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Good, but not very good.
As another reviewer already said it is out of date. Now even more, as there was another coup and another non-democratic government since. Books about african countries after 6 years are of little use. However what shocks me more is calling Mauritania the Middle East. Maybe some obscure clasifications does clasify it like that, but the normal meaning of "Middle East" does not. So it looks like a mistake on the cover. Not the best advertisment.
But... this book is really one of the very few about Mauritania. If get the current situation from the Internet and are Interested in a more detailed history up to the early 2000s, this book will give it to you. With few alternatives and a low price, it's quite a good buy.

Be careful
This book is sorely out of date!
The chapter on Politics, Religion and the Economy begins by saying "The government may call itself a democracy....." which will throw off the uninformed reader. In 2007, Mauritania successfully transitioned to a fully operational democracy (so certified by the international community) headed by its president Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallahi.
Many very positive changes are occurring in the country - which are not reflected in this dated version.Though copywrite in 2004, it appears to have been written in 1974.If you are looking for current information on Mauritania - this is not the book you want.
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Publisher: Toronto, Methodist Bk. and Pub. HousePublication date: 1881Subjects: Morrow, James Bain, 1831-1880Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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Book was exactly like description!James Hilton is one of my all time favorite authors.Will purchase from this seller again.Great customer service! ... Read more

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God's body has self-destructed and His skull is now in orbit directly above Times Square, prompting a plague of "death awareness" across the Western hemisphere. The United States begins to resemble fourteenth-century Europe during the Black Death-with some unique twenty-first-century twists-a bloody battle on a New Jersey golf course between Jews and anti-Semites; a modern theater troupe's stirring dramatization of the Gilgamesh epic; a post-death debate between Martin Luther and Erasmus; and the most chilling capitalist villain ever, Dr. Adrian Lucido, founder of a new pagan church and inventor of a cure worse than any disease. Two people fight to preserve life and sanity, Nora Burkhart, a schoolteacher who will stop at nothing to save her only son, and Gerard Korty, a brilliant sculptor struggling to create a masterwork that will heal the metaphysical wounds caused by God's abdication. The Eternal Footman brilliantly completes James Morrow's satiric trilogy begun with the World Fantasy Award-winning Towing Jehovah and continued in Blameless in Abaddon. Amazon.com Review
"Homo sapiens is an amazing animal.... Get God and Aristotle off its back, and miracles start becoming the norm," theorizes a hapless human in James Morrow's The Eternal Footman. Capping off the hilarious trilogy that began with Towing Jehovah and Blameless in Abaddon, Footman tells the story of what happens after God is undeniably dead. If His giant, deteriorating corpse in the first two novels wasn't enough, now His holy skull stares down from orbit like a melancholy moon, offering daily proof to the Western world that there's nobody left to pray to.

Cirrus clouds rimmed God's skull. He appeared to be wearing a white toupee. At least there weren't any ads today. Why the Vatican permitted the multinationals to aim their lasers at His brow was a mystery she couldn't fathom. Contemplating the Cranium Dei was depressing enough. You shouldn't have to read COKE IS IT in the bargain.

Depressing? That's not the half of it, as Judeo-Christians, sure at last that nothing but blackness awaits beyond death, become "Nietzsche-positive" and are stalked by the leering embodiments of personal apocalypse. Nora Burkhart's son Kevin is the first of millions to succumb to the awful symptoms of abulia, the fatal result of death-awareness. Western civilization crumbles while Nora struggles to take her comatose son to a legendary clinic in Mexico, where a strange, powerful man is rumored to have a cure. Meanwhile, a spiritual sculptor finds inspiration in a new pantheon after his masterpiece is mangled by the Vatican--but the new gods may require the ultimate sacrifice.

This is James Morrow, after all, and despair is always accompanied by enlightenment in his satirical morality tales. Taking cues from Dante, the legend of Gilgamesh, and an imagined debate between Erasmus and Martin Luther, Morrow finds redemption for humanity in the simplest acts of decency. Giant stone brains, God's evil intestines, and the still-guilty captain of the oil-spilling tanker Valparaiso make memorable appearances in The Eternal Footman, a worthy finish to Morrow's trilogy, and a fair but passionate defense of "the West's greatest gift to the world, the miraculous faculty of rational doubt." --Therese Littleton ... Read more

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Bizarre and Intriguing
This tale is a strange mixture of existential philosophy, apocalyptic fantasy, and a search for meaning after the 'death of God.'

