Hooker's Finest Fruit: A Selection of Paintings of Fruits by William Hooker (1779-1832)

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Hooker's Finest Fruit: A Selection of Paintings of Fruits by William Hooker (1779-1832)
William J. Hooker , William T. Stearn , and F. A. Roach
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HOOKER'S FINEST FRUITS. A SELECTION OF PAINTINGS OF FRUITS BY WILLIAM HOOKE R (1779-1832) [D6]
F. & W. Stearn Roach
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Hooker's Finest Fruits: a Selection of Paintings of Fruits
William (artist) Hooker
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Landmark Vistors Cayman Islands (Landmark Visitors Guide Cayman Islands) (Landmark Visitors Guide Cayman Islands)
Don Philpott
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One of many titles in the Landmark Visitors Guide series, a revamp and update of the highly respected Visitors Guides, acknowledged as among the most reliable and useful guides for sightseers. With full color maps and photos throughout, the new Landmark Visitors Guides are highly detailed, giving you the information you need to get the most from your trip. They serve as a useful reference tool before you leave home, and are the perfect travel companion while on the road.

Area-by-area tours highlight in-town sights and attractions, including art galleries, museums, historic buildings and churches. They also lead you out into the countryside, with recommended stops en route. Colorful call-out boxes reveal tidbits of the area's local culture, interesting sidelights on how the landscape has been shaped and other details sorely lacking in competing guidebooks. The comprehensive "Fact File" in back provides opening times, fees and contact information for all places mentioned in the text. Index.

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Delectable.......2001-11-01

If these delectable guides' plentiful pix don't get you drooling to explore, you need to get your salivary glands checked. The text is also noteworthy

One of the best.......2001-11-01

One of the best travel book series, with attention to detail, plus numerous color photographs and fine maps. Lots of instructions regarding practical travel matters. (Travel Books
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The press coverage of the second Iraq war was notable for the American military's program assigning journalists to be "embedded" with specific military units. While this afforded more personal coverage, the reportage was inherently narrow, missing out on the larger perspective of a sprawling and complex situation and telling stories only from the American troops' point of view. Such is not the case in The Fall of Baghdad, journalist Jon Lee Anderson's harrowing account of the Americans' capture of the Iraqi capital. Anderson was not embedded but on the ground in Baghdad and recounts the increasing anxiety and dread of Iraqi citizens as they try to prepare as best they can for a seemingly inevitable invasion. Not only were the Iraqis fearing for their lives, dwelling as they did in what they knew to be the largest target city in the nation, they also lived in fear of Saddam Hussein while he was still in power and so projected a facade of desperate optimism and unfailing loyalty. Anderson chronicles the collapse of this feigned allegiance and the Iraqi people's joy of being free of Saddam but also reports hints of the kind of anti-American sentiment that would come to deadly fruition in the months following the end of conventional fighting. Additionally, Anderson tells of the journalists covering the war, who struggled with the conflict between their drive to tell the story of what was happening and their desire to stay alive. Anderson keeps the scope of his book limited to the situation within Baghdad, omitting any mention of the larger political issues related to the war, which means that the book is not only non-partisan and highly focused but also incredibly claustrophobic, capturing the feeling of being trapped in a city about to be devastated. --John Moe

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For every great historical event, seemingly, at least one reporter writes an eyewitness account of such power and literary weight that it becomes joined with its subject in our minds-George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia and the Spanish Civil War; John Hersey's Hiroshima and the dropping of the first atomic bomb; Philip Gourevitch's We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories of Rwanda and the Rwandan genocide. Whatever else is written about the Iraqi people and the fall of Saddam, Jon Lee Anderson's The Fall of Baghdad is worthy of mention in this company. No subject has become more hotly politicized than the toppling of Saddam Hussein's regime, and so a thick fog of propaganda, both from boosters of the war and its opponents, has obscured the reality of what the Iraqi people have endured and are enduring, under Saddam Hussein and now. For that reason alone, The Fall of Baghdad is a great and necessary book. Jon Lee Anderson has drawn on all of his reserves of stamina and personal bravery to create an astonishing portrait of humanity in extremis, a work of great wisdom, human empathy, and moral clarity. He follows a remarkable and diverse group of Iraqis over the course of this extraordinary time: from the all-pervasive fear that comes from living under Saddam's brutal, Orwellian rule to the surreal atmosphere of Baghdad before the invasion; to the invasion's commencement and the regime's death spiral down into its terrible endgame; to America's disastrously ill-conceived seizure of power and its fruits. In channeling a tragedy of epic dimensions through the stories of real people caught up in the whirlwind of history, Jon Lee Anderson has written a book of timeless significance.

