Mining in Chile's Norte Chico: Journal of Charles Lambert, 1825-1830 (Dellplain Latin American Studies)

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Red Grange Story a Winner.......2004-01-31

An inspirational book. The Grange-Morton combination has scored the literary equivalent of a perfectly planned and executed touchdown march.

Football's first star.......2003-02-04

The 1920s were the "Golden Age" of sport. Bobby Jones, Jack Dempsey, Bill Tilden, Babe Ruth and Red Grange were immortalized in the newspaper accounts of Grantland Rice, Damon Runyon, Heywood Broun and others. In the early 1950s, Grange told his story to Ira Morton, a Chicago sportswriter and fellow Illini.

Red Grange was a huge star and gate attraction, a primary reason for the success of the infant NFL, organized in 1922. His gridiron exploits - first at the University of Illinois, later with the Chicago Bears - earned him the nickname "Galloping Ghost". Despite fame, Grange remained humble. Through high school and college, he worked summers hauling ice to pay for his education and condition his body for football. His adventures in Hollywood at the dawn of talking pictures remind us some things don't change.

A knee injury early in his pro career slowed Grange, but he adjusted to his limitations - he played quarterback more often - and earned his spot as a charter inductee of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Upon retirement from playing in 1934, he took on several business ventures and became a broadcaster, paving the way for a host of ex-athletes in many sports. Grange is a fine example of sport as character builder. He was a great runner, but fully acknowledged the essential contributions of his coaches and teammates.

2003 marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of his autobiography and the centennial of his birth (June 13). Read this book as a way to celebrate both.

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The Red Grange story,: The autobiography of Red Grange, as told to Ira Morton ([Putnams sports series])
Harold Edward Grange
Manufacturer: Putnam
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The Red Grange Story. The Autobiography of Red Grange as told to Ira Morton.
Red (Morton, Ira, As Told To) Grange
Manufacturer: G.P. Putnam's Sons
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ASIN: B000NUSWXO

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The Red Grange Story: The Autobiography of the Galloping Ghost
Red & Ira Morton Grange
Manufacturer: G. P. Putnam's Sons
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ASIN: B000UKH6FM

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The Red Grange Story: An Autobiography
Red Grange
Manufacturer: University of Illinois Press
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ENTERTAINMENT GUIDE TO GREATEST MOVIES EVER MADE
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
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ASIN: B000GRLRSG

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THE ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY GUIDE TO THE GREATEST MOVIES EVER MADE

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THE ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY GUIDE TO THE GREATEST MOVIES EVER MADE
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The Entertainment Weekly Guide To The Greatest Movies Ever Made

Manufacturer: Time Warner
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The Entertainment Weekly Guide To the Greatest Movies Ever Made
Entertainment Weekly
Manufacturer: Harper & Row
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ASIN: B000EELLOQ

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Lists of movies including: classiest Hollywood ghost stories; landmark achievment in documentary journalism; the funniest Tracy-Hepburn Movie; Lee Marvin as a Communist Short order cook; they are all here in one great source.

THE ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY GUIDE TO THE GREATEST MOVIES EVER MADE

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THE ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY GUIDE TO THE GREATEST MOVIES EVER MADE

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Don't Know What to Rent on a Saturday Night???

The Entertainment Weekly Guide to the Greatest Movies Ever Made
Entertainment Weekly , Donald Morrison , and Peter Bonventre
Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing
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Binding: Paperback

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*laughing*.......2007-06-16

Are you joking me? I've not read anything so preposterously stupid.

Don't Know What to Rent on a Saturday Night???.......1998-10-05

Then this book is for you! "The Guide to The Greatest Movies Ever Made" is a wonderful journey by the editors of the popular magazine "Entertainment Weekly" through the best films of our time. The great thing is that most of the titles recomended here are on video and available to rent - and if you can't find them it lists places where you can find them. A worthy read for anyone who wants the best drama, comedy, fantasy, sci-fi, western or any other genre of film. It even includes a worthwhile section on Laserdisc. The nice thing would be if the editors would update this book soon - by including not only the great films of the last three or four years, but also include a section on the latest electronic revolution - the arival of DVDs.

