For anyone who has ever read "Madame Bovary" (arrogant literature professors included), this book is a must buy. Simply put, "The End of Romance" is the master analyzing "The Master". Writing with a remarkably clear and economical prosaic style, Mr. Gans shows exactly why most consider Flaubert's masterpiece to be the greatest novel of the French language. Not only does he give a short biography of the author, and analyse the novel's plot and main characters, but most importantly, he presents a thorogh discussion on the originality of the work (see chapter on the "comices agricoles")!

i just love all of her works. everyone who lives in the south should read this book. this brought southern love to my heart all over again. i would recommend this to anyone.

As a spiritual healer of more than 25 years experience, I can recommend this book to the experienced healer as well as the complete novice. There are very few books about the practical aspect of healing by touch, even though it has been practised in various forms for centuries. Often referred to as faith healing, spirit healing or the 'laying on of hands', this kind of healing is becoming a lot more popular these days.
The method discussed in this book is called the King Technique, named for its original inventor, Dr George King, who devised the technique nearly fifty years ago, and which has links to yogic principles of healing through the chakras or psychic centres. The first four chapters deal with the scientific background of new age concepts of consciousness and energy, aspects of mind, psychic and healing power, but the main purpose of the book, which it achieves admirably, is a practical manual of healing technique which anyone can use without needing any prior psychic ability or awareness. Nor is it necessary to undergo extensive (or expensive) training in order to become a healer. This is how I started years ago and it only requires practice of the technique with the right outlook, to enable you occasionally to work a little miracle, or at least make somebody happy! Having explained the simple King Technique, further guidance is given on how to do self-healing and absent healing.
The book contains several mental exercises which are very useful in helping to develop psychic awareness and perception of the more subtle influences which will assist healing success. There is also a section in the book dealing with how to become a practitioner of healing, comprising issues such as patient relations, making the patient feel at ease, encouraging the patient to discuss their situation, and so on. This section could well be useful to practitioners of other therapies who might consider using this kind of healing as a supplement to their own practice.

... The Battalion's companies performed with valor and courage!
One company was actually fighting odds of a hundred to one!!
Completely surrounded, their only choices, Death! or Surrender!
This company ended up being commanded by a "corporal" one of the few Marines, still able to stand and fight!
BUT! The company was still fighting, even to the wounded who were too weak to stand!
When the relief force broke though the well trained and fully equipted, surrounding North Vietnamese Regular Army forces, there I, I believe, were only 10 Marines left standing!!
I know! I was one of the relief forces!!
This book will show the true fighting spirit of the U.S. Marine Corps!
When faced with THE two possiblies, WE CHOOSE TO FIGHT!!!
The Enemy forces were driven out of the jungle, on to the beaches then, into the China Sea!!
GUNG HO!! Second Battalion!!!
As your forebearers "The China Marines" (The fourth Marine Regiment, the same one as here in "Operation Starlite") did at "The "SIEGE of Peking"!!!
Better known as "55 Days At Peking"!
We stayed to FIGHT!
This will tell the actual story of how the battle began and ended!
Why the one company became completely surrounded!
AND! Almost annihilated!
And why it took such effort to reach them!!
This is not in any report that I have read!!
If you want to see the Armed Forces, USMC, at thier best, read this book!

This guide is designed for those who would be knowledgeable readers of major short stories by D.H. Lawrence when the store of scholarship, investigation, and appraisal is far too vast for all but the expert. A thorough examination of what has been written about these short stories, each chapter deals with a different short story and consists of five distinct sections: (1)the complete publication history, including all revisions and variants; (2)an inclusive examination of recognized and hitherto unrecognized sources, as well as the influences at work on Lawrence in the creation ot the story; (3)the story's relationship to Lawrence's other writings; (4)acknowledgement and summary of all extant critical studies; and (5)a bibliography of works cited.

The best book on the making of LAWRENCE OF ARABIA. This is really a beautiful book. It contains many color photographs and artwork on David Lean's masterpiece. It covers every aspect of production. I refer to it constantly. Indispensable. A must have.

This book is very clear to those who want to know the truth!

Lawrence DiStasi's "Mal Ochhio" is on the same shelf in my study as the works of Freud and Jung. Of course, being Italian, I know this one intimately.
DiStasi traces the historic antecedents and folk traditions from which sprang this fecund myth. With roots in jealousy, envy, primal fear of the other, and the interconnectedness of all things, the Italian Evil Eye myth requires a work of scholarly research and also a life's experience. DiStasi's book embodies both.
The duality of feeling combining the mistrust of compliments and the total urge to protect oneself and one's loved ones is the underpinning of the author's description of Mal Occhio. At once a semiotic analysis and a loving explication of a rich and revealing cultural tradition, this work is a pleasure to experience.

If you missed this Loveswept when they were out, then be sure and get it used NOW!! This is ONE PERFECT STORY. She is the nanny for a darling little girl, loved though neglected by her husband hunting mother, and her present target is Lord Darby. Lord Darby thinks it grand if the three of them pay his estate in England a visit, so he send his man 'Friday'. From the instant Reilly picks them up in Lord Darby's helicopter, sparks are flying!!! A former bomb disposal agent serving in Ireland, he seeks the calm life now, though would accept a little fireworks between him and the delicious nanny.

This man does everything sexy, even washes the dishes!! Their romance is torrid; anything a woman could want, but she feel empathy for the five year old child, for you see she was a product of a broken home and a rich husband hunting mother - but for her there had been no loving nanny. She is so afraid mommy dearest will be off to the next target of choice and she would be then forced to chose between Reilly and the stablility of a lonely child.

I loved how the romance was between the nanny and the man's man, and not the lord and lady. They were loving, warm and human and you would not forget their story years later!!

This is the first book on work team or any kind of teams that acknowledges how difficult and trying team work and team management can be. It's full of useful suggestions and insightful thinking. It's well written and not a checklist type of book but one which really explores things like conflict and the key kinds of things teams come up against. As a manager who workes with teams all the time, I highly recommend it. I am buying one for all my supervisors and all my teams.