Taxonomy and Biogeography of West African Beach Ostracods (Verhandelingen Der Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie Van Wetenschappen, Afd. Natuurkunde)

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Why is `blood thicker than water'? Are we innately violent or pacific? What is the best sex ratio? Why are plants and animals sexual? Why do we grow old and die? Over what do our chromosomes quarrel? Such questions have motivated the life-work of W. D. Hamilton, widely acknowledged as the most important theoretical biologist of the 20th century. His papers continue to exert an enormous influence and they are now being republished for the first time. Each one is introduced by an autobiographical essay written especially for this collection. This first volume contains all of Hamilton's publications prior to 1981, a set especially relevant to social behaviour, kinship theory, sociobiology, and the notion of `selfish genes'. It includes several of the most read and famous papers of modern biology. A forthcoming volume will be devoted to the second half of Hamilton's life's work, on sex and sexual selection. Narrow Roads of Gene Land will be welcomed by professionals, graduate students, and undergraduates from a variety of disciplines, including evolution, population genetics, animal behaviour, genetics, anthropology, and ecology. The essays are accessible to non-specialists and will fascinate and entertain general readers with an interest in evolution and behaviour.

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A real gem!.......2000-07-09

This is an outstanding collection of some of the most important papers in evolutionary ecology, and when one can get them with Hamilton's wry, insightful, and occasionally extremely funny commentary, all I can say is "BUY IT!" No, Hamilton's mathematics is not for the faint of heart, but even if the thought of equations gives you the willies, you will find valuable stuff about the nature of science and scientists in the "interlinear" that links each of the stand-alone papers. I look forward to Volume 2 with great excitement!

John Milnor Collected Papers: Volume 1: Geometry (Collected Papers / John Milnor)

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This volume contains papers on geometry of one of the best modern geometers and topologists, John Milnor. This book covers a wide variety of topics and includes several previously unpublished works. It is delightful reading for any mathematician with an interest in geometry and topology and for any person with an interest in mathematics. (A number of papers in the collection, intended for a general mathematical audience, have been published in the American Mathematical Monthly.) Each paper is accompanied by the author's comments on further development of the subject. The volume contains twenty-one papers and is partitioned into three parts: Differential geometry and curvature, Algebraic geometry and topology, and Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometry. Although some of the papers were written quite a while ago, they appear more modern than many of today's publications. Milnor's excellent, clear, and laconic style makes the book a real treat. This volume is highly recommended to a broad mathematical audience, and, in particular, to young mathematicians who will certainly benefit from their acquaintance with Milnor's mode of thinking and writing.

Consciousness, Function, and Representation: Collected Papers, Volume 1 (Bradford Books)

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Consciousness, Function, and Representation: Collected Papers, Volume 1 (Bradford Books)
Ned Block
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This volume of Ned Block's writings collects his papers on consciousness, functionalism, and representationism. A number of these papers treat the significance of the multiple realizability of mental states for the mind-body problem--a theme that has concerned Block since the 1960s. One paper on this topic considers the upshot for the mind-body problem of the possibility of a robot that is functionally like us but physically different--as is Commander Data of Star Trek's second generation. The papers on consciousness treat such conceptual issues as phenomenal versus access consciousness, Dennett's theory of consciousness, and the function of consciousness, as well as such empirical matters as "How Not to Find the Neural Correlate of Consciousness," and (in an expanded version of a paper originally in Trends in Cognitive Sciences) an argument that there are distinct neural correlates for access consciousness and phenomenal consciousness. Turning to the mind-body problem, Block defends physicalism against Max Black's argument concerning phenomenal modes of presentation. The papers on representationism consider "mental paint" as well as the "Inverted Earth" thought experiment--a world in which colors are reversed but there is a compensating reversal in the words that are used to describe them.

Consciousness, Function, and Representation, bringing together papers that have appeared primarily in journals and conference proceedings, can be regarded as Block's most complete statement of his positions on consciousness.

