It's actually hilarious when you consider Bacall's memoirs (By Myself) and Bogie's lectures to Bacall on the subject of marital fidelity and how much he hated phonies, to realize that he was having a fifteen year affair with his hairdresser, simultaneous with two of his marriages. But he was a high-functioning alcoholic and he actually had his life beautifully arranged; the girlfriend tended to him on the set and on publicity tours and the wife at home.
The book is quite readable and enjoyable, if slight, and these are two people whose company you'd enjoy if you like to go out and drink a lot which apparently they spent a lot of time doing. I'm sure Thompson had no notion how revealing this book would be about their characters. They're both quite amusing, quick with the wisecracks and were obviously good friends as well as lovers. She was apparently his primary enabler, but didn't go over the edge herself. Since both of them were justly proud of their professional accomplishments, they managed to maintain the discipline they needed for professional purposes.
Thompson also has a few entertaining stories to tell about him and their adventures together. The book is slight, but you do get a picture of the Hollywood they inhabited and some more insight into Bogie's character, a man who enjoyed putting people on and practical jokes and was a world class chess player also. You can't help liking them and admiring what they accomplished in their lives, although neither is someone you'd put on a pedestal.
I just can't stop shaking my head over the "phonies" thing. If you read it, you'll see. Bogie had some act going. Well, he was a truly great actor. It shows.

I thought the book was very good and brought back old Hollywood, how interesting that Bogie and Baby were not what they seemed. It seems that Bogie was quite a drinker and player but nevertheless a fine actor. The book seemed very believable to me.
I am suprised that this book was never made into a movie it would be a great one.

I got this book from the library shelf along with several others on the same topic. This was the best by far. As you would expect from the title, this survey explains (but is not limited to) the details of the nervous system mechanism - from neurotransmitters to a basic explanation of voltage and other electrical properties. This technical material does not weigh down the book though, because the author skillfully relates the mechanism to its manifestations in behavior and illness.

The book contains information on the cerebellum and emotional centers which is conspicuously absent from many cerebral cortex-centric texts. I had hoped for more on these topics - but brain research has been biased toward the cerebral cortex for the last 100 years so any book on the topic will reflect that.

Here you will find the references to those amazing facts you've heard on the radio but can't remember when. An example: patients who have had the "gut nerve" (the nerve providing sensation from the abdomen) severed were found to be unable to make rational decisions. So we find out that our "gut feeling" about issues are not irrational but perhaps a key part of rationality! Every time I sat down with this book, I learned at least one interesting thing about the nervous system to share with my friends and associates. This book will provide you with ammo for cocktail parties!

I looked it up here in the hope there would be a 3rd edition since the field is changing so fast. I hope the author and publisher have it on their agenda!

Author Thompson calls this book a neuroscience primer. Well, it does assume that you know nothing about the nervous system, but it certainly goes beyond what most people consider a primer to be. Actually this is a wonderful book for the interested, intelligent layman who wants to learn more than a superficial introduction to the subject. It's a thick book of 500 pages, and you will want to take your time with it. You'll be reading and rereading many passages in order to fully comprehend what you've read. Skim through it and you'll finish with very little of it stuck in your long-term memory.

Doctor Thompson, a Neuropsychologist, is a patient teacher. For the most part he proceeds slowly, never leaping over one step in order to get to the next. The first 200 pages are on the structure and physiology of nerves. Extensive coverage is given to the function of neurotransmitters, and to what happens when they go wrong.

The rest of the book is about the brain itself, and includes a discussion of sensory and motor control systems; the life cycle of the brain; learning and memory; and an introduction to cognitive neuroscience. Each chapter provides an end summary of the material covered.

In the latter half of the book I did feel confused at times. The brain has so many parts and areas of specialization that I had some difficulty keeping things straight. If you are fascinated by the brain, and are willing to read an extensive yet accessible treatise on the subject this may be the book for you.

