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Primal Scream
Published in Paperback by Dell Pub Co (January, 1970)
Author: Arthur Janov
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Some words to this book
I think the "Old" Primal Scream is one of the world wonder. But... It is already to old. To know more about Primal Therapy, you have to read Arthur Janov's new book:The new primal screem. The Primal Screen is only the begining of a big research program! I think the Primal Therapy will become more famous in the next years. The reasen is the work of Arthur Janov and Erik Hoffman abour Brainmapping. Brainmapping will be a very good diagnostic instrument. We already use it in some Primal Centers in Germany. If you like to read my opinion to the "NEW PRIMAL SCREAM", please click on this book. Vayase a buscar un traductor para leer mi opinion. Joerg Mayer

An innovative and path-breaking approach to psychology
Janov writes a compelling and extremely readable account of the new paradigm in psychology that he innovated, Primal Therapy. This is one of the seminal works in Psychology; it is very important and I highly recommend it.


The Problem of the Spiteful Spiritualist
Published in Hardcover by St. Martin's Press (01 June, 1999)
Author: Roberta Rogow
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Entertaining
Once you look past the almost inevitable coincidences that shape the mystery, you find a fun little romp. Rogow - who is also a very talented filk song writer in the sci-fi community - creates lively characters and makes Lewis Carroll live again (even if Conan Doyle is a bit of a stiff). PErfect beach reading.

Delightful Dodgson-Doyle detective tale

In 1885 Portsmouth, retired sea captain Arkwright dies from what appears to be natural causes since the elderly gentleman was already deathly ill. However, Dr. Arthur Conan Doyle has some doubts as to the actual cause of death. The daughters of the deceased find Doyle's theories most interesting, and encouraged by their housekeeper, set up a seance to ask their father how he died.

Doyle and a visiting companion, Reverend Charles Dodgson feel as if they are wondering if they are looking through Alice's glasses because the housekeeper dies in the middle of the seance. As the duo works together to uncover a killer, they place themselves in potential danger of being the next victims. Still they strongly feel they must identify the murderer.

THE PROBLEM OF THE SPITEFUL SPIRITUALIST is a finely tuned, extremely original late Victorian mystery that readers of historical who-done-its, Holmes, and Carroll will immensely enjoy. The story line is complex and entertaining. However, the characters own this creative tale as readers gain an authentic feel for the era, especially through the minds of two of literature's superheavyweights. Roberta Rogow is quickly developing a following with her unique style that leaves an enjoyable aftertaste.

Harriet Klausner


Profiles of the Future
Published in Paperback by Warner Books (April, 1985)
Author: Arthur Charles Clarke
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An Interesting Collection of Essays
As Clarke says in the introduction to this book, he is not, in it, trying to predict the future per se, but rather defining the boundaries in which all possible futures must lie. Hence the subtitle, "An Inquiry Into The Limits of the Possible." Thus, even though the book was published in 1962 (with many of the articles written before that) subsequent advances in science (and indeed, in imagination itself) have dated it very little. On top of this, there is now a new Millennium Edition of the book out (although Amazon seems not to know of it's existence) in which ACC has updated his essays, making correction where necessary, and discussing when and where he went wrong, and mentioning when he was correct. On some topics, such as, unsurprisingly, satellite communications, he is almost dead-on accurate with the events that have occurred since the book was written. However, on the other end of the spectrum, on such subjects as future transportation methods, he was quite clearly off target. He is the first to admit this, and indeed, devotes two chapters of the book to "Hazards of Prophecy." Perhaps the most interesting chapter is "The Obolescence of Man" in which Clarke waxes thoughtful on the future relationship between Man and Machine. It leads to some rather startling conclusions that many of the more self-important among us may be reluctant to accept. There is also a chart in the back of the book where Arthur lays out the major scientific advances of the last 150 years, and his predictions up to the year 2100. In these are such seemingly optimistic predictions as weather control by 2010 and IMMORTALITY BY 2100. The more conservative among us may be keen to laugh at such statements, but remember, this is the man who talked of broadcasting satellite TV IN 1945. Arthur is not one to be taken lightly, and this book shows why.

A future undone
Glance at A.C.'s table in the back of what will happen then next 100 years!!! Profiles is important to any one thinking about thinking of the future. So much to go! Thanks A.C.C.


