Bryan Books

I borrowed a copy of this book from someone who got an early realease. but i will buy it when it comes out.

Awesome! this book is great.

If oyu are not very familiar with C, back off, as this is a coders book.

But if you want to fight spam, this book has a ton of good info.

As the title says, the bulk of this book is on working with spam on the sendmail software package. If you are using sendmail, there is no question that this is the book for you.

The strange thing is, that there is so much information on spam contained in this book that I'd recommend it even if you are using some other software package. The general discussion on spam, its history, its impact on the industry and on individuals, and especially on it's techniques of spammers.

I particularly enjoyed his philosophy of setting up a Bait Machine just to collect inbound spam. He then began developing techniques to stop the spam that was coming to the bait machine. Great concept.

This is a programmer's book. It's heavy on C code, and if you can't at least read C, a lot of this isn't going to mean much to you. However, it does have a lot of general information that is of interest to anyone, and it could be helpful in unmdertstanding how someone else's milter works and how to modify it, etc.

I enjoyed it, but I like code heavy books - you may not.

There's a surprising amount of detail here; even getting into how to decode mime, and advice on user friendliness. I was a bit amused that they gave advice on how to attract spam to test milters; I don't think too many of us have any shortage of spam nowadays.

In the ongoing struggle against spam, adding filters to sendmail is a vital ability. Sendmail is probably the most common mail transfer agent on the Internet. The book describes how the latest sendmail supports a Milter interface. So that you, as a sysadmin or programmer, can write a program, usually in C, that implements a filter of your choice.

There has been various documentation on how to do this. Often scattered throughout the Web, and at various levels of competence and detail. But finally here, we have an entire book devoted to comprehensively explaining Milter.

It should be said that the authors deliberately don't go into details of what filters you might write. That is an open ended topic which is properly your remit, not theirs.

But as a bonus, there is a superb chapter on spam. It concisely goes into explaining techniques spammers use to obfuscate their mail. You can find out why blocking spam on the basis of checking subjects is essentially useless, for example. The chapter describes methods that other books on spam rarely go into. Actually, even if you have no intention of using Milter, you may want to consider the book for this chapter alone.

An inspiring,provocative,educational novel based on a true story from the sixteenth century, concerning the Spanish Inquisition in Mexico. A marvelous mixture of suspense,romantic interludes,and courage. A must read for anyone who appreciates extraordinary story-telling. A great book for discussion groups.

Provocative!Based on a true story during the Spanish Inquisition. A masterful mixture of suspense, bravery, cruelty and romance. Captivating and educational, from historical and theological perspectives. A must-read for anyone who appreciates a first class novel and an excellent book for those belonging to book clubs/ discussion groups.

"Soldier of God" is not only a page turner but a font of information on the history of Mexico in 16th and 17th centuries. The mores of the Catholic and Jewish religions are portrayed in a manner that does not interfere with the exciting story line. Intolerance runs rampant. Torture and death are routine for those who do not pay homage to the religion of the King of Spain. Character and faith are put to the ultimate test.

I was not aware of an inquisition in Mexico. Growing up in the U.S. our history lessons were obviously limited! The Jewish people have historically been persecuted and misunderstood. This wonderful accounting of factual historical information, intertwined with a tender romantic scenario is well worth reading! I couldn't put it down!

I am a philosophy graduate and this is the best book I read in popular philosophy. Most of the chapters are accessible to a general audience but I think it would overwhelm those totally new to the subject. Magee frequently recaputilates the ideas presented by the philosophers in a simple way and asks whether his account is accurate or not. That really helps to keep track of some more complex parts of the book. I'd recommend this book to anyone seriously interested in philosophy.

I've only read three chapters, which I've enjoyed. The Barrett dialogue on Heidegger and existentialism prompted me to buy the book. I thoroughly enjoyed that dialogue--that one alone made the book worth buying. I also read the dialogues on philosophy in general with Isaiah Berlin and philosophy of science with Hilary Putnam--both of them very good. I'm not that interested in linguistics or Marxism, but the book includes other interesting topics in philosophy.

