State budget and tax actions 1991 (Legislative finance paper)

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State budget and tax actions 1991 (Legislative finance paper)
Corina L Eckl
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Here is a revival of classic Maine humor, with charming charcoal sketches by Mark Andres. Marshall Dodge and Robert Bryan began swapping Down East stories while students at Yale in the 1950s. Their fascination with Maine and its people triggered the production of five Bert and I records, from which fourteen tales were selected for this book. Also available: Bert and I On Stage and How to Talk Yankee on audiocassette and Bert and I & More Bert and I and The Return of Bert and I & Bert and I Stem Inflation on CD.

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Bert and I and Other Stories from Down East.......2007-01-03

Get the records or tapes. The book does not have the same bang.

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Bert and I: And Other Stories From Down East

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Marshal Dodge and Robert Bryan began swapping Down East stories while students at Yale in the fifties. Their fascination with and appreciation for Maine and its people triggered the production of five "Bert and I" records, from which fourteen tales have been selected for this book. -- from book's back cover

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Bert and I and Other Stories from Down East
Marshall / Bryan, Robert, Illustrated by Andres, Mark Dodge
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BERT AND I: And Other Stories From Down East
Marshall & BRYAN, R. DODGE
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An amusing compilation of thousands of semi-scientific laws, principles, and questions collected by the author from the poor and obscure as well as the rich and famous. Everyone plagued by the complexities of modern life will appreciate this humorous collection, which the New York Times calls "the definitive work on the subject".

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Fascinating, amusing, oh-so-ture annotated compilation........2000-04-07

The Official Rules And Explanations: The Original Guide To Surviving The Electronic Age With Wit, Wisdom, And Laughter is a fascinating, amusing, oh-so-true annotated compilation of thousands of semi-scientific laws, principles, and guides to assist the reader in surviving the complexities of the electronic age. Bowie's Theorem: If an experiment works, you must be using the wrong equipment.

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Sal Piro , and Michael Hess
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THE OFFICIAL ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW AUDIENCE PAR-TIC-I-PATION GUIDE
PIRO SAL & HESS MICHAEL
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Tuned to Ernie

A good, honest look about the game yesterday and today

Tuned to Baseball
Ernie Harwell
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Ernie Harwell: My 60 Years In Baseball (Honoring a Detroit Legend)

Ernie Harwell : Stories From My Life in Baseball (Honoring a Detroit Legend)

ASIN: 0345361253
Release Date: 1990-03-13

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Tuned to Ernie.......2006-11-20

Since Mr. Harwell was/is "tuned to baseball," I was tuned into listening to Mr. Harwell broadcsting the Tigers and sharing these wonderful stories! When I was a child and now as a man, Ernie Harwell is my hero! I am so fortunate to have an autographed copy of this great book by the great announcer/great person!

A good, honest look about the game yesterday and today.......2000-04-03

Ernie Harwell is not only one of baseball's great announcers, but also one of its great men. This memoir chronicles his beginnings as an announcer back in the 30s all the way to the contemporary Detroit Tiger teams he now covers. Tiger fans wil get the most out of it, but the book is filled with "stuff you didn't know" about the great NY and Brooklyn teams in the 50s, as well as stories about many of baseball's notable figures over the last half-century. Written in a warm, home-spun style, this is one volume "purist" baseball fans will want to go out and get.

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Tuned to Baseball
Ernie Harwell
Manufacturer: South Bend, Indiana: Diamond Communications, Inc. 1985
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Ernie Harwell
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Kerberos, the single sign-on authentication system originally developed at MIT, deserves its name. It's a faithful watchdog that keeps intruders out of your networks. But it has been equally fierce to system administrators, for whom the complexity of Kerberos is legendary. Single sign-on is the holy grail of network administration, and Kerberos is the only game in town. Microsoft, by integrating Kerberos into Active Directory in Windows 2000 and 2003, has extended the reach of Kerberos to all networks large or small. Kerberos makes your network more secure and more convenient for users by providing a single authentication system that works across the entire network. One username; one password; one login is all you need. Fortunately, help for administrators is on the way. Kerberos: The Definitive Guide shows you how to implement Kerberos for secure authentication. In addition to covering the basic principles behind cryptographic authentication, it covers everything from basic installation to advanced topics like cross-realm authentication, defending against attacks on Kerberos, and troubleshooting. In addition to covering Microsoft's Active Directory implementation, Kerberos: The Definitive Guide covers both major implementations of Kerberos for Unix and Linux: MIT and Heimdal. It shows you how to set up Mac OS X as a Kerberos client. The book also covers both versions of the Kerberos protocol that are still in use: Kerberos 4 (now obsolete) and Kerberos 5, paying special attention to the integration between the different protocols, and between Unix and Windows implementations. If you've been avoiding Kerberos because it's confusing and poorly documented, it's time to get on board! This book shows you how to put Kerberos authentication to work on your Windows and Unix systems.

