Peter Frank's previously out-of-print annotated bibliography on Something Else Press and Dick Higgins's achievements as a publisher is back in print. The book is a treasure, long sought by scholars and librarians.

Something Else Press was among the first publishers of an entirely new genre. These were intermedia artworks designed for publication. They helped to launch the medium now widely known as "artist books." From 1963 to 1974, Dick Higgins and associates presented over sixty publications. These included major works by Fluxus artists Emmett Williams, Alison Knowles, Nam June Paik, Wolf Vostell, Robert Filliou, George Brecht, Geoff Hendricks, Jackson Mac Low and Bengt af Klintberg. Along with these, the press published projects by such twentieth-century legends as John Cage, Marshall McLuhan, Merce Cunningham, Claes Oldenburg, Hans Richter, Dieter Roth, and Allan Kaprow.

In a decade of inspired publishing, Something Else Press broke artistic ground in a series of anthologies on concrete poetry, music‚ conceptual architecture, and more. Higgins launched a major revival in the work of Gertrude Stein by publishing many long unavailable works. The crown jewel of this series was the first complete edition of Making of Americans. If this were not enough, Higgins laid the foundation of a new perspective on the arts through ideas and issues first introduced through the Something Else Newsletter.

This illustrated critical history gives all the facts in chronological order with Peter Frank's interesting, articulate notes. It provides an overview of the press operation with concise, informative descriptions of each publication. Each note includes complete information on format, edition size, co-editions, cancellations, and ephemera. The book is richly illustrated with photographs of each book jacket or cover, and many interior pages.

McPherson & Company originally published this book in 1983. It has been out of print for a number of years. Last year, publisher Bruce McPherson discovered and rebound blocks of the original edition whose covers had been slightly spoiled. He was able to arrange for a superb rebinding that will be of particular interest to scholars and academic libraries.

Quite a good book and ideal to focus a course around

The textbook is very well written and beautifully and effectively illustrated. Critical topics, especially plate tectonics, are thoroughly discussed. The review questions at the end of the chapters are very useful for recitations and laboratories. The glossary is also helpful, but not all bolded terms in the text (such as theory and hypothesis) are located in the glossary. The appendices include mineral identification tables, unit conversions, and information on topographic and geologic maps. The third edition has been extensively reorganized and most of the changes are definite improvements of an already superior textbook. One negative point: one of my students had a malfunctioning CD in her copy of the third edition.

I took a base-level intro course on geology and we used this book, and I found it to be very straight forward and casual. The soft cover was durable and easy to manipulate....which means a lot when you have to make the most of minimal space!

The other reviewers are right: This is a beautifully illustrated dictionary, fun to browse and hard to put down. It really is great for getting young people interested in words and research, and fosters the love of learning. Although my daughter is only in the 4th grade, she enjoys this dictionary - which will really be more appropriate for her in a few years. But despite its overall excellence, there are a few minor flaws. For instance, in the printing that I have, the word "Mississippi" has been left out! Neither the state nor river is there - no listing at all. All the other US states are there. I found that strange, especially since all the pages are properly numbered; none have been omitted. The other minor annoyance was that when I contacted DK, the publisher, I got no response at all. These minor problems aside, the gorgeous illustrations in this book still merits 4 stars in my opinion.

The DK Illustrated Oxford Dictionary is both a great coffee table book and a very appealing reference work. The color illustrations and layout from DK are outstanding and will spur many young (and old) readers to browse through the dictionary. The text from Oxford University Press is not as successful and not particularly user-friendly for the young readers who would be expected to form the primary audience for this type of work. Although the definitions are concise, there are few examples of how words are used. And there are no etymologies. A more minor but annoying feature is the repeated use of the word "etc" in definitions. Overall, an excellent buy.

If you are looking for illustrated dictionary for adults, please go ahead and buy this one. Its a bargain for the quality and utility it has got for an adult looking to know more about different things.

Its not an encyclopedia. It is not intended to be. It illustrated pictorially what a word means whenever possible. I want to know what a cathedral is I turn to Ca and find the word cathedral. I look at the picture and also notice what different parts are called.

