Written with respect for the dignity and unique culture of the Tarahumara Indians, an indigenous people that live in the Sierra Madre Occidentals (Copper Canyon region). Lots of photographs (both black and white, and color). Although a paperback, it's quite large (pages are about 9"x11"). A "must-have" if you are going to visit, or have visited, Copper Canyon, Mexico.

In the northwestern portion of Mexico, in the mountains known as the Sierra Madre Occidental live the legendary Tarahumara. This is an indigeneous group who have been one of the most successful to resist the onslought of western civilization, beginning with the Spaniards conquest and continuing to this day. Seeing the pictures in this book is like taking a step back in time; they are a culture spared the shadow of time. The Tarahumara are known for maintaining their customs and traditions in spite of of an ever encroaching civilization and tourist trade. The Tarahumara are phenomenal runners who traverse , climb and descend the mountains that reach 9,000 ft. beginning as children and contuinuing into old age. Known for their long distance running they are incredible endurance machines that come from a genetic pool that used to carry letters 600 miles! A contemporary good runner can run forty miles with a steady pace over six to eight hours. This book is a fabulous tribute to the majesty of a proud people, complete with over forty color plates and nearly as many powerful black and white photographs. The book is not only a picture book but has a marvelous text that explains and details how this group has endured the harsh natural conditions as well as the invasion of "outsiders" who tried to indoctrinate them with religion and cultural mores. The simplicity of their home construction in the ranchos and the traditions that continue are an anthropoligsts dream. Some of the cultural traditions are fascinating and a wonderful testament to mankind. This is a good book to read prior to a visit to Mexico and journey along the Copper Canyon. The book aIso includes a bibliography and a glossary for further clarification and further knowledge. I would recommend finding the hard cover edition that is out of print if possible because the photographs are amazing and timeless reflections of a distant and persistant people. The color and black and whote plates are as magnificent aas the people they depict. The oversized edition is a cultural treasure. Regardless of the edition I would recommend this book to anyone who is interested in the people known as the Tarahumara who believe that a mans soul dreams and is manifested and works in mysterious ways at night while his body sleeps.

It's a pity that this book is out of print. You learn all this wonderful theorems at the colleg. But where are the limits? Why some theorems have so strange assumption? Well, this books will provide you with answers, sometimes surprising ones. For example: Two functions whose squares are Lebesgue-integrable and the square of whose sum is not Lebesgue-integrable. And this book is full of examples of this kind, nearly 240 answers to a wide area of basic analysis. One of the advantages of this book: You must not seek for a long time to find the example you are looking for. The examples are sorted in chapters each covering a distinct part of analysis. At last let me cite Mr. Gelbaum himself to characterize the scope of his book: "At the risk of oversimplification, we might say that (aside from definitions, statements and hard work) mathematics consists of two classes - proofs and counterexamples, and the mathematical discovery is directed toward two major goals - the formulation of proofs and and the construction of counterexamples." And cursing Goedel, if none of both succeeds. "Most mathematical books concentrate on the first class, the body of proofs of true statements. In the present volume we adress ourselves to the second class of mathematical objects, the counterexamples for false statements."

Graduate students of mathematics, just buy this book - no questions asked. You need the examples and this level of understanding. For the price there are just no questions - buy it!

I am in seminary and have now used both vols. 1 and 2 of Raitt's work. I have also used a fair number of other texts to get history/theology/spirituality information for classwork and papers. These are among the best sources you can pick up on the subject. Each is a compendium of (believe it or not) good articles on topics covering the range of issues that has shaped Christianity from early times to the present. It also wisely includes considerable information about outside influences like paganism and Islam. The only possible negative comment I could make is that some articles have TOO much information at times. They are all written by respected scholars in the field, and some, while fascinating, run long. But, then again, if you "really need to know more" then this is a great place to start.

An intesting book about the story of the narrow minded puritans fighting back against the british army ,once a great powerful one. A great book espescilly when the army are made out to be fools. A well written book of life in 1777.

A collection of essays by scholars of Apocalypticism. Good cites, interesting reading. Would have given it 5 stars, but the book contains no index, which would have been very useful to me.

This is a very well documented history of the story of John Manjiro the first Japanese to live in United States and Captain Whitfield who rescued him from an island in the Pacific and was his mentor. The story is fasinating! This 14 year old fisherman who was illiterate in Japanese learned English and navigation in Fairhaven Mass. in the 1840's and traveled around the world twice before returning to Japan when he was 24 where he was the prime source of information about the western world for the Japanese authorities. The book is well documented and well written, but does give a little to much detail about the modern connections between Fairhaven and Japan. Still a fasinating true story.

