Published in 1974, playwright Jerome Lawrence's biography of famed American actor/star Paul Muni has been hailed as 'The greatest theatre biography of the [20th] century', and rightly so. This exceptional book recounts Muni's whole life, from his childhood travelling with his parents Yiddish theatre company to his declining years and failing health. The vividness of Lawrence's accounts of Muni's life are due to the fact that Lawrence knew Muni well (Muni's most successful Broadway play was 'Inherit the Wind', co-authored by Lawrence) and most of the information is first hand. After muni's death in 1967 his widow Bella (with the encouragment of Lawrence) began a book on her husband's life to be entitled 'The Men I have Lived With'. But the book was never finished as Bella died in 1971 so Lawrence took what had been written and wrote his own account of Muni's life. Some of Bella's original passages have been included - most notably the story of how she met and married Muni. Lawrence also recounts the history of the Yiddish theatre, the story behind the making of the classic 'Scarface' and Muni's obsessive 4 year search for the story of Alfred Nobel. Lawrence interviewed many of theatre and Hollywood's greats for the book including Luther Adler, George Abbott, Howard Hawks and Bette Davis (a complete transcript of her interview is included in the closing chapters). A fascinating and compelling read about a man who ultimatley didn't know what else to but act.

This book is just packed full of pictures. The book includes a section on strength excercises, accuracy and power excercises, application, a complete set, and more. I found this book to be very informative, all the photos are excellent quality and leave nothing to guess.......GOOD STUFF!

Mi comentario es sobre Xul Solar,y creo que cualquier libro que rescate la obra de este gran creador sudamericano servira para que ocupe el lugar que merece en la historia. Recomiendo a todo amante del arte, de cualquier lugar, que entre dentro del mundo de este artista para descubrir todas las facetas que deslumbraron (como lo hace un calidoscopio a los ojos de un niño)a artistas tan importantes como Jorge Luis Borges o Leopoldo Marechal (quien lo hizo personaje de su novela Adan Buenoayres).

Xul Solar hizo del mundo su materia de creación, acto que en la historia del arte muy pocos artistas lograron. Por supuesto, exceptuando a Dios.

Okay, it's by someone you've never heard of, but still.... This was the first book I ever read about linguistics. Until I read this, I thought I was the only weirdo in the world who thought about language a lot. After reading this, I took my first course in linguistics, which lead to me dropping my premed major and getting a graduate degree in linguistics. Fifteen years later, I am happily employed in natural language processing.

But, you probably wanted to hear about the book, not me. It's utterly charming, not theoretically fashionable, and fun to read.

And there you have it.

At the start of "Always a Body to Change," the sixth Mario Balzic mystery by K. C. Constantine, we learn that the police chief of Rocksburg has to deal with a new mayor, Kenny Strohn. A political unknown who had defeated four-term incumbent Angelo Bellotti, Strohn is a simplifying self-righteous neophyte who cannot believe his police chief can be so complacent about the dozen burglaries that happen each day or the need to call a press conference at 8 a.m. when a young woman is found dead on the street with her face blown away. The victim has no identification, but the murder has all of the markings of a "message" rather than a random act of violence. One of the main subplots of this novel is the education of Mayor Strohn, who learns more about the way the law works in the real world than he every wanted to know. But the main point of the story is to solve this murder case and the great irony is that Chief Balzic is in for something of an education as well.

This is a disturbing book in many ways and I take into account that clearly it is Constantine's intent to provoke a response from both his characters and his readers. There was a point reading this book when Balzic is told of something horrible that a cop has done and I literally had to put down the book and walk away from it for a while. Not so much because this was one of the worst atrocities I have ever come across, in fiction or history, but because it was rather unexpected. However, I have to admit this did a marvelous job of creating a strong sense of identification between the reader and the main character as Balzic says and does what we ourselves would probably say and do under those circumstances. Still, the fictional Western Pennsylvania town of Rocksburg seems a much different place to me as I read this book.

This is not to say that the world of crime in Rocksburg has been anything approaching the relative clean environment of the Agatha Christie type "polite mystery," but rather than Balzic has not wallowed in it as much as he does in this book. The Balzic mysteries are always built around a series of conversations between the chief and various people, which bring him closer and closer to solving the crime. Often these are casual conversations that made lead to more serious ones down the road. But this time around there are direct interrogations of suspects, delicate negotiations with a local crime boss, and repeated efforts to education the mayor on the ways of the world. There are unpleasant topics talked about in the most unpleasant terms. Equally important to the uneasiness "Always A Body to Trade" provokes is that Balzic's family and friends have receded into the background. Balzic keeps saying he is a family man, but I think the only time his girls talk to him in this book is to tell him the pesky mayor has called again. Maybe this sense of isolation from his loved ones is why Balzic has been stomping through these last couple of novels in such a foul mood. Add to this the dirty and filth he has to wallow in with this particular case and no wonder he seems more unpleasant than he was when we first met him. For this character to lose his humanity would be a fatal error.

