It was a proverb in Israel, "Was Saul, too, among the prophets (1 Samuel 10.12)?" Saul was a madman and prophesied out of his madness. Does that also make him a prophet? One questions whether Kierkegaard, too, was among the philosophers (e.g. see Alistair Hannay's comparatively inept handling of this question at the beginning of his Kierkegaard. His problem is that, while there is much unphilosophical about Kierkegaard, Hannay's book is part of the "Arguments of the Philosophers" series. To argue in a book labeled "Arguments of Philosophers" that his subject is no philosopher would seemingly set him afoul of Godel's theorem.). Daise's theory seems to be tha Kierkegaard was not a philosopher, which he argues persuasively. All the more so, because he picks up on his real opposition. Not Hannay who claims Kierkegaard is some sort of para-philosopher, but Strawser who, in his book, Both-And, claims that the question is indeterminable, that Kierkegaard left a corpus than may be consistently interpreted in any of two ways or, as he provocatively puts it, you can't deconstruct Kierkegaard because he has already deconstructed himself. Daise argues, successfully I think, that this interpretation is superficial and that there are grounds, within the individual documents and the corpus as a whole that lead us to a single valid interpretation.

Put simply, Daise is a uniquely clear thinker. His ability to unpack -- to truly and comprehensively unpack -- the social context for a particular idea lends dimension and accessibility to his readings. Anyone interested in Kierkegaard generally, or the Fragments particularly is urged to read this book. The author achieves a refreshing clarity that is rare in a field that sometimes speaks only to itself through scholarly references and tireless over-explanations.

I have been reading Kierkegaard for years and have consulted many secondary sources that simply don't compare to this one. Daise provides interprative keys that will make it valuable not only to the philosophical community (concerned as they are with textual fidelity) but also to the general reader who has an interest in the failures of a modernity which prefigures our own world so thoroughly.

Lastly, in an age currently dominated by irony, at times hip, tragic, subversive and liberating, one could truly benefit by returning to the orignal jester, the romantic rebel and perhaps greatest voice for our current contradictions and deepest anxieties. Daise is an incomparable guide, a true student of Kierkegaard's texts and the wider world which gave birth to them. It is a rare event when someone can bring clarity to a thinker who waged war against all clarity. This work deserves alot of attention.

I was so happy to have finally found my copy of this book (in Chinese language) in one of my old boxes during the past weekend. I bought this book back in approximately 1987 in Hong Kong, and I loved it, I admired the author's courage, wisdom and persistance. This is one of the very few books I carried back to the USA -- I guess I have always wanted to find out more about this author. I was trying to tell my American friends about his book for years and couldn't. Now I found my book in Chinese, and with the help of the amazon.com, I was able to find the author's other book titles. I remembered that it is one of the most valuable books I have ever read. I intend to buy the English version and more books from this author. I thank the author and amazon.com!

I got this book at a garage sale and read it quickly! Jason Winters lived through and beyond a diagnosis of terminal cancer. A photo at the end of the book shows him in robust health 4 years later! He is right that helping others alleviates anxiety, and he shares other brief tips that are easy to apply to anyone's life. He also listed early signs of cancer--which did not match anything I'd ever read, yet I found them intriguing. The first thing I did after reading the book was to search Amazon to see if Mr. Winters lived on to write the sequel he alluded to in this book. I WAS SO GLAD to see his next title "Killing Cancer: 18 Years Later"!! Sir Jason Winters, you are heroic! Thank you for reminding us all about G-d, that the earth has gifts for us if we seek them, and that all we need is here.

While some students use review books or online resources for the medicine clerkship, I've found this text to be a great resource. Information is clearly presented in small easy to digest chapters. The CD-ROM is a great bonus for board review. This is the type of book that I'll keep as a reference regardless of the specialty I go into.

This paperback book covers the entire knowledge of Internal Medicine in just 1000 pages. It is up to date and extremely readable. It is full of illustrations and tables which make comprehension and retension easy. It is a great buy.

