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The Battered Bastards of Bastogne is the product of contributions by 530 soldiers who were on the ground or in the air over Bastogne. They lived and made this history and much of it is told in their own words.
The material contributed by these men of the 101st Airborne Division, the Armor, Tank Destroyer, Army Air Force , and others is tailored meticulously by the author and placed on the historical framework known to most students of the Battle of the Bulge.
Pieces of a nearly 60 year old jigsaw puzzle come together in this book, when memoires related by one soldier fit with those of another unit or group pursuing the battle from another nearby piece of terrain.
George Koskimaki is a noted historian of the 101st Airborne Division. His other books include D Day With The Screaming Eagles and Hell's Highway. He lives in Northville, MI.
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Interested in Military History?.......2007-01-10
Are you interested in true military stories and/or a military collector of World War II - this book is for you. If you are really interested in the history of this country during WWII - you will not be disappointed.
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Between the early seventeenth century and the early twentieth, nearly all the land in the United States was transferred from American Indians to whites. This dramatic transformation has been understood in two very different ways--as a series of consensual transactions, but also as a process of violent conquest. Both views cannot be correct. How did Indians actually lose their land?
Stuart Banner provides the first comprehensive answer. He argues that neither simple coercion nor simple consent reflects the complicated legal history of land transfers. Instead, time, place, and the balance of power between Indians and settlers decided the outcome of land struggles. As whites' power grew, they were able to establish the legal institutions and the rules by which land transactions would be made and enforced.
This story of America's colonization remains a story of power, but a more complex kind of power than historians have acknowledged. It is a story in which military force was less important than the power to shape the legal framework within which land would be owned. As a result, white Americans--from eastern cities to the western frontiers--could believe they were buying land from the Indians the same way they bought land from one another. How the Indians Lost Their Land dramatically reveals how subtle changes in the law can determine the fate of a nation, and our understanding of the past.
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Exceedingly Well Written.......2006-06-10
Stuart Banner has taken a complex, 400+ year history of American Indian Land Acquisition and has abstracted the legal basis and the prevailing sociocultural worldviews of settlers, governments and aborigines to produce a work that we, today, can use to understand "How the Indians Lost Their Lands." This is a must read for anyone who has any official involvement with Native American Indians, or anyone who is interested in their, and our, history.
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Title: How the Indians Lost Their Land: Law and Power on the Frontier.(Book review)
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How the Indians Lost Their Land: Law and Power on the Frontier.(Book review): An article from: The Historian
F. Todd Smith
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Title: Whose America?(Indian land transfer)
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Whether it's musical talent, criminal tendencies, or fashion sense, we humans want to know why we have it or why we don't. What makes us the way we are? Maybe it's in our genes, maybe it's how we were raised, maybe it's a little of both--in any case, Mom and Dad usually receive both the credit and the blame. But not so fast, says developmental psychology writer Judith Rich Harris. While it has been shown that genetics is only partly responsible for behavior, it is also true, Harris asserts, that parents play a very minor role in mental and emotional development. The Nurture Assumption explores the mountain of evidence pointing away from parents and toward peer groups as the strongest environmental influence on personality development. Rather than leaping into the nature vs. nurture fray, Harris instead posits nurture (parental) vs. nurture (peer group), and in her view your kid's friends win, hands down. This idea, difficult as it may be to accept, is supported by the countless studies Harris cites in her breezy, charming prose. She is upset about the blame laid on parents of troubled children and has much to say (mostly negative) about "professional parental advice-givers." Her own advice may be summarized as "guide your child's peer-group choices wisely," but the aim of the book is less to offer guidance than to tear off cultural blinders. Harris's ideas are so thought-provoking, challenging, and potentially controversial that anyone concerned with parenting issues will find The Nurture Assumption refreshing, important, and possibly life-changing. --Rob Lightner
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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
How much credit do parents deserve when their children turn out welt? How much blame when they turn out badly? Judith Rich Harris has a message that will change parents' lives: The "nurture assumption" -- the belief that what makes children turn out the way they do, aside from their genes, is the way their parents bring them up -- is nothing more than a cultural myth. This electrifying book explodes some of our unquestioned beliefs about children and parents and gives us a radically new view of childhood.
Harris looks with a fresh eye at the real lives of real children to show that it is what they experience outside the home, in the company of their peers, that matters most, Parents don't socialize children; children socialize children. With eloquence and humor, Judith Harris explains why parents have little power to determine the sort of people their children will become.
