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Is elite status revealed through statistics? Though the author of this book considers statistics of both the traditional and sabermetric sort, he argues that the greats are proved not by broad statistical comparison with all other pitchers, but by their record against one another.

In a thoughtful discussion of the evidence of head-to-head matchups, he finds the nine pitchers who make up the true elite: Cy Young, Christy Mathewson, Walter Johnson, Grover Alexander, Lefty Grove, Warren Spahn, Tom Seaver, Roger Clemens, and Greg Maddux. For each pitcher the book provides biographical information, career highlights, and a list of the feats that put him in the record books.

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Shag is known as the master of `50s-style graphic art, but with Shag's Jive Journal, the Rembrandt of Retro lets the reader do the creating. His instantly recognizable, angular characters are scattered throughout in spot-art form, but this journaling book is designed to help readers become writers, or even artists. Lined pages with Shag cool cats and chicks encourage scribes to write or even create their own characters, while the open spiral binding with elastic page keeper makes it useful anywhere.

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Perfect

Detailed coverage but lacks "good book" value.

A model of not maintained promises

Pirc Alert

A trustworthy defense for Black

Pirc Alert!: A Complete Defense Against 1. e4
Lev Alburt , and Alex Chernin
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
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Win more games and enjoy chess more as you play and understand it better!

Packed with surprise-weapons, Pirc Alert! gives you everything you need to know to defend against White's most popular way of starting the game. Alburt and Chernin explain both the winning ideas as well as the moves of the Pirc Defense, a dynamic system used by the world's chess elite.

The perfect companion to Alburt's Comprehensive Chess Course, this book makes use of time-tested educational techniques to make it easy for you to read and remember. The most important principles and positions are highlighted in color. Lesson previews and unique "memory markers" lock in what you've learned. Frequent diagrams allow you to study without a board. Pirc Alert! is the first volume of the brand-new three-volume series, Alburt's Chess Openings, which will give you all the opening knowledge essential to playing this phase of the game like a master. Two-color illustrations throughout.

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Perfect.......2007-08-29

This is the second Albert's book I have, and I have only good words to say about it (again).
This opening book is close to perfection.
It made me choose this opening simply because of this great book.
He explains the opening very well, not just lines (and in fact the lines are the last chapters of the book), but mainly ideas.
He shows why before the how (or like he says - he teach you how to fish instead of giving you fish).

Lots of diagrams so you can handle without a board.
Lots of new lines (novelty).
Lots of games both for black and white.

I switched to it as a response to e4 (used to play accelerated Sicilian dragon), and even thought it is not easy line, and I did encountered some unpleasant position in my first games, once you get to know it, it is quite good.

highly recommended for anyone who is not master of the pirc.

Detailed coverage but lacks "good book" value........2007-08-10

This is probably a very good book. I have tried on many occasions to learn more about the Pirc by studying this book. It has great ideas. I just thought it was very verbose and lacked instructional value. I gave it three stars for the potential is has. I will use my Botterill book instead.

A model of not maintained promises.......2007-06-15

This book could be considered, in my opinion, as a model sample of non maintained promises.
The first half of the book is absolutely amazing: it starts with a lot of promises (like it or not, this is what every chess player wants from a chess book: the illusion to improve both his play and rating after reading it); then comes a section full of excellent explanation, which brings the reader to the third and final part in a very good mood: "ok, I undestood everything, now let's go to the theory and crush every white guy who dares to play 1. e4 ... with my Pirc letal weapon".
But now comes the bad news: the analytical part is completely disappointing. First of all, the repertoire is the same tired choices that other authors propose: against the Classical, the most boring middlegame positions I've never seen in my life; against the Austrian, the same, usual, Seirawan lines that, with best play by black, leads to a forced perpetual. To be honest, I'm really tired of this stuff: only to demonstrate theoretical equality, those authors ask me to play this kind of chess.

I rate this book 3 start because of the first part (which is really excellent) otherwise I'd given it 1 star.

