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Soul Survivors gives voice to the women and children who stayed in Cambodia after the genocide (1975-1979), when nearly two million people died from execution, starvation, or disease. It also includes the stories of two refugees who came to the US as orphans, returning as young adults to help their country. These engaging personal narratives reveal that hope and kindness survived the darkest period of Cambodia’s recent history.

Sixty-four photographs draw the reader into contemporary Cambodia to witness the survivors’ courageous work to rebuild their lives, families, and culture in one of the poorest nations of the world. Soul Survivors includes a chronology of Cambodian history, a map, and an index. Additional chapters describe the Khmer Rouge, the role of the US, the landmine situation, and the Buddhist peace movement. ... Read more

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"Soul Survivors" -A Truly Inspirational Work
"Soul Survivors" brought the horror of the Cambodian genocide to me in a way that the modern media never has.In a world where the news numbs society to mass murder and political unrest, "Soul Survivors" left me unable to remain numb to these atrocities.The book focuses on personal stories from a wide range of survivors of the genocide - stories that are essential to gaining a true understanding of how genocide affects a nation and culture.When I closed the book, I was filled with the kind of restless compassion that only comes from truly learning about the pain of another people and culture."Soul Survivors" was an inspirational book and really made me want to change the world - something that every great book should do.

Moving and Inspirational
The stories are very inspiring, the photos are great, and the book itself is well done from the cover on.

A work of courage and compassion
This book offered me a chance to face a devastating period of human history with courage, compassion, and determination to make the world a better place. It tells the story of women and children who endured the Cambodian genocide of the 1970s and managed to rebuild their lives afterward. It includes the stories of two refugees who came to the United States as orphans, returning as young adults to help their country. In a series of personal narratives, the author lets these survivors tell their own stories in their own words, and there are accompanying photographs that give a wonderful added glimpse at their lives. Wagner also provides some brief but helpful political context for the suffering in Cambodia. Living as we are in a time of so much hatred and conflict and fear, Soul Survivors reaffirms the futility of violence and helped remind me of the possibility of redemption and reconciliation. ... Read more

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American histories have long held that in May 1637---"Connecticut's Birthday"---a small force of English colonists guided by Mohegan Native allies set out to break the back of Pequot dominion in New England. According to Alfred E. Cave's The Pequot War and other accounts, the English and Mohegans supposedly marched "undetected" across multiple Indian territories, and at the Pequot village of Missituc on the Mystic River, trapped and killed between 300 and 700 men, women and children---thus launching the northern English colonies' first "total war" against Native Americans. What new understandings emerge when, for the first time, readers can examine these records and traditions against the actual landscape? What were the realities of New England tribal life, and of Native American war, in the 1600s? If the colonists of Massachusetts Bay and Hartford were in their own words "altogether ignorant" of how to locate, identify, fight, and control Native peoples, how did thoroughly-intermarried Pequots, Mohegans, Narragansetts and others exploit these crucial English blind-spots with astonishing, subtle and yet plainly visible counter-strategies? Why were guns, armor and European assault-tactics the wrong means of war in New England? What were the consequences near and far of the colonies' refusals to adjust? Tracking every step of The Pequot War from its origins to its aftermath and influences, Mystic Fiasco is its most comprehensive and detailed study. Its basis in the landscape exposes the fundamental but unexamined paradigms that hard-wired the American colonial psyche from those days to these. With user-friendly maps and illustrations by renowned historical artist David R. Wagner and the documentary expertise of historian Jack Dempsey, Mystic Fiasco is filled with resources that empower you to go and discover this "Mystic Massacre" and Pequot War for yourself. ... Read more

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A very different Pequot War
Wagner, David R., and Jack Dempsey, "MYSTIC FIASCO: How the Indians Won The Pequot War." (Scituate MA: Digital Scanning 2004; ISBN 1-582-18775-4). 245pp., 7 chapters, Annotated Chronology of events, index, maps and 50 illustrations of each major participant and episode. SUMMARY: Traditional understanding of The Pequot War (by both Native and Colonial sides, including Alfred E. Cave's "The Pequot War")is not informed or qualified by the simple act of historians' ACTUALLY WALKING THE LANDSCAPE of this fundamental conflict, which hard-wired the American psyche in relation to land, "foreigners" and war itself. "MYSTIC FIASCO" is the most comprehensive, detailed and documented study of The Pequot War from its beginnings to its aftermath up through today. Document by document, place by place, it follows Captains Mason and Underhill, their untested planter-soldiers and their very uncertain Mohegan "allies," as they take up the farcically-impossible task of marching unseen across Connecticut to "surprise" Mystic Fort and Village. In the facts, what you discover is an astonishing Native American victory built upon intimate knowledge of the landscape, of intertribal relationships, and of New World combat. For the Colonists, in their own words, had no idea how to actually locate or approach their targets; no idea how to tell a "Pequot" from any other of their intimate tribal cousins of Native New England; and no idea that their Mohegan "allies" were thoroughly intermarried and working with enemy-Pequots (for example, the Mohegan leader Uncas was a brother-in-law of Mamoho, the Sachem of Mystic). Instead, the Pequots and Mohegans used these blindspots to guide the English into a trap, used the evacuated Mystic Village as a decoy-target, and then drove Mason's and Underhill's men into the Atlantic Ocean miles from their intended destination. The only eyewitness-accounts come from those two captains, and the land and Native realities give the lie to their every claim. Because of the Christian colonies' willful refusals to listen and learn, they denied themselves any means of ever knowing for certain what effects their appalling violence was having on the peoples they had determined to "remove" in order to take their wealth. As some of the Pequots migrated to other tribal homelands, as more of them melted into other local, ethnically-fluid Native groups, this Colonial anxiety---or rather, this for-once correct perception!---drove their hopeless, inept and unsuccessful extermination-campaign in the aftermath of Mystic. (For one example, what English colonist could possibly verify that a certain scalp of hair had belonged to Pequot Sachem Sassacus? No colonist ever saw Sassacus---in fact the English had to rely on "Native reports" for every thing they thought they knew.) In this book you'll watch unexamined fantasies turn with time, "traditional scholarship" and education into holy fact: the growth of a tradition based on exactly the same ignorance of the land, Native Americans, and war, that still bedevils American foreign policy. You can see full-color versions of David Wagner's groundbreaking illustrations, an overview and a SAMPLE CHAPTER of "Mystic Fiasco" at the authors' website called ancientgreece-earlyamerica (dotcom).

