This remarkable little book was written in 1976, before Jane's physical challenges fully manifested. It shows a life lived to the fullest, and raises questions about what creativity is, where inspiration comes from, and what we leave behind when our "earth lives" are finished. The "Cezanne" material, "dictated" to Jane, is must reading for visual artists and for anyone interested in painting. It's especially significant as Jane had absolutely no background in art, although she was married to a painter. Where did this material come from? Did Jane make it all up? How could she? What is creativity? Is she "channeling" the "real" Cezanne? What does that mean? Really, quite an extraordinary read.

The book is well written and reads fluently. The characters are very well and lively described. The story is realistic.
I have read lots of John Grisham books, but this one is more complex and takes more effort to read.
One minor point : 500 pages is a bit too much for me... I prefer stories of about 250-300 pages. But, certainly...I would buy this book again.

It is a credit to Robert Goddard's writerly abilities that he manages to lead and keep our interest alive in this complex story. We travel from Greece to the British Isles (a map of the UK would be a nice adjunct). The cast of characters in another author's hands would be cumbersome. A tribute to Goddard that even the minor characters are crisply delineated, and not once was I confused as to who was who.

Harry Bennett, a professional failure, has to be one of the more depressing heroes of all time. He has no confidence, few social skills, and not one yearning desire to better himself. He glumly concludes he is not worthy of success. His stylistic sense is so poor; his rumpled appearance causes comment in even an average restaurant. The late Carroll O'Connor could play the part to perfection. On Harry's watch, the young and fragile Heather Mallender disappears while they are hiking up sinister Profitis Ilias Mountain in the Greek Isles. Predictably, Harry has petered out slightly below the summit and elects to wait for Heather to complete the climb. And that is the last he sees of Heather.

The rest of the novel recounts Harry's painstaking search for Heather. Harry is nothing if not persistent, and even his wrong turns forward his search. Nothing is quite as it seems, even Harry. Mr. Goddard has given us a story laced with irony. As in a previous Goddard novel "Caught in the Light," I had a good idea "who" was the main villain; I just had no idea "why." This is a finely crafted novel, and the characterizations are delightful. A very satisfying read.

I've read hundreds of books and this has to be one of the best I've ever read. You follow the tale of loser Harry trying to find his friend who went missing on Rhodes,from the Greek island and around the counties of England. Harry has only done one heroic act in his life and without giving away too much this becomes a sad irony as the story concludes. This book is impossible to put down!

Mr. Revere and I is about Paul Revere told from the perspective of his horse Sherry. Sherry goes through three owners, the last her favorite. She expierences what it is like to be the horse of a Patriot. We enjoyed reading this book because it includes humor, facts, and sometimes even suspense. That is why we recommend this book to other kids.

I teach 8th grade US history and recommend this book to my kids, who range in reading levels. It tells the story of Paul Reevere and the Sons of Liberty from the HORSE'S viewpoint. It is a delightful and very accurate depiction of this most important time in our history. This book can spark the imagination and interest young and old!

I had to read this book for reading in school and I loved'd it. Im in 5th grade and it was still great fun. I am recameding this to you. READ IT. on a 1 to 5 chart, it was a 10. off the charts.

I am a grad student who read this book in preparation of a paper on the movement. I did not know my precise focus, but after reading this book I thought my focus should be the disunity of the leadership of AIM. This book presents a leadership that could not seem to come together on a precise mission. The key figures seem well-intentioned but their lack of agreement on direction seemed to tear things apart.

This book has a lot of great information about the leadership and it is a excellent reference for learning about the seizure at Alcatraz, the Native American Embassy and the second seige at Wounded Knee. I think my problem with the book was that I had heard of these events for years and had romanticized them and to read the problems AIM faced internally left me surprised and let down.

