Witness: For the Prosecution of Scott Peterson

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The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir of the young woman unknowingly ensnared in convicted killer Scott Peterson's web of lies, who risked everything to seek justice for Laci Peterson and her unborn child.

Amber Frey's life was full of blessings: an exciting new business, a beautiful home, and most of all, her infant daughter, Ayiana. But Frey had been through some unhappy relationships, and she still longed for a true and loving partner. In November, 2002, she went on a blind date with Scott Peterson. He was handsome, charming, thoughtful, and romantic. Best of all, he was single and ready to settle down–or so he said.

Their connection was immediate. Over the next few weeks, Frey and Peterson grew closer and closer. He won her over her with his warmth, humor, and intelligence, and before long, he began to speak of the beautiful future they were destined to share as a family. Soon enough, however, Frey began to suspect that Scott Peterson might not be the man he claimed to be. On December 9, he broke down in tears and told her that he had been married, but had "lost" his wife. This was weeks before Laci Peterson, eight months pregnant at the time, was even reported missing. Scott Peterson hadn't lost her, but clearly he was planning to.

Suddenly a relationship that seemed full of promise was turning into Frey's worst nightmare. Frey launched an investigation of her own. The moment she was able to confirm her worst suspicions, she contacted the Modesto Police Department and offered to do whatever she could to help. She began secretly taping her conversations with Scott, pressing him for information but never letting on that she had heard the news of Laci's disappearance. Those conversations became the basis for the prosecution's case against Scott Peterson for the murder of his wife and unborn child. Frey's whole world was turned upside down in the process. She lost her privacy, as every detail of her life was scrutinized by the media, who couldn't seem to get enough of this tragic, heart–wrenching story. But she soldiered on, looking deep inside herself and drawing strength from her faith. Frey became Laci's voice, seeking justice for women everywhere who had ever been victimized by violence.

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""No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, He will also provide a way out so that you can stand up under it.""

Amber Frey's life was full of blessings: an exciting new business, a beautiful home, and most of all, her infant daughter, Ayiana. But Amber had been through some unhappy relationships, and she longed for a true and loving partner. In November 2002, she went on a blind date with Scott Peterson. He was handsome, charming, thoughtful, and romantic. Best of all, he was single and ready to settle down . . . or so he said.

Their connection was immediate. Over the next few weeks, Amber and Scott grew closer and closer. Scott won her over with his warmth, humor, and intelligence, and he even won the heart of little Ayiana. Before long, he began to speak of the beautiful future the three of them were destined to share as a family.

Soon enough, however, Amber began to suspect that Scott Peterson might not be the man he claimed to be. On December 9, he broke down in tears and told her that he had been married, but had ""lost"" his wife. This was weeks before Laci Peterson, eight months pregnant at the time, was even reported missing. Scott Peterson hadn't lost her, but clearly he was planning to.

Suddenly a relationship that seemed full of promise was turning into Amber's worst nightmare.

Amber launched an investigation of her own. The moment she was able to confirm her worst suspicions, she contacted the Modesto Police Department, in northern California, and offered to do whatever she could to help. She began secretly taping her conversations with Scott, pressing him for information but never letting on that she had heard the news of Laci's disappearance. Those conversations became the basis for the prosecution's case against Scott Peterson for the murder of his wife and unborn child.

Amber's whole world was turned upside down in the process. She lost her privacy, as every detail of her life was scrutinized by the media, who couldn't seem to get enough of this tragic, heart-wrenching story. But she soldiered on, looking deep inside herself and drawing strength from her faith.

Witness is the chilling story of how a young woman became ensnared in Scott Peterson's web of lies, then risked everything to seek justice for Laci Peterson and her unborn child, Conner. It is also a story of forgiveness and faith, and of one woman's struggle to live with an open and honest heart. "

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Really Bad.................2007-09-24

It was terrible!

A blasphemy against God..........

