Murray Books

The author was the father of the "Outdoor Movement" and graduated from Yale in 1862. The literary tone of this book keeps you captivated and before you know it time has passed and the book is over. John McDonough is the best reader I've heard. He delivers a stellar performance. Your kids will love this book. It's very touching...don't be afraid of the ending.

It is cutting edge in the nutritional aspect of treating CFS. It is scientifically sustained, empathetic, knowledgeable of the challenges. It gives you the small steps needed to start making life changes in nutrition needed to recover. Helps me tremendously in my time of illness. One thing I would suggest that is not in the book is to switch to all organic and to make a habit of Juicing. "Juicing for life" is a good complement to this book. If you juice it is important to chose organic produce because the concentration in juices is very high.
Good luck.

Prof. Dry provides a deep and clear account of the thought of the eminent political and legal thinkers before, during and after the Founding.

Most books and classes on the First Amendment discuss only the last part of the relevant history, the Supreme Court cases of the 20th century. Neglected are the political ideas and disputes of religious leaders such as Winthrop, Penn, and Williams, the debates among of the Founders and the Framers, and the evolution of rights in the state constitutions. Prof. Dry gives an erudite discussion of First Amendment jurisprudence, but only after laying out the philosophical and theological foundation for that jurisprudence.

Few scholars are as able today as Prof. Dry to succeed in such a task. A student of Herbert Storing, the remarkable commentator on and editor of the Anti-Federalist writings, Prof. Dry has contemplated and taught the American Founding and Constitutional Law for three decades.

Both students and scholars will find this work full of illuminating and rare insight.

This book provided us with the first sharp definitions of Clarice Cliff and the art era in which she flourished. Leonard Griffin gives the reader an excellent short biography of Cliff but more than that, he explains the Bizarre Affair, the forward-looking brilliant artwork of this young English artist. I am a collector of Clarice Cliff and I remain astonished about the breadth of her work and the brilliant designs and patterns. Mr. Griffin has organized the Bizarre work into shape and patterns. I do use more resources since this book has been published, but I credit Mr. Griffin as the pioneer of organizing her art to enable the reader or collector to understand this part of art deco history.

In my humble opinion Jim Murray is the world's best whisky writer. He demonstrates that clearly in this book on Blended Scotch Whisky. He has a very positive view of life and whisky in particular. He has tasting notes and comments for every known brand of scotch blends (how can one man manage to taste all these whiskies ?). He is very analytic and detailed in his description of the different brands and if you read his descriptions you are no in doubt that this man lost his heart to whisky. And it is a big heart: There are only a few blended scotch whiskies he doesn't seem to have a love affair with.

Hopefully this book can help giving Scotch Blended Whisky the top status it actually deserves.

Scotch Single Malt is not the only whisky worth drinking. Sometimes a blended whisky is better. Try it yourself.

If you care just a little bit about whisky, this book is a must!

It seems that most authors on the finer spirits tend to take an antiseptic view of their work. They may simply chronicle the historical background of some of the largest distilleries and review the high-end labels. But Mr. Murray writes with a distinctive passion about his favorite of all spirits (his admission on a radio talk show in Scotland). If you enjoy bourbon but have been afraid to plunk down the cash for a high-priced bottle, check out this book and then go for it! You won't be disappointed.

