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Such a charming book for lovers of French books for children! Simple in language and full of color, it teaches children about two friends of different colors who when they hug become the blended color, thus teaching about the color wheel as well as perhaps a deeper lesson about children of mixed heritage.

My friend's 5 year old boy loves this book and has quickly learned the colors and a few other French words after just a few readings. He insists that I pause at those words so that he can say them! He is also starting to translate some of the phrases on his own. Highly recommended! If only Amazon had the book in stock.

Through Fall 1996:
The Band
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If you're a ceramic engineer, and you find this book available... buy it! It's hard to come by, but so full of valuable information.. even in the 1964 edition.

A great book to refute pro-abortion arguments in every category (medical, legal, philosophical, etc.). Unfortunately, there are some typos(e.g. Associate Justice Blackmun spelled "Blackman"), but the substance of the work is excellent. Highly recommended reading for those pro-lifers who want a better grasp of the life issue.

This was the first survey book on philosophy I ever read, some 25 year ago now, and it still remains a fresh and lively text each time I pick it up. Compiled by A.K. Bierman and James A. Gould, this third edition of the text, 'Philosophy for a New Generation', was designed to be able to be the sole text for a basic undergraduate introduction to philosophy class. It covers all of the major areas of philosophy (with the exception of logic), and does so in an interesting and thoughtful manner.

Rather than putting forth unified essays and articles on each topic, the editors Bierman and Gould have compiled a selection of essays an excerpts from other philosophers old and current to highlight the particular issues at hand. For example, in the chapter on Morality: Old and New, the editors select a passage from Kant on the Categorial Imperative, another piece by Bentham on Utility, Pleasure and the Good, and more modern writers such as Carl Wellman and Jonathan Bennett, who look at issues such as cultural relativity, and the moral sense contained in literature such as Huckleberry Finn.

The editors also use the general organisation of the text to highlight both traditional philosophical principles and modern day concerns, with chapters such as 'The Moral Use of Technology' and 'The Arts and Mass Culture'. Here current-day topics of concern such as ecology and privacy are dealt with in interesting fashion.

The topics go on to include Epistemology (Human Knowledge), Crime and Punishment, Freedom and Liberation, Metaphysics and Philosophy of Religion. Articles include pieces from traditional philosophical voices such as John Stuart Mill and David Hume, as well as modern voices such as Marx and Mao, and recent academics such as Harold Laski, John Hick and Mary Daly, in addition to articles by the editors themselves.

My favourite sections are the chapters on Mass Culture and Religion topics (God, Evil, and the Meaning of Life). This has actually changed over time -- when I first began my college career, I was studying politics and history, and my favourite sections them were the pieces on politics, freedom, and more sociologically relevant topics.

The part on Mass Culture appeals to me as this is, in many respects, where I live. It discusses the cinema, television, the arts generally and their context as entertainment, and also discusses the non-neutrality of culture -- culture has a definite bias, and often intention. The section on religious and theological topics addresses the age-old question of the existence of God, the problem of evil, and issues in religion and (with the preceding section) metaphysical questions of identity, but it also looks at the meaning of life in three interesting articles, by Camus, Baier, and Joske, and how philosophy can enter into this question.

This is not light reading, but it is not impossible reading, either. The philosophy is strong stuff, not watered down, but served in bite-sized pieces to make things go down a bit more easily. Using texts from classic sources (for instance, drawing on Kant and Descartes, St. Anselm and Aquinas) as well as modern writers side by side helps strengthen the relevance of the topics to modern readers, particularly the undergraduates who are the particular target audience of this text.

In the aftermath of Marxism and pragmatism the western world and its citizens have lost the anchor for their moral lives. Belieiving in the goodness of progress, not only can we no longer answer the question, "progressing to what," but it does not even occur as a question to be asked. Instead all progress is deemed beneficial. Nonetheless, we are still plagued by doubts that there must be limits to what we can and should do; plagued by the inclination that all progress must be directed toward some good. Grant argues that in order to recement our moral beings and give direction to the technological progress that we hold dear, we must return to an older, ancient vision of human beings. A vision of humans as creatures whose rightful end lies not merely in untrammelled freedom, but also in recognition of our limitations.

The revolution brought about by Crick and Watson's discovery of the structure of DNA is still expanding in all fields of biology, and plant systematics and evolution are no exception to this. Researchers in the 1980's have started sequencing pieces of DNA from plants with the aim of comparing their sequences, hoping to get information about their past evolution. The results have largely exceeded the expectations, and hundreds of papers on plant molecular phylogeny have since been published, including the remarkable APG I & II papers, that present a new classification for plants, entirely based on what is known of their evolutionary history.

The present book is a most useful synthesis of all these pieces of work, and presents a well-documented image of what we know about plant evolution and diversity at the moment. The book starts with the earliest cases of divergence found in the flowering plants and proceeds towards the more recent diversification events, with detailed studies of families and some genera, and special chapters about the evolution of flowers, genome size and some cases of parallel evolution (parasitic and carnivorous plants, C4 photosynthesis). Many of the diagrams presented have been seen nowhere else, and provide striking pictures of how plant evolution can be inferred with the knowledge available nowadays (even though some of the details may still be questionable).

It is regrettable that so little is said about biogeography, but that could have made the subject of a new book altogether. Some of the conclusions presented are somewhat cursory. For example, the tendrils/hooks of Ancistrocladaceae, Dioncophyllaceae and Nepenthaceae are unlikely to be homologous, being twigs, leaf tips and petioles, respectively, although the book presents them as a possibly shared, "ancestral" trait (p. 263). Likewise, the leaf-borne flowers of Helwingia and Phyllonoma (p. 224) are quite different (the pedicel is distinctly fused with the leaf petiole and midrib in the former, whereas the latter shows no clue as to how this condition has evolved). This could have been explained in a few words. No doubt however that such imperfections will be improved in further versions of the book. Before this happens, I am much looking forward to new versions of the APG system, and all the projects that the present book will foster in the years to come.

The book is exactly what it said it would be. Perfect condition!! Quick delivery too!!

This book really helped me to understand the properties of physics. This lab manual was easy to understand and the material was not only presented in a very easy to follow manner, but it was supplemented with many wonderful illustrations.

Ce livre est la preuve que la nourriture, en particulier la gastronomie, est une philosophie. Dans une demarche materialiste Birllat Savarin avec une presicision scientifique prouve la relation de la nourritutre sur le corps et l'esprit. Le theme peut sembler banal mais incorpore dans son contexte historique c'est une revolution. Je conseille fortement le livre aux francophones a tendance materialiste ... et aux gourmands philosophes.