Hello! I want to told you some thing about Belmondo, and how in my country love Bebely (Jean-Paul Belmondo). In this book I read some thing which I don't know before. I know before only after his first films. And I know for him like a bocs (sometimes when he have a rest time), I know something about his childrens, but here I read more information. If you want to know something about Belmondo - read this book and I think after that you understand about his films.

Mark Poster walks the reader through sections of the history of 20th century French philosophy, delving a bit into other times and nations as well, in order to tell a story about what he terms "existential marxism". The sections on the influence of Hegel, as mediated by Kojeve and Hyppolite, are fairly good, though Vincent Descombes _Modern French Philosophy_ is better. Considering the importance that the early Marx has in Poster's narrative, Poster's handling of Marx and his French reception is a little quick, and doesn't offer as much as it should to readers unfamiliar with the _1844 Manuscripts_. Poster's discussion of existentialism is a little better, though the almost complete lack of attention to the philosophy Kierkegaard and Heidegger was a little puzzling. Poster's treatment of Merleau-Ponty is quite interesting, as is the relatively in depth section on Henri Lefebvre. Though it may not have been his intention, Poster demonstrates how Merleau-Ponty and Lefebvre prefigure a lot of ideas in parlance among 'postmodern' theorists, like the focus on ambiguity and open-endedness in M-P's case, and an analysis on the loss of signification and the alienation of every day life in Lefebvre's writing. Given Merleau-Ponty and Lefebvre's anticipation of and contributions to much of what are now considered 'postmodern' ideas, it's a shame the two are not more widely read. Hopefully Poster's sympathetic treatment will go a little ways to rectifying this.

My biggest complaint about the book is that an inordinately large portion of is spent on the work of Jean-Paul Sartre. While the sections on Sartre's ambivalent and conflict-ridden relationship with the French Communist Party and CP intellectuals is interesting, it doesn't advance the book's goal of establishing 'existential marxism' as a viable and important historical development. Granted, Sartre is important, particularly to Poster's chosen focus on 'existential marxism', but some of the Sartre could have been trimmed in favor of more attention to other figures. Also, given the prominence of Sartre, it would have been nice to have had an exposition on Simone De Beauvoir, who is relegated completely to a supporting role, providing biographical and corraborative quotes to Poster's Sartre without being presented as an important and original figure in her own right. Conspicuously lacking from this book is the Situationist International, a particularly glaring oversight given the importance which the events of May 1968 play in Poster's story. The Situationists were very important to the May revolution, and yet they receive only a one line mention in Poster's exposition on Lefebvre. Perhaps the Situationists absence was deliberate, as focusing on the SI would undercut Poster's thesis that May of '68 vindicates the importance of existential marxism. To be fair, including the SI would have meant lengthening the book pretty substantially, and introducing several new concepts that wouldn't have advanced the story Poster wishes to tell. Most of my problems with the book arise because it's a work of intellectual history, not of philosophy, something that Poster admits. In spite of its flaws, I'd recommend this book for anyone looking for a good introduction to the points of contact between marxism and existentialism, or anyone who's interested in the intellectual history of post-war France. It's well-written, fairly concice, well-paced, and informative.

control is of course a branch of physics. Lately
there is an increased interest in the study of quantum control but classical control theory is much less vigorously study
(unfortunately in many ''physics'' depts today a large percentage of research involves nonphysics topics like biology,astronomy etc at the expense of other hard core physics subjects like classical control).

from the point of view of theoretical physics then, this is a highly dissapointing book. You wont find the insight which usually is the standard practice in theoretical physics. with the exception of the last chapter all other are too much descriptive with minimum insight into the hard core of physics, that is mathematics and with no explicit mechanics analysis.

Perhaps the book is wriiten for engineers which belong to another scientific culture than theoreetical physics. But then why is it published in the m series?

finally I need to congratulate SPRINGER for its ability to produce nice hardbound editions at rational prices. Publishers
like Cambridge for example could not even dream offering hardbound books at thse prices. I only hope that in the future Springer will publish something more fundamental in fluid dynamic control.

Although this book is short, probably to keep it economical enough to entice consumers to make their own vino, the book is easy to read and straight to the point.

Ted has been making homemade wine for eons and his quick knowledge of the basic additives (chemicals), equipment and grape concentrate/juice is evident.

Ted works on the assumption that you know NOTHING about making wine and are only interested in learning the basics, especially working with the easy-to-use wine kits now readily available on the market.

He includes some handy tables, written in simple layman's terms, and a small trouble shooting guide.

My only criticism is that there is very little information on corks, bottles, shrink capsules and labelling. After all the book is only 48 pages short.

