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Horthy was elected regent ín a dísmembered, revolutíon torn, plundered wasteland. In two decades Hungary was put on the map as a respected índependent country. Horthy díd not ínterfere wíth domestíc polítícs and ordered hands off the Honvéd Army to prevent nazí propaganda spreadíng líke wíldfíre. Horthy trusted hís mílítary leaders, who deserted hím, as díd the Vítez Order. Born, educated as noble gentry, Horthy was a predestínate to joín the crowd and escape before the Bolshevík Army. He chose to stay wíth hís Natíon, settíng eternal exemple of true patríotísm.

It has been a while since I've come across a comprehensive guide to Zambia, perhaps it's because Zambia is still the undiscovered gem of Africa. The author's have done a great job in portraying the 'fun' and 'excitement' you'll have exploring the country.

The first two chapters of "Agent Technology" provide an informative introduction to the field of this branch of artificial intelligence and to the content of the book. The third chapter should have been the capstone of the introductory material, but fell short for its failure to illustrate a key point. Included in the third chapter was a poorly constructed chart that attempted to demonstrate the extent of integration required in a service order processing system. Had the chart been functionally oriented, the reader might have effortlessly identified the number of redundant systems, the degree of functional dispersal over unique systems, and even the tortuous trail taken by a customer to simply fill an order. The chart would then have illustrated precisely why that chapter, "Agent Software for Near-Term Success," is critical to understanding the proposed role of agents in today's complex systems.

A chapter on the concept of cooperating agents was excellent. It proposed a body-head-communicator metaphor for agent intellectual construction, then developed that metaphor through a language supporting some essential semantic primitives, resulting in the definition of generic agent types for any cooperative network of agents. The body performs domain-dependent functions; the head manages problem solving, and the communicator, of course, communicates with the external world. That chapter concluded with two easily visualized examples: a calendar assistant and a car parking assistant.

The chapter "Building Agent Based Systems in Telecom Networks" was too general. Although relevant to agent technology, most of the content was generally applicable to ANY agent construct, and did not seem specifically useful within telecom networks, as promised by the title of the chapter. A more apropos title for this particular chapter would have been "Mobile Agents," which is a section in that chapter and seemed more accurate.

My recommendation is the reader should initially familiarize himself with the field by reading the first two introductory chapter of "Agent Technology." Further chapters may be read as independent articles, depending on the interest or needs of the reader.

In this book, Ms. Mohr gets at the heart of Puerto Rican pride with the touching story of a young girl sent to the mainland, so her family on the island of Puerto Rico won't be so burdened financially. Evelina Lopez is 11 years old at the start of the story. She is saying her good-byes to her mother and two sisters. She is leaving to live with her aunt and uncle in New York during the Depression Era. Evelina faces this event with great courage, albeit with great sorrow at having to leave her family. When she gets to New York, her aunt and uncle greet her and she is taken to their home and shown her room. The school year has begun and soon Evelina is enrolled and attending her first classes in English. She is smart and learns quickly. She has run-ins with some girls but handles herself well and makes friends easily. Evelina is a doer. She has a clear way of seeing things and acts on her beliefs. She is strong, fair, helpful, and good. She figures out a way to get food for many neighbors who are too proud to accept charity. During this time of great hardship, Evelina is a symbol of hope. I would like to have met Evelina Lopez. Her life seems to have been an inspiration.

This version of an often translated and annotated text contains a great deal of material for those to whom medieval spiritual literature is either a leisure pastime or a new intellectual indulgence. The prose -- even in modern translation -- is lovely and meticulous. The construction of this spiritual ediface is often breathtaking, even for those who don't share in the author's transcendent vision of temptation and redemption. Written around 1230 in the West Midlands of England for a group of three anchoritic sisters -- women who were walled up along the outside of a church for the sake of contemplation and a closer spiritual life with Christ -- this text contains not only the Ancrene Wisse, but those shorter and often overlooked documents that accompanied the Wisse in several of its incarnations. The editors of this version were meticulous in summarizing the most recent scholarship on the origins of this text -- they agree with Dobson that the anonymous author was likely not a Dominican but an Augustinian Canon -- and concisely summarize each piece for readers who might otherwise have difficulty reading the prose.

Not for those more advanced researchers in Middle English scholarship, but otherwise a wonderfully readable and comprehensible text for those seeking material on medieval women's spirituality.

We follow a young lawyer as he becomes more and more drawn into a deadly search for truth. His recently-deceased father's honor and his own very young flirtation bring him into a 'campaign of terror' devised by a truly evil serial killer.

Tyacke rejects the traditional Whig approach to a "high road" to the English reformation. He is also critical of the Marxist historiography of the period which claims the Puritans as a new bourgois in conflict with the established church. (Such interpretations provided by Christopher Hill). Tyacke as many other revisionist sees a general consensus in the English church. There was a general Calvinistic tradition demonstrated by the 39 Articles and the Lambeth Articles. At the ascension of William Laud the Arminians had gained control of some of the powerful positions in the country and were pushing for liturgical reform. They had also succeeded in equivocating theological Calvinism with the slander of Puritanism. This pushed the Calvinist traditions into a counter-attack which resulted in the Revolution. Tyacke's work is in the line of other revisionists of the period such as Patrick Collinson, Peter Lake and Kenneth Fincham. His work has suffered some critical reviews most notably by the "counter-revisionist" Peter White who prefers to see the various theological positions of the period as a "spectrum" with minorities of radical Arminians and radical Puritans. In this method White explains that Arminianism has received an undue amount of the blame for the revolution by revisionist scholars such as Tyacke.

Antonio da Sangallo the Younger was one of the most important architects of the Renaissance during the first half of the 16th century in Italy. A few of his buildings belong to the guiding examples of public and private architecture. Overshadowed by better known artists like Bramante or Michelangelo, his reputation among his contemporaries was as least as high as that of those. But he is also the one architect by whom survived more drawings than of any other one of that time (and even of later times). The long-prepaired edition of these drawings - from the collection of the Florentine Uffizi - is a milestone not only in architectural history, but also in editing important art historical material at all. A group of famous and highly-skilled architectural historians made this work available with a lot of deep-going contributions to the analysis of the drawings. So, reading comments about fortresses, machines and other buildings normally not thought of to be of great interest at all, lets one understand how an architect with great skill and experience (and a large group of collaborators) managed "his job". In fact, Sangallo seems to be the first architect in European history, who organized his work in a way very close to the one still used today: the architect gives ideas to further development to his collaborators, corrects their contributions and organizes the whole work of the "studio" rather than doing everything himself - as others did at the same time. I think, one can not only learn a lot about a special architect in a special time from this book, but also, how architectural invention and execution was organized in the renaissance (and from then on). The detailed analytic descriptions of the drawings sometimes even read like a step-by-step solution of complicated riddles, and it's interesting to follow the discussion of such a complicated matter. If you are interested in architecture or art history, this book is a must!

This issue of the Journal of Consciousness Studies offers a useful and illuminating collection of articles from major neuroscience researchers (including Ramachandran and Zeki) on how the architecture and organization of the brain influences our perception of art. Zeki's article formed the basis for his new book ("Inner Vision: An Explanation of Art and the Brain"), while Ramachandran obviously enjoys the opportunity to show off his erotic art collection! Highly recommended for anyone curious about how the brain constrains and channels our perceptions, and our appreciation of art.