This is the best and ultimate mermaid love story. It is completelly romantic in tone and trully moving. Inspiration for Andersen, Wilde and Tchaikovsky, admired by Poe and Lovecraft, this is a story that any lover of fantastic tales will enjoy profoundly. It is my personal favorite.

This is the orignal Fairy Tale Noir, which inspired all the rest: ballet, opera, Giraudoux's ONDINE, and Osborne's HAUNTED WATERS. This novella examines the spiritual question of the Soul--that elusive quality of mankind. Can it be other than God-given? Can it be acquired through marriage or noble deeds; bartered or even outright sold? Does possession of a soul make one's life easier or more difficult, one's decisions clearer or more complex?

This 175-year-old fairy tale from the enchanted forests of Germany is intensely poetic and Romantic in style, yet it echoes Medieval sagas of hopeless, emotional quests. The ageless theme is the danger of unnatural union between a mortal and an immortal, human and supernatural beings--regardless of the sincerity of their Love. This short tale is further condensed by the skillful translator, yet it retains the flavor of dark mystery of the original. Fouque's sylvan setting and watery undulations surpise us at every turn: fl! ood, stream, fountain, ocean, lake. Ethereal, humanesque forms melt and dissolve into liquid elements. Does an evil demon stalk Undine and her cavalier? Is this presence trying to protect her or reclaim her from the solid world.? To which world would she rather belong--or does she even have a choice at all?

Like Hans Christian Andersen's LITTTLE MERMAID (forget the Disney version), Undine endures great suffering in exchange for the gift of a human soul. Alas, like the prince in the HCA original, Lord Huldbrand proves faithless to his bride, thus endangering their future together and both their lives. The plot flows along swiftly and inevitably to its disastrous conclusion; no one in the lovers' triangle triumphs in the end. The water sprites merely mock the futility of human endeavor. This is a fast read which will entice lovers of Fantasy into the spell of seeking ever more about UNDINE, a heroine as evanescent as a rainbow in the mist..

An amazing book! A real gem to own for anyone interested in understanding or building a radio from scraps. This simple little book is filled with illustrations and text that is worth more than 100 radio books put together. I bow to the author.

To many, crystal radio construction means purchasing electronic components to assemble into radios. The best tinkerers build their own! In The Voice Of The Crystal, author Friedrichs takes a step back in time to reveal the secrets of constructing all the necessary components "from scratch".

Inside this volume you'll find 185 pages of practical information on the fabrication of electronic components suitable for use in building crystal radio sets. Basic theory and simple analysis are combined with dozens of examples of historical practice, work by contemporary experimenters, and construction details for many instruments fabricated by the author himself.

Inside are discussions and plans for three different homemade headphones, (including one fabricated from cigarette lighter parts,) detectors, fixed capacitors, a rotary variable condenser, single layer, spider web and basket coils, and a precision double-slider coil. Throughout, the author shares his thinking and practical experience in the construction of these devices. The Voice Of The Crystal is profusely illustrated, containing well over 120 photos and hand-prepared illustrations.

It is not every century that is so fortunate to receive a vision of Fine Art that illuminates the foundations of Art and what Art means for the human species. Hegel first distinguishes between ordinary Aesthetics and his notion of Fine Art, that is, Human Creativity. Nature can be Aesthetic, but only Humans create Fine Art, and it is Fine Art that Hegel wishes to explore in this masterpiece.

In great detail, Hegel explains why his concept of Spiritual Freedom is central to Art, just as it is central to Politics, to Religion, to Free Thinking and to Science. Fine Art is distinguished by its direct and personal appeal. A human hand fashions a single object with such care, devotion, skill and imagination that it may be treasured by millions for centuries. This is no act of conditioned reflexes, but an act of profound Freedom and awareness of Spiritual reality.

The key to Art, for Hegel, is always the Spirit. If the Spirit can shine through, then a work of Fine Art can be a great work. The more the Universal Spirit of humanity shows forth, the more attractive that work is to the millions. For that reason, Hegel suggested, the greatest Art is religious Art or any Art that rises to the level of the spiritually sublime, as in Tragedy.

Hegel considered that there is a hierarchy among the Arts. The Arts with the most matter are always a little bit lower than the Arts with less matter. For example, for Hegel, Architecture is the lowest form of Art, because the Original Idea can rarely be perfectly executed through coordinating and budgeting the large crowd of workers needed to complete it.

Sculpture is higher than Architecture, but the limitations of the large marble mass were considerable when compared with the relative Freedom offered by oil on a canvas exhibiting colors, shapes and light, said Hegel.

Higher than Painting are Dance and Music, Art forms that again require many people. However, the substance of these Art forms is not found simply as the human body or the musical instrument, rather, it is found within fleeting motions of the body, or the fleeting vibrations of the instrument. Music is ethereal, and when a musician stops playing, all Music itself stops. Further, Music is invisible to the eye, audible to the ear but also to the heart, and has the capability of manipulating human emotions in the most unique manner.

