Hamilton's book advertizes itself as an accomplishment in finally clarifying for us the confusing and controversial notion of "historicism." It provides a good survey of the key figures and philosophical commitments in the history of historicism and attempts to deal with the stakes involved in contemporary investments of the concept. But Hamilton's text turns out to be, at best, a kind of apologia and, at worst, a "how-to." Consequently, his assessment--and understanding, I'm affraid--of historicism is delivered from the position of a believer and advocate. This contributes to the reproduction of a lot of conventional mantras about historicism, such as, for example, that it somehow represented--and still does--an "anti-modernist" position. We are still modernist, in a sense, and this is why, as this book demonstrates, it is difficult to think outside the framework of historicism. A provocative book, but not deserving of its authoritative title.

This book provides a few of the basics that you will need to know if you are contemplating a small remodeling project. If you are planning on contracting your own house, this volume will not help you much. It provides only very superficial coverage of the information needed to intelligently communicate your requirements to subcontractors and evaluate their responses.

This is a very short novel that is more interesting for its ideas than its writing. The heroine is an older woman who uses her money to build a utopia which includes university schooling for women. There is also a grand masquerade ball on the estate that gives a marvelous sense of the scale and grandeur of the great country homes of the late eighteeth century.

It borrows and expands on the characterizations of Jake and Nog during A Man Alone, The Nagus and Storyteller, still making mischief and growing up, not quite to the point of jake becoming a writer or Nog wanting to join the Academy. Thus, it's an interesting, accurate look from a young adult's perspective at first season DS9 (both Jake and Nog are the youngest on the station, the only recurring kids and in Ms. O'Brien's class), but the suspense and adnveture aren't quite even up to Hardy Boys level. I'd recommend Starfleet Academy (TNG Young Adults) over this.

You can't call it a detective mystery because no detecting actually happens. You can't call it a mystery because the clues don't add up. You can't call it suspense thriller because the third act is all conjecture. You can't call it characher developement because, while some of the secondaries can grow, it ends before they do.
Nice light reading if you're not looking for any story.

Storm Personal Version 3.0 is one of a nearly extinct species of programs: DOS. It defies logic that Prentice Hall and Storm Software have not updated the format to Windows. At this point in time, they should be working on a Java version of the program. The book is written with the operation manager in mind, another rare and endangered species. The language is overly perky, "...Little else need be said, except so long and come back soon!" (pg. 44), and the examples are presented but not adequately explained for the newcomer. Perhaps my poor opinion of the book and diskette's format is a result of not being a member of its intended audience, the long-time operations manager or material scheduler. I would hypothesize that the main population of the audience is not the professional manager, but rather the newly introduced student of the decision sciences. If this is the case, the publishers would do well to revise the focus of the book and format of the program.

I am one of the writters of poetry whose poem was to be published in 94" Treasured Poems of America and although I have yet to find and purchase the book in a bookstore I know that if the other poets are as good as I like to think I am to be it is a terrific book of poetry ful of imagination love hurt and all we can give as our poetry is our heart. I feel that sparrowgrass should have provided the first copy to the poets for free as it was our work and dedication that gave them a book. As we all live through life we learn it is yet to come and prosper into greatness. I am looking forward to getting a copy and reading it to feel and read the hearts of the other poets as Im sure theyr great.

Can u imagine a book on indian philosophies without a single mention about bhagavat-gita!!!!

This itself makes this book heavily pro-Buddhist!! No wonder, author's bio does indicate that she is a Buddhism scholar. I hope at least scholars could take an OBJECTIVE UN-BIASED stand.

sorry!

1. It was surprising to note that the book on Indian philosophy has no mention of great philosophers of Vedic India such as Yajnavalkya, VedaVyaasa, Kapil, Vasishtha etc. It took a very very simplistic approach towards pre-Buddha Vedic India's contribution to the Indian Philosphy. Yajnavalkya is considered to be the father of Indian philosophy and without his name, any book will remain incomplete however "brief introduction" it may be. Another frustrating point was TOTAL absence of Bhagwat Gita which can be called as the best summary of all the Indian philosophies like Sankhya, Karma Yoga, Bhakti Yoga, Gyaan Yoga etc.

2. Some Vedic terms mentioned in the book like Brahman and Yajna are also not portrayed properly. Brahmans were not merely the uppermost caste in the Varna system of Vedic period but they were those people who used to sacrifice their entire lives for the spiritual/social/cultural upliftment of the entire society, those who were the carriers of the Brahman (God). Like in every religion or culture, the original society got corrupted later on and Brahmin started misusing their knowledge. But it is important to mention about the foundations of the Vedic system. Similarly, Yajna is not merely a fire-ritual, but the root of Yajna is Yaj in Sanskrit which means Deva-Pooja(Deity-worship), Sangatikaran(Collecting people) and Daana(Donation). Therefore, by definition, Yajna involves honoring the Devas (people with divine qualities), gathering the masses, inspiring social and community feelings in them, and to donate wealth and knowledge. It is not just some rituals with the fire. It was a powerful social tool to unite the society and spread good moral values in it.

