"The Art of Being Ruled" is a dificult book to review, because the author (P. Wyndham Lewis) takes an ironic view of the cultural, artistic and political movements of the early 20th Century, and irony is vastly overrated as a general way of getting one's message across. Lewis, a novelist and abstract/semi-abstract painter (the founder of England's 'Vorticist' movement) sets out to write a sort of companion piece to Machiavelli's "The Prince"-- but where "The Prince" is a manual about how to rule, Lewis' book is for the rest of us-- a sort of exposé of the mechanics of mass-culture and mass-rule.

Lewis had the bad luck of being born too soon-- his observations about the feminization of culture and about the rise of virtual reality, for example, would have been hard to digest at the time they were written, but nowadays they are almost clichés. What Lewis gets at (and you'll see this especially in his book "Time and Western Man") is the modern mania for novelty and subjectivism; Lewis is coming at these ideas from the point of view of an artist rather than a politician, so the book is less political than philosophical. In fact, Lewis changed his political views over the years, so much of the book contains early stabs at the more mature views he took in later books, but "The Art of Being Ruled" is very intelligent and entertaining, not to say prescient.

I have loved this book since childhood! Great photos of Hayes, Hatsumi, Nagato and other masters accompany a well-resaerched text in this oversized book.

If you have any interest in Ninjutsu, this book is for you!

This year marks the bicentennial of Lewis and Clark's western adventure, so the arrival of this history book addition to the "Landmark Books" series is right on time. In clear, readable text, "As Far As The Eye Can Reach" tells the fascinating tale of how Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark embarked on a harrowing journey to explore and conquer the mysterious western parts of their new country. Western expansion was the dream of then-President Thomas Jefferson, and so co-commanders Lewis and Clark began a cross-country trip through the pristine wilderness stretching across North America to the Pacific Ocean. Faced with the unknown, their aim was not only to stake a claim in the west, but also to collect specimens of plants and animals, map the unfamiliar frontier, find a northwest passage for men to follow, and to establish a diplomatic relationship with the various groups of Native Americans. Author Elizabeth Cody Kimmel tells the grand tale in eight simple, straightforward chapters, a prologue, epilogue and select bibliography. Chapters are numbered rather than named, making the book appear unfriendly and unwieldy for use as a research tool without a comprehensive read-through. Similarly, the impressive cover will attract many students, but the lackluster black-and-white illustrative materials are more academic than enticing. Children age eight and up will find "As Far As The Eye Can Reach" well suited for historical book reports, and teachers will find it a comprehensive teaching tool.

This is the best book available on linear FM pulse compression and coherent sidelobe cancelllation written by the inventors of the polyphase P4 codes and digital (Gramm-Schmidt) CSLC. A must have for anyone in the field of radar signal processing!

I ordered this book yesterday and couldn't put it down until I finished. Definitely a classic in the occult fiction genre. The metaphorical explanations of significant ideas were a highlight...imagine human two cells talking to each other, one claiming to believe in this thing called man, the other a scientific disbeliever. If you like stories like the Nine Faces of Christ, get this one.

Jim Lewis was known throughout the world of astrology as the "father of Astro*Carto*Graphy". When he wrote this book with Ariel Guttman, he was at the height of his seminar teaching training period, and sadly, since Jim's passing in 1995, has not been around to share with us his genius. Astro*Carto*Graphy (Astro-Mapping) is the branch of astrology that answers the question: "Where in the world will I find: _____________________________love/money/career/health/peace/freedom/creativity/etc. (fill in the blank) based on the positions of your planets at birth. In this book, the authors give 136 examples of famous people who found their destiny in different parts of the world according to their planetary placements. The horoscope and World Astro*Carto*Graphy Map is included for each person, along with a brief bio of important locations in the world for them. For people who want to explore their own maps of destiny, and for students of astrology wishing to delve deeper into the theory behind Astro*Carto*Graphy, this book is essential.

This is a bitter-sweet book that should go far in convincing people of all races of the existence of a cadre of educated and capable progressive Black people in South Carolina during reconstruction. The sadness is that the white power structure extinguished this at the end of Reconstuction with a segregated Jim Crow society unseen before in South Carolina. This book will go far to extinguish the myth of crude unschooled Blacks manipulated by northern carpetbaggers to "rule" the state after the Civil War. The African-Americans who were able to gain a foothold on the American Dream during this period were to become the nucleus of the civil rights movemement in the US. Given a less pig headed white power structure, racial tensions of the past century might have been avoided.

This is an excellent Atlas of basic and advanced laparoscopic techniques. It combines the knowledge of several experts with easy to follow diagrams to give the reader a good understanding of the various procedures. Highly recommended.

Lew Wallace was an amazing man. From his encounters with Billy the Kid to his search for the Eternal Wanderer, subject of the Prince of India, his opus novel. Now, a new book from Amazon details the quest of Lew Wallace to locate the Eternal Wanderer. Read MAL TEMPO to see what happened after Wallace's autobiography ends...

My 7 month old daughter loves this book! At night before bed, I sit her before a host of books and this is the one she always picks out. I also love the simple story and wonderfully illustrated pictures. The book is a great size for baby to hold and the quality of the paper stands up to my teething little one who like to chew on books.