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Lou Gehrig started his professional baseball career at a time when players began to be seen as national celebrities. Though this suited charismatic men such as Babe Ruth and Joe DiMaggio, Gehrig avoided the spotlight and preferred to speak with his bat. Best known for playing in 2,130 consecutive games as well as his courage in battling amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (a disease that now bears his name), the Iron Horse that emerges from this book is surprisingly naïve and insecure. He would cry in the clubhouse after disappointing performances, was painfully shy around women (much to the amusement of some of his teammates), and particularly devoted to his German-immigrant mother all his life. Even after earning the league MVP award he still feared the Yankees would let him go. Against the advice of Ruth and others, he refused to negotiate aggressively and so earned less than he deserved for many seasons. Honest, humble, and notoriously frugal, his only vices were chewing gum and the occasional cigarette. And despite becoming one of the finest first basemen of all time, Jonathan Eig shows how Gehrig never seemed to conquer his self-doubt, only to manage it better.
Jonathan Eig's Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig offers a fascinating and well-rounded portrait of Gehrig, from his dugout rituals and historic games to his relationships with his mother, wife, coaches, and teammates. His complex friendship with Ruth, who was the polar opposite to Gehrig in nearly every respect, is given particularly vivid attention. Take this revealing description of how the two men began a barnstorming tour together following their 1927 World Series victory: "Ruth tipped the call girls and sent them on their way. Gehrig kissed his mother goodbye." Eig also shares some previously unknown details regarding his consecutive games streak and how he dealt with ALS during the final years of his life. Rich in anecdotes and based on hundreds of interviews and 200 pages of recently discovered letters, the book effectively shows why the Iron Horse remains an American icon to this day. --Shawn Carkonen
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Lou Gehrig was a baseball legend -- the Iron Horse, the stoic New York Yankee who was the greatest first baseman in history, a man whose consecutive-games streak was ended by a horrible disease that now bears his name. But as this definitive new biography makes clear, Gehrig's life was more complicated -- and, perhaps, even more heroic -- than anyone really knew.
Drawing on new interviews and more than two hundred pages of previously unpublished letters to and from Gehrig, Luckiest Man gives us an intimate portrait of the man who became an American hero: his life as a shy and awkward youth growing up in New York City, his unlikely friendship with Babe Ruth (a friendship that allegedly ended over rumors that Ruth had had an affair with Gehrig's wife), and his stellar career with the Yankees, where his consecutive-games streak stood for more than half a century. What was not previously known, however, is that symptoms of Gehrig's affliction began appearing in 1938, earlier than is commonly acknowledged. Later, aware that he was dying, Gehrig exhibited a perseverance that was truly inspiring; he lived the last two years of his short life with the same grace and dignity with which he gave his now-famous "luckiest man" speech.
Meticulously researched and elegantly written, Jonathan Eig's Luckiest Man shows us one of the greatest baseball players of all time as we've never seen him before.
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Excellent biography!.......2007-07-21
I'll be totally honest, this book made me cry... twice. I've read towering biographies before that were informative and enlightening, but read like phonebooks (see "The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt" by Edmund Morris). "Luckiest Man" reads more like a novel, a story about a shy guy who deeply loves his family and tries to always do the right thing. About how this guy did everything he could for his mother and did everything he could to succeed in baseball. You're there with him emotionally just as he finally begins to embrace his fame and enjoy his celebrity, as he breaks out of his shell of shyness and finds true love. And you're there when he gets thrown the biggest curveball of his life, blames himself for his mysterious decline, and hopelessly believes that there may be a cure. This book is as informative as it is heart-breaking. I HIGHLY recommend it!
This one really moved me.......2007-07-12
I thoroughly enjoyed this book, I felt a connection to the story which surprised me.
I lived in Rochester, MN for most of the 90s, I've been to many of the places outlined in the book, I worked for the Rochester newspaper, which has several mentions, and I've seen the Lou's cancelled check, which is on display at the Mayo clinic.
From that background, I felt this as a completely real story of both heroism and tragedy. This is real stuff, a completely honest telling of the rise and fall of a man who might have been any of us.
