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Vladimir Simosko has written the book I have been trying to write since I became an Artie Shaw fan and collector in 1938 when I was 13. Mr. Simosko has assembled all the information I have collected over the years regarding recording dates, musicians involved, and covers many of the questions I have asked as well. Of most interest will be the years before Shaw recorded Begin the Beguine when he was a sideman with many large radio orchestras. Simosko uses conversations he had with Artie Shaw to backup much of the information. As Shaw wrote the introduction, the book becomes "authorized" and must be regarded as the ultimate record of one of the most complex jazz musicians in the jazz world, and at the age of 90 one of the last living members of the Big Band Era.

Amazing insight to the soviet era government that can only be offered by russian citizens!

Ten years after the revolutions of 1989 and the unexpected collapse of communist regimes in East-Central Europe, a conference was held at Central European University in Budapest, Hungary from 26 to 29 March 1999. The conference brought together scholars and critical intellectuals from both East and West, all of them interested in the meanings and legacies of the 1989 revolutions. The book Between Past and Future: The Revolutions of 1989 and Their Aftermath, edited by Sorin Antohi and Vladimir Tismaneanu and published by Central European University Press resulted from the excellent papers presented at that conference which, it may be argued, was the conference dedicated to the revolutions of 1989 and the first decade that followed. The names of the authors present in the volume reveal not only the high level of the debates, but also the scholarly interest in the events that put an end to a divided Europe. The book is organized on four major sections/topics and a concluding chapter: (1) "Meanings of 1989: Present Significance of the Past," which contains studies and essays authored by Agnes Heller, Jacques Rupnik, Karol Soltan, Jeffrey C. Isaac, and Sorin Antohi; (2) "Winners and Losers in the Great Transformation," with contributions by Adam Michnik, Martin Palous, Valerie Bunce, and Vladimir Tismaneanu; (3) "Vulnerabilities of the New Democracies," with contributions by Katherine Verdery, Gail Kligman and Susan Gal, Kazimierz Z. Poznanski, Istvan Rev, Miklos Haraszti, and Ivan Vejvoda and (4) "The New Europe: Prospects for Cooperation and Conflict" with contributions by Karen Dawisha, Bartlomiej Kaminski, Ilya Prizel, Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom and Irena Grudzinska Gross. The final section, "Past, Present, Future," is a concluding essay by Timothy Garton Ash. Considering the relative high number of contributions to the volume, a comprehensive analysis of each study/essay cannot be made. However, it is important to stress that the variety of the arguments, ideas, and demonstrations provided by the contributors reveals the theoretical richness and originality of the scholarship focusing on the 1989 revolutions. Those interested in the collapse of communism and the 1989 revolutions will find different approaches to the 1989 events and the subsequent transitions to a real democracy. Unfortunately, there is not a unique, valid explanation for what happened in East-Central Europe in 1989. As Garton Ash rhetorically put it, "Ten years on, what do we know?" His answer, "we know more about the consequences" contains the elements that make of 1989 a fascinating object of research. Although we now know a great deal about 1989, those events are still mysterious and captivating. The contributors to the present volume have succeeded in convincing us that the fascination of 1989 remains intact.

The Blind Musician is an excellent story, aimed at a younger audience, but possessing the depth to make it a good read for all ages. The protagonist, born blind, is incredibly sensitive to the world around him but lacks the language of the sighted to express it. This expression is finally achieved through his remaining primary sense - sound - and the world unfolds before him. In hardcover, the exquisite artwork makes it a beautiful gift for a sighted child or for anyone who appreciates the many ways the world can be 'seen'.

Catastrophe theory was the first mathematical "advance" to receive extensive coverage in the popular press since quantum mechanics. The interest and adulation afforded to chaos theory and nonlinear dynamical systems research barely immitated the enthusiasm and later scorn generated by Thom and his followers. In retrospect it is hard to see what all the excitement was about. Perhaps that's exactly why this book deserves serious attention.

While the doctoral trained mathematician may find more faults here than the rest of us, this book provides sufficient complexity for the professional, and at times is "gentle" enough for the nonmathematician. It will probably find its most useful audience among people with "semi-mathematical" trainings, scientists in life and behavioral or social sciences. For these people, who may just want to find out why Thom's initial theorems generated so much excitement and controversey, this book will be a readable delight.

This is the BEST art book I ever saw! Vladimir Horik is a great artist and his paintings are truly amazing. The colors, the settings, the lighting in ALL the 90 or so paintings in this book make this a must for every art lover. At the same time, you will discover the absolutely fantastic Charlevoix region that this book is all about. I personally look at this book almost every day, discovering something new each time, just to treat my eyes to some of the most beautifull paintings I ever saw. Once again, HDI delivers a work of art in itself with this book, filled with treasures from Quebec's most beautifull region, Charlevoix. //// Ce livre est absolument fantastique! Le peintre Vladimir Horik nous fait decouvrir la superbe region de Charlevoix dans ce livre qui capture les plus belles scenes de cette region du Quebec. Les couleurs, les eclairages, les choix de scenes font de ce livre un "must" pour tous les amateurs d'art. Je regarde ce livre presqu'a tous les jours et j'y decouvre de nouvelles choses a chaque fois. Les tableaux sont captivant et les reproductions sont de tres haute qualite. Le livre est en soi une oeuvre d'art, bravo HDI!

Jesse Mercer was active for God. His theology was strongly Calvinist, and he believed that his life should be spent in active service with the aim of bringing glory to God. This book tells some of his biography, and emphasizes his activity of collecting and publishing Christian hymns. I do not actually own this book, but have checked it out of the library from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. One could only wish that the current leadership of Mercer University (Atlanta, Georgia) which bears Mercer's family name would live with such theological conviction regarding Scriptural truth.

The is truly an monumental undertaking by Progress Publishers, the state sponsored publishing house of the old Soviet State. The 43 volume set is an English translation of everything that was ever written by the great revolutionary and founderof the Soviet State, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.

It provides the reader with a view into the conditions of turn-of-the-century Russia leading to the Russian Revolution and the Russian Civil War which followed. It is a valuable addition to the library of any student of Russian History.

As scientific attention turns in the post-genomic era,
once again, to the properties of proteins, and particularly
to their preeminet role as catalysts, Professor
Leskovac's book, Comprehensive Enzyme Kinetics, will
have to be on every shelf. It will, however, rarely
find itself on the shelf, but much more in the hands
of researchers who will daily deploy in the laboratory
its wealth of useful information. Prepared under the
eye of W.W. Cleland, this demiurge of enzyme kinetics,
this magnum opus earns its title "comprehensive".
The systematic organization of the volume, which somehow
manages completeness in just over 400 pages, leads
the reader to a target subject easily. The clarity of
exposition will be as welcome to the experienced
kineticist as it will be to the beginner. This volume
is a singular achievement.
Richard L. Schowen, Professor
University of Kansas

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"Comprehensive Enzye Kinetics" is an excellent
addition to the enzyme kinetics litarature.
It touches on all of the topics in the various
areas of kinetics that might be of interest to
the enzymologist. It will make a fine classroom
reference text.

Herbert J. Fromm, Distinguished Professor
Iowa State University