Hey folks, this title is available for just 20 bucks at BarnesandNoble, in paperback. And, as reported by NPR, a huge online consortium of independent booksellers will soon be open to the public, selling books via the web!

Also, if you are into the subject of this book, check out _Rethinking Marxism_, especially Roger Burbach's article in Volume 10, Number 1, 1998. Burbach refers to this book and other like-minded books, journals, and intellectuals. And certainly check out Antonio (Toni) Negri, including the _Politics of Subversion_ and _Communists Like Us: New Lines of Alliance_. The latter title was co-authored with Felix Guattari while Negri was imprisoned; and sadly, Negri has been imprisoned again. For a transcript of the truly Orwellian proceedings which led to his imprisonment, see _Revolution Retrieved_.

This is a difficult, provocative, but extremely powerful statement of some of the hidden teachings of the esoteric Christian tradition. Not everyone will like this book, but it deserves thoughtful consideration by anyone who wants to go more deeply into Christian thought and practice. It explains a great deal about the tradition that would otherwise seem incomprehensible. I hope it won't stay out of stock long.

Boris Mouravieff was well known both to G I Gurdjieff and P D Ouspensky and this book is the second volume of a trilogy concerning the same esoteric studies as the previously mentioned. Ouspensky's "In search of the miraculous" is a fragmented commentary on Esoteric studies. In his three volumes, Mouravieff comprehensively covers the esoteric aspects of Christianity, making the Bible read in a very different light. He systematically explains Jesus's teachings, the purpose of human beings in the grand scheme of the universe ( as conscious food for the Earth's baby) and the subject of free will. This second volume requires the reader to have read the first volume, and this second volume deals more with the practical side of evolving oneself.

Comprehensive book that covers every major virtuoso from Corelli to Zukerman by a knowlegeable Russian violin scholar who lived when the great russian music was being composed.

This is the most complete book about violinists I have ever read. This is the book that will "fill in the gaps" of any missing knowledge you may have concerning the great violin soloists of the past.

(This is the hardcover edition)

I'll say it again, this is essential reading for any violin lover!!!

This book provides elegant physics problems (and solutions) from the preliminary doctoral exams of some prestigious universities. Very good for preparing these exams and also gaining problem solving skills in physics (not only for exams).

With these problems, I also understood some concepts which were not clear before. This book can, therefore, be used as a source for applications of the corresponding subjects. I strongly recommend it.

This first volume of Blavatsky's "Collected Writings" brings together her attempts to situate herself and her new movement within the context of the broader spiritualist movement in America. Blavatsky displays her wit, sharp insight, and cutting irony as she goes after the fraudulent practices and assertions of those mediums who claimed to evoke and speak with the dead. In article after article she advances her own theory that trance mediums are actually projecting their own energy from their bodies, which in turn gets shaped by the unconscious expectations of the audience into some longed-for person from beyond. As she points out, these "spirits" are always boring and have little if anything novel to convey, hence they are unlikely to be residues of actual persons. This volume contains some of her important scrapbook material, some short pieces of fiction, and some of the foundational documents of the Theosophical movement. Her biting humor comes out when she refers to Col. Olcott's ex-wife as "kali," intent on thwarting their plans to create a world-wide school of esoteric thought. For those who think that H.P.B. was only an otherworldly mystic, her blunt assesments of other people and their foibles will come as a pleasant surprise. As this volume comes to an end we see Olcott and Blavatsky leave for Bombay to start their crucial work in India. Her diary entry of December 24th, 1878 evokes the on-board scene, "Night of tossing and rolling. H.S.O. [Olcott] sick in bed.--Monotonous, stupid, wearisome. Oh for the land--oh for India and home!" (pg. 434). The book is fully indexed and has a very helpful bibliography which gives short biographies of all of the major and minor players in Blavatsky's world.

In this second volume of Blavatsky's "Collected Writings" we see H.P.B. and Olcott arrive in Bombay via London. Blavatsky is now 47 years old and feels led to India after what she senses is their failure in the New York Lodge. She immediately starts writing in the context of criticisms from both Hindus and Christian missionaries. She tours India and Olcott starts his life-long mission in Sri Lanka to revive Buddhism. By September of 1879 the first volume of her important journal "The Theosophist" appears (and is still being published to this day). Many of the selections in this second volume come from "The Theosophist" and give the flavor of the struggles to make theosophy understood in this complex and politically charged environment. In her opening article in "The Theosophist" H.P.B. states that the movement has no political interests, "Unconcerned about politics; hostile to the insane dreams of Socialism and Communism, which it abhors--as both are but disguised conspiracies of brutal force and sluggishness against honest labour; the Society cares but little about the outward human management of the material world. The whole of its aspirations are directed toward the occult truths of the visible and invisible worlds" (pg. 105). She also gives positive definitions of the nature of theosophical beliefs concerning the Essence that permeates everything. This volume also contains some of her short works of fiction and travel reports from her earlier visit to South America. Of most import are her two articles on the number seven and her article on cycles. This volume brings us to the end of a visit with the Sinnetts in Northern India. A.P. Sinnett, editor of the powerful Anglo-Indian paper "The Pioneer" became a disciple of H.P.B. and published the first full-lenght book on the movement in 1883 with the title "Esoteric Budhism." Throughout this difficult period we see Blavatsky come down with several serious illnesses, only to rebound in record time. In these various essays we see the movement establish itself in rather hostile territory and produce some of its classic papers. Even if you are not a theosophist or student of Blavatsky, this volume gives an accurate portrayal of life in India as both Hinduism and the home rule movement become stronger, often with sympathetic Western help.

