A well documented history of today's Black family. Read this book to understand how our family structure has manage to weaken over the last 150 years. This book left me with the understanding that our individaul accomplishments consisting of corporate promotions, new home purchases, and higher incomes don't mean much when our family structure continues to weaken our community towards non-existence.

I don't know Donna Franklin and don't have anything to gain through my comments. This book is one of the best I've read in a LONG time in analyzing the reasons for some of the changes in the black family and suggesting a number of very lucid, rational, and intelligent recommendations. Absolutely terrific, terrific book! Very scholarly, well-researched, and thoughtful but written in non-jargon and extremely accessible to the average reader. Should be required reading in most college courses as well as for our politicians.

This book is filled with jokes that will surely crack you up. This is a hillairious joke book although it has adult content in it so it is not for young readers.

frightfully gross jokes is a book ful of crude,demeaning, yet hillarious jokes that will make you cry.

The impressions of Hermeticism that have formed over many years of Jungian interpretations, Theosophical speculations and well-intentioned 20th century academic investigations will have to be looked at anew - and to tell the truth, pretty much discarded by anyone who encounters this book. It's really not an overstatement to say that Evola's work simply trumps other interpretations. His is not so much an 'interpretation' as much as it is a genuine teaching. The product of a pure, direct, and very deep experience of the material, The Hermetic Tradition offers the most lucid overall treatment that this often dizzyingly difficult subject has ever seen. Evola managed to do this somehow without "dumbing it down" for a broad public readership, and in doing so he has rendered us a tremendous and unparalleld service. As SPECIALIZED material, applicable to a SPECIFIC mode of percieving the world and one's place in it, with a SPECIFIC core spiritual discipline at it's heart, the Tradition of Hermeticism has been done justice by this book. Because of that, for some it will not be easy reading - even more difficult will be putting it's teachings to practice. But for those of us who, for all of our familiarity with the 'occult' Hermetic symbols and the 'psychological' operations of alchemy, are still left mainly un-transformed by such understandings, this book is for you. It cannot be recommended highly enough.

Baron Evola, always controversial and provocative, is no less so here. Discussing many facets of the Magnum Opus ( 'Corrosive waters', and 'Path of Venus' for instance) which are overlooked, misunderstood, or just plain ignored by other writers on the subject, this work should be consisered a necessary part of any Hermetic Library. Evola draws extensively from Greek, Latin, Arabic, and English language expositions of the Hermetico-Alchemic Art. The notes are impressive in their relevance and ability to increase the depth of qualitative comprehension. One could wish there had been a more comprehensive index. Be prepared to have cherished assumptions challenged and intellectual horizons broadened. Read with Evola's "Eros and the Mysteries of Love," and "The Mystery of the Grail."

Good Luck!

As a licensed Interior Designer I refer to this book frequently. To determine the space required for any activity from opening a file drawer to dining, watching a movie or simply removing an object from a shelf this book gives it to you straight with no fluff. It contains simple but indispensible scientific data for the 95th percentile and beyond. Whether you are a student or a professional, in Interior Design, Architecture or Industrial Design I highly recommend Human Dimension and Interior Space.

Human Dimension & Interior Space provides information about interior space requirements and human dimensions that are indispensable to the beginning design student or the practicing professional. Its drawings and charts are clear, easy to understand and even easier to apply. It should be part of every design professional's library or student's required reading list. It is also refreshing to note that this book has integrated barrier free design/accessibility issues into each space type that is covered, and not made it a separate issue.

The work of Julius Stone, one of the most prolific jurists of last century, is always authoritative and of excellent quality. This analysis of the legal issues surrounding the Arab-Israeli conflict proves to be no exception, and for the most part it remains highly relevant to the situation today.

'Israel and Palestine: Assault on the Law of Nations' takes the deceptive mythology that is still current in its stride, convincingly debunking the Palestinian Arab claim to the land between the Mediterranean and the River Jordan and exposing the coerced partisanship of the United Nations in respect of the West in general and Israel in particular.

Highly readable, comprehensive and superbly written. If you only buy one book on Middle East politics, buy this.

The work of Julius Stone, one of the most prolific jurists of last century, is always authoritative and of excellent quality. This analysis of the legal issues surrounding the Arab-Israeli conflict proves to be no exception, and for the most part it remains highly relevant to the situation today.

'Israel and Palestine: Assault on the Law of Nations' takes the deceptive mythology that is still current in its stride, convincingly debunking the Palestinian Arab claim to the land between the Mediterranean and the River Jordan and exposing the coerced partisanship of the United Nations in respect of the West in general and Israel in particular.

Highly readable, comprehensive and superbly written. If you only buy one book on Middle East politics, buy this.

