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The Older We Get, The Better We Were picks up where Swift, Silent and Surrounded left off. This book contains a collection of humorous sea stories, motivating narratives and blunt commentary. A must-have for the collection of all Marines, friends of Marines, and everyone who is proud to be an American! ... Read more

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What do Senators Jim Webb and John Glenn, Astronauts Story Musgrave and Jack Lousma, and the founders of FedEx, Taco Bell and Domino's Pizza have in common? They are all Marines! THE MARINES HAVE LANDED contains profiles and photos of nearly 100 Governors, members of Congress, astronauts and captains of industry who have served in the Corps. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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Gripping Adventure - loses coherency in the last bit...
I Gm for two different gaming groups and have run this with both now (and played it once as a player - my introduction into WFRP).Playing the adventure, I thought it was exciting and intriguing - things are not handed to players, and they really have to work to put the pieces together.However, my GM modified the adventure a fair amount (I realized once I started to run it myself), and I have modified it both times I ran it as well.The first half to two-thirds is GREAT stuff.Even your "tank" players will feel the pressure of long treks, strenuous paces, multiple tough combats in the span of a short period (not allowing them time to fully recover), and thus they will have to start planning their combat strategies better just to survive.It really is a nice challenge.Once you get past a certain point and start heading back to the city, the story line meanders around for a bit and loses a lot of its momentum.I have heavily altered these chapters prior to the climax to make them go quicker and be less involved, instead focusing on the time-crunch to make the adventurers concerned.The climax, if planned well by the GM and set up with appropriate encounters, will be one the adventurers never forget!Even if the story line stayed on path, I would still give this 4 stars just because it can't touch Shadows over Bogenhafen, but I feel it is more exciting and challenging than Death on the Reik, which I would give 3 stars.

A mish-mash of ideas and themes
As a longtime player of Warhammer Fantasy RolePlay (WFRP) I was very happy to see Hogshead pick up the rights to WFRP after Games Workshop abandoned this great product. This is the first new adventure material produced byHogshead and while welcome, is not neary as good as some of the olderadventures in the Enemy Within campaign (Death on the Reik, Power Behindthe Throne).

In this adventure, the players are racing against time toforstall an ancient prophecy about the return of a Daemonic entity in andaround the city of Marienburg. The problem is in trying to maintain acoherent storyline when each chapter is being plotted by different authors.In the end, the adventure comes across as a mish-mash of interesting ideasbut the coherency is lost. It is still a good book, however, just notgreat. There is a good balance of investigation and action and would suitpretty much any gaming group. ... Read more

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This compilation of quotes was designed to put all of the accolades, wit, wisdom and remarks pertinent to the Marine Corps and the practice of leadership into one volume. Many of them will be familiar, and many will be read for the first time - but they will all stimulate, fascinate and motivate! ... Read more

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In order to survive in the Marine Corps you MUST have a good sense of humor. This collection of military jokes spares no one; terrorists, allies, officers, pilots, and of course our sister services are all fair game. You WILL laugh, and you WILL like it! ... Read more

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From one of the country’s finest journalists, this a major book about broken dreams, darkened illusions and big questions that no longer match their received answers. This is a controversial and humane reality check — an invitation to wake up and smell the cordite ... Read more

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The zeal of the recently converted
The subtitle of the book ("how a guilty liberal lost his innocence") gives the impression this is another of those "how liberals are destroying America" books you see in the best seller list on Amazon. The book is in fact the story of a mild mannered Englishman's journey from young idealistic socialist to middle aged, middle class pragmatist. The book also purports to be a serious look at race politics, culture politics, the politics of religion and the politics of left vs right. The writer is a journalist who writes for English newspapers.

The chapters dealing with the author's journey from left wing revolutionary to middle class respectability are written with honesty and humour and I found them immensely entertaining.

The book is written from a very English perspective about England. The problems and issues raised do not necessarily apply to other countries. Nevertheless I found the book interesting as an insight into the problems facing modern England. The author does not pretend to be a dispassionate observer, but writes as a participant with a strong interest in the issues discussed.

As a study of social issues the book is mostly well written pulp. The cynic in me wonders if the topics of the book were cherry picked by the author to drive book sales. Let's see... political correctness, 9/11, Islam. It's all there.

