The kit as a whole is invaluable, bringing together "yarrow" sticks and coins with a book that reduces the interpretive material to a reasonable level for the beginner. The summary divination (image) reads well and seems to get the gist of the details over nicely, at least for me. Going to Ritsema and Karcher's larger, more exact translation provides an intermediate/advanced interpretation. One flaw: typos on the quick reference card for consulting the oracle with coins or sticks, mixing yin and yang--check the diagrams in the book instead, which are accurate.

I like this kit a great deal because it provides the tool necessary to properly consult the oracle. Further, it translates the hexagrams into language that is more palatable to the the Western ear. It is truly amazing that man has found a way to query and listen to the forces of nature that influence his life. This has helped me gain insight to many of my most puzzling life questions.

This book tells the whole story of how the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade has become America's number 1 parade. It tells how it has grown. The story of the floats, the ballons and the guest artists. A book the whole family can enjoy.

This is a good photographic book celebrating the Macy's Parade. The pictures of the balloons and floats over the years are great--my nephew has enjoyed it as much as I have. A good gift for kids and adults alike--I'm giving a few as gifts.

I am glad that I had brought this book because it also comes with a replica tooth of a giant whale-sized shark that lived 65 million years ago the prehistoric great white shark or megalodon I loved the tooth but bad news was that my replica of a prehistoric great white shark got broken.

This book is informative and fun with up-to-date information on Megalodon that is easy to understand. The kit allows kids to excavate their own Meg tooth, a replica, causing first-hand appreciation of this great creature that lived 25-2 million years ago!

This excellent book compares our current system of Retributive Justice, which focuses on retribution and punishment, with the nascent Restorative Justice movement, which focuses on restoring balance and finding healing. Throughout the book, major flaws of the current system are highlighted. These flaws demonstrate how we all suffer from the 'power over' and 'might makes right' paradigms of retribution. The benefits of seeking balance and healing from the effects of crime, rather than vengeance, assists individuals and our whole society toward greater security and peace. Key to the whole idea of "mystic Justice" is that "outer Justice" is impossible to attain unless individuals hold a true vision of living a just life, "inner Justice", within their hearts. This books shows the path toward this achievement. An excellent, prophetic vision.

Mystic Heart Of Justice covers the field of restorative justice, considering its importance as an alternative to the traditional reward-punishment model and applying this new system to the current justice system and the cultural forces which dehumanizes the individual. Blending philosophy and spirituality with a treatise on social change, Mystic Heart Of Justice provides an excellent and different - albeit scholarly - view on restoring a damaged world.

By tracing the history of immigration to America, this book reminds us all of who we are and where we come from. Almost everyone in this country comes from somewhere else. We are all immigrants. This comprehensive look at immigration delves deep into our collective soul as it describes in glorious detail the passion and vitality of immigrant life in America; where we came from and who we are.

This book is masterful in its detail and gloriously illustrated. Every American should read this book before voting. Every American should read this book before paying taxes. Every American should read this book before graduating high school. America is less than 300 years old, but our history is deep. By association, our history streaches back thousands of year, to the glories of Rome and the majesty of Jerusalem.

I appreciated this moving account of the birth of our nation through its emerging diversity and vitality. As each wave of immigration brough new color to this land, the nation grew wiser and stronger.

I highly recommend this meaningful book. I especially appreciated the section that dealt with my heritage, the section on immigration from Eastern Europe. Each reader will appreciate the section that relates to their personal history. From start to finish a well writen, well crafted book.

This book is well written and imaginatively illustrated. Elkan Presman's writing is clear, consise and a joy to read. This is a must read for everyone interested in iommigration to America, whether it is from the stance of your own personal history, or in terms of the development of the nation.

What a great book. Thank you. Thank you.

A great step-by-step guide to producing reliable, robust, maintainable, working realtime systems effectively.

Not for dimwits and slackers.

For people serious about realime systems that have to make life or death decisions minute after minute, hour after hour, year after year.