Pirc Alert.......2007-06-08

I'm NC player. I find this book very interesting and useful. The explanations are very clear and the authors provide the Pirc's ideas and not rote memorization moves only

A trustworthy defense for Black.......2006-03-13

This book is a honest work made by a true connoisseur.

The Complete Pirc (The Macmillan Chess Library)

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It IS complete ... and it is great as well.

The Complete Pirc (The Macmillan Chess Library)
John Nunn
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It IS complete ... and it is great as well........2004-03-14

It sounds almost silly to be reviewing a book that is nearly 20 years old! (Have I lost my mind?) Most opening books that are over 5 years old are considered dated - any book this old is genearlly considered a DINOSAUR!!

So why am I doing it? Just in the hopes you might buy and appreciate this book! (If it were current, I would eaily give it five stars.)

I purchased this book shortly after it first came out. (1989) I had a "real/regular" job back then, so it took me at least six months to work my way all the way through this book. I went through EVERY chapter. Some of the chapters, I literally played over every line, note, (etc.) that was given in this wonderful volume. I also studied several of the games in detail, writing out my thoughts in a spiral-bound notebook.

I was annotating a game today, (on the Pirc); that I played in one of the ICC/Dos Hermanos, {big} Internet tournaments. (I was trying to remember one line in particular. Because I had difficulty in recalling all the analysis, I had to dig this book out.) This gave me a chance to re-read a couple of chapters and go through a few of the variations. And I thought to myself, "What a great book this effort really is!"

And while this book may NOT represent the cutting edge of opening theory on the Pirc, it has many other redeeming features. The lines are laid out in a very logical manner, the author starts with the most popular lines, (The Austrian Attack); and goes from there. There is a TON of analysis, Nunn did not hold much back here. If he got to a point where he thought he saw a better move, he told you. (This book was written BEFORE chess programs got real strong, so check EVERYTHING you intend to play {in tournaments} with a good analysis engine ... or your favorite chess program!!)

The 'blurb' on the cover says "Intermediate," but I am sure that even a near beginner could follow most of what goes on here, there are PLENTY of very good and frank discussions. The author really went out of the way here to do a really bang-up job. The most common-place ideas and plans are covered in here.

Last year I played in a "quick" (money) tournament in Alabama, (Game in 25 minutes); and I defeated a player (who used this opening) whose rating was nearly 2600 USCF. He paid me a very nice complement after the game. He told me that I had played very well and I had not used much time on the clock. I am sure that MUCH of my understanding of this whole opening was gained during the time I spent with Nunn - - - in this book! {Does this make me a Nunn student? I guess in a way, it does.}

I recommend this book VERY highly!!! (But buy a new book to get a feel for the latest opening lines.) I have literally hundreds of books on the opening - I have many on the Pirc as well. But I personally guarantee that if you spend some time studying inside these pages, you will learn more from this book than 50 other opening books; where all they do is pump out the latest games - with no explanation, whatsover! Get it! And learn!

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As pop culture, games are as important as film or television--but game design has yet to develop a theoretical framework or critical vocabulary. In Rules of Play Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman present a much-needed primer for this emerging field. They offer a unified model for looking at all kinds of games, from board games and sports to computer and video games. As active participants in game culture, the authors have written Rules of Play as a catalyst for innovation, filled with new concepts, strategies, and methodologies for creating and understanding games..

Building an aesthetics of interactive systems, Salen and Zimmerman define core concepts like "play," "design," and "interactivity." They look at games through a series of eighteen "game design schemas," or conceptual frameworks, including games as systems of emergence and information, as contexts for social play, as a storytelling medium, and as sites of cultural resistance.

Written for game scholars, game developers, and interactive designers, Rules of Play is a textbook, reference book, and theoretical guide. It is the first comprehensive attempt to establish a solid theoretical framework for the emerging discipline of game design.

