John Law: Economic Theorist and Policy-Maker

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John Law (1671-1729) left a remarkable legacy of economic concepts from a time when economic conceptualization was very much at an embryonic stage. Yet he is best known--and generally dismissed--today as a rake, duellist, and gambler. This intellectual biography offers a new approach to Law, one that shows him to have been a significant economic theorist with a vision that he attempted to implement as policy in early-eighteenth-century Europe. Law's style, marked by a clarity and use of modern terminology, stands out starkly against the turgid prose of many of his contemporaries. His vision of a monetary and financial system was certainly one of a later age, for Law believed in an economy of banknotes and credit where specie had no role to play. Ultimately Law failed as a policy-maker, in part because of the entrenchment of the financiers and their aristocratic backers and in part because of theoretical flaws in his vision. His struggle for power took place against the background of Europe's first major stock boom and collapse. The collapse of the Mississippi System, which he had conceived, and the South Sea Bubble led to a lasting impression of Law as a failure. It is this impression that Antoin Murphy seeks to dispel.

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I liked it better than Junction Boys

"My Dads Greatest Mentor"

"Stoddard Nailed It"

GOOD BUT NOT GREAT

GOOD BUT NOT GREAT

Turnaround: Bear Bryant's 1st Year at Alabama
Tom Stoddard
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By 1958, the once legendary Bama football program had reached an all-time low - only four wins in three years. The proud tradition that included national titles and Rose Bowl victories was a source of state pride that had to be saved. Paul "Bear" Bryant became the football program's savior, and the University gave him free rein to work his miracles. Comprehensive interviews with players and coaches, detailed accounts of practice sessions, play-by play recordings of the games, and numerous photos take the reader back in time to that critical year in Alabama football history.

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I liked it better than Junction Boys.......2004-05-04

Stoddard is a proven commodity after this one. I found it very revealing. I almost liked it as much as "A Tailgater's Guide To SEC Football" by Dr. Chris Warner. I highly recommend it.

"My Dads Greatest Mentor".......2004-01-16

I have not yet read Mr. Stoddards book "Turnaround". However, I have just purchased this book for my dad because he played for Coach Bryant. As a son of a former player of Coach Bryant, I must say that any book about Coach Bryant will always be a special book to me and my family and especially to my Dad. My Dad has always and will always "look up" to Coach Bryant. Even though Coach Bryant was not successful in the beginning at the University of Alabama, I am quiet sure this book is great because it will illustrate his "NEVER QUIT" attitude, which is a philosophy that my Dad has lived with throughout his life.

"Stoddard Nailed It".......2003-01-27

I have most likely read almost every book that has been written about the legendery college football coach. With the possible exception of "Bear", (which was an autobiography written by John Underwood) this is the best book ever written on Paul "Bear" Bryant. It was meticulously researched and led the reader on a journey throughout the year of 1958 (Bryant's first year at Alabama) which laid the foundation for a football dynasty during the 1960s and 1970s. While books like "The Junction Boys" might be more entertaining (but not always factual), "Turnaround" does not suffer the numerous embellishment problems that "Junction" did. Tom Stoddard deserves a great deal of recognition for this work. It is a must for the serious student of Bryant.

GOOD BUT NOT GREAT.......2002-06-27

This book is worthwhile for any hard-core fan of the Crimson Tide. But if you are not there would be little here to interest you.

Another reviewer highly recommended "The Junction Boys", a story of the nightmarish ten days that Bear Bryant ran his first Texas A&M team through. I agree that book was more interesting and more focused. "Turnaround", regrettably, does not have the same appeal and sense of being there that "The Junction Boys" did. True, Bear Bryant was not the sweetest coach in the world in 1958, but after what he put his first Aggie team through I could not be awed with what his first Crimson Tide team went through. Bear's first Aggie team appeared to have had it tougher -- which is why he considered that to be his favorite team in spite of the fact that was his only losing team (1-9) in his entire career.

There were a couple of interesting items about the book though. First, J. B. "Ears" Whitworth preceded the Bear to Tuscaloosa and won only four games in three years. I do not remember anything about "Ears" as I was too young and growing up in Alabama I never heard many references to those dark days in Crimson Tide history. About the only reference to those days was that a quarterback who was hurt much of the time while at Alabama later went on to a somewhat more successful career in the NFL -- some guy named Bart Starr. The book did devote the first chapter to the problems swirling around the Alabama football program during "Ears" less than successful three years.

