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where's the scary part?
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The Woman in Black: A Ghost Story
Susan Hill
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What real reader does not yearn, somewhere in the recesses of his or her heart, for a really literate, first-class thriller - one that chills the body with foreboding of dark deeds to come, but warms the soul with perceptions and language at once astute and vivid? In other words, a ghost story by Jane Austen.

Austen we cannot, alas, give you, but Susan Hill's remarkable Woman In Black comes as close as the late twentieth century is likely to provide. Set on the obligatory English moor, on an isolated causeway, the story has as its hero one Arthur Kipps, an up-and-coming young solicitor who has come north to attend the funeral and settle the estate of Mrs. Alice Drablow of Eel Marsh House. The routine formalities he anticipates give way to a tumble of events and secrets more sinister and terrifying than any nightmare: the rocking chair in the nursery of the deserted Eel Marsh House, the eerie sound of pony and trap, a child's scream in the fog, and, most dreadfully, and for Kipps most tragically, the woman in black.

The Woman In Black is both a brilliant exercise in atmosphere and controlled horror and a delicious spine-tingler - proof positive that that neglected genre, the ghost story, isn't dead after all.

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Classic Ghost Story .......2007-05-15

Excellent ghost story I've seen the movie and the play in London, so naturally I had to read the book, Susan Hill writes a wonderful story of the Eel Marsh house, and the mysterious recluse a dead Mrs. Drablow, who, along with the nearby town, is haunted by the woman in black. Everyone in the village is tightlipped to an unfortunate solicitor who is charged with going over all of Mrs. Drablow's papers to her estate. Upon his arrival he senses something is a bit odd in this town, maybe country people are just a bit different or maybe they are too scared to talk about the woman in black, either case he will soon discover what is haunting this village to silence, a family secret that turned into a hateful evil presence that touches all who wonder into the marsh, with a tragic ending.

where's the scary part?.......2007-02-27

this is probably a case where reading the reviews caused me to have unreasonable expectations. I thought this book would be really imaginative and scary. it was a good read but then i came to the end and was still waiting for something exciting to happen. I seriously think i could have read it by candlelight sitting in my house alone during a thunder storm and never looked over my shoulder once.

An Old English Ghost Tale.......2007-01-24

A story of rainy, salt-spray marshes, twisted lives, and tragic deaths. The most frightening aspect of this story is what is implied...not stated. A great, quick read for grown-ups, and teens as well.

I'm so glad people are still writing books like this.......2007-01-05

For me, the book's strength is in the character of Arthur Kipps. He's immensely likable and level-headed -- I wouldn't mind meeting him again in another book.

What I liked best about the character is that it was so easy to relate to him. He's naturally skeptical when first presented with the possibility of a haunting, but unlike characters in other books, who dither around refusing to believe their senses, putting themselves in danger for no good reason, Arthur accepts the evidence and deals with it.

I could also relate to the premise of the haunting itself. If something similar had happened to me, I might haunt a place too. It was heartbreaking, and I felt myself sympathizing with the ghost.

I read the book in one sitting and left a lot of lights on when I went to bed. It's the best ghost story I've read in years, and as others have said, it's right up there with Shirley Jackson's book.

Guaranteed good read!

A Strange Tale of a Lonely House.......2007-01-04

My first experience of The Woman in Black was at the age of 12. It was Christmas Eve, and there was an adaptation of the story on the television that night. My family wanted to watch Legal Eagles on another channel, but I was firm in my resolve - I had to see The Woman in Black. Eventually, I won the argument and we all settled down to watch the chilling tale on a cold Christmas Eve night. I have to admit at 12 years - old, this was a mistake; I was terrified. I had never seen anything quite as frightening before or since.

The Woman in Black is now enjoying a revival as a stage play being performed on the West End. With this knowledge, I recently decided to face my childhood fear and read the book...I was not disappointed.

The book begins on Christmas Eve (as all good ghost stories should!), when a family is gathered around the fire telling each other ghastly tales of spectres and spirits. The patriarch of the family, Arthur Kipps, has remained tight lipped as he listens to the frivolous and gratuitous fables that are pouring out of his family's mouths. When finally pressed to see if he has a story to tell, he reacts angrily, not wanting to tell the tale that has haunted his dreams for decades - for his tale is far more disturbing, far more terrifying and, most shockingly, his story is completely true.

