Bergman Books

This book is wonderful. My stepson (now almost 7) has enjoyed it for years. It provides a wonderful look at the Muria Indian culture. If you wish to educate your children about indigenous or village cultures this is a great and amusing way to do it. The story enchants my stepson, I know he imagines what it would be like to live as this boy lives. The boy's father brings him a tiger cub from the jungle, and we follow the daily life of boy and tiger. We watch the family eating, catching fish, singing, washing, telling stories, etc.

This book is written in a poetic way and introduces many new words and ideas to young people. I would recommend this book to most people, and I'm sure it would be enjoyed by older children as well. The story is long (we usually read it over two sittings) and filled with amazing photographs. Praises to Astrid Bergman Sucksdorff for a job well done! I will lokk to see if the author has published other books.

This out-of-date book is a gem. I found a copy in the childrens section of the library when I was researching childrens' literature of India. This book is a treasure. It is truely a "picture book"! The story follows the many beautiful adventures, captured in photographs, of Chundru and his tiger. A must have for anyone who loves India or loves animals. A great story.

This is a great book to continue learning your Hebrew. It was written in the style of a semester college textbook. You will have learned so much by the time you complete this book!!

This book is undoubfully useful for people who wish to reach a basic knowledge of Hebrew. This exercises are good but the stories are even better. The book is definitely motivating. Some words in the stories are not included in the vocabulary, though.

I concur with Professor Kellogg. I am teaching Iowa History this spring (2006) and I have learned that the book is out of print. It is a shame, since it was such a great book to use with Dorthy Schwieder's Iowa: The Middle Land.

Bergman's collection of stories,(some available in Annuals of Iowa) is a nice grouping of Iowa History. From early native americans, to the abortion battles in the 70s this is a very good telling of Iowa history through the writings of some of Iowa's best historians.

Tom Gary

This is a wonderful book to explore the various aspects of Iowa history. While the book doesn't concentrate on any one subject of Iowas' history it does give the reader a broad look at both local and statewide issues dealing with Native Americans to the Iowa Primaries. It is a well balanced even-handed account of Iowa and Iowans. What I fail to understand is why the book is currently out of print. Iowan history instructors and professors find this a valuable teaching tool and a good anthology of Iowa writers on Iowa issues.

As a drug counselor I found this book realistic and refreshing. It incorporates a lot of techniques that I use but with the introduction of ERP (exposure response prevention) that makes it a whole new story. Reading about ERP and seeing the photographs was intense for me and I can see the validity of dealing with the triggers. I will encourage my clients to read more about this type of treatment.

I heard about this book from a friend and I had to buy it. After I started to do the exercises in the book, I began to feel sad about what my life has become of from all my years of using. The book made me think, feel, and even sweat especially when I saw the pictures in the book. WOW! I did not think my addiction had such a strong hold on me. The book was a good source of information and inspiration for me to try to beat this addiction one more and hopefully last time. I enjoyed the realistic approach because that type of help fits my personality better.

Have you ever purchased something twice and started to read or listen to it and realize you have already read or purchased it before?
As Bogart says in his cafe, " I was misinformed". A few years ago,I bought and read this book under the title, "Round Up The Usual Suspects" and I enjoyed it very much. I then bought it again (recently, I'm not that disoriented-yet) under it's new title, "The Making of Casablanca" same book, and same level of enjoyment. Aljean Harmetz was a New York Times correspondent and she is a skilled writer. Ms. Harmetz unfurls the story of the production of "Casablanca" in an entertaining fashion. So many things could have been undone by the studio and the government (released before World War II) the producer Hal Wallis kept the production on even keel and how Wallis went about it, is the crux of the story. Great insight into the era and the number of refugees who portray refugees, Bogart stories and Bergman tales. A really absorbing read, especially if you are a fan of the movie...and who isn't?

I read this book in hardcover, and loved it. CASABLANCA is my all-time favorite film, and I've read all the other books about it, too, but this one is by far the best. It's a great study of how the film got made, at a level of (fascinating!) detail not found in other references. I recommend it without reservation.

I know this book from its earliest inception ("An introductory course in MATLAB", Gustafsson, 1997), and I have always loved it.
I would recommend this book to three types of people:
- Anyone new to MATLAB.
- Anyone who already knows MATLAB but who never had the opportunity to learn it the right way. I mean those who think they know MATLAB but still use for-loops.
- Anyone trying to teach MATLAB.
Furthermore, even experienced MATLAB users will have a lot of fun, specially with the exercises (with solutions!).
Another nice thing about this book is that it does not emphasize the gimmicks in the latest releases, but rather the philosophy behind MATLAB. 10 years from now, people may be using MATLAB release 34, still, this book will be useful.

This book has a rather unique style... it's broken into 27 mini-lectures split across three main 'topics': Learning MatLab, Advanced Programming, and Applications. Each mini-lecture constitutes a some 2-10 or so pages where they describe a particular problem and its solution on the left side of the page and list the Matlab code to solve that problem on the right hand side. They don't usually give much motivation for _why_ you might actually care about that particular problem, but if it's not reasonably self-evident (as in the case of the Learning/Advanced Matlab), most of the solutions are so compelling that it opens your eyes to ways to solves other problems that you might have never thought of before. Note that the authors assume that, for any given problem, you already have a grasp of the concepts involved. I.e., when they discuss eigenvalues and eigenvectors, the emphasis is on their use to solve a problem, but they assume you already know the definition of the 'pieces.' The applications are usually at the level of an advanced undergraduate or graduate level curriculum (i.e., they are not trivial).