Powerful.......2007-04-19
Jonathan Eig has unleashed a grand slam of human spirit and fortitude in this biography of legendary baseball great Lou Gehrig.
We read it all. From Gehrig's impoverished beginnings through his stellar career as the New York Yankee's first-baseman in 2,130 consecutive games, to his slow, agonizing battle with ALS.
He clutched onto hope as if it were a bat, repeatedly stating, "I have a 50/50 chance" for what was an incurable disease.
This is not only baseball at its best, but also an extraordinary study into human character and strength of mind.
Well researched. Writing superb.
Very Well Done.......2007-04-19
This is the by far the best Gehrig book available (I named my son Gehrig and have probably read most of them). It gives a more personal look at him than the others. If you want statistics and information on his baseball exploits, this may not be the book for you. If you want to learn about a truly remarkable man of integrity, this book will offer you a glimpse of him that has not been offered before.
Disappointing.......2007-04-03
I found the book no more revealing than the movie, Pride of the Yankees. A straight arrow with unhealthy devotion to his mother. A man socially crippled by such a desire to please momma. There's little explanation about this devotion or about many aspects of his life which results in a one dimensional portrayal. And did I miss an explanation as to the "feud" between Lou and Babe --- which prompted Lou to turn his back on the Babe after a Babe homerun? Maybe I slept through that part. (It couldn't have been the cruise incident -- Babe was traded shortly thereafter).
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Excellent biography!.......2007-07-21
I'll be totally honest, this book made me cry... twice. I've read towering biographies before that were informative and enlightening, but read like phonebooks (see "The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt" by Edmund Morris). "Luckiest Man" reads more like a novel, a story about a shy guy who deeply loves his family and tries to always do the right thing. About how this guy did everything he could for his mother and did everything he could to succeed in baseball. You're there with him emotionally just as he finally begins to embrace his fame and enjoy his celebrity, as he breaks out of his shell of shyness and finds true love. And you're there when he gets thrown the biggest curveball of his life, blames himself for his mysterious decline, and hopelessly believes that there may be a cure. This book is as informative as it is heart-breaking. I HIGHLY recommend it!
This one really moved me.......2007-07-12
I thoroughly enjoyed this book, I felt a connection to the story which surprised me.
I lived in Rochester, MN for most of the 90s, I've been to many of the places outlined in the book, I worked for the Rochester newspaper, which has several mentions, and I've seen the Lou's cancelled check, which is on display at the Mayo clinic.
From that background, I felt this as a completely real story of both heroism and tragedy. This is real stuff, a completely honest telling of the rise and fall of a man who might have been any of us.
Powerful.......2007-04-19
Jonathan Eig has unleashed a grand slam of human spirit and fortitude in this biography of legendary baseball great Lou Gehrig.
We read it all. From Gehrig's impoverished beginnings through his stellar career as the New York Yankee's first-baseman in 2,130 consecutive games, to his slow, agonizing battle with ALS.
He clutched onto hope as if it were a bat, repeatedly stating, "I have a 50/50 chance" for what was an incurable disease.
This is not only baseball at its best, but also an extraordinary study into human character and strength of mind.
Well researched. Writing superb.
Very Well Done.......2007-04-19
This is the by far the best Gehrig book available (I named my son Gehrig and have probably read most of them). It gives a more personal look at him than the others. If you want statistics and information on his baseball exploits, this may not be the book for you. If you want to learn about a truly remarkable man of integrity, this book will offer you a glimpse of him that has not been offered before.
Disappointing.......2007-04-03
I found the book no more revealing than the movie, Pride of the Yankees. A straight arrow with unhealthy devotion to his mother. A man socially crippled by such a desire to please momma. There's little explanation about this devotion or about many aspects of his life which results in a one dimensional portrayal. And did I miss an explanation as to the "feud" between Lou and Babe --- which prompted Lou to turn his back on the Babe after a Babe homerun? Maybe I slept through that part. (It couldn't have been the cruise incident -- Babe was traded shortly thereafter).
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Music, Discipline, and Arms in Early Modern France
Kate van Orden
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In this groundbreaking new study, Kate van Orden examines noble education in the arts to show how music contributed to cultural and social transformation in early modern French society. She constructs a fresh account of music's importance in promoting the absolutism that the French monarchy would fully embrace under Louis XIV, uncovering many hitherto unpublished ballets and royal ceremonial performances.
