will be a huge help. She teaches you how to break down a play and how to form plots. I have had the honor of working with Rosemary Angham at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, on two productions : Taiming the Shrew and King Lear. She was an amazing designer to watch and learn from. Everything that she says in her books is truly what she does. this is an amaing book, but there are not a lot of pictures. But the text information makes up for that lack.

This is a great resource for the design process. I especially use these guidelines for analysis of a play and characters whenever I design a show. A must have for anyone interested in designing shows!!

Brother Thomas Bezanson ,originally from Nova Scotia, is one of the great potters working in cermaics today. His work is notable in its use of color, resembling texture and color used in both China and Japan. He works in porcelin,and now lives and works in Erie, Pa.,not a noted hotbed of the arts. He was formely assocaited with the celebrated Monks of Weston Priory in Vermont. His work is easily accesible, and is on display in the Boston museum,among other places. This book, with its luxurious photos show the depth of the color that Brother Thomas achieves,the deep blends that have become his signature .Tea bowls, plates,vases all are lovingly illustated in beautiful full 4 color photographs.In this volume,he shows his deep indebtedness to the japanese and chinese artist who have preceeded him.Also his story is told along with his progress as an artist, and one can see, as a man. This is a beautiful book,lavishly illustarted which tells Br Thomas history along with the history of the pieces. Excellent, worth the cost and effort.

I found this book very enjoyable and uplifting. The writings of Brother Thomas and the photographs of his art work are exceptional. This is a book I recommend to any artist or anyone who enjoys man at his creative best.

I have been using Lippincott's review series since I started nursing school last year. These books are a must have! They are to the point, tells exactly what you need to know and they have review questions. These books are small and weigh almost nothing so they are easy to keep with you. I will be starting Critical Care which will be my last semester! I am so glad that Lippencott came out with Critical Care Review just in time. I haven't started the new semester yet but in my spare time I have been reading through the chapters. I highly reccommend these series! I even got my other classmates hooked too!

I purchased this book about 4 months ago in order to have a quick reference available to me at work. I am a new graduate ICU RN in a VERY busy trauma center, and this book has everything I need to help refresh my memory quickly when I need it. All of the information in this book is organized system by system, so it's easy to find what you need. The information itself is "just the facts." Everything important regarding every subject pertinent to the ICU, including treatment modalities and nursing diagnoses for any medical condition you can think of! Critical things to remember are in bold lettering, so they really stand out on a page. There are illustrations to help "drive home" more complex concepts and procedures, along with countless graphs and tables of information. Also, this book provides review questions at the end of each section for us motivated readers who like to test ourselves. I'm SO glad I found this book. I take it with me every shift, and have even caught veteren RN's thumbing through it, which tells me that it's a great resource for anyone...whether you're still a student, a new graduate, or have been an RN for 20 years. It's also small enough to carry with you anywhere...and at the risk of sounding weird, I do pretty much take it everywhere I go. I LOVE this book!

Agonito packs a lot of useful eye opening information in her book, "Dirty Little Secrets: Sex in the Workplace."
Reminding me of little kids getting caught playing "doctor" or shocking their parents with what they are engaged in behind closed doors in the name of "curiosity" came to mind after I read Agonito's outstanding book.
In the workplace adults are all grown up but still get caught being "curious" with one another at times.
The innocent curiosities we all must admit we experienced as kids do not go away with age and maturity, but the way we deal with them should and must noticeably change if we are to work together.If not, the consequences can be unbearable (loss of job, possibly family).
Agonito presents a wonderful argument for the reality that we all go to work having sexual feelings and that they don't disappear at the workplace.
This book also explores the obvious differences in how men and women seem to handle this overt sexual presence in the workplace: men are flattered, women tend to feel more threatened (or harrassed) by it.
The positives that can come out of using this sexual force to be reckoned with have the ability to actually create a wonderful environment, filled with caring and intimacy without having sexual activities.
Agonito aptly makes the case that sexual feelings exist not only after work but during; and the author/researcher provides useful solutions to dealing with this "fact" of workplace mindsets.

Outstanding resource for all adults. A must read.

