Viagas, Lee and Walsh, together with the rest of the original cast have made an insightful book which documents the life of this great musical. Filled with remembrances by the cast and with a good collection of photographs by several photographers their book is a treasure chest of facts and memories of Broadway's "Singular Sensation". It is nice to know that author Baayork Lee continues her association with the show after twenty five years, still directing companies of the show and now opening up a website dedicated to the show... I only hope that some day they will provide an updated version concluding with the gala final performance.

This book captures the show perfectly from people who were there: The Original Cast. This book never ceases to amaze, and move.

I was diagnosed as HIV+ in 1997. Since then I have been searching for the truth about this dis-ease, just the facts the scientific facts - what is this virus and what is it doing to my body? Mr. Kitzerow presents the facts, all of the facts,regarding HIV/AIDS in chronological order, I know he is not the first, but his simple time line with well cited resources explains the complete epidemic starting in the 1960's to the present day. He involves the issue of "poppers", the nitrite inhalant drugs used heavily in the 70's by those first groups diagnosed with AIDS. Why have the CDC and other national & international health organizations failed to alert the public about this most important fact? Had I succumbed to the pressure of our government, my family, and friends, I too would be one of those AIDS statistics. Anyone with an HIV diagnosis should read this book as well as the other resources he cites before deciding a treatment plan for themselves. As is explained with ample research to back it up, AZT KILLS! I myself have lost someone I love to AZT, because he trusted his doctor and the authorities that AZT was going to make him well. I watched my friend die a slow, agonizing death and I have our own government to blame. I congratulate Mr. Kitzerow for his effort & courage to try and alert the public about this deadly issue. After reading this book, I'm sad and scared that because of the greed and arrogance of scientists and public officials, as Kitzerow details, thousands are dying for the monetary profits of others. Mr. Kitzerow uses this one issue to show how science as it exists today is no longer the quest for truth, not even when millions of lives are on the line, it's a lust for greed. Anyone interested in what is really going on out there should read this book. Thank you Marvin Kitzerow Jr. I am forever grateful. PEACE ON EARTH

This book should have been called simply "The Beethoven Companion." While it focues on the string quartets, it deals with many facets of the composer's life, and life in Vienna in general at the time. Detailed but never dull, thorough but never too technical, the book describes performance practice, takes you into the minds of interpretors, and deals with such fascinating philosophical considerations as Romanticism vs. Classicism, the meaning of the "last period," and audiences in Beethoven's time. I have many books on the Quartets, but I've never read another that is this valuable.

I eventually bought this book because none of the libraries in my area had it! Marvin Pope was one of the big figures in Northwest Semitic studies a generation back. His ground breaking work in Song of Songs as well as his theories concerning the cult of the dead in the Levant provide the background for the title of this collection of essays. The list of contributors to this feschrift reads like a whose-who in ANE. Contributors incluse M. Dahood, W. Hallo, B. Foster, C. Gordon, R. Murphy, D. Pardee, and S. Parker just to mention a few. There are 35 articles in all. While the articles are a bit dated -- especially those involving the cult of the dead -- this is still an important work that will provide the student of the ANE with hours of fascinating reading.

"It was very fun to figure out. First it was easy, and then the mysteries got harder to solve. I recommend it very highly" (This is what my 11 year old granddaughter , Isabel, said about this book.

An interesting book to read,but very negative in parts. The best thing to do is see Marvin's films then read about it in the book, so you've already made your own mind up. The book brings across the authors own likes and dislikes about Marvin's films and career,i felt that it was a bit to influenced by his own likes and dislikes. At the end of the day you either like Lee Marvin and his film's or you don't. Personally i love the bloke and enjoy his film's and the many characters that he played. Marvin maybe dead but he'll never be forgotten with the work he left behind for us all to enjoy.

Robert Lentz has done an outstanding job in profiling the film and television career of one of America's most beloved tough guys. This insightful look into Marvin's tenure as an actor is a must read for anyone interested in films from the 1950s through the 1980s.

The detail used to describe each of Marvin's movies and television programs is excellent and the author deserves to be commended for his thorough research and love of the subject. In the fickle world of Hollywood stardom, it is refreshing to seem a tribute paid to some of the movie world's older names.

This book is a must for any fan of Lee Marvin. It contains dozens of great photos from Lee's career. Lee's growth from a young handsome actor to a legendary star is traced by the photos and the reviews in this book. The book tells the story of each film by Lee Marvin and also contains much information about Lee Marvin's television and documentary work as well.

The film reviews have detailed information about the films' plot and theme; and information about the producers, directors and other actors in the film. The reviews are set in chronological order so the progress of Lee Marvin's career may be easily followed.

This book only minimally describe Lee Marvin's personal life outside the movies. It takes the view of a student and fan of Lee Marvin - a fan who has all the best photos and has compiled all the details about Lee Marvin's films and his acting career. This book will be a reference for movie buffs and film students and teachers.

