I studied this text when I was 18. Moliere is witty and humorous, which actually made reading this text a pleasure. He has lovely usage of his language.

I read this in my French class... the play is hilarious, well worth reading, and if you can't read French, you should read a translation or go see the play! It's funny, and although it is like many of Molière's other plays, it's a nice deviation from the normal play.

This book was well thought out and very descriptive with what's necessary when owning a Rottweiler. Her methods are strong and intelligent. I've read quite a few books on Rottweilers and this ranks in the top 3 with its information and tips on training. Good luck current and future owners.

Of all the books I've perused on Rottweilers, this is the most concise and comprehensive. Rhetoric is absent, and it presents a wonderful plethera of pertinent information as well as numerous color photographs. Truly great information about this incredible breed of dog.

Niccolo Machiavelli's "The Prince" has long been considered THE primer on power politics. What has usually been lost is the fact it was a persuasive attempt by Machiavelli to have Lorenzo di Medici embody the ideas laid out in "The Prince" and unify Italy. In terms of being a rhetorical effort, Machiavelli's work was certainly a failure. However, what endures is his Aristotelian cataloguing of leaders, states and ways of ruling that goes well beyond the political scene in Italy in the early 16th Century. Luisa Vergani provides excellent synopses of not only Machiavelli's life and works, but the times in which he lived as well. After establishing Machiavelli's political doctrine, Vergani establishes the basic themes of "The Prince." A general synopsis is followed by summaries and commentaries on the 26 chapters (1-2, 12-14 and 22-23 are dealt with in tandem). What makes the commentaries particularly insightful is that since Machiavelli dealt with real people and places, Vergani provides the necessary historical perspective. If the copy of "The Prince" you are teaching/reading in your class does not have comprehensive notes or annotations, you will find this information particularly helpful. These historical illustrations also help students make the connection between the past and the present finding contemporary counterparts for the types of "princes" Machiavelli describes. In my experience, reading the summaries and commentaries after reading the respective chapters in "The Prince" is, as always, the best way to use these Cliff's Notes. Besides, our family name appears in the book as one of Machiavelli's examples.

I thought that Niccolo Machiavelli's book, The Prince, was extremely well written. It was very vivid in its descriptions. I believe this book should be considered one of the greatest works of literature ever. I highly recommend you read it. I guarantee you will not be disapointed.

The exhibit was astounding - this museum is HUGE! The works of art featured are very diverse, both in theme, style and culture. The book really is a nice tribute to this grand exhibition. Any Californian who likes both popular art and "marginal" or underground art would be satisfied with this book.

Finally, an expansive and critical, although bewildering, survey of California's visual culture and its impact on American culture at large! Beautiful in its design and generous in illustrations, the catalog offers insight into the complexities of America's "wild frontier." What makes this catalog/exhibtion most intriguing is its inclusion of ephemera, framed by the organizers as important historical and cultural documents of life in California. Often overlooked, these items are often more telling than the cultural productions of visual artists and offer interesting juxtapositions to the art also presented. In addition to the discourse between hi and low culture, is the discussion of the cultural and racial diversity of California's population and its effect on culture and identity. The writers and curators bring together important documents, visuals, and art that construct diverse racial, gender, and sexual identities and also offer critical insight to these.

It took me two years to find a copy of Barron Storey's Marat/Sade Journals...and it was well worth the wait. Inside unfolds a collection of the images thoughts over which Storey obsessed as he dealt with the end of a love affair and his frustrations with his life's work. This collection of sketchbook paintings and quotations from Peter Weiss play out far better than the actual play Marat/Sade and communicate the deep set depression that shrouds any man after he has broken up with the woman he loved. Barron Storey's works are hard to find. I highly recommend the Marat/Sade journals, the 1995 release of Barron Storey's Watch, and the Boy Racer (published in an old issue of Heavy Metal) to any one interested in Storey's work. And good luck, this stuff is hard to find.

For those of you that know of Barron's amazing journals, this is your first chance keep one for yourself! Barron continues to amaze everyone he meets and teaches, and it is no suprise why. In the Marate Sade Journals, Barron is dealing with the classic play, in his very unique style. By combining text and his beautifully rendered images from the story, he brings to life this piece of literature.

The book was published in 1993 and limited to 1,000 copies, so if you can find it BUY IT! The color reproduction is beautiful and it really shows just how amazing his work is.

Red it, read it, read it! So realistic! It is a must. Loved the book. Felt with the charicters. "Frankly my dear I don't give a damn." Best line ever written!

It is a really good help to review for the test, you can't just read the whole book over, so these notes really helped me study!!! I don't know what I would have done without them!!

The Story: The title refers to the name given to an enormous albino sperm whale who is being hunted by Captain Ahab, the ruthless, single-minded, driven master of a whaling ship. Ahab hunts Moby Dick because, in a previous hunt, Moby Dick amputated Ahab's leg in a failed attempt by Ahab to catch the white whale. The story is told in retrospect by a crewman, Ishmael, of the ship, who was a young, somewhat naive man at the time.

This is not a novel for everyone; it takes a patient and persistent reader to tackle the rich but complicated writing style of Melville, as well as the author's penchant for going off on detailed, descriptive tangents. However, the writing style almost becomes poetic at times, and symbolism and metaphor abound. The closest thing to Melville's style I've found amongst contemporary writers is Gene Wolfe ("The Book of the New Sun", "The Book of the Short Sun", "The Book of the Long Sun"). Wolfe also borrowed from Melville the device of telling the story from the viewpoint of young, naive observers, who report what they see with little bias or editorializing, which leaves the reader to interpret the story on his/her own. Melville drew a clear picture of life on a whaling vessel of that era.

