Robert M. Hutchins: Portrait of an Educator (Centennial Publications of The University of Chicago Press)

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As president of the University of Chicago from 1929 to 1951, Robert Maynard Hutchins came to be one of the most prominent and controversial figures in American higher education. To this day, his vision of what the university should be has given shape to twentieth-century debates over the content and function of education in the United States. In her critical biography, the first to focus on Hutchins' University of Chicago decades, Mary Ann Dzuback gives a full and fascinating account of this complex man—his development, his achievements and failures, and finally, his legacy.

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Tiger Woods: A Pictorial Biography could also be called Tigermania, since it celebrates the golfer's meteoric rise from a teenage phenomenon to the hysterics-inducing hero he is today. Some 20 photographers contribute roughly 90 photos--all splendidly reproduced in color to capture the golfing star in all his intensity, grace, determination, and fist-pumping jubilation. One can't help noticing how intensely his eyes focus on the tiny white ball in shot after shot or what a winning smile he has when things are going his way on the course and he's "in the zone."

As you begin delving into the now legendary story of this young marvel--who at 21 became the youngest man and the first minority player ever to win the Masters, by a record 12 strokes in 1997--you realize he possessed genius from his first swing. His father, Earl (who named him "Tiger" in honor of a friend who saved his life during two tours of duty in Vietnam), had been grooming him almost from birth. Rudy Duran, his first golf coach, exclaimed early on that "young Tiger is the 20th-century equivalent of Mozart." This book is a testimony to his gift, an early tribute to a young champion who is already considered to be one of the greatest golfers of all time. After Tiger won the 1995 U.S. Amateur Championship, Earl Woods proclaimed, "Before he's through, my son will win 14 major championships." If you aren't a believer already, this book may well convert you. --Walt Opie

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And what not.......1998-11-09

Man. This book was like a dream come true. As I saw Tiger winning all of those tournaments and what not, I had to say damn. Then, I read this book. It was like another dream come true. He was hitting the birdies and eagles and what not. That day made me proud. Everyone should buy this book.

Wood & Iverson: Loggers of Tiger Mountain

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A pictorial and factual history of Wood & Iverson's logging company in Washington State. Starting from scratch, young William Wood and Iver Iverson started a shingle mill in Snohomish County and later moved south to Hobart, Washington, where they built an extensive railroad logging operation on Tiger Mountain's south slopes. Today, many of their old railroad grades serve as some of the most popular hiking trails in the area.

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Unparalleled!.......1998-06-21

This book is essential for any animation fan or scholar. It contains cross-referenced information which cannot be found anywhere else. In the week that I have owned it, I have used it at least ten times to find information I need. Now if only I had the budget to buy all of the animated films listed in the book! If you have any interest in animation at all, buy this book and become an expert!

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The Animated Film Collector's Guide: Worldwide Sources for Cartoons on Videotape and Laserdisc
David Kilmer
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The Premier Men's Rights Book. .......2006-09-03

I am intimately, in every sense of the word, familiar with most of the men's rights literature, and I have to say that looking back on all the magnificent, avant-garde (and frankly heroic) publications assaulting radical feminism and political correctness in general, this work by Nathanson and Young was, and is, the finest moment. Spreading Misandry is meticulous in its research and analysis. It is also ambitious and deep in its coverage of popular culture. Wading through the often offensive and boring television shows, articles, commercials, and opinion which comprise an unmistakable misandric bias is not an easy task, but the authors did it and through their own "deconstructions" present the most compelling case imaginable. I'm writing my own work on this subject and I doubt that I can limit myself to 20 endnotes from these pages. This work is high brow, sophisticated, and absolutely magnificent. Nathanson and Young are our elite and I personally thank them for their efforts. Furthermore, I am saddened that their follow up book can only be obtained after a four to six week wait which showcases just how little society is concerned about pervasive misandry. As for me, I just placed a used copy on order and will report back my opinion just in case anyone is hedging on their own purchase.

Ingram's review proves this book hits the nail on the head.......2006-08-15

In his review above under Library Journal, Jeff Ingram proves that he either did not read all of the book, or he did not understand it, but either way he commits two of the errors which the authors specifically raise: the trivializing of misandry, and the justification of it.
Now providing us with a classic example of these, first Ingram trivializes misandry by apparently saying, 'oh well, the media is going to engage in this sort of thing anyway..'; he then justifies misandry by stating 'someone has to be the bad person', implying that it might as well be the man (and it usually is, which Ingram would know if he had read all the pages).
Finally, his notion that this one volume, will somehow 'balance' the massive feminist literature on misogyny, is a joke.
Thank you Mr. Ingram, for inadvertantly endorsing the book!