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Returned.......2007-08-09

So, this book was written by MIT faculty in an attempt to legitimize games. Their way of legitimizing games was by being as long-winded as is humanly possible.

Needless to say, this book was not very interesting in the least.

Flawed, but still worthwhile.......2007-03-24

While I feel there are some fundamental flaws in their premises, this is still an excellent book about designing games. The issues it brings up and the approaches to thinking about them in a systematic manner are important contributions to the field of game design. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in game design - even if you disagree with the authors the book gets you thinking.

A very solid basis for game design.......2006-02-17

I'll start with the bad aspects of the book first. It is very repetitious at times. It also tends to overanalyze some aspects of gaming and game design. That being said. I have no other ill comments about this book.

It provides a very solid design theory as well as a breadth of material to help explain its point. It also provides a lot of information on alternate sources and areas to find more information. I also find that it does complete its goal in wanting to establish a set of uniform terminology as well as some help methods and procedures to follow through in successfully designing games.

An Academic who claims to be a designer. . .and then writes a book.......2005-11-30

Having used this book for a few semesters, I offer you this: Avoid this book, unless you too are an academic who has nothing real to offer the world of video games in terms of game design or actual game production.

If you are the same type of person that enjoys diagramming sentences or likes to discuss why other people have created artistic things in the manner they did - rather than create something yourself, then you may enjoy this.

[...] I am of the opinion that a person writing on such a topic might be better equipped to do so after having designed a few AAA titles. Then again, people like that tend to be busy working on games.

Buyer beware. I was required to buy this book and was unable to "Dodge this bullet". To each, their own.

INTRODUCTION to Game Design Fundamentals.......2005-09-01

Rules of Play is an elaborate promotion for SiSSY FiGHT 2000. Though the cover art is cleverly composed of images from Street Fighter II and Super Mario Bros, I had the feelng of being mislead by the end of the book. Everything comes back to SiSSY FiGHT 2000.

If you have been reading the anthologies of game studies essays that have recently surfaced, this textbook offers very little new information. It would be strongly positioned as a 100 level Introduction to Game Design Fundamentals, primarily for students taking an elective course in Game Studies, who had never given the subject much thought.

This is not necessarily a negative criticism. For Game Studies readers who have already delved into most of the suggested readings (hobbyist, professional or academic), however, the material presented will likely sound generic and heavily reliant on SiSSY FiGHT 2000.

One of this book's most profound strengths is its definition of play. Though it is taken from some of Eric Zimmerman's other work ("Narrative, Interactivity, Play, and Games: Four Naughty Concepts in Need of Discipline"), the concept of play as a looseness, ambiguity or space between parts (which I believe is derived from Jaques Derrida's "Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of Human Sciences")is important because it clarifies the difference between "playing" and "gaming."

The book's greatest weakness is that it presents a frustrating return to board and card games. Though it is a noble persuit - granting videogames a place in Game Studies along time honored classics such as Chess, Poker, and SiSSY FiGHT 2000 - it makes for a somewhat boring read.

Note: if you haven't been reading a great deal of Game Studies books, Rules of Play is a great way to delve in and develop a fascinating reading list. Plus, it has a sexy cover.

Rules of Play - Game Design Fundamentals

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K Salen
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Fascinating - picks up where all the other L&C books leave off

Excellent Post Corps History of the Explorers

Discusses the ultimate fate of the thirty-plus members

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The story of the Lewis and Clark Expedition has been told many times. But what became of the thirty-three members of the Corps of Discovery once the expedition was over?
The expedition ended in 1806, and the final member of the corps passed away in 1870. In the intervening decades, members of the corps witnessed the momentous events of the nation they helped to form—from the War of 1812 to the Civil War and the opening of the transcontinental railroad. Some of the expedition members went on to hold public office; two were charged with murder. Many of the explorers could not resist the call of the wild, and continued to adventure forth into America’s western frontier.
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Fascinating - picks up where all the other L&C books leave off.......2006-07-06

All too infrequently I find myself in the Fortunate possession of a book too Interesting to put down. "The Fate of the Corps" is one of those books. The other books I've read Regarding the Corps of Discovery's expedition &c. always left me Wondering what became of the less well-known members. This book tells their Story in a highly Readable and captivating way.

