Sir Winston Churchill: His Life and His Paintings

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Sir Winston Churchill began painting during World War II, and it became his lifelong passion. His works, which number over 500, are of remarkable quality and have received the most positive criticism in the English press. Had he signed his pictures `Jones,' the critic would still find himself pausing in front of them, noted one Sunday Times of London art critic in 1949. Another opined that At least a dozen of these pictures will stand against any of the best impressionists. This exclusive, comprehensive collection of the paintings of one of the greatest statesmen in history is licensed by the Churchill Heritage, which will provide marketing support. Written by the renowned art critic who catalogued all of Churchill's paintings shortly after his death, along with Sir Winston's granddaughter-in-law, this sumptuous art book collects all of the images painted by Churchill, primarily in oil on canvas, and in essence provides a look at his life story through his paintings. It also includes authoritative text by the authors, Sir Winston's complete 1925 essay Painting as a Pastime, and 40 rare, previously unpublished photographs of Churchill and his world, in both color and black and white.

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Inspiring and a fun read

Churchill: His Life As a Painter
Mary Soames
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin
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Binding: Hardcover

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Inspiring and a fun read.......2004-09-13

I enjoyed reading this oversized book, I went through it like water! The book is well illustrated and gives a good sampling of his works (landscapes, still lifes & portraiture). It is an easy read, this book was not written for those in academia--its a very approachable book.
The author, the daughter of Winston Churchill, Mary Soams, did a marvelous job of creating a lively narrative. She goes into the reasons why he began to paint, what his philosphy on painting was and how he learned (via a wide circle of artist friends). She also mentioned that he was accepting of using modern inventions (photos) to aid in his memory and composition of creating his paintings. She also included many humorous stories of her father.
The book is very inspiring in that Churchill, who already had an extremely full life and who started late in life painting, was able to create such beautiful works of art. The book shows that he did have natural talent, BUT, that he also worked hard to build upon that talent and the book clearly shows this.
The chapters are lavishly illustrated with his paintings, and many times the book describes the creation of the paintings that are in the book (and it includes the page number where you can find them). My only complaint is that in the last few chapters there are virtually no paintings and I wish I could have seen more of his later works, even though they may not have been up to the same artistic value of his earlier works.
This was a fun and inspiring read, go out and buy this book.

Winston Churchill: His Life as a Painter A Memoir by his Daughter

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Winston Churchill: His Life as a Painter A Memoir by his Daughter
Mary Soames
Manufacturer: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000O8KJH2

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After the very successful collections presenting dozens of alt. cartoonists with a bite, Attitude starts a new series collecting the best cartoons from amongst them! First one up: political cartoonist Andy Singer and his syndicated panel No Exit filled with mordant satire.

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Sick and totally brilliant.......2005-07-09

Andy manages to distill really big and complicated ideas, political and otherwise, into deceptively simple single panel cartoons. Twisted, genius, etcetera. Required reading.

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David Hedison, who plays a tiny human-headed insect menaced by a spider at the climax of the SF classic The Fly (1958), says the moviemakers spoiled the scene by giving him a squeaky voice. "Imagine if, as the camera moved in closer, you actually heard me screeeeaming for my life," the actor rhapsodizes. "That is horror. THAT is horror."

In Tom Weaver's eighth interview book, Hedison-and 22 other moviemakers-talk about their horror and science fiction movie experiences as part of such films and TV series as The Blob, It Came from Outer Space, Tarzan the Ape Man, Star Trek, The Wild Wild West, Somewhere in Time, The Devil Bat, and Forbidden Planet. Among those interviewed are Dan O'Herlihy, Eve Brent, Kate Phillips, John Alvin, Anthony Cardoza, Tod Griffin, Alex and Richard Gordon, Denny Miller, Andrey Dalton, Suzanne Kaaren, and Warren Stevens. Full credits are provided for the actors, actresses, and producers.

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What To say?.......2002-09-10

What to say indeed? Alex Gordon's interview on THE SHE CREATURE is almost worth the whole book! Then factor in Richard Gordon on the shockingly shocking Lugosi MOTHER RILEY THE VAMPIRE, a dash of Anthony Cardoza's BEAST OF YUCCA FLATS and a pinch of John D.F. Black's THE UNEARTHLY, and you'd almost think you were reading a book about Ed Wood Ensembles! But then you start reading David Hedison, John Alvin, Kate Phillips, Tod Griffin and many more and suddenly the synspases are firing all over the horror globe! A definite must have for any serious library. Read it all in 4 days. Plan on re-reading several times, especially as I sit down to my copy of THE UNEARTHLY shortly before it is "time for go to bed!"!

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What makes a musical work profound? What is it about pure instrumental music that the listener finds attractive and rewarding? In addressing these questions, Peter Kivy continues his highly regarded exploration of the philosophy of musical aesthetics. He considers here what he believes to be the most difficult subject of all--"just plain music; music unaccompanied by text, title, subject, program, or plot; in other words, music alone."