The second item of interest is the description of the practice sessions. Bear later mellowed considerably -- especially in the 1970s and when he was 15 - 20 years older and more experienced. But he ran the program in a very controlled manner, attention to detail, well organized, mission oriented, stressing a strong conditioning program, never a wasted moment on the practice field, well motivated, and stressing academics. I have read several descriptions of the current coach, Dennis Franchione, and although Coach Franchione was not a deciple of the Bear, he runs things in a very similar manner. There are differences of course in that there are different rules and water breaks are no longer considered a sign of weakness. But the basic ideas remain the same. I hope Coach Franchione has similar success.

GOOD BUT NOT GREAT.......2002-06-27

This book is worthwhile for any hard-core fan of the Crimson Tide. But if you are not there would be little here to interest you.

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The Nazis saw film as a major vehicle for both indoctrination and escapist pacification of the masses; in fact, Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels tried to create a German counter-Hollywood. This highly acclaimed study, by one of Germanys leading commentators and authors on cultural policy, analyses the pictorial and spoken language of the various film genres in the Third Reich, including news reels, documentaries, feature and cultural films. It shows how a powerful and sinister propaganda machine emerged which, by deploying a wide range of psychological techniques, exerted a strong fascination on the masses. These methods were so successful that they continue to serve as models for totalitarian rgimes to this day.

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Below Average Book with some cool pictures.......2007-05-12

This book is really like a kid's picture book than an adult reference book. It shows some good pictures (maybe that will give ideas for your costumes) but that's about all it does. It appears that this was some grad-student's project that just happened to get published. As long as it cheap though, it wouldn't hurt to add to your collection if you want to see some examples of cosplay.

Great book for Star Trek Fans.......2006-01-16

I always wondered how and why star trek fans get involved in making costumes and what types of events they attend looking like Starfleet or an Alien. Heather Joseph-Witham answers those questions and much more in this fanstatic book about Star Trek Costume Art. The photos are great, and really show how these wonderful fans create their works of art. A good read - A great collectable!!!

Got a Life, Thanks.......2000-07-30

"Get a Life" is the derogatory dismissal often aimed at the
Star Trek fandom. As Heather Joseph-Witham discloses in her
fan-friendly little book, Trekkies usually do "have a life"
outside of fandom, and most take "fan-dumb" not too
seriously. That costumed Klingon or Starfleet Officer is quite likely
an environmental engineer, a college professor, a parent and
homemaker, a Kung Fu Master, a computer wizard, a police officer, a
priest, pastor, or rabbi, or even a technician at NASA! For these
people, the creation of costume art is a diversion or a hobby, and the
"professionalism" of the costume is much less important than
the wearability and pure fun of it. The "hall-costumes"
featured in Ms. Joseph-Witham's book are that kind of art, their
wearers those kinds of fans. These costumes are often whipped
together out of fabric remnants, leather strips, thrift-store fur
coats, inexpensive polyester or vinyl, crepe hairpieces. The fan
interviews conducted by the author reveal that many Trek enthusiasts
are attracted to the archetypes embodied by the series' various
characters and alien species. Thus, a fan chooses to role-play a
Klingon warrior, a Vulcan science-officer, or a Bajoran priestess
based on his/her affinity with that archetype. And although all the
convention-goers in this book are members of a tightly-bonded
community, the relative annonymity of costuming allows them the
opportunity to portray themselves in a manner which they otherwise
might not attempt in public.
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I don't feel this is a good representation of trek costumers.......1998-12-07

As a trekkie who has been costuming for years, I did not feel that this book accurately represented costumers. I am always improving my craft. Each costume gets better and better and yet the ones in this book seem very amatuer. There was not much attention given to details. I am ecstatic that a book was done on trekkies in costume. I just think better costumers could have been found and perhaps a little less detail given to the woman's bosom.

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On any scrapbook page, the pictures really only tell half the story--a short but expressive journal entry or caption is just as important for capturing a special memory. Scrapbookers know this and are constantly looking for ways to make it easier and less time consuming.

