Not much in terms of a review to add. I'm just a beginner, and, well, the notes look right :) But I would like to add a list of songs featured, as Amazon has left that out of the description...

This book features the songs:

Behind the Waterfall, Courage of the Wind, Cristofori's Dream, Dream Field, Faces of the Forest, Farewell Amparo, Heartsounds, Leaves on the Seine, Nightfall, Song for Monet, Spiral Dance, Summer's Child, Valencia

If you are a pianist, and love David Lanz you will love this book. If you haven't heard Lanz, then listen to a clip from one of his CD's on this site, and be hooked. This book contains songs from four of his CD's, Heartsounds, Cristofori's Dream, Natural States and Nightfall.

If you, like me, took piano lessons as a child and can play classical music and written music, but lost the love of the piano and the desire to play, this book is for YOU! When I first heard Lanz's CD Cristofori's Dream, I wished that I could play music like this. I hadn't touched my piano in years because I wasn't enjoying the music I could play. I found "Solos for New Age Piano" and found that I COULD play this music. "Cristofori's Dream" and "Spiral Dance" are lyrical, romantic and very relaxing to play. "Behind the Waterfal" and "Courage of the Wind" are robust and magical, just like the bit of nature they describe.

On first play, some of Lanz's songs seem difficult, but don't give up because the reward of mastering these songs is well worth the effort. I would highly recommend "Solo's for New Age Piano" for any but the beginning piano player.

You have to remember that David Lanz improvises as he plays his music. If you listen to his CDs, they are full of little prelude improvisions, the music to which you can't find in any of his books I might add. I like the simplicity of the basic music, because it lets me improvise as I like, adding a personal touch to the music for myself. Or if I want (and have done with at least one song), I can listen to the CD, as this other person suggested, figure out where the musician himself improvised, and throw those extra notes in.

The sound quality of my cd here was really bad. It seem to me that this package was quickly thrown together. It taught me very little.

This is a great way to learn the basics of Blues Piano.The author breaks it all down into workable,understandable segments.
Within two weeks people were enjoying my playing.That was a good feeling.

I had practically the same experience as that of reviewer Fredric M Mendes. David Cohen is an excellent teacher, and structures his lessons in a logical and orderly way. He makes learning to play Blues Piano fun and simple. In practically no time, I found I had mastered simple improvising, playing different right hand rhythems and riffs(including his awesome quintuplet), playing different baselines, playing turnarounds, and playing some really cool endings. My playing really got to sound like something, without very much practice. I've been inspired to go on to more advanced blues piano studies. I even traveled to Philadelphia to see David play in person, and to get his autograph on the cover of my book.

By all accounts Swedenborg was both a high genius and, in his later years, psychic...focused on developing a world view that encompassed heaven and hell, angels etc. As such this book is a collection of many of his remarks about the afterlife and heaven and hell. It has a dated feel in the sense that Swedenborgs views are firmly those of someone writing over 200 years ago...and it is a puzzle how to reconcile them with more "modern" writers/travellers on the path. The charitable view would be that, if what Swedenborg says is somehow true, then it is also filtered through the mindset of someone of his era (just as must be true of someone of our own era). This "dated" aspect of his ideas greatly reduced their value for me...but some of his ideas (eg about how we create our own heavens and hells) cannot be found elsewhere.

This is the first Swedenborg book I read and it introduced me to the whole fascinating world of his visions. I have read numerous books on angelic encounters, life after death, near death experiences, etc., but this book is truly unique. In this book, Swedenborg speaks about his experiences as he passes into the realms of heaven and encounters angels. He relates answers to questions he poses to the angels, things like:"Please teach me what happiness is." The angels respond, "Love in action gives a feeling of happiness. In heaven it acts with widsom, in hell with folly. Either way it makes its subect happy."

Unlike some books about channeling and similar processes, I had no trouble believing and understanding that the messages in this book were genuine. I felt comfortable with the fact that Swedenborg really spoke with higher realms and wasn't just creating this in his own mind.

If you're looking for an inspiring book to help you understand life on many levels, and are tired of the myriad NDE and angelic encounter books that abound, you'll enjoy this one!

While this book is one of the most important books in terms of understanding the dissident viewpoint regarding HIV and AIDS,I do wish it had been written better. The narrative point of view is annoying, distracting and unnecessary. Horowitz also appears to get distracted by the discovery of Hillary Rodham Clinton and Janet Reno's effort to revamp the entire human services industry in Florida (prior to the Clinton presidency) without really pulling it all together in terms of how this affects the corruption of the AIDS industry. I'm sure there is an overlap, but I wish he had spelled it out more effectively. At the end, he gets into this annoying political diatribe about Clintonian politics and liberal values and a "back to basics" family values solution that made me wonder if he was born before Clinton was president. Or is he simply too privileged to realize that human services was just as horrendous to parents prior to Clinton? Or perhaps that was before it was fathers that were targeted, when it was okay to target single mothers? All these things are beside the point, and totally get away from the most important things that are said mostly in the first third of the book. For that alone, this book is a crucial aspect of dissident reading. It is just unfortunate that his obvious conservative bias takes away from the truth that all Americans, conservative and liberal, need to know if we are going to survive this outrageous holocaust.

