Elliott Books

This book is fabulous! The photos are the best dog pictures I have ever seen. The write ups for each dog are hilarious. Whenever I am feeling down, I pick up the book and find myself laughing in seconds. It is one of my very favorite books. The Wine Dogs USA is just as good. If you love dogs, you have to have it.

I now have the whole collection from these great photographers.It's something you never tire of looking at if you love dogs AND wine like we do.

Here's the original and best winery dogs book. Devilishly conceived and beautifully realised, Wine Dogs is a tribute to those four legged denizens of wine country, those front of house canines who are always there, rain or shine. Well, mostly shine. There is a photographic collection of almost every variety of mutt in every variety of winery throughout Australasia, interspersed with articles and turns of wit from the foremost industry writers including Huon Hooke, Phil Laing, Craig McGill, PollyWaffle D. Dog (suspicious), the famous Robert "Rocky" O'Callaghan, Max "Crush" Allen and Chester "d'Arenberg" Osborn. Not sure from which direction Chester is coming but he certainly is making his way as a wordsmith. I think.

This book, I understand, has sold out two editions in Australia so there seems to be no argument. It's a hit. It took a couple of Demons to put this book together. Craig McGill and Susan Elliott have a triumph on their hands. There must be more vinous hounds out there - let's see the second edition soon, please! And more dogs from New Zealand! Thanks all `round. Woof!

I received this book today and was unable to put it down. Very informative, well researched, and of course the pictures were beautifully displayed. It answered questions I had that only an expert could reveil or an Acoma potter could provide. Don't pass this one up!

Elliott and co authors have captured the essence of Acoma and Laguna in their pictures and text of this highly collectible Native American pottery. As a small collector of this pottery, I have learned so much more from this wonderful book! If you are on a "hunt" for Acoma and Laguna collectibles, I recommend you take this book along with you.

The Adventurous Gardener provides a brilliant gardener's take on any number of practical, as well as aesthetic, judgments. The first 11 chapters concern maintenance and propagation, such as "Unusual Ways with Rose Cuttings," "Maintaining Mature Hedging," and "Some Reactions to Cutting Back" (which covers the results of radical pruning on scores of genuses of shrubs and trees).

The next 8 chapters cover trees and shrubs, Lloyd's experience and opinions of hundreds of species and cultivars, and the best ways, culturally and aesthetically, to use them in the garden. The rest of the book covers a variety of herbaceous plants, design concepts, the theories of Gertrude Jekyll, "Planning a Border," you name it. Of course, the book, at 250 pages, is not comprehensive. For that matter, Lloyd's "The Well-Tempered Garden" is in a sense basically the same book, except that there is very little overlap. Each is a series of essays which stands on its own. (Similarly, the estate of the late Henry Mitchell has 3 such books out, made up of his newspaper gardening columns; but Mitchell's columns are shorter, more about literary style than detail, and his 3 books overlap each other considerably.)

This book's greatest weakness: it only has 18 low-resolution black & white photos. These are in the book's center, and do little to illustrate the text. So in order to follow many of the chapters, which concern specific varieties of, say, crabapple trees, or concern combinations of plants, you will have to have the "A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants" or a similar reference at hand. That said, this keeps the book small and dirt cheap. I suppose I could, for lack of hundreds of glossy color photos, rate the book less than the perfect 5 stars, but I can't see criticizing a book for not being what it is not, especially when it is so good at being what it is.

Like other Christopher Lloyd books, The Adventurous Gardener is a pleasure to read for any gardener. He has any number of tips for making cuttings, pruning shrubs and trees, foundation planting, color combinations and other subjects fascinating to gardeners. This book is directed to those who garden for pleasure--and both experienced and novice gardeners will learn something from it.
Negatives: He writes for the British climate which is milder than most of the USA, so gardeners here must take that into account. A good plant guide will help a great deal, to look up plants he mentions (the black and white illustrations aren't particularly useful) and to see whether they'll grow in your area. He also has an enormous yard, seemingly unlimited time, large greenhouses of his own, and people who help him garden.
Nonetheless, this is a wonderful book I've gotten lots of ideas from--and it's always fun to read again.
I can't give it less than give stars; as the previous reviewer said, I can't judge it for not being something it wasn't intended to be. I will judge it by Lloyd's intentions, great ideas and techniques, and the joy I had in reading it.

A start in analysis.-- For some number of years, Rudin's "Real and Complex", and a few other analysis books, served as the canonical choice for the book to use, and to teach from, in a first year grad analysis course. Lieb-Loss offers a refreshing alternative: It begins with a down-to-earth intro to measure theory, L^p and all that...It aims at a wide range of essential applications, such as the Fourier transform, and series, inequalities, distributions, and Sobolev spaces,--- PDE, potential theory, calculus of variations, and math physics (Schrodinger's equation, the hydrogen atom, Thomas-Fermi theory... to mention a few.) The book should work equallly well in a one, or in a two semester course. The first half of the book covers the basics, and the rest will be great for students to have, regardless of whether or not it gets to be included in a course. This choice of book is also especially agreeable to grad students in physics who need to read up on the tools of analysis.

By the end of the sixties Dyson and Lennard, for the first time, proved that matter is stable. More precisely, they proved the thermodynamic stability of Coulomb matter. This was a landmark of mathematical physics, and a huge one: a very long and hard paper. A few years later, Elliott Lieb and Walter Thirring substantially improved the great Dyson result, dramatically cutting its length while improving important estimates. A very good review of these results can be find in the volume 4 of Thirring's "A Course in Mathematical Physics". Even the book version is a bit hard to read, as much mathematical analysis is required. The "Analysis" of Lieb and Loss is a book on analysis which has as a theme the great result of Lieb and Thirring. It is a real book on analysis. The chapters are named "Measure and Integration", "Lp-spaces","The Fourier transform", "Distributions", but also "Potential Theory and Coulomb En! ergies" and "Introduction to the Calculus of Variations", where nothing less than the Thomas-Fermi atom is rigorously studied. In order to leave no doubt that hard analysis is present, there are two chapters on Inequalities. After studying this splendid text the reader will be a better analist and, if he cares to, can start reading the proof of stability of matter. The proof of the pudding is NOT in the eating!