This book gives an excellent overview of the problems and solutions to level-of-detail rendering. Few books in the computer graphics field are this well written.

A few things to note:

- Though there's plenty of material on simplification of polygonal meshes, there doesn't seem to be much on volume (tetrahedral) simplification. My impression is that volume simplification is kind of hairy, though, and might require its own textbook.

- If you wish to do your own level of detail rendering, you may end up reading the papers referred to in the book. Most of those papers are available online (try google).

- The terrain chapter is great, and even deals with real-world issues (geospatial file formats, terrain data on the web, what a geoid is, etc) in addition to an overview of different approaches to terrain simplification.

If you're doing level-of-detail stuff, it is basically your duty to buy this book. I only wish I'd bought it eariler.

This is clearly one of the most outstanding Level-of-Detail-for-3D-Graphics-algorithm-survey books currently in print. However I find Luebke, et al.'s choice of a subtitle puzzling. Clearly it should be "Level of Detail for 3D Graphics: Theory and Application", rather than "Level of Detail for 3D Graphics: Application and Theory". If Luebke, et. al. wanted to emphasize the applied nature of their work, it would've been more appropriate to title it "Level of Detail for 3D Graphics: Application, then Theory, and finally some more Application".

Frankly this oversight ruined the whole experience for me.

. Why is there a DC high school named for Benjamin Banneker? If you read this book, you will find out that this local-boy-made-good was a free African-American tobacco farmer who was born and lived his entire life just outside of what is now known as Ellicott City, MD. He had an early interest in mathematics, science, and astronomy, and with a pocket knife and some other tools built one of the first clocks ever made in the 13 American colonies, out of wood. For this he became locally famous, and made friends with some of the younger members of the Ellicott family, who were Quakers, anti-slavery advocates, and owners of some mills in what was then known as Ellicott's Mills. They lent him some mathematics and astronomy texts, and eventually gave him a telescope. He taught himself a considerable amount of mathematical and observational astronomy, and eventually began, around the age of 60, to publish an almanac detailing the locations of the planets and the Moon for the coming year, as well as predicting eclipses and sunrises and sunsets - all based on laborious and lengthy calculations and diagrams that he made himself.

Eventually, he was tapped for an even greater role - he was hired to help Major Andrew Ellicott in the astronomical and chronometric portion of the most important surveying job of his day - laying out the 10 mile by 10 mile square that eventually became the District of Columbia.

This very well-researched book also helps lay to rest some of the myths about what Banneker did and did not do during his most unusual lifetime; unfortunately, many websites and books continue to propagate these myths, probably because those authors do not understand what Banneker actually accomplished. Many state, for example, that Banneker's clock was an exact copy of one he saw, which is not true -- he figured out the mathematics and physics on his own for a clock made out of wood, instead of trying simply to copy the small pocket watch that he was lent to observe. However remarkable this clock was, it was not the first clock made in America. Other sources continually repeat the myth that when Pierre l'Enfant was fired from the job of laying out the new Federal City, Benjamin Banneker recreated l'Enfant's plans from memory. Bedini lays this myth to rest and shows us that what Banneker actually did in terms of astronomical work was actually much more difficult -- in fact, it was in the league of the work done by Mechain and Delambre to measure the length of the meridian that passes through Dunkirk, Paris and Barcelona, with the purpose of defining the meter for all time. But that's another story -- but if you want to read about it, check out Ken Alder's The Measure of All Things: The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error that Transformed The World.

If you read this book, you will also see some facsimiles of his widely-known almanac, some of his correspondence with Thomas Jefferson where he vainly attempts to convince the future president that African Americans are just as smart as European Americans, photographs of some of the equipment that he used, and so on. Unfortunately, Banneker's house, and all of its contents (including the wooden clock and many of his astronomical workbooks) burned to the ground on the day of his funeral.

