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"Campbell is interested in mapping some of the very general structuralfeatures of human thought. In particular, he is interested indiscovering what is distinctive about the kind of self-consciousnessthat we humans have.... His main instrument is an exceptional talent forthe kind of subtle self-examination the project demands. The book is anacutely observed study of a territory too close at hand for most of usto see, and deserves to be read by psychologists as well asphilosophers." -- Huw Price, Times Literary Supplement

Humans were thought to be unique among the species in having minds, butrecent results showing the richness and diversity in animal psychologymakes this view untenable. Yet there remains the question of whether wecan map the features of a particularly human psychology that areresponsible for its overall structure. In this book John Campbell showsthat the general structural features of human thought can be seen ashaving their source in the distinctive ways in which we think aboutspace and time. He describes the contrasts between animalrepresentations of space and time and distinctively human ways ofthinking about them. In particular, he shows what is special about thehuman ability of to think about the past. Campbell looks at howself-consciousness exploits these particular abilities in thinking aboutspace and the past. He discusses at length the relation betweenself-consciousness and the first person and how fundamental the firstperson is in ordinary thought. Campbell shows that the structuredcharacter of ordinary thinking can be explained by reference to thedemands of first-person thinking and the way in which first-personthiinking exploits distinctively human respresentations of space andtime. Finally, he considers the metaphysical implications of thisapproach, in particular, how ordinary self-consciousness relies on arealist view of the past. ... Read more

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Chaco Canyon, in far northwest New Mexico, was a major center of Puebloan culture between AD 900 and 1250. It is believed two thousand to six thousand people lived, annually, in about one hundred settlements scattered in and around the Canyon.

The altitude (the canyon floor is sixty-two hundred feet above sea level) and the arid, desolate setting resulted in unique architecture and living styles. Puebloan masons used local sandstone and adobe mortar to build great houses consisting of fifty to seven hundred rooms.

In The Great Houses of Chaco, Jack Campbell's elegant black and white photos explore the intricate structures that have come to define Chaco. David Stuart and Thomas Windes provide essays that place the photographs into historic contexts, and Katherine Kallestad has written captions that explain the images themselves. Together, they detail Chacoan culture and the magnificent ruins that are the primary source of our knowledge about the ancestral people of this region.

Contributors:
Thomas C. Windes--retired archaeologist, Chaco Culture National Historical Park and adjunct lecturer of anthropology, University of New Mexico
David E. Stuart--emeritus professor of anthropology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Katherine Kallestad--anthropologist, archivist, and research assistant to John Campbell ... Read more

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This is the key publication for professionals and students in the metallurgy and foundry field. Fully revised and expanded, Castings Second Edition covers the latest developments in the understanding of the role of the liquid metal in controlling the properties of cast materials, and indeed, of all metallic materials that have started in the cast form.Practising foundry engineers, designers, and students will find the revealing insights into the behaviour of castings essential in developing their inderstanding and practice.

John Campbell OBE is a leading international figure in the castings industry, with over four decades of experience. He is the originator of the Cosworth Casting Process, the pre-eminent production process for automobile cylinder heads and blocks. He is also co-inventor of both the Baxi Casting Process (now owned by Alcoa) developed in the UK, and the newly emerging Alotech Casting Process in the USA.He is Professor of Casting Technology at the University of Birmingham, UK.

*New edition of this internationally respected reference and textbook for engineers and students;

*Develops understanding of the concepts and practice of casting operations;

*'Castings' is the key work on castings technology and process metallurgy, and an essential resource on contemporary developments and thinking on the new metallurgy of cast alloys;

*Revised and updated throughout, with new material on subjects including surface turbulence, the new theory of entrainment defects including folded film defects, plus the latest concepts of alloy theory. ... Read more

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This title has fewer than 24 printed text pages. The Last Evolution is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by John Wood Campbell is in the English language. If you enjoy the works of John Wood Campbell then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection. ... Read more

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These are the memoirs of a teacher from England who became headmaster of Garrynemonie School in South Uist in the 1890s. At that time, the Hebrides were as remote and forbidding to mainlanders as the Antarctic is in the late-1990s. In the 1890s this island was one of the poorest districts in the Outer Hebrides. Roads were no more than rough tracks. Gaelic was the majority language, although children had to learn their lessons in English and few allowances were made for bilingual teaching. Epidemics were frequent and the school had to close its doors because of outbreaks of smallpox, whooping-cough, scarlet fever, mumps and measels. Rea's memoirs show how he strove to meet these difficulties. His pupils recall him as a sincere, hard-working man and an excellent teacher. This work reveals his powers of observation and his interest in the unfamiliar scenes and events he witnessed and recorded. ... Read more

