Red House: Being a Mostly Accurate Account of New England's Oldest Continuously Lived-in House

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In her critically acclaimed, ingenious memoir, Sarah Messer explores AmericaÂ's fascination with history, family, and Great Houses. Her Massachusetts childhood home had sheltered the Hatch family for 325 years when her parents bought it in 1965. The will of the houseÂ's original owner, Walter HatchÂ—which stipulated Red House was to be passed down, Â“never to be sold or mortgaged from my children and grandchildren foreverÂ”Â—still hung in the living room. In Red House, Messer explores the strange and enriching consequences of growing up with another familyÂ's birthright. Answering the riddle of when shelter becomes first a home and then an identity, Messer has created a classic exploration of heritage, community, and the role architecture plays in our national identity.

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Red House.......2007-08-05

This is a wonderful book down memory lane as I once lived in Marshfield. But it could be anywhere in New Enland. It's funny and poignant, historical fact, and so very interesting to read.

Red House is a love Poem to an imagined existence of a Real Home.......2007-01-11

Red House appeared to be a perfect book for me seeing it that is supposedly is a mix of New England history, an account of a remarkably old home (one of my passions) and family history. That said in reading this book I realized quickly that Sarah Messer was writing a fictional account of her family and fictionalizing the history of the house and the family that livied in for over 300 years. When read knowing that is is a work of myth making it is a nice read as the others spins a yarn about the people that kept the red house going through thin and thinner with the familiy owned mill and shipbuilding industries... She fantasises how the American Revolution affected the town and how the family moved into the modern era and the house endured... All of this while interjecting her own seemingly fictionalized account of her parents ownership and growth into the the home.

While the premise of the book is ineresting Messer makes grave historically inaccurate statements including the statement that forks were not invented by the late 17 century and that meat would be seasoned with saffron to a point in which people would have permanently orange stained hands. Also the author presumes that the early american homes were so drafty that water would freeze just a few feet away from the fire. this is simply not factual and makes the book seem more like a vain myth than anything.

On finishing the book I thought to myself why was this book worth reading. It is a book that doesnt explain anything important historically and is deeply personal and relates only to the author to a large degree. Then it hit me this book is not vanity simply because every story we tell and hand down through our families is something of a myth... Its something like those stories your grandfather tells: "When I was your age we walk to school - up hills both ways... when the sno etc etc" this book just puts that in writing and does so nicely. The house is the symbolic American house of the American family and the American need to develop a mythology about itself.

Great love story by an old house caretaker........2006-07-10

You have to love old houses to live in one. This was an impossible to put down book written by an old house lover, a caretaker of history. Having lived in a 200+ year old house, I can truly understand wanting to know who lived there before you and what transpired in their lives. Ghosts or no, the spirits of past residents permiate the entire house. What did they see when they looked out this very window that you are now looking out? What happened in the rooms, how did they live in this house over the generations? Sarah Messer did a remarkable job of bringing the Red House's history to the reader and intermingling it with her own family's lives in the house. Loved the book, couldn't put it down. Ms. Messer did a remarkable job in the telling of the story.

Red House..........2006-02-27

Humm... what to say, this book just could have been better, it was good but I thought it was more about the house the history and the transfer for each family as it came along. It seemed to me to be about the negative not the house, how sad when maybe it could have been approched in a different manor.

I Could Not Put This Book Down!.......2006-02-06

I started to read this book on a Saturday and invented excuses on Sunday so that I could stay at home and finish it. It will definitely merit a place on my shelf of favorites. The intertwining of the story of the house and the story of the Messer family is masterful, and the writing itself is so flowing that you just can't stop at the end of each chapter. I highly recommend this book to anyone with a love of New England history, old houses or just a good story!