Shame on you, Amber

brilliant.......2007-06-10

i was intrigued to get ambers side of the story. was a book i could not put down, finished in a day, have now lent to my friend to read.

"The Other Woman" speaks.......2007-05-10

Amber Frey was the infamous "other woman" in the Laci Peterson case. When a case like this becomes national news, we immediately scrounge for as much information as possible about all parties. I have often wondered what it was about this case that seized us to the point of media obsession for all the months and eventually years it was drawn out. It was the fact that Laci vanished on Christmas Eve, that she was about to have her first child in a few weeks, that she was living a happily married life, and that her husband Scott was so obviously a liar and so obviously guilty of her murder.

When a woman is murdered, the police will look at the most obvious suspect - the boyfriend or husband. Scott was no exception. He clearly didn't want to be married to Laci anymore, and didn't want children. So, he decided to kill the both of them rather than walk out or divorce. Part of his sociopathic tendancies and want to leave the pending fatherhood lead him to lead a double life. He had a girlfriend, and her name is Amber Frey.

Amber was innocent. She was clearly lied to and caught up in this circus. I felt pity for her, as she was an innocent pawn in this. Scott's girlfriend could have been anyone. She could have been your sister, your friend, your mother. And Amber was Anyone. What amazed me the most about her story is how Scott's lies began to unfold and how he compulsively called her during the hottest days after her disappearence. Amber did the right thing. When she realized she was not only being lied to but that he murdered his wife, she immediately went to the police and cooperated. Their taped phone conversations would unfold as some of the most critical evidence in the trial. And she never faultered. She stood her ground even though she was terrified of the whole ordeal.

Why not 5 stars? It's not a great literary work, she's just an average woman. She made her share of mistakes in life, and had them splashed all over the tabloids. She and Scott slept together on their first date, which makes us believe that the relationship could not have been very serious had Scott not been who he was. While we don't know enough about Amber to judge her, she didn't strike me as a promiscuous person. She was only human, she made some mistakes in life. And, she ended up writing a book just because she could. People were interested enough to hear what she had to say.

I hope Amber is able to live the rest of her life out of the glare of the spotlight. She'll always have this stigma attached to her, but she attempted to clear her name with this book.

A pleasant surprise.......2007-04-02

Doing the right thing isn't easy. In fact, it comes at a price. Amber Frey, an ordinary and imperfect woman, paid that price when she learned that the "perfect" man she'd been dating - Scott Peterson - not only was married, but was suspected of having murdered his missing wife and unborn baby. She assisted the police as they investigated, and then followed through as a witness in court, despite the personal difficulties doing so presented when she'd just given birth to her second child.

The case may be sensational, but this book is not. It's Ms. Frey's simply told first person account, first of her relationship with Scott Peterson and then of all that followed the moment when her slowly growing doubts about this man found confirmation. Sometimes Ms. Frey is admirable, and sometimes manifestly not; but that's exactly where her book's power lies. She's honest about herself as well as about the pathological liar who was her lover, and once she knows the truth she never wavers in her determination to see justice done for another young mother: Laci Peterson.

Not a polished work by any means, but an interesting and unexpectedly uplifting read.

A Fast Read.....Hometown Hero........2007-02-15

This book is a fast read, I just bought it yesterday and I am already halfway through it. Amber Frey's story makes the book hard to put down.I have to warn that the book has a very rapid pace, and the reader has to consider that the author had a quick and short lived relationship with Scott Peterson. I am from the same place as Amber Frey and I admire that she did what was right and went forward to tell the story from her side of this sad tragedy.

Witness: For the Prosecution of Scott Peterson

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Witness: For the Prosecution of Scott Peterson
Amber Frey
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Compelling Read.......2007-07-08

Amazing how this book kept me interested from the beginning to the end, despite the fact that I knew so much about the case. Not only that this book proved Scott's guilt, but it is also a story of a young, beautiful woman's struggle from childhood to this very scandal. She was vulnerable, yet strong. But in the end she rose above it all. However, I was deeply saddened to see the lack of support from her stepsister and the loss of friends (such as Paul) because they want to take advantage of her at the time she needed them the most.

