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Jim Morrison takes us on a journey of discovery.

Sam Travis must leave his Upper East Side condo, the troubled Nobody Company IPO, sexually aggressive Diane, and all other New York fineries to immerse himself, halfway across the world, in a murder investigation where the accused is his missing brother Michael.

Morrison weaves a smart fast paced sexy tale of intrigue, discovery and self-enlightenment as he forces Sam (and the reader) to question his desire for the "proverbial stuff", his values and moralities as he falls for his brother's girlfriend. Chandra.

Colorful and enigmatic characters flow throughout the novel creating distractions, personal challenges and new emotions that will forever change Sam's life as he continues his pursuit to prove his brothers innocence. Morrison's provocative detailed style brings vividness to everything Sam experiences.

Get comfortable because once you start reading "Nobody", nobody will be able to put it down until all the twists and sub plots are revealed in this well written, unpredictable and vibrant story. Arambol, here we come!

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Examines the life and work of the successful novelist, who became the first African American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. ... Read more

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This practical text is an essential source of information for those wanting to know how to deal with the variability that exists in every engineering situation.   Using typical engineering data, it presents the basic statistical methods that are relevant, in simple numerical terms. In addition, statistical terminology is translated into basic English.

In the past, a lack of communication between engineers and statisticians, coupled with poor practical skills in quality management and statistical engineering, was damaging to products and to the economy. The disastrous consequence of setting tight tolerances without regard to the statistical aspect of process data is demonstrated.

This book offers a solution, bridging the gap between statistical science and engineering technology to ensure that the engineers of today are better equipped to serve the manufacturing industry.

Inside, you will find coverage on:

• the nature of variability, describing the use of formulae to pin down sources of variation;
• engineering design, research and development, demonstrating the methods that help prevent costly mistakes in the early stages of a new product;
• production, discussing the use of control charts, and;
• management and training, including directing and controlling the quality function.

The Engineering section of the index identifies the role of engineering technology in the service of industrial quality management. The Statistics section identifies points in the text where statistical terminology is used in an explanatory context.

Engineers working on the design and manufacturing of new products find this book invaluable as it develops a statistical method by which they can anticipate and resolve quality problems before launching into production. This book appeals to students in all areas of engineering and also managers concerned with the quality of manufactured products.

Academic engineers can use this text to teach their students basic practical skills in quality management and statistical engineering, without getting involved in the complex mathematical theory of probability on which statistical science is dependent. ... Read more

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Living in the Dead Zone: Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison: Understanding Borderline Personality Disorders
Psychoanalyzing the dead?That's a good one.
I think I have to quote Britney Spears here."Huh?"
All one needs to do is go to an AA meeting and you will find hundreds of people with your so called "borderline personality disorder."It's called alcoholism.Try growing up with them for parents.Talk about needed therapy.

Assumptions
The authors made an assumption about Jim before research was undertaken and I feel this coloured subsequent research. There's much more information available about Jim than was read by the authors who seem to have taken information that supports their point of view and ignored the rest. Jim's stage persona was a carefully orchestrated act based on a book called "Mass Hysteria and Crowd Control".He was playing a part. They were after all film graduates and film heavily influenced their stage presentations. Jim's poems were apocalyptic but that was his genre. The therapy sessions in the book are non-existent and are based on the authors' own preconceptions. Jim was extremely shy (said one Door and confirmed by another), there is some evidence he had a nervous breakdown, his home life was volatile and he drank. He couldn't keep up the act. He hated heroin and wouldn't take it deliberately. Where's the examination of the paramedics' reports to the Parisian police?Increasingly severe asthma attacks led to a prescription which he neglected to fill. A rock star's death by something as common as a heart attack caused by chronic asthma is not newsworthy. I'm disappointed in the lack of examination of all evidence before drawing a conclusion of BPD. The authors have analysed the myth, not the man.

Finally an explanation that makes sense!
Nowhere in the literature is there an analysis and narrative like this. Intense, compelling and riveting, the book explains why these two icons were so tragically self-destructive. In doing so,
they have illuminated and clarified for the public, the complex nature of the poorly understood borderline disorder. So many peoplecan benefit from reading "Living in the Dead Zone".Bravo gentlemen!

