This book was used in my graduate level current literary theory course. It is a wonderful text that supplies ready access to the writers and texts that helped to shape what theory is today. It is not the intention of this book to necessarily apply these theories and show how they can be used. Often, the texts included seem to have no bearing on literature. That is simply because they were not all written as literary theory texts when they were penned. Instead, theory absorbed them and changed itself based upon the ideas in the text. This book is an anthology, not a guide. For a book that shows how to use theory, I recommend Lois Tyson's Critical Theory Today. For a book that shows the texts that each theory is based upon, buy this one.

(Complaints about "jargon" are simply reactions against theory.) I find this book very useful and teach it to undergrads annually.

With all apologies to Alan Lopez, I have never seen a better anthology of literary theory. I am a college faculty member, one who teachers primarily first-year students (what used to be called freshmen :-)). I use literary theory in both literature and writing classes, and there is just no other book with the range of selections in this one, and no other book with such sensible, helpful introductions. Certainly there is jargon, in both the selections and in the introductions, but to simplify the texts any more would be to replace reading them with reading "Foucault for Beginners." "Foucault for Beginners" is a fun book, and even useful, but it is not an anthology of primary theory texts. I cannot recommend this book strongly enough to people who want to have selections of a workable length (neither too long to swamp you, nor too short to be unrepresentative of the original authors' projects). If you are thinking about buying this book, that means you are interested in theory. If you are interested in theory, buy this book. If you teach theory, order this book. My only hesitation about requiring this for undergraduates is the price, which is a little hefty unless you are going to be sure to use a decent size chunk of the text.

WROX books used to be the only ones I'd buy; after having a grand ol' time with the ASP and ASP Databases series. The Professional series has been a real disappointment (and waste of money!). The books tend to be more wordy than necessary and spend too much time on the obvious and too little on the abstract. Cold Fusion is a fairly straight-forward programming language. WROX has somehow managed to make it much more. Perhaps too many cooks in the kitchen; looks like they had 18 authors put this beast together.
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Being a ColdFusion user group president, I give this book my seal of approval. This book is well written with easy to understand examples. It will help someone with no CF knowledge all the way to the experts. This book is well laid out and is enjoyable to read. I didn't know what to expect from Wrox on this. I have been a huge Ben Forta fan but this book is just as good as his (if not better)! If you want to learn CF, or just want to get better, buy this book. You will be very happy with it.

This is a very good book!
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Ryan gets raffled off at a charity auction to a woman who wants odd jobs done around her house. He manages to set fire to her kitchen. He then offers to give her and her son a place to live while repairs are being made. There is no sex in this book, some humor and two annoying characters--the grandmother and housekeeper. It's not a bad book, just not very interesting. There is almost no sexual tension and Ryan's character needs to loosen up.

This is the 1st kasey michaels book I read, and it won't be my last! It was quite adorable and humorous that I laughed out loud while reading it. The meddlesome grandmother and housekeeper are just too cute. The only thing I didn't like is that there really wasn't much romance (that is why I gave it 4 stars instead of 5) as far as one can tell the couple only kissed 2 times and the idea of them being in love was only mentioned in passing a few times until - welll i won't spoil it for you ! It is well worth the read! enjoy.

What impressed me the most was the likeability of Ryan and Janna

Ryan Chandler's grandmother and meddlesome matchmaker, Allie, decides it's high time her grandson get out and live life a little. After marrying off her two granddaughters, Allie's next victim is Ryan. And what better way to shove him out into the world than at the Bachelor Auction hospital charity event. And in order to ensure success, Allie picks out Janna Monroe (widow and mother) from the bidders and 'helps' her along in the form of a check to make the winning bid.

As the story progresses, we watch Janna learn to love again and Ryan change from a boring corporate businessman into a warm and loving man, whose heart opens up not only to Janna, but to her young son, Zachary. Ryan's first attempt at grilling is hilarious, even if the outcome was not.

I found Ryan and Janna very appealing. I did not find Almira Chandler likeable at all. From her scheming to the way she spoke to others, I found myself wanting to reach out and strangle her. I wasn't particularly fond of Mrs. Ballantine (the housekeeper) either.

Ignore the interfering grandmother and crabby household help. Focus on the story of Ryan and Janna and you won't be disappointed.

Meda Ryan attempts to tackle a very difficult task: determining who shot Michael Collins on that ill-fated day in 1922. In the book's preface, Ryan shares her reasons for wanting to examine the topic and her research methods in compiling the book. In Part I of the introduction, Ryan provides a short biography of Collins's life from his birth to June 1922. In Part II, she covers the last two months of Collins's life and the marrow of the book begins. Ryan supplies several great pictures and several maps of Béal na mBláth. Her evidence consists of eye-witness accounts, letters, telephone conversations and newspaper clippings.

