Phillips Books

Book includes 17 one-minute tips to improve meetings. Includes tips for before, during and at the end of the meeting. Also includes 16 one-minute tips to improve business writing. There's also a section with tips to improve your presentations.

I was looking for some basic presentation items to include in a train-the-trainer session. But as I got to looking at some of the other tips, I realized that I could benefit from them, too.

The book has some excellent exercises. The one on 'Are You Paying Fines For Your Company Meetings?' is meant to heighten awareness about the cost of poorly run meetings. Another exercise provides a checklist of items to consider when calling a group meeting that could interfere with productivity. Those are just a few of the really good material covered by this well-done book.

This is a great tab book for those who are interested in learning Renaissance guitar. The cd that comes with it is very nice, almost worth the price itself. If you're into that Bard/tavern music/medieval type stuff, you'll love it.

I only recently became interested in Renaissance guitar, and this book has been extremely helpful. Some really nice, slow beginner pieces in here, and others are a bit more challenging. Think of it as a baby step toward learning more complex classical pieces.

So, if you're looking to learn this style, I recommend it, it's great fun and very pretty. Also, having a classical guitar isn't required obviously, but if you want the appropriate sound it's highly recommended.

I think Bob Phillips IS Texas.

Bob Phillips has taken his favorite Texas sites and put them into a wonderful little book that is just the size to fit in your glove compartment. His award winning show come through in this great book. For 25 years now he has used his special talents for finding some of the most intresting characters in Texas. In this wonderful little book he put these people into words. A must for Texas travelers

In the coming future by God's willing.

I found this book to be an invaluable assest and reference text. As a resident needing a thorough reference at home for this text will be a welcome addition to my library (and the first place I head to late at night). It systematically breaks down each chapter into clear, clinically important areas so you can easily find what you need.

Phillip Freeman's book is a collection of his "talks" at the local psychoanalytic society in which he is an esteemed member and teacher. They're about psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic politics, contemporary culture, and human foibles. Freeman manages to weigh in against the trend to make psychoanalysis more "relevant" to today's culture by pillorying that culture in various ways, importing stories and concepts from archeology, neurobiology, and the shtetl to show that the heart and soul of Freud's contribution shouldn't be diluted by pandering to popular trends. The book comes with a CD which has 4 of his performances recorded so that readers can see that he is not only an intellectual, but a stand-up comedian and story-telling humorist--think Robin Williams meets Spaulding Gray. As someone who came from the psychoanalytic tradition, I was delighted, amazed, and ultimately touched by Freeman's passion and wit.

This book is a great attempt by Regalia to construct a solid base for a theory of adaptive IIR filtering, which was almost nonexistent until the publication of this work. The chapter in filter structures is so nice that it would make a great source for a linear system theory course. For example, I used to be scared to death of lattice filters, but after reading this chapter I realized the beauty and significance of these structures.

The nicest thing about the book is that it is so CLEAR. While other works require a big mathematical background and get lost in the details, Regalia writes for the engineer and not for the mathematician, sacrificing a little rigor in the benefit of clarity (but without ever getting sloppy - which I surely appreciated).

While some typos can be found, and after 5 years since publication some conjectures turned out not to be correct, the book is a must for researchers in adaptive IIR filtering and reduced order approximation.

This is a very well researched and written book. Lots of rare photos that detail the rise and fall of the mighty Empire. I also recommend "Last of the Flying Clippers: The Boeing B-314 Story" which is a book with (unfortunately) a similar sad ending.

The Orestia trilogy is the tragic story of the responsibility of a blood debt and the need for a system of laws and justice that replaces an ending cycle of revenge. In the first play, "Agamemnon," the title character returns victoriously from Troy to be murdered by his wife, Clytemnestra, who having sacrificed their daughter Iphigenia so that a fair wind would blow the Achean army to Troy. In the middle play, "The Choephori" ("The Libation Bearers"), Orestes comes to Argos to avenge his father by killing his mother. After doing the bloody deed, Orestes is afflicted by madness and flees in terror from the Furies, the hideous spirits who hunt down and punish murderers. Thus the stage is set for "The Eumenides," the final play in the trilogy.

"The Eumenides" begins a few days after the end of the previous play, with Orestes seeking refuge at the sanctuary of Apollo at Delphi. In a most unusual move for a Greek tragedy, the action then jumps ahead several years when Orestes, after years of wandering as a tormented outcast, arrives at Athens and throws himself on the mercy of the godess Athena. The Furies arrive, hot upon his heels, and demand he be punished for his act of matricide. However, Orestes insists that since he acted according to the dictates of Apollo, he is guiltless of the crime. This is a shocking declaration, especially for someone from the accursed house of Atreus. Athena convenes a special court to hear the case against Orestes, but they are unable to reach a verdict, leaving it to the goddess to decide his fate. She casts the tie-breaking vote to acqit Orestes and the Furies turn against the city itself, but Athena persuades them to bless the city instead, finding there a home and a cult that will worship them as the Eumenides (the Kindly Ones).

Ultimately, the Orestia is a celebration of the Athenian civilization that had created a democratic government and a system of trial by jury. That such a system could be perverted might be true, as the case of Socrates strongly suggests, but Aeschylus is comparing the system to the past to draw a strong distinction between vengeance and justice. The Orestia has great importance because of this theme, and not simply because it is the only surviving example of a Greek tragic trilogy. The climax of "The Eumenides" is rather strange for a Greek tragedy, since it ends on an exalted note of reconciliation and optimism, but that is why the Orestia is the first great drama in the history of theater.