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Bloody Sunset in St. Augustine: A True Story11 reviews
Nancy Powell, Jim Mast

Federal Point Publishing, 1998

Addictive!
I was already familiar with this story from an episode of A & E's City Confidential and I was very intriqued. This book filled in alot of the blanks that the show left and would have been an excellent read all on it's own! Do yourself a favor and read this book! 		  
  







  
  
The Phantom Chronicles: New Tales Of The Ghost Who Walks!3 reviews
Craig Shaw Gardner, Jim Alexander, ...

Moonstone, 2007

Lee Falk would be proud.
These stories are bringing The Phantom back to life and doing it very well. There is one story I found to be a long stretch, but I'm not reviewing stories, but a volume of stories. In this volume the Deep Woods call, The Ghost Who Walks remains undying, justice prevails over the darkness of the world, and even when The Phantom seems helpless, he is just about ready to make his next move. A must ... 		  
  







  
  
Notebook for Writers: Craft Seminars from the Tin House Writers Workshop
Anna Keesey, Susan Bell, ...

Tin House Books, 2009 		  
  







  
  
Deconstruction For Beginners2 reviews
Jim Powell

For Beginners, 2008

Deconstruction for Globetrotters
This book offers something for readers who know nothing of deconstruction, but also something for those who have read a lot about it. I have read a lot of books on deconstruction, but this is the only one that shows how deconstruction has worked in different cultures--notably, China and India. Besides, it is irreverent and hilarious, at one point inserting some Derridean quotes on ethics into ... 		  
  







  
  
FDR's Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression68 reviews
Jim Powell

Three Rivers Press, 2004

Excellent account of good intentions with bad results
The old saying "The path to hell is paved with good intentions" should be noted in any discussion of the New Deal. This was a time when academics believed that markets were naturally inefficient, and only trained experts of bureaucracy could streamline it and make it effective. We laugh at that now (after bitter experience from the past 60 years), but at the time, various forms of central ... 		  
  







  
  
Bully Boy: The Truth About Theodore Roosevelt's Legacy6 reviews
Jim Powell

Crown Forum, 2006

It's all about the consequences...
In FDR's Folly, Jim Powell relied heavily on the work of empirical economists to draw conclusions about FDR and his policies. While contrary to other historians who have largely ignored economic studies of the great depression, Powell evaluated FDR and the New Deal based on the actual outcomes and consequences that they produced. In a similar vein, Powell documents the policies of TR in his new ... 		  
  







  
  
RA-5C Vigilante Units In Combat (Combat Aircraft)1 review
Robert Powell

Osprey Publishing, 2004

Ask the Man Who's Flown One
Aviation history usually is produced by dedicated enthusiasts who have never flown the airplanes they describe. In fact, many competent authors have never flown anything. But Bob Powell's history of the Vigilante is unusual in that he not only knows the subject, he's flown the RA-5 and "waved" it as an LSO. The result is an unusual depth of knowledge for this topic and for the Osprey series on ... 		  
  







  
  
Derrida For Beginners16 reviews
Jim Powell

For Beginners, 2007

If your new to Derrida, here is your introduction.
Derrida is my favorite philosopher. I don't think that his 'Deconstruction' is holistic necessarily but the gist of it explains the inherent problems of doing philosophy better then anything else I've read. Unlike the greats of Science who simplify complex ideas (i.e..Stephen Hawking, Richard Feynman), the guru's of philosophy take fairly straight-forward ideas and shroud them with such ... 		  
  







  
  
Wilson's War: How Woodrow Wilson's Great Blunder Led to Hitler, Lenin, Stalin, and World War II20 reviews
Jim Powell

Crown Forum, 2005

Don't Follow Leaders
This book is not the ultimate work of historical scholarship about World War I, but it is an informative and well thought out look at one of the worst presidents in American history and another nail in the coffin of the cult of leadership (see also titles like "Lincoln Unmasked" and "Bully Boy", "The New Dealers War" and "The Bush Betrayal"). This is a welcome contribution to the new wave of ... 		  
  







  
  
Postmodernism For Beginners18 reviews
Jim Powell

For Beginners, 2007

Great fun reading it.
This is the first book on Postmodernism I've ever finished. It gives you not only Lyotard, Baudrillard, Foucault and Derrida, but also Blade Runner, Buddha, and Madonna. Always lucid and engaging, it meets you where you are by never presuming you have a background in the subject. Other books on Postmodernism begin by gleefully flooding you in terms such as "aborescence," "diegetic," ... 		  
  







  
  
Drawings Of Jim Dine
Judith Brodie, Earl Powell, ...

