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This book is a collection of her remarkably penetrating essays, far in advance of their time, originally published by the \u003ci\u003eMother Earth\u003c\/i\u003e press which she founded.\u003cbr\u003e In the first of these essays, \u003ci\u003eAnarchism: What It Really Stands For\u003c\/i\u003e, she says, \"Direct action, having proven effective along economic lines, is equally potent in the environment of the individual.\" In \u003ci\u003eMinorities Versus Majorities\u003c\/i\u003e she holds that social and economic well-being will result only through \"the non-compromising determination of intelligent minorities, and not through the mass.\" Other pieces deal with \u003ci\u003eThe Hypocrisy of Puritanism\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003ePrisons: A Social Crime and Failure\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Psychology of Political Violence\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Drama: A Powerful Disseminator of Radical Thought\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003ePatriotism: A Menace to Liberty\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eThe Tragedy of Woman's Emancipation\u003c\/i\u003e. 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Born into the Russian nobility, he renounced his hereditary rank in protest against Czarist oppression and fled to Western Europe. A colorful, charismatic personality, Bakunin quickly became central to the anarchism movement, and everyone involved either built upon or reacted to his ideas. Yet Bakunin, despite the power of his ideas, was primarily a man of action, and he wrote little. His only major work, \u003ci\u003eGod and the State,\u003c\/i\u003e remained unfinished, although it is the torso of a giant.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eGod and the State\u003c\/i\u003e has been a basic anarchist and radical document for generations. It is one of the clearest statements of the anarchist philosophy of history: religion by its nature is an impoverishment, enslavement, and annihilation of humanity. It is the weapon of the state. It must be smashed, according to Bakunin, before the right of self-determination can be possible. 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What keeps a meeting from collapsing into chaos? This bible of parliamentary procedures transforms complex rules of conduct into easy-to-understand basics. Anyone participating in club or civic meetings, seminars, or teleconferences will consult this invaluable guide time and time again.\u003cbr\u003e\"Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty,\" declared General Henry M. Robert. His 1896 book, \u003ci\u003eRobert's Rules of Order,\u003c\/i\u003e provided the remedy, with guidelines for orderly, smooth, and fairly conducted meetings. This edition of the famous rules began as a series of eighteen articles that appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Christian Science Monitor.\u003c\/i\u003e It makes parliamentary procedures easier to understand by explaining the reasons behind them, boiling them down to a few memorable fundamentals that form the basis for a sound and practical working knowledge. 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It also cites persuasive evidence of human nature's innate compatibility with anarchist society.\u003cbr\u003e\"Kropotkin's basic argument is correct,\" noted evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould. \"Struggle does occur in many modes, and some lead to cooperation among members of a species as the best pathway to advantage for individuals.\" Anthropologist Ashley Montagu declared that \"\u003ci\u003eMutual Aid\u003c\/i\u003e will never be any more out of date than will the Declaration of Independence. New facts may increasingly become available, but we can already see that they will serve largely to support Kropotkin's conclusion that 'in the ethical progress of man, mutual support—not mutual struggle—has had the leading part.'\" Physician and author Alex Comfort asserted that \"Kropotkin profoundly influenced human biology by his theory of \u003ci\u003eMutual Aid\u003c\/i\u003e. . . . 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For six seasons the legendary Valley of the Kings has yielded no secrets to Howard Carter and his archeological team: \"We had almost made up our minds that we were beaten,\" he writes, \"and were preparing to leave The Valley and try our luck elsewhere; and then — hardly had we set hoe to ground in our last despairing effort than we made a discovery that far exceeded our wildest dreams.\"\u003cbr\u003eJoin Howard Carter in his fascinating odyssey toward the most dramatic archeological find of the century — the tomb of Tutankhamen. Written by Carter in 1923, only a year after the discovery, this book captures the overwhelming exhilaration of the find, the painstaking, step-by-step process of excavation, and the wonder of opening a treasure-filled inner chamber whose regal inhabitant had been dead for 3,000 years.