I was highly disappointed with Tim when I read this even though he did send me three autographed copies, not to mention an autographed "Chaos & Cyber-culture" & "High Priest". The problem is that this book would never have come into being without me & my share of the writing yet I received scant recognition in the credits, the most said being "Good Attitudes: Jim Bauer" & only a few hundred bucks. I am Huck Getty, mostly because I objected to his use of my real name in the story. Much of the writing came from the letters I sent Tim as he reworked it. Other than that I enjoyed the book though it seemed to be poorly plotted or maybe just plain episodic. I was grateful to Tim for allowing me at least some form of publication of my writing. I just wish my role would have been more visible.

What a great farewell this book is. It is typically Crazy. Leary had a certain knack for encapsulating the times, and here he does it with his regular enthusiasms and strange knowing wit.

The Hallis and Williams contribution is a treat, worth the price of admission.

I am working on a model of eye fatigue and this text has all the nit picky histological details I was looking for.

Found this in my library while doing research on Faulkner. A very good lit-crit before all the wierdness came into the field. Puts the novel and Faulkner's writing into perspective.

I really liked this book, because it was packed full of so much information. I used it for an English project on Shakspearen authorship and Francis Bacon played a huge role in Shakespeares life. I will refer this book to anyone.

our linear algebra class prof. told us that this is the most readable math book, that's why the math dept. switched to this book this year. =)

This book gives great insight in to the true meaning of African American slaves songs. This book also discusses the origin and uses of the songs and provides footnotes for most of the colloquials and variations in dialect for each song.

I had the opportunity to study the life of St. Francis of Assisi through this workbook, and I was very pleased. In each manageable chapter on either an event or a theme from the life of St. Francis as it comes to us from his early biographers, the beginning student is encouraged to study (and demytholigize) the life of the saint. Fr. Hugo presents in each chapter related citations from the Franciscan sources for each episode in the life of Francis of Assisi, questions for consideration and guidelines for discussion.

Fr. Hugo encourages the student to use the historical-critical method and the book not only helps one to a serious introduction to the life of the saint, but also to the use of this method of historical, textual hermeneutics in general. Even with all of this, though, the book is not overly academic. It seems to often capture a certain playfulness and down-to-earthness that perhaps is one of the great charms of St. Francis himself.

The book is somewhat geared to Franciscans themselves, and has much to assist them in appropriating the ideals of St. Francis for themselves in our own time. Indeed it seems to me that this is one of Fr. Hugo's purposes.

I would recommend Studying the Life of Francis of Assisi to anyone who is looking for a serious, critical, source-based introduction to the study of the life of Francis of Assisi.

This book was published in Dec 01 which means it was written using .NET Beta 2. It is now completely out of date and many of the examples just don't work. To be fair, there is an "Update" document available for download from Wrox but wht not just buy an up to date book in the first place. My recommendation is "Applied XML Programming for Microsoft .NET" by Dino Esposito, # 0735618011.

VB or C which is it? I don't mind books the have syntax for both VB.net and C#. I also don't mind books that have JUST C#(since I don't know C# why would I mind this?). I Like books that have JUST VB.NET since thats what I like. But this book doesn't do any of these! It provides C# only on many occasions! And as a VB.NET only programmer its awfully hard to build on C# examples. It's almost as if the authors didn't know how to code everything in VB.NET and just skipped it sometimes.

Very interesting title and content. This book is very helpful to learn XML .NET features.

Having devoured numerous books on mountaineering and exploring, and having found many to be inspiring as well as informative, I began this volume with a similar anticipation. Very quickly, I found myself disappointed, even angry.

The author presents an obsequious paean to a mountain climber - Willi Unsoeld - certainly one of the best (as witnessed by his first ascent - with Tom Hornbein - of the West Ridge of Mt. Everest) in which he fails to critically examine what seem inexplicable lapses of judgment, which ultimately cost the lives of Unsoeld, and others.

