Stuart Books

This book is fascinating. I was delighted that - although I am not a psychoanalyst - the book is written with such clarity that I could easily understand its complex psychological concepts.

I was attracted to the book because I am a writer and it contains a section about creativity and addiction which I found extraordinarily insightful.

This book makes excellent reading and is also a useful tool for self-examination.

Hungers and Compulsions, co-edited by Jean Petrucelli, Ph.D. and Catherine Stuart, Ph.D. is an ambitious, thought-provoking and perhaps even life-altering, collection of scholarly writings by various experts on "addiction" in the broadest sense of the term.

While the book is targeted primarily at professionals in the fields of psychology/psychiatry, etc., as a lay person, I find myself reading it "compulsively" (if you'll excuse the pun), since it offers fascinating insights into areas which may touch our lives or the lives of those we know -- hunger disorders, cigarette smoking, alcoholism and drug addiction, etc.

The book also explores the patient-therapist relationship, from unique vantage points: often that of the therapist and his or her own needs or the analysis of a literary character's behavior.

If you are looking for substantive summer reading, I think you'll find it dulce et utile. After reading the first few chapters, I was shocked to find myself in the exercise room for the first time in my life! Perhaps it was the image of the coughing cigarette smoker or the patient who yanked and ate her hair. Hopefully, it will inspire others towards positive change, as well.

I bought this book in 1988 - and I still have it on my shelf fifteen years later! It's the authors own personal story about her weight loss and in the end she tells you there is no magic cure - you just have to find your own path. BUT DO IT!

great, very honest and motaving. The author comes from an obesce family and talks about the supr dangers of being overweight. by being chronically obese they were prone to many illnesses they might have avoided otherwise. diets don,t work. must learn new eating habits. no forbidden foods only inapporiate amounts of food. you don't have to eat breakfast, learn to rely on your stomach to tell you when to eat. people respond to food like laboatory rats;when the food is laced in front of them they eat it whether they are hungry or not. gives actual guidelines and steps to be successful. very positive book.

I have an old 1921 edition of this book, hardback. It's been read so many times by previous owners that it can lie open flat infront of you. Actually thats the reason I picked it up to start with. I figured it must be a good book if it had been read so much that it would stay open.

The charaters are devolped very well, you get to know each one. Sabre, Lady Tybar, hi! and lo! Jinks, etc, they all become your friends. The town of Tidborough and the "Penny Green Garden House Development" become places you visited.

The begining was a little hard for me to get through, because I only could read it in between classes so I got it in small amounts, but once I got pass the first chapter I couldn't put it down.

It starts with a married couple, (Mark) Sabre and Mabel. Sabre works for "Furtune, East, and Sabre, Ecclesiastical and Scholastic Furnishers and Designers" where he rides his bike to everyday.

The story goes on and Sabre's old friend, Nona, shows up. Sabre is in love with her.

Then WWI starts and all the men are leaving for war. All but Sabre. He trys many times to sign up, but never passes the medical test. Then as the war goes on and England needs more men, they finially take him. During the war, Sabre gets hurt. [I believe that he loses his leg, but it may just be injured] So he is sent home.

His wife and he split. For he was never happy in the relationship to begin with.

To reveal the rest of it would ruin the ending. It's an ending that you don't really think will happen. I read the last page before I started the book [I sometimes do this] and knowing the last page still didn't tell me a thing that was going to happen.

This book is written so well. I first read it in 10th grade and and have been in love with it ever since. I recommend it to everyone.

Although this novel is about an unhappy marriage, eventual divorce, an unwed mother who commits suicide, WW I, and other unpleasantries, the book is extremely charming. Hutchinson writes well and with dry Bitish humor. He also has great insights into why Marko and Mabel fail as a couple. I like this novel a lot. Perhaps the most powerful scene is near the end, after Marko has taken into his house a young woman who is pregnant. This causes his wife to leave him and sue for divirce. It looks very bad for Marko because it looks like he's the father. But he learns, after the girl commits suicide, that his boss's son is the father. He goes to his boss to chastise him, only to learn that the boy has just been killed in the war. He ends up praising him. A wonderful novel.

This is an great book for learning about one's inner self through martial arts. Learning how to achieve the heightened enlightenment of awareness is a hard road to travel. This book smoothes out the bumps in the road making it easy for those to travel it much easier.

A Great Book On The Internal Art Of T'ai Chi Ch'uan, Get It Any Way You Can ! May Be Out Of Print But Buy It Used If You Have To ! Master T. T. Liang's Life Work. ( as given by his top student and winner of many international competitions )

This is a fascinating series of interviews that appeared in "The Realist" with individuals that inflenced the American scene starting in the 1950s. One senses that neither Paul Krassner nor those being interviwed pulled any punches thereby allowing the reader to enter the mind set of the interviewees.

This book is the best book ever written! God I love this book I have read it oh I dont know like at least 100 times I love it that much not much of a science fiction fan but this book tells a story with out little green aliens everywhere it has people with life living within the pages I just bought the 2 others in the series I cant wait great book MUST READ and this means you!

