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Actually, I don't want to review this book since I am one
of the book editors. I just wish to point out that the book
is incorrectely referenced. The actual title, publisher and
editors are as follows:

title: Cellular Automata: Proceeding of the 5th International Conference on Cellular Automata for Research and Industry, ACRI 2002.

Editors: S. Bandini, B. Chopard, M. Tomassini

Publisher: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2493, Springer
Verlag, Heidelberg, 2002.

I really wanted to like this book, but I found it hard to get through. The villains are identified early in the book, so the mystery element disappears. The characters are all so serious that there is no humor. I realize it is not a comedy, but a light moment here or there would make the characters seem human. What an unbelievably dreary collection of people. The technical elements seem to be correct if that is what you are looking for.

Guattari is an important and rich thinker, but he seems to succumb to the poststructuralist illusion that one must make use of obscure writing in order to produce creative thinking. There are many thinkers who have explicated complex issues without resorting to this sort of writing: Freud, Marx, de Man, Kant, Aristotle, come to mind. It is unfortunate that Guattari feels that he must write in a way that makes the issues he grapples with more difficult, rather than less difficult, for us to grasp. This is the reason poststructuralist thought will, unfortunately, NEVER initiate any kind of social change: these thinkers are more interested in aggrandizing themselves through arcane writing directed towards an intellectual elite than they are in creating a dialogue with the rest of us. Guattari is a great theorist and should be read, but he creates an extremely hierachized, stratified space of readers (between the knowers and those who don't know), and this confining structure needs to be explored and called into question.

I thought this book jumped all over the place. I found there to be just a small section on Harold Washington. Very diappointing for research material.

This book is an interesting look at the theme of justification, the law, and salvation in the New Testament. Seifrid combines both traditional Protestantism and the New Reformation perspective together in this complex subject. In chapter 1, Seifrid deals with Paul's life, before and after conversion. How and why Paul persecuted the Church and his subsequent conversion to Christianity. Seifrid denies the newer understanding of Paul's opposition and solution to the Jewish problem by arguing that Paul did not see the Jewish problem due to its continuing exile or because of its nationalism through the symbolic elements of the Law. Paul opposed the Jewish "gospel" because it demanded that people do works of the law to gain salvation. Chapter 2 is a short commentary on Romans 1-8. However, I do take exception to Seifrid's contention that Romans 2:13 refers to justification by works at the Final Judgment FOR believers. Chapters 3 and 4 are about Paul's understanding of justification and the Law. I do object to his view that justification is a "renewal/transformation" of creation. However, he does an excellent job proving that the Law is a whole unit, not a tripartite entity. In chapter 5, Seifrid does a good job explaining what "obedience of faith" means. Contrary to some scholars (e.g., Garlington and Schreiner), the phrase does not mean "doing works" but putting faith in the risen Christ for salvation. However, he still believes that final justification for believers will be based on their works (but not as a reflection of saving faith). Chapter 6 is the best chapter of the book. Seifrid goes over the history and fall of physical Israel and why God ordained them to fall. The author's contention is that God ordained the fall of Israel so that He can display His gracious soteric acts from the condemnation of the masses. God's glory and grace can only be manifested in darkness. Justification can only come when there is condemnation. Though there are only a "remnant" of Israelites being saved throughout history, the author makes an excellent case for the full conversion of physical Israel at the Second Coming (pp. 158-168). Chapter 7 is the only chapter I have a problem with. Seifrid's position on justification is more along the views of Schlatter, Kasemann, and Stuhlmacher, and proposes for the "recreational" view of justification rather than the purely forensic (traditional Protestantism). He even criticizes Protestants for making too much of forensic justification and imputation of Christ's righteousness. Therefore, he significantly departs from traditional Protestant soteriology. On page 181, he even states that justification is by works alone (his understanding of James 2:14-26)! Many evangelical Protestants will have a hard time agreeing with Seifrid's view on justification (as a result, Seifrid sides with so-called evangelical scholars like Fuller, Hafemann, Schreiner, Garlington, and Thielman). The first 6 chapters are good; the final chapter is bad. Overall, an interesting look at the Law and Justification.

As I am going to accompany four of my fourth graders to Christopher Paul Curtis's house to interview him for an article (WOW - what an exciting prospect!), I was very pleased to finally find a biography about him, even if it is just a short picture book. However, the mistakes in the book started with the second sentence and continued throughout the book.

First, the book starts on page five by telling that Curtis is the first African-American ever to win the Newbery Medal - someone might want to check with Virginia Hamilton (whoops, too late - she died earlier this year) and Mildred D. Taylor, both African-American authors who won the Newbery Medal in the 1970's. This misinformation is repeated on page 27.

On page 22, the book says, "Curtis' first book won a Newbery Honor, which the American Library Association gives to just four children's books a year." This is not true - I don't know whether there is an official limit to Newbery Honors in one year, but for the last several years there have been between one and four Newbery Honors per year, and up to five per year in the 1970's (with only two given this year).

The book tells that Curtis worked on Flint's Fisher Body assembly line for 13 years, but gives the impression that this job lasted from 1971 to around 1993 - the author should clarify this.

The bio claims that THE WATSONS "was named one of the year's best books by the Coretta Scott King Foundation." Actually it was named a Coretta Scott King Award "Honor Book," a runner-up for the medal.

The writing is a bit flat in the book - the subject is referred to as "Christopher Paul Curtis" or simply "Curtis" most of the time, even as a child, and occasionally "Christopher," but never "Chris," which is what he generally goes by in everyday life. This makes the book seem much less personal. Page 17 really jumped out at me as being poorly written, and I even had to reread a couple sentences to understand exactly what the author meant to say.

