Critics have tended to split Evelyn Waugh into two authors: the hysterically funny satirist who wrote books like "Vile Bodies" and "The Loved One," and the very conservative Catholic writer who gave us "Brideshead Revisited" and other works. Patey shatters this shallow understanding, demonstrating convincingly that Waugh's satire, like Swift's, is solidly based on a system of positive values -- in Waugh's case, pre-Vatican II Roman Catholic religion. Patey's treatment of this aspect of Waugh, so central to him as a writer and as a man, is simply masterful. I have always found this side of Waugh distasteful, but through Patey, I found myself pulled into an intense and exciting dialogue with Waugh and his beliefs. The treatment of Waugh's life is equally superb. Perhaps more than any other genre, satire requires a knowledge of its historical context to be appreciated. Patey seems to know everything about everyone Waugh ever met, and to have read and understood everything Waugh might ever have read. He has synthesized it all and delivered it in a prose style so clear and unobtrusive that you don't appreciate it until you reflect on what he's accomplished with it. And he lets Waugh make all the jokes. There's much about Waugh to dislike, but Patey provides an understanding of the man and his art that reconciles us to him. And besides, how can you hold a grudge against an author who names a character Aimee Thanatogenous?

If anyone who wishes to learn more about the life and the works of Evelyn Waugh, this may not be the biography for him. Currently, there are three major biographies of Waugh-Stannard, Sykes, and Patey. Stannard's work is cumbersome, and often his prose is awkward, but it is certainly well worth reading for its inclusiveness. Sykes is more of a reminiscence of friendship, including anecdotes that he was privy to. Patey is the first author of apply high literary criticism to Waugh in the kind of form that a professor is apt to do. He responds specifically to continual problems raised in Waugh scholarship and provides far more coherent and concrete answers than Stannard or Sykes even attempt. He organizes the biography with an eye on chronology, but also addresses issues thematically which is brilliant, and simple, but what few literary biographies do. Bravo Mr. Patey! Thank you very much for your hard work on this matter. His biography is also meticulously footnoted.

Though half the length of the other standard biographies (Sykes, Stannard, and Hastings), Patey's book is more interesting and more insightful. He provides a context for Waugh's thoughts, so that some of EW's positions seem less strange. Patey also defends Waugh's books against the vicious criticism to which they have often been subjected. Another strength is Patey's explanation of what redeems even the non-Catholic characters. The surprising answer: the ability to love. Patey doesn't carry this point all the way through, and sometimes he seems too sympathetic to Waugh. Still, I'd rather re-read his biography than any of the others.

The author focuses on the crucial fact that we are unable to change anyone but ourselves. She stresses that God has given each of us a purpose and by reading and studying His word, we find His will for our lives. By changing our lives the way God wants us to, His love spills out from us to those around us. She also explains that nothing compares to God's wisdom (compared to sensual, earthly or demonic influences on our lives) and we must be careful to scrutinize any influences by His word. This book will open your eyes to the importance of going to the Bible first and not relying on our own "I thinks". I highly recommend this book. It's truly a life changer if the principles are applied!

MY MOM TOLD ME WHEN I GRABBED HER COPY THAT I HAD TO BE SERIOUS TO READ THIS- IT WAS FOR CHRISTIAN WOMEN WHO MEAN BUSINESS ABOUT CHANGING THEIR LIVES. CHALK IT UP TO ONE MORE THING MY MOM WAS RIGHT ABOUT! TOOK A LONG TIME TO READ AND DIGEST AND APPLY. WELL WORTH THE TRIP TO SEE GOD AT WORK IN ME. GRAB A HIGHLIGHTER, YOUR BIBLE AND GET BUSY!

this book was a God send. I read this book during one of the darkest times in my life and it helped and changed my life and defined what prayer can actually do in your life. Note: if you don't want God to change you into the person he wants you to be don't pray the prayer.

Professor Avery has performed a great service by revealing the extraordinary contributions of Professor Malamud. I must confess that I had read very little of the author's work. If I had been awakened at 3:00 A.M. and asked about him, I would have said that he was a celebrated American Jewish writer. Dr. Avery reveals him to be much more than that. He should be classed with masters of world literature, involved with but not dependent on ethnicity or religion.
Evelyn Avery takes us on an excursion exploring all aspects of Malamud's work. She begins with her personal friendship with the man extending from 1971 until his death. She then offers analyses of the author and his work by his son Paul and by five other colleagues who knew the author on a personal and social level. She goes on to present essays by five scholars who knew Malamud on a professional level. She then offers six analyses of the themes in Malamud's fiction. One of these by Evelyn Avery compares Malamud's work to that of Cynthia Ozick. The book concluded with a select bibliography, a contributor's list and an index.
When you are through with those Magic Worlds you ought to know Bernard Malamud on a very intimate level. Certainly Professor Avery has enriched American literature by familiarizing her readers with a writer who transcends the limited role of "Jewish authorship."

