Many wonderfull drawing of cats. Mostly gesture type, but beautiful studies.

The drawings in this book all include cats in different positions. Sleeping, eating, and playing. They are beautiful and simple drawings of cats. Great book for the cat lover.

The persistence of human rights violations around the world clearly demonstrates the need to focus more attention on preventive action.

Consequently, international organizations are increasingly strengthening the preventive dimension of their human rights activities. Preventive mechanisms have also emerged and continue to gain ground at the national level.

These new realities, however, seem to have received little attention by the academic community. Yet they raise many important issues, which need to be further explored. The above considerations prompted the Marangopoulos Foundation for Human Rights to mark its twentieth anniversary by organizing an International Colloquy on the topic of the prevention of human rights violations.

The present Volume contains contributions by the participants, based on the reports they presented at the Colloquy, substantially revised and updated. It constitutes the first attempt at a systematic analysis of the subject of the prevention of human rights violations, focusing on the following five aspects: conventional regimes, non-conventional monitoring mechanisms, international commissioners and Ombudsmen, national Ombudsmen and human rights institutions and the development of a human rights culture. It closes with a theoretical synthesis of the various approaches to the prevention of human rights violations, focusing on the context, the concept and function, as well as methods and techniques of prevention.

This is very good book for understanding the mathematical aspects of turbulence. The book is clearly written and is dense with information. Contents include equations of motion, random flow and its spectra, the Kolmogorov theory, equilibrium flow in spectral variables and in two space dimensions, vortex stretching, polymers, percolation, and renormalization, and vortex equilibria in three-dimensional space.

Dr. Kimenyi uses academic application to prove his point that the study of names is a crucial aspect of understanding African society. Thorough explanations are accorded the personal as well as some place names of the Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa peoples of eastern and central Africa. Kimenyi ventures deep into the linguistics.This, to some extent, renders the book as very academic. Kimenyi exemplifies how the names get to be structured, including the prefixes used to form gender-specific names. Relationships of names to such aspects as war, clanship, proverbs, poetry, praises, royalty, and social class is examined. And the reader gets to absorb so much about the much highlighted issue of friction versus harmony between the ethnic groups. The main shortcoming of this master volume is the poor editing, illustrated by several typographical errors and unnecessary repetition.

Kimenyi, in this book, uses academic application to prove his point that onomastics (the study of names) is a crucial aspect to understanding African society. Detailed explanations are, in this book, accorded the names of the Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa who primarily live in Rwanda and Burundi, but are found in sizeable populations in the neighboring countries Uganda, Congo (Zaire), and Tanzania. Kimenyi ventures deeply into the linguistics, this to some extent making the book quite academic. He illustrates how the names get to be structured, including prefixes employed to form gender-specific names. The relationships of the names to such aspects as war, clanship, proverbs, poetry, praises, royalty, and social class is examined. At the same time, the reader gets to absorb so much about the much highlighted issue of friction versus harmony amongst the ethnic groups in Rwanda and Burundi. Indeed many see the violence between groups in Rwanda as a result of an artificial creation of classes in the colonial era in a racist classification and divide-and-rule technique. Kimenyi has a new book out that goes much deeper into that. The main shortcoming of Kimenyi's master volume on African names is the por editing as illustrated by the many typographical errors and unnecessary repetition. Furthermore, this hardcover book is library- and research-oriented, therefore it is not readily available to the general public. The book deserves to be rewritten and re-edited, given the magnitude of important information provided. But the book remains a must for those interested in African names. The Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa have a highly sophisticated and intriguing system of names and naming. No doubt, I made extensive reference to Alexandre Kimenyi's book in my books on names that include "Traditional African Names," "African Ethnics and Personal Names," and "African Names and Naming."

This book describes how an invasive alga was released into the Mediterranean and details the political story of why it was allowed to spread. The alga, caulerpa taxiflora, was first discovered growing under the windows of the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco in 1989. When Meinesz saw the alga, he approached the director of the museum and was told that the alga, being tropical in nature, would never survive the winter. However, it did indeed survive the winter, flourished, and over the next few years spread beyond Monaco to the coast of France, Spain, and as far away as Croatia.

Although one section of the appendix describes the biology of the alga, the vast majority of the book is devoted to documenting the various political battles that the author fought to try to convince the authorities to take action against the spread of the alga. Some of the behind-the-scenes tales of how the academic publishing establishment works were quite illuminating. After reading this book, I will also be rather skeptical when I come across scientific articles in the popular press, especially newspapers, since Meinesz points out how often reporters got the details wrong or pulled other facts out of context. When I picked up this book, I was more interested in learning the scientific and environmental implications of an invasive species, but that's not the focus of this book.