It's one of the ironies of modern Christianity that the churches claiming to make the most of the Bible in their theology make the least of the Bible in their worship. Evangelicals, for all their insistence on the authority, infallibility, and God-givenness of the Bible, have the least biblical worship in Christendom. It is unbiblical not in the sense that it breaks this rule or that, but in the sense that the Bible itself plays little or no role in the language and content of worship.

If you visit a "Bible church," for example, you may find that the Bible is a closed book, liturgically speaking. It isn't sung. It isn't prayed. It is a springboard for the sermon, and no more. But if you step into, say, an Anglican or Orthodox church, you find a way of worship much more explicitly biblical. The people hear two or three readings from both the Old and the New Testaments. They sing the Psalms and the Lord's Prayer, and the service includes hymns shot through with scriptural language.

The point of the comparison isn't to vilify one church and idealize another. Every tradition has its liabilities. But it does raise a question: What are evangelicals missing that many other Christians aren't? The answer: The other Christians have not forgotten that the Psalms are the church's first and greatest hymnbook.

The Psalms have always occupied a central place in private devotion, of course. Jerome, the great fourth-century translator and scholar, reports hearing them sung by people in the fields and in their gardens. But the Psalms were also central to public worship. Psalm-singing churches are following a tradition rooted in the Bible itself. Jesus prayed the Psalms. They were twice on his lips when he was dying. He even said, after his resurrection, that the Psalms really speak of his own suffering and glory. What greater incentive does the Christian need to pray and sing them?

"By Flowing Waters" is a collection of biblical songs -- mostly Psalms -- set to some of the most durable and attractive music that the church has produced. The melodies are basically what we're used to calling "Gregorian" or "plainsong" -- unison and unaccompanied. (It's astonishing that churches haven't capitalized on the success of all those popular Gregorian chant CDs. Why don't we get to sing the best examples of plainsong in church? The appetite for such music is clearly there.)

Paul F. Ford's settings are intended for antiphonal or responsorial singing. That is, a cantor or choir chants the Psalm, and the congregation sings a brief response (usually a sentence from the Psalm) after every verse or two. But there's nothing to keep a church from learning to sing the whole Psalm.

Not all of the Psalms are here, and many that are have been truncated. The translations, from the New Revised Standard Version, will not suit every ear. But one great virtue of this humble music is that it can be adapted to any translation. It could be adapted to the phone book, for that matter. So even if you don't like the New Revised Standard Version, you could use Ford's settings as guide for your own arrangements with another translation. His introductory essay explains how the chants are structured and makes helpful suggestions about singing them.

The author and publisher are Catholic, but musicians from other traditions who want to add sung prayer to their churches' worship will find plenty to draw on. Ford invites them to use what they wish. And for anyone who reads music, "By Flowing Waters" wouldn't be bad for private use either.

The General Instructions for the Roman Missal indicates that for Opening, Offertory, and Communion the preference should be 1) The Antiphon from the Roman Gradual 2) The Antiphon from the Simple Gradual 3) Another psalm 4) Some other song consistent with the above.

Until now, unless one was singing Latin, options 1 and 2 were eliminated, and option 3 was ignored, and option 4 all too often took the form of some banal hymn.

"By Flowing Waters" is an english edition of the Simple Gradual (which was prepared under a mandate from the Second Vatican Council), opening the door to the use of sung Scripture in worship.

Le meilleur dictionnaire Français/Anglais que je possède. Il m'a bien aidé tout au long de mes études.

This French-English dictionary is a must have. Great translations for everyone in a French class anywhere. Au Revoir!

This is the standard text and facsimile on the Dresden. Thompson was one of the greatest experts on the Maya and for the time, did an excellent job. However as we can now read the glyphs with greater reliability, some of the interpretations are out of date. This should be part of any serious student of Maya Codices, but reference should be made to other more up-to-date titles. Although this is out of print, The Fondo de Cultura Economica (FCE) is due to re-publish soon an updated version with a new commentary.

This commentary is required reading for any student of the Maya codices. It was the best available resource at the time of publication. Even the ideas that are out of fashion by present thinking are worth considering. The facsimile is a full-color reproduction, based off the Förstemann edition, but re-colored by Thompson.