There are more than 4000 pictures. Other books boast of 2000 pictures but all they have are small pictures with very less information. But I dont like one thing. It doesnot have enough crossreferences. I guess they had to keep this book concise.

certain words make sense only when u see the pictures. Compared to online dictionaries and encyclopedias I prefer this one as I can relax and browse this when I travel rather than carry a laptop around and strain my eyes seeing the LCD for hours.

As a non-native English speaker, I need a dictionary in my office. It is a easy book to read.

Exhaustively researched and holding some 175,000 precise definitions and entries, The Oxford American Dictionary is an appropriate resource for home, office, and dorm room. Known for its au currant listings, Oxford is always in the process of gauging growth and change in our language. Just think of the words that the internet has added to our vocabularies - to say nothing of scientific research and rap! Each entry includes a pronunciation guide, grammatical identity, and syllabication. Also found are inflected forms, variant spellings, and derivatives. Biographical entries begin with Hank Aaron and end with Zoroaster, while Geographical entries range from Aachen (a town in West Germany) to Zurich. Handy tables offer metric weights and measures as well as conversion from metric to standard measurements. Chemical elements are listed as well as countries of the world. Want to know who our 12th president was? You'll find it here. Oxford boasts more than 100 staff lexicographers plus hundreds of readers and researchers. All that expertise shows in this concise yet extensive dictionary. - Gail Cooke

This new American dictionary from Oxford is fantastic. I have the American Hertitage that came out a few years ago and I was pleased with it--it was an up-to-date version of the dictionaries I've always had. But when I received this dictionary I was astounded. For the first time I'm using my dictionary for more than a simple spell check.

First of all, it lists the most common use of the word as the first definition. This seems so logical it's bizarre that other dictionaries don't do it. I no longer have to browse through archaic or niche uses of a word simply because they predate the most common. It creates a whole new level of clarity. On top of this, the pronunciation system is extremely easy to use and the layout is clean and straight forward. It has the feel of a classic (illustrations and drawings only when it informs a word, none of those do-dads, distractions, and unnecessary photos that make other dictionaries look cheap but the makers think will make it look more expensive.) The usage notes are excellent, and there are more new words in it than I've found anywhere else--must be the resources of the OED and Oxford's other power dictionaries that the American lexicographers have drawn on. I actually find myself opening this dictionary and simply browzing.

It's also great with American words. I was afraid that it would be a British dictionary with an American cover wrapped around it, but that's not the case. Look up words like "trunk" and "roundabout" and see what you get.

I do have one criticism, and it's about thumb indexing. I'm not sure other dictionaries have this problem, but the thumb indexing is way off in places because they make the notches equidistant from each other and some letters are larger than others. What's the point of providing a quick finder tool when it's not helpfull

Still, this dictionary is grand. The first American dictionary that has met my needs and made me realize that a good dictionary is the most amazing resource I've ever encountered.

I'm going to give it 5 stars, even though I have my doubts about some of it.

A new, current dictionary is a wonderful thing. I've never liked American Heritage as they've never seemed thorough or complete enough for my taste, but I think the NOAD editors have done well. If you need a current dictionary immediately it's a decent alternative to the yet-to-be-seen new Websters or next OED. (And if for some weird reason you need a definition for `doh', it's in here.)

It's not a substitute for technical dictionaries, but they have a surprising number of definitions for current technical terminology. That's probably a feature, but... that's where I start to have my doubts. For example, one of their entries is for `JPEG'. Their definition is of questionable usefulness if you don't already know what they're referring to.

Worse, it's going to severely date the dictionary. We've all seen some of the amusing and dated "technical terms" in older dictionaries (like Webster's 3rd), and I often have wondered why the compilers ever bothered to include them in the first place. I believe a lot of terms in NOAD like `JPEG' are going to be goofily dated, if not in 5 years then certainly in 10.

