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Paleoindian Book
I was really looking forward to this addition to my early American library.Fortunately I "Looked Inside" at the Table of Contents and Index and was very surprized to find no mention of the Atlatl, the major hunting weapon used by Paleo people the world over. Predating the bow and arrow by thousands of years. Not only artifacts but wonderful petroglyphs in the US Southwest.A simple but most effective weaponstill used by the Aboriginal people in Australia's Outback as well as well as South American Indians for large fish in the Andean lakes and by Alaskan natives for seal.
Maybe I missed something.
Barry VanWinkle

An Excellent Synthesis in Southeastern Archaeology
This book is a series of papers initially presented at a symposium during the Southeastern Archaeological Conference.It summarizes what was known at that time (1993) about the Paleoindian and early Archaic periods in the Southeast; that is, the time when the first ancestors of later Native American cultures first settled in what is now southeastern North America.

The book covers the entire southeastern region, with site reports and syntheses from Florida out to Arkansas and north to Virginia.It presents a good picture of what we know of the first human settlers in this region, including their believed use of "staging areas" - that is, places the first settlers could learn about their new environments before moving outward into more marginal territory - as well as the environmental factors, such as stone outcrops and plant and animal communities, that would have affected patterns of human settlement.

My only complaint against the book, like so many others in archaeology, is that it does not address what is known or what could be known of the cultures themselves beyond the merely physical.That is, there is far too much attention paid to environmental and technological factors at the expense of attempts to understand what these first settlers may have been thinking, or what their cultural systems or worldviews may have been.However, this alone does not mar what otherwise is a well-written and comprehensive synthesis.

I enjoyed the book, and recommend it to anyone interested in Native American cultures and archaeology.

The Paleoindian and Early Archaic Southeast
Very useful collection of papers and summaries of papers on paleo and early archaic Americans in this region.The thought provoking theories on settlement and hunting practices that evolved along with the changingclimate make this well worth reading.I keep my copy handy and refer backto it often. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's literature. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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In addition to the complete 1798 London edition of Lyrical Ballads, this volume contains a generous sampling of ballads, rustic and humanitarian poetry, and nature poems by the poets' contemporaries; literary, philosophical, and political backgrounds by essayists such as Rousseau, Adam Smith, and Wollstonecraft; and reactions to Lyrical Ballads.

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Excellent edition of a great set of poems
Richey and Robinson have compiled an excellent edition of Wordsworth and Coleridge's seminal Romantic text. In addition to the complete poems from the first edition of Lyrical Ballads published, they also provide intriguing commentary and copious contextual material that really gives you an excellent idea of just how influential this book was when it was first published. Highly recommended for any serious reader of Romantic poetry. ... Read more

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Old, but very, very nice.
This is old but good.It has a similar concept to "Numerical Recipes" by Press, et. al. but covers less ground, and at a more elementary level.Contrary to another reviewer, it does give plenty of examples at an elementary level, which I find quite helpful.That is an advantage sometimes if you don't need to wade through all the heavy artillery in "Numerical Recipes".Algorithms are given as pseudocode, and Fortran code which are easily transcribed into any language, such as VBA.I have owned this since 1980 and this is one of the more heavily worn references on my bookshelf.If you just need to quickly understand and code an algorithm, this is a great book to have handy.I see that used copies are cheap, and available.I recommend grabbing a copy.If the authors are still around to read this review - thanks for a really nice book!

It is a good book but does needs for examples
The book should have more examples per topic, one example is not enoughfor a difficult subject like Numerical Analysis.The book does not providethe answers for the exercises and students do not have a way to check ifthey are doing the exercises correctly. ... Read more

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A Brilliant and Rigorous Study of Beckett's Prose
This critical study of Samuel Beckett's prose aptly relies on post-structural thought to investigate a highly challenging text.Without simplifying or mystifying the difficulty of Beckett's prose, this book is written with much intelligence, elegance and rigor.Commendable. ... Read more

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A New Revelation from Jesus of Nazareth, conveyed to mortal humankind by means of automatic writing.

Jesus once again proclaims the "Glad Tidings" of God's love – a simple but vitally important message, largely misunderstood or ignored in the two millennia since its first delivery.

