This is one astoninishing and relaxing piece of work. This book is like a magnet and steel. Once you get a taste, you are drawn to this book and in seconds your mind begin to explode with feeling of joy and laughter that takes over your mind with its controlling words and aspiring story-line.

Drawing you page after page, after page to this magnificient piece of literature with a splash of pepper, salt and all that the West Indies is made of. It is very realistic to West Indian culture, upbringing and beliefs. I recommend this book to the Whole World.

I enjoyed the authenticity of Centre of the Labyrinth, by Rosetta J. Jamieson. The novel portrayed Jamaica and Jamaicans as they are, not in the superficial manner that in presented in some Hollywood movies, but with the true flavour of the Jamaican lifestyle. It captures a part of the heritage of the Jamaican people. Yet, it is not exclusive. Due the universal traits of love, mother-daughter relationships, and class conflict, anyone on any part of the globe can relate to the novel and enjoy it. I highly recommend that readers add this to their summer reading list, or that they read it at any other convenient time.

This is the best book on introductory Newtonian mechanics that I've read. The examples aren't shown just for "plug-and-chug" purposes as in many others; the authors use them to further develop an idea. As such, each example is important, and there are several. Each exercise is also useful in a way that many undergraduate mechanics exercises aren't. The authors also in their prose express a passion for the subject--always appreciated, and sometimes humorous. [My favorite example is on page 359 of the paperback version. Near the top of the page, following a discussion of Newton's law of universal gravitation: "The greatest achievement in the history of man was completed."]

I own dozens of books on the subject and this is by far my favorite. It is clearly written with a fine selection of problems. An excellent supplement to this book is THE VARIATIONAL PRINCIPLES OF MECHANICS by Lanczos. I highly recommend these two books for a firm understanding of classical mechanics.

The book shows how the greek people were the first to concentrate their attention on the perfection of MAN and his place in society. Jaeger traces this fact from Homeric times through Plato and explains it through many outstanding writers such as Hesiod, Solon, Sophocles, and many more. He shows the powerful Ideals of the greeks in all their beauty which continue to live on in the world today. He reveals how Poetry, Philosophy, Rhetoric, Politics, Medicine, etc. have their basis in the quest to reach the highest standard imaginable for man and society. The space contributed to Plato is subtantial and the first volume is really only an intro to Plato by the authors own admission. That's a four hundred page intro! But it all leads to the greatest of inventions...Philosphy. I enjoyed the whole book, but the second volume "the search for the divine center" was the best part explaining many things about Plato. To understand in greater depth the influence of these ideals on the western world I recommend reading a book (which I read first) called "The Classical Tradition" by Gilbert Highet whom is also the translator of this book. That book reveals how most of the surviving great works throughout western history were written by authors who were well aware of the greek world and their ideals including many writers in the Christian tradition. Jaeger wrote a short book called "Greek Paideia and Early Christianity" which shows that connection very well. He has convinced me beyond doubt of his statement that the ancient greeks are the educators of the western world.

Anyone with an interest in Ancient Greece must read this book! Jaeger weaves elements of history, anthropology, philosophy, and psychology with masterful dexterity. I've read a number of general texts on Ancient Greek culture. There are some quite good ones out there. H.D.F. Kitto's, The Greeks, is another favorite of mine. Nevertheless, Jaeger's work stands well above the others. He provides a great deal of depth and detail but it never seems to wane as his genius provides a stunning insight on every page. Jaeger uses a concept well-known to classicists, arete, as a synthesizing thread. Paideia, which is roughly equal to our idea of culture, in the sense of 'she is a very cultured woman,' defined the aims and ideals of a Greek education. Arete, a blend of excellence, virtue, nobility, and skill provided a telos for that process of education. Jaeger, using the framework of educational ideals, came to present the true spirit of Ancient Greek culture. This idea, of using educational ideals to survey the depth and breadth of a culture, would rightfully scare a well-educated American. For our educational aims, which are primarily vocational or simply technical, represent a vacuum of higher values and ideals. Even the once powerful currency of 'honor' as a unifying goal has long since expired. A review of Ancient Greece, steeped in values and appreciative of the finest things in life, may rekindle the search and development of values in our own time and place. This book should be a guide for the quest.

