After four dazzling books, George Bradley is one of the best kept secrets in contemporary American poetry. A writer whose subjects range from science and philosophy to Renaissance art and everyday life, he writes beautiful, funny, and extremely smart poetry. Try "How I Got in the Business" for a hilarious narrative that parallels the poetry biz with raising and producing olive oil for a mafia family. This poem is the author's second Georgic (his first was "A Georgic for Doug Crane," which told in equally funny detail how to raise, press, and bottle grapes). In both, the laughter gives way to reflection, and ultimately, beauty by the end. It's Bradley's signature gesture--the sudden turn from irreverence to lyric grace. Here, he pulls the trick off again and again: in shorter poems, like "A Poet in the Kitchen" and "My Poem Meets Tamerlane," as well as in the gorgeous sonnet sequence on the turn of the seasons, "A Year in New England."

Just wait until you read George Bradley. He's standing on the shoulders of Webster's Unabridged. He picks great words and then darn if he doesn't know how to put them together. If you've got your heart set on reading poetry that will give you chill-bumps, this book is the one to buy.

But it is essential for the serious student to have both McFarland and Haas. One is not enough, even when backed up by the large Thai-Thai dictionaries. It is also worth remembering that these two excellent dictionaries are now quite old - don't expect modern technical vocabulary.

It's next to Thai-English Student's Dictionary by Mary R Haas the second best dictionary and I recomend all who are really serious to learn Thai to buy it (if you already have bought M. R. Haas'). It has more explaination than Haas' and many words that Haas' don't have. I strongly disliked the very complicated method to do transcription of Thai and to show the tones of the words by McFarland.

I used this book in a college American literature class. It has tons of short stories and full text of a few novels. I forget which are the full text novels aside from "Huck Finn." One thing I like about this book is that it's diverse: it has the "traditional" American literature, but it also includes Richard Wright, Alice Walker, James Baldwin, etc. There are also really helpful footnotes that aide in understanding.

This is a well prepared, objective, non-academic "reader-friendly" book, in spite of being about one of the most complicated corners of the world (historically and politically) doesn't go deep and drawn in details so thats why I preferred to call it "reader friendly". Great Job.

The title of the book suggests no bias or agenda for the work. It simply adopts the title of a very broad and complex area of commerce as it's own name; The Stock Market. The book offers a basic understanding of many aspects of the 'Market'in a way that the un-initiated can understand. Anyone looking for help in selecting a sure path to riches will be dissapointed. Anyone seeking an understanding of the basics, and how various aspects of the 'Market' relate to each other will be rewarded.

This book deliveres knowledge and understanding without bias. It can serve as general reading material or as a reference. It prepares the reader to select and understand other material.

New editions appear when the 'market' changes enough to warrant new material. The content is up to date without being padded by trendy but useless material.

Cliff Critchett
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Although this book is an introduction as well as a reference, some knowledge of stock market is assumed. The author often uses technical terms without defining them in the chapter(although there is a small dictionary in the back). If you have traded once or twice before, you should know at least some of those terms.

This book is the best of the countless George W. Bush biographies that are appearing all over the place. Minutaglio does a great job providing a well-balanced book about the ups and downs of our President's life and how his family has played apart. It clearly shows Dubya's attempts to move away from his father's shadow in order for him to make a name for himself. It is a great book, full of interesting stories and minimal political jargon that you will find in so many of the other books being written about Bush. If you want to read about our President, I suggest this book.

What an enjoyable, informative read. I didn't know much about George W. Bush other than he's raised a lot of campaign money as a Republican presidential candidate. But like Richard Ben Cramer's classic WHAT IT TAKES, or David Maraniss's FIRST IN HIS CLASS about Bill Clinton's early years, this is a terrific, broad look at the man and where he came from, his family, his personality, his accomplishments and failures. I feel like I know "George W" after reading this book. The author of FIRST SON deserves a tip of the hat, not only for putting together a biography that provides great background on this politician, but also for writing a very entertaining book.

If you are looking for tabloid like Bush Bashing, don't look here (you might try The Father's Son, that one is quite good at trying to instill some what outdated class war fare dribble). This particular book is extremely well balanced. If you love the Bush clan, or hate them, you will find something within. Personally, I found it an insightful and interesting tale of one of our nations most powerful pollitical families. Is George W qualified to be President? Well that is a question that only time will answer. My thoughts are he is as qualified as the guy we have recently given the nod to twice, except, maybe George will actually care more for the country than himself. He does seem to learn and grow. Now that would be a pleasant change. However one thing is for certain, the Bush family is a political dynasty (now more impressive than the Kennedys) and the people of Texas sincerely love both of their Georges.