My main complaint with the book is the tiny print, making it hard to read. In addition, the binding is rather stiff.

This book is the transcript of Bryan Magee's BBC Television series where he interviews various modern thinkers about their philosophies. 15 of the interviews are included in this book. Many outstanding people are here, including Noam Chomsky, John Searle, W.V. Quine, Herbert Marcuse, William Barrett, and Ronald Dworkin. Subjects covered include Marxism, Heidegger/Existentialism, linguistics (Chomsky, Searle, Bernard Williams, and Anthony Quinton talking about Wittgenstien) as well as science, politics and literature. This book makes some very complicated ideas accessable and is quite easy to read. Very enjoyable.

This book presents Bryan Magee's brilliant interviews of leading philosophers for the BBC in 1978. Hereafter some very brief summaries and very few comments (MHO).

Isaiah Berlin: philosophy's task is to examine and criticize and bring clarification, not to give definite answers.

Charles Taylor: Marxism says nothing on the individual or the cosmic level, only on the social level. There is an internal contradiction between Marxism's inexorable laws and its use as a theory of liberation.

Herbert Marcuse: comments on the Frankfurt School and its linking of Freudianism and Marxism, as well as politics and economic power.

William Barret (on Existentialism): Heidegger gives a descriptive analysis of our being in the world: What is it to exist?
(MHO: Heidegger poses the wrong question: what is? Not, what does?)
Sartre confronts freedom and responsibility.

Anthony Quinton (on Wittgenstein): he explains the 2 Wittgensteins:
1. language is a picture of the world
2. language is a social tool

A.J. Ayer (on Logical Positivism): any statement that is not a formal one, or empirical testable (verifiability), is nonsensical. But the most important of LP's defects is that nearly all of it is false.

Bernard Williams (on Linguistic Philosophy): Understanding what a word means is nothing more or less than knowing how to use it. LP is a tool for the investigation of this use.

R.M. Hare (on Moral Philosophy): The most central of moral concepts is what we ought to do. `As you wish that men should do to you, do to them likewise.'

W. van Orman Quine : Philosophy is a part of science. Processes (like emotions) in physical objects (people) are always accompanied by microphysical changes. In fact, they are those changes. Neurology is ultimately the place for explanations.
(MHO: abstract numbers don't exist in reality. They are only characteristics of physical processes.)

J. Searle on the Philosophy of Language): Our concept of reality is a matter of our linguistic categories. The purpose of language is communication.

N. Chomsky: Human beings are biologically preprogrammed for the use of language and must all have in common a basic structure that corresponds to the preprogramming.

H. Putnam (on the Philosophy of Science): `test your ideas' and `remember that your ideas are corrigible'.

R. Dworkin (Philosophy and Politics):
on J. Rawls (A theory of Justice):
1. there are certain liberties that must be protected
2. every change in the social structure should benefit the worst-off group.
on R. Nozick (Anarchy, State and Utopia): individuals have rights not to have their persons injured or their liberties limited or their property taken without their consent.

Iris Murdoch (Philosophy and Literature): A philosopher must try to explain exactly what he means, use an unambiguous candid style. Philosophy and literature are both truth-seeking and truth-revealing activities.

Ernest Gellner: Knowledge is central to life. The task ahead is bring together the cognitive and the social restraints

This book is a must read for all those interested in philosophy. It is written in an extremely clear, comprehensive and unambiguous language, a major plus for that kind of work.

I am so happy that there is finally a book about this part of American pop culture that has been largely ignored! I had no idea that so many amazing pictures have survived all these years. The graphics are wonderful and I love all of the logos. Great book.