The Institutionalization of Man-Hating.......2006-01-14

I thought this book was going to be "preaching to the already-converted" since I had been aware of man-hating becoming an all-pervasive feature of American films and TV since the early 90s. But Nathanson and Young gave me a lot more than mere support for what I already believed. I got a much better understanding of the situation on a much deeper level. Their argument is clearly and logically presented. I'll admit that the relatively brief discussions of "Deconstruction" and "Post-Modernism" made me (a non-academic) squirm, but they were important to laying down the basics for the overall presentation and were presented in an understandable manner. Oh, and at times the authors lay on the irony a little too thick and perhaps go a bit over-the-top in some of their interpretations of films, but overall, this is a brilliant book that has broadened the scope of my thinking. It is also a disturbing book. Is there a way out of this? Or is misandry to be permanently institutionalized? The authors provide no remedy. That is depressing.

This is an extraordinarily insightful book that I would wholeheartedly recommend to anyone with an intellect. The essay that serves as Appendix 4, "Populist or Elitist? Talk Shows in the Context of Democracy," is an important work on its own. I wish the authors would write another book directed at a more populist audience. I think that perhaps some people in the general audience may tune out during the "Post-Modernism" and "Deconstruction" segments, but I think this is a terrific book and I am grateful to the authors for writing it. I thought I was the only one who had noticed.

A Good First Step On a Much Needed Path.......2006-01-13

Misandry - the hatred or contempt for men - is a very strange phenomenon. Many people have become more aware of a significant uptick in recent years of the denigration of men, usually referred to as male bashing, yet examples of such are so widespread and diffuse that most instances go unnoticed. Many people, especially men, are reluctant to discuss the issue. Doing so not only exposes emotional vulnerability, difficult for many men, but also because those most likely to engage in male bashing are also most likely to ridicule and belittle any man who protests against it.

In SPREADING MISANDRY, the authors Paul Nathanson and Katherine Young not only take up the issue, and do so quite well, but also address those mechanisms that prevent the issue from being better recognized and challenged. The result is a very good book that could pave the way for more widespread discussions of the issue.

The authors focus on misandry in pop culture, most notably movies and TV shows but also greeting cards and cartoons. This focus on pop culture is, in my opinion, one of the strengths of the book as it allows the reader to see how misandry has seeped into the larger culture rather than simply exist within some small isolated corner, such as among academic feminists.

The actual analyses of various movies and TV shows is usually pretty good and at times is exceptional. Interestingly, the authors discuss misandry in moral terms and this infuses their take on things. It is pointed out again and again that male characters are not only evil, but intrinsically so. The directors of such movies feel no need to explain why men are evil. This is not so for women characters who, if they behave in a similar manner, are contextualized so that their behavior is seen not only more sympathetically but usually as a result of mistreatment by men.

Nathanson and Young also focus in on one of the more typical tactics to promote misandry: the one-sided interpretation. This is especially useful in historical pieces as it allows women to be portrayed as having had their choices severely constricted in the past while not pointing out that the same was true for the overwhelming majority of men as well. Producers of such material then defend their pieces by pointing out, well, women did have their choices constricted. But it is not the truth of such a portrayal that is of interest here but rather that men are portrayed as being far, far more privileged than was actually the case. This allows for the male-privileged/female-oppressed dichotomy to flourish in a more subtle manner than overt trashing of men.

If there is a weak point to the book it is that the authors spend more time than is necessary on movies and TV shows that do not even rise to the level of mediocre. More time on other aspects of pop culture, such as the aforementioned greeting cards and comics, would have been some time better spent. Nonetheless, Nathanson and Young are working in fresh territory and some leeway is warranted. Kind of ironic, isn't it? The universities are filled with people who cry out against the injustices of the past and who arrogantly believe that if they themselves had lived way back when, they would have had the moral courage to stand up for what is right. Yet these same academics do live in a time in which some groups are unfairly maligned and stigmatized and not only do they do nothing to stop it, they usually contribute to the problem. SPREADING MISANDRY is a welcome bucking of that trend.

The arrow that splits the arrow that hit the bullseye.......2004-11-11

The other reviews here which gave this book 5 stars have summed up exactly what I think about this book and in turn how I feel about what it says. I just want to add one thing:

thank you God, thank you God, thank you, thank you, thank you.

