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Naturalist in China
This is one of the best field guides I have ever seen. The plates (61 plates)are beautifully illustrated and very accurate. Even though it will be a few years before I visit China, I wanted to purchase this field guide to become familiar with their mammals and where to find them. Besides wonderful illustrations of the mammals, the text is filled with great information. Each species account is accompanied with a range map showing the distribution of that mammal. Under the mammal's name is included the Chinese script of the mammal and an English translation of what that script sounds like. This is an ingenious inclusion, because for travelers looking for specific mammals, they only need to point to the script and people can help them. The text also includes taxonomic keys to assist in identifying mammals that are closely related. About the only thing that I didn't like was the fact that it only comes in hardcover. This is a personal thing because all of my other field guides are paperback, which makes them lighter to carry while traveling. But even with the hardcover, this field guide is a wonderful resource and learning tool for the mammals of China. ... Read more

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"Tequila Junction" may be the first narco-counterinsurgency manual to be published in the U.S., so its proposals could help to turn the tide in Afghanistan. Parts One and Two of this book detail a foreign power's hidden assault on the Americas. While this assault's objective is obviously political, much of its support comes through local commodity trading (mostly in drugs). That makes it a well-veiled variant of 4th-Generation Warfare (that which is fought in the political, economic, psychological, and martial arenas simultaneously). Undermining the incursion before it can too drastically influence the heartland will take deploying lone U.S. infantry squads to isolated Combined Action Platoons (those shared with like numbers of host-country police and soldiers) and patrol bases in Colombia, Panama, and possibly even Mexico. Part Three has the unconventional warfare techniques those U.S. squads will need to survive many times their number of drug traffickers and narco-guerrillas. These techniques have been derived from the counterinsurgency methods of the Vietnamese, Chinese, Japanese, and Iranian armies (those with the most cultural predisposition toward 4GW). ... Read more

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4th Generation Warfare
A very insightful analysis of the current geo-strategic situation with serious and dangerous national defense implications for the western hemisphere and the US.This book presents an excellent homeland security threat assessment.It should be required reading for everyone concerned with national and hemispheric defense, the personnel of the Department of Homeland Security, everyone assigned to NORTHCOM and SOUTHCOM, and all state defense force personnel, especially those of the border states.

Tequila Junction - a 4GW defense manual
Except from being an excellent analysis and presentation of open source intelligence John Poole keeps pushing the tactics that will work in conflicts of today and the future.

As shown in the book the main players behind the unrest in Latin America are still communists albeit from another origin than before.

When we examine the situation and solutions in Latin America we can easily draw the parallels to Iraq but even more so to Afghanistan.

As always in his books John Poole starts with the intelligence brief and assessment of the problems, then continues with a proposed strategy and with it a tactical execution to resolve the issues.

The proposed strategies and tactics have their origin in the battle proven history stretching back to the ancient giants of warfare. But they are readily adapted for modern 4GW defense.

In order to implement these strategies and tactics we need to keep changing the way we view tactics and training, most of all we need to improve how to introduce and use the non-traditional ways of how to defeat the real enemy.

If you need a push in the right direction, read Tequila Junction, and for that matter all of John Poole's excellent books.

Battles are won before they are fought.

A poor attempt at a counter-insurgency manual
Mr Poole clearly states that the challenge that he intends to solve is "how to combine military and police procedure with christian ethics."

So it should not be any surprise that at every chance he gets Mr. Poole is always finding the presence of Hizballah or Al-Qaeda lurking in every shadow in Latin America. Not to mention the Chinese government who are behind every crime group that springs up in every Chinese population in Latin America; or so he would have you think.

He barely even tries to be informative, a great majority of his information is referenced from Wikipedia. I hate to be the bearer of bad news to you Mr. Poole but Wikipedia is not the most reliable source in the world. A user edited site where anyone can edit anything at will is inherently faulty and prone to fraud. A college professor would not accept any paper with even one reference cited from Wikipedia. I'm questioning what kind of operation they have going on at Posterity Press that they would allow something like that.

