This is an informative book that can be read easily by an unschooled armchair general. It uses graphics of the battle scenes of Alexander, Scipio, Gustavus, Marlborough, Wellington, Rommel, MacAurthur, Napoleon, Slim, Henry V, Genghis Khan, Allenby, Washington, Lee, and others. It is a MUST have, and the introduction is a well done piece by General Sir John Hackett, an experienced soldier of the British Army, who has his own book own World War III. A warning though, it is exceedingly British. It is bias towards Britain in every battle involving the English, but this aspect is at worst evaluation a bit funny.

I have the books GREAT BATTLEFIELDS OF THE WORLD, GREAT BATTLES OF THE CIVIL WAR, and GREAT BATTLES OF WWII. These are all great books. This new one does not have as good as pictures and maps. I still like it, it is just the 4th out of the 4 books.

This 128 page book was published in 1969 by Spink & Son Limited in London, Enlgand. there are actually two authors, Anthony Dowle and Partick Finn who is not listed. Spink & Son is a prominent coin dealer so it is no surprise that the book is filled with coin prices. Thers is usefull information for nearly 1,000 years foIrish coinage.

The price information is nearly 30 years out of date. Quite a number of things have occured with Irish coins in since 1969. At the end of the book is an extensive and usefull Bibliography

This book is very helpful, especially for Officers like me. It provides guidelines that will help you to be a great Officers in oreder to lead your troops.

This is a really helpfull book for the organic chemist, specially new ones who can find here an organized reference of any kind of routes for organic synthesis. Ive been using this book in all my thesis work, with no loose of time researching in the library. Its very easy to use and understand . For me is the best book for organic reagents, after looking at it you would see the power you have in your hands with

Trollope wrote this very short novel (only about 45,000 words) for the Christmas issue of a London magazine. Regarding Victorian sentimentality about the holiday as "humbug", he presented a very different sort of Yuletide tale, one in which there are no snow flakes and no sleigh bells - and in which fires are not cozy but frightening.

The hero is a prosperous young sheep rancher in Queensland, where December is the hottest, driest month of the year, when a careless match can spark a ruinous blaze and in a few hours wipe out all that a man has built through years of labor.

Careless matches are not the only danger. Harry has just as much fear of malicious ones. He is an imperious ruler of his domain (120,000 acres leased from the Crown) and prides himself on his unflinching candor. Not surprisingly, he is at feud with his shiftless, thieving neighbors, the Brownbie clan, and is quite willing to quarrel with Giles Medlicot, another neighbor, when Medlicot hires on a hand whom Harry has dismissed for insubordination and suspects of plotting arson.

In other Trollope novels, "war to the knife" means snubbing an enemy in the street or not inviting him to a garden party. In this one, conflict is simpler and more violent. With the grass growing more parched by the hour, Harry's enemies gather, scheme and strike. Because Trollope is not a tragedian, they are thwarted - narrowly - and there is even a Christmas dinner to conclude the story and incidentally seal a budding romance. But the pacing and atmosphere are very different from the Trollope that readers expect.

The picture of a frontier society, living almost in a Hobbesian "state of nature", is vivid, and the moral consequences of that state are clearly drawn. Harry's refusal to compromise with what he believes to be wrong is a principle that can be safely followed only where the structures of law and order offer shelter. Where a man must be his own constable, high principle is a dangerous luxury. The appearance of two colonial policemen at the end, as helpless to punish the malefactors as they were to forestall them, underlines the impotence of the law and perhaps reminded Trollope's audience of the excellence of their own social arrangements.

Alert members of that audience will perhaps have noticed that Queensland displays ironic inversions of English certitudes. Most notably, Harry leases his land and _therefore_ considers himself socially much above Medlicot, who has purchased his. In the home country, of course, a land owner who farmed his property (Medlicot is a sugar grower) would have looked severely down upon a man who kept livestock on rented pastures.

Unfortunately, despite its excellent qualities, "Harry Heathcote" suffers a defect that reduces it to the Trollopian second class (albeit that is no low place to be). In so short a work, nothing should be wasted, and too many words are wasted here on a perfunctory romance, one of the least interesting that Trollope ever devised. Medlicot's courtship of Harry's sister-in-law not only adds nothing to the narrative but is positively detrimental, as it gives the neighbor a self-interested motive for his decision to take Harry's side against the Brownbie conspiracy rather than maintain a "fair-minded" neutrality.

Anyone who has never read Trollope should not begin here, but the author's fans will not regret passing a few hours with him in the Australian bush.