If you are looking for a quick read, this is it; we sell dozens of these books every month to new winemakers who don't have access to fresh grapes or a vineyard. It works for us up here in the great Northeast.

Dumont's study on the Panare Indians of Venezuela is by far the most narcisstic, self-centered anthropological study I have ever read. While any anthropologist brings in to the fieldwork experience their own biases and assumptions, Dumont takes this reality too far. Studying the Panare's affect on himself, and his own affect on the Panare is an interesting approach, but may have detracted from the reader receiving the real essence of the people. However, the study was well documented and fairly interesting.

Sartre scholar Ronald Aronson errs immediately in his intro to Hope Now: The 1980 Interviews by writing that questions about these interviews can be "posed dispassionately" now, meaning, of course, that they can be posed objectively & thereby synopsizes all that has made American liberal education the grand failure that it is. Moreover, Sartre might have disapproved. What did he write about "committed literature?"

In the weeks before his death, Sartre and long-time personal secy Benny Levy recorded a series of discussions, in the form of interviews, some of which were published in a Paris weekly newspaper. Levy, a former Maoist student leader (for the contemporary American student, Maoist student leader is probably as archaic or unknown a term as internal combustion engine) & ardent student of Sartre, fairly attacked the blind & aging writer/philosopher, at times engaging him, at times bullying him.

Thruout the interviews (which take up, really, just one-fourth of the entire book [hence 3 stars]; the rest is all intro commentary & postscripts), Sartre seemed to hold his own, citing the errors of Marxism, existentialism, & the left-wing political movements of the 60s & early 70s. I think the interviews offer the reader a good feel for that period (fondly known in the USA as "the 60s"), when Levy was known as Pierre Victor, Sartre was backing all kinds of radical & left-wing endeavors, & the 1968 student rebellions thruout Europe but especially in Paris threatened to topple the whole knowledge-is-power façade.

In the end, the students failed, but the student uprisings in the USA, then & after, were a mere burlesque of those in Europe: certainly, the knowledge-is-power concept was never questioned (US students just wanted more power with their knowledge), & the smugness that allows Mr. Aronson to pose questions dispassionately has enveloped every succeeding academic iteration.

The famous quote from Sartre's one-act play, "No Exit," was "Hell is other people." Sartre was almost 75 when these interviews took place, and then he said, "It's other people that are my old age...Old age is a reality that is mine but that others feel..." The topics that disturbed so many after the interviews were published were Judaism and Jewishness.

Levy generalizes that Jews fear the revolutionary mob because it may become the pogrom mob; Sartre counters that "there were a considerable number of Jews in the Communist Party in 1917 [in Russia]." Personally, I am at a loss to explain why Levy was reviled by Sartre scholars: Sartre states that he was profoundly influenced by the "Jewish reality" that confronted him after the war, when he met Jews that he saw as having a destiny "beyond the ravages [of] anti-Semitism."

Hope Now seems to me to be more of a coda to the 1972 documentary, "Sartre: By Himself," where he chatted amiably with the editorial staff of Le Temps Moderne and Simone de Beauvoir. That film depicted a leisurely afternoon with friends. Sartre with Levy seems more like colleagues at work. Unlike the current crop of celebrity academics, Sartre always appeared, to appropriate Harry Stack Sullivan's comment about schizophrenics, "simply human."

Unfortunately there are few texts that provide a survey of Indonesian art and culture. For that reason this book is a must-have for anyone interested in that area. However, the chapters are choppy and at times difficult to read. It is a challenge to determine each chapter's main point and how each chapter relates to the others. More than once I turned a page and thought I had missed a paragraph, because the next word in the sentence did not seem to make sense. This book is valuable for its photographs and for the information it does provide, if you don't mind a less than fluid read.

In 1964, antipsychiatrists Ronald Laing & David Cooper produced this distillation of 3 works by Sartre that were influential on them: two sections of Sartre's 1960 opus, "Critique of Dialectical Reason," and his 1952 biography, "Saint Genet." But "Reason and Violence" is an almost impossible read; it is badly edited (with British-style punctuation, which may confuse Americans) & lacks any real format: 3 reviews, 3 sections, but with the earliest, "Saint Genet," sandwiched between the 1957 & 1960 works. This needs to be re-edited & published for a new generation.

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 was extremely successful in reviewing subject matter for daily life. This includes travel, restaurant etiquette, personal relationships, and French literature. On the other hand, it does not give a very comprehensive review of grammar. Its presentation of the subjunctive was especially lacking due to its brevity. This book is most fit for more advanced students who have a handle on the basics, but need help in focusing on interaction with the world.