This book is a great reference and roadmap for beginning guitar builders. Everything from shaping the side to spraying the finish

I am new to jumping horses, but a very experienced rider. My trainer introduced me to and loaned me her copy. I found it to be very helpful in teaching me excellent techniques to train the green horse (my interest is in field hunters and polo horses) and also to make me a better, more confident jumper. However, this is a reference work, even though small, and I need to return my trainer's copy to her. That I want to go purchase the book after I have read it tells you all you might need to know. Perhaps an experienced hunter/jumper might not need this book, but for the novice, I think it is excellent.

The average college grad "earns" about $11,000 of student loan debt on the way to a diploma.Those who go on for an advanced degree can wind up $100,000 in the hole! This book details what you'll need to know to stay afloat in the sea of student loans. It explains your repayment and consolidation options, and offers strategies for getting and staying out of default.

Now in a newly updated and revised fifth edition, Irving Horowitz's Taking Lives: Genocide And State Power is a brutally sober and candid look at the social and political climates that have fostered state-inspired mass-murder in the 20th century. Divided into five sections that focus on the present, past, future, general theory, and intense study of state-sponsored genocide, Taking Lives leaves no stone unturned in its thorough analysis. The new fifth edition concludes with chapters that review genocide studies from 1945 to the present. Taking Lives is a critical, scholarly reference not to be overlooked for political science and social reference shelves, as it shows new ways of viewing the human condition and how easily the state apparatus can be corrupted into a bludgeon of mass murder.

I visited Spain in Nov 2002 and was absolutely enchanted by the Nasrid Alhambra palace in Granada. Built in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains, it casts a watchful eye over the inhabitants of the city below.

From the exterior, palace is surrounded by an imposing fort structure built of reddish brown stone - clearly meant to give the vision of martial strength to the outsiders. At night from the Albaycin (Old Arab Quarter), the palace is hauntingly beautiful-floodlights on the fort giving it a ghostly appearance. Upon entering the deceptively unassuming palace, a world of breathtakingly beautiful art and architecture slowly overwhelms you.

I simply couldn't get enough of this palace and often found myself trying to absorb as much of it's ambiance as possible. I was introduced to Washington Irving's work when I had bought an audioguide at the entrance of the palace. This guide was essentially oral excerpts from his book detailing the history and legends of each room as I walked through them.

Upon completing the tour, I then was compelled to buy the book. Reading it, I could see the Alhambra in front of my eyes again. In addition to that, I could imagine its former royal inhabitants as the legends of chivalry, romance and ghosts were told.

Washington Irving had the opportunity to live for several months in the Alhambra palace. Back then it was a forgotten Moorish fort in a terrible state of disrepair. His style is very soft and dreamlike, thus one is drawn into his writing as he discovers the legends from the 'guardians' who have taken residence in the palace.

This book was truly a delight to read, I highly recommend it to anyone wanting to learn about the Alhambra or as a memoir of one's own visit to the palace.

"Tales of the Alhambra" was penned by American author Washington Irving ("Rip Van Winkle," "Sleepy Hollow") during a stay at the legendary Alhambra in Granada, Spain. I bought this book after my visit to the Alhambra, and found it to be a fantastic companion to what I had seen and experienced.

The Alhambra (and Generalife) is a combination fort/palace/gardens dating from the 13th century, filled with fantastic Arabic architecture (ornate plasterwork, ceramic tiles, sculpted marble fountains and archways), and lots of room for imagining the days of its former greatness, which Irving brings to life most memorably. The book is illustrated with charming and detailed watercolour engravings dating from the same period when the book was written.

Irving seamlessly winds legend, history, and a Spanish travelogue of sorts together, and even though the book is over 170 years old, it seems as if it was written yesterday. There are tales of princes, genies, lost and found loves, enchanted treasures, battles, hellish headless horses (does the inspiration seem familiar?), and commentary on the Spanish landscape and nature of the Spaniards that he lives with. Full of bewitching music, the smell of roses and exotic perfumes, firey sunsets, and the ghosts of the past, the book is a sensory treat as well. If you plan on visiting the Alhambra, read this first--it will definitely enhance your experience. If you've already visited, this makes a priceless souvenir, bringing to life once more the stately halls and fragrant gardens.

