Ware Books

While today's reviewer's may find this title "amazingly accurate", the emigrants who used it did not. In a July 20 1849 dairy entry, traveler Bennett C. Clark wrote that "[we] came to the river and nooned -- grass only tolerable. We begin to be greatly disappointed in our calculations of finding good grass on this measly Humboldt [river] as Mr. Ware had prepared us to expect. Let no traveler hereafter be governed by Wares Gudie as it is perfectly worthless."

This is a reprint of the actual guide book used by many pioneers. In various diaries it is referred to as "Ware's Guide." I found it to be amazingly accurate and was shocked to learn that Joseph Ware never completed the trip west. He was abandoned on the trail when he took ill and died where they left him.

This was a very hefty book which presented a wide number and variety of techniques used in industrial organization. There was a lot of information crammed into this book. There were some good real-world examples to illustrate their points throughout the text. They were able to present both the verbal concepts as well as the mathematical models together. The graphs were numerous and useful. Math presented within the text was not as easy to follow intuitively. Concrete examples were covered in class instead.

Because of how much material this book covers, I would not consider it fun leisure reading for most, but would recommend it for classes, or at least some supplemental reading if you want to apply the models.

Granted, I have not seen other books on industrial organization, but I thought this was a pretty good book on its own.

This book is full of mistakes! It is written so badly, anyone else could have done better. Worst of all, there are hardly any problem sets so you will have difficulties studying the discussed examples.

Even my Course Tutor says that "Church and Ware are amateurish in the way they work...". In this book they don't stick to their own structure, methods etc. This book was a complete horror and I really can't recommend it to anyone at all!!

This book is not in print-however, the manuscript is intact for anyone interested.

The author can be reached at: rrau22@earthlink.net

I would very much like to read this book. General Henry Ware Lawton was my great grandfather - my grandfather, Manley Lawton, was the General's only son.

I have never met or spoken with Mr. Rudy Rau. I would appreciate having a copy of this book, as well as information that Mr. Rau might have regarding my Lawton family.

If Rudy Rau would like to contact me about my great grandfather, I would enjoy hearing from him....Lynda Unowsky
joelunowsky@comcast.net

I visited Ken Ham's Creation Museum earlier this year. I visited out of pure curiosity. Ken Ham gave a speech, and he did not beat around the bush regarding this fact: the Museum and the material therein are primarily religious, not scientific. Ken Ham's writings are generated by religions motivation, not real scientific inquiry.

On to the book at hand - "Darwin's Plantation" argues that racism is not biblical, but is a product of evolutionary theory. These statements are made:

"We're all created by God."

"We're all in God's image."

"We're all one family."

"We're all loved by God."

Sounds great! Sounds REALLY great! I commend Ham for his alleged efforts to cross racial lines. Christianity in America has fostered division rather than unity along racial lines for too long. Unfortunately, however, the old divisive fundamentalist mentality rears up its ugly head and the book stops short of celebrating and embracing all of God's diverse creation. Ham and Ware could not finish the book without making their stabs at God's gay and lesbian children.

In the Appendix, Charles Ware's argument against those who claim that the Bible does not condemn monogamous homosexual relationships is simply, "That's just not true." No in-depth examination of the biblical text or its historical/cultural context. Only a dogmatic statement that it's "just not true." He then attributes the rise of HIV to gay men (but says nothing of the fact that lesbian women are rarely ever infected with the virus). He plays the scapegoat card on God's lesbian and gay children by stating that U.S. citizens continue to pay (literally with money) for research, etc., to stop the spread of HIV. Obviously, the book is a far cry from unifying God's children.

The book is typical Ken Ham propaganda. Fear-driven and guilt-inducing dogma that does nothing to demolish the divisive barriers in the human race.

If you're a fundamentalist Christian who fears stepping outside of the fundamentalist box and thinking for yourself, and if you're looking for yet another book to pacify your religious insecurities, then you will probably soak this book in like a sponge.

