Rarely does a comprehesive book cover the known work of an artist and open and close the issue. Persac is little known outside of Louisiana. He is a major early artist who documents Louisiana life in the late pre Civil War era. Kudos to the authors, sepecially Prof. Bacot. Thank you for this book.

I would sum up the message of this book with the words from a prayer my father taught me as a child,"... It is in giving that we receive...". There are many books which claim to be able to help your marriage. Some advise demanding your rights, while others give tips on how to manipulate your mate to change. The Marriage Builder teaches the Philippian 2:3 approach, "Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than themselves. . Having read several books on this subject over the years, I've found this to be the very best! If you want to remain self-centered,(a major marriage destroyer), this book is definitely not for you!

Each poem in this book is like a trip without a trip. The images are vivid and real but eerily bright so bright you think you took something before you read it.

It's as if the writer taped into the magical subconcious to reveal the truth of life. The problems of the existing that there are no answers too, like mental illness, and hormonal over drive...and the experience of them. Rosen gets in as if he has actually exprienced these things.

I recommend this book to people who want an experience, when I finished it I was sad so sad that it was over.

This book helped me understand the capabilities of the calculater much better than the manual. The examples were easy to follow and pointed out virtually every facet of the calculator. I highly recommend this to someone who wants to learn to use the TI-92 or TI-92+.

Great practice for the Regents.

This book presents a good variety of word and logic problems. I'd recommend this book for anyone interested in a variety of math problems.

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Henri MATISSE's first success as an artist was his Paul Cezanne-type "La liseuse" still-life, with a brown and green flowered wallpaper pattern picked up as a cloth in his later "Nature morte a l'autoportrait." But his favorite painter was actually Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin, as seen in the cool greys of his "Nature morte aux peches" and "Nature morte aux raisins" still-lifes. His still-life "Grande marine grise" springboarded the empty and symmetrical freedom of a Caspar David Friedrich landscape into the Piet Mondrian-styled beaches of modern art. In fact, much of the rest of his work had a part in how twentieth-century art, with its concern over color, turned out: "La coiffure," with its enormous hanging arm from Michelangelo's "Night" figure clasping hand to head, for a modern art growing out of twentieth-century anxieties; "Collioure" series, with figures recognizable from flat colors and with meadows dyed red against green, for a dazzling light from a Eugene Delacroix-type greatest outburst of opposing colors; "Le compotier" creating, not imitating, life by giving up color as description for Japanese print-type color as expression; "La desserte" showing dark tones coloring more brilliantly than light; "Homme nu," as an Auguste Rodin-type striding figure, taking one side in the twentieth-century artistic question over form holding its own edges against color or shaping from spreading color, as in "Bronze et fruit" still-life and his Paul Gauguin-type "Nu assis" figure almost lost against the arbitrarily patterned sunlight; "Interieur au rideau Egyptien" and "L'interieur rouge" finalizing Fauvism by energizing light and uniting picture parts; "Lecon de piano," as his masterpiece experiment abstracting garden greens and room colors; "Luxe, calme et volupte" escaping into the grandly simple Cezanne style of "Trois baigneuses" and leading into Symbolism; "Madame de Matisse," as a specific person in an alertly balanced pose, just by a Constantin Brancusi-type sculptured eyebrow and nose against blue sending off grey for the curved shaping of her head, for Amedeo Modigliani's and twentieth-century art's figures directly shown as being physical presences and filling human roles; "Nature morte, Seville" riotously patterning color; "Le reve" balancing field and figure, in-between areas and physical presence in pink arabesquing against blue; "La serpentine" collecting light along arabesqued thick lower legs and thin thighs into a separately modelled physical effect, as later seen in his own "Jeannette" busts and in Pablo Picasso; "Le the," with a Cubist-type head for his daughter Marguerite; and "Vue de St Tropez" landscaping Paul Signac-type energetically brushstroked color. So, through appropriately chosen illustrations and carefully organized text, the author leaves us on excellent terms with what Matisse did for art: I particularly like the attention that Lawrence Gowing gives to the cut-paper works, such as "La danse" and "Le rouge et le noir," and to the Vence chapel stained glass, as special favorites for my sculptress mother and artist sister. Unfortunately, the book is now out-of-print: so any readers not tracking down a stray copy might want to look into MATISSE: THE WONDER OF COLOR by Xavier Girard, HENRI MATISSE: CUT-OUTS ALBUM, HENRI MATISSE: THE VENCE CHAPEL, and MATISSE IN TAHITI by Paule Laudon.

Great if you would like to understand the pros and cons of matrix organizations -- when to use them and when not, as well as how to implement them and pitfalls. Includes case studies.

I was turned on to this book by a friend of mine who is an expert in geometric measure theory. He recommended the book as a very nice exposition of some of the material found in Federer's "Geometric Measure Theory" as well as other material. I found the book to be beautifully designed to help the reader learn its contents. There was enough between the lines so that one needed to WORK through the book, but in contrast to parts of Federer's book, enough detail so that reasonably fast progress could be made. Unfortunately, I was interupted in my race through the book and so I have yet to work through the latter part of the book. But given the large part I did cover and my experience doing that, I am certain to finish the monograph, most likely when I start using functions of bounded variation with any frequency.

There are no explicit exercises. But as already alluded to above, there are implicit exercises that are encountered in working through the book. I found that the lack of separate exercises is actually not bad at all since the implicit exercises encountered are automatically motivated by their necessity for the understanding of the text - and are therefore relevant!

A prerequisite for the book is a course in analysis that includes measure theory and integration as well as an exposure to elementary functional analysis. The functional analysis is not actually necessary, but the added maturity that such an exposure would impart would be useful.

Very briefly, the contents via the 6 chapter titles are 1) General Measure Theory, 2) Hausdorff Measure, 3) Area and Coarea Formulas, 4) Sobolev Functions, 5) BV Functions and Sets of Finite Perimeter, and 6) Differentiability and Approximation by C^1 Functions.

I found the contents very interesting ... quoting the authors "... we packed into these notes all sorts of interesting topics that working mathematical analysts need to know, but are mostly not taught." And indeed this was the case in my experience ... both the "interesting" part and the "not taught" part.

I am disappointed in the price, but if any book is worth it, this one certainly is.