This is a detailed and extensive biography of Abraham Robinson, from his chilhood to his life in Yale. A well-writen and most carefully researched text that is a plesure to read. I love this book, specialy chapter four, Robinson war years, and chapter eigth, when he was is UCLA. You don't have to read Robinsons "Non-Standard Analysis" to apreciate this book, but knowing the implication in modern mathematics of it will help. All in all, a superb biography and specially great for epistemology of non-standard analysis.

It was so good! Trigoboff wrote a great novel about what was happening in Israel! I could really identify with Issac and Abu. The hatred was distinct in the beggininning but was a fondess at the end.

This is a group effort from a trio of investigators at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, New Jersey, an institution whose researchers were among the creators of modern acoustic phonetics. It is almost a research monograph disguised as a textbook, published by a distinguished scientific publisher. This leads to frustration of the specialist reader at times, when one looks for technical summaries of the material which may be lacking. The book could be considered a complete revision of the classic Bell Labs book by Potter, Kopp, and Green (Kopp) under the title Visible Speech, published in 1947 and including with broader material on speech acoustics and its applications a 225-page description of the sounds of American English from an acoustic point of view.

The book is a systematic description of the phonetics of American English based on acoustic data from one male informant, a native of Pittsburgh, with limited data from a woman speaker. This is a weakness shared by most of the literature on speech acoustics; because the fundamental frequency of women's speech is higher than that of men, women's speech is technically more difficult to analyze precisely in acoustic terms. The limitation to one main subject is far outweighed by the precious systematic data which the book contains for most aspects of American English phonetics. Of course, it also suggests further investigation of the ways in which humans speaking somewhat different versions of the same language understand one another, which could be said to constitute the other, perceptual, side of the subject matter of this work. This aspect, by the way, is well reviewed in the excellent chapters on perception in J.M.Picket's revised book The Acoustics of Speech Communication (Allyn and Bacon, 1999).

The Bell authors provide valuable introductory chapters on basic concepts of phonetics and phonology, and speech acoustics. There is a growing literature on the basic concepts of acoustic phonetics, such as the new editions of the well-established books by Ladefoged (1996) and Kent and Read (2001), which some readers may wish to consult. Then follows a chapter on the static properties of speech sounds; many treatments of acoustic phonetics never get past this elementary level. However, the book by Olive, Greenwood, and Coleman makes a precious contribution in the systematic following chapters on the treatment of English sounds in context. Many individual aspects of this topic are well treated in the research literature, but
this comprehensive investigation of the speech of a single speaker is unique. There is broad treatment not only of formant transitions between consonants and vowels, but also of consonant clusters and interactions, contextual variants of sounds such as [l] and [r](using standard notation for phonetic units), and a long final chapter on acoustic variability of sounds and dialectal variability. A precious feature of the index is that it not only includes a detailed phonetic and technical listing but also gives the location in the text of treatments of individual sound sequences, shortening many searches.

Apart from its merits as a research monograph, this work
also works well as a classroom text. The reviewer has used it in a class on applied English phonetics with extensive spectrographic lab experience, in which the students studied their own speech acoustically and compared it to the results described by Olive et al. A particularly valuable role of the book is for non-English speakers who are able to use the objective character of the acoustic analysis to bypass the obstacle of uncertain perception of English sounds and assist themselves in improving their mastery of English phonetics. Elementary speech acoustics on this level is not difficult, and this aspect of the work was very much appreciated by foreign students in my class.

This is a work of enormous value to a variety of students and specialists, particularly in phonetics, linguistics, and speech pathology, but also for engineers and the increasing ranks of those working on speech recognition. The reviewer finds that he has had to gradually increase the number of loaner copies of this work on his office shelf, because the Olive book is not in the local library, and his students want prolonged access to a work which describes English acoustic phonetics competently and(within its limits)comprehensively. This book is is not as well known as it deserves to be.

The reviewer has some complaints. In general, the articulatory discussions are not as accurate or precise as the acoustic ones; of course, that is not what the book is about. If one must mention published collections of papers on speech acoustics, the indispensable book Readings in Acoustic Phonetics edited by Lehiste (1967 with several reprints) which preserves publication format is more useful than the one cited. It is regrettable and puzzling that there is not a single first-author work of Gordon Peterson in the bibliography. These are minor details. This work deserves to be well known, and to be in all major university libraries and institutions in which linguistic or clinical phonetics has significance, as well as in scholars' libraries. It should be read carefully and repeatedly until its pages are dirty and scribbled on, like my copy. The first acoustic specification of sounds of a language known to the reviewer was the publication of formant frequencies of whispered vowels published by Samuel Reyher in 1679. The book by Olive and his colleagues reflects a long and proud past, and its subject matter seems at present to be enjoying a deserved revival of interest.

