If you thought you knew all there was to know about Charles Darwin and his evolutionary hypothesis, but you haven't read this book, then think again. Eiseley's research is impeccable, but his findings strike to the very heart of the Darwin legend, revealing a deeply flawed and basically dishonest seeker after self-aggrandisement. No wonder it's out of print! Despite his findings Eiseley remained a Darwinist and an evolutionist to his dying day. This book is no slice of creationist propoganda, it is a carefully written, highly readable review of the facts. If you have any interest in the history of evolutionism - pro or con - this book should be very near the top of your reading list.

Every engraving Daumier has ever done, what is not to like? It's amazing how much I saw which tied into history, costume design and the beginnings of the political cartoonist. Daumier's style of caricature is my favorite thing about him. These characters are in some ways more real than if they were rendered in the realistic style.

Napoleonic enthusiasts are very fortunate that George Nafziger and Marco Gioannini have presented this little-known subject matter so thoroughly. The book is superbly researched. And the material, along with the maps and extensively detailed appendices, combine for not only an able presentation which forms an understandable and enjoyable reading experience, but also a valuable reference book as well.

Anyone interested in the Napoleonic wars needs this book in their library. Do not flinch at the price; specialty books such as this one, with the wealth of information contained therein, are rare. As such, it is a bargain at twice the price.

Scott Bowden (...)

We are lucky that so much of DELACROIX's art is still around, lightly spread throughout the world: the only lost works are "Cardinal Richelieu saying mass" during the sack of the Palais Royal in 1848, the decoration of the Salon de la Paix at the Paris Hotel de Ville during the Commune, and "Justinian drafting his laws" during the fire at the Conseil d'Etat in the Palais d'Orsay in 1871. Taken in by anything new that the paint suppliers were selling, DELACROIX made bad choices in canvas and paints: the Romantic "Battle of Nancy," the Classical "Boissy d'Anglas at the National Convention," and the exotic "Moroccan chieftain receiving tribute" suffered from using bitumen, just as "Barque of Dante" has from going over fresh spots. Yet he thought of painting as storytelling with the richly vigorous colors of Peter Paul Rubens and of Paolo Veronese's "St Barnabas healing the sick." He was the only great Western artist to leave masses of manuscripts, as journals, letters and published articles, so we can walk our way through his sketches and writings to the finished products of the master colorist of people, landscapes, buildings, and animals: "Louis-Auguste Schwiter" standing, as his only full-length portrait, inspired by Thomas Gainsborough and Joshua Reynolds; "Charles de Verninac," in two Thomas Lawrence-style expressive bust portraits, with a carefully worked face, large brushstrokes, sketchy background clothes, and subtly agreeing colors; and his last, "Alfred Bruyas," with a Hamlet-like head melancholic, meditative and languid in a harmony of greens, browns and blacks. He was also a master landscapist of few painted landscapes, such as "Banks of the river Sebou," his only salon-shown landscape; "Sea at Dieppe," Impressionist in subject and technique; and "Still life with lobsters," with John Constable-type smooth varnish obviously brushstroked and with a David Wilkie-type lobster right out of "Chelsea prisoners reading the gazette of the battle of Waterloo." But most of his landscapes backgrounded his historytellings, such as "Natchez" and "Ovid among the Scythians": his history style of adding expressiveness and framing scenes was Richard Parkes Bonington-like in being more entertaining and picturesque than heroic, such as in "Henri III at the deathbed of his favorite mistress, Marie de Cleves" and with "Henri IV courting Gabrielle d'Estrees" and in seeming neartransparent watercolor-like by varnish made with copal, such as in the richly colored "Charles VI and Odette de Champdivers" and "Louis d'Orleans showing his mistress Odette de Champdivers." His building decorations harmonized balanced colors with finely drafted figures while getting architecture, light and paint to work together: at the Palais du Luxembourg's cupola harmonious light and vigorous colors dealt with the architecture by background landscape in blues and greens, central sky cloud-filled, and figures fleshtoned against bright reds, blues, greens, ochers, oranges, and whites; and at the Salon du Roi half-domes lighted figures clustered on the bottom as well as the landscapes and skies topwards in intense blues and greens. My sculptress mother used to say, and my artist sister keeps on saying, that artists see the world first in blacks and whites, with perfect examples in the DELACROIX tigers, lions, and horses changed into blacks, grays, and whites particularly showing color mastery. In fact, the author describes these animals as Romanticized in character and power by the very play of color and matter: Theodore Gericault- and Antoine-Jean Gros-influenced "Wild horse," as my special favorite; "Tam O'Shanter" rapidly brushstroked into a horizontally elongated horse, rider and witch in the "Derby at Epsom" style of Gericault; and "Royal tiger" and "Lion of the Atlas," as his two most successful lithographs, along with the dramatically white counterpointed "Macbeth and the witches" lithograph haloing the former and turning the latter into "phantoms of obscurity." So Barthelemy Jobert's is the book to read, in this beautifully clear, masterful English translation: he owns up to only talking about fitting DELACROIX into what went before, and I wish that he would write a sequel fitting the artist into what came after. Any readers looking for comparison reading might find helpful and interesting DELACROIX: THE LATE WORK, Loys Delteil's EUGENE DELACROIX, EUGENE DELACROIX: SELECTED LETTERS, 1813-1863, Michele Hannoosh's PAINTING AND THE JOURNAL OF EUGENE DELACROIX, Lee Johnson's DELACROIX PASTELS, and Editor Beth Segal Wright's THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO DELACROIX.

