From the acrid deserts of Morrocan 'Kif' to the Himalayan valleys of lush 'Temple Ball' fields, we are taken on a historical and cultural tour of Morrocan, Lebanese, Afghanistan and Nepalese hashish production and general village life. Cherniak captures the simplicity of the people, while also captivating his audience with a highly pictorial content. Most interesting......

Learning isn't always easy or fun. This is an important book and one that people should read if they are seriously interested in the classical Roman world. You need to understand the social aspect of history as well as the fun stuff. Reading about wars, political rivalry, gladiators, legions, emperors, and the adventures of ancient Rome can be a lot of fun and can teach you a lot. However, if you are serious you have to read the boring stuff as well and this book covers that. I needed to know more about the life course of every day Romans and purchased this book to tell me about it. The book does the job, but it is an extremely boring read. The book covers everything from birth to death for both men and women. It covers how women were treated as children, young adults, wives, and finally mothers. The male side is a little more complicated and the book goes into detail of a boy's childhood and then young adult and joining the military, possibly a political career and marrying and divorcing several times for political reasons. There are some good examples of depicting the life course in Roman art that are in the book. Also, the authors have scientifically examined evidence on ageing and at what age they moved from one life course to another (i.e. young adult to senator or praetor). They have graphs explaining probability of survival at birth. There is a useful appendix as well showing the various ages at which different classes of people moved from child, adult, parent, and grandparent. I enjoyed the authors take on being old in Rome. Old people were looked down upon as no longer mattering when it came to politics or a social life. They were expected to just stay home and live out the rest of their years quietly. Cicero married a very young woman at a very old age and this was looked down upon as well. An old man marrying for love was something to be made fun of because people married more for money and political alliances versus love. In this case Cicero did marry for money because he needed to pay debts, but the marriage only lasted a year. As I said earlier the book does a good job of explaining the life course, but falls short of being entertaining, but learning isn't always fun.

This is an interesting read, and certainly stands out amongst recent attempts to get clear about Heidegger's religious proclivities (or lack thereof). The author judiciously treats some of the most important parts of Heidegger's work, and does much to illuminate Heidegger's position on matters theological.

While the book has a clear thesis - one looses touch with it during the course of the discussion. In the end, it seems like this is really a book about the author, Marion, and Derrida, rather than a piece of Heidegger scholarship.

I think this book is interesting, because it shows how a rustic girl could become a buisness girl in tokyo .She wanted absolutly get around the obstacles (tradition, way-life of japan girl, her father . . .), and fallowing Japan evolution in the modernity, she improve herself ;But if she lives now in a certainly modernity (occidentalisation), this is may be thanks to the Gods, which are indissociables of the japaneese life .

I had high hopes for this book.

It had been recommended to me by a former creative director, and it seemed promising. Unfortunately, the author is of the old-school marker-render and waxer era. Some of the ideas are timeless, of course, but he makes a comment about computers.... something to the effect of "it will be interesting to see how they affect this industry". The book was first published in 91.

Much of it is teaching you how to be the "director" portion of an art director, rather than the "art" portion. That's fine enough, as there are perhaps thousands of books to teach you how to be creative. This one teaches you to manage schedules, people, hiring and firing, as well as landing a job.

To someone who has no experience in this area (I.E. a designer who has done no AD duties at all) it would be a very valuable reference. But I highly recommend that the author (if he is still living) revise it.

For instance, he lays out a production scheule in the book that still relates to marker-rendered comps and mechanicals. This is clearly of his generation, but the odds favor the fact that anyone just becoming an art director NOW has never used those things. Few agencies have in-house keylining departments, for instance, so there is no need to discuss a good place to keep a waxer. Every agency has computers for nearly every stage of the design process, including scheduling and time-management software. Many of his checklists, therefore, are outdated and would probably serve to further confuse a new AD.

