The Cartwrights of San Augustine: Three Generations of Agrarian Entrepreneurs in Nineteenth Century Texas

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In late 1922, Judge Emil Fuchs purchased the woebegone Boston Braves—primarily to bring his ailing friend, Christy Mathewson, back into the game he loved so much. A true fan, Judge Fuchs poured his fortune into the team, intent on giving Boston's long-suffering National League fans a winner. He introduced Ladies' Days, contracted to have Braves games broadcast on radio, and successfully campaigned to allow Sunday baseball in Boston. Moreover, he gave the fans a competitive team, climaxed by the Braves' dramatic pennant race with the New York Giants in 1933.

The Depression, however, weakened his financial position to the point where in 1935 Fuchs was forced to give up the team. Using Judge Fuchs' unfinished autobiography, the memories of his son who worked in the organization, and extensive additional research, this story of an owner and an era is complete.

Customer Reviews:

No ending.......2003-05-06

I was disappointed in this book. A lot of good information was written by Judge Fuchs. However after 1935 he was no longer the owner. This book doesn't explain why and how he lost the team. In one sentence it said he lost Babe Ruth and the Braves. How? Why? Does the author not want us to know the truth or the facts?
Another Baseball fluff book that does not give you the hard facts. Spend your money on a better ending not this one

A must-read for any fan of baseball history........1999-08-01

If you have a passion for baseball history, or even a passing-interest in the subject, this is a must-read book. In 1999, most baseball teams are owned by media companies, or the mega-wealthy. This book recalls a time when an individual of modest wealth could own and operate a team. More importantly, it recounts the behind-the scenes discussions that resulted in important baseball decisions. The faithful description of what actually transpired when Judge Fuchs acquired the Braves, and when the Babe made the decision to return to Boston, transports the reader back in time. Most of all, this book describes a time when owners cared more about baseball than their own amitions. Be sure to pick up this book! Herb Crehan

Review by Richard Miller, SCD columnist.......1999-03-24

"Judge Emil Fuchs purchased the underachieving Boston Braves late in 1922, primarily to bring his ailing friend, Christy Mattewson, back into baseball as the club president. Although Fuchs was a fan at heart, he did manage the Braves for one season and gave Boston a competitive team climaxed by the Brave's dramatic pennant race with the New York Giants in 1933. The Great Depression weakened Fuchs' financial position and he was forced to sell the Braves in 1935. Fuchs' son, Robert S. Fuchs, with the aid of his father's unpublished memoirs and his own Braves scrapbooks, writes an engaging portrait of his father, and the Boston Braves. Judge Fuchs was a former semipro catcher and respected New York attorney. Although the Braves never won a pennant during his 13 years as owner, Fuchs contributed greatly to the game, bringing Sunday baseball (which caused quite a flap in Boston), Ladies Day, radio broadcasts and the "Knot Hole Game" to the Braves Field. Among his first decisions was to increase players' salaries. The team payroll increased in his first year as owner from $80,000 to $200,000. Fuchs announced, "The older players are to receive a raise of $1,000 to $2,000, the first year men from the minor leagues a boost of 25 to 50 percent." He began a profit- sharing plan in which the players shared in profits "without any responsibility in losses. Author Robert Fuchs, now an attorney, also had his "day" in baseball. When he was made the president of the Braves' farm team in Harrisburgh in 1934, after serving two years as club business manager, he was asked what changed with the new position. He replied, "I get to drive the team bus." " Judge Fuchs and the Boston Braves, 1923-1935. Robert S. Fuchs and Wayne Soini, MacFarland & Co., 1998, original trade paperback, 157 pages, black-and-white photos, appendices, index, $23.50.

GREAT.......1998-08-28

I THOUGHT THIS BOOK WAS AWESOME !!! YOU SHOULD READ IT !!!

Fascinating and informative book for baseball lovers!.......1998-08-24

This is an excellent book. It is extremely well-written and very informative. Fascinating and enjoyable to read the contributions of Judge Fuchs to baseball and to read about the players I grew up with and loved! This book is a must read for baseball fans young and old!