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"From New Yorker contributor Jon Lee Anderson comes The Fall of Baghdad-a masterpiece of literary reportage about the experience of ordinary Iraqis living through the endgame of the Hussein regime, its violent fall, and the troubled American occupation. For every great historical event, seemingly, at least one reporter writes an eyewitness account of such power and literary weight that it becomes joined with its subject in our minds-George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia and the Spanish Civil War; John Hersey's Hiroshima and the dropping of the first atomic bomb; Philip Gourevitch's We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories of Rwanda and the Rwandan genocide. Whatever else is written about the Iraqi people and the fall of Saddam, Jon Lee Anderson's The Fall of Baghdad is worthy of mention in this company. No subject has become more hotly politicized than the toppling of Saddam Hussein's regime, and so a thick fog of propaganda, both from boosters of the war and its opponents, has obscured the reality of what the Iraqi people have endured and are enduring, under Saddam Hussein and now. For that reason alone, The Fall of Baghdad is a great and necessary book. Jon Lee Anderson has drawn on all of his reserves of stamina and personal bravery to create an astonishing portrait of humanity in extremis, a work of great wisdom, human empathy, and moral clarity. He follows a remarkable and diverse group of Iraqis over the course of this extraordinary time: from the all-pervasive fear that comes from living under Saddam's brutal, Orwellian rule to the surreal atmosphere of Baghdad before the invasion; to the invasion's commencement and the regime's death spiral down into its terrible endgame; to America's disastrously ill-conceived seizure of power and its fruits. In channeling a tragedy of epic dimensions through the stories of real people caught up in thewhirlwind of history, Jon Lee Anderson has written a book of timeless significance. "

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Informative Background on the Iraqi situation.......2007-02-17

It's important for all of us in the U.S. to know about this country that we've just invaded, for heaven's sake!! Good on the coverage of Saddam, and military affairs. Only wish there could have been more about the day to day existence of living in this country, from the point of view of an average citizen. Well written.

Truly Different book on the War in Iraq.......2006-11-08

Jon Lee Anderson has written a book on the War in Iraq. He's a journalist, like pretty much everyone else who's written books about the current conflict. The difference is that while most of the rest of the writers were embedded with American Army or Marine units, and so saw the war from the perspective of the U.S. military, Anderson was reporting on the lead-in to the war from Baghdad, and partly by choice, partly by circumstance, he stayed in the city throughout the war. This gives him a very different perspective on what was occurring while the shooting was going on.

The book itself spends a lot of time covering the nation of Iraq prior to the start of the war, and then has a couple of lengthy chapters dealing with the fighting and the aftermath of the American entry into Baghdad, followed by a very long epilogue that details the author's further adventures in the country. The whole thing is well-told, and for the most part interesting.

The author doesn't show much bias, either. He clearly despises Saddam and what he did to the country, and doesn't think much of the other extremist leaders there either. One interesting sidenote: he expresses considerable contempt for Peter Arnett, who wanders into a hotel towards the beginning of the book, before the war. Usually, the one person a journalist won't say anything negative about is another journalist.

I enjoyed this book a great deal. It covers the war from a pretty unique perspective, and I would recommend it.

Iraq's Upheaval.......2006-08-04

A well-crafted report of the unique milieu of totalitarian Baghdad. Anderson expresses a deep humanity in the stories he tells. Without grasping for explanations or theories, he writes about the people he met and befriended and his own experiences as a journalist. His eye for the richness of the particular lives he encounters makes the bleakness of Saddam's cruel and absurd system all the more clear.

interesting.......2005-10-03

This work depicts the reality of the latest Iraq war, rather than the hyperbole often used to sell and maintain the conflict. It would be worth reading if only as a vaccination against media that enthusiastically markets simple slogans in lieu of lethal reality. It stands as a prudent warning to those who think poly-sci term papers can painlessly remake the world.

A must read.......2005-06-17

This is by far one of the best books that I have ever read about a city on the brink of war. It delves into the sentiments of the people of Iraq, Baghdad and the Bathists....I really felt like I was there, at times it took me a few seconds to realize that I was in New York City in Central Park reading this great book and not in Baghdad or Falluja. An amazing read...in fact I have bought two more of his books.

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Excellent Biography Of Saddam
Needs updating and better research
A "hands on " Stalin/Hitler -- Saddam himself did some of the dirty work (killing)
Mostly very good book that makes Saddam out to be the murderer he is
Dont waste your time

Saddam: His Rise and Fall
Con Coughlin
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ASIN: 0060505435
Release Date: 2005-10-18

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Insightful, penetrating, and shocking, the defining
biography of Iraq's deposed tyrant

Drawing on an unparalleled network of sources, contacts, and firsthand testimonies, Con Coughlin takes us to the center of Saddam Hussein's complex, bewildering regime -- and beyond. Fully updated and revised, Saddam: His Rise and Fall meticulously describes how Hussein took power and immediately set about controlling every aspect of Iraqi life.

