There is an in-print verison of this book though Amazon lists it as not-yet published.

This is the journal of Alexander Stephens, the Vice President of the Confederate States of America written immediately after the war. It is wonderful. Stephens is a very peculiar little fellow not at all in the mold of any other Civil War character. He's a very good writer and, in this book, holds back nothing, not even strange little details of his daily hygiene (and I do mean _strange_).

Stephens was lonely, kept totally isolated from all human contact, and so turned to this journal to both entertain himself and to try to explain to himself and others what he thought of the war, the nation, the other participants of the rebellion, and any other thing that came to mind. There's a tension to the writing, too, as he did not at that time know what his fate would be. He fully expected to be executed for his part in the Confederacy, a thought he didn't find as disturbing as being kept in isolated imprisonment the rest of his life. Stephens is in no way a strong, stoic character. He reveals all his fears without sort of self-agrandizement.

Civil war historian or casual history reader will enjoy this look at a somewhat unknown, but important, participant in the American Civil War.

The author shows that he masters the subject with insight and is able to reconstruct either chronologically or by problems, thesis, objections and possible interpretations, the philosophical work of T.S.Kuhn. He choices to present the reconstruction from a caritative point of view, wich allows him to concentrate into the internal problems of Kuhn's theory of science. In Part I he locates Kuhn's work in the context of the Historiography of Science. Part II concentrates in the problem of scientific knowledge and Kuhn's hard and highly misunderstood thesis about "the construction of the world". Part III develops the subject of the dynamic of scientific knowledge and Kuhn's point of view about scientific progress. It is particulary helpfull to have at hand Kuhn's books while reading Hoyningen-Huene's book because he has a gift for suitable quotation.

I bought this book some 20 yrs ago and find it to be the absolute authority for those wanting to build their own longrifle.My copy is right next to my gun bench and is referred to many times during the construction of one of my rifles.If you must decide between two or more books to buy on the subject , this is the one. Tim Hamblen- Secretary, National Muzzle Loading Rifle Association

I loved this book it impressed me no end, and I would reccommend it everyone interested in Southern Barristers. We now need one all about Northern Barristers to even it all out a little bit.

This book is wonderful! My five-month-old daughter loves the unique red yarn-covered cover of this book and laughs through the whole book. I can't wait to get the other three books in this series!!!

This is a well written book, linking Peter's reforms to the political culture of Russia and the USSR. Anisimov is in agreement with Voloshin in describing Peter as the first Bolshevik. If you love Russian history, and if you want to understand the people of this fascinating country, this book is a must--have!!!

Mrs. Logan, (the wife of General John A. Logan of Illinois, one of the most notable "political generals" of the Civil War), was well placed to observe and report on the events of her time.
Residing in Washington for more than fifty years, she apparently was acquainted with everyone of importance, and has used her considerable powers of observation and description to produce this highly readable, useful and entertaining chronicle of the public affairs and personages of nineteenth-century America.
In conjunction with Mrs, Logan's autobiography the reader may wish to consult "Black Jack", James Pickett Jones' excellent biography of General Logan also published by Southern Illinois University Press.

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I am thrilled with everything Allan Alexander does, and this book is no exception. The selections in this book are wonderful. Normally, I shy away from original compositions, but have abandoned that habit since encountering the great pieces by Allan Alexander and Jessica Walsh. There are some great "classic" renaissance tunes in this book including Kemp's Jig, Dance of the Washerwoman, The Troubadour Song, and Blind Mary. However, the original compositions are just as wonderful with my personal favorites being A Winter's Ronde and A Child's Ronde. The duets have remarkable balance between the two instruments. There is a lot of interplay and neither the flute nor the guitar dominates. Rather, there is a perfect balance. I am an intermediate to lower advanced classical guitarist, and I cannot STAND it when the guitar has some boring accompaniment while the flute gets the melody. This is definitely not the case here. Both flautist and guitarist will be very pleased with these arrangements. They are beautiful and many are well-suited for gigs, plyaing in church, weddings, etc.

This is a great collection of tunes If you play the guitar and you aren't a concert standard player (whatever that means) you've probably had that experience where you buy a book of guitar music and a third of it is far too difficult to play (unless your last name is Bream or Williams). A third of it is playable but uninteresting, and that leaves a few tunes may be worth playing.

This book is different. It contains great tunes with a range of difficulties though all are playable by that mysterious character, the intermediate guitarist. Some of the most beautiful are disarmingly simple. The beauty of renaissance music is that it was written for a stringed instrument like a guitar by people who played a stringed isntrument.It's not like someone has taken a chopin pollanaise and transcribed it. These short pieces are not only fun to play, but they have melody and rhythm and they sound good on the instrument.

The editor's fingering makes sense (this isn't always the case in guitar anthologies) and the selection is interesting and varied. There are a couple of well known pieces, but some real finds too.

This book has no dud tunes, and nothing that you look at and know you're never going to play. The fact that it is presented in both tab and standard musical notation makes it easier too. If you have a choice, buy the cd. Not only is it good to listen to but It makes learning so much easier. The cd doesn't get bored with you asking it to play the one piece over and over again while you're working it out. So if you want a collection of pieces that are not only fun to play, but which are worth playing and worth listening to Buy this. If you know nothing about renaissance music for the guitar, this is a good introduction. And if you know a flute or recorder player, buy the author's "renaissance music for the guitar and flute' from the same publisher. be warned though, much of this music is addictive.

This is an excellent book on resolution-based automated theorem proving. It is written at the level for a graduate level mathematics course. It is very precise and covers all the major aspects of the resolution calculus (refinements, deletion strategies, subsumption and unification algorithms). It proves the correctness of these strategies and then gives the algorithms. The last two chapters cover the complexity of resolution. This is unusual for a theorem proving book, but very interesting. Does not cover paramodulation, though.