After the first reading I really couldn't think of anything to say about this collection. I liked it well enough, but nothing struck me as memorable-one phrase only, and it's right out of the gate in "Frug Macabre": "Or is it that thought and action/are irreconcilable enemies/(as Emerson says somewhere,/and he's got lots of somewhere,/you'll have to find it yourself)". This was resonant of my own experience with Emerson, try looking into more than his essays, which are "lots of somewhere" in themselves. But as you read further you imagine that Bradley knows exactly where to locate this in Emerson. And, indeed, "Frug Macabre" also has lots of somewhere, and perhaps contains nearly every theme and idea that will be addressed in the poems to come. What becomes clear is that this is a poet of considerable craft and erudition (it is apparent from previous volumes through this latest that he is especially well-versed in physics). These are poems that must be revisited in order to begin to understand all that is present within them. They will float by, quietly as "distance drifts above a tranquil sea", but lay hands on only one of them and you will begin to open the other worlds present in poetry.

This volume has a prefatory poem with the rest of the 21 poems divided into four sections. Sections I and IV consist of one long poem each. Sections II and III contain mostly lyrics in various forms, from ode to sonnet to villanelle. It is an impressive, formal array.

Bradley ends with a Georgic (for Doug Crase, a poet, author of "The Revisionist"), a didactic poem intended to instruct or teach a skill in an art or science (see Hesiod)-in this case wine-making-while imparting life-lessons along the way, or at least bits and pieces of aphoristic wisdom. This "instruction" is really what most of these poems attempt. They teach us to see through our received perceptions, most pointedly our perceptions of morality.

But let's begin at the beginning-here we discover what we should be prepared for as readers.

The prefatory poem, "6 X 10 X infinity" ("infinity" is printed as the sign for infinity, the sideways 8), begins with the image of the hand of the poet (and reader-for we must perform the same acts of interpretation) removing a book from the shelf and entering into the world of the book, which is more than one other world, but many. This is surely intended to mean this book and what follows. The language used also prepares us: the book is a "levelled block of reason", the poem "a small aperture", this life "worn and circumscribed", the "general life" found in the book is an "immense atmosphere." And what is central: "Here is no response, simple of the soul, physic/Compound of metaphysics, broken wafer to make us whole." We will not get answers-these poems will not absolve us, will not lead us to unity and bring our science in line with our religion. Poems must cast light on the interior ("candles dancing on the desk") for "Outside, it is any time of day. Outside, night falls." Our solace is Here, in this book, in these poems, in the mind's other worlds where "we transform ourselves, become things seen,/Fetching, even as starlight, our wink infinite." This is playfully serious ("a wink infinite"), and this poem and its companions are "fetching" even as they do indeed "fetch" fire down.

George Bradley's collection of the Yale Series of Younger Poets is an eclectic gathering of some of the best poetry produced by young, first time writers. Throughout the book, the voice of a distinct decade can be heard: from the tumultuous and forboding echoes of World War II to the radical tension of the sixties. Each poet is introduced with a concise biography and a brief comment on his or her poetry by Bradley. This book gives the reader an opportunity to view the early works of some of the greats: W.S. Merwin, John Hollander, John Ashbery, Adrienne Rich, Robert Hass, and many others. Though the selections are brief, they are rich in their content. A must for every poetry reader seeking to discover the fledgling works of well known and not-so well known poets alike.

I was really disappointed with this book. Even though it offers a incredibly wide variety of desserts, it explains all of them too briefly (why "step-by-step"?). You must know everything. Besides that, its glossary has general information. And it is not for homebakers since all the recipes are presented in very, very large quantities, perhaps for a restaurant. It is very tiresome to be dividing the recipe, not only one time, but two or three times! There are 16 color photos, it is true, but you must guess what desserts are pictured in it.(?)

Strictly for professionals, this book provides an exhaustive collection of basic professional recipes. The author assumes that the reader is well versed in making everything from genoise to buttercream and therefore the instructions are brief. A great resource for pastry chefs who need basic institutional sized recipes that can then be customized to their liking. After all..... pastry is art!

Just like reading the SLC 500 Instruction Set Reference available from Allen Bradley. Just added a few information about PLCs which by the way anyone can find in the internet for free. Don't waste your money on this book.

For the expense involved in buying this book I was expecting a lot more. At best the book is a concise summary of a limited subset of SLC and Controllogix instructions. It does very little to enhance the documentation provided by Rockwell.