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Good Starting Point.......2005-11-16

This has very superb explanations about the Kerberos authentication concepts. As a Windows system administrator, this has helped me immensely in understanding what's under the hood of Active Directory.

In delving into Windows-Linux interoperability experiments, this book was invaluable in presenting different scenarios. I decided to be bold and try have Linux directly authenticate to Windows Server 2003 KDC using information from Chapter 8 "Advanced Topics". I was able to learn the concepts and get started, but I ran into problems:

First the example (page 179) for exporting keytabs doesn't work with Windows 2003, as you need to use "nt4domain\unixhost" for ktpass -mapuser option.

Secondly, there's no coverage on what to do with these keytab files on the Unix side. I found later (googling) that I needed to install them using the kutil command.

Thirdly, there could have references to material on how to test and re-configure Linux to use Kerberos instead of shadow passwd system. "Chapter 7: Applications" covers this, but references to the PAM modules are rather outdated. There should have been detail on how to configure GDM, KDM, and xscreensaver to use Kerberos.

Lastly, I found is that troubleshooting presented earlier in Chapter 5 grossly needs to be expanded. I got specific error messages, and would have liked to see more specifics included. (Fortunately googling again help find some pointers)

Overall this book is great spring board, but as it is outdated and in some ways incomplete, you need to scour the Internet for the complete solution. Still, I honestly don't know how I could have gotten there without this book.

Kerberos intimidates a lot of people, don't be one of them.......2005-09-06

I got started using Kerberos many moons ago, at my university. This is probably how many people got to know about it. While I didn't use it very much, it's there that I learned the basics and experimented a bit with Kerberos. Interest in it took off after Microsoft incorporated Kerberos authentication mechanisms into Windows 2000. Suddenly it wasn't such arcane knowledge.

Two open source Kerberos implementations exist, the MIT reference implementation, and the Heimdal Kerberos implementation. Even then, there are two main versions which you can find, Kerberos IV and Kerberos V. Kerberos IV went away for most environments with the passing of the Y2K mark, but some legacy apps need support. So, you still have to deal with it on occasion.

In writing Secure Architectures with OpenBSD, I got a lot more intimate with Kerberos, and even set up a decently sized realm in my house. Hence, I got to experience the turmoil of setup and debugging. A book like Kerberos: The Definitive Guide (K:TDG) would have been very welcome. Instead, I slogged my way through it, and got it to work for the most part.

K:TDG will help you set up your Kerberos world by introducing you to the complex subject, terminology, and the pieces. Once you learn the basics, you recognize that a simple realm is actually somewhat easy to set up. The author, Jason Garman, uses a mixed Mac OS X, UNIX, and Windows environment, focusing on UNIX most of the time. The bulk of the examples deal with MIT Kerberos 5 version 1.3 (krb5-1.3) but should work for most versions. Some attention is given to the Heimdal implementation (which is integrated with BSD, for example), and for the most part you'll be OK. Windows examples are also pretty copious but always come second. If you're comfortable with UNIX, you'll easily be able to translate these into Windows examples to help bridge the Windows gaps.

Chapter 1 is an obligatory Introduction, a short chapter that introduces the key concepts of Kerberos and what the book will cover. A very quick comparison of Kerberos to DCE, SESAME, and earlier versions of Kerberos is given. This chapter serves as a nice selling point for the book, it's the type of thing you'd flip through in the book store to decide if you should buy the book or not.

Chapter 2 is a decent overview for the new user of Kerberos to the system and how it works. Kerberos is placed into its role in a AAA infrastructure - authentication, authorization, and accounting - as well as some caveats that are commonly made. You'll learn about core Kerberos features like tickets, realms, principles, instances, ticket granting tickets, and the ticket cache. A decent overview for practical purposes is given, but you will definitely want another resource if you're interested in diving headlong into Kerberos.

