It is not often one can read of the intermingling of cultures so successfully combined as in Eva Wilber-Cruce's work. It is remarkable for its objectivity, its vivacity, and as a lesson of how best to get along with one's neighbors. Eva's recollections as a child and woman are remarkable and is a person easily taken to one's heart. Her considerable life is a valise which contains a portfolio of memories of the most meaningful sort. I would compare her book with Mari Sandoz' Old Jules; both about frontier life, one in the SW, the other in Nebraska. The reader has the added benefit of increasing his or her Spanish vocabulary that reflects the lifestyle in which Eva was raised. Beautifully written. An added plus for me was the reference to Archbishop Salpointe who was the heir to "Lamy of Sante Fe." It's a treat when a book ties in with another source written by a respected historical author like Paul Horgan.

Eva Wilbur-Cruce describes memories as far back as when she was three, and captures the wild yet captivating valleys of the Arizona/Mexico border, painting word pictures of Mexican ranchers, Tohono O'odham Indians and many other cultures intermingling. It is a story of how to live life to the fullest, as she learned it from nature, her family and those around her. She has learned well what the beautiful cruel country has to teach and she passes it on through artistic imagery.

The Maternity Center Association 1940 classic photographic reproductions of Robert Latou Dickinson, MD, and Abram Belskie's famous sculptures are a great teaching aid for anyone in the childbirth profession.

The 5th edition of the Birth Atlas was donated to the Skills Lab at the Medical Campus, University of Pretoria. Since it appears to be very old and unique I would like to know the date of this publication. I would appreciate it very much if you could let me know. Thank you Dr Ina Treadwell

I have this book and I love it. You are given a glimpse of the New York art scene in the 1960's and get a feeling of what it must have been like during that exciting period. In fact, it's a little scary to imagine being around during that time, kind of overwhelming. Conceptual art, pop art, Andy Warhol, the whole psychedelic hippie scene. But oddly still a man's world, for all the miniskirts and 'free love' hype. Her contemporaries were pretty much all men, and the women tended to be more like sidekicks and dilettantes. (Not to take anything away from male artists, that's just the way it was at the time.) The end of Eva's marriage, to another artist, seems almost a given once she really started to come into her own right. It must have been kind of lonely, men were probably threatened by the idea of a female artist, or maybe it was just that she didn't have time to find the right person in her short life. Also, at the time there was much less awareness of toxicity in art materials both traditional and non-traditional. I have to admit I'm fascinated by the romance of this heroic figure producing art despite the cost to her personal life and health. I don't see her as a martyr but as a brave pioneer who left us with beautiful art. Many of Eva Hess's sculptures were made using ephemeral materials but this book has pictures of them when they were new. Even if the actual sculptures don't survive, the image of them will somehow continue to survive, maybe with the help of virutal reality technology? Anyway, thank you Lucy Lippard for this informative book packed with pictures and info about Eva!

Featured are reproductions even of artworks which no longer exist, and Lippard's commentary is always to the point. I don't dwell on the fact that Eva Hesse died young -- in fact, I'm not interested in the cult of personality which in my view only obscures the works themselves. But in at least three directions Hesse has given me plenty to think about and purely enjoy, and this book documents everything... maybe it slights the drawings a bit, but there's another book out there with nothing but drawings, drawings galore. The implications of what Hesse accomplished remain "mindblowing." Anyone who has only heard about her or seen one or two works needs to see what they've missed.

Linda McCarriston's book, Eva-Mary, is a horrifying account of family abuse and the refusal of those in power to halt the molestation and beatings. It is a powerful work to use with teenagers or adults when introducing poetry books as *books*, not just collections. Tales of child abuse and family abuse never cease to horrify, but by themselves, they would not be a fine work of art, which is what this book is. Ms. McCarriston designed it as both a circle, with the same poem in the front and the back, and a line of progression, as the poet ages and grows away from abuse. We know that abuse is circular in nature, learned from family members. In Eva-Mary, the circle is broken by the poet and her brother; the poet chooses to reinvent herself. Poetry becomes an integral part of breaking that circle. This book manages to hold both the present ugliness of abuse, and the possibilities of survival. She offers different types of survival -- I think we are lucky she chose poetry. I have read this book over and over, and do not tire of it.

Too easy to call this book confessional or post-confessional, labels which too often have reduced its predecessors (I'm thinking especially of Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton) to stereotypes of hysteria. The reduction was wrong there; it would be wrong here too. What *is* here is a calling to account of the social structures that continue to permit husbands and fathers to exercise the "rule of thumb" -- that's the rule whereby men could beat wives with sticks so long as they did not exceed the thickness of a man's thumb -- and the rule of the body's force. There are also poems of redemption, the poet purchasing herself out of the role of victim and into the role of full freedom and joy. This volume was winner of the 1991 Terrence Des Pres Prize and a finalist for 1991 National Book Award. McCarriston teaches at University of Alaska Anchorage, where I was privileged to be her student.