Insightful analysis of two deepyl troubled people
I was unable to put this book down once I began reading the accounts offered by Faris and Faris.Their analysis of the borderline disorder was so disturbingly realistic in my own experience with my son that I thought they were writing to me.The therapy sessions they created with Janis and Jim were not only revealing but astonishing when you consider how good their music was.

This book is a most excellent read, filled with insights into the behavior of the borderline. And I truly did appreciate the sociological observations as well which contextualized the 1960s so well...and I do remember them as if it was yesterday.

Final Response to J
To J one more time, I promise:

My brother and I have had a good laugh at your latest response, not that your other responses weren't just as laughable. But your latest was the most sweeping and most revealing and therefore the most pathetic. This will, however, be our last effort to have a reasonable discussion with you.We see no reason to continue a conversation with someone who reveals his ignorance and arrogance in almost every sentence.You love Jim Morrison, you love his poetry, you dismiss entirely psychiatry and psychology, we are completely wrong about everything. You're the only one who apparently can KNOW anything.And you think we don't understand you?

In the cute way that people who really don't understand a discipline do, you accuse us of psychoanalyzing you. There's no doubt that you do not understand the fields of psychology or psychiatry, and psychoanalysis-they are all very different modes of investigation, not that you would trouble yourself with such distinctions since you already know everything you need to know from the misreadings of Szasz, and Laing.You might try reading pioneers in the field, who really do KNOW something from extensive empirically-based and theoretically well-grounded research. Read John Gunderson's work from Harvard, Otto Kernberg's from Cornell, James Grotstein from Stamford, to name a few.But of course they are all part of the psychobabble industry to you, aren't they.You ask us to stick to what we know best, rather than critique your hero's poetry? You don't appear to impose any restrictions on your statements about psychology and psychiatry. That must be because you think you already KNOW. Right? Wow. Must be comfortable to live in such a fatuous world.

Since you don't appear to know anything about serious empirical research in psychiatry, although I'm sure you think you're a quick study, in the absence of that knowledge you don't appear to be in any position to comment on what we can or cannot know. Borderline personality disorder is now one of the most carefully researched, empirically confirmed diagnoses available to us today. And the possibility for moving backward, historically, to look at what we do know about popular figures and legends, although messy and complicated is not IMPOSSIBLE (Should I drop the caps?) and can be very helpful in popularizing such a disorder to the public. Nor is it unethical to do so.

Among the reasons we believe so confidently that you are only superficially familiar with these fields rests fundamentally on your citation of Szasz, and Laing, for example, not to mention your wild-eyed claim that one cannot really KNOW anything (your emphasis) about the psychology of other people.Szasz and Laing, the most often misunderstood and at the same time most often cited by those pseudo critics, hostile in the extreme to psychiatry and psychology, would never have made such silly claims that we can never KNOW.

You wrote that "the entirely subjective nature of your science," as if there's no such thing as major depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and personality disorders, anxiety and panic disorders, posttraumatic stress disorders, identity disorders, to cite a few. These diagnoses are neither subjective nor unscientific. Your dismissal of them as such reveals such ignorance that we choose not to bother you with more complete accounts of the works of brilliant clinical researchers, especially since you appear to have a comic book view of Szasz and Laing as dismissing those serious folks. And we believe any further conversation with you is both pointless and distasteful.P.S. I am not a therapist, my brother Gerald is, a fact you would have known if you had read our book-not to trouble you with a little thing.This was our last response but we are sure that the hero-worshipper within you will compel you once again to respond. ... Read more

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Couldn't Get Much Higher
The Jim Morrison Scrapbook is essentially a history of the musician, artist, poet, and, of course, rock star, Jim Morrison.The book is printed on heavy paper with many photos, an audio CD, and reproductions of documents form Morrison's life.I liked the ticket to an early Doors concert.Too bad I cannot use it today.

