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At this moment it results more than redundant overemphasize the importance of the overpopulation , pollution and resource deplection which limit the range of probable choices in the near future .
The book is divided in four parts . In the first , there is an introduction to some basic concepts of ecology ; in the second part , it concerns with the water pollution ; the third is dedicated to the problems associated water pollution and the fourth discusses energy and raw materials .
Fundamental issue to understand the minim facets of this delicate but increasing subject that sooner or later will involve us ; our life standard and worst our personal liberties .
To ignore or minimize the facts does not mean to face or even to resolve them
This issue is a delayed effect bomb.

Because I am a second year student of English this book is a great help to me. It contains all the information that is necessary. I am very sorry it is out of print, because I would have liked to have it myself.

If you want to have a quick reference book rich in logistic quantitative methods, then this book a very good choice. It is concise an easy to read.

Cass Gilbert's pioneering architectural style resulted in soaring skyscrapers with unique attributes, influencing a circle of architects of his time. This accompanies a major exhibit documenting his career and offers essays by prominent Gilbert scholars as well as portraits of all his buildings and their often controversial facets. An absorbing, revealing title.

The book is divided into two major sections: I. Watching: Visions of the Dying and the Dead. This has 4 sub-sections...and II. Grieving: Lamentations for the Dead with 10 sub-sections.

I read this book after reading "Death's Door: Modern Dying and the Ways We Grieve." This book is a splendid achievement and a fine companion for the "Inventions of Farewell: A Book of Elegies." I believe the elegies collection gave birth to "Death's Door."

In addition to the carefully selected poems from several centuries of both American and English poets, the reader is treated to a fine introduction to the collection as a whole and each sub-section which clarifies the topics at hand.

Gilbert seeks to clarify the questions of "What ceremonies else do we have, nowadays, for those who are bereaved? What more must be--can be--done to assuage grief?"

When the range of grieving, articulate voices is laid before us, we find we have many companions on this, the most human of journeys.

Sandra M. Gilbert's "Inventions of Farewell: A Book of Elegies" gave me a context to place my work within. "Sightlines: A Poet's Diary" fits into a tradition I was not consciously aware of as I wrote. I felt I had come home into a larger family with many voices.


Janet Grace Riehl, author Sightlines: A Poet's Diary

I liked this book, because it is such a great play!

At the end of "Iphigenia at Aulius," when the virgin daughter of Agamemnon is about to sacrificed offstage to appease the goddess Artemis, as the fatal blow is struck the young girl disappears and a stage appears in its place. Thus, at the last minute, Euripides refrains from suggesting a goddess demanded a human sacrifice. But what happened to the young girl? The dramatist provides his answer in "Iphigenia in Tauris" Artemis saved Iphigenia and brought her to the temple of the goddess in Tauris (which is in Thrace, although others take this to mean the Crimea). Meanwhile, her brother Orestes, still trying to appease the Furies for his crime of matricide, is ordered by the god Apollo to bring the statue of Artemis from Tauris to Athens. However, the Taurians have the quaint habit of sacrificing strangers to the goddess (so much for the goddess disdaining human sacrifice). Once again, Euripides is showing his disdain for Apollo; at first consideration you might think Apollo is setting up the reconciliation of brother and sister, but since it is up to the goddess Athena to help the pair, and Orestes's friend Pylades, to escape, the clearly implication is that Apollo wants Orestes dead.

"Iphigenia in Taurus" ("Iphigeneia en Taurois," which is also translated as "Iphigenia among the Taurians") is really more of a tragicomedy than a traditional Greek tragedy. Basically it consists of a key scene of recognition ("anagnorisis") and a clever escape by the main characters. The recognition scene between Orestes and Iphigenia is well done, and so atypical in that there is joy in the "anagnorisis" rather than pain or death (cf. "Oedipus the King"). "Iphigenia in Tauris" takes place after the Orestia trilogy by Aeschylus (Athena refers to the events of the final play), and one of the more interesting elements of this play is the idea that Orestes had been hallucinating when he was seeing the Furies pursuing him. This is a rather rational explanation for his behavior following the murder of Clytemnestra and Aegithus.

