A beautiful book that sparks with the wonderment of life. I am inspired by the way Ionesco combines storytelling and philosophy in such a elgeant manner. He is able to provide organization to the chaos which is the search for understanding. He writes honestly and from the heart with the most humble tone i have read in a long time. Anyone who has ever pondered the basic questions of life and death should read this book. He will both inspire and teach any open mind.

Ionescu wrote a jouranl that make takes your breath away. There is so much human understanding, so deep and still so common questions he poses inthis book that one cannot stop admiring it. He was ald when he wrote it and all his fame and career were already behind. The 'member of the French Academy' the 'imortal' appears to the reader amazingly simple and shy with a touch of gentilness and kindness sending you rather to Reiner Maria Rilke than to the author of 'Rhinoceros'.A book that deserves to be read!

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An amazing voice! Well researched and written, Narrett takes us beyond the land of soundbites to the land of harsh reality. You can't get a real sense of the current war until you read this book.

Dr. Narrett combines significant and rare history, penetrating analysis of the present situation, and a religious understanding to the situation in Israel today. This is the type of book that could change the course of history in Israel and, in a broad sense, Jewish history itself, if it is read by enough Jews. I would urge my fellow Jews, and anyone who wants to understand the dynamics of the Israel/Arab conflict, to read this book.

When you open the book Genesis, written by Dr. Eugene Whitworth and published in 1991, you are mystified and drawn in by the Foreward and Warning. You are warned that once you read Genesis you will never again be as you were before the reading. You will be taking on the burden and joy of service to humanity, which you can never put down. You are identifying yourself as a child of Thoth, and, as such, you will automatically absorb a pure and ancient energy from the Master himself.

One of my three daughters experienced the power of this book before she even read it. She met Eugene and Ruth at a dinner in our home several years ago and Eugene autographed a copy of Genesis, which she took with her back to Vancouver. Some months later, when we were chatting over the telephone she told me about a dream she'd had the previous night. She recalled every detail. After she finished telling me about it I asked her if she had read Genesis yet. Her answer, "No, not yet," surprised me, for she had dreamed the last chapter of the book, a chapter called The Last Breath. She had dreamed of an impending disaster and of the breathing and of the raising of all of the radiant bodies, her own among them. All she had done was to have Genesis in her possession.

In Genesis you will meet the God Ones who came from That Other Planet to The Pleasant Planet and, when a fiery death threatened this planet, came to Earth. I once asked Eugene if the setting related to past, present or future and he responded, "All of those." You will discover how these Children of Thoth lived, loved, fought, struggled and faced the threat of a fiery death. As you read the book you will be transported into the incredible story of the sacred Children of Thoth from before the beginning, when Gods became men and men became Gods. Thoth himself, first man and first god, will come alive through the pages of Genesis as he guides Asam and Asti, perhaps known to you as Osiris and Isis, in the ancient techniques of Virgin Birth. You'll learn the difference between registered and unregistered virgin birth and feel all the emotions of ASaru and ASti as they strive to fulfil their destinies ... to birth Horus, the Divine child. You will come to understand that Virgin Birth is vitally important as the way that Goddesss Maat and God Thoth can be reborn and bestow their eternal energy.

If you've read The Nine Faces of Christ and wondered what special exercises the great initiate performed, you'll be able to learn about these in Genesis. You'll learn special sets of mind for releasing the Radiant Self' from the cellular body. Thoth himself will tell you how your flesh can be both a temple and a trap for your Spiritual Radiant Self and how you can release your Radiant Self from your body. You'll find yourself identifying with Asaru as he struggles and disciplines himself in order to achieve what he so greatly desires - the ability to raise his own Radiant Self and to fulfil his destiny. You'll learn some important differences between the male and female experience with regard to the Radiant Self. You will be a student with Asaru as Thoth explains the nine levels of energy that seem to be in the human body - the Ren, Khat, Ka, Ab, Ba, Sekem, Sahu, Khaibit and Khu and how some of them, when grown, may live forever. The Lord of Knowledge, Brahm, will join Thoth in explaining the tantalizing concept of Neo-Mind. They put forth the thesis that it is in the Neo- Mental realm that the energy for the salvation of humankind from Cosmic destruction may be possible. This energy is the energy of light travelling at the speed of thought.

