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Book
Reviews-
THE GREENS: Policies, Reality
and Consequences
Andrew McIntyre
“The road to Hell is paved
…..”
I am very pleased to announce a
new book from Connor Court Publishing that I have had
the privilege to edit, and that should appear in mid July
just after the new green Senate is installed in Canberra.
The idea for this book came from
an awareness of the alarming void in media analysis of the Greens’
policies at a time when they have been gaining in political
strength.

This book brings together
leading Australian experts who look at a wide range of their
policies in detail – from Agriculture to Zionism – to reveal the
practical consequences of these policies. The book suggests that
the Greens have an uncontrollable urge to spend our money, a mania
for legislative and regulatory control – of both institutions and
individuals – a disturbing and unwarranted confidence in central
planning and a belief that government knows best. Underlying this
is a thoroughly naïve understanding of how the real world
works.
The irony is that the Greens’
policies would not only destroy our economy but actually make the
environment worse.
For further details of the
twenty one contributors and the scope of the Green policies
analysed in the book, please go to the Connorcourt
website.
Source: andrewmcintyre.org
SHOCKED
BY THE BIBLE- THE MOST ASTONISHING
FACTS YOU'VE NEVER BEEN TOLD.

Celebrity: How
Entertainers Took Over the World and Why We Need an Exit
Strategy...
By
Marina Hyde

Marina Hyde hits the nail on the head at
least with the title. It's a bit like "The Triumph of the
Airheads" but with a lot more punches. We live in a society that
worships celebrities as gods and that is very sad indeed. Media and
celebrities combined control peoples reading habits daily.
Celebrities are just people at the end of the day and will always
be. If this celebrity worshiping continues and by all accords
it looks like it will society is well and truly on the way to
Idiocracy. This book puts a very realistic spin on what has been
evolving through the media for sometime.
Positive Impact
By Gregory Reid &
Charlie "Tremendous" Jones.
Take the 57 minute challenge
to discover how to make a difference
in your life with
* Powerful leadership
strategies for creating alliances while earning respect
* Fresh new business skills
that make work fun while increasing profits
* Effortless communication
techniques for uncovering a speakers hidden message
For a short read this book
can make all the difference in the way you look at life.
she selling - the psychology of selling to
women
by Amanda
Stevens.
We let Jack Jeddaman loose on
this one and this is what he had to say -
"This book written by Amanda Stevens (2000
Young Businesswoman of the Year) had me gasping for air. Amanda is
supposedly recognized as Australasia's leading authority on selling
to women. What she says is basically true they can
be revengeful and women will tell anyone who will listen to
them about their poor - bad experiences. The book claims that women
want to be sold to in a very specific way (hello, and men don't?)
all you have to do is 'listen' to women and get interested in
them. Are women really the fastest growing wealth segment of
many markets or is that claim overstated statistical
hype? Amanda hints at categorizing men in a very
generalized way. There is an old saying that refers to all persons
- " listen to what people are telling us, rather than what they are
saying..."
I also listened to a CD interview she
did with Pat Mesiti (MMClub). In the CD interview Amanda
prolesthetyses on the way of women and the way their brains are
wired. Amanda states that women use 10,000 more words a day than
men. Most men who are awake understand that's not necessarily words
of much relevance to them though. She also states men need to
practice saying 'thank you' (law of gratitude) in varied ways
more often. This method will keep women coming back. That's
most definitely not a separate gender issue.
The book does have some interesting stat's
and facts which the writer claims are scientifically proven (well
researched) and that's useful. Amanda has come up with another
name for the 'raunch culture' of 18yrs -28yrs "The Socialite"
(ruthless and ambitious). Emotive reactions to
situations come from within, which evolves from thought,
female and male alike... we think there is a lot more research
to be done to be totally convincing. If you own and manage your own
viable commercial venture then the book is worth reading and
passing onto your staff for feedback.
Jack Jeddaman
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Boinking Without Oinking: A Review of
‘Female Chauvinist Pigs’
Ariel Levy’s new book on the rise of ‘raunch
culture’ and its effect on women has gotten raves for challenging
sexed-up feminism. But its daring is only
skin-deep.

Meet the Female Chauvinist Pig - the new
"empowered woman" who wears the Playboy bunny as a talisman,
pursues casual sex as if it were a sport, and takes off her bra to
win favour from the boys. If the male chauvinist pigs of yesteryear
saw women as pieces of meat, today's Female Chauvinist Pigs are
going one better, making sex objects not only of other women - but
also of themselves. They think they're being brave, they think
they're being funny, but in Female Chauvinist Pigs, Ariel Levy asks
if the joke is on them.
In her quest to investigate "raunch
culture" and women's embrace of it, Levy interviews university
students who flash for the cameras on semester break and teens
raised on Paris Hilton and breast implants. She examines a culture
in which most music videos feature a stripper on a pole, the
memoirs of porn stars are climbing the best-seller lists, Olympic
athletes parade their Brazilian bikini waxes in the pages of
Playboy, and g-strings are marketed to prepubescent girls. Levy
meets the high-powered women who create raunch culture - the new
oinking women warriors of the corporate and entertainment worlds
who eagerly defend their efforts to be "one of the guys." And she
traces the history of this trend back to conflicts between the
women's movement and the sexual revolution long left
unresolved.
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