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There are two ways to look at this bestseller by Watergate scoopmeister Woodward. First, it's an original take on Clinton's sex scandal, framing it as the latest consequence of Nixon's assault on the U.S. political system. Woodward sketches each president's tussles with scandal managing after Watergate permanently turned up the press heat on the White House. Ford lies about a meeting concerning a potential deal to pardon Nixon, but remains convinced he did nothing wrong. Carter's pious advocacy of truth telling backfires when he's confronted with conundrums involving his pal Bert Lance, the fallout from CIA-provided hookers, and cash for King Hussein. Reagan's men try to make him understand the lies and shocking wrongness of the Iran-Contra debacle, but he simply, stubbornly doesn't get it. And by the time prosecutors interview Reagan in 1992, he's so ill he can't remember his own oldest friends and advisers.

All provocative stuff, some of it new. But most readers will flip to the book's second half, a fly-on-the-wall account of the backroom mud-wrestling in both the Clinton and Starr camps in the Monicagate morass. It's a trove of racy facts (mostly from anonymous sources). We read that Clinton called Nixon a "war criminal," yet tried to minimize Watergate in his Nixon eulogy, that he disgusted Ford and Jack Nicklaus by cheating while golfing with them, and that he kept falsely assuring aides, "I'm retired! [as an adulterer]." We hear Hillary's alleged words of agony and see the pain on Bill's face after Chelsea reads The Starr Report on the Internet. Starr comes off like RoboCop without the human side. Woodward calls him "pathetic and unwise" in rejecting his staff's urgent demand not to send the lurid details of presidential sex to Congress. "I love the narrative!" Starr weirdly exulted, according to Woodward's new Deep Throat (or Throats). Since Monica was interrogated at Starr's mother-in-law's apartment, which he called "Grandma's place," ethics expert Sam Dash suggested they call it "Operation Red Riding Hood." What sharp teeth everyone in this book has!

To tell the truth, Woodward doesn't really knit together 25 years' worth of scandals into a single strong narrative. But the Clinton part is the closest thing yet to what we all crave: a tale of Monicagate with some of the flavor of a John Grisham thriller. --Tim Appelo

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Twenty-five years ago, after Richard Nixon resigned the presidency, Gerald Ford promised a return to normalcy. "My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over," President Ford declared.

But it was not. The Watergate scandal, and the remedies against future abuses of power, would have an enduring impact on presidents and the country. In Shadow, Bob Woodward takes us deep into the administrations of Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush and Clinton to describe how each discovered that the presidency was forever altered. With special emphasis on the human toll, Woodward shows the consequences of the new ethics laws, and the emboldened Congress and media. Powerful investigations increasingly stripped away the privacy and protections once expected by the nation's chief executive.

Using presidential documents, diaries, prosecutorial records and hundreds of interviews with firsthand witnesses, Woodward chronicles how all five men failed first to understand and then to manage the inquisitorial environment.

"The mood was mean," Gerald Ford says. Woodward explains how Ford believed he had been offered a deal to pardon Nixon, then clumsily rejected it and later withheld all the details from Congress and the public, leaving lasting suspicions that compromised his years in the White House.

Jimmy Carter used Watergate to win an election, and then watched in bewilderment as the rules of strict accountability engulfed his budget director, Bert Lance, and challenged his own credibility. From his public pronouncements to the Iranian hostage crisis, Carter never found the decisive, healing style of leadership the first elected post-Watergate president had promised.

Woodward also provides the first behind-the-scenes account of how President Reagan and a special team of more than 60 attorneys and archivists beat Iran-contra. They turned the Reagan White House and United States intelligence agencies upside down investigating the president with orders to disclose any incriminating information they found. A fresh portrait of an engaged Reagan emerges as he realizes his presidency is in peril and attempts to prove his innocence.

In Shadow, a bitter and disoriented President Bush routinely pours out his anger at the permanent scandal culture to his personal diary as a dozen investigations touch some of those closest to him. At one point, Bush pounds a plastic mallet on his Oval Office desk because of the continuing investigation of Iran-contra Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh. "Take that, Walsh!" he shouts. "I'd like to get rid of this guy." Woodward also reveals why Bush avoided telling one of the remaining secrets of the Gulf War.

