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When the Road Turns: Inspirational Stories About People with MS
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"A book that reminds us to hold tight to our dreams, When The Road Turns is an inspiring collection of stories written by people living with multiple sclerosis. When you walk through the front door of these writer's lives, you won't leave without a renewed sense of hope and a new definition of courage." -Montel Williams
Each week in the United States 200 people are diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, adding exponentially to the 350,000 people nationwide and the 2.5 million people worldwide with MS. This book is the first of its kind to share the real-life struggles and triumphs of those facing MS in one inspiring collection. In their own compelling words, seventeen people with MS take readers on a journey sharing their dreams, their emotional and physical battles, their struggle to accept the illness and their courage to create new lives. People like Israeli artist Inbal Tsur, who discovers a new way to paint after losing the use of her arms; renowned oceanographer Richard Radtke, who becomes the first disabled man to reach the South Pole; a pilot who battles the FAA to keep her pilot's license; and a woman who is now enjoying life as a mother to a new baby despite doctors' advice not to further risk her health by becoming pregnant.
When the Road Turns will be an encouragement for anyone with MS or other chronic illness, as well as those who want to better understand the disease, which may be affecting someone they love.
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Not very inspired.......2006-07-28
After reading about half of this book, I had to stop. I am not very inspired. In fact, it had the opposite effect on me. A lot of the stories I read were too much about the hardships and not enough about the positive outcomes that people had. Kind of scared me a bit..is this what I have to look forward to as the years progress? I was more inspired by Montel's book (once I got past the ego part of it).
Unrecommended.......2004-10-17
I do not recommend this book. I purchased it under the assumption that it would include individual accounts of people dealing with MS. It does, but not in the manner that I presumed it would. The book does offer individual accounts of the struggle with MS, but the stories seem to be incomplete and unorganized. As someone living with MS, I wanted to know about the individual's diagnosis history, symptoms, treatment, etc. Many of the stories never mentioned specifics or they left out important events. The idea of what the individual's have been through does make the stories inspiring, but the lack of content and organization left me feeling frustrated and sad.
Ordinary People living courageous lives.......2004-06-08
What I liked so much about this book was that ordinary people were depicted in every chapter. And what is ordinary? Is there such a thing? When MS strikes, it isn't choosey. This book strives to take a sampling of the diverse groups that MS strikes and paints a picture. There is the enlisted military man, the single and struggling mother, the artist, the air traffic controller, the poet, the scientist, all of different sex, career, economic status and type of MS. I learned so much from each and every person's story and I applaud them for coming forward and sharing what they've learned....
An Upper-Middle Class Book on MS.......2004-04-19
This book was not what I expected. Many are jetsetters and world travelers with few monetary worries. When they became ill, the only new problem most all of them had was the disease. The book is about the well-off getting ill...a malpractice lawyer, FAA flight controller, a doctor, a real estate agent, a full professor and other highly paid professionals. Apparently ordinary people are not allowed, with the exception of a father who has a bio in it.
The letter "I" is featured prominently in almost every sentence of these self-bios. Perhaps Montel encouraged her to write it ? With all that said, why can't SOMEONE write about ORDINARY people ? Talk about the REAL struggle people have, losing their spouse quite often from the stress of the disease and the struggle to keep a marriage together. She could then tell the story of how the average person has turned their life around. Instead of the upper-middle class people, who can afford to do it. Statistically, since the poor and middle class people outnumber the upper-middle class, shouldn't they be the focus of the book ?
She should have read the Australian website Jooley's Joint. It has hundreds of bios written by people with the disease. These are the real realities of it that the author doesn't want to talk about, and are the rule. Gaining great success in life from getting MS is far from common, and is an oxymoron. Yet this book promotes that idea. Job loss is even more problematic than the effects of MS. As someone who has the disease, I know about this because my dream in life was theater, and that dream may never have a chance to even get started.
MS and the drugs involved with treating it, also affects short term memory. This makes any career difficult. Yet according to the author "MS is a gift" in her own words. Tell that to the unemployed, divorced people suffering with the disease all alone. The people in the UK are routinely denied the medicines they need. And the poorer people of the world who contract it, are the least able to afford it. One can tell from an author's focus about how well off they are.
