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For students of conflict analysis, this book considers a number of theories without advocating a certain bias. There are so many books about Chechnya written by journalists that end up taking sides. Although it is a little dry compared to the journalists' accounts, it is very even-handed.

Liz Farmer Jarvis has done it again with her second book on Chestnut Hill. This gem is full of local history and "never-before-published" pictures. Anyone interested in Philadelphia and its historical development will want this book.

Dr. Ensalaco is one of my professors at the University of Dayton. We had to read this book for his Political Violence course. The book is extremely insightful and probes deeply into the repression of the political left under the Pinochet regime. The information isn't just anti-Pinochet propganda, but gives the facts from both sides of the repression, from assassination attempts by the left to disappearences of leftists and their sympathizers without trials or records that they were ever arrested. If you want to read an insightful account of the situation in Chile during the Pinochet years, I recommend that you buy this book.

The lack of copies of this book is due to that the manuscript was an NSF funded projects and a limited number of mimeograph copies were printed.

I discovered one of these copies in the Library of Congress, in 1969.

As Ackoff mentions in the book, he does not provide new tools for existing disciplines, but, rather a new toolbox with quite useful structure for those who wish to understand human behavior and those who wish to improve the well-being of our humanity. Expect every sentence to challenge more traditional forms of thought.

For my further comments, look under "On Purposeful Systems" which was the title chosen for the Aldine-Atherton reprint of this monograph. In my opinion, the added co-author, Fred E. Emery, only added confusion to the extremely well conceived set of "operational definitions" concerning words that relate to human behavior.

Published for the first time, this manuscript contains the descriptive letters of a perceptive Pennsylvanian who served throughout the war. The unit saw action in the Second Manassas Campaign, at Antietam, at Gettysburg and in other major battles fought by the Army of the Potomac. In 1863, it served in the famous First Corps and fought on Oak Ridge on July 1. The regiment, which later was assigned to the Fifth Corps, was actively engaged in the 1864-65 campaigning. Since the 107th never had a unit history published, these letters provide the first in-depth look at the 107th Pennsylvania. Richard Sauers labeled this set of letters as "some of the very best Civil War missives that I have ever read."

This is a genealogy of the Pennsylvania Clarks to the present day. It starts with Robert Clark, born in Scotland, immigrated to Ireland, and immigrated again to the United States where he died 1757. It follows ten generations of his descendants as they moved west.

Family stories and local histories are woven together to give a generational view of how people lived, and how life changed, through pioneer times. The book will be of direct interest to those who have relatives listed in it. Genealogists and historians will also find great source material for their work.

We owe great thanks to the author and her family for compiling this wonderful book on the Clarks from Pennsylvania.

This is a decent review of Ralph Stover as a climbing area. It covers all the standard climbs with decent information on the area and it's pretty easy to find the routes. However, there are areas not covered in the book (to the East and towards the river).

My only gripe about this book, if there could be one, is that at the end I wanted more. The pictures are GREAT. This book contains an excellent photo history of Clearfield County PA. Great book, and great price. Thanks Amazon :)

I found this book to be captivating and exceptionally interesting. The photos are excellent and it captures the excitement of the history of the great city of Philadelphia through the years. Highly recommended!!!

Clovis Revisited brilliantly addresses a major concern for modern archeology-- the interpretation of old museum collections in light of new archeological evidence. Archeology is by its very nature an adventuresome out-of-doors endeavor that is seen as a somewhat rugged "back to nature" kind of science. Behind this thin veil, however, is the true nature of archeological discovery-- the lab work. Unfortunately, many of the world's greatest archeological discoveries were made fifty to one hundred years ago, before the advent of modern archeological lab methods. The Blackwater Draw site in New Mexico, the type site of the Clovis culture, is one such site. That problem, however, was solved by Drs. Boldurian and Cotter in Clovis Revisited. This text provides a reanalysis of all the materials collected from the Blackwater Draw in the 1930s and 40s and systematically describes all the Clovis type specimens. This book is a must have for anybody, professional or otherwise, who is interested in the Clovis culture and the first discovery of the Americas.