To me, this story is a detailed and adventurous tale of obsession verging on insanity. Ahab is so focused on catching and killing Moby Dick that he loses sight of his own welfare and the welfare of his men. He never questions his own motives; he is out after revenge for losing his leg, as well as out to redress the insult of a simple beast not accepting the dominion of Man. Moby Dick's defiance of Mankind's superiority and sovereignty is seen as an outrage, a matter of honor for Captain Ahab to resolve. But, why did Moby Dick bite off Ahab's leg in the first place? Ahab sees it as an act of war by the whale, a refusal to bow down to the Master of the Earth (Mankind). Might it not just as easily be an animal naturally defending itself against a predator (Mankind) invading his (Moby Dick's) domain?

Jay Nussbaum wrote a book called "Blue Road to Atlantis" which is a gem of a story that retells Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea" from the fish's point of view. Mr. Nussbaum could make quite a story out of Moby Dick's point of view of this puny maniac who keeps harassing him and trying to kill him.

I'm still reading the book, but this version is quite helpful because in the back it has explanations for Melville's sometimes confusing allusions.

Why did I buy this book? I am a middle-aged professor, comfortably situated, and needing neither to impress anyone, nor to make more money, nor to "take exams." But for me, it is a joy at any age to improve my mind.

This book is excellently designed for self-study.

The first part gives you a wide variety of standard techniques, explaining clearly the kind of memory task where each applies, e.g., sequential versus non-sequential. The second part allows you to practice and develop your new skills on 11 different academic subjects, which run the full gamut of humanities and sciences, such as might be encountered in high school or college.

One very effective feature: throughout both parts of the book, the author follows brief tutorial sections on the techniques--seldom longer than a page--with an exercise where you can solidify your grasp and get immediate feedback. I think when you see how well you are doing, you'll be strongly encouraged to continue. This is also an advantage over the well-known Memory Book by Lorayne and Lucas, which I once attempted to study; in that book, the chapters were fairly long, and at the end the authors might suggest you make up an exercise on your own to test the new technique. However, passing a test you made up yourself seems a little chintzy! Or maybe, my creativity was not up to the task. In any case, I gave up on that book after about 2 chapters, notwithstanding all the amusing anecdotes that fill it.

In the second half, I wanted to strengthen my grasp, so I did all the subjects outside my own strong area (physics, math). These are areas I normally have neither much interest nor aptitude, but the techniques came through with flying colors. Out of the 43 exercises I did, with 319 separate items of information, I missed only 10.5 items (and I graded myself conservatively). In other words, my score was 96.7% correct. Now I don't know how well I would have done w/o those techniques, but my memory is entirely mediocre--I am one of those unfortunates who turns the page on a book and sometimes cannot remember what he just read--and it is very doubtful that my usual "brute force" techniques, applied over a similar study time, would have netted me a retention score above 33-50%.

At first glance, techniques of memory play a role somewhat similar to that of glasses on a near-sighted person: they do not enhance his natural biologic capacity, but they give him "workarounds" using other factors at his disposal, in particular, visual and verbal associations built up with help of his own creativity. I was surprised and delighted, as I worked through the exercises, to discover in myself an ability to make creative mental associations I never knew I had. So in this sense, it seems that the techniques did change my brain for the better. I imagine that the techniques, if used often, may become more and more second nature and eventually even "first nature."

I am so glad I found this book: unlike many a self-help book, it did live up to its promises. Dr. Browning, thank you for making available such a readable and well-structured guide!

I think this is a great book for Junior and Senior High Students that have trouble rememboring information for big tests, such as final exams.

I found this book to be helpful. It consists of 8 sections (A through H) that cover broad tasks and specific skills in FrontPage 2000. Course Technology publishes the Illustrated series, and they also publish the New Perspectives Series and the Shelly Cashman Series. I actually prefer the Shelly Cashman series and the book Microsoft FrontPage 2000: Complete Concepts and Techniques.

I also like two books from Microsoft Press: FrontPage 2000 Step-by-Step and Running FrontPage 2000. And I recommend FrontPage 2000 Simplified by Ruth Maran.

This book was selected as the required textbook for learning Microsoft Frontpage at St. Petersburg Junior College in Clearwater, Florida. It's not only well designed, but the illustrations ensure that you won't ever be confused about what to select, what the end results are, and is one of the best beginning - intermediate manuals I've purchased on this subject. It includes comprehensive instructions and also offers an excellent Web companion site which you will find extremely beneficial. Had I not been required to buy this book for college work, I would have missed a wonderful, well constructed manual!

A must-have for persons interested in identifying mushrooms (including which might be edible) and fungi (including puff balls, brackens, slime molds and plant pathogenic fungi) of the Northeast (from the eastcoast on over to Michigan). We used this guide as required text in a grad-level course I took on fungi - and I kept it after the class because it was so enjoyable. The author clearly loves his subject..and the photographs and illustrations are excellent. It also includes other vital identifying characteristics such as spore print info that are musts for a proper ID. Great though, for even those only interested in possibly finding out what the weird shelf fungus is growing on a rotting log or casual nature lovers.

This book by George Barron is a wonderful feild guide. Every picture is large and in vivid color not like many books that that have small or unclear pictures. This detail makes distinguishing alike mushrooms simple, and if you are still confused Mr. Barron's simple laid back notes on each will correct any confusion. The book has user friendly color coded sections. There is even extra information on edible and toxic mushrooms overall there is no better book on the market today to identify mushrooms period. Although Mr. Barron is an expert on this subject and has a Ph.D in Mycology he is a master at keeping it simple. If you are intrested in this topic, buy this book!