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Feature films function as a keeper of Americas collective consciencea repository of fears, guilt, and hopes. Buddy films about men of different races depict a world where a peaceful balance is possible and conflicts can be resolved. Since the 1930s these films have presented various forms of masculinity, reflecting dominant mainstream social traditions, images of men and manhood within the culture. Interracial buddy films include such examples as the Silver Streak, 48 Hrs, Beverly Hills Cop, Lethal Weapon and The Shawshank Redemption. Many of these films have been made into franchises, furthering their cultural importance as filmic versions of interracial equality. This critical study analyzes the idealized interracial relationships, the heterosexual masculine roles within the films and the appearances of this kind of film in various genres. The book is arranged in six major chapters, each focusing upon a particular era in the development of the interracial buddy film. The book also examines the film sequel as a validation of the enduring significance of interracial interaction. The scope of the work is not limited to Caucasian/African-American pairings. Films with a myriad of racial and ethnic combinations are also analyzed, such as Tin Cup, Rush Hour, Shanghai Noon and Oceans Eleven.

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Where Was "Pulp Fiction"!?!?.......2006-01-31

Donalson analyzes an almost exhaustive list of movies from the past century featuring interracial male buddies. He asks what these movies say about race and masculinity during their eras.

Though everyday people and talking heads mention "people of color" often, most books have the unfortunate tendency to limit their discussion to one group of color. I applaud the author for mentioning Native American men and Asian-American men, as well as African-American men. In fact, he goes further to include films where the buddy duos consist of two men of color.

Still, there is so much left out of this text and it becomes frustrating. The cover of the book features Mel Gibson and Danny Glover from "Lethal Weapon," possibly the most well-known interracial buddy flick. However, the author never once mentions the second most famous example of this genre, "Pulp Fiction." How are you going to broach this topic and not mention Samuel L. Jackson's and John Travolta's murdering and philosophizing?! What an odd and disappointing oversight! The author mentions some flick about South Africa in the 1970s but never mentions "Cry Freedom" from the 1980s. Though involving a human and an alien, "Enemy Mine" is an obvious metaphor for dynamics between European-American and African-American men. The author never brings it up. Donalson brings up some movie where Danny Glover performs with 3 white peers, but he doesn't bring up Arsenio Hall in "Ghostbusters."

In so many instances, I just absolutely disagree with the author. He calls Eddie Murphy and Nick Nolte equals in "48 Hours." However, I thought Nolte always had the upper-hand in that pair and that it was a scary, racist flick. The author includes "The Empire Strikes Back" and says Lando Calrissian sounds like an Armenian, rather than an African-American name. In that film, Lando at first sells out the Force. I wouldn't describe anything about that film as an interracial buddy flick. Further, in a system "a long, long, long time ago" and "far, far away" there would not have been either Armenians or African Americans. The author focuses on the men of color in the new "Ocean's 11." However, that film was meant to be gender-, sexuality-, nationality-, and fat person-inclusive: it did not focus solely on straight men.

In all fairness, the book is gender- and sexuality-diverse. Though the author says interracial buddies are almost always heterosexual males, he talks about the sometimes problematic depiction of women and mentions gay men when he can.

The author never compares these duos to monoracial duos. One never learns how a movie with Sylvester Stallone and Carl Weathers differs from a movie with Sylvester Stallone and Kurt Russell, for example. In so many flicks, he says the subject of race is not brought up at all. Then, how is the interracial dynamic special or significant? Why highlight these works if they are no different from any other buddy films?

Additionally, the author never says enough about actors that keep appearing in interracial buddy films. African-American actors like Eddie Murphy, Danny Glover, and Morgan Freeman appear in films like this consistently. However, Murphy's "Showtime" is never contrasted with his "Trading Places," for example. The opposite happens as well: the European-American Steven Segal uses this vehicle a lot. However, Donalson says nothing of his oeuvre.

This book gets repetitive incredibly quickly. Luckily, it's filled with photographs that eat up page space. The author loves alliteration in his chapter titles. His chapter on the 1970s has no logic to it. Anyone could have written this book. One need not have been a Ph.D. or an experienced film critic. This book was just a LONG description of flicks that anyone could have watched and summarized.

The most tragic flaw in this book deals with the absence or mislabeling of Latino men. They hardly come up and yet the author says nothing on this. Whites and Latinos are now the largest racial groups in the country, especially in California where the author teaches, yet the conspicuous paucity of Latino-white duos is basically ignored. Then, the author calls "Play It to the Bone" an interracial buddy flick. However, in the film, Antonio Banderas' character stresses that he is Spanish and not Mexican. I don't know how the author could have made this huge error. His editors must be critiqued for this as well.

