Stanley Ellin won the Edgar Award for best novel for this book, and it's well deserved. The only word that comes to my mind to definite this is "perfection". Perfection in writing, plotting, characterization, atmosphere. "The Eighth Circle" is probably one of the best mystery novels ever written, and one of the most deserved Edgar-winners, with Charlotte Jay's "Beat Not The Bones", Chandler's "The Long Goodbye" - to name just two. Don't miss it! Like Nat King Cole would say, it's "unforgettable"...

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This is a excellent book covering the fundamentals of linear algebra. Filled with well-documented examples, this book served as an excellent suppliment to my assigned linear algebra book.

This book is a great version of these classic tales. Being a dual-language text makes it an excellent aid to Italian language study. It is a must-read for lovers of Italian literature.

Rosen is a Platonist, and in this book Rosen defends a Platonism that like Plato's Socrates ascends from opinions to more refined opinions that are rooted in common sense. One of the main faults of the book is that Rosen did not make much of an effort to conceal the fact that the book is a compendium of recent lectures, and he or the editor doesn't even bother to change the examples or dates to jibe with the release date (Rosen at one point refers to the 'late twentieth century' even though the book was just released). The other problem, related to the first, is that the book is unified by topic but is more of a series of academic essays on Kant, Heidegger, Moore, Austin, etc., than a book about the ordinary. Rosen can write a book that stands on its own, and its a shame he didn't try to do that here.

Other than those minor quibbles, Rosen is really on to something.
Rosen is a Platonist, which doesn't mean that he defends the existence of hyperuranian forms, but rather defends the evidence of our eyes and ordinary experience--that cows and plants and clouds exist, and so do cars, chairs, and pens. The third man problem only exists if one is more interested in certainty than "correct opinion," the best that Plato or Aristotle thought could be attained. Instead of the "noetic homogeneity" of a Descartes, the homogeneity of atomism combined with the homogeneity of mathematics, Rosen defends the "noetic heterogeneity" of Plato, the existence of discrete and disparate "looks" that exist despite all attempts to reduce things to bundles of attributes (Kantian "concepts"). Rosen criticizes Kant to the point of ridicule, but he agrees with Kant on one important point: the world exists prior to any analysis--in fact, analysis would be impossible otherwise.

This book deserves more readers than is suggested by its ranking in the millions.

This book has information on every movie, song, and the days of Elvis' life. It's like DAY BY DAY by Peter Guralnick (spelling?) but not as much $. Awesome color photos and a really nice cover make this book something to show off. 5 Stars!

If you want to know everything about Elvis, then this is the book you need. It contains everything about his personal life, his music, his movies, his friends and family, his likes and dislikes and more.
It was compiled by his stepbrother David E. Stanley and it has a foreward by Lamar Fike, Elvis' best friend.
It also has an Elvis trivia quiz for the real fantics.
If you need to know those more obscure songs he sang, you'll find it in here.
Since this book was first published in '94, I can only spot two original albums missing from the "his music" section.
"For the asking" and "Tomorrow is a long" time were supposed to have been released in the early and late sixties respectively, but instead they were dropped in favour of soundtrack albums. A lot of the songs from these two albums were used as fillers on soundtrack albums of the sixties.
Now these two long lost albums have recently been released by RCA. So the only reason they're not mentioned in this book, is because they weren't commercially available at the time this book was published.
It does mention at the beginning of the music section "this anthology contains only records released commercially - no bootlegs or unauthorised material".
They released this book with an alternative front cover in '98 (in the uk anyway), and I'm assuming it's exactly the same. I might buy that book because I've looked at my book so many times, especially in the music section, that some of the pages have come out. This is probably due to flicking back and forth so much.
Buy this book! You won't believe the amount of info in it.

Can you please tell me how I can get in touch with Billy, Ric ,or David Stanley?

This book is a must-have for people who work in, study, or love the musical theatre. When did a particular musical open? Who wrote it, and what else did he/she work on? What was the chronology of a performer or director's stage career? Were there revivals, London productions, tours? Who starred in a given production? While there are many books that can help find such information, no other book does it as efficiently. As a Broadway producer's assistant and as a life-long theatre buff, I have found this one-volume Encyclopedia a vital source of information. While all of Stanley Green's books are informative and entertaining, this is the one I turn to when I need the facts or figures fast. If musical theatre trivia is your bag, this is one of the motherlodes --I recommend it highly!

Don't be fooled by the slimness of this volume. Within the space of less than a hundred pages, Grant dissected the Anglo-Saxon strain of "justice," which is based on liberalism.

In this book, Grant begins by examining the intellectual roots of English-speaking justice, by looking at the ideas of Locke and Kant. After which, he looks into a contemporary version of it, by examining the works of Rawl's magnum opus (A Theory of Justice).

After this brief but lucid discussion of the works above, Grant then show how the liberal conception of justice has fail in delivering its promises of a just society. The reason being technology. Grant, argues that technology has brought about a cybernetic society, i.e., a society which is guided by the calculation of means and ends which can erode the basic premise of liberalism, i.e., liberty of the individual. Thus, Grant argues that liberalism and technology makes strange bedfellows in modern society. On the one hand, we cherish the idea of the autonomy of the individual but on the other we want to reap the fruits of technology which is incompatible with freedom. Thus, we are locked in the horns of delimma between technology and liberty. Which would we choose?

In conclusion, one cannot help but admire the penetrating analysis of Grant's essay on modern society and its discontents. But, at the same time, I wish he would give us an alternative to that of liberalism.