Read this book in college and always remembered it...would love to have a copy what ca was before humans:nature, grasslands, etc. ...very very sad

The title of this volume is an understatement: this book has necesary information for anyone who would understand the basis of butterfly classification, identification, and speciation. Check the table of contents. The contributions are of the highest level. See especially the annex.

This memoir is confirmed to have all details accurately penned down where the truth is more interesting than friction made to entice the reader. There are videos to support the many chapters found in this 400 page book. Most enjoyable and should not be missed.

I Really Love reading this book about Patrick Breen.I Love history anyway.I was born and raised in South Lake Tahoe CA not to far from where this tragic nightmare took place back in 1849.Patrick breen was one of the lucky ones that survived this horriffic event and lived for a long time after.I actualy am one of his decendents on my mother's side.I am also into family history.But I have always been drawn to the true and tragic story of the donner party.I am also looking for any other information about the Donner Party and any of the re enacted movies.I think the thing that really touched me in such a big way was,in the book of Patrick Breen,it was like you could really actually feel how he felt and what he had to endure.As he would write more each day you could physically see his hand writing getting worse from the coldness,Im sure his hunger did not help matters either.This man had to be strong for his small children and live on to make a name for himself later.This book really can talk,If People REALLY listen.

_Donoso Cortes: Cassandra of the Age_ is an excellent biography of the nineteenth century Spanish political and theological thinker Donoso Cortes. Donoso Cortes is famous for his reactionary beliefs concerning the French Revolution and the subsequent ideologies inspired by it and as a political prophet of the coming crises of his age. From his beginnings as a moderate liberal intellectual and journalist in early nineteenth century Spain, Donoso turned to the traditions of the Catholic Church and came to regard his age as afflicted with a loss of center due to the denial of tradition and the established order. Like other Catholic traditionalist counter-revolutionaries such as Joseph de Maistre and Bonald of his time, Donoso believed his age was headed for disaster in its denial of God and his rightful place among men as well as that revealed tradition of God in society so that it could only be saved through outright divine intervention. Unlike the liberals of his time, Donoso understood man to be rooted in sin and capable of radical evil due to his fall from grace. For Donoso, humanity would be entirely irredeemable were it not for the constraints imposed upon him from revealed tradition and the saving grace of Christ. In fact, Donoso's prophecies concerning his age were so dark and pessimistic that many have failed to see any hope for mankind at all in them short of a direct divine intervention. Donoso served as both a journalist and friend to the Queen Maria Cristina of Spain as well as a diplomat to both Berlin and Prussia and later to France. He had various relationships with certain central political figures of his time including the emperor Napoleon III as well as the pope. Donoso predicted the coming bloodshed in Europe, the nationalist and socialist revolutions in the next century, as well as making predictions for an innate saving power residing in the people and traditions of Russia and its civilization. It is the importance of these darkened predictions to the modern age that have made Donoso a figure who was revived in more recent times by various conservative political writers, among them the jurist and Third Reich intellectual Carl Schmitt. Donoso's early writings were written from the perspective of a moderate liberal and emphasized the role of intellect in political affairs. Later Donoso would take a sharper turn towards reaction rejecting the ideals of the revolution, and in his most famous work _Catholicism, Liberalism, and Socialism_ would outline the major differences between these political ideologies. For Donoso, liberalism represented a sliding point between the traditional order which consisted of the Catholic Church and the monarchy and the extremes of socialism and nihlism. Donoso respected socialism for having its own "demonic theology" and admired (though he sharply criticized) the famous anarchist philosopher Joseph Proudhon. Donoso observed the move away from God through pantheism (represented by democracy which deified the masses) towards His outright denial in atheism and nihlism. Donoso remarked frequently about the dangers of excessive discussion and parliamentarianism and the loss of the role of authority. The author, R. A. Herrara, contends that Donoso served as a Cassandra for his age, a prophet whose dark interpretations were doomed to be ignored in his time, but whose revelations demonstrated profound truths. This book provides an excellent biography of a lonely figure who stood for tradition and the authority of Catholicism in a time of crisis - a Catholic traditionalist and a dark prophet for his time.

If you are a Skyraider fan, you MUST get this book. It has the entire developmental history of the A-1. From it's early beginnings as an "overnighter" sketch session in a hotel room to the various versions and models that served proudly for almost 40 years. A very informational book that is more than just pretty photos...

One of the very best of the wise cracking, tough guy characters ever is W.L. Ripley's Wyatt Storme. Ripley has created a "Midwestern Travis McGee" with some extremely interesting side kicks and an outlandish, but somehow believable, cast of characters. This is a great introduction to Storme with a huge promise of even better things to follow and the promise is fulfulled in the sequels - Storme Front and Electric Country Roulette. Not since James Lee Burke has an author captured the "True Testosterone Essence" with such humor, excitement and humanity. Read all three and then you too can wait with anticipation for Ripley's next Storme mystery

I highly recommend this book to everyone, even for those who do not train athletically....Dr. Hatfield and Daniel Gastelu provide a tremendous amount of detailed nutritional information (they even break down into descriptions of Proteins and Essential and Non Essential Amino Acids)...

If you are interested in obtaining/regaining your health---learn how to eat so that food is energy...this book will set you on the right path (I'm a vegetarian and it's been extremely helpful)to optimal conditioning regardless of your personal health goals....

The graphics in this remarkable little book are cleverly designed to awaken imagination to the psychic and physical kinematics behind resultant images. Thus the authors are able to hide their calculus on a single page in the Appendix and concentrate on the visual calisthenics involved in translating quantitative data into meaning. Seating themselves comfortably in Chaos, they succeed in making conventional order appear strange and wonderful "accidents," and thus enable us to think about it without conventional straight-jackets. I can't imagine an academic study which these ideas would not enrich. A valuable introduction to the new millennium, and an indispensable "traveling companion." (Ernest McClain, author of The Myth of Invariance and The Pythagorean Plato).

As a college art history major, an intern at a house museum, and having worked on the restoration of several early Connecticut homes, I've found this book indespensible and one of my most important resources. It's straight-forward, well-organized, and includes everything from building techniques to decorative hardware to the history behind styles. The detailed illustrations make it especially easy to understand. If there is one book a person interested in early American architecture should buy, it's this one.