The second half of Shadow focuses on President Clinton's scandals. Woodward shows how and why Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr's investigation became a state of permanent war with the Clintons. He reveals who Clinton really feared in the Paula Jones case, and the behind-the-scenes maneuvering and ruthless, cynical legal strategies to protect the Clintons. Shadow also describes how impeachment affected Clinton's war decisions and scarred his life, his marriage and his presidency. "How can I go on?" First Lady Hillary Clinton asked in 1996, when she was under scrutiny by Starr and the media, two years before the Lewinsky scandal broke. "How can I?"

Shadow is an authoritative, unsettling narrative of the modern, beleaguered presidency.

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Twenty-five years after Nixon's resignation, the reporter who helped break the story explains how Watergate--the premier scandal of our time--has indelibly altered American politics, culture, and the presidency.

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Inside of the White House.......2005-06-15

Another Bob Woodward book, another masterpiece. I am getting great pleasure from his books. Detailed research, witnesses, and main character interviews are combined to revealed truth with every respect. In Shadows, he discovers the last five presidents scandals and events around them. Book starts with Ford, Nixon and Watergate, This is the most interesting chapter of the book, and it is explained with every detail. Secondly, Carter and payment made to Jordan King and Iran Hostage crisis. You can feel Carter's pain in this chapter. After that, of course Reagan and Iran-Contra weapon sale and Oliver North incident. This chapter is also very interesting. The role Regan and Senior Bush is much different than public knows. Senior Bush's role is very controversial. There are always something learn from his books. When Senior Bush was at the White House, subject is the war again. First gulf war and Saddam stories given. There is also little bit information about Bush-Saudi relations in that time. Inevitable, Mr. Bandar's name is also here. Finally, Clinton era, Whitewater and Monica. This is also very big chapter. In Whitewater investigation is explained very well. Also Monica scandal is the fun part of the book. Star and Clinton have not a bad relation as we know.

This is the best book for near presidential history. I give all the credits to Mr. Woodward for this great book. Buy it and read it!

The effect the Independent Counsel had on the Presidency.......2003-12-26

I think this is a pretty good book on the Presidency of the United States since Watergate. Of course, Mr. Woodward played a significant role in reporting Watergate and has written extensively about the Presidency since then.

This book examines the various difficulties and scandals the Presidents since Nixon have had and the shadow the legacy of Watergate fell on those events and affected how they were handled and perceived. The most significant event in the way these things played out was the creation of the Independent Counsel. While I was never wild about the Independent Counsels before I read this book, I have come to the conclusion that it was an awful idea and an abuse of our Constitution. While the office was designed to not be accountable to the President to afford a credible ability to investigate the Executive Branch, it has no reasonable boundaries or limits and is not subject to any of the checks or balances that enable our government to function as reasonably as it does.

Freed from any limits of time, budget, or public accountability it is not surprising that many, but not all, of these Independent Counsels end up pursuing all kinds of things apart from what they were originally charged to pursue. My chief conclusion from reading this book is that this was a bad law with worse execution and should never be revived. Good riddance!

Half of the book is devoted to the Clinton scandals. The other large section is Iran-Contra. How you perceive Woodward's balance and objectivity will be colored by your personal politics. I have to admit that I found my own reading of the book varied at different points because of my own view of these scandals and whether or not I agreed with Woodward or felt that his own political biases were creeping in (which is impossible to avoid). But all-in-all there is a lot of good reporting here and is written in way that is easy to read. There are lots of endnotes to document the sources for the various statements, meetings, and conclusions drawn.

I recommend the book highly.

Interesting, disturbing look at the presidency.......2003-02-03

Heard the taped version of SHADOW: FIVE PRESIDENTS
AND THE LEGACY OF WATERGATE by Bob Woodward . . . it
is a very interesting, as well as disturbing, look at what it takes to be president in this country.

Because of Watergate, the press no longer takes a "hands off"
approach to what is being done in the White House . . . consequently, Woodward points out that all presidents--from Nixon through Clinton--seem to have had lapses in judgment, during which they either did not tell the truth or had others help cover it up for them.

