Yea man, this book is hot. Man, James McLachlan is one hip cat. Its like deep dady-o. When I'm playing my kongas I have my wife read me this book and its like jiving, man. Well I'm out man. Peace Daddy-o

The most wonderful book full of breath-taking pictures. Designs are Tropical and colorful. I recommend this book to anyone liking tropical themes and decorating.

This is an excellent book for parents and lay people. I have a son who is schizophrenic and as I read the book, I found myself saying "AMEN!" on nearly every page. While it holds no miracle cures or magic wans (never found a book or counselor or teacher or anyone who could come up with those...), this book certainly lets parents know that they are not alone in their struggle!
Tamara S. Hacker
BA, Social Work, Harding Univeristy, 1973
M.Ed., Speical Education, Univeristy of Mississippi, 1974
Currently working on MA in Counseling, Harding University Graduate School of Religion

Rudolf Steiner described Fingal's Cave as "a temple built by the spirits of nature". Anyone wanting to understand Celtic Christianity should read this book, and anyone visiting Scotland should visit this sacred site, only 5 miles from Iona. This site has had a profound influence on many artists and writers, and the Poems of Ossian are one of the great treasures of spiritual literature. Read, learn and enjoy.

This book will be of interest to those engaged in Chinese philosophy and Ch'an or Zen meditation practice. Swanson writes very well on an unquestionably difficult topic, presenting one particular slice (Two Truths Theory) of that great Buddhist systematizer, Chih-I.

China was a hotbed of sutras, treatises, and meditation practices in the Sixth Century. Zen practitioners will note that this was the time of the Third Patriarch, Hui-Neng. The most attractive feature of this presentation is that the reader gets some good looks at Chih-I's source material, the totality of Buddhist ideas and attitudes that prevailed in China at that time. The mechanical differences between the views of Hinayana and Mahayana on the same subjects are discussed in ways that are both convincing and thought-provoking.

You read this book with a marking pen in your hand. When you think you have "grokked" the text, you flip to the marvelous "system" charts in the back o! f the book for the summary look.

Meditators will easily recognize the sources of their methods in the many concepts presented.

Vannevar Bush was Director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development. In the July 1945 edition of the Atlantic Monthly, he published a popular science article entitled "As We May Think." Bush discusses a device called a "memex", a sort of workstation with vast optical storage and mechanical information retrieval using associative indexing and "trails". The article is of interest today not only because he happened to get pretty close to how the future finally turned out, but also for the fresh perspective from a time before interactivity itself had been invented. It is also curious to see what he got wrong. Unlike our present day Visionaries, he completely failed to anticipate the introduction of Microsoft Windows on the PC.

This a well organized book. The authors and editor have co-operatively achieved their scholarly objective with executive precision. The resultant book salutes their frontal lobe health more meaningfully than would a normal magnetic resonance image. The placing of the use of all cognitive functions including "abstraction" at the back of the brain and the final conversion to realtime action including language and song and meaning is what this learned book is about. (Ch 2) magically describes the normally behaving symptomatic schizophrenic.(Ch 3) advances our understanding to that of circuits - frontal basal ganglia and thalamic circuits - being responsible for executive action. There are six of these. The outide and inside halves have different actions and orbital damage produces pseudopsychopathy (detailed in Ch 4)laterally but anhedonia medially. Mentorship comes alive when Luria's pupil Goldberg (Ch 6) points out the anatomical and functional assymetry of the right and left frontal poles and their reverse in the occipital poles. The disorders that occur when parts of the frontal lobes are damaged by genetics, during embryo formation, by mental ilness and injury The treatment of these are discussed.

Did you know that each frontal lobe gives posture to both sides of the thorax ? In hemiplegia the thorax does not bend to the side. This is a tiny insight to the frontal lobes role in executing and unifying a most simple motor matter. No this snip is not in this excellent book.
The heuristic abstraction is - One personality, one thorax, each is integrated functionally by the frontal lobes. The mechanism of integration of throacic posture is by doublimg up of inner-vation. Take it from there.

This book is an exciting enthralling educating Crown Jewel.

The title of Paci's book aims at a very high goal: to situate scientific praxis within a serious endeavor to understand what it means to be human. In my opinion, Paci's accomplishment is remarkable. For anyone with a phenomenological / hermeneutical / humanistic Marxist (etc.) orientation, the book should be both useful and enjoyable. Paci synthesizes Husserl's work and extends it into wide-ranging study of the constructive potentialities of social life under conditions of advanced technology. I will risk summarizing Paci's position as follows: Everything that is, both nature and culture, is merely raw material for creative re-new-al through the cooperative reflection and action of persons living as community of peers -- and we can appropriate the sciences and technology to help realize such a form of life: the unsurpassable project of humanity always surpassing its current conditions through ever deeper self-reflection, aiming at self-accountability and renewal, i.e., genuine *progress* (not what calls itself "progress" but is often, at best, ambivalent, and -- to use one of Paci's own words: self-occluding). A very fine book. We would live in an unimaginably different and better world than in fact we live in, if this book (and, of course, others like it) informed the imagination of the educated public.

Paul Gauguin was at the heart of the Post-Impressionist movement with his lush, colorful artworks revolutionizing modern painting a the turn of the 19th Century. Largely self-taught in a diversity of media including oil painting, printmaking, and ceramics, Gauguin came to his career as a Parisian artist relatively late in life, and went on to paint subjects drawn from where he would live ranging from Brittany and Martinique, to Tahiti, and the Marquesas islands. In Gauguin, art expert Britt Salvesen drew from research developed by Douglas W. Druick and Peter Kort Zegers, enhanced with 79 superbly presented illustrations of which 52 are in color and 27 are duotone. Gauguin is a very highly recommended addition to personal, academic, and community library art history reading lists and reference collections in general, as well as being strongly commended to students of the life and work of Paul Gauguin in particular.

Absolutely wonderfully enlightening! This just may change the world