Computer Concepts, Fifth Edition Illustrated Introductory, Enhanced (Illustrated)

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Obscure, obtuse and obfuscated

Computer Concepts, Fifth Edition Illustrated Introductory, Enhanced (Illustrated)
June Jamrich Parsons , and Dan Oja
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Computer Concepts, Fifth Edition?Illustrated Introductory, Enhanced is your opportunity to give your students the latest information on emerging technology trends and issues.

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Obscure, obtuse and obfuscated.......2007-09-30

This book was the required textbook for a Basic Computer ITE 115 class at a community college. The very first chapter requires you to understand that that P2P file sharing allows access to files stored on another user's hard drive and that the required proximity to a telephone switching station is the definition that best describes DSL connections?

Say what?

If you need Basic Computer instruction, this is not the book for you. If you're the local IT guru, this may be understandable but for mere mortals it is obscure, obtuse and obfuscated.

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Soils of the world: Their formation, diagnostics, classification, correlation, geographic distribution, and agricultural potentialities; soil regions of the world; soil survey,
Juan Papadakis
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ASIN: B0006C7B68

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The TRANSMED Atlas, consisting of a CD-ROM and a book, provides an updated overview of the geological and geophysical characteristics of the Mediterranean region by integrating new and pre-existing data on surface geology, seismic profiles and mantle tomography, both on land and at sea. Sixty-two structural geologists, geophysicists, marine geologists, petrologists, sedimentologists, stratigraphers, paleo-geographers and petroleum geologists coming from eighteen countries and working for the petroleum industry, academia and other institutions, both public and private, have contributed to this publication.

The CD-ROM includes sixteen lithospheric transects across the Mediterranean region and the surrounding areas. Each transect is accompanied by an explanatory text with figures as well as by a series of clickable insets (seismic lines, well logs, litho-chrono-stratigraphic charts, paleo-geographic reconstructions, detailed maps, etc.) providing data in support of the interpretation shown in the transects. An extensive bibliography is included.

The TRANSMED Atlas is geared towards all earth scientists working in the Mediterranean domain, particularly those willing to put the results of their own research within a wider framework, as well as those unfamiliar with the Mediterranean and finally at university teachers looking for a source of synthetic information for a course in Mediterranean regional geology.

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Read Through Hands Over Eyes

Writers Must-Read

Funny as old Billy Heck

"Sometimes the treasure we are seeking is not the one we find!"

I liked it.

The Mysterious Secret of the Valuable Treasure
Jack Pendarvis
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Laugh-out-loud funny and dripping with style, this debut collection of stories holds a fun house mirror to the everyday lives of characters as empathetic as they are absurd.

From the self-appointed historian of the title piece to the wage slaves of "Our Spring Catalog" and "The Pipe," these are characters you've met before. They're quirky visionaries and misguided dreamers sprung from a world of high school ambitions and misunderstood intentions. Laugh-out-loud funny, absurd, and always human, Jack Pendarvis's debut collection is the work of a writer of rare comedic literary talent.

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Read Through Hands Over Eyes.......2007-08-08

What a funny book! Pendarvis' characters are so real they are almost uncomfortable to read! Just like watching someone do something you KNOW is terribly stupid: You want to warn them, you want to look away but yet you keep on watching to see what will happen next.

Very few books make me laugh out loud, but this one did. And unlike the Amazon editorial, I enjoyed "My High, Squeaky Voice". Literary genius? No. But how often do you come across an opening paragraph that reads "People love my high, squeaky voice. What's not to love? It's high and it's squeaky. And it is mine. I love the way God made me."

No pretention here! Just a great belly-laugh of a book!

Writers Must-Read.......2007-07-24

The writing made me recall a choir director's comments: Purposely singing off key is very difficult, he said, especailly when it's sustained for some length of time. It takes great skill.
A parody on writing does so as well, and this author is a champ. He writes so badly so superbly, it's hilarious; I couldn't stop reading or laughing.
This book should be sold at every writer's workshop and be required reading for the MFA.