Ryan takes us on a rollercoaster of facts and emotions as the story progresses. The basic theories she tackles are: Collins was hit from behind by IRA members headed to Kerry, Collins was hit by a member of his own party by a close range bullet from the armoured car, Collins was hit by a ricocheted bullet, and Collins was hit by a bullet fired by an IRA member. After dissecting the response of the medical examiners, the embalmer, the men who supposedly buried the cap Collins was wearing on the day he was killed, and the testimony of Emmet Dalton, Collins's friend and comrade who was with him that day, Ryan does give a firm conclusion as to who the shooter was. She dispels the theories that Collins was shot by a bullet from a Mauser pistol and that Collins was killed by a ricocheted bullet. So who shot Michael Collins according to Ryan's studies? Read this engrossing book to find out!

After reading a number of books on Michael Collins I found this book to be one of the most interesting on the shelves. The author gives a brief background of Collins life, what influenced his views and why he signed the Treaty. As the title suggests this book concentrates mainly on the last days of Michael Collin's life. There is an in-depth look at how he was killed and who fired the fatal shot. Interviews included are with those who took part in the Beal na mBlath ambush. I would highly recommed this book, even to anyone who has a slight interest in Michael Collins.

This book is a quick read that provides good detail of the last days of MIchael Collins' life and the months leading up to his assassination. If you are interested in what he did before he was shot and a theory of his death then you should read this book. The book focuses on the assassination of Collins and the politics surrounding it. It gives great detail of the final day and the attack itself so if that interests you it would be a good book.

A lot of good material is covered and in a relatively tight fashion. The presentation of logic is well done, but when getting into the BDDs, the explanations get a little complicated and I personally had to read it over several times before I could make sure I understood what was going on. This book also does not have anything on symmetry, so if that's what you're looking for, there are better books out there. However, this book can hold its own and I recommend it to anyone interested in learning the basics of model checking provided they can take handle some of the heavy duty reading.

This book is a good introduction to logic. It is highly readable, not dry. It explains logic in the language of humans, not arcane mathematics, yet it somehow is able to remain rigorous. This makes logic make sense, rather than it being an abstract intellectual pursuit detached from life and other topics.

Half the book is on logic, half on model checking. I've only read the logic part so far, so I cannot compare the model checking treatment to that in Clarke et al.'s "Model Checking."

The logic treatment is not specific to computer science (or at least did not seem to be so, for someone not a student of mathematics and logic), so in my opinion the title is a misnomer; perhaps a better title would be "Logic for People, and Model Checking Too."

Having taken this class at Kansas State University under the author Michael Huth. Reading this book before lecture often left me a bit confused, but after the lectures it seemed to be brought together, but this is my personal experience, your milage may differ. The book has excellent examples and a great introduction to logic and this book, along with great instruction should help you understand better the logical foundations of computer science.

Meda Ryan proves that indeed if a man is great, he must have great women in his life. The love life of Michael Collins has been the topic of everything from serious historical pursuit to fanciful gossip and Ryan attempts to shed accurate light on what Collins's love life was actually like. Ryan begins with Michael's childhood. Collins was raised mostly by women. His father died when Michael was only six and the young Collins was cared for by his mother, grandmother and sisters. When Collins went to England to work at a postal savings bank and gain business experience, he lived with his sister Johanna and was given valuable advice by his sister Hannie who had worked in a postal savings bank herself. Ryan introduces us to Susan Killeen, Collins's first real girlfriend. He met Susan while in London and his cousin, Nancy O'Brien (the cousin who copied countless files for him), noted that Michael was rather popular with his female co-workers. Ryan also discusses Collins's relationships with Sinéad Mason, a friend and secretary, and Madeline Dicker, another girlfriend. Ryan addresses the rumors that Collins had affairs with Lady Hazel Lavery and Moya Llewelyn Davies. The most notable relationship Collins had was with his fiancée, Kitty Kiernan, and Ryan covers the details of their love in a fairly thorough manner.

If you are looking for a traditional biography of Michael Collins, an introduction to Collins's life and times, or any type of conventional history text, this book is probably not for you. This is the type of book that will likely appeal to those already basically familiar with Collins's story but who are interested in learning more about his personal life. If you already have a good sense of the history of the time and want to know the stories behind the many women who assisted Collins both personally and professionally, this would be an excellent selection.

