This is one of those great Books that has suffered because of a lack of readership capable of comprehending it. If one has the left brain traits necessary to grasp the transfinite logic and mathematics, then the mystical implications are ungraspable. And if you have the right brain intuition to understand the mystical implications, then you often struggle with the logic and mathematics. This book requires a reader with not only a first rate mind, but also a balanced one.

To briefly abstract the primary thesis: time is really motion in extra dimensional space. This is profound, for Ospensky was the first to actually point towards where an actual, physical fourth dimension can be found. Our brains confuse this dimension with time. It can be split off from time with an adjustment, or evolution, of consciousness. You see, this represents the next huge leap in understanding the nature of the universe and reality. Just as Newton's undefined quantity of "gravity" was shown to actually be curved space, so does Ouspensky show Einstein's undefined quantity of "time" to be motion through higher physical dimensions.

If you want a book that will challenge you, this is it. One day these ideas are going to shake the very foundations of mainstream science, of mankind's collective view of "reality"....

Ouspensky was never completely satisfied with the translation of his work by Bessaraboff and Bragdon. Indeed, they translated it without his knowlege or advice. This translation is the one that he and his secretary worked on together in his final years. It definately clears up many rough spots and misinterpretations.

If you are unfamiliar with the _Tertium Organum_, it deals with higher dimensional reality (above four dimensions) and how this ties in with the limitations of human conciousness. It is one of the most mind-expanding books ever published.

If you can read this book and understand it, then you have come a long, long way in your personal reeducation....

I am studing Classical Philology at the University of Athens.T.L.G is sort of our "Bible" and the Oxford's press can ensure the quality of this release.I know nothing about Mrs Berkowitz and Mr Squitier but I do trust the Oxford University for its choises.I hope I'll buy it if I'll ever afford it!Thank you.Valete!

Let me start by saying that this book has the best translations of Aristophanes that I've ever read. Henderson's translations contain really obscene language. That is not to say that I only liked it for the swears. The flow of the play with this obscenity is like the flow of a modern comedy. Why should something as great as a classical play be subject to censorship? Thanks to Henderson and his translation, we now know exactly what the Athenians saw when they watched Aristophanes.

reviewed in College Composition and Communication 47 1 0ctober 1996

A trenchant critique of our modes of being in the profession. Sosnoski argues that literary studies trains its practitioners to imagine as the professional norm a sort of career that few of us can ever hope to attain--that of the master critic, or leading intellectual, freed from the demands of service or undergraduate teaching (or, really, much teaching at all) in order to concentrate on 'his own work,' cutting-edge scholarship. In contrast, Sosnoski suggests, most of us end up viewing ourselves as token professionals, who accept the role of the master critic as an ideal, or even a norm, but who spend the vast bulk of our careers doing quite different work: teaching, administering, mentoring, and the like. Thus much of the profession is trained to think of the work we do as inadequate, second-rate. Sosnoski argues that for this situation to change, English Studies needs to reorient itself "more toward persons situated in cultures than toward texts situated in archives" (xiv). He then demonstrates some of the possible effects of such a shift in stunning chapters on "The Kriticroman" and "The CV as Personal History," which together outline the ways in which the diverse and often contradictory forms of work done by individuals are given an illusory coherence and transformed into model critical careers (which we all then feel we need somehow to live up to). Even though Sosnoski's focus is on literary studies, his observations speak powerfully to the reasons, both good and bad, underlying the nagging sense of many compositionists that our work is under-valued. Token Professionals should be read alongside Evan Watkins' Work Time for its insights into what people actually do in English departments and how and why that work might be changed.

The Decretum or Harmony of Discordant Canons is a compilation of extracts from Church councils, Church fathers, and other ecclesiastical authorities. Compiled in the first half of the twelfth century by Gratian, probably a monk and teacher of canon law at the famous law school of Bologna, it remains one of the most important collections in the history of law. The first 20 sections, translated in this work, comprise a treatise on law in general and contain a discussion of the nature of law, voluntary action, and the power of popes, bishops, and secular authorities. Accompanying the text of Gratian is a translation of the so-called "Ordinary Gloss," a commentary on the text that took its final form in the 13th century and was usually found around the margins of the text, just as it is presented here. An introduction places the Treatise in its historical context, notes critical difficulties, and explains the methods of those who commented on it. This is the first English translation of a sizable part of the Decretum and will be of great interest not only to scholars and students of Church law, but also to students of secular law, theology, philosophy, history, and political theory.

Russell Shaw is one of the keenest observers of things ecclesiastical, specifically Catholic, in the United States. This work on ecclesiastical rights is the probably the best I have seen by way of presenting a basis for rights in the Church without disregarding duties in the Church. Not a how to manual, but more of a "why we should" overview of rights in the Church, clergy and laity alike can learn much from this fine study. I did full review of Shaw's book in "The Southern Cross" (Diocese of San Diego) 6 Oct. 1994, p. 39.

A book that challenges white male assumptions of "canonical merit". This is an impressive and breath-takingly insightful look at eurocentrism and its cronies, while advocating the genuinely important experiences of Native Americans and the tradition of narrative they have so bravely created.

If you find yourself with two or three nights' worth of free time on your hands, spend them reading the latest book of criticism to come from the hands of Harold Bloom, The Western Canon. Not only will you be, at times, outraged by his assessments of the history of Western literature, but you will also be amazed by the author's inability to recognize those works that truly deserve a better treatment than he gives them in this work. But, that is Mr. Bloom's point in writing The Western Canon: one can argue forever about which books truly deserve to be recognized as the greatest works of literature in the Western canon and which do not. If nothing else, Mr. Bloom's book succeeds in making one think about the state of Western literature and what is involved in choosing the books that comprise the canon of Western literature. In other words, it is a must for those who take their reading seriously.

Incredible! Intelligent--Brilliant! I literally couldn't stop reading this book. As a student of Canon Law, I was curious about why 98% of those Americans who petitioned for annulments in 1997 were granted them as this seems to justify contentions that "annulment" is merely the Catholic name for "divorce". Vasoli tackles such hard questions honestly with factual basis--and after trying to gain an understanding of the situation via my univ. law and theology professors, such straightforward analysis on the annulment issue is very rare.

Also, Vasoli does it in such a way that I read 213 pages in one sitting. He provides great documentation/annotations, and very valuable statistics. I cannot recommend it enough!