At the start of "Always a Body to Change," the sixth Mario Balzic mystery by K. C. Constantine, we learn that the police chief of Rocksburg has to deal with a new mayor, Kenny Strohn. A political unknown who had defeated four-term incumbent Angelo Bellotti, Strohn is a simplifying self-righteous neophyte who cannot believe his police chief can be so complacent about the dozen burglaries that happen each day or the need to call a press conference at 8 a.m. when a young woman is found dead on the street with her face blown away. The victim has no identification, but the murder has all of the markings of a "message" rather than a random act of violence. One of the main subplots of this novel is the education of Mayor Strohn, who learns more about the way the law works in the real world than he every wanted to know. But the main point of the story is to solve this murder case and the great irony is that Chief Balzic is in for something of an education as well.

This is a disturbing book in many ways and I take into account that clearly it is Constantine's intent to provoke a response from both his characters and his readers. There was a point reading this book when Balzic is told of something horrible that a cop has done and I literally had to put down the book and walk away from it for a while. Not so much because this was one of the worst atrocities I have ever come across, in fiction or history, but because it was rather unexpected. However, I have to admit this did a marvelous job of creating a strong sense of identification between the reader and the main character as Balzic says and does what we ourselves would probably say and do under those circumstances. Still, the fictional Western Pennsylvania town of Rocksburg seems a much different place to me as I read this book.

This is not to say that the world of crime in Rocksburg has been anything approaching the relative clean environment of the Agatha Christie type "polite mystery," but rather than Balzic has not wallowed in it as much as he does in this book. The Balzic mysteries are always built around a series of conversations between the chief and various people, which bring him closer and closer to solving the crime. Often these are casual conversations that made lead to more serious ones down the road. But this time around there are direct interrogations of suspects, delicate negotiations with a local crime boss, and repeated efforts to education the mayor on the ways of the world. There are unpleasant topics talked about in the most unpleasant terms. Equally important to the uneasiness "Always A Body to Trade" provokes is that Balzic's family and friends have receded into the background. Balzic keeps saying he is a family man, but I think the only time his girls talk to him in this book is to tell him the pesky mayor has called again. Maybe this sense of isolation from his loved ones is why Balzic has been stomping through these last couple of novels in such a foul mood. Add to this the dirty and filth he has to wallow in with this particular case and no wonder he seems more unpleasant than he was when we first met him. For this character to lose his humanity would be a fatal error.

When I was growing up, Mario Andretti was one of my heroes. When you put Jim Clark and Mario Andretti on the same racetrack, I was in heaven. This book is the ideal coffee-table book about the greatest race car driver of the 20th century but you may want to put your copy in a cabinet like I do (so that it doesn't get damaged). The readers of "Racer" Magazine voted Mario the best. The photography in this book is fantastic, even the older black and whites are clear. If you like racing especially the "good-old-days", then you will love this book.

Dr. Marios Kyriazis gives you a crash course in anti-aging, complete with the specifics you need to begin a healthy path to a life of increased wellness and longevity. These tips on preventing age-related complications and antidotes to the impact of aging are particularly useful for busy, stressed-out professionals who have days when they feel 20 years older than they actually are. The author, a leading British physician and founder of the British Longevity Society, beautifully explains complex medical processes, He is clear and offers great detail, so you don't have to be a doctor to understand everything he writes. If you are under 25, and therefore invincible, you aren't ready for this book yet, but we [...] heartily recommend it for the rest of us.

Mr. Benedetti's poetry brings to life the word LOVE. Benedetti is able to reach down into the reader's subconscious and expose the most timid of feelings that one may be able to demonstrate towards a partner, a loved one or for that matter, one's nation. A true jewel.

Garcia Marquez As A Teaching Tool
One has to come to the USA to find the most authoritative treatises on the Colombian Nobel Prize (1982). And then it is in the USA, although populated by Hispanic experts, that one has to come to find the most advanced knowledge on Maestro Garcia Marquez in the most academic of senses. To this collection of expertise is that the book by the Valdeses. They have brought together several essays by several experts on Garcia Marquez's masterpiece, One Hundred Years of Solitude. I do not think there is a more reviewed book, Hispanic book of this century for sure, than the novel studied in the masterful collection.