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Gentlemen Engineers tells the engaging story of the working lives of Frank and Walter Shanly, two well-connected nineteenth-century Canadian civil engineers and businessmen who worked on many of the significant projects of the age. Drawing on rich documentary sources, Richard White reveals details of their work, not just in the office and field, but in their homes and private studies as well.
The most striking discovery White makes is that the civil engineering profession these brothers entered in the 1840s was already an established profession with fairly high social status. The Shanlys were from an old Irish gentry family, but found the profession quite compatible with their social position and gentry culture. The author thoroughly explores the connection between the Shanlys' as engineers and gentlemen.
White finds another unexpected theme in their lives. In much of the recent social history of business, studies of elite nineteenth-century businessmen have tended to concentrate on power and status: how these men acquired, consolidated, and transmitted it over generations. But the careers of Frank and Walter Shanly were, in fact, full of hard work, struggle, and disappointment.
This study is an important contribution to our understanding of civil engineering professionalization, and to the modernization of business practices in nineteenth-century Canada.
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A reader, rhetoric and handbook for the developmental writing course, WE ARE AMERICA offers you cross-cultural readings that will increase your awareness of perspectives that are different from your own.
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Better than nothing..........2007-04-29
Good reference books seem to be hard to come by lately. Good reference books give you insight and a fuller understanding of the inner workings of whatever their subject matter might be. This is not the case of this book.
You need "Cross-Platform GUI Programming with wxWidgets" only because the standard wxWidgets documentation is so very crude (no one to blame there, except each and every one of us for not contributing better documentation) and because its source code (as well as part of the core development team, I dare add) is so unfriendly to tools like Doxygen. Smart's book is what the wxWidgets online documentation would have been in a perfect world. No more and no less. The author has done a good job compiling and explaining with sample code the basic usage of most wxWidgets components, but you will not emerge a wxWidgets guru after reading this book. For example, just half a page is dedicated to explaining the by no means trivial wxObject class.
You will be disappointed if you are expecting a mind-opening book, the likes of Petzold's classic "Programming Windows", or Prosise's "Programming MFC", or Wall's "Programming Perl" (just to name a few excellent books from a time when the pace of technology was slower and authors still had time to put together great tutorial/reference works), but having a book like this is probably better than no book at all and buying it is a way to support the project, after all.
wxWidgets is great and this is the only book so you better get it :).......2007-03-06
This is the only wxWidgets book so far so it's not like you have many choices! I read this book twice and then the official documentation and I still use this book as a reference sometimes. This book has a TON of errata though so the next release hopefully they are more careful with editing...
I highly recommend getting this book if you want to learn wxWidgets and cross-platform application writing!
Great for getting started with wxWidgets.......2007-02-06
I have found this book extremely helpful in getting started on my first project with wxWidgets. It is easy to read and is written in a straight forward manor. It explains the concepts behind wxWidgets and covers the basics pretty well. My only criticism is that if something is hard to do, the book may give a hint on how to get started, but does not have many complex examples.
Good Book.......2006-08-09
It covered alot of things, but I thought it was a little bit too vague. I would of rather liked to see more coding then words explaining the coding. A complete script for example would of been nice instead of just code snippets.
Lacks flow and some details.......2006-04-06
Looking at the Table of Contents we find a good start: (1) Introduction, and (2) Getting Started. Then we go in a direction I find illogical: (3) Event Handling, (4) Window Basics, (5) Drawing and Printing, (6) Handling Input, and (7) Window Layout Using Sizers. I believe that a better order would have been (4), (7), (3), (6), (5).
Due to the libraries use of MACROs (which are not well described within the text), many other issues arise. One of which is variable visibility. C/C++ scope is simple, but due to wxWidget's use of MACROs the accessing of variables can become difficult. There is a validation class which has only two type of validators, one for text and a generic one which does no validating at all. Those validators can also handle data transfer, but the transfer happens on an "OK" event back to the widget which is being destroyed. Useful?
Otherwise a decent introduction to the language and its promises. Good luck with more support from on-line documents and the mailing list! I have not found the answers/support that I seek.
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Rather than celebrating warfare, 50 Battles That Changed the World looks at the clashes the author believes have had the most profound impact on world history. Listed in order of their relevance to the modern world, they range from the ancient past to the present day and span the globe many times over. This book is not so much about military strategy as the implications of the battles that were vital in shaping civilization as we know it. Some of the battles in this book are familiar to us all-Bunker Hill, which prevented the American Revolution from being stillborn, and Marathon, which kept the world's first democracy alive. Others may be less familiar-the naval battle at Diu (on the Indian Coast), which led to the ascendancy of Western Civilization and the discovery of America, and Yarmuk, which made possible the spread of Islam from Morocco to the Philippines.