What exactly is this "Good News"? What did Jesus mean when he said, "You must be born again"? ... Read more

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Originally published in 1880.This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies.All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume. ... Read more

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Samuel Daniel's masque, Hymen's Triumph, was performed in February 1614, as part of the festivities at the wedding of Jean Drummond, daughter of Patrick, third Lord Drummond, to Robert Ker of Cessford, first Lord Roxborough. The text used in this reprint derives from the manuscript now in Edinburgh University Library. This introduction gives a full account of the occasion and of the manuscript itself. ... Read more

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Old Road to Regress
That there is a fundamentalism in certain aspects of physical science and in certain revelations of social reconstruction is becoming increasingly apparent. And there seems to be no lack of appeals to the modern mind to accept a unitary plan and a single sweeping formula for salvation. Certainly the work under review, if it does nothing else, confirms these observations. Quite independent of its flaming cover, this work is a red-hot statement of a social gospel. Its author, while assuming to be scientific, confesses that he is "almost fanatically" devoted to socialism and communism. Therefore his book sounds less like a scientific treatise than like some of the old prophetic utterances or the stormy oratory of the revivalist.

The author's main ideas are not hard to find. Again and again these basic theses appear, always without any apology or any attempt to conceal. There are eleven of them, as follows:
1. Social sanity is the prerequisite of individual sanity.
2. Capitalism is the major neurosis of our age.
3. The World War was the traumatic episode which undermined and unbalanced the contemporary mind.
4. Fascism represents cultural regression, a true psychosis from a sociological point of view.
5. Marx and cultural anthropology agree that human nature is not primary, but derivative.
6. The cure for the modern problem of neurosis cannot be other than the Marxian technique of social revolution.
7. Communism is the one adequate psycho therapy.
8. Soviet educational philosophy is mature; the American system is infantile.
9. This new socio-psychological concept of "young maturity" brought to fruition by the Soviet educational system represents the most far reaching of all imaginative revolutions in human nature.
10. The maximum of humanness, rationality, consciousness and sanity is attainable only in a communistic culture.
11. This book, which presents these theses, marks a turning point in the history of modern psychology and psychotherapy.

The author calls his point of view "creative pessimism," in all probability because he rejects anything in the nature of religion, cosmic purpose, or absolute truth. From the positive standpoint, he probably would rate himself as a social psychiatrist. He constantly appeals to certain views of sociology and also criticizes severely individual psychology and psychiatry. At every turn he shows up the inadequacies of psychoanalysis, its techniques and its objectives. In one place he asks whether psychoanalysis is a science or a disease. Elsewhere he declares that the mood of the world is Marxian, not Freudian. Still again, the author repudiates a description of psychoanalysis as an artistic science, and insists that perhaps a more accurate phrase would be "a spook sonata." A considerable section of the book is labeled "What Marx Can Teach Freud," and the conclusion is that the "new emergent culture of scientific communism is a profounder study in psychotherapy than even psychoanalysis itself." The difficulty is that Schmalhausen accepts even from this individual psychiatry and psychopathology certain concepts as almost axiomatic, and applies them to society. This was one of the earlier sins of sociology, but most of us have been believing that we had outgrown these organismic theories of the nature of social life.

This fiery apostle of communism frequently accuses the philosophers and others of "flight from reality," but the reader is left wondering whether it would be possible to make a greater flight from reality than the author himself does; say, in his constant allusions to Russia or in his attitude towards religion. For example, he declares that "atheism means honesty in thought (science); sincerity in feeling (comradeship); idealism in living (communism)." Indeed, his whole attitude is almost uproariously anti-Christian, anti-religious. "Religion," he charges, "has prevented the mind from being human." Atheism he claims is only a candid way of saying that man himself must save the world or go under. The main purpose of religion he holds to be to block progress. Apparently to him religion is necessary only in those societies where the social scene is barbarous.