These pieces come together in Chapter 3, where the actual protocols are described. They're laid out for a non-cryptographer, so go elsewhere if you want to learn the real formal material behind the system. Understanding the protocols is important to understanding the service as a whole. For someone new to Kerberos, you'll probably want to spend a little more time reading this to get oriented in the Kerberos world. The chapter doesn't mess around too much and delivers a fair treatment of the material.

Chapter 4 is the meat of the book's material, setting up your implementation. It all starts with the KDC (key distribution center) and realm initialization. Again, the bulk of the treatment is on the MIT implementation on UNIX, with the Heimdal and then Windows sections following next. Slave KDCs are also introduced, which is useful for large environments. An OS X server is missing, but Kerberos clients for all three (UNIX, Windows and OS X) is given. The role of DNS is also explained well, a useful touch that's missing in some Kerberos documents I've used in the past. This chapter will get you started, and with some of the supplied documentation you should be up and running in no time.

Chapter 5 is devoted to troubleshooting, an all too familiar task for a new Kerberos administrator. Common problems, their diagnosis, and resolution are discussed. I like the presentation of this chapter and think it will be useful for most real-world situations you'll encounter.

Security concerns with Kerberos are covered in Chapter 6, which discusses concrete and abstract attacks on the Kerberos scheme. Since all of the security in Kerberos resides in your KDC hosts, obviously this covers some of the material. However, the clients can exposes your Kerberos realm to attacks, as well, and how to circumvent these problems is covered. A decent and practical chapter, and covered on both UNIX and Windows.

In Chapter 7 a number of Kerberos enabled applications are discussed. After all, you can do more than just log on locally with Kerberos, you can use remote login programs like SSH, remote access scenarios like printing, and even control X via Kerberos. While not every application that I would have liked was covered, the treatment was fair and should get you started with a number of Kerberos enabled tools in your new realm.

A strong selling point of the book is given in Chapter 8, titled Advanced Topics. Three main topics are discussed. The first is cross-realm authentication, where you have more than one separate Kerberos realm on your network but you want to have users switch between the two without creating accounts in the other. This can get tricky, and the book does a decent job of introducing it, but it's not as complete as it could be. The second main topic in this chapter is Kerberos 4 and 5 interoperability, which is relatively straightforward. Most Kerberos 5 implementations come with tools to process Kerberos 4 ticket scenarios to handle legacy applications. And finally, a really valuable section covers UNIX and Windows Kerberos interoperability, a hairy issue. Again, incomplete but strong enough that you should be able to get it working with some elbow grease. This is probably the most valuable chapter of the book, which does a decent job at the introductory level, but you'll be left to tie up a few loose ends on your own.

An obligatory case study is given in Chapter 9, where you can see a number of configuration samples and even a mixed Windows-UNIX environment. Not terribly useful when compared to chapters 4 and 8, but overall worthwhile. It may answer some of your questions, even. Chapter 10 wraps up the book with looking at Kerberos futures, which isn't all that useful, honestly. What gets more useful is the appendix, which gives an administration reference. Lots of commands are given for MIT, Heimdal and even for Windows, so you can quickly jump there to refresh your memory on a topic.

Overall this book is recommended if you need a place to start working on Kerberos, especially in a mixed environment. The MIT and Heimdal documents are a fair place to start for a UNIX only Kerberos realm, but if you find they aren't enough, this is probably the right book for you. The book's main strength is that it covers Kerberos on the three main platforms in use (Windows, OS X, and UNIX), although it could provide a deeper treatment to the mixed environment than it gives. Still, you should be able to use this as a starting point, and it's probably the best treatment I've seen so far on Kerberos setup and administration.

Reasonably thorough introduction and guide, but needs updated.......2005-07-18

Like most O'Reilly titles, this book covers the general topics one needs to be conversant in a given topic. Take what you read, do a few web searches, experiment with the technology, discuss the concepts with others - this book will give you a solid foundation to get started. Moreover, like other O'Reilly topics one can see errata, etc. on the O'Reilly website. This book easily meets the high expectations one has of a book from this publisher: conversational tone, lots of hands-on examples, and broad coverage of applications using this technology.

