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For a beginner such as myself, learning any type of programming language was about as much of a challenge as it was figuring out how to stop that blinking 12:00 on my VCR-next to impossible.Mr Wang detailed everything in such a well manner I felt like Capt. Picard venturing out on a new frontier. I almost forgot I was reading a book on programming. I learned alot and had a good time. I highly recommend this book!

The ...Dummies series of books was a great concept from the beginning. Never before have there been technical references which could just be read for their entertainment value alone. Beware of ...Dummies books not in the computer genre, they are mediocre at best. This one however proudly continues the heritages started by Dan Gookin in being informative, technical but not more than is neccessary, and allowing you to start from a point where "computer" is still a word to be looked up in your dusty Webster.

The Manual is a great collection of elements of classical Landscape painting, demonstrating compositions & brush strokes in woodcut examples from the work of former masters in a society in which the boundary between writing & art - in technique, subject & spirit - was undefined & irrelevant, by comparison to Western tradition. But the commentary on the examples seeks not only to open the artist's eye but also the mind to the relation between long observation & drill, abstract improvisation of image, & a spiritual process of self-examination. Despite its emphasis on practice, drill & imitation of the masters, the Manual repeatedly calls upon reliance upon nature for instruction - & for an awakened spirit. There is Taoist influence on the text's allusive & visionary discussion. A delight

This is a classic book about Chinese painting. Loaded with examples and commentary about painting technique, this is a good book for someone interested in Asian brush painting or for the art enthusast.

This book is a big help to cancer survivors as well as their family & friends. It spoke of people who were already at the last stages of cancer and to whom which doctors already pronounced as "no hope". These people were able to overcome their cancer successfully with the use of Chinese herbs.

This book is one of the best books I have ever read. It's loaded with powerful information on how to survive from Cancer, and live a healthy productive life. The book gives real hope and powerful testimonies from families. Every one needs to know about the author and inventor of China No.1 Tian Xian anti-cancer supplement Professor Wang Zhen Guo. It is a must read.

Anthony Badger is a most distinguished professor of history at Cambridge in England. Few people better understand the Great Depression in America and the New Deal than Badger. This is a work of the highest caliber.

The book should actually be titled "The Great Depression and the New Deal," because it first brilliantly describes the Great Depression and the causes. He presents differing interpretations, which I really appreciated. Not everyone agrees. Not all aspects of America experienced the Depression the same, so Badger presents several observations. The portrait he paints is simply outstanding.

His analysis of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal is excellent. Badger has read everything written about the Great Depression, it seems. There are no better studies than this book, in my opinion. This is an important and authoritative review of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal, and is even suitable as a college text.

My only quibble is that Badger should have more thoroughly covered the massive infrastructure investments that Roosevelt made, which greatly contributed to the economic boom during the second-half of the 20th Century. Badger also does not cover the post-war boom, which is an extension of the New Deal reforms and investments. In my opinion, Badger somewhat focuses too much as the relief aspects of the New Deal, but only slightly.

There recently has been a slight reinterpretation of the New Deal, with an emphasis on the infrastructure investments and the political economy. For example, read "Building New Deal Liberalism: The Political Economy of Public Works, 1933-1956" by Jason Scott Smith. Also read "The New Dealers: Power Politics in the Age of Roosevelt" by Jordan A. Schwarz.

Also consider Schlesinger's classic multi-volume history of the New Deal era.

This volume is a great, concise analysis of the New Deal's political economy. Badger opens with a short account of the economic causes of the Great Depression, detailing problems with maintaining consumer demand sufficently to match the overwhelming productive capacities of the American economy. As this gap expanded and factories were forced to go idle, American businessmen followed a range of investment opportunities and incentives overseas (with the hope of helping European economies so they could pay off their World War I debts to Uncle Sam) at the expense of reinvesting in American businesses. Deflationary national and international monetary policies, combined with a worsening international economic situation (which hurt further the production potential of American business) sealed the fate of the American economy in the early 1930s.

Badger looks at the New Deal's response to this dark situation in several areas: industrial policy, labor relations, agrucultural politics, welfare policy and coalitional politics. In each of these areas, Badger emphasizes the constraints that Franklin Roosevelt faced in attempting systematic reform. At first, Roosevelt had to stress recovery over reform: in the dark, dark, days of the winter of 1932-33, people needed a sense that help was on the way immediately not a few months down the line. Later, when the economy at least stablized, he had to assess realistically his desire for economic restructuring and social justice (to the extent he possessed such intentions) against growing congressional conservatism, the power of localism in the administration of New Deal reforms (which usually worked to the benefit of local elites), and the belief of most working and middle class Americans in the American creed of individualism and laissez faire capitalism.

In sketching this, Badger seems to be most interested in countering critiques from the left concerning President Roosevelt and the New Deal. From the left, historians have argued that government and coporate leadership concocted the New Deal to save capitalism and inhibit the native radicalism of the American citizen confronted with the overwhelming catastrophe of the Great Depression. This cabal highjacked revolution and preserved capitalism.

Professor Badger agrees that Roosevelt saved capitalism, but he did so against the tooth and nail efforts of almost all capitalists in America, who did not appreciate FDR's efforts on their behalf. There was no cabal, just a lot of animosity between Roosevelt and industrialists. With a handful of enlightened exceptions (many of whom reaped big time benefits in World War II mobilization) capitalists were too shortsighted to engage in a plot to stave off revolution.

