise text provides vital information on habitats, habits, and voice to ensure accurate identification.
Designed for easy use, the book places photos and maps in close proximity to provide an at-a-glance overview for each species. Birds are indexed by both their common and scientific names.
This is an essential volume for all birdwatchers and wildlife enthusiasts as well as for anyone traveling to India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Pakistan, Bangladesh, or Bhutan.
Bikram Grewal has written more than twenty books on India, including three guides to its birds. He is a biodiversity expert for the Indian government.
Bill Harvey is a lifelong birdwatcher who has lived throughout the Indian subcontinent. He published the first authoritative checklist on the birds of Bangladesh as well as numerous articles and is a cofounder of the Northern Indian Bird Network.
Otto Pfister is a wildlife photographer whose work has appeared in numerous publications. He has also published several illustrated articles on birds.
- Gorgeous full-color photographs
- Distribution maps for all species
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- Photographs, text, and maps in close proximity for at-a-glance overview
- Expert text aids species identification
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Birds of India.......2007-03-20
The book helped me to identify one bird I saw in Pakistan which I tried in other books.
Avoid.......2003-07-26
wORTH aVOIDING - BAD PICTURES ( A FEW GOOD) NO MATCH FOR THE INSKIPP - NOT A GUIDE BUT A PICTURE BOOK
"A" for effort, "B plus" for results.......2003-04-21
This book is a very noble effort at a photographic field guide to Indian birds. Not surprisingly, the quality of the photos varies from excellent to marginal-at-best; a few species could not possibly be intentified from the photos provided. Having said that, this book does contain several valuable features lacking from the other Indian bird guides. The range maps are displayed along with each species, with symbols and notes on the relative rarity of each species. Another very nice feature is the inclusion of the older, common (English) names which is great for those who have birded in India for awhile. I also like the smaller size and portablility of this book. The bottom line: if you are going to take one bird field guide to India, I wouldn't take this one- the Grimmett/Inskipps or Kazmeirczak "non-photo" guides are better bets. However, if you are a serious birder and don't mind packing two bird books, I'd highly recommned taking this one along to supplement the information in the other field guides.
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- The only complete field guide for the birds of India.
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A Pictorial Guide to the Birds of the Indian Subcontinent
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This comprehensive book depicts all bird species found on the Indian Subcontinent. The entries are arranged familywise on 106 colour plates which follow each other in systematic order and are thus easy to find. Beautifully illustrated by the American bird painter, John Henry Dick, the book provides concise information concerning status, size, habitat and distribution within subcontinental limits. The text has also been completely revised and updated with a great deal of new data.
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The only complete field guide for the birds of India........1998-08-14
I used this book for three years while living in India. While its illustrations are not as robust or detailed as those of western field guides, they are usually adequate. First, and foremost, though, is that this volume is currently the ONLY book that contains all the species. Others contain a mere fraction. For that reason alone, this is the one book you should get for IDing birds in India. The rest lead only to disappointment, unless used in conjunction with this one.
This book is the illustration subset of the much larger Handbook, which comes in a 10-volume set (or in one tiny-print "compact" volume). The two work well together: one for your field forays, and one for the bookshelf back home. Be warned, though: the compact Handbook, while an exhaustive study of each species (including migration maps and exhumed stomach contents, etc.) is expensive when you can find it.
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