In a world of over-achievement & long hours, it is wonderful to have a guide to remind us that we can, and must, make time for fun and relaxation in our lives. Not only are Mitzie's suggestions practical, but following them enables us to be more productive, creative and effective both at work and in our personal lives. I gave a copy to each of my staff members, and they all agreed that if we made time each day to do just one of the suggestions, our stressful days would be more bearable. Treat yourself to some good old-fashioned coaching on enjoying life!

What a fun and inner energy-seeking book! Overworked and Underplayed creates ways to reduce stress and helps to modify complex lifestyles. After reading, you can customize and explore new methods for obtaining both home and business demands. What a great book!

I found this book incredibly helpful. During the most trying time of my life, any questions I had in the middle of the night were answered by using this book. I think every woman who has been diagnosed with breast cancer and her family should own this book.

This book is packed with information that was very helpful to me in what could be a hard time. I recommend it.

This is an outstanding work, with contributions from many distinguished clinicians. It is a "must" for every chiropractor's library.

Claudia A. Anrig and Gregory Plaugher have made use of their inherent capabilities to put together such a worthwhile book for the Chiropractic Profession and other Health Care Providers.

This book was written with the intention of helping provide quality Chiropractic care for children. It is not intended to substitute the Medical Paediatritian, but rather to carefully illustrate that the Chiropractor is an appropriate and necessary provider of health care for children.

This books content has been well referenced and the diagrams are easy to follow. The layout is tasteful and allows for easy comprehension.

Most importantly, this book was written to inform practitioners that Chiropractic is safe, effective and natural for the paediatric patient.

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If you are really interested in Greek Literature in general and the "Concepts of the Hero" specifically, then "Pindar's Homer: The Lyric Possession of an Epic Past" and "The Best of the Achaeans" are must reads. These are probably the most difficult books I have ever read. The analysis that has gone into them is incredible.
I have taken Dr. Nagy's Harvard internet class on "Concepts of the Hero" (twice). They have truely been inspiring. These two books are only a small amount of the reading, but the hardest.
The epinician praise poetry of Pindar are on actual historical figures. As Dr. Nagy says, "The poems of Pindar tend to present the composer as a mere function or instrument of the poetry itself. The poems establish their authority primarily by asserting the traditions upon which they are built."
The surviving books of epinicians in order are Olympians, Pythians, Isthmians and Nemeans. They were arranged with the religious one preceding the secular ones: hymns, paeans (addressed to Apollo), dithyrambs (addressed to Dionysus; 2), prosodia or processional songs (2), partheneia or maiden songs (2), hyporchemata or songs with dancing (2), encomia, laments, epinicia.
The paean is in origin a cry or appeal to Apollo as Healer. The dithyramb is a choral song for Dionysus. The partheneion is a song sung by a chorus of maidens. The hyporcheme is a song accompanied by dance. The enkomion is a song sung in a komos or celebratory manor. Pindar several times refers to his epinicia as encomia. They were for victors in the Games. And finally their was the most complex of Pindars achievements in poetry, the epinician. It is the "most profound in its meditation on the nature of human achievement and man's delicately balanced relations with the gods who give success but can also take it away."

Over the last few decades, Nagy has brought the most up-to-date insights in philosophy, anthropology, linguistics and literary theory to bear on the interpretation of ancient Greek literature and culture. This book, _Pindar's Homer_, takes the reader through classic texts of Pindar, Herodotus, Aristophanes and a wide variety of other Greek poets in a radically new interpretation that challenges received views about ancient Greek culture and literature and, indeed, about literature in general. Nagy's analyses draw on careful attention to the form of the literary works, studying in particular how key terms, verse forms, and thematic structures draw their sense from cultural and linguistic traditions, while simultaneously transforming that sense and that culture. It is this play of transformative re-enactment (_mimesis_) of the tradition that is the crucial interpretive horizon of this study. To carry out this interpretation, Nagy draws especially on studies of ancient Greek religious rituals and of Indo-European linguistics to establish the traditional parameters of meaning that the language forms of Greek poetry deploy.

This book is obviously essential reading for any classicist, but it should also be standard reading for any serious student of Ancient Philosophy or of literature in general. It should especially be read in conjunction with his groundbreaking study of Homer, _The Best of the Achaeans_.