Michael Atiyah: Collected Works: Volume 1: Early Papers; General Papers (Oxford Science Publications)

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Michael Atiyah
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One of the greatest mathematicians in the world, Michael Atiyah has earned numerous honors, including a Fields Medal, the mathematical equivalent of the Nobel Prize. While the focus of his work has been in the areas of algebraic geometry and topology, he has also participated in research with
theoretical physicists. For the first time, these volumes bring together Atiyah's collected papers--both monographs and collaborative works-- including those dealing with mathematical education and current topics of research such as K-theory and gauge theory. The volumes are organized
thematically. They will be of great interest to research mathematicians, theoretical physicists, and graduate students in these areas.

The life of Robert, Lord Clive: Collected from the family papers communicated by the Earl of Powis. Volume 1

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The life of Robert, Lord Clive: Collected from the family papers communicated by the Earl of Powis. Volume 1
John Malcolm
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This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1836 edition by John Murray, London.

Collected Papers of Kenneth J. Arrow, Volume 1, Social Choice and Justice (Collected Papers of Kenneth J. Arrow)

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Collected Papers of Kenneth J. Arrow, Volume 1, Social Choice and Justice (Collected Papers of Kenneth J. Arrow)
Kenneth J. Arrow
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Unlike the papers of some other great economists, those of Kenneth Arrow are being read and studied today with even greater care and attention than when they first appeared in the journals. The publication of his collected papers will therefore be welcomed by economists and other social scientists and in particular by graduate students, who can draw from them the deep knowledge and the discernment in selection of scientific problems that only a master can offer. The author has added headnotes to certain well-known papers, describing how he came to write them.

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Volume 1 presents important new material on the young Einstein. Over half the documents made available here were discovered by the editors, including a significant group of over fifty letters that Einstein exchanged with Mileva Maric, his fellow student and future wife. These letters, together with other previously unpublished documents, provide an entirely new view of Einstein's youth. The documents in the volume also foreshadow the emergence of his extraordinary creative power. In them is manifested his intense commitment to scientific work and his interest in certain themes that proved to be central to his thinking during the next decade. We can follow, for example, the beginnings of his preoccupation with the electrodynamics of moving bodies that was to lead to the development of this special theory of relativity. For the first time it can be seen how closely he followed such contemporary developments in physics as Planck's work on radiation theory and Drude's work on the electron theory of metals. In addition to all of Einstein's known correspondence and other writings from this period, the volume includes the relevant portions of all third-party letters and other contemporary documents that provide additional information about his secondary schooling at the Aargau Cantonal School; his four years at the Swiss Federal Plytechnical School, or the ETH; and his search for a job after graduation. Included in the volume are those sections of an unpublished biography by Einstein's sister, Maja Winteler-Einstein, which deal with his early years; his extensive notes on a physics course he took at the ETH; and previously unpublished photographs of the young Einstein and his teachers and friends.

Documents in Volume 1 portray Einstein's experiences during the two stressful years after his graduation from the ETH in Zurich. Denied a position as an Assistant at the ETH, he lived a hand-to-mouth existence while he looked for a post at other universities; then he attempted to find a secondary-school post, and finally sought a nonacademic job. Tension with his parents over his plans to marry Mileva Maric is evident throughout this period. With the help of a friend, he finally found work at the Swiss Patent Office, the haven where he would spend the next seven years. Freed from his financial worries, he entered on one of the most productive periods of his life, as the next volume, Writings (1901-1910), will document.

Oeuvres - Collected Papers: Volume 1: 1949 - 1959

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From the reviews of Vols. I-III:

"Since their publication in 1986 J-P. Serre's Collected Papers have already become one of the classical references in mathematical research. This is on the one hand due to the completeness of the collection (132 items) and on the other, of course, due to the beautiful and clear expositions of Serre's papers and their influence on mathematics.

As listed in the preface, the three volumes cover almost all articles published in mathematical journals between 1949 and 1984, the summaries of the author's courses at the Collège de France since 1956, some of his Séminaire notes, and some items not previously published. [...]

The author's notes at the end of each volume giving corrections and important recent progress as well as improvements of the main results represent a highlight of this collection. The mathematical community definitely looks forward to further volume(s) of Serre's outstanding work."

