Es un libro muy bueno, ademas de ser un clasico en Numerical
Methods in Subsurface Hydrology.

do you remember sitting on the stoop after you got finished mowing the lawn and listening to the last few innings of a baseball game with 2 great announcers calling the game? this is a great book about two of the best. it will bring back great memories of Royals baseball and is interesting to anyone who is a fan.

Felix Holt occupies a middle-tier in the critical estimation of Eliot's novels. It is often disparaged as the "political novel," or alternatively "the one where the legal subplot is way too complicated."

At first, this seems unfair. The early introduction of Mrs. Transome is a showstopper, heroine Esther Lyon fascinates, and the detailed evocation of 19th century rural politics is through Eliot's narrative magic made riveting.

But things do go awry in the second half. A big problem is Felix himself: an idealization of a political view rather than a detailed character, the reader loves him rather less than Eliot seems to intend. The legal schenanigans are intriguing, but the tortuous plot machinations through which Felix comes to be imprisoned are near ridiculous. And finally, Esther experiences her moral conversion rather too quickly and tidily, coming to seem just a sketch for Gwendolyn Harleth in the later Daniel Deronda. Indeed, by book's end the most compelling plot thread standing is that of the unfortunate Mrs. Transome.

But to say a book isn't as good as Daniel Deronda isn't much of a criticism. For all its faults, Felix Holt is filled with excellent characters, a strong story, and unparalled insight into both 19th century England and the more universal collisions of morality and politics.

This is my 4th novel by George Eliot (after "Adam Bede", "Middlemarch" and "The Mill on the Floss") and it has become my favourite along with "Middlemarch". "Felix Holt" is so marvelously written and gave me many hours of reading pleasure - I can't understand why it's not as highly acclaimed or well-known as Eliot's other novels.

If you're a fan of Victorian literature, then you mustn't miss this brilliant work. The story's set in the 1830s and is 1/3 focused on politics (i.e. a fascinating insight into the electioneering process and the fight for a Parliamentary seat between the Torys and the Radicals), 1/3 on family and sensational issues (e.g. illegitimacy, dispute over who has the legitimate claim on the wealthy estates of the Transome family and plenty of blackmail, manipulation and betrayals) and 1/3 devoted to a love triangle.

George Eliot wrote so eloquently and beautifully that many times I find myself re-reading a particular phrase in order to saviour its beautiful words. Each chapter also starts with either a beautiful poem or some well-chosen lines from Shakespeare/the Classics. Here's a favourite of mine from Chapter 45 (a poem by Eliot):

"We may not make this world a paradise
By walking it together with clasped hands
And eyes that meeting feed a double strength.
We must be only joined by pains divine,
Of spirits blent in mutual memories".

I confess that above all, it is the suspense over the touching love story that kept me turning the pages very quickly. The hero is Felix Holt, a passionate, idealistic young man who studies medicine but chooses to quit midway and forgo a comfortable future as a doctor in favour of leading the more righteous life (in his opinion) of an ordinary, poor workingman because of his scorn for wealth and its corrupting powers. Felix is described as honest, brusque, generous and highly intelligent. He's got "wild hair", dresses simple and to his own liking e.g. not wearing a cravat "like all the other gentlemen", and sometimes looks like a "barbarian". He patronizes no one and is rather unpopular in the town of Treby Magna where the story takes place. His political views are Radical (i.e. more severe than the Liberals) but his main concerns are for the well-being of the working class and especially the future of their children. (Read the excellent "Address to Working Men by Felix Holt" which comes after the Epilogue). Felix's good intentions land him in great trouble with the law later on when a massive riot breaks out among the drunk working class directly after the election and Felix is wrongly accused of being the leader of the mob.

Early on in the novel, Felix is introduced to the heroine, Esther Lyon (the beautiful daughter of a poor chapel minister) whose vanity and high-bred manner he scorns. He rebukes and lectures her constantly in that straight-forward and honest manner of his because he cares to improve her views on what are truly the important things in life. Esther dislikes him utterly at first... she cannot understand why Felix doesn't admire her beauty and graceful manners like other young men do. Esther is vain and proud (at least, initially) and has always dreamed of leading a better life, with fineries and beautiful clothes and servants to do her bidding. And Felix Holt is definitely not her idea of a lover! But Esther is not unkind or ungenerous - she loves her father dearly and treats everyone well. Gradually, she begins to see the true nature of Felix's character and noble aims, and holds him in great esteem, despite his outward looks and manners. But Felix has declared never to marry and if he were ever to fall in love, he would just "bear it and not marry" (preferring to "wed poverty"). Later in the novel, Esther is courted by the rich and handsome Harold Transome whose initial reason for wooing her is to save his family estates. But he doesn't count on falling in love with her subsequently.

