If you or anyone you know has "Big Boobs" this book is a funny look at the downside of being well endowed. A collection of witty one-liners and cartoons that will make you jealous of you flat-chested friends.

This book is a must read for all who desire to investigate the morality of economic and social systems. It lays plain the immorality of not only socialism, but capitalism as practiced today.

The modern era of industrialism with its supposed abolition of slavery actually has resulted in the vast majority of men & women worse off than that of slaves - slaves without the benevolence of masters.

Written in anti-bellum days, the ideas of this book have been buried underneath the rubble of the conquest of the confederacy. While Fitzhugh's ideas are in need of further exploration, such has never been done since his ideas are discarded by the feminized society in which we live. Hopefully they may rise again to be considered.

Lucid, relevant, practical. Anyone starting from scratch will learn a lot of useful stuff.

Wow what a book! i didnt care for the ending though! graetr characters though!

I skimmed this. It seemed to have a very good overview of current findings in various fields of science that either point toward intelligent design or against evolution. It has an extensive, annotated bibliography of very recent books for further reading.

but many of the images are so rooted in traditions of american image-making they will almost certainly seem familiar. definitely worth trying!

Mu'tazilism was a school of Islamic theological discourse (kalam) that enjoyed the patronage of many Muslim rulers during the Abbasid Age (800-1050 CE). Mu'tazali intellectuals forwarded a rationalist conception of Islamic theology and offered specific opinions about divine unity, the historical context of revelation, and ethical answerability to God. The first principle of Mu'tazilism was that all humans must exercise speculative reason in order to know God. Further, the Mu'tazila believed that humans had the power (qudra) to act independently and were responsible to God for those actions. Later Muslim orthodoxy (i.e. Ash'ariya) strongly opposed this doctrine and favored the doctrine of divine predestination.

The authors argue that modernist Muslim intellectuals have dipped into the well of Islamic history and drawn heavily from Mu'tazalism. In addition to the belief in human efficacy, modernist Muslims seem particular interested in the Mu'tazlite assertion that the Qur'an was revealed in a particular historical context and therefore Muslims must use reason to interpret it when living in new contexts. The Mu'tazilite doctrine that asserts that associating attributes to God is tantamount to shirk (polytheism) seems to be of little interest to most modernist Muslims.

Although very few of these contemporary intellectuals self-identify as neo-mu'tazalite they admire the Mu'tazalite commitment to reason. However, one Indonesian intellectual, Harun Nasution, has boldly declared himself to be a modern day Mu'tazalite.

The authors translate and explicate two Mu'tazalite texts. The first was written in the tenth century CE by Qadi 'Abd al-Jabbar, considered by some to be the last major Mu'tazalite scholar. The second was written by the contemporary Indonesian Islamic scholar, Harun Nasution. The authors compare these texts both in term of their theological (kalam) arguments as well as in terms of the context in which they were written. In this way, it is a exquisite examination of continuity and change within a religious tradition.

This is not a book for the casual reader, despite the fact that it is distributed through popular booksellers in the United States. It twists and turns through the history of theological debates in Islam. Some of the debates might seem arcane to the first time student of Islam and others confusing as to the real difference between the opposing views.

For the advanced scholar of Islam, this is a marvelous book. It reflects a collaborative effort of a kind that should be encouraged and repeated in the study of Islam. Martin is an historian of Islam and a philologist. Woodward is an anthropologist well-known for his work on Indonesian Islam. Both are detached scholars; neither is Muslim. Atmaja, on the other hand, is a young Indonesian Islamic intellectual conversant in historical texts and, like many of his contemporaries, trying to come to terms with modernity and postmodernity. In fact, as the preface of the book openly admits, this book was inspired by Atmaja's desire to examine Mu'tazilism as a source for thinking about the relationship between rationality and faith.

Ron Lukens-Bull, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Anthropology University of North Florida Jacksonville, FL 32224-2650 (904) 620-2850 rlukens@unf.edu

Although this book is heavy on pre-colonization tribes, it also has information from then to the present. In the center is an incredible map of all the tribes. Great for someone like me trying to narrow down possible tribal affiliation of ancestors.

I've been studying English for about six months with the well-known grammar books by Betty Schrampfer (Understanding & Using Eng. Grammar:Vol A, B). Recently, one of my friends recommended this book to me, because I was looking for additional grammar materials for further improvements. I found this book to be perfect, especially for a person who had already mastered some of the Betty's grammar books. Well-organized structure for each chapter, with clear and precise explanations/comments all through the chapters.

This book is very helpful to a young falconer such as myself. I figured out which birds to catch and which to not. Very Helpful!!!