I recommend this book highly primarily because it provides a sound grounding in the thought and politics of Pierre-Felix Guattari, without overwhelming his individual position with the Deleuze and Guattarian Construct. This is an important because Guattari brought significant differences to the table throughout his life, and those differences manifest themselves as a separate authorial personae than D&G.

Guattari's work as exemplified and analyzed in some detail in this book covered significant ground during his life. Everything from psychiatry to social phenomena was covered and he misses very few points in between. This book is good in relating that to a reader, providing context to Guattari's work. The one place I would ask for more is in dealing specifically with Guattari's political economic perspective. While Genesko does explain and diagram the systematic though of Guattari's psycho-social-aesthetico-political models, and the explainations of transversals, etc. are significant works in themselves, I find that without the tie to integrated world capitalism some things are lost.

However, even without that, this book manages to bring Guattari back to the fore in social theory and political theory, so buy it, read it, and find out more about one of the most interesting minds of the last century.

Starting with Galois and his contribution to the evolving subject of group theory Yaglom gives a beautiful account of the lives and works of the major players in the development of the subject in the nineteenth century: Jordan, who was a teacher of Lie and Klein in Paris and their adventures during the Franco-Prussian War. Monge and Poncelet developing projective geometry as well as Bolyai, Gauss and Lobachevsky and their discovery of hyperbolic geometry. Riemann's contributions and the development of modern linear Algebra by Grassmann, Cayley and Hamilton are described in detail. The last two chapters are devoted to Lie's development of Lie Algebras and his construction of the geometry from a continuous group and Klein's Erlanger Programm unifying the different approaches to geometry by emphasizing automorphism groups. These last pages are definitely the climax of the book.

All of this only occupies the first half of the book, the second half consists of extensive notes to the former, intended to help the reader deepen her understanding of the subject in a second reading.

I think this book is very readable and should be accessible to any interested reader who has a slight understanding of the terms used so far in this review. In particular I enjoyed the details of the lives of the mathematicians involved and how the whole story seemed to culminate in the works of Lie and Klein.

So convenient - A book/pad of giftwrap and tags(4patterns, 3sheets+tags of each) of scenes from the Letters from Felix book series.

I found this book to be extremely helpful for those skeptical therapists who have always heard about and know very little, but questioned the therapeutic aspects of psychodrama. it is a wonderful introduction to psychodrama as a therapeutic method and as a theory of personality, and is objective in that it separates the charismatic founder of psychodrama from the the method and theory that have developed over the years. A wonderful, readable book that is, I believe, a must buy for therapists who have been missing out on psychodrama as a part of their tools for therapeutic change.

Felix Masud-Piloto's "From Welcomed Exiles to Illegal Immigrants" has more than just a clever title. Providing a clear account of Cuban immigration to the United States from 1959-1995, this book shows how the Cuban migration and the exiles themselves were manipulated by both the U.S. and Cuban governments. Masud-Piloto's critique of both governments provides new insight and personal testimony from a Cuban exile perspective. His historical account of the events are well thought out and in perfect support of his thesis. All in all a great read.

This is an excellent and accessible play from one of Spain's great playwrights from the Golden Age. Democracy and human rights triumph in this archetypal tale of a real-life event from the late 15th Century, written at the start of the 17th Century by the prolific Lope de Vega. The townspeople of modern Fuente Obejuna in the province of Cordoba - the spelling of the town's name has changed since the times of the play - now stage a popular version of the work in the town plaza in the summertime.

A beautifully illustrated book without words telling the tale of an intrepid and inventive mouse who escapes from his book by using the materials at hand to create a boat to freedom in the real world at sea. Monique Felix is a gifted illustrator who's characters speak volumes in their expressions. I used to take turns "reading" the books in this series to my children and having them "read" to me when they were young, and to my delight, they have remembered them fondly and still "read" them from time to time, even though they are teenagers now. This is a charming book, timeless and ageless. Both young and old will find it's simpliciy and beauty an enduring treat.