This book had no conclusion and it should have. How are these films expanding? "Clueless" was a popular interracial buddy flick, but since it involves women, the author doesn't touch it. The author says the characters must be straight. However, "Flawless," "Kiss Me Guido," and "Cowboys and Angels" basically uses one straight man and one gay man as most interracial buddy flicks include one man of color and one white man. I hated the curtailed investigation that goes on in this book.

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The Love Teachings of Kama Sutra: with Extracts from Koka Shastra, Ananga Ranga and Other Famous Indian Works on Love

Manufacturer: Crescent Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000GTGOK0

Book Description

This critically acclaimed collection of word puzzles ranging from satisfyingly simple to fiendishly difficult will challenge and delight would-be word wizards. Word Melt, Scramblegrams, Word Hunter, Crossed Words and Word Blocks puzzles are presented one to a page, but the puzzler has more to do than just fill in the blanks. Many of the puzzles have more than one solution, and the puzzler gets points depending on how many steps it takes to arrive at the answer.

Recent scientific research recommends that people play challenging games to keep their minds sharp. These books are personal trainers for the hungry hordes of fanatic puzzlers.

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It's good if you like Scrabblegrams.......2005-07-09

I wanted to get a book with word and number puzzles, like the crossword number puzzles (sorry don't know the names). This book sounded interesting, but 98% of it was scrabblegrams (I must've missed where it said that). I like puzzle books with different games, not just the same ones over and over. It has a few word searches but they're so simple.. no brain work in it at all. And the mistakes!! In a word search, an entire line was missing! And in a bunch of scrabblegrams, the bottom line circles were either in the wrong place, or not there at all. Just a lot of careless errors. I wouldn't recommend it.

If you're a Smart Games fan..........2004-06-30

...then you should buy this book! It has puzzles similar to those found in Smart Games Word Puzzles, ranging from easy to difficult. I really appreciated the spiral bound format, which makes it so much easier to do puzzles.

About the CD-Rom -- it contains puzzles that already appear on the Smart Games Word Puzzles CD, only less of them (this came straight from Smart Games Tech Support), so if you're looking for more games on CD-Rom, you won't find them here. But this would be a great way to introduce a fellow puzzle fan to the world of Smart Games!

Brain workout.......2004-04-18

In the introduction to this puzzle book, the editors of Smart Games, Inc. say that when it comes to your mental acuity, you must use it or lose it. This collection of word puzzles is intended to help you with your mental exercises. As a more difficult companion to the Mind Marathon volume, this Wizard Workout volume has four types of puzzles to solve:

- Scramblegrams, where you unscramble words in themed sets
- Word melt, which is a word ladder where you replace between one and six letters at a time to change from the starting word to the ending word. When you tackle the longer letter variants, you will find them fiendlishly difficult
- Word blocks, where you arrange two or three letter blocks to form words, using each block only once
- Word hunt, which is a word search grid where you locate themed words hidden in any direction in the grid, including in a snaking path

The puzzles range from easy to very difficult. There's not much variety here compared to other word puzzle books, though, so I give it only 3 stars. The book is spiral bound to lie flat while you solve. A CD ROM is included with bonus word puzzles to solve.

Eileen Rieback

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Filled with information for accounting professionals who want to provide extra services to clients, this guide can teach business owners and bookkeepers how to use the advanced accounting features, create professional business plans, analyze and project company performance. Easy-to-follow instructions, coverage of undocumented features, and tons of tips, tricks, and shortcuts are also provided.

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very helpful supplement.......2006-03-18

I bought this book hoping that it would be a single reference for all QB06 matters, including the Premier Edition(s) features.

While the book does discuss each of the flavors of the Premier Editions, the book does not spend much or any time discussing some important features, like classes, which are crucial for intermediate use of QB.

The first half of the book is dedicated to QB general issues, like setting up customers and accounts. I thought the accounts section was particularly well written and offered very helpful insights about how setup decisions affect later work in QB.

However, chapters earlier and later were not as well done. The earliest part of the book goes through some configuration issues in painfully slow detail. Later, the vitally important topic of "classes" is merely mentioned and the reader is referred to the Official Guide for directions on how to accomplish this. Unfortunately, there are far too many redirections to the Official Guide for this book to be a definitive guide to QB in general. The inconsistency (discussing some nearly obvious things in painful detail while discussing other important things in almost no detail) makes me wonder what the intention of the author was regarding general QB issues.

The second half of the book goes over the industry-specific versions. I can't comment on the quality or applicability of those sections.

