Ariel Reviews

This book surprised me because it was tiny. My bad, though--the dimensions ARE mentioned here. Cute and classic love poems and pretty pictures.

Ariel Bordeaux is a great comic artist. Her self-published comics under the name "Deep Girl" are some of my favorities. Needless to say, when this book came out I was very excited.

"No Love Lost" follows the break-up a girl with her boyfriend and an almost break-up with her best friend because of it. Ariel captures the hopes, fears and doubts of the twenty-somethings well. The characters seem real and story is well-written and presented.

The subject topic is nothing new, but if you liked "Deep Girl" or want to check out another good comic effort from one of the ladies I'd definitely suggest this little book!

This paperback is small in format, but it makes a great coffee-table book. I've observed many a guest in my house pick up the book, leaf through the pages, start to chuckle and, inevitably, exclaim, "Listen to this one!" The quotations span several decades and come from fans (including Humphrey Bogart), managers, umpires, players, journalists, and U.S. presidents. Many of the observations about the game apply to life in general. Take this statement, attributed to Vernon Law, a pitcher: "Experience is a hard teacher, because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward." However, readers need some knowledge of baseball to understand and appreciate most of the quotations. Here's pitcher Bill Lee, reacting to his first glimpse of the Green Monster at Fenway: "Do they leave it there during games?"

There is just one quotation on each page, so it's easy and tempting to pick it up occasionally, read a few pages, then return to it another time. This is a fun book -- to own and to give as a gift.

This book is a wonderful introduction to teaching mindfulness and care of creation when in the field - through a Jewish lens.

This title can help you know the most important cigar bands in history. How important colud be to know the wright band that means: the factory, vitola, flavor and bouquet of a fine cigar. Through time, man has designed very fine art to be together with cigars and their boxes, here you will find very useful information regarding painting on labels and bands.

I was pleased to find a book about love without the saccharine illustrations that usually acompany such a topic. Julia Gran's art is fun, witty and wonderfully drawn throughout. She illustrates love with an edge. It was a perfect gift.

Sadly the writer of the blurb on the cover did not write the entire book. I can usually plow through slow beginnings or even maintain credibility when the plot elements don't make sense. But this book failed to entertain at all. The characters were boring and uninteresting - I just didn't care what happened to them!
Writers of futuristic romance should be more aware of some of the things that would be different in a world that was so advanced. The holes in the sci-fi were too large to ignore. In many ways this looks like a short story that got enlarged- and doesn't have the goods to fill the pages so they became entangled in useless adjectives, and description that merely reinforced the fact that it was lacking in a good strong plot and a well researched background.

This is a great book for those of you who want something different. And different it is! The heroine, Ariel, is from the pleasure planet, Mariposa, while Dekkan, the hero, is from conventional and repressive, Amity. When these two join forces to obtain a stolen ring, the sexual tension goes soaring. Can Ariel change Dekkan's narrow-mindedness, and can he tame Ariel?

Read the book. It is an absolute trip finding out how they get along.

This book was truely wonderful. I love it! It had a wonderful hero who tried "so hard" to not fall "victim" to the "evil charms" of Ariel the beautiful butterfly dancer. The fact that his and her father set up the whole thing made it even more funny. Then throw in an irate bride to be from his home planet and you have a recepie for a wonderful book. Let me tell you the love scenes in this book were so hot. I wish that my husband would behave like Dekkan. Of course the fact that is a 20 something virgin helps make his first experience with his "control patch" running out very interesting. On the whole this book was wonderful and a must read!

I liked this tape. The authors described principles of self-realization in a clear and humorous way. I also enjoyed their interactions with the audience -- they used specific situations in peoples' lives to illustrate their "instantaneous transformation" approach.

I had a sense even before I popped this tape in to listen to, that I would enjoy it and I was right.

The interaction between the Kanes and the seminar participants in this tape is so touching, inspiring and refreshing in it's honesty. I loved the feeling of being part of the Kanes' seminar, at some points I even found myself responding to the tape player!

While listening to the Kanes' seminar unfold I found myself becoming more comfortable and relaxed and yet excited about the wonderful possibilities the Kanes were presenting.

Through listening to their audio tapes and reading their book "Working on Yourself Doesn't Work" those same possibilities have become realities for me in having a satisfying, loving and rewarding life. I am on to their Magical Relationships tape next...oh life is soo good!

