I am writing this within just a few days of one of the saddest days any comic book fan could imagine. Carl Barks has just passed on to that great Duckburg in the sky. This book is, without a doubt, the definitive tribute to a man whose genius is just now being recognized by many.

As you read these outstanding adventure stories - and that's what they are - you will come to know the technique of how this extraordinary man transcended the comic art into the realm of high fiction. Each story is written on two levels, sprinkled with humor and illustrated in such a realistic, yet exaggerated manner that allows the reader to identify strongly with the characters.

My personal favorite is "The Second Richest Duck." In this story, Scrooge, Donald and "the boys" have their true personalities come out with a richness found only in the best writings of major adventure authors and is the equal, at least, to the best Indiana Jones or James Bond story.

I read these stories to my son as he was growing up and promised him the book for his future children. My daughters now each have their own families and the stories are now read by me to my grandchildren. Truly, this tome is part of our family heritage.

I own the hardcover, coffee table edition with a signed, numbered print by Barks. I shall never part with the print, and will hand it down to my son in my estate.

Thank you Carl, for many hours of delicious reading pleasure and the exercise of my imagination. If I could rate this book an infinite number of stars, I would.

This is a fantastic book, covering Scrooge McDuck's life from his days in the Klondike to space travel and flying saucers. The book contains many of my favorite stories including "The Second Richest Duck" and "Land of the Pygmy Indians". There is extensive written material about and by Carl Barks giving much insight into the man behind the duck. Finally, there is a checklist of the comics in which Uncle Scrooge appeared from 1952 to 1988. All in all, this book is a "must-have" for any serious fan of Uncle Scrooge.

One of the best collections of comic art ever published, this superlative volume not only takes eleven of Carl Barks' best book-length Scrooge adventures, adds an original story and includes his own comments on each, but Peter Ledger's recoloring makes these stories look better than they ever have or ever will. The only flaw with the volume is that it will send you into a frenzy to read more about Scrooge...but thankfully, Gladstone Comics has all the stories still in print. Simply superb.

Edward Hoffman has made Carl Jung available to us all. He has taken the heart and soul of Jung's written insight and presented it to us in easily understood and digestable aphoristic-like paragraphs that reveal the awesome visionary genius of this great psychologist.

Editing a thinker like Jung is no small task. Like a sculpture, Hoffman's editing brilliance is revealed in his astute knowledge of cutting away the unnecessary material leaving us only with the beautiful form and substance of the work. He has managed to dish up to the reader the wonderful beauty of Jung's truly impressive and liberating wisdom.

This is the best introduction to the work of Carl Jung that has ever been written. An awesome collection of psychological insight, well ordered and easy to read. I give this book my highest reccomendation. It is destined to become a classic.

"The Wisdom of Carl Jung" brings together highly readable excerpts from the extensive writings of one of the world's most influential psychologists, logically arranged into such themes as Creativity and Genius, Understanding the Human Psyche and Education, Social Change and World Improvement. A comprehensive biographical essay at the start of the book provides perspective on Jung's far-reaching ideas on mysticism, sexuality, religion, fantasy, successful living and other topics directly relevant to our own emotional and personality growth.

A mesmerizing read, we are served delicious slices of Carl Jung's brilliance in the most palatible of ways. Coming away hugely enriched, while not bloated, you will recognize, as did I, that no other book on Jung has been offered in such a simple, yet exquisitely profound,way. Frankly, I could not put it down. And, when I had concluded my reading, I yearned for more and more still. You will too. This is a feast for all hungering for the merging of mind, body, heart and spirit. Treat yourself today.

This is one of the most incredible books I've ever read, on healing and its deeper implications. Don't miss it.

This is probably the best work on healing I have read so far; I am now on my third reading and it will not be the last as there is so much in this book to chew on. Whitmont, who was born in the early part of the century, is (if he's still alive) an M.D. and psychotherapist, and also well versed in homeopathy, alchemy, chaos theory, the theories of Rupert Sheldrake and David Bohm, and many other topics such as art, literature, and drama. He has a truly broad intellect as well as a highly developed intuitive sense. I would say his ideas are firmly within the humanist tradition, without any New Age leanings. Indeed, he shows that in healing, darkness is just as important as "the Light"--for the darkness is where one goes to mine the gold of the deepest human experiences. He does not approach the causes of illness from the standpoint so prevalent today of "we cause our illnesses by not dealing with our emotional or soul issues." Rather, he points out that illness, as well as all phenomena, proceeds from a deeper level of reality whose patterns are not readily discernible or understandable when viewed from the three dimensional reality we inhabit. Although I cannot summarize the book well because it contains so much, I would say that his basic stance is that everything of the visible world is rooted in an invisible reality, an "implicate order," (to quote physicist David Bohm) and that in healing we must take that implicate order into consideration just as much as we do the physical reality of the illness. His way of doing this takes up a good part of the second portion of the book. (The first portion explains his way of looking at man, reality, and the universe, with an interesting first chapter on homeopathy.) I highly recommend this book to any healer, whether you are a nurse, physician, psychotherapist, energy healer, somatics practitioner, whatever.........it's not necessarily an easy read but it will open up many dimensions of the healing process to you.

