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"Color-Blind: Seeing Beyond Race in a Race-Obsessed World) is a powerful piece of investigative journalism, which builds on, and should be read in conjunction with his earlier book, "The Rage of a Privileged Class".

In Color-Blind, Cose analyzes the issue of race in America in ways that only someone who has felt the sting of discrimination could fully understand. Building on his earlier examination of race in America (and arguably, Canada), Cose looks at recent events, such as the OJ Simpson trial, and recent pubications, such as "The Bell Curve" and "The End of Racism" to acheve a dual purpose - to further illustrate the stereotypes and misconceptions that pervade American society, and to attempt to find solutions that will help blacks to fully reach their potential in contemporary American society.

Cose starts by picking up where Martin Luther King left off - the dream of a colourblind world. Unfortunaltely, for those who are black, Cose argues that dreams of economic equality, particularly as it relates to discrimination in the workplace, have fallen far short of what Dr. King would have hoped for as we appoach the end of the century.

However, Cose looks at a number of examples, at home and abroad, that illustrate how it is possible for blacks and other minorities to excel and achieve their full potential, and possibly overcome very pervasive and deep-seated stereotypes.

In fact, there is an air of optimism in this book, that a colourblind society could be more than a figment of someone's overly-fertile imagination. Cose even suggests a ten-step plan for achieving this goal.

Unfortunately, as a Human Resources Manager, I am still haunted by Cose' earlier expose, "The Rage of a Privileged Class", five years after its original publication. This book should be required reading for every Human Resources Manager, black professional and MBA student in North America - unfortunately it is now out of print at a time when its observations and anecdotes are more relevant than ever.

As an expert in recruitment and selection, it is hard for me to believe that anyone would doubt, or be shocked by the painful, but all too real stories of successful black professionals in "Rage". However, having seen the dismantling of Employment Equity in Ontario, and the woeful under-representation of blacks and other visible minorities in managerial and executive positions, I can only hope that more that 60,000 copies of "Color-Blind" are sold, but I somehow doubt that it will.

I cannot imagine a more important, intelligent and thorough examination of race and society being written in the near future. I applaud Ellis Cose for his vision and eloquence in attempting to shed light on the misconceptions of racial progress in our society.

"Cose was totally effective in documenting in print what many African-American professionals in the private sector experience, feel, and think, as well as, attempt to deny and suppress. I personally think that Ellis wrote this particular book to cleverly vent his frustrations and concerns as they relate to the obsession that people (i.e., whites as well as blacks, asians, hispanics, etc.) have with regard to institutional racism and prejudice. Thank you Mr. Cose for cleverly addressing numerous social issues that I have felt as an upper-middle class black professional male in not on American society, but also in South America and Europe."

This is one of the two books I read in preparing for a 3 week stay in Vietnam. The content was right on the mark, and helpful for even this traveler. In essential tips it more than paid for itself! It is simply a must for those traveling to Vietnam.

This book is a must for anyone planning a visit to Vietnam. My wife and I visited Hanoi three years ago and the content of this book hit the mark. It is full of practical information that is up to date and written by someone who has been there. This book will keep you from cultural mistakes that might cause you to offend someone and will help you get around the country in a smoother way. Our family is now returning to Vietnam for a four year stay and this book will be going with us!

Since there is no NO on this diet you don't become fixated on what you can't have. Instead of following a "to do" list, you learn what happens biochemically to any food that's eaten. This changes how you feel about food before the 3 rules are laid on you. The rules are plain old common sense. ALL diets that fail violate either one or all of these rules. You finally see once and for all WHY everything you did in the past COULD NOT work. You can actually take UDS and combine it to any diet and turn that diet into a winner or just follow it all itself. Dieting is math, not myth. UDS contains the sad truth- none of our pet beliefs are true. If you want something, you have to do something for it. That's why some people are fat- they are the same people that want something for nothing. That's why we admire people with incredible bodies- we know they don't come easy. All the other diet books claim to be EASY. If it's so easy then why would ANYONE be fat. It's because it's not easy. It's not hard but it's also not easy. Without this information you are guaranteed to fail. The "Lite" version has all the facts you need. I recommend the larger more expensive version because Ellis's story is amazing and he tells you what he thinks about EVERYTHING and doesn't hold back. Just be sure to GET THIS BOOK!

This is a really good book, it really brings to mind things that no one could have made-up, its just way too horiffic, but it DOES open your eyes to what power one man can have, and how people follow the majority, not standing up for others.