But the highest form of Art, said Hegel, is Poetry, and the highest form of Poetry is Tragic Drama. Drama is an imitation of Life - not just as in Comedy, the external vagaries of Life, but the inner Life of the human being who suffers and who dies.

Hegel remained a Christian all his life, although he was, as Cyril O'Regan aptly demonstrated, a Heterodox Christian. So we should not be surprised when we read that the Tragic Drama of Christ was, for Hegel, the highest expression of Fine Art, and a narrative that could not be repeated enough times by the Artists of each century.

This is a remarkable and rigorous book by a first-rate scholar and stylist. It reveals the fact that America's intellectual and philosophical heritage is informed not just by English and Scottish thinkers (Locke, Reid)and French philsophes (Voltaire, Rousseau, Montesquieu) who influenced the early republic, but also by Germany philosphers. Using primary sources, Goetzmann shows how German immigrants in the 1800s imported not only lager beer and sausages, but also the thought and dialectic of Hegel. Goetzmann does a service in uncovering the diversity of our intellectual past.

Asi hablo Zaratustra es una obra maestra de la filosofia contemporanea. Jamas he deseado conocer otro idioma (el aleman) tanto como al leer este libro. Esta obra escrita en parabolas, para acentuar su similitud con la Biblia, despliega el pensamiento filosofico de uno de los hombres mas estudiados de la historia, llevada de la mano de una maestria estetica solo comparable con obras como La Divina Comedia de Dante. Zaratustra es la anti-bibila donde convergen las ideas del Dios muerto, la voluntad de poderio y el eterno retorno, base fundamental de la filosofia de Nietzsche.

No solo es una gran obra para el que desea leerla con propositos academicos, sino para todo el que mas alla de querer encontrar respuestas sobre la existencia, esta buscando preguntas, esta buscando cuestionarse, abrir los ojos, ante todo lo antes creido.

This is a cogent short work on the central place of Hegel in modern philosophy, containing a crisp account of the transition between the era of Kant and his successors. So this book is also most usefully about the 'before and after' of Kant. The interest of this transition springs from the decisive character, almost a spell, of the Hegelian influence, in the wake of the crisis of critical thinking and the unsettled questions of foundationalism precipated by the reaction to the seminal work of Kant. Following the swift passage from Kant's system, through to the alternate universe of Hegelian logic and phenomenology, leaves a spellbinding enigma, whose outcome is never certain, witness the cascade of dialectical reversals of all the basic questions. From the critique of metaphysics to the Hegelian absolute science is a whitewater of dangerous currents, and this book tells its tale beautifully, for those who will follow the trail in the devout wish of being a philosopher.

The philosophical side to the occult actually led me to this book (or rather the author). I have read many of his books and each of them outshine the last. Nietzsche's beliefs, ideas, and arguments are strong and still valid in today's society. For what I can say about this book is that Nietzsche presents a very interesting point of view on other philosophers, morality and, of course, religion. The language that this what written with is extrordinary, and the concepts are very focused. I have not been impressed reading books very often, but when I got to the end of this one I wondered why I wasn't drawn to Nietzsche earlier. And if you are looking for other titles by this author might I recommend "The Antichrist," "The Gay Science," or "Twilight Of The Idols." If you are least bit interested in dark philosophy this book was made for you. "Do not go into churches if you want to breathe clean air." - Nietzsche (Beyond Good And Evil)

In this masterful schematic outlining the proper organization of theological studies, Schleiermacher has hit upon the perfect balance between practical and theoretical, historical and constructive, pastoral and academic. The means for maintaining this balance continues to be a difficulty for seminaries, div schools, and religion/theology departments today. Anyone studying Christian theology from any perspective--whether with the goal of entering ministry or becoming an academic theologian or scholar of religion--stands to benefit from Schleiermacher's wisdom.

I feel that this book is excellent for the clinician, the patient, and the patient's family. It provides characteristic of the bulimic individual, their struggles and the family dynamics often envolved with this disease, as well as much more information that aids in treatment and understanding. This author is truely an expert in the area of eating disorders. I only wish that she would write a book on Anorexia Nervousa, not that this book can't be helpful in a variety of eating disorder cases, a book on Anorexia would just better suit my specific needs. I read it a long time ago, and I had to borrow it from someone. This is why I can't be more specific about its content. I just must emphasize that I know that this author is an expert in eating disorders!

Carl Friedrich Gauss is undisputed one of the greatest mathematicians of all time. This book provides personal information as well as mathematical explainations of work (including geodesy, celestial orbits, non-Euclidean geometry, etc.). How did one person make so many mathematical advancements? Amazing!