Customer Reviews:
Not the definitive biography of Pete Ellis.......2005-02-23
Although ostensibly a biography of Ellis, the book tends to focus on other high-profile Marines of the era and the internacine service rivalries that Ellis lived through. Although discussing in the beginning of the book certain peculiarities surrounding Ellis' death (specifically the behavior of Chief Pharmacist Zembsch after recovery of Ellis' remains), the authories summarily dismiss any mystery at the end of the book by stating that Ellis died of alcholism. All in all an interesting read, but certainly not the in-depth biography of Pete Ellis that one might infer from the title.
A VERY MISLEADING SUBTITLE.......1998-11-04
It must have been very difficult finding information on Ellis, but the authors focused more on his drunken exploits rather than his impact on the Marine Corps. I would recommend this book to any Marine or interested civilian who wants to learn more about the legendary Marine Officer. This book may dispel some of the myths about Ellis and his suspicious disappearance.
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A seminal biography, essential reading for anyone studying the philosophy of history's most enigmatic and fascinating thinker.
No other modern philosopher has proved as influential as Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) and none is as poorly understood. In the first new biography in decades, Rüdiger Safranski, one of the foremost living Nietzsche scholars, re-creates the anguished life of Nietzsche while simultaneously assessing the philosophical implications of his morality, religion, and art. Struggling to break away from the oppressive burdens of the past, Nietzsche invented a unique philosophy based on compulsive self-consciousness and constant self-revision. As groundbreaking as it will be long-lasting, this biography offers a brilliant, multifaceted portrait of a towering figure.
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Life after music.......2006-04-18
Nietzsche unfolded an entire existential drama. The will to power is first power over oneself. Cheerfulness was achieved through ecstasy and composure. Nietzsche's writings were a major force in the development of various intellectual currents of the twentieth century. He was a laboratory of thinking.
Hearing Wagner's music in 1868, Nietzsche experienced rapture. He sought to capture music in his writings. Nietzsche placed Wagnerian music and musical improvisation at the pinnacle of pleasure. Friedrich Nietzsche considered himself divided. The early death of his father left him solitary. Between the ages of nine and fifteen he tried to acquire universal knowledge. He was a student of classical philology at Bonn. Reading Schopenhauer between 1866 and 1868 produced in him a sort of conversion. He read Lange and learned of Kant's critique of knowledge. He retained Schopenhauer's sense of the inner nature of the world and the possibility of transcendent knowledge.
Self-configuration through language became a passion for Nietzsche. He considered philosophy a linguistic work of art. Encountering Wagner, THE BIRTH OF TRAGEDY emerged. The philological establishment was provoked by the assertion of Nietzsche that there had been a decomposition of tragedy through intellectualism. Nietzsche's highest goal was the flourishing of culture. Nietzsche uses Dionysian for reality and also for barbarism, pre-civilized, and violence. He believed Wagner's music was a means of reviving intellectual life in a Germany damaged by materialism and historicism and the founding of the German empire in 1871. Eventually the inner revolution of his thinking transcended Wagner.
Myth is a concentrated image and it yields social and cultural context. For Wagner myth had religious overtones. Nietzsche's take on myth was aesthetic. The aesthetic moment is a sort of atom of happiness. An 1876 visit to Bayreuth left Nietzsche feeling disappointed. He thought historicism might be compensating for a lack of vitality. Hegel had enobled history in philosophical terms. In THE BIRTH OF TRAGEDY Socratic knowledge was a panacea. Nietzsche criticized Socrates as sentimental. He lacked the coldness of a Democritus, of a Hume.
Nietzsche was interested in an implicit system to connect his ideas. He feared the aphoristic form might be an admission of failure. The compassionate disposition possessed by Nietzsche caused him to suffer. In HUMAN ALL TOO HUMAN Nietzsche wanted to liberate himself from thinking of first and last things. Between 1877 and 1880 Nietzsche's health was precarious. He linked physical suffering with mental triumph. To triumph over the body, an idea had to have linguistic form of great beauty and pithiness.
