An amazing collection of Raymond Pettibon's work spanning over the years. High quality book loaded with images and information as well as interviews with Pettibon. Up until now no other book offered as much insight on this relatively obscure artist. Buy it!!!

A book that challenges white male hegemonies. Highly recommended

As a real estate investor I often refer to this book when I am in need help making a decision. It is the next best thing to having a seasoned partner who has been through many market cycles. As a Licensed Commercial Real Estate Appraiser and Broker I am impressed with the material as well as how it is presented. While lifetime of practical knoweledge is somehow reduced to a single 900 page plus book, it is not "dumbed down" for mass appeal purposes. Although I was introduced to this book through a course at Boston University I found it's format more interesting than academic.When investing your money in real estate it is better to read a book like this and learn than, to "just do it" and learn the hard way, believe me. This book is a keeper for your professional library.

I bought this book after having my interest sparked in Plato and Aristotle last year. I found that Cooper answered most of what my professors had simply labeled controversies, with had no real definitive answer, with remarkable ease. Cooper's work is impressive, but he is not arrogant or dogmatic. I particularly enjoyed his essays on Aristotle's conception of Friendship, Aristotle's views on contemplation, and the Greeks views on suicide and euthanasia. In general, I found the book to be absolutely necessary for anyone who has even a cursory interest in the Ancient Greeks.

Mortimer J. Adler once wrote, "Aristotle For Everybody: Difficult Thought Made Easy," in which he truly does show that Aristotle is not so completely abstract (in contrast to Plato, Aristotle is not abstratct at all), that most everyone who can think or reason to some degree could understand him; that is, you don't have to be a professional philosopher. John M. Cooper's book, Reason and Human Good in Aristotle, is like Adler's book in that he is extremely clear in articulating what Aristotle thought about eudaimonia, theoria, and intellectual and moral virtues. This is a scholarly work. Cooper deals with the greek to defend his view. However, he leaves most of that in the footnotes. Cooper's book, then, is very accessible to lay persons who have a minimal philosophical understanding (some background is necessary, but nothing like a degree).

One thing that Cooper does that other commentators on Aristotle do not do is interpret Aristotle's coneption of human flourishing as involving an inclusive end, rather than a dominant one. Traditionally, scholars have interpreted Aristotle to be that eudaimonia consists of reflecting upon intellectual virtues, and everything else is a means to doing that. Cooper thinks that this is erronious and he works through Nicomachean Ethics and Eudemian Ethics to establish his case. This is a great read - both intellectually and in terms of clarity - for understanding Aristotle, or at least one interpretation of him.

A must have for anyone wishing to participate in the archaeology of Illinois and to better understand the development of archaeology in America, this publication covers the pioneering archaeological investigations of the University of Chicago in the Central Illinois River Valley undertaken during the early 1930's. It presents the results of the first scientific, problem oriented, archaeological exploration to be undertaken in the eastern U.S., the undertaking that set the stage for a new era of archaeological thinking. So innovative and important was this early work that the University of Chicago field school project in Fulton County has come to be considered by many as the Birthplace of American Archaeology. The roster of students attending these early field schools contained the names of a plethora of individuals who would later form the backbone of American archaeology. Among these were Braidwood, Cross, Driver, Jennings, Nash, Setzler, Brew, DeJarnette, Eggan, Morgan, Neumann, Walker, and James B. Griffin. Thus, this publication is valuable not only as a historical document, but it set forth a model for prehistoric cultural sequences for the Illinois region that remains functional eight decades later.

I recently began a paper dealing with a civil rights topic. While researching, I became interested in the Japanese internment of the 1940's. Although much can be learned about the internment from articles and other books, the pictures in this book are "worth 1,000 words." They photographs give a clear understanding of what life in the camps must have been like. I highly reccomend this book to history buffs, photography buffs, and those interested in civil rights issues.

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especially calum colvin is a brilliant visionary!

Rhetoric is the art of convincing and persuading, which requires not only understanding what it is you want to say, but all the psychological details of the people you want to say it to.....

If you want an excellent description of all the main human emotions and how they are taken advantage of, or targeted, by everyone from politicians to the common man, check this out.

This is a classic that cannot be left on the shelf. Parts are a bit dusty, but the rest is still immediately relevant.

In one way this is a great starting point for any discussion of psychology, propaganda or speech and media. In many ways, this book straight to the heart of the matter, where we nowadays are ineffectually specialized.

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I am a true Jilly Cooper fan and this is one of her best! Rupert Campbell Black is back and teams up with other high flyers to try to win the franchise for a TV station. While a lot of the characters are new, it is brilliant and set in the same part of England as Riders. The story is full of scandal, sex and humour and quite frankly I never wanted it to end! .