Mr. Poole's logic in combating threats to America is flawed and indicative of the school of thought from which he comes from. He sees the issues of drugs as a war to be fought rather than a problem to be solved. America's war on drugs has long been proven to be a farce, a tool used for political and military leverage against other nations.

The RAND corporation is a nonprofit global policy think tank initially formed to offer research and analysis to the armed forces of the United States. You would think that this think tank that has influenced U.S. government policy for the better part of the last century would have something positive to say about U.S. policies regarding war on drugs.

Nope, not even close. In 1994 the RAND corporation put out a study that showed drug treatment is 7 times more cost effective than domestic law enforcement method, 10 times more effective than interdiction, and 23 times more effective than the "source control" method.

Mr. Poole advocates invading foreign countries for what is, essentially, an American problem. And he constantly derides various groups for being involved in the trafficking of drugs yet makes no mention of any U.S. backed forces and their involvement in drugs.

Rather than blaming foreign forces for groups rising up throughout Latin America why not look at the socio-economic conditions present in each respective countrythat allow such groups to rise up.

At best this book is a poor attempt at a 21st century Latin American counter-insurgency manual full of misconceptions and glaring omissions. At worst it is a fearing mongering and hate inspiring piece of misguided literature. I would suggest to anybody with sensible logic and who is not out for Sino/Islamic conspiracy fodder to just save your money, stay at home, and read Wikipedia.

It'll probably be just as if not more informative than this.

Tequila With A Deadly Kick
The more I read Poole's books, the more I am amazed at how little attention they seem to get, which is truly sad and frightening. I recommend this thought-provoking book to anyone interested in understanding fourth-generation warfare (4GW) and the serious consequences it is having too close to our southern border.

This book is very similar to Poole's previous books - incredibly detailed research from a wide array of sources coupled with a very credible and critical analysis of U.S. national security and military policy and practices. What makes this book different from his other books, and much more important, is that the very real and challenging threats he describes are not somewhere far away overseas - they are right in 'our backyard' in Latin America. Poole made it very clear that there are increasing ties between China and Latin America, especially within Cuba and Venezuela. He took that fact a step further and presented a logical and compelling case to explain what it means now and in the future to our national security. If you do not believe it or were unaware of it, just pay attention to the news and look it up yourself.

Poole divided the book into three sequential and complementary parts: the current intelligence situation in Latin America (including the necessary historical background), an analysis of U.S. strategy and how it stacks up against the threats in the region, and then Poole's recommended counterinsurgency techniques. In a book filled with many stimulating facts, concepts, and passages, one quote that really stood out to me for its apparent simplicity yet inherently profound implications for our standard military and national security approach to perceived and actual threats was, "Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary" (Mahatma Gandhi, 1869-1948).

I sincerely hope that Poole's research, conclusions, and recommendations in this outstanding book inspire reflection and discussion about our approach to the threats we are currently facing and those we are likely to face in the foreseeable future. His work is a warning that should be heeded.

Many New Insights and Tactics from John Poole
With each new book he publishes, John Poole always manages to provide many new and relevant insights that prove equally useful to leaders at all levels. All military decision makers, from policy makers to infantry squad leaders, can draw important lessons from this book.

As an infantry officer in the US Army, I have made John Poole's books required reading for all my soldiers and constantly use his material to establish training and tactics for my unit.

This latest work may not seem pressing at the moment since most of our attention is directed towards the middle east. However, as John Poole argues in his persuasive and meticulously researched arguments, the emerging threats in Latin America may be more serious than many of us have anticipated. In addition, the lessons John Poole extracts about counterinsurgency and the tactics he describes, are useful to counterinsurgents operating in all regions, not just Latin America. ... Read more

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A key team member behind The Secret and his business partner offer the specific tools and mental strategies to help readers leap ahead in any career or business venture and achieve major financial success.

In this visionary work, New York Times bestselling author John Assaraf and business guru Murray Smith reinvent the business book for the twenty-first century. Two of the most successful entrepreneurs in the world, they combine forces to bring their special insights and techniques together in a revolutionary guide for success in the modern business environment.

