Cameron Books

This book inspired me to attend the Getting Well program in Orlando founded and ran by the author, Dee Brigham, following major surgery. This book and the concepts therein summarize what is addressed during the program, and is an invaluable asset towards avoiding negative behavior and towards getting healthy again.

This book offers a comprehensive collection of practical strategies and case histories for anyone seeking to discover what behavioural medicine and psychoneuroimmunology can offer to a patient confronting a life threatening or 'quality of life' threatening condition. To the medical professional or therapist it is compelling and essential reading.

it's a very useful and a good resource in cases of mass disasters, with a very practice mode

Knowledgeably co-edited and authored by the professional team of Elspeth Cameron Ritchie (Psychiatry Consultant to the U.S. Army Surgeon General), Patricia J. Watson (National Center For Posttraumatic Stress Disorder) and Matthew J. Friedman (Executive Director of the National Center for PTSD) Interventions Following Mass Violence And Disasters is a work of seminal, in-depth scholarship focused upon understanding and studying mental health oriented responses following large-scale traumatic events. Granting the reader a complete understanding of psychological discoveries and breakthroughs in the study of aiding those affective by extensive and damaging traumatic experiences, Interventions Following Mass Violence And Disasters informs the reader of every necessity to competently help a patient recover their emotional stability and well-being. An important and core addition to professional and academic library reference collections on Psychology and Psychiatry, Interventions Following Mass Violence And Disasters is very strongly recommended as an excellent reference for all practicing psychotherapists, psychologists, psychiatrist, counselors, nurses, "first responders" and trauma victims.

This is the document of a poet consecrating himself to memory. His attempt to maintain perspective; his aesthetic self objectification that is repeatedly shattered when he looks into society; his Catholocism, his ennui, his mistress, his mother...all these cast a definitely "intimate" hue to the pages that are essential for any reader wishing to come to terms with Baudelaire's psyche: to see why his self-destruction was inseparable from his creations. For they were both necessary symptoms of his sensibility - an immaculately modern sensibility. The fragmented nature of the writings prevents the work from actually being a "work" - it is more like an authentic gesture, an unpremeditated act of self revelation. A fascinating and ultimately harrowing document from a poet - nothing more.

Living from 1821 to 1867, primarily in Paris. Charles Baudelaire was his centuries poet of discontent. Religious, blasphemous, elitist and anti-snob, all at once, he seemed from the start to be a life driven to self-destruction. Absinthe, opium, and a mistress were his only relief. And in the end, the were what killed him. The epitome of the tortured soul.

Most of us know of him now only by reputation, or from exposure to Fleurs du Mal. That thin volume of poetry has had an influence far beyond it's size. In many ways, Baudelaire was one of the beat generation's greatest precursors.

The Intimate Journals is actually a collection of three sets of papers that frame the final years of Baudelaire's excruciating journey. They are the notes of a man who faced financial and physical ruin and yet still kept up his piercing intellect. In it you will find short notes essays about his world, society, and philosophy.

This isn't poetry, but a direct look into the inner thinking of a poet who is often written off as the perfect degenerate. Intimate Journals offers an opportunity to re-evaluate Baudelaire as both a man and a writer, whose thinking is equally compelling a century and a half later.

The preface written by translator Christopher Isherwood, and W. H. Auden's introduction are brilliant on their own as well (T. S. Eliot wrote the original introduction for the first edition).

Peter J. Cameron's "Introduction to Algebra" is exactly that, an introduction to algebra and a good one at that. I must confess that before reading this book had a very limited knowledge of abstract algebra however with a little bit of time and effort I am now quite comfertable with the subject thanks to this book.

"Algebra" is divided into a 8 sections:
1) Set Theory and Relation Theory
2) Ring Theory
3) Group Theory
4) Vector Spaces
5) Modules
6) Numbers
7) More Rings and Groups
8) Galois theory and coding theory

This book succeeds by having an interesting writing style, not being dry, and at the same time being very rigorous. The rigor is always present and all proofs are carefully developed however the "feel" of the subject is never lost as Cameron strives to help the reader grasp the "shape" of the algebraic structures that he introduces.

This book has a slightly wider scope than many introductory algebra books however it succeeds in covering all of its topics well although the sections on category theory and algebraic geometry are only a page or two long and thus are only present to whet the reader's interest. In addition, Cameron motivates the discussions by drawing the topics together in the end in the applications chapter. This chapter covers the basics of the commonly known Galois theory and the less covered Coding theory which is one of the backbones of the internet.

