false 196623 0 0 626156 0425164829 9780425164822 12 <![CDATA[The Magician's Tale]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176434242m/626156.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176434242s/626156.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/626156.The_Magician_s_Tale 3.53 57
Kay Farrow, a professional photographer who was working on a photo book about the hustlers in the Gulch, is the only person who seems to care about the grisly murder, and she proceeds to investigate further, hoping to get to the bottom of this strange crime. Kay, an achromat suffering from an extreme color blindness, possesses a unique vision that informs her world as well as sharpens her skills as a talented photographer.

During Kay's quest for justice, the search takes her back in time to an unsolved serial murder case. This case has many similarities to Tim Lovesey's murder, but the police proceedings are what strike closest to home with Kay. Her father was one of the officers on the case and due to police mistakes the case was never solved, resulting in Kay's father getting ousted from the police force. Kay's further investigation of the murder takes her to Tim Lovesey's "uncle," who tells her the interesting tale of Tim's magician past. Kay learns more about Tim's mysterious history and discovers how he was teamed with his twin sister inamagic act that lasted for most of their childhood.

Risking her life and everything she holds sacred, Kay must sort through the riddles of the past and present before she can uncover the truth in Tim's death. Along her search she faces potential mental and bodily harm as her colorless vision shows her shades of lust, greed, jealousy, and desire.]]> 196623 3.61 123 27 1997 626146 0425170357 9780425170359 4 <![CDATA[Trick of Light]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176434068m/626146.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176434068s/626146.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/626146.Trick_of_Light 3.60 30 The Magician's Tale--was so good that it would have seemed unrealistic to expect him to equal it. But Trick of Light comes close enough to earn high praise and a gasp of admiration. There are more luminous views of San Francisco seen in Kay's own heightened black and white, this time largely waterfront shots of illegal Chinese immigrants scrambling ashore or huddling in shabby apartments. There's the same aura of erotic fascination, in this case with the engravings on rare guns. And there's the instantly engaging character of Kay herself, who never exhibits self-pity for the affliction that keeps her indoors by day.

It's Sasha, Kay's Indian doctor-lover, who tells her about physicist David Bohm and his theory of implicate order, "a hidden order enfolded in the visible surface that we know." Kay uses the theory to investigate the murder of her beloved mentor, photographer Maddy Yamada, who left behind a series of obscure pictures totally unlike her trademark journalism. Sasha also tells Kay about synesthesia (the crossover of senses, which allows her to hear music as color): it becomes another valuable clue to Maddy's secret past.

All of this helps make up for a few less-than-fatal faults: too much reliance on Kay's ex-cop father and his handy connections to people with all sorts of dangerous talents, too many moments of leering sexual depravation, a predictable sameness among the bad guys in both books. In the end, Kay and her creator, Hunt, leave us with a strong story and a series of powerful black-and-white images deeply imprinted on our memory. --Dick Adler

]]> 196623 3.61 123 27 1998 626145 140009741X 9781400097418 1 <![CDATA[They Just Don't Get It: How Washington Is Still Compromising Your Safety--and What You Can Do About It]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176434067m/626145.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176434067s/626145.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/626145.They_Just_Don_t_Get_It_How_Washington_Is_Still_Compromising_Your_Safety_and_What_You_Can_Do_About_It 4.00 2
Fox News military analyst Colonel David Hunt has dedicated his career to fighting terrorism. A twenty-nine-year U.S. Army veteran, he has helped take out an active terrorist camp, trained the FBI and Special Forces in counterterrorism tactics, and served as security adviser to six different Olympic Games.

And Colonel Hunt is angry. Why? Because even after the terrorist attacks on our country and on Americans around the world, the people charged with protecting us—the politicians and the bureaucrats in military and intelligence—still aren’t getting the job done.

They Just Don’t Get It provides a much-needed wake-up call to all Americans. As politicians posture and pundits bicker, we’re losing sight of the fundamental problem: We’re still not equipped to win the War on Terror. In fact, the terrorist threat is far worse than we feared, as made frighteningly clear by the fifty pages of documents published here for the first time—including a shocking manual taken from the terrorists themselves.

But instead of just complaining, Colonel Hunt tells us exactly what we must do—without regard to political game-playing—to emerge victorious in the challenge that history has given us. These are changes we can make at every level—as individual citizens, as a government, and as a military power. As he shows in this book, while the government and our military lead the fight to protect us, ordinary citizens can and must contribute.

They Just Don’t Get It reveals:

• What you can do to keep your family safe

• How many of the government’s recent “reforms” are mere window dressing or, worse, counterproductive

• How we can fight this war and still safeguard our civil liberties and the American way of life

• How to fix the intelligence disaster (and yes, the politicians in D.C. still haven’t fixed it)

• How we got into this mess in the first place: it’s mostly because our government let the problem fester for three decades

Colonel Hunt is no cautious bureaucrat or finger-pointer looking for political gain. He is a straight shooter with deep insight into what’s happening in the War on Terror—on the ground and in the government. They Just Don’t Get It lays out in clear and compelling terms the steps we must take—all of us—to win the War on Terror and ensure our survival as a free, proud, and strong nation.