This book brings together a wonderful collection of visual images of travel trailers from the late 1920s through the 1950s. The images come from vintage photographs, publicity brochures, and other publications. A majority of the materials come from the collections of the University of Southern California, the Auto Club of Southern California, and Vintage Vacations (a California travel trailer restoration company). The quality of the image reproduction is excellent making this book a genuine feast for the eyes.
Although subtitled "A Visual History Of Mobile America," the majority of pictures are from California with the rest of the country only sketchily represented if at all. Florida is the only other state to have more than one or two pictures included.
The book has eight chapters. Each begins with one page of text consisting of three paragraphs. The rest of the chapters are illustrations with captions and quotes. The first chapter "Motor Camping" has some of the earliest photos and portrays the beginnings of the travel trailer craze. The second chapter "Selling The dream" contains a collection of illustrations from brochures and advertisements. "Wish You Were Here," the third chapter, is a collection of postcards both humorous and illustrative. The fourth chapter "Trailer Shows" contains pictures from various California trailer shows. Pictures of the latest trailer designs are often enhanced by including attractive female models. "Take A Look Inside" is the next chapter which portrays the interior furnishings of travel trailers. Again attractive female models often enhance the photos. "I've Got This Idea" is a chapter that captures some of the more inventive and original travel trailer designs. A whole chapter is devoted to "Trailer Logos." It was in this chapter that I found the only reference to my 1948 trailer made in Alma, Michigan.
The book ends with a chapter on "Teardrops," compact trailers with outdoor kitchens built into a back hatch. A one page bibliography provides both current and historic books and articles for further reading. A joyful coffee table book, light on text, but very rich on illustrations, that is eye candy for the trailer park crowd.

It really is a great little book. The endless pictures are the selling point as I could (and have) look at them again & again!

If you like trailers, or 50's Americana Camp this is a great book.

Colorful, instructive and full of eye candy. It's about time someone published a book for those of us who love vintage travel trailers and just plain Americana. This book will live on the very top of my coffee table library.

This is an illustrative epic that I can't help but pick up again and again. Mr. Wise's sharp eye for unique and colorful scenes is easy to appreciate, even for a photography neophyte like me. Mr. Wise's photo essay reveals an adventurous soul that is willing to go the distance in sharing a dream!

These photos are amazing. Marc Wise has immersed himself in the trucker lifestyle by taking a job as one, and the works show this intimacy he shares with the subject while maintaining an objective viewpoint. Highly recommended for people who appreciate the works of photographers like Stephen Shore and William Eggleston.

If you are looking for a trucking book with lots of pictures of trucks, this is not for you, however if you want a photographic pictorial book which captures the mood of truckstops and the variety of patrons who frequent them, this is a worthwhile addition to your library.

This book truley captures the life of an average truck driver. It shows the experiences of the road and best of all the truck stops. The truck stops are wonderfully photographed.

Working with volunteers can be a most challenging yet gratifying struggle. Jo Rusin's book puts in writing the secrets of recruiting, training, motivating, and retaining volunteers. This is a great book, one I know will prove highly successful. It came through when I really needed this information.

I haven't always known the best way to approach volunteers, and this book provides some excellent ways to help me mazimize their talents. It is easy to read and has a good flow and logic, asks some tough questions yet provides possible solutions. I found the book filled with humor and I highly recommend that if you have to recruit volunteers, or work with them, this book will get you going down the right path.

I learned many things from this book. I was surprised
at the great points and information this book had to offer.
I recommend that any officer of a organization give this book a try and see how it helps you. What a resource and I enjoyed it very much. Just trying to get new members in our organization is difficult and this book offered many ways to do that.

As a person who has been trying to give my time and talent to a large northwestern organization for the last six months, I highly recommend this reading to their volunteer coordinators. They have successfully made very mistake Rusin points out in this excellent book. It should be required reading!

This excellent book outlines the various phases that the Democratic Party has transitioned through the ages since it's founding by Thomas Jefferson. This is a study in Jeffersonism and includes many pages of notes and references. It takes us through the period of William Jennings Bryan and Hubert Humphrey as well as some interesting facts about Thomas Jefferson.

As A Jefferson Family Historian who assisted with the Jefferson-Hemings DNA Study,I was immediately taken with the clarity and thorougness of the author's extensive research on the topics of slavery, religion and the DNA Study.

