This book was the next best thing to reading "How to win friends and influence people". It helps me understand difficult people, and I'm not angry when I deal with them. The facts are very new, startling, would have taken me years to figure out by myself. Also, it is a readable book.

Bravo on a well conceived and written book. He has started me down the primrose path looking for an older Cirkut camera - would have never know about one except from HIM!

Ungar's book is a wonderful retelling of the Pentagon Papers controversy, from start to finish. It follows the stories of Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the documents, the New York Times reporters and editors who worked with them (in a secret location, for fear of Nixon's government), and the compelling legal battle that followed their publication, reaffirming some of our most basic First Amendment rights. If you want to read just one book on the Pentagon Papers, this should be it.

This is volume six of the Eranos Yearbooks (the published papers of the legendary annual Eranos Conferences.)

The included papers are as follows: 1) Two Ways of Redemption: Redemption as a Solution of the Tragic Contradiction by Boris Vysheslawzeff, 2) On the Origin of the Mysteries in the Light of Ethnology and Indology by Wilhelm Koppers, 3) The Indian World Mother by Heinrich Zimmer, 4) Dragon and Mare, Figures of Primordial Chinese Mythology by Erwin Rousselle, 5) Christ and St. Paul; Christology and Ecclesiology in St. Paul; and Symbols and Rites in the Religious Life of Certain Monastic Orders by Ernesto Buonaiuti, 6) Gnostic Man: The doctrine of Basilides by Gilles Quispel, 7) The concept of Redemption in Manichaeism by Henri-Charles Puech, 8) Nature in Islamic Thought; and The Idea of the Spirit in Islam by Louis Massignon, 9) The Experience of the Spirit in Christian Mysticism by Jean de Menasce, 10) The Madonna as a Religious Symbol by Friedrich Heiler, 11) and Mystical Man by Erich Neumann.

The papers were translated from the original French and German by Ralph Manheim. The editor is Joseph Campbell, who also wrote a brief foreword. The papers were published by the Bollingen Foundation (Bollingen was the name of Jung's home on Lake Zurich.)

This is volume two of the Eranos Yearbooks (the published papers of the legendary annual Eranos Conferences.)

The included papers are as follows: 1) The Indian Theories of Redemption in the Frame of the Religions of Salvation; The Doctrine of Grace in the Religious Thought of India by Paul Masson-Oursel, 2) The Meaning of the Eleusinian Mysteries by Walter F. Otto, 3) The Mysteries of the Kabeiroi by C. Kerenyi, 4) The Orphic Mysteries and the Greek Spirit by Walter Willi, 5) The Ancient Mysteries in the Society of their Times, Their Transformation and Most Recent Echoes by Paul Schmitt, 6) The "Mysteries" of Osiris in Ancient Egypt by Georges Nagel, 7) The Mysteries and Religion of Iran by Jean De Menasce, 8) The Mystery of the Ka'Ba: Symbol and Reality in Islamic Mysticism by Fritz Meier, 9) Jesus' Round Dance and Cruxifiction According to the Acts of John by Max Pulver, 10) The Mystery of the Serpent by Hans Leisegang, 11) Symbolic Representations of the Eucharist by Julius Baum, 12) Transformation Symbolism in the Mass by C.G. Jung, and 13) The Christian Mystery and the Pagan Mysteries by Hugo Rahner.

The papers were translated from the original French and German by Ralph Manheim (except for the paper by Jung which was translated by R.F.C. Hull.) The editor is Joseph Campbell, who also wrote a brief foreword. The papers were published by the Bollingen Foundation (Bollingen was the name of Jung's home on Lake Zurich.)

This is the best reference on the Classical Orders of Architecture I have Seen. It has very good text in the first chapter explaining the orders and proportions, but what makes this book unique are the measured drawings of examples of each of the orders. Many variations and richly illistrated.

A genius poems by Nobel Prize winner Russian poet J. Brodsky will lead you through the magic of words, ideas, and wolrd experience. Brodsky united in his poetry the brightest thoughts and deepest emotions of The Russian Personality. This is a strongly recomended book for everyone who is trying to understand the mystery of "Russian soul".

Joseph Epstein's collection of essays on various literary figures carries with it two of my favorite virtues: readability and inclusiveness. A book that is readable (or if difficult, rewards the effort, like Faulkner's novels) and that covers all the bases is a joy to find, and "Partial Payments" fits that category nicely. Epstein's basic method is this: read all of a writer's works, a healthy piece of the biographical writings, and then cogitate upon the subject. Each one of Epstein's essays effectively provides an introduction to the writer under scrutiny; each one carries with it a sense of worth and incisive definition of the writer's gifts. Epstein takes for the most part writers who have fallen out of the canon (like H.L. Mencken), or who are no longer read outside of literary history classes (like Theodore Dreiser), or who need fresh views (like E.B. White), and strikes off a portrait in words. Every single one of his essays is worth reading, and most of them have sent me to the local library or Amazon to buy one of the recommended texts. In short, a guidebook to a literary cornucopia of the unjustly forgotten or neglected.

Captain Frelinghuysen, of the 5th Field Artillery Battalion of the U.S. 1st Infantry Division, was ambushed and captured by the Germans in North Africa in WWII. Arriving in a concentration camp in Italy in the dead of winter 1942, he refused to accept the defeat and apathy around him and began a self-imposed program of physical training and Italian, preparing himself for an opportunity to escape. His ordeal of seven weeks of fear, hunger, and cold, on foot in some of the most rugged terrain in Europe, ia good history and fine adventure reading as well. Better maps would make the action easier to follow.

Being born much too late to witness the glory years of the railroad, I love books which show what the good old days looked like. Some of the scenes in the book are familar to me, and that also adds to the book's appeal. This book shows both the machines and the people affiliated with the railraod. Highly recommended.