Like his Merz collages, Schwitters' poems take dissociated elements and glue them to together to make an aesthetically pleasing whole. As an artist and a writer Schwitters has the supreme ability to create beauty from cast-off fragments, using them to his own designs of witty word-play and absurd juxtaposition. Fantasy abounds and is mixed with advertisements, fragments of conversation, and themes of desire. In both his writings and his collages he sought to "erase the boundaries between the arts." Usually only known for "Anna Blume", Schwitters was an avid writer and this book collects his absurdist plays, nonsensical proses (sic), essays about his life and work (and Dada, poetry, and language), and over 100 of his unique poems. Of all the Dada literature (perhaps excluding Arp), his is the most pleasing and re-readable. Unfortuately some of his German punning and word-play is lost in translation, but can be seen in works that were originally written in English. Never before has nonsense been so emotionally charged or touching (and lets not leave out humorous and outrageous). This is the best collection of Schwitters' work in English that I have come across. Highly recommended.

This book is very readable. It's written in plain language, easy to follow, and the law is explained concisely. All of the topics covered are very current and there was a lot of practical advice and useful information about how to avoid legal problems and comply with the law.

Let me tell ya! What do you get when you combine Whittington, Pany, and Auditing? It's just a boatload of accounting fun!!! These guys know how to put together a book on auditing. This thing is a real page turner. Damn! Attestation really rocks but Assurance Services will just blow your mind. Even if your're not an accountant, this is a great read. I understand the 13th edition is already a red hot item, so grab a copy today before they're all sold out. This is the one book you'll definitely want to have with you if you're traveling and you have room in your back pack for just one book. Read it, then read it again and again. Seriously, you can't put this thing down. It's THAT good! You'll be talking about it with your friends and family for years to come. Can't wait for someone to turn this puppy into an offering for the big screen. That would be sweeeet!!!

The book is amazing. Because, the book has a frendly introduction to topological psychology. Contents of the book include 2 main chapters. Firstly psychological introduction to mathmematical terms and topology, secondly, topological psychology. If you interest topology then you would find interesting book. If you interest psychology then you don't affair this subject. Because, each terms related to topology /or mathematics is defined in this book.

_Psycho-Hunter_ could have been yet another collection of horror poems about psycho killers, but Newton craftily employs a frame narrative that makes it truly original. As its title suggests, _Psycho-Hunter_ is a collection of case studies: we're given a frame narrative that suggests that the collection is a "detective's scrapbook" of writing by four serial killers who not only got away with murder, but also wrote poetry about it before, during, and after committing their atrocities (one poem is "spattered with blood, still fresh from that morning's kill" for example). Each of the four studies attests to their unique modus operandi, quirky personalities, and perverse obsessions. The detective who collects these strange artifacts, John Murdock, is "on the hunt" for these killers, both psychologically and physically. He collects their writing and writes about it. He's gathered it in various ways -- one killer sends him poetry directly in the mail, as a taunt or threat; another actually published some in the small press. These conceits might sound like a stretch, and they are, but it's a fun construct to read and consider. The book readily invites interpretation. And the insights it offers more than make up for the book's artificiality.

You can tell he's done his research about this topic, because the book captures the range of killer "types" straight out of something like _Mindhuter_. There's James Oswald Hicks -- a man suffering from an inferiority complex, who takes it out on his female victims and writes poems which sound like love letters to their corpses. Nathaniel Mark Unger is a small press writer and "process-focused killer" whose over-the-top brutality is matched only by his angry, graphic poems. Then we have Ronald Daniel Otis, who is a subtle killer, evading capture in clever ways. And finally we get Charles Killborn, a guilt-ridden split personality, trapped in a psychic purgatory in which he must assist his alter ego in taking the lives of others.

The brutality of Newton's poetry is beyond the usual fare. This is definitely a post-_Blair Witch Project_, post-_Henry_ collection -- a dark docudrama in gory verse. The book's depravity is both its strength and its weakness, because some readers will be revolted. But Newton's approach generates the same disturbing feeling one gets when reading, say, an actual autopsy manual, so it will definitely make followers of real world killers quite happy. This is the book that fans of John Wayne Gacy and followers of Jeffrey Dahmer have been waiting for -- an artistic vision that captures both the attraction and repulsion we feel toward these madmen. And -- like a mirror -- he holds it up for close examination. Highly recommended for those with strong stomachs. -- from Hellnotes newsletter

Psychology: Theoretical-historical perspectives (2nd ed.) has a readable style elucidating the history of ideas in psychology. By providing a diverse range of chapter authors rather than offering readings dominated by the traditional perspective, the editors expose their readers to perspectives different than are traditionally found in textbooks.

This book is well organized and written to address wide-ranging implications for the study of how great ideas have been obscured in the traditional presentation of psychology. The book provides a balanced presentation of the burgeoning issues within the field of psychology. I am especially pleased with the careful treatment of the largely misunderstood ideas of both Wundt and James, two early founders of the discipline, whose original ideas are only now being recognized by the field of psychology.

Wonderful book full of great insight into the art of Ray Lago. The stunning artwork is worth the price alone!

Thanks to the Getty Research Institute, Kurt W. Forster, and David Britt for bringing this extremely important volume to us in English. The arrival of this book--a new edition of the 1932 work--has been much anticipated. Finally the bulk of Warburg's essays on the relationships between antique and Renaissance imagery are now readily available. The original book is not widely available even to those who can read the German or Italian texts of these early essays. This book will now allow much greater possibilites for research into Warburg, the Warburg Tradition, and his important contributions to the history of art and its intellectual history. A generation of scholars will be thankful to the editors of the Getty Texts & Documents series: Julia Bloomfield, Kurt Forster, Harry Mallgrave, Michael Roth, and Salvatore Settis.

Not often does one find a poet who is equally talented in writing true lyrics as well as narrative poems. Kurt Brown's poems are carefully crafted, yet fluid and wonderfully imaginative. Sometimes witty, sometimes philosophical and even emotional, the poems in this book are remarkably restrained and deeply intelligent. I'm discouraged by the increasing number of very uneven and nebulous poetry books published in the last years, so it was a welcome surprise to find an even, accessible and highly crafted collection such as RETURN OF THE PRODIGALS. Each poem expands the personal to the universal with seamless ease -- another rarity in poetry today.

Return to Grace is a deep yet brilliant book. The author has revisited infant baptism and given fresh insight to the theology.