I cannot overrate the depth & breadth of Campbell's insights.This book is at once visionary and scholarly, passionate and detached:in sum, it reveals the powerful (under)currents that helped to shape our minds and hearts into what we are. From Persia and Israel, from Greece and Rome, through the crucible of Norse and Irish mythologies of the Middle Ages-this book ends with Zarathustra's words "By my love and my hope I beseech you-do not forsake hero in your soul!"

Throughout the last 100 or so years, artists, collectors and curators have debated what a museum should be. Unfortunately, most museums are buildings that immediately focus on art as icon. Many contemporary artists want just the opposite. MASS MoCA represents a breakthrough in establishing a new sort of museum. Its purpose is to "mount in-depth quality work that would otherwise remain unseen for lack of properly scaled, appropriately tools facilities." That purpose has also been expanded to include being a location for the performing arts, both outdoors and in a theater.

Located 5 miles from the Williams College museum of art and 35 miles from Tanglewood in North Adams, Massachusetts, MASS MoCA adds an important new element to a major cultural center (especially in the summers).

The story of the museum is also very interesting, having been based in a rundown series of converted mill buildings that had housed manufacturing since 1768. Most recently abandoned by the Sprague Electric Company (who originally took it over from the Arnold Print Works -- makers of printed fabric), the facility covers 13 acres and over 780,000 square feet of building space. Originally, Massachusetts had planned to provide most of the funding. A recession and change in political leadership greatly slowed the progress, and much of the funding eventually came form private donors.

The book has many wonderful elements. The director, Joseph Thompson, has a fine essay explaining the museum's roots and concept. The architect, Simeon Bruner, also weighs in with his thoughts about the design along with drawings of his plans. The pieces de resistance, however, are the wonderful photographs of the site (both before and after) in black and white and color that capture the transformation. These were done by Nicholas Whitman, and started before the museum was planned. He and his father had both worked in the Sprague plant, and he wanted to preserve the memory of the space before it was torn down. There are some stunning side-by-side photographs of before in black and white, with after in color with beautiful art on the walls.

Most of the current photographs were taken during the 1999 grand opening of the museum, which I had the pleasure to attend. The classic piece that defines MASS MoCA during that opening was the display of Robert Rauschenberg's "The 1/4 Mile or 2 Furlong Piece" from 1981, which can only easily be displayed in full in MASS MoCA. There are also nice photographs of Natalie Jeremjenko's "Tree Logic" and James Rosenquist's "The Summer in the Econo-Mist." There are some fine John Chamberlain sculptures as well.

This book is a great resource to have for any contemporary art lover, or someone who is interested in new museum forms. I also recommend it as a working document for a museum still in progress, for most of the development of the MASS MoCA site is still ahead. If you are a museum trustee or are planning a new museum, you should read this book, as well.

I should admit that I collect contemporary art, and love to visit collections of contemporary art. If you share that love, you'll adore MASS MoCA!

Abolish your stalled thinking about what a museum is and should be! Also, be sure to give yourself a treat, and visit MASS MoCA soon. It's well worth a special trip from Boston, New York, or Philadelphia.

Donald Mitchell

Coauthor of The Irresistible Growth Enterprise (available in August 2000) and The 2,000 Percent Solution

(donmitch@fastforward400.com)

I first encountered Father Jungmann's Mass of the Roman Rite in the late seventies while attending the Center for Mediaeval Studies, University of Toronto. It was an imposing tome at the time, it still is. Nonetheless, it is a magisterial treatment of the development of the Western liturgical tradition from its beginnings at the Last Supper through the changes which were instituted as a result of the Council of Trent. It is an invaluable source for the process by which the western rite developed. Fr. Jungmann throughout shows amply the variety of liturgical forms that developed in the west (examples from the gallican, mozarabic, sarum, etc.) and the gradual unification into the Roman Rite. Fr. Jungmann approaches his subject with awe and respect and at the same time is a relentless historical critic - this is a very difficult position to maintain. A large part of the value of this book is found in the author's ability to walk that narrow line. This book was influential with the Liturgical Reformers who changed so much after the Vatican Council II (though the changes wrought by the reformers far exceeded spirit and text of Fr. Jungmann's work). The major failing of the book is that its focus is too narrow and does not adequately consider the comparative and shared liturgical background of the Eastern Churches and, indeed, of Judiac liturgical practices. But, this is a quibble compared to the monumental nature of the endeavor that Jungmann undertook and completed.

If you want to learn how today's solid-state amplifiers work, there's no better place to turn than this hands-on guide. Through a unique combination of theory, practical
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This book provides examples of inspirational teaching and techniques for reaching students. For me it ranks up there right next to Wilbert McKeachie's "Teaching Tips".

