I found this book 20 years ago in the Kemmerer, Wyoming Public Library. I loved it. It's about a movie stuntman, written through the voice of his son. What a great character! This book led me to read many of Nichols' books. Highly recommended as a quick, fun read.

Anybody's who is at all interested in Jewish culture will learn a lot from this book -- and enjoy it too. It's got a great section on Jews on broadway, an hysterical piece by Woody Allen, another highly readable set of Jewish jokes -- one can find historical information, interesting stuff on the immigrant's experiece, poetry, old and new, short stories as well as the standards like Roth and Bellow...You can pull this book down and start anywhere -- all the pieces are short so you don't get overwhelmed -- and feel instantly the richness and depth of the Jewish-American tradition.

John Stuart Mill sets the stage for all liberal political thought. He discusses such topics as the role of society over the individual, the role of the individual over society, the death penalty, the importance of the individual, the ideal voter, the ideal citizen, the role of women in society, and the importance of personal liberty. Alan Ryan superbly organizes this edition by also including some constructive criticisms of Mill's thought in the last partition. This book is an excellent edition for any student of political philosophy.

My goal in assembling this log book was to provide the blend of practicality, flexibility, thoroughness, and personality that I've long thought has been missing in log books. I've included an innovative way to record weather observations and plenty of open space so navigators can enter the information that's important to them NOW. I've also included safety skills, a summary of the rules of the road, pages for recording the names of your gear, a section for listing guests -- and dozens of funny or inspiring quotes by great boating writers. Norton has packed all this into a great looking book. John Rousmaniere, author

An eccentric American professor of economics, Norton Dodge, travels throughout the Soviet Union during the 1960s and '70s and into the '80s. He spends several million dollars on dissident art, smuggling it out of the country, in deep violation of Soviet law but not the US's. John McPhee reports on the story, after the fact, and includes vivid descriptions of the artists and their relationships with one another, Dodge and the Soviet state. The Soviet state, of course, is the hulking force behind the story, responsible for making the artists dissidents and causing various among them, from time to time, to disappear or die. So McPhee asks Dodge how he managed to assemble the collection. Was Dodge a representative of the KGB? the CIA? McPhee defers to Dodge's explanations, but McPhee's recounting of his conversation with Dodge about CIA involvement in the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies may engender in the imagination of some readers a hint of the suspicion and paranoia that suffused the culture that originally created the art. About Norton Dodge and his collection (now housed at Rutgers University), the poet Konstantin Kuzminsky says, "Norton thinks art is international. I insist it's purely national." "Americans are afraid of everything which causes too much emotion and tragedy. That is the problem between East and West." Which suggests the gulfs in passion and experience separating this story of Russian art from the trig completeness suggested by McPhee's prose.

Twenty-five years after the fall of Saigon, The Center For National Security Law of the University of Virginia Law School hosted a seminar designed to determine the "real" lessons of the Vietnam War. In doing so they assembled a distinguished team of twenty-one scholars, each an acknowledged expert in his field. The results were then compiled and published in this work. The conclusions reached included, but were not limited to the following:

Vietnam was a small "hot-spot" in a global "cold war" It was important because the great powers of the day chose to contest it, if for no other reason.

Ho Chi Minh was a dedicated agent of international Communism, not a Vietnamese Nationalist fighting for his people.

While the "Peace Movement" greatly aided the Communist efforts, they did not lose the war. Our flawed, "no-win" strategy did.

American forces were not given a free license to rape, kill, pillage and burn at will. Soldiers and Marines were indicted and vigorously prosecuted for war crimes in Vietnam.

Our involvement in Vietnam WAS necessary. Had we meekly capitulated when the Russian bear growled, we could not have remained credible as an ally.

The war was NOT unwinnable. In effect we DID win. Only Congress' refusal to provide the support promised our allies caused South Vietnam's capitulation and the subsequent blood bath that left millions dead.

The authors authenticate their findings with well-researched data. These facts will be contested by some and ridiculed by others. However, mere hype cannot refute their research. Facts are facts. The carefully prepared and skillfully perpetuated myths by some in government and many in the media cannot change them although they can be fully expected to try.

In the preface, editors Moore and Turner say that, "Obviously, this small volume is not intended to be the final word on the Vietnam War." Inevitably, more facts will emerge from such diverse places as Hanoi, Washington, Moscow and/or Beijing. However, until more facts emerge, this work is the most complete review of the conflict available. It deserves a place on the bookshelf of every serious student of the war for that reason.

Since Vietnam the world situation has changed completely. State sponsored terrorism has replaced Communism as our major threat. Knowing when and how to use force are more critical today than ever. Being too eager and too reluctant to use force when necessary are equal evils. This work provides valuable insights on the when and how of using force. It is an invaluable tool for today's national security planners for that reason.