Dirty Little Secrets explores all forms of sexual liaisons in the workplace, consensual and coercive, and examines their impact on and off the job. Rosemary Agonito considers how both men and women use sexuality as a form of power at work, the differing perceptions of ex by women and men on the job, the various sexual games both genders play, the most dangerous forms of sexual liaison in the workplace, and more. Dirty Little Secrets also explores the negative consequences of sex in the workplace, as well as looking at sex as a positive force on the job. The hidden underbelly of sexual politics common in all workplaces are revealed, along with concrete suggestions to individual and corporations. Dirty Little Secrets is an important contribution to gender studies, workplace rights, business management, and sexual harassment policy development.

Nineteen compelling, "nearly true" tales set in southern Africa during the late 1970s and 1980s comprise a debut work for this promising writer. The book, essentially a memoir dealing with Howard's coming-of-age experiences in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe during and after its war for independence, is a labor of love -- love for the land and its inhabitants: black, white, colonial and indigenous. As an American youth studying veterinary medicine in South Africa, Howard, afflicted with wanderlust, chanced to hitchhike north to Rhodesia on school holiday, whereupon his life was forever transformed. Upon marrying a Rhodesian girl and beginning a veterinary practice in the quaint colonial town of Marondellas, his soul became an irreversible part of the hard, red African clay. Now practising in New Zealand, Howard has experienced that teawakening of midlife, when many of us feel an urge to do an accounting of our lives. Howard is eminently successful in this accounting, and has shared his impressions and experiences in a way that makes this reader, a resident of Zimbabwe in the 1980s, want to see more. His stories, some comedic, others tragic, will evoke fond memories and nostalgia in all who once called southern Africa home.

Talk to most people about southern Africa and they will recount images of political unrest and violence. "Drive-By-Duck and other stories" offers the reader a different viewpoint. Human emotions and experiences of everyday life are interwoven in stories that reflect the depth of these nomatter where in the world you live. The only difference is the backdrop of the majesty that is southern Africa. For the reader brought up in southern Africa, the book will evoke many special memories. For the reader who has a curiosity for this part of the world, it will fuel your urge to visit one day. And for anyone who just wants a 'darn' good read, you WON'T be disappointed. If you only buy one book this year, let it be "Drive-By-Duck and other stories"

I am a Chinese living in Hong Kong. I was so moved by this book when I read it 7 years ago. Its the extra-ordinary observation of the author that illustrated the ordinary life of Chinese People. It had special meaning during that particular moment of history. China is changing form a close society and are openning to the world. Its like birds flying out of the cage. They may forget to fly but they keep on trying. The author showed the spirit of Chinese People that are strugging to achieve their goals under difficult conditions.

Rosemary Mahoney describes a year teaching English in Hangzhou, China, with an extraordinary gift for language and an eye for detail. While her experiences may not be as sensational as those in Mark Salzman's China memoir Iron and Silk, she is an infinitely more talented and entertaining writer. Salzman's book can be consumed once or simply foregone for the film adaptation of Iron and Silk, but I find myself returning again and again to Ms Mahoney's book, more for how she describes situations and people than for what actually happened. It's sad (but alas, not surprising) to see that such a quiet masterpiece has gone out of print while Salzman's journalistic anecdotes keep flying out of bookstores...Find the Early Arrival of Dreams anyway!

My son was a very shy little boy, and how we laughed at the adventures of Charles. Whenever my son was feeling timid I would whisper" You're like a sandwich without the cheese--not to mention the meat and the mustard..........." which is a quote from the father in the story. It always brought a smile. This book has a great lesson for people of ALL ages: acceptance! Shy children are fantastic too!

This book is a perfect example of why Rosemary Wells is my favorite children's author and one of the few brave enough to write with a unique voice. In this tale, Edward tries play school, doesn't fit in at all, doesn't enjoy himself, and is just not ready. His parents and teachers agree he should stop going until he's ready. In almost any other telling of a similar tale, the moral would be that somehow Edward was "brave" and found a way to like school, and kept going. Wells is brave enough to say that some kids really just aren't ready, and that in today's achievement at all costs oriented society, it's okay! Any child would be lucky to have parents like Edward's, who create a home environment that is cozy and loving. Don't get this book if you are a parent that has signed your child up for the top preschool at birth and have your 2 year old's Ivy League education all planned! But if you believe in letting kids be kids, even if they are shy kids, then this is a book for you!