To the Ancients (mostly Greeks and Romans), the main
literature to be talked of was Poetry, but Poetry was
not merely what we tend to think of it as being. For
the Ancients, Poetry was primarily Drama (both Tragedy
and Comedy), because their dramas were written in
poetry, Epic poetry, Lyric poetry (shorter song poems),
Love Poetry, Choral songs, and Sacred Poetry
(Odes and Hymns).
The sources of inspiration for all of this creativity,
in their belief, was the god Apollo (Master of the Lyre,
a type of arm-balanced harp to be plucked with the
fingers of the non-holding hand)and the 9 female
divinities who served under his tutelage and protection,
the Muses. Most of the Muses came to be the specific
inspirers of some specific type of poetry: Euterpe
(Lyric poetry); Thalia (Comic drama poetry and idyll
poetry about shepherds and flocks and countryfied
lovers); Melpomene (Tragic poetry); Terpsichore
(Choral song and dance); Erato (Love poetry);
Polyhymnia (Sacred Poetry); and Calliope (Epic poetry).
The major home where the Muses were believed to reside
was Mt. Helicon in Greece, but occasionally they were
also thought to live on Mt. Parnassos (also in ancient
Greece). The Romans especially liked to think of the
Muses as residing on Mt. Parnassos.
This volume is a collection of what is considered to
be the best writing about "literary criticism" -- or
rather, poetic criticism from the ancient Greek and
Roman world. The pieces by these ancient authors
are presented in the chronological order of when the
author lived and wrote -- thus, the line of order
for the pieces is Plato (with the dialogue *Ion*,
and sections from the work *Republic* which deal
with poetry and poets, what part the arts should
play in the education of the citizen of the republic,
and the possible effects of poetry on the ethics,
morality, and lifestyles of the citizens of the republic);
Aristotle (with his work, *Poetics*, mostly dealing
with tragic-drama poetry, its purpose, its effects--
and epic poetry, and a comparison of tragedy and
epic); the Roman poet Horace (his verse[!!!] epistle
discussing poetry-*On Poetry*), and Longinus with his
treatise *On the Sublime*, which discusses works both in
poetry and prose --and style: the manner in which
the work is presented, its choice of poetic or prose
type, its use of language, its use of artistic effects
[and affects]--Longinus gives us the beginning of
real, total literary criticism of a work, analyzing
not only the "parts", but the effect of the whole
as a work of art.
This is certainly going much farther and deeper
than merely today's "instant" criticism of two
thumbs up or two thumbs down...or do I like it, or
don't I like it. This is bringing to bear intelligent,
insightful, self-examining criteria as well as turning
the critical examination upon the art work as well.
Its is a combination of philosophical examination of
aesthetics (what is beautiful? why is it beautiful?
what does it have or do that makes it beautiful? how
does it produce its effect of beauty upon the
beholder?) -- as well as psychological examination
of the beholder and what is going on inside him or her
as a result of beholding, perceiving, "participating"
in interaction with the work of art. Then, we
really get into some delicious waters--for we are
not mere "observers", but also are hooked-in participants
with the art work and its magic effects (our responses
to the work are a part of the artistic creation, too!).
In conclusion, Horace says many wondrous things
in his work, I will quote only this: "Poets aim either
to benefit [enlighten, bring about insight, understanding,
compassion], or to please [delight with effects of
engaging, subtle ideas, words, sounds, images]. ***
The man [or woman] who has managed to blend usefulness
[not practical utility, but intellectual and spiritual
deepening and eye-opening understanding] with pleasure
wins everyone's approbation [applause, cheers, seat
thumpings, sighs of admiration...], for he delights
his reader [listener]as he instructs him."
-- Horace, *On Poetry.*
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This book is helping me a lot with my Ph.D. dissertation. It includes a lot of important results on hypercomplex analysis not usually found in the standard monographs on the subject (Brackx, Gürlebeck, Shapiro,...).

Its contents are: Clifford algebras, Dirac operators and Clifford analyticity, representations of Spin(V,Q), constant coefficient operators of Dirac type, Dirac operators and manifolds.

Presents motivation for each section and extensive references. A must-reading to become a speciallist in this area. Suitable for graduate students and researchers.

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This book is an outstanding way to see how Natural Systems (Bowen) Theory based therapy is done in several settings and for various diagnoses. Not the first book to read on Bowen theory, but definately a must read!

This book is well worth buying. I had the pleasure of learning from these gentlemen in dental school and highly reccomend there book. It is concise and easy to read, it provides a solid foundation in periodontics.