For grad students and others who are feeling a lack of learning practical, "how to" information, this book will help. Instead of preaching theory, it tells you exactly what to do and how to do it, for all different client types and situations that may come up in therapy. I highly recommend it!

I use this text in my class and appreciate how the authors have provided such a comprehensive approach for students to learn the skills of how to work with families.

I have the 7th edition. I would like to make you see that the book should be more explicit about where to find the complements like teacher's manual, softwares, videos, etc. that is mentioned in the preface to be available.

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Starret concise work stands out amongst a sea of books written
about religion (esp. Islam) in the Middle. While the unsecular
character of Mid. East Societies, in this case Egypt, and their
affinity by so-called violent religiosity has been attributed to a
primitive mentality of the people, cynical demagoguery by politi-
cians, angst-ridden youth, disillussionment of the middle-aged,
poverty, anti-Western hysteria, and rage arising from political im-
potence and failure, Starret gives an alternative account that is
actually convincing. He does this by drawing the roadmap between
the sensationalist events such as revolutions and assassinations
by examining how the religious citizen is constructed through
national discourse, with a specific focus on the development of
Egypt's educational system from Muhammad Ali's transformation
of the kuttab to later permuations under the British, Nasser,
Sadat, and onward. The result is a highly believeable account of
the salience of religion and religious conflicts [of all sorts,
not just the less-interesting, violent ones] in the country inte-
grated with the national changes in thinking with regard to such
subject as mass media, religious authority and the market. Thus,
the works offers numerous keen insights into the reproduction of
Islamic religiosity and its transformations in Egypt today through
the various interplays between power and public culture. His
anthropological-historical approach is a fresh and welcome one.

An editorial criticism of the book as whole: the Arabic throughout
is atrociously transliterated. I ended up making notes in the
margins of my copy to make phrases written in Latin script intelli-
gible. Particularly, iDaafa constructions are not written, hard-
letters are not distinguished from soft letters, long and short
vowels are not differentiated, and sometimes letters are just out-
right confused (e.g., dhaal and Zaa'). With relatively standard-

ized options of Arabic transliteration out there,this book is just
sloppy and amateurish in its final edit. Perhaps this won't
bother those who are ignorant of Arabic; however, for those who
are familar with the language, it's a continually frustrating
blemish.

By focusing on education, Starrett shows that political ands socio-economic issues alone are insufficient in explaining the rise of islamic revivalism. The combination of increased literacy and Islamic awareness made possible by the spread of public education, in which religion has played a principal role, and its functionalization to serve the purposes of social engineering has made Islam a matter of increasing socio-political concern. The proliferation of Islamic affordable literature and media from official and private sector sources. The scope of religious discourse among non-specialists has widened and the Islamic establishment no longer holds a monopoly on this debate which is presently characterized by a variety of viewpoints. Starrett speaks of a new Islam now taking shape in Egypt as a result of the mass proliferation of Islamic publications and spread of literacy and communications media. Education's particular role in this process has been to create the demand for more religious information and from more sources as the religious discourse widens.

"This book is a smartly put together guide, with easy access to information for both the novice e-Learning individual/organization, and those who have some background and experience designing and developing e-Learning. Greg's A Quick Guide to e-Learning is concise, logical, well organized, articulate, and educational, without becoming overwhelming. He starts with the basics of defining e-Learning, e-Learning concepts, who makes up the e-Learning team, and e-Learning content structures. At the heart of Greg's book is his view of the e-Learning lifecycle, from analysis thru testing, implementation, and maintenance. Greg ends with discussions of evaluation modes, content management and determining the value of e-Learning products.

For those who wonder what e-Learning is all about, and how to get started, Greg's book is easy-to-follow and straight forward. For those who are seeking yet another 'perspective' into the continually evolving processes that define and model a successful e-Learning implementation, Greg's book is again a superb guide. A must for everyone's e-Learning library!"

A Quick Guide To e-Learning: A "How To" Guide For Organizations Implementing e-Learning by Gregory C. Sales (President and CEO of Seward Learning Systems) is a simple, straightforward, "user friendly" guide for businessmen and organization managers seeking taking advantage of e-learning to stay competitive in today's ever-changing market that always demands the latest skills and competence in the newest software package or procedure. From smoothly disseminating lesson plans, to models for life-long learning, to dead-on appraisals of progress and success, A Quick Guide To e-Learning is highly recommended as a practical, smooth, and useful introduction to one more means of keeping up with the expanding information superhighway.

