I am a student at the University of Arkansas where Mr. Janzen is pofessor emeritus. His book is laid out into categories that deal with adminstrative and teaching aspects of being a band director. Everything in his book is straight forward and to the point. Anything that he feels is important is placed in a list with a brief explaination following. This book is a great resource for anyone that is or wants to become a band director.

The author, Janos Karpati, musicologist and professor of the F. Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest, is equally well known as a Bartok specialist and as a distinguished scholar of the music of the East, especially that of Japan. The Introduction is planned to define the place and relative weight of chamber music within the whole oeuvre. Cahpter 2, Forerunners and Contemporaries is an important summary of stylistic similarities. "Monothemiticism and Variation" investigates an important underlying principle of Bartok's art. Karpati introduces his most original analytical concept, "mistuning". In Karpati's hand this expression turned into a strictly formulated theoretical concept: on p. 211 a table explains how acoustic intervals can be replaced by "mistuned" ones either a semitone lower or a semitone higher.

This book should have been called simply "The Beethoven Companion." While it focues on the string quartets, it deals with many facets of the composer's life, and life in Vienna in general at the time. Detailed but never dull, thorough but never too technical, the book describes performance practice, takes you into the minds of interpretors, and deals with such fascinating philosophical considerations as Romanticism vs. Classicism, the meaning of the "last period," and audiences in Beethoven's time. I have many books on the Quartets, but I've never read another that is this valuable.

We must be grateful not only to the author, Leonard Ratner, but also to his former students who kept on pestering him to put his lectures on the Beethoven string quartets into book form. Few if any musicians have better understood than Mr. Ratner what Beethoven was about in writing his extraordinary quartets, some of which I must admit I do not feel I entirely understand, even with Ratner's help and even after trying to play them for over 40 years. If anyone has figured out the late quartets, it is Leonard Ratner.

A fine musician I know summed it up when he said that Leonard Rather was the most musical of all the musicologists he had ever encountered. Expanding that comment to include Ratner's former colleague Putnam Aldrich, I can only thoroughly agree.

Every topic is well chosen (not only everything a language learner needs to stay out of trouble, but also everything that helps the language learner thrive),
clearly explained with effective examples,
cross-referenced as needed,
clearly arranged,
easy to find,
easy to understand,
easy to remember
and easy to put to immediate use.
The book is cheap.
The book almost the dimensions of a paperback Louis L'Amour novel.
What more can we ask for in a pocket reference grammar?

Carry this little gem with
your favorite compact dictionary,
the Spanish-language paperback that you're enjoying
and Alfredo González Hermoso's "Spanish Verb Manual" (ISBN 0844213462, almost the same dimensions as this book, yet a big improvement on "501 Spanish Verbs").

This is a wonderfully refreshing book in light of the overly-sympathetic trends and "what you feel is what is real" psychology of today. Chambers clearly defines psychological health as the life that is Christ. In clearly developed thought he declares that the road to the wholly healthy life is through absolute surrender to the Absolutely Healthy One -- Jesus.

I've been reading my utmost for his highest since 1986 (14 Years). Each time I read it I draw closer to our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ. As I read his biography, I again was drawn closer to God. His life is a reflection of Jesus Christ in our modern day. While we live in a day of pleading and begging for funds and help, Chambers has again brought us back to the reality of trusting the Father and Jesus Christ, for our most basic needs. When we trust and obey, Jesus can move mountains. Jesus never whined, nor begged, nor worried; neither did He ever seek for Himself. It was always for the Father. Oswald's life always pointed to Christ, never himself! His eyes were always focused on our Lord, and material possesions never obstructed his view (That's because he continually gave away everything he ever had). David McCasland has done a tremendous job of researching, compiling, and blending: the life, writings, and the humaness of Oswald Chambers. Seeing his life has really helped me to understand his radical devotion to Christ, and how I can practically give my utmost for His highest. If you desire to be a disciple of Christ, this is a must read for you. No other man has brought me to the feet of Jesus, like Oswald Chambers.

Bob Moorer A man who loves Jesus

Wow! This book is full of eye-popping pictures that reintroduce you to the beauty of the "Magic City!"

This book captures the struggles of some of the real heroes of the anti-apartheid movement, the black lawyers of South Africa. From those who went from the cells of Robben Island to corporate boardrooms, to those who stood side by side with Nelson Mandela in court and now are judges, these amazing individuals used their smarts and savvy to tear down a corrupt system. These courageous individuals often used the very laws the apartheid government had devised to argue that the system was fundamentally corrupt. Although Professor Broun primarily let's his subjects tell their stories, using an oral history approach to their lives, the commentary he adds allows the reader to understand the background of these men and women and how they fit into the South African legal system. As an added bonus, the book contains a message from Nelson Mandela, South Africa's most famous lawyer. A must read for anyone interested in South Africa and for anyone who needs evidence that lawyers aren't always the bad guys.

Author was member of 46th Mississippi Infantry Regiment, Company B. His story chronicles the major campaigns of the Regiment and the movements in between. Wonderful descriptions of encampments, forced marches, the tragic loss of Col. Clarke at Allatoona, and the final days of the Regiment at Blakely, Alabama. Many thanks to Editor, Richard Baumgartner, for placing this in print. This book is a must have for descendants of the men of the 46th. About 230 pg of text plus endnotes and Muster Rolls (for Co. B only.)