Thinking was an act of emotional intensity. Nietzsche had a theater of ideas. His works are an experiment to obtain power over oneself. His philosophical thinking moved to a means of self-reflection. DAYBREAK contains phenomenological research. He wondered how we really feel when we think. ZARATHUSTRA dealt with the doctrine of recurrence.
In 1881 Nietzsche wrote that pain was vanquishing his life and his will. He spent a bright winter in Genoa. THE GAY SCIENCE was written in 1882. He felt writing dealt with the long logic of a philosophical personality. The logic was difficult to discern because Nietzsche was circuitous. He met Lou Andreas-Salome in 1882. He proposed marriage and she said no. He was in competition for her with his friend, Paul Ree. Salome sensed Nietzsche's alien uncanny quality. She did not feel love for him. He had felt that she understood him completely. Although tortured by his own fantasies, he moved forward to complete the writing of ZARATHUSTRA. The metaphoric style hints at biologic contents. ON THE GENEOLOGY OF MORALS was written a year and a half before his breakdown in Turin.
Extremely Thorough!.......2006-02-10
My copy is actually orange.. but what's beneath the cover is most important.
This book is written by the #1 Nietzsche expert of our time. It flows well and squishes the important ideas into a picture that normal people can understand as one whole.
unoriginal, uninspired!.......2005-05-24
The only thing that makes this book unique is that it organizes Nietzsche's ideas chronologically, according to their development. If not for that, there's nothing that makes this book any better than the hundreds of other books about Nietzsche.
Struggling from belief in God to belief in Life. .......2004-12-28
Before reading Safranski's "Nietzsche" I had a very limited and distorted understanding of Nietzsche's philosophy based on exposure in my youth to both the Nazi's selective expropriation of Nietzsche's ideas and the Catholic Church's demonization of him. Having now read Safranski's philosophical biography, I still don't feel I have a good understanding. This admittedly is due in part to my limited formal education in philosophy. But it's also due I believe to the author's and translator's sometimes vague descriptions of Nietzsche's ideas, and/or to the vicissitudes of Nietzsche's troubled mind, in a culture more then a century removed from today's America.
So if you're like me, you'll muddle thru this book, glossing over descriptions that seem unclear, perhaps impatient with Nietzsche's egotism. Safranski shows more sympathy and tolerance in presenting the growth and development of Nietzsche's sometimes conflicting ideas. And according to his Epilogue, after Nietzsche's death his ideas were selectively adapted, not only by the Nazis, but by his sister and others, each to suit their own agendas. Indeed the Translator's Preface begins by noting that "Each of us can discover a different Nietzsche to admire and/or detest."
What I found to admire was Nietzsche's struggle toward the end of the nineteenth century to transform his `Death of God' into a philosophy of Life. Then at the beginning of the twentieth century Henri Bergson adapted Nietzsche's ideas to formulate his now discredited concept of a `Life Force'. And now with the benefit of another century of scientific knowledge, I've proposed the concept of a `Life Urge' in my book "Concepts: A ProtoTheist Quest for Science Minded-Skeptics". If you've an interest in the transition from belief in God to belief in Life, you might find both Safranski's book and mine worth exploring.
Understanding the misunderstood........2003-04-07
To truly understand a philosopher/philosophy, one must understand the context within which that philosopher developed.
Rudiger Safranski does an excellent job of both describing Nietzsche's environments as well as distilling the esentials of his philosophy. Way too many people have mis-stated the Nietzsche message - this is an excellent source to determine what the 'valuable' message is for you.
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Friedrich Nietzsche was immensely influential and, counter to most expectations, also very well read. An essential new reference tool for those interested in his thinking,
Nietzsche’s Philosophical Context identifies the chronology and huge range of philosophical books that engaged him. Rigorously examining the scope of this reading, Thomas H. Brobjer consulted over two thousand volumes in Nietzsche’s personal library, as well as his book bills, library records, journals, letters, and publications. This meticulous investigation also considers many of the annotations in his books. In arguing that Nietzsche’s reading often constituted the starting point for, or counterpoint to, much of his own thinking and writing, Brobjer’s study provides scholars with fresh insight into how Nietzsche worked and thought; to which questions and thinkers he responded; and by which of them he was influenced. The result is a new and much more contextual understanding of Nietzsche's life and thinking.
