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Who was a tweenie? How did an ice house work and where would you find a crinkum-crankum wall? What was a chesterfield for, or a Claude glass, and how did a clock jack improve your dinner? The answers to these and many other questions appear in this dictionary, which is a feast of information and trivia for history buffs everywhere wanting to know more than just dates and dry facts. They want to know how people lived: what they ate, how they spoke, how they dressed, what games they played, what their homes looked like. This unique dictionary reveals the fascinating details of life, allowing the reader to travel back in time and experience a typical day in any century from the sixteenth to our own. A book to give hours of pleasure whether browsed through or used for reference-it contains a wealth of unexpected information.
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Great for looking up how everyday life changed over time.......2000-06-10
This is a great book if you want to compare the everyday life of someone in one period with another period in a general way--but it is less fulsome on details than other historical guides specific to one period, and is not terribly specific about when these changes took place. You get lots of phrases like "in the second half of the 17th century" which give you a fair amount of guesswork. Still, if you are interested in daily life in a historical perspective this should prove to be a good addition to your bookshelf.
More a type of dictionary.......2000-05-02
This book was more a dictionary than anything. I thought it would explain historical terms as in a story, but it has terms and definitions. Good book if you are looking up terms but as to everyday life and language it is not so good.
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Who was a tweenie? How did an ice house work and where would you find a crinkum-crankum wall? What was a chesterfield for, or a Claude glass, and how did a clock jack improve your dinner? Who invented fish and chips and what was a Harden Star Grenade? Why were the windows of Chatsworth gilded on the outside and what do you know about priest holes? Who invented the ha-ha and for waht purpose? Who were the members of the Hell-Fire Club? The answers to these and many other questions appear in this dictionary, which is a feast of information and trivia for history buffs everywhere wanting to know more than just dates and dry facts. They want to know how people lived: what they ate, how they spoke, how they dressed, what games they played, what their homes looked like. This unique dictionary reveals the fascinating details of life, allowing the reader to travel back in time and experience a typical day in any century from the sixteenth to our own. A book to give hours of pleasure whether browsed through or used for reference -- it contains a wealth of unexpected information.
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This collection, designed to be the primary anthology or textbook for courses in Asian American history, covers the subject's entire chronological span. The volume presents a carefully selected group of readings that requires students to evaluate primary sources, test the interpretations of distinguished historians, and draw their own conclusions.
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Designed to encourage critical thinking about history, the Major Problems in American History Series introduces students to both primary sources and analytical essays on important topics in U.S. history.
Major Problems in the History of the Vietnam War incorporates a spate of new research and a number of recently declassified documents concerning the Vietnam War. This new evidence and scholarship expands the volume's coverage of the experiences of average soldiers during the war.
- The reader gives close attention to the experiences of women and minorities in the war.
- The text includes new chapters on the experience of the average soldier and on the legacy and memory of the Vietnam War.
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vietnam.......2007-06-12
this book is such a waste of time, it tells you only the point of view of one's man ego and his denial of america's defeat by the north vietnamese. throughout the whole war,the u.s miltary only rely on body counts for there victory ,hoping the north vietnamese would fear the u.s army and surrender ,but in the end ,they were wrong ,the nva and viet cong were determine to fight to the death.
face it,even though the u.s military won many battles,the united states lost the war and retreated . the whole world is aware of this defeat but only some american citizen like this author denies this.
many of the vc casualty are infact innocent civilians ,that the u.s military has covered up by placing nva /vc uniforms and weapons on dead civilians ,then taking photographic pictures of it.
the united states gain nothing from the war ,with 60,000 + dead u.s soldiers ,thousands m.i.a (s) ,150,000 billion dollars down the drain ,over 100,000 seriously injured soldiers including amputees (missing legs,arms , body parts) ,and handicaps ,torn the country apart during the 60's and 70's ,fail to stop communism,fail to protect south vietnam,fail to stop an army that is 10 time smaller then u.s army,and fail to justified the war in rightious context,basically the united states gave up and retreated.
the north vietnamese suffered high casualty by fighting u.s army,australian army ,arvn army,south korean army,and new zealand all by them self ,but fighting to regain there country for a better vietnam in the future was a well justified reason to die just like anyother civil war (compared this to american civil war casualties).
so one's man ego and his obsession of denial will not change the world's view on why people should think who really won the war,everybody knows who won this war,and media wasnt wrong at all.