The authors focus primarily on military applications with hostile jammers, rather than commercial applications where co-channel interference is the main concern. The direct-sequence (DS) CDMA parts, however, are neither comprehensive nor up-to-date. This text would not deserve its label of "handbook" in its DS-CDMA coverage.

The frequency-hop (FH) CDMA parts of this text contain much useful and detailed mathematical exposition that I cannot readily find elsewhere in one volume. Quite inconveniently, the FH-CDMA sections are inter-mingled with the DS-CDMA sections. While I find plenty of useful mathematical details on FH-CDMA, those details are presented with little cohesion and offer little qualitative insight. I find myself buried with an avalanche of details with limited perspective.

The technical exposition here is truly terrible. I have just been reading the following sentence for several minutes and am yet to figure out its meaning: "In particular assume the simple repeat m code where for each data bit, m identical BFSK tones are sent where each of these tones are hopped separately." In what sense are these tones "identical" but yet "separate"? A simple equation here would have helped. In fact, I get so irritated by this poor technical writing that I get on the web and write this review to vent my frustration. The authors' aversion to use rigorous mathematics in their exposition does not help. The exposition ends up with very wordy but vague verbal descriptions, in place of concise and exact elucidations.

This book is the master piece in spread spectrum communications. One can find the complete information in this book on the origin of spread spectrum communications, the fundamental knowledge in DS and FH systems, and applications. It gives in-depth knowledge in critical topics, including antijamming, sequences, synchronization and SS system performance analysis, etc. This book has served for a very large number of readers, including undergraduate students, graduate students, engineers and researchers. Many researchers in spread spectrm communication theory started with this book. Many of them have become famous and are leading in communication theory research. The rich figures showing implmentation are very helpful to practitioners.

Might as well just buy the book now. Even if you don't like poetry, years from now--when she's anthologized as one of our great contemporaries--Marvin's debut collection will be worth quite a penny.

If you do like poetry (for reasons other than that recommended by your financial advisor), then you're also in luck. Within these pages are 40 crisp, little works of art. Each one a microcosmic, exacting sculpture of words. Tiny chocolate treats cooked by a mad chef. (Quite mad). Yes, underneath the formal plasticine wrapping is nothing less then pure, chaotic screaming.

The result is addiction. Take for example, a golden nugget called "The Anniversary".

The poem begins with the Romantic-esque woe of "Disappointment with the lack of stars." And like the Romantic sing-song of Prufrock's opening, "Let us go then, you and I/When the evening is spread out against the sky" that quickly hinges from sweet to 20th Century rationalism-gone-wrong with the following line "Like a patient etherised upon a table;" Marvin too hinges her tone from Romantic to a part Plathian/part Verunica Salt nature, as she demands "where's the moon when I call it?/Perhaps it's not up to being the color/I want tonight: bloody orange, peeling light." That's only the beginning of a sharp poem filled with intense passion and lines like "I wear his eyes like rings/on my hands. I sew years into a dress."

I won't write an entire thesis for an amazon.com review, but bear in mind, this is one of those rare books whose poems can be read alone, when in a foul mood; or together, sprinkling rose petals on a lover's body. I look forward to a lifetime of reading her work.

The poems in The World's Tallest Disaster seem to me very often word by word perfect, poems that knocked the breath out of me a little. In the spirit of Plath and Larkin, the poems can be caustic, funny, and beautiful (and yeah even cruel) all at the same time. They bring to life a consistent personality behind the words, even though, as Pinsky states in the introduction, the poems don't belong to any one particular school. The voice or persona (or whatever you want to call it) is blunt and trustworthy with an eloquent and disarming honesty. The language is always there. It's the best collection I've read in years.

I first encountered Cate Marvin in my role as a poetry editor when a poem titled "Cigarillo" landed on my desk. I had never heard of Cate Marvin, never seen anything written by her. Within a minute of reading that poem, I knew I would be reading her work for the rest of my life. The power and accuracy of detail, the ability to transform details into an emotional landscape, the way in which mood can be modulated at the hands of a craftsman--these things told me that this poem was no fluke, that I was reading a poet of immense skill. Since then, I have published Marvin's work several times, and always I am impressed not only by her strengths but by the way in which she already has a very recognizable style. These poems are rich, stringent, exacting things, and I am grateful to Cate Marvin for them. She is one of the leading poets of her generation. If you care about poetry, you must read this book. --C. Dale Young, Poetry Editor for NEW ENGLAND REVIEW

Everyone should try to learn Join Up. It works, no matter what these people say.

