This book contains essays about the most important post-colonial writers. While people looking for a short introduction should look somewhere else, this book is ideal for those with a detailed interest in the subject.

Every man ponders. Every man reaches toward it. Few ever really find peace in a clear answer. This delightful meander through one man's search for understanding takes you on a fascinating adventure through time. Mike's quest has been paralleled in many lifetime's, each one leaving the final question not quite deciphered. As the incarnations each meet their unique set of challenges in different settings, the timeless nature of the underlying needs and emotions emerge. Losely tied together in the netherland between awakening and sleep, the Universal Wisdom moves Mike toward his answer. Acceptance of what is put before you. It is the journey and not the destination. Life's Loves are perfect in the moment of their flowering but etherial when one trys to hold them in a firm and permanent grip. Ross's grasp of the universal experience touches strings most men will readily identify with.

As a chinese who is not capable of fast-reading, I appreciate that the authors make it comfortale to read and loss no details. I like the sections of menstrual cycle, vaginal infecion, and genital neoplasms. Compared to the Novak's, the Kistner's is easier and I say -more sensible- to readers.

I walked in the footsteps of William Wallace and Robert the Bruce during my visit to Scotland in 1996. I sure wish I had David Ross's book at that time; I would have known of more places to visit. This is a fine book about the history of the Bruce and Scotland's war for independence written, not from a historian, but from a Scot himself.

The book has maps pinpointing the areas discussed in the narrative as well as great illustrations of those places written.

Wallace started the ball rolling for Scotland's independence, but the Bruce wrapped things up. Even if you don't visit Scotland this is a great book to add to your collection.

Who are the seminal figures in twentieth-century art history that have changed the way we think about the relationship between art and history? Most lists would surely include social historians of art such as T. J. Clark and Griselda Pollock, but how many would include the American art historian Michael Fried? The exclusion of Fried would be a grave mistake, if an understandable one. It is understandable because there is still a tendency in art history to divide the discipline into two camps: those who connect art to its historical circumstances as symptom, expression, or reflection of the times (Arnold Hauser et al. ) and those who see art as an autonomous realm (Heinrich Wölfflin, Clement Greenberg, etc.). Fried is usually aligned with the latter group, characterised as formalists in opposition to the historians.

No doubt this misalignment accounts for the fact that there has been no major study of his work or its contribution to the discipline of art history. Art historians routinely read Fried's work through his seminal essay on minimalism of 1967 "Art and Objecthood" as if this essay holds the key to his particular brand of Greenbergian formalism. When this essay is used to disparage Fried's project, the argument goes something like this: the anti-theatrical tendency in art he praises there (the denial of the spectator, as against art that stages or theatricalises spectatorship) is simply a formal connivance, akin to Greenberg's will to flatness, which he imposes on earlier art in order to justify his taste in modern art. His historical trilogy, Absorption and Theatricality: Painting and Beholder in the Age of Diderot, Courbet's Realism, and Manet's Modernism, or, the Face of Painting in the 1860s, is then read against the grain as unhistorical speculation rather than a careful tracing of the fate of the anti-theatrical project in French painting. The historical grounding of his interrogation of spectatorship is thereby missed.

But academic times have changed; with the so called 'visual turn' in the humanities, and the concomitant interest in theories and histories of vision, Fried's project is ripe for reevaluation. This challenge is taken up by Refracting Vision, the first in depth analysis of his work by three Australian scholars: Jill Beaulieu, Mary Roberts and Toni Ross.

This anthology of essays complicates the polarisation of the art historical field into two camps. For that reason alone, it is essential reading for all art historians who are interested in the theoretical and methodological basis of their discipline. And shouldn't that mean everyone in any case? The collection also does much more than this: it contextualises Fried's practice, draws out some of his more recondite terms and themes, and takes his work into areas that he could never have anticipated. Very highly recommended!

This book allows the reader to understand the processes that take place not only in the animal cell but also in the vegetables, which makes it really interesting for people devoted to Plant Science. It's easy to understand and the graphics are really helpful.

don't buy any bob ross products, he's a crook and a bandit

I just wanted to say that I started watching Bob Ross on tv and got interested in the wet-on-wet technique around 1990 or 91. I sent for paints and some of his books. How anyone can ever say anything against this man , is beyond me. I even miss his little squirrel! I haven't painted for about seven years now. I'am retired and have the time now. I live in West Virginia, moved from Ohio. This is beautiful country here. I'am sure getting the urge to start back in painting. I need to get new supplies. Please send me a catalog. Paul Sensabaugh P.O. Box 6, Wva. 25123.

Bob Ross lives through his paintings. You can't beat the price of this many paintings in one book! Both professional & non-professional use his techniques & patterns to continue Bob's legacy in oil!

When a book is entitled "Wheatgrass: Natures Finest Medicine" you expect the author to be enthusiastic about wheatgrass, but this book goes beyond enthusiasm and into cultishness. Other than a few tables of nutritional information, there is little factual information about wheatgrass. Nutrition isn't even discussed until the fifth chapter - after chapters extolling the great leaders of the wheatgrass movement and promoting the spiritual value of consuming wheatgrass, including comments about revitalizing your cosmic cell consciousness, and how Jesus (as recorded in secret gospels) encouraged his disciples to chew grass. Then there are the many true life stories of miraculous healings from cancer and spiritual awakenings obtained by eating wheatgrass, not to mention a lengthy promotion of various health and spiritual renewal sanctuaries and resorts. It may well be true that wheatgrass is a wonderful health food, but this book contains so much hype that even what substance there is becomes suspect.

