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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.

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

By

Marina Hyde

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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

 

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.

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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.