By all means read The Nine Faces of Christ if you have not already done so. Then waste no time in acquiring Genesis. They are definitely companion volumes. It's an exciting read and I guarantee it will forever alter the way you think.

If you read THE NINE FACES OF CHRIST by Dr. Whitworth, you'll know that he is a prophet and "way-shower" for the new humanity. But GENESIS is an even more profound esoteric novel, full of ever-deepening levels of revelation steeped in the Secret Doctrine, the Rosicrucian Arcanum Arcanorum, alchemical, Kabbalistic, and highest yoga tantric practice.

If you aren't familiar with the profound esoteric Gnosis of East and West, you will gain a rare overview of it by reading GENESIS. Even if you are deeply schooled in the high practices that transform humanity into divinity, you can gain new insight by reading GENESIS, as I did. I heartily recommend the book to all on the spiritual path, whether neophyte or adept.

GENESIS is the story of our planetary Hierarchy of gods and masters, the ordeals they faced, the trials they overcame, and the spiritual relations they experienced before coming to Earth. These are reflected in the ancient myths of all human cultures, most especially the Egyptian stories of Ra, Thoth, Isis, Osiris, and Horus. t In their previous "lives," Isis was known as Ast-i and Osiris as A-Sar-U, unregistered "virgin" or yogically-generated births of the ancient Empire. Their destiny was to save the divine beings of their planet from certain cosmic destruction by mastering and then teaching projection of the Radiant Bodies of all through an infinity of space to Ayr Aerth-our planet Earth.

The initiatic training of A-Sar-U and Ast-i by Thoth is threatened by Je-Su and the murderous Set, twin brother of A-Sar-U, who are champions of an anti-Gnostical "redeemer worship" turned separative and fanatical. The survival of the gods hangs upon rekindling their forgotten inner powers through feats of valor, in both physical battle and interior yogic accomplishment, in spite of the treachery and opposition of Set's forces.

Without being stated in any way, the metaphor of the change from dying globe to new Earth globe on the planetary chain (from the Secret Doctrine and the Dzyan texts of the Shambhala and Kiu-Te teachings of Kalachakra Tantra), the secret Kabbalistic history of the "earths before Earth" or the Genesis before Genesis, the struggle of the successors of the Lunar Pitri to survive, project themselves onto the Earth, and create the Fourth or Atlantean Root Race, the advanced "dry" or yogic alchemical techniques for apotheosis of the physical body cells--all these are implied and brought to life for those who know the Teachings and the grand cosmic pre-histories imperfectly remembered in the myths of all people.

The gods, spiritual teachers, and guides of humanity--in their own vast lives and heroic levels of being--have struggled, and continue to strive, on their own spiritual pathways of higher initiation. This is their story.

This is indeed the "Bible" for the clinical child psychologist. As a pediatrician, who through all my professional life have worked closely with child psychologists, permit me to review this very serious and professional handbook. It is edited by C Eugene Walker from Oklahoma and Michael C Roberts from Kansas with 114 contributors (all from United States). The first edition of the handbook was published 18 years ago and it has since turned into a reference and guide for students, adademics and clinicians in the field. The book is divided into seven sections with a total of 55 chapters. The first section deals with child development and the first chapter with families and children in history with a focus on American history, but I especially liked the chapter by Judith A Chafel and Kathryn Gold Hadley on poverty and well-being of children and their families. This is a new addition to this edition, but a very important one. Poverty and hunger are old phenomena, but only recently become a subject of research and interest to politicians. They should be interested, because poverty is a major public health problem in many developed countries. Data from 1996 in the United States estimate that 20.5% of the children were living in poverty. This well researched paper will give you information on definition of poverty, effects on development, health and psychosocial risks, resiliency and implications for clinical intervention. Section two provides different diagnostic assessments of children and adolescents, section three deals with problems of early life and clinical problems of birth, neonatology, infant and preschool period and section four about problems of childhood. This last section has 16 chapters with some interesting entries. I especially liked the chapter on mental retardation, which takes into account the 1992 American Association on Mental Retardation (AMMR) definition of mental retardation, where not only IQ, but multidimential classification was used as a novel way to look upon mental retardation. I would have liked an entry on the use of the word "mental retardation", which is very much debated (sometimes very hotly like at the last international conference in Seattle in August 2000) and at all not in use in many parts of the world, where instead the term "intellectual disability" is preferred. Section five has nine relevant chapters on adolescence, but I would like to see a chapter on teenage pregnancy in the next edition, because that is especially a problem in United States and United Kingdom, where we are talking about potential psychological risks for the next generation also. Section six conveys intervention strategies with good chapters on hospitalization and pharmacotherapy among others. The last section has special topics like cultural issues, divorce, grief, ethics and forensic evaluation. The chapter on impact of a parent chronic illness is very interesting and I would also suggest a chapter on chronic illness or disability in the child for the next edition. This topic is mentioned in another chapter (on contemporary issues), but deserves a full chapter. The words disability and intellectual disability are not mentioned even in the index. In this section I especially like the chapter on child maltreatment by Barbara L Bonner and collegues, which is a good review of the field of child abuse and neglect, but again the focus in on the United States and international work in the field not mentioned. A chapter on research in child psychology and the use of internet should be added for the next edition. The effects of the internet on children and adolescents should also be added. We recently had a case here in Israel, where an internet connection between two adolescents (a Jewish male and Arab female) were used by terrorists to capture and murder the 14 year old boy. I would have liked to see a section eight with chapters on the future of infancy, childhood and adolescence both in the United States, but also a chapter on international work and research in the field of child psychology. All in all a very positive review for a very useful handbook that can be used by both psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers and physicians and thanks for a good editing job. It was a pleasure to read and use this handbook.