Thank God the cloak of kindness has been removed from this self styled equine messiah,and the real person hiding underneath has been exposed for what he was and is. The suspicions I had while reading The man Who Listens to Horses are at last confirmed, lie by lie. Nothing added up. The time line, events, box car adventures, James Dean, Nevada, Salinas Rodeo dates all were out of sync. I was there then, and my foggy memory of the events just didn't compute in my mind. A visit to the micro film archives at the Stienbeck Library backed up my suspicions. Can't beleive that anyone could annihilate their own family with so many blatant lies just to feed their ego and strengthen their bank account. Well now, thanks to the perseverence of Joyce Renebome and her daughter, Debbie Ristau the truth emerges. They have compiled an accurate documented chronology of the life and times of four generations of the Roberts family, piece by painstaking piece. An easy read, the story is truthfully told. The memory of Marguerite and Marvin Roberts is vindicated. Shame on you Monty Roberts, your time will come.

I was surprised to read three reviews here by people who obviously did not read Horse Whispers & Lies. The reviews seemed to be based on adoration for Monty Roberts. One reviewer asks for proof to show which side of this debate is right... read Horse Whispers & Lies... the proof is there. The reviewer who tells of his own abuse and how it was kept secret could not have read HW&L and believe it possible for Monty's supposed broken bones and bloodied skull to be kept secret from the 50 to 100 people who were with him on a DAILY BASIS. The reviewer who suggests people get close to Monty before judging him would have learned how very close the authors were to Monty Roberts. It's one thing to read a harsh review from someone who read the book. I take exception to those who give this book a bad review and didn't even read it. Those who read the book have a new understanding and awareness for truth and character and why they matter. I will stand for what I believe though it is not usually the popular thing to do. Reading Horse Whispers and Lies might change your life. This story of a kind and gentle horseman and his wife who had their memories and reputations ruined by a glory seeking son will leave you crying for justice. Read the book before you say it's a waste of time.

This book is actually a combination of four short booklets, each written by a different author. My rating is for the book as a whole, though my rating for each individual writer would differ. As an editor, Pate makes a commendable effort to be fair and open-minded with the views differing from his own position. If Pate had requested each author to respond to the criticism voiced by the others, this book would have been much more helpful.

The first writer is Kenneth Gentry, representing the Preterist view. His work is the best presented of the four positions, worthy of five stars. If anyone wants an very good explanation of the Preterist view in a nutshell, Gentry offers it here.

The second writer is Sam Hamstra, representing the Idealist view. He is a bit wordy in his presentation, and comes across as rather dull. I give him three stars.

The third writer is Marvin Pate, representing the Progressive Dispensationalist view. Ironically, his argument is the weakest and most difficult to understand of the four. He appears to be seeking an interpretation that will have something for everyone, but sacrifices substance and clarity in the process. What seems to be a combination of a preterist/futurist position is not appealing in the least. I give him two stars.

The fourth writer is Robert Thomas, representing the Classic Dispensationalist view. Thomas voices the usual mantra for this camp, claiming that his dispensational view is the only position that interprets Revelation literally. He then proceeds to explain the "actual meaning" of the various "symbols" described by the Apostle John! Still, he does a commendable job of presenting a very brief summary of this very complicated viewpoint. I give him four stars.

In summary, this book is more suitable for the college classroom than for the church congregation. I would recommend it to a fellow pastor or theologian, but not to a layman. Overall, it serves to refresh the memory of a person who has already determined his viewpoint, rather than to persuade the mind of a person who is still undecided.

One of the best features in most of the Counterpoints volumes is the debate format. After each paper the other authors are allowed to critique it, and (in some Counterpoints volumes) sometimes the main author is allowed to respond to the critiques.

I was disappointed that this volume did not incorporate the debate format. Each author presents his paper, and that is that. There is very little interaction with the other authors.

The strength of the individual papers varied. Gentry did a good job defending the preterist approach. Hamstra did a good job convincing me that the idealist view is less a hermeneutical approach than it is an application of the text. Pate needed to explain exactly what it is that makes the progressive dispensationalist view distinctive. Thomas didn't say anything new in his presentation of the classical dispensationalist view.

The book would have been far better if it had presented the four views that have been predominant historically: the Futurist, Preterist, Historicist and Idealist views. They ignored the historicist view altogether and instead presented two slightly different futurist views.

In my opinion the senior editor at Zoindervan needs to call for some kind of consistency in the Counterpoints series. Either include responses in all the volumes, or don't.

Is there a harder book in the Bible to understand than Revelation? This Four Views volume offers four of the main approaches to interpreting the book -- in a somewhat brief format (232 pages), the entire book of Revelation is summarized according to four differing viewpoints. Unfortunately a fifth position, the "Historicist" view, is given only a passing glance as a view that has (apparently) fallen out of favor (despite the fact that this view used to be, and still may be, very popular among some). Also some of the views that *are* defended in the book are not the "pure" forms of those positions: the preterist (which locates all prophetic fulfillments in the 1st cent., A.D.) and idealist (which sees all prophecies as recurring in time, rather than pointing to single events) both see in Rev. 20 a brief reference to Christ's final, definitive triumph that is still in the future. The overall presentation by each of the authors is a good one, though; if you're confused about how to interpret Revelation, this book should clear up some of the fog.