This tape provides a very simple, accessible and easy way to find a deeper experience of life. I found that what the Kanes talk about is so simple I didn't want to grasp it all at first because it seemed too easy. But through their interactions with real people who have real issues and challenges, I saw how it relates to my life. I listened to the tape on my way to work more than once and found it a great way to start and end my day. They share the possibility that life doesn't have to be difficult and just listening to them brought great peace and awareness into my life. They have a way of not only explaining their discoveries about life, but somehow getting them through to me where I didn't feel like I had to remember any kind of mantra or tips for later. I have listened to their other tapes and highly recommend them as well.

While Mr. Dorfman's experience of crossing cultures and language during a high profile time in Chilian and American history is poinent, it is not unique or objective. His self absorbtion is irritating. His self rightousness criticism covers unresolved suvivor's guilt which would be better resolved in the analysts chair. It is unfortunate Mr. Dorfman presents such idealised view of the Salvador Allende. I have lived and worked in Chile and am well aquainted with many people,peers of Mr. Dorfman, who also have parents who immigrated from Europe or Russia. Allende caused terrible harm to the Chilian economy in his repartiation of middle class businesses and land amoung other things. Middle class housewives demonstrated in the streets begging the military to oust him. No one approved of the repressive regime, the fear and the disappearances of the early Pinochet years, but in the last years Pinochet opened the Chilian markets to the world. Pinochet was voted out and democracy in with the addition of "primary" elections so that no one will be elected with 33% of the vote as was Allende. There were no monsters in Chile, no saints,but there is complex history, culture and politics. It is a shame Mr Dorfman with his high visability couldn't have addressed that.

Both as a memorial to the democracy that was delayed for a generation in Chile (and to his friends who were casualties in the Pinochet terror) and as an account of how a major writer became the bilingual hybrid he is by rejecting first one and then the other of his linguistic selves, this is a fascinating book. . Battered from continent to continent by political events of the twentieth century, Dorfman's survival (as he knows well) depended on considerable luck and on his father's connections. Although he has accepted that his vocation is to tell stories, especially the stories of repression in Chile, there is no doubt that he harbors a considerable amount of survivor guilt.

Contrary to the misrepresentation of earlier reviewers, Dorfman does mention Borges (three times, all with respect), criticizes Castro as well as Pinochet (though Chile is a place to which he gave his heart and soul), and is not just aware, but explicit that it is ironic "I should have become a spokesperson for the poor in Latin America because I had spent so many years in the rich North" and of the recurrent ironies that the connections of his marxist father got them out of harm's way.

This is a very honest, un-narcissistic account of an interesting life of multiple exiles, observing failures of democracies, making clear the different selves that emerge in different languages. I would have liked more on the second American exile and assenting to bilingualism, and I regret that the hardback cover composition was replaced by the duller, less bicultural one on the paperback.

This is a great book. I have seldom read a book that is so honest and, at the same time, so full of sound and fury. Yes, it is highly idiosyncratic, especially when Dorfman tries to explain his reasons for chosing English over Spanish and vice versa, but, at the same time, it is written with such passion that one cannot help sympathizing with him. Being bilingual myself, going from English to Spanish and from Spanish to English every single day of my life, being an expatriate yearning for the lost paradise of my birth and childhood, I found in Dorfman's "Heading south, looking north" many of the encountered feelings that a person who participates in two cultures has--and I rejoiced in that I was not alone in my feelings.

But, apart from being a passionate meditation on the virtues and 'ravages' of bilingualism, "Heading south, looking north" is a corageous book full of the ironies that make up life and a hymn to the Allende revolution in Chile. There is much to be gained from his soul searching, much to be learned from his criticism of the revolution that he loves so much (yes, I think it's appropriate to use the present tense), and, above all, much to be admired from this singular journey. I highly recommend this book.

To much math and not easy to understand.

I agree with a previous review that this book is not good for individuals. Solutions to the excersizes are only available to educators. If the book is assigned for a class and the teacher has access to the solutions and can coach the student through the excersizes this is probably a great book because of it's depth. It is probably also a good reference book for those already familar with the subject.
However if you are like me and were looking for a strong book that will help a motivated individual learn game theory this book is not for you. I have tried many of the excersizes and I am still not positive that I my answers are correct. The material in the book is very complex but accessible, that is not the problem. The problem is the lack of development because I can not go over my answers to the excersizes and see what I did right and what I did wrong...

This was one of the first books I read in Game Theory, and definitely the hardest. Those who want a gentle introduction to the concepts of modern game theory might do better with a simpler text such as Gibbons. That said, there is no substitute for quality. The depth of analysis is entirely necessary to get to the meat of the theory.
Osborne and Rubinstein write extremely well, softening the blows of some of the more complicated concepts. Their own substantial publication records in the Game Theory literature do much to recommend their version of analysis over others.