Aphrodisia: Art of the Female Form is a stunning, full-color artbook featuring photographs of sculpture, painting, digital art, and drawing by a wide variety of modern artists. All images were selected from among almost 1200 pieces, by a jury of six people: Joe Chiodo, Spencer Davis, Craig Elliott, Frank Frazetta Jr., Greg Hildebrandt, and Bud Plant. And all artworks have the common theme of celebrating the female form, whether as a fantasy warrior, a "bad girl", a far-future femme, or something else entirely. Though Aphrodisia's artworks are emphatically not pornographic, some have an erotic tone, and there are quite a few nude or extremely scantily clad female images. This is an artbook intended for adults, about reveling in the moment of female beauty. A truly captivating collection.

Amazing book! Could one think of a better idea for an Art book than gathering an awesome pool of talented artists -both from traditional and digital Art background- all puting their skills toward the same goal: exploring the female form in a tasteful way?
Considering the success of this first volume, "Aphrodisia" is undeniably going to become a must have on your Art book shelves, no doubt.

My class is learning about the birth of California and the gold rush. This book is excellent with many stories about the exploration and statehood of the area.

If you were not born in California, then this book is especially for you! Each chapter is more or less stand alone with interesting facts and stories about early California. The laminated cover is a real beauty, and printing and writing is of very high quality. Makes an excellent text book for students of all ages.

Roselyn Elliott's second stunning chapbook of poems is a poetry that is at once compassionate and unwavering. From different angles and in different voices -- young nurse, seasoned nurse, elderly patient trying to reconstruct a reality from inside a nursing home -- she pulls us into a world that requires and rewards bravery in its call to bear witness. Particularly affecting are two poems that are "Letters to ...." One is an elderly woman writing to a husband long-dead and the other is a soldier's letter to his lost leg. These poems show the range of this poet's ability make poetry speak to us from a variety of lives lived. Wonderful.

The poems in At the Center are tough medicine, and the tougher they are the more beautiful. Roselyn Elliott has a skill for turning pain and illness into poetic transcendence, and then leaving us there, on the heights. *You tell the truth,* the speaker, a nurse, says of a critical patient; *He thinks you*re an expert and / heaven help you, you are.* Here is a poet who has seen the gleaming, exposed heart of autopsy, the cold and rigid patients *in their sweet blue gowns* and honors the drama of their lives. Every poem turns upward, as one speaker says she was left alone to cry, *even when I rose, for a moment, out of my body.* Let us be thankful for these poems of two worlds, the mortal and the spiritual.
****Robert Stewart,
****Outside Language: Essays, and
****Editor, New Letters


In this moving collection, Roselyn Elliott stands at the center of the human experience, where the perception of pain and death collides with a fierce, impotent compassion. Whether describing the bottom of a dying man's nose separating from his face, the afterlife of a vaporized foot or the untimely explosion of a pregnant spider, Elliott is unflinching in her observations of the havoc illness and accident wreak on the living. Speaking with the nurse's precise knowledge of the body and the poet's grasp of the disembodied, she illuminates the excruciating *ballet* of patient and caregiver.
****Sharon Leiter,
****The Dream of Leaving and The Lady and the Bailiff of Time

This book, which features coloring pages (always a plus for kids!) is a sweet way to bring awareness to our environmental impact on the oceans. Growing up, I had the distinct pleasure of spending time with Amos Morrill, and I am so honored to have done so. His love for the Caribbean and his passion for beauty and nature taught me to appreciate the outdoors.
Thanks Amos!

The many illustrations are delightful--there is much on the page to please the eye, both in color and in content. The text is simple but the message to children (and their parents) is clear: help save our oceans. As a bonus, there is a coloring section at the rear that will allow a child to make the images his/her own.

Quick and easy reference. Overall organization is by systems. The authors then set up each of these sections into chapters based on nice "clinical vignettes" or clinical "issues." Have purchased several for reference to have in both ICUs that I staff and one in my office for ICU residents and senior medical students to borrow for their rotations.

I found this book very helpful in my care of critically ill patients. The content is very readable and targets the key issues needed by a critical care provider be they a student, resident, fellow or attending. I highly recommend this book. Outstanding!

As far as historical fiction goes this is as good as it gets. Based upon the actual relationship between Cochise and a white US Army scout - Tom Jeffords - the author pours into the novel his own extensive research into the 1856-1872 era of what is now Arizona. This is not fluff writing and it is not romanticized. Cochise emerges as a real person with both light and dark shades as does Jeffords and the white and Hispanic settlers of the Arizona Territory. An extremely well-balanced account written well ahead of the time when more balanced accounts came into vogue. (First published in 1947.) This is also a very good read in terms of drama and pace and plot and characterization. I would not hesitate to ask students to read this piece alongside other more academic accounts of the clash in the American Southwest between the Chiricahua people and those who moved en masse into their homeland. The author, Elliott Arnold, has taken great pains to make this read as authentic as possible. Highly recommended.

Historical novel, later a movie and a popular T.V. series. Idealized view of Apache life. Tom Jeffords goes to Cochise so he can get the mail through Apache territory. Jeffords marries an Apache girl. Events led to peace until Cochise's death