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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
It's refreshing and exciting, in a quiet intellectual kind of
way, to encounter a book that includes philosophy of science, music
theory, Anasazi disappearance mysteries, ethnic cleansing, and an
explanation of why CEOs exist. Josh has produced the book I've been
wanting to read any time during the last 20 years, which have been a bit
barren from the theory and modeling perspective in social science. He
also makes clear the mathematical and philosophical basis of the
agent-based approach, producing a baseline both for future work in the
field and for competing paradigms such as systems dynamics, discrete
simulations, and cellular automata (Wolfram's New Kind of Science),
however… Read more
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
This book does three major things: it provides an up-to-date
rendering of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice using all known material,
going back to the original publication as much as possible; it provides
an easily accessible explanation for most of the things that need
explaining in the book on opposing pages (glossary, customs, history,
carriage descriptions, and so on); and it provides insight into the
book. I did find this last objective the weakest: while Shapard has made
a noble attempt to integrate the massive amount of Austen criticism,
there simply isn't room to do justice to what Jane Austen "really meant"
along with all the other explanations. Sometimes these comments seem
just… Read more
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
I've had no problems with the keyboard as such. I've used a
Microsoft Natural keyboard for years, and this one has the best feel
yet. The weird key shapes for the middle keys are disconcerting, but
after awhile you don't notice them. The big problem is that the special
keys that require software to work didn't, even though I followed
instructions and installed the software first. I'm running under Windows
2000. I haven't had the time to look into Microsoft support yet, but
I'm sure they'll resolve the problem after the typical humungous wait.
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