Popular scrapbook columnist Joanna Campbell Slan shows how to capture stories as they're happening using simple one-minute journaling methods. She then shows how to get those stories onto album pages with a minimum of fuss and effort. For crafters who don't like their own handwriting, Slan illustrates several creative solutions using computer type, lettering templates, stencils and rubber stamps.

* Makes adding stories to scrapbook pages fast and easy
* Independent Publisher recently lauded Slan as "a gifted storyteller"
* Over 575,500 people read Slan's columns each month!

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Don't just use photos, tell the STORY behind them!.......2001-09-10

This is a WONDERFUL book! It's just beautiful and a real pleasure to look through. I'm a beginning scrapbooker and I must admit that I'm more into journaling than scrapbooking (I'm not very artistic or creative and I'm better with words than with cutting and pasting! ).

You really get to know the author through this book. This is not just a book of ideas for scrapbooking - it's really about the philosophy behind scrapbooking, and the reason for it. The ideas are really good, and I learned a tremendous amount from this book. But I think even more than that, I was inspired to venture out in my own writing on my scrapbook pages!

Fantastic resource for scrapbookers!.......2001-08-29

Joanna Campbell Slan continues to publish books of real substance for scrapbookers. In ONE MINUTE JOURNALING she packs each page with colorful examples and explains how the page was made (with list of supplies!). Her journaling ideas are both practical and useful. I particularly loved the page she did for her friend who had lost the cat she loved. She created a wonderful effect with rubber stamps, punches, and vellum to make a window scene with a shadowy cat; I would never have thought of crimping vellum to create a window blind! I know I will use this book a lot.

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Outstanding read for intermediate developer

Maybe useful if you are already a blog programmer

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Better Than Nothing

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Blogging has moved rapidly from being a craze to become a core feature of the Internetfrom individuals sharing their thoughts with the world via online diaries, through fans talking about their favorite sports teams or music, right up to serious business minds discussing industry futures. And that includes you, right? If you haven't got a blog already, you want to start one, and want to find out how. If you have already got one, you want to know how to customize it, and make it look cooler than everybody elses. In either case, this is the ideal book for you. In this book, a team of renowned web designers take you through the ins and outs of putting together great blogs. They waste no time harking on about the philosophy of blogs, or the community behind them. Instead, they get straight to the practical details, showing how to set up a basic blog in some of the world's most popular blogging engines -- Movable Type, ExpressionEngine, WordPress, and Textpattern. With your blog set up, they then show you how to build great looking, usable layouts for your blog. The last chapter even shows you how to build your very own PHP/MySQL-based blog engine! With this book in hand, youll have found your way to blog heaven in no time! Summary of contents:

Chapter 1: The "Web Log"
Chapter 2: Creating a Local Test Environment for Your Blog
Chapter 3: Movable Type
Chapter 4: ExpressionEngine
Chapter 5: WordPress
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Chapter 7: Write Your Own Blog Engine

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Outstanding read for intermediate developer.......2007-08-15

Chapter seven.."write your own blog engine" alone is worth the price of the book. If you are a beginning to intermediate php "developer" and want to learn how to build a useful expandable CMS and blog, then buy this book. No goofy writer promoting their buddies add on products here. You get the information and clear guidance you need to build your own system.
I do stress that you should know some php to tackle chapter seven. If you do you can will see the flexiblity in the system and be able to take the blog engine presented in the book to new levels. Even if you don't know php, but can follow instructions you will build a blog that is as good as any packaged deal available.
If you are fuzzy on page layouts and css, this book will help clear it up.
If you are interested in writing your own software instead of reengineering someone elses then get this book. If you want to make one of the popular packaged blog engined uniquely your own, then buy this book. It teaches how to do just that.

Maybe useful if you are already a blog programmer.......2007-01-16

I've been a software designer / programmer for 30 some years, working at various levels from programmer to project director so I don't feel like I'm easily intimidated by "tech talk". I also recognize this to be an example of poor quality documentation and technical / tutorial writing and editing. This book seems to be written for "the insiders' community" i.e. experienced CMS, PHP, mySQL website developers.