From the moment that I read the first chapter, I knew that this author was taking me along with him and his family on their journey . I enjoyed being the stow-away reader that was involved in their everyday adventure without ever having to leave the comforts of my home.
I've learned so much more about Europe being a fellow traveller myself like things that I didn't notice or do when I was physically there. Now when I visit Champagne, Moselle, Turin... I will be sure to enjoy retracing Joseph, Aurora and Cameron's passage. The book has given me a bigger perspective of the finer things that Europe has to offer. The only disappointing part of the book was knowing that soon it would end. Therefore, I savored the experience one journey at a time.
Joseph's wit and gifted writing skills brought his book to be full of humor, very informative and real. I cannot wait for Joseph Barry's next book to come out and to be a stow away again.

This book provides the reader/actor with a combination that unlocks the Bard's English. It focuses on how the Elizabethan schoolboy was trained in the subject of "loudspeaking," and thus, how theatrical speech was understood in Renaissance England. By revealing the underlying rhetorical structure to Shakespeare's schoolboy training, it leads the actor down the corridors of figures of speech, the powers of persuasion, and the passion and rhythm inherant in the language. It draws clear connections between Shakepeare's lines and rhetoric primers of the 1560's. ACTING SHAKEPEARE provides chapters on specific forms of figures of speech, tropes and figures of sentence, speaking the "score" of the poetry, and bringing it into the body. The book is a clever tool to help the American actor pass from the unknown to the familiar simply, easily and logically. It is not the only such tool, but it is perhaps one of the very best. I have found it especially useful for actors just beginning their work on verse plays. Because it teaches skills learned by Elizabethan primary-school-aged youth, I have felt comfortable using it for actors as young as 7th grade, and no less effectively with experienced adult actors. The process has been remarkably rewarding and successful.

"Acting Your Inner Music" is an excellent addition to the
library of the creative arts therapist. Like a flowing jazz
composition, it seamlessly blends information how psychodrama, an
action method developed by Joseph Moreno's uncle, Dr. J.L. Moreno, can
be enhanced and deepened by the use of music as well as many engaging
stories and observations from the author's work with music and healing
from around the world.

Psychodramatists will find many ideas to
introduce or expand the use of music in their sessions. Music
therapists, even those who are not trained in psychodrama, can adapt
some of the techniques in working with their clients; art and dance
therapists can draw upon many of the ideas and there are many
applications for others involved in group work including guided
imagery, improvisation and musical dialog. Musicians, artists and
theater people who know little about psychodrama -- or want to know
more -- will find stimulation for improvisation and connecting with
their audiences.

Now in an expanded and updated second edition, Joseph Lazzaro's Adaptive Technologies For Learning & Work Environments continues to be a superbly presented survey and explanation of the latest advancements in library staff and patron assistive hardware and software, along with essential information on how to implement them, and how to provide vital training and technical support for them. Detailed chapters identify options for library patrons with visual, hearing, motor, speech, and learning disabilities. This is now supplemented with new chapters devoted to keyboard commands, built-in accessibility utilities, and Internet/Intranet accessibility. Of special interest is the chapter devoted to PC hardware, software, and peripherals providing the library staff member with all the basics needed to work with many different forms of adaptive equipment. More than two hundred products are evaluated, ranging from screen readers to voice command, to word predictors. Adaptive Technologies For Learning & Work Environments is an indispensable, comprehensive, user friendly, and highly recommended reference.

The stories describe life in the opium dens, dealing with the Federal Narcotics Farms (Texas & Kentucky)and dealing with the pressures applied in the Anslinger era. It's a telling exposé of how little progress has been made in Drug Control Policy.

This book was an invaluable tool in making my decision to attend chiropractic college and become a doctor of chiropractic. It was fillied with real life stories of the struggles in becoming a competent doctor. I graduated in June 1998 as a doctor of chiropratic and credit this book with helping me make my decision. Great read

a practical and useful book for the clinician working with adolescents in family therapy. Clear and readable. Theoretically sound.