Should be on the main reference shelf of every one who develops such systems!

I teach the Shlaer Mellor methodology to high school students, as an independent study seminar. My typical student knows the basics of programming, but has no industrial experience, and has not developed any software engineering skills. By the time they finish their projects, they are generally ready to work in industry.

My first student developed an ecosystem simulation. The finished product contained approximately 10,000 lines of C++ code, and had 3-post integration bugs, all of which were easily fixed.

If you want to develop first-rate, bug free software, follow the guidlines in this book.

If you are looking on how to improve your fishing methods or where-to-go fishing, Stephen Sloan's Ocean Bankruptcy is not the book. Steve has taken the pulse of our oceans repeatedly through the years, and let me tell you something: this book is not only for anglers, but for everyone on earth who is concerned about our fisheries, our environment, our oceans, our earth.
Every decade a book comes along that alerts us to various problems that face our world.
Ocean Bankruptcy is the environmental book for the present decade. Compares with Rachel Carson's Silent Spring in importance.
With the tremendous demand for seafood around the world, huge commercial longline boats are raping our oceans for quick profits. Unless something is done, and done quickly, our oceans may never recover.
Sloan is not afraid to duke it out with wealthy individuals, influential friends, powerful lobbies and he even takes on countries themselves. He names names. I've never read a more gutsy environmental book; Steve is lucky to be alive! There is mystery, intrigue, deception, tension so the book is a real page turner, but, more importantly, it is absolutely necessary reading if we are to save our oceans.
Sloan is one of our best, most versatile anglers today. He has done it all. Fished everywhere. H e could enjoy fishing the world's best places for the rest of his life; instead he is greatly concerned about the future of the oceans and devotes most of his time, energies and resources to help save our fisheries.
CNN, 60 Minutes, Dateline and PBS would do well to interview Sloan regarding Ocean Bankruptcy.
Buy this book immediately... if not sooner.

This fast paced book about the destruction of our world fisheries reads like a Clancy novel, the intrigue alone will amaze you. Best of all Sloan actually comes up with easy solutions to these problems. This is a must read whether you like to fish, eat fish, or are concerned about the environment.

World War II is still turning up troves of fresh material, and here is a good example. This journal covering the European campaign from D-Day to the surrender of Germany is not only fresh but a pleasure to read. Pogue was one of the outstanding historians of World War II, author of the definitive biography of George Marshall and of The Supreme Command, an account of Eisenhower's leadership.

Raw diaries contain stretches of boring material, and this is no exception ('Topete and I went to Aywaille to see 1st Division people. The 16th Regiment had moved up near Aachen to go into the line. Then went to 1st Division (rear)...'). Fortunately, Pogue later set out to flesh out his entries into a publishable memoir, a task ninety percent accomplished at his death in 1996.

A Sorbonne graduate in history, Pogue was teaching college in Kentucky when drafted after Pearl Harbor. With its usual acumen, the army made him a clerk where his PhD skills were employed in 'calling the roll of recruits when there was an unusual number of foreign names....' It was early 1944 when he finally transferred to Washington to join the Army Ground Forces historical section. Readers may be surprised to learn that the U.S. army in WWII employed historians in all major commands. For their benefit, units in the field were ordered to render periodic after-action reports and preserve important documents. While the object was to learn battle lessons, the result was a flood of priceless historical material that is still being mined. This required historians to follow on the heels of combat units, interviewing participants as the fighting proceeded.

Pogue flew to England in the spring of 1944, where he spent two months experiencing the privation, attractions, and confusion of England on the eve of D-Day. Sailing in an LST to Omaha Beach, sleeping in the back of a truck piled with K-rations, (beds were reserved for infantry) he watched his units embark on D-Day plus one. Landing soon after, he spent the remainder of the war following the troops. Although rarely in as much danger as the infantry, he was almost as uncomfortable. Intermixed with gossip, combat anecdotes, and cameraderie are the author's frustrating struggle to keep clean and dry. Readers will learn how long he went between baths, laundry, and changes of shirt.

