I had the pleasure of having the editor of this book, Dr. Liebler, for a class of Shakespeare tragedies/romances and a class of Shakespeare on film at Montclair State University. She is truly a gifted individual and a genius. She opened my eyes to many things in Renaissance literature and Shakespeare in particular that I'd never heard anyone else talking about before. She's a living Renaissance/Shakespeare encyclopedia with tremendous wit. I highly recommend her previous book that she authored, not just compiled and edited, 'Shakespeare's Festive Tragedy: The Ritual Foundations of Genre'.

As For this current volume, she mentioned briefly what the goal of this current book was to be in the class and her hopes to shed new light on women in Renaissance plays and how they're not just victims or unimportant compared to the males, but that they're as important as their male counterparts in a lot of plays. Dr. Liebler did an admirable job of selecting and editing the essays in this volume to detail and outline this new line of thinking about the plays looked at in the book.

So pick up this book, the book she edited with John Drakakis, 'Tragedy', which contains essays about the tragedy genre from different theoretical standpoints, and of course her own brilliant book 'Shakespeare's Festive Tragedy: The Ritual Foundations of Genre'. And if you're in New Jersey try to take a class with her at Montclair State University if you love Shakespeare because if you found those plays brilliant before, you'll be brought up to a whole new level of admiration for them. Though don't hope to get to the romances unfortunately; since she has so much to say on the tragedies a semester goes by too fast.

I wish she'd write another book of the new ideas she was starting to formulate and talked about in class in the fall of 2001. Either that or I'll have to go back to grad school there to see what new insights she has had in the last couple of years.

This book is an excellent collection of essays from both disciplines. There is a wide range of topics and view points.

Beautifully written stories about women in the Shtetel. Devora Baron touches on the subjects closest to our hearts: birth, death, marriage and divorce. She weaves a beautiful tapestry of Jewish tradition and the milestones of life. All of this is told throught the sensitive eyes of a young girl, the daughter of the town's rabbi. These stories are like fine wine, to be savored and enjoyed, sip by sip, again and again.

A few billion years after the Big Bang, a giant star ends its life in a spectacular explosion. In a fraction of a second, it releases more energy than an average star would in a 10 billion year lifetime, including tremendous gamma ray bursts traveling out at the speed of light. These gamma rays radiate out in all directions - some in the direction where the Milky Way galaxy will be born in a few hundred million years. By the time the first of these gamma ray photons have traveled half the distance to this new galaxy, our Sun is born with the Earth following some half a billion years later. Still these gamma rays are continuing on their journey. By the time they reach our Local Supercluster, dinosaurs are ruling the Earth. When they finally reach the outskirts of the Milky Way, the dinosaurs are long gone and the first human predecessors are walking on Earth. As these gamma ray photons approach the Pleiades, Galileo is looking through the first telescope. As they reach Alpha Centauri, a rocket is being launched from Cape Kennedy carrying a military satellite with a gamma ray detector on board. Four years later these gamma rays have completed their 10 billion year journey on July 2, 1967 and are detected by this satellite!
So begins the race to study these mysterious sources of intense gamma radiation and determine their origins. This is what "Flash" is all about. It documents the people who have devoted their lives since 1967 to understand the most powerful explosions in the universe, second only to the Big Bang itself, gamma ray burst. This is a very up-to-date and exciting book with a lot of the human side of scientific investigation described as well as a fair amount of good scientific information. I particularly liked chapter eleven, which has a beautifully written description of stellar evolution. This is a fascinating book on a relatively new phenomenon in this elegant universe in which we are such a small part. You are sure to want to learn more about these awesome sources of power after reading this book. You might want to get the video "Death Star" from PBS, which chronicles gamma ray burst in a way similar to this book.

This book was wonderful for the tangible reality of the characters. Even though most of the characters could be described as the forgotten failures in life, they seem so real and remind you so much of yourself that you want them to succeed.

This book will prove itself to be a valuable tool in guiding you to finding why you do what you do. How to locate your inner strengths and how to use them.

Alive with biblical flavors and aromas, The Good Book Cookbook provides authentic recipes for the foods, meals and feasts mentioned in the Old & New Testament. Besides a beautiful gift, TGBC is an intelligent book for Bible study classes and Sunday schools. Use the receipes to prepare an original Chuch Supper such as Jesus would have dines. Excellent.

This is a wonderful book to educate your child about farm animals. The flaps are large (about half of the size of the page) and are lifted to reveal a farm animal. The book is also nicely illustrated.

Intended for young people, this book is fascinating and informative for both students and adults. Wakan gives historical and cultural background about haiku, and explains things to the reader that other writers about haiku take for granted, and sometimes neglect. She explains traditional rules and devices--and their exceptions--one at a time, in an interesting, progressive format. I use Haiku: One Breath Poetry in my teaching, and for my own writing development.

Originally compiled by the Science and Technology Department of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, and now in a thoroughly revised and substantially expanded "Centennial Edition" collaboratively edited by James E. Bobick and Naomi E. Balaban, The Handy Science Answer Book is an impressive, 660-page compendium of easy-to-understand definitions and explanations, and is packed from cover to cover with answers to common questions and puzzles relating to a wide variety of scientific and technological fields. From how fiber-optic cable works, to why the Hindenburg exploded, to the average weight of the human brain, to why golf balls have dimples, to how many bees are there in a bee colony, to why leaves change color in the fall, The Handy Science Answer Book entries are arranged in seventeen broad categories and is very highly recommended for family, school, and community library collections as an outstanding, "user friendly", educational, enlightened and enlightening science reference resource for readers of all ages.