This is an excellent reference text to quite a tough section on network synthesis. Many authors will confuse you while presenting material on active filter design. However, Huelsman assumes very little and so the text is written in a logical manner that not only appeals but also reveals what other books hide from view.

Published in 1974, playwright Jerome Lawrence's biography of famed American actor/star Paul Muni has been hailed as 'The greatest theatre biography of the [20th] century', and rightly so. This exceptional book recounts Muni's whole life, from his childhood travelling with his parents Yiddish theatre company to his declining years and failing health. The vividness of Lawrence's accounts of Muni's life are due to the fact that Lawrence knew Muni well (Muni's most successful Broadway play was 'Inherit the Wind', co-authored by Lawrence) and most of the information is first hand. After muni's death in 1967 his widow Bella (with the encouragment of Lawrence) began a book on her husband's life to be entitled 'The Men I have Lived With'. But the book was never finished as Bella died in 1971 so Lawrence took what had been written and wrote his own account of Muni's life. Some of Bella's original passages have been included - most notably the story of how she met and married Muni. Lawrence also recounts the history of the Yiddish theatre, the story behind the making of the classic 'Scarface' and Muni's obsessive 4 year search for the story of Alfred Nobel. Lawrence interviewed many of theatre and Hollywood's greats for the book including Luther Adler, George Abbott, Howard Hawks and Bette Davis (a complete transcript of her interview is included in the closing chapters). A fascinating and compelling read about a man who ultimatley didn't know what else to but act.

There are few scholars who have tackled the implications of the Holocaust with as much insight and intelligence as Lawrence Langer. From his analysis of Holocaust literature, to his impassioned invective against the misuse of Anne Frank's diary, his insightful analysis of Holocaust art, and his critical examination of the possibility of choice in the death camps, Langer has over the past twenty years carved himself a niche as one of the best Holocaust scholars. *Admitting the Holocaust* is the first collection of his essays Holocaust-related themes. Anyone interested in the Holocaust and its implications for contemporary life and thought cannot afford to pass up this collection. The piece "The Dilemma of Choice in the Nazi Deathcamps" is by itself worth the cost of the book. Coupled with his more recent collection, *Preempting the Holocaust*, this book is an extremely valuable contribution to any personal, public or educational library. (Don't pass up his *Holocaust Testimonies* either.) Perhaps only Elie Wiesel has addressed the Holocaust with more insight and sensitivity than Langer. Five stars for all of his works to date.

If you enjoyed and found this book interesting and useful, you might like "The Healing Journey Through Retirement" by Phil Rich, Dorothy Sampson, and Dale Fetherling. It deals with similar issues of life style, relationships, and meaning after retirement and uses a journal writing approach to the subject.

I'm not even a big Lawrence Welk fan (though my dad is. When he went to the U. of Chicago, he would pay 25 cents to dance to LW live each Saturday night).

This book is an Autobiography of Lawrence Welk, so it tells much about his private life from birth on up. He got into having his own band during the 1920's when radio was new and he had to really struggle to get anybody to hear him at all. It was worse than a Gypsy's life on the road.

He tells many very interesting stories of playing engagements, how they were promoted, what different audiences were like, etc.

One story that made me laugh out loud was how in certain areas of the country it was not uncommon for people to bring a gun to a dance, and if someone's girlfriend got looked at by an undesireable competitor, shots would be fired. LW and his band got to where they didn't even bother getting off the stage. They would just hide behind the piano until the shooting was over, then they would get out and keep playing, while members of the crowd would haul off the injured parties. I don't think anybody died at any of his concerts, but it seems clear that the spirit of the American Frontier was still alive into the 30's, at least.

I gained a real appreciation for Lawrence Welk after reading this book.