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The Collected Scientific Papers of Paul A. Samuelson. Volume 1.

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The Collected Scientific Papers of Paul A. Samuelson. Volume 1.
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The Australian Institute of Tropical Medicine. Collected Papers. Volumes 1 and 2.

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Australian Institute of Tropical Medicine.
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This important book presents a unified formulation from first principles of the Hamiltonian and statistical mechanics of metallic and insulating crystals, amorphous solids, and liquids. Extensive comparison of theory and experiment provides an accurate understanding of the statistical properties of phonons, electrons, and phonon-phonon and electron-phonon interactions in elemental crystals and liquids. Questions are posed along the following lines: What is the "best" theory for a given property? How accurate is a good theory? What information is gained by a comparison of theory and experiment? How accurate is a good experiment?

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One of the most popular series ever published for young Americas, these classics have been praised alike by parents, teachers, and librarians. With these lively, inspiring, fictionalized biographies -- easily ready by children of eight and up -- today's youngster is swept right into history.

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Mr. Rogers.......2005-02-11

MR. ROGERS is a great biography on Mr. Rogers. It tells some very important events though out Fred McFeely Rogers's life. From when he was born March 20, 1928, in Latrobe, Pennsylvania to when he died from cancer on February 27, 2003. When Freddie Rogers was in the hospital as a baby they found out that Freddie had respiratory problems and was sick most of his life. When he was sick he found a hobby of making puppets. He crated many of his friends thought pre-school and high school. Freddie wanted to be many things through out his life some of them included a writer and a preacher. I liked this book because it had a lot of information on Mr. Rogers and his life. Mr. Rogers enjoyed everyone company.

Murdering Mr. Lincoln: A New Detection of the 19th Century's Most Famous Crime

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Tantalizing but too much
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charles higham and trading with the enemy
Reinvestigating the Assassination

Murdering Mr. Lincoln: A New Detection of the 19th Century's Most Famous Crime
Charles Higham
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hardly worth your time > . . . .......2006-02-12

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Conspiracy theorists and Civil War buffs may want to take a gander, but overall this book adds little to our understanding of the assassination.

Tantalizing but too much.......2004-07-19

Those interested in the politics behind the war will find Higham's work at times fascinating and horrific. The book really brings home what happened apart from the battlefront. As revered as President Lincoln is today, he made some decisions that would make 21st century citizens of a democracy cringe. Alternatively, Lincoln's detractors and political opponents did the same. It seems unfathomable to me now that Lincoln could have been hated by so many, and this book really pierces the veil of the myth surrounding his presidency and the unity of all those in the Union.

When one really ponders what Lincoln did - suspending the writ of habeas corpus, prosecuting publishers printing unfavorable information, trading with South, etc. - one realizes that Lincoln - just like everyone - is neither complete hero nor complete villain - but a convoluted mix of gray areas.

But a reflection on Lincoln is not an intended objective of this book. Nor does it foster an argument that Lincoln deserved death. The focus here is the plot to de-throne Lincoln and make peace with the South, hatched by shadowy Confederate sympathizers, fringe Confederate spies, the European aristocracy, and some out-and-out crazies, like the chief villain George Sanders and assassian John Wilkes Booth. This objective is fulfilled in excruciating detail.

Also deeply disturbing was the revelation of the "Young Americans" Hitler-youth-type organization, the assertion that Stephen Douglas planned for a military coup d'etat over Lincoln, and the whole affair between Confederate exiles conspiring with British/Canadians to incite war with England.

A fascinating story is marred by the author's continuous barrage of trivial details. He throws so many names, places, and things at the reader that even the most astute Civil War scholar would be overwhelmed.

The book reads like a novel and while that is good for easy reading, one has to wonder how the author dug up so much granular information 150 years later. The source notes - a paltry half-dozen pages at the end - do nothing to convince me that the author did in fact thoroughly validate the accuracy of his assertions. Personally, while I think the book does contain many facts, I have to consider it more a historical novel, like Gore Vidal's "Lincoln", than a history. "Dark Union", another recent and similar book on Lincoln during the war, is much better annotated.

