A delightful book with suitable rules for learned, well read gentlemen to employ in the purpose of pushing miniature ships from all eras around the living room floor and invoking simulated combat while enjoying the company of other similarly minded people and quaffing a few beers. Or is that quaffing a few beers and pushing miniature ships around the living room. Doesn't matter. Sign me up.

Chap 1. About Naval Wargaming. Not comprehensive, but adequate to set up the rest of the book.

Chap 2. Equipment for Naval Wargaming. Pencil, paper, a few cardboard cutouts, some dice, and miniature ships. It can very inexpensive. Taking your wife out to dinner as compensation for disarraying the parlor will cost you more.

Chap 4. Ancient galley warfare: sails, oars, archers, marines, crew energy, ramming, repair, oar raking, boarding, supporting sinking ships, bolt throwing engines, stone throwing engines and crew moral.

Chap 5. The Battle of Thestos c 200 BC.

Chap 6. Napoleonic Naval Warfare: cannon, broadsides, boarding, striking, collisions, wind direction changes, wind strength changes, movement rules relative to wind, heaving-to and wearing.

Chap 7. The Battle of Ushant, 1795

Chap 8. The Ironclad Period, 1865-1885: Great armored mastodons belching fire and smoke and destructive projectiles and occasionally ramming each other.

Chap 9. The Battle of Hellespont, 1881

Chap 10. The Dreadnought Period: the scale increases to 1:18000 and we get torpedoes, turrets, concentration of fire, submarines, magazine explosions, directors, conning towers, propeller shafts, smoke, and mine fields.

Chap 11. The Battle of Texel, 1916

Chap 12. Other Periods: The middle ages, the renaissance, the armada, the Dutch wars and the 18th century, the Russo-Japanese war, the Second World War, the American civil war,

Chap 13. Campaigns: maps, secret movement, weather, repair of damage, siege of Hagage, The war in Ireland-1702, an 18th century trade war, war in the far East-1880, The Baltic project-first world war, the first world war in the North Sea.

I am using this text for a graduate level class I am teaching about reading in the content area. It seems to be a very large overview of all of the issues facing secondary content area teachers.

I would say that more than a scientific theory, this is a pseudoscientific thought experiment. But do not let this fool you, because insight after insight rises from this text to seriously consider every word as fact. This is a brilliant piece of theorizing, almost all of it product of careful instrospection. It is interesting to note how some of the points made in the book actually echoe scientific views on consciousness : for example, there is talk of a dynamic core of mental information, like Gerald Edelmans dynamic core. There is the twin data stream theory proposing two streams of informaion comming together to form consciousness, just like Stephen Koysslin's idea of merging of higher and lower order streams of activity for the same purpose. The whole idea of memory and present imput intermingling to form consciousness is the basic postulate of John Taylors relational model. Finally, there is talk of a verbal commentary, Larry Weiscrantz's candidate for a theory of consciousness.

One must also admit that, even when there is no actual direct evidence in favour of Adelmans theory, it is common sensical, and has some explanatory power. If nothing else, the theory of dreaming presented is quite interesting andd plausible. Memory consolidation has always been a candidate for a function of dreaming.
Of course there is also room for critique. Adelman, like some others, makes the mistake of putting language at an almost supernatural position in regards to its effect on consciousness. NObody denies that language expands consciousness, but Adelman goes on to say that there is no knowledge at all without consciousness, and that nonverbal animals cannot even distinguish between themselves and the enviroment. Language is one of the things that makes us human and separates us from other species, but it is not a gift from the gods. Working memory, and primitive forms of reasoning do exist in nonhuman species. After all,what about severe aphasics? I would not think they are unconscious.

This pocket size book on Qi and Qigong covers everyhting someone needs to know on the subject. There are plenty of excellent photographs for explanation of meridians and exercises. There are a lot of standing exercises as well as taichi exercises. One of the best books I have read so far.

One of the best books that I could find in English on Candomble.

The book is an amazing piece of scholastic work conducted by a once relectant initiate of Nago-Ketu Nation and surveys the history, practices, theology, ritualism and cosmology of Candomble and the role of the Terreiro in historical and contemporary Brazilian society.

There are many things that I had issues with.....the title of the book being one of them.....but by far, it is the most substantial piece of work that has been published in English targeted in a non-sensationalist way for the non-brazilian public.

This thought provoking piece of work has led me to look internally and externally for answers to questions raised in this forum, and has also allowed me to formulate my own questions......

In any case, the book is worth adding to any library and especially of value to those individuals interested in African Based Diasporic religion/spirituality in Brazil.

Those who like books such as Have You Locked the Castle Gate? Home and Small Business Computer Security [URL] and want to learn more will find The Secured Enterprise: Protecting Your Information Assets a good springboard for more information.