Funny as old Billy Heck.......2007-03-07

I love this book. Pat Walsh let me read the manuscript years ago and I just fell out of my chair. Our Spring Catalogue and About the Contributors are just classic stuff. If you're a writer or a writer wannabe, get this book. If your writing sounds like anything described in these two chapters, please consider putting yourself out of our misery. Pendarvis is a genius.

"Sometimes the treasure we are seeking is not the one we find!".......2006-04-22

"The Mysterious Secret of the Valuable Treasure" is a collection of "curious stories" by Jack Pendarvis. Some of the offbeat stories just left me scratching my head. But plenty of silly moments had me laughing out loud.

In the funny and memorable "The Pipe," a disc jockey is buried under a field for 46 days as a promotional stunt, and two guys must guard the air pipe that leads from his confined space up to the fresh air. How they react - to their mission, to the unseen disc jockey, and to each other - makes hilarious reading.

I particularly enjoyed the very short "Our Spring Catalog." A publicist putting together a publishing company's catalog starts with the usual staid descriptions of the books, and little by little starts revealing her own thoughts. It's hysterical!
And then there's the 90-page story, "The Mysterious Secret of the Valuable Treasure." Oh, my. This is truly bizarre. It comes packaged as a local history "written" by a character named Willie Dobbs, who writes so badly, it's funny. Images don't quite fit, such as "the marvelous stench of boiling hot black coffee which filled the very nostrils of the night." Elements are out of order, politically incorrect comments are made in a politically correct way - "This was at a time when our founding fathers thought nothing of `hitting the town' in face powder, silk stockings, an elaborate `codpiece' and a nice wig. And probably lipstick for all I know." The "author" plays with words, but doesn't use nearly enough punctuation. And oh, how he loves his adverbs: "There he is! I greeted friendlily." "That's not necessary she ululated lyrically."

Oh, that's right, the characters are looking for a treasure, but "Sometimes the treasure we are seeking is not the one we find!" Pendarvis populates his stories with lots of colorful characters, and I think they're all people we've ridden the bus with. Even if you wouldn't want to go home with them, they're fun to watch.

I liked it........2006-02-23

I enjoyed this book. There are a couple of little pieces in it that I didn't like too much, but I went ahead and gave it a five-star rating anyway because of how much I liked the rest. I mean, it's funny stuff. I will watch Jack Pendarvis very closely and read anything else he puts out.

The Mysterious Secret of the Valuable Treasure

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The Mysterious Secret of the Valuable Treasure
Jack Pendarvis
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The Mysterious Secret of the Valuable Treasure: Curious Stories by Jack Pendarvis

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The Mysterious Secret of the Valuable Treasure: Curious Stories by Jack Pendarvis
Jack Pendarvis
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Release Date: 2007-02-06

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This debut collection of stories holds a fun house mirror to the everyday lives of characters as empathetic as they are absurd.

You’ve met the characters in The Mysterious Secret of the Valuable Treasure. They’re the quirky visionaries and misguided dreamers we all know. . .and might even be. These characters are absurd, hilarious, and completely believable.

From the self-appointed historian of the title piece to the frustrated wage slaves of "Our Spring Catalog" and "The Pipe," these are individualists who don’t quite adhere to mainstream ideals. Pendarvis draws his humor from the world of high school ambitions and misunderstood intentions allowed to breathe and take shape. Always original but somehow familiar, these are stories plugged into the collective unconscious of our imaginary lives.

Jack Pendarvis’s work is difficult to describe but a pleasure to experience, infused with humanity and laugh-out-loud funny. Comedic literary talent of this caliber is rare.

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The mid-19th-century Crimean War, pitting England, France, and less powerful allies against Russia, was one of the first major international wars in history. In the execution, it was none too inspiring. As Trevor Royle writes in his sweeping study of the conflict, "it encompassed maladministration on a grand scale and human suffering, if not without parallel then at least minutely recorded by the watching war correspondents"--the war being the first as well to have been widely reported. It was, a contemporary British journal put it, a war of "lions led by donkeys," young men commanded by doddering veterans of the Napoleonic campaigns who served in an unlikely alliance. The English officers, Royle writes, could never shake the habit of calling their French comrades "the enemy," and never quite trusted them, either.