Assaraf and Smith know how to minimize risk and maximize success, and The Answer provides a framework for sharing their wisdom, experience, and skills with the millions of people who want to accomplish their own dreams in life. Using cutting-edge research into brain science and quantum physics, they show how readers can actually rewire their brains for success and create the kind of extraordinary lives they want. By teaching readers how to attract and use newly discovered "uncommon" senses to achieve business success, the authors demonstrate the beliefs, habits, thoughts, and actions that they have used to build eighteen multimillion-dollar companies.

Any reader who follows this step-by-step process to build his or her career will experience an enormous life transformation and reach an exceptional level of living. ... Read more

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Loved the first half of the book
Ok, I have to admit, I have read a lot of self help books and now I've reached a stage to try to find anything new or useful in additional self help books is becoming rare and difficult. Not that this book is new, but the first half (which is John's contribution) is fantastic. BUT the book has two halves and the second half was difficult to slog through. I love management and entrepreneur type books too and this was simply not that good. Boy, if the book was able to focus on the self help aspect and not business management, it would have been great. In summary, read and love the first half, skip the second.

A Great Book!
I purchased this book twice, because the first one I had left in my previous home before I moved. The method in the book is very practical, and IT WORKS!
I am very thankful to G-d for letting me find this book. Big thanks to the authors for sharing the secret.

VERY MOTIVATIONAL,INSPIRING AND A START/CONTINUE SUCCESS KIT:)
This is one of the most amazing book i ever owned. I keep on listening over and over again.By the end of this year i see a huge change in my life.

What a great book
I really enjoyed this book. The beginning of the book is the foundational information (kind of like the The Secret).The rest of the book is about growing your business. The book has some case studies in it... and they are related to how to grow your business.
Lots of really good information. I recommend this book to anyone who is interested in growing your business.
CJ

Changing my life
This book is changing my life.I've always thought the brain is a powerful organ, but to be able to harness that power in the way this book outlines is giving me so much encouragement, confidence and strength.I'm so excited to study and implement!Thanks John and Murray! ... Read more

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The most comprehensive book ever published on L.C. Smith Guns. A research library under one cover for the serious L.C. Smith student & collector. The authors, researchers and photographers of this book have compiled the most complete history of the L.C. Smith shotgun ever published. A virtual encyclopedia covering the gun's entire manufacturing history from 1880 to 1971. 8 1/2 x 11 Hardcover - 700 Pages with more than 500 color photographs & illustrations. ... Read more

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William Jay Smith has been one of the most respected figures on the literary scene for more than half a century. Two of his thirteen poetry collections were finalists for the National Book Award, and the present volume is clearly the work of a true American master.

The volume opens with a poetic sequence, "The Atoll," concerning the tiny coral island of Palmyra during World War II. Finding himself on the narrow rim of an extinct volcano at almost the exact center of the Pacific, water on all sides, breakers pounding the reef, the poet evokes the distinct sensation that he had of being at the heart of Herman Melville's "oceans vast." In lines resonant and memorable, he recalls the "terrifying beauty" of standing at night on what seemed then the very edge of the earth.

The poet next addresses our current daily terror -- war and destruction. In "Invitation to Ground Zero" he presents a moving tribute to a victim of the September 11 disaster, while in "Willow Wood" a soldier, having recently lost both his legs in a roadside blast, utters without a trace of self-pity strong words on future wars. Tragedy marks many of these pages, but Smith does not forget his lifelong commitment to witty and satiric verse. To introduce several hilarious pieces, he reprints the celebrated poem "Dachshunds." Simplicity and musicality have given his wedding songs a wide audience. Several of them are here, including an extraordinary new one, "The Bouquet."

Variety has always characterized Smith's work. Words by the Water is particularly varied and unusually youthful and fresh.