The book largely consists of a long series of straw man arguments. The author will present an example of liberals doing or saying something horrendously stupid (although one wonders if there is another side to each of these anecdotes) and presents this as proof that all liberals are well meaning idiots. Unfortunately it takes more than a series of cleverly chosen anecdotes to destroy a whole ideology. Especially one as vaguely defined as "liberalism".

Basically the author has swapped one set of black and white beliefs ("America is the greatest threat to world peace") for another ("Muslims and the political correctness that allows it to thrive is the greatest threat to Britain)". As always, the truth is somewhere in between, but you wouldn't sell many books by saying that would you?

A definite must read
Any attempt to discuss this book briefly, would do this political and personal masterpiece a disservice.This is a book for people who care about Western Civilization. it boggles the mind that this reasoned and thoughtful text, by a brilliant writer can incur anything other than respect.But it seems that the critics of the book are intent on proving him right by not willing to be confused by the facts.Left leaning liberals (of which i am a proud member) should be able to protect the hard earned gains of enlightenment rather than siding with those who are explicitly trying to demolish it. Mr. Anthony nails this perplexing paradox in the best possible way.

While Anglo -centric to an extent, this book would speak to anyone who cares about the west and the ideals of liberty human rights and peace. A must read!!

When ideals meet reality...
This should be a "must read" book for anyone who has very firm political opinions of any stripe. Yes, it may be hard to find (so far, it has not found a US publisher) and may revolve around British events (from Thatcher's rule to the terrorist attacks of July 7 rather than New York and Washington on 9/11) but it's a deeply-felt and deeply-moving analysis of one politically-oriented individual's intellectual coming of age.

Anthony examines how his own political convictions were formed, with a kind of ruthless honesty that is all too rare, and goes on to review the events that cause him to revisit those beliefs and REALLY analyze how he came to hold them. It almost doesn't matter whether you are liberal, conservative or where your personal beliefs fall along the political spectrum; this book will challenge you to think about how you came by them. How many were inherited? How many are gut reactions to events? How many are shaped by prejudice, by friends and people around you (by being unwilling to be the only person in a crowd to disagree on an issue that everyone else is passionate about.)

The tough part, of course, is subjecting your political beliefs to an analytical scrutiny to see if they remain valid; something which far too few of us do in practice. The debate in the book revolves around the social & political environment of Britain from the 1970s to today, with the terrorist attacks of 7/7 and 9/11 serving as the catalyst for the author's own introspection, but that's just at the top level. More important than the specific conclusions he reaches is the wrenching process of examining his own biases and preconceptions.

Run out and read this one. It will appeal to anyone who reads books by authors challenging received wisdom, including Susan Jacoby and Thomas Frank. ... Read more

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Not As Lean, Not As Mean, Still A Marine! is the third installment of the Swift, Silent and Surrounded series. If you enjoyed the humorous sea stories, motivating narratives and blunt commentary in the previous volumes, you will love this one! ... Read more

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What do actor Steve McQueen, Country & Western singer George Jones, rapper Shaggy, boxer Ken Norton, "shock jock" Don Imus, TV host Montel Williams, author Robert Ludlum, golfer Lee Trevino, comic Drew Carey and baseball pitcher Tom Seaver have in common? They are all Marines! Hollywood Marines contains profiles and photos of 112 celebrities from the film industry, television and radio, the arts, and the world of sports who served in the Marine Corps. Includes a bonus photo gallery with over sixty additional pictures of your favorite "Hollywood Marines" in action. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue Briefs, published by Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue Briefs on March 1, 2009. The length of the article is 11110 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Energy provisions in the American recovery and reinvestment act of 2009 (P.L. 111-5).(Congressional Research Service)(Report)
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In their second book Gibbs and Humphries look at how the need for constant organisational improvements and the increase in partnering come together in what they describe as Collaborative Change.This book describes the underlying concepts and models that can be applied, and critically draws heavily on personal experience to shed light on how effective change can be executed through high performing partnerships. This 'experience' is related in many case topical studies which include war-fighting in Iraq, team management on a husky sledge and operating global, virtual teams in the British Civil Service.Contributing authors include: Tim Barnsley, Tim Cummins, Andrew Downard, Graham Haines, Peter Hunter, David Hawkins, Anthony Kesten and Chris Markey. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue Briefs, published by Thomson Gale on November 1, 2006. The length of the article is 2491 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: Nuclear fuel reprocessing: U.S. policy development.
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