Ecological understanding is a must for all generations. For those with the courage to think through the implications of an ecological world view and want to learn the scientific concepts which help facilitate greater understanding of natural systems, leading to (hopefully) better decisions regarding resource use, this is a great book. By tackling recursion and non-linear causation at multiple time scales and cognitive levels, Harrie-Jones helps enrich the recuriveness of population level learning. Bateson was, NO DOUBT, one of the most challenging thinkers of his generation. Struggling at all times to keep his focus on how to make nature and communication more intelligible to more people so that they would have the tools and wisdom to see the consequences of their action on both other people and the planet. Rigorous and enchanting cognitive medicine for all those working to make a better world.

The best explanation of Gregory Bateson's ideas I have read! An amazing achievement by Peter Harries-Jones! Understand mind in Nature or be doomed! Politics must become aesthetic & beautiful for the optimal survival of humans on Earth or space. Continues examples of nature of autopoeisis, artificial life, Varela & Maturana, and interesting ideas about consciousness in biology... very good on showing biology as closed 'information' systems. A real ecological understanding!

The following review of "Rendering with Radiance" was published in the November 1998 issue of "Lighting Design + Application" magazine. It has been posted to AMAZON.COM by the author.

Ian Ashdown, P. Eng., LC byHeart Consultants Limited 620 Ballantree Road West Vancouver, BC Canada V7S 1W3 e-mail: byheart@acm.org

Lighting Design + Application contact:

Mark Newman, Editor Lighting Design + Application Illuminating Engineering Society of North America 120 Wall Street, 17th Floor New York, NY 10005 Tel: (212) 248-5000

Rendering with Radiance Greg Ward Larson and Rob Shakespeare ISBN 1-55860-499-5, Hard Cover 664 pages; 1998; Morgan Kaufmann Publishers

Many LD+A readers know Radiance as a lighting design and analysis program that was developed by Greg Ward (Larson) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Those who have investigated Radiance know that it is freely available, but usable only if you have a UNIX workstation and the patience to master more than 50 software tools. In ten years, it has attracted a coterie of fewer than 400 dedicated users.

Rendering with Radiance will undoubtedly change this. Originally conceived as a UNIX-style technical manual, the book is much more. It offers several tutorials, numerous application examples, and detailed discussions of the program's underlying mathematical algorithms. The accompanying CD-ROM includes example images, Radiance models and material libraries, reference manuals, and fully commented C source code for Radiance 3.1.

Despite first impressions, this book is not about computer graphics. The Radiance Lighting Simulation and Rendering System was created for advanced lighting designers and academic researchers, and more than half of the book is devoted to applying Radiance to real-world lighting problems. Ward Larson, Shakespeare and three contributing experts discuss luminaire modeling and lighting analysis, daylight simulation, animation, roadway lighting, theatre lighting, and exterior lighting. Even if you have committed yourself to using architectural visualization programs such as Lightscape and RadioRay, you will find an abundance of useful information in this book.

Radiance is the only software program that faithfully models the physical behavior of light, especially specular and semispecular reflections. It has a steep learning curve, but the quality of the architectural renderings it produces is unequalled by any commercial product. With Rendering with Radiance, we now have a user's manual that fully complements the capabilities of its namesake.

This truly is a remarkable book. Unlike most computer graphics texts, it presents lengthy discussions of IES photometric data files, luminance meters and spectrophotometers, the CIE overcast sky model, roadway light metrics, veiling luminance, spectral transmission data, and much more. The major algorithms used by Radiance are fully documented, including discussions of their limitations. There is more information in this book on lighting software use and design than can be found in all other books combined.

The major disadvantage of Radiance is that it was developed for UNIX workstations. In the past, this restricted the use of the program (really a set of UNIX tools) mostly to academic researchers. However, the freely-available and popular UNIX clone Linux now allows Radiance to be run with few difficulties on Windows and Macintosh computers.

As a contributor to the text, I am a bit biased, but I do think you will find the book's numerous chapters very helpful for folks of a wide range of skill levels. It is a great resource guide, reference book and tutorial. It includes the Radiance executables for a few Unix platforms on the CD-ROM! These alone will save you an hour or two. The book is well worth the money, but don't take my word for it.