Project Remember: A National Index of Gravesites of Notable Americans
Published in Hardcover by Reference Pubns (May, 1986)
Author: Arthur S. Koykka
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Good but outdated
Project Remember is a good resource book for grave hunters but is very out of date (published in 1986). It's good to have, though!

A great book for celebrity cemetery buffs.
This is a great book for cemetery buffs. I have also become a friend of Arthur's and hope he someday gets to update his book. Yes there are a few mistakes, but we all find that in this hobby. With much love Kimberly, California.


The Quantum Challenge: Modern Research on the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics (Challenge Series)
Published in Paperback by Jones & Bartlett Pub (21 January, 1997)
Authors: George Greenstein and Arthur Zajonc
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Good for intuition and interpretation
This book, is like having a physics proffesor tell u what is Quantum Mechanics, "Forgets your a newbie Student". It tries to bring u the basics but relies on prior knowledge of it ?! Allthough it is updated (unlike older QM books) and gives you a good perspective of the theory. The first 3 chapters are clear more or less ( Still with prior knowledge ) but the rest relies on very advanced knowledge. Not a good book to start with. Usefull if you have firm foundation of Quantum M. and want to contemplate the interpetation of it.

The Quantum Challenge
This is the best book available, by far, on experimental results of the quantum measurement problem. It is one of the few books that are beyond popular accounts, which generally do not have the depth necessary to understand the measurement problem, and - on the other hand - very technical quantum optics volumes. I give it my highest recommendation for anyone with some science background to become acquainted with the quantum measurement problem in detail. It is a triumph and comprehensive in its coverage and reference to quantum measurement experiments. Every scientist should read this book.


Quarrels That Have Shaped the Constitution
Published in Paperback by HarperCollins Publishers (July, 1975)
Author: John Arthur Garraty
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Historical, Social and Personal Context Elucidated
This book does something not terribly original, but still intruiging. It presents detailed social, historical and personal context for various constitutional disputes, most of which appear to have far exceeded their ostensibly limited origin and scope. Hence, seemingly minor tiffs have resulted in sharp changes in direction in Constitutional Law, as interpreted by the Supreme Court, in a manner which may well violate the spirit of the Constitution as originally drafted by the founding fathers.

Journalistic and Therefore Useful
This series of essays will serve as an elementary introduction to rulings of the United States Supreme Court. The essays are more descriptive than analytic, so anyone interested in one of the few landmarks herein would do well to use this volume only as the start of research. Some essays are somewhat critical, but most are more about context than about correction. The landmark cases are "humanized" in a way that should interest laypersons who want to learn more (but not a lot more!) about their constitutional history.


Saint-Simon and the Court of Louis XIV
Published in Hardcover by University of Chicago Press (Trd) (July, 2001)
Authors: Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Arthur Goldhammer, Jean-Francois Fitou, and Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
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Two books in One
The French title for this book is translated "Saint-Simon and the Court System." Neither title is correct. Le Roy Ladurie has written two books. The first six chapters is a discussion of social hierarchy as interpreted by the duc de Saint-Simon looking at the court of Louis XIV. The last two chapters are a history of the Regency (1715-23). The first chapters contain no narrative history except for a biography of Saint-Simon and the last two contain no social analysis but are a discussion of the political history of the Regency.

To understand much of Le Roy Ladurie's books, the reader should know that the French education system for potential university students emphasizes on exams something called "explication de texte." The student is given a quote by someone (a politician or writer) and maybe a date. The student is expected in an essay to identify the person making the quote and that person's importance, the importance of the quote, and how it relates to history or literature or philosophy or whatever in order to demonstrate the student's knowledge and education. This book like many of Le Roy Ladurie's books is an extended explication de texte. The text in this case is thousands of pages of the memoirs of Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon (1675-1755).

Saint-Simon lived at the court of Louis XIV centering on Versailles starting in 1691 until the king's death in 1715. Then, when his friend the duc d'Orléans became Regent for the five-year-old Louis XV, Saint-Simon had an insider's view of court politics until his friend's death in 1723. Shortly thereafter Saint-Simon was told to leave the court. He was a has-been at age 48 or, more precisely, a never-was. His most important job had been as Ambassador to Spain to negotiate a marriage between Louis XV and a Spanish princess, a marriage that never took place. Some fifteen years after leaving court Saint-Simon began writing his memoirs.