I like this book very much. Hausa is definitely an underappreciated and underrepresented language. A great deal of Hausa scholarship is evident in the book and a real feeling for the people and the culture. The section on pronunciation is particularly valuable. Grammar and syntax are dealt with very clearly and very thoroughly. My one criticism of this book is that it needs audio support (read: tapes and/or CD). Although the explanation of the sounds of the tonal and intonational contours of Hausa is good, there really is no substitute for hearing it. The UCLA Hausa page will help a lot with learning to make the individual sounds (if you have sound files, of course) but there's no substitute for hearing spoken dialogues. I hope that there will be a new edition of this book which includes audiotapes.

I am an ear, nose, and throat surgeon in Indonesia. May I know the first volume of Head and Neck Surgery Book by Byron J. Bailey ? I want to know about the prizes of it. How do I get the first volume ? I have just had the second volume. Thank you.

The first Hellsing: Ultimate Fan Guide covers the first six episodes of the bloody-good vampire anime Hellsing. The guide includes a fair amount of artwork--some promotional art and some scans lifted from the videos--and descriptions of each of the episodes, plus character bits and items on various aspects of the world in which the series is set.

The episode summaries are okay if a bit thin; I suggest simply watching the anime itself. Overall, fans of the series probably already know everything in the book, but it's still a neat accompanyment if only as a book filled with visuals and concept drawings from the series. Roleplayers may find the bit at the end for incorporating the characters and world into the BESM game system useful as well.

One of the most enshrouded mysteries from the early Christian era centers around the historical origin and disappearance of gnosticism. Giovanni Filoramo, Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Turin, has produced _A_History_of_Gnosticism_, originally published in Italian as _L'attesa_della_fine,_Storia_della_gnosi_. In this brief volume, Filoramo examines the fragmentary history of gnosticism and its adherents. Gnosticism began as an anticosmic and nihilistic vision expounded upon by recent scholars including Carl Jung and Hans Jonas. As the first and most dangerous heresy to the church, this philosophy was condemned by the established theologians during the first four centuries, and has remained obscure ever since.

Much of what we know today about gnosticism stems from the Nag Hammadi library--a collection of manuscripts discovered in 1945 at Gibel el-Tarif. Polemic writings denouncing the cult also provide illumination. Filoramo illustrates the attempts by church apologists to trace gnosticism to Simon Magnus (see Acts 8:9-24) through a succession of schools, most importantly the Valentinians. The background of gnosticism is one of a cult born into a religious world in ferment where oriental theology had been flowing for centuries to the rather anemic religious culture of the northern Mediterranean.

The debate between _mythos_ (myth) and _logos_ (reason), settled supposedly in fifth century BC Athens (in favor of the latter), raged in the first Christian century. Mythos, originally intended to defend traditionalist religious heritage from attack by rationalists, transforms to a new identity over time. In the case of gnosticism, its development led to a philosophy dismissing the physical world as a manifestation of an ignorant and arrogant Demiurge. (The Christian view maintains that while mankind had allowed sin to despoil God's beauty, nonetheless the creation of the heavens and the earth are a manifestation of God's wisdom and power.)

Their gloomy assessment of the world was highlighted in the Valentinian school which regarded creation as the abortive outcome of the sin of Sophia--"Woman born of woman" followed by unconventional interpretations in the creation of Adam and Eve. To the gnostics, Christ--the Son of God--appeared to be capable of liberating humanity and revealing gnosis to his disciples. Since the gnostics rejected physical manifestations, to them the Savior had both suffered and not suffered. In gnostic tradition, the physical human Christ died on the cross, but the higher Son escaped this gruesome end, laughing at his tormentors. In gnostic theology, Jesus--son of Joseph--was only a man given a superior power that allowed him to reveal secrets of gnosis. Hence for the gnostics, to be a possessor of gnosis was to be superior to Jesus.

There were various teachers to this view, but probably none more prominent than Valentinus, who was born in Egypt, educated in Alexandria, arrived in Rome during the papacy of Hyginus [AD 136-140], and though once a candidate for the papacy was eventually rejected as a heretic. His teachings, based on hostile attacks by Origen, were still thriving in the third century and an edict in 428 reaffirmed condemnation of this sect.

The unwillingness to accept materialistic concepts by gnostic teaching led to cults that rejected asceticism and exalted hedonism. Epiphanius, before he became bishop of Salamis, visited a gnostic community in Egypt around 335 and fervently denounced the depravity he witnessed. Texts from Nag Hammadi, however, provide no theological rationalization for these practices, so there is speculation as to whether some gnostic sects were ascetic and not libertine. In any event, the absence of any formal organization and rejection of institutional roots ultimately doomed the sect to oblivion. By reconstructing the surviving texts on gnosticism, Filoramo has provided a useful historical and philosophical treatment on this forgotten heresy of our religious heritage.