Everything Sauling Wong writes she writes with care, concern, wit, tact, and an immense respect for literary texts. This study is a classic by now, and the more "transnational" work beyond it can only renew its relevance and care. No diasporic opportunism would find a home here in such close and caring readings of the US Asia/Pacific texts of worldliness and quest.

I took Jack Corgel's course in the Hotel School at Cornell. We used the third edition of this text, and it covered the spectrum of concepts for a basic introduction to real estate investment. Even though the course focused on commercial real estate, I found the concepts have helped me determine whether I have made good choices in residential real estate, as well. The best aspect of the book (and the course) was applying a discounted cash flow analysis to particular properties. As a method to assess the financial viability of a property by analyzing the rent, tax, depreciation and other effects, the discounted cash flow analysis helped me feel much more confident in my real estate investments.

The book covers four basic areas: investment principles like net present value, real estate markets, mortgage financing, and legal aspects of real estate. Although not flashy with lots of pictures, the essential concepts and methods are thoughtfully explained and applied. I highly recommend this book as a reference to keep on your shelf to refer to periodically if engaged in the acquisition of real estate.

In A Resource Guide To Asian American Literature over twenty essays provide background materials for the college-level study of Asian American literature, focussing on fifteen key novels and six works of drama and providing essays which examine the works, their critical receptions, and their authors. The results may be used as an introductory classroom text or for supplemental reading and analysis.

I took a class on Pompeii and I read the entire book for the class. The illustrations are mostly in color, which is helpful and nice-looking. Overall, a concise and accessible survey of Roman painting, most of which was preserved in Pompeii.

This book in its original edition was titled THE SECRET OF SHAKESPEARE. That title had problems, as the author acknowledged himself, in that it made people assume the book was about the identity of Shakespeare which it is not. This new edition has the new title - THE SACRED ART OF SHAKESPEARE - and is expanded as well. The first edition was about 140 pages and this new edition is over 200 pages, yet there are no new chapters. Lings starts out with a chapter on Shakespeare's 'Sacred Art'. He then continues with a chapter called Shakespeare's Outlook which contains much of the heart of what Lings has to say about the esoteric nature of Shakespeare's works. He then follows with surprisingly illuminating glosses on ten of the plays. It's in these short and well-written chapters that you realize you have found a very unusually enlightening and not run-of-the-mill 'Shakespeare' book. Mr. Lings' expositions of these plays does not fall into any predictable camp. In fact, what he does is really to bring the universal, underlying structure of the plays to light and on that to point the reader in the direction of where each play stands within that overall universal structure and what main characters represent in that structure as-well-as some of the dramatic points-of-interest and how they are often not seen or completely misunderstood by directors and actors, etc... This may give the impression that Mr. Lings seems to think he holds THE key to interpretation, yet what he has done is really just set the plays on their true foundations which are fundamental and universal, and from there one is able to interpret on up towards the sun if one likes... The ten plays discussed are: Henry IV, Hamlet, Othello, Measure for Measure, Macbeth, King Lear, Antony and Cleopatra, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, and The Tempest. He also says much, in passing, on Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night's Dream... There then follows a chapter called Notes on Performance and Production, and he ends the book with a chapter called, in the first edition, 'The Secret', and, in this new edition, 'The Mystery of Things'. It discusses further the esoteric elements in Shakespeare's art. A final note: for those reading this who think they know of all angles of approach in Shakespeare scholarship or pseudo-scholarship and have divined that this book in question is obviously another out-of-breath revelation from the Pythagorian, Platonic, Cabalistic, Hermetic, Illuminist, Rosicrucian, Alchemical, etc., etc., etc. side of things - think what you will and just walk on by... Shakespeare doesn't need any more scholars.

This has been a great source of wisdom and inspiration for me and my family. We only wish that a new edition could be printed with actual stones. Even using common coins, the act of holding a question in mind and coins in hand, is very centering. Having thus cast the tokens it is easy, using this text as a guide, to interpret the Ling Qi Jing's answers to one's own questions. Each trigram reading contains a four-line verse and as many as four different commentaries (from three ancient sages and the author). Sometimes the poem is enough, and perfectly seems to address the question posed. But often the commentaries shed light on the poem's deeper meanings, and further clarify the "fortune" sought.

In this book, the author explains the basics of tai chi and then the 24 and 48 movements yang style short forms.

The book is excellent! The form and movements are the actual ones I have studied and practiced (this is not so with all books). The explanatations are very clear and detailed, and the many photographs show each movement in a very comfortable to follow step by step sequence. If you are studying the forms with a teacher, the book will help as a reminder and complement to the classes. If you are on your own... well, remerber than even in class learning tai chi is not easy.

Dr. Shaban has leaded the way with his books in vibration study. This book is an introduction to the concepts of vibration. It only covers the cases of single and two digree of freedom systems. Being so introductory, the book gives a very deep understanding to the concepts that anyone who is going to study vibration needs to know. Do not miss having this book in your library.

30 Years in Deep Freeze surveys the author's life and experiences in Communist China for over thirty years. Wong, an educated intellectual from a prosperous family, spent much of his life trying to adapt to Mao's new China: this charts his experiences in this strange new world of a newly ordered society.

This book tells you all about Tigers. It tells you how they stay close to their mother when they are young, all the way up to how to hunt for food. I have found this book to be very interesting to me and for my daughter. However, my 8 month old daughter really likes to look at the pictures. This is an excellent book for young readers to learn about TIGERS. I would also recommend the book "Chimps".