It's hard to know what to say about this book. It includes research abstracts and practical advice about incorporating wheat grass juice into your diet, but it comes close to attributing mystical properties to wheat grass, which seems to me to be a little over the top. If you are thinking of buying this book, it is probably because you or someone close to you has cancer or some other serious health problem. If you want to add wheat grass juice to a good nutrition plan and good medical care, this book will be helpful. If you are looking for a magic bullet or a miracle cure, this book might convince you that you've found it.

Dear Steve, Thank you for writing this wonderfully informative and well researched book. The title is inspirational and the content educational. We were fascinated by the history section. My husband and I have both benefited so much from taking our precious "green gold" that we are committed to telling others about wheat grass and your book. We are sharing the information by loaning copies of your book to people who are part of our lives(we bought 40 copies). Your keen interest, knowledge and enthusiasm for the use of wheat grass to maintain health and prevent disease as well as it's therapeutic benefits is evident to the reader. Would you consider a sequel?

Although I enjoyed Roberts's previous book in this genre (Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun), I found this book tedious and disjointed. The sorry retelling of some Star Trek episode in each chapter seemed flat and the lessons drawn from it arbitrary.

This is one of those books that strikes someone as a good idea -- and maybe it is. But the implementation is lacking. Maybe "Perseverance" and "Judgment" will be chapter titles in some future tome.

Annoying, but not fatal, is the complete lack of understanding of military organization and language by the authors. There is only one commanding officer on a vessel; Riker is no one's commanding officer. Particulary egregious is the "Make it so" that comes at the end of each chapter:

Indeed, competence is a force mulitplier. Make it so.

Indeed, the sky is blue. Make it so.

Even if your not a frequent follower of the Star Trek series, the lessons throughout this book are very relevant to the leadership characteristics of a successful business. In short, you've hired people to do a job, let them do the job.

"Make it So -- Leadership Lessons From Star Trek--The Next Generation" is a delightful way to interject wit and wisdom into a normally dull subject. Taking sound principles of leadership and telling of their importance through the medium of "Star Trek" is a refreshing change from the usual manuals and guides on leadership. The authors,Wess Roberts and Bill Ross, have done a very good job of combining sound leadership principles with the story lines of favorite "Star Trek--The Next Generation" episodes and made leadership principles available to any and all readers. It does not matter whether you are a avid fan of the series, Star Trek in general, or a reader just looking for good advice, this book will deliver what you seek. I have recommended this book to my corporate learning center as required reading for their leadership seminars, it is that good. Whether you are in a leadership position at home, in industry, church, political or social world, there is something in this book for you.

First off, the dialogue is atrocious. This is not a period piece; however, Ross insists on making his characters sound like they are straight out of the 19th century. "It's been a long time since anything I've seen frightened me so." Ross needs to spend some time in the local diner honing his ear to realistic dialogue.

Second, the plot "twists" are too predictable. No surprises here.

Third, the characterizations are annoying. None of the main characters are worth caring about. The heroine is whiny and you just can't shake the feeling that if you met her, you'd smack her and tell her to act like a self-sufficient adult and not a dependent 5 year old.

Her husband fares no better. While Ross tries to make Russell appear as a gentle, tormented child turned brooding adult; Russell simply comes across as a weak-minded, self-centered jerk.

The only redeemable character is 98 year old Aunt Cecilia who isn't in the book nearly as often as she should be. The rest of the characters you hope will just be put out of their misery-and yours.

Save your money.

I love the genre, so I am a little biased. It was fast, enjoyable read that I couldn't put down. I loved the setting and the plot ideas. True, it wasn't believable, but that is the nature of the gothic novel. I enjoyed the dramatic dialogue and I really like the ghosts.

But, I do have a couple of complaints. The plot was way to predictable. I kept turning the pages waiting for the twist, but I already knew all the secrets pretty much from the first third of the book. This didn't stop me from enjoying it though.

And the female character, Kate, really wasn't all that loveable.

To sum it up, if you love gothic ghost stories, it is a must read, but it is not the very best I have read.

Ever since Kate was a little girl, she saw ghosts but her parents never believed her and she finally learned to say nothing about the spirits who drifted in and out of her life.
When Russell came into the video store in New York City, it was a case of love at first sight. They married three months after they met but she never told him about her ghosts and he remained silent about his first wife.

Russell's twin sister Rosalind convinces him to move back to the family home in Wrightsbridge, Connecticut. When he broaches the plan to Kate, she eagerly agrees thinking that she will finally have a chance to write her novel. From the time they enter the door of Russell's ancestral home, he becomes distant and moody, a stranger to Kate. She believes the ghosts that inhabit the place are playing tricks with their minds. She intends to exorcise them, not realizing how powerful they are and that they mean her harm.

WHEN DARKNESS LIVES is a good old-fashioned gothic ghost story that is very scary. The audience really doesn't know if it is the ghosts or a human presence that is trying to hurt Kate. That makes the finale all the more satisfying. Robert Ross is the latest rising star in the horror galaxy. Bentley Little fans are going to love this book.

Harriet Klausner