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Flora of Steens Mountain
Published in Paperback by Oregon State Univ Pr (April, 2000)
Author: Donald H. Mansfield
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Comprehensive Guide for SE Oregon, SW Idaho, and N Nevada
This is the ultimate botanical sourcebook for Steens and surrounding areas of Oregon, Idaho, and Nevada. Finally a single book covering this area, which as the author points out, contains plants at their geographic limit from several different floristic regions of the West. I was pleased to see a key included. So many popular field guides have forgone keys and only include select species. This key includes every species known from Steens and adjacent areas. If you have ever found yourself frustrated because the plant at hand isn't in your book, this is for you.

For the most part, the organization of the book is good. I was disappointed to see monocots and dicots lumped together in one alphabetic section. The author's intent was to make use easier for the amateur, but I found it frustrating. The black and white illustrations are well done. I found the color plates disappointing. Because of the quality of the paper, the ink has soaked in, obscuring detail and toning down contrast. However, it is easy to overlook this short-coming because of the wealth of information in one convenient source.

no coffee table book
This is a great guide to the plants of Steens mountains, very detailed. If you are only casually interested in the plants of this area, be forewarned that this is not a picture book, but rather a key with excellent descriptions.

Excellent field guide!
This is the most comprehensive field guide of any sort that I have ever seen! It's perfectly designed to help one identify any unknown plant in the Steens. Having been to the Steens Mountains I've witnessed the great diversity of the flora and the detail put into this guide for each individual specimen is most impressive!

Inside Racing: A Season With the Pacwest Cart Indy Car Team
Published in Paperback by Motorbooks International (February, 1998)
Authors: Paul Haney and Linda Mansfield
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Driver/Crew Chief details
I chose a group of books for researh for starting a race team, this was one... If you want detail, this has it, but let me warn... I feel there is too much time spent on the driver/crew chief talks during warm-up/qualifying/race. If you want to learn what goes on between the two this book is for you. The nitty gritty detail of a year in racing is, in my opinion, a bit lacking, but the detail of what goes on between the driver and crew chief is terrific. Haney gets a bit lenghty in the middle races of the season, he found a tape recorder, but rounds out the book back on the brief... while I enjoyed reading the details of weight jacking and spring adjustments, I found too much "car adjustment" detail and not enough "a year in the life of..." details.

A feast for car racing nuts.
Paul arranged the year we'd all love to have: traveling with a top-line CART team and listening in to all their radio traffic on race weekends. He combines a talent for explaining technical issues with painstaking note-taking (the part of the year we didn't have to worry about) and presents it all with a fresh, self-effacing style.

The bulk of the book is Paul's description of how engineers and drivers set up the PacWest cars. We can listen in as they drift in and out of the right setup, struggling to find the right combination in this hugely competitive racing series.

Buy it if you're fascinated by the technical part of Champ Car racing. Stay away if you're looking for brisk narrative about people or a tight dramatic structure. This is hardcore racing.

If you're an auto racing fan, buy this book!
This is the book I've always wanted to read. I've been a fan of auto racing for many years, but no book has ever given a real "behind the scenes" look at what goes on in a top line race team. Haney's style is very readable and gives a good honest potrayal of all the key members of the race team. None better!

Musichound Folk: The Essential Album Guide
Published in Paperback by Schirmer Books (1998)
Authors: Neal Walters, Brian Mansfield, and Mark D. Moss
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This book is a welcomed and long overdue publication!!
MUSICHOUND FOLK: THE ESSENTIAL ALBUM GUIDE is one of the best and most complete compilations of reviews and descriptions of folk artists' works that I have yet seen. Bravo for an excellent start!!

However, I would like to recommend that the inclusion of the following artists would improve the coverage and render the book even more comprehensive!!

1. Tom Rapp (Pearls Before Swine) 2. Bob Carpenter ( Canadian songwriter) 3. Lee Clayton (Folk/Country artist) 4. John Martyn (British Folk/Rock artist) 5. Willie P. Bennett (Canadian songwriter) 6. Murray McLauchlan (Canadian songwriter) 7. Decameron (British Folk/Rock band) 8. Lindisfarne (British Folk/Rock band) 9. Michael Chapman (British folk/Rocker) 10. Terry and Gay Woods (Terry was in the Pogues and both were in Steeleye Span) This is a short list but it is evident that more research into British and Canadian folk music would improve this book. Nevertheless, I applaud this great begining!!