Morrow's previous two books in this trilogy (Towing Jehovah and Blameless in Abaddon) set the stage for the bizarre plot of this concluding novel.But the reader need not have read these prior two books to appreciate the content and plot of The Eternal Footman.Morrow does a nice job of rehashing the necessary details from the earlier stories.

At the center of this book's plot lies the notion of a terrible plague coming to decimate civilization after the dead body of God has been found and publicized.This is a hilarious and ridiculous notion but as metaphor serves as a powerful reminder of our present stage of social and philosophical development.

The literary precursor to The Eternal Footman is Nietzsche's idea of the death of God.Morrow has set it as his aim to expand and explore this philosophic notion.In The Gay Science, Nietzsche wrote: "The madman jumped into their midst and pierced them with his eyes."Whither is God?" he cried; "I will tell you.We have killed him-you and I.All of us are his murderers.But how did we do this?How could we drink up the sea?Who gave us the sponge to wipe away the entire horizon?What were we doing when we unchained this earth from its sun?Whither is it moving now?Whither are we moving? ..."Nietzsche was quite concerned that Western culture having come to a place of religious skepticism, now faced a formidable challenge which may well be our doom: the innovation of a new value system without the foundation of God and religious ethics.Nietzsche's arch-nemesis was nihilism.He feared that Western culture would not adapt quickly enough and might fall into a state of pathological nihilism, the inability to form values and hence, the inability to continue a life of suffering without meaning.

Morrow's novel, because it addresses Nietzsche's concerns and provides some pointers towards their solutions, stands out as a profound literary testament in the grand tradition of Dostoyevsky and others.However, his storytelling is at times clumsy and rushed.The uneasy blend he has whipped up, a mixture of fantasy, philosophy, and comedy, requires a 'suspension of disbelief' of, well, disbelief.We must accept, as Morrow's postapocalyptic world has come to accept, that the virtual body of God has fallen into the ocean, has rotten and exploded, and whose skull now hovers in geosynchronous orbit above the Western hemisphere.

Shortly after this skull has come to grace our skies, a terrible plague descends upon humanity and decimates the population.People become 'Nietzsche positive' and begin to have confrontations with their 'fetches.'This is a fascinating idea: Morrow creates these characters called fetches who are the embodiment of a person's awareness of death and a representation of nihilistic pathology.As Morrow writes (in character): "The fetches are coming, millions of us, spawn of the holy skull.Fetches dancing in the Forum, swimming through the Tiber, hiding under your bed.We are the children of Nietzsche and the vectors of nihilism, and as surely as rats carry Pasteurella pestis, we bring a plague of death awareness and a contagion of malignant despair."

The main character of The Eternal Footman is a powerful woman named Nora Burkhart.Her beloved son Kevin has become a victim of the plague and the plot revolves around her attempts to seek a cure for Kevin's terminal sickness.At one point, she converses with her son's fetch (Quincy Azrael) in an attempt to understand what this plague is all about:

"You're planning to kill us all?"

"Death awareness doesn't kill people.Death kills people.Death awareness merely turns them into quivering blobs of ineffectuality.You're a Grecophile.You know about Prometheus.His transgression, you may recall, lay as much in blessing people with death amnesia as in telling them the recipe for combustion."

True enough, she thought.Death amnesia: a fitting term.According to Aeschylus, prior to Prometheus's intervention everyone on Earth knew the exact date and hour of his death, a situation inflicting chronic lethargy on the majority of humankind.When at last unburdened of this awful information, people gradually-inevitably-began acting as if they might live forever.They built cities, pursued sciences, practiced arts, and challenged the gods.

"So even if we weren't carrying a lethal disease in tow," Quincy continued, "the postindustrial world would still be doomed.Don't deny that death denial is central to the human enterprise.Take away the average person's obliviousness to oblivion, and he becomes as torpid as Hamlet on Prozac.Speaking personally, I shall be sorry to see Western civilization disappear.I think it was a hoot, especially the Stanley Cup and stud poker. "

Morrow paints a thought provoking canvas with otherworldly characters, mortal dilemmas, and an occasional bit of wisdom that truly inspires.While some of the story is annoyingly unpolished, much of the language is poetic and captivating.

Ho-Hum
This is the third installment in Morrow's "God-head trilogy." He should have left it at just the first two. While his first two books often pushed his ridiculous atheistic views, at least they were interesting stories. This one is just plain dull. His writing style has become so cumbersome. I can imagine him sitting at his typewriter and consulting a thesaurus with each sentence he writes. It's as though his ego needs to try and prove how intelligent he is to the reader. However, he comes across as bombastic and boring. There were many times that I almost gave up on finishing the novel because it was lulling me to sleep.