The result was carnage: not only the loss of a good portion of the Light Brigade in the most famous--but not the most inept--incident of the war, but also the destruction of whole regiments left to blunder about in the fog and smoke, thanks to their commanders' inadequate intelligence-gathering efforts. Not much changed at war's end. In the eventual peace treaty, France and England and Russia kept their territories more or less intact, and the struggle for power between Russia and the neighboring Ottoman Empire, in whose defense France and England had ostensibly gone to war, stretched out for another generation. It ended with a Russian victory that allowed Russia to assume control of Turkish holdings in the Balkans, which, Royle notes, lay the seeds for still another international conflict, World War I.

Royle does a fine job of negotiating through the many complexities, diplomatic and military, of the Crimean War. His descriptions of battlefield tactics (or the lack thereof) are among the best in the literature. More comprehensive than Robert B. Edgerton's Death or Glory: The Legacy of the Crimean War, Royle's Crimea is likely to stand as an enduring work on this strange, wasteful conflict. --Gregory McNamee

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The Crimean War, one of history's most compelling subjects, encompassed human suffering, woeful leadership and misadministration on a grand scale. It created a heroic myth out of the disastrous Charge of the Light Brigade and, in Florence Nightingale, it produced one of history's great heroes. The war was a watershed in world history and pointed the way to what mass warfare would be like in the twentieth century. New weapons were introduced; trench combat became a fact of daily warfare outside Sebastopol; medical innovation saved countless soldiers' lives that would otherwise have been lost. Ultimately, by failing to solve the Eastern Question, the war paved the way for the greater conflagration which broke out in 1914 and greatly prefigured the current situation in Eastern Europe.

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The hearlding of World War 2.......2006-12-20

The Crimean war shattered the peace of Europe that had been established since Napoleon and set the course for World War 1. The disintegration of the Ottoman Empire and the advances of Russia are prominent in the war. The famed charge of the light brigade occurred during this war and the trench warfare of World War 1 can be seen. This was really fought over a very small amount of land and in hellish terrain. The book is very well written and does an excellent job of discussing how the war progressed. Overall an excellent book and one that I would recommend.

Surprisingly good history..........2006-11-07

Were it not for Tennyson's The Charge of the Light Brigade, it is arguable whether the Crimean War would have much notoriety. It wasn't overly long, there were very few set-piece battles and no individual heroes of note. It was, among european wars of history, a middling confrontation. How much better, then, is Trevor Royle's treatment with the excitement he brings to it.

Sensing Ottoman dissolution, tsarist Russia makes a play to position itself for benefit. Alarmingly, this could include access to the Mediterranean through the Dardanelles. Having none of it, Britain and France combine to contest Russia's territorial ambitions. Negotiations rapidly break down and Sevastapol is invested. What follows is a story of British incompetence, French duplicity, and Russia's teetering access to military means.

Royle weaves throughout the event the high intrigue behind the scenes where unilateral diplomacy, oneupmanship, and the perfidious maneuvering of supposed allies rules the day. On the war front, he portrays the sad lot of the British soldier. In stark contrast to the French, the British military was grossly underfunded, medical care was appallingly poor, conditions were squalid, and soldiers died of disease in droves. The comparatively healthy ones simply starved.

With Sevastapol fallen, Russia was compelled to consider armistice while conniving diplomats in Paris, St. Petersburg, Vienna and London brokered an inadequate peace. Accordingly, the relatively minor Crimean conflict set the table for future hostilities and presaged the disintegration of the Ottoman empire. Indeed, it was in a corner of the splintered Ottoman empire that a single shot rang out to begin a world war. Trevor Royle does an exemplary job in bringing Crimea to us and, in so doing, prepares the inquisitive reader for the explosive century to come. 4+ stars.