The great pressure on French noblemen to take up the life of the warrior gave rise to bellicose art forms such as sword dances and equestrian ballets. Far from being construed as effeminizing, such combinations of music and the martial arts were at once refined and masculine-a perfect way to display military prowess. The incursion of music into riding schools and infantry drills contributed materially to disciplinary order, enabling the larger and more effective armies of the seventeenth century. This book is a history of the development of these musical spheres and how they brought forth new cultural priorities of civility, military discipline, and political harmony. Music, Discipline, and Arms in Early Modern France effectively illustrates the seminal role music played in mediating between the cultural spheres of letters and arms.
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A United Nations insider exposes how anti-American and antidemocratic forces have hijacked the UN and put America and its allies at risk
Politicians and pundits are imploring the United States to give the UN a major role in American foreign policy. But as bestselling author Dore Gold reveals in Tower of Babble, it is absurd to look to the UN to fight aggression, combat terrorism, and preserve global order. The UN is an abject failure—a fatally flawed organization that has actually accelerated and spread global chaos. And it is dominated by anti-Western forces, dictatorships, state sponsors of terrorism, and America’s worst enemies.
In his New York Times bestseller Hatred’s Kingdom, Gold blew the lid off Saudi support for terrorism, and now he uncovers an even more important story. As a former UN ambassador, he has a unique insider’s perspective on why the UN fails to address—or in many cases exacerbates—the very problems it was created to solve. He shows how President Franklin Roosevelt’s great vision has been corrupted beyond recognition.
Using internal UN documents and classified cables, Gold presents stark evidence of how the UN ignores mass murder, emboldens terrorists, props up dictators, and otherwise betrays its mission to protect the world’s security. Tower of Babble reveals:
• Why America can—and indeed must—go outside the UN to address the most serious threats to national security
• How the UN jeopardizes the success of the war on terror—and how terrorist groups have actually penetrated UN organizations
• How, in the space of a year, the UN turned a blind eye to two horrifying episodes of mass murder—and why the slaughters could have been prevented
• How the oil-for-food scandal only hints at the UN’s repeated failures to deal with Saddam Hussein’s Iraq
• How the UN’s new international criminal court threatens America’s sovereignty
• How the UN’s startling record of failure has led Presidents Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Clinton, and George W. Bush to bypass the UN Security Council
As this hard-hitting book reveals, it is, quite simply, a myth that the United Nations is a positive force for world order or the “sole source of international legitimacy.” And unless the United States and its allies recognize this now, they will continue to put themselves at risk.
"Dore Gold's book is informed and informative. It can be read with pleasure and profit by anyone with a genuine interest in the United Nations. I warmly recommend it."--Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, former Ambassador to the United Nations
"For anyone wondering what's wrong with the United Nations, this is the book to read. Providing both a concise history and an urgent warning for our own time, Dore Gold in clear and lively detail explains how and why the UN too often promotes not peace, but problems--and what we can do about it."--Claudia Rosett, columnist, the Wall Street Journal's Opinionjournal.com
"Dore Gold's Tower of Babble is bound to be one of the most controversial critiques in the public debate on the UN."--Henry Kissinger, Former Secretary of State
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United Dictators Against Freedom.......2007-07-17
The author, after making an earth-shaking exposure of the corruption and greedy deeds of these evil organization, ends up with a tepid note of hope. It just doesn't make any sense. "Money-for-Food" they called it, when they had been fooling the whole free world (the West) by pocketing millions themselves and their club of world dictators. Is this hope inspiring? Refusing to prevent, or do anything to stop, the killing of hundred of thousands of black Africans in Rwanda, and getting away with it? So many, mind you: so many, many issues that have gone practically unnoticed since the end of WWII that are calling for the close-down of this modern day Babylon.
This book picks the most important scandals around the world and exposes them in an easy to understand language. The facts are naked, you put the adjectives. Do we need any more evidence to call this gang a state-sponsored mafia? Will Amazon let me publish this review in my second try? How can Iran be one of the countries to tell us what human rights should be?
