This book is sensitive, informative, and motivational. It gives insight to patients, helping them understand Cancer and the process which lies ahead of them.

This book presents in an understandable and caring way the information necessary to make intelligent decisions when faced with cancer.

If I were stuck on that proverbial desert island with just one book, this would be it. I've read these graceful four line poems over and over, and every time gain fresh insight. The genius of this work is that it can be read on so many different levels--give it to a couple newly in love and they can read it to each other as a book of love poems. Give it to a serious seeker of God and they will understand the love and beloved of the poems to be the relationship between Rumi and God, and the ecstasy of real communion with God...either way, this poems are beautiful and infinite. I brought this book to Afghanistan (where Rumi was born) and found the love of this poet (who they know as Bahlki) to be a bond, and we translated many poems back and forth...there are many more. BUY this book! And buy five copies to give to friends. Even people who think they don't like or read poetry end up loving this book, especially if they are on the path to God.

For the mystically inclined, Moyne and Barks translation of this collection of Rumi quatrains, is an "evocative" excursion into that "realm"..the realm of the "mystical". Truly, a source of contemplation and deep wisdom, the book also "tests" "traditional" concepts and notions related to...the "boundaries" of love. But, Rumi was a truly "enlightened" being, and, therefore although...a being whose words will "stretch" our mind...he will never be talking about anything but..the "divine" in essence. This particular collection by Moyne and Barks...speaks a little more "specifically" to the aspect of "longing" in the "spiritual search".

This book give you real tools to work out marital problems. It isn't sugar coated at all. It made me think and taught me a lot about my relationship. I recommend it.

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A scintillating work of literary and historical sociology, that takes you back to a time when times were tough and the people even tougher. "Acadie - Prelude to Derangement" tells the heartbreaking story of the Acadiens, who were eventually deported from Nova Scotia and scattered throughout the East and South in the United States. The authors uncover the story of the Acadiens and their hardships in North Amerian, and manage to shed new light on the world of Nova Scotia (and subsequently the Cajuns of Louisiana) and beyond in the 17th and 18th centuries. As lively and lucidly written as the characters' portraits of the well-born and the average man, this book is more penetrating, thanks to authors' rigorous scholarship, and best of all, it recreates the unyielding world of early North American settlement, and later, the derangement of the Acadiens, in vivid detail.

Many historical novels, perhaps most, focus on real-life, albeit dead, public figures who require the invention of minor characters to witness, narrate, and react to their erstwhile struttings. But sprinkled throughout "Acadie - Prelude to Derangement" is an ironic humor that flows throughout its pages but juxtaposed with the hardships the Acadiens faced with every challenge to their economic, religious, and political lives. And few historical novels will teach you actual history as well as this one. The authors make clear that only some of the characters are fictionalized, not the history itself. But they convey the bravery of the Acadiens well to do whatever it took to make a life for themselves in the new land. The sad thing is how the Acadiens were model citizens, but got caught up in a political and military conflict that turned their entire community into refugees almost overnight.

A strong plot and a vivid sense of place are never out of style, and the authors, Coleman and Dupuis, are very good at developing both. Coleman and Dupuis are adept at shepherding a large and colorful cast of characters through a complicated yet logical historical plot. And reminiscent of Conan Doyle, the authors can create lush atmosphere without resorting to overwrought description. Coleman and Dupuis are at their most effective, and engaging, when they shows us how fine the line is - if one exists at all - between religion and superstition; their 17th century is a mirror for our time.

Coleman and Dupuis have created an outstanding portrait here. It is a flawless trip, with the detail of good history, the blistering pace of events themselves and the charm of grand legend. I strongly recommend it!

This is a group effort from a trio of investigators at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, New Jersey, an institution whose researchers were among the creators of modern acoustic phonetics. It is almost a research monograph disguised as a textbook, published by a distinguished scientific publisher. This leads to frustration of the specialist reader at times, when one looks for technical summaries of the material which may be lacking. The book could be considered a complete revision of the classic Bell Labs book by Potter, Kopp, and Green (Kopp) under the title Visible Speech, published in 1947 and including with broader material on speech acoustics and its applications a 225-page description of the sounds of American English from an acoustic point of view.

The book is a systematic description of the phonetics of American English based on acoustic data from one male informant, a native of Pittsburgh, with limited data from a woman speaker. This is a weakness shared by most of the literature on speech acoustics; because the fundamental frequency of women's speech is higher than that of men, women's speech is technically more difficult to analyze precisely in acoustic terms. The limitation to one main subject is far outweighed by the precious systematic data which the book contains for most aspects of American English phonetics. Of course, it also suggests further investigation of the ways in which humans speaking somewhat different versions of the same language understand one another, which could be said to constitute the other, perceptual, side of the subject matter of this work. This aspect, by the way, is well reviewed in the excellent chapters on perception in J.M.Picket's revised book The Acoustics of Speech Communication (Allyn and Bacon, 1999).