Just a few words, if you have not read this book go get it now! This is one of those books written from the heart, that cannot- but have you in tears, truely written from the heart; it stired my soul! A true story of a young girl overcoming nightmares that we would not dread to imagine, it has truely opened my eyes, to the horror, that so many people lived through, and so many not....Well done Livia! A book that will live for an eternity!

It may come as a shock to some that Ireland still has nineteen documented native "royal" families, probably because the island's ruling dynasties were suppressed nearly five centuries ago by the imperialist Tudors. The conquest of Ireland was followed by the Flight of the Wild Geese, in which much of the Irish aristocracy fled to other Catholic countries (notably France and Spain) and was largely forgotten at home. The government of today's Ireland, however, has been granting courtesy titles to claimants who can prove their descents. Ellis is a noted scholar and popular writer in the area of Celtic studies and history and this enabled him to be "invited in" by the heads of the families to examine their claims. Each of these is "the chief of the name" -- though some also hold other Gaelic titles, such as Conor O'Brien, "The O'Brien," who also is hereditary Prince of Thomond (as well as being a baronet and Baron Inchiquin in the Peerage of Ireland under the UK). They generally have more money (based on land ownership) and education than average, and their influence in Irish culture can be considerable. The author does a very creditable job of outlining the lineage and political history of each of these families, each in its own chapter, as well as the modern-day activities of the chiefs in regaining their social positions. Following the publication of the first edition, a scandal erupted around Terence McCarthy, recognized as The McCarthy Mor, who turned out to be a complete fraud, and that episode, which badly damaged the credibility of the chiefs of Ireland, is also recounted in detail in this edition. An articulate, informative, and very well written book.

Erin's Blood Royal: The Gaelic Noble Dynasties Of Ireland by Celtic scholar Peter Berresford Ellis is a stately and informative study of the Irish aristocracies that ruled Ireland until Henry VIII forced them to obey the English crown. Individual chapters relate the sagas of numerous Gaelic noble families, including O'Carroll, O'Connor, McCarthy, Maguire, O'Grady and many more. A highly recommended contribution to Irish Studies supplemental reading lists and reference collections, Erin's Blood Royal is an articulate and impressive account of the family branches whose descendants live in Ireland, Great Britain, America, and many other nations throughout the world today.

Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood. He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.
- Psalms 7:14 - 15

In these days after WWII, England is no longer the place the young men left when they went away to fight. The mining industry has been nationalized, and even Comerford's old slapdash efforts at opening up its shallow coal deposits are about to be reopened, with a flood of new faces coming in to operate the new machinery. The men who went away, of course, aren't those who came back: Jim Tugg, the hired man at the Hollins farm, with daring exploits as a paratrooper; Chad Wedderburn, the pacifist classics master who spent years in guerilla fighting; even Charles Blunden, son of Selwyn Blunden of Harrow, fought all the way across North Africa and Sicily.

Expatriates from all over Europe are common enough, even ex-POWs who still slip and say 'Heil Hitler!' if they forget. (And get beaten up, maybe, by somebody whose brother died in a Stalag.) Helmut Schauffler, though, has been asking to be murdered by going far beyond that.

Gerd Hollins had lost her entire family in the concentration camps. Haunted by memories of horror that won't stay suppressed, she asked her husband to hire Helmut, because if she could learn to see one German as a human being, it would help her to let go of her nightmares. Unfortunately, Helmut is a creep - an actual Nazi who enjoys psychological torment (though he's not stupid enough to try it in front of her husband or hired man). When he's fired and takes a job at the quarry, he still harasses her in a slimy way, while causing discord everywhere else he goes.

Sergeant Felse isn't surprised when Helmut finally turns up floating in the brook, head bashed in, although he's less than thrilled that his 13-year-old son Dominic found the corpse. Despite George's best efforts, Dominic gets interested in the case, especially since his classics master is a suspect.

This was one of the best mysteries I have ever read. I came upon it by accident, not even knowing if it were a mystery or not. It is a wonderful successor to the great writers of the original English mystery. George Felse ranks up there with Poirot and Holmes, but shows a bit more humanity. The other characters, also, show qualities that make you forget that you're reading. The plot, I'm sure, will perplex you and will have you back for more Ellis Peters. I will say that after reading most of the Felse mysteries and a few Cadfael that Felse is better, but this one is the best in the lot.