As a middle school substitute teacher, I'm always looking for things to use as daily problem to open the class with. This book is GREAT!! Problems are divided by topic so it easy to pick & choose. Answers are completely explained.

Since my first contact with mathematical logic, I've always seen it as a kind of brainwashing, forcing one's mind to work based on several little pieces of thought. Nevertheless, it can be described as "a necessary evil", because the mindless use of mathematical logic throughout mathematics is very treacherous, as it can be seen in the problems regarding the axiom of choice, the Banach-Tarski paradox in measure theory, the issues about the undecidability of certain assumptions in set theory, and the very limitations of mathematical logic.

Usually, of course, most work in mathematics doesn't require a deep knowledge of rigorous mathematical logic, but it's always a good thing to a serious mathematician to have some acquaintance with it, even if it's just to avoid boobytraps. Then, it's hard to find a better choice than Shoenfield's book. After a long absence from the book market, A K Peters made the wise decision of reprint this masterpiece. Although most of its contents are fairly standard for a book on mathematical logic (unlike the equally marvellous out-of-print book of Yu. I. Manin, which has a more philosophical slant and concerns itself with issues such as quantum logic, literature, etc.), it provides proofs for many propositions that in most of the literature are only stated. It has, of course, some extras not generally found in other books, as for example issues concerning constructibility of sets.

But the most important characteristic of this book is its clarity and precision. It doesn't waste time in unnecessary stuff, and shows why we need mathamatical logic at all. Although it lacks some topics (for example, it doesn't discuss other axiomatic set theories besides Zermelo-Fraenkel. This is not so nice, because it lacks the distinction between classes and sets, one of the tenets of the Goedel- -Bernays-von Neumann set theory, although it is conceptually easier than this last one. But maybe it's a pedagogical choice, because the set theory we all intuitively know is more or less based in Zermelo-Fraenkel), its main concern is pedagogy, so this limitation has a sound reason: this book exposes mainly the logic present in the math most mathematicians and alike scientists (mathematical physicists, etc.) use. Its solidity and razor-sharp precision is great to instruct these people to be more careful with the math they use.

Besides that, some of the missing topics can be complemented by Mendelsson's "Introduction to Mathematical Logic", which is a bit more "merciful" book, which, by the other side, welcomes the thoroughness of Shoenfield.

One of the best books Ive ever read. It is a must have.

I have had a hard time trying to find a biblical commentary that is (1) Catholic, (2) devotional, and (3) scholarly. Most commentaries are either too dry and academic, or they are just simplistically devotional in nature. This book I think strikes the right balance. I also like the format - a section of the gospel is printed, then a devotional/commentary follows on that section. With other commentaries, I got tired of going from the top of the page to the footnotes (like in the Navarre and Ignatius commentaries). I'm looking forward to buying the other books in the series, and I hope they continue it to other books in the Bible!

This book is a "must read" for health professionals and planners respnsible for bioterrorism preparedness. The book is the most comprehensive, thorough source of information to date on the varied aspects of planning for and responding to bioterrorism.

The book begins with a historical overview of the use of biological weapons. The next two chapters, respectively, provide detailed information on the biological agents that the CDC considers to be the most dangerous and likely to be weaponized (Category "A" agents), followed by Category "B" and "C" agents - agents which have the potential to be used as weapons. These chapters include terrific consolidated tables that provide a ready reference and overview of pertinent information on each of the biological agents.

The next two chapters are two of the most important in the book for health professionals and bioterrorism planners. First, the book provides an overview of the CDC's Laboratory Response Network and the most important laboratory tests and procedures for identifying biological agents. Once again the book provides consolidated tables that provide quick reference to the tests and clinical specimens required for each agent. Then the book provides a 10 step approach to identifying a biological attack by modifying the Advanced Trauma Life Support model familiar to emergency health care providers (i.e. Primary and Secondary Surveys). This "tool" can easily be adopted into medical bioterrorism plans and procedures.

The book also provides an epidemiological approach to performing triage in a mass casualty, large-scale bioterroism event based on the PICE (Potential Injury/illness Creating Event)stages by expanding the "SIR" model (Susceptible, Infected, Infective, Removal) to include "Exposed" and "Vaccinated Succesfully" populations. This chapter includes an excellent graphic that summarizes this "SEIRV" methodology.

A chapter on creating a basic bioterrosim incident management plan for hospitals outlines the critical issues that the plan must address, as well as some potential solutions to a few of the more difficult bioterrorism management problems.

The book also addresses an area for which there has been little information previously - vulnerable populations such as children, pregnant women, the elderly and immuno-compromised patients. Once again, two consolidated tables provide excellent ready reference for anibiotic therapy for pregnant women and children.

In addition, the book covers mental health issues, state and federal bioterrorism related programs, and future bioterrorism challenges and provides a community perspective on identifying and responding to a bioterrorism event.