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This remarkable collection sheds further light on a subject of unending fascination and enduring controversy. Taking as its primary focus the falsity of the Warren Commission report, the book includes critical analyses of the Zapruder film. "The accumulation of carefully researched data will impress those with an open mind." - Publishers Weekly
Customer Reviews:
Great Quality.......2007-09-27
I Always Have Great Luck at amazon.They are very prompt and prduct quality is great.
As long as we are ignorant, we are not free.......2007-02-07
James H. Fetzer exposes all the altered or destroyed evidence in the murder of JFK (the replacement of the windshield of the presidential limousine, the autopsy and the photographs of the body, the alteration of the Zapruder film), the silencing and strange death of witnesses and the still exceptional resistance of the government to open their secret files. As G. Orwell said: `Who controls the present, controls the past.'
For the author, the only hypothesis withstanding the impact of these new findings is that of a large-scale conspiracy, a coup d'Etat by Lyndon Johnson, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the intelligence community and the military industrial complex, because `neither the Mafia, pro- or contra Cubans, or the KGB could have extended their reach into Bethseda Naval Hospital to fabricate X-rays, substitute another brain of that of JFK, or subject the Zapruder film to extensive alteration in order to mislead and confuse further investigations and to impose a permanent falsification of history.'
He makes the hypothesis that Lee Harvey Oswald was all alone responsible for the death of JFK completely ridiculous.
He shows the baffling cowardice of the professional historians, who are afraid of research into one of the most important events in world history given its national and international consequences, and depicts the guild of journalists as the `most amateur of professions'.
All in all, J. Fetzer's book brushes a very bleak picture of a country run by its intelligence agencies, which accept democracy only if the outcome of `free' elections corresponds to their particular interests.
A must read for all those interested in the past, the present and the future of mankind.
Huge Disappointment .......2007-01-27
The first adult book I ever read was my father's copy of Jim Marrs "Crossfire" I lapped up everything I could on the assignation until I was 15, when other school work became more important. Deciding to start reading more again, I found this book at my local Borders. What a disappointment! This was the book I credit with making me aware that the conspiracy theories are nothing more than hogwash.
The only thing discussed on this book I would consider myself an expert on is windshields (through my job). Now when having issues with Fetzer's dealings with w/screens, I initially assumed that w/screens at that point were made from flat glass. Not so. On page 136 (bought in Australia) Fetzer states that the w/screen was made from safety glass (which I'm assuming he is referring to laminated glass) and that "Safety glass responds to an object striking its surface in the opposite way of regular glass. A nontransiting shot at safety glass will leave the outside surface smooth while the inside surface will fragment" WRONG, WRONG, WRONG. Laminate glass is two pieces of glass with a bit of vinyl in between. If the glass is broken on the inside, the damage happened on the INSIDE of the w/screen. NOT the outside. They are two completely different pieces of glass, and it is very rare circumstances where an object will penetrate both pieces of glass.
I then read the ridiculous chapter on how the Zapruder film was faked. Now having read the conspiracy theories in the early to mid 90s, everyone was championing the Zapruder film as proof positive that JFK was hit from the front. Now that physicists have proven the shot came from the rear, the Zapruder film is faked!
If you want to have an open mind, there are a number of other books that are much better than this pile of excrement. Read them and you'll be smarter for it.
Was it a conspiracy?.......2006-09-07
For students of the Kennedy assassination, Murder at Dealey Plaza offers a chilling chronology of personal movements and actual events leading up to, during, and directly after the murder of John F. Kennedy. The book packs an enormous amount of information into its 468 pages. Fetzer supports earlier premises, presented by Jim Garrison, Oliver Stone, and others, that Lee Harvey Oswald could not have kiled President John F. Kennedy.
