Brassey's D-Day Encyclopedia: The Normandy Invasion A-Z

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This unique encyclopedia provides detailed entries for everything you ever wanted to know about D-Day, the invasion of Normandy. Organized alpha-betically, the entries give detailed descriptions of weapons, equipment, divisions, air and naval units, geography, terminology, personalities, and more. Every Allied division that crossed the English Channel on June 6, 1944 has its own listing as do the major Axis divisions that fought them. Brief biographies of major military and political leaders on both sides provide a handy â€œwhoâ€™s whoâ€ of the campaign. The book also includes entries for related popular culture: GI slang, the best movies about D-Day, and major writers such as Stephen Ambrose and Cornelius Ryan. Cross-references make the book easy to use. With hundreds of entries, Brasseyâ€™s D-Day Encyclopedia is an indispensable reference tool for history buffs and interesting browsing for readers who want to know more about World War II.

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One-stop Shopping.......2006-07-06

How did this little gem go unreviewed for so long? If you want a "one stop shopping" place for Operation Overlord, this book is the choice. The organization, content, and execution are all excellent. My only suggestion would be more illustrations but that's a small complaint in a book that contains a tremendous variety of subject matter and presents it in comprehensible, readable form. There's even examples of D-Day movies with favorite lines from each. Altogether a top-notch effort.

The Liturgical Dictionary of Eastern Christianity

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The Liturgical Dictionary of Eastern Christianity
Peter D. Day
Manufacturer: Michael Glazier Books
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The D-Day Encyclopedia

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Higher Plant Cell Respiration (Encyclopedia of Plant Physiology New Series)

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Higher Plant Cell Respiration (Encyclopedia of Plant Physiology New Series)
R. Douce
Manufacturer: Springer
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Illustrated Encyclopedia Of World War II: D- Day And After

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Illustrated Encyclopedia Of World War II: D- Day And After
Collins
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Simon and Schuster d Day Encyclopedia
Text Con
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Vol 12 D Day And After: Encyclopedia Of World War II

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Vol 12 D Day And After: Encyclopedia Of World War II
Innes & Others
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Brassey's D-Day Encyclopedia
Barrett Tillman
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The D-Day Encyclopedia
Jr., Editors David Chandler and James Lawton Collins
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The D-Day Encyclopedia

Manufacturer: Helicon
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From Rasputin to Run DMC, Edward VII to Ecstasy, Picasso to Prada: men's style and fashion have undergone a complete metamorphosis over the past century, going from the stiff formality of Edwardian dress to the present-day casual streetwear. Take an intriguing peek, decade by decade, at changing male attitudes to life, apparel, and looks. Every period is defined by its representations in films and journals, hairstyle and grooming, personalities, trends in clothing, boys' toys, and sport and leisure. The events that made an indelible imprint on generations of men run the gamut from world wars to the invention of the Walkman and the launch of Loaded magazine, while the influential personalities who altered the course of history include such vaunted and diverse names as Sigmund Freud, Frank Sinatra, the Beatles, and Muhammad Ali, as well as designers Pierre Cardin, Calvin Klein, Georgio Armani, and Tommy Hilfiger. Highly illustrated, incredibly informative, and deeply absorbing, this is essential reading for the image-conscious man of today's world.

Neandertals, The: Changing the Image of Mankind

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Neandertals, The: Changing the Image of Mankind
Erik Trinkaus
Manufacturer: Knopf
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The Neandertal Enigma : Solving the Mystery of Modern Human Origins

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Release Date: 1993-01-19

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Changing Images of Man

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The Human Predicament: Its Changing Image : A Study in Comparative Religion and History

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WHY THE DYNAMISM OF CULTURAL THOUGHT UNDERMINES KREJCI

The Human Predicament: Its Changing Image : A Study in Comparative Religion and History
Jaroslav Krejci , and Anna Krejcova
Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan
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WHY THE DYNAMISM OF CULTURAL THOUGHT UNDERMINES KREJCI.......2000-12-10

Krejci - in a book of less than 200 pages - sets out to cover the whole history of the human predicament from the beginning of history to the post-Cold War end of the twentieth century.