Well written book by Native Americans who write an objective history of the 60's style Indian movement that merged into Dennis Banks' American Indian Movement. The first section about the Alcatraz take over is very informative about the Bureau of Indian Affairs plan to move Indians off the reservation to assimilate them in Cities. Unfortunately, many of the Indians that relocated off the reservation ended up in their own Ghettos in poverty. However, these urban Indians such as the Mohawk Russell Oakes get personally involved in the take over of Alcatraz. The authors define well how the plans to take over landmarks comes about, the value of publicity and they bluntly
describe the failures in organization. The failures botch attempts to take Ellis Island and leave the Trail of Tears caravan virtually without shelter which inadvertently results in the take over of the BIA building. Unfortunately, the movement seems to falter with acts of vandalism, burning of a building in Custer, South Dakota and the destructiuon of buldings at the seige of Wounded knee and the unfortunate circumstance of kidnapping. The damage to property, reports of alchol abuse such as the get together in Warrenton, VA. undermines the movement in my mind. Thse acts seemed to diminish the goals of the Indian Movement although the authors make a point that even Martin Luther King could not control all the elements of his movement. Although the actions of AIM do obtian publicity and sympathy for their movement, the authors ironically note that their followers never materialize in large numbers. The book peaks with the reoccupation of Wounded Knee that succeeds as a great reminder of the mistreatment Indians in the past and invoking tribal rivalry between the current council President and AIM. In the finale, the authors note the failure of AIM to maintain itself after many of its leaders such as the charismatic Russell Means are put on trial or in some cases put in jail. The authors quote admirers and critics of the movement which is punctuated with the lack of concrete ideas that could translate to realistic acheivable goals and a lack of organization. Overall a very fascinating book that I wish spent more time on the transition of its main leaders to "Reborn Capatalists" (Banks)
and movie Stars (Means - Pochohontas and "the Last of the Mohicans). In addition, I wish the book provided more detail on the desires of reservation Indians, their problems and ideas for positive change. Very unfortunate that Clyde Warrior, one of the main leaders of the 60's rebirthing of an idealistic Indian movement, dies in the late 60's at the youthful age at 29. If he could have maintained his health and vision, his impact on AIM might have led to greater organization and acomplishments.

It was interesting to note that the authors refer to Sitting Bull as a Oglala Sioux when in fact he was a Hunkpapa Sioux (page 190).

I knew nothing about any of the events depicted in this book. They had been referenced in some other readings I had completed so I was seeking out more information. I felt this book was a great synopsis of the events of the Indian rights movement of the 60's and 70's. I was disappointed in the lack of information on Leonard Peltier and his situation. I wanted the book to continue for a few more years! I think it is sad that the general public has forgotten, so quickly, what occurred during this time. I was born in 1965 and I think once this movement was waning from the media, it was quickly forgotten by the majority of Americans, which is sad. I would recommend this book to anyone searching to understand the plight of the Native Americans today and the history of their search for freedom and the right to exist as they choose.

From 1961 to 1963, Nobel laureate Richard Feynman delivered a set of lectures to classes in basic physics. By design, the contents of the lectures were transcribed, with the goal being the creation of a set of materials that could be used worldwide in the teaching of physics. Unlike so many abstract scientists, Feynman was an excellent teacher, able to explain the principles by using everyday analogies and without appeal to advanced mathematics. This book is a collection of six of those lectures, chosen for their appeal to the general reader.
The titles and topics of the lectures are:

i) Atoms In Motion - an examination of the atomic theory of matter and how atoms react with each other.
ii) Basic physics - the history of physics before and after the discovery of quantum mechanics.
iii) The Relation of Physics to Other Sciences - how physics can be used to explain chemical, biological, geological and astronomical phenomena.
iv) Conservation of energy - the fundamental principle of conservation of energy, and how energy can change form.
v) The Theory of Gravitation - the development of the theory of gravity from Kepler to Einstein.
vi) Quantum behavior - an explanation of some simple thought experiments demonstrating the weirdness of quantum behavior.

Feynman is also honest with his audience in saying that in many cases, the mechanism is not known.
Since the lectures were delivered forty years ago, many advances have been made. However, they still remain an excellent introduction to the basic principles of physics and can be read and understood by anyone interested in how the universe functions. They can also still be used as primer material in a basic physics course.

Six Easy Pieces is an excellent introduction to one of today's most intriguing scientific fields. Feynman presents physics in a series of easily understandable lectures that are appealing to the layman, in that it presents theories and concepts through simple example. Despite the age of his work, much of what is taught and discussed in the book is still relevant and accepted in physics today.

