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This classic work (first published in 1926) introduced the concept of "holism" and the holistic approach to life and health. Great for anyone interested in holistic health.
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It's a Wonderful Work.......2004-12-17
This concept of holism created by Jan Christiaan Smuts is a wonderful contribution to our understanding of life and the natural universe. As testimony to his work, the holistic approach to life permeates many parts of our society today in ways which help us live peaceful and fulfilling lives.
If there is any one problem with the original work it is that the text was quite difficult to read. This edition by Sanford Holst is absolutely excellent. He uses a very light touch to take uncommonly lengthy sentences and extensive paragraphs (some of them two pages long!) and separate them into two or three. The result is 100% of the original text...in a much more readable and flowing form. I have both editions, but I re-read this one.
By the way, the summaries in this book were written by Mr. Smuts in the original work.
All in all, I definitely recommend this edition to anyone who is interested in the holistic approach to life.
Holism and Evolution with Sanford Holst 's Editing.......2004-08-08
Holism and Evolution by Jan Christiaan Smuts, originally published in 1926, is one of the great and authentic visionary classics of the 20th century, and I highly recommend to anyone interested in the subject of holism, evolution, and integral philosophy. This book is not only one of the harbingers of today's holistic and integral movements but also continues to provide us with deep insights and powerful inspirations.
However, this edition with Sanford Holst's editing is an insult to the original author and an insult to the intelligence of the readers. Holst adds subheadings and summaries that are utterly unnecessary while changing some words to make them "understandable" to the contemporary readers, which is insulting to the intelligence and linguistic knowledge of the readers.
Therefore, my recommendation is to read the original book sold by Amazon.com, but not this edition by Sanford Holst, if the reader wants to enjoy an experience of reading a book by one of the truly great minds, without a contamination by the hubris of a mediocre mind.
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Illustrated Genera of Imperfect Fungi (Illustrated Genera of Smut Fungi)
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Jan Smuts and His International Contemporaries
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Many biographies have been written of Jan Smuts but none have achieved so close an examination of the interpersonal and political relationships of Smuts as Professor Ockie Geyser has portrayed in Jan Smuts and his International Contemporaries. This exceptional study of Smuts covers a broad period of history: from 1888 when Smuts was indirectly in contact with Cecil John Rhodes to 1948, thus spanning the period of the Anglo-Boer War and the two world wars. Although Smuts is said to have had a reserved nature, his versatility was undoubtedly and important part of his complex personality. This versatility attracted people's attention from all spheres of life. Jan Smuts and his International Contemporaries provides an analysis of the relationships that placed Smuts in a prominent position in the councils of the world. His insight into world affairs and his exceptional intellectual abilities made him a sought-after confidante and advisor to several governments, politicians, and distinguished leaders worldwide. In a time when people tend to ignore history and how things came to be the way they are today, this book can do much to revive interest in some of the most interesting people of the previous century. These included Cecil John Rhodes, Alfred Milner, Henry Campbell-Bannerman, David Lloyd Geoge, Winston Churchill, Mahatma Gandhi, Eamon de Valera, the Windsors, Charles de Gaulle, and Adolf Hitler, all of whose paths crossed that of Jan Smuts. Read how this "sickly, rickety child" "an unprepossessing lad showing no signs of promise" not only became prime minister, but a world leader and one of the most influential people ever to ocme out of South Africa. Read what great world leaders said of him, and he of them! And how, together, they shaped the world political scene of their time.
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1929. Deneys Reitz, who is now one of General Smuts's political lieutenants and a warm supporter of the British Commonwealth, fought through the South African War as our enemy. He enlisted on the outbreak of the war as a boy of seventeen and went through it to the bitter end. His father was President of the Orange Free State, and after peace was concluded he and his family went into exile. Later he returned to his own country; and later still fought in the Great War on the side of the Allies, first in West and South Africa, and then in France, where he was severely wounded, and where he came to command the First Battalion of the Royal Scots Fusiliers. Commando abounds in interesting sidelights and portraits-Kruger, De Wet, Smuts, Kitchener. One of the most remarkable passages gives us a glimpse of the young Winston Churchill as prisoner of war in Pretoria. It is difficult to speak of this book in anything short of a string of superlatives. The spirit of it is magnificent; the uncomplaining courage of the boy-fighter rouses memories of all the stories down the ages about unrecking devotion to an ideal. And not one of them is a finer one than this.
