Oliver Books

This small dictionary fits right my shirt pocket, or tucks away easily in an instrument case. Inside are over 3000 of the most common musical terms with excellent detail in each definition. This little book was required by my high school music teacher back in the 50's. I have used it ever since and it has rarely let me down. It has become quite tattered, of course, but still useable after all these years. Fine.

I have owned a copy of this book for many years, so long that I cannot remember, exactly, how I aquired it. Time and again I have referrred to its pages to learn about various terms and historial events relating to parapsychology. This book has given me information that I've never found anywhere else. Because it was written quite a while ago, it doesn't have the corny & canned self-help tone that is present in many of today's paranormal texts. All the material is presented from in a serious, intellectual voice, and you can spend hours at a time reading the entries.

Every student of the unknown and unexplained can benefit from this book. I will keep my copy for the rest of my life.

I had been curious about this book for a long time because one of the editors is Kelly Oliver, who wrote the book WOMANIZING NIETZSCHE, which was published in 1995. The Introduction (pp. 1-22) of ENIGMAS is jointly written by Penelope Deutscher and Kelly Oliver, but Chapter 10, Sarah Kofman's Queasy Stomach and the Riddle of the Paternal Law, is attributed solely to Kelly Oliver. Chapter 1 is a translation by Duncan Large of the first chapter of a book (1995) by Sarah Kofman:

The Imposture of Beauty: The Uncanniness of Oscar Wilde's Picture of Dorian Gray. (pp. 25-48).

I was tremndously impressed by Chapter 2 by Ann Smock:

Don Giovanni, or the Art of Disappointing One's Admirers. (pp. 49-66).

It is so complicated: Sarah Kofman wrote an essay on Molière's `Dom Juan' in which the protagonist, Frédéric Molieri, singing the title role in Mozart's famous opera, is "breathtakingly irreverent where obligations and accountability are concerned. He won't, as Sarah Kofman emphasizes, consider himself bound by any engagement at all, and this is because he is in permanent rebellion against the derisory conception, constantly pressed upon him, of life as a loan and of God as the supreme banker, who prudently keeps track of everything he gives lest he forget to collect all that's due him in the end. Such a calculating God could only be taken seriously by people who are equally vulgar. Sarah Kofman stresses this with relish." (pp. 49-50).

Chapter 3, by Duncan Large, quotes Sarah Kofman on the intellectual triangulation which her philosophy thrived on:

Freud and Nietzsche, these two rival "geniuses" whom I have always needed to keep together so that neither of them could ultimately win out over the other or over "me": continually playing with the one and the other, and playing the one off against the other, within "myself," I prevent each from gaining mastery (reading Freud, I read him with a third, Nietzschean ear; reading Nietzsche, I understand him ["je l'entends"] with my fourth, Freudian ear). (p. 68).

I have read this and most of the books written by Dr. Greene and find them to be very easily understood and true to the source material from which they are taken. His knowledge of the Word of God is used to help explain in the best way possible the things of God. His books will be an inspiration to those reading them

It is interesting that Gregor Mendel, who is somehow thought to have proven the theory of evolution, was so opposed to it. And if he opposed the theory, it is because his experiments provided him with evidence for fixity.

This survey of early trailblazers of the West tells of some of the earliest explorers to shape America, from missionaries to trappers and explorers. Excerpts from letters and primary sources accompany biographies which cover about 18 pages each and which include plenty of background about the area as well as details about the individual's impact. Included are features of John Sutter, Brigham Young, the Whitmans and more.

A comedy for 3 males and 3 females. The story concerns the Fathers Day visit by 3 men to their ex-wives, who are neighbors in a swanky New York apartment building.

The list of credits and books published by this author is impressive by any standards. To summarise his work is, therefore, difficult - but he certainly knew his subject which, very broadly was British naval history.

In this work, Warner sets out to bring us the definitive history of the three hundred years of fighting sail which spanned the period from the 15th to the 18th Centuries. In his own typical style, he commences with the day of the Carrack in which much is explained - and needed to be explained, before we are able to move on to such subjects as; The Spanish Armada, the rise of the Dutch, England, Holland & France, dynastic struggles, England Spain & France, the Seven Years War, the War of American Independence, revolutionary France, Napoleonic wars and finally Navarino and Afterwards.

With exactly the right amount of photographs and other illustrations we are treated to an historical document that is hard to equal and I recommend this book to anyone with an interest in the subject. They will not be disappointed.

NM

The list of credits and books published by this author is impressive by any standards. To summarise his work is, therefore, difficult - but he certainly knew his subject which, very broadly was British naval history.

In this work, Warner sets out to bring us the definitive history of the three hundred years of fighting sail which spanned the period from the 15th to the 18th Centuries. In his own typical style, he commences with the day of the Carrack in which much is explained - and needed to be explained, before we are able to move on to such subjects as; The Spanish Armada, the rise of the Dutch, England, Holland & France, dynastic struggles, England Spain & France, the Seven Years War, the War of American Independence, revolutionary France, Napoleonic wars and finally Navarino and Afterwards.

With exactly the right amount of photographs and other illustrations we are treated to an historical document that is hard to equal and I recommend this book to anyone with an interest in the subject. They will not be disappointed.

NM

Finding Common Ground is a truly ground-breaking book. The content is clear and concise, and provides solid advice for educators who are trying to address issues of religious differences in the public schools. The book covers church-state law, a vision of civility that every educator should be thinking about, and practical chapters on dealing with religious topics in the curriculum and character education. A must-have for every public school teacher and administrator!