Audubon kept a journal for his wife, who stayed behind in Louisiana, and it is filled with the observations of an unworldly American in England. He is excruciatingly shy, and very apprehensive about how his drawings and paintings will be received.A heartwarming, funny, very human look at America's great naturalist/artist.

The person who drew this cover was a good artist

A book worth reading to develop an insight on the principles that guide consumer information processing and selection of relevant decision strategies in various choice environments. The framework that is presented here is both intuitively appealing and useful in guiding marketing thought and practice. The book itself is written to appeal to multiple classes of readers, i.e., general interest readers, academics, and practicing professionals. The underlying notions of consumer decision making based on adaptive behavior; and information processing based on "bounded rationality" are presented within a well-researched framework. The book is developed to provide useful insights on decision behavior emerging from various disciplinary orientations like, the behavioral sciences, cognitive psychology, consumer studies, and marketing among others. The framework proposed is well applied in everyday decision situations that pertain to businesses and consumers. The authors themselves are renowned researchers in their fields and therefore provide invaluable insight on adaptive consumer behavior and the limitations of human information processing.

Addresses to Young Men is a work designed to aid the problems of the teen-ager growing into manhood yet conveys solid advice that could be directed toward an adult audience just as well. The auther seems to sit down with the reader in a quiet study to explore the nature and duties of life with the reader--pointing time and time again to the discipline of biblical truth in morality and piety (two words whose meaning has soured in a post-modern world). The book is well written and has a smooth flow of language and ideas. I particularly enjoyed the many solid aphorisms to be found from cover to cover. For example: "Piety and sound morality are a nations strength, more than it's armies and it's navies; its wealth more than it's commerce; and it's glory, more than it's literature, science, and victories" (p. 31). This and hundreds more. I would recommend this book to all who want to examine the true meaning of "success" and "happiness" in this world who also have an eye toward the world to come.

An obviously underrated little masterpiece that needs to be resurrected and praised for what it is: a highly useful and user-friendly tool for the mind to awaken consciousness, hone mental skills and integrate the mystical experience to the betterment of your life.

There's a nice balance between methodology and subjective impression, satisfying both the scientist and the artist.

Wasserman does an excellent job of framing the elegantly twisted words of Crowley to the effect of creating lasting impressions
and tasty morsels of knowledge that spice up the brain and heart.

Buy it and use it!

The book is disarmingly engaging. Any reader, young or aging, will get a moral boost and find personal enrichment. It is abreast with the most current information,yet makes ties with biblical information that is not heavy-handed or dripping with moral over-scrupulousity. It is biblical, but not brainless. It is humorous, but not dopey; theological, yet practical. It goes into areas of senior life most anecdotal, autobiographical senior books don't attempt. It is full of interesting real-life story-examples that bring a series of subjects down from the stratosphere of morality in a way to which an averag person can relate. Easy reading. The time was well-spent in reading it through. I figure, if it did me good, plenty of others will have the same reation.

I found this book was able to shed some much needed light on America's first master painters. I found Flexner's writing to be beautiful and the result of reading this book has been several trips to view the works of the artists featured within. I heartily recommend this title to all who are interested in this period of American/art history, or to those who would likee to be!

Whereas, Alexis de Tocqueville offers his perspective on America as an outside observer, the literary genius James Fenimore Cooper offers his assessment of culture, politics and society in 19th century America. He doesn't hold democracy to be sacrosanct like we do today, but rather like any other system of government with its advantages and disadvantages. His look at the nature of liberty and its relation with equality is particularly intriguing.

He is cognizant of the dangers posed to American self-government, which values legal equality. Equality, is a virtue, only insofar as it pertains to equal rights and equality before the law. Any effort at establishing equality of outcome is tantamount to tyranny and opposed to liberty. Cooper illustrates the precarious relationship between liberty and equality. Unless, tradition, custom, the rule of law and the Constitution are revered and upheld- the American Polity could easily collapse into majoritarian tyranny under a demagogue.

One gains an appreciation of the system of government established by the American founding fathers after reading this book... They established a constitutionally-limited federal republic, with limits not only on the power of government, but with limits placed on the power of majority rule, so as to limit the fundamental role of government to protecting the rights of its citizens. This constitutional republic sought to balance out monarchial, democratic, and aristocratic elements...

James Kirkwood, novelist, exposes the nuttiness of Garrison's chuckleheaded jihad against Clay Shaw. Mr. Shaw, respected, liberal, a gentleman, found himself indicted for conspiracy to kill a president for whom he voted. The nightmare he endured, which left him in near penury, is recounted here. How can such a man endure a trial with witnesses against him who include psychotics, drug addicts, and those who think they have been hypnotised several hundred times by besmirchers of their sex lives? And how can such a man keep his own sanity after such an ordeal? Find out in this excellent book, brilliantly written with humor and pathos. The account given in "On the Trail of the Assassins" by Garrison himself leaves out a few details; this account, written by one who attended the trial daily (unlike Garrison), is detailed and amusing and....well, sane. Buy this for the truth.