This book is poorly organized and at times seems poorly researched. It is replete with unsupported arguments, questionable conclusions and inaccurate information. It reads like a string of too long quotations from out-of-date scholars, which often have little or nothing to do with vampires, let alone the specific aspect the author is supposed to be elucidating. Masters obviously has a keen eye for detail, but he is often so bogged down in detail that his main thesis goes unexplained. The book really suffers because of the fact that Masters simply can't decide what he thinks a vampire is, let alone how to go about discussing it. Therefore, while the book is not uninteresting and provides plenty of gory quotations, it is ultimately unsatisfying and fails as a piece of scholarship. There is some serious re-writing to be done here. In the meantime, I would suggest that anyone serious about researching the history of vampires look elsewhere.

This book is a must read for anyone researching the true origin of the Hollywood Vampire. It gives the most accurate description of Vampires from days long ago to present. The fact is not everyone who reads about vampires knows why we as humans fear them. This book will explain it in detail.

The idea of an "illustrated" history of philosophy is absurd in itself -- especially when "illustrated" is taken to mean "pictures of the philosophers themselves." Can you imagine how silly this is? To print alleged images of Plato, and Aristotle, in the hope of making philosophy "accessible" to the art-book crowd?

Readers, we have choices! Get Russell's "History of Western Philosophy" -- a thousand times better than this useless thing written by a committee of academics. For a more zippy and modern treatment, look into Anthony Gottlieb's "The Dream of Reason."

But give this dreadful thing a miss.

A marvel of a book! This wonderful book gives a detailed chronological insight of all the famous and influential philosophers in six parts- Ancient Philosophy, Medivial Philosophy, Descartes to Kant, Continental Philosophy from Fichete to Sartre, Mill to Wittgenstein and Political Philosophy. The authors breifly discuss the main philosophical issues of each period and those that propounded them. Some beautiful plates illustrate and help set the mood of each section. The book is well designed, easy to read and provides a comprehensive history of philosophy. It is also a great book to introduce yourself to the different eras in philosophy and to aquaint yourself with the works of the different philosophers, that is if you are a new reader in philosophy. An extended bibliography (well arranged) provides further information to other texts in philosophy. I must say this book is worth every dollar!

As a die hard Redskins fan, I was very sorry to see this excellent concept so badly muffed. The idea behind this book is to cash in on the Washington Post vault, providing great photos and articles combined with new pieces by long-time Skins beat reporters to tie it all together. Sadly, whoever edited and proofread this thing reeeally dropped the ball. Sentences at the bottom of the page are repeated at the top of the next, photographs are mislabeled, pieces of sentences are missing, words are chopped off in the middle. Probably still of some value for the die hard Skins fan, but a real black eye for the Washington Post. If their newspaper were produced as shoddily, Richard Nixon would have finished his second term.

Yes, there are some typos and such in the early chapters but the book isn't as lousy as described in the 2-star review. Most of the problems are hyphen-ated words that are not at the end of a page or line. It is like the typeset was changed but the book was not reproofed.

Still, there is a lot of good information in the book. I think it covers items that Loverro's book (very good as well) ignored or glossed over-- how Gibbs wanted to sign and trade Riggo and how Joe Jacoby ended up sticking around in that first camp. The Times summary makes it sound like Gibbs and Beathard were geniuses building a team. This book shows that they were also lucky geniuses. If you are a Skins fan, you should own this book.

I see there is also a newer edition out with the Synder years (ugh).

Birthright uses the battle system rules that are o.k. but they are not as fun as doing a mass battle by group.

Birthright is a unique and enjoyable campaign centering, this time, on mass combat and diplomacy, rather than hack-and-slash of standart dungeon crawls. Surprisingly, the settings, cultures, and characters are fresh and lifelike, despite the system's overall age ( 25 years). Some of the areas haven't been described in optimal detail, but perhaps this is best for those who want to be able to expand upon store-bought accessories. This campaign is very interesting, with many things going for it, albeit it is somewhat taxing on the role-playing abilities of some beginners.

I found this book to be on the hrrid side of dulls ville thus creating a sense of weary transition of anger and shear pain to think i spent five hours reading it .

Good source of African and West Indian Herbs and their traditional uses. Good Illistrations.

1-24-02 On 1-11, I returned this book because I should have ordered the 2001 edition which is the most current update of this book. I've yet to receive ANY confirmation that you have even received the book back and are going to replace it with the correct one. PLEASE let me know! I need this book and if I have to re-order, I will do so but I need to know! Thank you.

Without a doubt, you can never go wrong with St. Anthony. Much, much good information. Good practice exercises with the answer key in the back. I've taken this to work and already word is out that I have a great resource at my desk--other coders are getting pesky! Ha! Well worth the money.

