Orlando Innamorato is an absolutely beautiful story. It is in the same style as Orlando Furioso (by Ariosto), which is its sequel. We follow Charlemagne's paladins as they traverse the world, pagan and Christian, looking for adventure, fame, and especially love. The Saracen princess Angelica has captured the heart of the brave and chivalrous Orlando and he will do anything to earn her love. The only problem is that she remains uninterested. It also seems that nearly every knight in the Christian and Saracen world desires her too! The Christians and Muslims are almost constantly at war, so this is another obstacle in the way of poor, lovesick Orlando. With this premise, Boiardo narrates a story of epic proportions that is enchanting, funny, exciting, and always beautiful. He combines irony, allegory, romance, chivalry and much more to create a masterpiece. The stories contained are similar to the Arthurian legends, but are, in my opinion, livelier and more exciting. I agree with C.S. Lewis when he wrote: "Our oblivion of these poets (i.e. Boiardo and Ariosto) is much to be regretted...because it robs us of a whole species of pleasures and narrows our very conception of literature."

This edition is beautifully rendered into verse, but it is abridged. The complete poetic text of the story is not present. However, the translator always summarizes (in narrative form) those parts he leaves out. There is also a useful introduction and extremely helpful annotations that explain difficult passages in the story. I highly recommend this book, especially if you are a fan of Orlando Furioso or Pulci's Morgante.

This splendid little book is a double-edged Christmas gift: any intelligent golfer will love and benefit from it--and any gift-giver will appreciate having such an easy choice. "Passion for Golf" is not an instruction book, a how-to about better grips and reading greens. Instead it is a gracefully written (Merullo is a novelist) exploration of what golfers really battle on the course--not just the lies and bunkers and crosswinds but themselves and their demons: Ego, Anger, Fear, and others. Merullo writes of how to the game, and he doesn't need to draw on any Tigers or White Sharks to enlighten you. Indeed what is most appealing about this book is the he writes from the perspective of a pretty-good amateur playing a no-name course in western Massachusetts. And if you step back a bit for some perspective, you see that this is really a book about life. MBA's who have worn out their copies of "The Book of Five Rings" will find it worth their while, but any passionate golfer will enjoy a round in Merullo's company.

Pathways to the Supreme is the culmination of Bede Griffiths' search for the Supreme. It is his last text for publication and enjoins the contents of two notebooks in which he transcribed passages of literature, religion, and philosophy. Beginning with Griffiths' personal credo, he traces the history of the concept of God from primitive times to Christianity utilizing the wisdom of Jacques and Raissa Maritain, Mircea Eliade. Rilke, D. H. Lawrence, Wordsworth, Sophocles, Plato, Chuang-Tzu, Buddha, Tagore, St. Augustine, Eckhart, Tauler, and Kabir. Reading Griffiths' personal notebook is like plumbing the inner cave of his heart.

This is the best book about elk and hunting I have ever read. Informative, educational and entertaining.

It provides a clear and concise explanation of cardiac electrophysiology, with clinical correlations of arrhythmias and the drugs used to treat them. It also has sections on ischemic heart disease, congestive heart failure and a number of related subjects. I always had problems with electrophysiology especially, and was completely bewildered by arrhythmias until I found this book. The only down side is that it may or may not be detailed enough in the nitpicky things that certain professors like to test on, but used in conjunction with class notes, it's a gem. It is a very well-written introduction to and overview of heart function and dysfunction.

This is a great reference book for anyone new to particle technology (or any of its fields) and also serves as a great starting point for new researchers. Many important topics are covered, but more importantly, a tremendous literature list is included. May serve well as a text for a survey course in Particles, yet there are really no good examples and/or problems.

"Profits from Natural Resources" appeared in the book stores in November 1998, when nobody paid attention to commodities and oil was trading at $ 10 a barrel. Now oil has doubled in price and natural resources as an investment sector has been sofar one of the hottest and best performing sectors of 1999. Say no more !

The threshold that Melanie Klein found to exist between the paranoid-schizoid and the depressive positions is the site of a series of transformations - extremely inducing murder or suicide - in which habitual forms of discourse break down. W. R. Bion defined the series of transformations as a state of catastrophic change: it is comparable to the stage in rites of passage, as described by Arnold van Gennep, in which initiates undergo an experience of psychic eclipse.

With the wealth of clinical material, linking themes derived from psychotherapy, the arts, anthropology and philosophy, Psychotic Metaphysics proposes that this turbulence, which logically precedes embodiment, is the impetus for the unique quality of human achievement.

At the centre of turbulence, mind begins to realize that it has gained power by robbing its good objects. It enters into a necessarily metaphysical and depressive exploration of a psychotic iconography, in which an inadequate language of fetish and sign inhibits the emergemce of the symbols of love; and it discovers a geography of binary division, an underworld (as well as an overworld), to which it has banished its counterpart, a twin foetus and its mother, whom it must come to acknowledge as the rightful inheriters of life.

Every major discipline, including psychoanalysis, needs the stimulus of an excellent mind, standing away from the centre of professional gravity, commenting on that discipline. Eric Rhode's new book Psychotic Metaphysics makes such a contribution with the depth and scholarliness we now expect from him. Anton Obholzer, Psychoanalyst, Consultant Psychiatrist, Chairman Tavistock Clinic, 1985-1993, Chief Executive Tavistock and Portman Trust

Professor Payne takes extremely heavy texts, such as S/Z and makes them easier to understand. He has an extraordinary grasp of the subject matter that translates well to the classroom. I had the pleasure of taking his seminar in literary theory at Bucknell, and this book was one of the required texts.

I was excited and grateful that this book is finally out. I am a therapist who often works with people from other cultural backgrounds and this book gives me some new tools to be more effective with my clients. It is well written and the research Mr. Williams did to come up with the culturally specific warning signs for African Americans made this book even more valid. This book is a must for therapists and counselors who have chemically dependent African American clients. It would also be beneficial for anyone in recovery, regardless of race.