How many of us have the courage, the understanding and the wisdom to really know, let alone live our destiny? Edinger qoutes Jung (CW17,par296) as saying, "A man can make a moral decision to go his own way only if he holds that way to be best. If any other way were held to be better, then he would live and develope that other personality instead of his own" (p. 26) Sounds like a Koan of sorts, yet if one is truly striving to individuate, "blindly pursuing our way," we may eventially be on the "Road to Dasmascus." What to do? We need guides, "Old Wise Men and Women." A Yoda or two to interpret the symbols, the numinosum...this book is like bumping into Yoda in the deep part of the forest, when conflicts are almost too much to bare.

I must sometimes grit my teeth and slog through Edinger to discover his pearls of wisdom. Not this time. This work I found quite accesible, the material thoroughly digested, well laid out and clearly explained. My copy is already massively underlined and dog-eared. (I'm presuming you'd have some knowledge of Jung before reading this book.)

We have this book in our clinical chemistry department and refer to it constantly, it is comprehensive and contains all of the data and explanation needed for the scientist on the bench the clinician looking up the biochemal basis of a disorder, and the pathologist making a descision on clinical data.

If you are a clinical chemist or medical technologist, this is the bible. Dont look for much fluff here, just the hard hitting facts. If you want a simpler overview of clinical chemistry,go elsewhere. However, if you want the complete reference, it is here.

Edinger is second only to von Franz as an interpreter of Jung, and in this book he takes Jung's AION step by step and explains the most difficult and meaningful parts of the book with unsurpassable acumen. A perfect companion to Jung's own book.

If you've never read (or heard) a Carl Hiassen book, you're in for a treat. In this case, several. Ed Asner's raspy, world-weary voice is the perfect medium for Hiassen's skewed view on life (specifically life in Florida) as he knows it. You'll laugh, you'll wince, you'll wonder what fools these mortals be. Don't worry, Hiassen and Asner will be glad to tell you.

Holy Moses ! This is the first book I ever heard of and read that really fuses serious dream analysis, family dynamics, parapsychology, sacred literature and clinical science into a well written, non-pedantic book.This guy seems to be open to the real stuff that most of my and other people's lives is about. I mean there was some deep work in there on dreams and death, dreams and medical illness, dreams and creativity and dreams and pregancy. My wife and I really liked that part since we had some close emotional encounters with this material when one of our parents died and our son was soon concieved. I'm a trained doctor so I came to it with a little bit of a critical eye. But I was soon seduced by the guy's prose and solid research. I think he is some kind of professor along with being a doctor himself at UMASS. Lots of references always makes me feel better and he has a lot of them. Finally to put this into a historical and ancient Egyptian, African and American Indian context was a good, even brillant risk, and a risk that works!!! Anyway I'll check out some of the other stuff he has written.

I just don't like the red colour. :) This review is from the perspective of a Vampire gamer.

Very good book. I think they finally addressed the complaints about the previous "Laws of the Hunt" and brought a bunch of things up to date. Different organisations are well-described. We now finally have the trait maxima (attributes, willpower, humanity and influence) in one neat section. Ghoul creation rules are finally in concord with "Laws of the Night," and there is a section in the back that describes very neatly how mortals undergo various transformations. For me the parts "Mortal to Ghoul" and "Ghoul to Vampire" were *very* gratifying. The only thing that is lacking are the rules on blood storage for Ghouls - 2 blood traits or more? I want to know! Overall, a very good Revised Edition.

I recently purchased this book, after having grown up with it in the 50s and 60s. The photographs are as stunning, vibrant and moving as I recall, and I realized that I had clearer memories of this collection of pictures than those in our family photo album - which probably says a lot about my family and cameras?!

Anyway - there's something VERY 50s about these photos - the Germans look "German" - the Irish look "Irish", and so forth. This collection of photos presents a very UN-MELTED "melting pot" at the same time it reveals a universal humanity and compassion. There's palpable joy, sorrow, pain, love, beauty, ulginess and every other human emotion depicted here. It's a beautiful book you won't be sorry you got!

This book details the Family of Man photography exhibit composed of photos that Edward Steichen collected from photographers throughout the world. From the intro by Carl Sandburg (his brother in law), to the photographs of birth, life, death and the emotions and events in between, the book shows true humanity through the eyes of the camera. Featuring works by many famous, but yet unknown photographers, this book is a true treasure. When you glance at its pages you will discover new perspectives, or maybe something inside yourself. This is not a picture book, but a photo biography of the human race. If you are tired of coffee table books that sit unopened, pick up this book a few times and share it with your friends. You will read it again and again, discovering new secrets with every turn of a page.

Ingrid Sischy, the editor of Interview Magazine, once taught her creative director the art of shutting up and just looking at a photo. It's a simple technique - yet it works. If you take 15 minutes to just look at a photo, eventually the photo will begin to speak to you. This lesson is even more profound when you allow the photos of "The Family of Man" to speak to you. Each photo encapsulates a tiny portion of the human experience and serves as a vivid mirror of our own spirit. As we journey from birth to death we see all the flaws and fascinating qualities that make the human being a beautiful work in progress. And while the book is only 5% words I've yet to complete it. Why? Because I've found myself watching closely each photo for the amount of time it takes to finish the chapter of a book. And each "chapter" that I've seen tells me several things: That we are all bonded by love, struggle, survival, passion, pain, fears, dreams, belief and hope.