I believe that it is human nature to not want to read what yuo are forced to read. And i was assigned to read this in my HST301 class at oakland university. But goodness, Mr. Sam Bass Warner is interested in things that I am flat out not interested in. My teacher, for some reason, is just fascinated with the idea of privatism, however all it is is saying capitalism in a different way. I'm sorry I just don't care when Philadelphia put in waterworks and who were great contributors to the city. . .oh well

This book was required reading for a class I took on Urban History. It spoke of three phrases of development of Philadelphia. Bass referred to privatism as driving the city. The section I liked most was the middle section because he spoke of the philanthropic nature of many of the city's leaders. The final section was depressing simply because it pointed out the failures of the city and explained that people seemed to lose cite of community.

There are many laughs to be had while reading this book. But in the end it is written by a bunch of disgruntled law students who hate the profession and want everyone else to hate it as well.

I'm not sure where these people went to school- probably in those top tier schools that people sell their souls to the devil to get into, and then complain about the competition, money, etc.

If you go to a regional law school, or (gasp!) a public law shool, you will find that most of what is described in this book is not true. My professors are not out to get me or humiliate me. Perhaps the ivy league schools are filled with teachers with this mentality, but your state's school is most likely filled with people who enjoy teaching and want to produce good lawyers.

Read this for fun- but don't let it stop you from going to law school if you really want to go.

The introduction to the Virago edition says that Townsend Warner, a supporter of the Spanish Republic, wrote this book to symbolize Spain and the Civil War of 1936-39. The book, published in 1938,did not receive the attention it merited. It did do something infrequently essayed: elaborate not on an historical but a fictitious figure,one already treated by Mozart, Glück, Molière and, originally, a Spanish monk, Tirso de Molina. In "After the Death...", the author describes Doña Ana's continued fascination with the libertine Juan, who had killed her father only to be dragged down to hell by his victim for his refusal to repent of his ways.Ana's obsession with her late lover has her visit Juan's ancestral home, Viejo Tenorio, prolonging her stay until, unexpectedly, Juan somewhat mysteriously returns in the novel's latter third. As selfish and ruthless as ever, he has no real explanation for his reported cause of death. His reappearance climaxes with a peasants revolt against the Tenorio manor that sees Don Juan ultimately triumphant and symbolic, as Townsend Warner wished, of the dominance of Spanish fascism. The novel's characters-Ana and her pompous husband, Don Ottavio, Juan's father, Don Saturno, and others-are well drawn. The Spanish countryside and the dialogue are made believable through spare, skilled language. The work somehow dissipates in the latter part, with Juan's reappearance an anti-climax as, while proving the banality of evil, he is a more fascinating character off-stage than on, making "After the Death.." a sincere though half-satisfying read.

This book is pretty good, it includes a lot of metal riffs and stuff... but it dosn't really teach you anything except riffs. It isn't a bad book, but it could be better!

This book, though seemingly trite, was an amazing find, for me at least. Babysitting one time, I found this book, and the youngsters faces were filled with sheer joy as the played with their favorite X-men. I LOVE it!

The suggested remedies almost all require an act of the legislature. The problems derive from the ego and training and self protection habits of the legal profession. The legislature is composed of many lawyers and will not act. Citizen passage of a propositions is essential, part of which will be citizen insistence on citizen review of fees and performance. An uphill fight, which can be won, to the benefit of all. WaltonCA@aol.com

These essays, as suggested by the title, tell tales of life in the forest. The narrator, a neighbor of Mark Twain and Harriet Beecher Stowe, describes his experiences on camping trips, hunting trips and the like. They're very different essays from the modern variety; today they'd probably be classified as short stories, instead. Although Warner does make clear his distaste for humanity's killing wildlife, he does not go into deep issues as is the fashion in today's popular essays. He just tells generally peaceful, sometimes humorous stories. I can best describe them as relaxing. I wouldn't recommend this for someone looking for piercing nineteenth-century insight into life, but I would for someone who wants to curl up with a Victorian story.

One has to celebrate the publication of a book like this, becuse of the scarcity of the information available on this subject. The book is relatively big (709 p.), more expensive than big ($150) and of course has quite an amount of interesting information.