There are really two areas where this book falls short: 1) while broad and general concepts of Kerberos are discussed, when the examples roll out little effort is given to explain the reasons behind settings, configurations, etc., and 2) as with many technology-related books this book could already use an update. In terms of the former issue, I can see that it is difficult to cover the logic behind various implementations of Kerberos. This book attempts to cover Kerberos implementations in Kerberos 4, Kerberos 5, MIT, Heimdal, Windows, and a bit of Mac OS X, as well as various applications that can use Kerberos such as Cyrus, OpenSSH, and Reflection. There is a lot of material here: each of these applications could easily warrant an O'Reilly book of their own. Moreover, these applications change over time (and rather short times, at that). Thus, the second complaint: particularly in terms of OS X this book could use an updated version, though the majority of the text is still relevant.

To summarize a bit here, if you are looking for cutting-edge info on security, implementation (such as in OS X), or applications, then this book will fall a bit short. Further, if you are already well-versed in the Kerberos liturgy, there will be little to excite you here (though there may be some golden nuggets). However, if you are a manager, someone who needs to quickly assimilate the vast information on Kerberos, or a junior system administrator then this book will be a valuable guide for you. While it lacks the lowest levels of detail on Kerberos, this book should provide enough detail for the astute reader to find their way.

Comprehensive and easy-to-understand.......2004-09-07

I hoped that this book would help answer all my questions about Kerberos. It did. I have worked with Active Directory frequently over the past 5 years. Also, I have a penchant for security and Open Source software. I was eager to know how Kerberos works behind the scenes, especially in complex scenarios such as cross-realm authentication in Active Directory forests. I was not disappointed.

Kerberos: The Definitive Guide covers everything from history and concepts through implementation and advanced topics. Everything you need to know about authentication, cryptography and security in order to understand and implement Kerberos is here.

Jason Garman does a good job of conveying a wealth of complex subject material in a simple, easy-to-digest way. This book is not a Kerberos "bible" -- it doesn't cover every possible aspect of Kerberos in detail -- but it is more than adequate to be used as an implementation guide, and it makes an excellent reference.

I can recommend this to anyone who works with Kerberos.

Concise, accurate, fair Windows coverage........2004-06-29

I purchased this book to assist in integrating Linux authentication with Active Directory. It provided about 90% of the information I needed, the rest came from the web. Offers a concise overview of Kerberos, pretty good coverage of interaction with Active Directory, and some great information on inter-realm trusts that was hard to find via Microsoft. All this talk of AD aside, plenty of high quality information here for the Open Source community.

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Any and every question you have on the lives of the Kings and Queens of England-from when they were born, who their enemies were to all their major accomplishments-are answered in this complete guide.

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Here is the whole saga of the Irish from earliest times to the present. Learn about Irish history, culture, religion, laws, arts, antiquities, folklore, trade, literature, heroes, and more. Although a work of sound scholarship, it is as easy to read as a superb novel.

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From the POV of a potato famine American.......2006-04-21

MacManus tells the story of the Irish race with a passion and fervor that highlights the intertwining of his own identity with that of his native land.

Originally written just a few years before the successful separation of the 26 counties from British rule, the writing has an edge and agenda born of those turbulent times. It exposes the pain of a truly oppressed people and lets the reader feel at times the utter dispair of the Irish under English rule. Sometimes the only thing that kept me from being overwhelmed by the sadness of it was my own knowledge that Ireland is free, once and for all, and can never be oppressed so again.

What I found most interesting was the absolute consistency between MacManus' descriptions of 18th-century Ireland and the family stories handed down from my Great-Grandfather and -Grandmother, who were refugees from Ireland during the potato famine; the accounts of the potato famine itself, and of the underground nationalist movement against the British, and so much more - it was brought to life in MacManus' account.

The biggest challenge I had reading this book was not getting unreasonably upset with my English friends; I had to continually remind myself that they are much more enlightened than their Imperial British forefathers of only 85 years ago.

This is not a book for the faint-of-heart; it does not have the lively tone and easy style of some of the more recent Irish histories. It reads more like a textbook most times, and its 700+ pages sometimes feel like they will never end. But it is an invaluable tome for anyone who is studying Irish history and heritage, and I highly recommend it for anyone who wants to understand the present-day Irish through their history.

Indispensable Resource for Framing an Irish Family History.......2005-07-13

For the past 5 years I have been working on writing the stories of my own Irish ancestors coming to America from 1860--1910. I have found The Story of the Irish Race to be a great resource for historical information, beautifully worded details, and the realities of the times. This book has been indispensable as a reference in writing the stories of my own ancestors in the context of the history they lived.