The book centers on the basic principles and operations of the following topics:
1 - Atoms In Motion
2 - Basic Physics
3 - The Relation of Physics to Other Sciences
4 - Conservation of Energy
5 - The Theory of Gravitation
6 - Quantum Behavior

Within each topic lesser subtopics are addressed, more specifically subtopics that are rooted to or based in one of the overall topics. The teaching style exhibited by Feynman is well thought out and should appeal to the majority of readers. However, Six Easy Pieces is meant as an introduction for the layman and is not suggested for those already experienced in the field.

In closing, Six Easy Pieces is an excellent introduction to the topic of physics, however it is just that - an introduction. Therefore, it is highly recommended for the layman, but not for the physicist.

This book consists of what the editors consider to be six of the easier lessons from Richard Feynman's Lectures on Physics, a three volume work adapted from a series of freshman and sophomore level lectures given at Caltech in the 1960s. Each piece elegantly explains its intended topic without complicated or in depth mathematics. The reader will obtain the gist of the principles behind theses physical phenomena. Feynman whole heartedly admits to the limits of scientific knowledge of his time and in doing so very much dates his lectures. They nonetheless contain rich morsels of the knowledge of physics which will benefit the modern reader. This book is not intended to be an overview of physics. It assumes the reader has some basic education in some subjects, and a previous knowledge of elementary physics greatly helps to understand the pieces. More than anything, it is Feynman's style of teaching that is conveyed through the work's pages. The greatest joy in reading Six East Pieces is to experience Feynman's intuitive knowledge of physics and his subtly elegant conveyance of this topic.

Raw, lean, mean, a real grabber. Reminds me of Henry Miller at his best, of Bukowski & both Fantes: John and his son Dan. I recently read a short story collection entitled Working the Hard Side of the Street by Kirk Alex that contains that same type of raw, no holds barred way of writing. Hamsun lives on! Hunger is one of the best novels ever created by an author. I love this book.

A number of writers have written about the experience of being a starving artist. Off the top of my head, I can think of William Saroyan, George Orwell and Jack London. Back when I was a starving artist, I read them all. It was research. I had to know how to live, and what not to do. It was serious business.

I came upon Hunger by Hamsun in the stacks of the library where I went to art school. I loved the book because I was living it. I was so used to being hungry that I lived in a continual state of dizziness and visions. People were always asking me if I was anorexic but the truth was the work I found just didn't pay me enough to pay for rent, transportation, and food. The rent and transportation were constants, so I skimped on the food.

What struck me when I was reading all these writers -- Hamsun included -- is that these poverty-stricken writers were all eating steak. When they ate, they ate steak. So for them, either they could eat steak, or they couldn't eat at all.

And most of them only ate in restaurants. Hamsun's character only ate in restaurants. Unbelievable, his hair is falling out because he is starving, and his idea of a meal is eating steak in a restaurant.

What the hell kind of survival skill is this?

Hunger taught me to become a vegetarian and to learn to cook. I could live off a $.79 bag of lentils for two weeks. I lived off a Halloween pumpkin for another two weeks. When I was flush, dinner was a yam. I ate the parts of vegetables other people throw out. When you're hungry, you learn to be inventive. You learn to make do. You learn humility and patience and resourcefulness. You learn to put up with things that you would consider a real drag or beneath you when you were well-fed.

This is not something you see in the books. These guys are dying because they don't learn from their poverty. They're inflexible; they're dying because they can only feed themselves with their art, they can't take day jobs, they can't invent a way to make art and still eat.

Hamsun's book is a morality tale about inflexibility. I don't think he means it as that, but it's what I learned from it. Hamsun's Hunger changed my life. It taught me, you have to learn to invent, or you'll die. And learning to invent is what being an artist is all about.

Published in 1890, "Hunger" represents a breakthrough from traditional romantic European writing. Influenced by Dostoievsky and Nietszche, and anticipating Kafka, Joyce, and Camus, Hamsun creates a novel with intense personal (partially autobiographical) narration (using first and third person), developing on the theme of alienation and artistic obsession. It represents Hamsun'a masterpiece in his first literary production stage, in which social/political issues are of no concern, only the individual and his stream of consciousness.

