I had hoped this book would incorporate aesthetics with art history, but that is not quite the author's intent. Instead, it is similar to a dictionary, being a 63-page volume of alphabetically arranged technical definitions, from aquatint to wood-engraving. It is also more than a dictionary, having more than 60 examples to illustrate techniques and methods.

This book is neither historical nor biographical in focus, but you will learn a great deal of technical information.

this is a beatifully written biography of an underrecognized photographer who spent 3 years from l939-41 travelling alone thru the south of the US for the FSA (Farm "Security Administration) taking incredible photographs. The book is worth while for the photos alone, not to mention the author's fascinating exploration of her life, and investigation of why she essentially gave up photography. A very affirming book in the sense of the choices one makes in life. I found myself showing the book to strangers on an airplane, I was so moved by the story and the photographs. Check it out.

On a quiet village hillside in southern England lies one of the strangest and most facinating relics from Britain's mysterious past: the Cerne Giant. A club-wielding monument to political incorrectness, the Giant provokes an endless series of questions: Who carved him...Romans, Celts? How old is he? Just who or what is he supposed to represent? What is his connection to other chalk drawings and monuments scattered across the English countryside?

Each of these questions is addressed in "Lost Gods of Albion", an excellent overview of the mysterious chalk drawings of Britain. Including the Giant (who graces the dust jacket in all of his unrestrained virility), the Uffington White Horse (as old as Stonehenge and even more enigmatic)and many other ancient hillside drwaings, this book studies their history, meaning and relationship to one another. While the writing style can become a bit academic at times, the book nevertheless provides a wonderful overview and introduction to the subject.

By the way, if you're in Southern England, check out the Cerne Giant in person. He's off the beaten path (about a two-hour drive from Stonehenge) but he makes for an intriguing sight. Just don't be shocked!

A remarkable summary of complex behavioral science research and precepts put into a context that is both interesting and practical. The apprach is light and personalized but, at the same time, an effective and concise compendium of many of the best thoughts on leadership. The organization is both attractive and logical. It could easily serve as a basic reference handbook for good leaders who want to know about getting better.

It is worth buying the book simply for the first poem, "Here". Each of the pieces moves at a fever pitch, leaving the reader unable to pause even for breath, until the poem ends and leaves you holding the book, wanting more, but needing a break, unable to turn the page. They wear you out reading them, but in the best way possible. Monette documents the death of his partner, and the knowledge of his own advancing illness, and he does so in a way that takes you with him : you feel the urgency, pain, sadness, beauty, love, and preciousness of life right along with the poet. Love Alone isn't poems that just tell you things. It puts them in your hands.

This preeminent 20th century Christian theologian argues in this small book that love, power and justice all imply an ontology and must be understood in aspects of being itself. It is in this book that he famously defines love as "the drive toward the unity of the separated" (25). He also refers to love as the moving power of life and believes all love includes qualities of eros and agape.

Tillich does not believe that one can speak of self-love in anything more than a metaphorical sense. After all, if love is the drive toward the reunion of the separated, it is difficult to speak meaningfully of self-love.

In his exposition of the nature of power Tillich notes that love is the foundation, not the negation, of power. Love is the ultimate principle of justice, although justice preserves what love unites. "The basic assertion about the relation of God to love, power and justice is made, if one says that God is Being-itself" (109). However, everything that one says about Being-itself, must be said symbolically.

This book is a classic. The mechanics of the low back and neck are explained in language anyone can understand. You finally learn what the problem is, how you got it, and how to keep from making it worse. More important, the author offers clearly described exercises that really make you feel better. The Williams Exercises revolutionized therapeutic treatment of lower back problems, and they are presented here in their purest and most accessible form. This little book offers big relief!

This is the fifth book in the Lucky Starr series, originally published under the pseudonym Paul French. In this volume, Starr and Bigman Jones travel to a moon of Jupiter to discover the cause of a series of accidents on a secret project to develop a space craft with an antigravity engine. They uncover a spy of Earth's enemy, Sirius. Jupiter IX is called Adrastea in the novel; however, now Adrastea is referred to as Jupiter XV (more (16) satellites are known now than were known in 1957). It is one of the closest moons to Jupiter's surface and could not be the moon referred to in the novel. In an introduction written in 1978, Asimov apologizes for some of the scientific inaccuracies in the story due to all of the new information that had been discovered since 1957. Besides the number of moons, Jupiter's magnetosphere would present severe difficulties to space travelers. The intense radiation field that surrounds Jupiter would be fatal to travelers unless some new method is available to counter the problem. It is also doubtful that the characters would have landed on Io due to its large degree of volcano activity (there are at least eight active volcanos). There is also evidence that Io forms a ring (or torus) around Jupiter consisting of ionized sulfur and oxygen. In 1989, it was discovered from infrared spectroscopy using Earth-based equipment that Io has hydrogen sulfide on its surface. The characters in the novel also land on Amalthea (Jupiter V). This moon, discovered in 1892, is small and has a low orbit. Also unknown in either 1957 and 1978 was the fact that Jupiter has a single faint ring encircling the planet, a ring not detected by Earth-based observatories.

Arriving on shelves over twenty years ago, this collaborative work by Paul B. Ryan and Thomas A. Bailey is a comprehensive, in depth reference. Although lean on illustrations, it is full of important information on the many controversies surrounding the loss of the LUSITANIA in 1915. Conspiracy theorists beware: here is undisputable evidence that the sinking of the LUSITANIA was not the result of a setup. For anyone who wants the truth behind the LUSITANIA disaster, here it is - time tested and proven.

This book contains both the theoretical models of currency substitution and key articles and contributions. It is comprehensive even if a little slack in its mathematical expositions. It is a great survey of the recent literature on the topic but could be more coherent.