Other questionable features include photographs and definitions for people like the Clintons and Bob Dole (who?). I don't want to appear curmudgeonly, but photos and brief bios of currently famous but soon-to-be-forgotten people don't add any value whatsoever... especially when you consider that a new release will likely take longer than anyone would like. And this isn't a cheap dictionary. I'd rather they dropped the photos and added more obscure words; there are much better sources for current biographical information.

I'm also not thrilled with the font. It isn't horrible, but it isn't high on my list of "most readable fonts" either.

In summary: it's a great choice for a current dictionary. Just be warned that some of the advertised features are going to be obsolete long before the next release.

I recently went through an exhaustive search for a nearly-unabridged dictionary. My criteria were simple: it needed to be newer, bigger, and more inclusive than my battered 1989 Webster's New World College Dictionary, yet still affordable. Other candidates included the venerable Webster's 3rd International (too big, too old), Random House Webster's Unabridged (not enough international words), American Heritage 4th (pretty, but not comprehensive enough), and the bargain Microsoft Encarta College (too preachy and computer-centric). After throwing a battery of new slang, British slang, international, biographical and high tech terms at all the books, I had many more hits in the New Oxford American than any of its competitors. My only caveat is that there are too many unnecessary photos - who needs Michael Jackson and Madonna in their dictionary, and who will care what Bob Dole and Al Gore look like in five years? There's also a full page of whale drawings, a waste of valuable word space in my view. If you're willing to overlook this minor flaw, this is the best choice of the big American dictionaries. For my needs, its picture-free cousin the New Oxford Dictionary of English (available at the Amazon.com UK site for the same price) is truly the best single-volume comprehensive English dictionary in the world.

This dictionary is missing many words used in America for example : luthier, passel. In fact I am throwing it out and getting going back the American Heritage and a thesaurus!

I own many dictionaries (including the unabriged OED). This is the one that is on my desk and used every day. It is useful, readable, compact and complete. Combining the best dictionary with an outstanding thesaurus, Oxford has produced the finest reference work of its kind available. Recommended for students, offices and anyone who is tired of juggling four or five reference books in "case you might need them". Clear the decks. This is what you're looking for.

Wnat to buy a dictionary and a theasurus without blowing the bank, i.e., going broke. Then one should buy The Oxford Dictionary and Thesaurus: The Ultimate Language Reference for American Readers by Frank R. Abate(Editor). The table of contents is well developed and the choice of font is clear and therefore easy to read. The preface is well written with a scholarly tone that is not to dry or pretentious(which in itself is very hard to accomplish). I like the project staff page as it shows the hard work that was put into the making of this book., The following sections, i.e., how to use this book, detailed explanation of defining sections ,detailed explanation of synonym sections, key to pronounciations and abbreviations used in this book. In the end of the book is a well developed appendix that tackles issues such as eptymology et al. I absolutely loved this dictionary/ thesaurus and when one looks up a word, i.e., equitable; it first gives the meaning, i.e., fair just, and then words that have the same or similair meanings, i.e., fair-minded, square, decent, good to name a few. Defintely worth 28.00 dollars and should be a must have for anyone on a strict budget whom is interested in getting a good dictionary and a theasurus for a good price.

Suzanne Frank has done it again. Her novel Shadows on the Aegean, the second in her series of tales about the time traveling couple of Chloe and Cheftu is a terrific follow-up to her first book, Reflections in the Nile. Once this book is picked up, the reader is immediately transported away into the long, ago world of ancient Aztlantu. It is sublimely, escapist fiction that allows the reader a glimpse into an ancient society, which presents the paradox of being both eminently civilized and savagely archaic. Ms. Frank deftly weaves actual historical information with historical supposition. The book provides a nice balance between the continuing love story between the two protagonists, the daily life and rituals of an ancient civilization, and a healthy dose of action and adventure. Although Shadows on the Aegean is in some aspects a continuation of Ms. Frank's first novel, it is still a book, which is able to stand alone based on its own merit. If you have not already read Reflections in the Nile, I would certainly suggest that you read it too, but go ahead and read this novel first, because it is that good!