Did you know that his cousin was a secretary for an officer in the Dublin Castle? She would copy her notes and smuggle them out in her clothing. Did you know that he had a girlfriend long before he met Kitty Kiernan? She was one of his many helpers in the long struggle. Did you know of the many roles women played in his life? I didn't, until I read this book.

Meda Ryan isn't a stranger to the life and times of Michael Collins. Her previous book, The Day Michael Collins Was Shot, concentrates on the final days of the man. This effort, Michael Collins and the Women in His Life, spans his lifetime and concentrates on the women in his life. They range from his mother, whose life of toil and devotion had a profound effect on him as a boy, to Kitty Kiernan, whose zest and love of life distracted his mind from his many trials and troubles.

Some of the names will be familiar to readers of Irish history, most will not. All demonstrated the courage and zeal that Ireland needed during her fight for freedom. While this book may not appeal to the "professional scholar", I found that it was a good introduction to Michael Collins' life and supplements other biographies about the man.

In the poem "0," Ryan calls the reader to observe the violent biometrical effect of what he calls (In Book One of the book) "Devolution and the Rigorous Language of Science." Written in 1984 (appropriately enough for those interested or justifiably paranoid about the way government and its twin sister, technology, radically alters what we consider "the Human,"), the title phrase Eating the Heart means swallowing whole the very motif-as-headline, the synesthetic imagery of a motiveless revolution forced by science upon the individual seeking to retain his or her very identity. Language, like the human, will conform: "Headlines announced bathing beaches were closed/all over the world/and deaths by killer telephones/were reported as far away as Santiago de Chile" (poem 8).

In poem O, the meridian to the countdown-sequence of poems in the first book, the language of human feeling competes with the language of science as it swallows itself, inflicting violence upon the very organs of the poem internally. The evolution/revolution of the waves of Arnold's Dover Beach turn into waves of blood that accuse: "I could tell you in blood if the blood were bled empty/not the oil of the veins, not the spillage, not the heart's/feet stuffed down its throat, not the blood leaping at you/loosed in the streets, the blood that demands it is blood/until it must bleed or bleed you, not the blood of birth/that with its nakedness will only clothe me...." These explore the method by which culture assasinates itself; the emergent identity of the individual, its defining margins, become violence: "The South Americans bleed, it's said, and in Russia/the boots are filled with blood..." as poetry exposes the substance that links us all as human beings, pouring it into the line, it also exposes the force-fed and irresolute means of that exposure: "But see how the white blood that flushes/in the cheeks with the slaughters of roses/I can't tell you with". And it does so until the poem begs itself to stop.

*Eating the Heart of the Enemy" often draws on the pure power of utterance, even syllable--its language seeks to compete with the presumptious tone of science itself, and responds to the extreme compressions available to signification in the postnuclear age. Readers may find themselves confused at times with certain poems' lack of explanation, their antipoetics and the flatlined lyric found in poems like "While the Phone Was Ringing," wherein an unnamed "I" finds himself "listing steps" to "conceal the body." Epiphany and choral direction, even prophesy, occurs from the vantage point of Ryan's particular version of emptiness, what Baudrillard calls "the spiralling cadaver," as in the last lines of the poem where the I sits, thinking about it:

When I lifted the head in the dark/ it flickered twice like a flourescent tube/ and lit

and spoke, saying/ from now on you are the pull chain/ of my dead fixture

If you flee to some obscure city/ and open your desk drawer/ my fingers or my eyes will be there/ On the morning of the day you die/ my head will rise in your window/ in place of the sun

As its title promises, this book is, in fact, very well illustrated with hundreds of color, as well as black and white photos and drawings. Thirty-seven contibuting authors take the reader from the Stone Age up to early modern times. Herein lies my only criticism, which is that I hope this text can be expanded in future revised editions to go beyond just the 17th century and into new and important areas of excavation such as the Famine archaeology of the 20th century. Other than that, I salute its editor for providing features like a useful glossary of terms particular to Irish archaeology, as well as helpful explanations in the beginning of this book of some of the newest techniques in Irish archaeology.Well worth its price and 4.5 stars perhaps!

As far as contemporary pictures goes, this book is fabulous. It shows costumes from diverse times and regions, and even mentions the Festival dancers, etc., and not just An Coimisuin (excuse my spelling if it is incorrect). As I mentioned in the title, the pages are few, but the size of the book is reflected in its price (LOW!). The content in terms of text is ok; nothing was obviously inaccurate (unlike the arthur flynn ID book), and, even though the volume is brief, the text is fairly comprehensive.

An inspiring personal account of the horror of sexual abuse, sexual addiction, and, most importantly, the recovery from both. The author is quite frank which makes the material disturbing at times, but overall the book is educational and thought-provoking. Highly Recommend.