I have tried to secure more copies of this book for a course I teach to loved ones of those struggling with brain disorders but have been unsuccessful. I have even written to the publisher but received no reply. This book shows how essential it is for well family members to appropriately respond to their ill relative's chemical imbalance not only for the benefit of the one with the disorder but the family member as well. I refer to this book often in dealing with chemical imbalance in family members.

Our lives were ruined by my wife's depression and I unknowingly was becoming "fused" into her illness. We argued constantly. She threatened suicide. I threatened divorce. We were fighting a war that had no end and blamed each other. We now understand how the contagious force of depression was infecting our lives. We both take medication and have learned how to manage our communication effectively

This book is very informative. It is a great tool for those who need to understand themselves.

This is an excellent and cutting edge explanation of addiction that ties together not only chemical dependencies but process dependencies. Also a very hopeful book in that answers are presented and current approaches validated and explained as to why they are working for those who apply them. Give it a read!

A companion book to the award-winning PBS series "Cruising American Waterways," The Erie Canal by Debbie Daino Stack (PBS Project Coordinator for the "Cruising American Waterways" television series) and Captain Ronald S. Marquisee (Producer of "Cruising America's Waterways"), is a quality travelogue showcasing the history and beauty of the famous Erie Canal, a still active waterway used for recreation, flood control, irrigation, and power generation. Lavish color photographs of this historic canal fill The Erie Canal from cover to cover, and the insightful text offers a wealth of cultural lore. A superbly gorgeous coffee-table book and enhanced with a foreword by Andrew Cuomo, The Erie Canal is a true pleasure to read and enjoy and highly recommended for armchair travelers and community library American History collections.

This book is filled with color photographs that capture the beauty and historic charm of this waterway. The text is comprehensive -- touching on everything from history to Canal utilization. It let's you see what all of New York's canals have to offer - as a boater, cruise ship tourist, or automotive traveller. The Canals are fully functional and waiting for tourists. This book let's you understand the "New York State Canal System" and all that it has to offer. As the text points out... (rough quote)...if we had not inherited this legacy resource; costs, environmental concerns, and political considerations would not allow its construction today. This is a superior book on the world's most famous canal.

I just finished this book and was mightily impressed. My esteemed predecessor in these reviews has summarized the book very well, leaving me the opportunity to comment on a single important aspect of the book. When you mention Weill's name, people think of only one thing (if they know him at all). The Three Penny Opera. This book emphatically puts his '20 something work with Brecht in perspective, showing that he continued to grow and develop throughout his career. The narrative is keen and passionate. The details of the creative periods and production periods of various works are gripping. My net response is: there is a lot more to this man's creative output than just The Three Penny Opera and Mahagony (son of 3-penny?). He deserves to be heard; will he?

Biographies (especially those of people from the entertainment industry) have become a fad since the early 80's, and most of them, however entertaining, don't add much to our knowledge of their subject and time. One admirable exception is this account about Kurt Weill and his lifetime by Ronald Sanders. Since the very beginning, Mr. Sanders manages to give us a vivid portrait of how was Germany since the years before Weill was born, how was life like in those days for Jewish people there, and the great composer's musical roots: his father was a Cantor, and many of his ancestors were professional or amateur musicians. To say only that Mr. Sanders' account is full of painstainkingly researched details would be unjust, for he goes far beyond that. He uses all these details to make us understand and feel in depth the makings of a remarkable career that unfortunately didn't last so long (Weill died prematurely, at 50). Mr. Sanders not only treats us to an unforgettable tour of 20th Century's troubled first half but also gives us a thorough knowledge of how music evolved from the days of Ferrucio Busoni and Gustav Mahler to Kurt Weill's works in the U.S., with lots of information about other great artists like Arnold Schoenberg, Bertolt Brecht, Lotte Lenya, how Weill created such masterpieces as "Dreigroschenoper", "Knickerbocker Holiday", "Lady in the Dark", and so on. You can say that this is a cliché, but, if you are, like me, interested in anything related to the best music that was produced in the 20th Century, don't miss "The Days Grow Short". And if you are already a fan of Kurt Weill's, this book will make you even more appreciative of him and his music. I recommend that you read this biography with your CD player on. You'll enjoy it even more when Mr. Sanders speaks of Weill's perennial creations, like "Mack the Knife", "September Song", "Speak Low", "Lost in the Stars", "My Ship"...

