The Bolivian Diary of Che Guevara is pretty fascinating, because when I thought about the Bolivian Adventure, Che being a horrible comandante and guerrilla leader always came to my mind. When I read the book I found that there were many aspects that didn't let Che prevail in Bolivia. From Mario Monje and PCB Party's betrayel, Fidel's lack of re-establishing contact with the guerrillas, lack of peasant recruiting to create a people's army, lack of conditions being right in country for an insurection, etc. Even with all these things stopping Che I was very amazed on how far he got, any other leader wouldn't have lasted 2 months. Che's tactics in his ambushes was incredible and even with lack of guerrillas he wiped out mostly all army forces that opposed him. Che was doing superb until US intervention. To understand Che's mission and how he failed is to understan Latin America today.

this is good book that irecomend to the student in my class to practices hec1 and hec 2 software to use in field of water resources hydrology and hydraulic engineer

I have read many of papers contained in the three CASYS conference proceedings and have been quite impressed with the direction anticipatory systems research is heading. Anticipatory systems research is derived from Robert Rosen's seminal works "Anticipatory Systems", "Life Itself" and "Essays on Life Itself"; these were basically ignored (much like Rashevsky's work prior to Rosen) but slowly its value is being realized.

Anticipatory systems acknowledge that real processes, particularly life, do not obey causal laws required by our present 'religion' of reductionism. This can be seen in all aspects of science whether one looks at attempts at cybernetics, algorithmic information theory, physics or biology (to name a few). We have consistently run up against the same roadblocks to progress since our present way of thinking excludes the possibility of ever answering some very basic questions.

There is a lot of interest here from Dubois' works in hyperinclusion (although I do not agree with his interpretation of Rosen) to Ekdahl's excellent research on the link between induction and anticipatory systems. Nadin's work is quite good for someone just beginning to get interested in this area. Many aspects of science that are complete mysteries now begin to make much more sense whether it is the Feynman-Wheeler theories of QED, understanding Shnoll's results or learning theories in general when one sees that the problem is our clinging to linear causality.

It is quite interesting to contrast this to Wolfram's pinnacle of ironic science, "A New Kind of Science" - he has no 'new' science, just more of the old stuff. Unfortunately his money has helped him generate lots of hype about fluff when there is much more exciting and genuinely new work being done as it has in the past: quietly and thoughtfully.

I thought this book had a great history of the events from the end of the first Gulf War to start of 2001. The author's detail out each major event and UN resolution and what the Iraq and US did or did not do as a result. It was interesting that many times, basically every time, there was a new resolution Iraq ended up first playing games and then backing down. It almost seamed to be the behavior of a spoiled brat. It was also very interesting where the authors can show that Iraq got close to having the UN stop the sanctions, but each time Saddam would do something dumb and the world would demand that the sanctions be put back in place. What also comes through is the very difficult if almost impossible position the UN is in trying to enforce resolutions when the only power they have is rented / given to them by other countries. What this has created is a situation that only resolutions heavily supported by the US get the US military backing thus have the teeth to be effective.

The one downside of the book was the chapter long discussion on what coercion meant the definition and how the word should correctly be used. Nice info for a high school reader but it just slowed the book down for the rest of us. Overall I liked the book, it was a bit dry and could have been a bit more detailed, but it was a nice review of the past ten years. The real value is putting some facts behind what has been so talked about over the past year and what was the Iraqi position as it related to the UN resolutions. If you have been interested in this situation over the past year then you will probably enjoy this book.

This book contains papers presented at a Nostratic Symposium in Cambridge England during July of 1998 at The MacDonald Institute for Archeological Research. The focus of the symposium was, "The Nostratic Macrofamily and Linguistic Paleontology", Aharon Dolgopolsky, 1998. Dolgopolsky's book attempts to deduce the location of the Nostratic speakers' homeland, their cultural characteristics and their epoch (e.g. Neolithic vs. Mesolithic vs. Paleolithic) from the reconstructed Nostratic vocabulary.

This review is based on an early edition of the book that was obtained second hand. I believe this edition was produced for use at this conference.

These papers provide criticism of and commentary on Dolgoposky's book, as well as discussing some criticisms and defenses of the Nostratic Hypothesis. The first section of the book consists of two chapters, one by Renfrew and one by Dolgopolsky, introducing Nostratic in around 50 pages. This is followed by seven chapters on "The Composition and Reconstruction of Nostratic" (130 pages), five chapters on "Methodological Considerations" (110 pages) and six chapters on "Perspectives from the Daughter Families" (115 pages), with a concluding chapter written by Daniel Nettle, titled "Towards A Future History of Macrofamily Research" (15 pages). There is no index.