He elaborates on the first lies by a disreputable reporter and the historical and conjecture and psychological guesswork, unorthodox and questionable conclusions in a book popular among nonacademics but widely dismissed by scholars. Most historians rejected her theory concerning Jefferson and Hemings. The Nature Journal article mischaracterized the DNA results. The historian cowriting this article seemed motivated at least by a desire to excuse the sexual and legal misconduct of the then-current White House occupant. This refers Professor Joseph Ellis who was later exposed by the Boston Globe for lying to his Mt. Holyoke College students about his NON Vietnam service and other personal misstatements. His Nature article was also mistated grosely.

The author points out that an interesting and underreported twist, the DNA tests essentially disproved any genetic tie between Jefferson and the focus of the original Callender allegation, Sally Hemings. DNA proved NO DNA match and thus the long claimed Tom Woodson of family lore and misguided and biased films and TV specials are just that, FICTION. Mr. Jefferson was most adamant in his opposition to miscegenation and the debate may may be nothing more than an interesting diversion, since the scant evidence we have is inconclusive. Mr. Taylor cites referencies such as The Jefferson Myth and the Jefferson-Hemings Controversy: Report of the Scholars Commission.

Herbert Barger, Jefferson Family Historian

Read this book, and you just might join the Democratic party again, or form your own. St. Jude smiles on lost causes, and this is a book that might renew your faith in a few.

Amazon readers, I have always told you the truth and never lied to you, except for entertainment purposes and always with full disclosure. In the interest of which, please be advised that I am not the same Jeff Taylor who wrote this excellent book. I wrote two others instead; it's a common name. So far, I've tallied seven Jeff Taylors working in the fields of writing and journalism. Perhaps someday we'll gather and pool notes. In the meantime, I'd recommend this book if it were written by Joe Smith.

If you have reached a point of fatalism where your angst about politics has reached a fricking nadir or zenith, I humbly direct you to this book, written by Jeff Taylor, of whom (I hereby swear) I know not one iota of biographical data. We have never communicated in any way. Just happen to have the same name, and be authors of books.

If you want to find out how things went so far sideways and downhill after Carter and Clinton, if you'd like to connect some interesting dots,find your way out of the maze of what-happened, read this book. Buy it for those pathetic, lovable idealists who have let the Kerry/Edwards decal moulder on the back bumper of their Volvo Subaru Outwagon, and who probably feel like closet Republicans and who automatically pull green on the voting slots, out of guilt. (But they haven't read John Edwards' book, Home. Too busy working and worrying about personal death. They haven't read this book, either.)

Give it to them. Buy this book, wrap it for the holidays, and put it in the hands of your intelligent friends. Perhaps you can remake the world politically within your lifetime, by learning a little more about party history and party politics. For the first time in years, I'm registering to vote in the next election, after opting to abstain for the last few charades. Reading this book made me more optimistic; things have been terrible, even worse than now, for the Democrats before. If enough of us, whatever our names, exercise our rights to elect representatives with a life-friendly viewpoint, we just might fix the Titanic and save Troy, disarm the bomb at 11:11, and maybe build a world similar to the promised land of which Martin Luther King showed us a pure glimpse. No, you're right, it's impossible... so just read this book for pleasure and escape.

Jeff Taylor's book is a must read for anyone who is interested in answering the question why the Democratic Party has struggled so much in national elections since 1950. His analysis of the terms Liberal and Conservative and how little they truly mean these days helps to clear away the misconceptions that are perpetuated by most pundits. Taylor is able to cut through the glossy veneer of platitudes used by both parties and substantiate that the Democratic Party of today has become disconnected from its populist origins. This is an outstanding work of scholarship. As a history professor, I highly recommend this book.