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The Entertainment Weekly Guide to the Greatest Movies Ever Made
Entertainment Weekly
Manufacturer: New York, New York, U.S.A.: Warner Books Inc
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000WDVXGA

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The Entertanment Weekly Guide to the Greatest Movies Ever Made
Entertainment Weekly
Manufacturer: Warner Books
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000PF27JC

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From 1954 to 1968 a series of postcards from faraway and exotic places arrived in the mail for doctors, nurses, hospitals and public health officials worldwide. Not unlike greetings from a well-traveled friend, these postcards were entertaining and inscribed with a personal message. But their purpose was more than to say "wish you were here;" they were designed to sell one of the most successful pharmaceuticals of our time.This extraordinary and innovative marketing campaign was the brainchild of Abbott Pharmaceutical Company. Over 170 different postcards from about 80 different countries were sent out over the course of 14 years. Most of the cards were manufactured, stamped and mailed in the local country identified on the card, adding to their authenticity for the recipient. In the end, this clever campaign helped to establish Pentothal as a major brand of anaesthetic product. It is still in use. Today, the cards have another unintended purpose - they provide a unique look at places from around the world when it was a much bigger place.This book contains more than half of the cards that were produced, the very best examples; and features cards containing people, places, buildings and other structures. The collection is introduced by Dr. David C. Lai, MD, who has a passion for anaesthesiology, and along the way has developed a minor obsession for Pentothal postcards.

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The book of tap: Recovering America's long lost dance
Jerry Ames
Manufacturer: D. McKay Co
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: 0679506152

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This book is a focused guide to using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) for the visual design of web pages. It provides concise coverage of all the essential CSS concepts developers need to learn (such as separating content from presentation, block and inline elements, inheritance and cascade, the box model, typography, etc). It also covers the syntax needed to effectively use CSS with your markup document (for example CSS rules, how to structure a style sheet, linking style sheets to your (X)HTML documents, CSS boxes etc).

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is a powerful technology that can be used to add style and structure to your web pages without needing to resort to "hacks" such as HTML table layouts and "spacer images". However, this is not the only advantage over other styling methods. You can specify your CSS styles in a separate file, then apply those styles to every page in your web site. When you want to change a style on your site, you can do it by modifying one style sheet, rather having to update every page. This is only one example of the many advantages CSS brings to your web development work.

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Jam packed full of great information on css and layout.......2007-05-02

Do you want to learn really how powerful CSS can be? This book takes you from the ground up and helps you to understand not only the how to use css for layout but also why you use css. Starting off with the basics you get a good feel for how to write css in both the page itself as well as in an external stylesheet. The authors also explain the advantages and disadvantages of each way to include the styles. Then the book takes you through typography, which unless you are already an expert, you will gain a great understanding of exactly how the type settings really work with the text on a web page. Next, it dives into how to use the css to control your page layout with many different known techniques. You also will understand how these designs work so you can review them and walk away with the knowledge of how to leverage existing patterns and modify them to your needs. If you want to know how to design a page using css definitely get this book.

Great book to start and devlope CSS.......2007-03-22

I have seen this book as very good reference for css. I just would like to have CD also with samples. It is must buy.

autoparts web man.......2006-11-05

This book does an excellent job of explaining CSS. My main focus is seperating content from presentation being my sites are search engine friendly.

Excellent.......2006-07-07

Great for CSS beginers, I found everything here I needed to know to get started.

Real Motivation to use CSS.......2006-02-24

Before reading this book, I had never understood the TRUE real reason for using CSS. The authors for this text do a fantastic job at explaining how HTML has become tainted with stylistic tags and hacks (was not the original intention for HTML, ie using tables for layout), and how CSS has come to the rescue to seperate visual presentation from content. This book is a great read to get a thorough and quick introduction to CSS. It flows well and has incredibly useful examples.

