Author: Steve Helling
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Author: Marc Eliot
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review for the eagles book, 2009-02-08
An informative read and fab for avid music fans.... my dad enjoyed it...i shall be nicking it from him soon to read myself!

Author: Muriel James, Dorothy Jongeward
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Understanding Yourself, 2010-04-22

This is not just a self-help book. It's a classic Transactional Analysis's book written in the early seventieths that brings exercises and experiments from Gestalt, that will help you answer questions like: "Who am I?" and "What am I doing here?"

It's a very easy reading book which presents the TA theory in a clear way which can be understood by everybody. According to Eric Berne, creator of Transactional Analysis, the theory could be understood by an 8 year old child.

I'm a psychotherapist and I use TA every day in my life and in my practice with clients to help them make the changes they want. I recommend this book to all my clients, which help them on the process of psychotherapy. They enjoy the exercises that are very easily done. For them I make a special reference to chapter 5, where the authors present an easy explanation on how we become the way we are and the origin of the internal dialogue, helping people to make new decisions.

It's an amazing book that I would recommend to anyone interested in having a better life with oneself and with others.

Author: Bill Graham, Robert Greenfield
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Fantastic, 2010-07-23
Fantastic look at a fantastic man. along with a good look at rock and roll and some of its nasty habits.
we get to meet the selfless and the plain old GREEDY!!!!! love it

Author: Harvey Pekar, Joyce Brabner
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Author: Bernard B. Fall
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The end of an era in warfare, 2010-06-27
Bernard Fall "Hell in a very small place: Dien Bien Phu"

Bernard Fall's recount of the siege of Dien Bien Phu in 1954 is a classic. Not only does Fall set out the strategic dimension of the battle, but his attention to the small platoon-level tactical battles gives this book a depth that has become the gold-standard of battlefield reporting.

Dien Bien Phu was won by the Viet-Minh who outclassed the French in thinking and executing their bold battle plan. The French upper echelon collapsed under the immense pressure of heavy artillery bombardment, determined tunnelling and frontal assaults. Colonel Piroth, the artillery commander, committed suicide, and de Castries's Chief of Staff had a nervous breakdown after three days of battle. The French still though they would win and Major Bigeard and sticks of paratroops dropped into the beleaguered battlefield at night. Many of the French units were composite units and the T'ai montagnards responded to communist propaganda and started to desert.

In siege warfare similar to that of the Western Front some thirty years earlier, the Viet-Minh used civilians to dig the trenches that would encircle and strangle Dien Bien Phu. After 11 days, De Castries collapsed and didn't come out of his bunker again, and the paratrooper, Lt Col. Langlais informed de Castries that he was now in charge. The Viet-Minh artillery cut off the airstrips and the garrison had to rely on airdrops from greater and greater heights.

The doomed French forces put up noble resistance and one by one the strong points fell. Eventually on May 7th 1954, de Castries's bunker was taken, and a silence fell over the battlefield. C'est fini.

In hind sight modern readers sit and wonder why the French left the garrison in situ, even though their intelligence knew what was coming. It seems everyone agreed that they would play the end-game near the Laotian border, in the Monsoons. General Vo countered every move and won an important military and political victory.

Author: Brian Cox, Jeff Forshaw
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A Basic Introduction to Relativity, 2010-07-24
A clearly presented and entertaining explanation of relativity theory and its consequences for the reasonably intelligent layman. Nothing beyond a most basic mathematical ability and knowledge of elementary physics is required to benefit from a thoughtful perusal of this little book. It deserves to be read more than once by those unfamiliar with the subject matter. Brian Cox and his co-writer present all the important ideas in the informative and entertaining manner demonstrated in the recent television programmes which have contributed to professor Cox's reputation as a science super-star.

Author: Stephen Tanner
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An excellent choice, 2010-03-23
I bought this book, prior my deployment to Afghanistan. I believe that everyone in the military deploying in this country should have a knowledge of its history (primarily) and the language and habits of the people.
In that (learning the history) the author makes a superb job, by giving a brief but thorough history of Afghanistan throughout the centuries.
Starting from the Persian Empire and the war of Alexander the Great, he shows how the native people of this country have fought or accepted any intruder. The book covers all the fighting till the Taliban era and in some cases you will find the reasons for the unstable character of the region in nowadays.
Informing, precise, humorous sometimes, I believe its a must read for anyone who wants to learn the history of this country.

