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This is one of the best architectural dictionaries that I have found. It has a number of layman terms and quite a few diagrams. It is concise, but contained all of the terms that we have come up with so far.

Not being one for self help- this book appeals as it states that it will make the self help industry redundant. It does.

Dorothy Rowe tackles seemingly massive issues with wit and humour. This is an enjoyable book to read.

Her philosophy is sound, clear commonsense that empowers the reader and basically helps you to understand who you are, and what your real motivating priorities are in life.

I came away feeling refreshed, clear and uncomplicated. The logic behind the book is so clear that I am confident it will remain with me throughout my life.

Buy this book if you don't go for self indulgent analysis and mumbo jumbo, but would just like to get yourself in order and move on!

This is the most informative and comprehensive guide for theatrical rendering available. A must-have for students of theater and educators alike.

Written by a professional academic ecologist who described himself as "Not a misanthrope, but a defender of Earth against the excesses of anthropes", Earth Alive: Essays On Ecology is an anthlogy of brief yet well-structured essays about ecology and principle. Ranging from "The Ecology of Cities", to "What on Earth is Life?", to a straightforward "Manifesto for the Earth" (co-written with Ted Mosquin) that stresses the importance of reducing human population levels and human consumptive excess, particularly in developed countries, the essays convey an urgent need to protect dwindling natural resources and look toward sustainable coexistence. Most essays were previously published in various periodical venues, but now they are collected into one serious-minded, scientific, and unabashedly pro-environmental volume.

Without question, the United States was an extremely dynamic, energetic country in the 19th century. However, in the area of mathematics, there was a very little. If one desired a solid mathematical education, Europe was the only answer. However, there were a few far-sighted individuals who understood how important mathematics is in a modern society.
While not well-known among the general community, one man's vision served to change the face of educational institutions in America. That man was Johns Hopkins who, when he died, bequeathed his fortune, around $7,000,000, to establish an educational institution in Baltimore where graduate education and research was to be emphasized. To build the mathematics department, Johns Hopkins University imported a British mathematician by the name of James Joseph Sylvester.
The trials and tribulations of building a world-class department from scratch is a tale that is very interesting to read. Creating the prototype of the modern department conducting research, many of their problems have a very familiar ring to them. The subsequent rapid progress is truly a tribute to those pioneers. Johns Hopkins opened in 1876 with an import as a department head, by only sixteen years later, in 1893, there was an international mathematics conference in Chicago.
While today that may not seem significant, at the time it took significant effort for a European to make the additional trip from the east coast to the Midwest. This is a tribute to the high quality of work already being done at the newly created University of Chicago and the head of the mathematics department, Eliakim Hastings Moore.
In between there were many trials, tribulations, tiffs, and tumbles, the combination of which make this one of the best books in the history of mathematics. Thoroughly referenced, it will satisfy your academic and historical urges.

Published in Journal of Recreational Mathematics, reprinted with permission.

From novice to veteran, this excellent manual covers the how-to's of Emergency nursing and then some! The Emergency Manual is the best resource for E.R. nurses that I've come across to date. Ms. Rowe really knows her stuff and has obviously spent time on the front lines!

Information is practical, concise and to the point. The easy to follow format makes this manual a rich introductory guide for nurses new to emergency practice, and a valuable resource for those of us with time constraints who are looking for a quick and painless way to refresh our skills and knowledge. Great value and heartily recommended!

By adopting his alter ego of Xavier De C*** for objectivity's sake, veteran journalist Regis Debray becomes a kid in a candy-store in skewering the shortcomings of modern European culture and statesmanship, particularly in his native France. His late fictional friend and colleague has written to Debray in English (so Debray tells us) to diagnose all that is wrong with modern Europe - way too much to detail here - and to prescribe a most unusual cure.

His prescription for massive cultural reform takes the form of calling for a modern-day Edict of Caracalla, citing how the Roman Emperor of that name declared all residents of the Roman Empire not otherwise enslaved or proscribed to be Roman citizens, and thereby expanding the tax base and buying the empire couple of extra centuries. De C***, having recently becoming a U.S. citizen after years in the French secret service, says that the modern Roman emperor lives in the White House. He prescribes that the countries of Europe join in a "United States of the West," as he would deem it, and that France be the first to take this step toward Washington, lest Britain or Germany steal yet another diplomatic march.

Not that it should be a one-way affair. M. De C***, or M. Debray, calls for a more Atlantocentric outlook on Washington's part. But he declares that Europe should provide the incentive by, as it were, going West - a notion guaranteed to cause conniptions in news columns and government chambers all over Europe.

