I have read and enjoyed each of Alcott's discovered thrillers, including these. But those collected in this book were sub-par compared to her other stories.

Most of the better stories in this book are also in the much more extensive book _Louisa May Alcott Unmasked: Collected Thrillers_. The truly 'new' stories here are slower than her normal work, and they lack her trademark quality of oddness and unpredictability.

Die-hard Alcott fans, this book is good. And it has stories which are *not* in the Unmasked book. For these reasons, I am purchasing it (I'm reading a library edition).

But for those just venturing into this side of Alcott, don't start here. Start with one of the smaller collection books, or the Unmasked book. If you're more into the thriller novel genre, then read Alcott's _Long Fatal Love Chase_.

I bought this book for my school text. It is comprehensive and well organised. Good for beginners...give it a try!

Professor Greynolds and his co-authors wrote what I believe to be THE pioneering work in the field of time value of money analysis using financial calculators. Admitted: This serious work is "out of print", but quality work, quality workmanship NEVER goes out of style. This is a fine book for anyone who is interested in understanding the underlying concepts--and indeed mastering much of them--of the time value of money field. In fair part my HP real estate problem solving books might never have been written had I not been inspired by this quality work. Professor Greynolds is to be commended for this publication. Studying a work like this can make one a better, indeed, a much better TVM instructor. To know, to understand the flow of numbers/data through a financial system by mastering the underlying equations makes us more confident as instructors and indeed makes us more confident as finance practitioners. Bert's book does this and much more.

Russell covers the history of the Friends up through 1940. Although the developments of the next few decades would be interesting, especially the Orthodox split, this book is an excellent and thorough work for the first three centuries of the Quakers. It includes chapters on George Fox; James Nayler, whose followers claimed he was Jesus Incarnate; Joseph Gurney, who motivated the Gurneyite split; and Elias Hicks, who began the Hicksite movement; and John Wilbur, leading to the Wilburite sect. Russell gives consistent scholarship with copious footnotes and bibliography, but in a very readable manner. Some of his final chpater prophesies for unity movements have sadly not been born out, but the rest of the text was exceedingly helpful for understanding the history of this valuable Christian movement.

Sarah Elbert does an excellent job charting a cursory but thorough biography of Louisa May Alcott and her parents. Tying the development of philosophical beliefs and life events to her literature, Elbert demonstrates the role of Alcott's intense committment to abolition and women's rights in her work. She conducts particular in depth analyses of several of Alcott's "adult" novels as well as the March family series (Little Women, Little Men, Jo's Boys). I was especially interested in the family conflict Alcott felt between her domestic obligations of supporting and caring for her mother and father and her dedication to her career. Things haven't changed all that much have they? I was previously unaware of Louisa's long struggle with illness brought about by the treatment for typhoid she received after being infected while working as a Civil War nurse. An excellent resource and well-written.

Liitle requirment of mathematical background is needed such as basic calculus and linear ODE. Explanation is clear and tidy. This is a NEED book for a beginner to study this topic.

Some of these old books are so much more fun than newer, dry travel logs to read! The author gives brief accounts of visiting the homes of famous writers: George Eliot, Thomas Carlyle, John Ruskin, Wm.E. Gladstone, J.M.W.Turner, Jonathan Swift, Victor Hugo, Wm.Wordsworth, W.M. Thackery, Charles Dickens, Oliver Goldsmith, Shakespeare. The 1895 Putnam ed. (366 pgs.) has a blue cloth cover with gold lettering & design, gold on top edge, and is illus. with black & white etchings of each famous man.

Well, you know Kapahulu Street runs away from Waikiki beach, by the park and the zoo. And if you get your Hawaiian dictionary you'll find Kapa could mean a crotch, generally female. And hulu could mean lined with feathers, or hair. So does that mean you're walking down the street named after Female Pubic Hair?

Actually, it's not Kapa-hulu, it turns out it's Ka (the) Pahulu (barren ground). Totally different. If you're visiting Hawai'i, and you want to have some idea of the history of where you are, this little pocket book makes for some interesting reading.

EEG Biofeedback, Neurofeedback, Neurotherapy, Brain biofeedback-- these are all terms which describe what this book talks about.

The amazing thing is that this book was put together in 1983, for a 1984 pub date.

What's weird is I discovered this book while doing a biofeedback lecture tour in Russia, and got my copy in Siberia. Edited by a German team of leading Neuroscientists-- Thomas Elbert Birgitte Rosckstroh, Werner Lutzenberger and Niels Birbaumer, the book provides an exciting picture of the state of the art of neuroregulation back in the early eighties, discussing cutting edge applications which have yet to be realized.

It offers a number of chapters covering the slow brain potential feedback work that Birbaumer has been working on since at least the mid seventies (doing some of that work with M. Barry Sterman.) This slow potential work has more recently been reported in Time, Newsweek and other media for it's exciting approach to A.L.S. (Lou Gherig's Disease)

It also offers several chapters on operant conditioning and control of event related and slow potentials, with a section on Evoked potential self regulation.

Chapter contributors recognizable to biofeedback practitioners include Sterman, Lubar, Kamiya, Rosenfeld, Birbaumer, Lang, and for old timers, Mulholland and Dworkin, as well as a number of apparently European contributors.

This is no easy read, and it is not a cookbook, but it is certainly one worth searching for if you are a serious researcher or practitioner. Good luck finding it though. My attempt to find a used copy on the web this evening proved fruitless (and I'm pretty good at those kinds of searches.) I hope you don't have to go to Siberia to find yours.

At first, I thought this might be the first text on neurofeedback, but one of the contributors to this book, Peter Rosenfeld corrected me. According to him, the earliest book on the subject was: "Operant Control of Brain Activity" edited by Michael Chase in 1974, published by the Brain Information Service/Brain Research Institute of UCLA.

Excellent book for any student of gender issues and literature.