Who does Esther ends up with finally: Felix or Harold? But take it from me that the romantic scenes between Felix and Esther are the most passionate and heart-wrenching I've ever come across in a classic literature - with many kisses and hugs amidst pure longing and despair, and scenes filled with beautifully spoken words of affection which brought tears to my eyes.

For many, many reasons, "Felix Holt" makes for a most brilliant read. I urge you not to miss it.

Some might say nothing can equal Middlemarch as Eliot's greatest work but I think that even if Felix Holt doesn't rank alongside it in literature, it should be given at least an equal status.

The novel deals with provincial politics in nineteenth century England through the mouthpiece of one of the best male protagonists ever drwan in literature by a female writer. As in all her books, Eliot is sharp in her details, the satire is poignant and she doesn't miss out on humor. Feminism takes a different turn here, with telling criticisms on the way females were brought up at that time and in many third world countries, still are brought up.

Eliot is never bitter, never hopeless, yet always realistic and idealistic with this difference: she doesn't let it get out of control. Fear not: mawkish is the last thing this book is. Some details might seem to be superfluous but it adds up to showing the literary prowess of this great woman, and is very helpful in letting you understand the real stuff going on at that time. A good, very well-written socio-political novel, that depicts the atmosphere of its time with more accuracy than many other books I've read.

Eliot does have the most amazing ability to get into her characters' minds. although this book is an all rounder in the sense that it comments on most social issues, the two main intimate themes of the books are personal to the central character, Felix, the most "alive" hero of nineteenth century literature: his politics and his love interest, in herself a very compelling and subtly drwan character.

Worth reading for all Eliot, Dickens, and Hardy fans. Will definitely give you two or three new opinions: even if the time period is different, much of the philosophy of the book is still very relevant.

Fred Heeren in Show Me God has done an excellent job of explaining why science (specifically astronomy) and religion don't have to be constantly at each others' throats. In a world where few people are even moderately educated in both fields, but proceed to attack the other side in these issues, Heeren has done a very commendable job of presenting both sides of the argument, and keeping it open-minded.

The interviews with leading personalities in astronomy, astrophysics, and cosmology are enlightening, but so are the passages on mere logic, and why it coincides with the statements that the author makes. Few people with truly open minds can argue with the assertions made, for example that science has proven that the universe has a beginning, and that in order for the universe to be created, there must be a Creator who is outside of it and immune to the effects of time. Questions and issues such as these are the candy to the mental palate that makes it well worth reading a second time (as I am doing now).

Heeren has really done his research, and this is evident in the sheer amount of information contained in the book, whether one looks at it from a skeptic's standpoint, a Christian's standpoint, or for just the educational value. As both a Christian and a lover of astronomy, I could appreciate both, and it made the book all the more interesting to me from both sides (plus, I have some completely solid arguments to present to my friends when they ask me why I believe in a loving God).

I especially like the conversations between Heeren and his "mental editor," Carl. It gives a refreshing view of how many people would see the book from a moneymaking standpoint, as Carl suggests for sections of the book titles like, "The Real Dirt on the Origins of the Universe."

All in all, I enjoyed the book very much. The "heavy" cosmological parts are sufficiently balanced with the "lighter" passages, giving people a chance to understand both sides of an issue that has raged for hundreds of years, and still rages today. I plan to check out the other installments in the Wonders that Witness series, which promise to attend to theories such as evolution.

If the battle of Religion vs. Science ever airs on Pay-Per-View, I hope Fred Heeren is a referee. Then maybe it would end with a friendly draw.

The Big Bang or the Bible - Why not both? "Show Me God" is the book for those who are not physicists or astronomers, but do want to know how today's science aligns itself with current western religious thought. Many books which cover topics from the very small (atoms and smaller) to the impossibly huge (B)illions and (B)illions of galaxies :) are a very difficult read. This one is accessible to all. An added bonus is the section on the history of science and how it was prompted by man's search to know God's creation better. This easy reading book covers these topics well. Fred Heeren's main point is that the science available to this generation points towards events that look very much like the God of the Bible. An interesting read for the religious and non-religious.