Fascinating Read - Not enough about the combat.......2006-02-05

This is a very interesting book about an incredibly influential war. Despite the fact that the Crimean War was quite short and almost no great swaths of territory changed hands, this short, bloody little conflict had a huge impact on the formation of modern Europe. Trevor Royle's account of the war is a wonderful read. He covers the causes of the war (interesting enough, despite all the real politik, it was about a set of keys and a silver star in a church), the war itself and the aftermath. The details are wonderful and don't override the flow of the story. The only shortcoming comes during the presentation of the battles. Since there are so few, you'd think we'd get more details, but unfortunately the battles are somewhat glossed over. This doesn't so much detract from the book as, instead, it leaves you hungry for more. I found the natural links drawn by the author of Crimea as a progression from the Napoleonic style of war to the more modern American Civil War, which lead right into the mechanistic nightmare of World War I to ring true in more ways than simply because of the dates involved. Time to dig back through old issues of Military History Quarterly to find some articles on the battles so I can enjoy a much more thorough context for the war, thanks to this book.

Good but not Enough.......2004-06-27

As a reader already observed, this book is, to begin with, very anglo centered as it happens with boring regularity with almost every anglosaxon historian, no matter the issue. French partner in this war appears, of course, how it could be otherwise, but always as if from a side, as a distant guy that by chance was there. I think the subjet is the Crimean war or should be so, not England in-war-in-Crimea.
From a sheer military point of view the book lacks too much. Battles are more or less described, but maps are a joke and the equipment of both sides scarcely mentioned and poorly defined. A reader of this kind of books want to know more: want to know details about personal weapons, artillery, technical innovations, uniforms, etc. It is the more so as the author himself recognizes this was the first modern war, an intermediate step between Waterloo and the slaughters of I World War. There is some of all of it, but prone to be poor and cursorily explained. Even more, the autor makes a serious mistake confusing the innnovation of the Minie bullet -to be used with muskets already in use- with a supposedly new "Minie rifle" that never existed.
Nevertheless, the political side of the war -french again appearing as a guest and often under a disdainful light- is well developped and informative. Same with many personalities, including, this time, french officers.
Last but not least, the quality of the paper in this paperback edition is the worst I have ever seen in this kind of binding. I doubt it will resist more than 10 years in a shell. For the same reason the discrete number of photos available -not acceptable in a book about the first photographed war in history- are a miserable account of bad quality and neglect.

Anglo-centric but otherwise excellent.......2003-09-14

I imagine it is hard not to see the Crimean War from a non-British perspective, because the other belligerents did not write their chronicles in English OR see the war as such a big deal. But what this book manages is to put the war into a wider Eropean context of great power rivalries and almost fanatical imperialism. So Russia wanted to join the imperialist club? France and Britain, hardly the best of friends, were horrified at the prospect. And as for Russia developing a strong Mediterranean presence, well, the Ottomans as well as the British and French couldn't allow that. GREAT READ.

Mrs Duberly's War: Journal and Letters from the Crimea, 1854-6

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Mrs Duberly's War: Journal and Letters from the Crimea, 1854-6
Frances Isabella Duberly
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Mrs Duberly's journal is one of the most vivid eye-witness accounts we have of the Crimean War. Fanny Duberly, then aged 25, accompanied her husband to the Crimea in 1854, and remained there until the end of the fighting, the only officer's wife to remain throughout the entire campaign. She survived the severe winter of 1854-55, witnessed the battle of Balaklava and the charge of the Light Brigade, and rode through the ruins of Sebastopol. Spirited and courageous, she was known by sight to British and French soldiers across the battlefields, regarded often with enthusiasm and sometimes with disapproval. Witty and beautiful, she enjoyed flirtatious friendships with many of the most important men of the campaign. Her Journal kept during the Russian War was published in 1855 and caused a sensation. Although widely praised as the 'new heroine for the Crimea', Fanny was also censured, ridiculed, and even parodied in Punch. She had stepped into a man's world, and written about it in a way that seemed to some at the front an invasion of privacy and to others at home an abandonment of gentility. A best-seller at the time, the Journal was not reprinted after its second edition of 1856, and this is the first edition since that time.

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The Crimea In 1854 And 1894
Gen. Sir Evelyn Wood
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2005 Scholar's Bookshelf reprint edition. A participants highly detailed first-hand account of the Crimean War and the battles of the Alma, Sevastopol, Balaklava, Inkerman, and the conclusion of the war and death of Lord Raglan. The book was first published in 1895 and was occasioned by the authors return to the areas in which he fought, and he expresses sever criticism of the British governments mismanagement of the war. Reprint edition. 400 pages, illustrated. Softcover.

