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Professional Gentlemen: The Professions in Nineteenth-Century Ontario (Ontario Historical Studies Series)
R. D. Gidney , and W. P. J. Millar
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Songs Of Wall Street: An Anthology Of Verse For Literary Investors
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Poetry redeemed?

Silverstein breaks it down!

Who'd a thunk it

Song scale

Ah, the poetry of moving averages . . .

Songs Of Wall Street: An Anthology Of Verse For Literary Investors
Michael Silverstein
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Poetry redeemed?.......2001-07-22

This slender but iconoclasticly packed volume takes a clever and literary poke at the vagaries of the financial world. If you are an investor, you will find yourself herein, and the image may not be entirely to your liking! As compensation, you may also find your broker, perhaps in Elizabethan garb. This book is the perfect companion with which to enter the new financial order of 2001, irrespective of how much you lost. With this book flogging the street, who needs Peter Lynch?

I gave a copy to my broker....and he hasn't shot me yet.

Silverstein breaks it down!.......2001-05-24

Cutting through the jargon and the hyperbole, Silverstein offers his jaundiced, cycnical, more-than-slightly-skewed and yet always, always, brilliantly funny take on *the Markets* with this collection!

And after reading it, if you're bitten with the bug --as I was -- you can always try your hand at satirical verse on the wallstreetpoet.com Web site..:)

Who'd a thunk it.......2001-05-23

Finally, a way to keep market madness in perspective. Pontification with poetry. This is a unique work that deserves a wide audience for the fresh approach it brings to our current obsessions.

Song scale.......2001-05-18

I really enjoyed Michael Silverstein's "Songs of Wall Street." It's a very funny, very wise, very innovative way of looking at financial markets. On a scale of 1 to 5, I'd give it a 4+.

Ah, the poetry of moving averages . . ........2001-05-12

I have never read a finer book of financial poetry. Or another book of financial poetry, for that matter. Who but Michael Silverstein could have envisioned Wall Street in the cadences of the world's greatest poets? Who else would have even tried? Who else would have succeeded? Michael Silverstein is the Gnossos Pappadopalous of things financial. Steal this book . . . or buy it with One Click right now.

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Reviews and rates more than 20,000 sizzling recordings by over 1,700 musicians - from New Orleans jazz to bebop, fusion and beyond. "Music Maps" chart the evolution of jazz instruments, plus the influence of significant players, vocalists and sidemen.

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The best guide available.......2007-08-28

This book covers the whole range of styles in Jazz, with specialist essays on individual areas, and 'family trees' of the key players in Jazz history.
It is more comprehensive than any other volume I have found. The only area I have any critisism of it is in its coverage of European and British Jazz where (as I assume its an American publication) it is a little poor. For this reason it only gets 4 stars. In all other respects this book will keep you entertained for hours and hours. An essential Jazz reference volume to own.

Yes, it lists out of print cd's but is a poor source for reviews .......2007-04-04

Wouldn't it be nice to be able to turn to a Jazz Guide that combined the critical consistency of the Penguin with the (generally) more complete All Music Guide? The inconsistency of the ratings in the All Music Guide may have something to do with the number of reviewers but it would seem to be mostly attributable to their not bothering to consult with one-another to establish a base-line or standard for evaluating cd's. This is ridiculous. In my view, a 5 star rating should not mean substantially different things according to different reviewers. At the same time, while I've found the Penguin to be (generally) consistent, its authors' stubborn insistence upon listing only what's available new in England/Europe is very annoying. Don't they realize that Jazz fans buy USED CD's????? If they want to compile a "Beginner's Guide to Jazz", fine, but if their intention is to provide a guide for those of us who already purchased Kind of Blue, Saxophone Collossus, A Love Supreme, and all of the other "top Jazz cd's" long ago-- those of us who have devloped and are actively following our own particular areas of interest, it makes absolutely no sense to only list cd's that are currently in print. At least, that's how I see it. The All music Guide lists many cd's that the Penguin omits, although it also omits some cd's included in the Penguin Guide. All one can do is hope that eventually somebody will write a Jazz guide that is accurate, consistent, and relatively complete. If the authors of the Penguin Guide would list out of print cd's plus what's available new here in the US, that would approach what I'd like to see. The value of the All Music Guide is pretty much confined to the fact that it lists possibilities to explore. Critically, it's a mess. I don't know who the editors think they're fooling!

