The presentation of the author's learning style theories is best understood as a reinforcer of seeing him present them in person. The book elaoborates on the theories, adding lots of significant details. I think it would be difficult to read this 'cold.'

This books focus on the fundamental principles that rules information technologies, a really good for advanced computer users

Weighing in at less than three hundred pages on a history as convoluted and mysterious to Americans as that of Africa it still manages to convey at massive amounts of information. This is also it's main weakness dumping extras like style and readability it gets incredibly frustrating at times. The subject is fascinating though. The sections on the approaches taken by the various holding countries to release their holdings and transfer rule are fascinating.

Roland Oliver's second edition of this useful book offers good chapters on Africa in the 1990s and an essay about its future as well as and excellent overview of African history. Oliver is expert and thurough. The book is well organized and on the whole interesting. However, because it is an overview the book picks up subjects and drops them in a page or two often after offering just enough to generate genuine interest. This is of course to be expected, but would be more forgivable if the author had included a list of books to read for more information on specific subjects or a bibliographic essay. More troubling is Oliver's tendency to apologize too much for the colonial powers that divided and subjugated Africa. Still, the book is valuable and lives up to its billing.

This is a relatively small book to cover the prominent Commanders of the Allied Forces. It includes commanders from USA, UK, France, USSR, Canada and Poland, each with about 300 words of narrative describing their military career. B/W photographs and colour-plates of these commanders are also included. An interesting book to read because you can quickly get to know in brief the major military players in WW2.

I can't figure out why my previous writing hasn't been posted yet. btw if you expect some decent overview of whole theoretical structure of Giddens's, you should skip this book. this book is mere recapping of Giddens's major titles. sure there are somewhat short assessment on the final chapter. but from my view, it's not fair judgment and worse not insightful at all thou some points are worth reading thou with no supporting. the only merit is the list of all Giddens's work including his journal paper and other's on Giddens

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This is a great companion book to Aristotle's work on animals, a very large and overlooked portion of his writings. Pellegrin shows how many ideas about the classification of animals are erroneously attributed to Aristotle but most importantly, he raises a lot of questions about Aristotle's conception of categories. This has far-ranging implications not only for the study of ancient philosophy but also for the study of logic, the mind, the cognitive sciences in general. Readers interested in George Lakoff's or Steven Pinker's work on cognition will find much food for thought here, as well as much to contest either writer's views. This is a scholarly book in the French academic tradition, not much brio, takes a lot of stamina to get through it. On the other hand, the lack of seductive stylistics leaves you a lot freer to form your own opinion. An important book.

This book is part of a series, all by the same author, which altogether covers the military situation of the Arabian peninsula (excluding Yemen). This particular volume is divided in sections by country, and covers history, the current military situation, and internal security issues (i.e., police, internal intelligence agencies, and likelihood of domestic unrest). It's in the style of a technical report; few people would find it to be "fun reading," nor was it intended to be. I was disappointed that on the topic of UAE internal security, the seven emirates of the UAE were lumped together; it would have been interesting to learn more about the differences in policing and internal security among the various UAE jurisdictions. Nevertheless, this volume covers the minor countries of the Gulf Region with a thoroughness and degree of detail that is not equaled by anything else that's in print.

given what i know of john ralston saul and the blurb on the back, i expected much better from this book. decrying corporatism, positing it as a new ruling morality, is genuinely interesting, but i don't think this is an interesting way of presenting it. the story-line is conventional, the female characters stock and tiresome, and the morality tale unambiguous and predictable. this book reminded me of nothing so much as of an ayn rand polemic, harsh words to be sure. while coming at a world view from a diametrically opposite perspective, the writing is similar in its uninterestingness. like the idea, don't like the realization of same.