What you get is a TREMENDOUS amount of information in 218 pages. It's not trying in any way to be a complete reference to Matlab, but instead is trying to get you just enough information about lots of very different aspects of programming and applications that you'll have no problem filling in the details for yourself. Hence, I wouldn't recommend it for beginners, but if you've already played with some other math package (or Matlab itself) and have an idea as to the basics, you can become a much more proficient 'power user' with this book.

At the end of many mini-lectures, there are various 'exercises' for the ready to complete. Happily, the solutions are included in the back of the book! In the applications section, the exercises are not always particularly Mathlab related but instead are intended to get you to solidify your understanding of, say, SVD so that you don't just trust the tool blindly. As the exercises form a valuable type of feedback, it makes the book quite usable for self-instruction.

I don't think there's such a thing as a 'perfect' book that tries to address so many topics while keeping the page count reasonable, so while I can't give this particular attempt 5 stars, it's as good as any other I've seen and the price is quite reasonable for what you get.

In the early 80's, after Stonewall and before the holocaust of the AIDS epidemic, a group of gay writers formed a literary club in New York called the Violet Quill and changed forever gay literature in the U. S. Sadly only three of them are still alive, Edmund White, Andrew Holleran and Felice Picano. In this first rate anthology edited by David Bergman, Holleran and Picano are included. Holleran's "The Married Man" may be the best story here and is as good as anything he has written. His view of the world is not rose-colored as his characters rarely find much happiness in long term relationships. What is one to expect, however, from a writer who almost 25 years after the publication of his fine first novel DANCER FROM THE DANCE-- by anyone's standards a gay classic-- and almost as many years since the first reported AIDS cases in New York still refuses to use his real name in his writings.

Mr. Bergman is to be commended for including new authors from many places outside New York who write about topics important to those of us in the red states. He has selected authors from Boston, Baltimore, San Francisco, Atlanta, Portland, Oregon, Florida and Maine. They truly are sons of the original Violet Quill writers. There aren't many Polo-clad Log Cabin Republicans here. Latinos, African Americans, blue collar workers, drag queens, teenagers and one white trash eighteen year who murders his mildly retarded sister are included.

I particularly liked "Marriage" by Michael Bendzela who lives on a "farm in Maine." Here an ordinary, not terribly attractive man leaves his wife and child for another guy. His wife teaches their child to hate her father who calls him "Barry, the Fairy." The story is told from the viewpoints of Lydia, the mother of the wife, and Vic, the new male friend. The narrative rings true on every page. It's a story that the late John Preston who lived in Maine would have relished.

There's not a single dog in the manger to be found in any of these stories.

This collection of gay-themed short stories is, as it's 6 predecessors, a very good sample of what's going on in the gay literary world. Men on Men offers a delicious buffet of varied styles, stories and characters. Some of them are excellent and leave you hungry for more, some are forgettable but not one is simply bad !

It's like reading a script for a masterpiece movie. Great book, but read it only, for full enjoyment, if you are inventive enough to do the film of the book inside your head. If you're not that kind of reader, it's still an excelent book, but you may be missing a great deal of it.

This book is fragrant with familiar Bergman film images...icy black water; musty country homes with overstuffed furniture; well-ordered lives and well-ordered people quietly coming apart in a particularly polite Scandanavian manner. It makes one thing clear - the Bergman leitmotif, characters at once overcome but distant from themselves - simultaneously subjects and objects - is no artifact of his cinematic technique. He depicts his interiors much as we might imagine them from his exteriors. And as in film, images of nature represent the soul.

Read this book. It will haunt you. It most probably will not alter your conclusions about love- but it will alter the way you think about the subject. It goes beyond easy categories of tragedy (although it is certainly that). It depicts the human condition as an imprisonment so tortuous, so hopeless, so inherently perverse, that it somehow becomes sublime. Misery as meditation. It will haunt you.

I recommend this book to anyone with any kind of suit to file in court...and especially if you hire a lawyer. This way, you can stay up to speed on the process of what is going on, and what your lawyer should be doing. The book goes into enough detail to explain the important things, but not so much detail that you fall asleep trying to muddle through. I recommend starting anywhere inside and reading anything you have any questions about.

It is a real eye opener, unfortunately, if you have a lazy lawyer who is just phoning your case in. With this book in your arsenal, you will know what is expected of your barrister! Enjoy. This book is recommended if you are even THINKING of suing someone or going to court for any reason. In my case, I found out that my lawyer was 1)Overcharging me a great deal and 2) Not doing his homework and 3) Not fighting for me in court nearly as hard as was possible. As a result, I fired that firm and hired another one for the appeal.

The authors have done a fantastic job of abbreviating the court process and have developed a thorough guide to the courts. I highly recommend this to anyone interested in self-representation in personal matters.

I love this book. It is not for beginners. It is not a how to start preparing. It is more a "what to do next". Mary gives ideas on where to buy cheaply, keeping the family sane, healthy and prepared.

As it was published 30 years ago, the prices are way out, but it made me think further than just basic food storage and being prepared for a short disaster. With the possibilities of terrorist attacks and economic collapse we have to look further than 6 or even 12 months of problems.

There are ideas for bartering, herbal remedies, surviving long term without electricity, running water or running to the shops. It took this family years to get to the point of being able to do this and even then, they came up against problems. Getting along with family members when you are together 24 hours a day, is not something that we think about when we prepare. This book is fantastic, but remember, it is not a list of what to buy and recipes for using it. Each person and situation is different and you will need to work out what is for you. It gives information on how to survive without losing your integrity , inner spirit or sanity.

This is an account of a family living an 'experimental disaster' for a year. It tells how they coped with the problems that came up, where their mistakes were, and what they did about them. It also tells how they prepared for this. This book is a must-have for anyone who thinks that the current system is going to collapse, and wants to be prepared for it. These people are an inspiration to any of us who believe in being prepared for the worst.