A must read to know what we are contributing to with our money.
Talkshop for dictators.......2006-05-14
In the introduction, the author shows that at least once in its existence the United Nations served the purpose it was created for. That was in 1990 when the Security Council took a stand against Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. Unfortunately, in every other instance it has failed, mostly spectacularly and often with tragic consequences. There were for example the peacekeeping disasters of Somalia 1993, Rwanda 1994, Srebrenica (Bosnia) 1995, Kosovo and Congo/Zaire. The last two crises flowed from the Bosnia and Rwanda disasters respectively. The refusal to confront evil is the major flaw of the UN. This refusal eventually morphed into collusion with evil, as the Oil For Food scandal demonstrates.
In chapter 2: Failure Foreshadowed, Gold discusses the birth of Israel in 1948 when there were no UN forces to withstand the Arab aggression. Likewise during The Kashmir War of the same year between India and Pakistan. Already the organization was betraying the vision of its founders by not acting against the aggressor. And from there it went downhill: Tibet followed in 1950, India annexed Goa in 1962 and many similar acts followed. Chapter 3: Cold War Freeze, looks at the North Korean invasion of the South in 1950, the 1956 Soviet invasion of Hungary and the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. The next chapter deals with the Six Day War of 1967 and Resolution 242. The UN remained passive and actually enabled the outbreak of war.
During the Iran-Iraq War that started in 1980, the UN again refused to condemn the aggressor and it did nothing about Saddam's 1987 chemical attacks on the Kurds. After the Gulf War, it again ignored genocide, this time against the Shia Muslims of Iraq. In chapter 6: Impartial To Genocide, the disturbing and heartbreaking events of the Rwandan genocide are recalled. General Romeo Dallaire warned the Dept of Peacekeeping Operations - then under Kofi Annan - of the impending horror, but the warning was ignored. In some instances, UN forces colluded with the mass murderers. The UN's inaction ultimately led to a regional war in Central Africa.
The next chapter deals with the tragedy of Srebrenica and the other supposed "safe havens" in Bosnia and shows the duplicity of the UN and certain European governments. Chapter 8 discusses the international criminal court, a highly politicised concept from the beginning, and one that cannot be expected to be objective. Chapter 9 provides proof of how the UN backs terrorists, with particular reference to the terrorist organization Hezbollah in Southern Lebanon and the many instances of collusion between it and the UN's UNIFIL force.
The author concludes that the major cause of these failures is the international body's moral equivalence. It does not distinguish between right and wrong, good and evil or victim and aggressor. Although he was responsible for the failure in Rwanda, Kofi Annan nevertheless became Secretary-General. The Oil For Food scandal and the underreported child sex abuse scandals have completely undermined the organization's legitimacy. It adopts numerous Anti-Israel resolutions every year but has for years ignored the genocide in Darfur. In fact the perpetrator Sudan was elected to its Human Rights Commission in 2004.
The 2001 UN Conference Against Racism in Durban was an openly Antisemitic hate fest. Unlike the EU or Africa, Israel is isolated in that it does not form part of a larger bloc, and it is always up against the Arabic and Islamic states. Although it has failed utterly to halt aggression and bring about a peaceful world order, the UN is still protected by the ideology of political correctness. Some of its agencies still perform good work, but overall the spiral is further downhill as documented in the Afterword with further revelations on Darfur, sexual abuse by UN peacekeepers, oil for food monies that went to terrorists and UN agencies infiltrated by terror groups. An example of the latter is UNRWA and its ties to Hamas.
The Appendix: The Paper Trail, provides evidence on various failures like Rwanda, Bosnia, Iraq, Oil For Food and UNRWA's ties to Hamas, mostly from the United Nations' own documents. There are extensive notes, acknowledgements and an index. The book includes maps of the Kashmir Dispute, Korean War, Cuban Missile Crisis, the Six-Day war, Rwanda, and its Neighbours, the Bosnian Conflict and Lebanon and Israel. There are also 17 black and white photographs of personalities and tragic evidence of the UN's failures. In addition to this valuable and informative book, I recommend The UN Gang by Pedro Sanjuan, Global Deception by Joseph Klein, The UN Exposed by Eric Shawn and Inside The Asylum by Jed Babbin.