A good, although sometimes boring look at the Vietnam War.......2006-03-07
This book has a lot of good information in it. Through the essays you gain a deep understanding of some of the events that influenced the course of the war that other books cover only slightly or omit all together.
There are a couple HORRIBLE essays that seem to drag for a long long time. Each chapter concludes with 2 essays that either have differing points of view or cover different aspects of the chapter in more detail.
The blessing of this book is that it has a lot of information that comes directly from the Vietnamese, including some translations of South Vietnamese army members as they consider their defeat and flee Saigon after the North takes it over.
Over all, I like this book. At least one of the essays in the very beginning is bad enough that I almost put the book down and didn't pick it back up, but once you get past that, you are in for a good read!
Lessons learned.......2006-02-02
As the book title and "a reader" suggests this is a book with tons and tons of essays on the Vietnam War. These essays cover just about everything that was political or social or anything else about the war. It has topics on Kennedy, Johnson, Eisenhower, Nixon, My Lai, The Tet Offensive, discrimination, the domestic homefront, etc. This book provided a great wealth of sources for a research paper that I had to do. However, unless you are really into the Vietnam War, or that era, this book may be a little dry some times. It does provide a lot of good information, such as facts and figures, but it is just a bunch of peoples, the scholars who wrote the essays, opinions; as well as some Vietnam Vets accounts of the war itself, coming home, etc.
I am giving it four out of five because of the dryness that sometimes occurs. Yet, it does remain a really good source for material, if one has to do research or just has general curiosity. Of course, by the end of the book, the reader will begin to see the lessons learned from Vietnam.
a look into the war that America lost.......2002-12-17
This book id a seris of documents that examines the war. It gives the reader alot of insight into how decisons were made and the consequnces of these decisons. it a well rounded look into the war and its aftermath. The book deals with America involvment with the French until the fall of Saigion and the aftermath of the war. The section that deal with the North Vietnamese and there thoughts and roles are particlar strong. a few weak essay hold the book back from a five star rating. Highly recomended
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Skillfully done, research can be the solid cornerstone of your term paper (or dissertation, essay, or article); inadequately executed, it can cause your whole project to crumble and fall. Yet essential as research is to the ultimate success of your work, performing it is not an innate talent. The precepts, steps, and skills of solid research are readily acquired if you spend some time with The Craft of Research before you start on your outlines and thesis statements. Written by three distinguished professors in 1995, published by the University of Chicago, and winner of the 1995-96 Critics' Choice Award, The Craft of Research teaches how to plan, carry out, and report on research for any field and at any level. Aimed at assisting student researchers, from raw beginners to accomplished graduate and professional students, the book shows how to choose a topic, plan and organize research, and how to draft and revise a report of findings such that a convincing solution is offered to a significant problem.
The Craft of Research is more than just another instruction manual getting you from topic to outline to notes to report. Recognizing that good research is rarely a simple, sequential procedure, but is instead a complex and intricate process, it discusses the subtle ways in which asking questions about your topic can influence how you draft your report, how a quality introduction can send you back to the library, and how the process of drafting can highlight flaws in your argument that need to be addressed. Clear and explicit, sophisticated and practical, The Craft of Research encourages high standards of scholarly achievement, and spells out the steps by which to get there. --Stephanie Gold
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Since 1995, more than 150,000 students and researchers have turned to The Craft of Research for clear and helpful guidance on how to conduct research and report it effectively . Now, master teachers Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, and Joseph M. Williams present a completely revised and updated version of their classic handbook.
Like its predecessor, this new edition reflects the way researchers actually work: in a complex circuit of thinking, writing, revising, and rethinking. It shows how each part of this process influences the others and how a successful research report is an orchestrated conversation between a researcher and a reader. Along with many other topics, The Craft of Research explains how to build an argument that motivates readers to accept a claim; how to anticipate the reservations of thoughtful yet critical readers and to respond to them appropriately; and how to create introductions and conclusions that answer that most demanding question, "So what?"
Celebrated by reviewers for its logic and clarity, this popular book retains its five-part structure. Part 1 provides an orientation to the research process and begins the discussion of what motivates researchers and their readers. Part 2 focuses on finding a topic, planning the project, and locating appropriate sources. This section is brought up to date with new information on the role of the Internet in research, including how to find and evaluate sources, avoid their misuse, and test their reliability.