Having done intensive Internet searches about Curtis to prepare for our visit, I recognized a good deal of this book as having come directly out of Internet articles, often word for word, though there are no citations listed. I'm sure there are probably other errors besides the ones I caught - maybe we can ask Curtis while we are in Windsor!

And a last complaint - there is inconsistent use of the possessive form of Curtis in this book. Page 11 says, "But Mr. Curtis's patients were all black people..." which is written the way I learned. But the rest of the time it is written as on page 10 - "Curtis' other grandfather..." and page 18 - "...they went to Curtis' car." Right or wrong, the book could at least be consistent. The author and editor were very careless throughout the book.

On the positive side, there are many nice pictures on every other page through some of the 32-page book (except none on pages 11-21). The book does a nice job telling about Curtis's life and writing, and would be a good introduction to Curtis for young readers. However, the glaring errors in this book would make me very reluctant to purchase other author biographies in this series (Roald Dahl, Gary Paulsen, J. K. Rowling, Maurice Sendak, and Dr. Seuss).

St. Mary-le-Bow, Cheapside, St. Bride, Fleet Street and St. Stephen Walbrook (the 'dress rehersal for St. Paul's Cathedral') are familiar to most Londoners; their elaborate spires, now hemmed in by ugly office-blocks, spatter the horizons of tidy panoramas of 18th century London by Canaletto and Samuel Scott. Every one of these - with maybe the exception of St. Martin Ludgate - was gutted during the Second World War, by which time many of their pews, reredos and glass had been ousted in favour of convenient but sytlistically incongruent fittings. St. Dunstan-in-the-East, not exclusive in Wren's oeuvre as an exercise in 'Gothick' architecture (in spirit rather than in form), is now a pretty free-standing tower looming over a formal garden. St. Mary Aldermanbury was rebuilt in Wisconsin, whilst St. Michael Bassishaw, and St. Christopher-le-Stocks (to name but two) survive only as drawings and descriptions. Jeffery's 'City Churches of Sir Christopher Wren' is an affordable, nicely produced survey of the 52 London churches built from 1670 to replace those gutted during the Great Fire in 1666. After several discursive essays on design, attribution, fittings and other aspects of their conception, Jeffrey provides an expansive gazetter of each church.

His objective is - as he states in his introduction - to present a case for the conservation of the 20-odd churches that remain, whilst addressing aspects of authorship and parochial history relevant to the particular buildings. For those who find the twenty volumes of the exhaustive (and undigested) Wren Society journals daunting and (in the case of most copies accessable) rather fragile, Jeffery's parochial histories and surveys of expenses, craftsmen and subsequent renovations to the churches are brief, concise, and specific. The photographs and engravings included (as appropriate) are eloquent and printed to a high standard. Furthermore, plans (some in Jerrery's own hand) of churches of which little information can be milked (St. Olave Jewry, St. Matthew Friday Street and St. Mary Woolnoth before Hawksmoor replaced it, etc.) are included with each entry in the gazetter, and this section is the author's finest; but his excursions in problems of authorship give frequent pause for thought.

The attribution of St. Paul, Benet's Wharf, and St. Edmund the King to Robert Hooke is reasonably well established: the elevation of the recessed ranges of Bethlehem Hospital and the east and west elevations of Ramsbury Manor are sufficiently close in detail to identify Hooke as the probable author. Furthermore, the similarity of St. Martin Ludgate to St. Edmund means that Hooke's oeuvre is more elastic than one might have anticipated. However, the oblique and hazy attribution of the steeple of St. Mary-le-Bow to Hawksmoor is, quite simply, unhistorical: a drawing by Hawksmoor for the church (complete with an unbuilt three-bay brick loggia with stone coigns and pilasters) is not sufficient ground for the attribution that Jeffery implies. Furthermore, the delegation of 'thirds' of the city to respective surveyors (which has some documentary support) contradicts Jeffery's own conclusion that autograph works by Wren are largely concentrated in the north and west of the city. This would account for St. Clement Danes and St. James Picadilly (whose authorship has never been doubted), but the churches grouped far further east (around St. Vedast, Foster Lane, and St. Lawrence Jewry) are similarly attributed to Wren in other studies on what seem sound traditions. Jeffery does not delve into stylistic analysis to a sufficient degree to play with questions of this sort, and the results he presents should be treated with caution.

As a book that pleads for the conservation of these sometimes crude, ugly or obscure but consistently fascinating and diverse churches, The 'City Churches' succeeds. Thomas Archer's vast Westminster church, St. John, Smith Square, is at present a concert hall; similarly, Wren's St. Magnus the Martyr, whose rusting iron cramps are staining the coursed rubble masonry at the east-end, has been relegated the status of an uninteresting, decaying hybrid wedged onto a narrow site. Jefferys study underlines - in its imperfect but worthwhile scholarship - that the City Churches of Sir Christopher Wren, despite mutilation and neglect (All Hallows, Lombard Street, was pulled down, in the face of fairly serious disgust, as recently as 1938), continue to warrant study and are of considerable architectural interest.

This is sort of a praise book as the series "Modern Icons" might suggest. Though full of quotes, facts, a full discography, a band roster and countless bits of useful information, it is totally devoid of character. A good book if you're really interested in the Clash, but don't expect to be reading too much.

This is a two disc set; one for Greek authors, another for Latin. It contains selections from Homer, Sappho, Anacreon, Eurpides, Theocritus, Moschus, Bion, Anacreontea, Palatine Anthology, Lucretius, Catullus, Virgil, Horace, Tibullus, Propertius, Ovid, Martial, Juvenal, and Petronius. This disc is NOT in Greek or Latin but in English, rendering quite useless to anyone wishing to use it to study the languages.