David Lyon writes an interesting book, and reproduces about as much as is possible on the elements in the rapid development of the English TBD. The gaps in this work are caused by the gaps in the Royal Navy records, not by David Lyon. I look forward to successors to this work.

I've read lots of both applied and theoretical linguistics books and this one is by far the best intro to the theoretical areas. Very well written and understandable despite the quite respectable level of technical discussion and scholarship. After reading this book you will be in excellent shape to tackle more advanced topics and books. Lyons covers all the major areas, from phonetics to structural linguistics and transformational grammar. To give just one example of the many discussions I enjoyed in this book, there was the section in which Lyons discusses ergative languages, such as Eskimo, and the concepts of ergativity vs. transitivity. Altogether a superb introduction and although now a true classic (having been published in 1968), one which I've never seen surpassed.

What Valle does in this play is just amazing. It was so modern/modernist that it wasn't performed until the 60's. Although it was just written in 1926 it was greatly influenced by cinema. It's a tragedy without a heroic character. Its genre was the "esperpento", a term coined by Valle-Inclan to reflect a new literary mode in which the author wouldn't kneel to see his characters as Homer, who saw them as gods & heroes, or see them as fellow human beings, as Shakespeare did, but just look down to them as if they were puppets. So, forget everything you vere read or heard about Lorca's dark, tragic Spain, this play has a tragic plot yet you will laugh as you read it. You are not expected to identify yourself with the characters, unless you are a blind old-fashioned bohemian poet with a French wife nicknamed Saint Joan D'arc. All Valle's theatre has a Brechtian quality, but it's much more fun and you can fully enjoy reading it, because it was first intended for reading not for representation. The place of Valle-Inclan in Spanish literature can only be compared to Joyce's in English literature (though Valle is much more readable). To sum up "Lights of Bohemia/Luces de Bohemia" is the dramatic masterpiece of the century in Spanish literature. In seventy years no Spanish author has produced one half as good, at least I haven't read it and I read and go to the theatre intensively. Valle-Inclan knew what real Spain, real life and real literature was about

Awesome poety - filth & violence - what more could you want

This is a finest HOW TO book I have ever read. Of course, there are strings attached. You must do some imaginary work for a few days. First, I am a librarian at a local university, a husband, a father, and a disabled retiree because of the pain.

Some easy to understand conclusions and results follow for your amusement and stimulation regarding the exercises in this book:

1. You must accept and practice the exericizes in the middle of the book because it simply makes you competent to heal yourself.

2. You must create with your brain (which the authors have you train and prepare) an easy application to visually, aurally, tactilely, tastingly, and olfactorily cut off the sensation of pain. I image valve handles, like copper pipe valves, from the top of my spine down to the middle of my back - AND IT WORKS!!! I just repeatedly close off those valves and the sensory, not motor, nerves slowly stop the communicating pain from the places that hurt to the brain, and OF COURSE !!! the nerves are gradually simultaneously commuicating less and less pain by the sensory nerves back out of the brain and to the head, neck, and right trapezius, which is where it has hurt me for 5 years. It doesn't happen in one session, but many, and YOU ARE IN CHARGE. Nobody else to blame. But the ability to become better each day trying to reduce your pain significantly is a great stimulus to be nearly totally pain free. I can't help but wonder How fast will I become even MORE adept at reducing even more pain, more quickly when fully sensually well-rehearsed. I will be able to pause, do the meditation and lose 99% of the pain in just a few seconds. I have the faith that it will work. I also take presciptions, get plenty of sleep, and eat a low fat diet which helped me lose 10 pounds from October 1 to December 31.

3. I will be buying old copies of this book... so I can get my hands on them for friends, and supply my own stock all around the house to read whenever I feel like it and in the car at long stop lights. Someday I will be healed and I will then give my extra copies of the books to my friends - when I am healed, probably the middle of 2003. Nonetheless, I will have to continuously pay attention to "awake" relaxation meditations using the principles and procedures in this book.

I would love to see a new edition soon. It took me four years to find a book as good as this. Two thumbs up !!