Professor Joav Merrick, MD, DMSc Medical Director, Division for Mental Retardation, Box 1260, IL-91012 Jerusalem, Israel. E-mail: jmerrick@aquanet.co.il

Although this text could use a new edition, it remains one of the more complete collections of reviews of literature in the clinical dhild psychology. The Handbook of Clinical Child Psychology stands as the standard reference guide for practitioners, students, professors, and researchers in the field, and likely will until it is replaced with a third edition.

Whether you've been in the fundraising profession for 10 minutes or 10 years, do yourself a favour and read this book. It will make you proud to be part of the tradition of philanthropy. It will inspire and guide you. You will see yourself and the volunteers and donors you work with in a whole new light. Don't put it in your library. Keep it on your desk. The first time you read it, and you will read it joyfully from cover to cover, keep pen and paper handy. You will find yourself making a list of things you need and want to do. Achieving Excellence in Fundraising is thoughtful and thought-provoking. It is the place where the theory, practice, philosophy and spirituality of a great tradition meet.

On my fundraising shelf stood just two books and a binder: "Designs for Fundraising" by Harold Seymour © 1966; "The Raising of Money" by James Gregory Lord © 1987, and my collected monthly newsletters of tips from Taft. Not a lot to go on, but Seymour's classic helped me enormously, imparting such nuggets as, "At best, with few exceptions, people don't pay close or careful attention to anything."

OK, so listen up. Times have changed. Many, many books now beckon us, delivering the full spectrum of nonprofit knowledge. Yet all books are not equal. When Henry (Hank) Rosso gathered a number of esteemed colleagues together and put out Achieving Excellence in Fund Raising in 1991, it represented a milestone in fundraising education, based as it was on his many years of teaching through The Fund Raising School, which he founded right here in the San Francisco Bay Area. The School later became a program of The Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University, and it continues to provide superior, basic training in fund raising principle and practice throughout the country. All the years of teaching experience and the benefits of association with IU are now reflected in this expanded, caught-up-with-the-world second edition of the "Rosso" (RAH-so).

It was time. Consider that when Achieving Excellence debuted in 1991, the stock market stood at 2736, Giving USA estimated total philanthropic support at $105 billion, and the National Science Foundation had just lifted its ban on commercial use of the Internet. Today, as we reel and grapple, it is worth noting that the markets have more than tripled from 1991; philanthropic dollars have doubled; and the Internet is our bread and butter. The second edition adds several chapters in recognition of the changes and rounds out its predecessor. We read about the new order, how to build endowment, women as donors, trends in major donor giving (read with caution, as markets and donor experience have had some impact), diversity considerations, Internet strategies, special events fundraising, technology use, budgeting and accountability, stewardship, international perspectives, and fund raising as a profession. These are welcome additions.

Given the scope attempted by the book, I should point out that there are, in fact, a few areas not covered, including how to obtain government grants and contracts, and exhaustive instructions on how to write a grant proposal to a foundation. But if you heed what these authors have written, you will have no problem accomplishing either feat.