What struck me about Morrison were the adversities which he faced through his life.His family seems to have given him an environment which accepted alcohol, "show me the way to the next whiskey bar," but not Jim's musical pursuits.His father is said to have told Jim that he had no musical talent.I wonder what else he may have said.

Morrison was the prototypical "rock star."However, being a rock star did not let him challenge authority.The authorities of the 1960-70s were faced with a youth rebellion which embraced mind-altering drugs and was opposed to their war in Southeast Asia.Morrison represented all that they feared."And it's all over for the unknown soldier."Behavior and attitude that were not viewed as acceptable were used as an excuse to persecute Morrison.He was arrested for alleged lewd acts on-stage that he may never have performed.The FBI hunted him, driving him out of the country.

For those who did not live through the era, it is hard to understand the antagonism towards youth, their mores, and their music.You can get a taste of it in The Doors movie.I do recommend the Scrapbook for its great background information to better understand the music.

In the end, it is the music that really counts. As Morrson says,
"Well the music is your special friend
Dance on fire as it intends
Music is your only friend
Until the end." ... Read more

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NOT JIM MORRISON
This book is NOT by Jim Morrison of the Doors, This is some clown that changed his name to sell some books...what a rip off!!!!!Absolutely disgusting!!!

THIS IS NOT BY THE ORIGINAL JIM MORRISON!
This book is listed with the poetry of Jim Morrison the singer/songwriter/poet and icon of the seventies band leader Jim Morrison.He is not the original and it should be noted that the writer gave himself a review here.

I gave it five stars because I enjoyed the poetry and the website.

Sign of the Times
This is one terrific book of poems.I found it inspiring, and I highly recommend it.A terrific read!

amazing book well written, everyone should buy this book
out of this world the author done good really good stuff. well worth buying ... Read more

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Jim Morrison of "The Doors" and Michael Hutchence of "INXS" visit their chosen channel once again to offer more insights about life on this side and the great beyond. In her first book, "A Tale of Two Brothers: Jim Morrison and Michael Hutchence," psychic medium Jacqueline Murray was given riveting accounts of their controversial deaths and the many myths that surrounded their lives as only they could tell them. Jim and Michael have both returned along with other great rock legends to offer more controversial dialog in this new work, "Conversations with Jim Morrison and Other Rock Legends." Before the first book was even completed, Morrison requested of Murray an opportunity to introduce some old and new friends on the other side. Fans can now read true life and death accounts from Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix and Sid Vicious straight from the source as Jim introduces each one personally. ... Read more

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The Great Beyond
I don't believe many closed minded people will read this book, but it is recommended in my opinion.This book will help those who truly want to come up spiritually whether you believe in "speaking from the other side" or not; whether or not you believe in the afterlife.Many Christians believe that communicating with spirits is... suspect.I didn't believe in past lives, speaking from the "Great Beyond," and all that stuff until someone successfully made contact with me from the "Great Beyond!"No, many people made contact with me.
We must know the difference between those spirits who are here to help and those who are here to harm us, and these guys ONLY want to help.But those who believe, will believe; those who refuse, will refuse... No harm done. ... Read more

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A portrait in words and pictures of Jim Morrison by his best friend, Frank Lisciandro. ... Read more

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New insights will always spark creativity
I have read many books on the doors and Jim and have been drawn into their world since 1995. During that time I read voraciously about the Doors and even took it a step farther to read Blake, Kerouac, Castaneda, Nietzsche, Rimbaud and other literary influences of Jim's. In order to know anyone you have to know what they know. I have tried to figure out what made Jim tick as best as I could and looked for books that showed this. This book peeled back the layers and showed Jim in the most real sense without sensationalizing the myth like Bonehead Stone did in the Doors movie. The book is a an account by all kinds of people that were close or not so close to Jim. The author was one of Jim's friends from UCLA before the fame gave him too many so called friends. Frank has done an exellent job of getting the people he interviewed to say something meaningful about Jim and this goes along with many great photos too. Many Doors books have come and gone over the years but this one I have had since 1996 and have read dozens of times over the years because the information contained in it is so good you can gain new insights as you figure out more things about Jim. The book is genuine and honest with no motives other than really trying to capture what Jim was like for people who have never had the chance to meet him. I can't believe the book is out of print but if you happen across it get it, it will be worth it... ... Read more

