Ruiz has given scholars and laymen alike an interesting interpretation of the Mexican revolution. Ruiz argues that Mexico did not experience a revolution but rather a rebellion. Although Ruiz makes some valuable points and supports his thesis with reliable sources, it would be premature to make a generalized critique of the Mexican revolution. By this I mean, it is true that some geographical areas in Mexico did not participate in the revolution and that many states had different experiences and outcomes. Yet it can also be argued that sinse much of the new Mexican historiograghy is being conducted around subaltern communities, we are learning new ways of how to analyze and critique the so called "great rebellion." Overall, the book stimulates new ideas and controvercies about an event that changed the lives of Mexican's politically, economically, socially, and historically.

Inspirational story by a reluctant baseball coach and mentor who helped 16 inner-city kids avoid the streets and succeed in sports and life. Tru Dixon is not perfect but he is honest, caring and willing to give of himself. When you read this book you will feel like doing something good today!

Unlike so many books on the Japanese Colonial Empire which tend to be quite narrow on their focus, this compulation covers the entire empire, formal and informal. Also to its credit, the essays inside are a good mixture of specifically focused and more broadly outlined writings. Overall it is a good buy for any level, from those just beginning to learn colonial history to those much more well versed.

I needed data on array processing and AoA tracking. This book provided me with that. The other info was well presented although some referencing would have been useful. All in all though well worth the money.

This book is unique in that it is both low-priced and provides an overview of four popular languages - C, C++, Java and VisualBasic (I couldn't find anything on Pascal and Fortran, unlike what the Publisher's review implies). It is sometimes heavy going and or lacks detail in places, and will need to be supplemented by other books and courses. Still, it's good value for the price.

The most interesting use of pespective I've ever encountered. Sender gives the view of the begining of the revolution through 10 different points, even the moon! Even though fiction, you get a comprehensive feel of what it must have been like. He disects coflict with poetry.

Ramon Valle Inclan's collection of plays is innovative and pave the way for the coming of Brecht, Beckett, and other expressionist writers. However, what is interesting to note is that though it is expressionist in nature, the play's various elements are still naturalistic in nature. This does not produce jarring effects on playgoers and readers not familiar with the expressionist school of thought. The play creates vivid images of interplays of ancient animism, Christianity, and politics. For readers who appreciates Latin American writers, this collection is a good find. The plays Divine Words, Bohemian Lights, and Silver Face are challenges for theater directors and actors. This collection of translations is indeed a good starting point for actors and directors planning to stage a grotesque-comedy play.

With a shot of '60s idealism, the insight of an experienced newsman, and years of experience close to the White House, Garces gives us a fast-paced and enjoyable story. Take it as an antidote to Clinton fatigue or as a guide to the sure-to-come political crises of the new administration, or simply as a satisfying weekend read. You will be glad you did. The witch hunt is aimed at the nomination for attorney general of a president facing a re-election challenge from his own party. The nominee gets involved with a university coed fighting drug addiction, and the potential for scandal as the party's nominating convention approaches threatens disaster both for him and the president. Cocktail party gossip, media leaks, and the Congress versus the President--sounds familiar, but the book presents a fresh and credible look at what the public does not see. A sad note: Ramon died while working on his second book; so this is the only one he authored which was published. It has been well received, but certainly merits more attention.

I need to do some parameterized expectation work. I read Chapter 7. It is not well-written. The authors first introduce the general framework, and then introduce a series of examples. People would be stuck at the general framework part. They don't know WHY do we do that.

A better way to introduce this method would be to use one or two completely worked out examples, paying particular attention to explain the ideas behind doing what we are doing. This way people will know the ideas behind the method, even though not necessarily the general framework (who need to know the general framework anyway?) Then introduce the general framework, and more examples.

with the reviewer from Chile. This is a very good book covering a fairly wide range of material at a level that is surprisingly accessible. It is well edited, and makes solid use of the internet to provide programs for buyers to download and try for themselves. Highly recommended.

This book has the merit of collecting many major recent contributions from authors that continuosly make serious research in numerical and computational methods of solving the now basic problems we face in macroeconomics principally (but that serves in other areas in economics too), that put them in a simple theoretic and practical way for the economist. It perfectly serves as an introductory book for graduate studies in this area and as an complete reference book for further research.

This book is valuable if for no other reason than its presumption that sexuality has a history, and its tracing of the emergence of modern forms of sexuality thorugh the colonial documents of the Spanish conquest of New Mexico. One should not be seduced by Gutierrez's title into thinking that his text is riddled with pithy and complicated observations about the intersection of race, power and sexuality. Rather, the text itself manifests and speaks quietly of new questions and possible answers to be gleaned from considering colonial conquest as a two-way event; one in which the conqueror is affected as much as the conquered. It is, I think, a radical idea to examine how the symbol/belief system of Pueblo indians interfaced and ultimately facilitated their conquest. Similar, it is interesting to observe the colonialist system of self-other become undermined by conquest, hopelessly buttressed by extreme racist measures, and ultimately falls, playing out an Hegelian dialect- the seeds of destruction are immanent to creation. At the root of the author's project is the notion that people are conquered, subjected, not so much by the sword but by the imposition of discourse, which as Foucault reminds us is always negotiated between power and resistance.

This book in not of the divulgative kind. It is more of a scholarly work. Sometimes too heavy, insistent and lenghty. But it provides a very intersting glimpse in the past of the SouthWest and the conflicts that the encounters between the indians and the spaniards caused. The inability of the spaniards to deal with ancient indian customs in one hand and the church and morals they brought with themselves, remnants of a dying world, in the other, the deception the indians suffered as they applied their own beliefs to the spaniards, the codes and whims that regulated the sexuality of these two vastly different worlds...it all makes for an exciting subject and a great diary of the life in the U.S a long time ago. The author doesn't portray the indians as free of prejudice like they would want us to believe these days, neither are the spaniards just mere enslavers and ill-guided colonists. The views are more balanced and make better sense. Even centering the thesis aroun! d sexual matters was very illustrative and rich.

This is an excellent book. While the book has received some criticism, anyone who has read them will realize that they have little value. The passionate nature of the attacks on this book make it obvious that the attitude they are written in is anything but scholarly. It's true that there are assumptions and subtleties that could trouble some people, but they should be no problem for the intelligent and alert reader. Note that most of the things that were questioned about the book were very clearly explained in the introduction of the text.