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An anthology of one of the great American minds of poetry, William Jay Smith
Chosen by the government as a consultant on poetry, "Words by the Water" is an anthology of one of the great American minds of poetry, William Jay Smith. Drawing on his massive experience as a man and a scholar of poetry, he presents some of his own, and fails to disappoint. "Words by the Water" is very much recommended reading for poetry fans. "Contemplation of Conspiracy":Where the table-leg projects into the yellow autumn/sunlight/like the poor premise of an argument,/the plotters gather, rotting wood at a creek's end/tirelessly planning the devastation of the spirit,/wiring the heart for a final explosion.//Where can they lead you but over the bridges of beetroot/into the country of spiders?//Do not follow them to their camp pitched in a cranny; bring your fist down hard on the table .../ and send them flying.
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Professors who want to venture beyond the traditional land-based property coverage to include Intellectual Property and other emerging forms of Property Law will find this book ideally suited to their purposes. Property: Cases and Materials, Second Edition, fully integrates the law of tangible and intangible personal property with a thorough treatment of real Property Law.

Charting a course through contemporary property law, this casebook:

provokes debate over fundamental questions from multiple perspectives
shows how a body of law develops over time and responds to changing social and technological environments
offers stand-alone chapters that can be reordered or omitted to accommodate time constraints and teaching objectives

provides transitional material and explanatory notes

incorporates appellate decisions, statutes, regulations, administrative decisions, law review articles, and non-legal materials

presents a compelling selection of principal cases, such as
Elvis Presley International Memorial Foundation v. Crowell

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Inc. v. Grokster, Ltd.

Dred Scott v. Sandford o Popov v. Hayashi

Neponsit Property Owners' Ass'n v. Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank

The Barbed Wire Patent

Johnson v. Macintos

Loretto v. Teleprompter Manhattan CATV Corp.

features a comprehensive Teacher s Manual

Thoroughly updated throughout, the Second Edition features:

new units on cultural property and natural resources law, including water law

numerous recent principal cases including:

Kelo v. City of New London, on eminent domain

Georgia v. Randolph, on protecting a cotenant from a police search that was authorized by another owner
Gormley v. Robertson, on the evolving law of property rights for same-sex couples

Philip Morris, Inc. v. Reilly, on regulatory takings of trade secrets

Wilderness Watch v. Mainella, on the protection of Cumberland Island as a wilderness area

Corliss v. Wenner, on finder's rights to treasure trove

Carson Harbor Village, Ltd. v. Unocal Corporation, on liability for environmental contamination

Property: Cases and Materials, now in a Second Edition, maps the full landscape of contemporary property law, bringing into focus basic land-based property law along with that other major promontory, intellectual property. As you chart a course through your next Property class, this may well be the casebook you ll want to bring with you. ... Read more

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The greatest thing that ever happened to me!
Before I read this book I considered myself to lack knowledge aboutgetting into racing.Since then I have become a successful driver and havedriven in four NASCAR Busch Series events. ... Read more

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Traces the dangers and adventures surrounding the history of the first permanent British settlement in America, highlighting the roles played by John Smith, Pocahontas, and other individuals. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's literature. ... Read more

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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's preservation reformatting program. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the text that can both be accessed online and used to create new print copies. This book and thousands of others can be found in the digital collections of the University of Michigan Library. The University Library also understands and values the utility of print, and makes reprints available through its Scholarly Publishing Office. ... Read more

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Critical Praise for Gene Smith On Until the Last Trumpet Sounds

"The best recent compact study of the commander of the American Expeditionary Force of World War I." – Booklist

"A six-star effort . . . captures Pershing better than anyone has before." – The Grand Rapids Press

On The Shattered Dream

"A storyteller of history, Gene Smith is one of the very best in his field." – The Washington Post

On When the Cheering Stopped

"A brilliantly written and dramatically effective work of history . . . Smith is a prodigious researcher, an artful writer." – The New York Times

On American Gothic

"A ripping good tale . . . the story rivets you. You cant put the book down." – The New York Times Book ReviewAmazon.com Review
General John J. Pershing may not be as honored as American military heroes Washington,Lee, Grant, and MacArthur, but he outranked them all: He's the only man ever to hold the rankof six-star general. And he certainly earned each one, with a career spanning from the finalfrontier wars of the 18th century to his leadership in the Spanish-American War in 1898 to hispursuit of Mexican bandit Pancho Villa in 1916. Pershing is best remembered, of course, forcommanding the American Expeditionary Force in the First World War, which helped bring theconflict to a successful conclusion for the Allies. Gene Smith is a skilled biographer with aneye for detail and a knack with anecdotes. His Pershing--often misunderstood as a cold andbrutal character--comes alive on the pages of Until the Last Trumpet Sounds. ... Read more

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"Taps" for an American Hero
Gene Smith's "Until the Last Trumpet Calls" (1998 Paperback) tells the life story of General John J. Pershing.It is well documented with reviewing personal correspondences, eyewitness interviews, several black and white photos, and extensive (8 pages) endnotes.

