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Way back when the Ape-Neck Breaking Wars first commenced, one could only imagine where we'd be today without a guidebook such as Maps Of The Imagination. Written mostly in the 1960's, this book serves as a reminder that the best approach to navigation starts with throwing the damn compass out the window. Once you travel with the Eye-Wizard Zenock, a tribal shaman from Psycho-Earth, you'll never want to come back. Unless, of course, your job-desription requires you to be present. You decide. Not for the faint of mind.

Few books in circulation deal specifically with Marxism and law, probably because the former assigns the latter a distinctly subordinate role among society's real determinants. In Marxian thinking, law has neither autonomy in practice - being an extention of class interest - nor autonomy in theory - being hopelessly intertwined with nonlegal structures. Bourgeois theorists, on the other hand, treat law as possessing the necessary degree of autonomy that their studies require. Collins hopes to fill the current gap in scholarship created by Marxism' general neglect of legal theory, and succeeds admirably.

Current works are combined with classical ones in highly stimulating fashion that both inform the reader and deepen understanding. Anyone who believes that the 'rule of law' is about ensuring that our societal game is played fairly, should read this book. Those of a more skeptical persuasion will also benefit from the skillful treatment Collins, an Oxford Don, brings to the subject. Highly recommended to serious readers.

This book presents to the lector in a comprehensive way the necesary mathematical methods needed by any physicist, engineer or student. It includes themes such as elementary vector calculus, matrix algebra and transformations, a very extensive study of boundary value problems, elementary applicationsof the Laplace Tansform, Integral Transforms, Variation and Perturbation Methods, Elements of Probability Theory, among others. Each point is well exposed, with many explamples and problems (although it doesn't provide the answers). A defect may be the fact that some points (although few) are not fully developed, and in some cases one will probably have to read a more basic-level book on those points (As a freshman, it happened to me that to understand chapters 7 and 8, about functions of a comples variable and calculus of residues, I had to read an introductory book on complex variable). It's develop of many math topics and it's application to Physics and Engineering and the independance of many chapters from the others, makes this book a very helpful one.

I'm sure the book is just as good! The movie is witty, charming, and has the most handsome men! The movie belongs on the "keeper" shelf for years to come!

All 3397 Medal of Honor recipients are listed, from the Civil War to Somalia, with all essential information given: name, both true and assumed, rank, service and unit, dates of birth and death, place of death and cemetary, date and place of action, and more.
Attractively presented in large format, in two volumes, with appendices, bibliography, and index, this is the essential reference for anyone interested in the Medal of Honor or American military history. Illustrations of the medals themselves are not provided, the only fault noted.
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Beautifully illustrated look at medieval life, following the calendar year. Collins and Davis demonstrate how medieval lifestyles were closely tied to the agriculatural seasons, and the rhythms this created. The authors discuss food, lifestyles, agrarian and other pursuits, celebrations, travel, health, linguistics, leisure activities -- touching on a wide variety of subjects. A fascinating look at everyday life in Europe a millennium ago. Good "further reading" list and index.

Lt. George Collins, who was a lawyer after the war, detailed the history of the 149th. From the time they were mustered in until the Grand Review and their subsequent home coming in Syracuse, Lt. Collins gives a wonderful dialogue of the 149th's adventures and hardships, including their time at Gettysburg, Chancellorsville, and Atlanta.

Margery Forester describes Michael Collins in the words of another writer as "that most formidable of all men of action, the practical visionary". This biography, which was probably the most highly regarded until Tim Pat Coogan's momumental work, is still in my view one of the most readable and the one that perhaps catches the essence of its subject best, as the opening quotation indicates. In this work Forester presents all the usual facts about Collins--his youth, his rise to prominence after the 1916 rising, his intelligence, his intensity, his personal courage, his love of country and comrade, his wit and warmth--but manages to add touches that bring out even more vividly the real character of this extraordinary man. Thus, her descriptions of his interaction with children, whom he loved and who loved him; his identification with the ordinary people of Ireland and his affinity for old people; his iron self-control in matters of personal indulgence; his refusal to disguise himself during the time he was the most wanted man in the British Empire; his often-brusque manner with women, which both affronted and intrigued them; his changes of mood "as spectacular and unpredictable as the play of the Northern Lights"; and his ability to inspire trust, love, and loyalty in the many people who worked for and with him. This is a vivid biography of a young man who was both realist and idealist and who led his country to its first taste of real freedom in 700 years.

This is one of the most interesting books on Michael Collins that I have read, primarily because it has excerpts from newspapers and eulogies put out at the time of his death, as well as a very interesting description of the man and his life by his nephew, also named Michael Collins. Michael Collins was one of Ireland's greatest heros, but for many years after his death almost nothing was written or discussed about him officially, or so it seems. This book remedies that by taking us back to the time of the War of Independence and the Irish Civil War and showing us the man as seen by his contemporaries. It is absorbing reading.