Manure from Hack!.......2004-06-13

Charles Higham has long seen conspiracy theories under his bed. For most of us, going to bed means counting sheep and drifting off into a restful sleep, but for Higham it must be an entirely different experience. Perhaps his sheep all wear swastika armbands on their legs, baaing in syncopation with goose-stepping spies on their way to conspire with their Hollywood friends. Now, after a long and fruitless career hacking out spy laden fiction about Hollywood's brightest stars, he turns his attention to Abraham Lincoln. The switch from Hollywood figures to political icons is consistent with Higham's long rumored belief that every celebrity was not only a Nazi spy, but a closet homosexual intent on destroying the pillars of democracy. No matter - Higham's book is without merit. This book is no more than a long supposition bracketed by historical gobbledygook and pounds of manure shoveled up from Higham's seemingly endless supply of self-created excrement. Surely, he needs some fiber in his diet, and a backbone to go with it. A soul would help, too. But we need to keep in mind a fundamental truth when considering Charles Higham's long and lucrative career - he has the right to publish what he wants. Freedom is everything, and we need to accept that, even if it means that any deranged fool raised in a leper colony by a homosexual Franciscan monk from Mars can bellow about the conspiracy that occupies his dreams. Yes, they shoot horses and diseased cattle, but not people, and so the diseased are allowed their bellowing. Such people have the strength of their beliefs, and no dialogue from the rest of us will convince them that they are wrong. We should pity them. In any event, it appears obvious that Higham has reached the end of his career. He will still publish, of course, but he is much reviled. His "lack of journalistic integrity" (as historian Tony Thomas so aptly stated) is well known. At best, we should all pray that one day such illnesses are defeated and that one day Charles Higham will finally rest in peace.

charles higham and trading with the enemy.......2004-05-29

Charles Higham's research connects various Copperhead merchants to the Confederate Secret Service, but fails to convincingly tie any of them to John Wilkes Booth. The book is worth reading primarily for its exploration of a new angle to Lincoln's assassination: Copperhead commerce with the South, reluctantly approved by Lincoln as necessary to the Union to finance the war, provided a cloak for an assassination conspiracy.

Mr. Higham almost certainly has several things wrong. He assumes the plot to kidnap Lincoln was always phony and a cover for murder. But why would Booth write in his diary, "...we sought to capture (and changed to murder at the end)"? Why would Arnold and Surratt, years after they were safe from the law, provide details of Booth's planned abduction? It's also a huge stretch to say Surratt traveled 24 hours from Elmira, N.Y. to Washington on April 13-14 and spent only 5 hours in the city, most of which was devoted to getting his hair cut and watching a transvestite show.

Finally, as with every single historian to have written on the case since 1865, Mr. Higham is willing to assume that Booth entered Lincoln's box without having determined in advance that Parker, the guard, would be absent. This, despite his precise timing of the gunshot to coincide with a laugh line in "Our American Cousin" and with Paine's assault on Seward. Booth acted according to a presumption to which he was not entitled, i.e. Parker would not be guarding Lincoln. He had to have known this.

Reinvestigating the Assassination.......2004-04-10

Abraham Lincoln was one of the most revered Presidents, and the one most threatened with death. Higham reminds the reader why Lincoln was both loved and hated (p.xv-xvi). There was a lucrative trade in contraband that benefited Lincoln's circle of friends until 1865 when a Congressional investigation changed policy (p.xvii). The failure of Ulric Dahlgren's raid "compelled" the Confederates to start raids and sabotage in northern states. Higham questions the policy of burning cotton to prevent its capture by Union forces (p.8)! England and France hated Lincoln because the Morrill tariff restricted imports. Higham claims Confederate diplomats paid to be captured (p.9)! The Confederate attack from Canada was to provoke a war with England and gain support for the Confederacy (p.10). Page 27 tells how two millionaires bought a magazine to publish their propaganda in 1852. [This still happens and is hidden by corporate fronts.] Higham describes the Young America movement and the Pierce presidency as a group out to foment revolution in other countries (pp.30-31)! The "radical" Nathaniel Hawthorne was appointed consul in Liverpool to spread subversion! Page 38 notes how the wealth of New York bankers and merchants depended on slavery. Higham claims an attempt was made to plant a bomb on Lincoln's railroad car (p.41), based on one uncorroborated report! Why did General Sherman regard reporters as spies? Because they reported Union troop movements (pp.68-69). Lincoln regularly read intercepted telegraphs from subversives.