Anyone who enjoys the stories of Bernard Malamud will love this extraordinary collection of essays.Written by people closest to him-- his son, his friends, his colleagues-- we become acquainted with Malamud on a personal level. Anecdotes and reminiscenses bring out what matters most to Malamud. And knowing what an artist values most is key to understanding his life's work.

Beyond becoming acquainted and enamored of this man's values, I learned from scholars about recurring themes, archetypes, and personality traits found in all his stories. All of this, of course, helps one understand and enjoy the stories even more.

In the words of Cynthia Ozick Bernard Malamud was a "Master" of American Jewish literature. I agree. I also think this book is a wonderful tribute to his memory.

Editor Evelyn Avery is one of our most important Malamud scholars whose work on the author extends back to her early (1979). The new book has a comprehensive introduction and an excellent collection of essays on Malamud's fiction by top literary scholars including Avery herself, Daniel Walden, Sanford Pinsker, and Lillian Kremer. The subjects range from Zen Buddhism and Yiddish Archetypes to Universal Menschen in the fiction. The book also has Paul Malamud's memoir on his father, Cynthia Ozick's "Remembrances," and Joel Salzberg's discussion of Malamud's correspondences. Annotated bibliography is very helpful. It's a terrific read!

As a devout Christian (Catholic) the book is convincing testimony about the necessity of God in one's life to provide balance and direction in the trials that beset each of us from time to time. While my own inner struggles were settled some time ago, my spiritual life was stagnant. MY SEARCH FOR THE INFINITE provided helpful insights that helped spark and re-kindle my spiritual flame.

The book is a bedside favorite and I often medidate on its words before switching off the lamp at night. JCT

The author writes compellingly about coming to terms with negative destructive emotions, sharing how she overcame rejections by her mother... The book weaves through childhood to adulthood sharing the many travails that beset her. At age 88 she put pen to paper to provide instructions to other seeking the Truth. Scattered carefully throughout the book one finds glimpses of her personal association with Joel S Goldsmith. The author has also included dozens of her inspired and illumined poetry. This inclusion adds to what is already a gripping story of a Messianic Jew who triumphs above personal heartaches and set backs. A must for Goldsmith devotees and those interested in mysticism.

Written as though dictated by Scott M. Peck!
Highly recommend! RC Texas

This book continues to help so many of us on our own inner journeys - I, for one, will refer to the writings time and again for help, guidance and, more importantly, encouragement...The book is wonderfully illustrated with many of the author's beautiful poems - at the most appropriate point - love the many quotations which are so helpful. MM Great Britain

Sexism and Science author Evelyn Reed, writing her Introduction in November, 1977, explains that this book is as important as and similar in purpose to the books written to reveal the racism that infiltrated supposedly scientific researchers in biology, genetics, zoology, sociology, and anthropology. As a lifelong student of anthropology, Reed has no problem exposing many authors as unscientific and sexist by quoting and then destroying their main arguments. Among these are Lionel Tiger, author of Men In Groups, Robert Ardrey, author of The Territorial Imperative, Konrad Lorenz who wrote On Aggression, and Desmond Morris, writer of aked Ape. She reserved a whole chapter for the famed Harvard zoologist Edward O. Wilson and has a field day describing his version of 'social Darwinism'--the erroneous view that human societies are simply varieties of animal societies and human nature is identical with animal nature. Women surrounded today by these same backward ideas will love this book. for its confident and well-researched content. The ardent animal lovers of today also should read this small, powerful book for our differences and similarities are intriguing in the able hands of this Marxist-feminist author.

This book by Evelyn Reed sweeps away the sexist, unscientific views that have prevailed among academics for decades. When she wrote these articles twenty-five years ago, Reed warned that this trend in anthropology would be used to blunt the lessons of the women's liberation movement and submerge our thinking about the future of humanity in a morass of pessimism and liberal guilt. "Animal Rights" is the perfect example of what Reed was warning about. If you look at the way humanity created itself out of the primates, you get a liberating respect for what we can accomplish. If you look at the tremendous accomplishments of the long period of female dominance (without romanticizing it) you are in a position to refute the idea that women will always suffer domination. If humanity is to avoid capitalism's descent into barbarism (and we will), women will once again play the leading role.

This is a fascinating collection of articles by Evelyn Reed, a long-time socialist activist and Marxist writer, author of Woman's Evolution and other works. She tackles questions of the evolution of human beings and human society out of earlier animal species; emphasizing things that make humans different, including tool-making, intellectual capacity and the ability to organize in broad social groups to be able to transform nature to meet the needs of human beings. Reed also analyzes the divisions of society into classes of producers and exploiters, the emergence of patriarchal society from earlier matriarchal forms, and the deep-seated roots of woman's oppression today.
"Sexism and Science" polemicizes extensively on facts and methodology with academics whose views on anthropology and biology are warped by the prejudices of modern capitalist society. Among those are Desmond Morris, author of "The Naked Ape," Edward O. Wilson, author of "Sociobiology," and the prominent anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss.
Want to understand better the roots of poverty, racism, and sexism today and figure out a way forward for humanity? You'll find the issues raised, the facts presented and the materialist methodology Reed employs are extremely useful.