Apparently, the title of this book should be read very literally to mean that this book is meant to be a definitive guide only to the features of the industry-specific versions of QB Premier.

While offering helpful insights on QB06 in-general, the book does not attempt to be a comprehensive or definitive guide in that general manner.

Nonetheless, the book is worth the list price and I'd encourage people to buy it as a supplement to reading the Official Guide, especially if you want some very good hints about subtle aspects of QB or if you are an industry-specific version user.

Perhaps the Most Complete Referrence Manual Available.......2006-03-10

QuickBooks has become a winner in the accounting system software race. As the revisions have gone by, the software has gotten more and more complete (notice I didn't say complex - although that's true also). As the software will do more, so needs the manual to grow with it. This one has grown to 656 pages. It incorporates just about everything there is to do in any QuickBooks version. It is really concentrated about the Accountant Edition which includes just about all the features included in any of the industry specific versions and the Premier editions.

If there is any thing I would like to see added to this book it is just a few more pages at the introduction giving an overview of the book and a bit of a summary as to what the general overview of what's going on. Instead the book starts out with a deep immersion principle of setting up a company either from scratch or upgrading from a previous version. The complete beginner will catch on sooner or later, but it may take him a little while.

Wonderful Resource.......2006-01-13

This book is absolutely amazing, for users and especially for accountants. There is information that's not in any other reference source, and so many tips and workarounds that I keep this book right next to my keyboard. As an accountant, I've used the information in this book many times, and my clients think I'm a Quickbooks genius.

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What does history mean today? What is its relevance to the modern world? In contemplating fundamental questions about history and the Western legacy, the noted classical historian Christian Meier offers a new interpretation on how we view the world.

Meier sees an "absence" of history in contemporary Europe and throughout the West--an absence he attributes to the way modern historians have written about history and, more important, to the dramatic transformations of the twentieth century. He argues for the central legacy of Western civilization. He tackles the difficulty of reconciling a historical perspective with our era of extreme acceleration, when experience is shaped less by inheritance and legacy than by the novelty of changes wrought by science and globalization. Finally, Meier contemplates the enormity of the Holocaust, which he sees as a test of "understanding" history. If it is part of the whole arc of the Western legacy, how do we fit it with the rest?

This engaging and thought-provoking meditation challenges us to rethink the role of history in Western culture and a changing world.

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In this companion volume to the acclaimed classic The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery, Robin Blackburn traces European doctrines of race and slavery from medieval times to the early modern epoch. At the time when European powers colonized the Americas, the institution of slavery had almost disappeared from Europe itself. Having overcome an institution widely regarded as oppressive, why did they sponsor the construction of racial slavery in their new colonies? The Making of New World Slavery finds in the emergent West both a stigmatization of the ethno-religious Other and a new culture of consumption, freed from earlier moral restrictions. Robin Blackburn argues that independent commerce, geared to burgeoning consumer markets, was the driving force behind the rise of plantation slavery. The Baroque state fed greedily off this commerce whilst unsuccessfully seeking to regulate slavery. Successive chapters of the book consider the deployment of slaves in the colonial possessions of the Portuguese, the Spanish, the Dutch, the English and the French. Robin Blackburn argues that the organization of slave plantations placed the West on a destructive path to modernity and that greatly preferable alternatives were both proposed and rejected. Finally he shows that the surge of Atlantic trade, premised on the killing toil of the plantations, made a decisive contribution to both the Industrial Revolution and the rise of the West. The Making of New World Slavery is a masterly study of this momentous and baleful epoch in the making of the modern world.

Customer Reviews:

The original sins of economic man.......2003-12-24

The rise of the modern world is beset by a contradiction: even as the institutions of a new freedom were emerging in a core area the cancer of slavery began to recur its periphery. We should conclude that we have a laboratory study of the nature of economic man in relation to the genuine self-consciousness able to create a new culture, and determined to be finished with the curse of history. This book contains some graphic portraiture of this faultline in modernity, and opens with a gripping depiction of the slavers arriving in the ancient Congo.
Superb work.

Blackburn's Superb Effort.......2000-11-15

"The Making of New World Slavery" by Robin Blackburn. This is an incredibly rich book and for the casual reader, very academic on first glance, but it contains a superbly well researched and written examination of the early roots of chattel slavery which anyone studying the Caribbean or the development of the colonial Atlantic Community should read.

