Triumph Reviews

The book content provides meaningful events and situations that are helpful in working with children in today's society. I love the spiritual implications reflected throughout the book. Such a book should be rewarding to young mothers. The authors shares unique values obtained obviously from family heritage.

The author describes how to raise children in a positive way and avoid the mistakes parents easily make that devastate their children and their family. This description is given through the personal life of a high achiever (Daphne L. Clarke (Luise Laurel)), a person who started with nothing and ended up with everyting: a happy family and financial security for all of them.

A difficult path (actually any path) in life can result in any extreme, positive or negative. For most of the people who are not priviledged at the beginning, the odds are easily biased on the negative side. Devastation, personal and financial, easily occurs (and is also known to occur to the best and most priviledged families too..). Daphne Clarke shows that it does not have to be like that. If we are prepared for the hardships in life, and at the same time we keep good balance of our personal financial situation (a mostly neglected element), we can avoid most hardships, raise our children successfully, and realize our potential - we may even dream for more.

A family (even a very poor one) with values and a reasonable financial stability (even at a minimum level of income) can provide the new generation with that special love familiar to all traditional cultures (the ancient Greeks called this special love storge), and allows dreams to come true. It finally allows society to better utilize the best resourse of them all: people.

An incredible poem by an passionate and erudite poet. Written in 150 sections over 82 pages, the Triumph of Love is a poem about memory; the memory of those who have gone before us, have suffered, have made sacrifices, and the ways in which violence is done to them through the forgetting of those living today. The reader will certainly want a dictionary and encyclopedia nearby for the numerous references to historical and literary figures and the many obscure (but irreplaceable) words!

I read it through once myself, and then went back again slowly, then again looking up all the references. Each time I found new appreciation and love for this poem. It is at times beautifully lyrical, coarse, bitingly satirical, but overwhelmingly, in Hill's own words, "a sad and angry consolation". If you are familiar with Hill's other poems, you will certainly enjoy this ride. If not, you may wish to start with some of Hill's earlier works, which are also wonderful (in his "Collected Poems").

Geoffrey Hill's new poem is - amongst other things - an enormous "blague": "a satire upon stupidity...a weapon of the intelligence at bay". A comedy (commedia) in the fullest sense, it is packed with excruciating in-jokes, false leads and obscurities whose very purpose seems to be to satirize the insistance of our media culture on instantaneous public "accessibility". Half intimate portrait, half erudite "gotcha", the poem is by turns dazzling, exasperating and *very* funny: a prize for the patient and demanding reader, and a wet haddock in the face for everyone else (critics and academics included).

William H. McNeill emphasizes the importance of cultural interchange in the rise and fall of great civilizations. I think Roberts goes wrong here when he neglects to point out the critical role played by the Mongols in disseminating Chinese technology to Europe - things such as the compass, paper, printing and gunpowder, which quickly enabled Europeans to circumnavigate and settle the globe.

Certainly both McNeill and Joseph Needham, the distinguished British historian of science, would dispute one of Roberts's main points: that Europe owed nothing to the rest of the world for its subsequent "triumph". At the very least Roberts presents a one-sided view.

Historically China has been the richest and the most powerful civilization in the world. The last few centuries saw the rise and dominance of Europeans, who not only created the scientific and industrial revolutions but who aggressively explored and settled the whole world. It remains to be seen whether China will be able to catch up. Even if it resumes its former position as the leading civilization, it remains a question whether it can reverse Western dominance everywhere. The sinologist John K. Fairbank despairs of this possibility. Others aren't so sure. Roberts himself has doubts about the "triumph" of the West; hence the chapters entitled "A Sense of Decline", and "A Post-Western World?"

I think we must be clear about what time-frame we're talking about when discussing what the future holds for world history. The triumph of the West is not likely to be a mere afterthought even two or three hundred years from now. But all bets are off if our time-frame is extended to over a thousand years.

What is a thousand years? Roberts's own analogy is excellent when discussing relative timespans in his "History of the World". If "one minute" is compared to a hundred years, then mankind began to evolve from apelike creatures about "two or three weeks" ago, developed writing much less than "an hour" ago, and Christianity was born about "twenty minutes" ago, while Europeans began to settle in the Americas about "five minutes" ago, and of course both the two world wars and the cold war happened within the last "60 seconds".

