Triumph Reviews

Judge Dwyer shows a great respect and insight into the importance of the jury system to maintaining democratic government and liberty in America. In spite of some areas where he has accepted conventional wisdom instead of actually researching the issues involved (such as where he accepts the myth that racist jury nullification was widespread during the civil rights era. The best researched work on this is in Clay S. Conrad's book Jury Nullification: The Evolution of a Doctrine, in which he shows that most of the acquittals in lynching and civil rights murder cases were due to prosecutors, judges and police being unwilling to pursue such cases to conviction, and not to the actions of jurors) the book is an excellent exposition of the importance of trial by jury.

The real question should be: does anyone care? Trial by jury continues to fall into disfavor with a population that doesn't want to do the heavy lifting on its own. Should we depend on government to do the heavy lifting for us, we shouldn't be surprised that our most important rights atrophy and die. The opposite of trial by jury (also known as trial by one's country) is trial by government. So long as we have a panel of citizens acting as a bulwark between us and our government, we have some protection against government excess and oppression. This is the lesson from history that Judge Dwyer colorfully and dramatically brings home.

This book provides a terrific historical perspective as to why the jury system is so important to our form of democracy. A quoted in this book, Thomas Jefferson wrote that it is more important for a citizen of this country to sit on a jury than it is for her to vote in an election. In today's world of out-of-control corporate greed, it is nice to see at least one author taking the bold steps of presenting the truth. Corporate america does not fear our politicians or the government. The only voice that big business fears is that of the jury. It is only the jury that can control bis business in today's society. Why? because it only a jury that can speak the language that corporate america understands - money. Without the jury, we will further slip into a world of the haves and the have nots. This is a must read. I only wish I could buy a copy for everyone I know.

This is for those who know a little but not a lot about why juries are so precious in America. With clarity and brilliance, Dwyer makes the case for the jury. For me, he also, unwittingly I think, made the case that I should not avoid serving on a jury notwithstanding the nuisance value of doing so. Much to everyone's and America's loss, he lost his life at about the same time as this book was published, but he left us with a superb work based on his legal experiences and his long-time service as a federal district judge in Seattle.

art nouveau triumphed in paris thanks to(ironically enough)a slavic draughtsman named mucha...this book touched on the importance of all of these facts....i have never actually read this book,but the cover says it all.....hooray for mucha....gunsnroses.

Alphonse Maria Mucha,one of the great masters of art.It is sad to see that so many art academics dismiss his work as "unimportant",but I guess a lot of failed artists have a problem with pure talent.This book is one of the best around that is still in print,highly recommended and definately worth the price,especially at Amazon...

I was first introduced to Alphonse Mucha in a rather unorthodox way: comic books. Years ago, when I was still an avid colllector of comics, I particularly enjoyed those illustrated by Joe Quesada. As I studied his drawings in such books as Ash and Ninjak, two elements of his style stood out. His female figures were very curvy and voluptuous, quite different from the angular nature that predominated his work. Also he had an intriguing way of indicating panel borders with byzantine stained-glass motifs and curvilinear meanderings of his pencil. I have since learned that both of these elements were directly influenced by Mucha.

Although Mucha's most popular art does not vary much in content (most of his work consisted of vertically oriented affiches with a single female figure as the subject), he remains one of my most favorite artists. This book presents some of what I feel to be his best work. Don't look to Mucha for variation in theme or deep symbolic meaning. Instead, enjoy his work for it's strengths: beautiful women and intricate ornamentation.

I think this is an inspiring book, but to be perfectly honest it seems that this book was written specifically for women who went on Expedition Inspiration. This book is like a diary. Since this book peers into so many different lives, it lacks focus. There are too many people and it's hard to remember who is who. Esp since the author chops the books into before cancer, after cancer, before climb, after climb type of chapters. The author wants to concentrate on too many things: the people & their stories, the past, the present, the climb, the doctors, cancer etc. Way too many topics. It's difficult reading a survey book for that purpose. It would have been nice to have focused on 3-5 people to really have a more in depth understanding of what this challenge was like for them.

She was the founder of Expedition Inspiration, and chose the 16 other women whose lives are chronicled in this book. I was the journalist on the team and followed Laura and the women through their training and then on to the expedition on Argentina's Mount Aconcagua. Last October, Laura was diagnosed with an incurable brain tumor, unrelated to her breast cancer, which she had conquered. In both this book and the book that Laura wrote, called "The Climb of My Life," and also available from amazon.com, you will witness the incredible courage, determination and will to survive of these women. In addition, you will be making a donation to the cause to fight breast cancer.

A book everyone should read. It is an exciting adventure story as well as an inspirational story of women who have survived not only breast cancer but the treatment and the emotional turmoil which comes with this disease. These are real, live women who are heroes in anyones language..