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Commando: A Boer Journal for the Boer War.......2007-05-14
Excellent primary source for research papers on the Boer War! I highly reccommend it!
One of the great war dispatches of all times...........2006-04-18
Written in a matter of fact style, the simple experiences of a young man at war are piled one upon the other with no guile and in a straightforward manner. What emerges is one of the greatest stories of war of all time. This stands alongside Dispatches and Black Hawk Down but is perhaps even more remarkable as it was written by a young man at war, not a professional writer or journalist.
Vivid personal recounting of first major war of 20th Century.......2005-10-08
Written by a teenager, albeit, a resourceful, fit, intelligent son of a farmer and distinguished South African, it recounts in considerable detail the honourable soldiering on horseback and mule of young Deneys Reitz. His many encounters with the enemy; the harsh weather, difficult landscape, starvation and disease on a guerilla operation that lasted over two years, is testament in part to luck, but also to his survival skills, marksmanship, courage and tenacity. A great read which should be read with some advantage in conjunction with The Boer War by Thomas Pakenham.
Commando and the Deneys Reitz Trilogy.......2000-11-24
Commando is the first and best known of the Deneys Reitz trilogy. It autobiographically tells the story of his part in the Boer War. He started as the sixteen year old son of a prominent Boer politician and ended with him joining Jan Smutts on his raid on Port Elizabeth. This is a story of guerrilla warfare based on minimal resources, for instance they used to visit the abandoned camp sites of British Columns just to pick up ammunition that the Tommies had dropped. They then used this to attack the very soldiers who had dropped it.
However, at the end of the Boer War Reitz was unable to accept British rule and went into exile and this is where the second volume, Trekking On starts. After a disastrous effort at hauling freight by ox cart in Madagascar which nearly cost him is life, Reitz is persuaded by Smutts to return to South Africa where he regains his health and enters local politics. At the outbreak of W.W.II Reitz joins the South African Army and takes part in the putting down of the Maritz rebellion and the campaigns in East Africa. Once the Germans are defeated in Africa he travels to England and , having decided firmly which side he would prefer to be on, joins the British Army as a private. Following a chance meeting with Smutts in London he experiences a dizzying rise in rank and ends the war, after seeing much action as the Colonel of a famous Scottish regiment.
The final book in the trilogy, No Outspan, covers Reitz's life in South African politics between the wars and concludes with him as Deputy Prime Minister of South Africa sitting on an advisory panel to Winston Churchill. in London. During this time he is visited by an Englishman who returned to him the Mauser rifle he took from him when Reitz became his prisoner during the Boer War. The last time I heard this rifle is still in the possession of Reitz's son and is regularly shot by him.
The Trilogy has been published by Wolfe Publishing as a one volume set in recent years and if you see a copy for sale, grab it!
Commando - compelling account of Anglo-Boer War.......1999-05-26
First person account by Reitz of his experiences during the Anglo-Boer War. In-depth insight of day-to-day operations during war, its warriors, and the strength and pure ruthlessness of men from a generation almost forgotten. A real life account that compares with the best of action novels. A true classic.
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Science in the Service of Children, 1893-1935
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Higher Ground: New Hope for the Working Poor and Their Children
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This book is the first comprehensive history of the development of child study during the early part of the twentieth century. Most nineteenth-century scientists deemed children unsuitable subjects for study, and parents were hostile to the idea. But by 1935, the study of the child was a thriving scientific and professional field. Here, Alice Boardman Smuts shows how interrelated movements—social and scientific—combined to transform the study of the child.
Drawing on nationwide archives and extensive interviews with child study pioneers, Smuts recounts the role of social reformers, philanthropists, and progressive scientists who established new institutions with new ways of studying children. Part history of science and part social history, this book describes a fascinating era when the normal child was studied for the first time, a child guidance movement emerged, and the newly created federal Children’s Bureau conducted pathbreaking sociological studies of children.