I was privileged to attend the Conference that inspired this work and eagerly awaited publication of this book for two years. It was well worth the wait. I am much better informed for having read it. You will be as well.

This volume contains seven poems in Old English--Caedmon's Hymn, The Battle of Brunanburh, The Dream of the Rood, The Battle of Maldon, The Wanderer, The Seafarer, and Deor. While clearly not a substitute for the Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records, this book has been edited well by Pope, and contains textual notes, commentary covering critical issues central to each of the poems, and perhaps most importantly, a glossary of the words in the poems. The New Edition (1981) also has a supplement listing editions of the poems that have come out since 1966 and some additional notes.

Bruce Russett and John R. Oneal make a great contrubution to the epistemology of war and peace by Triangulating Peace. The book is about democracy, interdependence and international organizations. In Triangulating Peace, Russett and Oneal argue that democracy, economic interdependence and international organizations together lead to peace and they prevent war and/or conflict. They reach this conclusion after a well-studied statistical analysis that embraces all militarized inter-state disputes from 1885 to 1994. The data is gathered by the University of Michigan's Correlates of War Project. Russett and Oneal give many references to Kant's treatise on peace and even they label Triangulating Peace as the Kantian Peace. They argue that the Kantian Peace thesis is superior to democratic peace thesis. The three legs of Kantian peace, democracy, economic interdependence and international organizations generate virtuous cycles of peace in opposed to vicious cycles of war. These three factors also positively affect each other. However, the authors do not argue that all three factors have equal power in leading to peace. Economic interdependence has the most explanatory power while international organizations have the least one. How does democracy lead to international cooperation and peace? Russett and Oneal mention the factors of legitimacy, accountability, institutional checks and balances, transparency, and credibility of international agreements, through them democratic states produce patterns of cooperation and it leads to peace. Economic interdependence, on the other hand, creates processes of reciprocal attention and communication, perceptions of needs and responsiveness, and bonds of mutually rewarding transactions and feelings of community. Economic interdependence also increases the prospects for international peace throughout international trade. It generates security communities by creating sense of 'we feeling' among cooperating states. It finally reduces the possibility of conflict. Like democracy and economic interdependence, international organizations also reduce the likelihood for conflict. International organizations and institutions teach set of norms that sharply revise states' conceptions of power. In sum, Russett and Oneal points out that the Kantian tripod for peace is the strongest pathway in reducing international conflict.Their statistical study also demonstrates that realist and liberal explanations of conflict/war are superior to Samuel P. Huntington's 'the clash of civilizations' thesis. In regard to current world politics, Russett and Oneal urge that incorporating Russia and China into the Kantian system will increase the prospects of a peaceful feature. They also urge that unilateral pattern of behavior for the U.S. would be dangerous for the future of international system while the U.S. multilateralism will make positive contribution to the world peace and stability. Overall, this book can be easily considered as a must reading for students of international relations. It can be higly recommended for general public alike.

THIS BOOK OFFERS EXCELLENT WRITING INFORMATION. A MUST FOR SOMEONE WHO WORKS IN A PROFESSIONAL WRITING RELATED FIELD OR ANYONE WHO WANTS TO LEARN HOW TO WRITE EFFECTIVELY.I REALLY ENJOYED READING, WRITING ON THE JOB. HIGHLY RECOMMANDED. THANKS JB

Designed for the intermediate users of Windows XP, this book, "Peter Norton's Complete Guide to Windows XP" is well-written and well-detailed.
With the analyses that covered both the Home and the Professional editions of Windows XP, it contains every information any intermediate user of the software would need. However, the more acquainted a user of this book is with any of the Windows 9x editions, the easier he or she will find this book. Even power-users appreciate the helpful annotations that are found in most of the sections.
But given the listed price of this book, it is a shame that Norton did not back it up with a CD-ROM. Nearly all comparable texts come with attached easy-to-use CD-ROMs, which serve as comprehensive e-books. And although that I still agree that this is a good book, I will say that its value for money ranks lower than those of many comparable texts that come with CD-ROMs.

Peter Norton's Complete Guide To Windows XP will introduce and discuss all of the new XP features in a style that is both conceptual and informative. Topics include why and when to upgrade to XP and if so, how to do it, understanding services and their configurations, explanation of the new internet options, such as third party cookie alert, firewalls, and web publishing wizard. Value information included on registry configurations and why the configurations work as they do, networking topics and integration ideas for home networks as well as explanations about using the networking wizards and understanding how XP works with software and hardware.

I purchased this book because Win XP Professional as it is preinstalled is very slow and I sought answers on how to enhance performance. This book had the most thorough section on performance enhancement which I followed with great success. I did have one problem and emailed the author who was kind enough to respond and solve it.