"Show Me God" wonderfully describes the most complicated theories in modern astrophysics - but it does so in the simplest way imaginable. But this book is about much more than astrophysics made easy, it is a book that shows the average reader that science does not have all the answers. Fred Heeren shows how it is for all practical purposes impossible to explain the creation of the Universe without factoring God into the equation. This book will show any reader with an open mind that many modern theories of the Universe assume many facts not in evidence and that only God can fill in these theories to create the Universe that we live in. The author steps back to carefully consider the recent "Mars rock" and concludes that NASA may have jumped the gun when they declared that this rock was proof of life on the Red Planet. He scientifically discusses the possibility of life elsewhere in the Universe - and the results might surprise you based on what many other scientists are saying. In its simplest form, Fred Heeren shows that science is not disproving the existence of God, but that science must turn to God to explain the origin of the Universe. Those who have lost faith in religion should certainly read this book, it is truly out of this world. -Cody Oliver

from the very first opening of the cover you know its gonna be a high-classmagazine cover book. It features new artists, and old, with very rich photos and informative captions on many. Very rich color, so rich you forget you're looking at a book on magazine covers. Features Trent Reznor, Marilyn Manson, Green Day, Hole, Nirvana, the Wallflowers (hense the back) and more for those who like the artists. Others such as Elvis, Madonna, The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan (hense the cover) and Sharon Stone, exploring all the intimate stories behind some of the MOST famous covers. Documents every, or almost every cover in the history of the infamous Rolling Stone Magazine in their run. An essential for cultural info buffs and makes a nice present.

This book is a virtual history of American rock'n'roll. Each cover says something about the times, such as the now rather melancholy shot of Nirvana, form early 1994, on the verge of a huge comeback, just months before Kurt Cobain shot himself, or Annie Leibovitz's moody 1971 study of John Lennon, then deeply into his Working Class Hero phase. Rock'n'roll stars compete for cover space with politicians and film stars, depending upon what the issue or the hot stuff of the day was - Warren Beatty and Jerry Falwell both feature in political and pop-cultural contexts (the shot of Beatty is from 1975, when he was promoting Shampoo, a film set just days before the Kennedy assassination) and the text is sprinkled with plenty of choice quotes form both camps, making this a book to be slowly savoured for its pictorial and historical content time and time again.

The covers of Rolling Stone Magazine have been controversial, memorable and are a marker for musicians that they have made it. Some covers have created a stir such as a teenage Britney Spears posing in a provocative outfit, a topless Janet Jackson with a pair of male hands covering her and the last photograph session of John Lennon in which he is naked on a bed next to a fully clothed Yoko Ono. Most of the covers are simple photographs of everyone from Bob Dylan to Richard Nixon and even Dr. Hook who sang a song called "Cover Of The Rolling Stone", but they are some of the best works by the some of the best photographers in business like Annie Leibovitz and Herb Ritts.

The author's midlife crisis is solved by rebuilding a motorcycle and having a new baby. Starting over at 50. Some of the writing is a little simplistic, but the images are pretty clear. He does a good job of developing the several sides of Chaz, his mentor and nemesis. I found it strange that in the pictures there wasn't one of Chaz. Did they finally go their separate ways? I also got the feeling that the author was leading two lives, that of a wannabe English professor who attended the college parties and that of a biker. The biker life was only to rebuild the Indian and I admire him very much for that. I think he enjoyed the biker life better. He also did a good job praising the knowledge of the older Indian restorers, Ken and Magoo. This is a good book and an easy read. Makes me want to go out and restore an old Triumph like I had 30 years ago.

Maybe it's because I received this book for my 52nd birthday, certainly because I've been riding motorcycles for more than 35 years, but Rebuilding the Indian really resonates. I've read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance repeatedly since its publication, although I'll admit to skimming over the didactic sections. Rebuilding the Indian covers similar ground, but more stylishly than Zen, and less bombastically than Gary Paulsen's Pilgrimage on a Steel Ride, another recent memoir about middle-aged men and motorcycles.

Haefele has a gift of observation, and in addition to a well-written narrative of transforming his collection of parts into a beautiful midnight blue and chrome motorcycle, he presents a gallery of rogues the fraternity of people who restore and ride vintage motorcycles, while providing keen observations about the West, fatherhood, growing up at the age of 52. I almost started looking for a motorcycle restoration project while reading Haefele's memoir.

The book will probably appeal most to middle-aged men, but their spouses and companions who have suffered through such projects, which can suck up practically all one's energy while draining a bank account, may enjoy seeing what goes on through the eyes of the obsessed. Rebuilding the Indian is the best of the bunch.

I couldn't put the book down. The focal point, the Indian Motorcycle, deals with a subjet I can relate to, along with the daily aspects of life. If you like "people" stories, without the fancy backdrops, you may just enjoy reading Freds, Rebuilding The Indian. It centers around a subject the brings the author in contact with people he would normaly not build a relationship with. If you're looking for a complex story, with suspence and action, look for a fiction book! If you want a real look at a brief slice of life of regular people, and you approach life with an open mind... you'll like this book a lot.