Most of the authors in this edition are new to the "Rosso," numbering 27 in all. The first edition lists 13 contributors. Hank wrote eight of the chapters of that book; he has two in this one. With Hank gone (1999), we are guided into Rosso II by the gentle, sure hands of Eugene Tempel, executive director of the IU Center on Philanthropy and Tim Seiler, current director of The Fund Raising School. Between them (with a chapter from Hank), they set the stage in Parts One (Context) and Two (Fundamentals).

The book proceeds logically and is easy to navigate or use as a quick reference. "Fundamentals" is followed by sections treating "building blocks" (e.g. annual fund, capital campaign), sources, methods (e.g. direct mail, special events), management (e.g. leadership, boards, information, budgeting, consultants), ethics, stewardship, and personal professional support. A thorough Glossary and Bibliography follow.

Our AFP chapter boasts several representatives here: Kim Klein reprises her excellent chapter on grassroots fund raising and Kay Grace on leadership; Mal Warwick writes the update on direct mail; Alan Wendroff supplies special events; and Skip Henderson updates us on the trustees' role.

The context is still Hank's, which means that ultimately, the book is not about the joy of soliciting but something higher. I'm sure he would be tickled if you inscribed your book as he wrote in so many of our first editions "I hope that you will enjoy the reading of this book. Let it help you to teach the joy of giving. Hank Rosso"

In volume 2 page no. 1678 chapter 295 on Acute Viral Hepatitis, The figure 295-2 we think has an error. IgM anti HAV is described to increase first & IgG is to increase later. In diagram, both have been labeled IgG.

This is an excellent comprehensive medical text covering practically every aspect of Internal Medicine.
A must for the Primary Care Physician.
Personally, I would get the two volume set as the single thick back has a tendancy to break away from the binding.

Framed as a 1920s novel by an obscure French poet, based on the life of Baron Georges-Eugene Haussmann, the ambitious mid-19th century Prefect of Paris, LaFarge's ("The Artist of the Missing") second book transports the reader to a cramped, unsanitary, venerable Paris in the midst of its transformation to a modern airy city of wide boulevards and functional sewers - as envisioned by Haussmann.

The narrative opens by questioning the story that on his deathbed Haussmann regretted his modernizing zeal. "Regret is a backward-turning emotion, and the Baron was famous for straightforwardness; he made the boulevards and razed the crooked lanes where tanners' sheds fronted cracked courtyards and sewer ditches spilled over into the bins of wire and paper petals of the artificial-flower makers for which the city, before his arrival on the scene, was famous."

This regret is the thread the all-but-omniscient narrator follows from the old Paris that spawned a great, clandestine love, to the ambition and modern rigidity that crushed it, leaving a bitter thirst for revenge in the ruins.

Haussmann's lover, Madeleine, was born in 1840 in the tumult and squalor of old Paris. "Born to a tanner's dying wife, she was dropped in the Bievre. There she was saved by pollution, for the river was already so laden with debris that nothing more could sink into it." Fished out by a lamplighter who encourages her to regard the mystery of her birth as a special emancipation, and later raised in a convent where the nuns suspect a noble lineage, Madeleine's discovery of her actual parentage drives her to flee into "the cool, criminal indifference of the street."

When she surfaces again, she has found refuge in the home (and arms) of M. de Fonce, the "demolition man" who has grown rich on the clean sweep of Haussmann's modernizing broom. De Fonce has schooled himself in the value and appreciation of "the overlooked" and rich Parisians flock to his door for souvenirs of Paris' vanished buildings. And there, Haussmann meets Madeleine.

LaFarge's style is exuberantly Dickensian - full of painterly detail and droll quirks. The rounds of the lamplighter in old Paris are as vivid as the well-organized domicile of the Prefect or the subterranean warrens of the Paris library. Good natured ridicule is heaped equally high on the "celebrated decorum" of the court of the nervous Emperor Louis Napoleon and the flamboyantly artificial balls of the demi-monde. Much is made of hypocrisy, venality, greed and ambition. The serpentine plot winds through political and amorous intrigue, building to a frenzied crisis over Haussmann's grand plan to move the Paris cemeteries outside of the city and build a Railroad of the Dead.

His characters are richly and lovingly imagined, their foibles and fancies turned out with affectionate humor. Madeleine as a young convent girl fond of cats: "And Madeleine loved most of all that which was catlike in herself, in other words, that which achieved freedom without struggle and independence without loneliness, and for all that never had to go long without food."