The author gives advice on designing and furnishing a smart aging home, providing room-by-room analyses, checklists, and recommendations for resources. She addresses specific physical conditions and considers 'the healing bedroom' as a means to setting up a home hospital. And she covers 'the caring community', outlining the local support systems available for the onset of health and disability issues. (I found the reference to 'motion seating' and the company that makes it to be worth the price of the book alone.) Having seen my father through his last years, I already had an appreciation of the need for things as basic as proper seating and an accessible bathroom. The author's experience with her mother's Alzheimer's disease gave me even more to think about. This book appears to be going out of print which is unfortunate because it is quite practical. Buy it while you can.

Briefly, a fine book to sensitize one to issues of design as they apply to older persons. Although much of this book pertains to new constructions, I used it to sensitize me to issues that were also relevant to retrofit--such as putting up railings, etc., in an existing house.

I have never read a better book on Anti-Semitism. Ruether is a well-known Christian theologian, whose original thinking has both spawned and solved great questions.

This book is a study of the phenomena behind anti-Semitism, but it is unlike any other study of this subject. The author traces the history of Jewish/Christian conflicts back much further than the early churches of Paul, where most authors begin. Ruether looks all the way back to the division of Christian Jews from other Jews over disputes in interpreting the Torah, and books of prophecy.

The study considers the social pressures of the early church to balance somehow the connection to Judaism, and the pressures from the burgeoning state of Rome, but she strips this question entirely of apologetics, demonstrating that deliberate choices were made, not out of desperation, but often for personal gain.

Reuther doesn't pull her punches. When there is blame to be laid, she lays it squarely on the head of the guilty party. But don't think that this is some kind of book of grudges. Ruether is an highly qualified historian and theologian who crosses all her t's and dots her i's. Before she makes any statements of guilt, she builds an extraordinarily strong case, that will have you sadly nodding your head.

Ruether writes with a light touch, never belaboring a point, so the book moves quickly; there is something fascinating on every page. This is a difficult book to put down. It's not often that such an academic subject is turned into a book read for pleasure, but Ruether has done so. Despite squirming sometimes just over the thought of the injustices inflicted on Jews, the joy of discovery ran deep, and I couldn't put this book down.

This is an important book worthy of great exposure. Exploring the development of anti-semitic attitudes of the church and its early leaders,the author reveals how the condemnation of the Jewish faith became an integral part of early Christianity.The idea that the Jews rejection of Jesus began two thousand years of persecution is a concept which should be directed towards the mainstream of religious thought. It is from this seed that the myth of the Jewish people's responsibility for everything from the black plague to control of international banking developed. As these sterotypes became ingrained in the Christian consciousness over the centuries they gradually shifted from a religious to a racial form of hatred resulting in the destruction of European Jewry by the Nazis in the 20th century.For anyone interested in discovering the truth about the roots of anti-semitism there is no better place to begin than with this book.

I, too, have had the pleasure of studying with Dr. Horrox; however, I have had the added pleasure of having read this book. Dr. Horrox's choice of essays, her deft handling of the material, and the overall significance of the material is, not unexpectedly, superb.

i must confess that i haven't read this book just YET-- but i have looked for it forever, it seems. the reason i feel that i am justified in reviewing a book i haven't read is that i have had the extraordinary pleasure of getting it, as they say, straight from the horse's mouth. she was one of my professors at summer school in cambridge. her class was entitled life, literature and art 1000-1500 and was probably the most enjoyable class i've ever taken. she would never look at the class (we were warned that she wouldn't) but she would roam back and forth across the front of the room, looking up, looking down, and speaking almost as if to herself of the most fascinating bits of information. while other teachers were dry or commanding or chummy, she was just genuinely informative. she spoke of history as if it were the juiciest gossip that you held your breath to hear more of. if ms. horrox can write half as well as she teaches this book should be one of the greatest reads imaginable for anyone with even the slightest hint of interest on the subject. cheers, ms. horrox.