I was rather surprised to discover that Euripides wrote "Iphigenia in Tauris" in 413 BC, which was years before "Iphigenia at Aulis" was first performed in 406. I had naturally assumed that Euripides was following the character's chronology, but apparently this is not the case. My preference has always been for the latter play, but this is based on my interest in how Euripides foreshadows the conflict between Agamemnon and Achilles that serves as the opening conflict of Homer's epic poem, "The Iliad." This also speaks to the fact that to successfully teach and/or really appreciate this play, you simply have to understand the entire background of the characters, both in terms of "Iphigenia at Aulis" and "The Orestia." Certainly this can be done in the classroom through summaries of these plays, but it most assuredly has to be done.

At the end of "Iphigenia at Aulius," when the virgin daughter of Agamemnon is about to sacrificed offstage to appease the goddess Artemis, as the fatal blow is struck the young girl disappears and a stage appears in its place. Thus, at the last minute, Euripides refrains from suggesting a goddess demanded a human sacrifice. But what happened to the young girl? The dramatist provides his answer in "Iphigenia in Tauris" as we learn that Artemis saved Iphigenia and brought her to the temple of the goddess in Tauris (which is in Thrace, although others take this to mean the Crimea). Meanwhile, her brother Orestes, still trying to appease the Furies for his crime of matricide, is ordered by the god Apollo to bring the statue of Artemis from Tauris to Athens. However, the Taurians have the quaint habit of sacrificing strangers to the goddess (so much for the goddess disdaining human sacrifice). Once again, Euripides is showing his disdain for Apollo; at first consideration you might think Apollo is setting up the reconciliation of brother and sister, but since it is up to the goddess Athena to help the pair, and Orestes's friend Pylades, to escape, the clearly implication is that Apollo wants Orestes dead.

"Iphigenia in Tauris" ("Iphigenia en Taurois," which is also translated as "Iphigenia Among the Taurians") is really more of a tragicomedy than a traditional Greek tragedy. Basically it consists of a key scene of recognition ("anagnorisis") and a clever escape by the main characters. The recognition scene between Orestes and Iphigenia is well done, and so atypical in that there is joy in the "anagnorisis" rather than pain or death (cf. "Oedipus the King"). "Iphigenia in Tauris" takes place after the Orestia trilogy by Aeschylus (Athena refers to the events of the final play), and one of the more interesting elements of this play is the idea that Orestes had been hallucinating when he was seeing the Furies pursuing him. This is a rather rational explanation for his behavior following the murder of Clytemnestra and Aegithus.

I was rather surprised to discover that Euripides wrote "Iphigenia in Tauris" in 413 BC, which was years before "Iphigenia at Aulis" was first performed in 406. I had naturally assumed that Euripides was following the character's chronology, but apparently this is not the case. My preference has always been for the latter play, but this is based on my interest in how Euripides foreshadows the conflict between Agamemnon and Achilles that serves as the opening conflict of Homer's epic poem, "The Iliad." This also speaks to the fact that to successfully teach and/or really appreciate this play, you simply have to understand the entire background of the characters, both in terms of "Iphigenia at Aulis" and "The Orestia." Certainly this can be done in the classroom through summaries of these plays, but it most assuredly has to be done.

It is an interseting story of a plucky Confederate Ironcald that was a powerful force until sunk by a Union Torpedo Boat after its brief stormy life. Ironic in the fact it was built in a Cornfield. Confederate Ingenunity at it finest! A very good book!

Martin Gilbert, in this comprehensive volume, chronicles the history of the Land of Israel (Eretz Yisrael), from 1862 to 1997.

He describes the ancient attachment of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel, through the millenia. Since the destruction of the Second Temple by the Romans in CE 70, the Jews who were dispersed all over the Roman Empire, had prayed for a return to Zion.

'Next year' in Jerusalem, has always been the hope expressed at the end of every Passover meal, commemorating the exodus from Egypt.

During the 1700s movements of Hassidic Jews took place to Eretz Yisrael, from Eastern Europe.