I got a fresh perspective on Ford's pardon of Nixon, and though
I had thought I had known a lot about the Monicagate morass,
I now know even more (including a lot of dirt not uncovered
elsewhere).

Fortunately, Woodward is only heard at the beginning and
the end . . . he does not have a great speaking voice, that's
for sure . . . the rest was narrated by James Naughton . . . his
impressive baritone voice made for easy listening . . . moreover, he actually sounds like many of the characters he portrays, such as James Carville, Ronald Raegan and Jimmy Carter.

An important bridging of common sense psychology & politics.......2003-01-18

The first line in Micahel Lind's deeply provocative treatise on the modern American conservative movement UP FROM CONSERVATISM kicks you in the stomach, regardless of your political beliefs:"American Conservatism is dead." Like the political Nietzsche he is, Bob Woodward, in SHADOW: FIVE PRESIDENTS AND THE LEGACY OF WATERGATE, finishes that statement in this 500-plus page tome by saying, essentially, "...and Nixon has killed it."

None other than Gore Vidal has nicknamed America the *United States of Amnesia* so often that the trueness of it stops it from being funny. Yet any psychologist worth their salt will tell you the many reasons why memory, in a person or culture, is often the first thing to be EXORCISED. It isn't always something that leaves willingly. Bob Woodward brings common sense psychology--memory--back into the discussion of what has happened to the presidency, and America's relationship to it, since the quasi-psychotic Nixon disgraced it in the early 1970's. He reveals this with SHADOW, not by calling out and judging the Nixonians from the perspective of opinion, but via showing and analysing actual history. The degree to which the entire concept and institution of the American Presidency has been almost irrevocably debilitated by Watergate is the subject of this book, and it cannot be ignored in our time after reading it. In revealing the new cynically invasive psychic architecture of American politics, built on the destroyed remnants of the trusted Tao of FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, LBJ and Kennedy, he offers a glimpse of what Watergate symbolized about Nixon's soul. And what that tortured soul has meant for American culture today, in the 21st century.

Doing this not only puts Monica Lewinsky into a less mythological perspective. It also puts all of the machinations that now go into politicking for your right to actually BE President long after you have been elected--Republican or Democrat--into a new, important, and ultimately saddening perspective. (The degree to which her very existence in the public mind is shown to be part of a desire of Clinton's powerful enemies to erase Nixon's legacy from the annals of history with the impeachment of a Democratic President is brilliant. That omen is ironically overshadowed, however, by the way he explains the uncontrollable political Frankenstein that was the Office of Independent Counsel. This evil genie, with its granted near absolute power, is what Clinton let out of the bottle; a bottle that, after Watergate, was thought never to be opened again. Without it, the reincarnation of the Salem witch trials with Kenneth Starr and the pornography of his reports would never have occurred.)

I happened to have picked up this book to read after reading Conason and Lyons' THE HUNTING OF THE PRESIDENT--something which truly must be read in tandem with this if one is to really understand the social forces that also took center stage in the Clinton drama, despite their desire to still remain hidden. As such I found the Clinton chapters of SHADOW a rehash of previously digested material. SHADOW nonetheless, with its detailed meticulous analyses of the weaknesses and foibles of Ford, Carter, Regan, Bush and Clinton, and how these weaknesses became debilitating through the sins of their Watergate predecessor Nixon, cuts to the quick of our social consciousness today.

It is so important, it seems, for the American public not to have a historical perspective on anything that happens in politics. As if the pretense that all of it has no precedence somehow makes it more real or important--or worse, justifies an often hypocritically manufactured moral outrage. (I'll never forget the rage Clinton-haters would express at the mere mentioning of Sally Hemmings [Thomas Jefferson's slave mistress], Judith Exner [one of Kennedy's mistresses] or the broken first marriages of Ronald Reagan and Newt Gingrich, seemingly defending their right to believe Bill and Monica had ushered in the seventh sign of the Book of Revelations with their original sin.) Woodward's SHADOW destroys any validity that way of thinking had, and redefines the desire to be willfully politically/historically ignorant (as if ignorance buys someone moral virtue) as anything but sane. The book has a way of revalidating the entire concept and discipline of psychology, and its ability to explain the source of today's events, as it gives new strength to the battle weary line of Santayana: "Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it."