I won't go into the details of the story since so many other reviews have already done that. However, I will recommend that you pass this book up. At least, check it out from the library and don't waste your money.

The best of the 3!
As with the other 2 books in this trilogy, I couldn't put it down.I thoroughly enjoyed this last book, which was the most nontheism-in-action."Abbadon" got a bit bogged down in the philosophical for my tastes, whereas this book had a straightforward narrative with few forays into the philosophy.The Corpus Dei now the malevolent Craneo Dei, hovers over the book like a wraith.The struggles of Gerard and Nora compelled me to find out how it would end.And bringing back Anthony Van Horne and Cassie Fowler caused this reader to smile.

There are a couple of "Rowlingesque" touches in this book.Naming Nora's fetch "Goneril" was a wonderful stroke, and the scene with God's Entrails was literate South Park.I howled intermittently through this book (which was a problem as I read it at my cubicle at work).Also the visions of the future were hopeful and refreshing.I liked that there was commentary about today's big issues.

One thing that's unfortunate, but I'll mention it.This book was written before 9/11.I wonder how Morrow's future work will alter its course after the disaster.Coming up with a post-organized religion way of life, as well as a postcorporate world is becoming more and more urgent.Possibly even emergent.I couldn't help but think about 9/11 through the trilogy, perhaps inevitably because the towers were prominent in "Towing Jehovah" as the Valparaiso passed them on its way out to sea.

Atheist's Doomsday
This is the final work in Morrow's excellent trilogy on the "death" of God. Unlike the wacky and satirical "Towing Jehovah" and the extremely intellectual "Blameless in Abaddon," this third installment takes on the tones of Stephen King or Dean Koontz in a slightly creepy doomsday scenario. Here God's giant corpse from the previous books finally decomposes, with the skull ascending to the sky and orbiting the Earth, constantly reminding all of humanity that God is really gone. A psychosomatic plague of death wipes out most of the western world before people come to their senses and embrace a new age of rationalism. Once again this is all a vehicle for Morrow's highly structured Atheist theories. He's not an agnostic who believes nothing, but an intellectual who has arrived at Atheism through reason and research. This novel continues to represent Morrow's theology, which is surely thought provoking regardless of your religious persuasion. Unfortunately, this installment is the weakest of the trilogy, with Morrow's post-apocalyptic wasteland showing little imagination or creativity (see King's "The Stand" for a better example), followed by visions of a politically correct future world of enlightenment that are too rosy for belief. Also, the conclusion takes way too long wrapping up too many subplots. But still, Morrow's highly articulate and visionary trilogy will never cease to provide food for thought.

The Most Complex Addition to the Trilogy
"The Eternal Footman," the final book in James Morrow's Jehovah Trilogy, serves as an interesting capstone to the series.It's much different from the other books; not so much about psychology or philosophy, it's more a re-telling of the tale outlined in The Book of Revelation, although with an obvious Morrow twist.As such, it might not appeal to the same kinds of readers that the other two books attracted, but "Footman" is in no way a lesser book because of it.

Years after the trial at The Hague, God's body disassembled itself piece by piece, His intestines swimming through the ocean like a gigantic snake and His skull sits in geosynchronous orbit over Times Square.The Vatican rents His skull for advertisers, so people are treated to Microsoft and Coca-Cola ads 24/7.But, it causes other problems as well...

In Nora's struggle and the development of the Temple in Mexico, Morrow reveals the ultimate philosophical lesson in his Jehovah Trilogy: that human value should not be created by external things, even God.It's what Nietzsche referred to as the "metaphysics of the hangman," and is echoed by those who claim that if there is no God, there is no point in living.That is what the plague victims seem to think, and that is what the Antichrist seeks to capitalize on.It is also what God wants humans to grow beyond.

It's the ultimate religious/existential lesson, one that Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and even Heidegger stressed in their works.It is also one of the most complex philosophical concepts to communicate, and Morrow manages to do it in one novel (actually, the setup was there through all the books).