For him there are five basic paradigms along which attitudes towards the `inevitability' of death have developed. All of these are highly stereotyping and dubious conclusions are immediately drawn from scant data. Mesopotamia's subservience to their deities is deemed to have led to their capacity for innovation. The reasoning behind this is that their gods were so little influenced by human actions that mortals were able to concern themselves with mundane technical problems. In contrast, the thanatocentric Egyptians followed more artistic pursuits in the hope of escaping death. The universal cosmic principle in Egyptian thought (personified by Maat) acts a restraint on the power of their deities. These universal cosmic principles are assumed not to have been dominant elsewhere. In making such an assumption Krejci has intrinsically assumed all models of thought to be essentially static and operating in closed environments. This inability to appreciate the dynamism of religious thought means that he can claim that Orphics were 'outside' of the culture of Greek thought and fail to see that the Olympian deities themselves were in effect 'second generation'. Details such as opposing schools of Greek thought are ignored. His belief that Hesiod and Aeschylus are basically bound by common features justifies the treacherous path that is often taken: that the thinking of Homer was, in essence, the same as that of the Alexandria.

Krejci relies on some very out-of-date material, particularly for details on Sumero-Akkadian culture. S.N. Kramer's book (which first appeared in 1944) was undoubtedly ground-breaking at the time, but it reflects only a fraction (and sometimes even this incorrectly) of what we now know about the religion and social organisation of Mesopotamia. Krejci's interpretation of Gilgamesh is similarly narrow; the eponymous hero being treated as the lesser of Prometheus. It is fair to say that there is Mesopotamian subservience to the deities. And yet, Gilgamesh and Enkidu slaughter Ishtar's fiery sky bull. Furthermore, although Gilgamesh is a fool for seeking 'the life he will never find' he does at one point comes close to the secrets of the gods - and is deified himself as an underworld god although he is claimed to be part deity from the start.

The basic tenet of the five paradigms could easily be undermined if the assumption of no pre-existing civilisations before Uruk were to be disproved. It is worth bearing in mind that the Sumerians were neither Semitics nor Indo-Europeans There is some evidence to suggest a connection with the Ubaids of the fifth millennium BCE who were dwelling in the same area but there is no guarantee of this and we are only beginning to get an idea of what Ubaid society might have been like.

The book then sets off on its bizarre course through history taking the five paradigms and demonstrating how they have essentially survived within their respective cultures. The cratocentric tendencies of the Russian and Chinese cultural spheres are claimed to be the root cause of Stalinism and Mao. What then of Hitler?

Islam is seen as the most effective response to the Western challenge. Whilst some of the great Islamic thinkers of the 10-13th centuries such as al-Biruni and Ibn Sina are briefly mentioned, Islam's impact on Christendom via Spain's academic development, alchemy, its preservation of Platonic texts, concepts of space awareness and design, and the influence of Ibn Arabi on critical implementers of cultural change such as Dante are all ignored.

The future of the West is then questioned. At this point Krejci drags in Sorokinian analysis of sensate and ideational epochs. On the one hand we have Graeco-Romano civilisation (which I take to exclude the post-Constantinian Christianised period), the socially-constrained Renaissance of Florence and its imitators across Europe, the empirical science revolution of the Enlightenment and the 'final' late twentieth century of homo hedonicus. On the other is the asceticism of Christianity and the Reformation. The possibility of an ideational revival is raised although it is suggested that the cults of the New Age movement are essentially sensate in nature. The fact that the sensate-ideational dichotomy can often be seen WITHIN beliefs WITHIN chronologies is never considered. There's also no attempt here to take the dichotomy back to the five 'original' cultures. As a result it is not clear, for example, if the neo-Sumerian Renaissance of Ur III (2112 - 2004 BCE) is considered to be essentially sensate or ideational bearing in mind that it is a literary and linguistic revival as well as a period of huge state and economic expansion. For that matter it is not clear whether certain periods of Ur III (such as the reigns of Ur-Nammu and Shulgi) are to be considered different from others (such as the late part of Ibi Sin's reign). To be honest these types of questions raise issues about the whole classification; after all, weren't many of the key Italian Renaissance texts fundamentally ideational in nature themselves?