Nicely done.
Folk music finally gets its due. This is a fine book. Like all album guides, one can argue a bit with the ratings, but, as another reader commented, the entries and reviews are signed by the writers; it's their opinion. For the most part, all the entries and ratings I've looked over appear to be right on the mark or very close to it. All in all, this book is definitely a must-buy for any folk music fan. There's nothing else like it out there. I highly recommend it.

An Invaluable Resource
I've been a folk music fan for years, but only recently have I become fully aware of the incredible range of artists and music that's out there. I have found this guide incredibly helpful in choosing new albums to purchase, or in deciding which new artists to try (I have it to thank for my love of the music of Nanci Griffith and Tish Hinojosa).

While the title indicates a focus on folk music, the guide's definition of "folk" turns out to be quite broad--it includes folk-rock, country, bluegrass, some blues, and Celtic music. For each artists profiled, the authors identify the best albums ("what to buy" and "what to buy next"). They also include a fairly complete discography for each artist--the albums included seem to be those that were in print at the time of publication. Instead of Amazon's stars, the authors rate albums at one to five "bones."

In a work of this nature there are always possible quibbles one can have, either about the critical judgements of the authors (not one Joan Baez album rates five bones?) or their selection of who to include or exclude (Willie Nelson makes it in, but Waylon Jennings doesn't?). The one inexcusable omission, especially since Pete Seeger's picture is on the cover, is that of the Weavers. But even that error, grievous though it is, does not detract from this book's value.

The Hair Pulling "Habit" and You: How to Solve the Trichotillomania Puzzle, Revised Edition
Published in Paperback by Writers' Cooperative of Greater Washington (15 November, 2000)
Authors: Ruth Goldfinger Golomb, Sherri Mansfield Vavrichek, Uri Yokel, Emily Condon-Douglas, Sherrie Mansfield Vavrichek, and Sherrie M. Vavrichek
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Long Awaited Resource for Hair-Pullers
Professionals who study and treat trichotillomania and those who suffer from this often devastating disorder have long awaited a book such as this one. The procedures presented are based on state-of-the-art theories and techniques developed by the authors and their colleagues, nationally known experts who have led the field in creating sound, scientifically based treatment programs for trichotillomania.

A valuable new tool for young trichotillomania sufferers.
At long last, a self-help book for young trichotillomania sufferers - one that is written in plain common-sense language and that allows each user to tailor the program to his or her own needs. The information is highly accessible to children, and is based upon the latest understandings of this serious disorder. As a member of the Science Advisory Board of the Trichotillomania Learning Center (a national organization for sufferers and professionals), I recommend this valuable workbook without hesitation, not only to my younger patients, but to parents and therapists as well.

I recommend this book to anyone suffering from trich
I am a young person recovering from having trich. The information and ideas in this book have made my recovery possible. This book also is very informative for parents or therapists who are trying to help their child or patient through this disorder. The book is easy to follow, fleshing out a simple, step-by-step approach to understand and help one get through trich. I would definitly recommend it to anyone who has, or has a loved one or patient who has trich.

Synchronicity, Science and Soul-Making: Understanding Jungian Synchronicity Through Physics, Buddhism, and Philosophy
Published in Paperback by Open Court Publishing Company (September, 1995)
Author: Victor Mansfield
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Yuk.
I bought this book based upon the excellent reports others gave it. I cannot be so generous. I found the book to be an exercise in the authors intelligence making the book almost unreadable to me. I just wanted to know what this subject was and how it applied to the world. I'm still reading and have not found out.

Jimmy

The best thought-out analysis of synchronicity I've found.
This is perhaps the best thought-out analysis of synchronicity that I've read. The author (a professor of physics and astronomy) interweaves quantum physics, depth psychology, and Buddhism into a most satisfying explanation. All the world about us is a creation of mind- matter is not directly knowable, and space and time are outright creations of our mind. We are cocreators of reality (or at least our higher Self is) which explains how such impossible but meaningful coincidences can occur. He holds that our conventional materialist world view is the cause of our spiritual crisis and bankruptcy in the West- as do I.
This is an extraordinary book- as good or better than the _Tao of Physics_.