Mystic Fiasco is history from a new perspective
The authors of this book have traveled in person to the Mystic site and examined carefully what has been written in old historical documents.David Wagner is a knowledgeable archaeologist and Jack Dempsey is one of the most intellectual persons of integrity that I have ever met.When they combine their talents to research history, one cannot easily dismiss their findings.History comes alive for the reader.Mysteries of Mystic????


Jack and David have proven to themselves that what is recorded never could have happened as recorded.This does not mean, however, that the holocaust never happened - at least, to my mind.The holocaust is consistent with the ethnic cleansing practiced against all First Nations across these continents.If it did not happen at Mystic as described in the documents the authors studied, it did happen at other sites.The authors recognize that what was written down as history was what the European immigrants wanted to happen.

I wrote the poem which the authors have used as a CODA for this book.They could not have used my poem had they not viewed the ethnocentricity of the European immigrants as accurate historical fact.The book only goes to show how erroneous historical documents can be, so it should be studied by anyone interested in a new perspective of early American history.

Dr. Dempsey is a PhD and a professor, with tremendous knowledge of the early American history which entrenched itself on this continent in the area where he currently resides. Dr. Dempsey is a man of integrity, who has done extensive research among Native Americans, past and present, and who deeply respects the traditional values of all First Nations. With an understanding of human nature and satirical wit, Dr. Dempsey presents a new look at an old historical event. ... Read more

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The Perfect Quick-Read for any Langston Hughes fan or Researcher!
This book is excellent! It's a quick read that is packed with useful information, and full of interesting pictures of Mr. Hughes himself, and the classic Harlem Renaissance. It's perfect for any book report or just for pleasure. I would definitly recommend you take advantage of this book for its many great features. Though it only has 112 pgs, the print is quite small, it isn't a very small book, and it has dozens of great pictures in each chapter, + its got a time line, and gives you some great choices for further reading!
I strongly recommend this book to anyone interested in the great Langston Hughes, whom was the ultimate afro american poet! ... Read more

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Indispensible & Riveting

Much better than "The Complete Geological Surveys of Andrei Tarkovsky 1952-58," and almost as good as "The Land Surveys of Henry David Thoreau 1851-62 (Unabridged Version, 2400 pp): Schocken Classics Series." But when will they finally release his surviving laundry lists?!

Artemy Lebedev doesn't want you to read this book!
Yes, the very same Artemy Lebedev who doesn't want you to save energy by turning off the light when you leave the room. Here he wants to keep you in the dark about this great compendium of Kafka's office minutiae, this literary feast of all things mundane, this intricate web of clerical nonsense, that only Kafka could come up with. No, wait, him and half a billion of other accountants and subrogation service specialists that ever lived. The Office Writings by Kafka easily beats US Tax Code on entertainment value alone, and (unlike the Code) it answers the important question that pops up every single time somebody gets their claim adjustment document - Who wrote this drivel? Kafka did, that's who. At least the ones in this book. Some say this book helps to gain insights into the origins of Kafka's other writings - The Trial for example. That's true - it is about as helpful as reading Stephen King's car service records is to understanding the magic behind From a Buick 8. Seriously, read this book as if it were the last thing you read. It probably will be. ... Read more

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Chronicles the life of the heavyweight boxing champion, from his early years to his draft resistance through his astounding boxing career which established him as one of the greatest fighters of all time. ... Read more

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The first six consecutive issues of "the ultimate comics experience", sold as a set. ... Read more

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Twenty-one titles including: C. Peter Wagner-The New Apostolic Churches,Churchquake! Your Spiritual Gifts Can Help Your Church Grow, Church Planting For a Greater Harvest, The Healthy Church; Ed Silvoso-That None Should Perish; Elmer Towns-Evangelism and Church Growth; George Barna-Church Marketing, Evangelism That Works, Generation Next, How to Increase Giving in Your Church, Leaders on Leadership, The Power of Vision, Turnaround Churches, Turning Vision into Action; Jack Hayford-Pastors of Promise; Larry Stockstill-The Cell Church; Mark Neuenschwander-Crisis Evangelism; Stan Toler & Alan Nelson-The Five Star Church; Ted Haggard-The Life Giving Church, Loving Your City into the Kingdom ... Read more