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Well written and informative.......2007-09-03
Like the other of William Weir's books that I have read, this one is well written and informative. It gives a history of what he feels are the 50 battles that changed the world. Each battle is covered in about 6 pages, so only a general overview is provided. All in all I liked this book, but with some reservations.
Pros:
1) More important than the battles is the preliminary discussion of the history leading up to the battle, a capsule history of the commanders and the importance of the battle.
2) Good if you just want a general review of the subject, written in an entertaining style.
3) While centered the western world, it also covers a few battles in the rest of the world (Mexico, China, Middle East).
4) Several interesting appendices are included. Weir provides a capsule history of all of the important leaders discussed in the book, a glossary of military terms and five different timelines (which compare the battles discussed in the book in terms of things like the development of democracy, East versus West and the development of European nationhood.)
5) This book is written for a general audience rather than experts in military history.
6) There is a lot of interesting information provided in this book and I gained new insights into many areas of history. For instance, I had always viewed the blue versus green conflicts in Constantinople as being akin to the rivalry between supporters of different sports teams in the same city. I learned from this book that the blues and greens were primarily Christian religious factions, who also supported different chariot teams.
While this book is very interesting it has several shortcomings that a potential reader should be aware of.
Cons:
1) This book does not give a detailed discussion the battles or of the tactics and strategy that were employed. If that is your primary interest then Fuller's "Military History of the Western World" or Liddell Hart's "Strategy" are better choices.
2) There is no overriding theme to the book, such as the development of tactics and weapons. (If this is your interest, then Weir has books on the 50 most important weapons and important turning points in military history that you will find of interest.)
3) While there are a few non-Western battles, but all are told from the perspective of their importance to Western Civilization. There are no battles that are important just to Asian Civilization, Indian Civilization, or Latin American Civilizations.
4) This book lists the 50 battles that Weir thinks are the most important and the battles are discussed in what he feels are their order of importance. Students of history will no doubt disagree with Weir's choice of battles and his listing of their importance. For instance, few students of the American Civil War would rate the battle at Chickamauga as being more important than Antietam or Gettysburg. I suspect that Chickamauga was included because he had already written the chapter for a previous book (see below).
5) Basing the book on the Weir's idea of the order of importance of the battles that are discussed makes the book very disjointed. For instance, the battle of the Atlantic during WWII is succeeded by Cannae in 216 BC, which is followed by Malplaquet in 1709, which is then followed by Carrhae in 53 BC. There is no chronological continuity and, in my opinion this makes it difficult to follow the historical development of nations, weapons, tactics or anything else. Weir does provide an appendix that lists the battles in chronological order, so the reader could read the chapters in that order instead of that given in the book, but it is cumbersome to do so.
6) This book will probably disappoint experts in military history as being too superficial, but then again it was not written for that audience.
7) There is a considerable overlap with a previous book of Weir's, "Fatal Victories". That book is focused on victories that ultimately lead to unwanted consequences. Ten of the 14 battles discussed in the previous book were also, verbatim in parts, chapters in this book. If you liked the previous book, you will like this one, but you get only 40 new battles, without the emphasis on the fatal aspects of the 10 battles that are also included in this book.
Some of the battles listed simply do not belong on this list........2007-08-20
This is a well written book, and a highly entertaining read, but I take strong exception to some of the author's choices.
For example, how he can call the Battle of Tanga, in 1914, one of the most decisive battles in history (it was a WWI battle between British and German colonial troops in Africa that very few people have ever heard of, and which had NO appreciable effect on the outcome of the war), while leaving the Battle of Manzikert in 1071 off the list entirely simply defies reason. Manzikert was the defeat that sent the Byzantine Empire into an irreversible death spiral, that paved the way for Islamic Ottoman expansion into Europe (whose aftermath we are still living with today in the form of religious strife in the Balkans), and was partly responsible for prompting the great voyages of discovery made by western Europeans from the 15th century onward (The Ottomans were now firmly astride the old trade nexus of Constantinople, and Europeans were looking for new ways to access the wealth of the Orient). Manzikert was a tremendously decisive battle, of the sort that genuinely changed the course of world history. Tanga simply wasn't. This does not make sense.
Other choices are equally bizarre. I'm sorry, but there's no way the Battle of New Orleans in the War of 1812, or the Tet Offensive in the Vietnam War, or the aforementioned Battle of Tanga were more historically decisive than Manzikert, and other battles which were also inexplicably left off the list altogether, such as Salamis, The Teutoburger Wald, or the unsuccessful Ottoman attempt to take Vienna in 1529.
The book is certainly interesting, and not all of the author's picks are bad ones by any means. But some of his choices simply have me scratching my head wondering "what on earth was he thinking here?"