Krejci considers Rudolf Steiner's theosophy to have been an attempt to break new ground. But there is no attempt to link this sudden burst of religious reconsideration in the first half of the twentieth century with the development of Modernism through, for example, Piet Mondrian, whose contact with anthroposophy was as important as his contact with van Doesburg and van der Leck. In 'End of History' style Krejci sets out to show that the West is moving towards an anthropocentric paradigm of human rights which it AIMS (my capitals) to propagate throughout the world.

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What Is a Man? enriches our understanding of the paradigm shift produced by feminist theory, that gender is constructed, not ìnatural,î and is political. Indeed, Kampenís essay explores new ground, for as she points out, ìfew scholars until very recently have written about the way that gender as a category illuminates our understanding of manhood, and fewer still are the archaeologists and art historians who have studied masculinity in late antiquity.î Kampen draws on pioneering studies of sexuality in classical art, including her own work, to direct attention to the many social and artistic masculinities in play in the late Roman world. What Is a Man? gathers together a diverse group of objects, including portrait sculpture, sarcophagus fragments, pottery, ivory carving, textiles, and coins. All the objects are illustrated in color.

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What gives?

A brilliant, accessible analysis of our ecological plight

An Important and Very Readable Book

A computer model of future ecological troubles

Beyond the Limits: Confronting Global Collapse, Envisioning a Sustainable Future
Donella H. Meadows , Dennis L. Meadows , and Jorgen Randers
Manufacturer: Chelsea Green Publishing Company
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Interesting read.......2004-03-19

This is well written and informative book. One of the best things about it - is that the authors make a concerted effort to make their views and information understandable to the average person. I am not an economist, and not much of an intellectual at all but this book grabbed me, like a steven king novel, and I stayed up all night reading. Pretty amazing for a nonfiction book about economics! Like the afore mentioned novel, the book has a heartwrenching climax - and no clean and easy happy ending. (neither does King...) But how can you expect easy answers to complex problems?

What gives?.......2001-08-31

So, these guys write this book in 1972 telling us how the sky is falling and it's all going to end in probably 20 years because we're all a bunch of greedy capitalist pigs.

So, they're wrong about their predictions and they come back about 30 years later to try to scare people again?

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

A brilliant, accessible analysis of our ecological plight.......1999-10-01

This book contains more common sense, wisdom and compassion than any I've read in many years. It challenges the prevailing paradigm of our society with a perfect balance of head and heart. I borrowed a copy from a friend and I've now come to Amazon to buy my own copy, which I will urge all my friends to read. Another reviewer from Virginia seems to think the book should have been more technical. I think s/he is completely missing the point. This is a book for lay people, which it should be, because if it was full of equations only a handful of geeks would read it and it wouldn't change anything. As it is it's written in beautifully clear prose and you don't need any technical training to follow it.

An Important and Very Readable Book.......1999-06-29

This book is a must read for anyone seriously interested in global sustainability. It is clearly written and is easily accessible to non-technical readers. Although based on a sophisticated computer model, the authors avoid presenting a dry, scientific explanation of the simulation -- equations and mathematical formulations are deemphasized. Instead, the authors refer the technically-minded to an earlier book (Dynamics of Growth in a Finite World, available at www.pegasuscom.com) that contains every equation used in the model. Moreover, Prof. Meadows makes the model itself available to anyone interested (for a nominal fee).

So read this book. Then, if you want more detail, get the model and technical book.