...And that has made all the difference!.......2001-09-28
The sheer variety of roads traveled in this inspirational, humorous, and engaging book illustrates the difference between merely taking baby steps through life and thriving on your journey. This book introduces us to real-life people planning and achieving awesome goals--yet living very much in the moment. Their stories resound with authenticity, humor, awareness, and determination. I felt myself nodding in agreement at so many of their reactions to everyday obstacles. You certainly don't have to have MS to thoroughly enjoy this book. You only have to be human.
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- unequivocably one of the best pieces of literature!
- A revisionist view and not very interesting.
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unequivocably one of the best pieces of literature!.......2005-09-02
This book is essential for anyone studying the Roman Republic and the impact of Julius Caesar. The writings in this book are very well thought out and the depth of the history comes to life in each and every sentence. Anyone wanting to learn about Julius Caesar can take away a sense of knowing a legend and feel that this book doesn't just repeat all of the others that are similar in topic -it teaches you someone else's point of view on the history and cause.
Very much enjoyable. I can't wait to read it again!
A revisionist view and not very interesting........2002-10-10
Fuller's account of the Career of Julius Caesar can also be found in Caesar's own commentaries. Some of his insights into Caesar's personality are interesting, but most can be found in classical works by Appian and Dio. His thesis that Caesar was not the great general and statesman that history dipicts him can be disputed. Caesar was the first ancient general to incorporate siegeworks as a tactical tool. Fuller's claim that the roman army was "lucky" that it did not encounter stronger cavalry arms is unfounded. Cavalry in anceint times was not much more than a skirmishing force, not in the same league as the legionares.
I was displeased with the dry, accounts of caesar's campaigns, surprising for a military man like Fuller. Also, he does not go into great detail about Caesar's personality, other than to quote the classical historians.
Overall, a very average work.
War as written by a warrior.......2001-07-06
This book is a classic. Not only is it a classic, it is written by one of the most innovative generals in the 20th Century: JFC Fuller. Mr. Fuller is credited with developing the armored division of the British army, and is therefore an innovator. Almost a kindred spirit, Julius Caeser is described not in terms of how his life was led, but how it was affected by military and political aspects. This book is a must read for any ancient history or military history buff.
resale of public domain.......1999-04-22
I am amazed at how much this book is just a copy/paste from Caesar's own _The Gallic War_ written before Christ! It is actually a more dynamic read than this version, and without the distracting *spin.*
A most informative book with a good insight into Caesar........1999-04-18
I found this book most informative and interesting. It has an amazing insight into not only the life of this amazing man but also the times in which he lived. The book effectivly depicts Caesar not only as man but also a good tactitioner and leader. This book has been well researched and writen in an easy to follow way. Although I already know a fair bit about Julius I found that this book informed me on alot of things I previously had no knowledge of. I emensly enjoyed this book and would recomend this book to anyone with a interest in the Ancient Roman Republic and Empire.
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The Law
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French political libertarian and economist CLAUDE FRÃDÃRIC BASTIAT (1801-1850) was one of the most eloquent champions of the concept that property rights and individual freedoms flowed from natural law. Here, in this 1850 classic, a powerful refutation of Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto, published two years earlier, Bastiat discusses: . what is law? . why socialism constitutes legal plunder . the proper function of the law . the law and morality . "the vicious circle of socialism" . the basis for stable government . and more.
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And, in all sincerity, can anything more than the absence of plunder be required of the law? Can the law -- which necessarily requires the use of force -- rationally be used for anything except protecting the rights of everyone? I defy anyone to extend it beyond this purpose without perverting it and, consequently, turning might against right.
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Short yet profound.......2007-10-01
This book touches on several issues near the heart of political philosophy. The Law raises an issue of critical importance that most simply take for granted. If you read this book and assimilate its points you will be availed a new perspective on every question in which politicians attempt to interject themselves.
The Law makes the case that, actions taken in the context of the democratic process have no greater moral legitimacy than actions taken by individuals.
If you liked The Law, you may also enjoy The Road to Serfdom Fiftieth Anniversary Edition.
Life Liberty and Property.......2007-09-28
If you believe,as did John Locke, that everyone is entitled to Life Liberty and Property (not the pursuit of happiness as Jeffeson changed it) then you should read this phamplet.
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Is owning excessive wealth our natural right?.......2007-08-24
The critical issue of this book is whether "property is our natural right." If it is, then most of what Bastiat said are right; otherwise, he is wrong.