Start with this but keep reading........2005-01-28

I have owned this book for nearly ten years and I keep returning to it. It tells a powerful story spanning the course of Irish history from the earliest times to the early 20th century. I found it fascinating in the first few chapters (before English Conquest) and horrifying in the subsequent chapters (Once England had taken control and set to exterminating the Irish people). Yes, it is old. It is a fabulous narrative and it isn't a textbook. It is biased toward the Irish. If you read only this book you're missing out and not seeing the whole picture but it tells a powerful story and made me want to know more about the Irish people. Read this book then keep reading! Ireland has much to offer.

The "Truth" abot history........2004-05-15

I wasn't even going to write a review of this book until I read the other reviews. As an Irish Cultural Anthropology minor at college, this book is a treasure! The fact about history is that it is not objective, and as far as I am concerrned it should not be. This book is refreshingly written by a real man, who lived in Ireland during one of it's most turbulent times. This is of course going to colour his views. Objectivity is simply not possible, not by the most well-meaning person, we all have our lenses. The interesting part about this book is the lens. some of his views may not be "correct" by historical scholars viewpoints, but they are the views of a man living in Donegal during the war of independence. A man who was a storyteller and a person who held many of the old traditions. For this reason alone I would reccomend this book to anyone interested. The point is not to get an objective view, but to get many differing views to create a semblance of a whole that is as multifaceted and varying as the people who experienced the world through those times.

Not a history book.......2003-02-21

I have had a copy of this book for years and originally thought that it was a valid history book. However, I now know [having read much more about Irish history over the years] that while this is a very interesing read it should not be read as a history book. MacManus was a storyteller who lived about 100 years ago and was popular but he was never a trained historian in any way. Enjoy this if you want fiction.

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The Story of the Irish Race
Seumas MacManus
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The Story of the Irish Race: A Popular History of Ireland

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And the truth is??
Irish History as My Grandfather Told to Me As a Wee Boy!
A partisan romp through history
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A precise and detailed history of the Irish people.

The Story of the Irish Race: A Popular History of Ireland
Seumas MacManus
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And the truth is??.......2005-07-15

My father told me that no Irishman lets the truth stand in the way of a good story. Who knows what of history is true in any culture. This book recognizes it and makes it an excellent blend and easy reading.

Irish History as My Grandfather Told to Me As a Wee Boy!.......2005-05-17

Seumus MacManus is a great story teller in the finest of the shanachie tradtion. This is history through story telling. Most is factual, but the folklore is weaved into the telling of the tale. The descriptions of the life and work of Daniel O'Connell are priceless. As a boy, growing up, I was never certain of what was real and what was fanciful about my Irish heritage. But, isn't that much of the charm of the Irish? I highly recommend this book to the reader who wants to be entertained and disdains dry history books. This is a fun read and a wonderful way to learn of the surprising and incredibly interesting history of an amazing people. I also recommend a new book by Frank Delaney, Ireland, published in 2004. Read it and you will understand why I prefer my history learning to include people like the Shanachies who passed on the oral traditions. But, if you really want to learn about the Irish, go to Ireland, and let the people tell you of their history and culture. I learned more in 16 days in Ireland than anything I have ever read. It is a proud culture of wonderful people. It is important for the reader to know that this was published in 1921 and reflects the attitudes of that time in Ireland.

A partisan romp through history.......2005-05-08

A classic work of Irish-American partisan history. This was the Irish history taught at our grandparents knee and stories both whispered and shouted at many an auld shebeen. Unfortunately, much of it is highly exagerated and based more upon cultural politics than verifiable history. There is no doubt that the history of the English occupation has been long and cruel, but that in and of itself does not make all things Irish angelic. According to the poet MacManus, Ireland before 1169 was an idylic wonderland inhabited by saints and scholars and noble warriors. Do not misunderstand: I love this book. I retell these tales to any and all who will listen. But it is not history as much as folklore. His dedication to his deceased bride- the poet Ethna Carberry- is touching and sad, but gets obsessive as she is mentioned in almost every chapter. My old copy - 1921- contains blank pages in the back with the instructions to paste the newsclippings about the Treaty there. This book is perhaps one of the last places one can find the stories of Fin MacCool, St. Patrick, Owen Roe O'Neil, Patrick Sarfield and the Fenians all in one volume, and each capter ws writen by different experts (and Nationalists).

