This is a book to teach counting, but it is more than that, in just being plain fun! Numbers are displayed in quantities, in a clock, in words and their varieties. The characters are terrific!

The book is valuable and understandable. I am doing research in preparation to a move to the west coast of Oregon. Professor Komar takes a complicated issue and makes it understandable for a lay person. He is clear about what level of evidence exists for various subjects and is clear when expressing his opinion. The book very much answered just about all the questions I had.

At last a really good practical book on how to treat pain. It clearly summarises the evidence that animals feel pain and then - this the best bit - turns the science into real help for front-line practising vets.

A must-have for all vets everywhere

I bought this book at my local witch store with a differant binding and I paid 25 dollars for it, and I think knowing how much it helped me understand astrology I would have paid twice or more then then that. This book keeps everything in Simple easy to digest bits. The book breaks up all the areas that bring Astrology together and writes them in a user friendly manner. Such as comparing the houses to a companies board of directors, the signs to the general personalities of the attendies of the board as it changes, the planets on being the power speakers, and then the aspects to how they work together. As the author explains that he wrote this book so people that came to him to get thier charts made and read would understand what energies are at work, and so they could understand thier own charts. He does a fantastic job that in its simplisity reveals so much that would have been very forgetable facts because he makes it Usable. God knows how old this book is, but it looks to be first published maybe in the 40's-80's, the writing style is amazing and is easy to ready and never preachy as some of the people that seem to claim to have experience seem to exude. This book is perfect for the beginner or intermediate, and I with its style I would even suggest it to the advanced astrologer student if nothing else then to read its wonderful teaching style. One of the AMAZING ways he relates you to the energies of the signs themselves is by breaking down the symbology.

I Recommend this book completely! It should be required reading to any group that works with subtle energies.

Painted Clay is a refreshing look at ceramics. It overviews many historical periods in ceramics and how the painted image is portrayed. This looks at ceramic painting, not as decoration as is the normal tradition, but the painted image as art on a ceramic piece. There are many beautiful and interesting illustrations that cover the spectrum of ceramic history specific to images on clay. Highly recommended for visuals as well as a resource book.

Any college-level arts library collection including classes or studies in stained glass will want to include this specialty history, which examines the collaboration between draftsmen and glass painters in southern Germany and Switzerland from 1480 to 1530. While Albrecht Durer is the focus here, others are examined for their contributions to the stained glass field and Painting on Light is packed with drawings and color examples of their works in a unique, appealing presentation.

Pakkin's Land is an amazing adventure that should appeal to both adults and children alike. The book reminded me of the C.S. Lewis' "Chronicles of Narnia" both in it's allgorical nature and with their similar fantasy landscapes populated with a myriad of talking animals. The illustrations are wonderful, superbly drawn with a loose, Disney-esque animated style and propel you through the book with their dynamic storytelling. Of particular interest is to see the artwork and characters as they are gradually shaped and molded throughout the story. The subtleness of how the author/illustrator accomplished this effect really adds depth to the story and the situations. This is the first book in what should be a long series and where it does leave you desirng to read and continue on, the story contained here is well thought out one and quite satisfying in it's own right. While I find most illustrated graphic styled novels dark and foreboding, this one was the complete opposite, instead offering a breath of fresh air. It is a joy to read and reccommend something so full of light and life!

The collection of stories includes fantasy-indulging characters, as in Panama Madness; an honorable and demented veternarian in Dogs in the Box; the frightening, cat-munching Man at the Window; a hitchhiking tourist's nightmare in a Hardheaded Man; and all of this redeemed by a true, heart-tugging childhood Christmas story. I highly recommend the book for those who are looking for excuxes to have a nightmare! Great, great character development and dialog.

"Papal Power" was my first ever understanding of the papacy, and remains a very good reference point. Though the book is subjective in wasy that under the present attitude of the papacy were disastrous for the author, it offers an excellent assessment of the way in which the Catholic Church has evolved.