There are lots of lesson to learn from her personal mistake...one of which is to be careful to such person as Scott Peterson. As one of her lawyer called him.....a wolf in sheep's clothing. Cold Eyes

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Amber Frey
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Amber Frey
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Around the world, women have long been on the frontlines, protesting war and military forces. The essays in this collection, from both scholars and activists, explore the experiences of local women's groups that have developed to fight war, militarization, political domination, and patriarchy throughout the world. The writings in this collection cover a range of genres from memoir and historical accounts to critical essays. What holds the writings together is an urgency to reflect on and analyze women's activism on the frontlines-from Palestine, Sudan, Iran, Kosovo, and rural India to Serbia, Croatia, Okinawa, Israel, U.S. prisons, and the racialized American South.

Frontline Feminisms: Women, War, and Resistance.(Book Review): An article from: The Middle East Women's Studies Review

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Nancy Gallagher
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A celebrated analysis of inequality's impact on human health.

Praised by The Lancet, which called it a "lucid account that ….deserves to be read by everybody interested in the politics of health," and the New England Journal of Medicine, The Health of Nations provides powerful evidence that growing inequality is undermining health, welfare, and community life in America. The book's prizewinning authors also make an urgent argument for social justice as a necessary vehicle for the betterment of society.

The Health of Nations is the synthesis of years of groundbreaking research on the connections between social structures and health and welfare, and one which Nobel Prize-winner Amartya Sen says "has much to offer in reshaping the agenda of the debate on health care." Now in a revised edition which includes a new afterword, it dramatically demonstrates that growing inequalities, far from being a benign by-product of capitalism, threaten the very freedoms that economic development is thought to bring about.

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If you vote, you should read this book........2006-12-04

For the most part, I'm one of those people who enjoy 95% of what they read and yet are largely quiet about it. I read, and then I move on. This book is one of the few exceptions to this rule. I read the hardbook version of this book during my college "Sociology of Medicine" class three years ago, and it completely changed the way I thought about the delivery of healthcare in the United States and the world. Written by two researchers in public health, Health of Nations is well-written, well-researched and fully cited. Using clear facts and analogies, it drives home the point that healthcare in the United States is a far cry from perfect. Just the fact that I read this book makes me cringe every time that I hear a politician claim that medicine in the United States is the best in the world. Every American who votes on the current state of healthcare should read this book. Soapbox aside, I'm now a third year medical student, and I still refer to this book in conversation. I have also cited it as a reference in at least three academic papers, both in college and in medical school. I'm not sure I could give such high praise to any other book I have read for school. All in all, this a well-crafted nonfiction book that will leave a lasting impression.

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Ichiro Kawachi , and Bruce P. Kennedy
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A powerful demonstration of how global economic inequality is undermining our nation's health and our quality of life. Applying to the United States the kind of scrutiny that Nobel-prize winning economist Amartya Sen has devoted to developing countries, The Health of Nations demonstrates that growing inequality is undermining health, welfare, and community life in America. Harvard professors Ichiro Kawachi and Bruce P. Kennedy review the social costs of inequality, revealing that the United States and other wealthy countries with high levels of social inequality have lower general health than do more equitable societies, rich or poor. , The Health of Nations makes an urgent argument for social justice as the necessary vehicle for the betterment of society, including improving the health of our bodies and our body politic. Synthesizing years of groundbreaking research on the connections between social structures and health and welfare, Kawachi and Kennedy show that the cost of inequality is greater than we realize. They dramatically demonstrate that growing inequalities, far from being a benign by-product of capitalism, threaten the very freedoms that economic development is thought to bring about: freedom from want, freedom from ill health, freedom to exercise democratic choice, and freedom to pursue leisure and happiness. In the vein of Robert D. Putnam's Bowling Alone, The Health of Nations is a major new work of social science with dramatic implications for public policy.