Steidl/National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2004

Jim Dine is a consummate draftsman whose images of tools, large-scale nudes, self-portraits, and studies from nature and after antiquity are among the most accomplished and beautiful drawings of our time. This exhibition, the first major survey of Dine's drawings in 15 years, will feature over 100 of the finest examples from the 1970s to the present. During the 1960s, Dine's name was inextricably linked with Pop art. But he made a dramatic shift ... 		  
  







  
  
Good Sex Leader's Guide
Jim Hancock, Kara Powell, ...

Zondervan/Youth Specialties, 2001

Whether you're a youth worker, associate pastor, CE director, or volunteer, this book is an upfront, truthful, process-centered resource that invites students to consider and understand their sexuality in light of the God who loves them and who made them sexual beings. 		  
  







  
  
Good Sex: What (Almost) Nobody Will Tell You About Sex2 reviews
Jim Hancock, Kara Powell, ...

Zondervan/Youth Specialties, 2001

Best Teen Christian Sexuality Curriculum
I have combed through sexuality curriculum for youth and had almost given up...Then I found the "Good Sex" curriculum and I cannot say enough good things. The authors do an excellent job at presenting honest, comprehensive, relevant and (best of all) biblically-based study for teenagers. They are flexible enough that each church/denomination could use them and solid enough that they do not water ... 		  
  







  
  
Greatest Emancipations: How the West Abolished Slavery
Jim Powell

Palgrave Macmillan, 2008

For thousands of years, slavery went unchallenged in principle. Then in a single century, slavery was abolished and more than seven million slaves were freed. Greatest Emancipation tells this amazing story, focusing on Haiti, the British Caribbean, the United States, Cuba and Brazil, which accounted for the vast majority of slaves in the west. Jim Powell offers some surprising insights and shows that while the abolition of slavery was ... 		  
  







  
  
The Poetry of Sappho
Jim Powell

Oxford University Press, USA, 2007

Today, thousands of years after her birth, in lands remote from her native island of Lesbos and in languages that did not exist when she wrote her poetry in Aeolic Greek, Sappho remains an important name among lovers of poetry and poets alike. Celebrated throughout antiquity as the supreme Greek poet of love and of the personal lyric, noted especially for her limpid fusion of formal poise, lucid insight, and incandescent passion, today her ... 		  
  







  
  
Bloody Sunset: In St. Augustine2 reviews
Nancy Powell, Jim Mast

High-Pitched Hum Publishing, 1998

A Grand Title for A bizarre Florida Murder!
I thought the late great soap actress, Beverlee McKinsey, would have a ball playing Athalia Ponsell, a former beauty model with links to the Kennedy family. Retired to beautiful Saint Augustine, Florida, Athalia had created more enemies than friends. She was Mother Theresa when it came to animals who didn't judge her and loved her unconditionally. Athalia was ruthless and was known to cause havoc ... 		  
  







  
  
Good Sex2 reviews
Jim Hancock, Kara Powell

Zondervan/Youth Specialties, 2001

Excellent Resource
I am a religious studies major at a evangelical college. For a school project I surveyed existing Christian sexuality curriculem and evaluated them. This was by far the best I found out there! Use this for your JR High or High School youth group and you will be a blessing to those you teach. 		  
  







  
  
Clearview: America's Course, the Autobiography of William J. Powell4 reviews
Ellen Susanna Nosner

Foxsong Publishing, 2000

A MAN'S DREAM, A FAMILY'S PASSION, AN AMERICAN LEGACY
This is a story of triumph over discrimination based upon the color of one's skin. Imagine serving your country to win a war, and then returning to your homeland, and not having available to you the resources available to others who worked by your side. Be amazed that there is only one golf coure in the United States in the year 2001 that is designed, built, and maintained by an African-American ... 		  
  







  
  
Energy and Eros: Teachings on the Art of Love1 review
Jim Powell

William Morrow & Co, 1985

An intelligent,heartfelt guide to Tantra,& the Tao of sex..
Powell is looking at sex here with the eye of an engaged anthropologist. He asserts that sexuality is different from culture to culture. He then examines the tradition of courtly and romantic love in the West--and the orgasm-oriented approach of Western sex manuals. With this he contrasts traditions of sacred sexuality in India, China, Polynesia and the United States. Powell, however, offers ... 		  
  







  
  
Eastern Philosophy For Beginners7 reviews
Jim Powell

For Beginners, 2007

Irreverence and Rationalism
I liked this book because it will push almost everyone's buttons. First of all, Indians don't like to hear that their Vedic culture had its origins outside of India. Powell shows that it did. Hindus don't like to admit that vegetarianism came from outside of Hinduism. Powell shows that it came from Jainism. As an aside, Powell's contention that the Hindu Goddesses such as Saraswati are not ... 		  
  







  




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