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This is a very lovely book with lots of useful information on Vajrayana and Mahamudra.  Its style matches its title.  The author is famous as a great Tibetan Buddhist master and the book supports this view.  He is gentle in his writing and gets one's attention by whispering.  I've heard of this technique before--when people are actually together in person.  It can really work, oddly enough.  I like this book better than his other works that I've read: "The Dharma" and "Luminous Mind."  It's well worth your time and effort to read.  I took a few quotes from it as well (possibly from an earlier edition):

"In seeing that all appearance (not only one's mind and emotions) is luminous, unimpeded suchness, one recognizes that all internal appearance, which is also arising from the mind, is only mental projection." p. 14

"Dynamic, empty, and unobstructed luminosity...empty, clear, and unimpeded nature of the mind itself... p. 22

"It is possible that one can practice while still actively involved in the world.  Such a combination of spiritual practice and worldly activity allows the aspirant to use his or her faculties in a very skillful way." p. 164
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I have followed Janet's blog for nearly a year now and am very pleased to have a cohesive order to aid in digestion, so to speak. I do hope subsequent editions will have a more capable copyeditor. The content is spot-on, but the spacing and em dashes specifically would benefit from a more trained eyeas would the misattribution of a song as being from Mary Poppins rather than Sound of Music. None of this should dissuade anyone from the text, however I do hope the publisher will take note.
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This was the assigned text for a course I was taking. I can't comment on its use beyond being adequate for the course's requirements. I was able to pass the course because I had this text. It does include a copy of the AZ constitution, which helped for referencing it.
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I was thrilled to receive a reproduced copy of this historic book. Contents all good as far as I know. Well bound, text ultra-clear. However, I was really disappointed when I realised the title was slightly in error, so that was a bit of a downer. I am stunned that such a nice reproduction should have an error in the title.  It should be "A successful expedition through the interior of Australia" not simply "Successful expedition through the interior of Australia" as printed on the title page.  How could the editor get is so wrong. True, it is only a minor error, but so glaringly obvious. It might cause a bit of a dilemma when including it in a bibliography or list of references. Disappointing.
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When I popped the CD into my iMac, some of the track titles appeared normally (in English, which is what I expected), but most of the other tracks showed up in some East Asian characters, like Korean/Chinese/Japanese/Katakana, et. al. I haven't seen this mentioned in any of the other reviews so I don't know if I got one from a bad batch or whatever (doesn't look like a hacked CD). Anyway, I enjoyed the content, it appears to be organized quite well, only wish there were more than just a few examples.
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It is a collection of scriptures of the titles of Jesus. For those of you who want it all in one place.
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The table of contents can be a bit difficult to understand without some prior knowledge of the subject of Freemasonry. It provides information in a story telling like way. There are footnotes for deeper study if interested. It does a good job of bring things together.
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I like the content of this book. but the condition of the book is not so good. I admire that the previous book owner studied from cover to cover. The book was quite full of written notes. It is very distractive to read.
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The mathematical content and exposition are at a high level typical of Serre.

I have not finished reading the entire book, but here are some misprints I have found that may serve as a useful warning. NB: most of these errors are Not in the 3rd French edition...

Chapter 1:

section 4, pg. 14, 2nd centered display: the ramification indices should be e_{\beta} not e_{p} in the product.

section 5, pg. 15, first formula needs to be N: I_{B}-> I_{A}, Not the other way around.

section 6, pg. 17, last sentence of first paragraph, replace the inclusion symbol $\in$ with the word "in". Clearly, f is an element of A[X] and not an element of k[X]. In the French ed. Serre correctly used "dans" and did not us the symbol $\in$.

section 7, pg. 22, in proof of Prop. 21, 2nd paragraph, 3rd sentence, replace "contain" with "contains".
4th sentence: should be, "... we must have \bar{L}_{S} = \bar{K}_{T}" not \bar{L}. [separable consequence is later, namely in the Corollary(!)]

Chapter 2:

sec 1, pg. 28:  third sentence should be "one sees that E is the union of (A:xA) cosets of modules xE,...". As is in the book, the sentence does not make grammatical sense.

sec 2, pg. 29: the def. of w must carry a v' not just v, that is: w = (1/m) v' is a discrete valuation of L.

sec 3, theorem 1, (i): change K to \hat{K}; so the completion of L_i has degree n_i over the completion of K.

sec 3, exercise 1: the suggested reference should say Section 3 of Bourbaki Algebra, not 7. (going by Hermann Paris 1958 as usual)

Chapter 4:

sec 1, pg. 63, prop 3, need K' (not K) in def. of e', that is: e' = e_{L/K'}.

in the proof of prop 3, the s and t for "st, t in H" need to be italicized.

sec 2, prop 6, first line of proof: gothic beta should be gothic p, that is to each x in p^{i}_{L}

sec 3, lemma 3, last line of proof: upper case Phi is nowhere defined, need lower case phi, that is: phi'(u)....so theta and phi must coincide.

sec 3, statement of lemma 5, again phi, not Phi.