Unlike many books on the history of the papacy, "Papal Power" has a very good focus on the history of the church, though one can suspect bias. There is a clear account of the way in which the papacy developed elaborate theories of papal power but without the communications to enforce them.

Most significantly, there is a very clear account of the way in which the pope became infallible through such authors as de Maistre's "Du Pape" and the neo-ultramontane movement. This neo-ultramontane movement argued that everything the pope says in infallible - in contrast to the definition at Vatican I which restricted infallibility quite severely, though the Wojtyla papacy has breached these boundaries since Ordinatio Sacerdotalis. The neo-ultramontanes, the best known of which were William Ward and Henry Manning, were well prepared and even influenced Pius IX, who this book suggests may have illegitimately fathered a son.

The book looks, if in a rather biased manner, at the effects this extreme concentration of papal power has had on the Catholic Church. It states that much of what the Vatican is concerned with today is nothing more than preserving its power, and follows on this very logically. If "Papal Power" has one serious flaw, it is in arguing that reforms of the papacy have a chance of occurring in the future. In reality, the third millennium of Catholicism will be characterised by a movement from a large church to a much smaller church comprised of members steadfastly loyal to the doctrines presented by Joseph Ratzinger and John Paul II. Open dissent will be even more severely censored than under the Wojtyla papacy and the ideas - interesting reading though they were/are - of progressive reformers will be the preserve of archives of secular universities.

Nonetheless, this cannot dimiss the fact that "Papal Power" is a very impressive study of the way the papacy has evolved into the absolute monarchy of today.

Paul Tillich was one of the more philosophically informed Christian theologians, whose work embodied a sophisticated paradoxality and dialectal rigor. Uwe Carsten Scharf study of Tillich offers a searching study of central movements of Tillich's thought, the clarification of Tillich's concepts of paradox and breakthrough as they illustrate the divine-human interplay of revelation in ontological-metaphorical language. Scharf advances the thesis that the two concepts embody a central tension in his thinking about revelation. The interrelationship of paradox and breakthrough is suggested as each breakthrough happens as a paradoxical event, and that each paradox, then needs to breakthrough to the recipient of revelation. These parallel ideas are constructed upon the base that paradox is not contradiction, and breakthrough is not a breaking apart; so that they are related to a unitive or transcendental reason in the following way. A paradox does not destroy reason but upsets and surprises it. Paradox startles reason. It expresses not contradiction but tension between two elements, or poles, which are affirmed simultaneously, even though they look contradictory. The two poles are also simultaneously negated. The real paradox therefore consists in this tension that there is neither a yes for one pole and a no for the other. Breakthrough likewise then is not a disintegration of insight but open to affirming in the karios, the event of Transcendence that is otherwise than self or expectation. The thesis this study can be broken down into three movements: 1. Tillich expresses his understanding of revelation through the core concepts of paradox and breakthrough. 2. A connection of meaning between the two concepts can be discerned in their usage, and 3. Tillich uses both concepts to distinguish his understanding of revelation from the extremes of naturalism, or idealism, and supranaturalism. The structure of this dialetetic is close to middle way thought of Buddhism though such comparative insights are not considered in this study. Rather Scharf develops this as a historical investigation, advancing a second thesis that Tillich does well in choosing these concepts, for they seem to capture the experience of being approached by the dimension of the ultimate in appropriate and intelligible image-concepts. Paradox and breakthrough approximate the dynamics and form of the unspeakable divine-human encounter (revelation) by using conceptual-symbolic imagery of structure (paradox) and of event (breakthrough). The autobiographical aspect of this study is that Scharf provides the first provisional translation of Tillich's "Systematische Theologie" of 1913. This was his earliest known attempt to give system to his thought. The polarity between paradox and breakthrough are seen to be central to his earliest and most mature expressions of his thinking. Few theologians should ignore this consummate exploration of the pivotal tensions in Tillich's thought.