Fetzer gives the reader times and locations of persons surrounding the assassination, building his case as he goes. Details abound throughout the book. Hobos, who were pictured in Jim Garrison's book, On The Trail of the Assassins, as riding a freight train into Dallas the morning before the assassination, arrested and released by Dallas police before the assassination took place, were identified by Fetzer, with a face and name. Fetzer also challenges Warren Commission findings on Lee Harvey Oswald as the lone gunman, presenting detailed information on Kennedy's autopsies, and disproving the "magic bullet" theory. Fetzer demonstrates through depositions and other documentation, that there were at least 6 shots fired in Dallas that day, 4 of which hit Kennedy. The author makes a convincing argument that Kennedy was hit twice from behind and twice from the front, and that he was killed with high velocity bullets-not the type of bullets used in Oswald's defective rifle. Fetzer presents evidence that could have made a case for Oswald's innocence, while describing how information was manipulated to the press at the time, for the purpose of assigning guilt for the assassination squarely on Lee Harvey Oswald.
Fetzer's book supports evidence of a plot to kill Kennedy. He notes with impecable details that warnings Kennedy might be killed in Dallas during his stay there were sent to every major city in the United States except for Dallas. Other strange scenarios the reader is told about include the 112th Military Intelligence Group at 4th Army Headquarters at Fort Sam Houston in Dallas, usually in charge of protecting the President, was told to "stand down" that day, rather than report for duty in Dallas, over the protests of the unit commander. Local sheriff's deputies and uniformed policemen were instructed to take no part in the security of the Presidential motorcade, and to stand with their backs to the crowd during the parade. Fetzer also tells the reader that Mrs. Kennedy remembered that in all their stops in Texas she was presented yellow roses, except for Dallas. In Dallas, the roses she was presented with upon arrival were red.
Was the JFK assassination a coup d'etat? The reader is left with a question.
Fetzer's style of presenting information in a minute by minute format through much of the book adds importance to facts surrounding the case. For seekers of truth on the Kennedy assassination, Fetzer's book is a wealth of information.
Attempted science.......2006-08-28
Poor, even compared to other rediculous attempts at "science". Organization is lacking, theory is stated as fact, and the book contains hundreds of exclamation points, enough of an indictment in itself. Save your money.
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Training is about improving overall organizational performance, and no individual is more accountable for a company's performance than its CEO. It follows, then, that Workplace Learning and Performance professionals (a.k.a. trainers) must learn what chief executives hope to achieve through their company's training efforts, and that they must satisfy the expectations of those executives and other key stakeholders.
What CEOs Expect From Corporate Training is based on extensive interviews with CEOs across a myriad of industries, and reflects their ideas about how effective training can help achieve corporate objectives. To help readers apply these crucial insights to their own efforts, the authors have created a conceptual map of behaviors and relationships, plus a selection of practical worksheets, checklists, and other tools.
Unlike previous work based on what trainers believe they should be doing, What CEOs Expect From Corporate Training directly identifies the training imperatives defined by CEOs and the results they demand.
Customer Reviews:
CEO's Weigh in on Corporate Training.......2006-01-26
Written for Training Professionals, this book is based on extensive interviews with CEOs across several industries and will help you understand their ideas about how effective training can help achieve corporate objectives. In the world of Training and Development, this book offers information everyone claims to want, and very few manage to get. This book is written for a general audience, and to help readers apply these crucial insights to their own efforts, the authors have created a conceptual map of behaviors and relationships, plus a selection of practical worksheets, checklists, and other tools. Unlike previous work based on what trainers believe they should be doing, What CEOs Expect from Corporate Training directly identifies the training imperatives defined by CEOs and the results they demand.
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Do you know what films have given us the following quotes?"What we have here is a failure to communicate.""Excuse me while I whip this out.""Would somebody get this walking carpet out of my way?""I don't know why they call this stuff Hamburger Helper, it does just fine by itself."And how are you at movie trivia?In The Blues Brothers why are Jake and Elwood "puttin' the band back together"? In Airplane!, which dinner was poisioned: the fish or the chicken? True or False: Diane Keaton won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Annie Hall.For the movie buff and video hound, What's that From? provides hours of entertainment. You can test your knowledge with more than 1,000 quotes and questions from more than 250 contemporary films--from Academy Award winners to cult classics. Also included are bonus questions on actors and directors, special categories on individual actors, movies, and themes (Wester, baseball, sequels), plus a section devoted exclusively to Academy Award-winning performances.It's all here in the ultimate tribute to the great movies of the seventies, eighties, and nineties from National Lampoon's Animal House to When Harry Met Sally.... So the next time you hear someone say, "It's just a flesh wound, " you won't have to ask "What's that from?"