I found the intro material shallow and repetitive, just filling up pages in some places. I bought the book particularly for the WordPress chapter - looking for documentation to take me from installation, through design options, explanation of concepts, and examples of a variety of blog types, how to design and implement them using WordPress tools and rsources. I found instead small examples of snatches of code to be inserted, who knows where and with little explanation of purpose or design / integration considerations (like no variables or links defined). There is also no adequate bibliography or background list of tutorials to create a conceptual environment or even to facilitate looking up terms.

If you had done this stuff before, these are probably useful tidbits and the name dropping and personal asides might be cute but between the insider jokes and jabs and lack of structured documentation, I found this material next to useless.

Needless to say, I returned this book - the first time I've availed myself of Amazon's return policy in about 100 purchases.

ee!.......2006-10-15

Bought this book mainly for Simon Collision's chapter on ExpressionEngine. Really helpful; love the way he imparts info. EE's worth paying for, definitely, but its creators also offer a completely robust free version. Free as in free, not a trial. Careful, though - you'll want to upgrade to the licensed version after working with EE for a bit. ;)

Can,t connect phpmyadmin to mysql.......2006-05-01

I would give this book 5 stars but not untill I can fix my 1045 error I recieved when I try to connect phpmyadmin to mysql, I'll give it one. The book looks really good but for me the instructions for phpmyadmin don't work and I tried every thing possible. I will be returning this book soon unless I find the solution. Update after 4 days of trying I found a way to connect phpmyadmin to mysql. So I'll give this book 4 Stars! The versions of phpMyAdmin and MySQL as in the book are out of date but the latest versions will still work.

Better Than Nothing.......2006-03-21

This book will be extremely helpful to the new blogger who desires insight into the ins and outs of blogging, as well as the logistical knowledge (geeky know-how) required to install and use four of the most popular blogging systems available today (MovableType, ExpressionEngine, WordPress, and Textpattern). Its depth regarding the specifics of each blogging system is shallow, but given the obvious diversity of the content and targeted audience, this should be expected. To that point, most of the authors explicitly acknowledge only being able to give a small glimpse into the depths of each blogging system.

The four chapters, dedicated each to a specific blogging system, are an excellent starting point for the blogging newbie. However, this comes at a price. That is, in order to digest the four chapters which focus on a specific system, an individual must first digest the technical matters discussed in chapter 2 (LAMP, WAMP, MAMP). I don't see this as a downfall of the book, but rather as the place where the learning curve might jump beyond the targeted audience.

Once the reader has digested chapter 2, the book moves straight into the implementation and usage of MovableType. At this point, I think the authors made a critical error by not including a chapter dedicated to an objective overview and comprehensive comparison of the four blogging systems showcased. For example, ExpressionEngine has very specific strengths in the realm of user management that should have been compared and contrasted against the other systems. The reason being, that a majority of the noise found on the Internet concerning blogging is dedicated to this exact issue. As well, it never fails. Each and every person blogging today did (or eventually will) seek an objective overview and comprehensive comparison of the blogging systems available. Without a comparison of the strengths and weaknesses of each system, readers are left to essentially pick one of the systems randomly, hoping they are picking the one that best suits their needs. Questions like, "which system provides the easiest template manipulation?", "which systems support community plug-ins?", and "which system is the easiest to get up-and-running?" are left for readers to either deduct from one small chapter or research and answer elsewhere.

As for the last chapter, I was a little confused by its worth to a blogging newbie (at whom the book is obviously targeted). I'm almost sure that if you need a book to show you how to install Textpattern, then the last chapter of this book is way over your head from a technical perspective.

The book's saving grace is the fact that it was published at all. Given the options (none at this point), this book is well worth the purchase if your goal is to get up and running with next to no knowledge about the topic at hand. Of course, I hear that Typo 3 has a book.

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Behemoth, or The Long Parliament is essential to any reader interested in the historical context of the thought of Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679). In De Cive (1642) and Leviathan (1651), the great political philosopher had developed an analytical framework for discussing sedition, rebellion, and the breakdown of authority. Behemoth, completed around 1668 and not published until after Hobbe's death, represents the systematic application of this framework to the English Civil War.