Part 3 explains the art of making an argument and supporting it. The authors have extensively revised this section to present the structure of an argument in clearer and more accessible terms than in the first edition. New distinctions are made among reasons, evidence, and reports of evidence. The concepts of qualifications and rebuttals are recast as acknowledgment and response. Part 4 covers drafting and revising, and offers new information on the visual representation of data. Part 5 concludes the book with an updated discussion of the ethics of research, as well as an expanded bibliography that includes many electronic sources.
The new edition retains the accessibility, insights, and directness that have made The Craft of Research an indispensable guide for anyone doing research, from students in high school through advanced graduate study to businesspeople and government employees. The authors demonstrate convincingly that researching and reporting skills can be learned and used by all who undertake research projects.
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Customer Reviews:
Decent book.......2007-09-25
This book was on my book list for a college writing course. It is helpful but some of it is just tedious and common knowledge. Helps you write your paper if you have no idea where to start and some references to how to cite a book or article. There are some good tips when it comes to research, but take it with a grain of salt. Reusable, but there's a point to how much knowledge is just retained. Worth buying used, but not brand new.
Craft of Research.......2007-09-14
This book is so well- written, that I actually enjoy reading it. All it talks about is how to be a good writer, but it was written as if the reader is having a conversation with the author. It is also offers extremely helpful strategies for improving academic writing.
A Must Have!.......2007-08-05
As a seminary student in the midst of a master's thesis, 'The Craft' is a joy. It is helpful, and both easy to navigate and understand.
Very comprehensive but not easy to remeber and follow.......2007-06-02
The book is really great if you are persuining any degree. The only problem is that the authors did not lay out the guidlines as clear and strainght forward as I would expected. As you read you SHOULD take notes for later usage and "easy" reference.
An authentic jewel........2007-03-14
This book is a complete and authoritative guide to do sound academic research in any field at any level. It is stupendously well organized and brightly written. Many clear examples and illustrating anecdotes are included.
It is structured in five sections. The first section explains the nature of research and why it is important to write it up. It identifies the roles of writers and readers, focusing in making a connection between them. The second section deals with perhaps the most complicated task new researchers, and old ones adventuring into a new field, face: framing their research problem. In this section the authors describe, step by step, this process: from choosing a topic to asking questions to defining a problem to using sources. Section three is probably the core of the book. Its purpose is to illustrate how to make a claim and supporting it. This section explains that claims launched in research reports must be backed with reasons that are based on evidence; and that convincing research reports should also acknowledge and response other views. Section four is entirely devoted to the long and crucial task of clearly communicating what it has been found. It basically consists of three stages: planning, drafting and revising the report. Finally, in section five some last considerations are presented, including the ethics of research.
This book has been very helpful to me not only to do my own research, but also to supervise my students to do theirs. After having read it several years ago, I still find it useful as reference book.
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From the supplier: Local governments can take steps to deal with groundwater contamination. More than 10,000 regions have contaminated groundwater, but cleaning the water frequently costs more than developing a new water supply. The steps in creating a local wellhead protection program include establishing a planning committee, identifying the recharge area, identifying sources of contamination, developing a protection plan and making long-range plans.
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A Sports Journalist Burns His Bridges Behind Him.......2007-07-05
Howard Cosell rose to fame talking mainly about boxing and football, and the bulk of this book is devoted to documenting his disenchantment with those sports. The lack of regulations protecting the safety of boxers seems to be behind his disenchantment with that sport. As for pro football, he recounts with considerable disgust the removal of franchises from cities that have supported them, and their transfer to more lucrative sites. The Colts went to Indianapolis (under cover of night), the Jets across the river to New Jersey (in fact he called them the "New Jersey Jets"), the Rams to Anaheim, and of course the Raiders went to Los Angeles after beating the pants off the NFL in the celebrated anti-trust case.
It is this latter case which I think is the pivotal point of Cosell's hot-and-cold relationship with pro football. He is dead-set against this type of blatant profiteering from a moral standpoint. He feels that the franchises owe something to the cities which have supported them, and he has testified before Congress in support of legislation that would require franchises to show good cause before moving.
At the same time, his former training as a lawyer required that he support the legal right of the Raiders to move. The legal issue in the case involved section 4.3 of the NFL By-Laws, which required the approval of 3/4 of the owners in the league for any franchise move. The owners could block a move without giving any reason whatsoever, and Cosell understood that this was a clear violation of the anti-trust laws. Despite this clear reality, NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle stubbornly dug in his heels and fought, instead of simply modifying the rule so that it would no longer violate anti-trust standards. Rozelle, one of the most over-rated characters in modern history, refused to accept Cosell's support of the Raiders' legal right to move, and it caused a rift in their personal relationship.