Thanks for some insight.......1999-05-07

Genocide has recently become an issue again in current events. The Yugoslavians are having at the Albanians. Africans have and are decimating Africans. Germans have reduced Jewish and Roman Catholic numbers efficiently and effectively. Spanish, French, Scandanavian and English swacked the native Americans and their cultures from Alaska to the southern most end of South America. It's an old story. The English are not alone in their chapters. In fact, they still pompously and righteously perpetuate their own form of genocide at the hands of the native Irish, as they have with South Africans and Indians.

Seumas MacManus allows this to be perfectly clear, not as a biased self appointed judge, but as a historian making available in print information previously unavailable to me and others of Irish descent who have lost their roots because they've been hacked away from them by shame.

It seems once again unjust that a work which salutes the dignity, power and grace of a people is left to die its own death and is no longer published. I was looking for a copy to purchase so I could leave it for my children and their children. I know of no shenachies to continue the tales. Another positive cultural influence destroyed by the insecure British. Just think of what could have been if the British weren't so afraid of the people they didn't understand and therefor massacred and worked with them toward their mutual benefit. We'll never know.

A precise and detailed history of the Irish people........1998-05-20

The gentle nature of the Irish people is greatly emphasized in this book. The ideas of democracy were practiced in ancient Ireland, according to MacManus. Women were treated as equals in a time when they were but chattle in other areas of the world. The desire to aquire knowledge is clearly evident in the way the scholars of celtic culture were respected and looked to for direction. I was amazed by the Englishmen that participated in the destruction of Irish culture. In particular, Sir Walter Raleigh and the masacre of the Spanish soldiers that came to assist the rebellion of the English invasion of Ireland. That is a part of history not taught in American schools today. We were taught that Raleigh was an heroic man. This book opened my eyes to the true barbarian he was. These are only a few of the details that shocked and interested me about my heritage. I am still reading and anticipate the aditional information I to come.

Gothic Images of Race in Nineteenth-Century England

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Gothic Images of Race in Nineteenth-Century England
H. Malchow
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In pursuing the sources for late-eighteenth and nineteenth-century “demonization” of racial and cultural difference, this book moves back and forth between the imagined world of literature and the “real” world of historical experience, between fictional romance and what has been called the “parallel fictions” of the human sciences of anthropology and biology.

The author argues that the gothic genre and its various permutations offered a language that could be appropriated, consciously or not, by racists in a powerful and obsessively reiterated evocation of terror, disgust, and alienation. But he shows that the gothic itself also evolved in the context of the brutal progress of European nationalism and imperialism, and absorbed much from them. This book explores both the gothicization of race and the racialization of the gothic as inseparable processes.

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The Story of the Irish Race
Seumas MacManus
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A popular history of Ireland

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In Consciousness Explained, Daniel Dennett embarks on the audacious task of explaining human consciousness. He sets his sights even higher for Kinds of Minds, attempting to provide a more general explanation of consciousness. But don't be put off: the book is short, easy to read, and makes a good introduction to Dennett's richly interdisciplinary oeuvre. While beginners will appreciate Dennett's appeals to intuitive moral considerations to emphasize the importance of investigating consciousness, there is much in the book to hold the attention of readers already familiar with his previous work.

At the beginning of Kinds of Minds Dennett asks, "What kinds of minds are there? And how do we know?" These two questions--the first ontological, the second epistemological--set the agenda for the book. Intuitions untutored by theory are not capable of answering these questions, Dennett argues, making it necessary to pursue insight from the evolutionary point of view. Accordingly, subsequent chapters are devoted to phylogenetic speculations about agency and intentionality, sensitivity and sentience, and perception and behavior. Particularly charming is the series of squiggly amoebas--the Darwinian, Skinnerian, Popperian, and Gregorian creatures--that illustrates the hierarchy of cognitive power. In the final chapter, Dennett returns to the original two questions, ending not with their answers, but, he hopes, with "better versions of the questions themselves." --Glenn Branch

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In Kinds of Minds , philosopher and cognitive scientist Daniel C. Dennett provides readers with a fascinating evolutionary perspective on how the human mind came to be. Tracing the development of consciousness from its earliest roots, when primitive animals first gained the ability to respond to their environment, he describes the crucial steps that eventually led to the emergence of self-awareness in humans. Along the way, he grapples with such thought-provoking questions as: What is a mind? What is sentience? Why are our minds different from the minds of animals? Do animals feel? Could a robot ever achieve consciousness?

