A great reformer written from an honest perspective, well aware of our own culure... another great one for young and old alike!

I have read 3 or 4 biographies of Knox in the past ten years. Stanford Reid's *Trumpter of God* is considered the standard. But Wilson's is by far the most engaging.

Wilson has not attempted a comprehensive biography. Instead he hits the milestones and highlights what made Knox one of the most interesting figures in Western history. Wilson is very pastoral -- he makes contenporary, practical applications from Knox's that the reader will find very challenging.

After I read this book I bought three more copies.

I really enjoyed this book, it was very interesting to get a behind the scenes look at a coach in the NFL. I think that Chuck Knox is one of the more interesting personalities in the game. I'm a Seahawk fan so I especially enjoyed it, but even if I wasn't I think I would still find it interesting.

Chuck Knox worked his way up from the poor steel towns of Western Pennsylvania to become a top coach in the NFL for over 20 years. Laced with interesting anecdotes and great humor throughout, this book not only shows that hard work and desire can lead to the top, it gives common sense advice on how to keep your head about you when you get there. For any fan of the pro game, but especially the Jets during the 60's, Rams during the 70's, or Bills or Seahawks during the 80's, this is a must read. All of your favorite players from Joe Namath to Brian Bosworth are covered. I would think that this book is almost required reading for any ambitious football coach, high school or otherwise. The wisdom and common sense approach Knox used in dealing with the multitude of personalities involved in team sports could apply to any level of athletics. Chuck Knox never won the Super Bowl as a head coach, but was always a winner- in football and in life.

The book Healing Yoga is a continued help to me. Each beautiful page holds positions (asanas) to bring this 57 year old body back to improved health. The pictures are clear and the information easy to follow. I have increased energy and am delighted to find I actually need an hour less of sleep at night. I carry this book with me in my travels and highly recommend it to anyone who wants a new adventure.

I am frequently disappointed with yoga books--but this book, upon first review, keeps me interested as there is a good deal of new information here. The illustrations (photographs) are abundant and helpful. Although I have not had the chance yet to begin the practice, I look forward to learning much from this book. I WAS disappointed, however, that it did not address asanas for migraines, as the publisher's description promised. This aside, I think there's alot of good information in this book and it seems well worth the price.

Recently, I've read a fair number of books relating to Greek tragedy and of them all this is the best. In it Knox offers a profound and compelling examination of the nature of the heroes of Sophocles' plays. His arguments are persuasive, being based on a study of the actual words that occur and recur throughout the plays. Thus, there is quite a bit of ancient Greek quoted in the original; fortunately, it is all translated so that the argument can be easily followed by those who have no Greek.

Unlike most scholars, Knox writes beautifully. The English is unhampered by theoretical jargon -- there is no mention of hermeneutic circles, metatheatre, metanarratives, or
metapsychology. In an age when Martin Heidegger appears to be the model of style in scholastic writing, Knox's elegant
and clear writing makes for a refreshing change indeed.

Another refreshing change is that he treats Sophocles as though he were an ancient poet rather than as though he were an ancient structural anthropologist with an interest in depth psychology, something which is almost eccentric nowadays. Moreover, Knox's passion for Sophocles is palpable and infectious.

So, an excellent read. If you read only one book about Sophocles, this is the one I would recommend.

First, a caveat: Knox very emphatically examines Sophocles on the basis of what Sophocles actually wrote. This has the virtue of accuracy and of keeping out fringe theorizing, but the vice of adding a modest Greek component. Knox always puts the Greek in a parenthetical (i.e., you'll never fail to understand a sentence because of the Greek), but there is a lot of it. If you don't know any Greek, this might encumber your reading somewhat.

Having said that, _The Heroic Temper_ is a fantastic little book. Knox spends two chapters discussing the "Sophoclean Hero" in terms of all seven surviving tragedies, showing that the same character types, the same narrative tropes and even very consistently the same vocabulary is used in all seven. He compares and contrasts Sophocles and Aeschylus (especially with respect to "Prometheus Bound") and analyzes the Sophoclean hero in terms of Sophocles' political context and religion.

This alone is eye-opening and ought to precede any reading of Sophocles, but Knox then goes on to discuss in greater detail "Antigone" (two chapters) and "Philoctetes" and "Oedipus at Colonus" (one chapter apiece). I wish I'd had this book in college -- it's worth more than all the lectures I heard on Greek tragedy.

The six chapters were in fact originally six lectures, and (Greek parentheticals aside) the book retains a verbal, even conversational tone. Well written, insightful, powerful -- the book is a winner.

This textbook is very easy to follow. I am glad that I purchased this book.

This book was very easy to read, the examples made clear sense to the topic. It would be nice if your web site address was easy to find, it was not stated in the book.

Even though Donald Knox died before completion of this volume, Alfred Coppel did an excellent job in ever way of finishing it. In spite of the fact that the war became fairly static by the spring of 1951, it remains as compelling as the first 6 months of the conflict. If you read Vol.I you will want to read Vol.II.

