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The Hijacking of Jesus: How the Religious Right Distorts Christianity and Promotes Prejudice and Hate 6 reviews
Dan Wakefield
Nation Books, 2006
Every American should read this book!
?Dan Wakefield has written an important and eye-opening book about the Religious Right in
America. Liberal and proud of it, Wakefield has been concerned with social justice since the
fifties when, as a young reporter for The Nation, he published his ground-breaking study of
Spanish Harlem, Island in the City. Some time in the eighties this hard-drinking non-believer
experienced a spiritual ...
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Courage after the crash: Flight 93: aftermath6 reviews
Glenn J Kashurba
SAJ Pub, 2002
A book to keep forever
I loved this book! It's the first 9/11 book I've seen that let's the people involved with the aftermath tell the story rather than the author. If you like Studs Terkel, you'll love this book, and if you don't know him you'll like it anyway. The oral chronicle combined with the pictures will produce a variety of emotions. This is the kind of book you'll want to keep, buy for your kids and save ...
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Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear And The Selling Of American Empire5 reviews
Interlink, 2004
Chilling Look at the NeoCon Agenda
You might consider buying this one and giving it to everyone you can think of. It's preaching to the choir of course: most of us who see it understand that the NeoCon group's approach to foreign policy is horrifyingly similar to that of Gary Cooper in HIGH NOON (the quintessential go-it-alone guy.) It's amazing to watch this film and realize how long the propaganda has been coming at us, ...
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Kahawa: 26 reviews
Donald E. Westlake
Viking Adult, 1982
Much Ado About....coffee. But good read!
Overall, KAHAWA, is an uneven yet action-packed adventure with something for everyone: sex, adventure, a really evil villain, manly heroes and beautiful courageous heroines of all colors. Our mercenary heroes are striking a blow against tyranny, but they aren't looking for the Ark, or the Grail or King Solomon's Mines. They're stealing coffee. But that's what's kinda cool about it. The ...
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D.B. Cooper: Dead or Alive?4 reviews
Richard T. Tosaw
Tosaw Pub Co, 1984
D.B. Cooper Dead or Alive
This is one of the best books I have ever read on investigations into unsolved mysteries, the FBI should never of let Mr. Tosaw slip out of their organization. It is a book that you have to read cover to cover at one sitting. Gerald Vaughan-Irving
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Long Time Gone : A Black Panther's True-Life Story of His Hijacking and Twenty-Five Years In Cuba4 reviews
William Lee Brent
iUniverse, 2000
IN MEMORIAL TO THIS GREAT AND LIBERATED AMERICAN NOW BUY HIS BOOK
This great American has just now passed. Please do service to his memory by studying his memoirs. Learn to be free. Learn the way of the Samarai.
Remember the revolution which was to be and which inevitably shall come, thanks to Bush's increased inequities and injustices. REmember those elderly and infirm drowned in New Orleans, and those who go without jobs, housing, health and education, ...
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Steeplejacking: How the Christian Right is Hijacking Mainstream Religion5 reviews
Sheldon Culver, John Dorhauer
Ig Publishing, 2007
Fascinating...and chilling
In Steeplejacking Culver and Dorhauser discuss the development of the Institute on Religion and Democracy from the early 1980s when it accused pastors of supporting communism, through the 90s when it accused them of supporting "radical feminism" and abortion, to the present day when its wedge issue is homosexuality (so why haven't they been targeting Ted Haggard?)
They describe ...
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Terrorism and the Maritime Transportation System5 reviews
Anthony M. Davis
WingSpan Press, 2008
Excellent Education We Need to Read to Protect Ourselves
"Terrorism and the Maritime Transportation System Are We on a Collision Course?" by Anthony M. Davis USCG, Ret. is an interesting book on the challenges our law enforcement and other agencies have to keep the USA safe.
The book describes the agonizing steps the officers have to go through to determine if the incident in question is a crime or a terrorist act.
The book will educate you on ...
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Your Father's Voice: Letters for Emmy About Life with Jeremy--and Without Him After 9/1116 reviews
Lyz Glick, Dan Zegart
St. Martin's Griffin, 2005
Very Heartwrenching and Inspiring
I was very anxious to read this book since I read an article on a Reader's Digest magazine about a year ago and so I requested my local library to buy it. I read it in a week, I am pretty sure I could've read it in two days if it wasn't because I have a lot of homework. All I can say is that I loved "Your Father's Voice". It is very well-written and moving.
Lyz Glick carefully tells the story ...
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Stop Skyjackers: 60 Steps That Can Save Your Life5 reviews
Robert Lawrence Holt
California Financial Publications, 2002
Should be mandatory reading for all air travelers
Stop Sky Jackers: 60 Steps That Can Save Your Life is a solid, eminently practical, no-nonsense traveler's guide and instruction book specifically designed for airplane passengers whether they are on local, regional, national, or international flights. Written by a former Captain of the U.S. Marine Corps Robert Lawrence Holt, Stop Sky Jackers informs passengers about suspicious behaviors to watch ...