In the primitive society, all goods are traded directly. If a person who is so powerful that he possesses all the properties in the world and enslaved all others, is it his "right" to possess all the properties in the world? Clearly not -- because properties on earth are limited and should not be controlled by one person. In the same token, it should not be controlled by the rich people that are in the minority.
The same logic applies to civilized society that uses money to represent wealth. If property is a "natural right," what is the mechanism to prevent African warlords to take all the wealth as their natural "properties" and starves millions of people to death?
Life and liberty are not zero sum entities, but property is. There is a limit of how much food that the earth can produce, and how much goods the society can afford. Thus even though in general property rights are protected by modern society, there must be a limit on how much one can possess. And rather than waiting for the wealth distribution to become excessively uneven (and triggers revolution), the rebalance of wealth should be done gradually. Thus the idea of accumulative tax is correct.
To those who do not believe that excessive uneven wealth distribution can trigger revolution, check the world history, in particular, the history of France, Russia, and China. While the rich claim excessive wealth as their "natural rights," the poor claim excessive force theirs.
A timely piece for today as when it was written.......2007-08-16
The arguments made in this treatise are as valid today as ever. Before you decide to turn life and death decisions regarding your health care over to the same people who run the Post Office and the Passport Bureau, you owe it to yourself to read this well written treatise. Anybody who wants to be an informed voter for 2008 should read this before going into the voting booth.
Law is the protector of rights and property - if only that were the case today!.......2007-06-26
The author, Frederic Bastiat (1801 - 1850) was a French economist, statesman and author. He wrote during a very tumultuous time in France as the nation was turning toward complete socialism. The Law is his most famous and enduring work and is a challenge to those who believe that the state (government) grants rights instead of God giving rights to mankind. Bastiat explores the concept of the meaning and purpose of the law - his philosophy is that law is the protector of rights and property, not an instrument in the hands of well-meaning individuals to redirect and recreate society. Law, in this regard, is organized justice - there is some foundation upon which law must rest. The other competing views put forth by those turning the nation toward socialism see law as a tool of society to shape and mold it in a particular direction by the extending or restriction of various rights.
Bastiat spends most of the remainder of the book addressing the fallacy of socialism and the foundation upon which it rests - namely that a few selected individuals are more qualified to make decisions about life, liberty and economics than the masses of people upon which they seek to impose their particular views and values. Of course, Bastiat can not help but make comparisons between his beloved France and the United States, where liberty is founded upon and protected by religion, not the state. Obviously religion is deemed as an unnecessary even harmful component in the socialist state for it gets people to begin to think for themselves and appeal to a higher authority than the state.
The Law is a very difficult read - short, but what it lacks in length it makes up for in depth of insight and complexity of ideas. Bastiat was prophetic in his evaluation of the condition of socialism in France and the nation continues to this day under the heavy hand of the state where its people still do not enjoy the freedoms and liberties that we do in America.
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- A Primer on Political Economy for ALL TIME
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- Concise, Powerful, Elegant Defense of Liberty and the Law
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Frederic Bastiat, who was born two hundred years ago, was a leader of the French laissez-faire tradition in the first half of the nineteenth century. He was influenced by Cobden's Anti-Corn Law League and became a convinced free trader. Joseph Schumpeter described Bastiat as 'the most brilliant economic journalist who ever lived'.
In The Law, written in 1850, the year of his death, Bastiat recognises the central importance of the law and morality in a free society. He was concerned that government was using the 'law' to become too active a participant in the economy whilst devoting too little attention to protecting life and liberty.
This Occasional Paper, which reprints an English translation of The Law, includes a new introduction by Professor Norman Barry of the University of Buckingham which places Bastiat's views in their historical context and explains their continuing relevance today.
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A Primer on Political Economy for ALL TIME.......2005-12-05
I became aware of Frederic Bastiat's work during the time of the "Agenda for America" in the middle 1990s, a time when the Republicans took over Congress, and for the first time since the late 1960s, there was a sense that REAL political change was in the offing.
We now know that was not the case. Newt Gingrich notwithstanding (and I still have is "Essential Reading List" in my files, things did not change radically. Perhaps we should be thankful, for it is quite clear that the Founding Fathers (yes, they were men--although perhaps there was a female to male crossdresser amongst them) intended the three branches of government (Legislative, Judicial, Executive) not so much to work in harmony but to slow the pace of change to a rate by which REAL change would not register a 6.0 on the Richter scale of political-economic change!