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The Fall of Apartheid tells the extraordinary story how apartheid came into being, secured its ascendancy over the richest and most developed society in sub-Saharan Africa, and then collapsed. For the first time it reveals the full story of the secret meetings between Africans and Afrikaners in Britain, in which South Africa's current president, Thabo Mbeki, had a direct line to President Botha. Robert Harvey's fascinating narrative helps to illuminate not just the South African Problems but also more general issues of conflict- and problem-solving.
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The Negotiated Revolution.......2007-09-15
"The Fall of Apartheid" by former UK MP Robert Harvey is primarily a history of the negotiations between various white South Africa officials and the African National Congress in the 1980s. But Harvey offers a convenient summery of the Apartheid's history from its roots in the aftermath of the Boer War at the beginning of the 20th century and up to its fall. This makes it a convenient and readable, if shallow, introduction for the neophyte.
Following their defeat in the Boer War, the Afrikaners went on, in Harvey's phrase, to "win the peace" - they started collaborating with the British Empire, which allowed them to dominate not only the native blacks and imported Indians, but also the South African English community. In time, they became an independent republic.
Harvey's book is subtitled "From Smuts to Mbeki", and I have been interested in Smuts, the legendary South African leader, ever since reading about him in David Fromkin's brilliant A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East. Harvey treats Smuts harshly unjustifiably so, in my opinion. It is true that Smuts was not a believer in the equality of races - but in his day, few were. And while the de facto Apartheid was established during his years as an active political leader, the de jure Apartheid was established only after his 1948 defeat, while he was campaigning for the end of segregation.
Formal Apartheid in South Africa was established just as segregation was being dismantled elsewhere, notably in the United States. In 1948, politicians associated with the Afrikaner Broederbond (the Afrikaner Brotherhood), a white supremacist and arguably semi-fascist secret organization won the election (even though they had lost the popular vote - the system was rigged in favor of Afrikaners and against English and non-white voters). In the next twenty years, Apartheid was erected, with harsh laws separating the white from the black and the colored.
Harvey does not elaborate on the daily effects of segregation. One would have to go elsewhere to the description of Apartheid ideology, theory, and practice. The voices of either Apartheid's administrators or its victims are largely silent. We get only a taste of the international politics and the military aspects of the Apartheid story, and virtually no biography of the leading players. The evolution of Mandela's superstardom as the heir to mantle of Gandhi and Martin Luther King is not explained - he merely appears on stage as a legendary and internationally renowned leader. Harvey's focus is on the political - the demonstrations, the suppression, and the negotiations.
The most surprising thing I learned about Apartheid was that the most appalling aspects of it - the segregation, anti-miscegenation laws, and habitation zones laws - were considerably relaxed in the early 1980s, during the presidency of P.W. Botha. Only the political aspects of Apartheid - namely the lack of political rights for blacks, lack of human rights, and in particular the white Herrenvolk democracy - remained to be negotiated away.
Most of Harvey's narrative is an account of two parallel tracks of negotiations carried out in the late 1980s - one, taking place in England, featured the leadership of the African National Congress (ANC) and prominent Afrikaners, who reported to president Botha. The other took place in prison, in which Nelson Mandela, without ANC authorization, negotiated Vis a Vis the Afrikaner leadership, including Intelligence Chief Barnard. Harvey argues that the government planned to play one track against the other, forcing the ANC to accept concessions made by Mandela. Yet it is hard to see the method in the negotiation's madness - and scarcely any concession was ever wrung, anyway.
In any event, the dual track - its exact significant is not quite clear - collapsed shortly after the ascension to the Presidency of F.W. de Klerk. Within a short time after securing office, de Klerk released Nelson Mandela, unbanned the ANC, and started a process of negotiations which culminated in the repeal of Apartheid and in the formation of a Federal state of sorts, securing a measure of protection to the various minorities. Te pre election years saw a great deal of violence - not so much from de Klerk's national party or from the ANC, but rather from various Black and white groups, such as the Zulu dominated Inkatha and the extremist right wing Afrikaner group Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB). Harvey's narrative does not do justice to the various interests and forces in the final days of Apartheid; rather, he rashes to the bottom line - the first nationwide election, and the inauguration of Nelson Mandela as president in May 1994.
