This was one of our family's favorite books to gather around; even the parent without reading duties could not resist joining the gleeful huddle around the charmingly illustrated pages. The dialogue begs the reader to animate the tale by giving a voice to The Hungry Thing, and the conflict in the story is one that even very young children leap to solve, shouting out the answers to the clueless grownups on the page. I recommend this book without reservation as a memorable delight.

Luther by Richard Marius is a biography of one of the most important figures of western civilization. Martin Luther was of course the instigator of the Protestant Reformation which swept across northern Europe in the 16th century.

Marius's novel is equal parts biography and critique. He gives a nearly comprehensive account of Luther's professional life. Luther's early years are only considered in certain aspects that might have affected his later life.

Marius also critiques Luther's actions and writings through the eye of a modern skeptic. Marius praises Luther for his steadfast courage in the face of excommunication. But he also condemns him for his vile hate-filled tirades against the Jews.

A very interesting aspect of this work is Marius's description of Luther's relations with his fellow Reformationists. Luther had high hopes for all men who sought to overthrow Papal authority. But like most reformers, he recoiled in anger from men like Zwingli and Melanchthon who he felt had misinterpreted the obvious meaning of the gospel. He often reserved his most vehement denunciations for these wayward reformers.

Luther is one of the people who we must understand if we are to understand the culture in which we live. Much of Luther's thought still echoes down to us from even the gulf of 500 years. For good and bad, Martin Luther forever changed the institutions of western civilization by opening our society to differences of opinion and scientific inquiry. He may have detested the course that his movement took but without him, it is unlikely that the positive outcomes of the Reformation could have been achieved.

I found the typescript of this work in the papers of Dr. Werkmeister after his death at age 92. "Werkie" had decided not to publish it because it contained some interpretations of Heidegger at odds with those of a colleague, Gene Kaelin. I invited Kaelin to comment on their differences in an Introduction to the work, and solicited a Guest Preface by Eva Hauel Cadwallader, another scholar and friend. Gwen Burda, a professional book producer, Werkie's two friends, and I brought this volume to fruition as a tribute to a man whose philosophical activity spanned 74 years, who taught at the Universities of Nebraska, Harvard, Southern California, and Florida State, and who served as President of the American Society for Value Inquiry and the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association. The work raises and answers several perrennial questions about Martin Heidegger: How should Heidegger's works be ordered? Was Heidegger an Existentialist? Was Heidegger a Nazi? Would his being a Nazi discredit his philosophical work? and How important was Heidegger in comparison with his contemporary, Nicolai Hartmann?

I really like this book!!! I have about 50 pages to go and dread finishing it. I love the great films of the late sixties and seventies- Coppola, Scorcese, Ashby, Kubrick, and this book looks behind the scenes of the machine that produced them and the creative people who made them. Check it out. Only reason for 4 stars is that I would have liked more photos.

Beautifully written by one of the unsung heroes of 20th century analytical philosophy. Martin (1916-85) is underrated relative to Quine and Carnap. Martin had interesting mathematical ideas. He believed in taking the ordered pair as primitive, and in the Polish alternative to set theory known as mereology. He thought there were vast philosophical riches in the combinatory logic of Haskell Curry, and I agree.

There are times when working closely together in one crisis arena builds bonds that provide an essential glue for sticking closely together in another. In this case, the crisis is the growing gap in revolutionary military capabilities between the United States and its NATO allies as described in 1999 by David Gompert, Richard Kugler and Martin Libicki. And, I argue, had the prescriptions for addressing this challenge been followed at the time, there would have been less political separation between the U.S. and its allies in the UN Security Council in the run-up to Operation Iraqi Freedom.

The authors write with the authority of top-level national security leaders and analysts. At the time, Gompert was a VP at the distinguished RAND Corporation, and Libicki worked there as a senior policy analyst after a previous posting at National Defense University. Kugler is a research professor with the Institute for National Strategic Studies at NDU.

"Mind the Gap" argues that the "United States is moving not only at a different velocity but also in a different direction, with different priorities, based on a different philosophy than its allies in modernizing its forces to exploit new technology." The authors assess this situation (Chapter 1), and put forth a "four-tier" solution to the problem (Chapters 2-5). Chapter 6 concludes with prescriptions for the roles of national governments, military services, NATO, principles of collaboration and establishing practical ways to do this.

The "first tier" gives a broad view of international security interests to which the United States and most European countries ought to be able to subscribe. The "second tier" expresses how the NATO allies should work toward an agreed view of the most critical operational military challenges and requirements. To the extent that political authorities can forge a shared strategic outlook, the "ability of militaries to play their role will be enhanced."

The "third tier" gets into detail that explains how effective coalition building can be facilitated by development of a combined military technological infrastructure -- one based on C4ISR (command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance. The "fourth tier" discussion centers on how to accomplish the practical matter of pursuing a common goal in revolution in military affairs capabilities on both sides of the Atlantic. This, the authors argue can be facilitated by open market competition in information technology.

Despite the successes of U.S.-led coalitions and alliances in wars since "Mind the Gap" was written (Serbia, Afghanistan, Iraq), the problem described between its pages persists. Now, with the U.S. Defense Department embarked on a major effort to further transform capabilities, the gap will continue to widen.

In the short term, this may not impose very severe penalties, at least as far as battlefield successes are concerned. But we have already seen a widening of the political gap between some NATO allies and the United States. Should both gaps be allowed to continue to expand, we are left with the possibility of considering the U.S. role as not only the world's chief of police, but as the world's policeman as well.

Coalitions are a critical element to military successes, and an equally critical dimension of political achievement. This book shows one way to address the former challenge, and by extension, helps to show a way shore up the latter.

This book was produced for an exhibition at the metropolitan musuem of art in 1994. It shows how visions of 'the exotic' in places like asia and the middle east have affected western dress over the centuries - right up to the present time.

This volume is illustrated with numerous lovley colour photos of the exhibition pieces, which range from the 18th to 20th centuries. The text is quite light and easy to read, and the book does not have an index.

I give this book 4 stars for the photo and presentation content, but I'd have to drop one off for the text content. It's not a big book at 95 pages, but it's a nice one:)

Nice, consistent collection of horror short stories.

This is a good book. It explains some key areas well, and has useful information, but for the fairly high price it doesn't give a lot of material. Furthermore, two big chapters are focused on WinOS/2, which is not as relevant as it once was. My final judgement is that if you need a good book specifically on one of the topics covered in this book, go for it. Otherwise, you may want to look at other books which are better deals and cover more ground.

I think that The Texas Rangers Elite Series is a very informative, yet entertaining book. The book talks about The Texas Rangers from thier begining up to present day, going into deph about the more famous Rangers like, Jack Hays, and RIP Ford. I would say that this book is well worth investing in, especaially for people to whom the Texas Rangers is a new interrest, its a good starting block.