The technical philosopher would have no difficulty in finding abundant evidences of logical fallacies in this work, most common of which is the familiar petitio principii. The author constantly uses certain dogmatic statements as if they were proved and then proceeds almost breathlessly to build up an argument upon them. For example, instead of citing the necessary evidence he makes the dogmatic statement that "surely the greater number of psychological and psychoneurotic wounds and disquietudes that torture the mind are clearly traceable to defects and disharmonies in the social order." Again, in order to prove that the capitalistic system is insanity, he dares us to deny that millions of adult men and women in both Orient and Occident are suffering from "anxiety neurosis." The assumption is that men on the more primitive level and in the jungle are without anxiety or fear. It is for this reason that however much moral earnestness the words may convey, the reader inevitably remains unconvinced.

The author's criticisms of contemporary society are more or less cliches. They are the burden of the literature of social protest for more than a century past. The particular psychopathological form which they take in this book is traceable to the tradition of the degenerationists, such as Morel, Max Nordau, and Lombroso.

In the course of the argument, we encounter certain interesting conclusions, some of which will elicit quick assent. Few will deny that the World War has been a major source of collapse and neurosis; or that physical medicine must be supplemented by psychological medicine; or that the problem of Evil must be broken up into concrete evils in order to admit of sociological treatment; or that "the blinding gulf of man as mind and woman as body" must cease before we attain real progress. No such assent is likely to be given to the statement that religion is "a chapter in the history of insanity"; or that the choice of policies lies between social revolution and social reaction; or that the New Deal leads straight to fascism; or that revolution is the moral equivalent of war; or that Bertrand Russell is the greatest of modern educators; or that professors are the cultured courtesans of capitalism; or that family life is a study in lunacy.

From several places in this book arises a somewhat pestilential fog which would seem to imply that homosexuality is a possible alternative to the disciplined patterns of marriage. Apparently the author has suffered certain traumatisms himself. His phobias are sufficiently declared, for example, in his reaction towards current education, religion, and the home. It may be humor, and the author has it, but it sounds suspiciously like the shout of the mentally unbalanced Strindberg to declare "there is no place like home except a lunatic asylum," or that "the family obstructs the liberation of the modern mind and the humanization of modern society."

He certainly loses this sense of humor at times, for example, in paying his tribute to nudism; for nudism contravenes aesthetics rather than morals!

It is entirely possible to agree with the author's fundamental assumption that human nature does change, and, indeed, cannot escape being changed. Human nature is plastic, but the author offers no evidence except his own reiterated preachment that communism is the sole social environment in which to realize man's undiscovered potentialities. All the time that one listens to this communistic prophet portraying the glories of a neurosis-free Russia, one is forced to at least keep an ear open to persistent whispers which ask whether there were no fears in Russia. The listener cannot suppress the unholy suspicion that the G.P.U. is not an institution calculated to integrate the Russian soul. Nor does the "liquidation of kulaks" or the deliberate starving of four million Russian peasants seem exactly the way of salvation from neurosis. If, as the author insists, job security is fundamental to healthy-mindedness -- and we agree -- there has been little so far, at least, in the way of security in this sense to the Russians as a whole. It is quite possible that the ruling bureaucracy in Russia was fairly free from neurosis, but we have plenty of evidence that even within the ranks of the Communist party itself there is soul-tearing uncertainty, terrific fear, questioning, and personal and social nightmare.

Schmalhausen avoids a direct answer to the question of whether there will be no neuroses under communism; about as far as he can go under his mantle of prophecy is to assert that the neurosis call "Capitalistic civilization" will not exist under communism, which is about the equivalent of saying that X equals Q. He resorts also to such wise-cracks as this: "perhaps under Communism all neurotics will be persuaded by incredible therapy to become geniuses." Evidently the author is simply throwing God out of the window and inviting him back through the door -- God, in the happy hunting ground of this communistic utopia, being a summarizing word for sociological therapy and positive experimental science.

In short, like so many other essays in psychopathology and social criticism, this book uncovers more than it can provide with convincing treatment. It is frankly propaganda of a not very subtle or world-shaking sort. Its thundering repetitions fail to hammer out reader conviction that this is the or indeed any road at all to progress. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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In a series of channeled messages, Jesus of Nazareth once again proclaims the "Glad Tidings" of God's love – a simple but vitally important message, largely misunderstood or ignored in the two millennia since its first delivery.