The Bell authors provide valuable introductory chapters on basic concepts of phonetics and phonology, and speech acoustics. There is a growing literature on the basic concepts of acoustic phonetics, such as the new editions of the well-established books by Ladefoged (1996) and Kent and Read (2001), which some readers may wish to consult. Then follows a chapter on the static properties of speech sounds; many treatments of acoustic phonetics never get past this elementary level. However, the book by Olive, Greenwood, and Coleman makes a precious contribution in the systematic following chapters on the treatment of English sounds in context. Many individual aspects of this topic are well treated in the research literature, but
this comprehensive investigation of the speech of a single speaker is unique. There is broad treatment not only of formant transitions between consonants and vowels, but also of consonant clusters and interactions, contextual variants of sounds such as [l] and [r](using standard notation for phonetic units), and a long final chapter on acoustic variability of sounds and dialectal variability. A precious feature of the index is that it not only includes a detailed phonetic and technical listing but also gives the location in the text of treatments of individual sound sequences, shortening many searches.

Apart from its merits as a research monograph, this work
also works well as a classroom text. The reviewer has used it in a class on applied English phonetics with extensive spectrographic lab experience, in which the students studied their own speech acoustically and compared it to the results described by Olive et al. A particularly valuable role of the book is for non-English speakers who are able to use the objective character of the acoustic analysis to bypass the obstacle of uncertain perception of English sounds and assist themselves in improving their mastery of English phonetics. Elementary speech acoustics on this level is not difficult, and this aspect of the work was very much appreciated by foreign students in my class.

This is a work of enormous value to a variety of students and specialists, particularly in phonetics, linguistics, and speech pathology, but also for engineers and the increasing ranks of those working on speech recognition. The reviewer finds that he has had to gradually increase the number of loaner copies of this work on his office shelf, because the Olive book is not in the local library, and his students want prolonged access to a work which describes English acoustic phonetics competently and(within its limits)comprehensively. This book is is not as well known as it deserves to be.

The reviewer has some complaints. In general, the articulatory discussions are not as accurate or precise as the acoustic ones; of course, that is not what the book is about. If one must mention published collections of papers on speech acoustics, the indispensable book Readings in Acoustic Phonetics edited by Lehiste (1967 with several reprints) which preserves publication format is more useful than the one cited. It is regrettable and puzzling that there is not a single first-author work of Gordon Peterson in the bibliography. These are minor details. This work deserves to be well known, and to be in all major university libraries and institutions in which linguistic or clinical phonetics has significance, as well as in scholars' libraries. It should be read carefully and repeatedly until its pages are dirty and scribbled on, like my copy. The first acoustic specification of sounds of a language known to the reviewer was the publication of formant frequencies of whispered vowels published by Samuel Reyher in 1679. The book by Olive and his colleagues reflects a long and proud past, and its subject matter seems at present to be enjoying a deserved revival of interest.

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Complain!com REVIEW: What better source of legal advise than the American Bar Association. A good source and reference. I recommend it. - Priscilla

Compared with the many competing books on the legal needs of the elderly, this handy guide's most compelling virtue is its brevity. In a volume about the size of a short paperback novel, the authors manage to concisely review the legal rights of older persons under the major government programs and federal statutes. In clear, jargon-free prose, the book steers readers through the ins and outs of the Big Three federal programs-Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. The authors also explain other legal areas of frequent concern to older Americans, including age discrimination laws, retirement income rights, consumer protection statutes, estate planning tools, grandparents' rights, reverse mortgages, and the rights of the disabled.

On all these topics, the guide gives readers just enough information to make an informed decision on what to do or where to turn next. Frequent checklists, boxes, and lists of contacts help break up the text and provide useful reference tools. This area of the law is constantly evolving, so it's no surprise that a few things have changed since the book was published in 1998. Nevertheless, the guide will give seniors and their families a solid grounding in the areas that concern them the most without taking up much space in a briefcase or handbag.

This is the best book on the American Revolution I have every read. The writeing style of Kenneth Coleman is easy to read and understand. I highly recomend this book for anyone interested in the Revolution and the early days in the state of Georgia.

Michael Ramsey (former Archbishop of Canterbury) sets out the history and heart of anglicansim in this very readable introduction to Anglicanism. His insights and perceptions help us get to the history and heart of true anglicanism and its relationship to other churches, especially the Roman Catholic.

The first 2 chapters are key for anyone wanting to discover or return to genuine anglicanism, versus a (post-)modernist, liberal interpretation. Enjoy it!