Customer Reviews:
Disappointed.......2005-01-06
This was not at all what I expected. The format is a bit confusing at first, and the the fact that not one line listed under Mel Brooks was ever spoke by him in a movie just set me off. He wrote the lines, but that's not the point.
In addition, many of the lines are so generic/obscure as to be pointless, uninteresting and thus no fun. There is some interesting stuff, but when we played guessing games from it over the holidays, we quickly lost interest. I would not recommend this book and hope that there is something better out there.
Outstanding Fun.......2002-12-04
For many of us, the quoting of movies is second nature. We do it all the time, often without realizing it. And often times we know of movie quotes that are familiar even if we've never seen the movie. The book brings all of this to bloom in a wonderful book asking you to recognize quotes both general and specific to an actor, theme or movie. As the book progresses the quizzes become more difficult, and provide a real challenge to even a movie geek. Just the kind of book to have fun with some friends over a few beers. No lofty ambitions here, just a hope to make you think, and be entertained.
An extremely entertaining and engaging book of film trivia........1999-02-11
What a great idea! "What's That From?: The Ultimate Quiz Book of Contemporary Movie Lines" is a wonderful compilation of movie quotes that bring you back to great movie moments. The book is fun to read on one's own and even more fun when quizzing friends with trivia questions that tickle the corners of the brain. This book is wonderful for any movie buff!
How come nobody thought of this before.......well done JAI !.......1998-03-24
Very entertaining and educational for us wannabee movie buffs. It reminds me of the many times spent sitting around after work in the restaurant where I waitressed, trying to identify similar movie quotes, while playing pass the pigs, and doing shots. Wonderful book, when is the next edition.
Must read for movie fans.......1997-08-03
The must read sleeper of the year! Every movie fan of Generation X will thoroughly enjoy this unique, hilarious compilition of movie quotes. My friends and I sit around the diner and quiz each other all the time on movie quotes. Now we have a resource to settle our late night cinematic disputes. From the old standards to the most obscure funny lines, Jai has them all
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None of us really know anything until we invade the areas of our lives in which we are ignorant and discover for ourselves the truth of our existance.
A 186 page "textbook", this book is a refreshing alternative to the typical, boring,"black - and - white style" textbooks written about Root Cause Failure Anlysis. Full of stories, clip art, humor and passion, this book is a practical cookbook, a moral lesson and a philosophical journey all-in one. In addition to explaining HOW to arrive at "root cause", the author also explains, through numerous examples, WHY he has developed the methods he uses. This most popular of Failsafe's publications is the basis for its four day course entitled "The Root Cause Experience."
Customer Reviews:
Curiosity will gain you knowledge.......2000-10-19
With enough innate curiosity about the world we live in, this is the only book an individual needs to be able to perform a root cause failure analysis. Chocked full of personal life experience anecdotes, the author eloquently guides us to how he arrives at the steps necessary to learn from things that go wrong. Leave your calculator in its case; this book reads like a novel and is not dry scientific stuff, but you will find yourself referring to it countless times as you proceed with your own failure analysis. On a deeper, subtler level, this is also the story about a man using his own "tools" to discover more about himself and the world around him.
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Whether you want to learn everything about selling real estate or simply give your present sales techniques a personal tune up, the time-proven methods in the book make it easy for you. 'Secrets of Selling from the Masters' is presented in seventeen educational, motivational and easily mastered lessons. You are taken under the wing of a mentor who has a natural gift for selling that comes through on every page. Terry Weaver learned his selling techniques the hard way, but you can sidestep the hard knocks by learning and applying his techniques. You'll get lots of help in evaluating clients and their motivations, in how to use the art of questioning and listening in order to diminish the client's resistance to making a decision, and how to overcome objections. If you are in sales, this book will strengthen your skills. If you are just considering making real estate sales your career, the master sales trainer will get you started right.