What exactly is the "Good News" that Jesus preached while on Earth? What is the true meaning of his declaration, "You must be born again"? ... Read more

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Separating truth from fiction
Have you ever tried to decipher Don McLean's "American Pie"? If
that is such a difficult task, how much more so is understanding
the prophets of the Old Testament? Can you be sure that what
your church teaches is accurate?

If you are a person who has qualms or questions about the tenets
of a faith you may have followed for some time, or grown up with,
this book is for you. It is well-edited, and so easy to read and
understand for anyone who has read the prophetic books, and,
even with lots of footnotes, come away more confused than when
you started.

The volume traces, through a point of great understanding and
wisdom, the development of the understanding of God's children
that God Loves them, and that other practices and beliefs,
including sacrifice, etc. are not consistent with such love. The
main revelators are the prophets, though one who is well read
in psychology and spirituality can carry parallels through to
modern day religion, as well.

The source was initially quite questionable, as far as I was
concerned. However, I have been convinced of the rationality,
sense and wisdom I have found in this book and in texts to which
it refers.

Don't let it pass you by, it may change your whole outlook for
the better!

A God of Peace
The idea of a God of unconditional love is critical to understanding how to live in global community. Through the prophets' stories, The Gospel of God's Love describes a profound sense of connection between God and the human soul and the nature of the Divine as one that fosters peace and forbearance above all else. Highly recommended reading for anyone interested in knowing how to live in peace rather than fear.

An Invented God
While one's desire to search for the truth of God is beautiful, admirable, and wonderful, the fabrication of a God from one's own mind is surely not the way to satisfy that desire.These authors' creation is no more imaginative nor illuminating than that of any other similar creation, be it "conversations with God" or anything else.If one desires to understand true Christianity, I urge one to search deeper into the works of C. S. Lewis or Dietrich von Hildebrand to discover its glory.Do not content yourself with Samuels' and Oreck's calculated creation -- aimed more at pacifying us and fleecing those authors' pockets than at revealing anything of God.The "easy" yet empty theology of this and every other new-age work shows -- in its failure to satisfy -- its falsity.The truth, even when it is uncomfortable, has the feeling of solidity to it."The Gospel of God's Love" is more like a breath of air which, though it may in its coolness deceive us into forgetting our thirst, can never satisfy a mouth parched for God.

A way to God's Heart
There is a lot more to this book than than old words dressed new. You will be introduced to God's Divine Love in a fashion you never heard of before. You will learn how God had a plan; how He made His Divine Love available to mankind, so that all humans could become partakers of the Divine Nature. Through the many lucid exegeses of the words of the prophets of old, like Isaiah, and Ezekiel, you come to learn how God had this promise waiting for us, and that a time would come where we could make for ourselves a New Heart, based on the possession of this Divine Love. And you will learn of the glorious moment when Jesus came to earth, how he prayed for the Divine Love, and so became the first human transformed into a Divine soul; and how he had come to bring the Glad tidings: that the Divine Love, the greatest of God's attributes, can become ours for the choosing as well!

A fair warning: the shells may fall from your eyes! This is a good thing, though. ;) Especially if you're in search of God's Truths. Seek and you will find; well, found you have, I would say. :)

Your brother in Christ,

- Mark

A Simpler "Bible Code"
There is an aspect of human nature that enjoys the complexity of a good mystery novel, with unexpected twists of plot and a surprise ending, but there is also that in each of us which appreciates straightforward simplicity. And so, while some will prefer books on "secret codes" and hidden predictions supposedly contained in the ancient texts of the Bible, others may appreciate the commonsense simplicity of the biblical revelations presented in The Gospel of God's Love.

This book gently presents a revolutionary outlook on the Bible, Jesus, Christianity, and God. This new understanding has dramatically changed my life for the better, and I believe that, given a chance, it could do the same for the entire planet. Would that it could receive 1/10 the attention given to some of the more flamboyant recent interpretations of the Bible. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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Originally published in 1870.This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies.All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume. ... Read more