This book and the experiments have kept me engaged in science and engineering since I first picked it up. Although the experiments are somewhat dated, their scope (feel like building a particle accelerator...) and appeal is universal. Have a compressor? Why not try to capture Maxwell's demon and put him to work in a Hilsch Vortex tube. Almost all the experiments are way beyond a weekend's worth of time so there is much to satisfy the true amateur beyond a bauble of an experiment here and there. I highly recommend it for kids, teenagers and adults! My copy is almost worn out.

I acquired this book in 1966 and still use it for inspiration. Methods in the projects are somewhat dated, however the "spark" for any true experimenter is still as bright as ever in this book. It is a "must have" book for any serious experimenter's library. Young or old, if you can find it, buy it!

This book takes a look at the stagnant life of a Quebec family. A family who, due to the deaths of so many children, no longer care about each other. In this book, the main character, Jean, is an imaginative little boy who is dying from scarlet fever(I believe). His genius is strongly ignored by his family and, not untill he dies, do any of them realize his intelligence and worth. Jean, however, is not the whole topic of this book. It also looks at the inability to escape from this horrible situation, whereas all the characters are trapped in this stagnant world.

This is one of the darkest tales I've ever read--a sort of "Angela's Ashes" times ten. It is chilling to think that, although this is fiction, people really lived this way, in such a dark world cut off from most all human emotions, in poverty so brutal even Charles Dickens could not have imagined it. Yet in the middle of all of this blossoms Jean Le Maigre, a sort of John Keats destined to be cut down by tuberculosis in his prime. A large portion of the book is Jean Le Maigre's biography, but it is also filled with other rich characters--tough Grand-Mère, mystical Héloïse, and delightfully wicked Le Septième.

I have read this book in both its original French and Derek Coltman's translation. The translation is quite good in keeping the flavor of the original French, although at times there are words chosen in English which are stronger than they were in French.

This is one gutsy book! Not for the squeamish or the emotionally unreflective. This is a rare instance where a book doesn't just answer questions, but asks you to question yourself. Very Insightful.

My neighbor gave me this book & I read it over the weekend. I was shocked that I was the reason I am still single. I was blaming all the "bad men" for my single marital status. The advice is good, thorough, and simple. You can change your patterns that will enable you to open up to meeting the people you really deserve to date. This book identifies the patterns, discusses ways to change and reinforces with examples. I am gifting this book to all my single friends!

Tre explains almost exactly how I feel about this book. Except for one subject, when Tre says that you should worry about your problems I think that in this situation you should help your friend out first. Because the two of them had been best friends since youth.

The Chip Hilton series is a series of sports books. In the early books in the series a young man named Chip Hilton is in High School. Later in the series he is in college. Chip is an extremely bright young man who is also a star in baseball, basketball, and football. Chip is a leader on and off the court. These books teach children about morals and ethics.
In the previous book, called Tournament Crisis, State wins the Holiday Invitational Tournament. However, during the last few minutes of the championship game Chip hurts his knee.
This book, called Hardcourt Upset, begins where the last book left off. Chip is still injured from the tournament. He is sidelined for the first two games after the winter break. Because Chip is such a great athlete and mental leader and cant play, the team loses both these games.
Basketball however, is not his only problem. In Chip's college town of University, there have been several convenience store robberies. His best friend "Soapy" Smith is being accused of committing these crimes. Soapy is taken into custody of the police and detectives to see if the convenience store employees recognize him as the robber. Eventually Soapy gets a chance to explain that he is innocent because he was changing a tire at the time of the robberies. Chip decides to help find the people who helped Soapy change his tire.
At the next basketball game against Tech, Soapy recognizes the people who helped him. The Tech team players tell the detectives they were the ones who helped Soapy change the tire. Now the detectives must look further to find the robbers.
Chip and his pals from college agreed to watch the local convenience stores every night. One night when it was Chip's turn, he saw a man with two flat tires. When he asked the man if he needed help, he responded with a gasp as he heard some police sirens. Then he said in a deep nervous voice, "no, I'll just drive home with the two flats."
Chip thought this was very suspicious and jumped into the trunk of the car. When the driver parked the car in the garage, he jumped out and looked around. He saw a bag full of something he could not make out and got out of there. He called the detectives and they were there with Soapy in ten minutes.
When they rang the doorbell, an old man answered the door. Chip knew immediately that this wasn't the man had been driving the car. He asked, "Do you have a son?" "No, but there is a teenager who lives here." So they woke up the teenager and then asked him a few questions. After a few questions it was clear. This was the thief. He had a red wig and a mask in the garage. They also found all the money stolen from the stores.
Hardcourt Upset was an awesome book. It shows that if you think you can you will succeed in your goals. It also shows that even a small school can be a big school in some things.