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Faith Strong takes you on a personal Journey helping you to reach your full potiential as creative passionate and Committed human beings. she inspires us to confront our "Distractions"
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The unique ability of rock and roll to inspire fanatical support from its customers is undeniable; the loyalty showered upon the Rolling Stones, Elton John, Aerosmith, and others who create it, unmatched; and the lessons for corporate America, endless. In the past, business leaders have looked to the successes of other firms to guide their own strategies for increasing market share and capturing more consumer attention, spending, and loyalty. However, in today’s hyper-competitive marketplace, managers are looking for ways to shake, rattle, and roll corporate America’s traditional marketing and branding mindset. In Brands That Rock, Roger Blackwell and Tina Stephan, co-authors of best-selling Customers Rule! and From Mind To Market, take readers behind the music to uncover how businesses can create brands that become adopted by culture and capture a long-term position in the marketplace. Brands That Rock takes a unique, behind-the-music look at how businesses can increase brand awareness, customer loyalty, and profits by implementing some of the same strategies that legendary bands have used to transform customers into fan and create deep, emotional connections with them. Aerosmith and Madonna offer insight into how to evolve a brand to remain relevant in the marketplace without alienating current fans, while the Rolling Stones and KISS prove that successful execution at all levels of the brand experience are key to capturing long-term loyalty. Stephan and Blackwell also examine how businesses, from Victoria’s Secret and Wal-Mart to Cadillac and Kraft, have implemented ‘rock and roll strategies’ to become adopted by culture and secure fans in their own right. Filled with fun anecdotes and interviews from industry insiders, Brands That Rock will relate to managers who grew up with classic rock, showing them how build iconic brands, and delight fans decade after decade.
Roger D. Blackwell (Columbus, OH) is President of Roger Blackwell Associates, a consulting firm that works with Fortune 500 companies in the areas of consumer trends, strategy, e-commerce, and global business. A highly sought-after speaker, he is also Professor of Marketing at the Fisher College of Business at The Ohio State University. Tina Stephan (Columbus, OH and New York, NY) is Vice President of Roger Blackwell Associates. Together, they have collaborated on eight books, including Customers Rule! and From Mind to Market, and numerous articles and research projects.
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The unique ability of rock and roll to inspire fanatical support from its customers is undeniable; the loyalty showered upon the Rolling Stones, Elton John, Aerosmith, and others who create it, unmatched; and the lessons for corporate America, endless. In the past, business leaders have looked to the successes of other firms to guide their own strategies for increasing market share and capturing more consumer attention, spending, and loyalty. However, in today’s hyper-competitive marketplace, managers are looking for ways to shake, rattle, and roll corporate America’s traditional marketing and branding mindset. In Brands That Rock, Roger Blackwell and Tina Stephan, co-authors of best-selling Customers Rule! and From Mind To Market, take readers behind the music to uncover how businesses can create brands that become adopted by culture and capture a long-term position in the marketplace. Brands That Rock takes a unique, behind-the-music look at how businesses can increase brand awareness, customer loyalty, and profits by implementing some of the same strategies that legendary bands have used to transform customers into fan and create deep, emotional connections with them. Aerosmith and Madonna offer insight into how to evolve a brand to remain relevant in the marketplace without alienating current fans, while the Rolling Stones and KISS prove that successful execution at all levels of the brand experience are key to capturing long-term loyalty. Stephan and Blackwell also examine how businesses, from Victoria’s Secret and Wal-Mart to Cadillac and Kraft, have implemented ‘rock and roll strategies’ to become adopted by culture and secure fans in their own right. Filled with fun anecdotes and interviews from industry insiders, Brands That Rock will relate to managers who grew up with classic rock, showing them how build iconic brands, and delight fans decade after decade.
Roger D. Bl
Customer Reviews:
Refreshing idea and enjoyable read!.......2004-08-27
A colleague of mine recommended this book to me and I found it to be an enjoyable and exciting read. The authors should be applauded for using new material (i.e. Rock Bands) to explain fundamental marketing and branding strategies. The book flows extremely well and I found myself finishing the entire book in two sittings. This book will appeal to a variety of audiences from the rock n roll loving CEO to college marketing majors.
