I purchased the Study Guide from a local bookstore the other day. It is very informative for the modern high school student, as I am. Although it is very detailed, I imagine the reader should read the poem for themselves, and interpret it to their views and use the guide as a reference guide. Somoene who loves poetry, I highly reccomend Paradise Lost as long as Paradise Regained. Both beautifully done, as I said in a previous review, "Milton is an absolute genius"

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According to Fish, "Paradise Lost" operates according to a mechanism of rhetorical indirection that works on all rhetorical levels, from depiction of character to deployment of tropes. Milton wants to show us how our fallen state corrupts and distorts our responses to poetry and instruction; the poem is constructed as a series of interlocking traps for the reader, who is lured into reacting in tempting but "wrong" ways to tropes ("with serpent error wandering") and characters (the apparently admirable Satan and his cohorts, the apparently tyrannical and odious God). The chapter on the poetics of prelapsarian Eden ("In Wandering Mazes Lost," I think it's called) is a masterpiece. Fish backs this all up with plenty of solid research into the theological doctrines Milton was known to endorse or was likely to have been familiar with.

This approach to Milton was regarded as radical when the book first came out, rather oddly, since Milton's tactics of indirection had already been noted by several critics, though not foregrounded as here. What's new is the thoroughness and clarity of the treatment, and Fish's sheer intelligence as a reader. This is criticism at its best: lucid, engaging, responsible, illuminating.

Volume 2 of the respected Terry & The Pirates colored Sunday comics is a revelation to those familiar only with the daily stirps. I did not know that in the first months the Sunday page was running alongside the black & white dailies and relating matter only peripheraly related. Volume 2 reveals when the two media connected. The problem is that it whets the appetite for the rarer still volumes 3, 4, and all those to follow. Where are they to be found, if at all?

This is an excellent book for learning about Thomas Jefferson. It is unbiased and covers many aspects of his life (not just his major achievements). It talks about his life at different ages, his impact on history, how his actions sometimes contradicted his words, etc. If you read this you will learn a lot about Jefferson , American History, and at the same time what life was like at this time period.

This is a charming and informative memory piece about a young boy growing up in Montana nearly 100 years ago. We meet family, friends, neighbors, Indians and colorful characters of all description. It's well written, fun and funny. Although they didn't think of themselves as pioneers, they really were, building a log house at the edge of the Rockies and ranching through the rigors of Montana's seasons. It's all true and the author had perfect recall. This book could span all age ranges from 10 to 100. We recommend it highly for Americana buffs.

The book explored time distortion phenomenon and provides lot of examples - some are interesting purely from investigative perspective as in being able to count in few minutes of hypnosis the number of cotton balls it would take to count in several hours of real time; others are very practical and useful as in accelerating learning or developing a skill - imagine in few hours of hypnosis you can develop an expertise it would take you years to develop in real time.
Even many new techniques from the field of Neuro-Linguistic Programming such as Time-Lines provide very effective method for further exploring and enhancing effects of time distortion, this book is not only a classic, but also provides a great background in terms of research.

In 99.9% of all books written by whitemen about American Indians it is hard to find even a grain of truth or fact. This book is the exception that proves the rule!

While nothing is glossed over, the author does not attempt to sway the reader with sensationalism. He tells about his experiences and gives the good with the bad. He exhibits an almost unheard of ability to set aside any preconceived notions and actually see clearly both sides of the conflict AND views the American Indian as a human being, not some sort of subspecies.

An exceptional view of reality that should be required reading in all American history classes from junior high/middle school through the college level.

Milton Rokeach is probably one of the most respected and quoted authorities in the area of value studies. This text follows his privotal book, "The Nature of Human Values." In this text, Rokeach attempts to "go beyond the conceptualization and measurement of individual values to the conceptualization and measurement of supraindividual values...." His is one of the first works to apply solid (rather than rhetorical) logic to issues of values in organizations. This book covers many important areas including change and stability of American Values, discusses issues such as "Can Values be Manipulated?" and spends three chapters on Value Education. Rokeach is the editor for this text, and also a contributor for half-a-dozen of the articles in the book.

In this crisply written mix of history and clear theory, Mueller retells the history of early competition in telephony -- and of the role of regulation in making the AT&T monopoly. The book brings to life a completely forgotten period, where telephones were like computer operating systems today -- competing yet incompatible. Not every phone could be called from every phone, and this fact, Mueller convincingly argues, pushed competition in telephone penetration.

The book also is convincing in its account of the reconstruction of the meaning of the word "universal service" which was brought about, Mueller argues, by AT&T revisionism in the 1970s. The original meaning was simply that any phone would be able to call any phone; the modern meaning (that some service subsidizes other service) was a construction of a late monopoly trying to defend itself.

The book suggests wonderful (if under developed) parallels with the story of competition in modern operating systems. And it offers some important skepticism about the 1996 Telecommunications Act.