THIS IS A BEAUTIFUL BOOK THAT HAS BROUGHT TEARS TO MY EYES WHEN I READ IT. THE COPIES AT MY LOCAL LIBRARY HAVE DISAPPEARED. I HOPE THAT THIS BOOK GETS REPUBLISHED. THOSE WHO LIKE BERNIE SIEGEL BOOKS SHOULD ESPECIALLY LOVE THIS BOOK. ALSO... THOSE WHO THINK THAT HYPNOTISM IS STAGE-SHOW COMEDY SHOULD MAKE THIS BOOK A MUST-READ IN ORDER TO REALLY FEEL & UNDERSTAND HOW CLINICAL HYPNOSIS CAN BE VERY HEALING & SOOTHING! SINCERELY,MARSHA LAMPERT EMAIL AT MarshAngel@aol.com

This book has been helpful to dispel many myths related to gays, lesbians and bisexuals. I feel that every public library should have one for reference.

The late, great Anthony Newley and his writing partner Leslie Bricusse gave us some superb standards from their shows over the years. All the greats such as "What Kind of Fool Am I" and "Once In A Lifetime" from "Stop the World" are included as well as songs from the TV "Peter Pan" that they wrote in the seventies and "Candy Man" from the film "Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory". Along with photographs on stage and off, as well as personal memories from Bricusse, this is a great way to remember Tony Newley. This kind of music will never die! Paul Goodhead/President of the Anthony Newley Appreciation Society.

Newt Gingrich looked it over and could not understand it.

While at work in the college library, I passed by this book. I flipped through the pages, thinking I'd only take a brief look. I realized that I had seen these photographs before, and I became fascinated. I learned so much about the photographer through this book. It is a fine collection of Hine's work overall. It shows classic photos from everything he became involved in, such as child labor, women at work, and the working poor.

The short version: this is a superbly written and conceived book; if I had to learn this material (the basic theory of
structure and representation of Lie algebras and groups,
especially semimsimple ones) from a single book, this is
the one I'd choose, among those I've seen. If you know the
basics of abstract algebra and some very basic concepts from
topology and manifolds, and you want to learn this material,
use this book. It would be a good reference, too, as it is
easy to find things in it, and takes a fairly modern, sophisticated approach (without sacrificing motivation and
intuition).

The long version, if you want more convincing or details:

I have used several books recently in learning the structure and
representation theory of Lie algebras and groups (especially Humphreys' Introduction to Lie algebras and representation theory, Fulton
and Harris' "Representation Theory," Varadarajan's "Lie groups,
Lie algebras, and their representations.") Although I came to Knapp's book with a decent background from the others, I think it's the best pedagogically, for someone with a modicum of mathematical sophistication and some basics like abstract
algebra and an idea of what a smooth manifold is), and a smattering of Lie theory. Some examples of the book's strength:
Elementary but potentially confusing concepts (like complexification, real forms, field extensions)
are explained thoroughly but in a sophisticated way, rather
than viewed as obvious. Carefully chosen examples motivate and
clarify the general theory; consequently even though the book
is completely rigorous, and carefully delineates lemmas, proofs,
remarks, definitions, and the like, it seems less dry then some
others (e.g. Varadarajan, from my point of view). But the point
of the examples, and their relation to the general theory, is
made clear, so they do not provide an overload of detail or b
obscure the main structure. Thought is always given to the
reader's understanding, not just to logical correctness, though
the author also takes the point of view, with which I concur,
that logical clarity and sufficient detail are essential
to understanding. Relations between ideas, alternative
proofs, and the structure of the theory to come are discussed
thoroughly, but such discussion is clearly demarcated from
the main structure of the argument, so that the latter is never
obscured. This is a fantastic book, and exactly what I was
looking for. Whether you are learning the material for the
first time, or want to review it or refer to, it is a superb
source.

It was 1998, the 150th anniversary of the first Women's Rights Convention, and it was difficult, if not impossible, to purchase a biography on the Mother of us all, Susan B. Anthony. What better way to commemorate the anniversary than to put SBA's first biography back in print. The publisher, Ayer, would re-print this 3 volume set if they received 50 orders. So I found 50 people and it's now available. "Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony" is fascinating and so alive - I feel like I'm in the attic with Ayer and Anthony writing it. Many thanks to amazon.com for liberating the order process and providing access to this wonderful primary source.

For anyone who has watched from the beginning and loved every juicy, guilty moment, Life Lessons from Melrose Place is a laugh-out-loud keeper. If you sit there and yell at the screen, "Jane, you idiot!" or, "Don't trust Michael, the rat-bastard!", this book will bring you mirth for years to come.

At first, after receiving this as a gift, I thought it was just a little collection of quotes from Brady Bunch episodes. You know, like "Mom always said, don't play ball in the house" or whatnot. But I recently read it more thoroughly and I loved it so much. There are some klinkers, but the author has taken a page from Saturday Night Live's "Deep Thoughts" school of joke writing. The life lessons from the Bradys are phrased in that hysterical sort of deadpan Deep Thoughts way that's hard to describe. One example of a funny one (although it's not one of the ones that reminded me of Deep Thoughts) says something like "NEVER go outside the walls of your room at night without your robe and slippers on." I don't know, I thought it was funny.

It seems the most popular budget classical music label, Naxos, not only makes most of the Western musical output available at very reasonable prices (no top stars who demand absurd fees make this possible), but it has also issued three very nice boxed sets of recordings on cassettes and CDs (I have the latter) that together give you a quick, fairly accurate, and quite enjoyable survey of three major topics. Perry Keenlyside's (NA 314412) is on three tapes or CDs and more or less delivers what the title promises in about 3 hours and 40 minutes. The text is considerately divided into sections--"Mozart, the child prodigy," "January 1762, the first journeys," "Paris and London, 1763-4," and so on--with tracking cues for each section. The narration and quotations from letters and journals of the time are accompanied by the appropriate music drawn from the bottomless Naxos catalogue. Nigel Anthony is the narrator, aided by Paul Rhys (Mozart), Edward de Souza (Leopold Mozart), with David Timson and Anna Patrick in "other parts." I have not seen the original books to see how much of an abridgment this is, if at all, but that is immaterial. The voices are personable, the information digestible, the whole project very worth while, especially at the price. My only objection to the Naxos recordings of books in the low recording level that makes it a bit difficult to hear on a walkman set up on (say) a noisy train. But this should offer no problem to home hearing or even in your car. These sets are really perfect listening for long trips.