With a little hard work, say 4 or 5 days during the first week, I can now sense when the pain is coming and drop into my meditative state within 3 seconds, breathe slowly, slowly push out all of my abs and stop the preliminary pain from getting worse. By also dropping my shoulders in a slight slump and by tilting the pelvis forward, I maintain a straight RELAXED sitting posture at work. Even with people all around my desk at work, I can pull "My Trigger" of conscious meditation, slow breathing, and a quiet searching for / creating a non-anxiety state of mind which I manifest slyly to myself while I am talking with a student who needs help. Sometimes just consistent focusing on a little pain ALLOWS THE PAIN TO DISAPPEAR while I am practicing the instructor's proactive meditations in this book. I believe that this book will work for you if you do the work and want to change. If you don't want to change and really want to continue using pain as an excuse to get out of living your life, THEN LEAVE THE BOOK ALONE. Someone needful could use it. Wanting to Heal is the key motivator, this book is the best vehicle for getting away from pain.

Thank you, wonderful authors !!! Please write again !!!

Mike

Lonely Planet guides are the best out there, by far, at least for people who travel with a budget and only a pack on their backs, stay at hostels, and like to really experience a new location without being so touristy (Fodor's guides, for example, are the opposite of Lonely Planet's and are written for the upscale traveler). The California/Nevada guide is no exception, but it's just too outdated (published in 1996), and I wouldn't recommend buying it and instead would recommend waiting until the come out with a new one, whenever that will be. That's the only reason I wouldn't give it 5 stars. They did just put out a new San Francisco one though ...

This is the first lonely planet book I've bought, but I'm very attached to it. It had lots of great listing from things to do to places to stay. I particularly linked to range of places to stay. It's organized into moderately priced to cheap options so you can pick what's right foryou... I used the 2000 edition.

Every Lonely Planet guide gives lots of tips for what to see, places to eat, and the "must-see" things when you travel. This guide explains the history of California and Nevada very well, and always has good suggestions of interesting places to visit. I am a native Californian, but I don't travel anywhere in the state without this guide.

John teaches concept as much as technique and that is important. John encourages you consider broad principals and define your goals. Having participated in several symposiums and a clinic, most of everything I do was influenced by John Lyons and this book was an important part of that. The foundation for training my own Andalusian Stallion is largely based on concepts from this book. I believe you also need two important videos by John: "Round Pen Reasoning" and "Leading and Loading". John never claims to be the only enlightened trainer, but in my view he is one of the best. You can dedicate a lifetime to learning about horses, and this book is a great starter. But in the end, you will learn the most from your horse not from other books. I believe John would agree.

I am not a horse trainer, and had never trained a horse before. However, I applied John Lyon's methods and had very satisfying results. I trained two horses, one of them is now a competition horse which because of its size and conformation (arabian like) would never have been expected to give what it does (its jumping far more than my experienced 10 year old jumper, and he's only 5 and only learning). The trainer has told us its because this horse has such a good disposition towards people and is so attentive and always willing, results of its initial training program, I'm convinced. And it wasn't even done by a proffesional! I highly recommend Lyon's methods. However, I had to read the book twice! Once to get the idea of what the system pointed at and to see what the puzzle looked like with all its pieces in place. Only in the second reading, done mostly in small parts at a time and just before practice was I able to go ahead and be sure of what I was doing and how I should do it. If you are not patient and do not have the time to slowly try to grab the meaning of this, perhaps the video should be a smarter choice.

Reading this book and watching the videos that go with it is the best way to really understand what John Lyons is all about. If you have ever trained a dog, you understand what conditioned-response is, and he teaches you how to apply the same theory to training horses. John Lyons does not hold himself out as a horse-whisperer guru type trainer, but rather as a guy who has a very logical, conditioned-response method of dealing with horses. I liked the way he explained the techniques and his emphasis on safety for the trainer and the horse. Some things are hard to picture from his explanation in the book, so watching the videos put it all together for me. (An example is the hitting the horse on the leg bit that another reviewer mentioned. If you saw the video and saw what he was doing, you probably would not feel uncomfortable with it.) I have found this book the most novice-friendly book of its type.

Kipling proves his expertise as an author in this vivid description of a young, cocky sketch artist moving up the social ladder and the introspection he is forced to face when he can't have his childhood love. His professionalism in retelling the themes of independence vs dependence, decadence and self-doubt makes up for his sometimes annoying racist undertones and romantic depicting of the colonialistic era, which is just about the only reason for the missing fifth star.

This is one of my personal favorites. I read it in high school just for personal pleasure. Kipling's knowledge of art is expressed nicely; he knows his stuff from his father. He expresses his time period honestly and touchingly. As a female of the twentieth century, I cannot understand everything that made Kipling write this novel. It is more than just the simple story of an artist going blind, of wars and art. It is, at heart, the story of two men living in their world of violence and social mores and beliefs, two men brothers in all but blood. I found moments in this novel very touching, all the more so because of the tenderness between Torp and Dickie. This is a novel about friendship mostly, and a very beautiful one at that.