Saint-Simon was an aristocratic prig, a puritanical gossip who believed that, as a duke and a peer of Frence, his class of people deserved the highest honors and positions within French politics after the royal family and its relatives. He described people of lesser social origin as vile nobodies, people from nowhere, and people who did not deserve their positions. He refused to believe that talent could or should allow people to rise in society. He dismissed immorality and corruption, believed illegitimate children were immoral because they were the products of immorality, detested the Jesuits, and despised Louis XIV because the king never granted Saint-Simon his due. The king in one of only three conversations he had with the little duke told Saint-Simon that he had to learn to hold his tongue. Louis XIV could not abide people who chattered incessantly, criticized others openly, or talked about people behind their backs. The king would never pick someone for a position who had so little self-control. Le Roy Ladurie does not mention this story.

Nor does Le Roy Ladurie mention that there exists another source for the end of Louis XIV's reign, the Journal of the Marquis de Dangeau who kept a daily record of events at court from 1684 until his death in 1719. Saint-Simon began his preparations for writing his memoirs by annotating Dangeau's journal, especially anytime the marquis mentions someone. The little duke would then write out as much as he could remember about that person. Although Dangeau has never been published in English, Saint-Simon has had several editions, all of them abridged. The best French editions of his work are thousands of pages long with annotations to explain events and identify people or Saint-Simon's unusual vocabulary. The little duke's style is said to have influenced Proust with its niggling details and loving idiosyncratic descriptions.

Saint-Simon's memoirs are filled with the names of over 10,000 people. They are like an extended phone book with long descriptions of this person or that while the plot takes a back seat. Saint-Simon was an intellectual aristocrat who knew lots of people and, like the Bourbons, he learned nothing and forgot nothing. His memoirs are his revenge for every slight, real or imagined. Yet, in some ways they are the only published source for a lot of the history of this forgotten period of French history. Le Roy Ladurie, however, ignores the history of France from 1691 until 1715 and then gives us eighty pages of political history for the Regency.

Le Roy Ladurie is mesmerized by Saint-Simon's discussion of cabals at court in 1709. He wrote an article on this section of the memoirs over 25 years ago. He repeated his analysis in a series of lectures at Johns Hopkins twenty years ago. Simply stated by 1709 according to Saint-Simon, Louis XIV's court had three groupings: the king's courtiers, his son's courtiers, and his adult grandson's courtiers. Yet, like Saint-Simon, Le Roy Ladurie goes into overtime explaining this person's relation to that one, and how the whole mess worked. The fact that people gathered around the heir to the throne or the heir's heir is not news. It was normal behavior in a monarchical system. Le Roy Ladurie's mistake is to think that the snapshot given in 1709 has an existence that extended into the Regency. Thus, these groups seem like political parties with a life of their own.

Louis XIV had the misfortune to survive both his son who died in 1711 and his grandson who died in 1712. In addition, some of the major personalities in these factions also died. Yet, Le Roy Ladurie goes on about this cabal and that having to be placated by the Regent with no evidence from Saint-Simon to support the claim that these groups maintained any cohesion after 1709 much less sfter the deaths of their leaders.

This book is filled with typos as well as mistakes by the author. For example, he discusses the first known writing of Saint-Simon coming from the death of Louis XIV's daughter-in-law in 1689, except that she died in 1690. He has people living for years after they had died, repeats in the text what he has said in the footnotes previously. I gave this book three stars because it has some value but it is not an exciting read except for those of us who have an interest in this period of French history, one that was recently called "The Black Hole of French History" because so little research or writing has been done on it. In that sense, Le Roy Ladurie has made a significant contribution.

Gossip and Intrigue abound in Louie's court
Gossip and intrigue abound in this brilliant new book on the Court of Louis XIV. Leroy Ladurie is simply one of the smartest historians around. He looks at the Sun King's multi-layered and busy court through the lens of the Duke of Saint-Simon (1675-1755), a courtier and phenomenal chronicler of court life who left thousands of pages describing the intrigues, personalities, activities and gossip of life at Versailles. The result is a fascinating portrait of life under Louis XIV, a life driven by hierarchy, rank, and blood. Great book about obsessive, ruthless social climbing at its worst and best.