This book was awesome!!! It is a very good book if you like sports books. However, it does not only have to do with sports. It shows how much Chip Hilton cares about his friend Soapy Smith. I deafinitly reccoment this book!!!

I'm not a literary scholar so I'm not going to comment on the selection of poetry or the quality of the introductions to poets. What I can say is that there are a ton of poets, introductions to each poet, and helpful footnotes for the poetry. The anthology appropriately reaches as far back as Walt Whitman.

I admit that this anthology has faults. Another reviewer did a thorough job of cataloguing them. That said, though, this is still an excellent volume of modern poetry. The editors did an excellent job determining which poets and poems to include. I would recommend this volume to anyone interested in modern poetry. I would also recommend it to those who dislike modern poetry, as they would probably find themselves unable to continue disliking it after having read this volume.

Also, I think that the flaws of the second edition will most likely be remedied in the third edition. I look forward to that edition's publication next year.

If you access the reviews of this work at this site,
then you had better be prepared to try to figure out
why the other reviewers have written what they have written.
The collections of poems for each poet, and the
essay introductions are both excellent. People who
don't know poetry or poets might not find them
helpful, but for knowledgable readers of poetry,
this Norton Anthology is of high quality, indeed.
I especially like the Norton editions' excellent
footnotes. Here is a footnote to Yeats's poem
"To the Rose upon the Rood of Time." "The rose, as
an image of transfiguration and fulfillment, is a
frequent symbol in Yeats's poetry of this period
[1892]. In a note dated 1925, he remarks of it
'that the quality symbolised as The Rose differs
from the Intellectual Beauty of Shelley and of
Spenser in that I have imagined it as suffering
with man and not as something pursued and seen
from afar.' The title indicates, and line 12
confirms, that the rose is here eternal beauty,
which flowers from the cross of time and sacrifice."
(p. 113) I think that note is extremely insightful
and helpful. Of course, it also helps greatly if
you know who Shelley and Spenser are (and were),
what types of works they wrote, and what their
most famous works and themes are. If you have
not had that intellectual and educational background,
then, of course, the note will seem meaningless.
This is an anthology which can be read by scholars
and enthusiasts. Read the poems for their wealth
of value and tones and visions -- read the notes
and the introductory essays for insightful,
meaningful information about the poets, their lives,
their struggles, and their accomplishments.
My own favorites in the anthology are: Emily
Dickinson, Thomas Hardy, A.E. Housman, some of
W.B. Yeats, Edgar Lee Masters, Edwin Arlington
Robinson, Ezra Pound, H.D., Siegfried Sassoon,
Robinson Jeffers, T.S. Eliot, and Wilfred Owen.
Of course, there are many more poets and poems
than these that appeal to me personally.
Here is a brief excerpt from the beginning of
the essay on "Emily Dickinson": "Modern American
poetry [in this anthlogy there are both American
and British poets arranged chronologically according
to their birth dates] -- an expression meaning almost
the same thing as 'American poetry' -- has for one
of its founders and ancestral presences a woman.
Emily Dickinson wrote poems which are not only
excellent but lend a standard of excellence. She is
bracketed with Walt Whitman because, unknown to each
other and almost simultaneously, they all but invented
American poetry."
I cannot understand why anyone could not find that
helpful as the beginning of an insightful analysis
of the poet, her poetry, and her influence.