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A classic by a grand old gentleman
This is the story of the first Catholic Schoolmaster in South Uist since the Reformation.Frederick Rea was an English Roman Catholic and his experiences with the Gaelic Speaking Islanders of South Uist and the famous folklorist and poet Father Allan MacDonald make for a wonderful, sometimes funny and sometimes tragic story.This is a charming an important book for anyone interesting in multicultural studies, Gaelic heritage or Scottish history.It is really one of a kind. ... Read more

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This friendly text is based on the premise that all nurses need a working knowledge of the normal functioning of the human body. It is only when we understand the normal that the abnormal pathological situation makes any sense. If we can understand how the body goes wrong then it often becomes obvious what needs to be done to treat a disorder. This means physiology and pathophysiology can both be used to inform our clinical interventions and provide us with rationales for care.

John Campbell initially wrote these notes as a guide for his students and because they proved so useful he decided to expand and publish them. The aim has been to keep the text concise but to explain the physiology and necessary basic science in a way that is easy to understand and learn. Diagrams are an important part of this philosophy. When the book was first discussed John thought about getting the diagrams professionally drawn, but rather do so he decided to draw the diagrams himself, just as he does for his students. ... Read more

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Best physiology book I have seen!
This is a superb physiology book! It ought to be available continually! With so many books (in almost all subjects), one gets the feeling that the authors are trying "show off" or look good in the academic community. That is not the case with this book. It is obvious that Campbell has written this book with the student in mind. Now, if you want an indepth book of physiology, if you want to read thousands of pages or want physiology in mathematical formulas this is not the book for you.

So who do I think will benefit? Any nursing student. Anyone who wants a solid yet not massive introduction to physiology. Anyone who is or intends to teach physiology (if not for content, for the superb presentation style). Anyone who finds physiology to be intimidating.

And what's so great about the book? Clear, conversational and relevant presentation! Instead of fancy photos and colour pictures (that often tend to confusion rather than clarity) the book is full of the author's own black and white simple drawings. Now this may seem primitive in todays multimedia world, but the simple drawings make the concepts easier to understand.

I have a weakness when it comes to books. I have bought lots of (too many) books, some bad some good and a few outstanding! On my bookshelf there are at least seven different modern physiology books (on different levels), but this is the best in its genre. It was worth every cent! ... Read more

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The past twenty years have seen an extraordinary growth in the use of quantitative methods in financial markets. Finance professionals now routinely use sophisticated statistical techniques in portfolio management, proprietary trading, risk management, financial consulting, and securities regulation. This graduate-level textbook is intended for PhD students, advanced MBA students, and industry professionals interested in the econometrics of financial modeling. The book covers the entire spectrum of empirical finance, including: the predictability of asset returns, tests of the Random Walk Hypothesis, the microstructure of securities markets, event analysis, the Capital Asset Pricing Model and the Arbitrage Pricing Theory, the term structure of interest rates, dynamic models of economic equilibrium, and nonlinear financial models such as ARCH, neural networks, statistical fractals, and chaos theory.

Each chapter develops statistical techniques within the context of a particular financial application. This exciting new text contains a unique and accessible combination of theory and practice, bringing state-of-the-art statistical techniques to the forefront of financial applications. Each chapter also includes a discussion of recent empirical evidence, for example, the rejection of the Random Walk Hypothesis, as well as problems designed to help readers incorporate what they have read into their own applications. ... Read more

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Econometrics of Financial Markets
Fresh look at the beating heart of the financial markets by one of the best people in the field.

CML: An Unnecessary Addition to a Saturated Literature
I was also skeptical of the negative reviews surrounding this book ("CML"). However after buying and reading this book, I now believe they had merit.

Simply stated, this book does not cater to its readers. If you have the prerequisites that the authors demand, then this book is comprehensive but ultimately below what ought to challenge you. And if you don't, then I guarantee you will be very lost. Unlike many similar volumes, CML is not self-contained (nor does it claim to be). And unlike many books that build a self-contained "model" of asset pricing dynamics, CML is full of literature-specific jargon and inconsistent notation. In fact much of this notation changes intrachapter.