The prevailing ideology of Isolationism.......2006-04-01
In 1990-1995, Liberia forced more than 800,000 people into exile. The UN did not exercise its influence and power stopping the injustice. The UN did not bring justice to the Khmer Rouge leaders. In the 1970s, the Khmer Rouge murdered millions of Cambodians and the UN did not authorize a forceful stop to the murder. The UN was late in response to the 1994 Rwanda War. In 1998, five African countries invaded Congo and by 2001, 2.5 million people were killed and it was not until 2003 that the UN dispatched French forces to establish law and order, a year latter. The UN is letting special interests dictate policy and these economic and social incentives prevent action. The UN policies and actions are seemingly covert; the UN does not want an informed public. The UN is dysfunctional and this ineptiness increases the chance of crimes against humanity. The UN has no deterent capacity.
The UN is not a legal body operating to some objective legal criteria. The UN can maintain diplomatic neutralism in the face of genocidal murders and this is immoral. The UN is taking the side of evil not to fight against evil. The maximum too resist not evil seems to apply to the powerless because the powerless should not provoke greater anger and bring destruction upon them by acting. "The ability to confront evil means the willingness to act boldly and ruthlessly and without consensus". The UN cannot act without consensus and if it's members can reframe from voting then they in essence have prevented healthy action. The ability or refusal, to recognize evil and boldly confront evil is the UN's salient flaw.
The UN has had an unusual amount of authority within the Middle East. The UN affirms the legitimate right of the Palestinian people to resist Israeli occupation. The UN has not deterred the terrorist threat in the Middle East nor has the UN, the supposed protector of international peace and security and improved peace in the world. Instead the UN has gerrymandered itself to many totalitarian regimes giving them voice in shaping world affairs. The UN ideology is weak; the UN remains silent on the peoples right too a representative government; the UN ideology has caved from a position of morality too one of relative morality.
The UN did not create Israel. The UN did not owe its existence to a UN parition plan or UN resolution. The Arab leaque refused to accept the Jewish state.
The Arabs did not disguise their aggression towards Israel and made the following statement "this will be a war of extermination and a momentous massacre which will be spoken of like the Mongolian massacres and crusades." The Arabs represented a group of states against Israel. The UN declared for the first time they would react too the threat with armed intervention. The UN did not react and the failure to act would result in serious injury to the prestige of the UN. The UN called for an Arab cease fire even as the old city of David was falling; 57 synaguoges and academies were destroyed. The Israeli Defense Force (IDF) under the leadership of Yitzhak Rabin took Kastel allowing 131 trucks carrying 500 tons of food passage into Jerusalem saving a population of 160,000 where 100,000 were at risk.
In 1967, Syrian pressed their claims to the Sea of Galilee, Israel's only source of fresh water, which the armistice had established was entirely within the territory of Israel. In Syria had a new defense treaty with Egypt and April of 1967, Syria escalated shelling of villages in northern Israel. The Israeli's responded to the unusually heavy Syrian artillery barrages by launching fighter aircraft and shot down six Syrian Sovet Mig fighters. Syrian infiltrations increased. IDF, General Yitzhak Rabin warned Syrians that continue provocations would lead to a firm Israeli response that would endanger the Syrian regime. Israel was deterring Syria from exploiting their topographical advantage on the Golan Heights to shell Israeli civilians. The Soviet Union exploited the situation to spread rumors about Israel's plans of expansion inflaming the Arab world. The Soviets warned Egypt that Israel was planning a major offensive against its Syrian military partner. Israel vociferously denied the charge. The UN did nothing to stop the escalation and confrontation crisis. The Egyptians prepared for war. May 18, 1967 President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt massed 80,000 soldiers and 550 tanks on Israel's southern border. Egypt was conveying aggressive intent and commanding the UN Emergency Force to withdraw its peacekeepers from along the border between Israel's Negev Desert and Egyptian Sinai. Egypt artillery gun overlooked the Straits of Tiran, a vital lane Israel depended on for access to the Red Sea and ultimately the Indian ocean. U Thant ordered the UNEF withdrawal and war emanating in the region. U Thant reported to the