Talbot concludes the introduction to his book noting, "Most Americans, I dare say, have had a pristine vision of a country unencumberd by a meddling army. Like so much of our history, that belief turns out to be largely mythical". This book is essential reading for anyone interested learning about the destruction of the American left or interested in understanding how America's security aperatus rationalizes setting aside the law to enforce conformity to their social and political objectives.

It is unfortunate that I am unable to find more books published by Dr. Schmidt. He is a fluid writer. He does an excellent job documenting his sources (with a few minor exceptions, I found most of what I needed at the National Archives). His perspesctive on Wilson contrasts will with Richard Gid Powers' point of view in "Not Without Honor" duing 1919. His book is an easy read. Considering its price tag, I would encourage our local library to purchase a copy first. However, I use the book almost daily in my research. I've memorized certain quotes and page numbers. The only other book that's suffered from equal bruality has been Robert K. Murray's Red Scare: A Study in National Hysteria. =) Not all of the book was relevant, but thank God for your section on 1919-1920, particularly your quote by Stephen A. Connell and the 65-X1 boxes from

This is the work done by Cuyrus Thomas in the early 1890's after getting a grant from congres. The issue was to settle once and for all who had built the mounds. Cyrus, one who could not attribute the mounds to Amerindians, concluded that in fact it was the Amerindians who had built the mounds. This was and in some circles still is a hotly debated issue. This work is still the largest catalog of mounds in exsistance. That alone makes it worth it's weight in gold. However, just as important is the vast use of primary sources in the latter portion of the book that many archaeologists today have not bothered to read. If this work were better studied there would be a great step forward in regaining much American Indian heritage.

This provides a nice introduction to the Japanese language and provides some information on the culture. It covers basic conversation divided into appropriate categories - introductions, greetings, apologizing, asking for something, questions, taking a bus, sightseeing and others.

There is a section that covers Japanese expressions - show his eyes something (discipline someone), to have one's eyes stolen (to be captivated by beauty), he broke his mouth (he confessed), you can't touch it (impossible to deal with). It's a long list. Another section discusses words that can have vague or multiple meanings. Language and Culture are also here.

You may think it's dumb to have a section called Language in a book that teaches a language, but here it covers tongue-twisters, word play, word games, dialects, and polite language.

The book might be somewhat basic, but it's a great starting place.

This is it! The most current, confidential, informative information about the world of paid speaking

"Contains all of the data found in the original abstract in an easier-to read format." -American Demographics

The Statistical Abstract is the gold standard of reference books--far more statistics than the World Almanac or its private competitors, in about the same number of pages. Only in the Statistical Abstract can you learn things like: the budgets of individual states, crime rates of individual cities, and economic data about foreign companies. How does the Census Bureau do it? They cut out the drivel about celebrities' birth dates, the Year in Review, etc. -- and pass the savings on to you in the form of additional hard data! If you are the sort of person who likes to have a reference book by his or her bedside (and if you aren't, you probably aren't reading this anyhow) then buy the Statistical Abstract.

I first read this book from cover-to-cover, twice, nearly 30 years ago and found it immensely useful and highly readable. Over these years I have built a large shop, with most of the tools described, and have often shared my space, tools, and knowledge with others.

Recently, as I was considering using this book as a gift, I read it again, from cover-to-cover. First, I realized that much of the tool knowledge I have been sharing with others has come directly from this great little book. Second, I realized that although it was written over 30 years ago for personnel of the U.S. Navy, it is still extremely relevant.

Over 95% of the book relates to tools and techniques that could be used today by anyone interested in doing home repair or vehicle maintenance tasks, construction, or wood or metal craftsmanship. All of the tools described are still widely available and just as useful as ever. Much of the focus is on the use of hand tools or the principles behind proper measuring, cutting, grinding, and fastening. The many black-and-white photographs, or excellent line drawings, add to the clear communication of the text. I know a number of professional tradesmen who could learn more than a few things from this book.

Yes, it is missing a few contemporary tools and techniques that have been invented or refined in the last 30 years, but we can, and do, still use all of the hand tools described. Furthermore, all of the principles that are presented are still relevant, even if a power cord or a battery powers the working-end of many of today's tools instead of "elbow grease." Less than 5% of the book touches on issues seen primarily in the military (e.g. certain fastening techniques), and these few pages may be easily read or skipped.

Although this is not a pretty 'coffee-table' book, with lots of color photographs, should I give it as a gift? Absolutely! I definitely will add this book to the large assortment of tools I am preparing to give as a wedding present. How many other wedding presents can help a couple fix and enhance things throughout their life? This fine book will give them the knowledge they will need to use all those tools correctly, safely, and productively.