These words, spoken by the anonymous killers roaming the night around Potter's Bluff, a quaint sea side community, are more prophetic than one would think. Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's novelization of the screenplay by the screenwriters of Alien, Dan O' Bannon and Ronald Shussett, joins a very select few books that are actually superior to the film's they adapt into print (Orson Scott Card's The Abyss and Dennis Etchison's The Fog are two others). You can feel the damp chill of the fog as it swirls around those unfortunate souls caught in Potter's Bluff after nightfall. As the bodies stack up the town's sheriff digs deeper and deeper into the mystery, but the answer he finds may cost him his sanity. Highly recommended.

I got this book in a yardsale a few years ago and just recently decided to read it. This book is fantastic. Filled with exitement and surprise, it is a book for those who like a scary tale in the dark. In the book the sheriff of a small town is trieing to find out the cause of strangers found burned to death left and right. The answer is more surprising than the act.

I completely agree with the previous reviewer about this concise and razor sharp explication of Deleuze and Guattari's work. While I'm no expert, I have read a great deal of the secondary literature out there and this one exceeds them all in clarity, rigor, and the all-important avoidance of that snobby tone so-many D&G commentator's take, as if privy to something one's readers aren't. This isn't going to be an actual review, by the way, just an added encouragement to whoever chances upon this book to get it and be quick about it. Yes, it's rather old; yes, Bogue does refer to Logique du Sens as the "Logic of Meaning" (I don't think it'd been translated when he wrote the book); yes, for all of that, it remains the one commentary that stands out (in my mind) above all the others.
After this, the secondary works I would recommend are Michael Hardt's "Apprenticeship in Philosophy," Claire Colebrook's "Gilles Deleuze," Eugene Holland's invaluable explication of Anti-Oedipus (he has written many outstanding little articles as well, which you'll find in the anthologies), and finally, the more difficult but singularly rewarding "Clamor of Being" by Alain Badiou. Also, as far as the "applications" of D&G go, the little book by a guy named James Brusseau, "Isolated Experiences," is by far the best, however much one wants to disagree with his making a solipsist of Deleuze (more or less).
All in all, this book will punch a hole in your mindzone without messing up your pathways. For once...a book that allows you to MAKE connections rather than preventing them with the standard proxy of "DeleuzoGuattarian." As a final note, unrelated to Bogue's book, everyone who's interested should be aware that there is a slew of Deleuze's lectures from his time at Vincennes available in translation at WebDeleuze, I believe. They range in subject from Kant, Leibniz, Spinoza, to cinema, AO and ATP, and one shouldn't miss the opportunity to see what incredible pedagogic gifts Deleuze possessed. These lectures are superb, clear, and, contrary to what most uninformed people seem to think of Deleuze's work, extremely rigorous and invigorating. Such was the man's gift...

It's amazing that the first book written in English on Deleuze and Guattari is still the best one to be found out there. I've been working deeply on the work of Deleuze and Guattari for about four years now and have read a vast amount of the secondary literature that's out there. Although I do not fully agree with all of the ways in which Bogue unfolds their work, he is very clear, highly accurate, and demonstrates a great deal of respect for the text. This is especially true of the sections on _Difference and Repetition_ and _The Logic of Sense_ that have managed to say more in twenty five pages than nearly everything that's out there. Moreover, Bogue does something tremendously important in these remarkable pages... He reads Deleuze as Deleuze without assimilating the project of DR and LoS to the later work with Guattari. Since there are important innovations between the early work and the later work, such an approach is extremely important. Bogue also demonstrates the same degree of respect when he approaches _Anti-Oedipus_ and _A Thousand Plateaus_ by discussing Guattari's important work before his fortuitous encounter with Deleuze. Although, in the end, you might not agree with all Bogue has to say, this is a must read for enthusiatic fans of Deleuze and Guattari. It's too bad other commentators have not adopted the ideal of precision Bogue adopts here... An ideal Deleuze himself praises and demands as a necessary condition for philosophy in _Bergsonism_.

It is a shame that the book is out of print and extremely hard to find. I read it long time ago in Russian, and cannot wait to find a copy in English. A mindblowing outlook on human excistance and moral dillemas.