security council, "Relations between peoples on opposite sides of the line are such that if the United Nations buffer should be removed serious fighting would, quite likely, soon be resumed" Nasser announced he was closing the Straits of Tiran, thereby enacting a blockade against Israel shipping. It was an act of war. Nasser was a pan-Arab advocate intervening in the politics of Algeria, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and Yemen, where he dispatched a huge expeditionary army in 1962. In 1964, Nasser was known as the "Hero of the Soviet Union" and Soviet admirals were constantly visiting Egypt seeking naval and air bases to counter the US sixth fleet. The UN did not convene to discuss the Egypt-Syria crisis. The Soviet representative said, "The Soviet delegation deems it necessary to stress that it does not see sufficient grounds for hasty convening of the Security Council and for the artificially dramatic climate fostered by the representatives of some Western powers". It is obvious the Soviets wanted Egypt to act out and continue in his confrontational course. Superpowers can not go to war because of mutual assured destruction through the escalating possibility of nuclear weapons; however, superpowers manipulated local governments to engage in confrontations in localized theatres and establish dominance indirectly. Jordon's King Hussein placed his armed forces under Egypt. Two Egyptian commando battalions joined nine Jordanian brigades that were poised to strike Israel from the Jordanian-controlled west bank and 1/3 of the Iraqi army traversed Jordanian territory and was positioned to cross the Jordan River. The battle was intended to destroy Israel and they knew Israel could not absorb the first blow. June 5, two hundred Israeli aircraft destroy Egyptian air force on the ground. More than a 1,000 Israeli's were injuried during the Jordian assault, Israel held its fire until Jordanian troops crossed into Jerusalem. Syria, sent bomber to attack Israel's oil refineries in Haifa Bay and in response Israel destroyed 2/3 of the Syrian air force. Finally, Iraqi bombers attack Israel and prompted an Israel counterstrike. June 10, 1967, Israel had captured the Gaza strip and the Sinai Pennisula, destroying the Egyptian military that had threatened a mass invasion and Israeli forces had captured the West bank and dismantled Jordanian military. They had recovered the old city of Jerusalem. And finally Israel had taken the Golan Heights from Syria. The UN involvement in the conflict had been a dismal failure. The Israeli army had defeated Soviet arms on the battlefield. It was not up to America diplomacy to decisively beat back Soviet initiative at the UN.
The tower of Babel was a futile attempt to unify all people subject by one government. The massive pyramid of money, technology, lust, and greed compelled the people to build upward. Time was their enemy because resources were not unlimited. It was only a matter of time before the tower had too be abandoned as a futile effort. The UN does not have the capability too maintain or create World peace.
God punished the people for their vanity. The people of the tower of Babel fell into confusion and their languages were changed. Individual tribes and small communities emerged with each tribe establishing customary laws and cultures. The idea of one single unifying power was destroyed. The UN will also fall upside and great will be its fall. Hopefully the "deep rooted" ideology of isolationism will compel the US too abandon the United Nations and remove its entanglement in the affairs of other nations. Peace will prevail as nations stop entangling themselves into the economic, social, and moral administration and politics of other countries.
What about Bush Multinationals?.......2006-02-07
This is an outing of the weakness of the UN, but what about the one world government being created by the Multinationals who are taking American's sovereignty away? This mad rush towards Globalism pushed on by the Bush Neocons, and his corportate crony insiders, should be of even more concern. Compared to them, the UN is impotent.
A Jewish Perspective on The UN's Role in the New WOrld Order.......2005-08-09
This book is written exclusively from a pro-Israeli stand-point. The author is a former Israeli ambassador to the UN and, as such, spends chapter after chapter trying to exonerate Israeli foreign policy which has often been condemned by several UN Security Council resolutions.
However, this book is a useful guide to showing you how politicians create a 'camouflage of confusion' and how the many UN splinter organisations have consistently aided genocide in Africa by handing out free guns.
Not really essential reading - and has no information at all about the founding of the UN, the Meditation Temple in the basement and the UN's links to the Alice Bailey Lucis (Lucifer Publishing) organisation.