The Nurture Assumption is an important and entertaining work that brings together insights from psychology, sociology, anthropology, primatology, and evolutionary biology to offer a startling new view of who we are and how we got that way.
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Not everything is more is better, less is worse.......2007-09-04
Harris sumarizes whay is known as 2x2 boxes, such as good father - bad father will generate a good-kid or a bad-kid. Much to everybody's surprise, she concludes that good parents do not generate good kids, and better still, bad parents have not condemned their kid's to a miserable life. She presents tons of research showing that the correlation zero.
What is happening here is that 2x2 analyses can be flawed. It overlooks situations where both extremes may be bad, no love - too much love, for example. No room for a sensible middle ground, which most 'good' parents should aim for. Harris never mentions the famous Parenting Rule of "Keeping a Healthy Distance" , supervise rather than smother or neglect.
But if you only use 2x2 analysis you miss out on the benefits of the JUST RIGHT amount of love, care, schoolwork help etc.
We do not have the data necessary to make the conclusions Harris makes, 3x3 analysis or still better multivariate analysis is not possible due to lack of data, most of it coming from small samples of raised apart twins.
Her the next conclusion might well be that school teachers and University professors do not make a difference on the outcome of their students, that students actually learn from their peers, the same conclusion she presents in this book. That will be the day.
Already a Classic!.......2007-07-01
This book is already a classic! Let's face it, in the nature versus nurture debate, nature pretty wins when it comes to most important traits (e.g., adult IQ, major personality traits, homosexuality, etc.).
How do we know this? We know it from: 1) Studies of identical twins separated at birth and raised apart. When they were later reunited again as adults, they were quite similar. 2) Studies of biological siblings reared together and apart. Biological sibilings reared together are generally no more similar than biological siblings reared apart. 3) Studies of non-related adoptive siblings that show them to be as dissimilar as random people picked off the streets.
And yet, despite all of these basic facts, people in the media as well as "experts" who are not familiar with many of these basic facts, continue to talk about "nature versus nurture," as though there is some sort of relevent scientific debate going on. Paradoxically, psychology "experts" are often more confused about this issue than the average person, who may observe empirically that siblings reared together are often quite different (despite the fact that they share at least half of the genes that can be expected to differ in the human population!).
It is interesting to see how people in fields like Developmental Psychology continue to distort the issue, even after the publication of this book put all of the facts out there. What they should have done was to admit, "Hey, we were wrong. We did not really know. We thought that maybe small differences in parenting practices would be important. I guess that we were off." Do you know what they did instead? They decided to redefine "nurture"! I am not making this up! "Nurture" has now amusingly been redefined in order to encompass random environmental effects that have nothing to do with upbringing or the effects of two siblings reared together. Although "Nature versus Environment" is a relevant, exciting question, "Nature versus Nurture" is no longer a viable debate. And yet, as Harris points out, what exactly "Environment" means is not at all clear. Could peer groups be crucuial? Who knows? We do know, however, that it is not parents.
Well, I loved this book. Furthermore, over the years, I see that more and more people are seeing things more clearly. This is a great thing in many ways, because it implies to parents that they no longer have to act like freaks when it comes to raising their kids. No one disagrees that it would be a terrible thing to deprive an infant of basic needs. On the other hand, there is no real evidence to show that children will not thrive under most conditions.
Candid conversation about how kids develop.......2007-02-22
This book is a refreshing break from the usual coverage of psychology, group behavior, parenting and the like. Judith Rich Harris exposes the flaws, presumptions and misguided assumptions in much "scientific" research about the psychological and behavioral impact parents have upon their children. Learning how poorly constructed some of the most influential studies and experiments have been is quite remarkable. We find that the author does a masterful job of debunking what she calls "the nurture assumption" - that parents are powerful in shaping their children - and replacing it with a developmental theory that exalts the peer group. The author avoids jargon, and writes with a clear, witty, engaging style that should make her ideas accessible - although perhaps not necessarily agreeable - to most readers.
Finally, A Realistic View of the Parents Role.......2006-11-26
This is an outstanding book. If you only read one book on parenting this should be it. (I won't summarize all the points made as this has been done by numerous other reviewers. Also, there is an excellent web site which can be located by typing the author's name into Google.)