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The Origins of the Gods (Suny Series, Margins of Literature)
James S. Hans
Manufacturer: State University of New York Press
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Doesn't it seem like a new medical study is published every day? Eat this to prevent that, exercise this to lose that, practice this to attain that-and with a host of health-related Web sites cropping up, the Internet has only added to the barrage of miracle cures and fly-by-night formulas. In this revised and updated edition of the classic WELLNESS: SMALL CHANGES YOU CAN USE TO MAKE A BIG DIFFERENCE, Dr. John Travis and Regina Sara Ryan cut through the hype and show you how to achieve a state of lifelong mental and physical wellbeing. Far from requiring major sacrifices, the changes that the authors' propose focus on simple, natural remedies, such as drinking water, breathing deeply, laughing out loud, being adventurous, listening to music, nurturing friendships, and 25 other uncomplicated but important lifestyle patterns. Revolutionary in its simplicity, SIMPLY WELL is the gentle nudge you need to get started on a path toward whole-body wellness.
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Wilderness chefs looking to make their meals more nutritious and appealing need look no further than this newest edition of NOLS Cookery, the National Outdoor Leadership School's classic guide to backcountry cooking. From Cowboy Coffee to Darn Tootin' Black Beans to Scrambled Brownies, the book's recipes and culinary advice are guaranteed to please the palate and provide the energy needed for strenuous outdoor activity. Extensive revisions based on up-to-date research have been to made to the nutrition section, and nutrient analyses are given for all recipes. Additional sections cover fire preparation, cooking technique, and ration planning. About the Author:"Claudia Pearson is rations manager for the National Outdoor Leadership School's Rocky Mountain Branch.The National Outdoor Leadership School is the leading educational organization for outdoor skills and leadership and offers courses in the world's most spectacular wilderness classrooms. Since 1965, this non-profit school based in Lander, Wyoming, has introduced over 60,000 people to activities such as backpacking, mountaineering, sea kayaking, canoeing, skiing, caving, horsepacking, and rock climbing." New edition of the best-selling guide to outdoor cooking Important new information on backcountry nutrition New and revised recipes
Customer Reviews:
A classic..........2007-09-20
One of the best of the many How-to-cook-in-the-backcountry books. Might as well buy a good digital kitchen scales along with the book since the so-called "NOLS System" is primarily weight based. I give it four stars because of it's claims regarding NOLS invention of the system (which worked great for the Greeks 2K years before Petzolt and his ilk laid claim to it). Next thing you know they're going to claim they invented wilderness First Aid.
Oh wait! They already did: Nols Wilderness First Aid (Nols Library)
:)
A unique perspective on cookery techniques.......2007-04-14
I'm a window shopper at outdoors stores. I like the stuff they sell, but I'm a basement rat, the sort of person who might go into convulsions without a nearby internet connection or even a cellular signal. I am most assuredly not NOLS material. But I love this book.
From the perspective of a kitchen geek, this is a pretty cool book because it explains the challenges of cooking in the outdoors, especially without a premade meal plan. The gear is very different from what might exist in a typical kitchen -- campstoves little bigger than bunsen burners, cooking pans of appalling thinness and lightness, interesting uses for gear that no one would even consider in a normal kitchen, ingredients that a "serious" cook would never touch. But it all works, and this is a no-panic guide to getting it to work. This edition adds extensive nutritional information about the recipes, essential to backpackers who need to keep their calorie intake up or limit some aspect of their meal ingredients such as salt or fat.
An interesting point about the recipes is that a great many of them are vegetarian. It seems meat does not travel well in the backcountry, so with a very few exceptions (stock bases, beef jerky, bacon bits, etc) a large amount of the recipes use more backpack-stable meat substitutes such as TVP or beans to bulk out the finished dish. The recipes go from the simple (polenta and other boiled grains, soups) to the ambitious (yeasted breads) to the highly unusual (NOLS specialties such as Phil's Power Dinner, apparently a distant, meatless relative of oyako donburi made with couscous or bulgur wheat). Extensive information is provided on ration planning, and virtually nothing requires at-home preparation (a departure from most backpacking cookbooks).