Great read!
This was a very well written, easy to understand book about subjects that can prove to be difficult. The author does an excellent job of integrating concepts from Jung's synchronicity, quantum theory, and Middle Way Buddhism. It's a great read for anyone who believes there's more to our universe than meets the eye.

The Garden Party
Published in Digital by Amazon Press ()
Authors: Katherine Mansfield and Lorna Sage
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Garden Party
Mansfield's innovative diction captivates readers and draws one into her own world. A world in which individuals are not bound by the common restraints of society.

please don't miss this - Mansfield is essential
If you've never read her short stories (she never wrote anything else), please do, and then read her journal. There is really something incredible that's underneath the surface of her short stories. If you just looked at the surface you might think they were cutesy or affected (little girls figure largely), but you would be completely missing the point. It's hard to explain what's so moving about them. When she describes some lazy afternoon, she just gets it so right that all the vast range of human experience seems to be contained in this afternoon (whereas in any Great American Novel-esque tomes you read only a fraction of that experience is ever expressed). But at the same time, it was just this cute little vignette that had very satisfying descriptions of flowers and little girls playing. The journal will help you understand her sadness as it's expressed in her work. You know when you are very, very upset, and you see something so beautiful or even funny, you're likely to become on the verge of tears? That's how Mansfield sounds in her stories - the stories are that beautiful thing that she sees.

She is most often compared to Chekhov, and it's not difficult to see why. I truly believe that Mansfield innovated and practically invented the English (language) short story.

The Garden Party and Other Stories
I came across K.M. as she liked to be refered, 60 years after her death. Very late,but better late then never. And especially for K.M. In a german Pension indrigued me first,a review told me, she could have made a lot of money, to publish it again, during the WWI.she declined. She had lost her Brother at the somme, but could not bring herself to more war mongering.
Then I read The Garden Party, and new nearly instandly what kind of person she might have been.
She disliked being priviliged, down the Street, kids her age where starving. The Garden Party gave her an opportunity to disclose Society as what it was. The gap between the Have and Have not.And this in the early 20th century in New Zealand.
And the Garden Party is on of the few stories at the backdrop of New Zealand scenery.
Her Stories make still a highly interesting read, very modern issues with an unbelievable talent for drama, as well as a very dry Sense of humor, like in 'A german Pension'
One or two stories of her are always my companion.

Modern Library : Complete Novels of Jane Austen, Volume I : Sense & Sensibility, Pride & Prejudice, Mansfield Park
Published in Hardcover by Modern Library (September, 1992)
Author: Jane Austen
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Caveat Emptor - DO NOT BUY THIS ITEM BEFORE READING THIS
This review is not for the novels of Jane Austen, rather for the item offered here on amazon.com

Much to my surprise, after I ordered "The Complete Novels of Jane Austen (Modern Library Series)" ISBN 0679600264, only one book arrived. As pictured above, Vol I contains S&S, P&P, and MP.

The other three novels must be in Vol II, you surmise? Wrong! THAT IS ALL YOU GET !

Apparently, "complete" is a relative term, meaning "half of". At best, this listing shows ignorance. At worst, this listing is fraud.

Jane's prose is perfect

Jane Austen is still where she belongs, between book covers. We know the stories are good, but what isn't immediately obvious is the many recent adaptations is what an impeccable writer of English prose she is - no posturing word-dropper, no purveyer of hoary terminology, but a fine, simple, straightforward narrator.

She is brief but telling, using tilt and tone to make us smile. She doesn't bore with tedious flashbacks or podding descriptions of a new character's background. And she tells us what we wanted to know, just when we want to know it. As I am wondering what became of Mr. Bingley, he turns up; as I am trying to remember what the party is doing in Bath, it becomes clear. She's always ahead, dropping just the right number of crumbs.

Jane's world moved slowly, and reading her takes time. Her cncerns are universal - how to fill the hours of the day, the pairing of single young men and women, the effects of money, household matters. Her ethical domain is dominated by consideration - of others' feelings, needs, requirements. The occasional rebellious spirit is not admired, concepts such as fulfillment and freedom never enter her head. As for "needs" beyond basic physical ones - an idea that would have astonished her - she would have substituted "obligations."