This is not a book you are likely to sit down to and read cover to cover on a long winter's night, but I find myself reading sections and then putting it down, then going back to study some facet or another, and noone would be wasting money to have it in their library if they have any serious interest in understanding Slavery, the "development" of the Americas,or the world we share in the Americas today. As the other reviews have so well stated, this work is delightfully free of ideology or cant and integrates a wealth of information on the subject. We can only hope that future work on the History of the Americas will be done with such impartiality.

thorough and objective analysis of slavery in the new world.......1999-09-03

This is a long book, but well worth the time dedicated to reading it, especially if one is interested in understanding the real causes behind the adoption of mass slavery by Christian Nations as a basis for the economic development of the Americas. Mr. Blackburn is writing about an emotionally charged issue but never falls into the trap of emotion and sentiment. Quite the contrary: in the best tradition of historic studies, he seeks to explain and understand; as the author tells us it would have been theoretically possible to build the plantation economies of the new world upon free labour - but how much more convenient for the European colonizers to use an available (African) pool of slave labour right across the ocean. This was reinforced by the fact that not enough whites were willing to emigrate to the Americas in order to work under the harsh conditions predominant in the plantations.

Ideology also came to the rescue of the European nations; from the 15th to the 18th centuries the churches - either Catholic or Protestant - chose to legitimize black (as opposed to Indian) slavery with complicated, Bible-based theological arguments. That helped monarchs and colonizers maintain a clear conscience while enslaving millions; and Mr. Blackburn underlines the key distinction between ancient world slavery, as practised for instance by the Romans, and its modern era "Christian" version. While the former was intimately connected to the capture of POWs and was rarely perpetuated throughout the generations (manumission being a widespread practice), the latter - being a system geared for economic exploitation - was generally hostile to manumission and condemned for centuries a race QUA race to the horrors of enslavement (something that never happened in the ancient world).

This book should be mandatory reading for European" intellectuals": it would help them put in perspective the achievements of the civilisation they so much admire.

Extremely Valuable.......1999-01-03

This book although by by a writer from the left is a well researched well-written survey of slavery. Without emotion it explains how slavery, something which had practically ceased to exist following the collapse of the Roman World was re-created to provide labour in colonies of the new world.

It describes the setting up of the trade occurred and how it operated in practice. The brutality, the mechanics of how slaves were obtained how they were sold, what they did as slaves.

The absence of passion makes the book an even more powerful indictment of the institution of slavery. It describes how in most of the colonies slaves were over time worked to death. In Brazil, the usual life expectancy was seven years.

The book is challenging as it raises questions about the origin of our societies and seriously challenges the notions that European Society was either civilized or Christian.

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Making of New World Slavery: From the Baroque to the Modern 1492-1800.
Robin Blackburn
Manufacturer: Publisher Unknown
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000UYACW2

Book Description

This book provides a careful and detailed algebraic introduction to Grothendieck's local cohomology theory, and illustrates many applications for the theory in commutative algebra and in the geometry of quasi-affine and quasi-projective varieties. Topics covered include Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity, the Fulton-Hansen connectedness theorem for projective varieties, and connections between local cohomology and both reductions of ideals and sheaf cohomology. It is designed for graduate students who have some experience of basic commutative algebra and homological algebra, and also for experts in commutative algebra and algebraic geometry.

Customer Reviews:

Good book, but MUST know algebraic geometry.......2007-10-15

Even though the book seems to suggest that it's aimed at a reader without considerable knowledge of algebraic geometry, reality paints a different picture. If one follows just the algebra, one misses the richness and beauty of the geometry that this algebra was called forward to describe. This is the only flaw, but I feel it's a serious one, so it's better to be forewarned. However, if the knowledge of algebraic geometry IS there, the book both enriches and informs.

An Introduction to Homological Algebra (Cambridge Studies in Advanced Mathematics)

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Excellent Text
Long Live the Homoligarchy!
Deeeep!
Great homological algebra book!

An Introduction to Homological Algebra (Cambridge Studies in Advanced Mathematics)
Charles A. Weibel
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0521559871

Book Description

The landscape of homological algebra has evolved over the past half-century into a fundamental tool for the working mathematician. This book provides a unified account of homological algebra as it exists today. The historical connection with topology, regular local rings, and semi-simple Lie algebras is also described. The first half of the book takes as its subject the canonical topics in homological algebra: derived functors, Tor and Ext, projective dimensions and spectral sequences. Homology of group and Lie algebras illustrate these topics. Intermingled are less canonical topics, such as the derived inverse limit functor lim1, local cohomology, Galois cohomology, and affine Lie algebras. The last part of the book covers less traditional topics that are a vital part of the modern homological toolkit: simplicial methods, Hochschild and cyclic homology, derived categories and total derived functors.

