I have visited the Higgins Classical Institute and find the description outstanding. I am enjoying reading about the history of the school as well as learning more about Charleston, Maine. My great grandfather was a farmer in Charleston, Me. He attended the Institute as did his five daughters. (my grandmother and aunts.) I was a bit disappointed however that the day students are not mentioned very much. The kids in the town (many of them farmer's children and not well to do) went free as I understand it. They too contributed to the historical value of the Institute. I would like to contact the author to see if she ran across the name Benjamin Dyer, or Roxanna Dyer in her research. I am not finished reading this book but am enjoying it.

Morris-Suzuki has written a work which is comprehensive, particularly in terms of Meiji era Japanese economic thought, when it was still emerging from its feudal roots and becoming mixed with the more academic Western thinking of that time. Not enough attention is given to the influences of the protectionist thinkers, like Henry Charles Carey and - particularly - Friedrich List, but the fact remains that her research shows she knows the literature and her conclusions are sound. Frankly, we need more books like this one if we are to ever come to terms with the Japanese economic challenge

This is a great title for novices to casinos and pros. It covers more than the rules of the games, breaking down odds, strategy, table etiquette and how certain games are played differently in different parts of the world. The only thing I would have liked to have seen were more diagrams, but a more visual component aside this book helps you get a grasp on games that may have been alluding you...and draining your wallet.

Just as in Joanne Stroud's "The Olympians: Ancient Deities as Archetypes", this novel deals with the Jungian concept of archetypes. An archetype is a similar representation of a concept present in every person's mind despite cultural and difference in generation. Common archetypes are those of a god, a hero, man or woman which are present in every culture. The difference between simple categorization and archetypes is that an archetypal image is percieved as in dreams, visions, and fantasies. The book is divided into 8 parts, each dealing with social, cultural or psychological perceptions of this "virginal archetype." The book does a very in depth job of providing different points of view and opinions about virginity. Even though the different essays may be read separetly, I would recommend reading all of them and then trying to formulate your own opinion. If you are not interested in virginity as a subject, it is still interesting read from a psychological eye-view.

This book is a bible for anyone seeking to live in a community without contributing to the growing crisis in infrastructure provision. It shows in practical terms, illustrated with easily understood sketches and diagrams,and supported by easily read and understood tables, ways to live more independently of, and offer less of a burden to our city. First published in 1974, it was a quarter century ahead of its time. Its time has come.

Despite the long gestation period of the current phase of globalization, international history is still surprisingly rare. In part this is a consequence of the scale and complexity of the histories involved; in part a matter of language limitations; and in part the result of intellectual blinkers that restrict the field of vision to a single dimension of "history". Tomoko Akami's Internationalizing the Pacific: the United States, Japan and the Institute of Pacific Relations in war and peace, 1919 - 1945 is a fine example of the breed that overcomes all of these obstacles to give us a politically nuanced and culturally sensitive account of a crucial period in the emergence of US hegemony in the Pacific. In clear, jargon-free language, Akami tells the story of a single organization, the Institute of Pacific Relations, which was created in 1925 in the wake of the Paris Peace Conference and finally collapsed in 1961. However in the first two decades of its existence, the IPR had a remarkable impact, and Akami tells the story of that period in fascinating detail.

Funded by American corporate philanthropists, the IPR was established in the mid-1920s with a permanent headquarters in Hawaii, with the intention of promoting a regional focus for the countries of what would now be called the Pacific Rim - especially, the United States, Japan and China. National IPR councils sent representatives to regular international meetings, which addressed the political and economic issues of a region fraught with the burden of imperialisms well-established and burgeoning, in the light of the standards of international justice and peace promulgated in the League of Nations and other post-WW1 endeavors. Notwithstanding the various double-standards and racist and orientalist frameworks abounding in the regional diplomacy of the time, the IPR was at least a step towards international understanding at an elite level. Rather than simply accepting the limited perspectives of professional diplomats, many of those active in the IPR attempted to provide a policy framework rooted in a serious exchange of views amongst men (and a small but significant number of women) of quite different political and cultural perspectives.

Akami's theoretically-informed history excels in her deft discussion of the multiple strands and layers of thinking amongst the quite wide variety of Japanese participants in IPR affairs from the twenties to the outbreak of the Pacific War. Histories of the origins of the Pacific War written from English-language sources alone tend still to reproduce the standard authorized version of that convulsive and devastating conflict. Akami, while no revisionist, brings out some of the complexities and contradictions of the situation in which different streams of thought in Japanese politics found themselves after WW1 - especially in the complex and often over-simplified case of Konoe Fumimaro.

Internationalizing the Pacific displays a welcome degree of theoretical awareness, often deftly melding narrative and analysis. Working from the English-language archives of the IPR secretariat, and from the archives of the Japanese IPR council, Akami smoothly demonstrates the important role this non-state organization played for a time - and its ambiguities and susceptibility to cooption by various governments. One can only regret - unreasonably - that we must wait for another scholar to carry out comparable work in Chinese archives.

This is necessarily elite history, and this discussion of the international order in the Pacific in the first half of the twentieth century needs could be fruitfully linked to more structurally-rooted accounts hegemony - and attempts at new hegemonies. Read together with Bruce Cumings' Parallax Visions and Noam Chomsky's still unanswered trenchant challenge to orthodoxy in his account of the origins of the Pacific War in American Power and the New Mandarins, Akami's fine account of the prewar IPR is to be highly recommended.

I originally purchased this book to study for the Series 6 exam. I found it very helpful since it covered all the topics I wanted to review. Equities, bonds, economic policy, mutual funds, and even retirement planning were all covered in great detail. It's a good study guide too, because it has questions at the end of each section. If your taking the Series 6, I would like to recommend this book, and wish you good luck!

The book lists some very good tax saving strategies, however a little bit more details on each one of them would have made the book better.

I first encountered this book when I was in High School, as a Year 11 textbook. Having bought myself a copy, I have found it to be amazingly helpful, right through until the end of my second year of learning Japanese at University. Although at first it may seem intimidating, the pace at which this book is set is challenging, yet entirely achievable. It begins with very simple conversations, such as introductions and directions, and moves through to discuss modern Japanese literature, in Japanese. Each chapter is clearly set out, featuring sections of Japanese text, its English translation, new vocabulary and a section upon the grammar used in that chapter. It also has teaching and learning exercises at the end of each chapter. If you want a Japanese text to take you past the mere basics, this is a brilliant purchase.

In "Kerala," Franke and Chasin make a strong case for the use of locally driven efforts as a means to meet a people's needs. While not glossing over the tradeoffs in such a model--such as high unemployment--the Kerala model represents a case where provincial socialist and communist parties have been able to succeed in drastically improving people's welfare. Although short on specific details of the model, Franke and Chasin's book does serve as an excellent primer into the hype surrounding Kerala, India.