What do you do when the man you love wants you to help him make himself into the man of your sisters dream....If you like stories that make you laugh one moment and cry the next you'll love this one..

This book is easy to understand. It gives a view of what happened at a critical time with a new technology. (1980 - 1990) It has a timeline and explains all those acronyms you hear but never knew what they were. Here a man was clearly building an empire and it was not simple or easy. You can see how just a small thing affected all our lives. It continues today.

"Suddenly, there was an enourmous flash of light, the brightest light I have ever seen, or that I think anyone has ever seen. It blasted; it pounced; it bored its way through you. It was a vision which was seen with more than with the eye." These are the words of phsicist Isodore I. Rabiabout the explosion of the test atomic bomb.I really enjoyed this book because it was about World War II and I like to read books about World War II. But, if you like war stories you should try reading the American War series because I think that they are more exciting. But, I still recommend this book to anyone that likes to read about World War II or is interested in the atomic bomb.

Finding this book in the geography section of one of my favorite bookstores was, well, "a find," and especially so because there is a lot masquerading as "geography" or "mapping" these days.

This, as it happens, is the real thing. The British authors have constructed a kind of dream volume for those who want to boost the visual or geographic literacy of their friends, children, neighbors, or students. 'Tisn't a book just for geographers, though those in that profession will love this item. It's at least as much for the many, many, many folks in the world who understand that they don't know what they should about how the world is expressed in maps, and who feel more than a passing need to remedy that inadequacy.

Who's this for? I'd say anyone who has read and learned from the work of Edward Tufte, and as much, for those who revel in the writings of Mark Monmonier, cartography's current gray eminence and a brilliant scholar to boot. But this is also for those who just love maps: The Thelin and Peak SLAR map of the lower 48 states, Erwin Raisz's work, or the luminous cartographer of such great as Eduard Imhof.

The sole drawback is the price -- that's a pocketful of change, and were the ducats sought a few less, this would be a five-star choice, hands down.

Read it, love it, and learn.

This is a welly printed photographic book on China by photographer Marc Ribond. The page layout is neat especially with old and new images printed on facing pages. This is not just a great photographic book but also a record of new China history.

Provides a historical overview of "objectification" (from Hegel to Marx to Lukacs to Simmel) or what will be called "alienation" in Marxian terms. The user/ consumer is not fixed in consuming in the mode as intended by production; through an undersatnding of "objectification" the consumer begins to engage in a process whereby consumption produces an alt-identity that has the potential to escape the hegemony of dominant systems. With the introduction of this perspective the (general) negativity towards capitalist modes of production and consumption is subverted. In a weird way the supposed determinist track of "objectification" in this book subverts itself by proclaiming its own provisional status.

The next thing to read from this text will be Spivak and Bhabha.

Miller talks about the person as 'being-with-the-world', hence refusing the separation drawn between self and world and nature.

The only thing that concerns me is that it might be only through alienation/ or negative dialectics that objectification and hence a more rounded understanding of self and world that consist the 'being-with-the-world' can be achieved, which does not differ too much from Adorno's "elitism".

You'll find this very hard unless you are a competent math major at one of the better universities. Similar to Elliot Mendelson's text, but not quite as good. Good chapter on Boolean algebra as a
piece of pure math; Halmos and Givant is gentler, though.

Interesting topic covered: the resolution so dear to the AI crowd. Unlike most mathematicians, Cori and Lascar have time for
the way computer scientists think. At the same time, this book does not cover tableau methods (see Smullyan), natural deduction, Genzen's ideas, and so on. For pure logic at the advanced undergrad level, you're better off with Bostock.

Haven't seen Part II, so cannot comment on the treatment of set theory. This is something Mendelson and Machover already do well.

Brad Johnson is the leader of a squadron of F-16s known as the Ninjas. They were created after the Taiwan war in order to prove that a squadron could win without radar guided missiles.
Before the squadron is ready it's deployed to Egypt top help them after a Libyan attack.

This is obviously one of Defoe's more obscure works. Part I begins in 1630. A young English nobleman, a second son, though his father's favorite, decides to see something of the world and begins traveling on the continent with a friend. He signs on with the troops of Gustavus Adolphus, king of Sweden, who's aiding German Protestants against, I think, the Catholics. This ten-year period occurs near the end of the Thirty Years War. My knowledge of seventeenth-century European history is practically nonexistent, so I didn't really understand the issues involved and didn't learn much more from this book.

In Part II, our nameless hero returns to England, where the Civil War between the Cavaliers (the king's troops) and the Roundheads (Puritans) is about to get underway. (It was at the end of the Civil War that Charles I was beheaded, after which the Commonwealth took over for eleven years until the restoration of Charles II in 1660.) I thought this part might be more interesting, as I do know something about English history, and it was.

Like A JOURNAL OF THE PLAGUE YEAR, this book, too, has a fictional narrator in a historical setting. If you like Defoe, you will not dislike this book. If you don't like Defoe, this book won't change your mind.

Memory is a central issue for so much of human life - whether it be questions of identity, autobiography, or belief. In this volume, edited by the expert on memory and belief Daniel Schacter of Harvard, we have an innovative interdisciplinary examination into the question of memory, why it fails, and what happens when it does.

The volume is divided into the following sections by discpline: 1) Cognitive Perspectives, 2) Psychiatric and Psychopathological Perspectives, 3) Neurophyschological Perspectives, 4) Neurobiological Perspectives, 5) Sociocultural Perspectives, 6)Concluding Reflections.

The articles, each by a different contributor, are not the easiest to jump into, especially for those without a scientific background. In fact, the overall emphasis is very much on science with the social sciences rather underrepresented (in my opinion). This is the reason why I give it 4 stars instead of 5. However, those with a scientific inclination, yet also philosophical or social science inclinations towards questions of identity, autobiography, belief and fantasy will find this book of great interest. I would advise you to also look at the much more recent volume (2000) by Schacter entitled 'Memory, the Brain and Belief', which may in fact be more up to date.