If you like Howard Roffman's photographs, you should purchase this postcards-book. It's fascinating and fabulous for you.

An excellent set of articles on improvisation, with one on the psychology of improv, and articles on Gamelan, Arabic music, jazz, Cantonese opera, Latin dance, Hindustani music, children's games.

Improvisation is not the same everywhere. And there are differences from culture to culture, and performer to performer, in just how much of a performance is improvised. These essays address these and other issues.

I liked the book very much. It made playing chess fun again and it was a new experience for an old player like myself. I would recomend everyone that reads this to try it. It made a difference so profound that I take it too all the chess meets that I have, and it really spices up the matches.

I was impressed with the content of this book. I own other legal secreterial books and this is one of the best. Plus having worked in law offices, I feel this book has a realistic slant on the legal professsion. Even though it is an older book, I would recommend it.

In Letter no.89, Bernard writes to his friend, William of St Thierry, "as I drew myself in my letter to you, so I really am.." That sweet admission characterizes this book. An excellent translation that really LISTENS to Bernard's voice in its 560+ pages. A short essential Introduction by Beverly Mayne Kienzle helps guide the reader toward aspects of interest surrounding Bernard in the letters -- events in Cistercian history, admonitions to his monks, letters on the liturgy,etc. -- and discusses the place held by private letters in monastic literature. The translation lets Bernard live, and live he does! The 'oracle of Christendom' shows himself the most human of humanists, passionate and nearly wild, founding seventy monasteries, securing the recognition of Innocent II, creating the Kinghts Templar, and pouring his preaching to kindle the fire for a second crusade. This book's a worthwhile place to start tracking mediaeval history, by tracking a colossus. Spiffy chronology, bibliography, and table of letters, recipients & dates makes the book easy to access for specific results. The last of the Fathers of the Church, Bernard's real light lies just under the pages, and that's tough for a translator; here's a translation that understands and discloses that essence. As welcomed and vital a book as Gilson's 'Mystical Theology of St Bernard.'

...but he blamed the parents, while reaearch has shown that many mental illnesses have a bio-chemicl bases.

This book is a series of articles by Bruno Leone. The book covers specific topics such as the Barbarians and their forcing of the Roman Empire to fall, Saints and Sinners with a primary focus on Thomas Becket, Emperors and Kings with highlights on Charlemagne, William the Conqueror, King John, and Louis VI and Lous IX. Also covered are the Crusades, and the Jewish influence in Europe. While the book is easy to read as Leone's style lends its self to a quick read, I find some of the research lacking. A few of the resources come from less and full acedemic peer reviewed articles. I think for general reading, and some research projects this book will be very suitable. It is an interesting read, and well worth picking up if you enjoy the middle ages.

My friend bought this nice but fault book since last RSNA and we discovered that some pages listed below were blank . The serial No.&Other No.are : RC925.7.M88 1995 616.7'07543-dc20 DNLM/DLC 94,44679

The pages No. are :118&119- 122&123- 126&127- 130&131- 134&135- 138&139- 142&143- 146&147 can you help me to get at least copy of these blank pages thank you Iam looking for your reply

A well elaborated introduction to ethnomusicology that still persists an important source nowadays.At the same time he had summarized the state of the art of contemporary discipline, Nettl also contributed to the consolidation of the ethnomusicology method of working.

Stengers is best known for her collaborations with the physicist Ilya Prigogine, these dense, difficult, and topic-specific works. The collected essays here are indicative of a broad range of topics that will interested non-specialists.

Stengers's reflections on science situate her between Kuhn and Deleuze, a strange but potent mixture. Add to this, the work of Barbara McClintock as an exemplar of the scientist, Stengers demonstrates her status as the most insightful and relevent thinker of science today, perhaps the most philosophical of them all. I say 'philosophical' because Stengers interest always rises above the issues raging in philosophy of science, history of science and the sociology of science. To be philosophical means to extend the implications beyond the technical and theoretical domains, to pose the questions in terms of what Stengers calls the 'ethicophilosophical order.' It is not to conflate politics and science, but rather, to suspend judgment, to remain within the tension, to understand and to stretch the possibility of imagination.

To borrow a metaphor from Feyerabend: how can a gang of thieves ever be responsible? Stengers does not judge science on moral grounds. Contrary to Feyerabend's mistrust of science, stengers regards science as an inherently social and passionate activity. Key terms for her are 'jouissance' and 'mutual arousal' between parties. Responsibility in science, ethics in science, isn't to judge it from the outside, but to tease the philosophical implications of the activities in science.

In all, these sample essays will demonstrate the originality of Stenger's work. Furthermore, they are persuasive reminders of why science still matters to us; why we are still 'interested' in science.