It's a great book for whoever is interested in linear programming applications to real world cases. From the introduction to the last chapter, the book provides a clear view of how linear programming works, how it can be applied, and what its advantages are. Lots of examples and exercises make this book a very good guide in using linear programming in optimization problems.

What an exquisite book! Not only is it an informative and interesting read, but it made me want to move to Taos and take up oil painting! In fact, I'm signing up for painting classes this week! The plates are magnificent, and the subject matter, Taos, and Taos Pueblo Indians, are filled with beauty and dignity from a time gone by. Highly recommended for all lovers of the Southwest, native cultures, and landscape and oil paintings.

Our Family's Genealogy was a labor of love by the author which spanned the last ten years of his life. An avid genealogist, Mr. Beimes thought the concept of an interactive guide from the dawn of time forward which allowed you to input your own family's genealogy opposite a rundown of all major births, deaths, and world events from that specific year would prove interesting and useful to genealogists of all levels. Judging by the rare nature of this book, he was correct.

Our Family's Genealogy is a wonderful tool for history buffs, genealogists, archivists, and those concerned with capturing their families place in history in respect to the rest of the World. It is well worth the search, and can form the basis of a recorded history of your family tree that will become a cherished memento.

Concise, but inclusive. Would make a valuable text for undergrad Music History or for general graduate study.

This book is great for the education of Literature!

Forget the content, which is interesting enough in itself. I'm neither an ethnographer, nor an anthropologist; but the sheer beauty of the stippled and line drawings make this surely one of the most beautiful books produced in the last decade of the twentieth century. If you can't get to see a copy in the flesh, you will scarcely understand. The contents are summed up in the sub-title - indeed this is what Schuster and Carpenter's point is, that tribal and ancient artifacts contain the genealogy of the creators of these artifacts, whether or not the craftsman still remembers or knows of his tradition. I have personal story in confirmation of their thesis. I have a tribal work, which I interpreted along their lines. I then had written confirmation from the craftsman responsible for the work that my surmise; taken in toto from Shcuster and Carpenter was correct. Nevertheless, I'll repeat my view, that for the breathtaking beauty of the drawings alone, this book deserves a wide public.

There are innumerable, many incoherent collections of Chekhov's short fiction: such is the bane of an author being in the public domain. What makes this collection superior is that Edmund Wilson, the greatest critic of the 20th Century, assembled it, and there is at last a logic applied to its assemblage beyond the crude dictates of chronology.

Wilson realized that Chekhov seems spotty if not incomprehensible when his short caricatures and romances are interleaved with brooding tales of peasant lives. Think of a Twain compilation where "The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg" and "Punch Brothers Punch" are sandwiched together.

So Wilson's collection takes the best of Chekhov's "social" tales of his last decade, stories that focus on groups of Russians, whether it be the bourgeois, the peasants, the workers, or the decaying aristocracy. In these stories, Chekhov is on Tolstoyean grounds, and holds his own remarkably.

However, this strategy means sacrifice: the beautiful, sparkling "Lady with the Dog" would not sit well in this grim company, so it is excluded.

A philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and beautiful, 1759

Readers of Kant and Hegel, etc. on the subject of aesthetics will pat this little book on top of the head - having said that - Burke does a workmanlike job in presenting these ideas on the Beautiful and the Sublime. It is basic knowledge and knowledge that you will carry with you throughout life and will affect positively how you see the world and in what depth you see the world. It's a slim volume and more in the nature of a handbook (and was, I believe, used as something of a 'bible' by visual artists in the 19th century.) It is very to-the-point. The numerous section and chapter headings are descriptive and it's easy to find something you want to go over again. This little, modest treatise holds the type of subject matter that would appeal to anybody from an amateur poet to a world-conqueror.

Being a relatively young Wilson fan, I stumbled across this gem during my graduate school days at NYU while perusing the basement shelves of an archaic used bookstore in Manhattan...
After reading A Piece of My Mind I have since read Wilson's To the Finland Station, The American Earthquake, and Memoirs of Hecate County; of which all are magnificent works in their own right. However, A Piece of My Mind is the definitive starting point in order to get a full grasp of Wilson's thoughts and opinions on everything from literature and communism to religion and evolution. He even throws in a revealing chapter about his parents and their sometimes strained relationship, complete with emotional and mental breakdowns.
Obviously Wilson is one of the greatest thinkers of the last century and A Piece of My Mind clearly demonstrates his talents and breadth of knowledge. It should be required reading for those with inquisitive minds who have the need to get to the bottom of everything, much like Wilson himself. A renaissance man in the truest sense of the word, one can't go wrong in reading Wilson; for a brilliant scholar his writing is refreshingly jargon free and relatively straight forward, which is a real treat.