Stuart Cary Welch is THE acknowledged expert on Indian art. This is probably the best and most important introduction to the subject. There are nearly 200 colour pages and the text is informative without presuming too much knowledge in the reader. There is a good glossary and index plus selected bibliography for each chapter which deals with art from each selected period. I so badly wanted this book to add to my Moghul/Rajastan book collection that I ordered it directly from Mapin Publishing Pvt, Ahmedabad, India. They shipped it + 2 others airmail to Australia without charging me the full postage. This book should be on EVERYONE'S coffee table because it's beautiful and enlightening and stimulating and gorgeous and, well, just THE BEST BOOK on Indian art

"India: Art and Culture 1300-1900" is actually a 478-page catalogue for the exhibition "INDIA !" held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Rather than call it a catalogue, which can sometimes conjure up a negative image and diminish the importance of this effort, it would be more appropriate and accurate to call this a definitive tome on Indian Art. This specialized book presents three hundred thirty-three works representing Indian art from fourteenth through the nineteenth century. Author's love for art and his expertise are very obvious to the reader in the scholarly text and references accompanying each piece of work. Recipedelights.com thinks that this book is perfect for libraries, professional artists, art students, art lovers or Indian art buffs.

Anyone involved in law enforcement or Crimial Law will cherish this informative, well written text. It takes a very complicated, mind numbing subject and pilots the reader in an organized, comprehensible manner to a well rounded understanding of the subject. This one should be required reading for all law students and Criminal Law practitioners. A Masterpiece!!!

This is one of the finest reference books I have had the pleasure to read. It is easy to understand, no far out explanations. I believe this book should be on the shelf of any and all investigators, new or old. The table of contents was very informative. You are taken from the history of this disipline, all the way to case study. Nothing is missed and you can carry the book by yourself!! Credit was properly given to those that were first, there was no attempt to make one believe the editors were the "first" to discover this disipline. Photos often assisted text. I believe this is necessary for those investigators who do not see this as much as others. There was even a glossary !! EXCELLENT WORK ! I look forward to treating my eyes to the next book by James & Eckert

I wanted to get a better idea of life processes as related to biochemistry. I found this textbook very helpful in strengthening my understanding of the subject. The textbook is well organized and not too complicated. I have chemistry background and was able to learn what I hadn't in the past. Thank you.

Very concise and well organized. I was able to comprehend the subject material like never before. Been reading 1982 edition, as it only edition available for me at this time. I'd like to see a later edition.

After reading this text, I changed my career path to be revenue management. The book was very exciting to read and easy to understand. I now know more than the revenue manager at my current hotel! A must read for the latest and future trends of revenue with the highest recommendations.

This is the revenue management book that we have all been waiting for! Written in a refreshingly easy-to-read format, this text combines story problems with history, facts, and data, as well as great photography. This is a must-read for anyone interested in revenue management, companies who want a better understanding of how it works, and should be used by every hospitality school. If you have any interest at all in this topic, this is the book for you!

Ghosts and monsters of various breeds have haunted Japanese cinemas for decades, recently culminating in the spectacular worldwide success of RINGU and its sequels/remakes. Anyone remotely interested in this strange and hypnotically fascinating sub-genre absolutely needs to read Stuart Galbraith's remarkably entertaining and informative JAPANESE SCIENCE FICTION, FANTASY AND HORROR FILMS, easily the definitive work to date on the subject.

Galbraith writes in a breezy and humorous fashion, providing detailed , often witty synopses and brief critical examinations of over one hundred titles, covering any/all films released in the U.S. during the period 1950 - 1992. As such, it affords an excellent historical background to the current and much heralded renaissance of Japanese cinematic horror. Of particular interest is Galbraith's refusal to instantly demean any of the films on hand. He takes the films cultural and artistic differences from the U.S. norm at face value and attempts to succinctly explain any appeal each individual movie might have. This is not to say that some of the titles don't get mercilessly slammed--they do, deservedly so. Its just that Galbraith tends to provide a much more thoughtful critique than the usual "Bad Special Effects, Terrible Dubbing" mantra so often spewed out by xenophobic American-based reviewers.

The book's final one hundred pages are devoted to a remarkably detailed filmography, with full cast and technical crew credits to every film discussed in the main text. As the author notes, this is easily the most extensive such listing of Japanese fantasy films ever put into print. The filmography in itself makes the book an unqualified necessity for fans of the genre.

As a kid, I remember walking with my brother down to the Saturday matinee to see King Kong getting whupped by Godzilla, Rodan buzzing over the streets of Tokyo and the tiny twin fairy ladies singing their praise of Mothra. I didn't know it then but these kinds of movies were part of the "Daikaiju eiga" genre (Japanese giant monster movies) that Mr. Stuart Galbraith writes about so eloquently in his marvelous reference book "Japanese Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films".

Absolutely ANY Daikaiju eiga film released in the U.S. that you can remember (...and some that you no doubt have forgotten about! ) are described in this book. From the studios of Toho and Daiei, you will find ALL of the 20+ Godzilla and 7+ Gamera films as well as EVERY other sci-fi movie made by the incredible team of Tomoyuki Tanaka, Ishiro Honda and Eiji Tsuburaya (producer, director and SFX master of the original Godzilla films). Some of the lesser known but still wonderful films discussed include The Mysterians; Attack of the Mushroom People; Kwaidan; Onibaba; The Magic Serpent; Majin Trilogy; Atragon; The H-Man; War of the Gargantuas and Frankenstein Conquers the World.

With 424 pages laid out chronologically, Mr. Galbraith provides in-depth detail on more than 103 films including storyline, actors and their roles, production background, release notes and comments from contemporary reviews. Also included is a filmography of the genre from all Japanese studios including cast, crew and Japan/U.S. release information. A rather large bibliography and index complete this masterful work. This book was obviously written with great love and affection for the films at hand - I am quite sure that Daikaiju eiga fans will not be disappointed with their purchase of this book!