After reflecting on the Nile during the Exodus, time traveler Chloe Kingsley is elated to be going back to the future accompanied by her Egyptian lover Cheftu. However, she quickly realizes that this is not Kansas, let alone Dallas, as she finds herself occupying the body of an Atlantis priestess at the Cybele Oracle in Crete with Cheftu nowhere in sight.

Though she is not sure why she is here, Chloe knows that a catastrophe is soon going to destroy the most advanced civilization of the ancients. Cheftu arrives as an Egyptian emissary in what is either a cosmic joke or a great coincidence. However, unbeknownst to the chronological-crossed lovers, they are intimate players in what will ultimately become the world'd mythos.

The second novel, SHADOWS ON THE AEGEAN, in J. Suzanne Franks' time travel trilogy is a great novel that brings to life the legend of Atlantis in a creditable and most logical manner. Like its predecessor, REFLECTIONS ON THE NILE, the story line is fast-paced, action-packed, and loaded with legendary prose that turns the book into a sure classic. Throw in two fabulous protagonists and a wealth of wonderful support players and readers of historical romance will frankly demand the final book in the trilogy see the sunrise in 1998 rather than wait another year.

Harriet Klausner

Suzanne Frank could very well have rested on her laurels after writing the phenomenal tale of the Exodus from Egypt in Reflections in the Nile. Instead, the second book in her trilogy presents a fresh world with just as much wonder and history-questioning theories.

Journey back to Ancient Atlantis, the doomed society of hedonism and scientific advancements. Cheftu and Chloe are forced to take on new struggles as they are faced with a civilization on the brink of collapse. What is their purpose? And will their love survive the temptations of the sensual lifestyle around them?

A wonderful read..a perfect excuse to call in sick, stay home and read.

This book is not for advanced users wanting to learn more about V8 or its working as it deals very sparingly with V8.The book should rather be called "Outside Microstation V8 Looking In"

I pre-ordered this book since this is about the only V8 book out there. When I recieved it, the name was different than advertised but the ISBN number is correct. Apparently this is not a new book but an update to the old one. What a waste. Someone should fire the editor of the book because many of the things that have been updated like pictures do not match the text or vice versa. This book glances over all of the new V8 items instead of going into them in depth. This book is good for beginers using J (v7) but I don't recomend it for someone using v8. I have been using v8 since it came out and I must say this book taught me almost nothing that I didn't already know. There are many customization things I would like to know how to do and this book doesn't even mention this. Like another reviewer said, this isn't a cover all bases book like the many books available for Autocad. Most of those book are also twice as thick.
I had high hopes for this book since Frank Conforti works for or with Bentley and he has answered many questions on the bentley newsgroups. Apparently neither him nor anyone else has time to fully explain all of the added functionality of V8.

As a new user of Microstation (but already familiar with AutoCAD), I've found the book presented in logical order and in an understandable fashion. It has a simple step-by-step approach for studying. As I go through page-by-page, I'm gaining compentence in the use of this program.

OK -- so you want to be a CFA. Then you probably will need to buy this book and you might even be told where to get it. Maybe you don't want to be a CFA -- then you will find that out reading this book. The point is -- this book covers the fundamentals of investing from a professional institutional investor's framework (or an MBA in finance student) and does a very good job of it -which is why this has been (and probably still is) a required text.

I was fortunate to take investment analysis with Prof. Keith Brown at UT Austin. He is the best professor I've had in any subject at any level of education. While his excellent teaching skills cannot be conveyed entirely in a book, this is nevertheless an excellent academic textbook for someone preparing for the CFA, or for someone with an MBA looking to go into investment management. Tons of great problems and exercises!

I have read this book for my CFA review studies and for a security analysis class I took at the University of Notre Dame taught by Professor Reilly. This book is a must for those seeking a career in money management or those seeking to become highly educated on the topic. Extremely well conceived and written. Moreover, the book doesn't exclude anything. Topics range from Options & Futures to Top-Down investment analysis. Regarded by investment professionals as the definitive source on the subject. Written for the higher educated reader in mind.