Anyone interested in a deeper perspective on the Clinton presidency, the presidency of both Bushes, and modern American culture would highly benefit from this powerful trinity: Michael Lind's UP FROM CONSERVATISM, Conason and Lyons' THE HUNTING OF THE PRESIDENT, and this book. Woodward's SHADOW is extraordinarily well written, tremendously informative, and, even with its inevitable biases both in favor of journalism as it is presently practiced (Consaon and Lyons are fortunately not so kind--particularly to the Washington Post) and against the possibility of a president after Nixon inspiring the kind of faith and hope that those like FDR and Kennedy did (though he is almost right, Conason, Lyons and Lind will explain clearly why it could have happened but would not be allowed in Clinton's case), Woodward's masterful writing and storytelling skills hide a multitude of sins. Highly recommended.

Overall good, but too soft on Clinton.......2002-04-29

Woodward does an exceptional job of covering the impact of Watergate on the Nixon-Bush administrations. However, he is far too easy on the Clinton administration.

If we are to believe the Woodward account, every Clinton scandal was one big misunderstanding after another. Travelgate...Filegate...Fostergate...Paulagate...WhiteWatergate...Monicagate. The Clintons were being up front, but poor Starr and the Republicans just kept misinterpreting everything.

Nice try, Bob. But it just don't add up.

If this had happened just once or twice, that would be explainable. (After all, every administration has some bad apples. That's just a fact of life.)

However, the plethora of scandals reflects a systemic problem in the Clinton White House. A fundamental rule of leadership (to quote John Maxwell) is that WHO YOU ARE is WHAT YOU ATTRACT.

If Clinton had that many people in his inner circle who were so dishonest, then that reflects his own ineptitude as a leader.

That is the dirty secret: Clinton was extremely talented and intelligent, but lacked the character befitting a great leader. This is why his presidency will go down as a great case of "what could have been..."

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Shadow: Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate
Bob Woodward
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An entertaining analysis.......2007-08-30

This is an interesting account of the presidencies following Richard Nixon. There is information regarding each presidency that I was unaware of prior to reading this book. I was a little young to know the happenings of the Ford Administration and too busy in my adulthood to keep track of all the scandals occuring in the Clinton Administration. The author's attempt to track every scandal back to Watergate and how they are intertwined is sometimes a stretch. However, if you want to take a prep course for U.S. Scandals 101, this would be a good place to start.

Shadow: five presidents and the legacy of Watergate.: An article from: Queen's Quarterly

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Waste of My Money

What a bunch of hog wash!!

Don't Waste Your Time

Major Disappointment

Is this real warning ? ....... valuate the findings !!

The Orion Prophecy: Will the World Be Destroyed in 2012
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According to Mayan & Egyptian prophecy, the earth awaits a super catastrophe in 2012: its magnetic fields will completely reverse in one agonizing shift. Devastating earthquakes and tidal waves will completely destroy civilization as Europe and North America are pulled north to polar latitudes. Almost all the earth's population will perish. These predictions stem from the sophisticated astronomy of the Maya and Egyptians, descendants of the legendary original Atlanteans, whose island, in this theory, is now buried under the South Pole. The Atlanteans predicted the world-wide flood in 9792 BC. In 2012, according to several 10,000 year-old star codes, Venus, Orion and several other stars will take the same 'code-positions' as in 9792 BC. There is also a forgotten and massive labyrinth, created by the Old Egyptians, of secret chambers filled with artifacts and documents about the previous flood.