The musical selections are choice! The are well organized and introduced with lovely poetry and prose definatly invites one to listen all the way through again and again.

This book (never translated into English) is of great historical significance. It is still worthy of study. Hausdorff was a leader in the second wave of set theory (post Cantor) and a founder of point-set topology. In his hands set theory became a tool for the working mathematician. This book still has the power to stir the mathematical heart. Even a jaded modern reader can learn much from it. There are many wonderful mathematical "set pieces"---a personal favorite is the continued fraction expansion of a pair of countable ordinals. The writing is concise, but not without touches of Hausdorff's literary polish.

Worldweary eco-activist, renegade psychiatrist, authentic poet-socialist, Felix Guattari is a first-rate contemporary thinker whose writings have long pined away in the shadow of his loving cohort, Gilles Deleuze. But unlike the latter, Guattari abandoned Academe as soon as possible, becoming an agent for the interiorized police-state of the modern psychiatric hospital. No academic canon could have prepared him for the horror of the wards, for the sequence of oedipal territories which derange and invalidate psychiatric praxis. Like the prison in Foucault's writings, the mental hospital became for Guattari only a more intense restatement and synecdoche for the wider regime of cultural repression. What could an intellectual offer these morbid precincts of madness incarnate, without bitterness and cynicism, without a Ballardian post-despair fetishization of the Postmodern?

The opening sequence of essays illustrate Dr. Guattari's travails as one of the spearheads behind France's notorious "anti-psychiatry" movement. His profound and unsettling career in the clinical matrices of institutions more deranged than their denizens provides a much-needed analogical narrative for those uncomfortable with D & G's scorching brand of C-Theory. The dangers and vicissitudes of the French psycho-pharmaceutical complex are engaged by Guattari's unrepentant desire to make the mental hospital a true community-culture, where "the real relations of force between the personnel and the patients"(42) are restored to the schizo-subject.

Parts II and III escape momentarily from the psychiatric compound to schizo-analyze the mechanosphere of our transglobal Technocracy, disseminating the "postmodern impasse" of ethical abdication, sounding the alarm for new and more complex forms of political resistance. "It is necessary to reinvent the body, to reinvent the mind and to reinvent language. Perhaps the new telematic, informational, and audio-visual technologies can help us to progress in this direction"(115). Rejecting the paranoid neo-Luddism of the Heideggerians, Guattari sees infinite possibilities for forming alliances with the engineering sciences, coeval with perpetual danger, caution, a selectively informed resistance.

Part IV, "Polysemiosis," showcases Guattari's stunning agon with Hjelmslev and Peirce, a crucial body of text for anyone who needs the anti-Saussurean translinguistics of D & G further enlarged upon and clarified. Here, the order of elements is secondary in relation to the axiomatic of flows and figures (i.e. creativity in languages may be eternally binded to dominant syntactic and grammatical machines, yet there's always an engine of creation pushing these laws beyond their prescribed ends). Twenty pages later, Guattari steers this apparatus onto the political stage with a pair of essays raging through the microphysics of Foucaultian power.

Part V traverses the uncompromising byways of Red and Green eco-revolutionary constructs, queer politics, a delightful and surprising exegesis of Jean Genet's classic autopoetic *Prisoner of Love*, along with more powerful satellite-imagery and theoretical fine-tunings of Guattari's always-developing theories of machinic subjectivity.

Part VI proves once and for all that the pomo abdication of life-critical issues is anathema to our world community and its institutions. Intellectualism which forsakes political aptitude and activism can only put us further in the hole. "Our problem is to reconquer the communitarian spaces of liberty, dialogue, and desire"(255). The meaning of social life, for Guattari, is to engineer institutions and practices that provide open channels for the exploration of our own subjectivity, supplemented by clinical pathways ready to disinfect those persons who've been wounded by this unrepentant promethean drive.

All in all, a required body of texts for those in need of paradigmata to orienteer D & G's more byzantine theoretical forays, without having to reread (yet again) your spine-rolled volumes of M. Foucault.