Lawrence Books

This is a lovely piece of travel writing about the Island of Rhodes by a master observer of both the human character and the land- and seascapes with which Greece and its islands always delight us. It is a richly sensuous account of Durrell's years in the British civil service just after the end of WWII and just before the island is handed back to Greece. The eye is feted with descriptions of fields, hills, oranges and lemons, and flowers of every form and color. Sounds range from the rhythm of the sea (alternately savage and soothing) to Greek folk songs to sparkling conversation with Brit expatriates (including Gideon the half-sighted wonder). The author even offers a neat summation of a Greek picnic in tems of smells: petrol, garlic, wine and goat. Intermingled with these delicious attacks on the senses there is the play of light over the island as the sun moves across the sky and its rays are filtered through sea mist, mythology and the grim reality of having to rebuild a nation and an island after Nazi cruelty has left it a shambles. Like it or not, the reader is filled in on some mildly interesting points in the author's understanding of ancient history and the medieval Knights of St. John, who came into possession of the island for a time. The last section is about an enormous cookout in honor of a saint at whose shrine miracles have been know to occur, even raising the dead. It is a stroke of irony that during the festivities a young child is run over by a truck and dies the following day despite the best efforts of Mills, a good hearted but overextended British doctor. All in all, this is a delightful book, highly recommendable for those who enjoy travel writing. But Durrell is no Rebecca West, and this is not an example of the best Durrell. But it isn't bad Durrell, either.

Lawrence Durrell wrote this little book based on his life on Rhodes after World War II. This a more mature and settled Durrell than the young man who first brought us "Prospero's Cell" about Corfu or who wrote the "Alexandria Quartet" from Egypt during the war. Durrell's work is a time machine, taking the reader back to recovering Rhodes amidst poverty, sunshine, vibrant villages, and sparkling seas. His eye is fresh and clear, and his descriptions transport the reader to a place and time that are ageless and real. Another small classic!

Reviewed by David Lundberg, author of Olympic Wandering: Time Travel Through Greece

D.H. Lawrence's non-fiction is as good as his best fiction and these essays I would recommend for any curious and intelligent teenager (or adult if you missed them). They are about feminism, equality, democracy, art and travelling and every single one is worth reading. I read them when I was 20 and they have stayed with me ever since.

On the Title essay:
It is very fascinating to read a writer just narrating very common happenings that might happen at a ranch, like the unexpected meetings with porcupines and snakes.
Dropping the writer's role and just experiencing everything as a common man would. One work in which Lawrence is not doing, what he is famous for: theorizing every occurence, phenomena of life as a part of a huger complex thing, which can be comprehended by us ,only with him as the mediator.

Whatever questions you have about Reiki will be answered in this book. Suitable for the merely curious or the Reiki practitioner, and set out in an easy to use question and answer format. Especially good for someone who needs help to "explain" Reiki to others, and also full of handy tips for those practicing or hoping to use Reiki as part of a complementary therapy business.

I found this to be a loving and thorough guide to help people after they are attuned to the Reiki energy, and also for those who are thinking of getting more involved with this beautiful energy. The format with it's appropriate pictures placed throughout the book and the well planned and comprehensive chapters make this a wonderful how-to for the budding Reiki Professional.

The book is filled with down to earth advice and plain talk about how to set up your business, how to interest clients, what to say to a potential client, how to set up a space for Reiki Treatments, and even loving info on how to do a Reiki session.

I feel this is a truly inspired labor of love, and that the author left no stone un turned in bringing us this enlightened helper. It has found it's way to my spiritual tool box, and I expect it may make it's way to yours also.

I understand from this book is now out of print, but I am enjoying the library audio version. Carl Reinhart is a middle-aged man who never seemed to make anything of his life. He is divorced, not gainfully employed and lives with (and frankly, off of) his 25-year-old daughter, Winona, who is a successful model. So why do I actually LIKE this guy? Reinhart is very intelligent, philosophical and has a passion for cooking. He is not a professional cook, or professional anything else, of course, but as a self taught amateur has become quite accomplished at the art. The beautiful Wimona eats exceedingly little, but Reinhart is tolerant of that - it IS her job to be slim and gorgeous. He also very much rolls with the flow when he discovers this lovely and beloved daughter is gay.