Fr. Bulgakov has given us a amazing study of the meaning of the Holy Eucharist. Not just an analysis, but even a contemplative dive into the depths of the Divine Mystery.

He desribes how the Eucharist is not 'transsubstantiation' but rather 'transmutation'; which is a union of the Eucharistsic matter with the glorified Body and Blood of our Lord. Thereby rescuing Orthodox theology from the temptation to adopt the Latin scholastic understanding. He clearly points out some serious weaknessess in the scholastic theory, and replaces it with a thoroughly Biblical and Patristic explanation.

In the Introduction, Fr. Robert Slesinski, a Uniate priest, attempts to take away some of the impact of Bulgakov's criticisms on the eucharistic theology of the Latin Church and of Protestantism. Saying he judges too quickly. Well, Bulgakov did not have critique of them in mind, he had an Orthodox exposition in mind, and in the process gives some pointers to weaknessess in Latin and Protestant understanding. In an in depth analysis of the Latin and Protestant points of view, one would indeed expect a more throrough and precise criticism. But such is not the focus of this book. And Fr. Slesinski's criticism and defense of the Latin pov does not really fit this book very well. It could very well have done without it (the five stars are for Fr. Bulgakov, not Fr. Slesinski).

Fr. Bulgakov also points out that the blood and water, supposedly caught in the Holy Grail by Joseph of Arimathea do not have a eucharistic significance. For the glorified Body and Blood (which is part of Christ's resurrected Body) are of eucharistic significance. Rather it points out that the Presence of Christ remains in this world. The Body and Blood are not deprived by the Spirit of Christ, but this Spirit remains attached to it. Connecting all the world (symbolized by the Holy Grail) to God. His salvific Blood remains active in the world.

Bulgakov is aware of the legendary character of the Grail-myth, and its actual existence does not really matter. What matters is the way the Grail-legend can be used to explain the remaining presence of Christ in the world after He leaves it in the Ascension. Thanx to the Blood and water that flowed from Christ's side He does not abandon the world in the Acension, but like the Holy Grail the world receives the Salvific Blood and Water in itself. On the Cross, as Christ's side is pierced by the roman spear, the final stage of redemption is completed. And this redemption is now followed by the glorification of the cosmos. The whole cosmos will be changed in order to allow God to be all in all. Bulgakov points to the eschatological significance of the piercing of Christ's side, by explaining what its place is in the process wherein heaven comes down to earth, and the earth ascends to heaven.

On the Cross, says Bulgakov, Christ's humanity (symbolized by water and blood) is divided, and spread into the world. But in the Second Coming His body is fully re-united and this means that the earth is united to heaven and heaven to earth. Like the humanity of Christ is restored to unity and life, likewise will the earth be restored to unity and life.

The last chapter deals with the Eucharist as it is interpreted according to Bulgakov's understanding of sophiology. It is the most difficult part of the book. But the insights are truly astounding. The significance of Divine Sophia and created Sophia, concerning the Holy Eucharist opens a path whereupon the truth of st. Paul's words beget their strongest hearing: 'For in Him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain of your own poets have said, For we are also His offspring (Acts 17, 28).'

This is not s just a systematic theological treatise, it is also a meditation, a contemplative and experiental approach of the Mystery of the Eucharist, and the Passion of Christ; leading the reader to a deeper understanding of Orthodox Christianity, and a deeper experience of Christ in the life of the Orthodox Church.

Eight-year-old Boris is sent to visit his grandmother for some months in turn-of-the-century Russia. Lonely and desperate for playmates, he has to make do with the kindly old lady and his own imagination. He is intrigued by a realistic replica of a sailing ship which is stored high on a shelf in her kitchen. This is the only ojbect in her humble cottage which she will refuses to let him play with, so naturally it acquires additional charm--the attraction of the Forbidden.

But the young boy has a mind of his own, capable of reasoning like an adult. Convinced that the ship actually is housing tiny, living beings, he becomes a master of deception and cunning as he plots how to catch them. He lies to granny and sneaks the tantalizing ship down in her absence. Proving the existence of the little fellows (and capturing one alive for public display) become his obsession. Which leads to inevitable disaster. So, are they real or merely the result of an over-active imagination?

This is an excellent short book to read aloud; be sure to take a vote on this burning question, before revealing the climax. Although I was dissatisfied with the ending, I was spellbound throughout--I only regret that I can read it for the first time but once! I believe this book was based on some incident in the author's childhood and that the manuscript was found by accident. Wonderful pen and ink sketches by Paul O. Zelinsky make this gem a literary conspiracy of Russian Z's! Excellent Fantasy--or Reality...!

Una revisión muy completa de la fotografía Latinoamericana, la reflexión de los grandes estudiosos y los textos son excelentes.