I've read a little of this and that about Chinese history and religion, and I needed a book to fill in the basics and the details. This was perfect.

First, the selections included excerpts of almost everything I'd ever heard of: Shang Oracle Bones, the Analects of Confucius and the Confucian classics including the I Ching; Mozi; the Tao Te Ching; Zhuangzi (who famously dreamed that he was a butterfly); Mencius; Xunzi; the Zuozhuan; Sun Tzu's art of war; all kinds of stuff about Chinese schools of Buddhism including the Lotus Sutra and the Flower Garden Sutra and the history of Guanyin and Wutai Shan; Li Po (Li Bo) and Tu Fu (Du Fu); and neo-Confucianism (which was so influential in Korea). In short, this is really, practically the "Eatern Canon" and the selections are deserving of such a label. I was in turns morally and intellectually challenged, uplifted, informed and surprised; but rarely bored and never disappointed.

Second, the introductory essays were exactly what I wanted to know: who might have written it, and when, and who read, and what it meant to them. For all that information, they were still brief and the bibliography was sufficient to help me chase the points that left me curious. An important thing these essays did was to cover the political, historical and social backgrounds (and foregrounds) of the texts, so I learned about Chinese history as well as literature and religion. If that is what you want to do, this book will serve you well.

The binding is excellent, and while the price might look steep I have to say it's a bargain considering what you get.

I didn't read Volume Two, and so I don't know if it is as good. It is certainly a lot smaller!

This second edition of a classic provides an update on a reference recommended for college-level collections specializing in Chinese literature. Sources of Chinese Tradition has been recognized already as a scholarly staple: in its new form Sources of Chinese Tradition has been extended to include the Deng Xiaoping and Jiang Zemin eras of China and includes invaluable source readings on history and literature of the times, from the 18th-century Qing civilization onward.

Genuinely good, and full of usefull and clear informatio

Richard B. Wright has penned a novel that is written with poetic style and grace. Clara Callan centres on the two Callan sisters - Clara and Nora. Nora, the younger sister has set out for New York to advance her career as a radio performer. The subdued Clara, remains in Whitfield were she continues on as a school teacher. Both of the Callan parents have died and all that remain are Clara and Nora.

The novel is compromised of letters that are sent between the two sisters over the period of 4 years - 1934-1938. In between the letters, Clara keeps a journal that details her life in her small Ontario town. Through the journal entries and the letters, the reader will become part of the Callan sister's lives. Clara Callan will have the reader look beyond the ordinary to the complexity that makes life. Each sister will face numerous challenges and obstacles that strengthen their hold on themselves and each other.

Set at the time of the great depression and the onset of World War 2, Wright was able to make the 30's come alive. Aside from the pending war, he details the events of the time with such description and authority. The reader experiences the marvel that 'Gone With The Wind' incited and the fist color movie, 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'. We experience the telephone and the amazing birth of the Dionne Quints.

Richard B. Wright is truly a master of his craft. Clara Callan is a novel that is destined to reach further than just a Canadian audience.

Clara Callan, the protagonist of Wright's novel, is a small town spinster in the 1930s. She lives a reasonably comfortable life thanks to the inheritance of her father's house and a job as a local schoolteacher. Through her diary entries and exchanges of letters, mainly with her more glamorous younger sister Nora, Clara reveals herself to the reader. Wright has created a believable character that "grows on you" as her personality emerges little by little. Life's difficulties during the Depression years, in particular for a single woman in rural Southern Ontario become apparent through the description of daily events. However, a very dramatic personal incident and its aftermath force Clara to confront her new circumstances in a very direct manner. While she was accustomed to express her daily experiences and reflections in poems, events interfere and poetry becomes impossible. She recognizes "how suddenly a life can become misshapen, divided brutally into before and after a dire event." Her beliefs are challenged and so is her self-contained whole-ness as a person.