3. Another very objectionable paragraph is on page 23 of the same book. It is mentioned that Sanskrit and Vedas were exclusive authority of Brahmins. However the facts are: A basic text memorized by aspiring students to this day is the Amarakosha, whose author was a Buddhist. The works of leading Buddhist thinkers like Nagarjuna are also in Sanskrit. The one Jaina text held in equal regard by both the Digambara and the Shvetambara sects, the Tattvartha Sutra of Umasvati, is in Sanskrit. Nor were women debarred from studying Sanskrit: they are the authors of several poems and even epics, and one poetess, Vijjika (eighth century), in a verse, compares herself favorably even to the goddess Sarasvati. A medical treatise written by a woman was translated into Arabic in the eighth century by the order of Caliph Harun. Her Arabized name is given as Rusa. The core of substance in these misconceptions is the following. When Hindu civilization came under siege, as in the past thousand years, the preservation of the language fell to the lot of Brahmins, who made ritual use of it. This may have led to a misleading identification. Similarly, for about two thousand years (c. 400 B.C.E.-1800) women were debarred, at least in theory, from studying the Vedas, which are in pre-classical Sanskrit. This may have contributed to the misleading view that women could not study Sanskrit.

4. Another view-point which is not clearly present in the book is that the concept of mono-theism was present in Vedas much earlier than Buddhism. This is evident from this verse of RgVeda (I.164.46): The wise speak of the same One as Indra, Mitra, Varuna and Agni, and He has beautiful wings and great speed. There is one truth but the wise call it by different names such as Yama and Matarishvan and so forth. (Ekam Sat, Vipraha Bahudha Vadanti)

5. Many scholars mention that Upanishads and Gita are before Buddha. Also, according to Vishnu Purana Krishna Avtaar is before that of Buddha. Therfore, Krishna, Gita and Mahabharat are all before Buddha. And Gita has dozens of reference of Sanyasa(Renunciation), Moksha(Liberation) etc. This leads to the observation that it is Buddhism which borrowed many concepts from Vedic philosophy and not the other way round which the book is trying to make us believe.

Contrary to what another reviewer wrote, the book mentions the Bhagavad Gita as one of the canonical texts of certain Indian transitions. Prof. Hamilton warns against taking the positions of a particular strand of Indian thought and saying "this is true Hinduism."

Indeed, she questions whether Hinduism is a useful concept for discussing the historic traditions of India. Various forms of what we call Hinduism are very much at odds with each other and have different sources for their beliefs. For some the Vedantas are the core of Indian spirituality, for others it is the Gita.

I read this book to my seven-year-old because I wanted him to gain some appreciation for engineering and history while enjoying a good adventure story. This book could not have been more disappointing, or irritating. In unimaginative, stilted prose that lacks appeal even for the very young, this book manages to vitiate everything about the Panama Canal tale that is worth telling. Astonishingly, the author says nothing about the malaria and yellow fever and accidents that took a devastating toll (5,600) on a 70,000 man workforce. Instead we are treated to the happy spectacle of workers cheering and clapping for Goethals. The story also stresses Goethals regret at never having had a chance to fight in battle. A great message for seven years olds! (It left me musing that if he had joined his men in the trenches he could have at least "died for his country, or commercial shipping").

Most unaccountably, the book has dialogue like this: "I know now what wives are for! They are to help husbands feel important" And if that wasn't good enough, the author sees fit to repeat it again toward the end. The Discovery Biography series makes a big fuss about its editor, Dr. Mary C Austin, touted as an "outstanding reading educational specialist". Unless she proposes to turn elementary school children into ultra-right wing dullards, I can only imagine that she never actually laid eyes on this text.

I certainly wish I hadn't.

For a really exciting read, try A World Explorer:Henry Morton Stanley, written back in 1965 by Charles Graves

This book is for teenagers, it is presented in a very younguish context with illustration and large print. Amazon should actually classified as a children, teenagers reading material. Actually teenagers do not read this type of books anymore, I used to read them in the 70's. Very dissapointing considering I am a serious reader looking for info on a more detailed and technical manner.

I wish I would have read the previous review before buying it. All I needed was some general information (structure etc.) on how iostreams work and this book did little for me. I do not recommend it to anyone

Actually, zero stars

I had high expectations for this book but was utterly disappointed. This book has not had even elementary copy editing performed -- I found *hundreds* of typographical and technical errors -- and the writing style had short, simple sentences that was maddening to read when compared to the wonderful writing of (say) Stroustrup. The authors have chosen a graphical model to represent class hierarchies that I have not seen before and found very hard to visualize, and their "introduction" to inheritance and class construction was disorganized and confusing (a new C++ user would be lost). Their description of manipulators was cursory and disappointing, and their real examples later in the book didn't seem to use any extended ones.

Some of their code examples have merit -- notably communications ports -- but the technical material surrounding the code was bug-ridden (all the the RS-232 diagrams had mistakes, for instance).

The Stroustrup *chapter* on iostreams was much better than this whole book, so I cannot recommend this book to anybody. I'll be sending mine to the authors with my markups in the hope they fix the bugs, but even without the bugs it was a terrible book.