Get it and don't forget it.......2005-10-26

All you need to know at your fingertips. Largely trustworthy
advice and insights on artists and albums. Handy biographical
info too.

Better than peguin, but still sucks.......2005-05-29

There are a ton of errors in this book (including listing Roland Hanna playing piano of Charles Mingus's Mingus ah Um, when it was actually Horace Parlan). Plus ALLMUSIC.COM will list a cd at 3 stars, and this book will list it at 5, and vice versa. The reviews are supposed to be in chronological order, but are frequently out of order. But THE MOST ANNOYING, is the enormous amount of 2 or 3 star reviews that end with, "essential music", "great music", "must have". Then the next review will be 5 stars and end with "not all that essential" or a causual "worth a listen". Buy music, not this

Simply the Best.......2004-08-14

I never go into a jazz store without the book or notes from the book in hand. It has rarely steered me wrong in ten years of use. Don't believe me. Just look up an artist you have several selections by already and see how close their observations are to your own. The book is in plain english but with smart reviews that do not seem preachy yet make the point. The whole AMG series is fine but the jazz one is great especially if you are building your tastes or collection.

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From postcards and paintings to photography and film, tourism and visual culture have a long-standing history of mutual entanglement. For centuries art has inspired many an intrepid traveller, and tourism provides an insatiable market for indigenous art, 'authentic' or otherwise.

This book explores the complex association between tourism and visual culture throughout history and across cultures. How has tourism been linked to images of colonial expansion? Why are we so intrigued by 'lost' places, such as Tutankhamun's tomb or Machu Picchu, South America's lost city of the Incas? What is the relationship between art, tourism and landscape preference? What role did commercial tourist photographers play in the imagination of Victorian Britain? Drawing upon examples from across the globe, this exciting new contribution to a popular subject illustrates how tourism and visual culture intersect with one another and in the process become contested ground.

Book Review; Visual Culture and Tourism [A book review from: Journal of Historical Geography]

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Book Review; Visual Culture and Tourism [A book review from: Journal of Historical Geography]
C. Scarles
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Multimethod research on destination image perception: Jeju standing stones [An article from: Tourism Management]

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Multimethod research on destination image perception: Jeju standing stones [An article from: Tourism Management]
W.C. Hunter , and Y.K. Suh
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This digital document is a journal article from Tourism Management, published by Elsevier in 2007. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Some places have powerful symbolic features that have a strong effect on destination image perception, and Jeju is one of those places. The Jeju standing stones, known as Dolhareubang are almost universally recognized by travelers as unique to the destination. But to determine exactly how these perceptions work in terms of destination image perception, this paper demonstrates a multimethod approach that contextualizes the Jeju standing stones in terms of commodification and culture. The methodological approach combines so-called qualitative and quantitative techniques that build from visual fieldnotes, to a pilot study, and finally to a visitor and resident response questionnaire. This survey includes residents and visitors classified by gender and as 'urban' or 'rural'. This constructive approach to research works inductively and the methods have led to results that are surprisingly complimentary. Visual responses were compared independently of other data and then across the categories of demographic information, factor analysis and one-way ANOVA. Hypothetical dimensions of perception derived exclusively from visual research were empirically supported by statistical analysis. The multimethod approach demonstrated in this paper was instrumental in revealing how respondents perceive the Dolhareubang as a thing in itself and as a combination of ideas depending upon their experiences during their visit in Jeju. This paper offers the seductive conclusion that perception may be about something more than mere words can say.