Tambasco claims that we have misunderstood the atonement of Christ since Anselm. Tambasco claims that the Apostle Paul, for instance, maintained no concept of laying the sins of one (man) to the account of Another (Christ). Tambasco claims we have, for centuries, only "misunderstood" that Jesus died to pay for our sins as a reconciliation between God and man. Jesus Himself understood His atoning sacrifice as payment for our individual sins. Just for starters (and in addition to the Hebrew Scripture precendent of sacrifice), we have Isaiah 53:5, Matthew 20:28, Matthew 26:27-28, Mark 10:45, John 1:29, John 19:30 (wherein "tetelestai" mean that payment was rendered in full), Acts 20:28, Romans 3:23-25, Romans 5:9, 1 Corinthians 15:1-4, 1 Corinthians 6:19-20, I Corinthians 15:2-4, II Corinthians 5:14, II Corinthians 5:18-19, Galatians 3:13, Ephesians 1:7, Hebrews 9:11-15, Hebrews 9:26, Hebrews 10:10, 1 Timothy 2:5-6, 1 Peter 1:18-19, 1 Peter 2:24, 1 Peter 3:18, 1 John 4:10, and 1 John 2:2 speaking against Tambasco's attempt at theological sexiness. It is no wonder that he appears on reading lists with authors like Crossan, Borg, and Funk, all of the pseudo-academic, soundly discounted Jesus Seminar.

Anselm did not create the modern notion of atonement. Rather, he publicized biblical principle. Christ, the perfect expression of God's love for man, willingly died as payment for sins. He was and is the perfect reconciliation between God's justice and mercy.

in a brief book (114pp), anthony tambasco has taken another look at saint paul's concept of atonement. you may or may not agree with the conclusions that the author reaches (who ever agrees with everything in any book), but you gain from the author's insights. unless you force the bible to mean what your religion teaches, rather than humbly study the bible for what the bible has to say.

This book provides information that is hard to find elsewhere, and consolidates it all into one volume. While you can learn a lot about waveform editing and sound manipulation, the code listings are hard to follow. The authors seem to reproduce the code in each step, but you'll notice that the code is different sometimes, leading to much confusion and the generation of errors. This is a good source of information for those who need Win32 multimedia info, but it is poorly presented.

Although the book states that it is written for Windows 95 and NT, the audio portions on some of the tutorials caused my NT 4.0 station to crash. As the tutorials build upon one another, this is a major flaw for NT users.

Mostly short quips about news items which indicate that our society is doomed, or at least is several bricks shy of a load. The 101 puzzling statistics, interesting facts, and irrational actions are listed after a cutesy headline incorporating the word "doom." A quick and easy read which should appeal most to those over 20.

Enright in his novel portrays his Egyptian characters as type characters lacking essential individuality; they carry certain race typicality. They hold no status higher than that of maimed beggars, slavish servants, stupid servants, wild savages, swindling peddlers, ruthless murderers, ugly prostitutes as if there were all the people one is likely to encounter in Enright's Egypt. He calls them primitives, beasts, barbarians, and even satanic creatures. Moreover, Academic Year contains the negative stereotypes that embody all the vices traditionally associated with the oriental female: stupidity, ignorance, materialism, sensuality, and emotional detachment to the extent of claiming that prostitution in Egypt tells one about the position of women in Egypt. In addition, all through the novel Enright is fond of comparing the 'primitive' Egypt to the 'civilized' England. Such a comparative method is but a disguised racial prejudice.

Enright implicitly criticizes the Egyptian stupid nationalism which gives them the right to rule their own country without any British claiming that they are lacking or even devoid of ' strength of character, independence, governing capacity, discipline, self control and even sense of responsibility.

The 'bloody' riots that take place in Egypt are a point of interest for Enright to describe although he did not mention the real motives behind such demonstrations. Violence seems in his opinion, to give vent to their suppressed, perverted feelings and innate ruthlessness as if they enjoy disasters and blood.

Meanwhile, he ridicules the educational system in Egypt embodied in the feverish rituals of the final examinations, the force of oral examinations, the process of duplicating and marking the papers. He contents that such a 'great' literature as the English literature should be taught to a race whose literature is next to nothing, and alludes to the great part which England has performed in the work of 'enlightening modern Egypt'- a legacy of the common occidental mission to the orient.

His hostility to the Islam and the Muslims is very clear in the novel. He paints a picture which shows how Muslims are incapable of telling the truth or even of seeing it; they are fanatic and fatalistic, they are swayed by passions, instincts and unreflecting hatred of Christians and Jews. His hostility is clear from the titles of each chapter which are lines of verse from the holy Quran using them in an ironic way or as an ironic commentary on the content of each chapter.

Enright's tone has the vein of the high-handed attitude of nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century European orientalism. His selection of incidents, language in narration, omission of certain details suggest attitudes and assumptions stemming from the cleverly-concealed prejudice and help to dramatize a contrast in the perceived characteristics of the race. He deliberately omits the good aspects of the Egyptian society. He fashions a technique allowing the reader only a single-faceted response towards the Egyptians. He leaves no space for the reader to comment but is commenting all through the novel. Though the novel is narrated in the third person singular, his voice is very clear in the novel.

Being a member in the Movement, Enright uses many of the aesthetics of the Movement in his novels. His attitude to the political realities of modern Egypt seems typical of the Movement, an attitude of disgust that one lives in barbarous bloody times. It is an anti-romantic novel depicting reality as it is. His disbelief in allusion and myth represents a important current of feeling within the Movement. His treatment of Egypt is concerned not with metaphysical absolutes or mythical assumptions but with hard-bitten realities and human relations. The Movement's ideology is reflected in Enright's debunking familiarizing treatment of nature; he condemns any appearance of nature-worship. The language he uses for describing landscape is extremely conventional. However, towards the middle of the novel he gets enchanted with the seascape embodied in the Mediterranean Sea.