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Helpful votes received on reviews, lists & guides: 94% (67 of 72)
Location: San Francisco, CA USA
Birthday: April 18(Remind me)
 

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Kau Kau: Cuisine & Culture in the Hawaiian Islands by Arnold Hiura
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New Reviewer Rank: 821,514 (Learn More) - Total Helpful Votes: 67 of 72
Classic Reviewer Rank: 115,175
Generative Social Science: Studies in Agent-Based &hellip by Joshua M. Epstein
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
The Annotated Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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
Microsoft Natural Ergo Keyboard 4000 by Microsoft
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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