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* Written by an expert with more than 30 years of experience in every role in the IT industry, this book confronts development process problems head-on, and it tackles the critical steps that must be taken to ensure success
* Dives into topics such as identifying opportunities, planning for success, building an appropriate business model, assembling a team, developing software, managing teams, and successfully marketing and selling the product
* The book fills a void in the current market, and is an ideal read for all IT professionals

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Written by an expert with more than 30 years of experience in every role in the IT industry, this book confronts development process problems head-on, and it tackles the critical steps that must be taken to ensure success Dives into topics such as identifying opportunities, planning for success, building an appropriate business model, assembling a team, developing software, managing teams, and successfully marketing and selling the product The book fills a void in the current market, and is an ideal read for all IT professionals

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Excellent tool for marketing software.......2007-08-08

Software that Sells is a great tool for anybody who has questions about effective and proven ways to market and develop your software project, literally from start to finish. Having read the book cover to cover, I continue to utilize it for advice, input and tips from each relevant section. Currently I am working marketing an IT project, so I am not on the development side of the company. However, Hasted's sections on programming and development were extremely helpful for understanding these processes and how they directly affect the marketing efforts. I have shared much of this valuable information to other departments at my organization.
This book was most helpful to me because it covers many topics related to software development and implementation, where my knowledge and experience within the software industry is very limited. It is a great overview of the processes involved and helps me appreciate the roles my colleagues do. This book is the equivalent to having a co-worker with 20 years of experience in an ever-changing industry, who is more than happy to give you advice on everything from marketing through development.

I believe this book would be most helpful to small businesses or individual entrepreneurs whose strengths may lie in a specific area (programming) but lack in others (marketing, company set-up, sales, etc.). However it can equally be used by any software company looking for new methods, tips, and tricks on managing staff, marketing, and sales. It's a compendium of check-lists and reminders.
This book is a quick read, as well as a great tool that should be kept in the office for years to come. Hasted will have you laughing with his unique sense of humor throughout the book (I never knew software could be funny!).

A useful and well written book.......2007-07-13

Whether you are already in business or considering how to get started, this book contains ideas that will set you thinking!

The advice offered here covers a range of subjects offering a substantially comprehensive spectrum of considerations and options for a successful business start-up or for those suffering business growing pains or shortcomings. I found it to be both well written and thought provoking.

The wide range of subject matter is an extremely useful starting point and the conclusions and helpful suggestions therein direct the reader towards further in-depth reading where appropriate.

The English author Ed Hasted has an impressive linguistic style which I found amusing and he has written a book that is way more useful and difficult to put down than one would expect a book of this type to be.

A mile wide and an inch deep.......2007-07-05

This book covers a tremendous amount of material, from code development, to market research, to employee relations, even how to sell your company after it becomes a success. Unfortunately, few subjects are covered in any depth, and even fewer offer any insights beyond the obvious. I will be returning this book. I suggest instead Micro-ISV: From Vision to Reality, which is the best I've found for the coder trying to sell their software on the Web.

Questionable prose and questionable advice.......2006-07-12

It is clear from the beginning that the book has appeal, since it addresses a much-coveted, yet requently under-serviced body of knowledge. I bought the book because the foreward, table of contents and back page met my needs and read well. Unfortunately, I feel that the book does not deliver. Ultimately, for such a meaty subject as this and the bold claims made, I was expecting fresh answers to tough questions. However not only were my needs not met, I often found the author passing off rudimentary conclusions as good advice. When the direction of a software venture is in your hands, you are expecting a little more than 'find it and fix it' as the solution to 'there is a show-stopping bug in your final release'. I'm afraid that is not the kind of expert advice one expects when investing in a text such as this. I actually returned this book due to my disappointment - and I have not been motivated to do that for many years! P.S. On a side note, the author's sentence structure does not scan very well and I found myself reading the more colloquial passages several times over. There are also several spelling mistakes (including 'course code' instead of 'source code', which can only happen when using spell-check without a human proof-reader).

Recommended read for developers wanting to go into business..........2005-10-18

So you think you're ready to become the next Microsoft? OK... Perhaps you just want to sell some software as a one-man band. You'll do much better at it all if you first read Software That Sells - A Practical Guide to Developing & Marketing Your Software Project by Edward Hasted.

