I purchased this book in 1984 at a local pet store. This book provided insight and instruction for the care and maintenance of dozens of local and exotic snakes for me as a youth. Now, as I still read this book from time to time, I realize that it contains BETTER and often MORE ACCURATE information than any modern book I have read on snake husbandry to date. I highly recommend this title to both the beginner, as well as the advanced hobbyist.

Hans Werner Henze has led a rich,full musical life. He had good vital instincts from the start,opting to foster high level contacts within the musical institutions in Europe East and West. The West has served him well first with early operatic productions,a succession of unbroken commissions and latter recordings by premiere ensembles. He turned away from his own post-war generations quest for a new musical language along the lines of serialized materials and post-Webern gesturing. Instead he found his own voice in a lyrical eclecticism that continually searches for differing dramatic situations, as in painters Gericault's "The Raft of Medusa". This autobiography reveals an active life of schedules,concerts, rehearsals,assisting in teams for the productions of his works, discussions and conducting. Along the way Henze stops to chat with friends for inspiration and support and news,he even pays respects when necessary at the funerals of Auden or composer Luigi Nono. We also find Henze in Cuba with revolutionaries And in East Germany with his friend Paul Dessau. Leftism for Henze is odd, a man who sacrificed nothing was still tauted by the primary venues of the West. But we learn of Henze's continual quest for compositional materials and how politics enters this formula no matter what ideology he happens to share.Also how each work inhabits its own life. His politics does extend to going out on a limb for comrades, as when composer Isang Yun was abducted by the Korean government from Germany to return to prison and torture. Henze assembled a forum for his release in Europe. He also made an arrangement of a song by Theodorakis also a victim of imprisonment. For the musician this autobiography makes fascinating reading on Henze's views, how his music is performed, who is the most sensitive conductor, what composer he admires, how he organizes festivals and venues.I must say I never warmed to his music.

Anyone interested in thehistory of nazi espionage will find that this book is a must-read. Absolutely riveting. Highly recommended.

Werner Hofmann's new monograph on Caspar David Friedrich benefits from superb colour reproductions as well as Hofmann's own discursive brilliance.

Selections from Friedrich's letters are a neat fit, bowing to the idea that his transcendental painting ultimately eludes scholarly discourse.

This book lands with authority, passion, and a keen sense of the vistas of silence that Friedrich communicates to admirers everywhere.

A bargain. Snap it up if you come across it...

The inside cover of this truly remarkable cassette tape says this about its content: "You have the ability to create conditions in your life for miraculous relationships, relationships that are brilliantly alive, magical expressions of love". I bought my copy of the tape at a seminar run by the London, England office of Werner Erhard & Associates in the late 1980s. I love this tape and love sharing it with my family and friends.

Recorded at a large live event given by Werner Erhard, it perfectly captures for me the spirit and power of this man as he assists people in grappling with the issues of what it is to be alive. On the tape Werner talks, reads poems, and interacts with individual participants. (I had part of one of the poems he reads, 'I carry your heart with me' by e.e. cummings, read out at my wedding). Listening to the tape is an empowering, alive, challenging 'on the court' experience. There is a real magic here and plenty of 'juice'. People who have done the est training, the Forum (like I did in 1989), the Landmark Forum or programs related to these will have a special listening for this, but maybe you don't need to have participated in those courses to 'get' this.

Whatever has or hasn't happened with Werner Erhard in the last ten years, and whatever stuff you may or may not read on the Internet about him and the trainings he helped develop, this is a remarkable human being. I count myself very lucky to own this 60 minute tape recording.

I read this book and find it is an exccellent guide to the care of our emerging elderly. I understand that it is also very popular with the Youth In Asia and russia.

One of the most useful books I have encountered to take me beyond entry-level muscular anatomy. The wonderful illustrations are clearly labeled. I use it often in my teaching.

Besides the literary terms used by Mr. Weisstein there also are the following do to Florentine Smarandache: paradoxism (a literary avant-garde movement), paradoxist distich, tautologic distich, dualistic distich.

Schade's book is extremely thorough and has some excellent analysis of the Cranach family's work, studio practice, and possible influences. The writing is clear, concise and eminently readable. There is an invaluable list of all of the documents that mention Cranach, with great Luther references-- Lucas Cranach the Elder actually enlisted Luther's help when one of his assistants was accused of murder! This is the best work in English available on the Cranachs.

A beautifully illustrated and well-designed book, the pictures and stories elucidate the feelings of wonder and transcendence that surround the crop circle phenomenon. The authors balance their presentation by including true accounts from some of England's leading circle makers. The section on natural laws and geometry is also original and informative.
(Simeon Hein is the author of Opening Minds: A Journey of Extraordinary Encounters, Crop Circles, and Resonance).