In the end, Harvey's book is incomplete and imperfect; Its focus is too much on the British based negotiations rather then on the historical process. And yet, for someone like me, who knows very little about the history of South Africa, Harvey's book is a pretty good place to start.
Helpful account.......2006-12-14
In this account the experience of the fall of Apartheid from the 1980s to 1995 is explained, analyzed and digested in a fair and reasonable manner. Mostly this is a political book about the inns and outs of manuevering between the Nationalist camp of F.W. De Klerk and Mandala and the ANC. THere is very little analysis of the point of view of the Zulu position or other tribal leaders positions and not enough discussion of why in the 1994 elections the 'Coloured' or mixed population as the Afrikaans speaking black community that is of mized Khoisan-White ancestry and numbers 2 million people voted for De Klerk. There is little discussion of the Indian community as well or the interplay between Xhosa-Zulu inter-ALC politics, as between Mbeki and Jacob Zuma. These issues are seen as more pertinent today, at the time it the sheer importance of the fall of aparthied, a conflict the entire world was involved, that is covered. Also P.W Botha, the president of South Africa from 1980 to 1987 is not covered enough.
Seth J. Frantzman
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Court Culture and the Origins of a Royalist Tradition in Early Stuart England
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Primate Societies is a synthesis of the most current
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Great reading.......2007-05-31
This book brings together information from primate field studies and presents it in an evolutionary context. 46 contributors cover more than 100 species of primate. Though it was published 20years ago it is still a great source of information - and before 40years ago very little was known about non-human primates.
The diversity of primates is clear from this collection. Mating systems, sexual dimorphism, infanticide by adult males, female dominance, dispersal and philopatry, aggression, conflict and cooperation, communication and intelligence - a wide range of observations of primate behavior are covered. I've found this book a very useful source.
An excellent complilation on primate behavior.......1998-03-08
Many interesting and readable chapters discussing numerous aspects of primate social life. There is one chapter for virtually every primate genus, and many more general chapters as well. As an actuary, I especially enjoyed the chapter on the demography of certain primate populations, particularly rhesus macaques.
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The Stuart Court and Europe: Essays in Politics and Political Culture
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This interdisciplinary collection stresses the cosmopolitan nature of society, politics and culture at the Stuart court, and the importance of this cosmopolitanism in shaping political life and culture well beyond the court itself. The essays deal with the actual operation of the court, politics, and the systems of cultural meaning in which political life was embedded. Also included are a provocative overview of the whole period by Jonathan Scott, and a concluding chapter by Geoffrey Parker that suggests several new avenues for placing the British Isles within a European perspective.
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One of the very best.......2000-02-27
Only Georges Bataille's Death and Sensuality is comparable to the depth and profundity of Davis's elucidation of the darker tensions, meaning and power in sexuality. His division of the three attitudes taken toward sexual energy--Gnostic, Jehovanist and Naturalist--should be common knowledge, everyday language. I've gathered many books on this subject, but have never been instructed to the extent Davis has taught me. And in such "light" prose--perhaps even too light if I'm to press for any objection to this excellent work. A shame that it isn't in print.
The three ideologies.......1998-01-25
This is the most profound book, both philosophically and psychologically, that I have yet seen on the subject of human sexuality. Mr. Davis explores the division between "everyday reality" and "erotic reality" in our experience. He then analyzes the three primary approaches that we take toward this. In a nutshell: The "Naturalist" minimizes this cleavage, sees sexuality as simply a harmless release of tensions. The "Jehovanist" sees sexuality as a dangerous building up of tensions, as a threat to the social or cosmic order or "everyday reality", which must be suppressed or restricted as much as possible. The "Gnostic" also sees sexuality as a dangerous building up of tensions -- and revels in the danger, seeing "everyday reality" as essentially false and "erotic reality" as the essentially true, as "nobly evil". Mr. Davis explores the many ramifications of these three fundamental ways of looking at the sexual experience, and the complex relations between these. I strongly recommend this book to anyone interested in this complex and controversial subject and what it means to us.
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