--George Stancliffe

Quisiera, en primer lugar, señalar que mi acercamiento al texto no es en la lengua que lo gestó sino en castellano, lo que lo hace mitad hechura de su traductora, Aurora Bernárdez, esposa del difunto Julio Cortázar. Sin embargo, la pulcritud de sus trabajos previos asegura de ella una fidelidad al sentido de la obra que pocos autores podrían tener sobre sus versiones en otras lenguas. Durrell, en lengua de Cervantes, afirma virtudes inconmovibles: un narración fragmentaria, sostenida en el continuum del tono lírico, tono que no paraliza el tiempo, o mejor aún , lo diversifica en ramajes y sutilezas de psicólogo u observador nato que vuelven la morosidad de la novela un deleite inapreciable. Pero esto no significa que no sucedan cosas en la novela, suceden cientos de hechos, pero he ahí el mérito de Durrell: cultivar la poesía sin perder la vitalidad de la sucesión de los acontecimientos que envuelven a los personajes en conflictos particulares, en el marco de una ciudad milenaria que se pudre, metropoli que, precisa y borrosa, se mece en la calma chicha de las entreguerras. En esta ciudad, como esforzado teórico, pero a la vez como escritor pasional, Durrell dislumbra la obsesión central de su narrativa: la verdad como posesión del sujeto que conoce y, como consecuencia, la múltiple interpretación de un hecho, según su espectador y las circunstancias vitales de éste. Suerte de relativismo declarado, pero también de espíritu barroco moderno, Durrell despliega el mismo escenario en cada una de las cuatro novelas de su saga, pero lo muestra siempre distinto, dependiendo del personaje que privilegia como foco de su relato. Y cada personaje foco es a la vez un rol de los variados que juega un solo individuo en la sociedad humana: el yo más íntimo, el tú dialogante del círculo social inmediato, el ello de una sociedad que se mueve en la esfera de la política, y sobre estos, la percepción del paso del tiempo. Durrell, se dijo, escribió con el cuarteto de Alejandría la novela romántica del siglo XX. Y, por supuesto, es una novela de amor, pero creo, además, es una cosmogonía válida que clausura el siglo, y abre camino a otras búsquedas acuciosas, en espera de la nueva física que nos de el siglo XXI, esa física que, como lo hizo la Teoría de la Relatividad con el Cuarteto, nos de otra gran novela

Recently read and used this book while in Alexandria. There is essential information, beautifully organized, presented and written that should be available. Introduction by Lawrence Durrell is wonderful too.

Larry Kamm's book, All About Energy introduces the reader to many facts about energy, without using mathematics. This provides the reader with the basis for understanding, a vocabulary to use, and the ability to pursue the subject further.

The author considers what energy is, how we use it, energy conservation, from where energy comes, how we store it, how we transport it, its many forms, pollution, and the role of government. A chapter about energy numbers and statistics concludes the book of 78 pages. Some references are given to help in finding more information. Instructions are given as to how to communicate with the author should the need arise.

People who solve problems of the real world eventually design a system (or a component thereof) or a process that will perform a specified task in answer to a need, and meet all the solution constraints. The product must be functional, safe, reliable, competitive, useable, manufacturable, and marketable. This is a formidable task. By giving the reader a large number of facts about energy, the author gives a clue about a valuable tool a designer uses in pursuit of a solution. That tool is viewpoint. Viewpoint is a shorthand word for the opportunity afforded by a commanding overview which can come from a primordial "soup" of facts. If one has the talent to invent a concept, identify the connectivity of the constituent parts, flesh it out, then no matter who builds it and uses it, the need can be met.

The author does not spell this out in so many words. After reading the book one can suspect that a viewpoint is being assembled. Appreciation of this can be useful to anyone striving to become an informed citizen. One can now listen to and digest all the public discourses about energy, and may be able to detect what is rot, and what is not. Isn't that a purpose of education?

I commend this book to anyone who wants a brief introduction to the subject of energy. The author had a career as an inventive engineer and as an entrepreneur, and he manages this introduction without using a single equation.

A simple clear and enjoyable read, with particuar emphasis on asthma. Stephen Holgate and Martin Church have produced a book which puts across simply all what is needed to be known by any student interested in Asthma

I found myself devouring each word and picture in this book while flying home from Madrid to my home, Tucson, Arizona, recently. It is beautifully written and eye-openingly informative for any reader. The descriptions are also accurate, about which I can attest as an active inhabitant of this fronterra, living in nearby Tucson and often working in Nogales areas. The pictures (a big difference from photographs) draw you into the experience of the subject in tender ways, while also being technically excellent quality. This is perhaps the best writing and photography to date by the increasingly infamous Hickey-Taylor team. bravo!!
Kathleen Williamson, J.D., Ph.D, CD - prose and song writer, musician, anthropologist, lawyer, etc.,