A couple months ago I was searching for a French language textbook to use for self study. I came across this one in college bookstore, and I decided to purchase it; and it was just what I was lookng for in a text. This book doesn't mess around, it simply gives you what you need to effectively learn the French language. I purchased the CD-Rom, workbook and audio tapes that accompany the book. They are very well done ! The thing that I really like about the text is the grammar prsentations. Some people get scared when they see the word grammar, but to build a competent knowledge of a foreign language you simply need to learn grammar.I highly recommend this book.

This book was my text in university and it aided me in my studies of french tremendously. It is concise and very student-friendly. All aspects of french culture are thorougly encompassed. The authors were my professors and their teaching styles are highly reflected in this book. Amuse-toi bien!

The book had a good story line. It was a very interesting book. I could read it over and over. I recommend it to other children for reading. I really loved it.

This book is funny and cute. If you are a 7 year old boy like me, you would like to read this book!

M Bijaoui takes a balanced approach to both theory and practice in this book. A good half share of the book describes the underlying theory of scaling systems, but without diving too deeply in complex systems theory. On the other hand, it actually describes (presumably from real world experiences) the practicalities of scaling up Exchange.

Its pitch is just about right: not so deep that you'd get the bends, but just deep enough that you can get by with a snorkel.

This topic is clearly right in Mr. Bijaoui's sweet spot and he delivers with a home run. If you are looking to build a big, honkin' server, but also want to know all of the gotchas along the way, this book is for you.

Just what I was looking for...

Why oh why is this timeless cookbook out of print? The fish recipes are uncomplicated yet sophisticated - likely to be found in trendy restaurants today (although the book was written in 1986). We take our "Seafood Cookbook" with us on vacations knowing that the ingredients will be available in most stores and that we won't have to give up hours of "beach time" preparing a fresh and delicious seafood dinner.

I did not grow up eating fish, but love seafood now. I was at a loss as to how to prepare restaurant-quality recipes at home. I found this book on my mother's bookshelf, she gave it to me, and now am buying it as a gift for friends who like to cook but do not have a source for nearly foolproof seafood methodology. An enormous variety of seafood is included; interesting ingredients are used; recipes are easily adapted to no-added-fat cooking. Most recipes can be accomplished in a half hour on a work night. All look nice on the platter and plate. You cannot go wrong with Pierre Franey!

"Selected writings of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon" is an accessible and informative collection of the revolutionary thought of one of contemporary history's more visionary yet obscure philosophers. Envisioning a society based on reciprocity, collaboration and spontaneous free association, Proudhon based this model of society on the ethical concept of self-respect - self-respect begets respect for onefs neighbour. Remarkable in its depth of understanding, "Selected writings of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon" is a must read for anyone interested in anarchist thought and its implications in the development of a truly democratic society.

In just 264 pages this book effectively conveys the essence of the philosophy of the founder of modern anarchism. Writing in the mid-nineteenth century, Proudhon's views still have relevance today.

His mutualism or anarcho-syndicalist style of anarchism attempts to fit into the realities of the industrial age rather than submerge itself in dreams of the pastoral agrarian past.

During the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) the followers of Proudhon's style of anarcho-syndicalism were a major political party which controlled the city goverment of Barcelona and the Catelonian province in Spain. From this base they fought against Franco's fascists on the side of the Spanish Republic.

If you like the photos of movies ,thýs book is yours,
ýf you have this book you can know all the things of the actors when they aren't playing.if you have this book you,perhaps there are a lot of photos of your favourite actor . bravo for
Marc Brincourt :-)

It is one of the most surprising and also creative book ý have ever seen. If you are interested about movies than you should buy "stars on set" and discover the stolen moments. I am sure everyone will find it so amazing to see stars in another perspective.
Congratulations to Marc Brincourt for this brilliant idea.

I learned a lot from reading this book. It provides both a very thorough and detailed account of Africa's mixed development fortunes and an original theory of development and underdevelopment. It is very well written.

This book provides a sophisticated and nuanced theory of African underdevelopment, which also explains African success stories! It represents one of the most important theoretical advances in African studies in a long time, and it is not dogmatic at all. This book incorporates historical, sociological, political and economic insights to derive a general theory of the determinants of poverty and weak state capacity in Africa. It is very well written and will be accessible to undergraduates as well as advanced readers. Rich in statistical evidence, the text always remains clear, even to the quantitative novice, and is full of real life examples. A compelling argument and a real "tour de force."

I really enjoyed this book. Intelligent, coherent, stylish, articulate, passionate, extremely well paced... just like a hockey game. I just can't believe a hockey player can skate so good on a keyboard! The only thing missing is the stats of his entire hockey career. I think it should have been added somewhere, maybe on the back cover, I don't know. Maybe in the next print? (Cause there will be several ones, I'm sure). Again, fabulous book! Go Pierre Go! Na-na-na-hey-hey-goodbye!

