This book is an excellent historical reference on American participation on the Western Front. It provides ample politico-military information, as well as illuminating the reader on other scholarship in the field. However, it does suffer a bit on what I would describe as inferior editing. Basically, I would recommend this book for a serious historian looking for a good entry into American involvement on the ground in WW1. Once you have it and read it, it ought to stay on your bookshelf to help you find and work with other texts. If you are just a buff interested in a little light reading on WW1, go elsewhere.

I thought this book was all right in providing material for teachers who write horrible tests. Almost any student would be able to read this book and possible find out the ways teachers write their tests and therefore they might have a better chance at doing well on tests. The author does not really give adequate information on giving students grades though. Where the subject of grading is difficult in the best conditions, he does not provide much help in that area. There is also a typo on page 110.

I am a student of BE computers and have been looking for this book all this sem,finally I came up with the idea to try amazon ,and there it was though its out of print ,I can review it on line and even download the reqd. chapters,isnt that convienient for a student like me,now on I,ll check amazon before any local book store,I can even review so many books before choosing what to buy! its grate

This book gives a true-to-life account of Paul Bowles life in morocco. It gives examples of the things that go on there that you wouldn't expect to find in an ordinary travel guide. I'd reccomend this book to people that were going to Morocco so that they could get a taste of the dark underside of the area. It was a good book and for the most part easy to read. The stories, like most of Bowles work, stick in your head long after reading them.

A classic of German literature which spawned a thousand watered-down progeny, _Till Eulenspiegel_ is a cheerfully scatalogical (but never raunchy) collection of loosely related fablieux-like vignettes depicting the life and times of the eponymous hero. It's little-known in the English-speaking world, largely because of the lack of a good, faithful translation, and this edition is obviously intended to remedy the situation.

It's a worthy goal, and the translation itself is lively and fluid without straying too far from its Germanic roots. The story itself is a good read, which moves too quickly from scene to scene to ever get boring. The trickster hero more or less devotes his life to deflating the pompous, the rich, the smug, the petty, and anyone else who dares obstruct his merry path through life. He does this largely by interpreting figurative or idiomatic phrases literally, like an infuriating younger sibling, but there are a good many tales that centre around more complex and witty scams, and it's these which make the book worth considering as a read. And, like other books in the _World's Classics_ series, the introductory essay is broad-ranging and stimulating.

It's not _Gulliver's Travels_ or _The Decameron_, but it's a very respectable cousin to both.

Wilson was the junior Kansas Assistant Attorney General who, largely through happenstance, wound up arguing Brown v. Board of Education before the Supreme Court -- on what we would call the wrong side. Wilson admits that he was essentially along for the ride, but provides an honest account of why he believed at the time that his position was correct: Kansas law authorized but did not require segregated schools, thus it allowed local school boards to meet local needs.

This book adds little to the history of this landmark case. Most of Wilson's history is covered in Richard Kluger's Simple Justice, which is far more thorough. Much of Wilson's own story is of minor relevance -- filling out the paperwork to be admitted to the Supreme Court bar, his train ride to Washington, how it felt to watch Thurgood Marshall argue the case, etc. However, Wilson does provide some local details to round out the historical record, such as an account of how local Topeka politics almost caused Kansas to default before the Supreme Court.

Wilson doesn't offer much reflection on the experience of being "wrong." Part of the reason is that Wilson's position was not based on racial views, but on his support for local control over schools. He doesn't seem to appreciate how that support for localism, or federalism, could be used to advance malevolent ends (because, to be fair to Wilson, he thought Kansas schools offered equal facilities to blacks and whites). Because Wilson had little moral or personal investment in his position, his loss does not have much of a sting to it. As a result, the book is more of an ant's view of a battle between giants than an effort to confront the ethical dilemma of being a lawyer who represents the "wrong" side.

I am bemused and rather disappointed with this book. Muldoon uses intertextual associativeness to generate wonderful poems -- touching, comic, and stylistically breath-taking. Here he uses the same method in a critical rhapsody that links together a galaxy of Irish literary texts and legends, arranged (or disarranged) in alphabetical order. He moves freely and funnily between Gaelic and English, ancient and modern, biographical and textual. The performance is carried off with brio, in a manner that recalls certain experiments in randomness of Roland Barthes. Unfortunately, many of the allusions Muldoon finds are so farfetched as to make one wince as at a bad pun. He circles around Joyce's "The Dead," adding one or two valid observations to what allusion-hunters have already noted, but otherwise sending readers off on a wild goose chase. Unlike Seamus Heaney, who is a great, authoritative, and highly trained literary critic, Muldoon does not project from his distinctive poetic sensibility a capacious literary critical vision. He flogs to death the idea of "conglomewriting" as a distinctively Irish practice, culminating in Finnegans Wake, but he offers little serious reflection on what the literary value of this practice might be. For that one must turn to works like Gerard Genette's Palimpsestes, which offers a careful and thorough examination of the ancient art of intertextual composition. Professorial pedants will find consolation in the thought that poets may need their services after all.

Taoism started off as a way of life that was free, scientific, logic and full of Te. However, it was designed for the educated, and enlightened leader sage...not the average man. The Treatise on response & retribution is designed as a religious doctorine to give the average man an instructed guide on how to go about in society...without going corrupt. It sounds very much like the Bible in some places.

The book is divided into two parts: 1)The actual treatise and 2)Moral stories about how people are punished and rewarded for good and bad doings...already they have obscured the tao when they have identified the good & bad.

There is no mention about ruling, leadership, openminded philosophy, calming the mind thru meditation, harmonizing the body and its energies, or anything that taoism preaches. It seams to me like this treatise is 60% Confucian, 20% Buddhist, 15% misc, and 5% Taoist. In fact the text constantly mentions Buddhist gods and patron saints of China...however without mentioning the ancients (Taoist masters and the lot).

It does however give the reader a nice understanding of Chinese culture and what it values the most. However, rituals, religion and societal norms are what obscure the tao (as mention in the Chuang Tzu and Lieh Tzu)...where is the Te?

I picked up this book to read in-between a couple of series I have been reading, and I enjoyed it. It is a fast and easy read, If you are just starting to read Christian fiction, or end times books then I would recommend this one to get you started. The characters are interesting, although not much depth to the story lines, Makes a great lazy afternoon book.

This is a book written by authors well known as former CIA personnel in Turkey. This rather old book has numerous mistakes as facts and one feels that the authors' best sources are Turkish university professors!