In his insightful and substantial Introduction, Stephen Holmes examines the major themes and implications of Behemoth in Hobbes's system of thought. Holmes notes that a fresh consideration of Behemoth dispels persistent misreadings of Hobbes, including the idea that man is motivated solely by a desire for self-preservation. Behemoth, which is cast as a series of dialogues between a teacher and his pupil, locates the principal cause of the Civil War less in economic interests than in the stubborn irrationality of key actors. It also shows more vividly than any of Hobbe's other works the importance of religion in his theories of human nature and behavior.

Behemoth or the Long Parliament (Paper Only)

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Behemoth or the Long Parliament (Paper Only)
Hobbes
Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
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ASIN: B000OPWTTG

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From the foremost collection of the artist's work, a remarkable portrait of Native American life.

In 1832, George Catlin—showman, entrepreneur, and artist—made the first of four trips into Indian country, painting as he went, in a wonderfully spontaneous, if somewhat naive style. His ambition was to paint every tribe. He fell short. But what he did achieve, and the subject of this splendid volume, is a remarkable look into the faces and daily activities of Native Americans before their lands and their numbers were so radically diminished. And while Catlin was clearly influenced by the idea that Indians were Noble Savages (rapidly acquiring the vices of the white man while losing their "savage" virtues), his passion for his work is evidence of a profound respect and affection for his subjects, clearly demonstrated in this magnificent book. 275 illustrations, 150 in color.

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Wonderful Edition.......2005-09-26

This book has a nice variety of the collection of George Catlin paintings, along with a few of the artifacts from his collection. Most of these are reproduced in color in this book. The text is also well written and tells the story of Catlin, his paintings, and the view point of the era.

George Catlin and His Indian Gallery.......2005-08-19

This is a gorgeous book, filled with magnificent reproductions of Catlin's seminal portraits and augmented by a trenchant and insightful commentary.

Superb collection of Catlin's paintings.......2003-01-22

This is a wonderful book! It accompanies an exhibit of hundreds of Catlin's paintings held in Washington DC in 2002, and scheduled to travel to several other cities. The reproductions are superb (the best I've ever seen) - the colors are true, and the sizes are often full-page and sometimes double-page. A brief commentary accompanies each painting, and there are also lengthy essays describing Catlin's life, his time in Europe, and his connection with the Smithsonian.
I bought Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, etc at the same time that I bought this book, and I read the two of them together. The paintings are immeasurably enhanced by Catlin's comments and stories (he is a great story-teller). He explains what's happening in the crowd scenes (and it is sometimes hair-raising!), and he gives interesting background on the people shown in the portraits. Looked at in this way, the paintings really come alive. Very highly recommended.

George Catlin and His Indian Gallery.(Learning from Exhibitions)(Cover Story): An article from: Arts & Activities

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George Catlin and His Indian Gallery.(Learning from Exhibitions)(Cover Story): An article from: Arts & Activities
Mark M. Johnson
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This digital document is an article from Arts & Activities, published by Publishers' Development Corporation on April 1, 2004. The length of the article is 1258 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: George Catlin and His Indian Gallery.(Learning from Exhibitions)(Cover Story)
Author: Mark M. Johnson
Publication: Arts & Activities (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 1, 2004
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Vision, more than any other sense, dominates our mental life. Our visual experience is so rich and so detailed, that we can hardly distinguish that experience from the world itself. Even when we just think about the world and don't look at it directly, we can't help but imagine what it looks like. We think of 'seeing' as being an exclusively conscious activity - we direct our eyes, we choose what we look at, we register what we are seeing. The research described in this book has radically altered this attitude towards vision. The odyssey begins and ends with the story of a young woman (here called 'Dee') apparently blind to the shapes of things in her visual world due to a devastating brain accident. As their investigations unfolded, Milner and Goodale found that Dee wasn't in fact 'form-blind' at all - she could register the shapes of objects unconsciously, though she didn't at first realise it. Taking us on a journey into the unconscious brain, the two scientists who made this discovery tell the amazing story of their work, and the surprising conclusions about the normal brain's hidden capacities they were forced to reach. Written to be accessible to students and popular science readers, this book is a fascinating illustration of how the study of a damaged brain can reveal much about the human condition.

Sight Unseen: An Exploration of Conscious and Unconscious Vision

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Sight Unseen: An Exploration of Conscious and Unconscious Vision
A. David Milner Melvyn A. Goodale
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