If you're looking for real scholarship, or something for real spiritual growth, look elsewhere because this book will be a waste of your precious time.

This shouldn't be about bashing Ken Ham's belief in Creation. The reason so many people are hostile towards Creationism is that they have not done enough research. If you truely research this topic, you will find more scientific evidence to support Creation. Don't let the unbelief of others and lies from the media turn you away from Truth. This is a well written book. Ham has put much thought into his ideas as he always does.

A short passage from "The Voyage of the Beagle" will suffice to illuminate Darwin's stance on slavery and racism, at a time when racism was pretty much a given in the mind of most westerners and slavery was widely practiced and condoned by christians:

"On the 19th of August we finally left the shores of Brazil. I thank God, I shall never again visit a slave country. To this day, if I hear a distant scream, it recalls with painful vividness my feelings, when passing a house near Pernambuco, I heard the most pitiable moans, and could not but suspect that some poor slave was being tortured, yet knew that I was as powerless as a child even to remonstrate. I suspected that these moans were from a tortured slave, for I was told that this was the case in another instance. Near Rio de Janeiro I lived opposite to an old lady, who kept screws to crush the fingers of her female slaves. I have staid in a house where a young household mulatto, daily and hourly, was reviled, beaten, and persecuted enough to break the spirit of the lowest animal. I have seen a little boy, six or seven years old, struck thrice with a horsewhip (before I could interfere) on his naked head, for having handed me a glass of water not quite clean; I saw his father tremble at a mere glance from his master's eye. These latter cruelties were witnessed by me in a Spanish colony, in which it has always been said, that slaves are better treated than by the Portuguese, English, or other European nations. I have seen at Rio de Janeiro a powerful negro afraid to ward off a blow directed, as he thought, at his face. I was present when a kind-hearted man was on the point of separating for ever the men, women and little children of a large number of families who had long lived together. I will not even allude to the many heart-sickening atrocities which I authentically heard of; - nor would I have mentioned the above revolting details, had I not met with several people, so blinded by the constitutional gaiety of the negro, as to speak of slavery as a tolerable evil. Such people have generally visited the houses of the upper classes, where the domestic slaves are usually well treated; and they have not, like myself, lived amongst the lower classes. Such enquirers will ask slaves about their condition; they forget that the slave must indeed be dull, who does not calculate on the chance of his answer reaching his master's ears.

It is argued that self-interest will prevent excessive cruelty; as if self-interest protected our domestic animals, which are far less likely than degraded slaves, to stir up the rage of their savage masters. It is an argument long since protested against with noble feelings, and strikingly exemplified, by the ever illustrious Humboldt. It is often attempted to palliate slavery by comparing the state of slaves with our poorer countrymen: if the misery of our poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin; but how this bears on slavery, I cannot see; as well might the use of the thumbscrew be defended in one land, by showing that men in another land suffer from some dreadful disease. Those who look tenderly at the slave-owner and with cold heart at the slave, never seem to put themselves into the position of the latter; - what a cheerless prospect, with not even a hope of change! Picture to yourself the chance, ever hanging over you, of your wife and your little children - those objects which nature urges even the slave to call his own - being torn from you and sold like beast to the first bidder! And these deeds are done and palliated by men, who profess to love their neighbors as themselves, who believe in God, and pray that his Will be done on earth! It makes one's blood boil, yet heart tremble, to think that we Englishmen and our American descendants, with their boastful cry of liberty, have been and are so guilty: but it is consolation to reflect, that we at least have made a greater sacrifice, than ever made by any nation, to expiate our sin."

Honestly, what did you expect from noted liar Ken Ham, if not lies, more lies, slander, libel and historical revisionism?

An online "review" page of anything by Ken Ham raises an important question - does one need to review Ken Ham? Mr. Ham, of AnswersInGenesis, is one of those rare individuals whose work needs no review, once the fact of his association with the work is realized. That is to say, the mere fact that the book is by Ken Ham should be enough to put a 1-star on this baby, and call it a day.

