Eterno como Hamlet o el Sol, Borges continúa sorprendiendo nuestro espíritu cada vez que releemos alguna de sus páginas. Inagotable, cambiante, sorprendente como el Sahara nos modifica cada vez que volvemos a él.
Saludo especialmente a María Kodama, quien difunde en todas las latitudes del planeta la obra maravillosa del más grande "Hacedor de letras".

This book examines thirteen American disasters, including the Galveston storm of 1900, the Hindenburg, and the 1964 Alaskan earthquake. One of the best aspects of this book is that it covers a relatively few disasters in great detail, rather than giving us a cursory look at a larger number. Hoehling includes material from interviews with survivors and never fails to keep the reader interested. Two catastrophies, namely the Hindenburg and the 1918 influenza outbreak, have been the subject of complete books by Hoehling. My only criticism is that the book's first chapter covers the New York draft riots. This is not a disaster in the sense of a natural calamity or an accident. I feel it belongs more as part of our Civil War history than in a book of this kind.

This 60-page picture book contains simple language easily read by first and second graders (on a par with Dr. Suess), to teach children why people are violent, and how they can avoid trouble. It is best suited for children up to about 10 or 11.

Much as we might like to, it's a mistake to teach children that no one ever hurts others, and Moser doesn't try. He starts by telling kids the truth--every day someone hits, kicks or shoots someone.

Why do people behave so violently? Sometimes, they do so because they want things that belong to others, or want to tell them what to do. Sometimes they are so angry they can't control themselves or they want attention.

Sometimes they have seen too much violence on TV, in movies or in video games, which can all make violence look and sound exciting. Children may think, "Wow, those things look like fun." They want to drive fast cars and smash them, learn how to fight and knock people down or get a gun and shoot it. They may even want to learn to make bombs and blow up buildings.

This book, published in 2001, may well have been written after September 11. The simple illustrations definitely suggest the terrible pain of that trauma, albeit in as non-threatening a way as possible. The story also explains that while it may be fun to watch people do violent things in movies, games and on TV, they are pretend. When the shows and games end, the actors go home.

But in real life, it is not fun to be threatened. People can be hurt by violence. They can really die. It's not fun to be in a car wreck, knocked around by a school yard bully or to have a gun aimed at you. Getting shot is not fun.

Violence is not new to the world, Moser explains. For thousands of years, people fought, using their fists, and their teeth, and later on, rocks, clubs, knives, spears, bows and arrows and finally guns.

None of these things are good or bad, the author explains. "They are simply tools." Guns and spears, bows and arrows can be good for hunting and knives may be used to cut meat and vegetables.

But sometimes people use tools as weapons. Robbers carry guns to steal from others, and sometimes kill.

People who do these things are a menace to themselves and others. Why would anyone want to be a menace? They shoot and kill other people, hurting the friends and families of their victims. Sometimes their victims are little children.

About 2/3 through, the author turns to 10 methods kids can use to deal with these problems. Some will help children shape their own attitudes towards violent individuals who can hurt themselves and others. Others concern how kids should consider violent games and TV and things they can do instead of watching or playing such things.

The tools offered here are sensible and should help children understand the dangers around them, how they can react responsibly to others' violent actions and how they might channel their own anger. Alyssa A. Lappen

this book is great. Fantastic. I recommed this book to everyon

This book is the benchmark of World War II Luftwaffe studies, written by the man who commanded the Fighter Force from Dec. 1941-Jan.1945. Galland was not just a warrior and ace, but an innovator who constantly battled with Goering and Hitler over the fate of their nation. As a specialist in the field, and someone who knew Galland personally, it is an honest representation of the facts. Highly recommended as a text.

What could possibly be the connection between two teenagers seeing a real or imagined vision of a martyred philanthropist, the disappearance of a professor who had connections with the philanthropist, an extremely active member of an American militia seeking the professor, and the death of a woman who had just taken part in a Communion service at a Roman Catholic Church? You will have to read this book to find out because it is well beyond my powers to explain it and well within Michael Bowen's to bring it all together in a fascinating novel that also contains excellent writing and realistic and enjoyable characterization. And there is, sandwiched in for those of us who appreciate such things, a possible impossible crime, if indeed the woman did die from being poisoned.