But there is something about all this that keeps us going back, and back and back.

Timeless
Jane Austen's novel, Pride and Prejudice is, through written long ago, a timeless tale of truth and human beings. It is a truly comical story, with an uncomical moral as genuine and universal as it was when in the eighteenth century. It's characters shall always remain among the most beloved in literature.

Dark and Bloody Ground: The Battle of Mansfield and the Forgotten Civil War in Louisiana
Published in Hardcover by Taylor Pub (April, 2001)
Author: Thomas Ayres
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NOT WHAT THE TITLE IMPLIES
First: This is one great book. For someone not wanting to spend lots of money and time reading the WBTS in Louisiana, this book is one stop shopping. Second: two problems. Where are the maps! No maps, no battlefield dispositions, nada. The Battle of Sabine Crossroads (a.k.a.Mansfield) is covered in one chapter. I thought this was what the book was to be about. Still waiting for the one great book about this little explored battle. BUT, I loved the book. The author's style is excellent, his anecdotes were wonderful. BUY THIS BOOK.

Mansfield Battlefield is no longer a foot note
Thomas Ayres has opened the eyes of history buffs everywhere who study the Civil War. His directness and full fledged content of all applicable events are superb and challenging. His style draws you to the next page with anticipation to see what happens next. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to read more about the Civil War in Louisiana and ultimately realizing that this battle was not just a footnote in history as so many historians have relegated it to.

I really enjoyed "Dark and Bloody Ground" Great reading!
Thomas Ayres has included all the details
of the Union army's Red River advance and all
the battle details of the Battle of Mansfield
BUT he has accomplished this in a wonderful
storytelling style. You don't feel you're
getting a history lesson, but rather feel like
you're getting a close-up look at the men (and
women)and events that shaped this last Confed-
erate victory. A very well written book!

The Arabs
Published in Unknown Binding by Penguin ()
Author: Peter Mansfield
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Brilliant book
If you're looking for a compact but detailed history and description of the Arab world, it's difficult to imagine a book that can top this one. I picked it off the shelf thinking it would be just another dull chronology - but when I examined its layout, I just had to have it. It consists of three sections: a detailed and highly readable 300-page history of the Arab world; a set of brief chapters on each Arab country; and a final short section on how the Arabs are viewed by both themselves and Westerners.

The ability to pick a single country to read about individually is the aspect of the book that most stands out for me: I was really interested in reading about just five or six Arab countries, and I wasn't about to buy a book on each of them. This book solved the problem brilliantly.

excellent brief but overwhelming book about the arab history
This is an excellent brief history about the arab world. Very good chapters are the chronologies of different arab dynasties and guidelines between the past and present day

A definitive but digestible history
I had the opportunity to meet Peter Mansfield a few times when I worked in London between 1993 and 1994, a softly-spoken and dignified man who had made it his life's work to learn about and understand the Arab World and its relationship with the colonial powers.

Sadly, Mansfield has since passed away, but this book remains as a beautiful epitaph that is as close to a definitive but digestible history of the Arab people as I've read.

Recommended for those who want to understand the big picture before getting into the detail of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.

When God Talks Back: Madness or Mysticism?
Published in Paperback by Centauro Publishing (01 September, 1998)
Author: Tasha E. Mansfield
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Poetic story of a a soul's journey to enlightenmentl
I've read and re-read this lovely book about one soul's experience of the transcendant and it's aftermath. Dr. Mansfield experienced a life transformaton after her experiences and the book offers us a guiding example of the perils and ecstasy on our way to enlightenment.

LOVED IT!
This is a very unique book that needs to be read slowly to digest every word. I found many pearls of wisdom that helped me in my ongoing search for a closer relationship to God. Amazing story!

An Inspirational Message
This book illuminates the soul and inspires the heart. Tasha Mansfield, in a poetic dialogue with the spirit within, recounts her journey of self-discovery with intelligent candor and directness. This is a book for anyone who has experienced states of nonordinary reality and questions the vadility of their experience or for anyone seeking something beyond the mundane world. Dr. Mansfield's exquisitely written book is a must-read for seekers and enlightened thinkers.

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