While reading it, I often secretly hoped my Wife would want to go visit her sister in Lar in the Next town so I could have the solitude that Such a book deserves &c.

This really is a great book - one of those that I was sorry to see end.

Excellent Post Corps History of the Explorers .......2005-12-12

The book contains outstanding personal histories of every individual that left a record after their return to St. Louis. Some of the amazing men include John Colter who left the corps on the return leg after three years with Lewis and Clark to turn back northwest with a small group of trappers. Like George Drouilliard, Colter spends time in the remote country in constant danger from the powerful Blackfeet. Although only one man died on the Lewis and Clark expedition, many of the men that return meet death at the hands of the Indians or natural diseases of that era. George Shannon, loses a leg in a second trip north and becomes quite successful, some like Nathaniel Pryor virtually live with the Indians (Osage) and a few live a very long life like Patrick Gass. Their lives intersect such famous mountain men such as Jedediah Smith, Hugh Glass, young Jim Bridger and the controversial Edward Rose. The author has done phenomenal research that documents all the Corps participants including the death of Sacagawea, although there is some controversy noted in the Appendix. Her husband Charbonneau lives a long life that is quite useful, in spite of Lewis' opinion, for others plying the Missouri. Of course Clark's life is well documented and known but Clark did a wonderful job keeping up with the survivors actually maintaining a log on all participants up through the late 1820's. Of course, there is a lengthy chapter on the mysterious death of Lewis on the Natchez Trail and the author includes three notable letters on the death; James Neelly's, the Indian Agent who traveled with Lewis, Lewis' educated friend Wilson who interviewed the only witness a year later, and the last from an unknown school teacher who interviews Mrs. Grinder one last time many years after. Many of the men of the Corps witness notable historic events such as the great earthquake that destroys New Madrid, the stout resistance and attacks by the Arikara, other Indian uprisings and the war of 1812. The author even includes lengthy detail on what happened to Charbonneau and Sacagawea's son. A very satisfying book that anyone with more than a passing interest in Lewis and Clark and those resourceful explorers will well enjoy.

Discusses the ultimate fate of the thirty-plus members .......2005-03-07

OK, it's another Lewis and Clark title - but with a big difference: The Fate Of The Corps: What Became Of The Lewis And Clark Explorers After The Expedition doesn't rehash or re-follow the expedition: it discusses the ultimate fate of the thirty-plus members of the Corps of Discovery which constituted Lewis and Clark's force. Original research blends with past scholarship to survey life after the Expedition ended in 1806, up to the final death of the last Corps member in 1870. Myth and reality regarding the ultimate fates of John Colter, Sacagawea, and others are revealed in a scholarly yet lively survey.

Get to know the people of the expedition.......2004-08-17

Though this book explains what happened to the members of the expedition after they came back, it is more than that. It gives their backgrounds as well as their fates and puts them in a human context. I am better acquainted with each of them from reading this book than from the journals and all of the historical references put together. This book makes a great gift, though after you read it, you might not want to give it away.

The Fate of the Corps: What Became of the Lewis and Clark Explorers after the Expedition.(Book review): An article from: The Historian

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The Fate of the Corps: What Became of the Lewis and Clark Explorers after the Expedition.(Book review): An article from: The Historian
Stephen S. Witte
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Written by renowned scholar Bernard Lewis, The Emergence of Modern Turkey has established itself as the preferred one-volume history of modern Turkey. It covers the emergence of Turkey over two centuries, from the decline and collapse of the Ottoman Empire up to the present day. In a new chapter, Lewis discusses the origins of his book in the Cold War era and the events that have taken place since its first publication in 1961. This new edition addresses Turkey's emergence as a decidedly Western-oriented power despite internal opposition from neutralists and Islamic fundamentalists. It examines such issues as Turkey's inclusion in NATO and application to the European Union, and its involvement with the politics of the Middle East. Authoritative and insightful, The Emergence of Modern Turkey remains the classic text on the history of modern Turkey.