I've always been an admirer of Eva Duarte de Peron (Evita), I had been looking for this book for ages until one day I stumbled upon it in Spain, some 6 years ago, it was the last copy available and I had to have it.
La Razon de Mi vida or My Mission in Life as it was translated into english, was meant to be an autobiography of perhaps the strongest and most influential woman of the XX century, many strong women have come and go but none have left such lasting impression like Evita has, perhaps the other one would be her alter ego in a movie, Madonna.
The book doesn't tell us anything about her origins but it does tell us where she wants to go, it's a true insight of her vision, her leadership and the strong love and devotion she felt for her husband.
It is more of a political and love statement than anything else, it's the pure and raw Evita, this is her essence and what made her who she was and who she is.

Not a lot of books give you a true insight of a person's life. There's no better way to really get to know a person if you don't see it from their own point of view. Nobody knows Evita better than her. This book is excellent it will make you read it over and over and never get tired of it. I recommended to you greatly!

Both sides of my family are Hungarian and I grew up
having most of the these dishes as a child.

The only way I ever knew the recipes was by calling
my Mom or my Grandma, a province away, to ask what I
needed to complete a dish I relished as a child.

What a pleasant surprise to find a cookbook that had
everything I ever remembered. Some of the recipes
are identical to ones I have scratched down on pieces
of scrap paper

Thank you to the author for such an easy book to follow.

Hungarian Cookery has a special place in my heart, as I am of Hungarian ancestry. While there on the market a number of legacy recipe collections that are quite good, Eva's fills a different need.

Born in Hungary, she now lives in Canada. She and her husband John travel back regularly and her recipes are more correctly a blend of both traditional methods and current Hungarian cooking. I have tried a number of her recipes and they always work. I recommend her Langos, Roast Pork stuffed with Sausage (sometimes referred to as "in the manner of Debrecen"), and her Mock Venison. This is a worthwhile addition to any collection of Hungarian cookbooks. It is also an excellent value.

Eva's Story is another powerful tale coming to us from the Holocaust. Eva Schloss was the step sister of Anne Frank (her mother married Anne Franks father after the war). Her story parallels the story of Anne Frank in many ways: both were young girls in Amsterdam, both went into hidding, both were betrayed, and both were transported east to Auschwitz. The only difference is that Eva Schloss somehow survived. If one wonders what would have happened to Anne Frank if only she had lived, the answer is in Eva's Story. The book is powerful, well written, and easy to read. It includes 16 pages of photographs as well as comments marking the major events of the war. The last pages of the book carry her story up to 1984. The book is another powerful contribution to history and survival.

They say it is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness and Eva's Story does just that. Out of the ashes of Auschwitz comes this remarkable testament to the healing power of love triumphing over hatred. Eva's family, like Anne Frank's, were German-speaking Jews who sought refuge in Amsterdam and went into hiding until they were betrayed and sent to Auschwitz in May, 1944. Eva and her mother, Fritzi, survived against incredible odds; her highly intelligent father, Erich, and talented brother, Heinz, did not, though their visual diaries -- the paintings they created while in hiding--did. Some of these are reproduced in the book and help the reader see the Holocaust from a different perspective than Anne Frank's writings. Eva and Fritzi's accessible and compelling narrative of their ordeal is rich with examples of how a mother's love for her daughter saved both their lives. For example, upon their arrival at the selection platform at Auschwitz, Fritzi told Eva to put on a heavy coat and hat which made her seem older than fifteen, saving her from the gas chamber. Eva's father had taught her never to succumb to fear, a principle that allowed her to find a way to save her mother when Fritzi, starving and sick, was selected for death. Today, Eva continues to fight against racial discrimination and persecution by touring Europe and America with the play, "And Then They Came For Me," based on her experiences and those of Ed Silverberg, Anne's first boyfriend. Highly recommended for teachers and students of literature of the Holocaust!

Amy Swerdlow's review leaves little to say about this wonderful book. Kollisch's simple and direct writing snuck up on me. Without knowing it was happening, by the time I got to the end of the book I was completely captivated by this young woman and her world. I had experienced it all and knew her well: her adolescent yearning for connection bumping up against her need to be true in her personal relationships to her vision of a better world; her place in the history of urban America and one passionate approach to the quest for justice for immigrants and workers.

This memoir of a young woman's courageous search for a theory and a practice of achieving world justice and personal liberation is a moving coming of age adventure story, as well as a delightful and profound contribution to radical and woman's history. The author is,in the late 1930s a teenage refugee from fascist Vienna, a lonely high school student living with her parents on provncial and conservative Staten Island. She discovers a radical socialist sect in her community that speaks to her utopian vision and her need for friendship. She eventualy beomes involved on the highest levels of "the movement, but finds that its fundamentalism violates her need for freedom of thought and life. Kollisch's touching and complex relations with her fellow workers in a Detroit truck factory where she is sent by "the Party" to recruit workers for the imminent socialist revolution,and her wry depictions of the debates, contradictions and cross purposes exhibited at party conventions as well as her observations on love, sex and gender, of which there are many, is narrated with a true ear for the humorous, the authentic and the meretricious. Amy Swerdlow, Sarah Lawrence College Emerita

This summer I spent three weeks in France and I was quite surprised upon encountering a squat toilet. I was expecting to see the occasional bidet but a squat toilet? As it turns out they're very common in parts of the country, including new modern ones with infrared sensors for the flush (better be quick or you'll be wet!). I sure could have used a guide like this before then, and I'm delighted to have finally found one. There's also a nice chapter on bath facilities -- including some of the odder units I've had to figure out in various countries.