If you like Pro Bull Riding, this book is a must, a very beautiful, moving edition. If you aren't a fan, you should check it out anyway. The photography is truly fantastic and makes the sport look even more dramatic, intense, and personal than it already is.

This is a great book. It shows that bullriding is one of the most thrilling and exciting sports that there is. Even though bullriding has long been overlooked by the sports world, thePBR organization has made this sport one of the most popular and this book shows you why. The pictures are a fan's dream come true and the book is beautifully put together. I would recommend this book to anyone that likes excitement.

This is one of my all time favorite books! It has so many pictures of bulls like Dillinger, Red Wolf, and Promise Land.

Swan's book is a great reference for any sports writer or editor. Although there are a couple entries that do not agree with the AP stylebook, it generally rehashes and greatly expands upon the things the AP covers. Swan covers obscure sports, punctuation, number usage and spelling among other hard-to-judge areas of writing. If keeping the editor happy and free of hack-jack edits is the goal, this book is a great tool.

Since I became a sports editor some 15 years ago, I have been waiting for a reference book devoted to sports style rules. The Sports Style Guide fits the bill. It is a valuable resource at our newspaper, and I would suggest it to students hoping to work for a sports publication. I look forward to seeing the second edition.

After agonizing over several frequently used things that the sports section of The Associated Press' style book didn't cover, now we on the sports copy desk have a reference for double-checking things. A worthy addition to all sports desks, editors and writers alike.

I read this book after I had read 'Where Wizards Stay up Late', and I think this helped. Von Burg' book tells the tale of how the Ethernet protocol for connecting computers in an office building (a 'local area' as opposed to a 'wide area' e.g. across town) became the de-facto accepted standard over the decade of the 1980's. His case is that widespread adoption of the standard created a 'community' of users and developers who were able to rapidly overcome any deficiencies in the standard, and that the wider this community the faster the developments, therefore the more rapid the advances over competing standards (in this case Token-Ring, backed mainly by IBM). The book builds the story quite well, and pulls no punches about the deficiencies of Ethernet - very cumbersome cabling, initially quite narrow bandwidth. He comes up with the best explanation of the Hub versus Bus configurations of connections which I have come across ( remote maintainability - but read the book).

As well as a fascinating layout of the story of Ethernet and its many iterations and close shaves on the way to becoming the de-facto LAN (local area network) standard Von Burg puts together a wider theoretical basis to describe the diffusion of innovations. In this process he links the triumph of Ethernet (mainly its widespread developer 'community') with the open source movement (e.g. Linux developers), and ends up stating that the movement which attracts the widest 'community' must ultimately win. There are holes in this argument (e.g. how does a voluntary community produce a working, commercially-usable, supportable product on time, every time), but it is the first time I have seen this argument so persuasively articulated. On this technology-communitarian theory, the individual firm, no matter how bigger, can no longer compete with a diverse community of developers. Its very current when you see Linux and Microsoft slug it out for space in corporate computer rooms.

I have just leafed through the book---cannot say that I have really read it yet. However, I know some of this history and some of the people. This account appears to combine careful datagathering with solid analysis and clear exposition. For anyone who is interested in either (1) the economics of standardization or (2) the history of moderning computation, this book rates somewhere on the scale ranging from Must-have to Extremely-desireable."

A little nit, the controversy regarding the Soderblom's token ring patent is restricted to a footnote.

I read this book carefully. I think the great strength of this book is that the author carefully compares the predictions of economic theory with the actual outcomes. When the two diverge, he uses the divergence to illuminate shortcomings of the economic model. Some economic studies of standardization issues failed because the authors did not understand either the technology or the market well enough to properly compare actual events with model predictions. I also found the history enjoyable-but then I am a computer nerd not an economist.

This account combines careful datagathering with solid analysis and clear exposition. For anyone who is interested in either (1) the economics of standardization or (2) the history of modern computation, this book rates somewhere on the scale ranging from Must-have to Extremely-desireable.

THIS BOOK GIVE A CLEAR AND EXTENSIVE KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THE BETTER SPORT OF THE WORLD: THE SOCCER

This is the ultimate source for soccer rules since they are the ones who wrote them. But this edition does not include there own 1997 law changes which really should be there.

This is an essential book for everyone who is involved in soccer.

The book covers all of the rules of soccer and should be required reading for all Coaches, referees, players and especially PARENTS.

If you want to get a good understanding on how the rules really work then BUY THIS BOOK!

While most of the photos are archival Triumph Standard no doubt from Mr Robson's days a Secretary for the Standard Factory, this, like others of his books, I found lacking in content although his photo file may be of interest to some. Almost all of what I read here I've read before. But if you haven't collected TR books for years this may be a good summary of the Herald-Sport Six lineage.