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Great book.......2003-12-08

I thoroghly enjoyed reading this incredible book. I highly recomend it to anybody.

The Evader:An Americans 8 months in the Dutch Underground.......2002-01-05

I first encountered this book in the Readers Digest. I spent alot of time trying to find out how to get the book itself as the excerpt in the Digest was wonderful. I finally tracked down the publisher, told them how badly I wanted this book, paid over the phone & received the book. Autographed by the author himself!!! ( I was thrilled!) This book is written in a very frank manner. Harry does not build himself up to be any kind of hero, just tells it the way it happened. But, the telling is done so well that it's a hard book to put down. I have since read it at least three times. I admire the part he and others played in the Resistance. All Americans can be proud of the part Harry played in the war. I highly reccomend this book for collectors of WWII history books.

An Amazing Story Even 3 Generations Later.......2000-02-24

This book was brought to my attention by my great aunt, whose family - my family, helped the downed pilot Harry. My great grandmother's bother and relatives, the Vissers, helped to hide the American pilot from the Nazi's throughout war-torn Holland. As I read page after page, it was amazing to see my family, worlds and time apart from me, help the Americans win the war with small acts of kindness while risking their own lives in the process. My great grandmother, a Visser, had married a Niekerk and immigrated to the U.S. in the early 1900s but helped the war effort and her fellow Dutchman from her new home in Middlebury, CT. My great aunt and my grandfather remember helping their mother send packages of cloths, medical supplies and other items back to family, friends and even people she didn't even know in Holland. Even though I never met Harry or my great relatives, I still feel a deep family connection and a sense of pride as an American whose past helped shape two countries. This story does not require a linked history to enjoy; it is an action-packed story of war, kindness, history, love and one man whose journey touched many lives - including mine. This book has helped me to learn more about my family and our past. Thank you Harry.

Excellent first person account of the Dutch Underground.......1999-03-20

I first read this in abridged form in Reader's Digest,1995 and finally found it on this site and have now read the original. What a treat! I could not put it down. Part of the attraction was the fact that I was a 31/2 going on 4yrs old in Ternaerd, Friesland, the very place where the author was hidden by one of my Dad's best friends (though no one knew of it then), in the middle of the village less than 1/2 city block away, facing the same village green, and churchyard, and with the Hotel Pel between us (next to our house) where the Germans had their local Headquarters. I can recall the sentries walking up and down in front. My Dad was the local barber and had a small tobacco and confections shop though most things were in short supply by that winter (1944-45).We also had an evader (Dutch) posing as a barber's apprentice and several evacuees from Arnhem and Amsterdam. The story was most vivid and suspenseful. The more, as my Dad's memoirs also deal with this period. It was interesting to see the country and people through American eyes, which were most observant. I'm sorry I never had the chance to meet Mr. Dolph, for I would have loved to speak with him. But I am glad he wrote of his experiences. I would say this is a must read for anyone interested in WWI and the occupation of the Netherlands.

The Evader An American Airman's Eight Months With the Dutch Underground

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The Evader An American Airman's Eight Months With the Dutch Underground
Harry A. Dolph
Manufacturer: Eakin Publications Inc.
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More than a million American airmen were involved in air fighting during World War II. When Eight Air Force aircraft were lost to enemy action over Europe, the statistics on American airmen accumulated as follows: over 26,000 were killed in action; over 130,000 became prisoners of war; over 7,000 were permanently disabled or hospitalized; over 500 were interned in Sweden or Switzerland, neutral countries; and, over 5,000 evaded capture by the enemy after they were shot down. These 5,000 plus American airmen who evaded capture by the enemy became a part of, or were hidden by, the underground forces of the country in which they were shot down. Their wounds were treated, they were dressed in civilian clothes, they were given identity cards, and in many cases, were led to freedom. Today many of the surviving evaders, or evadees, as they were known then, are bound together by an organization known as the Air Forces Escape and Evasion Society. These evaders were sworn to secrecy until the mid-1970s to protect those who helped them during the war. Their stories were not for publication. This is the story of one of of the 5,000 who, with the help of the Dutch underground, was hidden by, worked with, and fought beside the brave Netherlanders during the German occupation of their country.