To a paleontologist, the appearance of apelike creatures would itself seem like a mere instant ago because the dinosaurs only died about "450 days" ago and life first appeared on Earth as early as "60 YEARS" ago. To an astronomer even this is short: the Universe is over "two and a half centuries" old. And if Sir Martin Rees of Cambridge is correct then "our" Universe is only the latest in an endless series - itself one series among countless others - stretching back to infinity.

So, using our analogy, what is the shape of the world to come "ten minutes" from now? Will the West still be the dominant civilization? I think China can afford to take its time, having existed as an independent civilization for at least "half an hour" by now. After all "ten minutes" ago even England was under foreign rule (first by the Danes and then by the French).

But will the Earth still be habitable in the fourth millennium? That's much harder to say. Of course, not even a nuclear war or a giant asteroid can wipe out all life on Earth; evolution will start all over again much as it did when the dinosaurs died. Only when the Sun dies or if our solar system gets sucked into a giant black hole will life disappear from Earth. So there's always hope and cause for optimism.

This is an excellent book. I'd love to see Roberts bring it up to date and speculate a bit on the future.

J. M. Roberts is probably the best person writing popular histories in the world today. His "History of the World" and "A History of Europe" are more recent examples of his good writing skills.

But, this book is from earlier. It shows how good of a writer of history Roberts is. It is much more of an anylasis of what makes up Western Civilization, and what the author thinks is the reason it was able to fling itself outward at the world world, and basically subdue it all for a time. Sometimes which was basically umprecentented in the history of the world.

He critizes at times, but mainly he believes there is more good in Western Civilization than bad. Which, of course, is the truth.

This is an amazing story, I could not put it down. It is the absolute best book I've read on alternative medicine for Hepatitis sufferers, containing comprehensive information on not only herbs and supplements, but also nutrition. There are testimonials from many others who have followed Mr. Wrights path and recommendations who have gotten well, or who are able to enjoy life again inspite of having the virus. I am immensely overjoyed to know that there are alternatives to chemotherapy, and am grateful that this author took the time to write this book and share his experience and knowledge. If you have hepatitis, or know someone with it, get this book and read it. The book also contains a toll free number and website so you can learn more. Outstanding book!

If you or anyone you care about (or anyone you know) is infected with HCV you have to read this book. I received my copy on Friday and flew through it over the weekend. I am so grateful to have found it that I had to come right back to this site to share... I am so tired of dismissive doctors and either misinformation or no information at all.

I appreciate the strait forward, no-nonsense manner in which this book was written. I appreciate all of the information I have not been able to find anywhere else. I appreciate that the author is a real person who was infected with the virus himself.

I am hopeful for the first time in a long time. You will be so glad you read this.

The book not only documents the terrible events of that tragic day but provides a balanced historical prospective of the firm's philosophy and a description of the business itself that helps to understand how the firm has been able to triumpth over the tragedy. It is a particularly timely book in these times of great public mistrust of corporate culture.

The title explains it best. Reading this book will give anyone the drive and inspiration to move forward through even the worst of circumstances. Although the loss of nearly 70 employees and the death of fathers and sons may have brought this boutique firm to its knees, the entire office fought back to secure even a stronger position in the investment banking world. There have been thousands of stories that have come from the disaster of September 11, none have been told as well as this one.

Having read several of the many books about the Gulf War, I have discovered that all of them contain (as you would expect) elements that are biased by the author's viewpoint. This book is no exception, exhibiting the bias of the reporter's perspective that the military/politicians un-necessarily restricted access by the public (ie the press corp). However, by a lot hard work in utilizing the extensive resources widely available after the conflict, it does overcome this bias and thereby provide the broadest and most complete overall description of the origins, political manuervering, military planning, and actual execution of the initial defensive and subsequent offensive phases of the war, of any account I have read. And it does so in a very interesting and informative manner.