A great read for my six and eight-year old grandsons and me. This biography briefly but clearly covered several areas of history: colonialism, slavery, scientific works of more than 200 years ago. It told of Banneker's many accomplishments,focusing mainly on his producing the first known almanac by an African-American and his correspondence with Thomas Jefferson over the unfairness of slavery in America. We learned what an almanac is and how important it was in colonial days. The book mentions how Banneker's grandmother, Molly, taught him to read and this led my grandsons and I to another biography, "Molly Bannaky", the story of Banneker's grandmother, written by Alice McGill. We had fun researching Banneker's family tree in this way. What I especially liked about the book was the quiet message I hope my grandsons grasped, that if you keep trying hard enough, you can accomplish many goals in your life and have a richer life for it.

This is an adorable Halloween book. The Illustrations are beautiful and spooky - not too spooky for little kids! The text is clever and fun. I bought tons of copies for all the kids I know.

Although this is specifically a halloween book, I'll always keep it on hand for all my juvemile visitors. I was especially impressed with the illustrations which were done with precise attention to detail and more than a grain of humor.

(Planeta.com Journal) -- Lines in the Water (University of California Press, 2002), a beautifully written ethnography of rural fishermen and their families. The book's subtitle "Nature and Culture at Lake Titicaca" specifies the center of action, but the scope is much broader and deeper. It's actually hard to find the words to say how delightful this book is. Author Ben Orlove is an environmental science professor at the University of California, Davis, and his book is based on three decades of trips to Peru and Bolivia. The book is a showcase of fresh writing and a major contribution to the literature about South America. Orlove provides a frank account of the role academics themselves play. He includes himself in this story and shares candid observations -- from his reactions to office politics to daydreaming about museums. This book is highly recommended. Eco travelers visiting Lake Titicaca would do well to read this book in advance.

This is a gem, written with great respect for the indigenous people who live aound Lake Titicaca, well-annotated and with wonderful photographs by the author. Orlove has broad interests - anthropology, economics, natural history, environmental issues, to name a few, and a talent for accessing interesting memories. He conveys his astute observations in clear and vivid prose.The book is organized nicely - I especially liked the material in the final chapter, entitled "Paths", which offers an antidote to the sad fact that roads and highways are so often destructive to local people and to biodiversity. Paths, literal or metaphorical, also provide valuable linkages and essential connections among the various components of this remote but very interesting and community with ancient roots. Orlove provides the reader with a sense of having traveled those paths for a short while with him.

I enjoyed this book tremendously. It destroyed a lot of previously held ideas and images I had of Benjamin Franklin, and often made me feel as if I were right there, at that time, observing all of the political infighting that went on between our forefathers.

Mr. Randall paints a vivid picture about the cost of success in colonial times, dipicting the struggle of a young William to step out of his esteemed father's shadow. Mr. Randall gives the reader a peek into a era of american history that not only tore apart a future nation but many families as well, and allows them to see both points of view of the loyalist vs patriot battle. This book is a MUST!!!! for all history buffs, my only regret is not getting a hardcover, because this book should be the anchor for everyones collection

We had expirence adam bengamin's dance workshops for disable and non-disable dancers, and found a new world. We dicided to continue practicing in this field and read and reread this beautiful book, worked with the exercises and the idea they present, and passed them to other dancers which found this new world too, found a place in themself that let them do and feel things they didn't believe.
This book is a must for anybody who wants to go to these places.

Our company have taken part to CONTACT-ART EUROPEAN PROJECT, with artistic-disabled and no persons.
I feel a very very excating-human experience.
This book "tell" about these experience.

I find this book to be one of the most inspiring books I have ever read. So much so, that if I am ever down, I hold it to my heart. It always uplifts me.

These short articles serve to make aspects of mankind's current sorry predicament and the extraordinarily bright promises of the future, very clear.

They help readers understand the current situation on our planet, stimulate those who are ready to selfless service of others, and cause people to look forward, with much optimism to the future.

They are simple enough for anyone to understand and appreciate, from the regular guy on the street to the most well read esoteric philosopher.