Stephen Juan Books

Naturally, this is a brilliant book. But this is the second time I've asked you to get the author's name right. Why can't you correct an obviously goofed up author's name? I can only communicate with Amazon this way since the normal email address of Amazon is incomplete according to my computer.

The correct name of the book is "The Odd Brain: Mysteries of Our Weird and Wonderful Brains Explained"

"The Odd Brain" is hip. Double thumbs up. It's afascinating book about what Woody Allen calls his "second favorite organ". This book looks at recent research findings about what we know about the human brain. It relates the findings to behavior and daily life. It's funny what can happen when the brain goes awry in a positive sense. For example, foreign accent syndrome (read more about it). It's sad what can happen when the brain goes awry in a negative sense. For example, schizophrenia (again, read more about it). The author, Dr. Stephen Juan, is a legend in Australia where he teaches at the University of Sydney and appears on radio and television explaining just about everything about being a human being. If you want to know about the brain but don't want to dive deeply into heavy neuroscience, this is your book. Recommended for 12 year olds up.

I saw this translation (directed by Wadsworth himself!) performed at the Shakespeare Theater in Washington DC, and immediately pre-ordered it upon returning home.

Most of the other translations of this play have been rather bulky and awkward, but Wadsworth captures Moliere's very, very clever and biting wit. I can't sing enough of it's praises. For me, it was just perfect; Don Juan is devastingly charming, right up until the very end. I can't wait until it arrives!

"The Odd Body" is on of the most fascinating books I have read so far. It is
not one of those boring books on Body Science that you had to read back in
High School. This book answers all the weird, silly and bizarre questions
you have ever wanted to know about the human body.

It answers interesting questions like:
a) can you keep a severed head alive? (Something I have always wanted to
know)
b) Can we die laughing?
c) Can we live for ever?

Once I started to read this book I found myself unable to put it down. So if
you are the type of person who is into the mysteries of the human body I
would highly recommend this book.

...through a unique vision of the world we're struggling to be in - through the alternation of worlds. A glimpse into the nature of things, situation, and people. Precise sentiments. Bold language. Innovative forms. Rewarding for young writers and readers who enjoy variety in literature. Leave this book alone though if you're used to more traditional stuff - not that everyone would like Lynne Tillman.

a classic. oui, chef d'oeuvre. every american christian should read this. will affect your faith if you are centrifugal-centric..........centripetal types, please avoid and pray for your mythic "rapture" to come ("o end of days........."!!!!)

Klossowski's combinatin of theological, metaphysical,eroticism and irony is well worked in this page turner of Templar myth. Klossowski's fanciful concept of the "breaths" of Templars long past gathering on the anniversary of the torment and execution of their Grand Master and revisiting the very iniquities and blasphemies that they were force to admit to by a corrupt church and government. The mystical journey Klossowski takes his readers on is pure thrill. You will meet the Grand Master as a hornet, Nietzsche in the body of an anteater, the author himself as the confessor and a cast worthy of a Fellini movie. Foucault said that: "The theory of the 'breaths' in Klossowski's Baphomet is related, for who knows how many aspects, to the entirety of Western philosophy". A good good read and should have a place in anyones library

This follows "Roberte Ce Soir & The Evocation of the Edict of Nantes" and "Diana at Her Bath & The Women of Rome" (both reviewed by me) as intellectual exercises, couched less as fiction and more as essays in "Diana," and as a more straightforward (relatively speaking) imaginary excursion in "The Baphomet." The preface, included here, is an essay by Michel Foucault on the moment of Acteon's attempt to restrain the huntress. Well-written and easier to understand than perhaps Klossowski in his many recondite moments, Foucault's essay, however, seems oddly placed. It should have been introducing the other book--- the one on Diana!

"The Baphomet" appears in a very handsome volume, with four illustrations by the author. This tale does open more dramatically than most of his imaginary stories, with the Templars' infamous rituals about to be exposed. This shifts into a visit from a sufflation, a breathed spirit, of St Teresa (spelled here in the French fashion) of Avila. The problem is that the characters in the action, such as it is, have been turned into emanations seeking vainly a re-entry into the flesh. Such is their fate, repeated endlessly, and they cannot hope for any exit from this existentialist cycle. So seems the case, according to the saint. As with Klossowski's earlier fictions, this predicament inspires extended theological and diabolical debate. Eventually, centered around the androgynous figure who incarnates as the Baphomet, the arc segues back to the Templars' earlier clash-- before another seismic jolt forward. Near the end, an enchanting meditation on Martha vs. Mary enters into a consideration for what we'd call "living in the moment"--yet this earns eloquent expression, a reminder of the difficulty we have in living in a time that does not seem our own. Klossowski by his narrative appears to instruct us to forget fitting in, and to embrace the suspended, brief, fleeting moments when we slip temporal bounds.

The book stops with a jolt. The book's beautifully translated in parts, and in other parts falls into the same affliction that makes this author's work tendentious and dull. It forgets there's a reader who must be entertained as well as educated. Extreme edification and erudite elucidation can tire a reader not up to Klossowski's wry intellect and sophisticated pose. Klossowski's method often appears to me scattershot, with rare moments of insight couched in overly mannered prose stylized in the fashion of French philosophical speculation, scholastic terminology borrowed from Catholic medieval erudition, and sporadic episodes of brief erotic grappling. I cannot imagine that there are many readers sufficiently educated in the nuances of all three discourses. But Klossowski, ex-Dominican seminarian, student of Bataille, mentored by Gide, and explicator of Sade and Nietzsche, is the one writer who'd search for and reward perhaps this rarified audience.

SylverHawke, my eldest sister to whom I owe my life. -Claudia!

Presents a logical flow of the product and its usage. Although it is not written for the most current version of the product, the basics and details it covers are still very relevant. The book provides a much better collection/organization of material than reading through the myriad of product manuals, but it doesn't replace them.

There were a number of times that I jumped between the book and the manuals to really get the usage down.

Overall, I wish I had this book up front before I started working with the product. It sheds some light on items hard to locate in the manuals.

There is a lot of information. Unfortunately there are hundreds of acronyms, most of them specific to Tuxedo programming. It becomes tedious boring reading as more later terms are described in older terms/acronyms. There are some diagrams but I did not find them particularly useful. Mostly architectural descriptions. Not a lot of working examples. Again, the reading is dry, but I'm not sure there is a better alternative out there on this topic.

I find this book rather poorly structured. The authors have not decided if this is a book for developers or for administrators, and they try to make it a book for both. I think they have ended ut writing a book for nobody.

All code fragments need another look. I know that they are not intended for a compiler, but I think they should at least look that way.

As in most TUXEDO documentation the authors have a hard time getting to the point. Technical computer litterature can be a lot more pedagogic and easy to read than this!

This book is written the way books in this field should be written! Take note computer community, the authors of this book have not simply compiled an encyclopedia, but have carefully crafted a book. Early chapters provide theory and and lay the foundation for the detailed chapters that follow, covering everything from transactions to MIBS. Useful examples are povided, and it is impossible to finish this book without a conversational understanding of Tuxedo. If you need to know the difference between an RPC, FML buffer, and an RM, get the book!

Great introduction to Tuxedo. What I like the most is the completeness of the book. In other words, they define all their terms and assume no prior knowledge. I got up to speed very quickly on Tuxedo thanks to this book.