Contents: How Winners Spot Winners; What Successful People Ask; Plan For Success; I Want To Work Here!; Raising Cash and Kind; Development; How Not to Reinvent the Wheel; Programming without Tears; Squashing Bugs and the Source; Scoring with Words; Before You Say "Go!" - The Release Process; Setting Up a Company; Pitching The Price; Promoting Your Product; Going For Higher Volumes; Successful Selling; How to Keep Customers; Plugging the Hole in the Boat; Handling Growth; Preparing for Further Success; Search Engine Optimization (or Winner Takes All); Index

There are a lot of nice areas of this book. A significant part of the first section could be good advice for *any* software development effort. It doesn't matter whether you're producing internal or external software... squashing bugs, managing source, and best practices in development don't change. They just become more obvious when your bad code gets released into the wild. As you move deeper into the book, you get into more "running the business" chapters that cover how to turn your "big software idea" into a business that actually makes money and provides a living for you (and potentially others). Most software developers don't have a clue as to how a business runs. They just figure that if the software is great, people will buy it. It *can* happen, but it rarely does. If you learn how to make the right decisions early on (or how to hire someone who can), then you stand a chance to avoid being a casualty in the business world.

Just one funny aside... The writer is British, and there are quite a few times when the phrasing or the wording is something that isn't familiar to an American audience... I'm guessing that I shouldn't be offended when I'm the "piggy in the middle"... I may not be happy about it, however... :)

Good book, and a definite recommended read if you're looking to move your development efforts into a money-making business for 1 or 100 (or more).

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Gunnar Myrdal's An American Dilemma (1944) influenced the attitudes of a generation of Americans on the race issue and established Myrdal as a major critic of American politics and culture. Walter Jackson explores how the Swedish Social Democratic scholar, policymaker, and activist came to shape a consensus on one of America's most explosive public issues.

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Cannabis Britannica explores the historical origins of the UK's legislation and regulations on cannabis preparations before 1928. It draws on published and unpublished sources from the seventeenth century onwards, from archives in the UK and India, to show how the history of cannabis and the British before the twentieth century was bound up with imperialism. James Mills argues that until the 1900s, most of the information and experience gathered by British sources were drawn from colonial contexts as imperial administrators governed and observed populations where use of cannabis was extensive and established. This is most obvious in the 1890s when British anti-opium campaigners in the House of Commons seized on the issue of Government of India excise duties on the cannabis trade in Asia in order to open up another front in their attacks on imperial administration. The result was that cannabis preparations became a matter of concern in Parliament which accordingly established the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission. The story in the twentieth century is of the momentum behind moves to include cannabis substances in domestic law and in international treaties. The latter was a matter of the diplomatic politics of imperialism, as Britain sought to defend its cannabis revenues in India against American and Egyptian interests. The domestic story focuses on the coming together of the police, the media, and the pharmaceutical industry to form misunderstandings of cannabis that forced it onto the Poisons Schedule despite the misgivings of the Home Office and of key medical professionals. The book is the first full history of the origins of the moments when cannabis first became subjected to laws and regulations in Britain.

Cannabis Britannica: Empire, Trade, and Prohibition, 1800-1928.(Book Review) : An article from: Journal of Social History

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Cannabis Britannica: Empire, Trade, and Prohibition, 1800-1928.(Book Review) : An article from: Journal of Social History
Joseph Spillane
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Six Not-So-Easy Pieces: Einstein's Relativity, Symmetry, and Space-Time (Helix Books)
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Harder than 6 easy pieces, but not extremely hard.

From A Great Teacher

Great lectures, though a bit out of place

Six More Elegantly Explained Concepts

NOT for the beginner.

Six Not-So-Easy Pieces: Einstein's Relativity, Symmetry, and Space-Time (Helix Books)
Richard Phillips Feynman
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The spectacular success of the book and audio versions of Six Easy Pieces caused a worldwide clamor for more. The result is these six additional lectures, which the legendary teacher and Nobel physicist Richard P. Feyman gave in the early 1960's to freshman Caltech students. Though slightly more challenging than the first six, these additional lectures are more focused, delving into the most revolutionary discovery in twentieth-century physics: Einstein's Theory of Relativity.