In addition, the job market must have been very different in 91, as he mentions that its an "employer's market." Currently, in 2000, the tables are turned, for the most part. He lists a few sample salaries for a beginning AD (try 20k? -- which sounds low to me even for 91). If I didn't know better, I'd probably try a different career after reading that. For reference, in case you don't know, it should be more like 45k - 75k for a beginning AD, depending on the market and the agency.

And to get really picky, he uses too many quotes from famous people (sometimes 3 or more in a row), as well as quoting the Bible heavily. Combined with the relatively large type used, it seems like this was perhaps a way to pad out the book. He also makes one of the classic mistakes of considering his hometown to be the center of the universe (in his case Philadelphia) and makes a few local references which everyone's supposed to get.

As the years go by, and the farther away from the publication date we get, this book loses some of its effectiveness and relevance. It has some very helpful suggestions, and as I mentioned earlier, some of this information is timeless. A re-write would be a very valuable book indeed. Unfortunately, as it stands this one its't as effective as I'd hoped.

I recommend it, but not strongly.

yet another broad look at jefferson, from political career, near-romantic encounters, family life, friends & correspondences. the writing is crystal clear & fast-paced. you get a snippet of tj's sharp epistolary hand. no huge controversies being discussed here altho i think there were some defenses made for the slavery issue. pick up this book. it's one of the better ones for introducing yourself to tj. good b&w photos of his favorite haunts & some skeletons in the closet.

Terribly, terribly sad. The lamp becomes the framework, the stage for this story. There is the feeling of coming full circle, and of defeat; resignation. There is a certain desperation in the story that is depressing and overwhelming. Not an enjoyable read, but an engrossing one.

I always love it when I find an old biography of an actor I love. While I was hoping for more of a description of Olivier's life with Vivien Leigh from his point of view, this book does a very good job of describing Olivier's talent and how he masked himself in order to become the character rather than trying, like many actors, to find the character's motivation and try to relate to the character. I don't like how the book writes off Leigh as an abusive manic-depressive who brought Olivier down in his career. Quite insensitive.

The book points out how director/actor Olivier didn't always allow his own character to outshine the others, as in Hamlet and The Prince And The Showgirl. His cinematic technique is one to be copied over the years -- transition in scenes, always a problem, was carefully constructed. In Richard III, "from the blood running down the axe blade at Hastings' execution to the dripping rag used by a maid to clean some steps, from a bell set wildly spinning by Richard as he slides down the rope, to many bells ringing in honor of his coronation, from the blend of blood and wine which flows from the tower down into the Thames after the murder of Clarence to Mistress Shore placing the King's silver wine pitcher back in its little holy niche." (p. 99). In Hamlet, he allows the camera to become a "character," as it searches for clues in places characters don't go to. This book shows the passion Olivier is able to give to his characters, but it didn't show Olivier's own life or if his passion came from within. As noted by editor Warren French, the book was not intended to get into rumor and innuendo. But the author could have gone into quite a bit of depth about Olivier's life without rumor. Other than this obvious omission, any film or stage fanatic should read this book for its trueness to real talent.

I am currently planning my walking holiday in France, so I am trying to learn as much as I can before I arrive. I found this book to be helpful in as far as it dealt with practical matters of conditions in France; such as visas, telephones and doctors. It also gave a good indication of the attractions that walkers will find in France on a regional basis.

I felt, however, that for a country famous for its very long distance trails, this book had an unhappy focus on short, often single day, walks. To be fair, it dealt in detail with the gruelling "GR20" trail in Corsica, but that was the only real endurance walk that it looked at. Given that these walks are my focus, I found this book to be something of a disappointment.

That being said, someone looking to enliven his holiday with one or more short, possibly overnight, walks could do a lot worse than this handy little book.

i bought this book for info on the 70-80's sl cars and to learn about differences and see alot of pictures. i am returning it for it had little to none of what i needed. this is a book for the 230,250 & 280 lover. also good foundation info and the beginnings of the sl's. NO COLOR PHOTO"S. jb