The most complete handbook for rehabilitators of diurnal and nocturnal birds of prey. Very good information on all possible aspects of determining and healing all kinds of problems which could occur in this field. Good tables and figures complete this significant work and is a must have for laboratories and rehabilitation centers working with raptors and owls. Also falconers will gain a good impression on the possible diseases and illnesses of their most beloved birds. The only minus could be its presentation being ringbanded and if written by a typewriter but this should be forgotten as the information included is yet the best in its field in addition with previous work of these authors.

A truly outstanding book. John Patrick Diggins is the greatest intellectual historian writing about America -- and this book (like his others) reflects that.

I recently filmed a performance of one scene from the play "Savage in Limbo" in Los Angeles and I had to jump on the web and buy the whole play immediately.

John Patrick Shanley's characters are brilliant and rich; the kind actors dream of working with. The play is hilarious and tons of fun, yet tragically real, thus rendering it quite moving.

I absolutely recommend this work to anyone who enjoys theatre. Also, it is an absolute must for actors searching for a neat scene or one act to do. I saw it first in a showcase that lasted a grueling 4 hours, and the scene from "Savage and Limbo" was the only saving grace. The audience laughed hysterically, they loved it, and it made the show.

Buy it and see for yourself!

This is a wonderful collection of poetry readings by some of the best actors in the world. If you allow yourself only one tape of poetry, I would recommend this one. The rendition of Lawrence's "The Snake" is spellbining, and the reading of Macneil's "A Death in the Family" is quietlly gut-wrenching. And you will be surprised how well Bill Shatner recites about whales. Buy this tape, and you will listen to it again and again.

In this unofficial treatise for the homeschooling movement, John Holt, longtime private school teacher, maintains that the traditional classroom model no longer works and may, in fact, ruin kids for learning. He exhorts parents to challenge the conventional wisdom and be their children's teachers. You don't need to be a homeschooler to benefit from Holt's books; you simply need to care about children and education and to have uttered, if only once, "There's got to be a better way."

This book is both a wonderfully funny story of the post World War II Occupation of Okinawa and its redevelopment and a handbook for sustainable development. This book, together with The Ugly American, should be required reading for everyone working in development

The textbook of pain is everything someone needs to start the study of the complex and fascinating phenomenon that is pain. Of course after reading it you will have to read many more scientific papers, to be able to work in pain research, but the book provides the guidelines for your study and helps you select the topic(s) you would like to work on. The book has a very high scientific level given by the authors and editors wich are all respected members of the scientific community. I can only recommend the Textbook of Pain to anyone interested in this field.

Finally a plan that makes sense. Step by step instructions with allowances made for indvidual circumstances. Surely this book is annointed.

Probably the best commentary I have read on Wittgenstein. Strong focus on the later Wittgenstein of the Philosophical Investigations. This book is not easy reading. Wittgenstein can be tough going and this book will not chew your food for you. Kenny can at times be almost as difficult as his subject, however this book will reward your efforts and expand your understandings.

One of the best books I've ever read. I could feel the smell, odours and perfumes of one whole century. Only a true artist can do what P. Suskind did with the art of words. He is the master in the world of syllables in the same way his main character is the master in the world of perfumes. But, there is a difference -our writer has a soul, and together with soul he's got a nice sense for irony. I'm eager to see the film, that will be, I hope, made in near future. While reading this book I was convinced in the possibility of translating the smell into words (P. Suskind is a magic translator, I should say), now I'm waiting to see how will the smell be translated into pictures. I ask myself who that artist will be! I have some other questions to ask: What do you think, were French perfumes made as a consequence of horrible smells that long reigned in all Europe? Does human soul smell? In other words, no smell-no soul? Is syphilis the cause of being sometimes genious, of course before your brain becomes rotten? (I found that idea in a SF novell "Concentration Camp")

This is my all-time favourtie book. After searching endlessly to find a copy anywhere, I finally came across a second-hand copy at a flea market ..., where I was told that if they had enough copies, they would easily be able to sell at least one a day, which is big business for a little flea market.
The best way that I can describe this book is to use an oxymoron, that being beautifully disgusting. The 18th century French setting, the description of the central charater Grenouille's soulless talents, pursuits and desires for his ultimate scent, and everthing from start to finish is simply magnificent.
The feeling I get from this book every time I read it is one of cyclical completion. For me, the story starts at a logical place (the birth of Grenouille, the "gifted abomination", which is possibly my favourite phrase from the entire book), runs full circle and then ends at a logical place. Not to spoil it for anyone who hasn't read it, but I certainly wouldn't want this story to end any other way.
Suskind's description of Jean-Baptiste's exceptional olfactory endowment is thorough and exact. Let's face it, scent isn't exactly easy to write about! If the reader was unable to empathise with what is essentially the character's entire universe, his passion for and understanding of smell, then no one would stick with the book long enough to learn what is his life's purpose (pretty much the entire point to the book), to create his 'magnum opus', a scent that would inspire (or more accurately, command) others to feel love. The author's assertion that people do not feel love for others through any will of their own, but simply through the aura that comes with the emission of scent is quite unique and gives purpose to why Grenouille is such a revolting, fiendish and unloved social detestation. He isn't just a murderer who likes to kill, or who has been wronged and is seeking vengeance, he simply WANTS something that his victims possess. This is truly a brilliant and inspired read, one that I would recommend to anyone at all, but particularly to those who enjoy a dark look into the macabre and cold existence of an inhuman monster. Best of all, it could never be made into a disgusting piece of Hollywood trash as it contains very little conversation or interaction with other characters.
PS. Just an interesting fact, Kurt Cobain wrote the track "Scentless Apprenctice" that appears on Nirvana's In Utero album about this book.

Please read this novel novel! Utterly engrossing anti-hero, perfectly inhuman (unhuman, rather) Follows all the rules of a Nietzschean superman - in other words, only the rules his own strange genius dictates! The language, even in translation, is at once spare and lyrical. The story is magical in its fantasy and horror. It's like a mix of Camus and Balzac, meets ... Mary Shelley. The literal climax is the logical and grotesque conclusionary comment on civilization.

Sidebar: Nirvana's song "Scentless Apprentice" was inspired by this book, Kurt Cobain's favorite.

I can also recommend Suskind's The Pigeon, another existential look at an alien consciousness ... tho five degrees less lurid.