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Interesting history from the primary sources

Wall Street revealed

As The Market World Turns...

An excellent overview other coverages barely touch

If you can read no other book about wall st.... this is the one

What Goes Up: The Uncensored History of Modern Wall Street as Told by the Bankers, Brokers, CEOs, and Scoundrels Who Made It Happen
Eric J. Weiner
Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company
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Binding: Hardcover

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Fifty years ago, Wall Street was a hodgepodge of companieshundreds of themoperating in an environment where high-tech meant an electric typewriter and the Wasps and Jews never mixed. Today, Wall Street is controlled by a few massive firms and, it often seems, few ethical constraints. The tale of Wall Streets rise and transformation is one of the most exciting and important of our time. But amazingly, never before have the players who saw everythinglarge and small, from tycoons in limousines to the barber in the basement of the stock exchangedirectly told their stories. Here, at long last, are the Masters of the Universe and the con men; the backroom geniuses and the power-tie billionairesall in first person, uncensored, brash, bold, and often not so fond of one another. The result is the most vibrant business history published in years, perfect for anyone who wishes they had been a fly on the boardroom wall. Weiner interviewed everyone whos anyone for this oral history, including David Rockefeller, Arthur Levitt, Charles Schwab, Don Regan, Peter Lynch, Pete Peterson, Henry Kravis, George Roberts, Jerome Kohlberg, Steve Schwarzman, Dick Jenrette, Dan Lufkin, John Kenneth Galbraith, Stan ONeal, Harvey Pitt, T. Boone Pickens, John Whitehead, John Weinberg, Robert Baldwin, Dave Komansky, Jerry Tsai, John Gutfreundto name a few.

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Interesting history from the primary sources.......2006-03-26

Eric Weiner uses the words of the titans of Wall Street to describe the ups and downs of Wall Street's long march. Chapters are organized around rough themes (the early tycoons, junk bonds, the emergence of conglomerates, etc.) with alternating paragraphs written by the leaders of the great Wall Street firms.

The primary sources provide direct insight to what happened in a very easy to read format. As a survey, the book provides a readers digest version of much of the popular banking literature. (The chapter on leveraged buyouts has just enough detail to allow one to skip Barbarians at the Gate.) Very efficient background material for anyone entering the field.

There are two limitations with the style and direction of the book. By it's nature, the book focuses primarily on New York banking, and misses much of the story of globalization. The other is that by using people's own words, one has to read between the lines to find the real story. Both limitations are unavoidable given the intention and form of the book.

Wall Street revealed.......2006-02-01

Wayne of Rebeccasreads recommends WHAT GOES UP as a gossipy history told in interviews with the movers & shakers of the fabled place we call Wall Street.

Little in this world affects Americans as strongly as the inner workings of the financiers who make the decisions that impact our jobs, our retirements & our government policy. Yet most of us know very little about it. WHAT GOES UP aims to help us make sense of what's going on by telling us how we got here from the Great Depression to the Silicon Valley Tech melt-down.

Eric Weiner is a respected, knowledgeable & (a bit too) sympathetic a journalist who has broken his interviews down into digestible chunks, as the financiers tell their stories in their own words, & interspersing them with the history of how big banks & investment houses were forced to part ways after the Great Depression, how the financial world was broken up & the rise of the players who have become today's household names.

As The Market World Turns..........2006-01-18

Oral histories can be problematic reads. It's not just that the cleverest sound bite isn't always the best way of explaining something, or that a writer trying to get quotes to smoothly blend together faces the mounting temptation to play around with his interviewee's words. There's often a mosaic-like confusion of voices, which can make reading about a normally difficult subject even harder, like trying to figure out a 40-year-running soap opera from watching a single episode.

Eric J. Weiner's "What Goes Up" traces the history of Wall Street from pre-World War II days to just after 9/11 in mosaic fashion, both by concentrating each chapter on a unique milestone moment and then by spinning out each chapter in the form of quotes, most running several paragraphs, from people who were there.

There are some great quotes, too. "Something I've learned is that every good idea on Wall Street is driven into the ground like a tomato stake," says writer James Grant, in a chapter about the rise of junk bonds. Mutual fund guru Peter Lynch recalls cutting short a rare vacation to Ireland in 1987 when the market suddenly lost a fifth of its value in one day. Jerry Tsai, the Lynch of an earlier day, candidly recalls the heady Go-Go 1960s, while longtime broker Peter Low recalls the guilt of speculating on Vietnam War news.

"It's mean," he says. "If news breaks out that there's a drug epidemic, Wall Street asks 'Who makes the needles?'"