Father John Mc Gloin, S.J. (1912-1988) Late Professor of History at the University of San Francisco. From the Preface,"...the building of this book...long experience in teaching local history at the University of San Francisco....for twenty-five years..." The book gives a good overview of the History of the City. From the Spanish settlements of Presidio and Mission Fr. Mc Gloin takes the reader on a journey from the small town of Yerba Buena to a world class City. Events in the life of the City, from the Gold Rush of 1849, Fire and Earthquake of 1906, ending at the 1978 murder of Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk. Lives of famous San Franciscans are given a good overview.This book is well written easy to read, yet has scholarship in the footnotes and bibliography. Fr. McGloin wrote books related to San Francisco. Eloquent Indian: The Life of James Bouchard, California Jesuit (1949) California's First Archbishop: The Life Joseph S. Alemany, O.P.(1966) Jesuits By The Golden Gate: The Society Of Jesus In San Francisco, 1849-1969 (1972)

Hi,

I bought this book as well as all other books on the topic AND took the training at Apple. Conclusion:

If you want/need to learn WebObjects, take the course at Apple (become good in Java first !) because no book available on the market today will really allow you to get passed the many subtilities of this environment. The learning cure is very steep. Get ready to become a Java guru otherwise you'll be totally lost.

As for this book, the Authors intent are very good, but I could not complete any of the very good techniques described. It gives you an idea of the potential WebObjects has, but it's not a HOWTO kind of book. The examples used are full of errors an ommissions which makes it impossible to fully understand the otherwise valuable techniques the authors are trying to explain. As a proof, I could not compile any applications by doing the exercices, only when downloading it from Wrox's very poor website. When analysing the downloaded source with the book's explanations, I discovered all the hidden java code required to compile the application. That's very frustrating because what they were describing was exactly what I wanted to learn.

The chapters on Direct2Web were great but a whole book would be required on the subject. The D2W apps I've tried with it generated too many errors and no one to turn to for help. D2W potential sounds very good, but it's ONLY for experts in Java I guess.

Anyway, it's still worth buying it, hopefully an errata page will eventually be publish or a second edition to finish the otherwise excellent effort. This book is really for experts only with a very good experience in WebObjects, Java, HTML and sql.

I found Ruzek's book much easier to read.

Regards,

I started coding WO almost 2 years ago now and I sure wish I had this book sitting on my shelf when I started! To be honest I have not read this book from cover to cover, but I did browse all the chapters and the earlier chapters would have turned on the light bulb a lot quicker for me when starting out.

Having said that, this book is not limited to beginners. I have recently started the process of learning DirectToWeb and this book has already paid for itself with just the couple of D2W chapters there are. These chapters are especially important because D2W documentation is sorely lacking in the WO world.

A must have for any WO developers shelf.

OK .. I haven't completed the book yet! But, I have skimmed it entirely. The is one of the best computer books that I have read! WebObjects is deep, there is a lot to it. To use WebObjects one cannot not simply skim documentation and then start to hack away on a project. I started with one of the other books which was good, but effort wasn't yeilding my desired results.

After going throuh the work of reading, doing the excercises and digesting, I need to produce! I kept thinking, just go back to using servlets this ain't worth it. The other book wasn't exposing WebObjects well enough to get me psyched.

The quality of this book and clarity that it is giving me, has kept me working through the chapters. It is well detailed and fun to read. The book's projects are very good, and worthwhile. I feel that when done, my work will have been justified. This is not just a 50 pound redo of readily available product documentation, like so many other books. Most nerds can't write, these guys do, and they did an excellent job.

Next, I'd like to see a refernece manual.

Biochemical Techniques : Theory and Practice by John F. Robyt, Bernard J. White Although this book centers around solid biochemical techniques, it never seems to adequately describe the theory behind the techniques. This problem is compounded by an incomplete index. Many of the techniques discussed in this book are extremely dated. As a biochemical graduate student, I was extremely frustrated with the usefulness of the material covered in this book. The book does describe in good detail several "classic" experimental protocols, and as a result I feel the book would be best utilized by a instructor to design laboratory sections for undergraduate biochemistry classes.

This book is best for undergraduates or for those learning an unfamiliar technique; advanced practitioners will be disappointed. I rely heavily on this book for a thorough understanding of the basics, which are frequently glossed over (or omitted completely) by other authors. I purchased this book as an optional text when I enrolled in undergraduate Biochemistry, and it remains the first book I reach for when I must review the theory behind a technique.

This well-written, fun book is definitely required reading for any would-be Macintosh expert. Although it's now far too outdated to be of very much practical use, it is full of colorful tidbits, descriptions, pointers and secrets from the Mac's "middle period" -- when System 7 was state-of-the-art, when Steve Jobs, the chair behind his desk at Apple still warm, was trying to make NeXT Computing the next big thing, when the PowerPC processor was years into the future. Perhaps the most interesting thing about "Inside Track to the Mac," however, is that its author, John Dvorak, is now notorious for his anti-Macintosh opinions as a columnist for a prominent computer magazine and website. That makes this book fascinating as a relic of Dvorak's past, as well as of the Macintosh's.