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Harder than 6 easy pieces, but not extremely hard........2007-10-17

The title of this book probably scares off many readers, but it need not do so. This book is a sequel to Feynman's "Six Easy Pieces". Both books consist of lectures taken from Feynman's three volume lecture series, which was used for a two-year introductory physics course at Cal Tech. "Six Not So Easy Pieces" is not as easy as "Six Easy Pieces". The latter is accessible to most high school students, but the former is not. The not so easy pieces are:
· Vectors
· Symmetry in Physical Laws
· Relativistic Energy and Momentum
· Space-Time
· Curved Space

"Six Easy Pieces" was a bit unfocused because it covered a number of different topics. In contrast, "Six Not So Easy Pieces" is focused on just one topic, Relativity Theory. Feynman uses each topic to build up to Einstein's theory of gravitation, which is not the easiest subject to grasp.

Relativity theory is generally covered in one of two ways. Some books give a general treatment, focusing on the many implications of the theory, with no mathematics. At the other extreme are texts that require considerable knowledge of matrix algebra and differential equations. This book takes a middle ground. There is some math, but only some simple algebra and vector analysis. (The vector analysis does go beyond what is taught in high school, venturing into 4 dimensional vectors, but Feynman shows this to be only a modest extension from the typical 3 dimensional vectors.) Feynman dispenses with the usual introduction to relativity theory that employs moving trains and lightening strikes. Instead he starts with a superb analysis of the Michelson-Morley experiment (alone this is worth the price of the book) and the Lorenz transformation that was developed to explain the null result that Michelson-Morley obtained. He then uses this as the starting point for the analysis of special relativity. This is followed with a discussion of relativistic energy and momentum, subjects that are generally left out of "popular" treatments of relativity theory. The final chapter discusses curved space and Einstein's theory of gravity. These topics will be hard for people without some basic physics background, but are not too advanced for the intended audience of college undergraduates, although Feynman admitted that only the best students did as well as he had hoped.

As with all of Feynman's books there is a wealth of knowledge packed a small package (in this case a bit less than 150 pages) and while these six lectures are not a substitute for a complete course in the special and general theories of relativity, it does hit the highlights and as usual provides very valuable insights for readers with all levels of knowledge.

From A Great Teacher.......2004-07-29

Though the title implies it, this book is not really a sequal to the Six Easy Pieces. They can be read seperately. It treats some of the concepts centered around Special and General Relativity that revolutionized physics near the turn of the century. It would be impossible to find another book that can dive so deeply into topics such as symmetry and space-time, while bypassing formalism and exposing the fundemental ideas and signficance in every-day terms. The delivery is in lecture form, and while that makes it more authentic and real, the fact that this is a book and the reader is not really in a lecture, makes it a little awkward. One often gets the feeling that one had to be there to get the full benefit. There is little attempt at explaining the historical context and other niceties and focus is solely on the concepts themselves. One needs to have at least college level math background to follow the derivations. Feynman has done a phenomenal job in reducing such complex concepts into digestable pieces of conversation. There is no abstraction, everything is quantified. I especially enjoyed the chapter Curved Space, as I had never seen it treated so intimately. The self consistency of all these topics and how they are interrelated is elegantly presented.

Great lectures, though a bit out of place.......2004-05-31

Six not so Easy Pieses is a small anthology of six pieces taken from Feynman's great classic, The Feynman Lectures on Physics, which were delivered to Caltech freshman. I would not recommend buying this book unless you have an excellent backround in calculus and how it relates to physics. I have read the first volume of the Lectures, and i will tell you it is nice having this to accompany it, since some of the chapters such as on Relativity merit to be read twice and since the Lectures is so bulky and heavy. There is no way someone can read understand what he's saying without knowing a good amount of math. Its like reading a book in which all the concepts are expressed in Greek. Also, these lectures were given during the middle of course, and he often mentions things which were discussed in previous lectures. The reason it gets a four is because the lectures are great (many great lectures were ommitted though), but it is too short and is out of place. This is NOT a great sequel to Six Easy Lectures, they have practically nothing to do with each other. The perfect sequal to Six Easy Lectures is the whole first volume of the Lectures.