This book, as its name implies, continues the groundpounding saga of the Korean War that started a year earlier. Many of the original cast of characters are back...Norman Allen's caustic letters to his mom, old soldiers from the Inchon landings and Pusan Perimeter in new terrain and with new regiments or companies...and the story line remains the same, too: climb hills, get killed, get pushed off, get killed, get hills back.
Unique Features of this book include:

.... the chapter on Korean War flying aces, and the air war in general. One can still feel the chill that must have gone down the spines of officials in Washington when Soviet MiGs first appeared in the skies over Korea; but it doesn't seem to have bothered John Bolt, the War's only Marine Ace, very much.

.... the chapter on Korean War vets who returned home to their hometowns; some to a hero's welcome, others to a country that had begun to change. I once heard a Korean War vet tell me he left to ragtime and came home to rock and roll. In any case, sometimes the publicity was a mixed blessing for the men, who just wanted to get back to their private and family lives.

A long review is pointless. This is a gripping translation of a great work. Fagles has accomplished the difficult task of rendering the formal language of the Odyssey into a form of modern English that apparently preserves the poetry of the original. Very easy to read and quite powerful. Though I have not looked at the popular Fitzgerald translation for many years, I would have to say that I prefer this one. This edition comes with an excellent introductory essay and notes by Bernard Knox. Readers who enjoy this book and translation should immediately pick up Fagles' translation of the Iliad. The latter is an even greater epic and probably harder to translate. The Fagles version of the Iliad is outstanding.

Merely reviewing the Odyssey would be superfluous: it is, quite simply, the greatest adventure story of all-time. Its age and long endurance have only served to increase its reputation. There have been countless translations - including Alexander Pope's famous one, as well as the standard Oxford text - and this is the most recent major translation. It is also an essential purchase for any fan of the Odyssey, and, I think, the best place to start for those who have never read the epic in any form before. Fagles has given us a startling new modern verse translation, for which he has been widely acclaimed and given numerous awards, and it helps to restore the epic poem to some of its original Hellenic splendor, while, at the same time, being extremely exciting, immensely readable, and highly commendable. Fagles's translation is a masterpiece in itself. Aside from the masterful translation, the book is a deluxe must-own: complete with library binding, it also includes a long (60+ page) introduction from Bernard Knox, which is scholarly and interesting, while also remaining immensely readable. Knox has also provided deluxe notes for the edition, and it is further rounded out by such bonuses as a series of maps depicting Homeric geography, a pronunciation dictionary, and several other sections giving you background information on the Odyssey, Homer, and the translation. Certainly the definitive version of The Odyssey available to the mass market today, I cannot fathom why it isn't more popular here at Amazon, as it is the version that you most consisentently see on bookshelves across the country. Let us help change that by making this the version of The Odyssey you purchase, if you are at all interested in it, Homer, or ancienct Greek epics.

I greatly enjoyed both the thorough examination of many important Wilde critics of the 1990s and the sensible point of view. The author defends clear writing and makes a forceful defense of biographically and psychologically based criticism, enlisting Wilde's own remarks in her argument. Her criticism of literary jargon is occasionally biting, and justifiably so. This is a book not for the politically correct, but rather the openminded scholar or student of literature. It is safe to say that Wilde himself would have enjoyed it.

Professor Knox offers a splendid overview and critique of contemporary Oscar Wilde criticism. She illustrates how "-ism-guided" approaches tend to utilize Wilde for their own agendas rather than trying to come to terms with the contradictory and fascinating nature of his oeuvre. This book is a must read for any Wilde scholar as well as for advanced students pursuing work on Wilde or on approaches to literature.

This is a three volume "heavy" textbook, both in weight but certainly also in the scope of its content and the basis for learning public health from an international perspective. This fourth edition is dedicated to professor Walter W Holland, who was the original founding editor of the textbook first published in 1984. The present editors are affiliated with UCLA School of Public Health, Department of Public Health at the University of Glasgow, Department of Community Health at University of Auckland and National Institute of Health and Nutrition in Tokyo.
The first volume presents the scope, the second presents the methods and the third the practice of public health with a total of 101 chapters from close to 200 international contributors
Each chapter is extensive both in its research, details and scope with relevant references and suggested bibliography. It is truly comprehensive in its international scale and the editors must be congratulated for making a clear, consistent and easy read textbook. The subject of bioterrorism with reference to the antrax scare and other possibilities in the wake of the Twin Tower attack is reviewed from a public health aspect. The index extensive.
My own interests of child public health, adolescence, disability and mental retardation were well rewarded with fine chapters and a scholary discussions of even the current classifications of disability, handicap and intellectual disability. The chapter on adolescence had fine suggestions for health policies on a local and global basis.
This is an important book that should be found at every public health library and at the side of specialists in public health medicine.

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The third edition of this excellent survey of public health has been available for some time now, I would encourage readers to request that rather than the out-dated second editio

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