Waverley, Walter Scott's first successful novel, concerns Edward Waverley, the scion of a noble, landed family in England. He's a Romantic young man, in the formal sense of belonging to the Romantic movement and in temperament--the relative ease of his life and his passionate dilettantishness land him, eventually, in the service of the Jacobites during the rebellion of 1745. He discovers the wild landscapes of the Scottish Highlands, the curious manners of the Highland folk, and learns that life and war are not exactly like all those romantic books about adventure and glory he loves to read.

Scott's book can be interpreted as a critique of the Romantic temperament, and I think the book succeeds best when it contrasts reality with the puffed-up imaginings of Edward Waverley's literature-addled perception. He is not quite Don Quixote, according to Scott, but he suffers from a milder version of the same disease; the most amusing parts of the book center around Waverley's naivete toward battle, ceremony, and love. He is feckless, to be sure, and abysmally undisciplined--but he is a decent fellow in the end, and learns from his mistakes. The people that populate Scott's novel are generally civilized, noble, and upright people, even the fierce rebels; while Scott doesn't approve of rebellion, the rebels are portrayed as misguided at worst, and of equal nobility to the English at best. Scott's purpose was to peer into the world "sixty years since" his own time, and helped give birth to the historical novel. It has confusing and near-unreadable parts (especially when the pedantic Baron shows up), but as a historical novel, it certainly sets the template for all other books of its type to come.

With Waverly, Sir Walter Scott virtually invented the historical novel. The story is based around mostly fictional characters that participate in the Jacobite uprising in 1745 in Scotland. It's also the story of friendships, courage, divided loyalties and of course love. Edward Waverly, the hero gets unwittingly caught up and swept along in a marvelous drama in which he comes of age. As the book progressed I also found myself getting more caught up in the novel and its characters. For me, that's the mark of a very good book.

Both the author and editor's notes were very helpful and I used them often.

Enjoy!

The first several chapters were a bit slow. But once Edward Waverley goes to Scotland, the story picks up. I enjoyed Scott's romantic portrayal of Scotland and, as someone who's not much of a student of history, I also liked learning a little about the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745. But most enjoyable was watching the maturation of Edward Waverley. He begins his adventures as a young dreamer whose passivity and romantic notions allow him to be swept into the Jacobite uprising on the side of the rebels. But adversity teaches Edward a sense of responsibility and the value of a realistic outlook. The ending of the novel is almost too neat and satisfying, but through it Scott reconciles the novel's divisions - romanticism and realism, Scotsman and Englishman and the old world, so attractive to Scott but which was speedily disappearing, with the new world and the stability and order it represents.

I've posted this review in a couple of places because I really think many of you out there should enjoy this fresh lesbian romance.
Jagged Dreams deals with homophobia and incest, but it's really about love and commitment. It's also about lesbian love, lust and temptation. Though I've read all of C.C.'s novels, this is the first in which she also packs in a 'whodunnit' kind of subplot.
Imagine, Tamara (totally luscious in Risking-me) lifeless, unconscious in a parking lot and Emilie (her lover) is the first to find her there. Gee, did I want to know who had aggressed gorgeous Tamara, or what! The need to know what had really happened had me turning pages late in the night.
What else works in this novel, as in most of her others, is the way C.C. juxtaposes wonderfully sexy and poetic moments like those of Tamara (flashback) and Marielle in the vineyards of Bordeaux with vile abuses performed by males who have the emotional IQ of troglodytes. And it works.
The tenderness, the resilience, the gentleness of same sex love, friendship and comfort is big time stuff in Jagged Dreams...