Sayers on Holmes
Published in Paperback by The Mythopoeic Press (06 August, 2001)
Authors: Dorothy L. Sayers and Alzina Stone Dale
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A scholarly look at Holmes by another great writer
A compilation of the writing of Dorothy Sayers on Sherlock Holmes, and who should know more about mystery writing than Sayers? For those who enjoy scholarly writing and speculation on the character and cases of Holmes, this is first-rate stuff. The Lord Peter Whimsey / Holmes radio play is an interesting pastiche. At 66 pages, though, this is one thin book. Eight dollars sure doesn't go as far as it used to....

An interesting collection of Holmesian speculation
A collection of Sayers' scholarly writings on Sherlock Holmes, Sayers on Holmes belongs in the libraries of fans of both Sayers and Holmes. Some of the essays may be familiar through other collections, but no other book collects all of her Holmesian writings together, and the discerning reader can sense a keen mind at play with the intricacies of the Holmesian canon. The highlight of this book is the final selection wherein Lord Peter Wimsey, Sayers' famous detective creation, relates an episode from his childhood where he hires Holmes to find his lost pet cat. A delightful story, it captures a feeling of true whimsey (pardon the pun). Recommended.


Sherlock Holmes: A Baker Street Dozen
Published in Audio Cassette by Soundelux Audio Pub (November, 1901)
Authors: Arthur Conan, Sir Doyle and Soundelux Audio Publishing
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Great Actors -- Great Stories -- Great Listening
John Gielgud as Holmes! Orson Welles as Moriarty! How could a Holmes lover resist buying this collection? I spent six pleasant hours reliving the Holmes saga. I went with Holmes and Watson from the foggy streets of London to the English countryside to the Reichenbach Falls where Holmes and Moriarty fought their last battle. Radio plays stimulate the mind to a a degree that television never can, and these stories served up mental stimulation of the first order. As good as "A Baker's Street Dozen" is, though, it doesn't quite measure up to the quality of the BBC series starring Clive Merrison as Holmes. Gielgud is undoubtedly the better actor, but Merrison is the better Holmes.

Despite the fact that Gielgud doesn't capture Holmes' energy as well as Merrison, "A Baker's Street Dozen" is superb listening. It would make an excellent addition to any mystery lover's audio library.

One minor quibble: I can't understand why they renamed three of the stories. "The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton" became "The Blackmailer;" "The Adventure of the Golden Pince Nez" became "The Yoxley Case;" and "The Adventure of the Dying Detective" became "Rare Disease." In each case, Conan Doyle's choice of titles was superior.

The power of the imagination
I am very pleased with "A Baker's Street Dozen." It is so wonderful to listen to these stories and let the power of your imagination create the scenes described by the many wonderful tales. The only flaw I would like to see the publishers correct is that the stories do not seem to follow a chronological order. The fifth tale, "The Final Problem," is an account of Sherlock Holmes' final adventure. However, you still have 7 more tales to go through! Place these stories in chronological order and you will have a flawless product.


Tales from a Dugout (Short Story Index Reprint Series)
Published in Hardcover by Ayer Co Pub (June, 1918)
Author: Arthur Empey
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Over The Top
While cleaning out my mother's basement this afternoon, I found my uncle's 1917 copy of "Over The Top". It looks just great, which is why I am browsing here now. "Over The Top" is illustrated with plates, and includes a funny glossary/dictionary of Tommy slang at the back. I don't know whether it belongs near the first rank of Great War memoirs -- with Robert Graves, etc. -- but it certainly bears investigation.

Another work by the same author
I have not read this book, but the author wrote an earlier work called "Over the Top," which was published in 1917. It chronicles his service in the British Army during the battle of the Somme. His view is strictly that of the private soldier, but Over the Top provides a rare insight to modern warfare in its evolution. For example, in the first years of the war, the British soldiers manufactured their own hand grenades from empty jam tins. It may be of further interest to readers to learn that after the war, Arthur Guy Empey was a song writer on New York's Tin Pan Alley. Some years ago I saw some old sheet music that identified him as the composer. If Tales from the Dugout is anything like Over the Top, I highly recommend it as a rare view of the life of the private soldier in the great war


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