Engaging, entertaining, approach to marketing strategy.......2004-05-19
Another reviewer had several harsh things to say about this book, which probably stems from the book's front cover positioning this as a text for "business leaders". While business leaders might indeed gain some useful insights from the authors, this book isn't explicitly for them. It's for every marketer with an FM radio.
The authors make liberal use of pop culture references throughout the book, providing touchpoints that readers will instantly relate to. For example, I've read a number of books that analyze the strategies that built Wal Mart into the giant it is today, but none have been as interesting as this book's treatment of the topic. Here's a bit from Chapter 4 of the book:
"Like KISS, which had decided that starting out as a whale in a pond was better than starting out as a minnow in an ocean, Wal-Mart chose to build its brand and fan base in rural America, segment by segment, foregoing mass markets where it had relatively few differential advantages. By staying away from cities and suburbs, Wal-Mart avoided head-to-head competition with giants Sears and Montgomery Ward.... winning fans town by town for several decades, gradually amassing scale."
The authors have packed the book with this sort of imagery, making the marketing concepts covered a snap to grasp. To put it simply, this book rocks!
Forced analogies, wasted time........2004-02-09
The book reads as if its contents were taken from the professor's course notes for Branding 101, complete with rock n roll analogies repeatedly and gratuitously forced into each lecture to bump up the end-of-semester student ratings.
As you browse through the text before buying, consider two curiousities and one serious issue I have with this book:
(a) The back jacket offers a spectrum of endorsements beginning with Sean "P. Diddy" Combs--surely a universal touchstone for marketing insight. Would it be too much to ask for proof that Philip Kotler read the entire manuscript before offering his "praise"?
(b) Pages 2, 16 and 61 show disagreement as to whether Elton John achieved consecutive Top 10 or Top 40 hits in each of the past 30 years.
(c) Ultimately, the book's relevance to your world depends on the degree to which your brand enjoys the inherent connection that music makes with the human condition (read: needs and wants). Think about it: Marketing is the practice of fulfilling needs and wants in an exchange of value. Listeners need or want music to touch them--to make an emotional connection. Therefore, an artist who can sustain the ability to meet these basic needs and wants, which over time naturally means "staying relevant," will have a long career. You will find Sergio Zyman's recent effort to be a far better introduction to meeting needs/wants and staying relevant.
The antics of KISS, Madonna and most of the other primary examples cited in this text are coincidental side shows that speak more to the art of reinventing the brand once its become irrelvant. A far more meaningful effort would have examined the artists who have sustained deep relevance WITHOUT having to reinvent themselves through shock culture (e.g., Springsteen, Clapton, CSN, Stevie Wonder and U2--just to name a few).
In closing, and with apologies to Kid Rock:
"I been sittin here just wastin time.
Drinking, smoking, thinking, trying to free my mind."
Customer Reviews:
I rediscovered the 20th century with this book!.......2002-05-10
I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book because it reflected political, economic and technological changes / revolutions that have occurred in the past century. At the end of the day I found myself consumed by the book and wanting to read beyond what my eyes would allow me to do (late night reading!)
The book, at 352 pages, is deceptively small since each page is not a 6.72 x 5.58 in dimension. However, I spent a good 12-14 hours reading the book to completion as the book doesn't present pictures and tables as "filler."
If you want to learn about the most recent century this is a good book for you to read. If you want to read some good history books predating the 20th century I highly recommend 2 of Isaac Asimov's books, Chronology of the World and Chronology of Science and Discovery.
Some of the events mentioned in this book, just for reference are:
* Hitler and Germany
* Mao and his revolutions in China
* Technological innovations such as air conditioning which have caused huge changes to population movements and building construction.
* The discovery of penicillin.
* The invention of plastic.
* McNamara & The Diner's club - the first credit card.