From They Just Don’t Get It

We’re fighting a war for our very survival, so we’d better figure out how to win. That’s why I’m writing this book—to show us how we can win, how we can protect ourselves. As a Fox News military analyst, I’m paid to offer insight into how our armed forces are conducting the fight against our enemies. But this book shows that to win the War on Terror we need to concern ourselves with more than just military tactics.

For one thing, we need to look at what our political leaders are doing. The sad truth is that they still don’t get it.

Then there’s intelligence. You’ve heard about our intelligence failures, but I doubt you know how bad it really is—even after the “reforms.” I’m going to tell you.

And another critical dimension to this story usually gets overlooked—what you can do. The fact is, you can do a lot. Hell, you must do a lot.


A selection of American Compass]]> 196623 3.61 123 27 2005 6641653 1 <![CDATA[Patent Searching: Tools & Techniques]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6641653-patent-searching 4.00 1 Patent Searching: Tools and Techniques to be just the guide you have been waiting for, with a range of approaches to patent searching that will be useful to you regardless of your technical expertise or role in the intellectual property community.]]> 196623 3.61 123 27 1545675 4.00 1 1 533253 3.50 2 1 2007 3744023 0950802670 9780950802671 0 <![CDATA[Footprints in Cypress: An Illustrated History]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3744023.Footprints_in_Cypress_An_Illustrated_History 4.00 1 196623 3.61 123 27 1990 6395993 0340688939 9780340688939 0 <![CDATA[Trick Shot]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6395993-trick-shot 3.00 1 The Magician's Tale someone has killed one of her friends and they are not going to get away with it. Her mentor Maddy is killed by a hit-and-run motorcyclist in the Mission District of San Francisco. Maddy had retired from war photography after years in the front line, and it is unclear what she was doing. Rapidly the point becomes not who killed her--Kay sorts that out with remarkable execution--but why?

Where the first book took us on a tour of San Francisco's hustlers and pimps, this takes us to rich men with time on their hands and a gun club about which there are distinctly unsavoury rumours. Hunt's command of gun culture, of Wild West shows, of Chinese gangland and of photography and martial arts is impressive--we believe in his heroine partly because of the authority with which he describes the worlds she kicks around like anthills. And the raw emotion with which he infuses her makes us care. kdnai322 --Roz Kaveney

]]> 196623 3.61 123 27 1999 1343336 0811734323 9780811734325 1 <![CDATA[Native Indian Cookbook: Wild Game, Fish, and Wild Edibles]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182877010m/1343336.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182877010s/1343336.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1343336.Native_Indian_Cookbook_Wild_Game_Fish_and_Wild_Edibles 1.00 1 196623 3.61 123 27 2007 6863761 0951723405 9780951723401 0 <![CDATA[Historic Gardens in Cornwall: An Annotated List]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6863761-historic-gardens-in-cornwall 0.0 0 196623 3.61 123 27 2854834 0.0 0 0 1991 6745124 0548157499 9780548157497 0 <![CDATA[Essays On Religious Subjects: Including The Ordinances, Deity Of Our Lord And Savior Jesus Christ, Resurrection Of The Dead, Etc.]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6745124-essays-on-religious-subjects 0.0 0 196623 3.61 123 27 2007 6461245 1558496920 9781558496927 0 <![CDATA[Vietnam's Southern Revolution: From Peasant Insurrection to Total War, 1959-1968]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6461245-vietnam-s-southern-revolution 0.0 0 of the people. On the other side, among those who led and sympathized with the insurgents, the term people s war gained a wide currency. Yet while much has been written about those who professed to speak for the Vietnamese population, we know surprisingly little about the everyday life of the peasants who made up the bulk of the country s inhabitants. This book illuminates that subject. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including interviews conducted by the Rand Corporation with informants from My Tho Province in the Mekong Delta, David Hunt brings to light the daily experience of villagers in the midst of war and revolu-tion.
The peasants of southern Vietnam were neither onlookers nor mere victims as fighting raged throughout their country. From the concerted uprising in 1959 1960 to the Tet Offensive of 1968, the revolutionary movement they created was in fact the driving force within the war. Known as the Viet Cong to their adversaries, the rebels called themselves the Liberation Front. They demanded an end to landlordism and an egalitarian distribution of the means of subsistence as well as a democratization of relations between town and countryside, parents and children, men and women. They hoped the Vietnamese people would achieve a fuller sense of their place in the world and of the power they possessed to fashion their own destinies, without reliance on supernatural forces.
In the first half of the book, Hunt analyzes this cultural revolution. As fighting spread and became more destructive, especially after the U.S. escalation in 1965, villagers were driven from their homes, the rural infrastructure collapsed, and customary no-tions of space and time lost purchase on an increasingly chaotic world. In the second half of the book, Hunt shows how peas-ants, who earlier had aspired to a kind of revolutionary modernism, now found themselves struggling to survive and to cope with the American intruders who poured into My Tho, and how they managed to regroup and spearhead the Tet Offensive that irrevo-cably altered the course of the war.]]> 196623 3.61 123 27 2009