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Con Air: A Novel2 reviews
Richard Woodley, Scott Rosenberg
Hyperion, 1997
Amazing story
What would you do if you are going to be free after seven years of prison, and you are involved at a jail outbreak? The story is amazing and will keep you reading all the time that you maybe will end this book the same day you start it, maybe the chapter 1 is a little bit boring, but that is all, the rest of the book is great. Here I have a question, how could you believe that the justice say ...
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Blood Rules2 reviews
John Trenhaile
Harpercollins, 1992
gripping
I found blood rules absolutely gripping. The description of events on the hijacked plane give you a fair idea, what it would be like to be one of the passangers on board
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Miles to Go Before I Sleep: A Survivor's Story of Life After a Terrorist Hijacking3 reviews
Jackie Nink Pflug, Peter Kizilos
Hazelden, 2002
Inspirational -- You will appreciate life more after reading
I saw Jackie Pflug speak at a luncheon and I knew I had to buy her book. Her speech was the most inspirational I have ever heard and I have been a "junkie" of inspirational speeches. The book did not disappoint. There is something here for everyone -- a riveting adventure story as she gives a moment by moment account of the hijacking. There is inspiration in her telling of her recovery ...
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One American Must Die: A Hostage's Personal Account of the Hijacking of Flight 8472 reviews
Kurt Carlson
Smithmark Pub, 1986
TWA Hijack Book Excellent!
The story of the 1985 TWA incident has always been very interesting to me, for almost 5 years now. This is one of the best sources of what happened on the plane. The way the story is told is very suspenseful and very engrossing, and is presented in such a way that once you open the book, you won't be able to close it until you're finished, like in my case. You should definitely grab this ...
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Let's Roll! Ordinary People, Extraordinary Courage2 reviews
Lisa Beamer
Wheeler Publishing, 2003
FAITH AND COURAGE IN FLIGHT
THIS IS THE AMAZING BUT TRUE STORY OF THE PASSENGERS OF FLIGHT 93 ESPICALLY THE LIFE OF TODD BEAMER. I THOUGHT THIS WAS GOING TO BE A SAD STORY BUT WHEAN I READ LISA BEAMERS TRUE ACCOUNT OF WHAT HER HUSBAND AND THE OTHER PASSENGERS DID AND HOW THEY GAVE THERE OWN LIFES SO THE TERRORISTS COULD NOT USE FLIGHT 93 TO DESTROY IMPORTANT GOVERMANT BUIDINGS SUCH AS THE WHITE HOUSE IT SHOWED ME WHAT TRUE ...
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Hijacking Environmentalism: Corporate Responses to Sustainable Development2 reviews
Richard Welford
Earthscan Publications Ltd., 1997
Seeks an ecological awakening amongst business leaders
This book exposes the lack of commitment from industry to the challenge of sustainable development. Industry has hijacked the environmental debate by taking it out of its traditional discourse, and placing it in another frame of reference. It seeks an ecological and spiritual awakening amongst business leaders and concludes with a call for more critical research on business activities, ...
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Marine Security Management & Piracy Countermeasures2 reviews
David N. Kellerman
Crossed Arrows Publications, 1998
Personal recommendation
Very informative with lots of "inside" info. The appendix is packed with extra information and I found it nearly as useful as the book itself. Nice to see a book on this subject written without resorting to dramatics. The author's use of case histories where he was actually involved makes for interesting reading and drives the point home. I find that I keep gleaning more information from the book ...
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D.B. Cooper: What Really Happened2 reviews
Max Gunther
McGraw-Hill/Contemporary, 1985
great
i had been interested in the amazing story of d.b. cooper before i read this, but this made me go crazy for d.b. cooper. After i read it i wanted to go straight to oregon and search for evidence. I would read it again and again. You will love it if mystery or crime interests you.
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Pentagate4 reviews
Thierry Meyssan
USA Books, 2002
What's Wrong With This Picture?
Pentagate is a very important book about the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon because it points out the problems with the evidence that U.S. journalists won't even touch. Meyssan has built much of his case on the problems in the official version of what happened at the Pentagon. His first chapter, "One Piece of Debris Too Many", points out that the large piece of debris that appeared to be from an ...
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Quiet Courage: The definitive account of Flight 93 and its aftermath3 reviews
M.D. Glenn J. Kashurba
SAJ Publishing, 2006
Great Companion for Courage After the Crash but individually, is outstanding!
The author has given the reader an accurate collection of facts regarding Flight 93 and everything that has transpired in Somerset County since that fateful day. This book encompasses the 9/11 plot, the investigation, the recovery, and continues through to include information on the memorial efforts.
Quiet Courage is a well organized, important resource for anyone who wants to know the truth ...
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