Final: Buy this book for a good introduction. I have borrowed a number of other introductory books from the university up the hill but this one was the clearest for me.

A nice thing about the new edition is the greatly expanded preliminary chapter which covers most of what a good advanced high school algebra course contains, plus a bit more. Depending on the reader's background, this may be very valuable. Also, this book is surprisingly lightweight (literally), which is good for those of us who carry around a lot of books in our backpacks.

Very well written and scholarly. Combines the best of human anatomy and biological anthropology. Recommended for anyone who has a serious interest in this field.

Lydia Toso

Students of Human paleoanthropology should look no further for complete synthesis of anatomical aspects that are proprietary to Hominids-because not only that full treatment is provided on such topics as diachronic trends in qualitative and quantitive development in anatomical features, but recapitulation that contains basic standards of anatomical reporting,complete terminology and also,with full recognition that one important propertes of locomotory system is in its mechanisms for body movement,so that this is not only descriptive work,but one that contains detailed account on anatomical pecularities of Human ancestors,thus providing non-analogues perspective on subject,in full recognition that it is sometimes wrong to accept uncriticaly paralels with modern Humans.Also,some histological aspects are mentioned.This book will provide students with full account on subject of evolutionary anatomy,perhaps one that could became most easily dull,descriptive work under some other concepts,but instead is excelently and logicaly organised textbook.

If you like puzzles, you will love this book! Just when you think you have a pattern solved, there is another possible solution! It exercises my brain! LOVE IT!

The book trains your brain to think logically. The same puzzles appear to show up in each chapter, but there is a new twist every time. And logic you've learned to apply to one type of puzzle can suddenly solve something completely different. You are encouraged not to look at the solutions when you are stuck, but rather to return to that puzzle later and look at it from a different point of view. Can you follow that rule? Sometimes I just have to peek at the answer!
These puzzles are fun, and some are truly amazing!

I really enjoyed reading "Journey to Your Soul: The Angels' Guide to Love and Wholeness". It's filled with great spiritual insights that are written in such a way that it's perfect for those who are just starting to consider some of the spiritual concepts that are out there, and also serve as a great reminder for those who have been reading & practicing some of these concepts over the years.

This book consists of information channeled through one of the authors by a soul who already crossed over to the other side. They discuss such ideas as reincarnation, life as a series of lessons, non-judgment for where people are and what they're experiencing, the importance of love, and much, much more.

At the end of each chapter, both authors and another "spirit" from the other side write about how that lesson had touched their life - this enables the reader to see how each concept might be experienced. I found these writings to be quite interesting.

Overall, I would highly recommend this book to anyone interested in spirituality. It's beautifully written, and has a lot to offer.

There were so many wonderful "Ahhh's" and "That's where that feeling came from", in this book that I felt sorry to actually run out of pages at the end. It feels as though you are listening to long-forgotten,loving friends, when reading what Cameron and Carole had to impart. It felt like being....home. I can hardly wait for Carole to get the next one out in this series, even though my limited brain can't imagine to what new heights she could take us.

Dierks does a wonderful job of describing the campaign in Cuba during the Spanish-American War. Not only is the land and naval campaign described, but how things may have been different had the Spanish put a little more effort in the battles.
Most Americans do not realize how easily the United States could have lost this war despite the closeness of Cuba and the overwhelming American naval might. Dierks details how if the Spanish naval forces acted differently, this may have prolonged the problems for the U.S. Navy. Also detailed is the mess which was the land campaign against Santiago de Cuba. If the Spanish commander had thrown in all his forces on San Juan Hill, the outcome of the capture of the city would be different.
Altogether a good read of the campaign, even though it starts slowly. Dierks shows some insight which I have found lacking in other authors of this campaign.

In the 1960s and 70s, the prestigious J. B. Lippincott Company had a military division under the general editorship of Hanson W. Baldwin which commissioned a number of admirable short studies of battles and campaigns. Included among them were "Red Sun Rising, The Siege of Port Arthur" by Reginald Hargreaves, "The Zulu War" by Rupert Furneaux, "The Battle of the Alma" by Peter Gibbs, "The Battle of Königgrätz, Prussia's Victory over Austria, 1866" by Gordon A. Craig, and from 1970, this book by Jack Cameron Dierks.

The book provided a short biographical sketch of Dierks. He was a journalist by profession rather than a historian. He had served in the US Navy as a journalist on the staff of the CinC Atlantic Fleet and then as editor of a newspaper at Guantanamo Bay. It was there, almost next door to the actual battlegrounds, that he acquired an interest in the Spanish-American War.