Ova knjiga se nikako ne moze zaobici. Od velike vaznosti za razvoj evropske knjizevnosti.

This book is fine. It is getting right to the point.

I highly recommend this book for everyone who has, or cares about someone who has diabetes. If you ever heard, "test this, restrict that, and by the way, you'll probably end up going blind anyway" and then thought "Why should I?" this is a great eye-opener. This book offers real-life feelings and experiences of other DM-ers (both types) in support of the idea that major adjustments are being/have been required in your life, and there are emotional side-effects of those changes that most of our doctors are not trained to deal with. It has some good tips, but more importantly, helps you ask the question: exactly how is this going to effect my self-image? Great section about thinking of yourself as "good or bad" based on choices that most make without a second thought. (i.e. should I go for a run?) There are also good chapters on how parents feel when a child is diagnosed, teenagers and their control issues, and sex. I especially recommend this book for anyone with diabetes experiencing depression, whether recently diagnosed or going on the 40th anniversary. One drawback - the book is a bit old, so references to the med stuff is dated

Radosh traces the roots of the shift within the Democratic party from one of shared community and mutually acknowledged ethics, for the empowerment of those in need, to one of class warfare cant and socialist dreams. Just as Ronald Reagan averred that he didn't leave the Democratic party, it left him, Radosh offers his concurrence. Radosh assigns the outset of the shift as having its roots in the McGovern candidacy for president in the 1972 election campaign. He foreshadows this event with musings on the 1960's and the highpoint of its madness, the 1968 riots in Chicago at the Democratic party convention. For reference an interested reader should be encouraged to read "the Dark Side of the Left" by Richard Ellis, "America's 30 year's war" by Balint Vazsonyi, and "the Long March" by Roger Kimball. These books also traverse the same timeline as "Divided They Fell" and offer a meaty stew for the cogitative mind.

Radosh is a former red-diaper-baby from Queens, NY who suffered the "shock of recognition", re Sidney Hook in "Out of Step", during this transformative process. Radosh points out how the party has lost its former core constituency while morphing into a party of grievance for varied and sundry, one issue obstructionist, special interest groups. The entire process has been driven by progressive-socialist utopian intellectuals who, unable to create a communist style revolution in America, have engaged in what Radosh would agree to and what Roger Kimball refers to as the long march through the institutions. Radosh recounts these measures in sequence providing his readers with continuity and substance. He leads us along the way to understanding more fully why America is the politically divided nation that it is today. He's a very conversational writer who takes his readers seamlessly through events without Pretension or bombast. I enjoyed the book immensely and you will to.

In 2000, Al Gore carried on a tradition of Democratic Presidential nominees that dates back to 1964: he failed to garner a clear majority of the popular vote (ie., 51% or better). Throughout this 36-year period, only Jimmy Carter was able to amass even 50% of the vote, a rather tepid showing, coming as it did, less than two years after the national nightmare of Watergate and Ford's wildly unpopular pardon of Nixon.

All in all, it's been a precipitous come down for the proud party of FDR and Truman and JFK.

Ronald Radosh opens a window on the problems that have plagued the national Democratic Party these many years. In an incisive history penned prior to the 1996 election, he traces the demise of the Democratic majority to the Party's capture by Far Left, or New Politics, factions that would dominate its agenda from the late 1960s to the advent of Clinton in the early 1990s.

Radosh's book is an excellent chronicle of a Party that lost touch with its core constituencies, and as it moved increasingly to placate highly vocal Radicals on its Left fringe, encouraged the en masse defection of Middle Class voters, some of whom have never returned.

The increasing Far-Left tilt of the Democractic Party in the 1970s and 1980s engendered a realignment that continues to affect the political landscape two decades later.

When I started this ebook, the story of Willum Proud, I was a little apprehensive since I wasn't really a fantasy fan. The story immediately sucked me inside, though, and I couldn't stop reading. It was like I was right there beside Willum during all the fights, chases and adventures. What a rush - the story ended much too soon! Jones' masterful storytelling ability took me on a wild ride from the depths of the Delven mines through worlds I couldn't have imagined on my own. This is a great read for any action/adventure fan, and the fantasy elements make it all the more magical!

Ronald Wayne Jones weaves a fascinating fantasy filled with textured writing, fun artwork, and interesting characters. He's a voice to look for in the future.