Spreading Misandry: The Teaching of Contempt for Men in Popular Culture. (Book Review).(Book Review) (book review): An article from: Catholic Insight

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If you've adopted Java as your organizational language, you're probably using, or planning to use, some sort of multitier design to maximize maintainability while making your data store accessible to as many applications as possible. The Jakarta engine ranks as the interface server of choice in that environment, and the Jakarta Struts Framework 1.1 makes it far easier to implement multitier information systems. Programming Jakarta Struts is the best how-to documentation around--in print or on the Internet--on the subject of using Struts to their greatest potential. Chuck Cavaness's book is comprehensive, detailed, critical of its subject where appropriate, and generally invaluable to anyone implementing the Model-View-Controller (MVC) design pattern in Java with the assistance of Struts.

Thankfully, Cavaness opens with an overview of the MVC pattern with a focus on how you're meant to implement it under Struts. For anyone thinking that implementing MVC sounds like more trouble than it's worth, this clarifies why such design usually pays off in the long run. After that, it's into the particulars, which include code listings (lots of them, delightfully commented) and crystal-clear block diagrams that show the flow of messages among objects. There are also many database schema charts that show how the authors structure data in the storefront and shopping cart application that spans the whole of this volume. --David Wall

Topics covered: The Jakarta Struts Framework 1.1 and how to use it to implement the Model-View-Controller (MVC) software design pattern. All the important features of Struts 1.1 get attention, including exception handling, the validation framework, internationalization, logging, and templating with the Tiles framework.

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While the look and feel of an enterprise web application is certainly important, developers usually find themselves spending far too much time on the front-end presentation before they can get to coding the good stuff--the business logic at the heart of the program. Jakarta Struts addresses this issue by combining Java Servlets, Java ServerPages (JSP), custom tags, and messaging resources (like Java Message Service) into a unified, re-usable framework. The result is a cooperative, synergistic platform that's efficient and suitable for independent developers, large development teams, and everyone in between. The Struts Framework has become a highly popular open source project, but there's still woefully little documentation on the technology. What does exist is far too basic and lacks critical information for developers like you writing today's complex web applications. The revised and expanded Programming Jakarta Struts, 2nd Edition covers everything the successful earlier edition did--including an overview of the concepts involved in writing web applications; installation and configuration instructions for getting Struts up and running; a thorough discussion of how Struts implements the Model-View-Controller (MVC) design paradigm (known as the Model 2 approach) and how to interface with that pattern in your own applications; Logging, Validation, and Exception Handling with Struts; using Tiles; writing internationalization and localization code using Struts; and practical, real-world best practices for web applications--as well as plenty more: now fully up to date with Struts 1.1, this edition covers the latest material on tag libraries and the new JavaServerFaces (JSF) APIs and even includes all-new chapters on JSF, JSTL/EL, and security. With each enterprise system he s developed, author Chuck Cavaness has spent many grueling hours learning invaluable lessons about Struts and figuring out the dos and the don'ts of building web applications. He saves you time and headaches by sharing that invaluable real-world experience here, with his realistic, practical, here's how to do it approach to using the Struts Framework to its fullest potential.

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Not a tutorial - Don't buy if you want to learn struts.......2006-08-10

This book should not be viewed as a tutorial. If you know nothing about struts and you want to learn, do not buy this book. You will only confuse yourself.

It makes a great reference once you already know how to use struts, but you cannot learn struts from this book - at least how to code an app.

Simply put, the author does not write this as a tutorial. It does have a running example but it is not a learning book.

Thorough Review.......2006-06-21

The previous book I had on Struts did a poor job of... well, everything. It is called "The Struts Framework" and the main reason I bought it was because it was a manageable 150 pages long. (Am I the only one tired of several hundred page tech books?)
This bably logs in at around 400 pages and does a far better job of explaining what Struts is all about - both fundamentally and specifically. I read the first few introductory chapters and then just checked out the areas I was intrested in. The concepts were presented clearly and the corresponding examples weren't overly complex.
Probably the biggest downside to this book is that it covers Struts 1.1, and today Struts is at 1.2.9, which means 1.3 can't be far away. (Man, writing tech books and then keeping them up-to-date has got to be one tough job!)

Convoluted and difficult to understand.......2006-05-11

Usually I consult Amazon for a book reference. This time I decided to buy this book simply because it's O'REILLY.

Well...I was wrong. While the author writes well and clear, I believe it was address to the wrong audience (for struts experts.) I found the examples to be very convoluted, and difficult to understand.

It also appears as if deadline pressures influenced the construction of this book. (but that's my assumption)

2 stars is best to reflect this book.