Customer Reviews:

Excellent Text.......2007-03-01

This is an excellent book on Homological Algebra. I am surprised at how often I find myself turning to it.

Long Live the Homoligarchy!.......2006-01-24

This is by far the most accessible and well-written Homological Algebra book I've dealt with. I'm an analyst at heart, so the subject does not in any way come easy to me. However, the exposition in this book greatly shortened the learning curve, and Dr. Weibel provided a plethora of understandable examples and accessible exercises, all of which greatly aided my understanding of the subject.

Deeeep!.......2005-08-01

Now Homological Algebra is not a simple subject that can be picked up with only a minimal background. The subject is deep and permeates many different braches of mathematics. If you are thinking of buying this text, then I have two suggestions. First, just buy it. For the price, you will not find another book that is as up to date or as rich in content. Second, ask yourself if you are really ready for this text? What I would do is use Amazon's "Search Inside" in order to check out the first two or three pages of chapter one. If you feel at home with the material presented there, then just buy it. You will not be upset. Well, you may get upset-this book covers a lot of material and at times can be rather overwhelming. Let me stress that the level of comfort with the preliminary material is analogous to a tenured professors level of comfort with, say, Calculus. That is, very comfortable. With respect to the actual text, I am hard pressed to find any negative words. Weibel has set the modern standard and this text is fast becoming the standard from which all other texts will have to model themselves after. The material is presented in small palatable chunks that can be consumed at any time. Just make sure you have a new pencil and couple notebooks handy when you read this text.

Great homological algebra book!.......1997-08-26

This book was absolutely priceless for me while I was doing my qualifying exams and dissertation. Excellently written, with modern notation and applications and a clearly-exposited writing style. I wish all "hard" math books were written like this. Thanks Prof. Weibel

Introduction to Categories, Homological Algebra and Sheaf Cohomology

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Introduction to Categories, Homological Algebra and Sheaf Cohomology
J. R. Strooker
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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An Introduction to Homological Algebra
D. G. Northcott
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000JWW9I0

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An Introduction to Homological Algebra
D.G. Northcott
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B0000CKS0U

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Avoid this book by this author like the plague!

An introduction to homological algebra
D. G Northcott
Manufacturer: University Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Avoid this book by this author like the plague!.......2007-01-21

This book may be one of the worst written texts I've seen
on a very difficult abstraction of algebra and topology.
I don't have a real desire to read it further
but I'm getting an idea of the subject
( not a lot of thanks to the way it was written).
I went online and read Mathworld definitions for some of the terms and that helped.
I don't know if there is any application to this besides maybe some number theory ones that are almost as abstract.
If you took a course where this was the text, I can only say,
I'm very sorry.
How Mathematics managed to get this far removed from reality is hard to say?
It is ironic that the son of Eli Cartan who is the creator of some of the most useful algebra/ group theory
should be the sponsor of this homological algebra.
With no problems and no examples there is no way to get context for a student , much less understanding.
Avoid books by this author like the plague!
He's still writing and may have improved some, but anyone who published this has to be really numb.
There really should be a zero stars for books like this one.

An Introduction to Homological Algebra (Universitext)

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An Introduction to Homological Algebra (Universitext)
Joseph J. Rotman
Manufacturer: Springer
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0387245278

Book Description

Learning homological algebra is a two-stage affair. First, one must learn the language of Ext and Tor and what it describes. Second, one must be able to compute these things, and, often, this involves yet another language: spectral sequences. This book gives a treatment of homological algebra which motivates the subject in terms of its origins in algebraic topology.

In this new edition the book has been updated and revised throughout and new material on sheaves and cup products has been added. The author also included material about homotopical algebra, alias K-theory, contrasting it with homological algebra.

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New Edition.......2004-05-02

I have just begun writing a second edition of Homological Algebra. The new book will be published by Springer Verlag, New York, and it should be in print by the end of 2005.

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Introduction to homological algebra
Chia-hui Shih Kuo
Manufacturer: s.n
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0007J1706

Introduction to homological algebra (Holden-Day series in mathematics)

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Introduction to homological algebra (Holden-Day series in mathematics)
S. T Hu
Manufacturer: Holden-Day
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