this book explores great works and the career of Richard rogers , the quality of photographs ,sketches and text really suitable for this great architect ... Recommend it highly .

I read this book years ago and just reread it. The issues are always important. The author does a great job presenting a non bias view of the tragedy of a father killing a son because he can't cope with the son's drug use. The problem is here years later I want to know how the survivors have moved on with their lives and generally what has happened to them.

After penning Boulder Climbs North and South, magnificent achievements in their own right, Rossiter moves north to the high country and catalogs more than just the classics. With every section of the high peaks covered in full detail including topos and pictures of each route, the climbing guide portion of the book is thouroughly covered. In addition, the author's comments and history keep this book from becoming a stale reference.

The book is a MASTERPIECE!!! What a brilliant effort! I stand in awe of George's talent! The basic reason for the book - memorializing two unique, interesting, and productive individuals - is absolutely achieved. I'm sure some would say, "Sure it's good. Look at the material he had to work with." And that's the point. Through his writing talent we could look at the two "STARS" up close and personal. I love his writing style. While many successful writers make good use of adjectives, which George does, he manages to use adjectives that no one else would use in that context and they work! So many writers come up with analogies that are clearly forced, don't quite work, and stop the reader who realizes their weakness. Not George! He has the talent to do the unusual and make it work. Then there is his technique of changing scenes with some abruptness, which results in a change of pace and greater interest, and defeats boredom. That and some interesting sentence structure gave me the conviction that he is a writer, not just a storyteller. In the opening he states that the work is a novel, which signals to me that much of the details of scenes and conversations are reproduced by him based on facts and his imagination. If that is true, then he does his reproductions believably and therefore spectacularly brilliantly. Again, moving from the storyteller stage to something more expert, he has exhibited the ability to understand and to use his knowledge of the human condition - an advanced writing skill! As I have said, he is a WRITER, a professional! I'm anxious to read his next work! What much of the above adds up to is that George has the highly skilled ability to create three-dimensional characters on a two-dimensional page. WOW! Speaking of dimensions, there is one more aspect that deserves comment here. I found many parts of the book to be personally INSPIRING without overt preaching. I feel closer to God. Reading the book was an interesting, rewarding, riveting and memorable experience. A MASTERPIECE! Worth waiting for. I thank you for including me in its triumph!

This is a wonderful statistics book if you are teaching AP Statistics or an introductory college course or if you hated statistics in college and want to give the subject a second chance. Before you even get into the first formula, the authors provide a REAL set of data, involving an accusation of age discrimination. The rookie learner is immediately DOING statistics and the authors do not stop there. The book is crowded with useful data - both data gleaned from the real world and from activities throughout the book.
Anyone familiar with statistics education is well aware of the positive contributions of Ann Watkins, Dick Scheaffer and George Cobb. This book is their latest contribution to the growth of statistical knowledge. The writing is clear and most readable. The examples are engaging and there are three types of problems: discussion questions, practice activities and exercises.
I have been teaching statistics in high school and university classrooms since 1976. I am pleased with the growth in the number of good introductory texts. Now there is one more member in the small group of books that I would choose to use to teach statistics. Statistics in Action is a book you MUST have if you are looking at books with "statistics' in the title! Key Curriculum Press has another success to add to its list of great books.

At the time, this was an interesting final-chapter addition to the Watergate affair. But I bet these folks could have kicked themselves, much later, after reading "Silent Coup" and seeing that their prime witness was dirty from the ground up, involved in his own intrigues. If they'd only known then what they later learned...

the technique and the time of Bernard Stiegler propose a philosophical analysis of technicality. Stiegler shows that this one is originating. If the Western culture analyzed the technique like a fault (Promotheus), it must now be seen like a defect, the defect even of the originating one. Heir to Derrida, of which he was the pupil, Stiegler starts a turning in the philosophical analysis of the destiny of the technique.

I supervise psychology graduate students in a hospital setting, and plan to use this book to teach cognitive therapy concepts. The author's discussion of "seeding" future therapeutic contacts and deepening the therapy over sequential contacts presents a highly pragmatic framework for real-world case conceptualization and goal setting.

Georges Bataille's work varies wildly in quantity. His early essays, collected in "Visions of Excess", are interesting but by now rather amusing blood-and-thunder manifestoes, swirling with Nietzschean rhetoric, the kind of thing that makes certain young male academics feel the blood rising in their nads so that they'll write anguished tomes on postmodernism that no-one but their students will ever read. His slightly later "Literature and Evil" is one of the silliest and shallowest books of litcrit ever inflicted on an undeserving public. His novel "Story of the Eye" is insubstantial as literature and uninvolving as pornography. This late work consists of a sober essay on the French nobleman Gilles de Rais and the documents from Gilles' trial in 1440. I think it's the best book Bataille ever wrote.

Gilles de Rais was a genuine nutcase. Born into great wealth, he was raised by his brutal and amoral great-grandfather and was a natural knight - i.e., he was violent, addicted to luxury and spectacle, and appeared not to give a toss about anyone. He distinguished himself in battle alongside Joan of Arc, but when the wars were over, Gilles appears to found life a bit lacking in savour. So, with the help of some of his entourage, he found a new way of spicing things up. He would typically ride to the nearest village, select a handsome young person between the age of 8 and 20 (usually male, but female where no boys were available) and bring the child back to his castle to be tortured, raped and murdered. He particularly liked to cut the body open and gaze on the insides. Then he'd go to sleep and his associates would dispose of the body.

Nobody is quite sure how many children he killed this way, but the estimates run into hundreds. The locals were scared because Gilles was a rich and powerful nobleman, Marshal of France, and the nobility tolerated the rumours for exactly the same reason. The Bluebeard legend became attached to his name (in spite of the fact that it was much older than him) and he certainly lived up to it.

Bataille's analysis of Gilles' character is hard to argue with. The Marshal of France was a vain, reckless, gullible, almost incredibly stupid young man - and yet the delirious extravagance of his crimes lends him a horrible grandeur. Gilles very quickly got completely out of control. The stories of his giggling at the dying bodies of his victims make him almost pathetic, as well as disgusting. He was finally arrested when he gratuitously insulted the men of the last person willing to protect him. He was tried for the murder of several children, found guilty and hanged. His body was to be burned, but it was pulled out of the flames and buried not without honour. He seems to have inspired a weird pity in people.

On the evidence of the trial documents, it's hard to doubt that Gilles was either mad or evil. Yet he lacked the true psychopaths' instinct for self-preservation, and his repentance seems to have been as tearfully sincere as his crimes were remorseless. Maybe he just had absolutely no imagination. Either way, this is a rigorously truthful and forensic book about one of the most frightening people who ever lived, far above the level of the average true crime potboiler. My only objection is Tom Dolan's cover design (at least in the Amok Books edition) - apparently a close-up photo of a bare torso with a nasty case of chickenpox, pointless and icky compared to the Grand Guignol within. Richard Robinson's translation is admirable in style; not having read the original French, I can't vouch for its accuracy, but I see no reason to doubt it.