Leamer presents Unsoeld as a philosopher, one who uses his beliefs to justify risk-taking, yet the author does not (or cannot) explicate those beliefs in a way that either illuminates or justifies Unsoeld's actions.

The story of his daughter, Nanda Devi, and her death on the mountain after which she was named is poignant but again the author offers only platitudes to explain the incredible obsession of her father for her to reach the summit. Perhaps her death was unavoidable (so few details of her illness are given that we are left to wonder) but absent is a father's (and expedition leader's) concern for her well-being. Equally disturbing - and not addressed by the author - was the endless romanticizing of her death in countless lectures by Unsoeld.

A similar blind acceptance of the "guru" in Unsoeld taking precedence over the responsibilities of the "guide" is evident in the telling of his last climb, a winter ascent of Mt. Ranier with a group of college students who were largely novice climbers. Having climbed Mt. Ranier myself, I fully appreciate the objective dangers (severe weather, avalanches, crevasses) they encountered. What I cannot understand - and which the author makes little effort to explore - is the disregard that Unsoeld appeared to have for those dangers. A philosophy of accepting personal risk to achieve a higher (literally and figuratively) goal seems to have blinded him (and the author) to the utter selfishness of risking the lives of others in pursuit of his egocentric image.

A (relatively) minor criticism: the photographs are of terrible quality and sometimes mis-captioned (e.g. The "Wind River" is actually the Snake River) in Ansel Adam's famous photograph of the Tetons).

This overly fawning biography left a bitter taste: there was much that the author could - and should - have explored in order to truly understand Unsoeld. Leamer's objectivity was left by the wayside, just a few steps up a trail the difficulty of which demanded a far tougher analysis than what we find in this volume.

Legendary mountaineer, Willi Unsoeld, led an extraordinary life. A self styled guru of mountaineering, he was selfish, egotistical, and narcissistic. He was a modern day Peter Pan who just never grew up, with tragic consequences for some who crossed his path.

The author is a devoted admirer of Willi Unsoeld and does not question some of those moments in Willi's life which should be questioned or reflected upon. This is the one criticism of what is otherwise a very interesting, compelling book about a flawed individual who made mountaineering history. His amazing ascent of the West Ridge of Everest to the summit and his subsequent traverse and descent on the South face will live on forever in the annals of mountaineering lore.

Willi Unsoeld was a passionate man for whom mountaineering was life itself. He was positively joyous when atop his beloved mountains. It is something which is to be admired. Yet, Willi had a darker side, as well. It is this apparent dichotomy in Willi's life which makes the book such an interesting read. One of the most tragic episodes in Willi's life involved his beautiful daughter, Nanda Devi, named after the mountain of the same name. She was taken by her father on an ill-fated expedition to that same mountain. It was there that she tragically died and was consigned to the mountain. The cause of her death is not made clear by the book, but what is clear to any discerning reader is that Willi bore some responsibility. He acted as no father would nor as any responsible expedition leader would have under the circumstances.

What made Nanda Devi's death more appalling is that Willi would later romanticize her death in innumerable lectures, exploiting what should have remained private. How he could bring himself to do this is beyond belief. It is no wonder that his wife blamed him for their daughter's death and that this tragedy caused a rift in their marriage.

This self-styled guru needed the constant worship of acolytes in order to thrive. As he aged, he sought the adoration of college students, spouting his parboiled life philosphy on the subject of risk taking. It was this self styled, sophomoric philosophy that drove him to take a group of students up Mount Ranier in the dead of winter, when other, more level heads, argued against it. Would that he had listened. He and the student who died in an avalanche with him might today be alive. Alas, it was not to be.

Peter Pan finally went to Never-Never Land.

I read this book several years ago in hardback, which I loaned to someone who never returned it. When I saw it in a bookstore in paperback, I just had to buy and read it again. Ascent is better than Into Thin Air. It's a fabulous story--not only an adventure classic but a philosophical manifesto, dealing with the whole idea of placing one's life at risk while striving to reach a particular goal. This is one you have to read!