...with nothing to show for it, except a dream of winning the Boston Marathon. Anyone who has struggled with accepting the responsibility of adulthood -- marriage, children, a "real" job -- will appreciate Myle's desire to escape by running everywhere around Cambridge and Boston, with an obsession that borders on madness. I really enjoyed the way this book blended hilarious situations like Myles "sleep-running" through the subways at night with the dangerous and dark ways his obsession jeopardizes his marriage, friendships, even his own physical and mental health. I highly recommend the book!

A liveley narrative with a knowledgable insight into a way of life destroyed by English arrogance and ignorance. I didn't know this part of history before reading the book and it has inspired me to read further. Few liberties appear to have been taken to make people any more heroic or cowardly than they might have been in real life.

If you are like me, you were probably turned-off by economics in school with all the graphs and formulas to determine how many widgets to make, and sell at what price. I have found over the years though, that having an understanding of economic theory is very important to critical thinking, especially in terms of management, politics, and economics in general.

Malabre's Lost Prophets is a very friendly introduction to the various economic thinkers of the last 100 years. His journalistic writing style draws the reader into the thinkers realm, and explains the theory and history related to each "prophet."

The book is well written and easy to read. I have found it to be a complement to my other scholarly reference material.

A very troubling book, especially in the wake of the 9-11 events. The author asks why the air war over German in the last years of WWII has not received more attention by German postwar authors. Troubling in the dimensions of the impact of the air war as he relates it: 600.000 civilian lives lost, 400.000 missions (counting single planes) flown by the RAF alone, 20.000 civilians or more killed in a single night's raid, etc. More troubling when one consideres the psychological impact on the survivors (short and long term).
Besides Sebald's question regarding the air war over Germany, it would be important to review the literature, produced by writers of the respective cultures, of air wars over Japan, Vietnam, Iraque or, now, Afghanistan.
It appears mass destructions of civiizations are not the provenance of one people or culture, hence long term morning efforts of affected people or cultures might benefit by being done jointly.
Certainly an important addition to any Holocaust library.

Although the author himself says he is no writer, he is patently wrong - this book is full of wonderful descriptive, poetic passages, which underline this charming man's love of nature and dedication to the truth of scientific study, as opposed to the accepted 'truths' of the day.

An interesting insight into the groundwork that helped to develop the Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection, it also compares the British and the Dutch methods of colonisation, and controversially comes out on the side of the Dutch - against all current (and our received) perceptions of the Dutch as ruthless, money-grubbing opportunists.

Wallace was also unusual in using geographic and geological features combined with population spreads (human & biological) to support the new theories of continental drift and a world older than the Biblical model.

I'm lost in adsmiration for the way he managed to survive deprivation, lack of company, housing, support, money and produce the finest collection of birds and insects that the world had ever seen; make comparative studies of the linguistic traits of all the major tribes; keep a detailed diary of all his travels ... all this in a known area of cannibals and head-hunters with only 3 or 4 assistants and he the only white person for hundreds of miles.
Compare this to other explorers like Richard Burton who needed an entourage of several hundred for all their 'essentials'.

This book is a very readable profile of an enigmatic Victorian naturalist at a crucial period in scintific history - would that I could have met him!

I am a high school debate coach in Japan. This book is by far the most helpful and useful text to help explain the importance of debate and how to help my students use debate skills in all facets of their education. I highly recommend it, and I use information from the book daily. Incredibly well written -- the authors obviously put endless time, effort, and energy into their work. While I know that the authors are both American, it seems almost as if it were written for non-American cultures -- as if it were crafted to be used by Japanese educators like myself. A must read.

This is an outstanding transcript of one Marines personal account of the many men who fought on IWO JIMA. The Author Patrick Caruso more importantly wishes the reader to draw their on conclusions from these personal accounts. The history of these events is depicted in the most accurate rendition, more importantly the writer wants the reader to understand these events as they unfold from that standpoint

The students who enter the field of economics, or any other social science disciplines that employ mathematical models in explaining the world around us, may start being suspicious about the explanation power of these models at some point. How could the messy and complex issues be reduced to ONE simple model?

Sutton's book is a very nice piece of work that would help resolve tthis puzzle. Start with the STANDARD PARADIGM commonly used in modeling complex issues in social sciences, particularly in economics, Sutton pins down the limitations of these paradigm in a very easy understanding yet profound way. The next chapter starts some models that work, from a game theoretical perspective. Chapter 3, however, emphasizes the difficulties of constructing a complete model. Finally, the last chapter provides a vivid example of Sutton's argument regarding the pitfalls of modeling and its application in real life.

This nice little book is by far the best I have read in terms of explaining why social sciences are so messy, even with the introduction of nice, elegant mathematical models. It is hard to find "black-and-write" answers in social science, indeed. However, bearing in mind the importance and limitation of using mathematical models would help social scientists face the and frustration in a constructive way.

This book is a compend of a serie of articles which have a common point: all of them coincide in the idea of that Science (specially Mathematics and Physics) are "incomplete" sciences, i.e. they cannot give a global acount of the universe and its rules.

The book is not strictly speaking a demonstration of the existence of God. The scope is to give reasons -scientific reasons- for why a scientist should be opened to the idea of an intelillence superior, who would order the universe.

There are three sections: The first one try to demonstrate, based in Goedel's theorem, the incompleteness of Mathematics. The second one is centered on the limits of modern Physics, taking into acount the predictions of Quantum Mechaniscs. And the third one gives a global review of how this limitations in modern Science can be related to the question of the existence of God.

The good point of the book is that it is not a negative criticism to modern Science. It is but an analisys of the real conclussions that Science can reach, and what lies beyond its limits.

After reading this book, one get the impression that there is a lot to investigate in Science Phylosophy, and that in the future the mankind will reach a lot of development in this area.

This is a long awaited english translation of the original German text. Pischinger has truely written a tour-de-force on systems based physiology. The books holistic philosophy stays in synch with much of German medical thought. It's an incredibly researched and thoughtful approach towards an alternative physiological paradigm. My only complaint is that the author covers too much ground without providing the necessary source material. Many areas are merely made reference to and washed over without supporting discussion, and given that most of the research is in untranslated German, verification and deeper technical review may be near impossible. However, it gives some major food for thought that isn't being taught in schools today and it's a must read for physicians, physiologists and medical researchers.