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Like the Hollywood fictional movies on Alexander, this is another example of western criticism of Alexander. Yet all over the world, through Persia and India his name lives on millenia after his conquests. Name one western leader who comes even near him? Alexander's empire gave birth to several new empires including the Roman empire.

Fiction is easier than fact.

If Alexander the Great was a failure, whose empire spanned across three continents and five seas, then what I can say about all others that followed him... Alexander built an empire when most of the people where living in caves and the maximum distance they had travelled in their lifetime was no longer than till the boundaries of the city they were living. Alexander the Great is a figure that people who aspire to be great leaders will aim at emulating for centuries to come, as he was an inspiring leader and a great soldier. If one would like to know more about this great man, then the book Alexander the Great's Art of Strategy: The Timeless Leadership Lessons of History's Greatest Empire Builder would assist.

ALEXANDER THE GREAT FAILURE: THE COLLAPSE OF THE MACEDONIAN EMPIRE examines the rise and fall of an empire which rested on the king's absolute authority: when the king failed his empire crumbled. Alexander needed an adult successor, but refused to provide one and even killed potential candidates for the job: the foundations of his empire and their shaky grounds are analyzed here in an outstanding in-depth survey recommended for college-level collections strong in early history.

Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch

What a sorry mess of a book. This a shallowly researched retelling of the lives of these fighters, based on outdated secondary sources. In fact, it reads like apologia for Crook. It is well known today that only 500-750 Lakota and Cheyenne warriors faced Crook (and his 1300 men) and beat him at the Rosebud, yet Aleshire tries to claim that the two sides were of equal strength. And later, the role of Crook in conspiring with Red Cloud to remove Crazy Horse as a potential rival to Red Cloud (who had no civil authority with the Oglala except that handed to him by Americans) is not even mentioned. Instead, Crook is portrayed as innocent of having anything to do with the death of Crazy Horse. I freely admit to knowing much more about the Lakota than about the Apaches. But if Aleshire can not get these details right, why should I trust anything he has to say about the Apache aspects? Again, this seems like a book designed to gloss over Crook's moral lapses, perhaps as a counter to recent books that expose these sad events.

I am a Phoenix, Arizona native and I Loved This Book! I bought 3 copies to share with family and friends for Christmas.

Although I have lived in Phoenix and the White Mountains of Arizona all of my life and have known of the diverse Native American nations sharing our community, I had never heard the fascinating histories told with such depth and detail. I enjoyed the dual biography format of the book which allowed the reader to see General Crook and Geronimo side by side as men in opposing political environments.

The descriptive, creative language Aleshire uses makes the scenes come to life as if I were there. His story makes the history of the White Mountains, Chirichauas, San Carlos areas rich, deep and vivid with history.

Many thanks to Peter Aleshire from an Arizona native.

The author chooses to ignore Eugene Borza's theory and the evidence supplied to wage his own pro-Greek diatribe that can only be described as anti-Macedonian as the Athenian orator and politician Demosthenes in his rant contained in the Philipics.

The author while talking about pro-Greek views fails to mention how modern Greece was created, how Greece's first King was Otto the Bavarian, not Alexander the Macedonian and how Greece obtained Macedonian territory for the first time in 1912-13 and promptly began a hostile process of forced Hellenisation among its Macedonian, Turkish and other subjects while also shipping in Greek speaking Christians from Asia Minor, who today identify as 'Macedonians' in 'Greek Macedonia'.

Ian Worthington has added a much appreciated update to the still all too slim bibliography on Philip II, founder of the Macedonian Empire and father of Alexander the Great. This volume is exceedingly well researched and written, far surpassing R. Malcom Errington[ASIN:1566195195 History of Macedonia] as a general source, at least for Philip's era. I must note, though, that for military fans (such as myself), there's much less focus here on Philip's battlefield accomplishments than can be found in either Nicholas Hammond[ASIN:0715628291 Philip of Macedon] or James R. Ashley[ASIN:0786419180 Macedonian Empire: The Era of Warfare Under Philip II and Alexander the Great, 359-323 B.C.]. All the same, I strongly recommend this title for anyone who is at all interested in the subject of ancient Macedonia.

This book is very comprehensive. The author explains just about everything you would need to know. However I would have enjoyed reading about solar applications in combination with what the author had to offer. Still, I would highly recommend this book to anyone wanting to install radiant floor heating. Book on solar heating do not provide the necessary details found here.

The author has a wealth of practical knowledge from years of experience in the field. I picked up much useful information from reading the text, but I also found myself reading the same information over and over again in different parts of the book! What I learned out weighed the annoyance of redundancies.

most complete i have ever read on radiant heat simple enough for someone like me new to radiant floor heat.but very complete has info for figuring size of pumps needed and number of loops etc

McGraw-Hill should be ashamed of themselves for allowing this book to be published! It meets none of the advertized criteria, and you couldn't begin to attempt a design or purchase after having read this thinly disguised manufacturer's sales pitch. There's better information available on the web for free. What's more the writing style is extremely superficial and repetitive, with identical illustrations used in numerous places simply as fillers. The author (if really an actual person) should go into hiding immediately.
The publisher's "text book" reputation really deserves to be tarnished if this is the best they can come up with.
Do not buy this book!

