Bernard Books

Eminent scholars show how to interpret (not only DNA) evidence in the court, using (Bayesian) logic. It has nice one paragraph summary after each chapter; it is somewhat less numeric and more general than a book of Evett and Weir.

I believe I am sufficiently familiar with every textbook on the subject, and I believe that this is, by far, the very best one. It is not as easy reading as Das' book, for example, but it goes much deeper into the subject, and is much more complete.

The book offers a global overview of this vast subject, and a unified picture of the various techniques used, which is necessary given how vast and diversified the subject is.

The fact that each chapter is basically self contained, makes the book very suitable for browsing. It is very well, and at times almost poetically written. I highly recommend it to every serious student of the subject.

As Bernard puts it: "I think I was the first to urge the belief that animals have really two environments: a milieu extérieur in which the organism is situated, and a milieu intérieur in which the tissue elements live. The living organism does not really exist in the milieu extérieur (the atmosphere it breathes, salt or fresh water if that is the element) but in the liquid milieu intérieur formed by the circulating organic liquid which surrounds and bathes all the tissue elements; this is the lymph or plasma, the liquid part of the blood which, in the higher animals, is diffused through the tissues and forms the ensemble of the intercellular liquids and is the basis of all local nutrition and the common factor of all elementary exchanges. A complex organism should be looked upon as an assemblage of simple organisms which are the anatomical elements that live in the liquid milieu intérieur."

This book is a wonderful book for the biology student or for anyone interested in how medicinal studies and biology "began." Claude Bernard introduces his idea of homeostasis in this book and he explains how and why it works, and how humans, as well as animals, could not live without such an idea.

I recommend reading of this book. It kept me busy for hours and I didn't want to put it down. Five stars for excellence, intelligence, and much much more. Read it for yourself and you be the jugde!

This book presents the text with a great introduction and a superb appendix, thus making the book half text and half commentary ... perfect for the student. this text might be a nice way to slide into Hegel. Plus, Penguin Books smell so nice.

I have often looked for a book that will help my children and I and their friends adjust to a friend moving away. Being in the Navy for five years and living in the transient world that we do we've had to say goodbye so many times to our friends. It is always so hard. Ira Says Goodbye touched my kids and me. It covered all the emotions everyone feels when a special neighbor and friend has to leave (or we do). My three and four year olds and I really enjoy reading Ira Says Goodbye. It is very sweet and I am ordering two more for far-away friends.

Asenath Nicholson was a Christian radical-pacifist, abolitionist, vegetarian, feminist (of sorts)-who toured Ireland in 1844 on the eve of the Great Hunger, with the twin goals of investigating the condition of the Irish poor, and of spreading the gospel among them. "Ireland's Welcome to the Stranger" is her account of her time in the cabins and manor houses, and is a rare and (usually) sympathetic picture of pre-famine Ireland. Ms. Nicholson could be trying (quite judgemental, something of a prude) both to her contemporary hosts and her current readers, but in the end her honesty, indefatigability and generosity cover the bill. Of particular interest to this reader was her reporting of widespread hunger before the failure of the potato crop. I recommend this book highly to anyone interested in the period.

This is a 'hard-to-read' book. The great mind builds up the world on his simple principles. He does not use his inventions that are now known as differentiation and integration. He only uses Euclid's geometry to build the world upon his three principles, with the majesty like God's. It's not so good as a course book for mechanics. He takes the hard but rigorous way than to take the way that is easy but yet lacks the rigour in his time. The Door to Heaven is narrow and hard to follow. But you can feel how a human mind can be great by just opening this book and look at the scratch of the lion's claw.

Big large-size book with many photographs and articles. Edited by Bernard Lewis; Chapter texts by: Bernard Lewis, Richard Ettinghausen, Oleg Grabar, Fritz Meier, Charles Pellat,
A. Shiloah, Edmund Bosworth, Emilio Garcia Gomez, Roger M. Savory, Norman Itzkowitz, S. A. A. Rizvi, & Elie Kedourie. Chapter topics:The Faith and the Faithful: the lands and peoples of Islam; (The five pillars of Islam, belief, opinion, and toleration, the rule of law, etc.); the Man-Made Setting: Islamic art and architecture Arabic script, rejection of sculpture, The Mosque: origins & Meaning, etc.); Cities and Citizens: The Growth and culture of urban Islam; The Mystic Path: The Sufi tradition; Jewellers with words: The Heritage of Islamic literature; The Dimensions of Sound: Islamic music, philosophy, theory and practice; The Scientific Enterprise, Islamic contributions to the development of science; Armies of the Prophet, Strategy, tactics and weapons in Islamic warfare; Moorish Spain: The golden age of Cordoba and Granada; Land of the Lion and the Sun: The Flowering of Iranian civilization; the Ottoman Empire: The rise and fall of Turkish domination; Muslim India: From the coming of Islam to Independence; Islam Today: Problems and prospects of the 19th and 20th centuries.

The story of one man's search for paradise. Bernard Gorsky (from France) was attracted to Polynesia, but he found "civilization" already rampant there. Tahiti swarmed with tourists and cars, the Wallis Islands were already pre-occupied with political development....

But, as he travelled, the natural world gradually assumed precedence. On Kunie he joined the local equivalent of a fox-hunt (the fox is a turtle). On Lifou, at the women's Saturday's cricket match (cricket taught them by English whalers) the applause of the watching men is underscored by the slapping tails of a school of whales off shore.

Eventually he reached Mouli. The natives were amazed at his request to stay...the first European ever to stop more than a few hours. They accepted him and built him a hut. They gave him a great banquet (and fed him the great local delicacy...the yellow fat from the ventral sac of the coconut crab).

To a European the community of Mouli presents a surprising contrast of social maturity and primitive habits: there are pigs trained as pets like dogs, giant crawfish, large enough to take a man: men fish like sea eagles, leaping from a cliff with a trident.

Gorsky tells a moving and fascinating story of a year spent with good and simple people, and it is illustrated with more than 60 wonderful color photographs that he took on his journey.

I use this excellent documentary source with success in a storytelling class I've taught periodically over the past 10 years. Jack tales are a rarified regional tradition as well as a type of folk hero tale with many connections to other North American and global oral traditions. Their geneology is here traced and illustrated by phonetic transcriptions of a number of performances by different generations of Jack tale tellers from the central Appalachians, each accompanied by an introductory essay. It's a useful case study of how a particular tale type entered the country and spread among a small localized and often related group of tellers, migrated into text form and then out again, and became in one sense the archtypal tale type of the American storytelling revival, thanks to the late Ray Hicks of Beech Mountain, who leads off the bunch and headlined the first decade or so of national festivals in Jonesborough, Tennessee.

Last fall after the festival I had the good fortune to visit my uncle's church in Banner Elk, at the foot of Beech Mountain, where I met a couple of Marshall Ward's former students, who remembered him telling Jack tales to assembled students every Friday after school.

Available elsewhere are audio versions of these Jack tales by at least some of the tellers included in this book: Ray Hicks, Marshall Ward, and Donald Davis.