Those who have a good background in the history of the Civil War can best judge this book. It does remind us of the many conspiracies and secret societies long forgotten. In other areas, an investigator who find secret clues overlooked by others often has created them. Lincoln remains the first President killed by a "lone gunman", but with a complete investigation into the conspiracy. Forty years after JFK's assassination we still have the cover-up and hidden secrets. Was this due to our Imperial Presidency and a weakened Congress and people?

Page 83 tells how Lincoln suppressed attempts to expose assassination conspiracies, since it would also discourage Unionists. It is so typical to portray a population as a "silent majority". McClellan's popularity is explained by putting his men's safety ahead of any victory (p.87). Or maybe he didn't want to risk defeat of the Union after a lost battle? The Union Army was more experienced and equipped afterwards. The harsh prison Camp Douglas is described (pp.88-89). Was there an attempt to kill Lincoln in February 1864 (pp.118-9)? The raid on St. Albans Vermont is described ([pp.128-132), the aftermath on pages 133-5 (money talks). Next we read that Copperheads were planning an assassination, with J. Wilkes Booth present. But this was an anonymous report filed after the fact (p.137)! Can you believe it? Chapter 6 tells of the attempts to burn New York city in 1864; it failed. Page 163 tells how the B&O railroad was used by both sides. Another curious and previously unreported incident of Booth is on pages 186-7. From improved memory? Chapter 7 shows a surprising amount of travel in those horse & buggy days. Higham acts shocked over the trading between the lines, with Lincoln's friends profiting from cotton etc. Doesn't he know that war is about loot, not ideals? Higham ends his book by claiming wealthy Copperheads were behind the murder of President Lincoln (p.244). Given the bulk of evidence showing Booth as a Confederate agent, and killing Lincoln on his own initiative, the historians in academia should treat this book in their journals. Blaming Lincoln for his own death (p.247) seems to deliberately insulting.

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James Hilton's Three Famous Novels - Lost Horizon, Good-bye, Mr. Chips and Radom Harvest

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The Adventures of Old Mr. Toad
Thornton Burgess
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Excellent stories of Thorton W. Burgess adventures, moral stories, and fun friends!

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Famous MR Barnspin
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The Famous Mr. Barnspin
Cyclone Millsap
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FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION - Volume 28, number 1 - January Jan 1965: End of the Line; Dimensional Analysis and Mr Fortescue; Mysterious Milkman of Bishop Street; Famous First Words; Biolaser; Those Who Can Do; Wogglebeast; House the Blakeneys Built

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FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION - Volume 28, number 1 - January Jan 1965: End of the Line; Dimensional Analysis and Mr Fortescue; Mysterious Milkman of Bishop Street; Famous First Words; Biolaser; Those Who Can Do; Wogglebeast; House the Blakeneys Built
Joseph W. (editor) (Chad Oliver; Eric St. Clair; Ward Moore; Harry Harrison; Theodore L. Thomas; Bob Kurosaka; Edgar Pangborn; John Ciardi; Avram Davidson; Fritz Leiber; Isaac Asimov) Ferman
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George Meany, Mr. Labor (The young people's library of famous American Catholics)

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George Meany, Mr. Labor (The young people's library of famous American Catholics)
David R Collins
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JAMES HILTON'S THREE FAMOUS NOVELS Lost Horizon Good-bye, Mr. Chips, Random Harvest

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JAMES HILTON'S THREE FAMOUS NOVELS Lost Horizon Good-bye, Mr. Chips, Random Harvest
James Hilton
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