SU Reviews

El libro es una recopilación de los sucesores del padre Osvaldo Lira al cumplir una labor apologética y de difusión del Tomismo, hay artículos de pensadores chilenos como Juan Antonio Widow y extranjeros como Antonio Millán Puelles .
Comienza con una pequeña semblanza histórica-doctrinal y continúa con artículos de diferentes tópicos estudiados por el profesor y doctor Honoris Causa por la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

I am a Reference Archivist working in Genealogy for a State Archives. This book has provided help for many of my frustrated patrons who are looking for naturalization records of their ancestors. This book is very easy to use. The names are in alphabetical order. Each name has a corresponding numerical key which links it directly to the source it is cited in. I have never had a problem of not being able to find a name. More often than not Patrons have later told me that the books indexed in the Passenger and immigration lists have provided more information than the naturalization records themselves. But Buyer BEWARE! This is ONLY an INDEX it does not have the complete records. It only tells you where the name is located so further research is necessary in order to find the book and this could entail further travel and time. To Diehard "genies" however, this book is a definent lifesaver and should be in every genealogical, historical, reference, and archival library.

I recieved this book from a co-workder when my baby was about 7 months. I would have loved to have received it earlier. Either way it's a great book. Being a new mom, I had so many questions, like how do I know if my baby has a fever, how to a take her temperature, what is considered a high temperature, etc. The book explains everything you could ever imagine from ear aches, teething, diarrhea etc. I find myself using it all the time. I like it so much that I'm giving it to a friend for her baby shower. Another great thing is that the book is in spanish. It's hard to find good spanish books out there. I highly recomenend it to those new moms.

SELECTED POEMS OF SU TUNG-P'O : Translated from the Chinese by Burton Watson. 148 pp. Port Townsend, WA : Copper Canyon Press, 1994. ISBN 1-55659-064-4 (pbk.)

Burton Watson has always struck me as an eminently civilized scholar and as a fine translator. Unlike certain others, he wears his scholarship lightly, and doesn't overburden the text with extraneous matter. His many translations from Chinese and Japanese Literature are of uniformly high quality, and are well worth having as they are books one often wants to returns to.

The present book, after a typically brief but interesting and informative introduction which provides all we really need before diving into the poems, gives us translations of 105 of Su Tung-p'o's poems, lightly annotated and beautifully printed on spacious pages.

Su Tung-p'o is one of China's greatest poets, and Watson has outdone himself here. The wrapper includes a highly laudatory appreciation by Gary Snyder, and it's easy to see why. Watson has always been a brilliant translator, and a true artist with words, but in this book he has lifted himself into the ranks of the very best, and has produced translations indistinguishable in quality from those of Snyder himself.

Here, as an example of his marvelous control of tone, thought, feeling, image, rhythm, and sound, are the opening lines of poem 52 (with my obliques added to indicate line breaks) - 'Reading the Poetry of Meng Chiao' :

"Night : reading Meng Chiao's poems, / characters fine as cow's hair. / By the cold lamp, my eyes blur and swim. / Good passages I rarely find - / lone flowers poking up from the mud - / But more hard words than the Odes or Li Sao - / jumbled rocks clogging the clear stream, / making rapids too swift for poling. / My first impression is of eating little fishes. . . . " (p.70).

What we find here is what Burton Watson, in his 'Columbia Book of Chinese Poetry' (1984), has described as "a freshness and immediacy that is often quite miraculous" (p.3).

Not poems about airy notions and exalted abstractions, then, but poems describing events from daily life, poems recording the scenes of a journey, poems expressing grief, joy, boredom, or irritation as here, poems both serious and funny and by someone who is in many ways like ourselves.

Su Tung-p'o's is a wholesome poetry, a poetry that cleanses and refreshes the sensibility, and that translates us from the technoid madness of our own chaotic world to something more human and hence more nourishing. There's real food for the spirit in these poems. Watson has done them full justice. Sensitive readers would be unwise to pass them by.

This book analize the different caracters of each zodiacs signs, you can find the general caracters of the signs behavior and later explain in each people, like woman, man, child, boss and worker, you can find all that you want about the different humans behavior by the zodiac sign eye, they explains them feelings, what did they like or not, the best and the worst about of each zodiac signs, how do they look phisically and psicologically with logic, this book leave you without any questions

El libro "Su Negocio en Internet" provee al lector toda la información básica que debe saber al momento de considerar que su negocio tenga una presencia efectiva en Internet. El libro está diseñado para que sea fácil de leer permitiendo al lector que no está muy familiarizado con las computadoras e Internet tener un entendimiento claro del funcionamiento y los beneficios de esta útil herramienta. Lo recomiendo.

There are few secrets to be revealed. It is hard to be where no one has ever been. One hits upon a deserted, white, pure beach. This must be a secret place, one thinks. Alas! A can of Coke is soon to be found, proof that men have been there before.

Finding a secret book is very much like finding a secret place. And this book is pretty much a secret one. Though Bernal has won some kind of a literary name with another book of his (El complot mongol), he is commonly thought of as a one-book-writer. And nothing more false.

This book is a master piece of horror and science fiction. It uses science fiction to what is really meant, as a metaphor of our times. Bernal hits with a lasting symbol of the modern condition, with all its pain and desolation.

Yet, like truly great science fiction, this book manages to be humorous, somewhat farsical in tone. There is a very short gap between criticizing our civilization and whining about it. Bernal knows how to walk on the razor's edge.

This book is a secret. Few readers know about it and critics have let it pass by. It is a beach, with great, foaming waves, with immaculate sand and huge granitical cliffs at its sides. Very few have been there. And I tell you it is worth you while to go get a peep.

The book covers the major part of this plane's service life, starting at its inception and ending at the fall of the USSR. Retelling its birth as a prototype, its service in Afghanistan and subsequent design changes, and its ongoing service in several airforces. All illustrated with lots of B&W photographs, line-drawings that illuminate speficic details and more than ten colour paintings (the frontpage features a truly outstanding painting of a hapless Iraqi pilot pursued by F-15's).

As someone who has appreciated Ven. Thubten Chodron's many introductory books on Buddhism, I was very excited to hear about this book when first came out. Upon my first reading, I thought that perhaps I had bitten off more than I could chew!

However, as I've continued in my Buddhist studies and continued to study the Lamrim, this book has become a source of joy and clarity. It is a commentary on a particular text, "The Thirty-seven Practices of Bodhisattvas"; but in a more general way, it is a wonderful commentary on the gradual path to enlightenment in the Tibetan tradition. I have been pleasantly surprised at how accessible the teachings in this book are to a Western student of the dharma, with examples given that most of us can readily relate to our daily lives.

Ven. Chodron's introductory section on the Buddhist World View is a very readable and useful encapsulation of basic dharma teachings for new students, and a wonderfully concise review for those who have studied the dharma for some time. It puts the remainder of the book into perspective, making reading the book all the more meaningful and relevant.

The book continues to follow progressively along the path: appreciating our precious and advantageous life circumstances; studying and listening to teachings; creating a conducive environment for study and meditation; working with impermanence; relating to teachers; understanding the concept of "refuge," karma (cause and effect) and the Four Noble Truths; generating bodhicitta (the altruistic mind of great compassion); transforming difficulties so that they enhance our practice rather than discouraging practice.

The book ends with a detailed section on wisdom and emptiness and a final chapter on bringing our practice into our daily lives through the practices of the six far-reaching attitudes (or six perfections, "paramita") of generosity, patience, ethics, joyous effort, concentration and wisdom.

Dear friends, I highly recommend this book. I also highly recommend a visit to Ven. Chodron's web site (www.thubtenchodron.com).