It is a plot less novel, the setting is Christiana (now Oslo), and the main character is a starving, homeless young journalist, with a mercurial personality. His reactions have no middle term, he moves from extreme joy to acute depression, from arrogance to humility, on the verge of irrationality. It clearly reflects the author's early poverty, his pathological passion with aesthetical beauty, and an enormous driving force to perfect his concept that "language must resound with all the harmonies of music." "Hunger" anticipates Freud and Jung in their understanding of human nature, and creates a new literally hero, the alienated mind.

Of Norwegian nationality, Knut Hamsun won de the Nobel Price for Literature in 1920. In real life he was ostracized by his countrymen and the literary community as a result of his radical individualism, and political/social views. Yes, Hamsun was a convicted Nazi, friend of Hitler and Goebbels, an advocate of the "pure" race (Jews should be expelled from Europe, Blacks should be returned to Africa), and he applauded German invasion of Norway. Neddless to say, when WWII was over, he dearly paid the price: imprisonment, confiscation, and poverty. When he died at the age of 92 (1952) he showed no remorse and helf firmly to his beliefs.

The question arises: to what extent can we separate art from the artist, creation from the creator? Maybe another Nobel Laureate, Isaac Bashevis Singer, himself a Jew, can answer this question for us when he states: "the whole modern school of fiction in the twentieth century stems from Hamsun."

WAP is so similar to HTML that I found that this book, PLUS my knowledge of HTML coding, helped launch my abilities to develop in this language quickly and easily. I liked that the syntax is clearly explained and presented and there's LOTS of example code - which is the main thing I look for when getting a book like this. There's a great section for advanced web programmers which shows you how to integrate WML with ASP/JSP/ColdFusion. It's probably a good idea to learn some HTML before you dive into WAP, but this book did have some good asides to explain things for pure beginners, as well.

This book from Ben Forta is a real guide for beginners as well as a reference book for advanced users. I bought this book and Professional WAP from wrox both of them helped me to come out in flying colours in my bachelor degree thesis.

I am not a big fan of programming books in general, as I prefer to learn by doing. But I really liked this book because it gave me the foundation to go off and experiment with stuff on my own. Now I really understand what WAP is and what it can do, and think that this book "speeded up" my learning curve. Rather than spending a few days figuring out the basics, it only took a few hours for me a couple of hours playing before I had created a WAP interface to my personal web site. It's great for beginners, but also had some very useful advanced sections on Security, Push Notifications, and appendices on writing WML in CF, ASP, JSP, Perl, & PHP.

"India is a harsh mistress," Paul William Roberts admits in the amazing Empire of the Soul. "She seems to appreciate individual sacrifice so little. Yet she has never wanted for lovers." Roberts went searching for the "Truth" in India in the seventies and nineties, and instead discovered a land of paradox and extremes. His personal spiritual journey takes him to the ashrams and caves of holy men, the hippy community of Goa, and a millionaire drug dealer's hashish fields on India's border with China. Roberts pokes fun at "credit-card ascetics"--Westerners in Indian garb who look like they have American Express cards tucked away somewhere: "Don't renounce the world without it." Yet Oxford-educated Roberts himself spent a year following guru Sathya Sai Baba in Puttaparthi, who would become a lifelong influence. "Freaks look less freakish in India," Roberts writes. "Once you have seen a thousand naked sadhus running toward the Ganges River covered with ash from the cremation grounds, dreadlocks daubed with cow dung, nails driven through their tongues, you're hardly going to be upset about a guy with shoulder-length hair and a beard who wears beads and flower shirts." On the offbeat way he meets such figures as the fraudulent sex guru Bhagwan Rajneesh, George Harrison, Mother Teresa, and "The King of the Untouchables," who amassed a fortune doing a job no high-caste Brahmin would touch with a ten-foot pole: burning the corpses of the dead. Roberts rants fluently on topics ranging from the British Raj to the Vedic hymns. Whether in the slums of Calcutta or the crumbling palaces of maharajas, he turns his tragicomical eye inward to explore this religion-soaked realm. By turns hellish and divine, India is experienced for us by a modern literary mystic who has found his surrogate spiritual home; the reader is just along for the ride, but what a wild one it is. . . . --John M. Edwards

Roberts absolute tenacity regarding his subjects and complete dedication to every word he writes ensures readers feel themselves present in every encounter and experience. Availing himself full range of expression to write and live as cynic, mystic, adventurer, good friend, and seeker, Roberts takes us on strolls through the beautiful, humor-filled, and the bazarre. His concept of displaying in this work varying perspectives between two different trips to India that are seperated by decades of time as well as personal growth offers readers great awareness of the country and more so the man writing of it.