This book should wake up anyone who still believes that clear scientific truth will automatically change the way that governments make decisions. Consider it the ocean-side equivalent of Halberstam's classic "The Best and the Brightest." and an excellent complement to Barbara Tuchman's "The March of Folly". Dr. Meinesz was among the few and leading French scientific voices who saw and, what's more, cared about the epidemic spread of a tropical green algae along the world's most expensive coastline - the Riviera. He shows how the famous Oceanographic Museum at Monaco not only caused the problem with its careless handling of an exotic species but how the Director's disinformation cover-up campaign spread faster than the noxious seaweed itself. And it did not help that this environmental mayhem was started under the watch of famed oceanographer Jacques Cousteau (the preceding museum director). One of the most striking things one learns is how diverse and complex -- and ultimately useless -- the French bureaucracy is, that is supposed to be protecting their coastlines and marine environments. A scary story that might have done better with a more carefully chosen title!

The author does not try to convince the reader of the ecological threat that the algae imposes. That is now obviouse. He recounts the politics involved with this ecological crisis. There is a historical record of a failure in a system composed of government officials and agencies, and reputable scientific circles. First, the governmental agencies failed to recognize the problem. The "wait and see" attitude that is described shows a certain apathy or indolence of bureaucratic agencies. There is a failure in the practic of science to report ideas with the proper rigor. Both the author and his opponants make mistakes that exacerbate a pseudo-scientific debate, causing confusion in the news media. The unfortunate result is a crisis spiraling out of controll. In the last section "the lessons of Caulerpa" he explains his opinions on why the failure in the system occured. I don't necessarily agree with his views, but it is an interesting critique of the current politics of biological science.

I've taken a 3rd year undergraduate fluid mechanics course and we've used this as our textbook. It was a complete disaster. Let me start by saying this book pays absolutely no respect to its readers - it's filled not only with typos (and lots of them!) but also with very flimsy arguments. Now, whenever I do not understand an argument I usually think that I did not get it, or perhaps I do not understand the material enough, or that I simply have to fill in the gaps - but in this book, there are no gaps, the arguments are just lousy. Some steps even seem to be wrong, and I say that after debating them for a long while with my friends. I strongly recommend you eye this book with great suspicion.

An ideal book for the applied mathematician and mathematical physicist. This little text is deceptive in scope, covering the constitutive equations of motion, vorticity, and up through problems in gas dynamics. The book is also quite appropriate for self study, even more beneficial if studied in conjunction with G.K. Batchelor's classic text "An Introduction to Fluid Dynamics" for additional physical insight. Overall Marsden and Chorin have developed a classic introductory text.

This is not Les Trois Mousquetaires of Alexandre Dumas; it is "adapted in simple French by R. de Roussy de Sales." It includes marginal notes, usually not on the most challenging vocabulary in the paragraph, and a set of writing exercises in English in the back.

However, this is a good adaptation, if you are looking for something to challenge rusty French skills.

Dumas' characters and action are exciting and compellingly drawn, and the boundary between history and fiction is blurred enough to make Dumas' version the more persuasive.

This is still a terrific story.

This novel is much more obscure and difficult to find than are the more celebrated Dumas novels such as The Count of Monte Cristo and the Musketeer novels. While it is certainly the work of Dumas, with his inimitable style and engrossing characters, it is much more a history than a Romantic novel. He frequently spends chapters upon chapters describing which army did what to whom and for how long, not that it mattered because God was protecting France. It is not a bad read, but it is a bit dry if you are not as interested in serious history as in the tales the author habitually spins.

If you consult a book by a fellow named Munro on the complete works of Alexandre Dumas, you will find that this book and several others like it were written after Dumas' death in hopes of cashing in on his good name. Most of these phony titles are very, very poorly written and are not worth your time and money even as curiosities.

The book was not written by Dumas but for Jules Lermina. The main personage is the count. I think that this work is a good continuation of the book de DUMAS but inferior to another continuation written for the Portuguese writer ALFREDO HOGAN "A MÃO DO FINADO" (Hand of the Deceased one) (1864)

I cannot believe that a site such as Amazon.com would have made such a big mistake. Mr. Alexander Dumas never wrote a book by the name of "The sons of MonteCristo". This book was actually written by "Jules Hippolyte Lermina" who also wrote another sequel before this one called "Montecristo and the Countess" Both books are great stories, but nothing compared to the original.

It's a pity that Amazon's description of this item isn't more complete--I never would have ordered it. This item is NOT a novel! It is not the original French version of Alexandre Dumas' classic adventure. The closest I can come to describing this book is that it must be the French equivalent of Cliffnotes!

The book itself is only about a 130 pages long. The story contained in it is a pathetic paraphrasing of the actual novel, condensed and simplified to make an interesting study guide for the student. I'm not sure how the author hoped to accomplish this, though--the entire story is changed.

This book might be of value to someone who only wanted to read something in French. It has notes in the margins to explain words that might be unfamiliar, and is rather easy reading. But if you're looking for anything more than that, you'd be better off taking a trip to Paris yourself and picking up your own copy.