Old characters are brought back, and new ones introduced.Like "Blameless," "Footman" is a walk in the forest to read, pleasant and dense without being oppressive.Morrow again finds the correct mix of story and philosophy by which to tell his tale, and by so doing weaves as juicy and delicious a narrative for which one could ask."Footman" is much heavier than his other works, and is not simply the tongue-in-cheek satire of the first two volumes.... ... Read more

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A classic!
Great illustrations, interesting photos and an informative text on all anadromous and freshwater fishes of Alaska. Ideal book for fish enthusiasts and fisherman. Very strong on taxonomy and description of species. My most used reference for whitefish and ciscoes. ... Read more

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Chapters: James Morrow. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 42. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: James Morrow (born 1947) is a fiction author. A self-described "scientific humanist", his work satirises organized religion and elements of humanism and atheism. He lives in State College, Pennsylvania with his wife, Kathryn Smith Morrow, his son, Christopher, and their dogs. His cousin is the journalist Lance Morrow. ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1021109 ... Read more

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Mario Lanza Sings, "Because You're Mine"
Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R2TX9ZJQDIOXU8 This sheet music is a complete arrangement in the key of B-Flat for voice with piano accompaniment, chords and ukulele tuning. I addition, it includes B-flat trumpet, clarinet, tenor sax and e-flat alto sax parts. This is a great arrangement! Mario Lanza and Doretta Morrow on cover.

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I'VE HEARD THAT SONG BEFORE "Youth on Parade"
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Investigating the Corpus Dei.
A special issue of the ParaDoxa literary journal (volume 5, issue 12 [1999]) dedicated to author James Morrow in general and his Godhead Trilogy in specific.For those not familiar with the Godhead Trilogy -- Towing Jehovah [1994], Blameless in Abaddon [1996], and The Eternal Footman [1999] -- it is considered one of the greatest modern satiric fantasies, being a brilliant mixture of techno-speculative humor, corporeal theology and razor-sharp satire.

Guest editor James Winchell (of Northwest Academy, Portland) provides an useful introduction that stresses the reader's role in remembering a dismembered deity, a significant aspect to Morrow's trilogy.Followed by several interesting critical works concerning Morrow or one of his works, the reader is soon provided an true polished gem: hardcore philologist and author of The Hidden Book in the Bible, Richard Elliott Friedman, recounts an astonishing tale of synchronistic connectivity between his own scholarly work (i.e. Who Wrote the Bible? and The Hidden Face of God) and his initial encounter with Morrow's writing.In a humorous turn of events and coincidental shared enthusiasm, Morrow provides "Raiders of the Lost Novel: An Appreciation of Richard Elliott Friedman's The Hidden Book in the Bible" -- a review with dual functions: clarity regarding Friedman's book as well as unprecedented insights into the views on biblical scholarship and artistic composition that Morrow hold true.

In "Lord, What Fools These Mortal Be! Confrontation with Death in The Eternal Footman," noted scholar Brian Stableford provides critical analysis of Morrow's final volume in the Godhead Trilogy, The Eternal Footman, which had been recently released at the time of publication.To round out the stream-of-thought that Stableford begins, George Aichele's essay explores the thanato-theological condition as found in the first two volumes in the Godhead Trilogy.Aichele's meditation culminates with the provocative post-Nietzschean concept that the death of God might have no lasting ramifications or consequences.

A true highlight of this release, though, is Samuel R. Delany's exchanged "questions and answers" with James Morrow.Delany proves able to coax thoughtful discourse from Morrow on numerous subjects, leaving "no stone unturned" as it were in their extended dialogue.Of even greater interest than Delany's interview is "A Vulnerable Athiest: The Author Responds to His Interpreters," which -- as the title implies -- is a forum for Morrow to respond to the critical thoughts previously expressed in this volume.A charming and detailed endnote, Morrow articulates how the essays mesh or oppose his own current thoughts.

Interesting Analysis
This was a great read for me. I'm a very big fan of James Morrow and was delighted with this collection. There is some very thought-provoking stuff in his work and the essays clearly illustrate that. If you're a fan ofMorrow, I suggest this book for it's fantastic analysis of his wonderful satire.

Update: I don't remember reading the book or writing the review, so while I agree with how wonderful James Morrow is, I'm going to have to reread it to make sure I wasn't just hallucinating. ... Read more

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Title: Nancy Morrow-Howell, James Hinterlong and Michael Sherraden (Eds.), Productive Aging: Concepts and Challenges. (book review)
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Title: Bueno de Mesquita, Bruce; Smith, Alastair; Siverson, Randolph M.; and Morrow, James D. The Logic of Political Survival.(Book review)
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Recognizing that resistance to change is the primary obstacle in implementing necessary upgrades, this book examines the changes that must occur in a medical practice in order to successfully implement healthcare information technology, specifically an electronic health record (E.H.R.). It presents the needs for change and the difficulties in accomplishing change, and offers possibilities and techniques to address those difficulties. It addresses the concept of a change manager, the issues in changing the minds of those involved, as well as changing the practice habits of physicians, and how adjusting to a new technology can impact daily operations.