This book is dark and funny and contains more hip pop culture references than Dennis Miller at the top of his game. I found Paisner's other novel, Obit, in the library a few years back - and I've been waiting for a follow-up ever since. The writer gets inside of each character's head in a very compelling way, quickly bringing the reader into the narrative. The characters are at once deep and easy to understand, a strange mix that somehow works. There are sequences throughout the book that delve into the various players' streams of consciousness that are simply brilliant. This is among the best contemporary fiction I have read in quite some time - and I recommend it wholeheartedly.

This is an extraordinary account of her own life by a woman who is not only a world-famous opera singer and wife of a great man, but also a person who has lived through the Stalin era in Russia, (barely) survived the 900-day blockade and famine of Leningrad, beat tuberculosis (then a fatal diagnosis in Russia) to become the Bolshoy Theatre's star singer, and even then, most of life's trials and tribulations were still ahead of her. Galina Vishnevskaya does not mince words in life or in her book. She describes not only the life of great artists in post-war Soviet Russia but also the life of ordinary people, the cunning and resourcefulness it took every day to accomplish everything - from buying toiler paper to avoiding KGB recruitment. Unlike many other artists who wrote their autobiographies - such as Maya Plisetskaya - Galina does breathe life into her own past and that of her country. Apart from being a great read, the book is written with a great sense of humour, and sometimes, sarcasm. A thoroughly enjoyable and edifying read.

Daniel Spencer's book is a thoughtful treatment of the issue ofecological justice in dialogue with several different methods ofreligious/ethical inquiry and a number of important authors who have also written on this issue. It connects (I think rightly) issues about the body, sexuality, erotic relationships, and various components of social justice in their relationship with one another and the question of solicitude for the planet and its creatures. I wouldn't have believed such a project could hold together if I hadn't seen it done with Daniel Spencer's competence and concern.

It not only articulates the urgency of the issues it addresses, but provides a step-by-step, multi-dimensional, full-bodied approach to ethical reasoning in general. A book about how to think ethically -- not a partisan book about what to think about when one thinks ethically -- but still forceful and prophetic in presenting its claims. Excellent work.

Burck and Daniel share the personal meaning that gender holds for them, and the open and enquiring, rather than definite, style of their writing makes it easy for the reader to grasp their ideas. The author's handling in the early chapters of the many intellectual conundrums about gender is clear and assured, and through their many citations of the other literature in the field they have managed to align this volume with other scholarly works while at the same time ensuring a very readable and practical book.

Charlotte Burck and Gwyn Daniel's book shows us how richly productive good conversations can be. They have taken our current crop of favoured ideas and stances - second-order cybernetics, post modernism, social constructionism, feminism, narrative and discourse theory - added what's best about systems theory (in their words, an interactional understanding and a sensitivety to context, framing and level) - and then orchestrated a contrapunctal dialogue where each discourse comments on the other, producing newsworthy fresh ideas.

In their dense and nuanced discussion of how gender's language and discourse possess us, Burck and Daniel give us new analytic tools and creative clinical strategies with which to mobelize women to embark on this research for themselves (and to help men see through the illusion that, unlike women, they are coherent, sovereign subjects).

In the process, the authors show us how therapy can foster a stance of critical inquiry towards the truths of one's time and place, especially about what it means to be a man or woman now. From the Foreward by Virginia Goldner

Gen. Shelby did remarkable things with his small command. His genius was unappreciated due to Jefferson Davis' myopic pre-occupation with west point pedigrees instead of ability and results. A Southerner can only sigh at the lost opportunity, if Shelby had been given command of command of the Army of the Trans-Mississippi instead of Theophilus Holmes.
This is a very readable volume about the greatest Confederate cavalryman in the war who led several different lives. About a half of it covers the war, another 1/4th the Mexico adventure, and the remaining 1/4 are split between his growing up and the post-Mexico (1868-97)years.
It features vivid descriptions of many battles in MO and AR, as well as the tale of his expedition to Mexico after the war. The details of his tactics at the Battle of Cane Hill, which he used repeatedly after that is fascinating. The author's style is a bit colorful and folksy, sorta like you're there talking to him. If you demand that your history read like a textbook that may spook you off, but if it doesn't it's a wonderful bio about a neglected figure

I WAS THE STUDENT OF ENTOMOLOGY AND I USED THIS BOOK . I THINK THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST BOOK OF ENTOMOLOGY. I LIKE IT VERY MUCH.

California is the setting, disasters the theme from the Rodney King riots to earthquakes and storms in a set of stories which bring to life those who survive by helping one another. While urban confrontations are a part of these tales, so is the kindness of strangers in a diverse collection. Great reading!

Most books about arts and mathematics are written by non-mathematicians and often contain dubious or unclear statements. The late professor Pedoe was not just an outstanding mathematician, but also a great expositor. This book shows the breadth of his scholarship.

It is not as flashy as some of the modern books. If you are looking for pretty pictures, then this is not the book for you. However, if you are looking for mathematically and historically correct info, and you have the persistence to actually read it, you will be rewarded.

Highly recommended for teachers of mathematics!

I found that this book was very informative and helpful as to how to prepare for what is coming to America - judgment. I believe the author knows what he's talking about. I recommend this book to anyone who wants to get ready for what's ahead.