This is a unique book. Racy, interesting and yet profound in some ways. Being an Indian, I have always been fascinated by how non-Indians view India. This book did not disappoint.

It tells you vivid tales about spiritual India - many which even I dare not believe but can not dismiss either. Paul William Robert's account has a ring of sincerity and authenticity. Somehow we don't always realise what an interesting and unique place our country is. Things that we take to be ordinary, every-day happenings show up as unique through PWR's account. Is India really that strange?

The book is difficult to put down, if you are interested or puzzled by India. And if you were born in India but live abroad, consider buying it as a gift for your children. Trust me, they will not be disappointed. This book may not show the complete picture, but it does show a very important part of the picture. That too, with honesty and some sympathy.

I agree that the material is well presented and comprehensive but be aware that much of the derivation is first for bipolar circuits and only secondarily for CMOS, often with reference back to the development of the bipolar counterparts. So unless your interested in delving into bipolar circuits as well as CMOS you may prefer a text devoted to CMOS-only analog IC design.

This book goes into a lot of depth in the analysis and design of modern devices in Analog IC's. It does not assume anything and gives the reader insight on how all the models are derived (SPICE, HYBRID-PI etc). It goes into excellent detail for dealing with hand calculations which will give you a first order analysis of the circuit in question (with reasonable accuracy).

I got my original recommendation from other Amazon reviews (5-Star rating) and I whole-heartedly agree with them. If you are serious about Analog IC design, then this book is a MUST for you. It will not remain on your shelf, I promise!

If you are already familiar with the previous edition of this text, you'll love this edition. Paul Hurst and Steve Lewis have made significant contributions to the 4th Edition to expand the coverage of CMOS analog circuits with coverage of modern circuits used for bias reference circuits and op amps in this technology. An additional chapter was added that also covers the design of fully-differential op amps. The level of detail in intuitive explanation of circuit performance continues to make this book top-notch literature for this field of study. Another superb job by the Authors!

In a state of depression and desparation I felt an overwhelming urge to drive to [a bookstore] in search of help. I didn't even know what I was looking for. I did know my search would defintely begin in the "Self-help" section. I picked up several books on relationships and read the backs of them. The third one I picked up was "Love is a Choice", and when I read the back I started to cry. It was like divine intervention because I had only heard the term "codependent - I didn't know exactly what it meant and certainly didn't know that it applied to me. Boy, did it ever. This book was such an eye opener for me and truly has changed my life. I know I have a long way to go in the healing process (maybe a lifetime), but now I have hope and the power of knowledge on my side. The greatest (and most unexpected) benefit of reading this book was that it helped me to get to know God - someone I didn't think knew me or loved me. I am so thankful that this book was written, and that there are people with the knowledge, experience, and expertise out there willing to work hard to make a happy and healthy life a reality for so many of us. Thank you!

I can honestly say that this book changed my life. I first read a page of it during a boring sermon at church, at a time when my marriage was going downhill. It sucked me in so fast I couldn't put it down. It was a shocking experience to read my entire life story written by complete strangers . It has a very straightforward style, but I think it's also easy enough reading that a teenager could understand it. The mix of psychology and scripture was exactly what I needed, and I don't know if I could have accomplished effective healing without it. The book is effective alone or in a group setting. My church even used it in place of a Sabbath School class: While everyone else was in groups studying Daniel and Revelation, I was in a group studying codependancy from a biblical perspective. I would also recommend this book to pastors looking to meet the emotional needs of their congregation.

This stellar book has helped me discover the cause of most of my problems. Now, I'm on the road to recovery. At first I read it for a thesis paper dealing with compulsive behaviors (which it is extremely helpful for), then I read it for myself! It changed me; it's the best!