Six More Elegantly Explained Concepts.......2003-04-05

Six Not-So-Easy Pieces is the sequel to the book Six Easy Pieces. The first book is a collection of six of the easier lectures from Feynman's freshman and sophomore physics classes at CalTech. Six Not-So-Easy Pieces are some of the more difficult lectures from those classes. In contrast to the first book, these lessons are much more mathematical. Freshman calculus is definitely a prerequisite to reading this book. Courses in vector calculus and differential equations will help the reader to more completely understand the works, but they are not absolutely necessary. However, without much mathematical knowledge, one can just take Feynman at his word for all the equations, reading mainly the conceptual explanations, but one will invariably miss out on some of the points. For anyone reading the book, Feynman's teaching style is something that can be enjoyed. He explains the concepts in a comprehensive and not-too-difficult manner and seems to have a full understanding of what the student in the lecture hall is thinking. The six topics (chapters) covered in this book are: Vectors, Symmetry in Physical Laws, The Special Theory of Relativity, Relativistic Energy and Motion, Space-Time, and Curved Space. This book is in no way a survey of physics. It is more of a sampling of Feynman's teaching. However, the common thread that runs through the six pieces is that they all relate to understanding relativity. For the layman who has a mathematical background and wants to understand the concept of relativity, this book is an excellent help. I would suggest reading Six Easy Pieces before reading this book, but it is not necessary. If you enjoyed reading the first book, I would highly recommend this one and vice versa.

NOT for the beginner........2002-12-31

If you've got a fair background in beginning Calculus and elementary physics, you may find this book very worthwhile. I wouldn't know.

Don't be fooled, however, by reviewers who claim that Feynman explains things in such a way that even without those basic tools, the book isn't incomprehensible. I've HAD basic calculus, albeit a LONG time ago, and I'm a tad rusty. And I have even less grounding in physics. But I'm far from mathematically illiterate, or incapable. And it isn't true that I got nothing out of my reading of this book; the sixth chapter did, in fact, answer the question that I'd hoped to have answered when I bought it. But by and large, the book was close to impenetrable. Now, clearly, this may well be due to my lack of preparation in the prerequisites for understanding it. But it definitely is NOT the first step in the process of understanding physics, as one reviewer actually called it and others implied. Read "Six Easy Pieces" first, and brush up on first-year Calculus. THEN consider tackling this book.

Six Easy Pieces, Six Not-So-Easy Pieces
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Richard Phillips Feynman , and Richard P. Feynman
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Six additional lectures recorded in Feynman's classroom at Cal-tech in the early 1960's. Though slightly more challenging than the first six, these lectures are more focused, delving into the most revolutionary discovery in twentieth-century physics: Einstein's Theory of Relativity. No single breakthrough in twentieth-century physics (with the possible exception of quantum mechanics) changed our view of the world more than that of Einstein's discovery of relativity. And no one- not even Einstein himself- explained relativity's difficult, anti-intuitive concepts more clearly, or with more verve and gusto, than Richard Feynman. Six lectures on six Compact Discs.

Six Not-So-Easy Pieces: Lectures on Symmetry, Relativity, and Space-Time.: An article from: American Scholar

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Jeremy Bernstein
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Six Not-so-easy Pieces
Richard P Feynman
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Six Not-So-Easy Pieces: Einstein's Relativity, Symmetry, and Space-Time

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Six Not-So-Easy Pieces: Einstein's Relativity, Symmetry, and Space-Time
Richard P. Feynman
Manufacturer: Perseus Books Group
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OONH2U

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Six Not-So-Easy Pieces: Einstein's Relativity, Symmetry, and Space-Time
Richard P Feynman
Manufacturer: Addison Wesley Publishing Company
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ASIN: B000OL1IKG

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Six Not-So-Easy Pieces: Einstein's Relativity, Symmetry, and Space-Time
Richard P Feynman
Manufacturer: Perseus Books
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Binding: Paperback
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