Coughlin examines Hussein's regime both before and after its fall, exploring the contradictions of Saddam's private life: his sponsoring of Islamic fundamentalism while whiskey drinking and womanizing as well as his reliance on and celebration of family negated by his violent and temperamental treatment of them. With evidence from family members, servants, and staff, Saddam: His Rise and Fall is unique in its close-up representation of this elusive and secretive world.

In all-new chapters and an epilogue, and with shocking new disclosures, Coughlin also vividly recounts the last few months of Saddam's reign and his eventual capture by American forces.

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Excellent Biography Of Saddam.......2007-01-24

Some reviewers are judging this book based on their personal opinions about the Iraq War. But this book was originally written in 2002 and the Iraq War is only briefly discussed in a short epilogue. Of course, the situation there is even worse today, though Coughlin does mention the difficulties that lie ahead.

The fact is that this book is that not a political treatise. But is instead a well written biography that begins with Saddam's birth around 70 years ago in a small, poverty stricken village near Tikrit. He experienced what was apparently a horrific childhood with an abusive step-father. Around age 10 he was sent off to live with his Nazi sympathizer uncle, Tulfah Khairallah. As a young adult Saddam began to rise through the Baath Party ranks, considered an effective thug and hitman who was willing to do the party's "dirty work" against potential enemies. Eventually Saddam's ruthless brutality enabled him to become the dictator of Iraq. Of course, from there his atrocities only grew worse, including the gassing of the Kurds and over a million left dead during his bloody 8 year war against Iran. Meanwhile the United States, the Soviet Union, France and Germany all supported Iraq with military supplies and assistance during this time, apparently considering him the "lesser of two evils" compared to Iran.

Coughlin does an excellent job in presenting the psychological and cultural background that produced Saddam. Still it remains hard to fathom the type of mentality that could lead someone to order the horrific number of murders and torture cases that occurred during his reign. Saddam was a vicious tyrant. But this book also presents a realistically bleak portrait of Iraq's political environment that offers no easy solutions for a better future without him.

I think Bush and the neo-cons were incredibly naive going into this war believing that they could turn Iraq into a Western style democracy. As a result the situation there is a disaster. But regardless of your political opinions on the war, this is an excellent biography of Saddam that will increase the knowledge of anyone that reads it.

Needs updating and better research.......2006-10-12

Someone must be suffering from cold feet.

The Iraqi army has dissolved and disintegrated and regrouped into small widely separated divisions, up to now incapable of organized performances, least of all policing Baghdad.

The world ridiculed the idea that Saddam had amassed weapons of mass destruction (now ironically referred to as `had the potential capability of possessing WMD' - you see! the legend `potential' was simply added to give an evasive answer to the question `why has the UN decided to remove Saddam?'

Now we listen to bits and pieces of a so-called `Saddam's court martial', where Saddam has been exhausting the court but never exhausted, engaging everyone in heated arguments, until the judge was on the verge of losing his temper. Indeed he lost it and dismissed Saddam.
Saddam won the day!!!!
It was a great personal victory for Saddam.
Of course no one has any means of knowing who's really speaking the truth.
The coalition forces believed they had at last a revealing insight into the state of Saddam's mind after his dishonourable capture, but the way the ex-president is treated in court leaves a lot to be desired.

Many responsible officials after Saddam were about to commiserate on their heavy responsibilities despite the support they have been getting from the `strongest power on this planet'

I saw the look of dismay in the eyes of those who read this prematurely written book; perhaps the author thought that Saddam would be a dead corpse by the time this epistle had been published.
Who knows!
And Iraq, in the absence of as strong a government, is still in terrible predicament.
The battle for Saddam Hussein is virtually beginning.
To many laypersons in the Arab world, the `story' does not seem to be finishing soon, and the author will have to revisit the last four years brimful with additional important material for his readers.

A "hands on " Stalin/Hitler -- Saddam himself did some of the dirty work (killing).......2006-10-11

A good detailed account of how Saddam used brutal stalinist methods to take control of Iraq. His control of Iraq was so complete that it took a strong outside force to bring him down.