\u003cbr\u003e104 on-the-spot photographs chronicle the phases of the discovery and the scrupulous cataloging of the treasures. The opening chapters discuss the life of Tutankhamen and earlier archeological work in the Valley of the Kings. An appendix contains fully captioned photographs of the objects obtained from the tomb. A new preface by Jon Manchip White adds information on Carter's career, recent opinions on Tutankhamen's reign, and the importance of Carter's discovery to Egyptologists.\u003cbr\u003eMillions have seen the stunning artifacts which came from the tomb — they are among the glories of the Cairo Museum, and have made triumphal tours to museums the world over. 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Nevertheless, in a society that achieved the marvelous accuracy of construction revealed in the Pyramids, extensive systems of irrigation canals, the erection of large granaries, levying and collecting of taxes, and other evidences of a well-organized and highly developed culture, mathematics must have played a major role.\u003cbr\u003eIn this remarkably erudite work, the first book-length study of ancient Egyptian mathematics, Professor Gillings examines the development of Egyptian mathematics from its origins in commercial and practical computations to such accomplishments as the solution of problems in direct and inverse proportion; the solution of linear equations of the first degree; determining the sum of arithmetical and geometrical progressions, and the use of rudimentary trigonometric functions in describing the slopes of pyramids. Drawing on all the extant sources — Egyptian Mathematical Leather Roll, the Reisner Papyri, the Moscow Mathematical Papyrus, and, most extensively, the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus, a training manual for scribes- the author shows that although the mathematical operations of the ancient Egyptians were limited in number, they were adaptable to a great many applications. Professor Gillings is also at pains to debunk such myths as the numerical mysticism that arose in connection with the construction of the great Pyramids, and the oft-repeated assertion that the Egyptians were conversant with the Pythagorean Theorem.\u003cbr\u003eEnhanced with photographs of age-old papyri and other artifacts, as well as the author's own calligraphic renderings of hieroglyphic and hieratic words and numerals, this carefully researched and well-presented study will fascinate Egyptologists, mathematicians, engineers, archaeologists, and any student or admirer of the remarkable civilization that flourished on the shores of the Nile so many centuries ago.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cp\u003eReprint of the MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1972 edition. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Richard J. 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Yet Gandhi writes: \"Often the title [\u003ci\u003eMahatma, \u003c\/i\u003eGreat Soul] has deeply pained me. . . . But I should certainly like to narrate my experiments in the spiritual field which are known only to myself, and from which I have derived such power as I possess for working in the political field.\" \u003cbr\u003eClearly, Gandhi never renounced the world; he was neither pacifist nor cult guru. Who was Gandhi? In the midst of resurging interest in the man who freed India, inspired the American Civil Rights Movement, and is revered, respected, and misunderstood all over the world, the time is proper to listen to Gandhi himself — in his own words, his own \"confessions,\" his autobiography. \u003cbr\u003eGandhi made scrupulous truth-telling a religion and his \u003ci\u003eAutobiography\u003c\/i\u003e inevitably reminds one of other saints who have suffered and burned for their lapses. His simply narrated account of boyhood in Gujarat, marriage at age 13, legal studies in England, and growing desire for purity and reform has the force of a man extreme in all things. He details his gradual conversion to vegetarianism and \u003ci\u003eahimsa \u003c\/i\u003e(non-violence) and the state of celibacy (\u003ci\u003ebrahmacharya, \u003c\/i\u003eself-restraint) that became one of his more arduous spiritual trials. In the political realm he outlines the beginning of \u003ci\u003eSatyagraha \u003c\/i\u003ein South Africa and India, with accounts of the first Indian fasts and protests, his initial errors and misgivings, his jailings, and continued cordial dealings with the British overlords.  \u003cbr\u003eGandhi was a fascinating, complex man, a brilliant leader and guide, a seeker of truth who died for his beliefs but had no use for martyrdom or sainthood. 