The book is short--180 pages devoted to the main narrative, 23 pages for the aftermath, 14 pages for five appendices, 7 pages of notes, 3 pages for a selected bibliography and then a reasonably useful index.

There are five maps: The route of Admiral Cervera's Squadron from Spain to Cuba, Cuba (with an insert of the general area of combat), The San Juan Battlefield, Positions of Ships Before Battle of Santiago Harbor, and Battle of Santiago (showing the tracks of each ship throughout the engagement). Of these, the first two are pleasing to the eye but of no great value. The San Juan Battlefield map, a comprehensive sketch which really ought to have been presented as three or four separate maps, manages paradoxically to provide both too much information and not nearly enough. The two final naval maps are better, with the last (appearing twice as front and rear endpapers for the hardbound edition) offering superb guidance to the details of the battle.

The narrative is admirably concise and focused on the war rather than the inevitable post-war recriminations and disputes. It deals with the latter, of course, but as part of the narrative rather than from a partisan point of view. It begins with the run-up to the war. This is followed by the shambolic preparations, short character sketches of the American senior commanders, a short glance at the Spanish military predicament, the disorganized sea lift to the landing site, the initial combat between the American and Spanish forces, a brief diversion to the other side of the world and Commodore Dewey's devastating attack upon Spanish Asian squadron in the Phillippines, back to Cuba with the doomed, yet gallant sortie of the Spanish fleet and its catastrophic end and the soldiers' battle at San Juan that marked the end of the war.

All of this packed into so small a space means that this book must take a general overview. Dierks is plainly aware of details and undercurrents. He manages to identify them but cannot pause to go into detail. Purely as a matter of personal taste, I wish that he had devoted more time to the interactions between the Spanish-American and the US Civil War. For example, the second highest ranking US soldier in Cuba was Major General Joseph Wheeler, the commander of the cavalry division. It so happens that Major General Fightin' Joe Wheeler had also been the commander of the cavalry division that had faced Sherman before Atlanta and thereafter, and ipso facto the most experienced commander in all of American history in the art of fighting retreats. Dierks acknowledges Wheeler's past and his pugnacious military character ... and then moves on. And then there was that American Consul at Havana who had invited the USS Maine to visit in the first place. He was Fitzhugh Lee who in a prior lifetime had been Confederate Major General Fitz Lee, nephew of Robert E. Lee, the man who had commanded the cavalry of the Army of Northern Virginia after the death of his friend J.E.B. Stuart. Before the war was over, he would become Major General Fitzhugh Lee, United States Army.

The veterans of the Civil War, both blue and gray, exerted an enormous power over the men of Theodore Roosevelt's generation. They had been to see the elephant, had faced fire at the risk of their lives; the younger whippersnappers hadn't. In 1898, Teddy and the other whippersnappers faced their own fire and could at last stand equal with the old men.

All that aside, it should be noted that Dierks does a good job in pointing out that what came to be known as the "splendid little war" was by no means an inevitable victory. The US landed a small, corps-sized, haphazardly assembled, trained and supplied expeditionary force on a foreign shore defended by an experienced and much larger professional force which had both a familiarity with the landscape and the opportunity to dig in as it pleased. Moreover, the American force landed in a notoriously unhealthy place during the fever season. A little more determination from the Spaniards, who Dierks makes clear, were hardly routed at San Juan Hill, might have proved the undoing of the Yanquis. All in all, the Cuba Campaign ominously shares too many characteristics with the "On to Richmond" days that led to the shocking defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run. In 1898 the little of army of Americans turned out to be a great deal luckier than their blue-clad forbears of 1861.

Within its self-imposed limitations, this is an excellent short narrative of the Cuban Campaign of 1898. If that is what you want, snatch it up!

Five stars.

THis is a cute book for school age children - the large, colorful illustrations grab their attention and the rhyming text moves the story along. I bought this for my neice and nephew (ages 8 and 9) and they really enjoy it. Lleonard finds out that lying may seem funny but that it hurts "people" -- the other animals in the story. There is a Jiminy Cricket-like frog character, who helps present the moral, but it's not in a heavy-handed way. Good way to entertain kids and teach them about telling the truth too.

Easy to read & for little ones to comprehend. Teaches a good lesson at an early age. recommended.

I had the extreme pleasure of being taught how to fly fish by Marv during my stay in South Dakota. These stories are more than just delightful tales of fly-fishing, they are stories of the way life should sometimes be looked at. very funny and enjoyable!

A thoroughly entertaining book about "home" and fishing.