Donna Holland Barnes

This Book is Overdue, 5. Juli 2000

If you are dating and looking for an honest relationship...read this book. Caldwell writes in the first person and gets real close and personal. You feel as thought she is sitting in a room talking to you about recognizing the signs that tell you he is not being truthful. While the book focuses on men only...you have to ask yourself ....why? Surely women lie too. However, we are quickly made to understand why it is that men do most of the "stretching of the truth" to get what they want, "adding to and taking from" to cover their conduct. If you have been in one of these relationships, the author does not leave you with wondering - "so I've been in a… Mehr dazu

A Good Introduction to the Bible, 5. Juli 2000

Since my days as a child in Sunday school, I never paid much attention to the Bible. And as an adult, it never made that much since to me. After reading The Genesis of Justice, I now know why. I found violence glorified and deception affirmed. Dershowitz finds it necessary to clear up some of the inconsistencies in the Bible. He further introduces logic to obscene narratives that to me were always mere ribaldry. Hence my discontinuance of reading the Bible, especially to my children when they were younger. What is interesting, however, is Dershowitz's main premise. He argues that the root of today's judicial system lies in the Book of Genesis. He says that from Genesis we learn… Mehr dazu

Interesting Read, 19. Juni 2000

This book is not just for mathematicians or those in the field of hard sciences - but for anyone who wants to have some clarity on certain aspects of life itself. Sylvia Nasar manages to write about the life of John Forbes Nash, a mathematician, from his college years which began in 1948, to his years of maturity and ends the book in 1997. She tells a very important story that captures the organizational culture of math departments throughout colleges and universities across the country, homosexuality during the McCarthy era, mental illness and the recovery of mental illness, relationships and the importance of them, as well as mathematical theorems - how they developed and the use… Mehr dazu