Perhaps this presumption is harsh, and perhaps it's premature. In the abstract, it may be, but as applied to this book, it's not. It's yet more creationist drivel from a quixotic and deluded individual. If you don't want to think for yourself - and don't want to actually be exposed to anything but propaganda - this book is for you. But if you want to actually either (1) learn about evolution, (2) learn about Charles Darwin, or (3) not be patronized by a partisan hack, this book is not for you.

For the record, Darwin was no racist. He remarked on slavery, "And these deeds are done and palliated by men, who profess to love their neighbors as themselves, who believe in God, and pray that his Will be done on earth! It makes one's blood boil, yet heart tremble, to think that we Englishmen and our American descendants, with their boastful cry of liberty, have been and are so guilty: but it is consolation to reflect, that we at least have made a greater sacrifice, than ever made by any nation, to expiate our sin."

But more importantly, his personal views are wholly irrelevant to modern science. If you don't want to take my word for it, at least don't take Ken Ham's.

Recommended instead:
(1) River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life (Science Masters Series)
(2) Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters
(3) Science, Evolution, and Creationism

I expected it to be an interesting controversial historical account of Darwin, but I got the idea that Ham was trying to use Darwin's image to dispute the concept of evolution. Whether Darwin was a racist, an atheist, or if he was a rapist or a murderer has nothing to do with evolution. to give an example: Edison's poor interpersonal ethics doesn't make us believe that the principle of the light bulb is flawed because we have overwhelming evidence that it isn't. I may have enjoyed the book had it been written without an agenda.

This book was an interesting and worthwhile read. It very accurately reflected the multitude of activities and communities at Ohio State. It was also nice to learn about some of the history of my alma mater.

This book is a complete and total disaster! Poor organization, unclear text, stupid content. Do yourself a favor and do not purchase this book!

More than half of the recipes in this book start with "1 package cake mix", or frozen bread dough, or other prepared food. Not for serious bakers, but if you're interested in quick, simple "semi-homemade" cakes and breads, this may suit your needs.

The lavendar pound cake was delicious, though!

There are some ideas in the book. BUT it is a chronology of the two artists who wrote it more than anything else. The designs were crowded and uninspired I thought. Pictures offered little in the way of ideas - just a mess from their own activities.
Cover is not representative of what is inside.

Do not buy this book if you are looking for modern laws and regulations on gold and silver standards. The book is a reproduction of the 1878 printing of the seventh edition. The regulations pertain mostly to Europe.

In the 1870's there were no legal standards in United States, Mexico or South America.

Historian should find this book of interest. The book address the problem of trying to regulated an industry plagued by fraud.

Many of the legal standards set forth are in effect today. The text includes testing information and charts of national legal standards.

The story of three women: their tangled destinies: their desperate loves; their search for an eternity in one moment of bliss

This isn't my type of story.

I was disappointed by this book because Gompertz's own book on Korean celadon and Yi ceramic was (and still is) standard english reference book to study Korean ceramics. Gompertz studied many Japanese scholars at that time, and made his own perception on the beauty of Korean ceramics.
In this new book, there was no further improvement of Gompertz legacy. His ceramics are not compared to other masterpieces, and there are not enough detail analysis of the various colors, firing, and techniques. The picture quality is mediocre, and when you want to show the subtle celadon glaze, picture quality is very important. There is no new information on the text. The scholars should have tried to compare Chinese Song celadon and Korean celadon since we now have enough information about the influence between Song and Koryo period unlike the time when Gompertz was doing his research.

So far, the best books on Korean celadon/Yi ceramics are published by Japanese publishers (even better than Korean) so I recommend those books even if you cannot read Japanese, and buy the original Gompertz book for text. And price of $200..this is hard to justify.