[Once you make your first purchase (which is credit-card
secure), you'll start seeing the advantages
of AMAZON
BOOKS: wonderful discounts, fast delivery, thorough searches
for out-of-print books, personalized e-mail information on
your interests,
reviews, reader participation, and
more.Since it's the world's largest bookstore, you'll
usually find just what you want.]
Amazon.com is pleased to have MAISON MAX
BOOKS & MUSIC
in the family of Amazon.com associates.
We've agreed to ship books
and provide customer service for orders
we receive through special
links on [sponsoring Web site name].
Amazon.com associates list selected books
in an editorial context
that helps you choose the right books.
We encourage you to visit
MAISON MAX BOOKS & MUSIC often to see
what new books
they've selected for you.
Thank you for shopping with an Amazon.com associate.
Sincerely,
Jeff Bezos
President
Amazon.com
P.S. We guarantee you the same high
level of customer service
you would receive at Amazon.com.
If you have a question about
an order you've placed, please don't hesitate
to contact us.
[NOTE:This is no place for a long essay. Our subject covers everything
from all
the -OLOGIES and -SOPHIES to the happenings on TV or in the newspaper.
I will try to make a broad,balanced selection of materials, both
scholarly and popular, pro and con.
I hope to find reasonably priced sources of primary materials (in
addition to the standard ones)
as well as a good selection of scholarly and popular commentaries.
Soon I will also provide some helpful links to bibliographies,discussions,
etc. on the web
or in the library.]
Speaking of the Web, here may be the only website you'll
need outside of numerous strictly religious sites I want to investigate.
Check this one out:
At FAS MILLENNIA MONITOR are dozens of links to sites ,
organizations, newsgroups, etc. all related in one way or another
to our topic.
You'll even find the complete manifesto of the HEAVEN'S GATE people,
many other groups;some are very optimistic about the Millennium,
including
those who look forward to various secular "heavens on earth"; others
embrace
the coming violence and terror, even advocate active participation
in the "holocaust."
In fact, FAS [which claims a Board filled with Nobel laureates]
sees monitoring the violent groups in the years ahead as its main
concern.
* * * * * *
I look forward to exploring this timely, perhaps untimely topic.
I hope I can pass
along some useful information about "Materials for the Millennium"
to my visitors
[readers, watchers, listeners,or whatever].And, of course, as an
Amazon Books associate,
I would like to sell some items. Retired English professors
can always use something extra to support their own book-buying
habits.
_____________________________________________________
* * * * * *
I hope you enjoy this listing of materials, along with the notes
and leads. You will find
that the Amazon home site has much valuable information on most
of their products.
On some items their reviews are so full and helpful that it would
be useless to add
many comments of my own. On others I hope to provide some guidance
to visitors.
Of course, at the Amazon home site you can sign up to be a reviewer
yourself.
Oh, please send me your pointers about "must items" that should be
in
MAISON MAX BOOKS & MUSIC. You wouldn't believe how weak I am
on "apocalyptic music,"
just to name one near void.
Oh, by the way, keep in mind the OTHER materials besides books. .
.CD's,videotapes,
art, photography, and all manner of things. On to the adventure,
MAX
P.S. Excuse the hurried raggedness, will it polish later.
_____________________________________________________________