The one gotcha of this book: know your sources. Some of the ingredients this book uses are NOLS-issued, and you will need to find substitutions for some of them, so familiarize yourself with companies that specialize in camping food so you know where to order your ingredients. Also, their process of packing bulk rations in unmarked bags and distinguishing them by taste when necessary strikes me as being a little brute-force -- while it's always useful to be able to do, is it really that hard to slip a sharpie in your backpack so you can label the flour and potato flakes out on the trail?
NOLS Cookery is hot!.......2005-08-29
I really liked this book on backcountry meal preparation. There are all sorts of usefull ideas from meal planning to packaging. The bulk of this book contains a large list of actual recipes proven at the NOLS. I liked the fact that the book actually has recipes that you could use. I expected a little more in the stove and cookware category, but only a minor gripe. I really did enjoy this book and plan on using it for future camping trips.
KEY for expedition planning.......2005-05-14
This book is all you will ever need (and you WILL need it) to plan long trips. I find that planning food rations for long trips is one of the biggest logistical challenges. Not only can the planning be difficult, it can also be difficult to figure out which foods will keep your body energized and healthy over long periods of time (i.e. not Ramen). When you are on a high altitude expedition or on a long-distance backpacking trip this is very important. This book tells you which ingredients to bring along, how to break up food during the day (i.e. 10% of your food should be breakfast food, 25% should be lunch food, etc.) and which foods work well for each category. Included in the book are two worksheets which you can photocopy and use for each trip. The worksheets are basically formulas - you plug in the number of people in your group, the number of days you will be travelling, the quantity of food you want to take each day (the book also makes good reccomendations about how many pounds of food you should eat each day) - and then the book tells you how many pounds of breakfast foods, dinner foods, etc you will need for the entire trip. Once you have all of the basic ingredients, the book also has a great recipe section which tells you how to put together all of your ingredients into tasty meals. The book is small enough that you can take it with you on your trips (maybe 6 inches by 8 inches?). If you're really nitpicky you can cut the "cookbook" section out of the book and leave the rest at home to save weight. I'm glad that I finally got around to writing a good review for this book, and someday I need to get around to writing a thank-you letter to Claudia Pearson for writing it.
Add to the collection.......2001-10-05
Just one of many good books out there on how to cook while camping. However, if you are a light weekend hiker or some one who likes to cook simply, this is not the book for you. The concept of the NOLS school is that you'll carry a wide range of basic cooking stuff ( flower, sugar, etc), and thus have a wide range of meal options while hiking instaed of having to plan each meal in advance.
*lol* However, this book as found its way into my kitchen at home!
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NOLS cookery
Manufacturer: National Outdoor Leadership School Publication
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Basset Hound Champions, 1968-1999
Jan Linzy
Manufacturer: Camino E E & Book Co
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Customer Reviews:
Great book!.......2007-08-15
I found this book very inspiring. There are many interesting projects. I especially liked the projects done with tiny stitches, and the cube pendant. This book covered the basic techniques, but went beyond them. I have referred back to the book many times and will continue to do so. Every time I look at it I springboard off with new ideas of my own.
Good Ideas.......2007-02-14
This book have good ideas wich help me to create my own projects. The models are elegant and easy to do.
Great book and worth the money!.......2006-09-21
This book is inspiring for the depth and innovation of the projects shown. I expect the projects of professional artist to be pushing the limits of what can be done in the medium. I would not be interested in buying a "how to" book that showed me how to make ordinary things -- go to Michael's craft stores for such "make and take" classes. This type of book, with such a variety of projects, is meant to be used as a basis to make your own, unique pieces (not to make copies of other's designs).