When I first began to read Lady Chatterley's Lover I thought it was going to be quite a chore. I'm used to flowery language and all that, but I just wasn't in the mood for what I anticipated to be a sex-charged love story. Much to my surprise I got MUCH more from this wonderful classic.

D.H. Lawrence makes some striking observations about the state of the social classes in post WWI England, as well as providing some good insights into tough individual decisions we make in regard to relationships. I had limited knowledge of the post-war subject beforehand, but I felt that I learned a great deal in the process of reading. At times the book seemed repetitive, as if Lawrence were beating me over the head with his message, sacrificing character and plot in the process, but after all was said and done I couldn't say that it was a bad book. It's a very insightful, multi-layered work and I'm very glad I read it. The fact that the book was widely banned from publication in its early days is just another tempting reason to read it although, by today's standards, what was so risqué then borders on the ridiculous for us now. As long as you remind yourself of the time period in which it was written you'll be just fine...the laughs and raised eyebrows in conjunction with more serious themes are a pleasant mix.

This novel is not the explicit sex book that you have been led to believe. instead it is a flawless masterpiece that tells the story of Charlotte, the sexually deprived wife of an invalid husband and her search for true love and sexual fulfillment. As a woman, I have no idea how Lawrence was able to delve into the female mind so thoroughly, but so he has done. This book is a compelling argument in favor of the belief that sexual attraction is certainly one of the most important aspects when we search for a mate-despite what snobbish types may say about how looks don't matter and good sex and attraction grows with time. Baloney! Charlotte's attraction to Mellors was immediate and we watch her life developing with breathless anticipation. Some may feel the ending is too cute and tidy, but knowing the characters as they are, you feel that it could not have ended any other way. A profound book, thoroughly readable, and shockingly modern for its time.

I did not read this book until ten years ago - age forty for those who count - and found it a brilliant work. It touched on every aspect of life in that era, using a difficult premise at the focus.

One reviewer called it 'sexist.' In that era, women were kept removed from the world, so men were the ones who made the initial contacts with reality and their sexuality. If Lawrence had written about that society in any other way, he would have been inaccurate. Lawrence shows the social conflict with both subtlety and brutality. Yet, Mellor IS a lover. There are sexual descriptions which are explicit, but within the coccoon of emotional bondings.

The way that Lawrence has essayed the class structure of England in that era is brave and accurate in all ways. He makes the posturing of the aristocracy both frivilous and full of assinine criteria at the same time he understands the willingness of those in power to offer their lives in the defense of the general welfare.

Lawrence notes again with unpleasant accuracy the detriments of an unchecked Industrial Revolution on the social structure of the time. He has Constance both witness these effects and suffer the olfactory damage.

This is a literary work which has an effect across the full spectrum of the possible. Finely drawn characters searching for a better way to survive their lives in a scenario that is rife with obstacles and unpleasantness. He has the touch of the finest artist working with the lightest gossamer and the blunt force of an ogre swinging a stone axe.

This was published in an abridged version because it was felt that the societal message it conveyed should be allowed to transit the draconian (by the less filtered standards of today) censorship of the era which DID focus on the sexual descriptions but could NOT stop the voice of social criticism any more than the same group could stop Dickens a few decades earlier.

This book has help me understand in great detail how the spine vertbrae's are linked.With the surgeons letter i was able to see what parts of the spine where affected on my son.This helped to inform me, in a manner in which is easy to understand as the book is written in PLAIN English. I would Reccommend this book to parents or people with Scoliosis wishing to be informed without medical terms.Helps take away the fear of the unkown.rating by me 8 out 10.

I was recently diagnosed with scoliosis and began a search for more information. A woman on an online forum pointed me towards this book. I picked it up and read it in one sitting. The language is not overly complex- very understandable. But gave me a much better understanding of my condition, and what can be done about it. The individual patient's stories were also pretty inspirational.

This is a wonderful story (stories) about a real-life disease that remains with you for life. Brooke put real-life experiences of so many different people in this story. Living with scoliosis all my life (33 years), I am now faced with surgery. Even though my younger sister had surgery 13 years ago and has been my real-life source book, Brooke's compilation of facts, stories, and statistics has really been informative and inspiring. Extremely well-written. Thanks for giving us current and compassionate information!!! And congratulations from a nearby neighbor!!