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Waste of My Money.......2007-08-11

I knew I made a mistake in buying this book when I read the first sentance: "I am writing this book out of sheer anger, despair, and misery." The author, Patrick Geryl, writes in hyperbole and loosely uses such language as, "After reading these notes, I was gripped by a terrible fear. Ir's clear that a world disaster of unknown proportions is in store for us." and "I felt so desperate I could have killed myself. Luckily I didn't have the time for it, because I had to finish my research first." He is not a researcher. He is hysterical. I cannot believe such nonsense was actually published and presented as "new age".

What a bunch of hog wash!!.......2007-07-19

P$eudo-$cience at its worst. The author says that Atlantis existed and
that is the end of it. No buts. He describes how they managed to swim
to Egypt to start their new civilization. You have to be drunk or really
stoned to follow his reasoning. The only thing missing are crop circles and
messages from aliens.

Don't Waste Your Time.......2007-06-21

Patrick Geryl has to rank as the worst published writer of all time! His theory that the world will be destroyed in 2012 based on the most pointless of mathematical calculations is right up there with that of giddy pre-teen girls finding out whom they'll marry by consulting the Ouija board! If the Egyptians and the Mayans were leaving us the result of their scientific prowess messages that we could actually use, they might have just put up a sign that said, Beware 2012! The crypto mumbo jumbo of "proof" in arcane measurements of buildings just makes you want to laugh! Every aspect of Geryl's work screams "Inept"! His theory that there is some huge labyrinth buried in the Egyptian desert that contains 3000 rooms full of the ancients' calculations--oh, Geryl claims to have found it but just couldn't get around to unearthing anything--puhlease! I'm sure there are relics from ancient Egypt that remain to be discovered, but the largest building ever made by man lying doggo in the sands for this long just makes you want to roll your eyes! Now, if you have read any of his work, you will understand what I am doing with the exclamation marks! I'm sure he draws circles over his i's, too!

Major Disappointment .......2007-04-24

It might very well be true large-scaled cataclysms obliterated past civilizations. It might well be true a cataclysm will occur on or around 2012. And maybe our ancestors really were trying to warn us of global disasters that happen cyclically. There's a lot of interesting literature on these subjects, and I've enjoyed quite a few of them, but "The Orion Prophecy" was a poorly written disappointment.
Although the author's theory regarding solar storms and magnetic field reversals is worth looking into, the (otherwise apparently very intelligent) author does little to build his case. His crazy number connections are nothing more than numerology and can easily be dismissed on dimensional bases alone. For example, in Chapter 16 Geryl randomly squares the number of seconds the earth shifts in the zodiac each year, 3.3333, to 11.11111 square seconds, then somehow connects this with the average sunspot cycle of 11 years. He does nothing to explain what led him to squaring that number, why the mathematical operation is relevant, or how 11.11111 square seconds is equivalent to or connected to 11.11111 years. It's just the same number. The sunspot cycle ranges from roughly 8 to 18 years anyway. The accuracy of seven significant digits also seems arbitrary, falsely implying some high degree of precision. It's like he's just clicking away on the calculator looking for anything familiar without understanding why certain operations should or could be made and with no concern for dimensional analysis.
I also couldn't understand the significance he places on the motions of Venus and why its retrograde loop in and around Gemini and Orion has such importance according to the Egyptian holy books. With Venus performing its retrograde loop approximately every year and a half, this loop will occur in various places along the zodiac quite often, so its loop in the vicinity of Orion fails to strike me as especially significant regardless of his interpretations of the ancient texts. These days, readily available programs such as Starry Night display these motions very easily across incredibly time spans, past and future. I looked and I don't see anything especially compelling there.
Apparently I wasn't as excited as Geryl about his "discoveries", because I found myself rolling my eyes at the numerous exclamation points. I laughed at the "Walter Mitty" part where he fantasizes speaking to the passengers and crew on a special ship designed to survive the catastrophe, the guy who saved everybody's lives. He even has "200 young girls" on board, for him no doubt, to repopulate the world.
He advocates certain extreme lifestyle changes such as a hunger diet and outlawing nuclear power, no doubt an angry axe to grind there.
Does the sun indeed periodically perform these devastating magnetic reversals? It could very well be, but this book does more to discredit the theory than to support it. It also adds more "giggle factor" to the already over ridiculed theories of ancient Mayan and Egyptian advanced knowledge.
If it wasn't laughable, it'd be a real bummer. Sad, because if there are indeed periodic cataclysms that can be predicted, Geryl only succeeds in turning a potentially serious issue into a dismissible farce.