From his birth in 1860, through his days at West Point (class of 1886), to his various US Cavalry assignments across the American west and the early 20th century Pacific, to his leading the American Expeditionary Forces in World War 1 (WW1), till his death in 1948, John Pershing was well-respected, and often feared, icon determined to perform his duty.Pershing moved slowly through the Army ranks until he met Teddy Roosevelt.After their Spanish American War acquaintance Captain Pershing (only a Captain after 16 years!) was catapulted into a history-making career.By the end of the Great War Pershing achieved 6 stars as General of the Armies (unique to American history)!

Smith tells Pershing family celebrations and tragedies, it acquaintances with future history makers, and the General's "Americans fight as Americans" philosophy during WW1.Readers learn about Pershing's mentoring George Patton, George Marshall, and many more.We hear of his close WW1 friendship with France's Marshal Petain (who became the chief voice in the Nazi-Vichy government of World War 2, to Pershing's horror).The General was firmly and verbally anti-Kaiser in 1915 and anti-Nazi in 1940.

Smith closes the book with interesting chapters about "Black Jack" Pershing's (an appellation from his pre WW1 days commanding an African American Army division in Texas) son's and grandsons' careers.Each respective had his army career in World War 2, Cold War Europe, and Viet Nam (the youngest grandson was killed during the 1968 Tet Offensive).Unfortunately, General Pershing had no great-grandchildren.The book ends with a feeling of "Taps" for an influential 20th century American family.

Although Smith tends towards run-on sentences and the occasional sentence fragment this 320-page book's conversational style makes it an easy read.It is recommended to all military historians, US Cavalry buffs, World War 1 students, and 20th century Americana aficionados.

What was Pershing's military and political philosophy?
The facts of Pershing's life are interesting: he participated in the Indian Wars, led soldiers in the Spanish American war in Cuba alongside Teddy Roosevelt, was a central figure in the occupation of the Philippines, served as commanding officer in the manhunt for Pancho Villa, and -- of course -- was the commander in chief of the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I.Apparently, he was an extremely capable military man with an eye for detail and unparalleled military discipline.He overcame an unspeakable personal tragedy -- the death of his wife and daughters in a fire.Also impressive: from a modest Missouri upbringing, he was entirely self-made.

But a great biography does more than recite facts about its subject.It brings the reader inside his mind, and gives historical context to his decisions.In this regard, this book is a failure.The reader does not come away with the impression that Pershing was a great military strategist, like Lee or MacArthur.In fact, it is hard to decipher what was Pershing's military philosophy.Neither does the reader come away with the impression that Pershing's thinking about the great events of his time had any impact on the era's political decisionmakers.There is only one exception: it is clear that Pershing saw the United States as a full partner with its European allies in World War I, rather than as a mere source of personnel to replenish the dwindling ranks of French and British infintrymen.This contribution was significant.

The World War I era is one of the most fascinating and under-appreciated in recent Western history.The war itself was one of the terrible tragedies of all time, and it set the stage for the worldwide economic expansion of the twenties, depressionof the thirties, and the Second World War.It's too bad that this book sheds so little light on one of the most important figures of that era.

Not bad.
Some of the criticism of other readers is right, but this was obviously not intended to be a definitive, complete biography of this historical figure.It tells you much more than an encyclopedia article but presumably less than the two-volume biography by another author.The view is mainly of the private side of this man's life, which was necessarily dominated by its public side.