A computer model of future ecological troubles.......1998-09-23

Reading the Meadows, Meadows and Randers book, "Beyond the Limits", on the possibility of impending global collapse in the aftermath of continued violation of physical planetary limits was a disappointing experience. The withholding of important material, whether deliberate or by oversight, while overloading the text with ecological trivia was more than this reviewer could quietly accept. If we agree at the start that the simulation trial results of the Meadows et al. computer model, "World3/91", is supposed to be the book's main attraction, it then follows that the reader deserves to know with appropriate detail, using commonly accepted language and terminology, the structure of that dynamic model and the means by which the investigators obtained their results. The book provides only a cursory description of the World3 model and the methods by which it was implemented on their computer. In the experience of this reader, such models are usually first represented by a set of differential equations, later transformed into a set of difference equations which are then encoded using any of several (Fortran, Pascal, Basic, C++, FoxPro, . . .) suitable programming languages. If the object system operates in discrete time rather than continuous time, then the differential equations structure is omitted and construction of the simpler difference equations is immediate. Meadows, et al. show no set of system equations, either continuous time or discrete time. In fact, the entire book has not a single mathematical expression in its nearly three hundred pages. The fact that a book which focuses on a dynamic systems model, implemented on a digital computer, can be completely devoid of mathematics seems a bit odd. How is it that Meadows et al. will not, as an explanatory aid, write down a simple one-line differential / difference equation for a single variable system such as figure 4-3? This kind of judgment requires explanation, but the text provides none.

In the body and appendix are subsystem block diagrams (also known as influence diagrams, directed graphs, signal flow charts) showing interconnections between parameters and variables. However, several of the symbols are undefined and no help is provided as to how to interpret the diagrams. Readers who have seen similar diagrams before can likely guess symbol significance, e.g. the circles are summing nodes where all inputs are added to produce a single output. Of course such guesses can be wrong, e.g. node inputs can be combined in some other operation more complex than simple addition. At minimum, the authors should have explained in sufficient detail, using commonly accepted scientific language and terminology, abbreviated parts of their system. A few other omissions deserve mention.

On page 15, under a section titled "The Mathematics of Exponential Growth" the process of sequentially folding a sheet of standard office paper in half, such that the height is increased at each step, is introduced as a lead into the subject of exponential growth. This familiar process presents a fine opportunity to introduce the lay reader as to how a real process can be represented by a simple - the simplest - difference equation which has a correspondingly simple solution, namely an exponential function. However, these authors present no representative equation, but immediately assert - with no justification - that the height of the folded paper would, after forty foldings, reach from the earth to the moon. Since the proof of their assertion could be done within the space of one page - using mathematics not beyond that of freshman college algebra - why did the authors not make the minuscule effort to show their reasoning? It is absurd for a section titled "The Mathematics of Exponential Growth" to contain no mathematics!

A wordy extended discussion on a plethora of ecological topics spanning birth-death rates in Sweden, pollution in the Rhine river, grain production in china, deforestation in Costa Rica and on and on. . . fill up the middle or so hundred pages. This textual overload was a bit much for this reader to digest especially since its connection to the construction of World3/91 is not addressed. Some editorial pruning would have helped.

The latter and most interesting parts of the book are the time course graphs, outputs of thirteen simulation trials of World3/91 conducted under different initial conditions and parameter values (scenarios). System variables displayed in the graphs show some interesting time course behaviors that merit serious attention; accompanying explanations for the various behaviors are clear and intuitively reasonable. In the final pages of the text are some new age musings on political action, networking, visioning and loving. In spite of the disjointedness and questionable value of the preceding material the contents of the latter parts of the book make it worthy of purchase. For those wishing to read further, an extensive list of books along with several peer reviewed professional journal articles is provided. Several books in the list were written by Meadows et al. but their names do not appear as authors for any of the professional journal articles.

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Beyond the Limits: Confronting Global Collapse, Envisioning a Sustainable Future.: An article from: The Futurist
Daniel M. Fields
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This digital document is an article from The Futurist, published by World Future Society on January 1, 1993. The length of the article is 903 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Beyond the Limits: Confronting Global Collapse, Envisioning a Sustainable Future.
Author: Daniel M. Fields
Publication: The Futurist (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 1993
Publisher: World Future Society
Volume: v27 Issue: n1 Page: p40(2)

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