anti-oedipus is one bear of a book. i have wrestled with it numerous times, only to repeatedly concede defeat somewhere around page one fifty. it was about then that i would realize i was in over my head, my knowledge of lacan and klein (and even freud to some extent) too narrow to be able to grasp its deeper significance. for one must have a sound knowledge of psychoanalysis to understand why the oedipus is something that merits a good fight. nevertheless, this book continued to fascinate, with its staggering range of knowledge and peculiar prose style calling me back time and again over the past few years. i could not leave a bookstore without passing a few moments away in the philosophy section, in hopes of finding something to assist in my study. i made an attempt with brian massumi's "a user's guide," but was left a little disappointed, finding it to be almost as difficult as anti-oedipus itself. thankfully, eugene holland's "an introduction" has proved a perfect fit. he has performed a great service to readers such as myself (i know that you're out there, somewhere) by walking one through step by step, with brief interludes explicating those thinkers who influenced the writing of anti-oedipus (such as spinoza and bataille), and illustrating each of it key concepts in relation to the revolutionary praxis it demands. he is the consumate teacher here, demanding but patient. for these are difficult ideas for the uninitiated, but with persistance this book should open up the thinking of deleuze and guatarri for any thoughtful reader. now that i have read it, i am looking forward to giving massumi's book another try, as well as another go around with the bear itself.

thank you mr. holland for this great gift.

This is a good, detailed, information-packed book. It covers all aspects of power supplies in details. Subjects covered are

Power supply topologies

Oscillators

Magnetics

Feedback

Isolation

Driver circuits

And many other sections. I strongly reccommend this book to anyone wanting to know more detailed information on power supply design and techniques.