The premise is far from original: Arthur Kipps, a junior solicitor in a London law firm, is asked to attend the funeral of Mrs Drablow. While Kipps attends the funeral at the little, seaside town of Crythin Griffin, he has been asked to go through any papers that Mrs. Drablow has left behind in attempt to find a benefactor, as she has no living children. Kipps travels to the town, grateful for the opportunity, and not knowing what he will find there. And this is where the story begins to stand apart from its often-used classic scenario.

When Kipps reaches the town, he discovers the Ell marsh (Mrs. Drablow's house) is separated from the town by a narrow causeway and when the tide is in, anyone who occupies the house is totally isolated from the rest of the world and the safety and reassurance that the living offer. While there, the woman in black appears to Kipps only a handful of times, but each time more terrifying than the last, with the malevolence and sense of danger increasing with her every visit. Kipps' anxiety at seeing her increases until he is terrified of the harm she may do.

The Woman in Black is a gripping tale that will have its readers on the edge of their seat. If I have one criticism, it is the final appearance of the woman in black and that her sinister intentions seem rushed in the last few pages of the book. Otherwise, the book is paced to perfection, but the ending comes all too quickly as up until this point the book has built tension with every glimpse of this nefarious apparition. In the end, this robs the reader of the uneasy feeling that readers of this sort of novel crave!

Health Program Planning: An Educational and Ecological Approach

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Health Program Planning: An Educational and Ecological Approach
Lawrence W. Green , Marshall W. Kreuter , and McGraw-Hill
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The Deserter's Tale: The Story of an Ordinary Soldier Who Walked Away from the War in Iraq

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Joshua Kay's book should be read by everyone who wants to join the military
Lies, Lies, and more Lies
This book kept me up all night
There are too many lies about Iraq already, on both sides.
It is the same old story.

The Deserter's Tale: The Story of an Ordinary Soldier Who Walked Away from the War in Iraq
Joshua Key , and Lawrence Hill
Manufacturer: Atlantic Monthly Press
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ASIN: 0871139545

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In the first ever memoir from a young soldier who deserted from the war in Iraq, Joshua Key offers a vivid and damning indictment of what we are doing there and how the war itself is being waged. Key, a young husband and father from a conservative background, enlisted in the Army in 2002 to get training as a welder and lift his family out of poverty. A year later, Key was sent to Ramadi where he found himself participating in a war that was not the campaign against terrorists and evildoers he had expected. He saw Iraqi civilians beaten, shot, and killed for little or no provocation. Nearly ever other night, he participated in raids on homes that found only terrified families and no evidence of terrorist activity. On leave, Key knew he could not return so he took his family underground, finally seeking asylum in Canada. The Deserter’s Tale is the story of a patriotic family man who went to war believing unquestioningly in his government’s commitment to integrity and justice, and how what he saw in Iraq transformed him into someone who could no longer serve his country.

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Joshua Kay's book should be read by everyone who wants to join the military.......2007-06-19

The Deserter's Tale is probably one of the best books to come out about the war in Iraq. It offers an invaluable look at the life of ordinary soldiers in Iraq, and some surprising glimpses of the life of Iraqis under occupation. Joshua Key puts to rest forever the notion that US soldiers in Iraq are fanatical volunteers. He shows that most soldiers in Iraq, like the soldiers in The Things They Carried, are afraid to not fight. Joshua Key is a hero. He is part of the leading edge of a soldiers rebellion in Iraq. This book is a must-read for anyone who wants to end the war. This book tells the story of an individual war resister. The broader picture is told by Sir! No Sir! - The Suppressed Story of the GI Movement to End the War in Vietnam, a documentary about soldier's resistance in Vietnam, and Soldiers In Revolt: GI Resistance During The Vietnam War, the book that has inspired many Iraq War resisters. Besides The Deserter's Tale's wonderful content, it is a fascinating page-turner that you won't be able to forget.

