It's unlikely this book will be of much interest to anyone not living in the Tacoma area. Just the same, it is a colorful portrait of the city that used to be, the dreamers and scheamers who came so close to creating the west coast's hub city from scratch. The story of Tacoma's rapid rise to prominence, and its equally swift and steady decline is not only facinating, it delivers a valuable lesson on what still happens today when civic cheerleaders go blind with optimism.

This book is a must-read if you want to amuse and/or bore your fellow Tacomans with antecdotes on street names, unusual buildings, et cetera. Perfect fodder for Tacoma's burgeoning barstool-pundit culture.

E. M. Forster's homosexuality made him 'different' when it came to the public morals of English contemporary society. The essays in this book explore the intricate link between that fact and his fiction. It is not an easy read for a Sunday afternoon, but certainly it opens a new world for anyone genuinely interested in E. M. Forster, colonialism in literature, queer theory and twentieth-century literature. Indispensable from the scholarly point of view. A beautiful journey through the Forster-landscape, with many great vistas and precious finds.

In review of this book, Re-membered, I found great opportunity for life review.In taking the time to browse its content,I was impressed with the process that allows the reader to share intimate details of their life with those that they love. I have been able to leave items in that book such as my handprint, my footprint. It is an opportunity for life review and for leaving a special gift behind for those that you love. I find it also to be a good tool in healing some of my own grief in my life. I would encourage anyone that has ever thought of leaving a gift behind for their loved ones to take the opportunity to search out this book and make use of what it has to offer

The book's format is the first good thing about it. I had a bad breastfeeding experience with my first child, who is now 3. I ordered the audiobook while pregnant and listened to it in the car on the way to work. Afterwards, I can listen to it during a feeding to help decipher baby's body language. The next best thing is Ms. Morgan's emphasis on becoming a partner with your baby rather than remaining in the teaching role. This helped me not to try to control the breastfeeding sessions, letting them be baby-led, which made baby and me both happier, resulting in improved feedings and milk supply. I would recommend this book to everyone and not just first-time mothers!

This book contains many high level, concise and relevant documents. The publications cover many aspects of IR from liguistic algorithms or suggetions to actual testing systems. When is the sequel coming out?

The aim of the book is to bring together key papers in Machine Learning and to provide an introduction to the field and a reference collection for graduate students and researchers. The book contains 51 most imoportant article from Machine Learning (up to 1990). Most of these are NOT available online, so watch out! The following areas are covered: Introduction (3 papers; one by Simon), Inductive Learning From Preclassified Training Examples (16 papers including great classics from Quinlan, Michalski, Mitchell, Minsky...), Unsupervided Learning and Concept Discovery (9 papers -- Feigenbaum, Holland...), Improving the Efiiciency of a Problem Solver (10 papers including fameous Samuel's gem "Some Studies in Machine Learning Using the Game of Checkers"; also papers from Mitchell, Nillson, Utgoff...), Using Preexisting Domain Knowledge Inductively (13 papers; Russel, etc...). Really really outstanding collection and a definite recommendation.

An incisive analysis of the underlying problems in the American educational system. The author offers a re-examination of key 'first principles' of education, including freedom of the mind, the natural rights of parents, and the limited role of government. He draws conclusions which make one uncomfortable, but which logically must follow. Chief among these conclusions are: 1) the system of public (government compelled) education is fundamentally illegitimate and should be dismantled; and 2) the federal Department of Education should not merely be restructured, but abolished. Don't read it if you want to feel warm and fuzzy about the prospects for improving the status quo.

These poems by Robert Morgan, North Carolina's poet laureate and author of several novels, including the bestseller "Gap Creek," and numerous volumes of poetry, are like picking through a woodpile, looking for dry kindling. Most burn brilliantly with the earthy essence of the Southern Appalachians, and most are like kindling: they burn quickly. His poems are conversational and simple, and they deal with such subjects as farming, lumbering, and ramblings through the forest. They have intellectual weight but are not self-referential, since Morgan writes about real life in the mountains. A lovely book, and an absolute bargain for only two bucks--while other poets are asking fifteen dollars for volumes of poetry of a similar length. I woulnd't normally describe a book in monetary terms, but this one is a great value.

This text is an top notch tool for understanding both research design and data analysis. The authors take an excellent approach to helping one understand the research process. As a professor of research design, I use this text in my classroom and recommend it wholeheatedly to anyone teaching research design or trying to learn it on their own. The text is well organized and the concepts are clearly developed.

James Morgan Pryse does just as his title suggests in that he restores or rather frees the New Testament of interpolations both deliberate and ignorant and returns it for us to its original structure and content. Not just as a language scholar but also as a person conversant with ancient Greek culture and mythology he has been able to write a most interesting and convincing work.

The tenet of the book is that the story of Iesus as told in the New Testament is a corruption of a Greek mystery play and that the true message is one of the perfecting rite of initiation.

The introduction is particularly informative and logical detailing his arguments about wilful and otherwise alterations of the New Testament, shedding, I think, a profound new (old?) light.