Another factor in Cosell's disenchantment with football is what he called the "jockocracy", meaning the use of ex-ballplayers in the telecasts. He blasts the talents of former colleagues Don Meredith and Frank Gifford, and it is these comments which became the focal point of most of the reaction to this book. That is not, however, the main thrust of the book.
I always liked Howard Cosell and appreciated his special brand of sports journalism, a phrase that was basically an oxymoron before Cosell came along. It is clear now that this book represents the start of the deterioration which he went through in his later years. He starts trashing others, a habit which grew and grew as he grew old. He decided he now liked baseball after all, after trashing it severely earlier. However, his efforts to broadcast baseball were excruciatingly awful. I have to cringe when I think of his horrible effort as part of the ABC telecast of the 1979 World Series between the Pirates and the Orioles. He was temperamentally unsuited for baseball, and this was painfully obvious to the listener. In his last years Cosell burned many bridges behind him, and he no doubt died with the love of his family intact, but perhaps not many others.
No Mas!.......2006-03-08
Howard Cosell takes on a variety of topics in 1985's bitter memoir "I Never Played The Game" but only really warms to one: Himself.
The voice of televised sports through the 1960s and especially the 1970s, Cosell was an original who with his characteristic staccato pontificating and taste for the jugular made even humdrum contests into events. Unfortunately by the 1980s his act had grown tired. Cosell lost interest in sports, especially boxing, where he shone brightest. That boxing was a dangerous sport was nothing new, but suddenly in 1982 Cosell discovered it caused serious injury, and not only walked away from the sport but urged it be banned outright. If he no longer enjoyed it, why should anyone else?
All this is covered in "I Never Played The Game" at sententious, self-important length. Cosell has a point he beats into the ground, and it's not so much the danger of boxing but how the sport's luminaries were shocked at his brave stand and how congressmen like Jim Florio and Bill Richardson listened attentively to Cosell's words.
Earlier in the book, Cosell details walking away from his other key perch, the broadcast booth of "Monday Night Football" in even more self-serving terms. He claims the players are no longer interesting (huh?), that the league is corrupt (especially when their leadership doesn't listen to him), that too many broadcasters are of what Cosell likes to call "the jockocracy," whose ability to call the game is compromised by the fact they once played it, unlike him.
"Anyone over the age of two knows that football is basically a sport without any mysteries," he writes, and his acid contempt for the game is matched only by that for his boothmates, Don Meredith and Frank Gifford, whom he describes as uninteresting morons who rode Cosell's grand wake.
This may be the book of Cosell's I heard Al Michaels once describe as "cruelty disguised as candor." If so, it fits. Cosell wants you to know how low he regards people like NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle, New York Jets owner Leon Hess, and John Madden, but instead of making his points he keeps hammering at the people, noting such details as their failed marriages as he uses this book to burn some bridges and settle scores in a way that made me feel a little like he must have watching Larry Holmes pummel poor Tex Cobb. As another boxer famously cried: "No Mas!"
The only good part of the book is a chapter on the rise of Sugar Ray Leonard, a young boxer who gave Cosell a new star to light upon after the decline of Muhummad Ali, his most famous interview subject. Cosell's commentary here is relatively bile-free, and while he still pretty much promotes himself, he also writes knowledgeably about Leonard's growth as a boxer through a series of professional matches culminating in a memorable pair of bouts with Roberto Duran.
It's a shame that Cosell's writing doesn't rise to this level elsewhere in this book. He attacks newspaper critics for not recognizing his brilliance, takes credit not only for the success of "Monday Night Football" but pro football overall, and uses the controversy surrounding his description of a black football player as "a little monkey" (which was definitely overblown and if anything revealed Cosell's essential colorblindness rather than any hidden racism) as an excuse to trot out his credentials as Mr. NAACP, the best thing to happen to black people since the Emancipation Proclamation.
Cosell was a great thing to happen to sports broadcasting, and in his prime, when he took delight in himself and his place in pop culture, he was more of a pleasure to be around than any of us who were there at the time really knew. But it wasn't his time anymore when he wrote this, and instead of taking stock gracefully, he lets his bile run free. The result is a book that diminishes Cosell more than his critics ever could.
I Never Read the Book.......2006-02-02
I have this thing about men with toupees. It's like they're trying to hide something. But what? Did they strangle a unicorn when they were younger? Did they repeatedly run over a poodle with their Vespa? Did they hit a parrot on the head with a ball peen hammer? I doubt it. But it makes you wonder right?