I found that novel interesting in many ways though I, initially, thought it odd that Saint-Clair should stray from what has, so far, worked so well for us, readers of ... romance.
A sigh of relief. The romance is there. It's all around the 'Who Did Commit The Crime' hook.
In fact, I just love the often delicate but totally sexy loveplay between Tamara and Marielle back in the vineyards. I read this in the train and it certainly provided me with an escape from the dreary landscape.
Tonie Morris

Dear reader, hi!
I thought it might be kind of neat if I took time to explain in an off-the-cuff post what this fifth novel is about.
It goes like this: on the one hand I've focused on the sensuality of lesbian love (always foremost in my mind) and, on the other, I've targeted homophobia and incest.
This having been said, the feedback I've been getting so far suggests that most readers still come away from Jagged Dreams thinking this novel is really about tender mind- wanderings, love and struggling to keep one's promise.
I was deeply touched by a post which said that Jagged Dreams' contribution to lesbian writing resides in my 'intelligent and sensitive handling of the issue of abuse.' Wow! Thank you for that, dear Susan from Brisbane!
OK, so ... beyond my mindset to regularly remind myself that the society in which I live is not as peachy-pink for everybody as it is for me, now that I am able to indulge my creativity from inside the emotionally safe life I share with my partner, I wanted to build in an extra layer - something that is very different from what I normally write about which is the overwhelming rollercoaster, mindblasting 'thrill' of being attracted to someone we know we cannot 'emotionally' afford, for whatever reasons. So I wrote the attack on Tamara in the prologue, and proceeded to throw about a couple of red-herrings while not losing my writing's primary focus - lesbian romance that exposes the vulnerable often emotional side of real lesbians' lives, warts and all, through painful introspection.
I'd be delighted to hear how this combo has worked for you so don't be shy. Make the most of free speech and submit-a-review interfaces available either here or from my website and sooner or later I'll get the message!
Do keep safe out there, no matter what!
C.C. Saint-clair
P.S. The star rating is, as it turns out, a required form field hence the 'compulsory' 5 star rating totally beyond my control! :)

I found this book to be extremely helpful and informative for myself.....both as someone who is interested in DID...and as someone who lives every day with DID...I was diagnoised 4 years ago....and an interim counselor i was seeing while mine was on vacation gave the book to me to read....It helped me greatly....to understand that co-conciousness...integration...and fusion are not anything to be afraid of.....Now...my counselor is reading it before giving it back to the other counselor.....You won't be sorry if you read this....

Becoming Kate was very facsinating and informative. The book contains material by both Carol/Kate and crew and Dr. Jansma. Most of Kate's work is journal entries with several poems and a couple of letters written to Dr. Jansma. Much of the writing describes in great detail what it's like to live as an alter and to go through the healing then fusion/integration process.

Dr. Jansma includes his actions, thoughts and feelings on the whole process. I found this section to be comforting in a strange sort of way. Perhaps it is comforting to know that there are people who care and will hang in for the duration.

The book jacket did not adequately describe the book. The book focused of the horrible sexual, physical and emotional abuse suffered at the hands of her paternal grandparents and, to a less extent, her parents. Although the jacket advertises that her family was "grooming her from age three to be the high priestess of a Satanic cult", no mention is made of the subject until the epilogue where Dr. Jansma states only that it happened and was not included because it was so "troubling".

All told, I really enjoyed the book and found it helpful to find out what it's like to be an alter.

This may be the most poorly written book I've read. There are numerous spelling, grammatical, and even typographic errors in every chapter. In addition, there is a great deal of irrelevant historical information (some of which is dubitable, some of which is simply inaccurate) which the reader is obliged to skip over. It is ostensibly provided as background, but rarely serves that purpose. Occasionally it is downright insulting (purely as a random example: she actually takes a paragraph to explain that the 13th century is the 1200s, and why--do we need this?). Finally, the inaccuracy one sees in the world history here makes one question the accuracy of the typographic information provided.

That said, there is quite a bit of information packed in here. If you are a beginner looking for historical or introductory information on typography, you may find it here. The book does serve as a decent typographic specimen book also, which is nice. (However, even some of the specimens are not well done--several of the typefaces shown in Chapter 6 show pixellation. The Universal font on page 94 is especially degraded.)

I do hope that many of the book's problems may be worked out for a future edition. I wish they had been worked out for this one.

Typography has never been an easy or interesting subject for most people. It is rare to find a book that explores and explains Typography in an interesting and modern. This book does just that. Having taught the subject, I used this book as a basis for my course. It is a wonderful primer for students and a great refresher for typographers. The information is well-written and presented. The book provides wonderful exercises and quizes at the end of each chapter and great typographic examples. My only minor criticism is that some pages are not the easiest to read because of the font and font size that is used - but this is very minor and easily overlooked. I whole-heartedly recommend this book!

