The book is easy to follow, even for a reader like me, that is, one with little or no background in formal musical education. (I knew nothing about the sonata form, except for the name itself. But now, while listening to the Midsummer Night's Dream Overture, I can tell when the exposition part ends and the development part starts and so on.) The author meticulously demonstrates how Mendelssohn tried and succeeded in synthesizing form and content, that is, the traditional sonata form and extra-musical contents such as landscape, poetry and drama to which the composer strove to give musical expressions. I'd like to recommend this book to anybody who wants to know what's behind his or her sensation.

Holiday remembrances that will make you laugh, sigh and cry and recall your own special holiday experiences. A fine must have collection

This is the definitive biography of an astonishing Mexican-American. 4 time LULAC president Felix Tijerina was born in Mexico, and came to Houston speaking no English. After he built a Tex-Mex restaurant empire, he turned his attention to the plight of his fellow Mexican-Americans. Spanish-speaking kids failed out of school in huge numbers at the time. Tijerina thought if they had a few words of English, they might do better. So he spent his own money to hire tutors to teach kids 400 words of English before they entered kindergarten. LBJ adopted his "little schools of 400" and made them the model for the Headstart Program--one of the most successful Federal programs in history.
Kreneck's dedication to an accurate telling of Mexican-American history has been an inspiration to me.

very well written I recommend it to all Medical student and people involve in leishmaniasis. Most of the chapters are easy to follow and linked one with another. The price reasonable considering is hard cover, I wish it were in paperback cover so the price would be really value for money.

This book is extremely well written. The text is authoratative, detailed and clear at the same time. The illustrations are superb and the teaching points are well demonstrated. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in musculoskeletal radiology.

This outstanding book is actually titled "The Neuropsychiatry of Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias." I would give it six stars if I could. It is the most concise, complete, well-organized book on the subject that I have ever come across. It is filled with excellent, clinically relevant tables and figures. The text highlights the very latest knowledge in all areas of the field including anatomy, pathology, neuroimaging, genetics, pharmacology, and non-pharmacologic interventions. The models and algorithms are very useful. Quite simply, fantastic!!!

This book is another one of the Mouse Series, and as the others... it is GREAT! This time there are 2 mice trapped inside the book, one white and one brown, and they show you different opposite things about each other... the graphics are beautiful and inspiring... That's what I liked most about it... this book is inspiring because it tells a beautiful story without words and it's up to you to read!... I loved reading it and finding different stories every time, depending on how I was feeling at the time.

Not only that, when you're ready to give it away (and it took me a long time) this book makes a fine present that you can personalize!... I made up my own story and wrote it on the pages as a poem for a dear friend of mine, who happen to be my exact opposite... =)

The funny thing is that I found this book at a toy store... after all it is a children's book (isn't it?), but it became my cherished treasure...

My first nephew is only 18 months now, and I will get this book for him... what a great way to teach him to let his imagination fly by re-inventing the story one time after another!... while, at the same time (without me telling him), he will learn about the opposites!...

I hope you enjoy this book as I did... =)

"The Partners Within" belongs to the voluminous body of self-help literature out there on the shelves. What makes this book different or worth your time? Felix's book has two advantages over most of the ego-boosting, *****-fied wisdom tractates, huckstering the "courage to be rich" or the uncorking of human potential through diet and exercise: it is a practical manual about how to meditate; and it frames this instruction in terms of the corporatization of the modern world and the secularism it encourages. This book would be terrific literature to be given out in the faceless corporations that dominate the American economic landscape. Rather than scorn the vapidity of belief system of modern man and woman who work in these industrial parks, Felix understands it as a tabula rasa, as a place to begin the work of inner fulfillment. Whether you agree with his New Age philosophy or not, it is hard to dispute the evidence for the value of meditation-: centuries of spiritual practice lean heavily into the present day. Why isn't prayer or meditation sanctioned in the realms of global capitalism? Felix offers some answers to these questions but mainly in terms of an easy-to-follow program of how to meditate. He regards the human as a quaternity, comprised of body, mind, heart, and soul, each of which affects a realm of human understanding (economics, politics, social relations, and larger cultural interests respectively). In order to awaken the power of these human aspects, Felix has devised a system of ten meditations, each based on a color matched with a nurturing presence, such as Purple/Purpose, Yellow/Heal, and Red/Power. In this respect, Felix's system is not so different from the Vajrayana Buddhist practice of constructing a sand mandala for the purpose of awakening one's Buddha-nature. Each of these colors represents a "partner." The "goal" of meditation is to join in partnership with these colors. To his credit, Felix offers no quick fix, no grand solution to the dilemma of personal meaning, no visions of the divine. He makes it clear that once these partnerships are established, they need to be cultivated for a very long time. As a scholar of religion and religious culture, while I might disagree at times with Felix's grasp of history and culture (he's a closet Hegelian, which I suppose all New Age thinkers are), I can't object to the usefulness of his book, and recognize it for what it is: a Jungian program for the enrichment of the self, a 21st century, corporate updating of Jung's own Man in Search of a Soul.

To most people, the migration of Puerto Ricans to mainland United States seems to be a fairly recent one. In fact, Puerto Ricans have been migrating to New York and other U.S. states since the end of the 19th century.

Divided chronologically and thematically, this collection of images document the Puerto Rican experience in New York. It includes photos as well as images of programs, ads, passports and other documents.

I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in Latino and particularly Puerto Rican culture and history. Of particular importance would be to share this with the youth to show them the rich history that is rarely, if ever, taught in schools.

The most moving part of the book was the photos of the farm workers being transported in chartered flights. During the eight-hour flight they had to sit on beach chairs and once at their destination taken directly to the farm camps to work.

European history, as it's taught (to the extent it's taught) in American schools, generally consists of British and French history, with brief mentions of Italy in the Renaissance and Germany during the wars. Austrian history barely merits a blip, save for August 1914. It's not surprising, therefore, that 'Prince Felix zu Schwarzenberg' is -- as far as I've been able to determine -- the only English-language biography of a most interesting historical figure.

The Schwarzenbergs were one of the richest and most powerful families in the Austrian empire. Prince Felix (1800-1852), after a 'colorful' early life, buckled down and became prime minister following the revolutions of 1848. It was he who engineered the abdication of Emperor Ferdinand and his heir, Archduke Francis Charles, in favor of the latter's 18-year-old son Francis Joseph, and later helped restore the empire's authority in the wake of nationalistic uprisings. Though often denounced as a reactionary, Schwarzenberg was actually a more nuanced statesman, actually sweeping away many of the lingering remnants of feudalism and laying the foundations for the more modern (for good or ill) centralized state. It's one of history's interesting, if neglected, 'what-ifs?' to speculate on how Europe might have been different had Schwarzenberg lived another two or three decades, instead of dying of a sudden stroke at age 52.

A scion of the same family, Adolph Schwarzenberg has done an excellent job in this biography -- especially considering that he was writing at a time when government and family archives had largely been seized by the Nazi occupiers of Austria and Bohemia (where the family's ancestral home is located). The bulk of his work focuses on Prince Felix's years in power, with separate sections on domestic and foreign policy and a special emphasis on 'the German problem.' The book is detailed, but also very readable, and it opens the door to an important figure and time in European history. It's a title I was glad to get my own copy of, and one I return to often.