The Crimea in 1854, and 1894: With Plans, and Illustrations from Sketches Taken on the Spot by Colonel W. J. Colville

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The Crimea in 1854, and 1894: With Plans, and Illustrations from Sketches Taken on the Spot by Colonel W. J. Colville
Evelyn Wood
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Crimea: The Great Crimean War, 1854-1856

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Crimea: The Great Crimean War, 1854-1856
Trevor Royle
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Crimea;: The campaign of 1854-56, with an outline of politics and a study of the royal quartet,

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Crimea;: The campaign of 1854-56, with an outline of politics and a study of the royal quartet,
C. E Vulliamy
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The great war with Russia,: The invasion of the Crimea; a personal retrospect of the battles of the Alma, Balaclava, and Inkerman, and of the winter of 1854-55,&c

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The great war with Russia,: The invasion of the Crimea; a personal retrospect of the battles of the Alma, Balaclava, and Inkerman, and of the winter of 1854-55,&c
William Howard Russell
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Crimea: The Great Crimean War 1854-1856. (Reviews: modern Europe). (book review): An article from: Canadian Journal of History

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Crimea: The Great Crimean War 1854-1856. (Reviews: modern Europe). (book review): An article from: Canadian Journal of History
Neville Thompson
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Title: Crimea: The Great Crimean War 1854-1856. (Reviews: modern Europe). (book review)
Author: Neville Thompson
Publication: Canadian Journal of History (Refereed)
Date: December 1, 2001
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Crimea : The Great Crimean War 1854-1856.
Trevor. Royle
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Crimea The Great Crimean War, 1854-1856
Trevor Royle
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The Mainstream of Civilization Since 1500

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The Mainstream of Civilization Since 1500
Stanley Chodorow , MacGregor Knox , and Conrad Schirokauer
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Joseph R Strayer & Hans W. Gatzke
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Joseph R. And Hans W. Gatzke Strayer
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Thomas F. Torrance is the most prominent theologian to have taken seriously the challenge posed to theology by the natural sciences. His model for interaction between the two disciplines is based on the theological heart of the Church: the Incarnation. Luoma here offers a thorough overview and critique of Torrance's insights into the theology-science dialogue.

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Just Quite Misses the Mark.......2005-10-29

This book is a careful reading of Torrance's theology and interaction with natural science. Luoma has read Torrance closely, interacts with Torrance's thought, but doesn't quite catch the vision that Torrance articulates in his work. To be fair to Torrance, it has taken him a life time of work to get to where he is now, and Luoma has not taken enough time to "indwell" Torrance's thought. One or two years of study and reading are, in my opinion, not enough to fully understand a writer of Torrance's depth.

There are two ways to criticize a writer: (1.) from without, using a foreign frame of reference, and (2.) from within, using the coherence or lack of coherence within an author's argument to point out weaknessness of thought and vision. I leave it to the reader of Luoma's book to decide which direction he takes and if he has or has not stacked his deck in his critique of Torrance. After reading the book twice, I'm convinced that some of the arguments Luoma makes are valid, but my response is still the same. He does not catch Torrance's total vision, and I do not think he finally understands where Torrance is arguing from, nor does he offer a programmatic response -- counterproposing an alternate vision.

Criticism of an author is merely the beginning--is it not? As an introduction to the large and difficult themes of the interaction of theology and natural science in Torrance's thought, this is, however, a helpful and well written book. One will learn a great deal from spending time thinking about what Luoma has offered here. Luoma is to be commended for seeking to understand the thought of arguably the greatest English speaking theologian of the last 50 years. More theologians should follow his example.

Without John Philoponus?.......2003-07-26

This analysis of the thought of Thomas F. Torrance notes without enough depth the points the Master Theologian makes in his efforts to articulate the relationship between Theological and Natural Science. One could refer to Torrance's title "Theological and Natural Science" where John Philoponos is a very vital epistemological base for grasping what Torrance is after as he champions the nature of 'contingency' with us, theologians and scientists. How can one write about his thought here without mentioning Torrance's relationship to Philoponos?

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