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I bought this book in preparation for the Oral Neurology Boards. It is intended for ED docs but is still fairly complete. A neurologist may feel bogged down by explanations of other things that we know and I found one error so far but still would give it 5 stars.

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Rosemary Gregory, Myra Lee Goff & Roger Nuhn have given the citizens of New Braunfels (& Comal County) a gift that will last through the years. It is a chronicle of a German settlement and the people who have lived here in earlier times. Lushly illustrated with over 275 photographs, illustrations, maps, and artifacts, it is an beautiful tome that invites the reader to connect with and feel part of this community. Everyone in who grew up in or lives in Comal County should have a copy.

Being from central Connecticut and a budding weather hobbyist, this book is fantastic. Besides being easy to read and well organized, it has a wealth of relevant information.

There are six parts: 1) what makes New England's weather and climate unique; 2) causes of change in New England's weather and climate; 3) diversity of New England's weather and climate -- from the mountains to the beaches; 4) seasons of New England; 5) the weather events that influence the lives of New Englanders; and 6) changes over time.

Each part shows both the experience and research of the author. I could have lived with fewer quotes from Mark Twain and fewer mentions of Mount Washington, but everything else more than makes up for it. A very professional book. Highly recommended.

A parody of M. G. Lewis's The Monk. It's a great gothic read, full of hilarious morbidity and unforgettable dialogues! I strongly recommend it to those who have read The Monk.

One of the seminal works in the still relatively new field of NT reconstructions, Dr. Brooks work on Gregory of Nyssa stands as a work of the first order. Well grounded and readable (for those who have a NT Textual Critical background) this work sets the course for those who will follow after. A fundamental guide to determining the text type of an important early scholar!
For other works in this same field, make sure to check out Bart D. Ehrman's work on Didymus the Blind and Michael Holmes / Bart Ehrman 's collaboration on Origen.

This is a great book for garden lovers and designers alike. Superb design, high quality paper, wonderful, sharp photos, excellent colors. The book covers the history of the New York Botanical Gardens, but also includes lovely botanical prints, stunning photos of many of the different gardens and plants, and is a real inspiration to any nature and plant lover. Highly recommend, to me absolutely worth every penny of the "new copy" Amazon price.

The confusion over Darwinian theory is almost endless, and in many ways Nietzsche was one of the Darwin casualties. However, he was also an acute critic of Darwin's theory of natural selection, even as he seems to embrace the broader implications of evolutionism, but very much in the context of his times, and the milieu of the end of the nineteenth century with its theories of degenerationism, Social Darwinism, eugenics. Here Nietzsche is given, but should not be, a free ride, which he doesn't deserve.
This work is thus in one way a superb study of this context, and in another itself a casualty of Darwinian theory. However, the book escapes without too much harm and constitutes a thorough examination of much that never enters most accounts of Darwinism. It is the fate, and not altogether an inappropriate one, of a thesis from this perspective to assume tacit Darwinism to rebuke, let us say, the mishmash of 'post-Hegelianizing nature philosophy', celebrating Darwin's advance. This fails to see that this dualism of nature philosophy and positivism is a false dilemma--neither side got it right, although Darwin's theory carried the day, in part because it matured as a research project for naturalists who could use Darwin's theory as an operational hypothesis under the rubric of the 'Darwin faith'.
In this massive confusion, one would wish to criticize Nietzsche on many grounds, but the grounds chosen ends up the one thing he got right, the limits of selectionism!! This is said by someone who is no fan of Nietzche. These fans should be made aware of Nietzsche's remarks on extermination of the unfit.
The current scientific paradigm here is apparently too far gone to get the issue straight it seems, although it is understandable to resist vigorously the vitalist nosedive visible in the period on the part of Darwin critics. But denouncing nature philosophy is good as far as it goes, but maybe they at least saw that reductionist nonsense such as Darwin's was a non-starter, as dozens of commentators desperately pointed out. A confusion arises here because the Kantian version of all this (cf. the teleomechanists) is far more tuned to science than the Hegelian. Kant demonstrated the clear steps between Newtonian thinking and teleology/esthetics/morality that the age of Darwin was busy unlearning. Now they get to fight the fundamentalists in the Bible Belt, which won't prove helpful.
However this fascinating study manages to bully through this upside down situation with some indispensable discussions, and references to the literature now nearly inaccessible to the laymen.The amount of useful material that survives here is astonishing, and completely changes one view of the superficial Nietzsche now current.

With this profound volume of analyses on the two thinkers who are, paradoxically, situated at the end of modernity and at the dawn of the post-modern age--Martin Heidegger and F. Nietzsche--Dr. Smith has provided an incalculable service to scholarship on modern political philosophy. There is not a single page of this work that did not teach me something about this subject: Of great significance, in my opinion, is the way Dr. Smith deftly demonstrates the continuity of modern political philosophy generally; his comments on Rousseau are of great importance, for they show how our Great Tradition of political philosophy, culminates in two thinkers who apparently are dire enemies--Nietzsche and Rousseau--but whose concerns about modernity and tradition are deeply "sympathetic" to one another, since both critique modernity and aspire to retain its scientific and existential character.
Dr. Smith rewards his reader with an outstanding and virtuoso trip through the winding byways or works of modern philosophy and political philosophy. He has, significantly, written one of the best essays on the work of Leo Strauss that I have read-- "Who was Leo Strauss: (political philosophy)?
Dr. Smith has further done a fine job of making Heidegger's philosophy comprehensible to the student, like myself, who has no affinity for the complexities of existentialism, metaphysics or ontology, but who just wants to know a little something about the subject matter--and who wants to know more than today is conveyed in the latest "philosophy and. . . " title (it seems that everything is amenable to philosophic treatment: and, so if everything is philosophy, then nothing is?!). If a "Philosophy and Jerry Springer" written will this mean that Jerry Springer is a philosopher or just that the themes on his show are subject to philosophic anaylsis? It is this kind of popularizing and cheapening of philosophy that Dr. Smith has little truck with: He knows the history of the discipline, and he teaches you in this book what the question of modernity means and what the appropriate way to ask it is: And he does not solve this problem--he leaves it to the critical and philosophic reader of his work to puzzle out his larger intentions, if he has them.
I, for one, am looking forward to reading Dr. Smith's work on Martin Heidegger and you should also: For Dr. Smith is one of the best teachers in this field today!

If you would like to read a book which results in that rare opportunity to be tempted not to put it down until you are finished, then read this enjoyable fantasy and real collection which offers easy to read lucid prose and poetry, with an abundance of themes ranging from mysticism to cowboy action.

You will be transported to a magical and yet real world of existential delight along with some great anecdotal excitement, and some home spun Bronx delights. This is pure enjoyment.