Frediric Bastiat's THE LAW was published shortly before his death, and after the great revolutions in Europe of 1848. In it, he sought to explain (and succeeds magnificently) the difference between Capitalism and Socialism, and why a nation should prefer the former as its economic system.
The main basis for socialism, which he called LEGAL PLUNDER, and which we call "taxes" for the social good, is revealed in all its naked truth as larceny perpetrated on one group by another. One does not need to be a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission, Skull & Bones, or any other elite political-social group to understand Bastiat's arguments, or their implications.
This hornbook can be read by a 10th grader (and ought to be required reading for any High School diploma, as well as participation in Junior Achievement!). That many of my colleagues with Bachelor's, Master's, and Doctoral degress have never heard of this classic work is just short of a national travesty!
If you think Greenberg, Milton Friedman, John Stuart Mill, or Marx and Engels had an edge on political-economic theory, you MUST read Bastiat. Keep it alongside your Constitution, when you find yourself forgetting the principles that have made America a great Nation.
Excellent !!!.......2004-10-21
I read "The Law" as part of my Civics course this year in highschool, and I'm SOOOOOOOO glad it was required. At 16, I'm scared to death at where my country is heading and this book contains the answers for a government and law system that'd make a country I'd be proud of in every way. This is a book I'd buy in bulk and stuff in newspaper boxes if I had the means -as it is all my friends are going to get it for Christmas along with a glowing report from myself. Heck, who needs to wait for Christmas, ELECTION DAY IS COMING!
This book was originally in a pamphlet format and is a wonderful short summary of what the natures of law and government are and what they should be. But because of this format, many of his arguements are brief, and he acknowledges that not all of them are complete.
He starts out stating the gifts of God to man are: life, liberty and property. Bastiat insists that man is allowed to defend himself, his liberty, and his property, and that "the Law" was created to ensure that society would be allowed to make use of their God-given gifts.
Then the he goes on to explain how "the Law" is abused by men. He states there are two basic ways of living, the first is to work hard and produce, and the second is to plunder and live off of others. When man finds that plundering is easier than work, he will plunder. The only thing that will stop him is if there are consequences that he will have to deal with and dangers that he must risk. Bastiat shows how tempting it is for man to use the law to plunder (how "legal plunder" is the taking of property, which -if done without the benefit of the law- would have been a dealt with as a crime). He goes on to explain how this "legal plundering" will ruin a society and cause economic turmoil.
Bastiat then goes into socialism, and how it plays out in society. He gives examples of various socialist writers, and points out how they view mankind as some raw material that is to be controlled and manipulated. Frederic Bastiat shows how they divide mankind into two classes, with themselves as the nobler of the two, and the rest of man as evil masses that are to be shaped and guided by their own uses of "the Law" and made to be good. They consider themselves to be above the rest, and capable of making better choices than the rest of the world.
Even though it was written in the 1800's, Bastiat writing is extremely relevant today, and deals with the issues of welfare, government schools, and other subsidies of the law that are not to be. He states that "the law is justice" and that "the purpose of the law is to prevent injustice from reigning" for justice only exists when injustice is absent. It clearly defines socialism for what it is and gives various examples of the results of it. This book has to be (as another reviewer has said) the liberal's worst nightmare.
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Concise, Powerful, Elegant Defense of Liberty and the Law.......2004-09-27
When I read F.A. Hayek's "The Road to Serfdom," I thought I had read the most inspired and compelling book ever to discredit socialism and other collective-isms. I was wrong...very wrong.
I cannot believe Bastiat wrote "The Law" in the middle of the 19th century since it has so much applicability to the 20th (and soon to be 21st) century.
If ever there was a concise and powerful argument for defending Liberty and the Law against every social engineer, this has to be it. Bastiat is a master of words and the analogy. Every lover of freedom who wishes to get a nutshell understanding of why Liberty and Law matters ought to read this book. Every enemy of freedom (e.g. liberals, socialists, communists, etc.) ought to fear it.
A Classic Model for Free Society .......2004-09-26
Bastiat warns us not to kid ourselves about a kind, gentle, caring government. Like George Washington, Bastiat reminds us that law means force, and that any appeal to the law is ultimately an appeal to force. In appealing to the law, therefore, we must ask ourselves if we would be justified in using force to vindicate our appeal.
Life, liberty, and property, Bastiat argues, are the rights which God has given to each individual by virtue of the fact that the individual exists, and that with or without government, an individual is justified in defending his or her life, liberty, and property. Ideally, governments should exist to defend these three basic God-given rights.
