Barbara Streisand isn't given her due for Her Films.this Book covers alot of Her Film Career! good Pictures&Reflections.

This book is an excellent insight into Barbra's film career. Lots of detail to the behind the screen stories. Many Classic picture's and hard to find shot's of Barbra. A must have for any Barbra Fan!!!

Calling all Barbra Joan Streisand fans! Now is the time to support the would be publication of a comprehensive resource guide to Barbra's extraordinary film career. If Citadel is unable to publish such a nifty volume, then we should let other publishers know that such a book would be of significant interest. I hope that it won't be long until Ms. Swenson and Mr. Nickens find a home for their work (and on a more personal note, I hope that the somewhat overlooked "On A Clear Day You Can See Forever" (1970) and the sadly neglected "Up The Sandbox" (1972) receive the glowing credit these two glorious films deserve.) I encourage other Streisand partisans to compose "reviews" of the book they'd most like to add to their library shelves.

This book is very challenging. As you go from the first page to the last you see it gets more difficult. A must for all beginners in Calculus.

I am still trying to wrap my mind around the idea of a glass tower in Camboda, filled with skulls "facing" outward in four directions, overlooking a picnic ground. Swenson takes us places we had not perhaps originally considered traveling as women alone, and we are richer for it.

Karen Swenson is to be commended for a fine biography of Greta Garbo. Garbo is an enigmatic star more closely resembling a lonely sphinx camping out in the Sahara than a glitzy glamorous star in Hollywood's Golden Era.
Swenson delineates the Garbo career from the Swede's girlhood in a poverty stricken home in Stockholm to the extremely wealthy recluse she became in New York following her 1942 retiriement from the silver screen. (Her last flick was a bomb called "Two Faced Woman." Garbo had at least two faces in real life. The athletic outdoor woman she was could be kind and cruel as her moods were quicksilver in the soul of this Viking child of the North.
Barry Paris's book on Garbo contains more pictures and is, on the whole, better written. I did, however, enjoy Swenson's work
on the screen legend devouring the biography in huge portions of time.
Garbo was a great talent who lit up the screen with her peerless beauty and style. Costumes by Adrian and the magic of MGM camermen aided her in the climb to the top but she was herself unique for her aura of lonely beauty.
I appreciate the work of Karen Swenson. I hope you the reader do as well. If you read only one book on Greta Garbo you could do worse than selecting this excellent biography to fill you in on the Swedish queen of film.

Garbo: A Life Apart is a modern biographical masterpiece. I got started and could barely put it down. It was filled with great information. I have been following the life of Greta Garbo for about 7 years and have a collection of memorabillia to show for it! I have to say this is a MUST for any fan or collector of Garbo material!!! BRAVO Karen Swenson!!

This wonderful story, about a wonderful woman, combines a selection of rare photos with startling new information about her childhood, her career, tumultuous relationships with lovers and friends, and her life after Hollywood.

The "sheets renewed for love or loneliness," are in a laundry but follow the poet back to her craft, where "I attempt to iron/ truisms shabby as the sheets of love/ or turn the frayed collar of a thought/ ... to make, one more time, the fabric hold." It's a telling and rare confession for a poet whose life and work are more often "adventures told with grace," more odyssey from Fargo, ND, to Nepal by way of Brooklyn, difficult parents and lovers, motherhood and cross-country travels solo, than pressing concerns of style. But her Utah highways, Perfume River in Vietnam, and view of two trees in Kathmandu, one full of egrets and the other hung with bats, are meditations as sure as Ignatian exercises. Occasionally the sibylline nods, turns oblique though often as not the reader is by then complicit in some guilty sensuality, some pleasure of the perfectly rendered particular. Swenson is the 1993 National Poetry Series winner for The Landlady in Bangkok. This book collects works from her four books and arranges them with previously uncollected poems in order, by decades, from the 60s through the 90s. The domestic and the foreign recur, as in a poem about her son at fifteen, whose other natural mother "roughs your lip with a sooty smudge,/ casts your features to her ambition,/ and molds you anew to her necessity,/ while your cheeks are still soft with my child." The captains of his soul, "Hook to Kirk to Ahab," mature, as, "Landlocked in my life,/ I wave a Quaker handkerchief from the dock,/ knowing the ship you set out in/ has no oars, leaks,/ is lost in space./ But sea and stars are still the same/ where wonder looms a white blindness." Which would be incomplete without words that shake from themselves the fleeting image of an accused in the dock, vagaries of sounds fitting misgivings past and future. This is the perspective and precision we should expect from anyone self-deprecatingly described in "us, the Sapphos,/ blue-stockinged office temporaries/ wearing our ink like eyeshadow.

The first half of this text seems be be a bit simple. Many of the problems are confusing at best. The authors are not very clear on what they want. Many students in my class were frustrated by this time and time again. Still other times the questions were way to easy and never really chalanged the students. Basicly the first half does not provied a good solid base for Calculus. The second half is just flat out poorly written. It leaves the students constently scraching their heads wondering what the authors want. Questions are asked in such a way as to not make sence or not to follow the chapters very well. Chapt 7 is very much like this. Bad. The faculty agrees by having to put out an additional book of their own to help provide a better understanding of Trig.
Over all this book needs to be re-thought out. A poor choise for instructors wanting their students to get a solid base so as to takle more advaced math classes.

I like pictures of people on bikes. It makes me feel better because riding mountain bikes is fun. So when I work on functions, I feel happier.

Great book! It is especially good for understanding what different functions do, and how. This is very important for understanding calculus. Great examples, always linking functions with things in real life.