Good, As Far As It Goes...
This book is a good beginning to any study of John J. Pershing, but there isn't enough "meat on the bones". Pershing led quite a life, and really needs a thorough, well-researched bio, but this isn't it. Oh, it's quite readable, and if you don't know much about Blackjack, it will give you good, basic information, but it will leave you wanting a biography with more depth. And the writing style! The author uses sentences that are more like laundry lists...on and on and on...Somebody give this man a comma, a semi-colon, a period, and then teach him how to use them!

Read another book about Pershing!
This is neither a history of the period nor a biography.It is a collection of quotations and anecdotes, that appear to have been taken from the personal papers of John J. Pershing, that are on file at the Library of Congress, not an unbiased source.I got as far as through the period on Pershing's frontier and Philippine service and put it down.It is a shallow treatment that reads like a history for young children.If someone is really interested in the era and the man, read Frank Vandiver's book " Black Jack: The Life and Times of John J. Pershing" in two volumes, published in 1977.A book Smith cites, Donald Smythe's "Guerilla Warrior: The Early Life of John J. Pershing" (1973) is not too bad, nor is "Black Jack Pershing" by Richard O'Connor (1961). None of these are hostile treatments, and all are well written.Pershing was an able and brave Army officer, but so were many others of the era.But Pershing was the only one to go from Captain to Brigadier General despite opposition of the Army command, and this was not solely due to his ability.His smartest move was marrying the daughter of Senator Warren, one of the shrewder political operators of the time, and one who, although a Republican, had equal entree with Wilson as well as Roosevelt and Taft.Warren was Pershing's guardian angel.If you are older than 12, pass this book up and read one of the others. ... Read more

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Photographs by W. Eugene Smith
Illustrated biography by Ben Maddow
Afterword by John G. Morris

Let Truth Be The Prejudice documents the life and work of W. Eugene Smith, a man whose work expanded the range and depth of photography, bringing new aesthetic and moral power to the photo essay. Smith was born in 1918 in Wichita, Kansas, and raised according to traditional American values, believing in the nobility of America and the injustice of war. He began taking pictures with hismother's camera while still a boy and continued this practice throughout his schooling. In 1937 his burning ambition took him to New York City, where his rise as a professional photographer was meteoric.

Before he was twenty-one, Smith had placed hundreds of photographs in the major picture magazines of the time. Dramatic composition, a hard-edged brilliance, and a mastery of lighting were evident even in this early work. But the moment of true ground-breaking would occur during World War II. It was when Smith went ashore with the Marines at Saipan, Guam, and Iwo Jima that his work and his sense of moral responsibility came together. He wrote: "Each time I pressed the shutter release it was a shouted condemnation hurled with the hope that they might echo through the minds of men in the future-- causing them caution and remembrance and realization." Breaking from the concerns of the mass media, his personal priorities were born. Smith's war photographs earned him repeated and justified comparisons to Mathew Brady. His coverage of American prisoner-of-war camps helped convince the Japanese that their fears were exaggerated, and stopped the suicide of thousands of terrified citizens upon the advance of American troops. This would not be the last time that Smith's work would change as well as document history.

After the war, Smith became a staff photographer at Life magazine, where he created many of his most famous photographs. The essays "Country Doctor" and "Nurse Midwife" influenced an entire generation. Smith moved from mine villages in Great Britain to Albert Schweitzer in French Equatorial Africa to a sweeping study of Spanish village life. At a meeting of the Ku Klux Klan he created haunting images of hatred, fear, and bigotry, which beautifully counterpoint the humanity of his great Life essays. Smith also showed his skill at portraiture, shooting many of the luminaries of the time.

His frustrations with commercial publishing finally led to a split with Life magazine in 1954, a true case of "artistic differences." He devoted his remaining twenty-four years to independent projects. It was a period of intense personal suffering and poverty. During these years he pushed one project, "Pittsburgh," virtually to the breaking point and along the way created photography's greatest urban landscape.

His last great essay, "Minamata," depicted both the human suffering caused by mercury poisoning in a Japanese industrial port, and helped put an end to that pollution. A severe beating by factory thugs aggravated his already failing health and on October 15, 1978, he died. Over the span of forty driven years, Smith dreamed on an epic scale and his accomplishments were heroic. He once wrote: "Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold."