Lies, Lies, and more Lies.......2007-06-09

I have not even gotten past page 52 and have found this book riddled with lies about Iraq and the Army. My husband is in the Army and has been for 7 years. He has been deployed twice to Iraq. The first time was 2003-2004 and again 2005-2006. Mr. Key and the publishers of this book are very good at telling stories. First off, Mr. Key mentions his basic training was 17 weeks long. Basic is nine weeks long for every soldier in the US Army. AIT can be of varied lengths depending on your MOS.

He states his Drill Sergeants begin cursing at him from the moment he arrived at Leonard Wood. Maybe they were yelling but I can assure you they were not cursing. They have not been allowed to curse at privates since at least 1998 and probably before that.

He states that he was woke up in the middle of the night to beat soldiers who were not up to par. That is not allowed under any circumstances and soldiers found doing that are subject to military punishment.

He talks about how he was trained to hate Iraqi's and Muslims. The Army goes out of their way to train soldiers on the Muslim way of life and how to respect its' customs. Army chaplains speak with soldiers prior to deployment about the subject and they go through various training classes to learn about the culture.

The Army has a very strict policy in regards to racism and equal opportunity and would not tolerate any soldier using the phrase "sand nigger" especially in a training unit.

As a military wife I am totally disgusted by this book and the way it portrays the military. I guess if I had not exprienced Army life and the Iraq war myself, I might belive his story. As one other person stated, soldiers express disbelief at what he is saying. Well, that is because it is false. During the period of time this person was in Iraq, yes they did have IED's, but they were very primitive and half the time did not work properly. My husband has exprienced IED and numerous other aspects of combat, but I assure everyone he drives down the road just fine without feeling that a cardboard box will blow us up.

If you want a good laugh then read this book. If you want a true portrayal and REAL soldiers view of life in the Army and being in Iraq, ask one.

This book kept me up all night.......2007-06-03

I was touched by Joshua's story in so many ways, but I guess most of all because he grew up in Oklahoma where I'm from. I also am glad to hear a rural white kid tell his story, because the military these days is filled with mostly poor white kids and people of color who were tricked into joining.

I believe every word he says. This book grabbed me from page 1 and I couldn't put it down until I finished it at 4:30 in the morning.

Joshua's book is sincere, honest, moving, appalling, bleakly sad yet hopeful (at least that he was able to resist going back to Iraq).

There are too many lies about Iraq already, on both sides........2007-05-19

After James Frey's fall from grace, one could hope that publishers would do a little more fact checking. Then again, when one has a political axe to grind, one can't let a little something like the truth get in the way. Mr. Key certainly doesn't. Want to prove absolutely ANY ONE of the horrendous allegations, Mr. Key? It's easy- just NAME NAMES. If you are genuinely concerned about justice and right over wrong and morality- and, if you are telling the truth- just give up some names- of the perpetrators of all of this horror, of the witnesses that can verify even one iota of the story you tell, of the officers and all of the higher ups that knew and looked the other way. Does anyone doubt that the news industry (who got such air time out of the genuine abuses of places like Abu Gharib) wouldn't be eager to chase evidence of such awful crimes, if any of it happened? But Key doesn't do it; he gives no names, no units, no identifying evidence that would break such a news story open. Sadly, there is no legal punishment for those who author fiction and call it fact, or for publishers who print outrageous things without doing any checking at all. Too bad the military doesn't sue for defamation and force Mr. Key to give evidence for any of this. Meanwhile, the reading public has only their own judgement to read and decide, and too often people will believe anything they read.
Well, I believe in justice, and in right. If such animals as he depicts are actually out there serving in our military, they need to be brought to justice and punished. And, if Mr. Key has simply told one big lie from cover to cover, he should be punished for his falsehoods and wrongs. Until he comes forward with more than just stories, don't give another purveyor of lies one thin dime. Be ethical! The truth demands more.
Many of us oppose this war, but here is a simple fact: LIES NEVER FURTHER THE CAUSE OF TRUTH. Haven't we all had enough of lies about Iraq?