But it is probably as important to highlight its shortcomings, which show how much remains to be done. I do not pretend to do a general review, for which I am not qualified and that is quite impossible in a work of encyclopedic pretense like this one. I will restrain my commentary mainly to the treatment of the field of electricity and magnetism, which I suppose has its importance in scientific instrumentation and does not lack in amount and variety of instruments by itself. Its reflection in this book is very unfair and inadequate, in my opinion. All the entries that begin with "Electricity-Electrostatic" span a mere 20 pages, 7 of which are dedicated to medical applications (electrocardiograph, electroencephalograph, electromyograph and electroretinograph, to be precise). One will search in vain, on the contrary, for any mention to the electron tube, or valve, or thermionic device. The totality of what the editors and the authors have to say about radio waves and related topics is included under the clumsy entry of "Radio Wave Detector". Here the whole history of electromagnetism and of radio is dispatched in little more than one page, including all its apparatuses and "science". In this egregious page one finds the only mention I have been able to locate to the "thermionic diode" and the "triode", but not one reference to galena or silicon or germanium. Coils, resistors, resonance, oscillators or quartz crystals are not even mentioned per se. The arbitrariness of the selection of voices and of the espace allocated to individual items is reflected in the fact that "oscilloscope" , for a contrary instance, has an entry for itself of a full page an a half. Under the entry "Current meter" it is only spoken about devices to measure water flows.

Another example of what I consider a total lack of perspective could be the fact that almost 10 pages are devoted to several types of compass, whereas the whole subject of clocks is dispatched in 5 pages. The editors try to explain in the Introduction how they have managed to handle the question of What is a Scientific Instrument? The explanation is not very clear and the results reflect this. Whereas it is probably fashionable among historians of science and museum curators to consider "Escherichia coli" as a "scientific instrument", this kind of boutades and trade jokes should not justify the lack of rigour in the treatment of what are, and have always been, undeniable instruments of science. The book is a conglomerate of fair individual cards, but nobody seems to have taken care of the equilibrium of the whole file. For having so many illustrious authors, the work is quite poor, superficial and deceiving.

Cross-references are practically nonexistent and the main index is of no much help unfortunately for bridging the lacunae, being for the most part a mere reproduction of the entries of a work that is by itself alphabetically ordered. The typography, printing and other production aspects of the book are of good quality.

This is one of the few early volumes in this series that still has some usefulness. It is as comprehensive as the knowledge of the times allowed in the 70s and was written by a veteran of the war. It does not attempt too much coverage and thus still stands.Osprey has let many of the early titles aimed at the military miniature market stock deplete and go out of print. Deservably so.
This one has been recently made available again in a facsimile edition. Although some twenty plus years old it is still useful.
According to the other listings on this site a whole new edition is coming out covering the period from the conquest of Manchuria to 1945. As the original author was a mature man and a serving soldier in the war, if he is not deceased he is certainly retired by now.

When Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty released their magnificent piece of theatre, 'Ragtime' as a follow-up to 'Once on this Island', theatre people across the world knew that a new force had joined the decades old Lloyd-Webber/ Sondheim competition for audiences. However, it is in the privacy of ones home that these two musical, and the preceeding one, 'Lucky Stiff', show their aptitude. 'Lucky Stiff' is no 'Ragtime', but it is easy to see, through songs like 'It was Nice' and 'Dogs Versus You', how this duo has developed a magnificent symmetry between catchy tunes and powerful, poetic lyrics. The humour inherent in Lucky STiff's plot, the story of a young man whose uncle dies and leaves him a large sum of money, only to find out via cassette tape that his past uncle expects him to take the decorated corpse around Monte Carlo on a final holiday, leads to few opportunities for the songs to provide real dramatic resonance, the very thing that makes Ragtime such a worthwhile listening experience. While Lucky STiff provided a strong foundation upon which to develop the musical skills Ahren and Flaherty are renowned for, it was only, and will remail the first step in that journey. It cannot, therefore, be rated as highly as the others, but is still a worthwhile addition to your musical theatre collection.