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In this follow-up to his bestselling expose about Saudi Arabia's support of global terrorism, Dore Gold, a former ambassador to the United Nations, reveals how the United States faces a dangerous world filled with terrorists and troubling regimes because the United Nations has created a global crisis with its moral relativism. Asserting that the United Nations has failed in its mission to preserve peace, that anti-American and anti-democratic forces have hijacked the UN, Gold argues that United Nations, founded in 1945 to hold individual nations accountable to a community with common democratic values, has abandoned the guidelines for acceptable conduct and punishment of its violators. Gold carefully documents this devolution, starting with the Cuban Missile crisis to the 2003 war against Iraq and beyond.
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Tower of Babble: How the United Nations Has Fueled Global Chaos.(Book Review): An article from: Middle East Quarterly
Asaf Romirowsky
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Title: Tower of Babble: How the United Nations Has Fueled Global Chaos.(Book Review)
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This book works from an ingenious, unstated premise: birds eat insects of every conceivable description, but most birders know surprisingly little about those insects. Waldbauer, a retired professor of entomology at the University of Illinois, offers an accessible, well-written primer on bird-bug ecology, concentrating on "context"--the role of birds in the lives of insects, and of insects in the lives of birds. Among other things, he touches on the evolution of different beak shapes and sizes; on insect defense systems such as stinging or the production of noxious chemicals; and even on the curious turnabout whereby some insect species, such as certain kinds of ants and spiders, feed on birds. This lively book belongs in every birder's library. --Gregory McNamee
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When the first birds appeared on earth about 150 million years ago, the insects were here to greet them. Inevitably the two groups came to exploit each other, and as the eons passed, they became increasingly enmeshed in a complex web of interrelationships--birds eating bugs, blood-sucking insects feeding on birds, parasitic insects infesting birds, and birds struggling to rid themselves of the parasites. In The Birder's Bug Book Gilbert Waldbauer, a veteran entomologist and an accomplished birdwatcher, describes these and many other interactions between birds and insects. A beguiling blend of anecdote, ornithology, and entomology, rendered in the engaging style that has won over scientists and amateur naturalists alike, this book is an excellent introduction to the intricate interplay of insects and birds.
With the birds and the bees it's not so much sex as mutual exploitation. Most birds feed mainly on insects, taking them from the air, from vegetation, and from deep within wood. The insects fight back by camouflaging themselves or by mimicking insects that birds find unpalatable. Many insects suck blood from birds or infest them, lodging in their feathers and nests. The birds fight back by preening, by taking dust or water baths to discourage lice and other bugs, and even by rubbing themselves with ants, whose formic acid repels many insects.
As entertaining as it is informative, The Birder's Bug Book will appeal to all those interested in birds, bugs, and natural history. Profusely illustrated with drawings and color photographs, this book offers a cornucopia of facts about the life history and behavior of insects and birds.
Customer Reviews:
You'll never look at bugs the same way.......2007-01-20
This book is a thrill-ride from start to end. Unbelievable you say - but it's true. The author's engaging down to earth style makes this read like a movie. I learned more about insects from this book than any other insect book I've started to read and put down. The only other book I can compare it to is David Attenborough's Life in the Undergrowth. Attenborough is a great writer. And he has amazing pictures. but The Birder's Bug Book is the one I would buy, and would give to my kids. It's just an incredibly fun book to read, and it really reveals (as a previous reviewer has noted) the web of life.
Here's the web of life for you.......2001-08-06
This is a very informative, easy to read book that talks about the interrelationships of bugs and birds, how they've evolved together, how bugs try to deter birds, how birds work to overcome the defenses, and how people are playing a role. It goes into detail that is just enough for someone like me who doesn't have a science background but want to know more than tjust the basics. Its got a lot of fun (and not so fun) facts that make you think and simply broaden your perspectives. I'm glad I bought it
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Citation Details
Title: THE BIRDER'S BUG BOOK.(Review) (book review)
Author: Hope Woodward
Publication:
Wilson Bulletin (Refereed)
Date: June 1, 2000
Publisher: Wilson Ornithological Society
Volume: 112
Issue: 2
Page: 303
Article Type: Book Review
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