Ariel Reviews

Although this book is miniature it is packed with information about your sun-sign. The feature of this book I enjoyed most was that it paired your sign with each of the other eleven signs (including itself; Leo and Leo). For example Leo and Gemini. It then described the chances of a relationship between the two. Another feature I enjoyed was the different chapters about Leo. Such as your talents and careers, body and mind, and Leo at a glance. I know that you will enjoy this small book as much as I have.

Although this book is miniature it is packed with information about your sun-sign. The feature of this book I enjoyed most was that it paired your sign with each of the other eleven signs (including itself; Libra and Libra). For example Libra and Leo. It then described the chances of a relationship between the two. Another feature I enjoyed was the different chapters about Libra. Such as your talents and careers, body and mind, and Libra at a glance. I know that you will enjoy this small book as much as I have.

"Even our age may seem great when most of us are forgotten, and only our mountain peaks have escaped the obscurity of time." - Will Durant.

*The Life of Greece* is the second volume in Will Durant's universal history of "that subtle and precarious luxury called civilization, without which life would have no beauty, and history no meaning" (p129). It is divided into five books: Aegean Prelude (3500-1000 B.C.); The Rise of Greece (1000-480 B.C.); The Golden Age (480-399 B.C.); The Decline and Fall of Greek Freedom (399-322 B.C.); and The Hellenistic Dispersion (322-146 B.C.).

Unlike the first volume, which (among other things) devoted from one to three hundred pages to the histories of India, China and Japan from the origins to the 1930s, this second volume, though shorter than the first (670 pages, not counting the bibliography and index), is much more focused and can afford to narrate in greater detail the political and military events that make up most of the bulk of traditional history books.

As if suffering from an excess of testosterone, Greek civilization was bellicose, extroverted, virile and sensualistic, down to its very modern hysteria over spectator sports, but it redeemed itself with a plethora of literary and philosophical geniuses after whom very little significant intellectual progress remained to be made: at best, we can boast improved measurements, judging by Anaxagoras's wonderful statement that "the sun is a red-hot masss many times larger than the Peloponnesus".

A recurring phrase in the book is "so old is...". Between them, for instance, the systems of Democritus, Empedocles and Epicurus contained virtually the whole philosophical import of modern science. "Realism and nominalism, idealism and materialism, monotheism, pantheism, and atheism, feminism and communism, the Kantian critique and the Schopenauerian despair, the primitivism of Rousseau and the immoralism of Nietzsche, the synthesis of Spencer and the psychoanalysis of Freud- all the dreams and wisdom of philosophy are here, in the age and land of its birth" (p670.)

Durant, the author of an acclaimed "Story of Philosophy", is particularly brilliant at essentializing the various philosophical systems of the period. For instance, he explains in a footnote that "in Plato's theory of ideas, Heracleitus and Parmenides are reconciled: Heracleitus is right, and flux is true, in the world of sense; Parmenides is right, and changeless unity is true, in the world of ideas" (p516) - a brilliant remark which I thought Leonard Peikoff had been the first to make.

Regretfully, however, Durant underestimates the philosophical stature of Aristotle, proposing to "consider him chiefly as a scientist" and noting almost immediately that "it is in biology that [he was] most at home": "All in all, the *History of Animals* is Aristotle's greatest work". Durant's pragmatic and often derogatory conception of philosophy (in volume three, he refers for instance to "the deserts of logic and metaphysics") and his defensible conviction that "there are no beginnings" may be partly to blame for this injustice which, anyway, does not seem to affect his solidarity with the "master of those who know". Indeed, it is hard not to perceive self-reference in such statements as: "When a man covers a vast field many errors may be forgiven him if the result adds to our comprehension of life.... When all deductions have been made, [Aristotle] still remains... a comforting inspiration to those who labor to bring man's scattered knowledge together into perspective and understanding." (p537)

Will Durant's *The Story of Civilization* is a brilliant illustration of the excellence a scholar can achieve with the best liberal education and a long-term acquaintance with the greatest historians from Herodotus to the present. Durant's opinion of Sallust (in volume 3) may be applied to him ("He deepened his narratives with philosophical commentary and psychological analysis and carved out a style of epigrammatic compactness and vivid rapidity which became a model") as well as the compliment that he is never boring, probably because he was an academic who did not write for his peers (as he comments on the Hellenistic period: "Poets began to write for poets, and became artificial; scholars began to write for scholars, and became dull.")

(Note: to compensate for the dearth of illustrations in the book, I had to rely on the maps provided in the Herodotus/Thucydides volume from Britannica's *Great Books of the Western World*; and bought copies of Gisela Richter's *A Handbook of Greek Art* and Peter Connolly's *Ancient Life in Classical Greece and Rome*, both of which were highly recommended to me.)

This book is compelling social, cultural and economic history that reads like a novel. It is beautifully translated. An exciting, stimulating read.

If you are worried that a Spanish-speaking patient will talk too fast and say too much for you to understand, your worries are over. Medical Spanish by Bongiovanni is designed to elicit yes-no answers or short answers. Other chapters teach simple commands for conducting exams, instructing therapy or providing discharge information. It's a gift from heaven. You will develop confidence as you learn Spanish.

Subject- BEL CANTO Principles and Practices- Author- Cornelius Reid
Mr.Reid, as difficult as it is to write down the Bel Canto Structure of Singing, has done an excellent job of attempting to get it on paper, as close to the real thing as I have ever read. The book is also very interesting in its writing and is enjoyable and fairly easy to read. I say this, being one of many who say they teach this method, and one of the very few, who actually knows and understands what Bel Canto is in singing. In his other, later writings on this subject, while there are truths in these works, Mr. Reid does somewhat stray from the purity of this method, perhaps in an attempt to not be so heartily disagreed with, as most singing/voice teachers, the majority as it were, have not a clue to what he was writing about. I strongly suggest that this book, for reference, be in everbody's musical library.

Thank you,

Luis Pichardo

I enjoyed this tape because it is obvious that Ariel & Shya Kane have learned a great deal from their experience of relationships rather than their study of them. With so many books and tapes on the market these days by the "Dr. of this" or the "World-renowned expert on that", I find it hard to absorb advice given by someone whose experience is gained from purely clinical or analytical methods. The Kanes have had a great relationship for many years and they aren't afraid to share the details of their lives in order to enhance the listener's understanding of how to make their relationships work better than they ever have before. It quickly becomes apparent that they have helped many, many people with their approach, which is light, fun and easygoing. This tape is an actual recording from one of their workshops and you will find yourself engaged by their interactive style. It was easy for me to relate to the participant's questions and the Kane's deeply insightful answers and comments felt like they were meant for me.

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This book is writen by a very good auther named Shmuel Blitz. It comes to teach the english speaking people how to lern hebrew in an easy way by pictures it also comes to teach people who speak french how to speak hebrew because it also came out in french. The book holds pictures and over the pictures there are words in two languages ether french or english and the second language is in hebrew, that is the reason that it is easy to lern hebrew from this book.

Great "little" pocket book to help identifiy that special pickup in your driveway or if you are wondering what make is in the garage down the street. Nice photos, clear text presented in a easy to read form. Nice book for younger reader interested in trucks of all makes.