Signs of Arrival is a luminous book, with poems about fatherhood, travel and nature that are precisely stated. The poems glitter, unpretensiously, but I thought Harrison's more nature-focused The Singing Underneath was better. Signs of Arrival is a more narrative/anecdotal book, and Harrison, it seems to me, excells at the short lyric. There is plenty of that here. Signs is still one of the best books of poetry published in the last five years, but The Singing Underneath is a classic and should be reprinted. It is one of those kinds of books I only knew I'd been looking for once I found it.

Speaking from the perspective of someone who was one of Mr. Harrison's students at Andover, I have spent a good deal of time reading his work, and have critiqued it frequently. His books, and this book in particular, are incredible, both in their imagery and their personal connection to the reader. I laud both his work as a poet, and I think that through his poetry you get to see what a genuinely incredible individual he is. It is not very often that you read poetry and feel afterward that you like not only like the poetry but the POET. This happens with Mr. Harrison's books.

This book, Harrison's second, is a luminous and interesting. In his subject matter he identifies greater movements in the world. A teacher at Andover, Harrison was one of James Merrill's favorite poets.

Caution: A few of the female images in this book exhibit "see-through" tops. If such things offend you, either avoid those pages, or this book.

In the foreword by Mr. Harrison Ford, Mr. Ford describes what he likes about Mr. White photography and why the two have been working together for 20 years. When Mr. Ford was first a contract player, the studio had his haircut like Elvis and then took a publicity shot to match. Even Mr. Ford didn't find the person portrayed to be appealing. Since then, Mr. Ford has sometimes been able to get approval over motion picture publicity stills. With this permission, Mr. Ford has called on Mr. White. "The work he does supports my ambitions . . . ."

That characterization is an important one for viewers and readers of this book. Many of the images are stunning portrayals of mood, personality, and identity. This is especially true where the person portrayed has a strong personality (Robert Mitchum), engaging eyes (Christie Brinkley), or fine acting ability (Sophia Loren). On the other hand, some of the images show the quirky, humble side. Those photographs work well with dead pan expressions (like Julia Roberts among discarded tires in an alley).

Among the subjects whose images strongly appealed to me were the ones mentioned above and those of John Sayles, Mel Gibson, Paul Newman, Eddie Griffin, Liza Minelli, Sylvester Stallone, Costas Mandylor, Queen Latifah, Drew Barrymore (Hollywood, March 1995), David Keith, Kiefer Sutherland, and the version of Nicolas Cage on the dust cover.

On the other hand, some of the backdrops and poses just didn't work for me. These images were like the flattering poses of wealthy people during the Renaissance, making everyone seem like they are larger-than-life. You can adjust the image in a painting to get that effect. In a photograph, the person's pose, expression, and intensity have to fit the backdrop. In a number of cases, the subject just didn't have enough of the right stuff to match. As a result, the people look slightly limp or out-of-place against the intense or heroic setting. This suggests that too much collaboration can possibly be harmful to ambitions as well, by causing weaknesses to become more obvious.

The book's paper quality, size of pages, and reproduction quality are all quite good. The photography is mostly in color, but the duotone effects are often the best. Most photographers are better in one or the other, and Mr. White's strength is duotone.

What do you want people to see when they look at or think of you? How does that expand your life? How does it constrict your alternatives?

Open yourself to others . . . in order to come closer to them.

Soulful locations, riviting compositions...Photography as a fine art meets the celebrity portrait. Timothy White is a master. The suprising candor that is captured in his subjects all share an honesty and intimacy that is so rare in the entertainment industry. This work inspires the amateur as well as the professional photographer.

The beauty and depth of this photography book transcends its celebrity subject matter. Timothy White has managed to capture a true moment with his subjects while at the same time making it about so much more than a photograph of a famous person. The richness and quality of this book has a place in my photography/art book collection as one of my favorites.

This book helped me get a good start in my Accounting college courses. It lays out the fundamental principles of Accounting simply and clearly. Its emphasis on the process leading to, creation of, and analysis of financial statements, would be very helpful to anyone who may need to understand just what a company's financial statements really mean

This is an easy book to follow. Lots of exercises for practice and the answers are in the text so you can check and see if you got it or if you need to study more.

Check out the companion website. A place to find out more about the book, read a sample chapter, and keep up-to-date on a rapidly moving field.

The book is focussed on commercial business applications for software agents - not so much technical research. Ideal for CTO's and CEO's considering agent learning functions in their corporate Intranets or applications.

This is a great book! It is a super introduction to agent technology. There is so much hype about agents around -- this book provides a coherent taxonomy of agent technologies and really explains what agents can and cannot do.

Other books I've read on agent technology are either too technical and full of mumbo-jumbo, or are marketingese and filled with content copied straight from company web sites. This book is a great mixture of technology and business that allows you to see the impact agents will make in business.

These guys have really put a lot of thought into this book!

I love this book. We see a snake in the woods, and take note of as many characteristics as we can, then look it up later to learn more about it. Same with frogs, toads, lizards, skinks! The actual information provided for each reptile is slim but very interesting. This is a great book to have if you spend any time in the wild in Virginia.

I've had and used this book since it came out in 1980. I always recommend it to all of the classes and seminars I give on reptiles and amphibians and to all of the people who ask for a good field guide because, for the size and cost, there are none better for this part of the country. Well worth the money if a handy, accurate, well-done field guide with great photos and range maps is what you want.