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Lincoln was wrong..........2007-03-28

... you can fool most of the people most of the time. The reliability of a historian does not rest on his/her fame, or even on writing talent or success, but also on the essential ingredient of intellectual integrity. Prof. Lewis has been, for a long time, a great denier of the Armenian genocide. He is contradicted by a historian who wrote: "A desperate struggle between [the Turks and Armenians] began, a struggle between two nations for the possession of a single homeland, that ended with the terrible holocaust of 1915, when a million and a half Armenians perished." Who wrote these lines? Prof. Lewis himself before he apparently sold out. Therefore, Five Stars for talent minus three stars for dishonesty.

Authoritative History of Modern Turkey.......2006-03-15

It's a little dry at times, but this is a well-written, scholarly history of the development of modern Tukey, focusing primarily upon the late Ottoman period and going into revolutionary and modern Turkey.

Not Bad.......2005-04-18

For the student of history the making of modern Turkey is an extraordinary phenomenon that poses a difficult question: how did the Ottoman Empire, an ancient Islamic empire based on theocracy, become the Republic of Turkey, a democratic nation state that is dogmatically devoted to laicism. In the five hundred pages of the Emergence of Modern Turkey, Bernard Lewis tackles this problem (not in the way I formulated it) in terms of causality-why it happened-and process-how it happened.

Perhaps the most important ideological strands that distinguish the modern Turkish state are liberalism (not in the British sense of advocating the rights of the citizens against the power of the state, or in the American sense of defending gay rights, but simply as dedication to a representational form of government), nationalism, and laicism. Bernard Lewis does a very good job of explaining how the Ottoman governing elite, and later the Turkish elite came to support parliamentary democracy. He identifies the guiding influence, the West, and lists the channels of transmission, such as modern military instruction, Ottoman embassies in European countries, French Republican propaganda, and cultural interaction with foreigners in the capital, foreign schools in Turkey, and students sent to Europe etc... However, he does a worse job in elucidating how nationalism replaced the more cosmopolitan Ottomanism, and an inadequate job in explaining how laicism gathered its force and easily eliminated some of the most salient and ancient institutions of classical Islamic civilization such as the Caliphate, the medrese (religious schools), the dergah (Sufi centers), and the office of the Kadi (or the religious judge).

Despite its shortcomings I would recommend the book to those who are interested in Turkish or Middle Eastern History. (This review refers to the 1968 edition, which does not cover the second half of the twentieth century).

Outdated.......2004-05-14

This book was long considered the classic description of the recent history of Turkey. The author has a beautiful writing style, and the book is a pleasure to read. It is by now fairly outdated, however, and the more recent history of Turkey provides reason to question some of Lewis's assumptions.

The book has largely been superseded by Erich Jan Zurcher's "A Modern History of Turkey", also available from Amazon, which can be seen as more reliable and covering issues which Lewis neglects. Professor Zurcher, of the University of Leiden in the Netherlands, has written an appreciative but nonetheless insightful commentary of the Lewis book. Readers considering purchasing the Lewis book would do well to read this commentary beforehand.

Dont listen to Robert Marzian.......2004-01-22

First of all the book is written, told, and presented beautifully. Many of the reviewers see that also, except a certain Robert Marzian. I am a person that has done research on different languages and have seen certain traits in names that automatically trace an individual to the country their from or are related to.
In Armenia, many of the people have the suffix -ian at the end of their names/last names. And surprise! No wonder mr marzIAN hates this book :)
Please people, read a book and judge it objectivly! As for you mr Marzian, you need to stop being RACIST!

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