Badger's main critque of Roosevelt is that he should have embraced governmental spending -- Keynsianism -- on a systematic basis much earlier in the 1930s (he grudgingly accepted the eocnomic principles of Keynes only in 1938). This would have raised wages and thus increased demand. Had that happened earlier in the 1930s, Badger argues, Roosevelt could then have focused, if he wished, on the systematic reform of the American economy, and genuine social justice.

Regardless of how you feel about the correctness of Badger's analysis of Roosevelt's motivations and achievements, this is one of the best single volume treatments of the New Deal. It is an excellent case study of the political/historical constraints of politicians and policy makers in America, in the face of certain institutional and political cultural constraints.

I first picked up Of Flesh and Spirit at a used bookstore in South Dakota when I was 15 years old. I read it, and liked much of it, but didn't really get it.

Then, last summer (at age 19), I got it off the shelf to read, and an entirely new world unfolded.

My favorite quote, which I remind myself of all the time, is from "Splintered Eye" on page46.

Real pain is unspeakable.
If it can be described or talked about,
it's no longer real.

I have returned from a reading by Wang Ping (along with George Kalamaras) and I was highly impressed by her work. As a woman, I find that I can identify with her words of womanhood and restriction. I look forward to delving into her world of prose, although she gives a taste of it in this collection by means of prose-poems.

With the exploding contemporary art scene in China, the book is already a bit out of date. New prominent artists such as Maleonn (a.k.a Ma Liang) have emerged during the last couple of years.

Not enough attention has been given to photography in the world's most populous nation. This is a survey that will help the rest of the world develop a more thorough notion of new art in an old nation.

This textbook combines Physics with Maple in a very suitable manner.
The students will find it very useful as they could learn how to apply computer algebra to Physical problems. It's really an excelnet book.

The topics covered in this book form a very comprehensive look at the mathematics and types of problems that are encountered across the entire physics discipline. The author has done a nice job showing students how to use Maple for mathematical physics. The animation of several examples is a nice touch which really helps students what is going on with some of these solutions. This is a superb text.

Plans and sections are very important drawings in architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design and planning. They are used in schematic, design development and construction phases of projects. When properly drafted, they can convey a lot of information to the clients and governing agencies and project team members.

"Plan and Section Drawing" introduces useful process and skills in producing various kinds of plans and sections, including presentation graphic and process graphic, design process (regional maps, vicinity maps, site information maps), analytical drawings, conceptual drawings (bubble diagrams, conceptual diagrams, conceptual maps), design drawings (final site development maps, preliminary maps), plan graphics (architecture, vegetation, trees, shrubs, ground covers, overlapping and shadows, water, pavement, etc.), elevations and sections (vertical exaggeration), sections graphics (graphic vocabulary, architecture, vegetation, human figures, ground, annotation) and computer graphic.

Thomas C. Wang is very talent and he has good artistic hands. He not only shows you nice drawing samples, but also the process to produce them.

"Plan and Section Drawing" has 144 pages and many well-done interior black-and-white line drawings. It is a valuable book for learning some of the most important skills for your career as a design professional.

although i am a newly graduated architect i found this book very useful in the field of arch. presentation and drawing as it learns you how to draw plans and section in an effective and easy way , it concentrates on pencil drawing more than colors as it is the baisc drawing machine in addition to some colored examples , Very recommended for new arch. students ....

This story is lovely and heartwarming. The pictures are luminous. This book is itself the "perfect" present.

RAYMOND'S PERFECT PRESENT is a quiet,thoughtful story that reminds us that sometimes acts of love bring joy in unexpected ways. In her gentle portrayal of Raymond, the author, Therese On Louie, acknowledges that the small acts of a child really do matter.

The soft tones of this beautifully illustrated book add a richness to the text.

Inside the flyleaf of this book it notes that this book was written shortly after the October Revolution and was later suppressed by Stalin. It is suggested that this is because the author didn't include a sketch of Stalin among those he offers in this fascinating book.

The value of this book is that Lunacharsky (a prominent revolutionary literary critic and the Commissar of Education at the time) is writing about men he knew well and respected, and wrote of them objectively -- long before published profiles became propagandized and inflated, making the early revolutionaries 'unassailed heroes and martyrs.'

A nice touch is the inclusion of black and white photographic portraits of the subjects Lunacharsky describes which, along with his fascinating portraits of hardworking party-workers, intellectuals and revolutionaries, makes the period of the Russian Revolution truly come to life.

Isaac Deutscher's introduction adds a nice touch, giving us background on Lunacharsky himself, which helps to put these portraits in context. All in all, this fine volume presents a rich eye-witness account by a fascinating man who was active at a crucial time in the history of modern Russia.

Lunacharsky writes about his fellow revolutionaries in this book. It's very refreshing to get a first person perspective on Lenine, Trotsky, Zinoviev, Plekhanov, Sverdlov, Volodarsky, Uritsky, Bessalko and Martov. Isac Deutscher, who wrote the introduction and I think the ending notes of each sketch, did a fantastic job simplifying what Lunacharsky has to say and also adding little facts about each person's life.