* Cuban Missile Crisis
* Martin Luther King
* Woodstock
Anyways, I enjoyed the book but nothing presented changed my paradigm or the way I look at the world so I give it 4 stars out of 5. The book was truly interesting for those who simply want to get a better grasp of what an amazing century it truly was. Think about this...The automobile, plane and highway system weren't around before this century. Just think about the implications that those 3 items have had on your life and business as we know it, on a country and global basis.
An Australian perspective!.......1999-01-16
What do Leo Hendrik Baekeland, Frank X McNamara and George Kennan have in common? Along with Hitler, Stalin and Mao they have been some of the most influential people of the twentieth century. Leo, Frank and George win mentions in this book, subtitled `200 Events That Shaped the World'. Another thing they have in common is their nationality. The twentieth century has been the American age, and it's hardly surprising that of the two hundred events chosen for this book two-thirds either happened in the United States or were influenced by Americans. Baekeland gets in because he invented modern plastic. An organic chemist who was trying to clean the gunk off his chemical equipment in 1909, he called his new material Bakelite, but the name didn't stick. McNamara introduced the credit card in 1950 when he established the Diner's Club - so called because he persuaded New York restaurants to participate in the scheme. Kennan was a diplomat who published an influential essay in 1947, proposing to `contain' Communism - the term was to become a description of US foreign policy for the next forty years. Few would argue these three events should rank high in a list of important events of the past hundred years. But there are other incidents that make it into this book, and this is what makes it an engaging and fun publication - arguing why the Battle of Stalingrad should have been included, for example, at the expense of `400,000 Gather for the Woodstock Festival in Upstate New York' in 1969. Even though only 1500 people died, the authors include the sinking of the Titanic in 1912. They recognise the profound effect it had - and continues to hold - on the world: "...many saw an immense cautionary tale in the loss of this proud ship...as if the impersonal forces of nature had conspired to deflate the technological arrogance of modern civilisation, declaring that the struggle between humankind and the elements had hardly been resolved..." More contentious is including the US Congress enacting the G.I. Bill in 1944. The authors argue it was vital in kicking off a postwar boom in housing, birthrate and prosperity in America, thus helping the country to become the biggest economy in the world. And what about Louis Armstrong recording `West End Blues' in 1928? It's asserted that jazz is this century's most significant form of popular musical expression, and America's foremost cultural gift to the world. As this book confirms, it has been America's century. But is the USA in decline? One can't help wondering after inspecting the contents of this book by decade. Since 1980 eight American events are listed, and none of them are heartening: the appearance of crack cocaine, an American pesticide plant in India causes widespread death, a huge bomb explodes in Oklahoma City. Even Desert Storm has turned out to be a dubious victory. Generally the content of the chapters is well-written and informative, and in places perceptive: discussing McNamara's credit card, the authors write: "...credit cards are the plastic keys to a vast economic system - but if the key admits the bearer into the system, it also admits the system into the cardholder's life...with each swipe of the plastic, the cardholder simultaneously exercises and relinquishes a certain amount of freedom." Australia receives a grand total of one mention in this book, and it's only by defualt: Raymond Dart, the anthropologist who discovered the fossil remains of Australopithecus, was originally born in Australia. We have had a miniscule amount of influence in shaping this century - which, when you consider concentration camps, terrorism and pollution of the earth, is no bad thing.
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- My Life So Far
- Our Dumb Century: The Onion Presents 100 Years of Headlines from America's Finest News Source
- Our Hearts Fell to the Ground: Plains Indian Views of How the West Was Lost (The Bedford Series in History and Culture)
- Passing Through Paradise
- Phillips' Book of Great Thoughts & Funny Sayings: A Stupendous Collection of Quotes, Quips, Epigrams, Witticisms, and Humorous Comments. For Personal Enjoyment and Ready Reference.
- Pokemon Fire Red & Leaf Green (Prima Official Game Guide)
- Private Parts
- Programming C#: Building .NET Applications with C#
- Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmers' Guide, Second Edition
- Same Kind of Different as Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together
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The Great Zapruder Film Hoax: Deceit and Deception in the Death of JFK
Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy
Assassination Science : Experts Speak Out on the Death of JFK
JFK: Assassination Files
JFK: The Case for Conspiracy