It is an antidote to the psychobabble that so many of us have been indoctrinated with. Although the main topic of the book is a critique of developmental psychology, Harris has also written a profound social critique. Harris exposes the kid centric culture that dominates contemporary society as a sham perpertrated by professional advice givers and academic psychologists. Even before the birth of my first daughter in 2000, I began to suspect something was askew in the modern approach to parenting. The emphasis on buying toys, providing constant entertainment and enhancing self esteem were not the values which prevailed in my working class neighborhood growing up. Nevertheless, my friends and siblings all turned out to be reasonably well adjusted adults. (This occurred despite the efforts of the Sisters of Charity who never heard of the concept of self esteem.)
However, Harris' greatest gift to beginning parents is reminding us that parenting is not supposed to be a chore. Of course it is a lot of hard work. But we don't need to make it onerous by placing expectations and demands on our selves that are unrealistic and not supported by any scientific evidence.
The Nuture Assumption also has important public policy implications. Harris' observations on education are especially thought provoking.
You owe it to yourself and your children to read this book.
Good book for both social scientists and parents.......2006-10-27
This book is now fairly old, as social science goes, but still one of the best books that an aspiring social scientist can read. It shows how an academic subdiscipline (the study of socialization) can be founded on an assumption that, when tested, turns out to be completely erroneous. So the book serves as a cautionary tale, a caution about not following the crowd, about how even a whole herd of academicians can be in error. The untested assumption (that the home environment is the main determinant of child personality and aptitudes) seemed statistically valid because researchers had not bothered to control for the effects of heredity. This is a good example of the "identification problem" in social science, and the way that this was solved, through examining twins separated at birth, is a very clever solution to this particular identification problem.
Harris' book is also an important book for parents. Variation across children in attributes such as IQ or personality can be attributed to three sources: the portion due to heredity, the portion due to shared (with siblings) home environment, and the portion due to the unshared environment. Surprisingly, heredity accounts for over half the variation and the unshared environment accounts for most of the rest--the home environment is relatively insignificant. Harris' own interpretation of these findings is that the unshared environment mostly consists of peer group influences. This is not the sole and obvious interpretation--it could also be due to factors such as the prenatal environment--but Harris makes a good case for peer group effects. Her message is that the most important handle parents have in shaping their children is in the selection of their peer groups.
The book is well-written and easily accessible to undergraduates or even intelligent high school students.
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''Sterling Evans has written a passionate yet balanced account of the history of conservation in Costa Rica. Both environmental historians and activists will gain from this book a great appreciation of the work that went into protecting Costa Rica's natural heritage, along with the work that still must be done.'' --Lane Simonian, author of Defending the Land of the Jaguar: A History of Conservation in Mexico With over 25 percent of its land set aside in national parks and other protected areas, Costa Rica is renowned worldwide as "the green republic." In this very readable history of conservation in Costa Rica, Sterling Evans explores the establishment of the country's national park system as a response to the rapid destruction of its tropical ecosystems due to the expansion of export-related agriculture. Drawing on interviews with key players in the conservation movement, as well as archival research, Evans traces the emergence of a conservation ethic among Costa Ricans and the tangible forms it has taken. In Part I, he describes the development of the national park system and "the grand contradiction" that conservation occurred simultaneously with massive deforestation in unprotected areas. In Part II, he examines other aspects of Costa Rica's conservation experience, including the important roles played by environmental education and nongovernmental organizations, campesino and indigenous movements, ecotourism, and the work of the National Biodiversity Institute.
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Definately worth reading!.......2004-02-28
A superior book that will interest ecotourists, conservationists and amateur naturalists wish to learn more about the green soul of this irresistible country.
For about the same price, another book that details the history of conservation in the country's diverse geographical zones (seacoasts, prairies, jungles, and volcanic highlands) is "Costa Rica: The Last Country The Gods Made."
Interested in the story behind the Natl.Parks of Costa Rica?.......2001-07-27
Sterling Evans' The Green Republic is a fascinating account of the development of the NP of Costa Rica. I've visited most of the parks in CR and after reading The Green Republic I have a greater appreciation for them and high admiration for the Costa Rican individuals and non-natives who through hard work, luck and perserverence have created a system of parks unique to Latin America and the world.
I particularly enjoyed the anecdotes about the indivuduals and also the tremendous amount of facts the book contains--facts that have a purpose as they paint a complex picture of a country struggling to do the right thing despite enormous pressures to cash in for the easy dollar. The book perhaps does read a bit dry at times, but the overall story is well told and worth the time and money. Great book!
yeah.......2000-05-16
i had to read it for an assignment, so i didn't really enjoy it. if i had to read it for fun, i probably would have enjoyed it more. it was well spoken.
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Title: THE GREEN REPUBLIC: A Conservation History of Costa Rica.(Review) (book review)
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Volume: 89
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