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The Evader: An American Airman's Eight Months with the Dutch Underground

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The Evader: An American Airman's Eight Months With the Dutch Underground
Harry A. Dolph
Manufacturer: Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum
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Perspectives from the Past, Third Edition, Volume 2
Joshua Cole , and Stephen Epstein
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
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ASIN: 0393925706

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Now in its Third Edition, Perspectives from the Past has been extensively revised to be the ideal companion to Western Civilizations. The breadth and depth of this reader remain unmatched, and the readings have been reorganized to mirror the chapter structure of Western Civilizations. Several documents related to the new theme of Empire and topics like gender and Islam are included with this revision.

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Stories of famously eccentric Princetonians abound--such as that of chemist Hubert Alyea, the model for The Absent-Minded Professor, or Ralph Nader, said to have had his own key to the library as an undergraduate. Or the "Phantom of Fine Hall," a figure many students had seen shuffling around the corridors of the math and physics building wearing purple sneakers and writing numerology treatises on the blackboards. The Phantom was John Nash, one of the most brilliant mathematicians of his generation, who had spiraled into schizophrenia in the 1950s. His most important work had been in game theory, which by the 1980s was underpinning a large part of economics. When the Nobel Prize committee began debating a prize for game theory, Nash's name inevitably came up--only to be dismissed, since the prize clearly could not go to a madman. But in 1994 Nash, in remission from schizophrenia, shared the Nobel Prize in economics for work done some 45 years previously.

Economist and journalist Sylvia Nasar has written a biography of Nash that looks at all sides of his life. She gives an intelligent, understandable exposition of his mathematical ideas and a picture of schizophrenia that is evocative but decidedly unromantic. Her story of the machinations behind Nash's Nobel is fascinating and one of very few such accounts available in print (the CIA could learn a thing or two from the Nobel committees). This highly recommended book is indeed "a story about the mystery of the human mind, in three acts: genius, madness, reawakening." --Mary Ellen Curtin

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In this powerful and dramatic biography Sylvia Nasar vividly re-creates the life of a mathematical genius whose career was cut short by schizophrenia and who, after three decades of devastating mental illness, miraculously recovered and was honored with a Nobel Prize. A Beautiful Mind traces the meteoric rise of John Forbes Nash, Jr., a prodigy and legend by the age of thirty, who dazzled the mathematical world by solving a series of deep problems deemed "impossible" by other mathematicians.

But at the height of his fame, Nash suffered a catastrophic mental breakdown and began a harrowing descent into insanity, resigning his post at MIT, slipping into a series of bizarre delusions, and eventually becoming a dreamy, ghostlike figure at Princeton, scrawling numerological messages on blackboards. He was all but forgotten by the outside world -- until, remarkably, he emerged from his madness to win world acclaim. A feat of biographical writing, A Beautiful Mind is also a fascinating look at the extraordinary and fragile nature of genius.

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He Saw The World In A Way No One Could Have Imagined: A Tour de Force.......2007-10-06

~A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash~ is Sylvia Nassar's most remarkable biography of the life of mathematician John Forbes Nash, Jr. This is not the most flattering of biographies, but a remarkably intriguing one nonetheless. Nicknamed the Kid Professor, Nash started teaching first at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at age twenty-three. Nash gained acclaim following after he became a Nobel Laureate in 1994 for his contributions to economics, game theory, and mathematics. But earning this prestigious accolade was marked by a career of alienation and hardship.