Colin Renfrew's introduction (about 16 pages) provides a fine short exposition of the Nostratic hypothesis. Dolgopolsky then introduces the phonology, grammar and grammatical typology. Following this he discusses the derivation of Nostratic words and the place of the Hamito-Semitic family and concludes with replies to some criticisms of his methodology.

The various papers in "The Composition and Reconstruction of Nostratic" discuss in some detail the linguistics aspects of Dolgoplsky's book, and offer numerous criticisms and alternatives. I found R. L Trask's comments on the correspondences in Basque (A sideways glance at Basque) interesting and his somewhat skeptical conclusion well written.

In addition to linguistics, the papers in "Methodological Considerations" address the methodology of linguistic paleontology, both generally and as applied by Dolgopolsky. The early part of Lyle Campbell's "Nostratic and Linguistic Paleontology in Methodological Perspective" is particularly interesting to non-specialists.

The papers in "Perspectives from the Daughter Families" provide commentary and criticism from authors "who have expertise in a particular language family" and hence are primarily concerned with the individual language families. Of particular interest to non-specialists is Alan Kaye's paper "The Current State of Nostratic Linguistics"

The concluding paper titled "Towards A Future History of Macrofamily Research" is a call for a new methodology for the problems that he considers to be common to the methodology of Nostratic as well as that of several other macro-families, such as Altaic, Nilo-Saharan, etc. He considers these various hypothesized macrofamilies to be at the same impasse, "stuck at the same log jam" " He then analyses the cause and suggests alternative methodology.

There were interesting sections interspersed among the word lists and etymologies in many of the individual papers. However, the papers that I, as a non specialist found most interesting, were the introductory and concluding papers as well the ones in the body of the book I identified above.

In short, the casual reader may find much of the technical detail heavy going, although there are interesting areas throughout for those who want to obtain an idea of the current state of Nostratic research. Specialists will want both this book and the "The Nostratic Macrofamily and Linguistic Paleontology" book. Anyone who is interested enough in the Nostratic Hypothesis to buy this book should seriously consider buying the Dolgopolsky book as well.

Other recommendations "Nostratic, Sifting the Evidence" Salmons, Joe C.; Joseph, Brian D

This book address an important issue for all churches, but especially for smaller churches: how can worship be revitalized to attract new members without losing the elements that are important to longj-standing members. Most books on contemporary worship seem to have a started from scratch approach, i.e., start a new service or totally change the existing service. That is not very workable in most situations. However, these authors suggest a blended approach that I have found to be most effective in my church of 50-75 attenders. Their idea that "contemporary" is not "new" but instead "a recovery of what is best in the worship of all ages" (page 7). I highly recommend this book to anyone in church leadership struggling with how to make changes that will not shut down the church!

Colson and Van Dess provide a short, but loaded analysis of the overcrowding of the penal institutions, and call for basically a two-part solution. Calling prisons "graduate schools in crime" rather than places of rehab and punishment, they suggest nonvilent offenders to pay back society for their rehab and reinstitution among society, while prisons and punishment are withheld for the violent. Thus, overcrowding solved and rehab can occur.

Biblical support given, for this God's agenda as well. So relevant to the talk now going on among us with a new national administration taking office.

I have long looked for a copy of this for my own since my boy was little. It has always been apart of his childhood since we first saw it. He loved it so much that when he started school, the teachers had to teach him through truck examples. I loved reading it to him, and if you have a boy that is like any rough boy, you will love reading it to him too. Don't worry, my girls liked it too!

There have been those who have complained (Booklist) that this first Anthony Daniels travel journal is "unpleasant." To borrow a phrase from Raymond Chandler, the idea seems to be that if Anthony Daniels was writing about a whorehouse, he would depict only the pail of slops at the back door. But this is just liberal nonsense. In the first place, Anthony Daniels circa 1988 is a long way from Theodore Dalrymple circa, like, now. The youthful A.D. comes across as a hyper-rarefied good time Charlie compared with the sober reflections of Theodore Dalrymple's ripened misanthropy. If I had a criticism to make of this first A.D. book it would be that the writing is far too philanthropic and permissive. Reviewers who think that Daniels' writing is too negativistic have either not spent time in the third world, or are the type of incurable liberals that cannot see the filth and degradation that is staring them in the face. They cannot see it because of their own degradation.

Wow! When I first got this book, I thought it would be boring. But when I got it, I found it to be hard but lots of fun. It may seem easy but it's not. Supposedy you have to put the 9 puzzle peices together matching the ducks to form a square. Yeah, I recommend this to you.