This is a great book! I highly recommend it!

Dr. Michael Beitler
Author of "Strategic Organizational Change"

This a great resource for teachers of Spanish. The chapters are short yet interesting. The characters and their actions make students want to keep reading. The timeliness of the subject matter (computers/technology) combined with the timeless themes of love, theft, betrayal, mystery and magic make this bok a valuable teaching tool.

Ladron de la mente is a novel written with a limited vocabulary for intermediate readers of Spanish. It contains a glossary at the end, and has many illustrations of the neighborhoods in Madrid where the story takes place. It has an exciting plot about a young woman and her mysterious boyfriend which contains elements of the supernatural and time travel, giving the author the opportunity to describe and illustrate elements of Spanish history. It's a great way for students of Spanish to make the transition from text book excercises to the reading of sustained literature without getting frustrated.

A brilliant book! Written for everyone whether technical or not. Find out all kinds of interesting facts about ordinary things you use about the house: detergents, glue, plastics, paint etc. etc. Totally facinating.

We at Jubail Industrial College (MIS Dept.)enjoyed the book so much. This is beneficial for us and for our students here. As we all know that this has been published for more than 10 years. We need an information if this book has been revised or updated, the new title of the book, the author and the publication year. Hoping for your response, and congratulations.

THIS BOOK WOULD BE GREAT FOR KIDS BECAUSE IT IS EASILY UNDERSTOOD AND HAS A GREAT STORYLINE TO FOLLOW. WALT DISNEY'S TRUELY A GREAT KIDS BOOK AND MOVIE MAKER.

This small volume might be the perfect gift for the aficionado who owns all the other important biographies on Mozart. It has been translated into English as "Mozart: Portrait of a Genius". Sadly, the translation is out of print.

Norbert Elias was a sociologist by profession. Looking at the life of Mozart, he asked what influence did the society in which Mozart grew up have on his development as an artist. Elias did not try to explain the nature of genius in the terms of sociology. He tried to put Mozart's genius in perspective. The German title of the book made this quite clear: "Mozart. Zur Soziologie eines Genies", which translates roughly as "Mozart: Sociological aspects of a genius". The charm of the book really lies in the fact that Elias did not try to explain away the mystery of genius.

As a small extra for anyone who has ever wondered why so many important composers came from German-speaking countries (Bach, Haendel, Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, Schumann, etc.), whereas France and England produced few composers of the same stature during this period, Elias's essay has a neat, little theory which provides some answers. It also warms the hearts of economists, by the way.

This small volume might be the perfect gift for the aficionado who owns all the other important biographies on Mozart.

Norbert Elias was a sociologist by profession. Looking at the life of Mozart, he asked what influence did the society in which Mozart grew up have on his development as an artist. Elias did not try to explain the nature of genius in terms of sociology, as the subtitle of the US translation implies. Rather, he tried to put Mozart's genius in perspective. The German title of the book made this quite clear: "Mozart. Zur Soziologie eines Genies", which translates roughly as "Mozart: Sociological aspects of a genius". The charm of the book really lies in the fact that Elias did not try to explain away the mystery of genius.

As a small extra for anyone who has ever wondered why so many important composers came from German speaking countries (Bach, Haendel, Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, Schumann, etc.), whereas France and England produced few composers of the same stature during this period, Elias's essay has a neat, little theory which provides some answers. It also warms the hearts of economists, by the way.

THAT WHICH I READ WAS QUITE INFORMATIONAL. IT IS QUITE DIFFICULT TO SUPPORT GA. LAWS EXPECIALLY IN THE RURAL CITIES SURROUNDING THE PERIMETER. ALTHOUGH THE ONLY QUESTION I WAS LOOKING FOR AN ANSWER FOR WAS..... HOW LONG DOES A PARENT WHO GIVES UP THEIR PARENTAL RIGHTS OR THEIR PARENTHOOD HAVE AT A CHANCE AT RECLAIMING THIS IF IT WASN'T A WANTED POSSITION OF THEIRS BUT ONE FORCED ON BY CONTENTS GIVEN TO THEM BY A PROCECUTOR WHOM WORKS FOR THE CITY OR STATE?

Good Introduction to the Norbert Elias' Theory.