He devised the so called Nash equilibrium, and contributed a breathtaking corpus of research to the study of game theory. Game theory concerns itself with the study of strategic interactions between agents. Parties choose strategies which will maximize their return in response to the strategies that other parties choose. Nash transcended the earlier zero-sum game theories, and revolutionized the application of game theory to both economic, political and military strategic questions. Traditionally, game theory applications were primarily were zero-sum in nature, with the winner-take-all approach-- i.e., my win is your loss, or vice versa.

True genius is often thought to meet the edge of insanity by some people. This held true in the life of John Nash. Lamentably, Nash suffered from schizophrenia, and made harrowing descent into mental illness complete with psychotic delusions and bizarre visions. His illness fueled his bizarre obsessions with numerology and other eccentricities.

Nash resigned his post at MIT after his first serious episodes. He took a position with the enigmatic Cold War think tank the RAND Corporation. RAND, the ultra secretive civilian think tank had a casual campus environment in the laid-back Santa Monica, CA of the 1950s, which hosted some of the most brilliant minds in the United States. RAND was enveloped in a melange of detachment, paranoia, and megalomania. His tenure there perhaps fueled his later Cold War paranoia, which came to bloom when his mental illness reached its full blown stage.

After some breakdowns, Nash recouped his bearings and went onto teach at Princeton. There he met his future wife Alicia who was one of his students. She became enamored with his genius. And contrary to popular myth, though schizophrenics are often thought to be devoid of personal attachments, Nash could show empathy and love. Though his illness frequently revisited him, his wife helped him cope with it. Nash scrawled numbers all over Princeton Hall, and became a mysterious ghost-like figure on the campus of Princeton University. His illness ultimately strained their marriage to the point of separation for a while. At one time, he coped with his illness by traveling Europe and became enamored of his delusions of self-importance. When his mental illness became full-blown, it incapacitated him and left him feeling utterly worthless. His wife had him committed to an institution briefly, before reconciling and moving back in with him to care for him. Instead of being relegated to obscurity, Nash eventually overcame his mental illness with age, and with the recommendation of his peers began to earn the recognition he long deserved.

All things considered, this is a most remarkable look at the life of John Nash. Perhaps the eccentric Nash would not have been very well regarded but for his genius. But Nash showed himself capable of compassion, empathy and love in the relationship with his wife Alicia. Nash possessed as his wife Alicia saw--a beautiful mind. Nash's life was dramatized in the 2001 film A Beautiful Mind based on Nassar's book, which renewed interest in the book first published in 1998.

My $.02 worth.......2007-09-30

I read this book long after it was published, and long after it had accumulated more reviews than anyone is likely to wade through. It's tough to think of a fresh approach, but here's a try:
An amusing, minor sub-theme in this book is the fact that John Nash, who ranks at or near the top among American mathematicians of the past century, was a flop at picking stocks. He devoted a tremendous amount of time to looking for patterns and other indicators that might help him beat the market, and he wound up doing worse than your average patzer. He even lost a sizable chunk of his mother's investment funds.
Think about that the next time you are tempted to respond to one of those blaring magazine or TV ads offering to sell you a technical stock-picking system that really works.

Dad's father's day gift.......2007-07-22

Amazon's website wouldn't let me type a zip code; the website defaulted the zip based on city name and zip was incorrect. As a result, package couldn't be delivered and I was issued a full refund.

Good, but sometimes to in-depth.......2007-06-29

Very good story, I could hardly put it down.

though at times Sylvia spent an entire chapter simply talking about a university, She struggled staying with her point, though only at times.

A Beautiful Book.......2007-06-15

In Nasar's biography of the Nobel prize winning mathematician John Forbes Nash, Jr., his descent into irrationality is portrayed by chronicling several experiences in his frenetic childhood and those from his early adulthood to the present.