This book shows the Rottweiler for what it is, a lovable, loyal companion, with such an outgoing courageous temperament. However as the book rightly explains the dog is a lethal weapon in the wrong hands, the book helps novices decide whether they should consider something more sedate than this proud breed. All in all an excellent book for a novice tempted to purchase this powerful, strongwilled breed.

Excellent book. I expected an "Idiots Guide" to be too elementary but it is a great book for everyone interested in the breed!

Enjoyed the book. Instructions clear and concise, and many projects of interest. Worth buying, though far from being a sole source.

Compound Scroll Saw Creations: Ready-To-Cut Patterns And Techniques For Clocks, Candlesticks And More! by Diana Thompson is a easy to follow, step-by-step, "user friendly" instructional guide offering 46 decorative projects for avid weekend woodworkers. Color photographs, easy-to-follow techniques, and ready-to-cut patterns wonderfully enhance the practical and superbly organized "how-to" information for constructing simple stands, sculptures, candlesticks, and clocks. An excellent source for creative hobbyists, Compound Scroll Saw Creations is a recommended addition to any woodworker's reference collection.

A highly imaginative novel, which initially draws the reader into it's reality, and then reveals the larger picture. It is told from the perspective of 2 main characters, and moves gracefully between their worlds, and world knowledge. Good, solid, sf with a moral imperative.

This book moved me greatly; a story of society's deformed children in their innocent world and the clash when two of them realize there is more "out there." If you have the opportunity to read this book, don't miss it!

Siouxsie, Bauhaus, the ((Southern) Death) Cult, the Cure, the Sisters of Mercy, Specimen... this book is refreshingly free from the 1990s industrial and metal bands dressed in black that somehow got mislabeled goth. And it's also refreshingly free from all the third rate, third wave bands that managed to synthesize the diverse sounds of Siouxsie, the Sisters, et al. into a recognizable genre without writing a single memorable song. Instead, you'll find a solid history of the development of goth (a pigeonhole none of its key bands really fit into anyway) through the punk era and beyond.

I was surprised by a couple of omissions. I expected some kind of reference to the classic NME cover story on the "new positive punk" that brought the likes of the Southern Death Cult to my attention and the attention of many others. This early attempt at characterizing the genre merits some discussion, especially as the term "positive punk" is mentioned once or twice in passing.

Siouxsie and the Banshees got rather short shrift. They're often mentioned and quoted, but I'd like to have seen them get the same degree of attention as Bauhaus, the Sisters, the Cure, and the Cult. If there's a single album that formed my idea of what gothic rock was, before I'd ever heard that term used, it was Juju.

I also expected a bit more on the US death rock scene. It may be harder to find the good stuff amid the abundant dross of American death and goth rock, but that hardly means it doesn't exist.

A couple of suggestions for any future editions: an index and a list of recommended listening.

I've read just about every book out there dealing with the Goth scene and just about every one of them covers everything that could possibly fit under that name and then some. This one sticks to just the music and in many ways is much better that all the others. After all isn't it the music that's the primary reason we love Goth after all? Mick Mercer is the only person that's has gotten it right until this book by Dave Thompson.

It was like reading about everything that I experienced growing up and discovering it all over again.

These days what most kids call Goth has absolutely and utterly nothing whatsoever to do with anything Goth was the 1st 20 years it was around. How many times must I read about Korn being a Goth band? I mean give me a break! Whining, depressed, wanna-be-vampire teen suburban idiots dressed up in all black listening to Marilyn Manson and Korn calling themselves Goth has utterly destroyed the scene forever. I will have nothing to do with any of these dumb kids. I never in my entire 20+ year Goth 'career' ever met a whining depressed Goth ever, until 5 years ago. They should all be forced to read this book and listen to every album that's referred to in it.

Goth is a scene that must look to its history for its present or future to have any meaning or hope. If you consider yourself a Goth I highly recommend you read this book. You'll love it. If you don't love it, go back to hanging out at the mall, because I can't imagine you really are a Goth in the 1st place.