Birds are beautiful and the world of birds is fascinating. It's only fitting then that this is an Eyewitness Book, because that series of books is well known for beautiful illustrations and fascinating, innovative and educational presentations on the various topics that they publish. This book uses annotated photographs rather than drawings and it's size (like an oversized novel) allows between two to three birds per page, making the photos large enough for easy identification. The descriptions that accompany each bird speak to behavior, habitat, what it's nest looks like and sometimes a general remark on some unusual or an interesting trait. The geographic distribution of the bird is also shown by way of a small map. A reviewer below is right. The use of an illustration showing the size of the bird in relation to the book is brilliant! I can't think of a better way of getting a feel for the size of something you've never seen, than comparing it with something that you are holding in your hand.

The only quibble with the book is the method of organising the birds. The book is divided into Passerines and Non Passerines which doesn't mean much and doesn't help either, since both of those groups include a wide variety of bird types. Picture this: a bird catches your eye, "Hey that's an owl, I wonder what kind?" You can spend a bit of time going through the 3 step identification key before you find the owls. To be fair though, that really only means that this is not a field guide. It can't be, it's 'Birds of The World' afterall. Enjoy it for what it is - A beautifully illustrated, educational, introduction to the wonderful world of birds.

This book by the successful Eyewitness Books makes identifying birds on the backyard fence, those birds sitting on the wire over your recently-washed car, birds in the woods and jungles easy to identify. The highly graphical lay-out and the simply written text welcomes the reader to the world of the feathered flyers that live in every climate on earth. Even though this volume is not as comprehensive and inclusive as the books by the Audubon Society or the Peterson guides, it contains outstanding pictures of more than 800 species. The entire range of bird families is presented in an easy-to-read format with fabulous closeup pictures of each bird. Just enough information is presented. An especially cunning feature shows an outline of each bird next to an outline of the book to convey a sense of size. Sections in the front of the book introduce the reader to the anatomy of birds, techniques for watching birds in the garden or woods, identifying flight patterns, and much more. If you are a causal bird-watcher of any age or merely like to look at birds from your cozy arm chair in from of the fire, you must have this book in your personal library.

Cost being a factor in determining books to be purchased by students, I strongly recommend this translation by Leonard Bacon (1914). The lines are mainly in iambic heptameter (seven beats per line) with a clear caesura, which facilitates a student's oral reading of the poem. Though the original French used assonance more than end rhyme, Bacon does rhyme his English lines. Compared to the iambic pentameter of the Dorothy L. Sayers translation, Bacon's is a little faster paced, but one senses the hoofbeats of the horses with two more beats per line, which isn't altogether bad for an epic poem about a military massacre. Though a good choice in terms of price, Bacon's translation lacks glosses of archaisms (e.g., the word "eme" is not explained as an archaism of "uncle"). Still, the teacher can supply these as necessary. For [the money], you can't go wrong!

well worth the time. Sure, it gets a little repitious, but you really get a feel of how important knighthood and chivalry were to these people so lang ago.

Not a must-read, but definitely worth the time for leisurely reading, especially if you enjoy history or just heroic epics.

I have had a chance rather vividly to contrast this version with the Glyn Burgess translation, and Harrison is not only more readable, it's better poetry. I use the book in a class of eighth grade boys in New York (who love it), and by mistake a bought a slug of the Burgess translation. Then I had some boys with Harrison, some with Burgess, and the howls from the Burgessites were considerable. Harrison is just a better, livlier, even funnier translation.

Harrison preceded the "Back to the Future" series by a number of years, and achieves much better and funnier results in one book than the three movies. And he pulls this off without any time paradoxes that are the staple of most time travel books.

The story proceeds at a madcap pace and all the Hollywood stereotypes are more than adequately captured.

Harrison's classic about a movie producer who is out of money and out of time and solves his problems with a time machine. Book solves the mystery of the Viking encampment found on the North American continent (Vineland). Immortal punchline from book: "You can find anything in Hollywood"

Well written with from an intriguing idea!

A few of the stories really got me hot, the one with the firemen being the most erotic thing I have read in a while. The rest of the book is kinda generic one handed reading. Not too bad but not great either...

This collection of erotically charged short stories will satisfy just about any reader of gay erotica. The situations are fun, the action ABUNDANT (just like the orgasms throughtout the book), and most assuredly is a book which will be a "one-hander". ENJOY!

Awesome stories that are as interesting as they are hot. And I mean hot. This book should come with its own towel.

This book offers a fine introduction to the study of vocabulary through the root approach that emphasizes building word "trees" out of the "trunks" of Latin and Greek roots, suffixes and prefixes. I am using it in a high school summer school vocabulary class and I find it effective, but unevenly organized. There are some effective graphic devices that need to be carried through consistently, but are not. For individual study, the book is useful because it includes exercises, with an answer key in the back. It's small size is a bit annoying, but the price is right.

I am an English-learning student taking GRE test next month. After reading this book, I apprehend many words which I can't understand. It's terrific. For me, this is a wonderful book. I like the author's style of writing in this book. However, the words in this book are not enough. Who could tell me where to find the similar books? Does the author GWEN HARRISON has other vocabulary books? Thank You very much!

When I learn English in Taiwan.I hardly know why words spell like that from school teacher. This book that makes me explore English vocabulary world.