This book takes you from start to finish. Learn the basics of moving and communicating in the MU* world. Then move at a good pace all the way up to coding and building. This is the only comprehensive book I have seen on this subject.

Instead of all the usuall junk and rehash that is in most, if not all books Ralph Martin takes a different view. He studys how the father and his ways affected the sons and how this made for a strangely dynamic family group. He ( Martin) probes into the mindset of each generation and how each tragedy or world event changed each member. Fascinating to see each of the sons grow and how they were raised differently and influenced by different members of the family.

This is an excellent selection of Dostoevsky's letters that show how great a writer and man he was. The compassion that developed in him and the faith in his abilities despite the terrible suffering he endured is a lesson in forebearance and inspiration to all. More than anything it shows the creative process involved which is so vital a part of being an artist: a human being interacting with the world for better or worse. Something those obsessed with all forms of literay theory should note and absorb as a tonic to get them out of their stupor.

Among legendary American Catholic churchmen -- men such as Cardinals James Gibbons of Baltimore and John J. Wright, an American in Rome -- few were instant legends in the style of Chicago's admired Joseph Bernardin. Pope John Paul II appointed him to succeed John Cardinal Cody as archbishop of Chicago. He was installed August 25, 1982. The pope announced Bernardin's elevation to cardinal on January 5, 1983. Father Spilly, editor of the two volumes, worked closely with Bernardin for several years before the cardinal's death in 1996. He has selected well and organized the material in a useful format. His task was to sift a paper mountain. Spilly writes that the Chicago archdiocesan archives include more than 450 of Bernardin's major addresses, some 1,600 homilies, more than 600 texts of shorter remarks, along with invocations and 14 years of weekly newspaper columns. Bernardin had a flair for intensifying common images to make an effective point. In urging the defense of life for the unborn and for the condemned on death row, he saw the answer as a "seamless garment." It may have been a borrowed phrase, but he enlivened it with new drama. When I started to write his first biography in 1983 Bernardin gave me boxes of sermons, speeches and declarations. Those documents multiplied in later years into a virtual library of Catholic teaching by a master teacher. I was with him when he gave some of the addresses in these handsome volumes, as when he took possession of his titular church in Rome. These volumes are not intended to detail all of Bernardin's equally impressive writings and addresses in his early years. He had much to say as general secretary of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops and later as its president, and as the archbishop of Cincinnati. In an absorbing foreword to the two-volume set, Roger Cardinal Mahony of Los Angeles points to the value of Bernardin's words in discerning the presence of the living Christ. There's plenty of material here for strengthening personal spirituality and understanding Bernardin's sense of Church as Christ present in the world.

An amazing collection of essays defending non-reductive materialism and the emergence of the cultural from the natural. The argument running through the essays is that reductive or externalist accounts of humanity are bound to fail. The essays cover analytic philosophy of art, including Goodman and Danto, the philosophy of interpretation, and the ontology of individual persons. Persons, Margolis argues, are hybrid between natural and cultural modes of being, and is not prone to complete understanding on a scientific model. Extremely interesting, and quite well written.

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The Service Parts Handbook has been revised and expanded with the 2003 release of the second edition. The first edition was published in 1997. This second edition is authored by Joe Patton and Roy Steele.

The initial release of the Handbook was a major step forward in documenting the principles and practices of service parts management. It was useful in the general area of after-sales service parts management of repairable equipment and products.

This book can be used by managers as well as practitioners. The book is written at the practical level backed with theory as necessary. This book would be most useful for anyone involved in service parts management as a member of an original equipment manufacturer, as a member of a distributor, to those in the dealer network, third-party maintainers, or end users.

There are almost 60 additional pages in this second edition compared to the initial release of the handbook (now a total of 541 pages). The book is illustrated with charts, graphs, and tables. The second edition makes a number of interesting changes. Three new chapters have been added that are timely: Outsourcing, Utilizing Technology Solutions and Logistics Business Modeling.

Several chapters have been revised with the addition of new material: Procurement, Repairables, Quality, Service Parts Valuation and Integrating Parts in the Total Service Process. The other chapters have been revised where necessary.

This is a worthwhile update with a number of new concepts presented. Highly recommended.

Focuses on ASPs, ISPs, MSPs, and WSPs, but the principles can be applied to any outsourcing decision. The book talks about service offerings, risks versus benefits, TCO, what the SP should enable, SLAs, and security. Good airplane reading for any business decision maker considering a new service provider, or anyone in the service provider industry.

We're planning a special New Year's Eve celebration at our house and I was looking for a book to read at bedtime with my three-year-old to prepare her for the festivities. She and I enjoyed sharing this book. It's not too long for bedtime and it highlights celebrations around the world, which is nice. With the millenium craze, I would recommend this book to parents of preschoolers looking to explain what the fuss is all about.

Dahmus, a prolific writer on things to do with the Middle Ages, first published this tome in 1968, and it was so successful that it spawned a 1972 sequel, "Seven Medieval Queens." The "Kings" in issue are: (1) Justinian the Law-Giver, last Roman Emperor to assert dominion in the West; (2) Charlemagne, Holy Roman Emperor, conqueror of Western Europe and patron of the arts; (3) Amin Rasheed, Arab caliph; (4) Emperor Frederick II, Wonder of the World; (5) Saint Louis IX of France; (6) Henry II of England; and (7) Louis XI, the last medieval king of France. Some of these mens' exploits would fill an entire book, and, indeed, biographies of Justinian, Frederick II, Henry II, and Louis XI are currently in print. But others, such as Rasheed and Saint Louis IX, are comparatively neglected, and still others, such as Charlemagne, deserve better treatment than they are presently getting. So Dahmus, a talented and erudite author, not only writes a nifty little series of essays, he also fills "gaps" for the modern reader. A great work to have on the shelf. The "Queens" sequel isn't bad either.

With this superb work, Joseph Lehmann relates amusing, hard to find, and interesting obscure facts from througout history. I could not put this book down, a must read for any history buff who could use some more trivial facts, and who couldn't!