Like the other review on this page from Utah, this book was my all time favorite as a kid. Julius the gorilla! As a kid I appreciated the neat pictures. Their colors and the tone I'd feel from them, plus the dialog between Julius and Davy, was always a happy time whenever I spent time with the book. And really, isn't happy just what time with a book should be? The unusual name Julius also drew me into its pages.

This was one of my favorite books as a child and one of the first I could read by myself. I am expecting my first child and can hardly wait to read it to her. Julius has many great adventures when he leaves the jungle to become a circus star. It keeps kids attention because of the large print and wonderful pictures.

_Julius Caesar_ is one of those Shakespeare plays that you read in high school, forget about, and then have the joy of rediscovering years later. The Archangel recording will (re)introduce you to one of Shakespeare's great plays.

As others have commented, this play is primarily about Brutus, Shakespeare's dearest friend, who must decide how to lead a noble life. Is it right to kill his friend to preserve Rome as a republic? With the deed done, how can he remain true to his ideals, even as Rome itself threatens to shatter?

Other characters also come to life, largely in comparision or contrast to Brutus's: the scheming Cassius; Caesar, trapped between his own ego and his sense of justice; Marc Antony, driven by passion to smash Rome itself to revenge himself on the conspirators; and Brutus's and Caesar's wives, each of whom can see what is happening but is helpless to prevent the tragedy.

At one level, this is a play about politic and ethics. At another, it's a play about words and the power of stagecraft. In one of the play's finest moments, Brutus and Marc Antony use their best rhetoric to try to sway the Roman people for and against the conspirators. Hearing each speech performed, I can't help but think that we are being given a view into Shakespeare's own understanding of how to fill a crowd with passion or horror.

The Archangel recording of this play is excellent. It's very much a radio-style production instead of a simple reading, and the sound effects and interscene music are excellent, as are the performances. In particular, Adrian Lester steals the show as Antony, and the actor playing Cassius also does a remarkable job.
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I have purchased this version of the play and I have listened to it to compare it the the public library version I am using in class. That version is the Caedmon cassette. I like the production values of this one over the one I am using. The Caedmon version is good too, so don't think about buying this if you already have it. But if you are buying this for your class, it is worth the investment. Good acting, emotional, good music. A good way to communicate the text to the kids without video.

Ben Katchor's work is unique. He notices all the things that otherwise go (undeservedly after you see his work) unnoticed. His humor is on a par with the best of all media: Keaton, Chaplin, Fields in films, for example. His artwork brings to mind Herriman & Holman. His text is as inventive as Kafka. No question about it, the guy's a genius, yet always enjoyable & entrancing.

The third bound installment of Ben Katchor's "Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer" series finds his lonely observer at quite a distance from the simplicity and candor of "Cheap Novelties". Complex, arcane, and beautifully detailed, "The Beauty Supply District" represents, at last, a finely tuned rendition of Katchor's altogether fantastic and fully fictional Gotham. Arguably less accessible than "Cheap Novelties" or "Real Estate Photographer Stories", (I would suggest that the uninitiated read one of the aforementioned books first) it's a satisfying read for this Katchor fan, and it certainly will be for those who appreciate the moves he's made in "Cardboard Valise" and "Hotel and Farm". Katchor has sacrificed some degree of empathy in grounding Knipl increasingly less in "the actual world" but the allegories he creates in its stead are delights to be picked apart, and like a stranger's obscure promotional cap, ruminated over. The narrative that closes "Beauty Supply District" may be a sly metaphor for the real-life loss of New York City's individuality amid the burgeoning stampede of chain stores and attendant homogeneity; whatever the perspective, those 26 pages read like a warts-and-all requiem for an imperfect yet more people-oriented time. Alas, when the narrative's pretentious art fiend character makes a fateful purchase with no thought to aesthetics, the past, with its valued individuals and labored attention to detail, seems to be dealt a near-fatal blow. I can't wait to read it again and, like Knipl himself, discover what I've overlooked. Maybe I'm all wrong. That's what I love about it.

I learned Greek grammar from the golden gems of knowledge by Dana and Mantey. Having already studied Summers and Sawyer, this book by Dana and Mantey proved to be invaluable to describe the nuances of Greek grammar which in turn led to clearer exegesis. Thanks to Dr. Delnay, who was taught by Dr. Mantey, for using this book in second-year Greek class at Clearwater Christian College.

Not even the recent sorties by Young and Mounce have managed to unseat this all-time classic. For ease of use and lucid explanations, this grammar is solid gold! Despite claims to the contrary, this grammar is still as fresh as the day it rolled off the press and as relevant as anything being published today. Recent attempts have been made to improve upon it (e.g. Brooks and Winbury) but it remains unmatched for accuracy and readability. Discover it today!