Is this real warning ? ....... valuate the findings !!.......2007-03-21

How to start. Okey, I finished reading this book a 12hours ago. So i have fresh view. The book is from 2001, so there were several books/theories which might affect/confirm/be against the Patrick's finding. So don't use this book as ONLY reference. Take tha facts and valuate them against other findings.

Sunspot theory is really amazing thought. Pole shift is quite old theory, but still at place. So those part are really ok to read. Story about the "world destrucions" and comments are inspiration to get some more information about Atlantis (Oh god another BIG ISSUE, huh ?) I want to pin point the part about the "turning" / "shift" of Zodiac during previous catastrophes. This is the MAJOR one part for me. The naming of Zodiac constelation is also interesting part of this book.

Mathematical proof is, let's say not so "clear" for me as for Patrick. But no any discussion about the "holy" and "important" numbers. But I will welcome some explanaion about why and now he makes "divide" and than "add" in exact points of decoding. So I am missing such as parallel findings.

I like his style of writing, because it was relaxing. He is playing the game with the reader. This keep the reader reading.

Maybe it will be great to get some "revised" version from year 2007, just to see the author's selfreflection/criticism. Generally it is good book and it fit your 2012 study collection of books. But i repeat, valuate all the facts. Do not trust anyone even, if there is simply 1+1=2 :)

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Unhealthy Places focuses on issues of health in today's cities. By arguing that "place matters" in relation to the population's health, Kevin Fitzpatrick and Mark LaGory make a convincing argument about the general unhealthiness of urban environments and, thus, of the urban dweller. The authors offer a place-oriented approach to health and cover such topics as the ecology of everyday urban life, the sociology of health, needs and risks of the socially disadvantaged, needs and risks of children and the elderly in cities, and strategies for better health services in urban environments.

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Some good content, annoying authors.......2007-02-20

While this book is very educational, the authors have a strangely coherent bias towards "inner city" neighborhoods and this lifestyle. Fitzpatrick and LaGory also become quite repetitive in their content and contexts; while at some times it proves helpful, at others one wonders why you paid so much for this lengthy work when much of what they say throughout it was already stated previously; for some sections, I got the idea this book could have been written in much fewer pages. Again, it's very educational, but perhaps not quite as big a bang as one would expect or desire for the buck!

A Citation Classic.......2000-05-17

Urban ecology is the study of how people shape and the urban environment and of how the urban environment shapes people. Unhealthy Places is an outstanding and major work in urban ecology.The authors begin by describing the importance of "place" and "space" in everyday life. To this they add a discussion of the sociology of health. When combined, place and health lead to a picture of the city as a complex mosaic of risk and protection for urban dwellers. In short, some places in the city are more risky than others. This is especially true for vulnerable populations, most especially the homeless, the very young, and the elderly. The authors conclude with a highly informative discussion of health promotion and service delivery in the city. This book is a "must read" for urbanists; it is destined to be a citation classic.

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Eighteen peer-reviewed papers explore the latest information on theoretical and applied ecology, especially as it relates to characterizing environmental risks to wildlife and the requirements of environmental managers. Until recently, many areas which have low to moderate levels of chemical contamination were subjected to intrusive remediation efforts; the consequence being substantial destruction of existing wildlife habitat and low potential for enhancing better quality habitat at the affected site. This new ASTM publication addresses these issues. Topics cover: Applied discipline of landscape ecology Approaches used to characterize wildlife habitat Challenges regarding biological resources from a global corporate perspective Theoretical aspects of landscape ecology Population dynamics affected by landscape conditions Tools and approaches used in assessing environmental risks over different temporal and spatial scales Real-world applications of different tools and approaches.