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If you like concepts buy this one, good book.......2006-03-17

Great book to learn about struts concepts. I got the book trying to follow a logical sequence buy I found a lot of theory. Very helpful for a begginer who wants to learn J2EE and struts or for a teacher. You need to complement your learning activities with a tutorial. Try the Kurniawans's then this book.

Good for general understanding of Struts.......2006-02-15

I am using this book to come up to speed on Struts for a project where some consultants built screens and set up some rudimentary Struts programs just to make the screens work. This is what I've decided about this book based on my use of it as a reference book.

This is a good book to use if you need to gain a general understanding of Struts. It is good for the programmer who is experienced with Java, including some knowledge of Beans and Servlets, and also some familiarity with the way XML is used with web applications. The book explains the use of XML specifically for configuring Struts, but it leaves out some of the very basic details. It does the same with Beans and Servlets. It's a book about Struts though, so that makes sense.

I am giving it 3 stars based on the fact that it has helped me understand the concepts. If I reviewed the book based on how much it helped me implement Struts successfully, I'd give it 2 stars. The problem I have with this book is the lack of examples now that I have the concept. If you're looking for a good book of examples, look elsewhere.

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A comprehensive reference source designed to identify all English-language works that relate to the Nazis and the Third Reich. Included in this bibliography are monographs, biographies, pamphlets, and journal articles, as well as more general histories of the time period.

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ADOLF HITLER AND THE NAZI EPOCH
PAUL (HEAD OF DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY, HARDIN-SIMMONS UNIV MADDEN
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A Brief History of Western Civilization: The Unfinished Legacy, Volume I (to 1715) (4th Edition) (MyHistoryLab Series)
Mark Kishlansky , Patrick Geary , and Patricia O'Brien
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A Brief History of Western Civilization: The Unfinished Legacy, Volume I (to 1715) (5th Edition) (MyHistoryLab Series)
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Western Civilizations.......2007-10-09

This helped my Western Civilizations Class schoolwork so much. It's very educating on ancient history

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The riveting story of one of the greatest scientific accomplishments of the twentieth century, from the coauthor of the #1 New York Times bestseller Apollo 13.

With rivalries, reversals, and a race against time, the struggle to eradicate polio is one of the great tales of modern history. It begins with the birth of Jonas Salk, shortly before one of the worst polio epidemics in United States history. At the time, the disease was a terrifying enigma: striking from out of nowhere, it afflicted tens of thousands of children in this country each year and left them-literally overnight-paralyzed, and sometimes at death's door.

Salk was in medical school just as a president crippled by the disease, Franklin D. Roosevelt, was taking office-and providing the impetus to the drive for studies on polio. By the early 1950s, Salk had already helped create an influenza vaccine, and was hot on the trail of the polio virus. He was nearly thwarted, though, by the politics of medicine and by a rival researcher eager to discredit his proposed solution. Meanwhile, in 1952, polio was spreading in record numbers, with 57,000 cases in the United States that summer alone.

In early 1954, Salk was weighing the possibility of trials of a not-yet-perfected vaccine against-as the summer approached-the prospect of thousands more children being struck down by the disease. The results of the history-making trials were announced at a press conference on April 12, 1955: "The vaccine works." The room-and an entire nation-erupted in cheers for this singular medical achievement.

Salk became a cultural hero and icon for a whole generation. Now, at the fiftieth anniversary of the first national vaccination program-and as humanity is tantalizingly close to eradicating polio worldwide-comes this unforgettable chronicle. Salk's work was an unparalleled achievement-and it makes for a magnificent read.

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dull and lifeless.......2007-01-21

i found the first chapter of this book quite boring, full of uninteresting detail, but it got better later, though it may be that i just got used to it. as it is, it still wasn't a particularly good book.

one of my complaints is how kluger completely idealizes Salk. for instance, at one point he refuses to tell his rival details about his work because "it seemed somehow wrong to share what he knew with one scientist before revealing it to all the others." come on. it was proffessional rivalry.

another thing that annoyed me was kluger over-analyzing various details that didn't seem to mean anything. he ascribed intentions to various unimportant acts that for one thing, he has no proof of, and for another, are boring to listen to. and we never really get any idea of Salk's personality, which makes the book rather boring, as salk is, after all, the main character. in his acknowledgements, Kluger calls him "a tectonic force in scientific history." bull. all he did was develop a vaccine with already-created methods.

and the details. the book would probably have been way too short if kluger hadn't put in all the details, but still. he spends pages talking about trivial things like how someone decided on the specific date for a conference. sometimes it's interesting details that make a book come alive... but these aren't interesting details.