This rocks!!!! Pierre Turgeon is my idol!! He is so great---an extremely talented hockey player and an author too!! This book had a well-developed plot, and once i started reading it , I couldn't put it down!!! Go Pierre go!!!

World War II had relatively little influence on the culture of Tahiti and the surrounding Society Islands of the South Pacific, unlike its effect on much of Melanesia and Micronesia, further west and north. Rather, major changes began in the early 1960s, when France decided to conduct nuclear tests in the area. This decision, with massive transfers of money, technology, and personnel, had "an explosive effect" on Tahitian culture. Levy conducted the research for this book just as the new period was opening, from 1961 to 1964. Thus, we can probably say that no matter how good it is, TAHITIANS is now a historical document. Nevertheless it is an excellent psycho-portrait of a people at a certain point in history, a portrait that utilizes earlier histories and descriptions from the moment of European contact in 1767.

TAHITIANS is a work of psychological anthropology, one of the best I have ever seen. It is a work about Tahitian culture and personality formation that delves into a myriad aspects of life from childbirth, the widespread adoption common in all Polynesian societies, homosexuality, and leadership qualities to religion, moral behavior, and dreams. Language plays a big part in the description---over 200 Tahitian words are used, sometimes frequently, in order to describe relationships and feelings more exactly. Many fascinating insights on Tahitian culture in general can be gleaned from his numerous passages on language. Levy's writing is clear and simple throughout, though a few passages were a little too 'field-specific' to psychology for a layman like myself. At over five hundred pages, the book is nothing if not comprehensive, but Levy did sacrifice analysis for the sake of presenting all his data. The analysis appears throughout, but sometimes does not have a clear direction. The author maintains a modest tone, often retiring from a discussion inconclusively. For example, he tackles older anthropological concerns about the difference between the 'content' and 'process' of thought which led previous generations of scholars to write of the "primitive mind". While his answers are good, and strictly in line with what he found in his own work, they do not answer those concerns. [Perhaps impossible, perhaps conducive to racist thinking in a racism-plagued world.] Another section on 'guilt cultures' vs. 'shame cultures' is also rather inconclusive. It might have been more useful to sidestep these old, oft-debated issues [now half a century or more out of date] to concentrate on his subjects, the villagers of Huahine island and the urban dwellers in a section of Papeete, the formerly sleepy capital of Tahiti. The lack of a strong summary is the weakest point about TAHITIANS; such an amazingly vivid description just fizzles out.

I have reviewed another book in this field for amazon.com---"All the Mothers are One" by Stanley Kurtz about India. Kurtz' book is entirely based on analysis of other writers' theories and building some new ones. He did no field work himself. Levy's book, written entirely on extensive field work and interviews, is just the opposite, yet both are extremely useful works for students wishing to delve further into psychological studies of other cultures. Teachers looking for good books to use in courses touching on psychological anthropology or Pacific Studies have come to the right place. TAHITIANS is an overlooked classic that deserves to be read by a much wider audience than has been the case.

Robert I. Levy's classic work on Tahitians is an unusual meeting point between traditional ethnographies (broad cultural surveys with everything from gardening charms to system of government) and the more recent wave of psychological ethnographies (sometimes so specific that they discuss little but folk beliefs about the self, or semantic analysis of emotion terms). The combination is refreshing: a trained psychoanalyst and psychiatrist conducts more than two years of fieldwork in a Tahitian village, and gives us not only his insights, but also his data, his process of interpretation, and the sociocultural context in which he worked. Levy's Tahiti was also in a continuing process of Westernization and modernization. Salient contrasts for the islanders were "traditional" versus "demi-European" Tahitians, and both again versus the French government and Chinese merchants. The "traditional" Tahitian culture itself, however, came from the interaction of an older Tahitian culture with Protestant missionaries in the 19th century. Levy draws on the historical and comparative records to present a sympathetic picture of a small society caught in complicated times. Finally, Levy is simply a good writer, and appears to be a good fieldworker as well. He introduces us to nine Tahitians, not all of whom are nice or happy. Through them (in one of the early examples of person-centered anthropology), we glimpse something of what it means to be Tahitian. Levy's presentation is neither romantic nor sentimental, but in reading this book, one understands why the South Seas, and Tahiti in particular, have occupied such a large place in the European imagination. It's a pity there aren't more books like this in the anthropological canon.

When you open this book, you'll find so much more than recipes... you will find the truest statement abour a way of living you've seen.

The recipes alone would have made this a great book, but the story, about the context of those recipes, and their value in traditional Spanish cooking and living makes it a superb book.

The best i've ever read, and re-read and re-read

This is an excellent book with concise recipes that are easily duplicated and/or adapted for the American kitchen. The explanations of the regional cusines and the beautiful pictures and histories of the many provinces of this fascinating country are the icing on the cake. This is a wonderful "coffee table book" as well as a working cook book.