This book is a great book to get to know the thoughts of Edward Weston on his daily work of photography and personal life. This is a diary type book of daily entries of thoughts. It has some funny points and sad points (as a lives do). Photographers today can identify with the great Photographer on his progress of daily work. If you want to see Edward Weston's thoughts in his daily life this is the book to get! I'd have to say it's awesome to know the thoughts and happenings of a great photographer of the past!

I've often wondered what makes a pro photographer choose a particular scene or perspective ... and now I know! It's nice to read about a side of landscape photography other than just speeds, apertures and focal lengths. This is a really inspirational book and had me out with my camera for the first time in ages! Each chapter gives an excellent insight into what motivates the photographer to take a particular picture and I've already seen an improvement in my pictures. My recommendation? A definite must for anyone interested in getting better landscapes!

MacDiarmid's magnum opus begins in a bar. The opening lines, translated from the Scots dialect the poem is written in, go: "I'm not so much drunk as just dead tired; it's hard work upending glass after glass after glass. . . ."

The story: the speaker, drunk and trying to make his way home from the bar at the end of the night, falls down on a hilltop and rolls under a thistle bush, where he lies staring up at the moon and considering everything from Burns to Schoenberg to what his wife will say when he finally gets home. And what an adventure it is, alternately (and sometimes all at once) hilarious, moving, and profound, all the way up to the poem's mock-Hamlet ending: "Oh, I have silence left!"

"And well you might,/Or so Jean will say/After such a night."

No one who loves poetry should miss this incredible performance by MacDiarmid.

If you loved Catcher in the Rye, then you will love this. The title character John Earthfont embodies the broken-home poster child syndrome. The story is so realistic that you feel as if Sircable is writing about your past. This book may convince you to go see a psychiatrist and work out all of the issues from your childhood. The only bad thing about this book is the authors need to display his extensive vocabulary, but after a few chapters he relaxes and you don't need a dictionary to read it(Although it might help). However, if you come from a broken home or have any questions about your sanity, pick up this book and use it as a guideline for proper diminishment of your mental health. I suggest everyone read this book.

Edward Weston gave more that 500 of his favorite works to the Huntington Library. Note books and other written material complete a major collection. This book is a major attempt to organize and say something meaningful about a prolific, private genius. I haven't read it all but I've already learned a lot and I've studied Weston for 40 years. The reproductions and their display as 8X10 contact prints is one of the most astonishing feats of printing I've ever seen, especially the nudes of Charis Wilson and the incredible sand dunes at Oceano. There are many photos that I have never seen, many I have seen and some I've held in my hand. This gives me the perspective to say that this book is worth buying just for the prints. You'll think as I have that you missed something until now, especially if all you've seen is book prints. This is as close you'll come to the real thing in print. I've sat buried in this book for half an hour, afraid to breath.

The front cover says "Everything you ever wanted to know about the unknown"
They were not kidding. This is a series of short essays packed with profound questions and a powerful amount of knowledge to back the questions up. If you are a Gary Zukav fan then this will defiantly be to complex for you.
The contributors are too numerous to mention; however they include information from Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking. Just as you think this is a past cutting edge physics book, it switches to "What is consciousness and do we really need it?" You will find augments for and against your favorite theories.

Some of the Contents are

Why
O. R. Frich

The Lure of Completeness
Sir Hermann Bondi

Nature of Knowledge
R. A. Lyttlen

Is Physics Legislated by Cosmogony?
J. A. Wheeler and C. M. Patton

Is Space Curved?
I.W. Roxburgh

Relativity and Time
T. Gold

Mathematics in Social Science
C. W. Kilmister

Learning and Memory and the Nervous System

H.A. Buchtel and G. Berlucchi

Sleep
W.B. Webb

The Veils of Gaia
P. Cloud

The Design of Novel Replicating Polymers
A.G. Cairns-Smith and C.J. Davis

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Plan on some thinking time.

Fantastic guide to early American photography. Includes Carleton Watkins, Timothy O'Sullivan, Eadweard Muybridge, Andrew Joseph Russell, William Henry Jackson. Beautiful prints and impressive historical data. My back aches just thinking of the amount of physical labor that went into making each spectacular scene.

This is a fascinating story by a man who fought in three wars as an infantryman, beginning as a private. It is obvious that he knows how to stay alive in combat and spends time talking about what he learned, but he attributes his own success to a belief that God had a purpose for him. One of the two or three best memoirs by a working infantryman that I have read. W. Dannenmaier (author of "We Were Innocents)."

One of the best F&A books written for general managers I have read. Detailed enough to give the reader an excellent grasp of the subject, but doesn't require calculus to understand. If you're a manager who cringes during discussions of cash flow, cost of capital, and discount rates, this book is for you. Can't wait for other titles in the series!

As a devoted 1000 island cottager, I was particularly impressed by the detail that the author included. While I have boated by many of the islands myself, I found that I really knew very little about them until I read this book. A true find for those who enjoy a colorful rendition of the local history.