Read the first half of the book in one sitting and have enjoyed it. Lots of fun information about the development of zobo(Herald). If you like the car you will find the book full of interesting data. A must have next to the repair manual.

Introduced in 1959, the Triumph Herald was one of the most successful light cars of the 1960's. Ex-Triumph employee graham Robson recently released the aptly-titled Complete Story of this model range.

One of the most interesting stages during the development of the range, a trip from Cape Town to tangier in Morocco, is discussed in detail, and it is amazing to see that Standard- Triumph made no attempt at all to conceal the cars' identity. As a matter of fact, the first chapter of the book, which tells the history of the Herald's ancestors, makes for very interesting reading, especially for the uninitiated.

The complete history of the Herald and the more powerful Vitesse is told in detail, and the book also contains brief histories of the closely-related Spitfire, GT 6 and Bond Equipe. Even a picture of a proposed four-door model is included, and it is actually a pity that this model was never put into production. Full specifications and production figures of all the Herald and Vitesse models are provided, even though the latter had to be based on estimates. The reason is that no actual production figures were recorded.

Graham Robson has proved once again that he is THE authority when it comes to Triumphs, and therefore, his account of the history of the Herald and Vitesse cannot be recommended strongly enough.

Both of the previous reviewers make the same point - which I heartily agree with - that this book would be a shoo-in with undergraduates.

But what about the rest of the world?

This is a fairly short book (152 pages in the main text) divided fairly evenly over five chapters. Nothing surprising there, since the book is the text of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's 1999 Massey lectures delivered by Fulford. Unfortunately the "lecture" element comes across all too clearly, not to mention a certain amount of academic tunnel vision.

The author seems to have a thing about the Bible, which he imperiously dismisses several times, apparently ignoring its ongoing best-seller status.

Of course buying doesn't necessarily constitute believing, but then we are talking about 'storytelling' here, not about 'religious beliefs', and since the author subsequently makes such a big thing about the influence of Sir Walter Scott's novel "Ivanhoe", which has had such a (comparatively) short life span, and given the still ongoing battle in the US over the pro- and anti-evolutionist versions of the creation story, it seems strange, not to say biased, that the influence of the Bible is almost totally ignored.

Having said that, it's hard to know what the Mr Fulford is actually trying to achieve - other than filling five lecture slots.
The author's take on his subject suggests a man who goes to the zoo and looks at the bipeds and the quadrapeds, the carnivores and the herbivores but who, at the end of the day has no idea what an "elephant" looks like, and certainly hasn't the faintest idea whether it's the Indian elephants or the African elephants which have the larger ears.

Looking back, the book came across as being a collection of ideas, loosely strung together, but none of them developed to any significant degree. Despite the constantly academic tone of the book, the author can be engaging, even amusing, and I found the last two chapters "The Cracked Mirror of Modernity" and "Nostalgia, Knighthood, and the Circle of Dreams" thoroughly entertaining. But there's nothing about the contents of the book that really stands out in my mind only a short time after reading it.

I've given the book three stars simply on account of its entertainment value. But would I actually recommend it to anyone interested in the storytelling process?
I don't think so.

[And it's the African elephants which have the larger ears :) ]

Fulford's slim and easily readable book provides a fascinating glimpse into the way we use stories and narratives today. He points out how gossip is the new American storytelling, how postmodern linguistic theorists have their heads stuck in the sand, and gives startling evidence for how Ivanhoe influenced the culture of the Old South. I have great respect for authors who can provide complex theories in easily readable, humorous prose, and Fulford certainly fits that particular bill. Great for undergrads and anyone who likes a good read.

An engaging, lucid and thoughtful exploration of the human impulse to tell stories, from urban legends to postmodernist theory. If I were still doing the academic thing I would be assigning this little book to first- and second-year history students. Since the text of this book was given as a series of lectures on CBC radio, it's a very fluid and easy read. Definitely worthwhile.

Shinkichi Takahashi's stormy life and spiritual journey are documented in his poetry without a single reference to "I." In early life, he was infected with the spirit of the european dada movement, and his poems reflect that wild spontaneity with surprising images and anti-linear leaps. Some poems also reflect a self-conscious Zen, trying to hit with a Rinzai Zen Master's directness but ringing almost a little preachy. Fascinating poetry thanks to Lucien Stryk, his first translator.

If you get ahold of this book, and if it doesn't elude you like a slippery fish, and if the stars are aligned in your favor, and if you are ready to cross the line and fall happily into the abyss, read it. Then throw it back so that some other poor soul can take a look (like me--I lost my out of print copy).

This book has affected my life in the most profound yet subtle way-however cheesy that sounds, I don't care. Es muy verdad. Besides, what else do you have to do...play on the computer?