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And enjoy hours of fun experimenting with cryptography ― the science of secret writing. \u003cbr\u003eBeginning with simple letter substitutions and transposition ciphers, world-famous science writer Martin Gardner explains how to break complicated polyalphabetical ciphers and codes worked with grids, squares, triangles, and charts. You'll learn codes that are keyed to typewriters and telephone dials . . . even codes that use playing cards, knots, and swizzle sticks. Experiment with invisible writing ― inks that glow in black light and turn red under heat ― and explore the possibilities of sending messages through outer space to unknown worlds. \u003cbr\u003eUsing this book, you can solve the historically famous Playfair Cipher used by Australia in World War II, the Pigpen Cipher used by Confederate soldiers during the Civil War, Thomas Jefferson's Wheel Cipher, the Beaufort system used by the British Royal Navy, codes devised by authors for heroes in literature ― Sherlock Holmes, Captain Kidd, and the Shadow. And you will enjoy experimenting with bizarre methods of message sending ― the Dot Code, Knot Code, Swizzle Code, and more. \u003cbr\u003eYoung cryptanalysts, cipher fans, and puzzlists of all ages will find hours of intrigue and challenge in \u003ci\u003eCodes, Ciphers and Secret Writing. \u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\"A stimulating must for the intermediate cryptographer.\" ― \u003ci\u003eThe Kirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eReprint of the Simon \u0026amp; Schuster, 1972 edition.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBonus Editorial Feature\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \u003cp\u003eMartin Gardner: A Remembrance  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe worldwide mathematical community was saddened by the death of Martin Gardner on May 22, 2010. Martin was 95 years old when he died, and had written 70 or 80 books during his long lifetime as an author. Martin's first Dover books were published in 1956 and 1957: \u003ci\u003eMathematics, Magic and Mystery,\u003c\/i\u003e one of the first popular books on the intellectual excitement of mathematics to reach a wide audience, and \u003ci\u003eFads and Fallacies in the Name of Science,\u003c\/i\u003e certainly one of the first popular books to cast a devastatingly skeptical eye on the claims of pseudoscience and the many guises in which the modern world has given rise to it. Both of these pioneering books are still in print with Dover today along with more than a dozen other titles of Martin's books. They run the gamut from his elementary \u003ci\u003eCodes, Ciphers and Secret Writing,\u003c\/i\u003e which has been enjoyed by generations of younger readers since the 1980s, to the more demanding \u003ci\u003eThe New Ambidextrous Universe: Symmetry and Asymmetry from Mirror Reflections to Superstrings,\u003c\/i\u003e which Dover published in its final revised form in 2005.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo those of us who have been associated with Dover for a long time, however, Martin was more than an author, albeit a remarkably popular and successful one. As a member of the small group of long-time advisors and consultants, which included NYU's Morris Kline in mathematics, Harvard's I. Bernard Cohen in the history of science, and MIT's J. P. 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Born in Budapest, Hungary in 1860, Herzl encountered anti-Semitism when he attended a scientific secondary school. Later, as a newspaper correspondent in Paris, he was shocked and dismayed by the anti-Semitic prejudice surrounding the notorious Dreyfus affair (Herzl said in later years that it was the Dreyfus affair that had made a Zionist out of him). Herzl concluded that the only solution for the majority of Jews would be organized emigration to a state of their own.\u003cbr\u003eHe discussed the political and historic rationale for such a homeland in this extraordinary and influential book, first published as a pamphlet, \u003ci\u003eDer Judenstaat\u003c\/i\u003e, in Vienna in 1896. 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In more than 2000 opinions, he delineated an impressive legal philosophy that profoundly influenced American jurisprudence, particularly in the area of civil liberties and judicial restraint. At the same time, his abilities as a prose stylist earned him a position among the literary elite.\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Common Law\u003c\/i\u003e, derived from a series of lectures delivered at the Lowell Institute in Boston, Holmes systematized his early legal doctrines. The result was an enduring classic of legal philosophy that continues to be read and consulted over a century later. Beginning with historical forms of liability (thought to have originated in the desire for vengeance in ancient Roman and Germanic blood feuds), the book goes on to discuss criminal law, torts, bails, possession and ownership, contracts, successions, and many other aspects of civil and criminal law.\u003cbr\u003eEncompassing Holmes's profound, wide-ranging knowledge of the law in its historical aspects, yet written in a manner easily accessible to the layman, \u003ci\u003eThe Common Law\u003c\/i\u003e provoked this observation from another famed jurist; \"The book is a classic in the sense that its stock of ideas has been absorbed and become part of common juristic thought … they placed law in a perspective which legal scholarship ever since has merely confirmed.\" — Felix Frankfurter, \u003ci\u003eOf Law and Men\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003eNow the influential ideas and judicial theory of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. can be studied and appreciated in this superb edition — the only one in print — of his magnum opus. 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