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Important contribution........2004-03-01

Chasing the American Dream could be dangerous to your health. People with extrinsic goal orientation (i.e. chasing fame, fortune, recognition, and good looks) were more likely to be depressed than the rest of the population.

The richest citizens on earth (Americans) had a higher infant mortality and lower life expectancy than 25 other economically developed nations. A high infant mortality and low life expectancy correlate with an inequality in income distribution.

Americans also took less vacation time and worked five to ten weeks more per year than people of other countries. This correlates with a high incidence of depression and other medical conditions including obesity and diabetes.

The authors concluded that economic inequality, relentless competition, escalating consumption threatened the health of the people and the nation.

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Tucked away into the verdant folds of the Cascade foothills east of Eugene, Oregon, there is a forest that has been forming since before Columbus first set foot in the New World. The 16,000-acre Andrews Experimental Forest is an old-growth forest, a description largely unknown to the American public until the late 1980s, when the spotted owl swooped into notoriety. In some forestry circles, other adjectives like decadent are used to describe this forest's towering Douglas firs, western red cedars, and western hemlocks--that is, a forest that has reached maximum wood fiber capacity. Loggers contend that allowing such giant trees to die, rot, and fall over is a waste of resources. "I'm clearcutting to save the forest," declared a partisan newspaper ad in the go-go timber years of the 1970s, when old growth was liquidated at an unprecedented rate to make way for managed forest crops. The only problem with this view is that it misses the forest for the trees. In The Hidden Forest, Jon Luoma takes us below--and above--the canopy to view the natural processes of an ancient forest and visit with the scientists working there.

The Andrews is unique in that it brings together scientists from diverse fields to join a collaborative effort, with the end result being an entire ecosystem under the microscope.

In the heart of summer research season, scientists can be found burrowing in the soil under logs; or trapping insects fifteen stories or more up in the tree canopy with the aid of rock-climbing gear; or scrambling crablike in a neoprene wet suit in a rushing, buffeting mountain stream....

One optimistic scientist is examining the process of rot in fallen trees, a study that will take two centuries in the case of these old-growth logs, meaning that "it will be up to the contemporaries of [his] great-great-great-great-grandchildren to complete the analysis he has begun." Others are busy identifying thousands of species new to science. To date, this research has yielded a "wellspring of key discoveries," turning the environmental and scientific communities upside-down. But meanwhile, the last remnants of unprotected Pacific old-growth forest continue to fall to the chainsaw. "It remains to be seen," writes Luoma, "how long it might take some entrenched U.S. Forest Service managers to fully embrace more ecosystem-based approaches." The Hidden Forest is testimony as to why sooner is better than later. --Langdon Cook

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A masterful work of natural history points the way to a new conservation model.

From the leaves at the top of the canopy to the insects living deep beneath the soil, a forest is a complete, unified ecosystem. Each event, from the growth of a single sapling to a cataclysmic fire, is critical to the life of the forest as organism.

Veteran science writer Luoma here chronicles the work of a unique and fascinating scientific research project that, over the course of several decades, will bring together scientists from almost every discipline-botanists, entomologists, wildlife ecologists, soil biologists, etc.-to piece together the long-term natural history of a single forest ecosystem, in this case a majestic old-growth forest of the Pacific Northwest.

What emerges is a wealth of information that even now is pointing the way to a new approach to forest management, one that will allow for the cutting of trees for timber, while preserving the beauty and integrity of these proud woods.

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Ought to be required reading........2007-06-13

Not only was The Hidden Forest a pleasure to read, but Jon Luoma told me so many things I didn't know. I thought I knew a great deal about forests, since I live next to a park, hike in the mountains, and have read many books about trees, but this book showed me that there really is a hidden forest right under my nose that I'd been mostly unaware of. Now, as I walk the trail through the woods, I think of the 16,000 tiny insects beneath my foot every time I take a step, and I think of the vital work they do that supports all life on Earth.