His ego trumps his good points.......2005-05-29
Sportscaster Howard Cosell (1920-1995) was so annoying and obnoxious that millions of fans would turn off the sound on their TV sets. But away from the microphone Cosell was a capable print journalist who often wrote with great clarity and perspective. Here at his retirement Cosell writes about sports franchises relocating, problems within the NFL and boxing, sports announcers and Monday Night Football. Cosell makes several interesting points, but unfortunately his arrogance and ceaseless criticisms for his coworkers was such a turnoff that I never finished these pages. If you found Cosell as perfect as he apparently did, you'll probably enjoy this book and the author's unbounded egotism.
A fascinating man and a great book.......2003-08-21
Cosell's "I Never Played the Game" is not a biography as much as it is a series of stories and essays by the famed sportscaster. Howard Cosell WAS sports in the 70s. In an era before cable and sports shows on every channel, Howard was a one-man network. He is best known as the face and voice of ABCs Monday Night Football, Wide World of Sports and Sportsbeat. Cosell was loved and hated during his career, gathering hate mail as well as a deep respect from fans, broadcasters, newspapers and sports figures alike. The praise and respect, unfortunately, came in the form of private conversations and compliments on his skills. The public criticisms of Howard were plentiful, more so than he deserved.
Cosell was a brilliant man, and he's quick to remind us that he has a law background. The first segments of this book reveal Howard's insightful thoughts regarding the NFL and its policies when it comes to allowing teams to move from city to city. Cosell's problem is the fact that the fans shouldn't have to suffer their team to move by an arbitrary decision by the owner or the city. Cosell proceeds to talk out of both sides of his mouth, and comes out on the side of governmental intervention. (I initially wrote three long paragraphs going into detail on this, including the reasons I think Cosell was wrong. My review ended up being over 2000 words long, so I can't comment on the specifics of my disagreement with Cosell on this issue.)
Anyway, Cosell also goes into some detail regarding his Monday Night Football days. These passages are fascinating if you know the players involved. Howard's behind-the-scenes conversations with Roone Arledge and his criticisms of Frank Gifford, Don Meredith and OJ Simpson etc. are a lot of fun to read. Howard does not go overboard with his criticisms. All of it in regard to his sportscasting colleagues centers on what Cosell calls the "Jockocracy", wherein TV and radio sports were (are) increasingly dominated by ex-jocks. Howard thinks they are a detriment to broadcasting, as their inexperience makes for a boring broadcast. I tend to agree. Even today, there are some excellent ex-jocks in broadcasting, but there are a LOT of mediocre ex-jock broadcasters out there.
Also included in this excellent book of essays is an outstanding look back at Sugar Ray Leonard and Cosell's relationship with him. Cosell uses this opportunity to talk about boxing in general, and his reasons for walking away from professional boxing. Again, Cosell loves big government solutions; he advocates a boxing commission in order to keep fighters "safe" and prevent the underhanded dealings of the promoters. Since there already ARE boxing commissions, why not let those with a gripe take them to court instead of making all sorts of new commissions and wasting tax dollars.
Cosell loves to talk about himself and his role in the world of sports politics, but I can't help but question some of his affiliations. Cosell effortlessly lambastes those who deserve it, but at the same time he always seems to "pal around" with these people (owners, politicians, sneaky network executives, "unqualified" colleagues) whom he claims to despise. That's the journalist in him (also the lawyer in him), digging for the scoop instead of standing up for his own personal beliefs. If I thought Joe Owner was a crook, I wouldn't associate with him as a matter of principle; Cosell seems to associate with his ideological enemies MORE than his friends.
As disagreeable as I find his politics to be, I have always liked Howard Cosell. He was the Voice of sports in the United States all through the 60s, 70s and into the 80s. When Howard brought his thoughts to the table, he was always outspoken and forceful in his opinions. Cosell never got his just rewards while he was still a public figure, but if you go back and ask anyone from that era who the highest profile broadcaster was, they would say Cosell.
Cosell is sorely missed. I am not old enough to remember him in all his glory, but the few years I was still able to hear his Monday Night Football broadcasts brings back fond memories. Howard comes across like an opinionated friend to me. I would love to sit with a drink in one hand, a cigar in the other, and Howard Cosell to have a long conversation with. In the sports world, there is nobody I would have liked to meet more than Howard Cosell.
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