This book had a great combination of Gadamer's hermeneutical approach to understanding language and the issue of power in Foucalt's understanding. It shows the basis for the understanding of power is based within the language system of the agent. A very good read for anyone interested in social philosophy.

I found this book to be very imformative in dealing with chronic pancreatitis. It was very simple and understandable to read. You did not need a medical degree to understand the information in the book. This book helped me to be able to make better informed decisions on my medical treatment of this disease. The graphs and illustrations were also very understandable. It helped me to explain to my family and friends what was going on with my body. I would highly recommend it to newly diagnosed patients. I felt not so alone after reading the book.

Overall, this book is a useful reference for anyone engaging in a Bioinorganic course at the upper undergraduate or early postgraduate level. This book is sufficiently informative and can be used as a recommemded text for the upper undergraduate level in a course in Bioinorganic Chemistry.

An extraordinary look back of the 'magic' period of the early '70s, when the world first became aware of this superb orchestra--despite its (then) 80-year history. Solti's demands to tour, combined with what can only be called a vacancy at the top of the American orchestral world, projected the CSO forward--but for the first time ever, it occurred at the speed of modern media.

Heavily detail-oriented, the book spends a lot of time on individual players, which for many players of the era end up serving as memorials. It also lacks a grand overview of the direction of the season, dealing with schedules, tours, recordings and the work stoppage as episodes rather than clearly drawing the arc. But the book is redeemed by its loving depiction of what makes the CSO unique in North America; its extraordinary internal discipline, fierce pride in its Central European heritage and sound, tradition of training its own, and insistence on the very finest world-class first chairs, many of whom would ordinarily have superb solo careers. In explaining the CSO from that perspective, Furlong has written less of a diary and more of a primer as to why no one else gets it so right, year in and year out.

The CSO recently left a prominent first chair open for four years, rather then comprimise on replacing the legendary Ray Still. Despite the troubles that today's rather generic conductors may cause, Furlong allows you to understand the CSO fully: the virtuosity, discipline, and tradition are intact, awaiting only the right conductor.

Wunderlich got bad press for the ideas he promulgates in this book, even before it was published. His basic idea is that the so-called Minoan palaces were actually mausoleums, not dissimilar to saying that, like the Egyptians, Etruscans, and other ancient peoples, the Minoans put a great emphasis on the afterlife and their after death dwellings, and didn't leave behind well-preserved homes and the like.

Wunderlich attributes the destruction of the palaces to graverobbing, and notes that at Knossos the bathtub-shaped sarcophagi were identified by Evans et al as bathtubs. Wunderlich sees the entire Knossos complex for what it apparently was -- a place for the embalming and storage of the dead nobility. That the internal architecture of some Etruscan tombs is identical with Minoan tombs which were made by a culture supposedly long gone nearly a thousand years earlier is pointed out by Wunderlich. He is however mystified by the similarity.

In 1978 Barry Fell published translations of Etruscan, showing that it belonged to the Anatolian group of languages, including Minoan which is expressed in Linear A. Likewise, he noted the elements of the much later Petrachian sonnet in a surviving pre-Roman Etruscan inscription.

Although Immanuel Velikovsky must have been unaware of these two developments, the elimination of the phony "dark age" of Greece in his reconstruction of history is consistent with and supported by both. It's interesting that in "Ramses II and His Time" (p 90, ISBN 1568490240) Velikovsky suggested that the "Hittite" library preserved an extensive library of Etruscan, since the misdating of the archive will have prevented such an identification.

"Removing the historical scene to where it belongs, namely, to the seventh and sixth centuries before the present era, we wonder which of these languages is Chaldean, which Phrygian, which Lydian, which Median, which perchance Etruscan, spoken by a people who came to Italy from Asia Minor... 'Hittite' was the language most commonly used during the Empire period. Modern scholarship found that Lydian 'seems to be Hittite' -- the Lydian and the 'Hittite' kingdoms were contemporary, and used the same language. Hurrian... is but a mistaken name for Carian."

Other books of interest: Barry Fell's "America BC", "Saga America", and "Bronze Age America", and the Epigraphic Society Occasional Publications (vols 1 - 23). Also see my ListMania lists.

Lukacs is far and away the most impressive Marxist critic I've read... but, alas, he suffers from all of the flaws which are common to Marxist criticism. His analyses of Tolstoy and Balzac are brilliant, as are his comments on Zola's shortcomings. Unfortunately, he doesn't know how to deal with writers who do not fit neatly into a Marxist theory of criticism: he ignores Dostoyevsky altogether and views Nietzsche, one of the most hardcore individualists of all time, as a reactionary facist.

Still, Lukacs is obviously widely read, and has an enormous knowledge of 19th century European literature and philosophy. I find that his work is often most interesting in the places where he is trying to shoehorn it into a Marxist pigeonhole and failing miserably: it makes me understand why throughout much of his career he was viewed with suspicion by the Party. Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds, and it's clear that Lukacs was a great mind, if not always a great spirit.

If you are interested in modern Marxism -- or in modern criticism of European literature -- this volume is indispensible.

Judith Butler, who is nowadays best known for her theory of "performative" gender differenciation, wrote her thesis about the reception of Hegel's philosophy in France. The book is not an exhaustive overview of Hegelian reflections as they appeared, in various forms, in the twentieth century France, but it certainly does include the most important of them (except for Georges Bataille, whose version of Hegelianism is not mentioned in the book, but in her new preface, Judith Butler herself admits this absence). In the first part of the book, Butler deals with Kojeve's and Hyppolite's interpretations of Hegel's Phenomenology, while the second part is concerned with Sartre, Lacan, Foucault and Deleuze. Even though the book doesn't bring anything new to those who are already familiar with the work of the thinkers mentioned above, it may be read as an extremely clear and concise introduction to the French Hegelianism.

This is a good book for learning about Tanganyikans...

It has alot of useful information for such a small book. For someone unfamiliar with the habits of Shell-Dwellers this is very informative. It gives you recommended tank sizes for most of the popular Tangs (Neolamps, Frontosa, Calvus, Lamps) as well as a limited compatability between certain species.

There is a section about which plants can survive in an African tank... this is hard info to find.

The only think that I found lacking was a complete section of photos, descriptions, specs and stats of each species. This would've added alot to the book and made it into a true reference guide.

In any case it is a very fun book to look at from time to time. There's always stuff in there to learn about.

This is a widely underrated text due to Hegel's later recanting most of his points. But this is essential to anyone understanding the development of the Hegelian Model of thought

It didn't matter who was calling me - I knew how the telephone worked. When it rang (or chirped) I knew why and - more important - how to stop it. I answered the telephone. Simple as that.