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Life Through the Ages: A Commemorative Edition

3 reviews
Charles Robert Knight

Indiana University Press, 2001

The life of genius and inspiration
Charles R. Knight was the man who brought dinosaurs to life through study, passion and patience. This book highlights his drawings and his insights into the prehistoric world at a time when scientists were truly making an effort to understand life in the primal days of earth's natural history. Charles Knight was originally a visualist and a stunning one at that. As his passion for the recreation ...

The Principle of Hope: Three-volume set (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought)

1 review
Ernst Bloch

The MIT Press, 1995

Passionate thinker for hope and solidarity with the spirit
It's incredible no one takened the time to review this magnum opus of one of the most important committed thinkers of our time. Bloch's life itself well traversed almost a century,seeing himself and participating in the early innovative artistic movements,Expressionism, the plays of Brecht,Schoenberg's 12 Tone Dodecaphonic means. He also carried diatribes with the likes of Gyorgy Lukacs, as ...

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (Signet Classics)

30 reviews
Howard Pyle

Signet Classics, 2006

Robin Hood is AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Robin Hood is an adventurous, quick-acting book which changes emotions really quickly. Robin Hood is an archer who steals from the rich and gives to the poor. The Sheriff of Nottingham, along with Prince John, is plotting to take Robin Hood to jail and steal all of his money. Then there's Robin Hood's girlfriend, Maid Maiden, who loves Robin Hood and wants to marry him. I think it was a ...

The Principle of Hope, Vol. 1 (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought)

1 review
Ernst Bloch

The MIT Press, 1995

written 1938-1947 in the "Public Library", Manhattan ...
Ernst Bloch (1885-1977) was a professor for philosophy at the University of Leipzig from 1949-1956. But September 20, 1961, Associated Press reported: "The internationally admitted philosopher professor Ernst Bloch did not return from a visit in the Federal Republic (BRD, West-Germany) to the Soviet Zone (GDR, East-Germany)." One of his reasons: The building of the wall between the two German ...

Forecasting Volatility in the Financial Markets, Third Edition

1 review

Butterworth-Heinemann, 2007

recent vintage
For the seriously included financial modeller, who has a strong mathematical bent, the book is a good read. It explains several models used to try to characterise volatility. Typically, these go beyond the normal distribution; using, for example, the Generalised Error Distribution. High order moments of the distributions are looked at. Like the consideration of what effects leptokurtosis ...

Robin Hood: A Mythic Biography

2 reviews
Stephen Knight

Cornell university press, 2005

The Development of a Necessary Hero
Every culture has need for stories about the outlaw hero. Odysseus, in way, was one, as was William Tell, and John Wayne as the Ringo Kid. Jesus's story certainly conforms to the myth of the "good outlaw," and a more contemporary version was Martin Luther King. The figure best known for being a hero and being an outlaw, however, has been with us for over six hundred years: Robin Hood. Now he ...

Robin Hood and Other Outlaw Tales (Middle English Texts)

2 reviews

Western Michigan Univ Medieval, 1997

Welcome to Sherwood! (and Barnsdale)
Do you know need a reason to buy this book? I can give you an excellent one -- it's called the Table of Contents. It lists 700 pages worth of Robin Hood ballads, plays and more. It has the earliest ballads and plays where Robin is merely a yeoman, the first play that casts him as the Earl of Huntington, and later ballads that give the "origins" of Little John, Maid Marian and Will Scarlet. ...

The Triumphs of Eug`ene Valmont (Oxford Popular Fiction)

1 review
Robert Barr, Stephen Knight

Amazon Remainders Account, 1997

Unique Rival of Holmes from France with Playful Satire
Robert Barr's unique creation Eugene Valmot, delightfully pompous French detective (remember Poirot), is more than just a spoof of Sharlock Holmes. Published in 1906, this short story collection surely makes fun of the rules of detective story genre, and moreover, his stories can stand on their own, offering fairly reasonable and imaginative mysteries presented in various styles. Oxford ...