His miseries were interrupted by an idyllic two month in newly liberated Paris. Fluent in French and popular with former professors at the Sorbonne, he gives an entertaining picture of a city recovering from four years of oppression and poverty. Every Frenchman he visits records his opinion on the future of France, and the author adds his own. Mostly they're wrong, overestimating the communists and suspecting De Gaulle was a lightweight. In November 1944 he returned to the front to resume recording his struggle for personal hygiene while covering the army's bloody attack on the Huertgen forest followed quickly by the German Ardennes offensive, the crossing of the Rhine, and victory.

Interviewing soldiers is fun but only a small first step in writing history, Pogue explains early in the book. Battlefield testimony must be taken with a grain of salt. Soldiers paid no attention to the clock and rarely knew their location ('...we went a couple miles to a turn in the road at a little town...'). All fire directed at them was 'heavy.' Asked about support on their flanks or rear, soldiers invariably considered it inadequate. 'The average infantryman was...certain that everyone else had quit the war except his platoon.' These insights occur regularly throughout the book and place it among the dozen or so best individual memoirs of the war. One paragraph summing up a bull session among soldiers should be committed to memory by every schoolchild. 'Too many people expect the war to settle everything... The winning of a war merely means that we avoided the disaster attendant on losing it. It does not mean that we have peace...'
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Forrest C. Pogue was the first historian of D-Day and documented "up-close and personal" the most gristly and significant clashes of World War II including Omaha Beach, the Huertgen Forest, Normandy, and the Battle of the Bulge. He kept his notes and interviews in a series of battered journals, hoping one day to publish his own wartime observations. Many years later, Franklin D. Anderson (Forrest Pogue's nephew by marriage) transcribed those journal entries as Pogue's War: Diaries Of A WWII Combat Historian and in doing so, has made a unique and welcome contribution to the growing library of World War II eye-witness literature. As a combat historian, Pogue lived with the infantrymen and interviewed them only days after they had engaged in life-and-death battles with the enemy. The result was one of the most vivid "windows-in-time" perspectives available to World War II buffs and students of 20th Century American military history.

As a scholar of International Relations with specialisation in Regionalism and Globalisation I think it is a great area of interest among the contemporary scholars in this field of studies.Regionalism has been especially viewed as a threat in terms of trade relations and multilateral approach.Nevertheless it has relevance in the contemporary international relations.

I have a suggestion regarding this book.If only it had highlighted the lacunae in regional aspirations of the south asian region it would have captured the interests of the readers all the more.South asia is one region in the world where there is a constant underlying tension.It would be in the best interest of the academic world if the author ,in the revised version,highlights this perspective.Nonetheless it is a highly valuable contribution with a very relevant information.

I would just like to notify you that this book has also recently been published as a paperback.

Stephen Dalton is a master artist and naturalist of our time. His work produces living treasures of the beauty and wonder of life on Earth, and highlights the need to preserve nature against the destructiveness of human endeavours.

Dalton forces the viewer to stop in time with the subject photographed and see a moment as it can never be seen.

While there is joy and wonder is looking at Dalton's amazing photographs, there is also sadness in knowing that so many of these incredible creatures are going extinct.

This is absolutely a must-have coffee table book for any nature lover. It is filled with spectacular color photos on glossy paper so clear & vibrant they pop off the page. Dalton's high-speed photography is pure genius.

Bats, birds, ladybugs, butterflies, dragonflies, bees & a vast array of other animals are captured in mid flight. The several frames of a chameleon lashing out its tongue to capture its prey are captivating.

You also get to see numerous frogs & mice as they rest, swim, eat, climb plants, & leap through the air. A few plants such as moss, fungus, liverworts, sedge & an oak seeding are also shown up close.

Captions for each creature give fascinating information on their daily lives, eating habits, & special abilities. Get this book, I promise you won't be disappointed.