It is the same old story........2007-04-30

Let's face it: abuse of power, raping, random beatings, looting, killing innocent people just to have fun,... has been happening since the beginning of times.

In every single war, invading armies have done whatever they felt like. It is funny how some people, unaware of history, find it hard to believe that Americans can do that in Iraq. They did it in Vietnam, Korea and so on. I am not blaming the Americans.

The Roman Empire, the Spanish Empire, the British, the French,... every single nation that ruled the world did horrible things wherever they went. Now it is the turn of the Americans. Just wait till the Chinese rule the world.

Studying Service-Learning: Innovations in Education Research Methodology

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Studying Service-Learning: Innovations in Education Research Methodology

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Presents innovations in research methodology as these are implemented in the study of service-learning, and provides recommendations to professionals doing research on service-learning and on any form of experiential education or educational reform.

It Takes a City: Getting Serious About Urban School Reform

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Where's the Teacher?

It Takes a City: Getting Serious About Urban School Reform
Paul Thomas Hill , Christine Campbell , James Harvey , Paul Herdman , Janet Looney , Lawrence Pierce , Carol Reed , and Abigail Winger
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Where's the Teacher?.......2001-07-29

It takes a ... what? It takes more than this book recognizes to improve education. The rhetoric here implies that the so-called "reform" movement is the way to cure school ills. To most teachers, however, this is simply another year's bureaucratic fad to morph educators into paper pushers. Although I found several insights here, and detailed information on six inner-city school districts, I was somewhat amazed by two important omissions: teachers and students. Teacher unions were trivialized by the suggestion that each little school decide, on their own, if they want to unionize.The writer recommends "hiring halls" for teachers, putting us on a level with farm workers and factory hands. This writing shows absolutely no understanding about why teachers need unions or how such organizations originated.

This writer clearly identifies a target audience -- mayors, civic leaders and school board members. By decision, it excludes teachers and students. It's sad to think -- and I've seen this happen -- that ivory tower bureaucrarts actually make decisions based on this type of dubious theory rather than getting down in the trenches with the reality of the classroom.

Content here is peppered with educratic jargon which twists other terminology into bastardized educational theories. School "incubators" make me think of premature babies."Real dollar budgets" make me wonder if bureaucrats are playing Monopoly with our taxes. "CEO Strong Schools strategy" pretends that a principal, who is middle management, is a CEO. Get real. The only CEO in the school district is the superintendent who is hired by an elected school board.

This book, to it's credit, recognizes the inability of reform to reform anything (last paragraph, page 84). Any good book offers new insights and "policy churn" gets my prize here. Teachers are jaded by bandwagon bureaucrats who recycle new versions of old ideas, one after another, never saying, "stop this" or "drop that."

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Who let the dog out? Out of its book, that is. Announcing the CD-only DOG TRAIN - the funky, fabulous collection of all-out rock music by the team that created the #1 NEW YORK TIMES bestselling Philadelphia Chickens. Take directly from Dog Train, the book and CD with 588,000 copies in print, it's the same great music, now in the brilliant format music-lovers love - the handy little jewel case.

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Great Music and Book!.......2007-04-18

My 6 yr old and 4 yr old girls LOVE this CD/book combination. The music is fun, the book is colorful. As an adult, this is the best kids music I've heard. Often times I find myself singing the songs without the kids around.

Enchanting Powers: Music in the Worlds Religions (Religions of the World)

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Enchanting Powers: Music in the Worlds Religions (Religions of the World)

Manufacturer: Harvard Center for the Study of World Religions
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The Confucian Sacrificial Ceremony, the Choctaw ball ga$ the "drum history" of the Dagbamba, the chanting of the Qur'an--these$ some of the topics addressed in this collection of essays by eminent musicologists, anthropologists, historians, and religionists as they consider the intersection and interconnection of musics and religions$ different world cultures.

Contributors: Judith Becker, Philip V. Bohlman, John M. Chernoff, Michael W. Harris, Jonathan Hill, Moshe Idel, Victoria Lindsay Levine$ Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Rulan Chao Pian, Regula Burckhardt Qureshi, Kay Kaufman Shelemay.

