An informative interpretation of the evolution of Darwin's patterns of thought and of his life.

"A Success. 'Charles Dickens - Sketches of Boz' is an engrossing three-dimensional biography." "A unique one-man play" superbly directed by Peter Loftus, "Sketches of Boz" creates a cast of many characters and faithfully portrays "Dickens in different stages of life, as a boy, a teenager and an adult." Dickens vividly springs "to life in the words and imagination of Richard Enders ... It is difficult for one actor to carry a theme by himself; Enders' superb performance carried an entire play." ... excerpted with permission from a review by Pat Malin in "The Waterville Times," February 12, 1997.

This play went on to be produced Off-Broadway in 2000 by the Theatre @ St. Clements, 46th Street, NYC (performances were held at the Irish Arts Center).

it is book that gives perfect idea about communication in our general life and perticular for engineering profession

One of the most enjoyable and thought-provoking books that I have read in quite a while. This is the type of book that after the first ten pages I decided to purchase additional copies for all my family members and friends. Anyone with aging friends or relatives should read this book, file it, and read it again every few years. The book is a quick read but is well crafted and insightful. Every family should be familiar with Dr. Wells new book, and hopefully not his last.

Karl Brandi spent his long and fruitful academic career building this biography, through painstaking research of every document concerning Charles V to be found in Europe. The biography was completed (and Brandi died) decades ago; some of the author's views are inevitably dated. But the substance of the book--Brandi's deep, sympathetic, but unsparing understanding of who Charles was and what made him work--remains unspoiled.

Charles V ruled, in name if not always in fact, over much of Europe from the 1510s to the 1550s. Yet he is too often overlooked by students of the period--perhaps unsurprising, since he was a contemporary of Martin Luther, Henry VII, John Calvin, and so on. But the scope of his life, particularly as presented in Brandi's magnum opus, is an excellent place for the interested nonspecialist to begin a study of the early sixteenth century, a period of the utmost importance for the course of European and American history.

I found the book rich in ideas and well documented in traditional academic terms and recommended Dr.Westhues consult it for his current work on mobbing (workplace mobbing).

Dr. Houston has written an excellent book on the effects of altitude on people. He reviews the history of mountain exploration, explains the physiological effects of the reduction of atmospheric pressure, and presents a practical guide for acclimitization to altitude. Whether you are going to ski in the Rockies or climb in the Himilayas, this is a useful and entertaining book. I also recommend "Altitude Illness" by Bezruchka

I found my copy of "Going Higher" in a bookstore in Burlington, Vermont. When I got home I discovered that it had been signed by the author!

This edition of Dickens' Great Expectations is considered one of, if not THE scholarly edition now in print. It contains a cogent introduction to the novel and an exhaustive appendix. Although the price will keep many, if not all, from purchasing the book it is definetly look for from a library--looking in a university's library is probably the best bet for finding a copy.

Pip,a poor orphan boy living with his sister and her husband, who is the village blacksmith, wishes for the new world to live life of a gentlemen in. As if an answer to his wishes, Pips learns from Mr. Jagger that he has been given an enormous quantity of money from a secret benefctor, this money is enough to live the life of a wealthy gentlemen in London. There he stayes with Herbert Pockt. When he sees Estella the girl of his dreams, the adopted girl of the rich, Miss Havisham. To find out who his benefactor and what happenes with Estelaa you have to read this truely great story for it is called "Great" "Expectatons."

Reviewed by Johanna Kolleca, Editor, Onomata, Athens, Greece.

Reading Charles Kormos' book of poems "A Happy Man" has been a revelation. It was the discovery of a genuine poet, in the original meaning of the word, from the Greek poietes, that is "maker, creator," a term employed in the Greek Credo for God himself, "poietes of Sky and Earth, of all visible and invisible things." These poems bear the influence of the art and culture of several countries, drawing their sap "from many roots/ spread far and wide, in time and space." His main themes are the great universal questions of love and eroticism, death and the loss of cherished persons, friendship, the legacy of history and war, the precariousness and absurdity of existence. Deeply affected by the human drama, he depicts the tragedy of man's destiny. Atropos is always present. We are "puppets on a string," and the old abyss is always yawning beneath. "Dying/ has become an on-going process./ You die as long as you live." Deception has many faces. "...unlike Moses I/ have seen/ and entered/ several promised lands./ I mourn/ a lucky man." His view of maturing and aging is stark. "Unlike good wine/ and music/ we don't improve/ with age" and "Ban and banish/ photos taken/ when we were young/ and mirrors/ when we're old." Many of the poems, affectionate, sensuous and nostalgic, express and mirror a desperate quest for true love. With rare sensibility he voices the pain of lovers straining to be reunited, if only for a short time, that Time which flows away inexorably "always in one direction." Social reality is faced by this poet with great vigor, matched by a yearning for equity and firm opposition to obscurantism, fascism and despotism. A relentless defender of human dignity, he denounces exploitation and oppression. An eloquent advocate of peace, this citizen of the world denounces war and violence in the thunderous voice of the Hebrew Prophets. A seer and sayer, he writes of his love for his mother "who never took the name of God in vain," his attachment to his grandson which he compares to the love of mothers who forsake everybody for their children's sake. He adores the sea, communes with the sun, the moon and trees. Remembrance amasses sadness. "My memories won't let me go/because they can't live/without me." Everyday life and its plights evoke his sympathy and pity: "...and languor lingers on/ in subways./ Tired flesh/ longing for the tender touch/ that never comes." Sometimes his emotional irony turns into corrosive incisiveness in the form of concise and witty epigrams. This volume is sustained by a delicate tracery: the life of a man of our time transcending national and religious borders. We close the book regretting to have finished it, but also feeling enriched because we have gained a precious friend, "a happy man" whom we love and admire for the musicality of his verses, the originality of his thinking, his generous heart, his proud and unfettered spirit.