As an individual, I cannot spend all of my time defending my life, liberty, and property, nor can my neighbors. Government is born when my neighbors and I come together to hire a sheriff to defend these rights full-time for us. The sheriff's authority to defend these rights on our behalf is derived from the authority of each of us individually to protect ourselves in these rights. Because government derives its authority from the aggregrate authority of individual citizens, government should not be allowed to do for me what I cannot legally do for myself.
This is the foundation of Bastiat's argument, and when taken to its natural conclusion, it shows us that redistribution-of-wealth schemes that the government forces upon some members of society to benefit others are a potential threat to a free people. Social security, welfare, and other government entitlements are all examples of this. Bastiat referred to such government programs as "legalized plunder" which ultimately creates far more social problems than it solves.
The recent presidential race has shown us just how weak and dependent Americans have become. Just as Bastiat predicted, every little social group is clamoring to get its own share of government entitlements, and politician are clamoring to pander to these groups in exchange for political power, even if it means continuing the disastrous economic course of deficits and staggering public debt which may someday threaten the country with bankruptcy and economic collapse.
We should learn the lesson of communism--it isn't government's job to take care of us. Being responsible for our own subsistence, including the inherent risks involved in such responsibility, is the price we must pay for freedom and prosperity. If we succumb to the lure of government-provided security by means of legalized plunder, we will one day find ourselves bereft of the freedom which we once took for granted.
Bastiat's classic shows us how to preserve a free society and avoid the consequences of legalized injustice
Bastiat's 'the Law.......2004-09-26
Does the government take care of you by making sure you are left free from interference by others?
Or does it give form and substance to your freedom by making sure you are given, by the government, enough Maslowian scaffolding to get you within jumping distance of the last triangle of self-actualization at the top of the pyramid of your desires? That's always the question.
I'd be free if only someone would pay off my mortgage, or do my homework, or abort my inconvenient child for me.
Here in this book is a very good template to evaluate these alternative viewpoints, especially appropriate for smart high school kids, since it furnishes ammunition to carry them through most of the garbage they will find littered in their books, written on their classroom walls, and mincingly elaborated by their discontented, yet strangely power-hungry liberal law professors, all of whom will basically insist on refuting the truth of what Bastiat identifies as the central fact of state power: That the government is "not a breast that fills itself with milk." High school boys especially like that part. Yet this is what so many people think--and Keynes even monkeyed together some funny looking math to show how dollars taxed away and then re-spent by the government become supercharged, and are better for the economy than un-taxed and un-respent dollars held privately.
Here is where he meets our Founding generation--all of whom saw how dangerous it was to cede too much function to any government, which of course would need more and more money to fund these activities. Am I straying from the point? No. Just look at our political contests: craven beg-fests for votes based on what the government can spend on you, or how the internet will bring it all "closer" to you. For your benefit. And if someone wants to take less from people in the first place, that's "spending [by the government] on the richest 1%"--who of course have had much more taken from them to begin with. Bastiat explains, in universal terms not hinged to any particular group of pilgrims, kings, or communists, how the law is enlisted in the plunder of the many by the few who control the law, and how law must be continually twisted into unjust forms to keep up the subsidies, the taxes, the programs, all designed to treat the same population differently.
His greatest example, though, is to contrast liberty with the perversion of law, (and here he partakes in some cultural non-relativism) by using the image of a tribe of natives who flatten the noses, pierce the ears and lips, bend-up the feet, and depress the foreheads of their newborns, insisting these are signs of beauty. The same thing is done to our laws and our liberty by the socialist plunderers, according to Bastiat, unforgettably according to Bastiat.
Would the next generation of any country be more or less likely to make a world-and-life-view out of sucking up to government employees for their prescription drugs, family planning, education, utility bill assistance, or internet domain monopolies if they read this book in time to become immune to the excuse-making and false moralizing of socialism? So do we put the govenment in charge of our kids, our sick grandparents, and our businesses, so we can finally be more "free?" You read Bastiat and be the judge
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THE LAW
Frederic Bastiat
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Frederic Bastiat
Manufacturer: Foundation Press
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The Law
Frederic Bastiat
Manufacturer: The Foundation for Economic Education
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Liberation Ecologies: Environment, Development, Social Movements
Michael Watts
Manufacturer: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
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