Really not much info in this for it's size. It's the type of book
someone would get if they wanted to get radiant heating, didn't
know anything about it, and were going to hire a contractor to
put it in. This way, they could at least use the right words
describing things.

Surprisingly, it's the only book 2 local bookstores had in
stock on radiant heating.

Modern Hydronic Heating by Siegenthaler had much more info, background,
designs, etc.

This book is absolutely disappoiting. I mean I bought it and wish I hadn't. It only scratches the surface of what can be done with the PSP. Even though I bought this book used I am still disappointed. It is not at all what I expected.

It is basically a "How To" for connecting things to the PSP. It takes up 50% of the book with pics showing how to do useless things with the other products rather than the PSP. Case in point, connecting the Apple iPod to the PSP. Why would you do that? Oh ya, because the PSP can already play MP3's and you just wanted to do it because you could. Dumb.

I wish I would have never bought this book.

Dave Prochnow's PSP HACKS, MODS, AND EXPANSIONS comes filled with tricks, tweaks and upgrades to make PSP users transform the Sony hand-held playstation into the perfect reference tool. From downloading movies and audio functions for the device to streamlining hardware and software to work more smoothly and quickly, PSP HACKS, MODS AND EXPANSIONS is the computer geek's dream.

i bought 3 books online thru amazon. the book PSP hacks, mods, and expansions , has to be the worst book ive ever looked forward to reading. the author omited countless things promised and advertised on the cover that were no where to be found in the pages. it says u can download a copy of the book to view on your psp, i never found a single reference throughout the entire book, cept on the back cover saying u can download the entire book onto your psp!
i'd say that dave prochnow is the biggest goof online n in no way should anyone in the psp community buy this book, you aint missing anything. alot of the info can be read in the manual u get with your psp. just useless thru and thru.

I am amazed that a giant book publisher, McGraw Hill, would even allow this book to go to print. I have to agree with the other customer reviews. This book was a huge disappointment! Dave Prochnow's book is erratic, confusing, and deficient of practical application. His writing was hard to follow and at times made me wonder why I paid $24.95 to read the ramblings of a person with ADD. In fairness his suggestions on PSP websites and selection of accessories were decent. However, the book lacked goof-proof, insider's guidance!

A lot of text, and I mean a lot, accompanies the drawings in this book. In fact, there is more page space devoted to the text than the coloring sections -- sure to disappoint children. The text is a good attempt to discuss a very complicated period of history and a rather difficult man to understand regardless of what "biographers" claim. The biggest problems I have with this coloring book are: Is the subject really appropriate for children and why aren't all the drawings labeled for where and when the originals were created.

The book gives an overview of a selection of first meetings between Europeans and other cultures. It has several thorough chapters on (e.g.) the Aztecs, the Tahitians and the Japanese, and more episodic chapters on many more. Several chapters on native Americans may have special interest to North American readers. While containing many fascinating tales, it does not, however, reveal any systematic approach. It is also rather superficial and disappointingly ethnocentric in tone in many places. The potential of drawing on the many 'case studies' in the book to extract some broader insight is not utilized. Hence, its analytical aspects are weak, to the point of being non-existent, and its usefulness for graduate students and researchers accordingly rather limited.

A little dissapointed as this is a Phd Thesis and reads pretty dry.

This book was originally written in 1916, during the height of The Great War, but the edition I read was from 1917, which was update to reflect America's entrance into the war. To a certain extent, this book is a history of Western imperialism, from the creation of the Spanish and Portuguese empires, through to the time of the book's writing. But more than that, this book is a polemic designed to support the Allies war effort and attack the Central Powers' war effort.

In general, Professor Muir (1872-1941) saw British imperialism as a preponderantly good thing, with any harmful effect being an anomalous occurrence that was straightened out as soon as the authorities in London became aware of it. In contrast, he saw German imperialism as an evil throwback to ancient times; something that required all "good" nations to seek to stamp it out. However, the idea that the "backward races" of the world would not want Western civilization did not, apparently, occur to him.

Indeed, any modern reader is bound to be put off by Professor Muir's racism. In the eighth chapter he speaks of, "the just tutelage of the white man over the black," having little doubt that the subjugation of one race by another was anything but just.

But, is there nothing of worthwhile in this book? Well, in the final chapter, Professor Muir does seem to question the imperial powers' allegiance to the high ideals that he attributed to imperialism, and suggest that if the post-War peace was not a triumph of these ideals that it would lead inevitably to the disintegration of the Western empires. Indeed, I in this respect, the author was quite farsighted.

With that said, though, I would say that this book is an interesting historical document, showing the mindset of early twentieth century imperialists, but not a good history book. I don't recommend this book.

A skimpy paperback. Spanning only 95 pages, it appears hastily put together. It does have merit in quickly summing up the Silicon-Germanium field and its possible industrial prospects, especially in optoelectronics.

The best usage might simply be the names of the key researchers. Given these, you could search for their papers in the Citation Index, or on the web.

Otherwise, you may want to pass on this book.