Profound, illuminating, and completely accessible to the lay reader, Kinds of Minds is a landmark work from one of the most foremost authorities on the subject. It is a crucial addition to the philosophical discussion that began with Descartes' theory, "I think, therefore I am."

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The right approach.......2007-08-19

To the question, "Where does human consciousness come from?", somebody (I think it may have been William James) answered, "From animal consciousness." Unless one accepts some non-naturalistic explanation, I think that has to be right, and Dennett, who is a philosopher not a biologist, goes squarely up that Darwinian road. Not enough is known to make the whole journey without any gaps, but his account of evolutionary development from Darwinian creatures, to Skinnerian, to Popperian, to Gregorian ones, and of how those transitions might have occurred, is extremely suggestive about the major aspects of the route that has culminated (so far) in the human kind of mind. Exciting stuff, no doubt about it.

The book is very well-written, but not an easy read in a few sections, where steps in the argument are more suggested than explicitly stated. I think that's to be expected at the frontier of any science -- and everything about this subject matter lies at the ragged edge of knowledge and speculation. That problem no doubt is exacerbated by the space constraints that this series of short science books imposes. But the overall explanatory approach and framework are clear and persuasive. Dennett's recommendations for further reading are especially good.

Highly recommended.

Very interesting philosohical exploration.......2006-04-23

I could feel my brain stretching as I read this book. It is philosophical but readable.

The main focus of this book is, as implied by the title, the notion that there are several qualitatively different ways that organisms adapt to their environments -- it isn't simply a matter of one organism being "more intelligent" than another. He presents a succession of clear models, increasing in sophistication, for how an organism's behavior can be modulated to improve its chances of reproductive success. I had never thought about these qualitatively different "levels of sophistication," but they make perfect sense to me -- kind of an "Aha!" experience.

I liked it.

Brilliant and accessible.......2005-08-27

As usual, Daniel C. Dennett brings precision to a topic often muddied by wishful thinking, unsupported suppositions and entrenched predisposition. His insights are keen and this book makes a wonderful and accessible introduction to both his books on consciousness (e.g., Consciousness Explained) and his books on evolution (e.g., Darwin's Dangerous Idea).

wonderful.......2005-03-11

commenting on one only aspect of this book may be misguiding as it is so rich of theories, arguments and scientific information.
To summarize I just say that Dennet seems like the Freud of conciousness.

From this point forward.......2002-06-17

If you aren't familiar with the works of Daniel Dennett, this is the starting point of choice. This American philosopher's ability to pose thought-provoking questions is unmatched. In this collection, the focus is on "what is a mind?" How do we define "the mind" and are humans the sole possessors of it? Dennett is not only deft at posing these posers, he presents the questions and his explanations with philosophy's finest prose and wit. His other advantage over his fellow cognitive scientists is his use of Darwin's "dangerous idea," evolution by natural selection. As products of that process, humans are not exempt from its rules. That framework raises the issue of whether other creatures can be said to have "minds." Dennett explores this issue with skillfully chosen examples. These are part of the list of "kinds of minds."

Dennett is famous among philosophers for devising the concept of "the intentional stance." The intentional stance is interpreting the behaviour of an entity." The range of entities is extensive - a simple thermostat has predictable behaviour - when the room is cool, the device closes a circuit turning on the heat. According to Dennett, the simplest creatures exhibited similar "robotic" behaviour, but as life evolved, more complex patterns developed. Dennett argues that "adopting the intentional stance is not just a good idea but the key to unraveling the mysteries of the mind - all kinds of minds." In his view, intentional systems have progressed along the course of evolution in ever complex steps. Humans, with the development of language, have achieved the highest level of cognitive abilities.

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What kinds of minds are there,and how do we know? The first question is about what exists - about ontology, in philosophical parlance - and the second question is about our knowledge - about epistemology. The aim of Kinds of Minds is to answer these questions, in general outline, and to show why these two questions have to be answered together. What exists is one thing, and what we can know about it is something else. There may be things that are completely unknowable to us so we must be careful not to treat the limits of our knowledge as sure guides to the limits of what there is. But we know enough about minds, Dennett argues, to know that one of the things that makes them different from everything else in the Universe is the way we know about them.

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