As a practicing graphic artist, I've read & studied myriad books on typography. Although much of the information presented in "Typographic Workshop" is already familiar, never have I seen it presented in such a clear & pragmatic fashion. Even experienced artists can find a great deal of practical & interesting typographic facts. This is the typography book I wished I could have started out with.

Type history is presented in context with the prevailing state of civilization (& barbarism). It brings the historical significance of type alive. In addition, much practical information is presented in comprehensible form. Were I teaching a class in typography, this would be required reading. It's self-teaching, therefore, making this immensely valuable information accesible to all who seek it.

A wonderful blend of first-hand, eye-witness reporting and even-handed analysis. Jeremy St. Clair's 40 page "Seatle Diary" alone makes the book worthy of reading. Perhaps the best piece of journalism to emerge from the growing body of Seatle stories. Two clips involving WTO delegates (one pounching a black lady in the face, another waving his revolver at a protestor baracade) utterly blew me away. And in the spirit of the lively and diverse protesters, the book is also funny at times, as when a South Central LA youth named Thomas replies to St. Clair's question, "Why are you here?" He answers: "I like turtles and I hate that ... Bill Gates." To which Sinclair replies, "Good enough for me." You won't be able to put the book down. It has a very genuine, honest and human feel. Along the way, you will run into Brower, the famous French cheese-maker Jose Bove, some interesting college professors, Sierra Club's Carl Pope, many of the so-called "anarchists" which every major media venue categorized all protestors as, and many other important people who turned out for the "Battle in Seatle." The book will not only give you a comprehensive understanding of the issues surrounding the protests and the subsequent media storm, it will also make you feel like you were there. St. Clair's writing is that good.

America had never seen anything like the mass movement that took over Seattle to confront the World Trade Organization in the fall of 2001: environmentalists, religious & human rights groups, farmers, civil rights organizations, ordinary people. They came with a message of peaceful protest. They were met with shock troops, billy clubs, rubber bullets and tear gas. 5 Days that Shook the World takes you onto the streets of Seattle and the protests in Washington, Philly and Los Angeles that followed during that remarkable year. But this book isn't about illusions or myths, but about the hard truths. St. Clair and Cockburn were eerily prescient in their prediction that the vaunted coalition of labor and greens would be difficult to hold together as the demands of political reality set in and as the corporate press and the government moved to counter and undermine the movement(s). Big labor and the big greens soon abandoned the cause by endorsing the campaign of pseudo-Democrat, Al Gore, the chief broker of NAFTA and the WTO treaties. Other leaders turned away from the protests following the bloody reprisals of the police in
Quebec and Genoa. But that doesn't mean the anti-globalization movement is dead. Cockburn and St. Clair point out the fakers, but they also show you where the true heart of the movement for global social and environmental justice beats. This book is a a much needed guide to what just may be the most important struggle of our times...

Within the growing literature of the anti-globalization movement is the book Five Days that Shook the World, which intimately puts you on the street for the events of N30, through St. Clair's Seattle Diary, the DC protests with JoAnn Wypejewski, and the Democratic National Convention in LA. In addition to the firsthand accounts by the people involved in the protests, the book chronicles the growing consciousness of the anti-globalization movement and the concurrent repression of the movement by the police state. This book is an excellent account of both the success of a movement that has unified people throughout the U.S. and world, including steel workers and environmental activists, and also shows how the heads of labor and the environmental movement had their own agenda during the Seattle protests and sold out those on the streets for a seat at the table with the WTO. The photographs by Sekula add a visual element to the work that complements the writing of St. Clair and Cockburn and gives a personal face to the fight against the WTO, as well as shows the facelessness of the jackboot state. Five Days that Shook the World is a vital narrative in the growing history of the anti-globalization movement and the authors are uncompromising in their analysis of where the movement stands, who betrayed the movement, and how the State has begun to work to limit the voices calling for an alternative to the WTO, IMF, and the destruction wreaked by global capitalism.