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Topics such as security ROI, policy, technologies, architecture and more are discussed. The book is written in an easy to use style and provides valuable information to those who need to know more about one of the most crucial area of information technology today - corporate information security.

My wife and I do dramas on accocion for our church and we have to find ones that are 2 people based. This book was just that to help us when we run dry of creativity. With my wife and I having met them we can truely say that Paul and Nicole are truley blessed in this and their ministry let's it show in this title.

Great Work indeed.

This is a good primer for anyone interested in a brief survey of Paul Eluard's writing from the early 20s through the time of his death. The foreword by Max Adereth, about 19 pages, summerizes his life and the styalistic changes in his writing.

The main problem is its brevity. There are too few examples from each period and not nearly enough from his early Dada/Surrealist period.

Woman in Love

She is standing on my eyes
And her hair is in my hair;
She has the figure of my hands
And the color of my sight.
She is swallowed in my shade
Like a stone against the sky.

She will never close her eyes
And will never let me sleep;
And her dreams in day's full light
Make the suns evaporate,
Make me laugh and cry and laugh,
Speak when I have nought to say.

If you like the translation of that poem, then this book may be for you (I would have said 'nothing' instead of 'naught'). At any rate, it will point you to other collections for deeper delving.

MF

For all the times I've read that this poet-friend of the Wright Brothers is best known for his dialect poems, I'd never really considered the corollary: that he was a fine poet in standard English as well. And what poems they are! If poetry is supposed to be a subjective and emotional art, Mr. Dunbar has mastered it. I felt my heart wrenched over more than one poem. This is a very nice volume to have if one wants a sampling of Mr. Dunbar's art in an inexpensive format. Dover has done a great job in the selection, balancing the dialect poems and the standard English ones. If you only want one volume from this poet, this is the one to get.

Laurence Sterne's 1768 novel, "A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy," is a strange and largely plotless book - less the recounting of a journey than of Parson Yorick's ramblings. Following the wildly successfuly, and no less diffuse "Tristram Shandy," Sterne crafts a much smaller, but no less intense work, recounting the misadventures of Parson Yorick, himself a character in the earlier novel. Labelling himself a 'sentimental traveler,' Yorick's account of his travels is not descriptive, but emotive, revealing his conflicted, if warm-hearted psychology.

The novel begins abruptly in the middle of a conversation between Yorick and his servant over a French policy in the eighteenth century of seizing the property of a foreigner who dies in France. Eager to discover the truth of the matter, Yorick impulsively throws a few shirts in a bag and before the next day ends, lands in Calais, France. Upon his arrival, his initial purpose, like many which he determines on in the course of the book, is forgotten, as his mind drifts from topic to topic as things and people happen to cross his sight. What remains of the novel are a series of pathetic and amorous adventures, in which Yorick's senses of morality, propriety, and common sense are brought into constant conflict with his impetuous nature and good humored guile.

Sterne is too intelligent and expert a writer to allow sentiment, what we might call sappy nonsense, to rule the day in his novel, and the scrapes Yorick get himself into are as much a critique of pure sentiment as an exploration of the uses and practicality of human sympathy. Sterne is playing with a recent tradition of moral philosophy, including the likes of such authors as Shaftesbury and Adam Smith, the latter of whose "Theory of Moral Sentiments" (1759) was at the forefront of popularizing and pragmatizing fellow-feeling. Sterne uses the excitable and impulsive Yorick to play with these ideas, along with those of his acquaintance, David Hume, whose notions of moral aesthetics marked a radical departure from the aforementioned predecessors. Out of all of these high flown philosophical traditions, Sterne fashions a witty and clever series of scenarios - from eating with peasants, bantering with a monk, flirting with a married woman while her husband indifferently watches, and nearly getting thrown in the Bastille - all display a very human look at the world.

Encounters between Yorick and various classes and characters in France illustrate the distance between theory and practice in terms of implementing any kind of systematic philosophy - even, and especially for a man of the cloth, like our protagonist. Yorick means well most of the time, which makes his faults and foibles all the more endearing and amusing. By his own admission, Yorick is constantly falling in love, perhaps to give his bachelor life some sense of chivalric purpose, but when he starts falling in love with every chamber-maid and noblewoman in France, we begin to question, not only his sincerity, but the capacity of his sexual and emotional appetites. It makes for hilarious episodes, especially when his French servant, La Fleur, is dragged into the middle of them.

A forerunner of the focused genre of sentimental fiction like Mackenzie's "The Man of Feeling" and the more refined imaginative sensibilities of many Romantic Era authors, Sterne's little novel, along with "Tristram Shandy" made immediate cultural impact, not only in England, but throughout Europe. Sometimes confusing, often amusing, reading Sterne's "Sentimental Journey" is a great way to while away a summer afternoon.