Not What I Expected.......2006-07-03
I was very disappointed in this long awaited book. I teach wire crochet at a local craft store and had this book on my wish list for months. While the book had good clear instructions on the various techniques involved in crocheting wire, I found the projects to be way too bizarre to have any use for the average person. As a teacher of this technique, I feel that the person new to wire crochet will be overwhelmed with the oddness of the "over the top" designs featured here while the experienced wire crocheter, will feel let down by the perhaps one or two new techniques they may find as well as the designs being virtually non-usable in the average person's wardrobe. I am definitely feeling as though I wasted my money on this book, and as a previous reviewer stated, it is definitely headed for eBay VERY soon...
Disappointed.......2006-06-26
I was very disappointed in this book. The instructions were very detailed in explaining the basic stitches -- however, the projects were not what I was expecting. The projects were all above and beyond what the average person would attempt, or wear if achieved. I will be selling this on ebay soon! Sorry!
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- Great book 1st one i like better
- very helpful. produced lots of beautiful tomatoes
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100 Pounds of Tomatoes Out of an Inexpensive Foam Box
Leopold Klein
Manufacturer: Leopold Klein
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ASIN: 0961977809 |
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Great book 1st one i like better.......2001-05-16
If u can afford to buy 2 books get this one and his earlier. If not just get this book. Although it is not written and organized as well as 1st if u follow his instructions u will be loaded w/ tastey Tomatoes. I also Recommend Gary Isben's book "the Great Tomato book." He will teach you which ones to grow. I also recommend to forget Leo's tomato reccomendation and use Gary's guide. Better tomatoes better flavor. If u can't Afford Gary's book then look to add a trowel full of AZOMITE to your soil to add the trace minerals that make your tomatoes better tasting. Hard to find but if u look you'll find it.
very helpful. produced lots of beautiful tomatoes.......1999-01-10
The book was very easy to follow. Step-by-step information enabled me to produce many pounds of beautiful tomatoes.
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The Best-Kept Secret: Men and Women's Stories of Enduring Love
Janet Reibstein
Manufacturer: Bloomsbury USA
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Release Date: 2006-01-24 |
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Expert couples therapist Reibstein presents the best-kept secrets of successful relationships as told by the men and women who have made theirs work.
We’ve all seen the statistics: divorce is on the rise. But behind the familiar stories of fractured partnerships are other more hopeful kinds of stories: those of the couples who stay together. How such couples achieve their happiness has remained their secret—until now.
Janet Reibstein, an internationally known psychologist with an emphasis on couples, has talked in depth to more than 200 couples whose partnerships are happy and enduring. Here she flings open the curtains covering private relationships: both partners, in couples married and unmarried, gay and straight, talk candidly and profoundly about their lives together. They tell hidden tales of success: what’s worked, what hasn’t; what problems crop up, how they've overcome them; the importance or not of commitment, monogamy, sex, romance, pleasure, perspective, autonomy and independence, and of children (both joint and from previous relationships), friends, relatives, ex-partners, and in-laws. Through the nitty-gritty of real life emerge simple rules for how to conduct relationships to maximize our potential for happiness.
Reibstein’s subjects tell their secrets, large and small, in their own words; the author filters these stories through the eyes of a relationship expert. Drawing on years of real-life experience and a therapists’s wisdom, this book convinces that life-long love is a real, achievable possibility.
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Isabelle's Notebooks (Prose Series 61)
Sylvie Chaput
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Following the love story of painter Joseph Légaré's niece, Isabelle Forest, and novelist Philippe Aubert de Gaspé, Sylvie Chaput carefully and creatively chronicles her picture of Quebec in the 1830s. Chaput writes of the turbulence Quebec endured as her lovers battle the dangers of severe political unrest and a huge cholera epidemic. This novel also recalls the role of art, specifically painting, as a permanent force in a tumultuous world.
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Le Memorial de Caen. A Museum for Peace. This is a workbook that appears designed either for school or education explaining the history of Caen and explores the invasion of Normandy. Printed in France written in English.
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This digital document is an article from Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal, published by Canadian Ethnic Studies Association on March 22, 2004. The length of the article is 800 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: Isabelle's Notebooks.(Book Review)
Author: Marie-Claude Legault
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Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 2004
Publisher: Canadian Ethnic Studies Association
Volume: 36
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James II: A study in kingship
John Miller
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