Professor Evans recounts the events of the Irving trial, with the accuracy that is typical of his historical work. With a good amount of detail, obviously not as complete as the trial transcripts (which would take thousands of pages), Evans takes us through some of the evidence that helped prove beyond any reasonable doubt what Lipstadt had said in her book: Irving is not a historian, he regularly lies, and distorts facts for the benefit of his anti-semite, right wing agenda. A great book for all those who are interested in dismantling the Holocaust denial lies, and for those who took interest in the Irving trial in 2000.

very good book with a lot of informations about electronics

I highly recommend this book. The text is clear and thorough, and the examples are excellent. It's a standard in the field and does not disappoint.

It is unfortunate that this book is out of print, for it is one of the best written books on the origins and explanations of logical atomism. I had the distinct pleasure of sitting in a class on realism and idealism that was given by the author, wherein this book was used, and it was probably one of the best overviews of these two schools of thought that I have experienced. The author explains the history behind the linguistic turn that began early in the twentieth centuryand discusses in detail the attempts by Moore and Russell to refute idealism with their arguments evolving into the theory of logical atomism. The author does not hesitate to use the logical symbolism of first order predicate calculus when needed to clarify the issues. Such symbolism appears in the book in many places, and serves the reader well in the statement of the problems that Moore and others were attempting to solve. Some examples of this include the discussion of the argument of Moore on the existence of objects of direct apprehension. These are to occur, contrary to the idealist position, independently of any act of apprehension. The way the author constructs the logical proposition to elaborate Moore's position differentiates it from the idealist position with great clarity.

Moore has been known as the "common sense" philosopher, and the author in his discussion brings this labeling to light in the book in detail. It is also interesting, when reading the book, to reflect on positions taken by philosophers in later decades, particularly by Jean Paul Sartre. The issue of negation for example, is discussed in the book, and Sartre's view is that one "experiences" the negation. This move by Sartre of how to handle the negation is expoused in great detail in Sartre's works, and this book gives a greater appreciation of just why the problem of negation was so important to Sartre.

The issues in this book are, interestingly enough, very important in fields such as artificial intelligence and are currently hotly debated in the attempts to build thinking machines. A field called "ontological engineering" has been evolving over the past two decades, and the logical and programming issues that arise in this field are ones that are similar to or identical to the ones addressed in this book. We are lucky to be in age where one can speak of "applied philosophy", in the attempts to bring artificial intelligence to reality. The excellent elucidation by the author in this book of these issues is, unintended by the author no doubt at the time of writing, of great assistance to those working to develop machines that can think, that can gather facts, and that can reference. These machines, when they are developed, will put forward their own unique arguments about their abilities to do this.......

This is probably the finest relatively-unknown novel ever published in the USA. The reviews back in 1982 were stunning. (William Safire in the New York Times wrote: "Rip-snortin', rootin'-tootin' adventure"; the L.A.Herald-Examiner said, "A big, rawboned, wild-blooded adventure, a novel to make any writer proud and many readers grateful." (I copy these from the paperback book jacket.)

Young Tom Mix runs off to Mexico to join the revolution and becomes Pancho Villa's "gringo" aide. This is historical fact, although Irving -- for our benefit -- embroiders this for some 500 fabulous pages. Tom meets all kinds of people who were there, including George S. Patton, Emiliano Zapata, and Franz von Papen. It's a swashbuckling story, and who among us not wished he'd grown up as romantically as Mix does here?

The book gives the sights and sounds of a turn-of-the-century world real enough to touch. I note that another reviewer in the L.A. Times called it "a fantasy worthy of Mark Twain, a legendary tale." And the Houston Chronicle called it "a wonderful, big book." I agree. If you own a copy, you can sell it for ten times what you paid for it. If you can't find one to buy, try your library. It's GREAT.