Ubermonkey says thumbs up.......2006-09-15
THE GOOD: This is a well written book! What I liked most about this book is that the author presents each of his 50 battles in an interesting and informative way. He doesn't spend too much time telling you what you do not need to know, but instead covers the basics: who is involved, what were they fighting with (weapons and tactics) and what were they fighting for. Some battles included the necessary background to build the platform upon which the current battle was being fought. It was nice to read through a battle and not get bogged down by too much information, especially knowing that another battle was ahead. Additionally, Weir doesn't present this book as a "I know more than you do" kind of historian. He writes from an every day perspective which made things easy to understand, but did not turn it into a "History for Dummies" lesson.
THE BAD: I think the problem with Weir's attempt is saying that the book is listed in importance to the world, which in his opinion would make the battle of Marathon (490 bc) the most important battle ever. Maybe it was...but lists such as these are subjective. Different battles have differing levels of importance depending on who you ask. I think the author would have been better off just listing 50 important battles in no specific order.
Additionally, while only three WW2 battles appear (Stalingrad, Midway and the Atlantic Ocean), I thought that the ommission of Operation Overlord was kind of odd. That has to be among the most important days in WW2.
THE UGLY: Someone else already eluded to the lack of illustrations and I wanted to back that up. Any time an author has a chance to make a good book better and doesn't, it goes in the ugly section. This book could have been so much better with a few maps here and there to clear things up. Not many people are familiar with the layout of some of these battlefields and describing those along with troop placement and movement could have been handled much better with a map or two. That would have done wonders for this book. That the author only included a few blurry or poorly drawn maps was a bad decision on his part.
Ubermonley says that this book is entertaining and worth the read as long as you don't get too caught up in the order of the battles or lack of illustrations!
Interesting, but flawed.......2004-07-24
There's a lot to like about William Weir's 50 Battles That Changed The World. But there are also some problems. I would recommend this book, but only as a companion to other similar works, such as Battles That Changed History by Geoffrey Reagan.
The author has an interesting take on the importance of these 50 battles, preferring to focus on how the battles shaped modern civilization. That is certainly a valid approach. Many to most of his choices are impeccable, but several choice are questionable.
He includes some rather curious choices such as Dublin, the Nika Rebellion, Petrograd, Tanga and Wu-sung. But not Yorktown, Gettysburg, Crecy, El Alamein, Salamis, Blenheim or Dien Bien Phu.
There's 11 pages on Tenochititlan, and nine pages on the battle of Chickamauga, for instance, compared to five on Saratoga and Waterloo.
And listing the Nika Rebellion as the second most important battle of all time? Hard to figure where that is coming from.
There's little to nothing about military strategic and tactics, which is why I think most people read this sort of thing.
There are almost no maps, and the illustrations are small.
Also, there are numerous typos, many of them just careless, such as the caption that says (insert commander here).
Again, it's an interesting take on the world's great battles. Just don't take it as gospel.
What I was looking for.......2002-09-19
Any book that attempts to list the "50 greatest" battles in history is going to be vulnerable to many criticisms. However, W. Weir stays away from any false claims of achievement and simply provides engaging summaries of some of the most important military clashes of the last 3,000 years. Each description is 4 or 5 pages long, and broadly covers causes, people, tactics, and other general elements. This is not an academic book in the least; it's the kind of book you pick up every once in awhile, open to a random page and enjoy.
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Perhaps no Indian people are better known than the Sioux. With rigorous scholarship and remarkably clear writing, a leading expert on the Sioux raises questions about their history while synthesizing the historical and anthropological research over a wide scope of issues and periods. This stimulating text includes historical sketches, topical debates, and imaginary reconstructions to engage readers in a deeper thinking of this fascinating people.The Sioux covers the entire historical range of the Sioux, from their emergence as an identifiable group in late prehistory to the year 2000. As an archaeologist, author Guy Gibbon has studied the material remains of the Sioux for many years. His expertise, his informative and engaging writing style, dozens of photographs, and the comprehensive endnotes and further reading lists make this a compelling and indispensable text for students, scholars, and readers of Sioux history.
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FROM THE PREFACE In the years since the first edition, I have continued to consider ways in which the texts could be improved. In this regard, I researched several topics including how people learn (learning styles, etc.), how the brain functions in storing and retrieving information, and the fundamentals of memory systems. Many of the changes incorporated in this second edition are a result of this research. The changes were field-tested during a three-year period in which I taught a water and wastewater mathematics course for Palomar Community College, San Marcos, California. · All the fundamental math concepts and skills needed for daily water/wastewater treatment plant operations. This first volume, "Basic Math Concepts for Water and Wastewater Plant Operators," provides a thorough review of the necessary mathematical concepts and skills encountered in the daily operations of a water and wastewater treatment plant. Each chapter begins with a skills check to allow the student to determine whether or not a review of the topic is needed. Practice problems illustrate the concepts presented in each section.
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