This is a great book for anyone who likes the fashons of the late 1800's, Gibson girl, or just well drawn pictures! Gibson was a great artist, and you can tell from his captions he had a sense of humor. Every page in the book is filled with beautiful, clear, large sized drawings of Gibson Girl and her friends. I was delighted with my copy!! It even includes Gibson's "comic" book, "The Education of Mr. Pipp", and a brief but interesting biography of Mr. Gibson.

This is the most important book I own. It is a complete facsimile of a 15th century illuminators manual. The color plates are equisite, and provide a lot of detail. The English Translation is very readable and extremely useful to the artist interested in medieval techniques.

You will swear that some of these images are pencil drawings and others a part of a dream. William Abranowicz is a gifted photographer whose passion for pristine landscapes and still life reinvents this artform. As a collector of his work, I was thrilled to see his first book published. The world has enjoyed his images without knowing they were enjoying the world through his eyes. Through his lens, we see a world that invites all the senses to be aroused. I will cherish this book as a personal treasure from my friend.

for everyone who has some experience in echocardiography this booklet is one of the most helpful summaries of echo interpreations with outstanding hints and pitfalls

Blandford writes a very objective view of an elite fighting force. The Waffen SS was a mechanized infantry combat unit, not the SS(non-military) of the infamous concentration camps. The book contains anecdotes from actual combat veterans: stories of men fearing death, what it felt to be in combat, to be wounded, and the comradary of the SS. These men on the most part were not political, but men fighting for what at the time they felt was honor for they're country. The Waffen SS was not unlike the mystique of being a SEAL,Green Beret,Ranger, or Marine Recon. Over all I really enjoyed the book.

For the second mystery in his series featuring Gervase Fen, Oxford don and amateur detective extraordinaire, Edmund Crispin finally treats World War II with more than just a passing reference to blackouts and tobacco substitutes.

Unlike other writers from the Golden Age of British Mystery such as Margery Allingham in "Traitor's Purse" (1941) or Michael Innes in "The Secret Vanguard" (1940), Crispin didn't weigh in against the Nazis with "Holy Disorders" until the war was almost over (1945).

Perhaps it was to be expected that a fictional professor of English Language and Literature would be less informed about current events (WWII!) than a fictional hereditary peer who performed secret missions for the Government (Allingham's Albert Campion) or a fictional chief of New Scotland Yard who performed secret missions for the Government (Innes's Sir John Appleby). Fen does run for office in one of Crispin's later books, but for reasons that have nothing to do with government, politics, or current events.

Incidentally, Sir John Appleby gets some air time in "Holy Disorders," as the local constabulary keeps threatening to call in the big shot from New Scotland Yard when their murders are not promptly solved. Fen manages to fend off Appleby as well as the Nazis.

Instead of a mere 'locked room' murder, "Holy Disorders" sports a pair of 'locked Cathedral' murders. There is also a tinge of the supernatural---collapsing tomb stones, witchcraft, the shadow of a hanged man. As one of the characters says about the first murder victim, "What was it he saw, when he walked alone about the Cathedral? What was it he found there, that no one else has found?"

"Holy Disorders" may not be the most tightly constructed of the Fen mysteries, but there is a full cast of eccentric ecclesiastics, many of them inclined to witty, religious debate and obscure literary allusions. In one of my favorite scenes in the book, Fen and his companion interview one of the murder suspects, a minor church canon, who is unfamiliar with the poetry of Edgar Allan Poe. The interview takes place in the suspect's study which is furnished with, "a pallid bust of Pallas-or more probably of some dead ecclesiastic, since both sex and features were indistinguishable in the crepuscular light---in a niche above the door. And there, great heavens---Geoffrey felt the sense of unreality which one has immediately on waking from a vivid dream---was a raven. It perambulated the desk with that peculiar gracelessness which walking birds have, ruffled its feathers, and stared malignantly at the intruders."

The minor canon also has a wife named Lenore. Once Fen and his friend, Geoffrey learn about Lenore, they are off and quoting:

"On its perch, the raven ruffled its feathers again. The branch of a tree growing outside of the window scraped against the panes. Fen succumbed suddenly to the obsessing temptation.

'Surely,' he said---surely that is someone at your window lattice?'"

The interview deteriorates into a morass of mangled Poe (a fen of finagled Poe?). Even without the evil Nazis and spooky witchcraft, this interview alone is worth the price of "Holy Disorders."

Especially if you were forced (as I was) to memorize "The Raven" at some point in your misspent youth.

This book is an exhaustive compilation of articles written by leading cardiologists and medical researchers who study the diseases and functioning of the heart. The sheer size of the book (over 2600 pages) make it a challenge to read entirely, but the articles that can be read are worthwhile spending time on. The only minus to the book is that there are no articles on the mathematical or computational modeling of the heart. But for studies in anatomy and physiology of the heart, and treatment of heart disease, this book is excellent. One would expect a higher price for the book considering its size and the color plates it has enclosed, so even at $150.00 it is still really a bargain.

Nobody doubts the role that Frege played with philosophy of logic, math and language. However, so little is known about Husserl's role on it. Claire Ortiz Hill exposes the fact that Husserl was influenced by the mathematicians of his time. Husserl was the student and assistant of the great mathematician Karl Weiestrass, for 15 years he was the colleague and close friend of Georg Cantor, the creator of set theory. Then he spent 15 years in David Hilbert's circle in Goetingen. From 1878 to 1916, (from the ages of 19 to 57), Husserl was in contact with the greatest mathematicians of his time that neither Bertrand Russell nor Gottlob Frege, nor their followers, came much into contact.

Husserl also had a doctrine of sense and reference that is essentially platonic. He criticized severely psychologism in his "Prolegomena to Pure Logic" in his "Logical Investigations", and never stepped back from that position, contrary to what many husserlians believe. He formulated an epistemology of math and logic, in a platonist sense, a thing Frege nor any platonist ever made with much satisfaction.

Husserl provides his doctrine that states of affairs are the reference of assertive sentences, and the reference base is a situation of affairs. Using this philosophy, Guillermo Rosado Haddock proposes a platonist solution to the problem that has puzzled mathematicians and philosophers: the interderivability of seemingly unrelated statements in logic and mathematics. Rosado also brilliantly responds to of Benacerraf's, Quine's, Putnam's and Field's anti-platonist statements.

The book is concise, clear, and up to date. The best introduction to Husserl currently available.

I am surprised that there have been no reviews for this splendid book. Husserl's IDEAS is a significant book in the history of human thought and Western philosophy, any student of philosophy or psychology would do themselfs a favor by reading this very important book. It is not my intention to write a Cliff's notes review regarding the content of this book, but the modern reader will find that Husserl's ideas makes points that expand on Kant's CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON. Ideas refers to transcendental phenomenonlgy, a school of thought that placeshuman experience into a realm of personal understanding attained through a series of conceptual reductions. A trained phenomenologist (sic.) should be able to reduce objects of experience to their fundamental concepts, then remove these concepts to understand the essential features of human experience. This "PHENOMENOLOGICAL REDUCTION" is applicable to all phenomena, and when applied properly this technique isolates human experience to certain core concepts that are universal to all phenomena irregardless of space and time. I believe that Husserl's Ideas is an invaluble contribution to modern psychology, and should be required reading for all students in a liberal arts program.