Do you sometimes feel as though you struggle through the day just trying to accomplish your "to do" list? Do the colorful dreams you once had for your life seem to have faded and paled under your perceived sense of "responsibility", "shoulds", "oughts", and "have to's"? Do you develop plans to make life changes such as clearing your office clutter, living a more healthy life style, and improving relationships with significant others only to lose track of these goals in the midst of daily living? If so, Falling Awake is the book for you!

Dave Ellis has prepared a wonderful collection of twelve practical, common sense, success strategies to help us "fall awake" to the wonderful lives we already have and the incredibly exciting futures we have the ability to create. Ellis is a masterful teacher, author and life coach. His writing style is collegial and fun to read. This book offers the reader strategies that not only make sense but they actually work and yield dramatic, positive, and lasting results. I've used them personally with great success and my clients love them. Lasting results is an important key here--this is not just any old set of tips that will fade away after you read them. These are strategies you can put to work TODAY and see the differences almost immediately. They just make good sense! If you choose to "fall awake" to the life of your dreams, your life will literally never be the same.

I especially love the way Falling Awake is laid out and the incredible photos that accompany the success strategies. It is a pleasure to read. The exercises, which allow for personal reflection, and access to the Falling Awake Website are two additions which enrich this book and make it an incredible resource.

I believe Dave Ellis has developed concepts and practical strategies that have the power to shape the lives of individuals, couples and communities. Order Falling Awake today if you really want to make the most of your life and are open to a potentially life-changing experience. Join me and the many others who are applying the Falling Awake strategies and celebrating the wonderful lives they've created.

Falling Awake by Dave Ellis, has been the turning point in my life and only in three months. It rivals Simple Abundance;A Daybook of Comfort & Joy, Don't Sweat the Small Stuff(& all of Richard Carlson's great sequels), Kitchen Table Wisdom and The Roadless Traveled (all of which I loved.)

The difference is that Falling Awake is a valuable resource book full of tools that are broken down into 12 major success strategies that can be used interchangeably with relationships, families, finances or careers. These strategies are presented as tools that will pull you into the future you desire. You begin planning with a mind that has been fine tuned with your own self-determined wants based on what you have personally determined to be what you value through exercises early on in the book.

These success strategies are first explained with great clarity as to how they can change how you live your life. Each chapter is interspersed at appropriate breaks with guided invitations to journal or interact with exercises that are designed to integrate the content of Falling Awake with your own spirit.

What I loved most about Falling Awake over other self-enrichment content is Ellis' contention that you already "have it all" and with simply applying the 12 strategies you will finally wake up to in every action and moment of your day.

I have realized great success in the relationships, personal fulfillment and professional endeavors that I was either already in the middle of or have since created in the short three months since reading and living the strategies.

Falling Awake has been useful since as a resource book to facilitate habits of thought and action in whatever way you decide to reenact the strategies, while other self-enrichment concepts loose their luster after the newness fades.

I thought this book was excellent! I re-read this book over & over along with my book by Ditraci Regula on Isis.In fact my book is full of yellow highlites.I highlite all the things I can use in my own rituals such as hyms to the Goddess,what kind of offerings to use etc.I thought more people would have loved this book and reviewed it.I did!

Ancient Egypt is a faraway land in a far away time, yet they had the same stars, plants, and human needs that we have here today. Normandi Ellis never fails to put the reader in touch with the mysterious and intangible, yet at the same time with ourselves and our reality. The author has the tender caress of an artist and respectful embrace of an historian so that the purest of mysticism is revealed, but not dispelled.

The reader is guided through an effortless tour of truth not available outside the work of Normandi Ellis. Not unlike most travels, the experience will make it hard to return to the mundane world, and inspire future travels to new worlds beyond. Be certain to buckle your seatbelt; the ride is like no other.

As books on Egypt go, this author is without rival. This is equally true for her other works on the subject. Normandi Ellis is easy to recommend as an insightful scholar and author.

Fantastic book, I bought another copy to send to my best friend who was like me aBritish War Bride, I only wishI had know of the survays being done at that time, I would have loved to have participated in its information,

The British war brides, some 70,000 strong, occupy a special place in American military and immigration history.
The majority of war brides of World War II GI's, they represented a significant administrative and logistical problem to an officialdom (of both countries) which hoped in vain that the problem would go away. They persevered, despite hardships, intentional obstacles, and ill-concealed suspicions about their motives, and while most regard themselves as inevitably hyphenated Americans, the vast majority would do it all again.
Their story is well told here, shedding light on a little-known corner of World War II history and, incidentally, revealing much about life and love in the two countries.

(The "score" rating is an ineradicable feature of the page. This reviewer does not "score' books.)