This two volume text is an essential reference and mandatory reading for any Neurology resident or Staff Physician. I had the opportunity to train under the instruction of many of the contributors to this text. I found it to be rich in detail and clinical expertise. I refer to it often in my practice. It is concise and easily understood.

Ohmigod! This book is as close to a roller coaster as you can get. It doesn't quit. Marley is one mean mother (shut your mouth) and Phillips abuses his main character through a tortuous ride up from Tijuana to Sacramento with more action packed adventures than any Hollywood blockbuster has served up in many a summer. Buy this book. Read it. Make others buy it. Pass it along. Leave it at bus stops. IT IS THIS SUMMERS MUST READ BOOK!

I use this book as an introduction to learning theory for a masters class in educational computing technology. Many of my students have never had a learning theory class and this affords them an excellent overview of the subject area. In addition to well-written, concise overviews of many of the more popular theories, the authors provide exercises designed to stimulate classroom instruction. An excellent choice!

This is a very well written and very well researched book. It has links to internet sites that are relevant to the needs of writers, as well as associations, mail opt lists to join among just a few of the areas covered.

This was a stunning compendium of lore, wisdom, and knowledge that kept me on the brink of my seat the entire time. Praise the lord, Amen! Mr. Duse researched his material well, and provided many fine addenda in which he incorporated DOD documentation. Well done, Duse! You deserve a Pulitzer for this one!

Kim Philby, Donald Maclean, and Guy Burgess were all firmly part of the British establishment- Maclean and Burgess in the Foreign Office and Philby in the Secret Intelligence Service. All three worked for the ideals upon which the British nation and world democracy were founded- at least that's what they were able to convince not only the world, but their friends and family as well. In fact all three were highly placed Soviet agents who sold out their nation in the name of ideology. 'The Philby Conspiracy' by Bruce Page, David Leitch, and Phillip Knightley is a brilliant look into their careers as respectable pillars of British society and as cunning communist agents. Wonderfully researched, this book looks at Philby's, Maclean's, Burgess's flirtation with communism during their university years and the lengths to which they went to avoid detection. Philby himself served with Franco's fascists during Spain's civil war in an attempt to downplay his own left-wing past. For anyone interested in cold war espionage, or for a better understanding of just what can drive a man to treason, 'The Philby Conspiracy' is must reading.

A refreshingly broad examination of world thought. Phillips does a fine job of tending both to the needs and dispositions of the Western reader without diluting any of the non-Western material. A nice break away from the normally Western-dominated bias found in texbooks of this sort.

In "Philosophy's Cool Place" D. Z. Phillips sets out in the footsteps of Ludwig Wittgenstein to show what he considers to be the fundamental stance of philosophy and proceeds to show how difficult it is to achieve. In describing his approach to philosophy, Wittgenstein states in Culture and Value, "My ideal is a certain coolness. A temple providing a setting for the passions without meddling with them." According to Phillips, this ideal stance involves a "contemplative conception" of philosophy where the philosopher "reflects on our discourse, our understandings of the real world, endeavoring to let them be themselves in the face of deep tendencies to confuse them" (166). In other words, a contemplative conception of philosophy marvels at the possibility of discourse, not just what we mean by our words but what it means to say something at all. To illustrate these different approaches to philosophy, Phillips contrasts Soren Kierkegaard's insightful observations of the world and it various "spheres" (aesthetic, ethical and religious) with Wittgenstein's method of conceptual clarification. Despite Kierkegaard's exceptional philosophical/ dialectical ability, his work (by his own admission) was fundamentally religious and argued positively for a religious outlook. Wittgenstein, on the other hand, wanted to remain more circumspect, believing that a philosopher should be the citizen of no community, at least when philosophizing. Wittgenstein acknowledged this stance of philosophical detachment is an ideal and held it out as one way to help avoid what all philosophers struggle against: the bewitchment of our thinking by means of our language. One form this bewitchment takes is to suggest a picture of "the way things really are" which philosophy may turn into a general thesis or metaphysical assumption in religion or ethics. Following Wittgenstein, Phillips states that philosophical reflection does not underwrite any specific form of moral appropriation" and that the desire to do so is a corruption of philosophical contemplation. There are many kinds of moralities and no general theory of discourse can unify this variety, just as all that is said in a language cannot be reduced to one big conversation. Likewise, no single set of moral criteria can be established to settle all moral conflicts or establish one moral view indisputably above the others. Yet in chapter after chapter, Phillips detects various examples of moral foundationalism in prominent thinkers (e. g., Richard Rorty, Stanley Cavell, Annette Baier, Martha Nussbaum) who succumb to the tendency in their own philosophical analyses to explain the variety in general terms, even as they argue against foundationalism. In seeking to get behind our words, clear up disagreements or justify positions, each may occasionally fall into the trap of imposing his or her own theory on the religious concepts and moral views of others, frequently confusing concepts that Phillips argues should be kept distinct. In doing this, they not only miss out on other possibilities of meaning, they also wander away from the ideal of a contemplative conception of philosophy. The lesson, according to Rush Rhees, Phillips' own esteemed philosophy teacher and a student of Wittgenstein, the point of the variety (in morality or religion) is not to prompt us to find its essence or fundamental unity but to remind us not to seek it. And if someone wonders at how we can possilby go on with all this moral diversity and raggedness in religious belief, Phillips reminds her, "That is how we do go on." The ideal stance of contemplation or philosophical disinterest does not mean one must be uninterested in the subject but that one should be professionally detached so that the philosopher's views do not cut him off from a clearer understanding of the world. Nor does the philosopher's detachment mean one cannot be critical of a practice or form of life. As Phillips acknowledges in his concluding chapter (**which a new-comer to Phillips' work would be wise to read first**), a philosopher's work may lead to reform in a practice while the philosopher qua philosopher is not a reformist, that is, "trying to go somewhere." For anyone who has seriously wondered at the nature of philosophy, what it's about, "Philosophy's Cool Place" would be an excellent text to read (perhaps along with Plato's "Gorgias" and "The Idea of A Social Science" by Peter Winch).

The images are stunning, and the book is jammed packed with them. The dialogue for all these gardens and places, is surprisingly an interesting read as well. Truly a pleasure to look through...

John Gutmann's immigration to the United States was so monumental in that the images he brought forth of normal occurances in this country, were largely ingored by his colleges- thus, his pictures are not the carbon copy variety of say Ansel Adams. This book is fanastic, excellent tonality, and is even greater when viewing the actual exhibit. I recommend Culture Shock to everyone whose ever had an interest in urban/1930 photography. Gripping to say the least.