Actually, "Rolling with the flow" describes Reinhart very well - he just seems to philosophize about life's surprises and mishaps and goes on rolling. The other women in his life include Grace Greenwood, a dynamic executive for a food company (and Winona's "friend") who manages to get Reinhart gainfully employed, first as a food demonstrator at a grocery store, then as a TV chef. In the cooking demonstration job he works with the loose but sweet Helen, who bestows upon Reinhart the same comforting gifts she generously bestows on a few (more than a few?) men. Reinhart, accepting people for what they are is, of course, tolerant of that. Then we have Mercer, his wellborn daughter-in-law who seems to either be "on something" or maybe just not connecting on all cylinders. Being marriend to Reinhart's unfeeling jerk of a son may be the reason. I'm not sure where he's going with Edie Mulhouse (I have a cassette and a half to go), a very large neighbor, but Reinhart has befriended the painfully shy and awkward gal. Is she in love with Reinhart? She seems to worship him. Or maybe she's in love with Winona; such indications are also hinted at. Equally puzzling is Genevieve, Rehihart's ex wife, who appears out of the blue after a decade of no contact with her ex-husband. Why did SHE show up? It appears her purpose in contacting our hero is for the purpose of loudly, embarrassingly and publicly cracking up.

This is, of course, the fourth Reinhart novel. That it is out of print is a travesty, an abomination, a devastating commentary on the sick state of humanity as a whole.

In this novel, Reinhart has become a cook. Writing a novel is like cooking with memes. It is done for much the same reasons; it is very difficult. But Thos. Berger make it looks easy. I don't know how he does it. It is genius.

Thomas Berger must feel that his characters are too interesting and entertaining to not return to, and he is right. Splendor Mainwaring's son is here, representing his father who is in cryogenic suspension, we hope. (It is my theory that *Robert Crews* is a sequel to *Regiment of Women* perhaps the funniest novel ever written, except for *Neighbors*.)

In a hundred years, surely it will be seen that Reinhart (not Rabbit) is the essential fictional human of the second half of the 20th Century.

I first read *Reinhart's Women* when I was about 34. Then I put it away, knowing--every week that passed in my life--that when I was in my early fifties, I would take it out again, and re-read it. It gave me something to look forward to. After waiting all these years, I have not been disappointed. I wish I could get amnesia so that I could read it again tonight.

Wrongly pigeon-holed by some as a "comic" novelist, or even "black humorist", Berger's themes are large, his fiction is true. He writes novels of imagination (*Changing the Past*, *Being Invisible*, *Regiment of Women*, of history (*Arthur Rex*) and of the human condition). That they are excrutiatingly funny does not mean that they are not excrutiatingly true.

I have read a lot of novels over the years. *Reinhart's Women* is my favorite novel. No one knows women better than Berger, except other women. If you want to know about women, read about Reinhart's.

On the chance that Mr. Berger might read these reviews, I would like to say to him:

Hey! How's Reinhart? Was his TV show a success? Did he marry Edie and give Blaine a kid half-brother or -sister? Did he revivify the restaurant? What about Mercer? What happened to her? Did Genevieve fare better in California than she did in Chicago, and did she ever raise her ugly head again in Southern Ohio (presuming that Reinhart remained there)? Or did everyone simply live happily ever after?

You brought back Jack Crabb. I love Reinhart more. I reallize that the out-of--print status of *Reinhart's Women* may not seem to be too encouraging, but how about this: Mr. Berger, if you write a fifth Reinhart, I will personally give you $100. I am not kidding. michaelbrown@mail.org

Has good in-dept discussion to the subspecialty. Compliments Ryans 3 volume Retina nicely. Very good pictures and the tables are nicely constructed. A must have for any general ophthalmologist with a keen interest in retina or any vitreo-retinal specialist.