A great resource for science methods and information.

This is one of three essential source books that includes A Sourcebook for Elementary Science and Geology and Earth Sciences Sourcebook (out of print). Professionals in business, science, engineering, agriculture and K-12 & university education keep these sourcebooks close at hand. These are the "how to" methods of science. You are cost-effective by efficient use of equipment, glassware, reagents and specimens. I regularly give the Sourcebook for the Biological Sciences as a gift to those I work with.

I am a new science teacher. I have found this book to be a necessity in my classroom. In talking with veteran teachers, they also see this book as vital to any biology teacher. It is easy to use and provides many innovative ideas.

As a native Russian, I want to thank the author, Grigory Medvedev, for a honest and professional overview of Chernobyl disaster. His incredibly deep insight of human characters who were in touch with Chernobyl fire filled my heart with a great sorrow because they paid a high price of their health or lives. The book made me reevaluate my vision of our 20th century where still exists a nuclear power. Who will be the next victim of whose deadly mistake? Who must step in to shield others? What kind goverment promoted Chernobyl?

This book is essential for anybody to read in order to help all nations in organization of a prevention mechanism against such deadly mistakes.

As the book claims- a minute by minute account of the great tragedy. Being a fan of nuclear psysics this book has taught me a lot not only about physics but of the Russian culture, secretive cover-ups and human suffering. If you want to know everything there is about this Chernobyl and not be bored, then this is the book to get.

This book describes the accident and events leading to the accident in great detail. Anyone interested in human factors as they relate to loss prevention should find this book an excellent resource. The accident was caused by a long series of very serious human errors. The author also compares the Chernobyl accident to the Three Mile Island accident. In spite of the difference in design of the two nuclear plants, the sequences of events leading to the two accidents were strikingly similar

If you love cats and christmas then this is the book for you. The stories are a bit silly but so lovely and uplifting.

My daughter bought me the book because i have three cats. this book was very cute because it talked about one womans cat then made up a little song about cats its was nice. zelma

Illustrated with color photos and black & white drawings enhance Evelyn Kaye's entertaining travelogue as she follows the 1878 route of Victorian traveler Isabella Bird through northern Japan. The adventure of a woman traveler in that part of the world in those days was so remarkable that Evelyn discovered that more than a hundred and twenty years later Isabella Bird was still remembered with her book still in print (in Japanese), community memorials erected in her memory, and the subject of a Tokyo television show! Adventures In Japan is a unique, totally engaging, wonderfully well written, enthusiastically recommended account of a personal journey through Japan as seen through the eyes of two women travelers, one from the 19th century and the other from the 20th.

Adventures in Japan provides a modern woman's story of following Victorian adventurer Isabella Bird's 1878 through northern Japan, where Bird is still remembered. Kaye's three-week journey provides a fascinating account of both her experiences in northern Japan and Bird's lasting influence in the region.

Any film directed by Orson Welles is engrossing and worth the time. MACBETH is no exception. For those of you familiar with the 1971 Roman Polanski version, Welles brought to the screen a darker, more nightmarish world than Polanski could envision. The lighting is stark and the shadows ominous. Macbeth's madness increasingly pervades the atmosphere of the entire film, making the viewer unwilling to view this film with the lights out. The restored version presents Welles's original conception; the actors speak their lines with authentic Scottish burrs (Welles was forced to redo the soundtrack by the studio brass). A fascinating journey and imaginative interpretation of Shakespeare, Welles's MACBETH remains a major additon to American cinema and reveals the classical literary talents of one of the US's greatest visual artists. END

Without a doubt Orson Welles is the perfect American compliment for William Shakespeare. Superbly directed and acted on a melancholy stage in haunting black and white, the poetic license with Shakespeare's Macbeth can be forgiven because of the intensity and brilliance with which this play is performed. There is a great supporting cast which includes Roddy McDowall that as in all ensemble productions draw the viewer into the play not as a witness - bystander but as a performer in concert with the actors. Welles of course was a genius, being one of those rare performers - entertainers who made the audience beg for more! I wish he had produced versions of Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and other Shakespeare plays. Even if you already own a good version of Macbeth, you must have this version! Welles set the standard by which all others are measured.

Orson Welles delivers a fine performance both as MacBeth and as director in this classic film version of Shakespeare's play. His MacBeth is very powerful - this is one of those film versions I feel can be watched again and again, to savor the poetry as well as the performance. The scenes with the three Weird Sisters are genuinely creepy, and the whole, dark atmosphere of the film is especially conducive to late night, repeated watchings. The fine cast with their womderful Scottish accents are an added treat. That's a young Roddy MacDowel playing the boy Malcolm, by the way. The priest (a character Welles created to give a a few good lines to from other characters) is very effective in creating a sense of the world turned upside down - listen to him when he talks of "the instruments of darkness" - he's played by Alan Napier, who plays the doctor in the classic haunted house film, *The Uninvited.*