Mostly very good book that makes Saddam out to be the murderer he is.......2006-09-09

I love the way Saddam's dreaded Anfal Campaign where he murdered over 100,000 Iraqi Kurds in just one year in the 1980's is given depth by the author. As for why the US did not stop Saddam during this time; well the Cold War with the Soviet Union was still going on at this time and the US was still slightly paarlyzed by the pacifist movement of 1970.

Back to this book it would be 5 stars without the homosexual reference Coughlin put in.

Dont waste your time.......2005-12-20

I would have givin this book a 0 star but that option wasnt availabe.This author really needs to do his research all over again.For instace on page 7 he talks about the "7 pillars of islam"when actually there only is 5 PILLARs in Islam.This might not seem like a big deal but througout this book you find little lies here and there.And by the time you finish the book it turns into one big lie.The author mentions that Saddam gassed his people but FAILS to mention that it was our government of the USA that supplied it to him.He protrays Bush and his administration as heros bet he feels dumb now after we found no WMDs and that we screwed the whole nation up.For some truth read "forbidden truth".And also read the PNAC doctrine.Dont waste your time with this book.

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Iraq and the Fall of Saddam Hussein
Jason Richie
Manufacturer: Oliver Press
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This book covers the rise and fall of Saddam Hussein.

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A straightforward nonfiction book.......2003-11-17

Iraq And The Fall Of Saddam Hussein is a straightforward nonfiction book written specifically for young readers by Jason Richie and accurately chronicling the history of Saddam Hussein's rise to power in Iraq, the years of his rule over the Iraqi people, and the American invasion that ended his regime. Full color photographs, and direct narration at an intermediate level present modern history in terms directly accessible to young people, Iraq And The Fall Of Saddam Hussein is superb and timely addition to school and community library collections.

Watching Saddam fall: Assyrian refugees in Sydney and the imagining of a new Iraq.(Writing refugee lives: urban ethnographies and affective communities) : An article from: Social Analysis

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Watching Saddam fall: Assyrian refugees in Sydney and the imagining of a new Iraq.(Writing refugee lives: urban ethnographies and affective communities) : An article from: Social Analysis
Greg Gow
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IRAQ - Dec. 17 - Exiles Name Panel To Rule After Saddam Falls.(Saddam Hussein, Ahmed CHalabi, Iyad Allwai, Abdelaziz Hakim)(Brief Article): An article from: APS Diplomat Recorder

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IRAQ - Dec. 17 - Exiles Name Panel To Rule After Saddam Falls.(Saddam Hussein, Ahmed CHalabi, Iyad Allwai, Abdelaziz Hakim)(Brief Article): An article from: APS Diplomat Recorder

Manufacturer: Pam Stein/Input Solutions
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ASIN: B0008FZYVW
Release Date: 2005-06-01

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Publication: APS Diplomat Recorder (Newsletter)
Date: December 21, 2002
Publisher: Pam Stein/Input Solutions
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Iraq: for many Iraqi teens, life has gotten better since the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime. But danger and uncertainty linger.(World): An article from: Junior Scholastic

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Iraq: for many Iraqi teens, life has gotten better since the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime. But danger and uncertainty linger.(World): An article from: Junior Scholastic
Fariba Nawa
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Title: Iraq: for many Iraqi teens, life has gotten better since the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime. But danger and uncertainty linger.(World)
Author: Fariba Nawa
Publication: Junior Scholastic (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 1, 2003
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Rebuilding Iraq's media: Saddam's fall unleashed a media free-for-all. Whoever prevails will have a lot to say about Iraq's future.: An article from: Columbia Journalism Review

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Rebuilding Iraq's media: Saddam's fall unleashed a media free-for-all. Whoever prevails will have a lot to say about Iraq's future.: An article from: Columbia Journalism Review
Borzou Daragahi
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This digital document is an article from Columbia Journalism Review, published by Columbia University, Graduate School of Journalism on July 1, 2003. The length of the article is 3469 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: Rebuilding Iraq's media: Saddam's fall unleashed a media free-for-all. Whoever prevails will have a lot to say about Iraq's future.
Author: Borzou Daragahi
Publication: Columbia Journalism Review (Refereed)
Date: July 1, 2003
Publisher: Columbia University, Graduate School of Journalism
Volume: 42 Issue: 2 Page: 45(4)

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Iraq and the Rise and Fall of Saddam Hussein: History Packaged for Libraries (The Middle East in Audio, 3)

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Iraq and the Rise and Fall of Saddam Hussein: History Packaged for Libraries (The Middle East in Audio, 3)

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Iraq and the Rise and Fall of Saddam Hussein: History Packaged for Libraries and Schools

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Iraq and the Rise and Fall of Saddam Hussein: History Packaged for Libraries and Schools (The Middle East in Audio, 3)

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