A giveaway, though, to this American reader at any rate, is what the erstwhile new citizen De C***/old European Debray leaves out; namely, the actual legal means of executing this Europe Annexation. No where does he mention that any new Edict of Caracalla would take the form of a European government ratifying the U.S. Constitution. It reflects the European Constitution debate where the few comparisons to the U.S. debate in 1788 were denied and dismissed with a casual wave of the hand - a case of waving the light out of the smoke if ever there was one; the very disease of De C***/Debray's jeremiad.

For the irony-challenged - not all of whom are Yanks - bear in mind that Debray doesn't dream of an actual Europe Annexation into a Greater U.S. He himself has cited this book as a call against the rise of renewed empire for the 21st-century. Still, it's difficult to imagine a more plausible step away from that vision - unless it's for a United States of Earth. We can always leave the United States of the Solar System for the 22nd century.

Well, first there was Enoch who `walked with God'. He was given knowledge denied to Adam after the fall. This is to be found in the Apochrypha to the Old Testament. Then in about 1580 there was Dr John Dee, Astrologer to Queen Elizabeth I of England and reputedly one of the greatest minds of the European Renaissance. With the aid of his `colourful' visionary mystic, Edward Kelly, he contacted certain `beings' who said the time had come to restore some of this knowledge to `man'. Tables of numbers and letters were duly noted, a series of `calls' in an unearthy language were also given. Dee had to work in secret as the Papal authorities wanted to burn him (as they had Giordano Bruno). He hid his books. Miraculously they were preserved. The material they contained consituted the Summum of many occult groups such as The Golden Dawn who hijacked it for their own purposes. Benjamin Rowe has set about putting much of this material in order, and experimenting with invocational and meditative techniques to determine it's value and function. In doing so he has re-contacted the beings who informed Dee and Kelly. They have given him methods to develop further the work of raising the consciousness of the human race. This is not a book for dabblers. Firstly, the practices are demanding. Secondly, the work is serious. Thirdly, he applied a healthy critical attitude to his experiments. Find here a grand synthesis of the Enochian System. An analysis of its functionality, and methods to tap its energies. Find here also new material following on directly fom the historic discoveries of our elizabethan magi. If mystery and occult knowledge is your thing, this is a book to read and re-read. Benjamin Rowe may be many things, or may be nothing. He is not a fake, and this book isn't fooling. It's not dangerous, but it's not to be taken lightly either. Seen from my own point of view, this material is terrifically important, personally and historically. Enter into a hidden tradition which dates back to the Patriarch Enoch...

I read this book for a graduate seminar on Aristotle.

Aristotle's further elaboration in the Eudemian Ethics, (EE) from his Nicomachean Ethics, (EN) on friendship is very intuitive when it comes to understanding the human ego in particular and human relationships in general. This is the most important aspect of the EE for serious students of Aristotle and virtue ethics. It is here in the EE that Aristotle further develops the theory of activity, proposing a way of viewing human life that reveals the most fundamental way in which logos ["reason"] enters into human life. Since Aristotle believes that humans by nature are social and political animals, it should come as no surprise that he believes humans need friendship to live a complete and happy life. "However, friendship is not only necessary, but also fine. For we praise lovers of friends, and having many friends seems to be a fine thing."

Aristotle notes that there are three types of friendship. First is the friendship of utility. In modern times, this type of friendship is more similar to a friendly acquaintance at work or with people one has a business relationship with--a it is not an emotional relationship between people. Second, is the friendship of pleasure. This is a mutual relationship between people who share pleasures, such as enjoying each other's company, and friends who are fun to be with. The third and highest form of friendship is that of goodness. This is the type of friendship where the ethical welfare of the other person is as important as one's own well being. In modern times, this is friendship that is usually defined as a best friend or even a soul mate. Friendship of goodness, as Aristotle defines it, is that between people "who wish goods to their friend for the friend's own sake are friends most of all; for they have this attitude because of the friend himself, not coincidentally." Aristotle understood that the friendship of goodness depends on love, on likeness, on recognition, on reciprocity, on activity, on quality of characters, and ultimately (and from a different viewpoint) on sharing of life.

I recommend Aristotle's works to anyone interested in obtaining a classical education, and those interested in philosophy. Aristotle is one of the most important philosophers and the standard that all others must be judged by.

Congratulations to these young authors. What a great way to celebrate the everday hero who helps mold our young students today. The history that is revealed in this book is an amazing tribute to the everday toils that often go unnoticed. It's great to read about the aunts, uncles, great-grandparents...This text really gives an amazing insight into the lives of generations past. More students should get together and record the histories of those important in their lives.