My father used to tell us children about the "old" radio days and how the family would gather around and listen to the radio shows. He would speak of his love for those old radios. I , like everyone else I suppose, have seen old radios in antique stores. However, I don't recall having ever seen a Crystal Radio. I happened to be at an antique show and saw a copy of the book. I decided to buy it for my father. When I got home I started going through the pages and was amazed by the information in the book and the amount of crystal sets there had been. The author has done so much research and I feel the wiser for it. I am glad that I happened upon this book. I have learned from it and know that my father will enjoy it whenever I finally decide to give it to him. He is bound to have many more stories to tell me about "the old radio days" but somehow I think I am going to enjoy listening to them even more.

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Drury's work is a classic. It includes discussions of issues in psychiatry and religion by a friend of Ludwig Wittgenstein's, the great philosopher whose works "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus" and "Philosophical Investigations" remain controversial and highly influential today in philosophy -- especially analytical philosophy, (the late) logical positivism, and the philosophy of language. Students interested in any of these fields will also benefit from Drury's work, and it can especially recommended to those who enjoy Wittgenstein's own writing, or who are interested in how it might be applied to issues such as psychiatry and religion.

Daniel O'Connell is my Great, Great, Great, Great Grandfather and I would really love to know more about him, I hope to read your book soon. Kelly Australia

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This is the detailed story about how China during the Deng Xiaoping era was transformed from a socialist or quasi-socialist dictatorship to a capitalist dictatorship, but without giving up the socialist slogans. In the words of the author (pp. 492-3): "China today is experiencing, on a massive scale and in extreme forms, all the social evils of Western capitalism that modern Chinese intellectuals and political leaders sought for over a century to avoid. [...] That century-long quest now appears to have been all but abandoned. In the 1980s, China's leaders gradually reconciled themselves to enduring the vicissitudes of a capitalist regime-that "social anarchy which turns every economic progress into a social calamity," as Marx so acutely and forebodingly described the workings of capitalism." In my view, the book is very well written and well argued. Above all, it is free from the irritating Western bias that mar many books on China. Thus, the author more than once takes pains to explode myths about modern China, e.g. the popular impression that the Mao era was a period of economic stagnation (p. 188). But Meisner's story is in no sense the story about China's transformation from a socialist paradise to a capitalist hell. On the contrary, the book seems to me to be very balanced and credible. Recommended!

Most books on transistor design focuses on circuit analysis: given a certain circuit, find the current in all branches, freq. responce, and al. This may be great when one wants to learn the circuit inner workings but it terribly fails when you need to work the other way around: given what you want, how should you calculate and pick the right components to bias your transistors the way YOU want them to work. Well, this book does just that. M. Yunik does a terrific job in explaining the art of transistor design strategies. It covers everything from basic network analysis, detailed explamation of transistor parameters (as shown in data books), transistor bios, coupling, frequency responces, power amplifier and more. It even fully covers JFET! It's a shame that such a nice piece of work be out of print.

This book smoothly and succinctly pinpoints the causes -- and choices for resolution -- to the various difficulties that inevitably arise in all relationships (not only intimate relationships, but also work, friend, etc.). Its topic is most pertinent to our times and its insights, if applied, are most effective -- even life changing. I found it the perfect balance of "academic" and "layperson" reading, and quite touching as well. The writing speaks to the heart of concerns that have churned inside all of us, but that we could never seem to express. Read it ASAP -- you will not regret it

Before I can even begin about the book, the story BEHIND the book is amazing. It would not surprise me if Cheney had a copy of the German version somewhere in his desk as Bush probably wouldn't understand a third of the amazing ideas put forth in this formerly banned book.

Watching the news is like watching Machiavelli's Dialogue come to life. Listening to Democrats is like hearing Montesquieu's feeble attempts to say that in the end, the good guys will win because of Justice and Liberty. If the Dialogue were a swordfight, Machiavelli would have not only killed poor Montesquieu, but eviscerated and beheaded him as well. Waggoner's commentaries and insights are a little dry when compared with the excellent text but are a good read and do well to put some of the outdated points in the text into context. I strongly reccomend this for anybody who is questioning the course of events that our world is being swept up in.

Silence is the greatest work of Didier Comés. It has everything, passion , a great and pretty realistic plot some warscenes and two of the most hideous villains ever to appear in a graphic novel. If you're a fan of Forests&Tardis Ici Meme you'll love this book.