Suppose you are a reader at the level CML insist their readers be. Then all the better to spend more time understanding Duffie's "Dynamic Asset Pricing," or Cochrane's veritable tour-de-force, "Asset Pricing." Both books are more contemporary and also at a better level for the readers CLM had in mind.

If you don't have the requisite knowledge, please ignore CML and try Luenenberger and Casella/Berger, as well as Greene for econometric-specific stats, Hamilton for time-series. You will not regret these purchases.

CML claims to fill a gaping hole in the secondary literature. But in reality, CML sits right in the middle of two types of readers, and caters effectively to none.

Last quartile on the subject
This book used to be a must the first time it has been published but after ten years it is getting old and the topic is now better covered by some others authors. The arch/garch section is really weak and this book by its sole is not enough to implement advanced models.
The authors also forgot to include practical implementation of the models with Splus or Matlab or whatever language, which is now almost a standard in many financial engineering related books.

An oldie but goodie
For the past ten years, this boook was the standard of financial time series and cross sectional analysis.There are several more recent books on the subject, but as the first good book in the field, it is still keeping up.Lot of the derivation in the book is a bit spotty - but that is expected at this level of sophistication and originality.There are some frustrating parts in the book, but if you cannot chew through that material, you should probably read an easier book.

Absolutely useless
I'm not sure what the audience for this extremely poorly written book is.Is it graduate-level students?If so, this book will drive them totally crazy and depressed, thanks to its confusing structure, lack of contextual motivation for the topics covered, and nonsensical, semi-rigorous mathematical treatment of the subject.Is it "quant" practitioners?If so, it'll leave them more confused and pessimistic about their trade than ever -- or just leave them feeling disappointed and frustrated, which was how I felt when I tried to read this book.

This book is so bad it serves as neither a textbook nor a reference.It has no value whatsoever.Want to know the technical details of VAR models and when to use them and when not to use them?You won't find it here.Ditto for GARCH models.Ditto for ECM models.Ditto for dynamic pricing models.I'm pretty well-grounded in advanced math, statistics, econometrics, and financial economics, and I have to confess I had no clue what the word and sentences and math notations in this book meant.The contents are totally incoherent.

Please do everyone a favor and don't buy this absolutely worthless book, so publishers won't be encouraged to kills trees in order to print such trash. ... Read more

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The leader, writer, and producer for 2 Live Crew--a notorious, bad-mouthed rap group wanted by censors everywhere--tells how the group began and how they now enjoy the fruits of their foul mouths.25,000 first printing. ... Read more

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as nasty they be: the uncensored story of luther campbell
I have read this book before and it was so good that my college roomate took the book with him. it is excellent history of the notorious rap group mogul luther Campbell, in his tell all history of the dirty rap game. and how he came to be the first black own record company CEO. ... Read more

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Originally published in 1881.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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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's large-scale digitization efforts. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. The Library also understands and values the usefulness of print and makes reprints available to the public whenever possible. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found in the HathiTrust, an archive of the digitized collections of many great research libraries. For access to the University of Michigan Library's digital collections, please see http://www.lib.umich.edu and for information about the HathiTrust, please visit http://www.hathitrust.org ... Read more

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An observant participant
John Quincy Adams Campbell was well named.As determined and purposeful as the president he was named for, he led a life similar in focus on principal.

Almost all of the Civil War diaries, Union or Confederate,recount days of slogging through mud, choking in the dust of other marchingsoldiers, and of camp boredom.Quincy Campbell, however, is an observantman, a newspaper reporter by trade, a man of detail.Not only does herecord the mileage tramped and the direction of the march, when he crossesa pontoon bridge, he steps it off and reports the yardage.

Campbell isalso a careful observer of the countryside he marches through.Heevaluates the farmland for crops as well as the small towns for prosperityand the scenery for beauty.Aware of its political import, he attends andreports on a "Unionist" meeting in Huntsville in March 1864, ameeting held in response to Lincoln's 1863 Amnesty and ReconstructionAct.

An ardent churchgoer and crusader against alcohol, Campbell is justas determined a Unionist and fervent anti-slavery man. His comments on theday to day life of a soldier in the Western theatre of the war reflect allof his deeply held convictions; he throws himself into battle as ardentlyas he criticizes his fellow soldiers for getting drunk or his superiorofficers for what he sees as their blunders.

Campbell's diaries followthe 5th Iowa through the battles along the Mississippi, including Corinth,Island #10, Vicksburg and Chatanooga.The maps in the book, while small,aid the reader in following the action although reading Campbell with anopen Civil War battle atlas is more rewarding. ... Read more