Gross Anatomy has always sounded to the lay public as some kind of perjorative about what medical students due, what pornographers do, and what artists perch above the cadaver to represent. Actually nothing could be further from the truth. For centuries artists and scientists have been joined at the hip - witness Vesalius and his immaculate engravings of the musculature and skeltons of the dissected bodies obtained by grave robbers under the umbrella of education. In this superbly written and illustrated volume Deanna Petherbridge and Ludmilla Jordanova have gleaned some of the finest examples of the study and representation of the human body resulting from this still ongoing duplicity between anatomists/physicians and artists. The journey here is well documented from the earliest forms to the latest depictions of how intensive visual and manual dissection of the human body has contributed to some of the finest art in the world. Bravo to the authors for opening a door to the lay public to once and for all subsume the negative implications of the term Gross Anatomy. Superb book!

be amazed at the beauty and delicay in which different artists at different times try to express and show the wonders of the human body.

i was left in awe, looking over the pages again and again, captivated by the words along with the images. and maybe just a bit brighter in the world of science.

Attempting to put numbers on past economic activity is a deeply fraught exercise, as the author freely admits.

That being said, this is a book full of useful information and striking estimates. I know of no better place to get a genuine feel for the economic history of the last millennia, but particularly the last two centuries. There is something to startle or surprise anyone within these pages. A necessary edition to the library of anyone seriously interested in history.

This book is seemingly a culmination of the painstaking works taken by Angus Maddison for decades. As I liked his previous works such as the Phases of Capitalist Development, so I like this book very much. Of course, the book contains many 'guesstimations' that are unacceptable to today's economists' rigor. This is more so when the author ventures into almost two millenia before 1820, for which he did relatively little work previously. But even here the book apparently provides reasonable figures synthesizing existing evidences with a lucid interpretation, providing illuminating starting points for future studies.

This book deserves more than five stars. Anne Murray have outdone herself on her very first book she put together herself with the help of her staff. She takes you on a journey of her life as a Professional Singer, and as a woman with a family in both Ontario and Nova Scotia. It tells you a story no other book would be able to tell, and it captivates a life like no other. If you can't get it here, you can get it at the Anne Murray Centre in Nova Scotia.

This directory does a terrific job exploring and exposing the diverse choices that exist outside of the mainstream magazine and newspaper world. The book seems to have been designed to appeal to a number of serious "professional" researchers -- librarians, booksellers, editors, writers, activists, even philanthropists. At the same time, its simple and elegant design makes Annotations an enjoyable, accessible way to learn about new independent voices. Sadly, it's one of the few resources the public can turn to for non-corporate opinion. But that just makes it all the more valuable....

McKinnon's poetry is at once disarming and funny. The poet's voice sings of how it feels to live life in a Northern BC mill town. I enjoyed this poet's attention to language. This is complex and beautiful work.

The field of psychoanalytical studies was formally institutionalised in the United kindom in 1988 (THERIP, 1994:1), through the higher Education Network for Research and Information in Psychoanalysis and its house journal, The Psychoanalysis Newsletter. The field has yet to be formalised in student textbooks. At present, students are directed to a sizeable and diverse range of books and papers, providing variously demanding treatments of theoretical and applied psychoanalysis. As such, the available literature remains scattered and difficult to assimilate. This book is designed to meet the needs of students who seek, in one volume, a text which places emphasis upon core concepts and clinical material, but which at the same time reflects the range of apllications in therapy, and in the psychoanalytic study of culture and society. It is instructive to consider these two dimensions on terms of "centres" and "peripheries" of psychoanalysis. This introductory chapter unpacks the various interrelations between the centres and peripheries concerned, with reference both to the overall standpoint of the book and its individual chapters. From the Introduction by Richard Ekins

This book provides an excellent introduction to the broad field of applied psychoanalysis.

Although this book has been written by a number of authors, the editors have skilfully combined the chapters into a coherent whole. They and the other contributers are to be congratulated on a work of substance and importance - a testimony to the skill of a group of devoted psychoanalitically-orientated psychotherapists in Northern Ireland. This group has developed under the influence of Thomas Freeman, and he deserves special praise for the level of work he has fostered. From the Foreword by Joseph Sandler