This two volume set covers medical and surgical retina. It has many fine color photographs and is written on a high level. It seems to fill some of the gaps left by the Ryan Retina series. Drug coverage seems up to date, and treatment recommendations are current

I want to preview this book than sure that is i want.

This book ranks with PDR for Herbal Remedies, plus it includes minerals and other supplements. A great buy!

In this scholarly yet readable survey, Dr. Timothy L. Smith does a great service to the study of American religious history. Especially notable are the connections he draws between revivalism and the social reform movements, such as temperance & abolitionism, which led up to the Civil War. Highly recommended for anyone interested in American history, especially the history of religion as it relates to society in America.

In this work, Smith demonstrated how a sympathetic approach to the revivalists and reformers can yield different conclusions from social control historians like C. S. Griffin or Charles Foster. In antebellum revivalism, Smith discovered little that religious elites could control or exploit, but rather saw the reform impulse as a constructive Christian response to the problems of the age. Furthermore, he virtually rejected Turner's frontier thesis as applied to church history, believing that late-antebellum revivalism and reform were urban phenomena stimulated in part by events across the Atlantic. Finally, Smith emphasized the importance of widely-held theological ideas as sources of social behavior. His work is an important contribution to the social organization approach to antebellum reform, but like the work of many church historians, it has not received its fair share of attention from other scholars. I highly recommend this work for students of antebellum religion and reform. My main criticism is that it dismissed too quickly the theological influence of Calvinism in reform thought. For an interesting counterpoint, see Leo Hirrel's Children of Wrath.

Rose has written a masterful book, capturing the true essence of Antisemitism. I highly recommend this masterpiece. Buy it!

This book details the "bipartisan" nature of German anti-semitism. Non-Christian revolutionaries hated Jews as well, and Rose details their reasons by analyzing the political opinions of various Romantic/German philosophers of the 18th, 19th Centuries. He covers Kant, Hegel, Voltaire, Fichte, Marx, and ends with Wagner, and shows the intellectual development of revolutionary anti-semitism through these philosophers. Some are well-known, like the aforementioned ideologues, others are lesser known. The book shows the development of an anti-Semitic mythology, that began as a Christian anti-Semitism (the Ahasverus-Wandering Jew, Moloch and Mammon), yet by the beginning of the 20th Century, was a fully Secularized anti-semitism.

The important lesson from this book is how entrenched Jew hatred was across the German intellectual landscape in the 19th Century. It wasn't limited to a bunch of Capitalist Christians (as accused by many Marxist historians, who would no doubt be ashamed that their hero Marx hated Judaism), but atheists and socialists as well. A good companion book to this is "Scientific Origins of National Socialism", about Ernst Haeckel and the Monist League, and how the German scientists caved into Jew-hatred as well.

Books of this quality are rare. For anyone interested in the underlying patterns which orchestrate existence, this book superbly details, describes, compares and analyzes major cosmological concepts and ideas. I heartfelt wish the author, drawing upon 25 years of living these ideas, would write a sequel discussing what he has learned through his sojourn in Indonesia.

A must read for those interested in seeing the connection of mysticism and our natural world.

This book will stand the test of time. Published in 1975 at the height of the "consciousness movement" of the 60's & 70's this book blends myths, magic and religion to modern natural science and leaves the reader wanting more. Author Blair takes the reader on a step by step journey through the transformation of consciousness from the past to the present supported from the microcosm to macrocosm.

This book is a comfortable read though in its simplicity it evokes the reader's own sense of wonderment about the world around him/her.

This book never gets boring. It stimulates and educates. Next time you fly, turn off that awful in-flight movie and read this book!

This book is every bit as timely as the original 1975 printing. It began as the author's doctoral thesis on mysticism, ultimately blending a variety of disciplines into a multifaceted jewel of perception. The preface to this reprint is an account of the author's looking back, with bemusement, at having written the book and the deep ramifications that this had in his life (which included his later explorations with his brother that led to the "Ring of Fire" PBS series about Indonesia). For anyone who enjoys a synergistic blend of science and metaphysics, served with scholarly, yet very spellbinding, prose bordering on poetry, this book is a must.