Lampert's study of Husserl's Logical Investigations systematically works through each of the six investigations to establish the exact fashion in which experiences bind themselves together to produce the experience of a coherent world of objects and a coherent subject. The analysis is complicated, detailed and difficult, but extremely rigorous and very illuminating, both about the nature of meaning and about Husserl.

Through his careful focus on the specifics of the text, Lampert is ultimately able to conclude that Husserl's project of phenomenology is of a piece with the projects of dialectics and deconstruction, inasmuch as Husserl's is a philosophy of self-organizing meanings that are not governed by an independent telos. Experiences tend towards synthesis, and in so doing project beside, ahead of, and behind themselves a coherent context for themselves. In particular, Lampert focuses on "backward reference" as a crucial form of synthesis, according to which meanings present themselves as having been awaited by the past, that is, they project behind themselves a past that was anticipating them.

Lampert's book should be required reading for all serious students of Husserl. It is an education in itself, as well as being an essential guide to the rigorous demands of Husserlian phenomenology.

This book is a page turner! Couldn't put it down until the end and I was exhausted! The author puts you right there with his unique and outstanding descriptions. It's one of those books you'll love to hate and hate to love! This would make an INCREDIBLE movie...

This book written by a grandson of Tenzing Norgay, the most renown Sherpa, and his wife living in Sydney is very unique, as all other previously published books on Everest expeditions or anthropology of Sherpas were written by so-called "non-Sherpa" mountaineers born and grown-up outside of Himalaya region. This book tells us a fascinating "insider's" story about the development of sherpas' community with the discovery of the highest peak on the earth (Mt. Everest) in Hamalaya region, and a subsequent increasing rush by overseas mountain-climbers to this rather remote and isolated region of earth. The 1953 great success by the sherpa Tenzing Norgay and Sir Edmund Hillary from New Zealand in reaching the summit of Everest for the first time opened the "golden" age of Himalaya trekking, and changed dramatically the way of life in Sherpas' community, better or worse, depending on the given aspects. Among many inspiring episodes interwoven in this book, the life-long "multi-cultural" friendship of the Swiss climber Raymond Lambert and the NZ climber Sir Edmund Hillary with Tenzing Norgay and his family is most moving for myself, a Japanese amateur alpinist living overseas for more than three decades. Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the first ascent, we have recently translated this book into Japanese, and are planning to publish it for Japanese youth and olds in 2003. The German, French and Italian versions of this book are also scheduled to be published around May 29, 2003, comemmorating this historical event or moment. Depending on your own mother tongue, you are highly encouraged to read one of these five versions including the original English to share the excitement associated with scaling the world-highest peak with the sherpas in Himalaya region or those now working overseas in a variety of fields other than mountaineering.

This book makes it easy for anyone to teach basic sports skills correctly. It also offers games to help improve the students' acquistion. Another benefit of this book is that it is appropriate for both typical students and students with disabilities. I teach students with autism, and the manner in which the skills are broken down is perfect for my students.

I rank this as one of the tem best books I own.

"The text owes much to Marshall McLuhan who, in fact, co-authored portions of an earlier version." This quote comes from the opening page - before the Foreword. It is well documented that McLuhan had trouble with writing and co-authors. Carpenter was an early collaborator from the Dew Line on and I think was able to interpret McLuhan the best.

Or was it the other way around? I hate to say this, but this may be the easiest read of McLuhan's ideas. It becomes hard to distinguish Carpenter's ideas from McLuhan's. It truly was a school of thought at University of Toronto. This book should get as much attention as any McLuhan text. (Note: it is hard to top the double dose of the "Medium is the Massage" in book and audio.)

Margaret Mead is quoted on the back cover saying "Astute staccato comment on present and needed changes in sensory modes, against a background of fantasied primitive life, annotated with extraordinary photographs." Ditto about the photos.

The "Visual Pun" is worth every cent you'll pay for this book that cost $3.95 in 1970. If you've got any McLuhan books, consider adding this to your collection - while you can.

The Timpani: A History In Pictures And Documents by expert musicologist and iconographer Edmund A. Bowles, is a fascinating, comprehensive, and informative compendium enhanced historical documents, more than 400 black-and-white photographs, years of meticulous research, making it an enduring legacy concerning the history of orchestral timpani musical instruments and instrumentation. Some narrative and informational text offers an overview of the history and evolution of the timpani, but The Timpani largely consists of musical scores, artworks, and the text of primary sources presented "as is" for the reader's judgement. A seminal contribution to academic Music History reference collections, The Timpani is strongly recommended as a core reference title.

This is the translation that I first read (years after it was published) and loved. The novel has been around a long time but its attraction can be won or lost according to the translation. Another, later translation irked me so much that I didn't want to finish reading it. Now that I've found my favorite translation -- which I think is more poetic and does better justice to the style and mood of the Russian original -- I'm buying a copy for myself and one for a gift to someone in high school.

This is a beautiful book. Beautiful in its clarity, depth, and vision, and for the wonderful hope it inspires.

While I would recommend this book to anyone and everyone, I deeply believe that Tranformative Learning should be made required reading for every University President, Minister of Education, and Professor on Earth.

Lauren Silberman is not only a savvy critic but an informed scholar. This book is now a classic among Spenserians and it is not hard to see why: Silberman is funny (and unusually appreciative of Spenser's own humor)and also humane. She understands that Spenser's exploration of erotic relations in Books 3 and 4 of The Faerie Queene is not designed simply to demonstrate a truth expressible in a sermon or parental exhortation to behave oneself but rather to test, to interrogate, to analyze, to comment with some irony on human sexual behavior and the desires that impel it. What first struck me when reading this lovely book was Silberman's ingenious way of reading Spenser's early modern text in the light of some very postmodern science. Silberman doesn't mean that Spenser anticipated quantum mechanics or string theory, but she does show that what modern science has to say about "chaos" and other concepts is already figured in Spenser's sense of the world's and Amor's slipperiness. Hers is a Spenser for grownups. Anne Lake Prescott

The Trojan Project is a technological thriller/fantasy set squarely in the middle of today's political climate. This work can be classified as both fiction and non-fiction. Taking current events & realities in our political infrastructure, Contoski, has woven a masterful tale of technological horror. We watch as a computer virus spreads affecting and infiltrating the entire United States telephone system. Ed has a penned a novel that will keep you in uncertain anticipation with each turn of the page. Finishing up with an uncommon, and totally unanticipated ending your attention is held until the very last period- and beyond.

Leslie Blanchard

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