Clara's personal story is embedded in the realities of the mid-thirties where unemployment is rife and poverty spreading. Although at the periphery of the main thrust of the book, Wright alludes to the emerging pre-war anxieties. He touches on the contrasts between city and rural living, utilizing Clara's reluctance to accept such innovations as the telephone, as an example. Yet, the regular Saturday trips to Toronto, perceived by her as a necessary escape from the village, lead to a new, important phase in her personal development, giving her also a new taste of independence. She visits her sister in New York, although in rather difficult time in her life. Cleverly, Wright lets her visit pre-war Italy as a third party to her sister's vacation. It allows the author to add impressions of the growing political conflicts in Europe as a backdrop without losing the focus of the story.

The counterweight to Clara is Nora, who could not bear small-town Ontario and leaves for New York to "make it in radio". She becomes successful as a radio voice in daytime "soaps" and her personal life seems to take on some aspects of a soap opera itself. Nora is privileged in finding a solid rock in a glamorous female friend, Evelyn, while her on and off affairs are far less successful. Clara, always concerned about her sister and her superficial lifestyle, attempts to remain the firm family base for her sister, but her own life story places her more and more on a shaky ground. She finds advice and empathy through her correspondence with Evelyn.

Clara Callan is a very engaging story indeed. Wright successfully places himself into the mind of a woman: Clara's personality quietly and gently takes hold of the reader as one follows her in the exploration of the multifaceted realities of her time and place.

not a bad book. I felt coverage could be much much better. Referencing would enhance the value of the text. Cost is too high for a simple Q&A book.

Fast final review just before boards. Probably picked up 30 additional questions that I would not have known.

This is a very interesting book by its unique structure, which basically is a documentary recorder of an advertising conference. Instead of only one or two authors writing a book, The Future of Advertising is most likely written by a group of people who have been involved in the advertising industry for years. Richard Adler's research, the future of advertising on the attention economy, is the major documentary piece of this book, following by various opinions and afterthoughts from other advertising experts. To me, which reading this book, it felt like I was like actually attending a conference and listening to Adler¡¦s report and others¡¦ discussions from diverse perspectives.

According to Adler, in the future, the total amount of information given will keep increasing, but the actual amount of human attention is fixed because no one can absorb all the information that surrounds us. Advertisers have to create more innovative strategies and techniques to ensure their message is delivered efficiently to their consumers. One of his predictions ¡Vin fact, has already begun to happen ¡Vis that ¡§individuals will be able to exercise more control over the media content that they consume¡¨(p.43). In the future, not only our capacity to produce information increased extraordinarily, but our ability to distribute it is also expanding rapidly. Once the media content (or advertising content) becomes democratized, the distinction between consumers and media-content creators will diminish. To advertisers, a possible solution to overcome such challenge is to invent a ¡§new content¡¨, which the boundary between advertising and editorial information is ¡§nonexistent¡¨ or ¡§indistinct¡¨.

I highly recommend this book as a ready primer to those people who are interested in advertising, future forecasting, and advertising-and-society relationships. Several significant social issues, such as privacy, social ecology, cultural role and attention economy, are all addressed at this book. Perhaps, its brevity allows for expedient reading, yet does not provide ample sufficient discussions.

This book does have good content but for those of you who are in your first semesters of Radiology technology it clearly does not simplify the information. It does not produce good examples or diagrams to make learning easy. It is also very cut and dry and makes it very difficult to read. It has no glossary and is poor in producing definitions. I highly recommend Bushong not only is the book fun to read but makes some of the more complex principles easier to understand. The workbook is really great also to help you prepare for your test and the end of the chapter quesions are nice because it helps to check see if you got the understanding of the chapter.

I find this one a "better" overall textbook than Christensen and Bushong. More inspiring, cosier and fairly well written. Downside : I personally found myself wanting some radiation physics tables that I had to find elsewhere ("Medical Imaging Physics"), and think the authors left out many interesting aspects physics wise, but your average student might find this works out just fine. Almost perfect starter.

Overall, this is an excellent text for radiography students and also physician residents in radiology. The text is comprehensive and easy to understand. We particularly like the abundance of drawings and tables. The special imaging chapters are very detailed and provide excellent information for students and others who use this text for reference purposes. The chapter on mammography is particularly good as it is the only chapter of its kind in any textbook. This chapter is excellent for those programs that teach comprehensive mammography. The mammography art and images are superb. Seasoned radiography educators are authors of this text and that makes this a unique book and one that is accurate technically.