In the first chapters of the book, Nasar juxtaposes several episodes in Nash's distinguished childhood, displaying his early genius in chemistry and math in conjunction with those that reveal a childishness equally as impressive. As a youngster, Nasar shows his penchant for pulling pranks on his friends, at one time electrocuting a neighbor and even his own sister, who was continually forced by her mother as they grew up to include the younger Nash in her social activities. However, Nash, though not taciturn, preferred reading encyclopedias and most of all, experimenting. His experiments with bomb-making actually killed one of his childhood friends, after which Nash stopped making them for the rest of his life.

The book describes Nash's early discovery of his love for math one day while reading a book about Fermat's Theorem on prime numbers, which he proved by his own self at the age of 12. It also details his spurning Harvard for Princeton University, a less recognized mathematics school then despite Albert Einstein's prominent position in the faculty, upon his graduation from Carnegie Mellon University, then known as the Carnegie Institute of Technology, because he felt they had not tried hard enough to pursue him.

Indeed, his egocentrism is depicted throughout the whole biography, and it is this megalomania which would later develop into full-blown schizophrenia and terrorize his whole constitution for decades, halting his academic production almost completely during that time period.

Nash ascribes his sudden affliction to a number of disappointments: first, though Nash had solved a problem on turbulence in which he was able to devise a mathematical model for notating its sudden changes in motion, he found out when he was about to submit his paper for publication that someone else, an Italian by the name of De Giorgi, had beat him to it and published his paper in the most obscure journal imaginable; secondly, he says in a letter that his attempt to revise quantum theory was "possibly overreaching and psychologically destabilizing."; third, he attributes his failure to win the Fields Medal in 1958--his last chance since it is generally awarded to young mathematicians--as a contributing factor to his disease. The rest of the book focuses on his delusional experiences and the assistance and loving care of his small group of friends, including his wife, which helped him finally regain control of his mind in 1990.

It was at Princeton that Nash became familiar with John von Neumann's famous theory on rational human behavior, The Theory of Games and Economic Behavior, which focused on zero-sum two person games, and which he felt was unrealistic for predicting most economic situations. Concentrating on what to him were gaping flaws in von Neumann's work, he set out to write his epochal dissertation on a theory that could encompass all realistic scenarios, called Non-cooperative Games, which contained the definition of his equilibrium theory, whose name he is now its eponym. His results also inspired the most famous game of strategy in all of social science: The Prisoner's Dilemma. More significantly, it was this work which won him his Nobel prize in Economics in 1994.

Nasar states that his hyper-competitive spirit was fueled by an intense drive to succeed. When he did not receive an assistant professorship offer from Princeton after obtaining his Ph.D at only 22 years of age, despite his seminal paper on algebraic manifolds, he was humiliated deeply and thereafter went to MIT where he was offered a fellowship. At 25, Nasar describes Nash's sudden impulse to solve the embedding problem for manifolds--a problem which had been left unsolved since it was suggested by Riemann--as a way to belittle a colleague at MIT. And he did. This is today one of the most famous works in pure mathematics.

The body of research which Nasar obviously has pored over is impressive, and it shows in the fluidity of his biography, which flows like a novel, and the immense number of sources cited. It is a fascinating book and one which I recommend as an insight into the emergence of a supposedly degenerative disease and its subsequent effects on a man who at the time seemed on the verge of unprecedented success and fame in the scholastic world. It also shows how even the most logical can at times seem most illogical, and vice versa. As Nash says, "the ideas I had about supernatural beings came to me the same way my mathematical ideas did." For me, I was less intrigued by the episodes detailing Nash's battles with schizophrenia than I was with those of his academic achievements. His spirit and motivation is something I wish I possessed much more of.

All in all, this is a book I enjoyed immensely. And for $2 at Deseret Industries, I couldn't have asked for a better way to spend my money!

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Teach Yourself 101 Key Ideas: Ecology takes a fresh look at established ideas about ecology and applies them to current environmental concerns.

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Ecology (Teach Yourself 101 Key Ideas)
Paul Mitchell
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