Policy decisions are being made every day--just recently the Bush administration announced plans to increase logging of old growth forests--in a political and economic climate in which most people are ignorant of the science of forest ecosystems. How can we possibly make the right choices if people are not properly informed? For example, many people have bought into the notion that protecting old growth hurts the economy and costs jobs. In fact, the losses in the salmon industry, billions of dollars, could have been prevented if old growth forests had been protected. Also, millions if not billions of dollars of damage caused by flooding in Washington and Oregon could have been avoided if the Forest Service had followed the advice of the scientists at the Andrews Experimental Forest.

Still, these scientists haven't even begun to scratch the surface of what we need to know about forest ecosystems. They haven't even identified half of the species that live in our forests. How can we know the value of what we are losing if we don't even understand what it is or how it works? Their work should be funded at a much higher level. (Check out their web site: http://www.fsl.orst.edu/lter/index.cfm )

While this book is not for everyone, it should be read by the following people:

--Policy makers in the Forest Service.

--Everyone in the Bush administration.

--People who vote.

--People who live in wood houses or use paper products.

--People who enjoy clean water.

--People who like to breath oxygen.

The rest of you needn't bother to read it.

(While I sound like I'm being paid by either the author or the Scientists and the Andrews Forest, I had never heard of either of them before my mom got me this book for my birthday. I just really liked the book--one of the best and most significant I've ever read.)

Draws Scientific Blood!.......2005-10-16

In the argument on whether or not to save old growth, this book draws scientific blood.

I read this book non-stop until I finished. I've never come across a work that so succintly explains the scientific research on old growth forests in the Northwest.

Want to understand why old growth is important? Read this book.

Just a Pleasure.......2005-02-01

I don't think I can add anything of much value to the editorial reviews, all of which are excellent and fairly describe this book. For all you who have ever walked in an old forest, gone hiking in a forest preserve, felt the immensity and wisdom that is offered there, this book brings that gloriously to life again. Luoma's description of his ride in the crane is worth the price alone. Sweeping over the forest canopy twenty-five stories in the air is not for the faint of heart. Only 209 pages of reading, it flies by in just a few days. And he brings the scientists who work on all this to our dens with such intimacy. These are people who work in the field, not huddled over their microscopes, mostly. Pick it up; you won't be sorry.

Highlighting the Hidden Forest: Luoma as Virgil to Our Dante.......2000-06-28

Luoma takes the reader on an intimate, guided tour with some of the tenacious pioneers of forested ecosystems research and the mysterious processes whereby the woods become established, grow and change--in the case of the moist coastal uplands of western Oregon, processes that take centuries to complete all their steps. For those who like their science in the field, in the raw, and introduced by the human practitioners struggling (and loving) the dance of theory and experiment, this is a must-have. Ancient Forests rhetoric too frequently airbrushes over the hard scientific inquiry that helped reveal both the uniqueness of the Oregon forested ecosystems research site and yet suggests that some of these hidden processes, or ones similar, will be found to play crucial roles in other forest places as well. If Luoma doesn't beat me to it, I could do worse than spend the rest of my career writing a series for all the Long-Term Ecological Research stations that perform the valuable work of building baselines and foundations in ecology for every major ecological region. At least, this is the sort of book that makes a reader feel that way!

knowledge made into pleasure reading.......2000-06-21

Luoma knows how to take important scientific work in forest ecology, and turn it into a book that is a pleasure to read. If learning had been this much fun in school, think how well educated we would all be today! Seriously, I like to read well-written books, but I prefer them to be to tell me things I din't know. Hidden forests does. Another really good read out this season is Bullough's Pond, a treatment of ecological history and industrial revolution that I found fascinating, and it read like a novel.

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