This diary is aptly named. The mood is somber, and the images are distorted, like those in a nightmare. I used to be skeptical about claims that the Japanese people would have fought an American invasion in the streets, and that millions could have been killed in the carnage. After reading this journal, I'm inclined to believe it could have happened. Patriotism and solidarity hijacked by fools and fanatics took Japan down a long tunnel, chronicled by Kiyoshi. Many Japanese were lost in a haze of self-deception. Kiyoshi contemporaneously describes the conflict between the Japanese Army and Navy - Japan was certainly not united, though few would speak this truth out loud. Kiyoshi documents the capacity of bureaucrats bent on impressing their higher-ups to speak silly nonsense; his disgust is palpable. He reveals the extent of famine in the final years, when his own most precious resource is a garden plot. Kiyoshi's description of the April 16, 1945, bombing of Tokyo captures facts and a mood: "The newly built factories of Shimomaruko had become nothing more than burned fields. In some places we heard thumps and the explosions of time-delayed bombs. ... I saw the burning of the Kawasaki industrial area and Shimomaruko and was astonished at the totality of the destructive power of modern war. Now I see its burned remains. This all happened in a period of less than ten hours. The electric trains stop, and electricity no longer flows. The water system and gas are halted. According to Akita's account, people who fled to the riverbank of the Tama were killed by bombs, and corpses without heads and trunks were transported away." Also startling are his simple sentences announcing major events. (Fri, April 13):"There is a report that President Roosevelt has died of a cerebral hemorrhage." (Mon, April 23): "The Red Army is invading Berlin. The Nazis will die in suicidal stand to the bitter end. Is such a style of warfare to be praised?" (Wed, May 2): "There is a report that Hitler is dead. It has been communicated that Mussolini has also been murdered." Kiyoshi (who lived for several years in the U.S. before the end of World War I), never saw the end of the Second World War. The last entry in his diary was May 5, 1945. He died that month of pneumonia, caused by malnutrition. This book is rightly seen as a classic. It is a powerful warning about the consequences of arrogance and self-delusion.

I read part of this book at a silent Jesuit vocational retreat in Grand Coteau, LA. It was very appropriate because I wasn't sure if I wanted to be a priest, but with a fuller understanding of what I will be doing this book certainly helped me with my vocation.

Eugene magnificently traces the origins of the Last Supper and of the current Catholic Sacrament of the Eucharist to all of the meals found within Luke's Gospel, from informal meals with lower class citizens to theological discussions with Pharisees.

I would certainly recommend this book to every man who is discerning his vocation to perform the Sacraments, but this is a great aid to every Catholic to understand what goes on every Sunday.

Even if you think you have no interest whatsoever in dinosaurs, you can still enjoy Discovering Dinosaurs in the American Museum of Natural History. Reading this book rivals taking an actual trip to the museum's splendid dinosaur halls. Norell, Gaffney, and Dingus present the first half of the book in question-answer format and dedicate the second half to AMNH specimens and expeditions. Questions range from the simple (What are dinosaurs?) to the complicated (How did nonavian dinosaurs become extinct?) to the unusual (How did dinosaurs mate?). You can poke in a coprolite (fossilized dung) to find what dinosaurs ate or see how workers mount colossal skeletons. Along with answers and information, you get a bonus prize: the incredible illustrations of Erwin Christman. Few contemporary artists can compete with the beauty and accuracy of Christman's nearly century-old work. A drawing or photograph graces nearly every page of Discovering Dinosaurs. Photographs depict paleontology's past, specimens of dinosaurs and of animals that lived at the same time as them, trackways, and current assignments. The book includes the stunning results of the AMNH Gobi expeditions of 1991-1995: beautifully preserved skeletons of oviraptors. Whether you want to examine the texture of dinosaur skin or peer into a tyrannosaur's mouth, Discovering Dinosaurs gets two claws up--20 feet up!

"Doing Time in The Pulpit" is a revolutionary book on how word merchants create the preaching experience in others. Here I've leaned how to deliver timed gestalts for transforming images into feeling that enter souls. These techniques teach how to speak rivetingly about the gripping love of God for the lost. These methods drive my preaching mind today. After the encounter with Lowry's secrets -- I no longer hear the crunching of stale breaded sermons between the teeth of bored pew goers. I'm now running a time machine that is generating enthusiasm and igniting experience in the lives of people. Yes! It's electrifying change and it happens when one drops the experience of God's Word into a soul and not a lecture. Experience preaching works into mankind curiosities that are mysterious because they construct an edifice that can only be described as the miraculous! When the preacher learns how to speak experience into his congregation they will carry the marks of the Cross in their body. It's because the spoken Word of God brands the conscious. But it's then and only then when the preacher has accomplished the task God put before him.

Thank you Brother Lowry for allowing me to experience your book and follow in the steps of genius.

May God grant all ministers the ability to win the lost to Christ in other creative ways.

Pastor Sid Chaney