Because frogs are cold-blooded, they adapt to almost any temperature. For example, when put in a pot of cold H20 on a stove & slowly turning the burner up to increase the H20 heat, the frog never jumps out. Instead they slowly boil to death. Even though 'Shaping Strategic Planning' was written & published over 10 years ago, the content is still relevant today. Rapid business change was occurring in 1989, & it continues to occur in 2000. In order to avoid becoming boiled frogs, today's businesses require planning systems to shape their future as opposed to simply adapt to it. This book provides strategic planning models & insights for success. Using corporate examples, flowcharts, and entertaining graphics, the authors explore essential strategic planning elements including innovation, leadership, environmental scanning, contingency planning as well as SWOT & gap analyses. 'Shaping Strategic Planning' offers tools to effectively deal with today's business environment in which the only constant is change. Utilizing the suggested planning framework will enable organizations to choose a future direction & create a working plan to begin the journey to reach that destination.

This is little more than a song book, but with it's highlights of several performers of the day, and the songs that made them famous it's well worth the price. There are several songs that the music is easily available from other cheaper sources, but there are also several very hard to find pieces. If you like music of this era, this book is for you.

I read this book last week for a history class. Supposedly it's THE undergraduate text in immigration history, but I don't really know why. While I admit that it covers an amazing amount of history and information, it lacks organization which makes it very boring and difficult to follow at points. While it's still worth reading for its content, there must be something better out there.

Dinnerstein and Reimers presents a comprehensive overview of immigrants in the United States from 1607 until the present. Ethnic Americans covers the triumph and struggle of European, Latin America, Asian immigrants as they seek social, economic and political freedom in the United States. Examines the assimilation of immigrants despite facing racism and prejudice in the new world. This book is truly a historical, scholarly work but a readable book for everyone interested in the history of immigrants in the United States.

To draw the most from this new book, you need to know already quite a bit about occupied France. The authors trace in detail academic perceptions of Vichy since 1945. Regime apologists tried to maintain in the 1950s that Petain had played a clever game in seeming to collaborate whilst plotting to maintain French independence. We now understand this was nonsense: Petain and Laval may have been interested in collaboration, but Hitler's only concern was booty. But equally in error was the Gaullist position that forty million Frenchmen supported the Resistance against a tiny number of traitors. The editors demonstrate that more recent research has shown how fragmented both the pro and anti Vichy groups were. For example, it was possible to be faithful to Petain whilst being anti nazi. Many ordinary French people, both in the cities and in the countryside, adopted an eclectic attitude according to "how the wind was blowing" in their area. The book suggests new lines for research on Vichy, especially a comparative approach with what was happening in other occupied countries such as Bulgaria and Hungary. The book is largely a tribute to Robert Paxton who wrote a ground breaking study of wartime France in the 1970s. This reviewer found the continuous adulation of Paxton, however merited, somewhat repetitive. You will enjoy this new volume if you really want to explore in depth the meaning of Vichy over the past sixty years. Given that France was still prosecuting men for war crimes in the late 1990s, Petain's regime is still a hotly debated topic in that country's academic establishment.

This book is an essential text for anyone interested in the history of of France during the Vichy regime. It offers a superlative compilation of the latest scholarship in the field, contributed by some of its most important writers, people like Michael Marrus, Jean-Pierre Azema, Henri Rousso, Stanley Hoffmann, Philippe Burrin, etc. etc. The introduction by Fishman and Smith is a thorough map of the entire contents of the book which, again, provides a rich collection of articles destined perhaps not for the general reader without any background on the subject, although the book itself is reader friendly....

The books in this series--The Ultimate Dracula, Frankenstein, Werewolf, etc.--are striking for their cover art but disappointing in their story selection. They're eclectic enough--including stories by established writers and little-known authors and varying widely in tone. But none of them really stands out. There must be better collections out there.

When I first picked up the Ultimate Dracula, I wasn't sure what it was. I thought another collection on Dracula himself, but I was wrong. Anne Rice's "Master of the Rampling Gate" is a wonderful short story of hers. My other favorite is "The Tenth Scholar", a totally different look at the world of the vampire. If you're looking for some good short fiction, pick up this book. It won't disappoint you.

I love dracula stories and I have to admit that I loved this book. I liked all the writers style and when I started to read it I could not put it down. I would recomend this book to those who enjoy vampire films and novels!

I had no trouble reading Lady Chatterley's Lover, but I did indeed have trouble reading The Man Who Died. It is gross and blasphemous. D. H. Lawrence must have been mad when he wrote this. His tuberculosis was sure getting at him.

The book, which is a novella, was about Christ's resurrection. He discovers that men are put on earth to have sex with women. And He Himself takes part in this heathen notion.

I was insulted when I read this. Christians and non-Christians alike will agree that this book is not worth reading.

This is D.H. Lawrence at his hobby horse again. He gives a portrayal of the risen Jesus after the crucifixion who is tired of life . . . weary of it all, with the life force at an all-time low. What can save him? Sex, of course. What else? It's the same old song-and-dance. Lawrence seems to think that the answer to all of life's problems is sexual union, which makes about as much sense to me as regarding vegetable curry as the meaning of life. Sex has it's place, to be sure, but I don't understand the primacy that Lawrence ascribes to it in each and every one of his novels. In certain instances, sex can revive a sense of purpose or ebbing energy, but it cannot and will not aid anyone in a sense of world-weariness. If attempted it will just be like trying to give live into a dead horse. It would probably only make one feel all the more disgusted with existence rather than giving one a sense of rejuvenation, as Sartre so adequately demonstrates in his "Nausea". All, in all, i felt the whole attempt was kind of silly. The Christians will get mad, the Lawrencians will love it, but it is really just another testimony to one man's inability to make sense of live in anyway other than genital terms.

The first time that I read this story was close to 10 years ago and it was coupled with another short titled, "Bryn Mawr" (sp). Being a fan of Kazantzakis, I was immedeiatly drawn into this speculative account. I couldn't put it down even when it ended. The best of this style and subject.