Richard Rashke writes a superb example of the underworld drug world. Tracy Sparshot real life experiences of the Montgomery County drug rings and how he shut them down is excellent. For those who risk there lives every day this is an excellent reminder of just how dangerous undercover work can be and at the same time extremly challenging. Should be manadatory reading for the rookie looking to join the force!

This book is a real "find." Whoever you are, now that you happen to have come to this book's website, please take a moment to digest how interesting this book is. It is a useful, user-friendly dictionary into the Native American language spoken in Eastern and Central Massachusetts, prior to the coming of the Pilgrims and Puritans. An actual DICTIONARY. Not just a list of towns with Native American names, or a phrase book, but a whole dictionary. This is a serious, major "find," if you or someone you know has an interest in this kind of thing, and happen to live in the eastern Massachusetts area.

This language was sometimes called Natick, sometimes Massachuset(t), or sometimes Wampanoag. Edward Everett Hale wrote an introduction for this volume, which helps place the topic in historic perspective. James Hammond Trumbull, the dictionary's compiler, was the State Librarian of Connecticut for many years, in the 19th century. He was one of the leading authorities of his time, in various subjects of New England antiquarian interest, and was awarded several honorary degrees from Yale University. He published many other books, leaflets and articles on the topic of the native tongues of pre-colonial New England. If you'd like to see more of his works, look online for a copy of "Bibliography Of The Algonquian Languages," by James Constantine Pilling. You can sometimes find a used copy for sale.

Trumbull's primary source for this dictionary was John Eliot's so-called "Indian Bible," printed in 1663. If you'd like to seek out a copy, you will probably have to find it on microfilm, unless you have access to a really amazing library. The title of the microfilm is listed today as "Mamusse wunneetupanatamwe Up-Biblium God naneeswe Nukkone Testament kah wonk Wusku Testament [microform] / ne quoshkinnumuk nashpe Wuttinneumoh Christ noh asoowesit John Eliot," by University Microfilms International, in Ann Arbor, Michigan. If that's too much of a mouthful, (or keyboardful, as the case may be), try doing keyword searches in a large library's OPAC for the terms "Eliot," "Massachuset," "Bible," and "1663." Observe the way I just spelled "Massachuset," with one "t" and no "s" at the end. Sometimes a library's cataloguer might have spelled it with two "t"s, but they shouldn't have put in an "s." You might need to try a few different spellings, but you should be able to get it in three or four tries.

One thing to be careful about -- Trumbull occasionally tries to make speculative connections between these words and the languages of Asia, or the Phoenicians, or the ancient Hebrews. He doesn't do this too much, but it happens now and then. In many ways Trumbull was a creature of his times, of course, and in his field of study, that means that he was prone to speculating rashly about the origins of Native American tongues. Trumbull passed away long before anyone knew about the land bridge across the Bering Staits, so you should try to cut him some slack on this issue. No one really had a clue, about how long the people of this continent had been here. Just try to stick close to the actual dictionary function of this interesting book, and don't get too caught up in the ill-informed etymological speculations.

The dictionary itself is almost 350 pages long, and each word is carefully cross-referenced to the biblical verse it appears in, in Eliot. The alphabet used is basically our own, although there are a few differences. There is no letter for b, c, d, f, g, l, v, x, or z. Some of these may seem wrong to Massachusetts residents -- there is obviously a "c" in the Massachusett tongue, as we can see from the word "Massachusetts" itself, along with Cochituate, Scituate, etc. However, this a question of orthographic convention, and Trumbull's decision not to include a "c" is as good as any. He does sometimes have "ch" as a "letter." He considers the two symbols to be inseparable in proper Natick. The only other alphabetic oddity is the existence of a letter for "double o," which looks like the symbol for infinity. This is alphabetized right after "o."

Again, the main use of this book would be to grapple with Eliot's "Indian Bible," but you might also want to try using it to make sense of local place names, named by this areas original inhabitants. Try John C. Huden's "Indian Place Names of New England," or anything by R. A. Douglas Lithgow, if you'd like a compilation of local indian place names. Or, of course, you could just get a local map from AAA.

If you're going to try to use this for Eliot's bible, you may also want to know about his "Indian Grammar Begun: Or, an Essay to Bring the Indian Language into Rules, for Help of Such As Desire to Learn the Same." That book is available from this online bookstore. You might also want to look online for the Mashpee Wampanoag Language Revitalization Project, under the leadership of Jessie "Little Doe" Fermino, which has been trying to bring this ancient tongue back to life.

Lastly, I'd like to strongly recommend that you look for "Native Writings in Massachusett," by Ives Goddard and Kathleen Bragdon. It's a beautiful two volume set, with a lot of amazing things to offer.