This book is among the first to apply complexity theory to developmental psychology, and is definitely a must read for anyone interested in either topic. When read in conjunction with Port and Van Gelder's Mind as Motion, Walter Freeman's How Brains Make Up Their Minds, and Alicia Juarrero's Dynamics in Action, one begins to see aborning the outline of a new framework for a naturalized philosophy of mind.

Martin Buber gives us collected writings of well known and unknown mystics. First published in German in 1909 this wonderful work gives a good introduction for anyone who wants more knowledge and confirmation of the existence of the Divine in our finite lives. LK 11:9 "And I tell you, ask and you will receive; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. Other works that have passed the test of times are "The Interior Castle: St.Theresa of Avila", "Dark Night of the Soul: St. John of the Cross", "The Dialogue of Saint Catherine of Siena" and "The Spiritual Life: Evelyn Underhill.

This novel is definitely one of the best literature works from Spain that I have ever read. The language that Esther Tusquets uses in this masterpiece is deeply emotional and profound. Throught the use of this language she enables the reader to penetrate the mind and soul of this female narrator whose name is never spelled out in the entire novel. A painful tragedy, El mismo mar de todos los veranos explores female subjectivity in an unprecedented way by showing how women's condition is still very much limited in the real world. After love, tenderness, hope, illusion, happiness and success in the traditional roles assigned to women (mother, daughter, lover, wife) have failed, the narrator is only left with words, language, imagery, symbolism, and stories from her past. Esther Tusquets also makes a critical representation of marriage, family, heterosexuality, which in the end leave a sense of emptiness and unsatisfaction in the life of this female narrator. Showing how female subjectivity and homosexuality (particularly lesbianism in this case) can only take form and unwind in isolation and hiding from the rest of the world, El mismo mar de todos los veranos takes the reader into this interanl journey where present and past will mingle and coexist in complete isolation. What I personally love about this novel is that it shows our fragile and insignificant condition as human beings; when everything else has failed, when our dreams and illusions have never come true, when we loose the love of our life, and when nothing has ever been what we expected or even what we thought it should have been like, we are only left with a painful and regretful past which is the only thing that seems alive - as the narrator says it in the novel -, language, words, imagery, memories, and the stories that will hunt us forever.
An excellent novel of our time, El mismo mar de todos los veranos creates a deep bond between contemporary readers and makes us think about the relationship that we have with ourselves and with life itself, leaving us with a deep sense of sadness and tragedy yet to be overcome, I believe, by contemporary writers. We will forever wonder what is the name of this narrator that makes us think through her stories and realize how little is there left sometimes in our lives.
An excellent literature masterpiece.

It's too bad that this book is out of print; it has some of the funniest lawyering scenes I have ever read. Imagine fighting elves with..jurisprudence. Latin words versus the King of the Elves. Girl Scouts versus unicorns. Brownies, nixies, pixies and more - and why are they all in this one small Connecticut town?

This is an amazing book, written when the author was only 14 years old. It was published when she was 16 and won first prize in a national literary prize in Canada. The action is set in an imaginary world of frozen constant snow--for those in the know it's really Québec City in terms of climate and general feel of how people behave--. In this world comes a man from the South--for those in the know the U.S.-- who has come to study the ancient knowledge hidden in the underground caves under the Citadel. The protagonist is a teenage girl amazed to see someone full of hope (the visitor from the South) in the dour and straitened world of the city where she lives. An ill-defined doom hangs over the city, and a terrible hidden miasma of evil lurks in the caves, where she has gone exploring. It's moody but also very real, written in a beautiful style that is spare and matter-of-fact, and therefore even more frightening than your usual shock jock horror story. Definitely worth reading. It'll send a chill up your spine.

I would recomed this book to every person who likes romance. I think it is really sad that Matthew dies before Barbra marries him. But I'm glad of the ending!

I purchased this book in 1996 when I started floral arranging. This book is excellent and a great reference if you are entering into floral design competitions or cut flower competitions. The publication is easy to read and to understand. It covers what a exhibitor needs to know for staging work. It gives you the criteria that the judge will use when judging your entries.

An excellent reference it brings together every thing you want to know.

The day this book was published in Germany it was banned and the publisher was imprisoned. Bruno Bauer, the author, soon lost his position as a University lecturer, but he continued to write about history, theology and politics according to his conscience and his commitment to the freedom of thought.

Because Karl Lowith suggested that CHRISTIANITY EXPOSED (1843) might have been a model for Nietzsche's THE ANTICHRIST (1893), we may understand why there has been considerable hesitation to translate this book into English. I had to see this with my own eyes, and when I did, I realized that people greatly exaggerated the alleged radical nature of Bauer's writings.

This book is far milder than THE ANTICHRIST. In fact, Bruno Bauer here mainly reviews some writings from a theologian who lived in the 1700's, namely, Johann Edelmann. By modern standards this book should never have been banned, and there should have been no hestitation to translate it into English. It is well-written, thoughtful and scholarly.

The translators have done a fine job with this edition. It is easy to read, presented in contemporary English.

This is an academic book, hardcover, mainly for University libraries and scholars, yet it has inter-disciplinary interest, I think. Historians, philosophers, theologians, theorists and political scientists will all find something of interest in this, the first English edition of one of the most feared books of 1843.

Despite the fact that Bruno Bauer, the famous Young Hegelian, wrote dozens of books, this is only the third book of Bauer's translated into English. Thanks to this translating team, the English reader has a chance to see what all the fuss was about.

Best regards,
--Paul Trejo

A life history of the great-great granddaughter of Sacajewea who was Indian boarding school teacher. The stories were great and left me with the notion of how could this women accomplish so much in one lifetime. A must read.

While preparing to teach an adult Sunday school class on Esther, I bought this book sight-unseen through Amazon (though I had a notion it would be worthwhile, since the publisher is Zondervan and the author went to Westminster Theological Seminary). Now that my study on Esther is finished, I can't think of another tool I relied on more heavily than this one (except for the Bible, of course!); I sometimes felt that I should just stop teaching and buy every person in my class a copy of Jobes's excellent book.

It's extremely well-informed, marshaling a vast assortment of scholarly material from other writers; yet it's also quite contemporary, with extended passages applying the text to modern-day life. Best of all, it's level-headed and perceptive; she really wants to understand the book, and thus brings no particular preconceptions about how this or that event should be interpreted.

One thing I learned in my teaching is that Esther is one of the most cryptic books in the Bible, with many thorny issues about which the Biblical writer himself does not care to editorialize. Jobes brings a refreshingly open-minded approach to these issues, and really makes you think, think, think. Yet she never veers from her obvious conviction that this is the infallible word of God. It's quite exhilarating! I kept reading huge chunks of her analysis aloud in class. One of these days I'll track her down and write a letter expressing my gratitude.

If you're a fan of Esther, and especially if you plan to teach or preach on the book, YOU NEED Jobes's terrific analysis. I found it indispensable.