Jeff Taylor's book is an excellent history of the Democratic party, exploring its history through the ideologies of Jefferson, William Jennings Bryan and Hubert Humpherey. Taylor views Bryan as the last of the populist, middle America Democrats, the type of isolationist, anti-Supreme Court, pro-direct democracy and pro-small government Democrat that is very rare in today's world. Humpherey, and by implication the usual nominees of the Democrats of today, represents a pro-globalist, pro-mass immigration (in spite of its impact on wages), often pro-war, pro-corporate pro-big government, pro-activist Supreme Court. Concerning religion, Bryan also represented a pro-Christian, albeit a populist, "social" Christian outlook that is sorely lacking among current Democratic nominees, though not among its electorate, as is proven by the votes of Democratic leaning voters in referenda and opinion polls on issues as diverse as immigration, abortion and same sex marriage.
Taylor argues that Democratic leaders of today are "Hamiltonians", believers in the concept of a strong central government. Democrats of today would argue that they might be Hamiltonians, but for Jeffersonian ends, i.e. they are for a big federal government but because of the good it will do for the common man. Taylor addresses the validity of this issue somewhat, though I'd like to see more disscussion of just who benefits from big government. I love his analysis of why Democrats have lost their way in terms of their hiding behind the activist Warren courts of the 50's and 60's to get their legislative dirty work accomplished. Taylor points out that it represents a dangerous approach, something that Bryan, with his support of direct democracy (i.e. initiative and referendum) and his opposition to what was at the time considered a conservative, anti-labour judiciary, would have shied away from.
I also enjoyed his discussion about the WW2 era, where liberals such as Sen. Wheeler of Montana, or Lafollette of Wisconsin, became "conservatives" just because they were opposed to our intervention.
Taylor argues that conservative populists such as Buchanan and liberal populists such as Jerry Brown and Ralph Nader actually have a lot in common, far more in common with each other than Buchanan would have with, say, Arlen Specter, or Dennis Hastert, or Nader would have in common with a typical DLC Democrat like Clinton. In France this has been the case in the opposition to France's deepening involvement with the European Union. There, rightist groupings such as the National Front and leftist movements from the Communist Party to other leftist splinter groups have successfully mobilized a majority to vote against the most recent European Union constitution.
I urge anyone who wonders why just because someone is pro-life that means they must be pro-Iraq war, or just because someone is pro-2nd Amendment that means they must be for tax cuts for the rich, or why someone who supports immigration reduction should be anti-union, to read this book. Taylor gives a great overview of a compelling, pro-middle America, pro-common people, pro-conservative values, pro direct democracy heritage in the Democratic party, a Jeffersonian heritage best represented in the 20th Century by William Jennings Bryan.

I like the unicorn standing on the book (cover illustration).

What I like about the "dragon book" is the dragons blowing fire but its not good to blow smoke. People shouldn't blow smoke they might get sick.

This is another meaningful fairytale by Bryan Auxier with just enough reality to make readers believe unicorns really could have existed! Remarkable illustrations bring beautiful horses to life as unicorns. This book also announces the title of Auxier's next book in the "Where" series - "Where Have All the Fairies Gone?" - I can't wait!!

The author of "Where Has All The Unicorns Gone?" has the unique ability to combine a fairy tale atmosphere while dealing with the very real life issues that confront all of us, even children.

This story of a sick prince has a very touching and happy outcome and is filled with delightful pictures. The underlying theme "to give the gift of life" is present for even the youngest of readers and gives our children's world an early message of "Hope".

My son loves this book and has for the last two years! It helped him learn the alphabet and now he has started to read it on his own. Why on earth would such a good series of books go out of print? I loved them when I was little and would like to be able to buy more for my four year old son.

I grew up with the Ant and Bee series (here in the US). I would love to see this series back in print. Is there anyway for Amazon to forward all the customers requests to the original published to bring them back. I now have children that I would like to share these books with. Christine Blumberg

These are the greatest little books. Perhaps enough great reviews will persuade Heinemann to reprint?

Armstrong Encore is the best cycling book I have ever read. It does not insult the cyclist intelligence like most other cycling books I have read. It gives in-depth information of day-by-day following the 2000 Tour. It give explainations and insight that can only come from the pro's themselves. This kind of coverage is not found on TV or videos.

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I've read many books about cycling races over the years and this has to be about the best. excellent in-depth coverage of Lance Armstrong and the US Postal squad as they attempt to repeat their previous year's victory. I could hardly put it down. in fact I'm already reading it for the second time.