I am a dermatopathologist in training, and got this book for synthesis of information. The color photographs are great, but the explanations are very brief. This book is more for someone who just wants a quick overview of a condition, rather than a detailed text.

This is a very nice compendium of information in a field that can be intimidating to the novice. I was not completely unfamiliar with recording in general, having recorded once (long ago) in a local studio and having owned a chinsy four-track. However, a trip into the recording section of Guitar Center was overwhelming, and browsing around Digidesign & Opcode's websites for basic information was like trying to learn addition from a differential equations text.

Paul White's book provided a nice range of tutorial information, as well as a general overview of the development of digital recording, up to the state-of-the-art. I found the digression on Mac vs. PC to be amusing. In any case, I recommend this book to anyone who wants to back up and understand digital recording from first principles.

This book is a well written piece of information centering on past power center development. It is a little outdated currently; however, it does show the pitfalls and highpoints of a large number of quite successful power center development projects. Unfortunately it does not cut much below the surface of these projects and offers little practical advice. Good for understanding past projects in a slightly different time and market. I would not recommend it to anyone searching for a how-to book since it is little more than facts and numbers about past projects and not ideas.

Dialogue and Discovery has many great articles and essays of many kinds. The content is divided 2 pars. Part one gives readers good examples of essays and articles, which help readers write their own essays and also teach them how to analyze and improve what they want to write. Part two includes many essays and articles of many kinds, from many different points of view. I especially like section 8, 'The Science,' which has many interesting essays written by several authors. What interested me about these essays is that they point out problems argued today, 2000 even though those essays are written in 70s and 80s. Of course, there are many great essays and articles other than the science section. Not only does the book offer readers fine essays and articles, but it also gives you good ideas how to write. I really recomend this book as well as 'Negotiating Difference' which is very much similar to D and D.

This is actually the only one of the Jewel Kingdom books that I have not read (my daughter gets them first) but all of the others have been wonderful. The only reason that I am not giving it five stars as I would have two years ago is that the books are just a little easy now for my nine year old where they were perfect for 7. I personally really enjoy the high moral tone. The books teach good manners and good conduct with out ever preaching either. Having a child who reads these books is to have a more tractable, better behaved and happier child. A reminder to "act like a Princess" will help make difficult decisions easier.

this book will make the useful diet easy to everyone that reads it and will give you the first steps to the right nutrition

This is an in-depth academic study of the influence of Nietzsche on Jung. As an enthusiastic reader of both these men I found the book very interesting and thorough, but somewhat dry. It reads like a (very very good) PhD thesis. It is a shame the influence of Jung and Nietzsche on the author rarely rises to the surface!

Highly recommended to Jungians and Nietzscheans alike....

Bluntly, Auster's poetry is obscure. It can be difficult to read and, at times, seem opague. However, these words in their silence somehow remain within the reader's mind: in a sense, they haunt. And in this haunting, in this persistence, they demand a certain attention and a certain physicallity. They seem not only to exist within the spaces of the page but within the "absence of book," to quote Blanchot, a writer whom Auster both admired and translated. These poems force us to consider those things we usually don't, to see the world in a way that often perplexes the very perception of the world. They make us think other. But this is not an other of exclusion but an other of embrace: through these words, we embrace the other, we confuse the commonly held notions of what it means to live, to move, to breathe, to experience, in relation to the world. As Auster himself said of the painter Jean-Paul Riopelle: because he "understands that the body is what sees, that there can be no seeing without motion, he is able to carry himself across the greatest distances--and come to the places of nearness and intmacy..." Such is the case with Auster's own poems: "Not even the sky. / But a memory of sky, / and the blue of the earth / in your lungs..." The poems yield a meaning worth the time needed to explore them. Although he has found a great clarity, depth and audience with his novels, which is unquestionably his best work, these poems shouldn't be over-looked as they far too often are, both by fans of his work and critics.

If you are at interested in the contexts of genetics and its place in society -- I recommend this book

"Doctor Glas" (1905), by Hjalmar Soderberg (1869-1941), is the philosophically conflicted diary of Tyko Glas, a young medical doctor in Stockholm, Sweden's largest city, in the form of his personal written diary. He tells us he is just thirty years old and looking for adventure, a progressive and aesthetic intellectual in a conservative city. He disdains the many requests he receives for abortions, invariably turning them away, not of his own beliefs, but because he fears Sweden's hypocritical society would ostracize him.

One day a young lady named Helga provides his life a twist, coming to his examination room, pleading for him to declare she has an "infection of the womb", so her husband of six years, Pastor Gregorius, will not touch her sexually. In truth, she has another man in mind. Glas knows Gregorius personally, and despises him for his own reasons, but after some moral agonizing, the young doctor takes the bull by the horns, "diagnosing" Gregorius with a "weak heart", telling him sex could kill him. This medically-enforced chastity drives Gregorius mad, and he "rapes" his wife out of frustration one night. To diffuse the elevating tension, Gregorius takes a brief trip to another town, during which his wife openly appears in public with her lover back home on Stockholm's streets. Glas, the first-person narrator of this book, reflects on the meaning of life, recalling the young girls he knew earlier in life, admitting he has never held a female in an embrace, and finding himself falling in love with Helga himself.

In his diary, Glas wonders if abortion and murder are not similar, in the sense that both relieve a burden of life. Glas wonders if Gregorius could justifiably be killed to relieve the "burden" upon his wife Helga. He reflects on morality, love, sex, and religion, his thoughts become increasingly feverish. He debates the issue through his diary, turning through various twists of logic, trying to find a relative position which is simultaneously moral and expedient. He even goes so far as to prepare two tablets of potassium cyanide, one for the pastor, and one for himself, should his plan go badly. He clearly loses mental clarity with his obsession over this issue.

Will he actually try to kill Gregorius? Will he woo Helga for himself? Will he drop the entire issue, and snap back to reality? Will he accomplish the impossible reconciliation between morality and his impulses? The resolution will be an interesting one, but Glas will offer only one insight: "Life, I do not understand you."

The book itself is nicely written, the prose lovely of description, polite, high-toned, and at times romantic, and the subject matter frank, from schoolboy wonderment and embarrassment, to "husband's rights" and the moral place of abortion, euthanasia, murder, love, sex, infidelity, and unrequited love in society. The narration is elegant, and this brief novel (150pp) is actually surprisingly substantial. The tone is thoughtful throughout, and an interesting book to read.

(Note: Some readers might have some fun knowing there is a very interesting website, created by a fan, which features this book's various Stockholm locales posted in photos.)