Author: Simon Kuper, Stefan Szymanski
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American market version of "Why England Lose: and Other Curious Phenomena Explained", 2010-06-12
This is the US version of "Why England Lose: and Other Curious Phenomena Explained", with some small differences; the chapter on the FA Cup is replaced by one comparing Association Football with American Football, and the language is americanised. Anyway here's my review based on the English version.


I've read quite a bit of S&K's work as part of my MSc and although I don't necessarily always, or indeed often, agree with their reasoning, they do make interesting points. "Why England Lose..." is a departure into the mainstream from their early, more academic work and judging from the jaunty tone of the book they had great fun writing it, and aimed at rattling some cages along the way.

However, to appeal to a wider audience much of the academic rigour which I would normal associate with S&K is abandoned and conclusions are reached on some rather shallow arguments. A reader not familiar with the use and misuse of statistics should bear in mind that correlation does not constitute causality, and that if at first your stats don't support your hypothesis you can normally rummage around for some that do. This is not knocking S&K in any way and I wouldn't suggest that S&K have done this at all, but academic bias is a common phenomenon and often hard to resist.

Two chapters of the books were particularly interesting - one, regarding the nature of fandom, for its mythbusting and the second, regarding the inherent racism in the game, for perpetuating a flawed myth.

In drawing attention to the nature of a fan and the churn of fans at particular clubs, S&K have aimed a strong, square kick at the goolies of one of the game's sacred cows, and about time too. I'm fed up being told by people how they've followed Chelsea/Man Utd since before they were good. I was also once told by someone at West Ham that they had had a particular seat for 30 odd years. Strange, as when I went back in the 80s that area was standing!

As regards the inherent racism argument I do feel that S&K let themselves down a bit. Yes, Asians are proportionally underrepresented both in the crowd and on the pitch, but get yourselves down to the Emirates and you'll see how the local young Asian community have embraced Arsenal.

Similarly, the lack of Asian players on the pitch may be striking, but is their proportional underrepresentation any greater than the underrepresentation of young, white, working class males in the ranks of doctors, lawyers etc? Indeed, you will find that the Asian community is overrepresented in careers such as doctors, dentist, pharmacists etc, not for any racial reason but rather for cultural and generational considerations. The generation under debate will normally be sons of immigrants who have worked hard to create opportunities for their children. The emphasis put on education and discipline for this generation favoured academic achievement over sporting excellence, as a respectable profession to support the family was the objective. The subsequent, current generation have different views and that can be seen at clubs such as Arsenal. I've no doubt that this generation will be more willing to encourage their children to embrace sport and we will see an increase in the number of Asian players in the next 15 years.

A more valid point for discussion would be how a club should cope with changing demographics in their catchment area, this is particularly crucial for smaller club who find it hard to attract fans in competition with the big glamour clubs. Clubs like Orient, for example, find themselves in an area which has undergone great demographic change and appear to be left in a locale where the new residents show little interest in the club as theh have no historical ties to the area and are often transient. How can a low profile, relatively unsuccessful club connect with its neighbourhood?


The above whinge aside, S&K have made a good effort at plugging a gap in the market, with an accessible approach to football's problems. It is a bit dumbed down, and certainly more Ant & Dec than Einstein & Oppenheimer, but it's still well worth a read. Just bear in mind that if a problem is complex, it is complex; by making simpler you necessarily ignore some of the issues. As I said at the top, a good introduction and hopefully it will encourage people to read further.

Author: Eric Cressey, Matt Fitzgerald
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after 4 months of training, 2009-10-07
Start aka packing day

broad jump: 74 inches

squat: 110 kg

bench press: 77.5 kg

deadlift: 140 kg

3 rep chin up: 5 kg + bodyweight 68 kg


after aka moving day

broad jump: 85 inches

squat: 140 kg

bench press: 92.5 kg

deadlift: 160 kg

3 rep chin up: 15 kg + bodyweight 70.6 kg