I found this book to be very helpful in my understanding of acupuncture points. However, I have spoke with some older, veteran chinese acupuncturists who warn that even though some of the information in this book is correct, much of it is not. How are you going to know which is which? I see many students using this book and I fear that modern practitoners are going to lose the accuracy of this body of knowledge. And, furthermore, we run the risk of ending a very important lineage.

A book on evidence-based medicine that lacks bibliographical references in the text. I expected bigger precision. Sincerely, it defrauded me.

Though less formal than a typical textbook, this book practically functions as one. The reading is quick, though the author tends to get carried away on personal tangents. Nevertheless, it provides an impressive overview of cinematic history, from its modest start in the 1890s until the 1990s. One negative aspect is that many films and directors are left out, owing to space constraints, I assume. (the book is over 400 pages!) Still,one great aspect of this book is a list of recommended (historically- and aesthetically-relevant) films at the end of each chapter, sorted by director and year. Also, though America and Hollywood occupy a substantial part of the text, the author makes a concerted effort to give equal historical credence to international movements. A worthy resource for film buffs and students, as well as anyone else interested in the development of cinema.

I Recomend this book for readers uder the age of Fiteen, because it's full of surprises and things teenagers really enjoy to read.You can really try to relate to the characters in the story or even try putting yourself in the same situations the characters face in the story. If your the type that love to read and over fiteen I suggest you take the time to read this book over!This book is based on a fictin hero, girls boy situations and surprising conflicts.

The way the movie tanked at the box office it's no surprise this book isn't more widely read. However, I have a soft spot for the film precisely because of the book. Weiner writes in a style reminiscent of Douglas Adams, fleshing out the story and adding some much needed humor.
Whatever your opinion of the movie give this book a try.

I've been hesistating for this book for couple of weeks. Since what I really needed is a sectional anatomy book for helping to learn CT and MRI reading, it is really important to have a book have both good anatomy structure illustation and CT and MRI sample. This book features as best quality of section antomy photos but not the CT and MRI. Those CT and MRI pictures are to small to tell midsize organ and almost none of small structure, which is also critical in a lot of cases. As to the sectional anatomy photos, it turn our to be not that important to buy a book for becaus there is couple of website have the smae quality resource you can use webbased java applet to research every section of human body. So with a good CT and MRI book and several good websites, you can achieve much more than this book can do in your learning of sectional anatomy. But I'd like to still give three stars to this niced decorated and pocket size book for a not bad price.

I am in Dr. Ellis's Theater class and enjoyed reading most of the plays in the book. For those of you interested in this book not as required reading will find wonderful plays ranging from stories about a seal playing the "fairy god-mothers" in "Salmonberry" to a play about western racism in "Race". An excellent book for theater majors.

If only if you are an investor, and enjoy such books. This is the place to get it and read about this excellent book to help with Monetary Economic Thought.

The German word "Erdball" means "world". It takes a weird translator to want to render it into English as "Earthball". H Ashton Ellis is that translator, a man who, in learning German, forgot all his English. Ellis translates German compound words not with plain English but with strange Germanic formulations, eg "leg-dancers", or "tone-arranger" for a German word that simply means "composer". So while it's good to have these Wagner texts available in English, it's a shame that the re-appearance of these awful translations in a modern edition will publishers from commissioning a new, competent, plain-English translation discourage. Ellis also makes Wagner's "Das Judentum in Musik" harder to evaluate by introducing antisemitic overtones (perhaps of his own) where the Wagner text doesn't justify it. For example, the Ellis text describes Mendelsohn as "a Jew composer", which has a hostile, sneering, sound to it. But Wagner's text has "Judaische"; the correct translation is the merely descriptive "a Jewish composer". There are other, similar examples.

As for Wagner, "Das Judentum in Musik"'s argument is that because [in mod-19th Century Europe] Jews are partly involved in the cultures amongst which they live, and are partly separate and aloof from them, their music and poetry don't have the warmth, depth and humanity that come from having strong folk roots; Jewish art, while Jews remain apart and not assimilated into the mainstream "folk", is likely to be imitative, clever, ironical, and so on, but not deep or passionate.

The essay brings no comfort to Wagner-lovers, but not quite as much comfort to Wagner-haters as is sometimes claimed. Some people, by no means antisemitic, eg Patrick Magee, defend Wagner's analysis (stripped of its few paragraphs of merely racist writing). The essay makes an argument about the need for art to have folk roots if it is to be great. Me, I'd say its too easy to find counter-examples, for Wagner's analysis to stand. Personally, if I were to defend any part of the essay it would be Wagner's valuing of sincere emotional expression in art over irony. We're starting to hear the phrase "post-irony", but it's not yet a reality. I'd welcome a trend back to having the courage to express emotion, in life as well as art, without always hiding behind quote marks. One of Wagner's merits is as supreme non-ironist.

But, point out the detractors, rightly, there's a strong thread of antisemitism in amongst Wagner's discussion of culture and of art in this essay. There is a tone of "balance" in most of Wagner's paragraphs, an assumption of the mask of mere intellectual curiosity over the odd position of Jewish musicians and poets in the mid-19th Century. But in some paragraphs animosity shows through undisguised.

On the other hand, the essay is not the same thing as the political antisemitism that had its horrifying culmination under the Nazis. Wagner's subject was the arts. And his proposed "remedy" was for Jews to assimilate into the mainstream population and lose their separate identity. That's a despicably racist idea (why should they, if they don't want to?), but it's diametrically the opposite of what the Nazis called for - racial segregation followed by mass murder. Reading it, you'll find that the essay contains specific offensive passages, and is permeated by ideas we now find offensive, but that it is not simply a screed of racial or religious bigotry; mostly the text argues about art and music. In sum, anyone who loves Wagner's music will wish he'd never written or published "Das Judentum in Musik". It disfigures the man's posthumous reputation. But nor is it quite the screed of racial vilification it is sometimes made out to be. Wagner was a bigot and a crank, but not a monster. The book gets three stars, because though it is an appalling translation of a bad essay, it does at least make this infamous essay available for people to judge it for themnselves.

Laon

This book can help you in asking simple question in variety of daily conversations. But it is a bookf or studying the language deeply, because it does not cover grammar. I did like the book becaus of the structure, each chapter takes place in a different place such as: Camping, buying clothes etc. And, every chapter includes many question.That way you can get by easily and ask for almost any important item in the grocery store. But As I said before, and after comparing this item to others it is not a fully course in thr Russian language.