I picked up this book because I have always loved Astaire and Rodgers. However, when I started reading, I was dissapointed. The plot seems a little farfetched. I think there were too many characters, and I kept wondering why everybody knew each other. Russia is a large country, but reading this book makes it seem like a small town. However, this book did manage to keep me interested in what happened at the end. I would read it for distraction because it is by no means great literature.

Like many of Baxt's novels, this one goes a little off-track with all the characters and spies, et cetera. However, that, in this humble reader's opinion, is part of the charm. These mysteries were obviously not written for deep, critical analysis, but for simple enjoyment. All the characters, and there are many, are fleshed out, and if the plot lacks bits that are shoved in a bit too hurriedly at the end, well that's just part of the charm. Another three cheers for George Baxt. And for Fred and Ginger.

An Invitation to Formal Reasoning is the first textbook presentation of the system of logic developed by Fred Sommers and George Englebretsen, the authors of this work. This is the logic of terms, which dominated logic throughout most of its history until predicate logic arose a century ago. The rise and dominance of predicate logic over the past century was due to the greater inferential power that it enjoyed over term logic. If term logic for two millennia was unable to cope with inferences such as those involving relationals and singular subjects then it seemed unlikely that it ever would.

However, Fred Sommers' work revitalized Aristotelian logic, creating a new syllogistic equal in inferential power to predicate logic. An Invitation to Formal Reasoning gives the reader the chance to master this new version of term logic. This book has strengths in two areas: as a work on logic and as work on the philosophy behind Sommers' system of logic. The chapters on the termist way of symbolizing and proving arguments are followed by examples to reinforce the lessons (answers to the exercises at the end of the book would have been helpful, though). The philosophy behind the system is also covered in optional chapters, which is of special interest to students of philosophy.

The work also covers modern predicate logic, relating it to term logic as an alternative system. Its treatment of predicate logic is fair but the authors are clearly sympathetic with term logic and view it as not only the equal of predicate logic but its superior in several ways; namely in its greater closeness to the forms of reasoning that are found in actual discourse, as opposed to the artificialness of predicate logic's means of representing arguments.

One cannot help but be impressed with the way Sommers' term logic can elegantly prove an argument in one step, the same argument that predicate logic takes a number of steps to prove. Rules are given at the end of the book for translating arguments from term logic into predicate logic - not that most would be tempted to after seeing the simplicity of the termist means of representing deductive arguments.

This book is no easy read, but it certainly is a rewarding one. It is a shame, however, that it has to be so expensive as to be beyond the means of many readers. Having finally made this system of logic available to students of logic in textbook form, it defeats the purpose to make it too expensive for most students to purchase. And for the price one could expect better production quality than is found in this publication. However, these drawbacks should not deter the serious student of philosophy or logic from studying this work, for it represents a profoundly important contribution to the philosophical literature.

As I was reading this book it did't tell me that much about anything except that this did this and that did that. If I were you I would not buy this book. Although it is my opinion on the book, you might really like it.

Naturalist Jean Craighead George introduces us to the world of the mountain lion, the road runner, the cactus, the kangaroo rat, the ringtailed cat, the swift fox, the elf owl, the coyote, and the bombadier beetle in this book as she did wolves and caribou in JULIE OF THE WOLVES and peregrine falcons in MY SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN. A young Papago Indian girl named Bird Wing and her mother live in Arizona's Sonoran Desert. This usually arid place is about to fall victim to a terrible thunderstorm and a flash flood. Bird Wing and all the animals of the desert struggle to find shelter before the flood. Some will survive--and some will not. This is a beautiful story about the close connection between human beings and all living things, and the unpredictable ways of nature. Other books in the ONE DAY series that include exciting natural disasters are ONE DAY IN THE ALPINE TUNDRA and ONE DAY IN THE PRAIRIE. There is also the fascinating ONE DAY IN THE WOODS and ONE DAY IN THE TROPICAL RAIN FOREST. And don't forget Jean Craighead George's 80+ stories about nature, like The Thirteen Moons series and THERE'S AN OWL IN THE SHOWER.

Yet another wonderful book by an author very much in tune with nature and ecological concerns. She teaches while she entertains. Having lived in the region portrayed in this book, it became a gift to young friends back in Minnesota to introduce them to a COMPLETELY different world. Yielded fun discussion and comparison. They wondered at and enjoyed it very much!