This volume, in the Religions of the World series, is distributed by Harvard University Press for the Harvard Center for the Study of Worl$ Religions.

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Philosophy and anthropology.......2001-09-14

This is a collection of papers that are related in some way to the topics of religion and music. I approached this book with several questions: What is the role of music in the religions of the world? What is the attitude of world religions towards music? However, very few essays in this book address these questions directly. In most similar books of edited papers, the introduction contains an overview of all the papers and how they fit together. Instead, Sullivan writes in his introduction a very philosophical piece on the meaning of music in general. A number of other essays are highly philosophical and rather hard to approach. Others are anthropological and highly descriptive, answering questions such as "What music is played during religious ceremonies of lesser known cultures and who plays the music? (Wakuenai-Hill; Choctaw-Levine; China-Pian)", or "Who was Major Jealous Divine, a reportedly musical pastor in early 20th century America?" (Harris), or "Where did the music of the Jewish people as an ethnic group originate?" (Shelemay). However, I found the 2 articles on music in Islam extremely illuminating, especially the one by Nasr, in which he lays out a typology of musical sounds in Islam from the religious, through the halal (permitted), to the contentious, to the haram (forbidden). Perhaps the questions I had in mind when I picked up this book are actually only interesting in an Islamic context. The other papers in the book are well written and will no doubt be of interest to someone, but they weren't what I was looking for.

The Case for Vegetarianism: Philosophy for a Small Planet

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Chapter 4: The Argument for Global Ecology
Life-changing book
Well Intentioned But Poorly Executed
an accessible vegetarian defense manual

The Case for Vegetarianism: Philosophy for a Small Planet
John Lawrence Hill
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A moral argument based on animal rights, health, global ecology, and world hunger.

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Chapter 4: The Argument for Global Ecology.......2003-04-24

Though I've only read Chapter 4, "The Argument for Global Ecology," for an ecology class, I found it to be very eye-opening. It, and a supportive and like-minded friend, have convinced me to go mostly vegetarian. Hill uses clear writing, sobering facts, and a balanced perspective to make his case for environmental vegetarianism. The reason I gave it only 4 stars is because, while I haven't read the other chapters, I'm not generally convinced by animal rights or health reasons for vegetarianism. However, Chapter 4 alone changed my life.

Life-changing book.......2000-02-05

This is the book that convinced me to become a vegetarian. The arguments are well-presented and the author addresses many important issues such as myths about vegetarianism.

Well Intentioned But Poorly Executed.......1999-08-02

I am a vegetarian. I've read the book and found numerous errors. Some are little, some medium, some of the worst are omissions. I have read two reviews of this book that pan it. One in Environmental Ethics, the other in Ethics. I respect the author's intentions and respect him for them.

an accessible vegetarian defense manual.......1998-04-06

Mr Hill has written a very accessible and easily read case for vegetarianism. Vegetarians defend those who cannot defend themselves. However, sometimes vegetarians themselves are incapable of defense against carnivores. They should read this book and never be afraid again to debate with carnivoracious opponents.

The Leading Arbitrators' Guide to International Arbitration

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The Leading Arbitrators' Guide to International Arbitration

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This book offers thoughtful advice and insights into the world of international arbitration from some of the most prominent and experienced international arbitrators in the world. The contributors are arbitrators from Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Egypt, England, France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the USA. The contributors offer insights and advice on the way in which international arbitrations are carried out from the point of view of arbitrators reading pleadings and memorials and listening to witnesses and hearing arguments. The authors' discussions are intended to be thoughtful, insightful and useful - and perhaps, occasionally, iconoclastic. As a result, there may be instances in which the authors disagree with one another on certain points. This is to be expected for there are often many routes that can be taken to achieve a result.

Occasionally, more than one point of view is set out within an individual chapter. This is a positive result of an intranet that was set up to allow the contributors to review and comment upon the drafts of their colleagues. Where appropriate, this has allowed some chapters to include something of a survey of opinion on a particular issue from a number of the world's leading arbitrators.

The book will be useful not only to persons who may serve as arbitrators in international arbitral proceedings but also to those who may, in their position as advocates, wish to persuade persons -including, perhaps, the authors.

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