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Learn more insights about the life and mysterious death of Jim Morrison right here in Stoned Immaculate. ... Read more

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Dr. Gerald Faris, clinical psychologist, lecturer and former assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at the Yale University School of Medicine and Dr. Ralph Faris, professor of sociology and Director of the Honors Program at the College of Philadelphia explain their findings about the lives of two icons of 1960s music and how each suffered from a little known, complicated condition now clinically defined as “borderline personality disorder.” Living in the Dead Zone: Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison -Understanding Borderline Personality Disorder describes the torment of these two personalities–Joplin, the top female blues artist and Morrison, the influential rocker and lead singer of The Doors.

The most captivating aspects of the book are the simulated psychotherapy sessions between Janis and then Jim, and an experienced, psychoanalytic psychotherapist.The sessions are riveting and reveal the devastating and relentless nature of the disorder.To those who are irresistibly drawn to the powerful music of these two personalities, Living in the Dead Zone provides insights into their behaviors that are both accessible and provocative.The authors have presented an account of the two performers that has broader applications to the many in our society who suffer from a borderline condition.

This book is designed to increase public awareness of the disorder and to assist mental health workers to recognize patients so afflicted.Living in the Dead Zone may also help readers distinguish between the social and the psychological, between cultural trends allowing for easy acceptance of individual idiosyncrasies and the common recognition of emotional imbalance.
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Der Erwerb des Buches enthält gleichzeitig die kostenlose Mitgliedschaft im Buchklub des Verlags zum Ausprobieren - dort können Sie von über einer Million Bücher ohne weitere Kosten auswählen. Das Buch besteht aus Wikipedia-Artikeln: Jim Morrison, Morrison Hotel, Robby Krieger, Ray Manzarek, Light My Fire, Spanish Caravan, L. A. Woman, John Densmore, Riders on the Storm,. Online finden Sie die kostenlose Aktualisierung der Bücher. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: James Douglas „Jim" Morrison (* 8. Dezember 1943 in Melbourne, Florida; † 3. Juli 1971 in Paris) war ein US-amerikanischer Sänger, Songwriter und Lyriker. Er war der Frontmann der Rockgruppe The Doors, deren Songtexte überwiegend von ihm stammen. Jim Morrison gilt als Rockmusiker, der die Fantasien, Visionen, Ängste und die Selbstdestruktivität der Generation der späten sechziger Jahre artikulierte und exemplarisch auslebte. Er zählt zu den charismatischsten Persönlichkeiten der Rockmusik dieser Zeit. Gemeinsam mit den Doors erweiterte er das Repertoire der Rockmusik um mehrschichtige Konzeptstücke und Formen des Rocktheaters. Morrison, von dem zu Lebzeiten drei Gedichtbände veröffentlicht wurden, nutzte die Doors-Konzerte regelmäßig für spontane Rezitationen poetischer Texte. Er produzierte einen Dokumentarfilm über die Doors sowie einen experimentellen Spielfilm. Obwohl Morrison sich durch seinen Rock-Bariton und poetische Songtexte einen Namen gemacht hat, wurde er in späteren Jahren meist mit einem aufrührerischen und selbstzerstörerischen Lebensstil assoziiert. Der frühe Tod Morrisons, dessen nähere Umstände nicht mit Sicherheit geklärt werden konnten, trug erheblich zur Legendenbildung um seine Person bei. Jim Morrisons Geburtsort Melbourne (Florida), in der Nähe des späteren Kennedy Space CenterJim Morrison wurde als erstes Kind von George Stephen Morrison (1919-2008) und Clara Virginia (Clarke) Morrison (1919-2005) geboren. Er hatte zwei Geschwister, Anne Robin (* 19...http://booksllc.net/?l=de&id=20021 ... Read more