And De Fonce's approach to people: "Just as a building becomes rich in artifacts right before it is demolished, so de Fonce found that he was best able to exploit his connoisseurship of human character by imagining those he met as near their ends. The demolition man addressed himself to a banker as he would to a dying patriarch, and to a civil servant as to a soldier polishing his boots the night before a battle with the Turk...."

And Haussmann, so much the visionary civil servant, hastening to consult de Fonce on the question of multiple personalities upon reading of an ordinary shepherd who committed a grisly murder, then had no recollection of it: "The question, yes, of what Sorgel was, really? A shepherd? Or a foot chopper? Which is the main current and which the tributary? ...What would de Fonce think? Would the next century bring a science that could answer such questions, a sort of hydraulics of the mind?"

Impressively researched, beautifully written, humorous and wise, LaFarge's novel captivates the reader with love and loss and lingers over the mixed virtues of prudence, impulse, heritage and progress.

Having recently returned from a visit in Paris and being familiar with the city's history, it was exciting to read this historical fiction concerning Haussmann. The book flows beautifully and I found it hard to put down. The author has an enjoyable way with words and you'll find yourself quickly caught up in this triangle. (I admit to having been fooled that this was supposedly a translation of a French book written in 1922. Until I read the Amazon review, I was admiring this "older" style of writing and wishing more people wrote like this today. I'm sure the author would get a grin out of that!)

This long book is sort of the equivalent of an extremely long review paper, with innumerable references. It is the only work of its kind on Theory of Numbers. Written in the early 1920s, it is still the only place where one can find information on who did what in various topics of number theory, and many of those topics are still fertile ground for further research. So if one wants to do research on any topic in theory of numbers, or on related aspects of algebra, topology, Ramsey Theory, theory of graphs, etc. one *must* have Dickson's book handy. It's expensive; if you're lucky, a colleague or your departmental library may have a copy handy for you, but if not, go ahead and spend the money to buy it. It has been of great use to me.

The author was himself an expert in number theory and modern algebra (as it was) in his day. These volumes were published in 1919-23 so don't expect the latest results. In fact, the terminology won't even be the same since much of the theory has undergone a great deal of mollycoddling and reformulation...publish or perish, you know.

If you plan to do original research in the theory of numbers, these volumes are a must (even with the heavy price tag). Why? There is so much work constantly being done, results are often lost with time - what seems like something new is probably not. Like the constant rediscovery of Bernoulli and Striling numbers.

The volumes are probably not what you expect. They're really just a large annotated bibliography without detailed proofs or much immediate historic motivation (long-term history is the over-riding theme). Dickson catalogs near-misses as well as sometime pointless generalizations, so the text is not all meat. (Perhaps he's being more journalist here, than editor). In fact, it can become quite tiresome. You may be content to read these in a library, as any results will probably require you to look up the original source for more details. You'd better take notes and write down the page numbers while perusing. It's hard to find your way back, so many papers, so many authors, and the index is not optimal.

Andre Weil's "Number Theory: An approach through history" is a more literary and biographical account, but less comprehensive in the excruciating details.

5 stars for being an indispensable reference (if only for the historically-minded). Not without shortcomings.

The names of the authors (Shadley and Davis) would be instantly recognizable to knife collectors as the recognized masters of the multi-blade pocket knife, perhaps the most challenging project for beginning knifemakers. As far as I know, this is the only book in print that addresses multi-blade knifemaking directly, and thus am pleased to find that it turned out to be a great buy.

This book describes in detail the whole process of design, construction, and finishing these mechanical marvels. The text is precise, complete, and most importantly for the non-enthusiast, refreshingly readable (light on knife jargon). Illustrated with clear diagrams and pictures on every important step and generously endowed with hints and expert advice from the authors, this book is a classic on this specialized topic. If you have any interest in pocket knives or have ever wondered just how much craftsmanship goes into making one of these knives by hand, you'll be glad you bought this book.

If you was ever intrigued by the multi-bladed folding knives, and wanted to know how to make your own, believe me - this is the book you need. I'm proud to have this book - since it showed me, exactly, how to design and construct all the little multi-bladed fascinating tools I ever wanted. If you want to make your folding knives too, buy this book and back to the bench! And good luck!