I am especially impressed with the personalized style of the presentation of both the political and military events, and also with the excellent graphics and tactical/strategic analysis used to explain the overall context of those events. The combination of broad scope, professional graphics, and personal accounts of individual participants placed in the context of overall tactics/strategy really brings the "history to life".

This book has become my "baseline" for understanding / interpreting the other very good (and not so good) accounts of the war. It provides the timeline and outsider "truthline" of the events of the war from which to put into perspective, and base my own opinions of, the accounts of the war by the various individuals with a more personal stake in their presentation. I do not take the "facts" presented in this book as "absolute", but feel they probably contain less "self interest" than other accounts by other authors with "reputations" to foster or protect.

In that respect, this book has increased my "enjoyment" of the other books on the subject as I compare and contrast the "issues" of the war as described by each of the involved individuals who have a particular axe to grind concerning those issues: "a tactical versus a strategic air war campaign", "functional versus by service organization of the coalition forces", "who was responsible for establishing the 'left hook' strategy of the ground war", "did we start the ground war too soon and not give airpower a chance to 'win the war'", "was the progress of the VII Corps too slow ?", "was the progress of the 1st and 2nd Marine Divisions too fast ?","who stopped the Khafji excursion (airpower, marines, or Saudis)", "did we learn and then utilize the right lessons from the Khafji fight", and - last but most importantly - the key question: "did we stop the war too soon and therefore fail to accomplish the goals established at the outset of the war ?"

Buy this book to get a very interesting, readable, and definitive overview of the Persian Gulf War. Then sit back and form your own opinions of both the big and little issues from the accounts by Schwarzkopf, Powell, Horner, Franks, Boomer, et al

(Bye the bye ... I find it fascinating that the same above issues (as they applied at the time) were hotly contested in accounts of the WWII Central Pacific and SW Pacific campaigns! Truly, if we do not learn from history, we are bound to repeat it. )

Triumph Without Victory is the best account and review of how the Gulf War happened. This book is filled with amazing details and facts that make it a true corner stone in the history of this War. From the international effort to restrict Iraqi weapons access to the planning room of Gen. Schwarzkopf, this book recordes what happened. Having been in the Gulf War I was truelly amazed at the amount and scope of information contained in this book. I read this book when it was first published and will never forget it. The true testament of this book is its recording of many of the important facts that some governments would like to forget. The authors obviously went to great lengths to research, corrolate, and record not only the most famous events but the small and possibly most important events. The secret effort to bomb Saddam Hussein, the US destroyed chemical weapons facility and its toxic cloud, and the CIA computer virus in the Iraqi radar system. The purpose of this book was to record history, it did just that and it did it well.

This is a must read book for any Vail skier. I am the son of one of Vail's pioneers (Sigi Faller) and enjoyed many wonderful days on the Mountain in the "Glory Years". The book provides a perspective of Amercian history (Camp Hale and WWII) and relates a romantic business success story, especially for those who are independent, entrepreneural and have a love of the outdoors. It's a fascinating account of finding recreational "gold" in the Colorado Rockies. An excellent collection of photos is included.

This book captures the spirit of Peter Seibert and Earl Eaton and the early days of their lives and their dream to build Vail and Beaver Creek. The trimuphs are great. Hiking Vail for the first time with skins on the skis and seeing the bowls, what a trip! Getting fired from his dream and then getting asked back during the '89 World Championships - wow!! - what a roller coaster of emotions. If you love great stories and you know the Vail Valley and the ski industry - this book is a must read!!

This book is a great choice to read for anyone, even more so for those interested in commercial aviation. It has elements of drama, and also limits the techno-babble to keep it interesting.

Thoroughly enjoyable for anyone with an interest in aviation or human endevour on a large scale. Not too technical so don't be put off

This book touched me in ways I had not expected. Zvi survived the atrocities of the holocaust and lived to tell the world what really happened. His life was nearly destroyed by Hitler's evil regime, but God had another plan in mind for the life of little Zvi. This book is a golden triumph!

A book that will touch your heart and stay with you for the rest of your life. Don't miss this one!

This book was just awesome! Everything that you ever wanted to know about the guys is in this book. If I could tell everybody one thing, it'd be to go buy this book! These guys are so great, and you're a better pereon after reading this book.