Agriculture, Resource Exploitation, and Environmental Change (Expanding World, V. 17)

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Agriculture, Resource Exploitation, and Environmental Change (Expanding World, V. 17)

Manufacturer: Variorum
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Binding: Hardcover

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The Changing Risk Landscape: Implication for Insurance Risk Management (Aon Group Australia Limited)

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The Changing Risk Landscape: Implication for Insurance Risk Management (Aon Group Australia Limited)

Manufacturer: Southwood Press Pty Ltd.
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0957776004

Ecological Modeling in Risk Assessment: Chemical Effects on Populations, Ecosystems, and Landscapes

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Ecological Modeling in Risk Assessment: Chemical Effects on Populations, Ecosystems, and Landscapes
Robert A. Pastorok
Manufacturer: CRC
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1566705746

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Toxic chemicals can exert effects on all levels of the biological hierarchy, from cells to organs to organisms to populations to entire ecosystems. However, most risk assessment models express their results in terms of effects on individual organisms, without corresponding information on how populations, groups of species, or whole ecosystems may respond to chemical stressors. Ecological Modeling in Risk Assessment: Chemical Effects on Populations, Ecosystems, and Landscapes takes a new approach by compiling and evaluating models that can be used in assessing risk at the population, ecosystem, and landscape levels. The authors give an overview of the current process of ecological risk assessment for toxic chemicals and of how modeling of populations, ecosystems, and landscapes could improve the status quo. They present a classification of ecological models and explain the differences between population, ecosystem, landscape, and toxicity-extrapolation models. The authors describe the model evaluation process and define evaluation criteria. Finally, the results of the model evaluations are presented in a concise format with recommendations on modeling approaches to use now and develop further. The authors present and evaluate various models on the basis of their realism and complexity, prediction of relevant assessment endpoints, treatment of uncertainty, regulatory acceptance, resource efficiency, and other criteria. They provide models that will improve the ecological relevance of risk assessments and make data collection more cost-effective. Ecological Modeling in Risk Assessment serves as a reference for selecting and applying the best models when performing a risk assessment.

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Landscapes At Risk
Edward Holdaway
Manufacturer: Chapman & Hall
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0419246304

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Covers the history and development of AONBs (Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty) in England and Wales set in the context of protected landscapes generally in the UK. It focuses on the evolution of policies towards them, the arrangements for their administration, conservation and management, the land management and planning context within which they have evolved, and the adequacy of the proposals that have been put forward for their long-term well being. Throughout the analysis there are numerous references to the many initiatives that have been and are being taken by ANOB managers and others to secure their future. The book features a series of case studies of individual AONBs to illustrate the main points being made in the text.

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Landscapes of Defense

Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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Binding: Paperback

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The New Financial Landscape (OECD documents)

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The New Financial Landscape (OECD documents)
Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development
Manufacturer: OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-Operation & Dev
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 9264146504

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The financial landscape has changed dramatically over the last two decades. To a large extent, this change has been the result of domestic and external financial liberalization and spectacular technological advances, leading to increased competition, stronger financial market integration, and the development of new financial products. This publication analyzes trends and structural change in, and policy implications for, banking, risk management, and capital market operations. The main forces likely to shape the financial services industry in the future are also examined.

Terrorism, Risk and the City: The Making of a Contemporary Urban Landscape

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Terrorism, Risk and the City: The Making of a Contemporary Urban Landscape
Jon Coaffee
Manufacturer: Ashgate Publishing
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0754635554

ART Makes Mark On Insurance Landscape.: An article from: National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management

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ART Makes Mark On Insurance Landscape.: An article from: National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management
John Jennings
Manufacturer: The National Underwriter Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management, published by The National Underwriter Company on November 2, 1998. The length of the article is 971 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: ART Makes Mark On Insurance Landscape.
Author: John Jennings
Publication: National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 2, 1998
Publisher: The National Underwriter Company
Page: 6(1)

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