so i guess the whole problem with the book was that it wasn't alive. the man it's about is a flat, unknown character, and the plot is too long-drawn out and not interesting enough. it wasn't *so* boring, i got through it easily enough, but when i was done i couldn't help thinking what a waste of my time.

one ofthe best scientific mysteries and its solution!.......2006-05-22

Oh...I was so disappointed when I got near the end of the book and realized that the ending would be based on the susquent gearing up of the corporate making of the immense quantities of this vaccine, to bring it into control world-wide. Yet, I came to unerstand that was the right ending to this story...everthing after that was useless detail, even if I wanted to know more about the people involved.

The continuing fight between the arrogant Sabin and Salk has been told elsewhere.and since I wandered around the hallways where Salk and his group did his work. I would hear bits and pieces of the rest of the story, including Salk's mistake of neglecting to mention all of his immediate collegues who spent so much time for so little recognition. I wonder is he ever offered a simple apology...or did he know that would never gain him total forgiveness.

The book is all the more exciting because of my being in and around the places where they worked, and my husband worked for the newspaper, same as Troan...so the book gained the feeling of a movie to me. Kliger is an outstanding scince writer, so that means a lont time between books. Sigh...

At least this is one virus they can truly claim a victory over, and how glad I am as a mother of the 1980's that my children were spared this horrific disease.

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A Splendid Story.......2005-11-20

This tale of science, competition, personalities and politics provides one a splendid base for understanding of processes of the past in order to help in understanding the present.
With my knowledge of viruses as a health care professional, I found the intersection of science with egos and policy somewhat disturbing but not surprising. According to Kluger, Dr. Salk was a selfless scientist who prioritized work above family. The book nearly slanders Dr. Sabin. I have no basis for judgment other than this book, however. This is only one side of the story.
One may find himself extrapolating to the current threat of pandemic Avian Influenza. Splendid Solution provides insight into the process, which according to NIH officials may take up to five years, whereby we may have an Avian Flu vaccine.
Drs. Salk and Sabin (with their assistants) did more than protect us from Polio. In the end, it was the combination of their discoveries that conquered Polio. The book implies that Salk's vaccine may have conquered it alone or more quickly had politics not intervened. But we will never know. We do know that the combination worked.
They laid the groundwork for our protection from threats yet unknown. They are both true American heroes.

A real non fiction page turner.......2005-08-29

Kluger writes a riveting account of the search for an effective immunization for an annual epidemic plaguing society through the first half of the twentieth century. He skillfully weaves the story of Salk's quest within its social background. Reading it brought me back to my childhood in the 1950's and my parents' anxieties each summer as newspapers published counts of local and national polio cases.

A biography of Dr. Salk and his search for the vaccine .......2005-05-11

In 2005 the U.S. celebrates its 50th anniversary of the first national polio vaccination program which helped eradicate the disease in this country: it's hard to believe a generation is growing up without ever having known the ravages of polio. New York Times writer Jeffrey Kluger's Splendid Solution: Jonas Salk And The Conquest Of Polio is both a biography of Dr. Salk and his search for the vaccine and a social history of polio. Chapters based on exclusive interviews with his friends and colleagues and access to his private papers provides new details on Salk's life and career, setting this life in context of both his times and contemporaries.

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Biologist Michael Berrill thinks that overfishing will turn the oceans into the most important frontier of environmentalism in the 21st century. "We are obviously close to, and probably exceeding, the maximum global catch that is possible to sustain," he writes, showing that the total weight of the annual fish catch has quadrupled since 1950. The Plundered Seas occasionally veers toward the technocratic, with its descriptions of New Zealand fishing laws and the like, but it rarely dwells on such subjects for too long. The Plundered Seas is written for general readers who won't be put off by a bit of detail, and includes a few sly observations: "If there ever were a fish destined for extermination by humans, it must be salmon, for it tastes too good, it looks too good, and it swims right into the hands, or nets, of inshore and upriver fishers."

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The book gives an overall view of the major fisheries.......1999-08-05

The Plundered Seas by Machael Berrill gives an overall view of the situation of the major fisheries i the world. The book is not a scientific but journalistic work which make it easy to read. However its angel is from a sustainable biologic and economic point. with out getting into the detail of explaining the deper theoretical reasoning for these views. A good book for somebody who wants an overall view of the state of the world fishery, both as a profesionall in the industry but primarely as somebody that is not familiar with the problems that the world fishery is facing

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