Here is the definitive work on Smith's life and work, containing his major photo-essays, the portrait work, and spanning his brilliant career from his days aboard an aircraft carrier, through the breadth of Pittsburgh, to the human suffering explicit in his last great essay in Minamata. All these images have been painstakingly reproduced to insure the greatest quality in testament to Smith's genius.

Moral passion and photographic truth were inseparable to Gene Smith. He pursued both and the measure of his greatness is that he compromised neither. His achievements were realized at no small cost to himself and those around him. In the accompanying biography, "The Wounded Angel," author Ben Maddow takes the measure of the man and looks unflinchingly at the muses and demons that drove W. Eugene Smith to the fulfillment of his dream of greatness. Maddow's biography is the first published in-depth portrayal of Gene Smith's life. It is a dramatic saga made all the more vivid by Maddow's commitment to the facts and his subject.
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He didn't editorialize
In the mid-70's, I attended a slide lecture by Smith at Northern Michigan University in Marquette.I didn't know a thing about him, but the presentation haunts me still.He was helped onto the stage, a very oldman, and quietly, he narrated the Minimata work in a slide show.Theaudience, a bunch of party school undergrads and townspeople, werecompletely silent the entire time.It was almost as if Smith knew that ifthe slightest emotion showed in his voice, his audience would be lost insobs.He didn't editorialize, he just spoke, simply and quietly.At theend of the show, he put up one last slide.It was of a blackboard with thewords in chalk, "Thank you, all you lovely people."It bringstears to my eyes almost 20 years later.

A brillantly sad and talented man
The life of W. Eugene Smith is none the less; inspiring yet depressingly so...A reflection of the truth in life, man and society.

He was probably a bastard, but I wish I'd met him
In the fall of 1985 I drove down from Northern New Jersey to the Philadelphia Museum of Art to see the retrospective show of W. Eugene Smith's work for which this book was the catalog.I walked through therooms and people stood in front of his Minamata photographs, weeping. Smith paid for those pictures with his eyesight, probably the better partof his sanity.If he drank before, the stories are that after his returnfrom Japan he plunged into the bottle full-bore.If one can talk of aman's life and work in religious terms, W. Eugene Smith's career was aprolonged and self-willed crucifixion, a sacrifice in the name of a Truththat I'm not sure we're ready for yet.

I haven't photographed seriouslyin quite a few years, but whenever I made a print, there in the darkroom Icould feel Smith's presence saying two things to me: "You're lousy atthis" and "Don't ever stop." ... Read more

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Guts and Greed
This thoroughly researched account of John Smith T is much more than abiography.The reader is introduced to an unsettling chapter in Americanhistory when the thirst for wealth and power resulted in treachery, murder,and warfare under the guise of westward expansion for the common good. Insight is offered into the ties between Tennessee, Missouri, and Texaspower brokers as well as the inablility of the Federal Government tocontrol land-grabbing conspiracies. "Frontier Swashbuckler"paints and intirely different picture of early settlement than the noblemountain man and covered wagon we're more familiar with.

Frontier Swashbuckler : The Life and Legend of John Smith T
This book is a MUST read for those interested in USA and/or Missouri frontier history.Dr. Steward has a penchant to use highly descriptive word usage, which adds greatly to the reader's learning experience. ... Read more

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In this volume, Smith views the Fourth Gospel within several contexts in order to illuminate its specific purposes and achievements. A growing consensus of recent scholarship (including Martyn, Raymond E. Brown, Meeks) seeks the roots of this Gospel and its traditions in the coflict between Jesus' followers and opponents within Judaism. In their struggles, Jesus' followers are encouraged and strengthened by his continuing presence in the Spirit, which articulates his meaning for new situations. Although distinctive, Johannine Christianity does not develop in complete isolation from the broader Christian Gospels. Out of a fascinating, if complex, setting develops the strikingly unique statement of Christian faith, practice, and doctrine found in the Gospel of John. The purpose of this commentary is to enable the reader to comprehend that statement in historical perspective in order to appreciate its meaning and significance. ... Read more

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Profiles the personal life and football career of the All-Pro running back with the Dallas Cowboys, Emmitt Smith. ... Read more