I highly recommend this book for the world traveller, even if you're just going to Europe. You may be surprised at how useful it is!

Eva Newman managed to answer all of my questions about "going abroad". She provides practical information in an easy-to-read format that includes serious discussion about health issues and graphic illustrations of topics as well as anecdotal information from travelers all over the world. This one will go on my gift list for those just starting to get out into the world.

It's hard to say something about this wonderful book without sounding pompous. Generally, I try to avoid terms like 'classic' and 'essential', but they keep coming to mind.

The original was written in the mid 1930s. As Klein writes in this version's preface, "This study was originally written and published in Germany during rather turbulent times."

The late Jacob Klein spent his post war years teaching Platonic philosophy at St. John's College. There, he was known as something of a lovable elitist. Professors tell a story about Klein being partial to the number 12. He claimed that there were an exclusive 12 philosophers, 7 Greek and 5 German. The word got out and he soon received a letter from 4,000 American philosophers begging to differ with his opinion.

While many might call this book 'philosophy of math,' I doubt Dr. Klein would agree. The book is without much in the way of serious math. It is more concerned with the symbols of math and how they are used. Quoting from the first paragraph of the introduction:

"Creation of a formal mathematical language was of decisive significance for the constitution of modern mathematical physics. If the mathematical presentation is regarded as a mere device, preferred only because the insights of natural science can be expressed by "symbols" in the simplest and most exact manner possible, the meaning of the symbolism as well as of the special methods of the physical disciplines in general will be misunderstood. True, in the seventeenth and eighteenth century it was still possible to' express and communicate discoveries concerning the "natural" relations of objects in non mathematical terms, yet even then -or, rather, particularly then - it was precisely the mathematical form, the mos geometricus, which secured their dependability and trustworthiness. After three centuries of intensive development, it has finally become impossible to separate the content of mathematical physics from its form. The fact that elementary presentations of physical science which are to a certain degree nonmathematical and appear quite free of presuppositions in their derivations of fundamental concepts (having recourse, throughout, to immediate "Intuition") are still in vogue should not deceive us about the fact that it is impossible, and has always been impossible, to grasp the meaning of what we nowadays call physics independently of its mathematical form. Thence arise the insurmountable difficulties in which discussions of modern physical theories become entangled as soon as physicist or nonphysicists attempt to disregard the mathematical apparatus and to present the results of scientific research in popular form. The intimate connection of the formal mathematical language with the content of mathematical physics stems from the special kind of conceptualization which is a concomitant of modern science and which was of fundamental importance in its formation."

While this iconoclastic promise is a bit difficult to extract from the somewhat professional philosophic prose, there is a wonderful essay in "Biographies of Scientific Objects," edited by Lorraine Daston that serves as an excellent commentary. The essay called "Mathematical Entities in Scientific Discourse" credits Klein with a new perspective from which to interpret the transition of ancient and medieval traditions to the new mathematical physics of the seventeenth century. His was the seemingly narrow-but only deceptively so-perspective of the ancient concept of "arithmos", compared to the concept of number in its modern, symbolic sense. In Klein's own words, the underlying thematics of the book never loses sight of the "general transformation, closely connected with the symbolic understanding of number, of the scientific consciousness of later centuries."

Although the Greek conceptualization of mathematical objects was indeed based upon the notion of arithmos, this notion should not be thought of as a concept of "general magnitude." It never means anything other than "a definite number of definite objects," or an "assemblage of things counted". Likewise, geometric figures and curves, commensurable and incommensurable magnitudes, ratios, have their own special ontology which directs mathematical inquiry and its methods.

In contradistinction to Greek parlance, "general magnitude," according to Klein, is clearly a modern concept. Proving this case is the project of both books.

I think you will find reading this material an interesting journey.

Klein's work examines the generally unsuspected foundations of modern algebraic mathematics. He charts the development of a new kind of intentionality which lies at the heart of modern mathematical practice, with an explicit affirmation that this mode of intentionality is exemplary for all of modern thought. Beginning from the classical foundations of mathematics, he follows the subject carefully through every turn of ideation until he has completed his thesis. On the basis of this thorough-going evaluation and exegesis of mathematical thought, he identifies Francois Viete as the true founder of this modern symbolic intentionality. But he does not rest with this, proceeding to show how Descartes, Stevin, and Wallis each draw out of this foundation conclusions which are familiar to the modern thinker. This reader knows of no other work of this kind that has so deeply penetrated the foundations of what we call modernity.