Edinger is second only to von Franz as an interpreter of Jung, and in this book he takes Jung's AION step by step and explains the most difficult and meaningful parts of the book with unsurpassable acumen. A perfect companion to Jung's own book.

The first time I visited the Saguaro National Park in Tucson, Arizona, I had dozens of questions about saguaros. I wanted to know why their arms grow down toward the ground sometimes and why some of them have a brown woody bark and why some of them have ripples and what happens to you if you get caught shooting at a saguaro. This book answered all of my questions and then some!

I found out that the arms sometimes start to grow downwards if there is a cold spell right as the arms start to grow. Only very old saguaros get the woody bark and they become more like a regular tree as they age. The ripples are caused by droughts and rainy years during growth cycles and you'll be fined very heavily if you shoot at a saguaro because they are protected under state law.

It's a thin, paperback book and it's written in a manner that it would be interesting to children as well as to adults but it's definitely aimed at an older reader. Tons of beautiful desert scenes!

This was very enjoyable and I request it to all my friends

This is a valuable book for anyone interested in the decorative arts, especially for understanding the impact of the respected artist and teacher, Arthur Wesley Dow within both the American Arts and Crafts movement and American visual culture. It is a book suited both for the serious academic as well as the art enthusiast. Nancy E. Greene an Jessie Poesch have achieved a fine balance between their insightful scholarly text and the beautiful illustrations of prints, watercolors, photographs, pottery and furniture by Dow and other well-known exponents of this aesthetic shcool. This is truly a visual feast, a great book all around!

This is the best book available on linear FM pulse compression and coherent sidelobe cancelllation written by the inventors of the polyphase P4 codes and digital (Gramm-Schmidt) CSLC. A must have for anyone in the field of radar signal processing!

The book was very informative. I put it to practical use and saved myself $700 on my last leased vehicle. I have given the book to friends to use and they are thrilled with the results. It was very easy to read and understand.

These poems, sited in Kalamazoo MI (and a few other midwestern towns) and in Liberia (Africa) are beautiful. Her voice and her eye, noticing small things, juxtaposing them with surprising things, are lilting and engaging. Perhaps it's because I just heard her read from this and an earlier collection last week; perhaps her spoken voice lingers in my ear. But even on the page, there is a lightness and fundamental optimism, or hope, in the way this woman sees her wide-ranging world. I most love the poems in which she calls up her far-flung friends and family, calling on London, Accra, Chicago, Jersey City... and the ones in which she notices the small things in her yard, in her memory of home. This is very much a trans-cultural sensibility and vision.

In Wesley's poem "Outside Child," a man hands his wife a child wrapped in a blanket; the child is his, he says, and the wife is angry. "Where is this child's mother?" she asks. This Liberian woman has been a dutiful wife, and she has cared for her own children, and this product of her husband's philandering should not be her concern. But even as she is furious at the man, the "outside" child at her breast has won her over. She will care for this baby, "This thing that will rob her of heart and mind."
So seemed Patricia Jabbeh Wesley's poetry at first glance: poems from outside my world. There are enough African words peppering these poems to merit a glossary at the back of the book. What is this place in Africa to me? I wondered as I began to read. What is this war to me?''it is so far away. But as soon as I looked into the faces of these poems, I cared desperately, and I knew that this war, like all wars, belongs to all of us. Though I am from Wesley's adopted Michigan, land of maples and hickories and cedars, I hold to my breast these poems of the fertile land where kola nut trees and breadfruit trees and palms grow.
As the husband stands before the wife, awaiting the verdict, weeping, she sees him as "a tree after lightning has struck." Throughout this book borne of war-torn Liberia, we read of trees and people felled and uprooted, trees and women offering fruit and crops, trees taking over cities. Children should be running into the woods to play and harvest the fruits, but instead we children march off to war. The Liberian civil war (1989-1996) was famous for its induction of child soldiers, and Wesley brings us the heartbreak of the mothers of those babes with guns and "adjustable ammunition."
The war was unbearable, but the women and men and children who have survived did bear it and continue to bear their losses. There was so much death, according to the poem "War Children," that the ground would no longer accept the dead:
There is no burial ground anymore
In their shallow graves the corpses
dance Liberia's cradles empty.
These poems, however, are not tales of despair. The war-torn landscape is brightened by Wesley's love of village tradition and her joy in remembering the liveliness of Monrovia, as well as her honesty in depicting the more ordinary, ongoing battles of the male-female domestic situation. If the war will just end, these poems seem to say, we will grieve for a long time, but eventually the land will forgive us, the trees will grow and bloom again: the mango, the banana, the breadfruit, the kola nut, and especially the palm, for then the palm wine can flow for the people of Liberia, and all those who left will come home and be welcomed at the doors of their old homes. They will rejoice, as Wesley describes in the first stanza of "One of These Days:"
One of these days
there will be rejoicing
all over the place.
There will be so much shouting,
so much wailing,
so much dancing.
There's going to be
such dancing
as we've never seen before.
There's going to be a day
like that, I say,
and there's no one
who will be able to stop us.

This book specifically addresses the idea of Christian exclusivism, the belief that only through Christ can souls be saved. Without questioning the Bible's authority it seeks to show that even within the Bible is laid the foundations for genuine religious dialogue between different faiths. It was a great help to me during a campus wide evangelization effort. If you are curious how someone can believe in Christianity with all their heart and still accept other religions as valid, read this book. It won't take long.

This is a prized possession in my personal library and an invaluable tool in research, teaching, and preaching. Well written and meticulously researched, it is a great aid to scholarly study