By mid-19th century there were around 10 000 Jews living in Eretz Yisrael.

More than 8000 of them lived in Jerusalem. A few hundred lived in the ancient holy city of Safed in the north, in Tiberius, Acre and Jaffa, and there was a community in Peki'in, where there has been a continuous presence of Jews since the destruction of the Second Temple.

He describes the origins of the modern Zionist movement born out of Jewish national aspirations and the ages old attachment to Israel: Moses Hess, George Eliot, Bilu and Hovevei Zion, the return to the land, the actualization of the Zionist programme by Theodore Herzl, and the rebuilding of the blighted and empty Palestine.

By 1914 there were 90 000 Jews living in the Land of Israel, of whom 75 000 were immigrants.

Gilbert reviews the Arab attacks on Jewish communities, in 1920-21, 1929 and 1936-1939, in which Jewish communities were attacked and thousands of Jewish men, women and children murdered.

The answers today to the problems posed by the opponents of Zionism, were already evident before the State of Israel was re-established.

Islamic radicals and the international extreme left demmand that Israel be dismantled and be replaced by a unitary Arab 'Palestine' in which the Jews would survive at the tolerance of Hamas and the PLO.

Zionist leader Arthur Ruppin wrote in 1931 that there was no hope for the Jews to rely, for their survival on Arab goodwill:

"At most the Arabs would agree to grant national rights to the Jews in an Arab state, on the pattern of national rights in Eastern Europe. But we know only too well from conditions in Eastern Europe how little a majority with executive power can be moved to grant real and complete real and national equality to a minority. The fate of of the Jewish minority in Palestine would always be dependent upon the goodwill of the Arab minority which would steer the state."

With Hamas in the ascendancy today, among the Palestinians, with it's aim to clear 'Palestine' of all Jews, and it's murderous apparatus, we all know that a 1 State Solution would lead to a second holocaust of Jews.

Israel was created so that Jews could rely on themselves for their own security and welfare, afetr two thousand years of being subjected to tyrants and murderous rabble.

This remains the case, more than ever today, and always will.

Gilbert covers the massive immigration to Israel, from Germany in the 1930's of hundreds of thousands of Jews fleeing form Hitler's Nazi Reich, and how Britian later shut the doors to Jewish immigration into Israel, while allowing massive immigration from neighbouring Arab regions.

Millions of Jews, who could have fled, to Israel, were instead consumed in the Nazi infernos, in part due to Arab-British connivance.

We read of the indepth anti-Semitic and Nazi-inluenced culture, inculcated among arabs , since the time of Hitler's arch-ally and leader of the Palestinian Arabs, Mufti Haj amin el Husseini.

Later, for example, we read of how Egyptian troops captured by Israeli soldiers, during the Suez War of 1956, carried on them Arabic translations of Hitler's Meim Kampf.

We read of the surivial of the Jews in Palestine during World War II, and how it miraculously survived being overhelmed by the Axis powers in neigbouring Syria, Lebanon and Egypt.

Finally we read of the struggles of the state internally and externally.

The growth of a society of refugees, and their descendants, refugess either from Nazi-occupied Europe, and holocaust survivors, and of the 800 000 Jews brutally driven oput of Arab countries, after 1948.

Of the wars for survival, and of the countless terror attacks, across the borders from the 1950's.

The continuous provocation and murder from Israel's Arab neighbours , and we discover how every war, contrary to Islamic and radical left propaganda, was initiated by the Arabs and their allies.

Unfortunately, the last few chapters of the book, seems to have a bias towards the left of the Israeli political spectrum, and the demmand that Israel gives countless concessions to the 'Palestinians', with nothing in return.

The last word, for me, however go's to the former Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv, Chaim DAvid HaLevi who in response to one of the countless Arab atrocities against Israeli women and children, said at the funeral of a an elderly holocaust survivor, who died in a Hamas suicide bombing, in 1997:"These deaths are more painful than all of the losses of the Jewish people suffered while in exile. Here they are trying to flush us out of our homeland. But we will stay in this land, despite everything".

G-D Bless the Jews of the Land of Israel, forever!