This book deserved a major publisher. While the small-press publisher deserves accolades for making the novel available, greater care should have been taken in the typesetting, which borders on the amateurish.

Berkley discusses Jews - as people - in clear authoritative language and thereby destroys the favorite myth of "The Jew" which has brought so much misery in the past century. He shows the good and the bad and is not afraid of calling a spade a spade. The book can be strongly recommended to Jews and Gentiles because it broadens one's view.

this book is excellent for practicioners, and individuals who serve on boards of adjustment, or merit system grievance panels.

The NST/Engineers, Inc. reviewers have relied on the prior editions of this classic handbook for decades. We believe this 1999 fifteenth edition of Lange to be a close-at-hand, bookshelf necessity for science students, chemists, chemical engineers, and for others whose sphere of interest intersects with that of chemistry. Every industrial library and most general interest libraries should have a copy. For those unfamiliar with Lange, it serves as a first reference for questions dealing with "chemicals". Rather than chemicals we should refer to elements, molecular compounds, radicals, and mixtures of compounds, among other definitions of matter. (The properties of water, a molecular compound, are well covered in the book.) If you have been using a copy of the thirteenth edition, or earlier, you should upgrade now to this fifteenth edition. Division of the handbook contents into eleven major sections helps in searches. Lange Sections 1 and 3 are probably used most frequently to find densities, melting and boiling points, and solubilities in various solvents of organic and inorganic compounds. For the organic compounds, at the foot of the data page, alternate names are listed. Also there, structural formulas show details of the more complicated structures. For those who need in-depth information on any listed compound, the Beilstein reference is also given. There is an "Empirical Formula Index of Organic Compounds". Thus if you know the number of carbon, hydrogen, and other atoms in a compound's formula, you can readily find the properties of the one compound or a few specific compounds that match that formula.

Section 2, "General Information, Conversion Tables, and Mathematics", is worthy of review by all who want to know where to find the recommended symbols, latest definitions, and SI (international or metric system) values for chemical and physical properties. For those of us still steeped in British and U.S. unit usage, there are conversion factors to and from just about any unit of interest. Section 4, "Properties of Atoms, Radicals, and Bonds", gives the electronic configuration and properties of the elements, bond lengths, radii, dissociation energies, a table of nuclides, and much more. Section 5 on "Physical Properties" goes into many other properties than the earlier organic and inorganic sections. Vapor pressure, viscosity, surface tension, and a host of other properties, are listed for the more widely used compounds and their solutions.

Section 6, "Thermodynamic Properties", begins with an introductory explanation of enthalpy and entropy changes and heat capacity. Explanation of Gibbs energies is missing. However, all four of these properties are then listed for organic and inorganic compounds. Critical properties are also given. There are 138 pages of data together with some spectrometric property explanations in Section 7, "Spectroscopy".

The 168 page Section 8, "Electrolytes, EMF, and Chemical Equilibrium" covers those topics and then even includes standards for pH measurement of blood and biological media. In an in-depth, October 1999 paper on electrolytes in Chemical Engineering Progress, Lange was the only broad-coverage handbook cited among 56 references.

Section 9, "Physicochemical Relationships", gives a brief description of linear free energy relationships and the Hammett equation and the Taft equation. There is a table of Hammett and Taft Substituent Constants, and other tables with constants for the two equations. Section 10, "Polymers, Rubbers, Fats, Oils, and Waxes", contains, in addition to 67 pages of data, a good bit of descriptive information about the relationship between polymeric structure, functional groups, and the values of a polymer's mechanical and physical properties.

The closing 150 page Section 11, "Practical Laboratory Information", covers cooling and heating baths; drying and humidification compounds and mixtures; chromatography; gravimetric and volumetric analyses; and thermometry and thermocouples. Those frequent users of past Lange editions, and new users, will not be disappointed with this 15th edition.

Adolph Murie is one of the greatest naturalists of this century. Gradually, I've been collecting all of his books. Most of his books are reprints of his original government research with hazy old photos, but Mammals is modern and up to date, in a larger format with brilliant color photography. What an excellent addition to my library.