Robin Hood: A Complete Study of the English Outlaw

1 review
Stephen Thomas Knight

Blackwell Publishers, 1994

Excellent overview...
This text is foundational to the study of Robin Hood. An overview and analysis of the most important, and sometimes obscure, texts in the tradition, it moves from ballad to play to broadside to musical to novel to film with practiced ease. Professor Knight's comments are insightful and solidly backed. Not a dry book, it is full of energy for the subject and a wry wit. Want to know about Robin ...

FileMaker Web Publishing: A Complete Guide to Using the API for PHP

2 reviews
Allyson Olm, Stephen Knight, ...

Wordware Publishing, Inc., 2007

The best PHP resource for FileMaker that I've found
I cannot recommend this book highly enough. Allyson, Stephen and Michael have put together an invaluable resource for putting FileMaker data on the web via PHP. The book is very well written with extremely clear example that are easy to follow. As a bonus, it's also a survey of html and css, too. If Amazon allowed a 6-star rating, this book would have earned it. Great job, guys!

Madame Midas

1 review
Fergus Hume

Hogarth Press, 1985

Australian SF Reader
Fergus Hume's Madame Midas is nowhere near the book that the famous Mystery of a Hansom Cab is. It is a pretty mundane story, without the various interesting characters and situations that happen in the latter. Definitely check the other book out first, or try something else.

Forecasting Volatility in the Financial Markets, Second Edition (Quantitative Finance)

1 review

Butterworth-Heinemann, 2002

What a great disappointment¡¡¡
This book really frustrated me. It doesn?t reflects what I truly expected. What am I going to do with this book? Throw it away, burn it or use it as toilet paper. This book is disastrous. Do it again, with exercises, spreadsheets, solved cases, CD, etc. I?m going to rate this book with 1 star. I want my money back.

Arkansas Historical Quarterly 1997 -Volume LVI - All Four Issues
Todd E. Lewis, Kim Allen Scott, ...

Arkansas Historical Association, 1997

Jack the Ripper

23 reviews
Stephen Knight

HarperCollins Publishers, 1982

Masterpiece of Scholarship
Knight has exceeded the amateur sleuth -- and Scotland Yard detectives for that matter. The book gets first hand evidence from a son of one of the ripper murderers (yes, the ripper was not a single individual acting alone). In proving his case, Knight refutes the opposing theories. The paintings of Walter Sickert, his son's confession and a host of other direct evidence reveals that the ripper ...

The Art of Making Mortgages
Stephen Knight

Collins & Brown, 1997

The Mystery of a Handsome Cab

1 review
Fergus Hume

The Hogarth Press, 1985

1893 Best Seller - May Appeal to Mystery History Buffs
The Mystery of a Hansom Cab (1893) by Fergus Hume was one of the most popular mysteries in the nineteenth century, apparently even surpassing the sales of Sherlock Holmes books. While unlikely to attract a wide audience today, this forgotten Australian melodrama should appeal to readers interested in the early development of the mystery story. I gave The Mystery of a Hansom Cab three stars. ...

The Brotherhood: The Explosive Expose of the Secret World of the Freemasons

17 reviews
Stephen Knight

HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 1985

It may be biased as hell, but its a fascinating read.
Lets be honest, this book shouldnt be taken as fact. It's another highly embellished anti-masonic writer who has something out for the Freemonry Brotherhood, but it's so full of conspiracy theories (written as conspiracy fact) that one wonders whether or not David Duchovny is tracking some Freemason X-file. For anyone interested in pseudo-history, this is the book or them. Not that it's all ...

Robin Hood: An Anthology of Scholarship and Criticism

2 reviews

D.S.Brewer, 1999

Great survey of Robin Hood scholarly writing...
Okay, this book isn't for people beginning to study the Robin Hood legend. For that, I'd recommend Stephen Knight's Robin Hood: A Complete Study, J.C. Holt's Robin Hood and R.B. Dobson and J. Taylor's Rymes of Robin Hood. But for those of you somewhat familiar with the history and development of the outlaw legend, this book makes great reading. It collects a variety of articles and chapters ...

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