Some tips for the beginner:

- Know how localization behaves as a functor via, say Atiyah-Macdonald.

- For a clean and clear proof that separable <=> nondegenerate Tr(,) see Roman's "Field Theory" (Bourbaki uses etale algebras to get this result, a bit more than needed).

- P. Samuel's "Algebraic theory of numbers" (Dover publ. now!) has a very elegant exposition of the proof of quadratic reciprocity that is alluded to at the end of section 8.
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THE TITLE IS ENOUGH.  IT HELPS YOU TO TAKE EACH PAGE AND USE IT IN YOUR STUDIES,  I AM A BEADER AND HAVE LEARNED A LOT.  THANK YOU FOR THE IDEAL.
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In better condition than my own copy and now in the hands of someone who appreciates its contents. Thankyou
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Since my academic background is primarily as a rhetorician I can certainly appreciate the impetus behind "Words That Build a Nation: A Young Person's Collection of Historic American Documents."  The title certainly gives you a sense of what Marilyn Miller has collected within these pages, although the title is unavoidably inexact.  "Documents" means much more than the traditional meaning that would clearly point to the Declaration of Independence and the Emancipation Proclamation.  Herein you will find excerpts from "Poor Richard's Almanack" and "Uncle Tom's Cabin," speeches by Chief Joseph and John F. Kennedy, Constitutional amendments and a Supreme Court decision, along with letters by John Adams and Richard Nixon.  Young readers will find such "documents" from the speech Hillary Rodham Clinton gave at the United Nations Conference on Women at Beijing in 1995 (which my daughter Jamie heard in person while missing the first week of school in the 5th grade) stretching back to the "Mayflower" Compact of 1620.
This volume is not intended as a substitute for an American history textbook but rather as a supplement.  Your standard American history textbook probably includes a choice piece of advice from Benjamin Franklin and key phrases from Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" and Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "March on Washington Address"(as the "I Have a Dream" speech is called here).  It might even have the entire text of Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address," which is short enough, and certainly it will mention George Washington's Farewell Address, the Monroe Doctrine, Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points, and Franklin Roosevelt's "War Message to Congress."  But here you will find the entire text of each.  For that matter, you will find the complete lyrics to "The Star Spangled Banner."
The shortest entry here would be Nixon's letter resigning the presidency and the other end of the spectrum would probably be the complete text of the U.S. Constitution.  Unfortunately there are only choice excerpts from Malcolm X's speech "The Ballot or the Bullet," but I know how long that entire speech is and while it would be nice to see the complete work in print since our collection of great speeches is out of print, I understand the considerations of space and money involved.  Right before Clinton's speech is Reagan's "Farewell Address," so clearly there is a sense of providing "balance" in terms of contemporary politics as well.
In addition to presenting these various documents, Miller also offers explanations.  Each document begins with a brief background section with the text appearing in a shaded area, followed by sections on both the author and the response to these particular "words."  If there are photographs or other illustrations of the actual speech (or document) those are usually provided as well.  The margins of the book include other interesting information about the text, author, and/or situation.  Both teachers and students will find this a useful book for providing additional access to the documents that are usually only touched upon in history textbooks.  Yes, you can certainly make a case for what you would have liked to have seen included or omitted, especially in terms of the speeches, but Miller does account for the major "documents" of the American experiment, most of which will not be found in the appendix of that aforementioned textbook.
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Okay, that title phrase "I almost peed myself laughing" was not in the book, but it well sums up the content.  Some parts are not for the faint of heart or those of the late Jerry Falwell's congregation because it is full of colorful expressions like the S Word and anatomical slang.  It is quite humerous, especially the illustrations.

Deises Buch ist NICHT beschissen!
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Let me say upfront that I did enjoy the book. My disappointment is the title didn't seem to line up fully with the content. It was more of Michael's SEARCH for a renewed relationship with God. Thus the 4 star rating.
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A very good book to start if you want to learn what the title of the book says. This book keeps me want to learn more. I like the ways the
material is presented. Two thumbs up!
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I rated 4 because of the quality of the content (no formatting errors etc.)

This is a good book for beginners...maybe not so much for authors wanting to learn more about selling their book on Amazon.com.

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An accurate reproduction of the original two volumes in Kindle native format. Marked up sections like Table of Contents, Title, etc.  Even multi-page footnotes are pulled together into a single block to read as one.  Reproductions of correspondence (letters) are started with a bold line to help set them off from the other standard text.  There are no charts or illustrations in either volume so none to comment on. Only complaint is the volumes are compressed together as one and it is tough to skip to the second table of contents (around 48% of the way through the text).