The downside of Weiner's narrative is that it's not especially enlightening, moving as it does so quickly from one soap opera to the next. It doesn't stick with any one of these, like the acquisition of Shearson Loeb Rhoades by American Express or the RJR Nabisco merger later that decade memorialized in "Barbarians At The Gate," long enough to convey much understanding. The connecting narrative is bare, designed not to intrude on the quotes, but as the large cast of characters in each chapter either talk over the same few points or else disagree with one another with Susan Lucci gusto, one misses a central, unifying voice.

I liked Weiner's work with the chapter on "junk-bond king" Michael Milken, especially because that has not only a good selection of quotes but a linear narrative that arrives at a bold conclusion, that being that Milken was essentially laid out for the sins of others. "Milken never did anything wrong," says former Wall Street Journal editor Jude Wanniski. "Nothing."

Milken is quoted as well, but like Sanford Weill, Warren Buffett, and some others, he didn't cooperate with Weiner's book. Rather, Weiner took quotes from other sources and included them in his oral history, properly notated, but still a little awkward. It would have been better had Weiner included those second-hand comments in a beefier narrative framework, and left the long quotes for those who did talk to him, especially since they include some voluble, interesting, and underappreciated figures.

I liked "What Goes Up," but not a lot, and I didn't feel like I learned much of anything I can carry with me. It's a good idea for a book, just not substantive enough for a curious layman like me. That being said, I think a stockbroker or economic history buff will appreciate "What Goes Up" for being a Norton Anthology of famous moments on Wall Street, something to refer to and augment their deeper understanding of what goes up, and on.

An excellent overview other coverages barely touch.......2006-01-06

There have been other histories of Wall Street before: so what makes What Goes Up: The Uncensored History Of Modern Wall Street As Told By The Bankers, Brokers, CEOs And Scoundrels Who Made It Happen so special from the others? The title says it all: this is not just a third-party analysis of history but a set of insider's observations by those who made Wall Street the center of the financial world. Financial journalist Weiner provides insights based on not just a few, but hundreds of interviews with all levels of Wall Street insider from Warren Buffett to Alan Greenspan: the result is an excellent overview other coverages barely touch.

If you can read no other book about wall st.... this is the one.......2005-12-30

This is the single best book on Wall St. I've ever read. I've read at least 100 of them. This one is succinct, interesting and comprehensive. It covers at least briefly all the major events and players through the modern era of Wall St. It is very engaging, because of the style, which is written from interviews, so the whole book is in the voice of real people. Highly recommended.

What Goes Up: The Uncensored History of Modern Wall Street As Told by the Bankers, Brokers, Ceos, And Scoundrels Who Made It Happen

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What Goes Up: The Uncensored History of Modern Wall Street As Told by the Bankers, Brokers, Ceos, And Scoundrels Who Made It Happen
Eric J. Weiner
Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OUB46U

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A tale of obsession so fierce that a man kills the thing he loves most: the only giant golden spruce on earth. "Absolutely spellbinding."—William Grimes, New York Times

As vividly as Jon Krakauer put readers on Everest, John Vaillant takes us into the heart of North America's last great forest, where trees grow to eighteen feet in diameter, sunlight never touches the ground, and the chainsaws are always at work.

When a shattered kayak and camping gear are found on an uninhabited island, they reignite a mystery surrounding a shocking act of protest. Five months earlier, logger-turned-activist Grant Hadwin had plunged naked into a river in British Columbia's Queen Charlotte Islands, towing a chainsaw. When his night's work was done, a unique Sitka spruce, 165 feet tall and covered with luminous golden needles, teetered on its stump. Two days later it fell.

The tree, a fascinating puzzle to scientists, was sacred to the Haida, a fierce seafaring tribe based in the Queen Charlottes. Vaillant recounts the bloody history of the Haida and the early fur trade, and provides harrowing details of the logging industry, whose omnivorous violence would claim both Hadwin and the golden spruce. 16 pages of illustrations.

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Brilliant book.......2007-08-14

The Pacific Northwest is one of history and beauty, as told here it is also one of violence and savagry. The brilliant narrative tells the story of a mythis tree in the Canadian Galapagos. John Vaillant explains in true outdoorsmen style(Into the Wild) how Grant Hadwin came to cut down the Golden Spruce, a semi-mythic survivor, a massive tree.

But this is not just a murder, this is an act of protest by a man who loves the forest and hates what man has done to it, the coprorations, the government, everyone. He is a latter-day Edward Abbey, in the spirit of Crazy Horse and the Monkey Wrench Gang.The Monkey Wrench Gang (P.S.).

The history is as brilliant as the story. The author also describes the rich evology of the Northwest Coastal forest of British Columbis. The Queen Charlotte Islands are also home to the Haida Gwaii, a native people. For them the Spruce was K'iid K'iyaas, as Everest is Sagarmatha to the Sherpas.
Hadwin was a woodcutter and road builder, a man who also loved nature. But as in 'Into the Wild' he left his family and went mad, and committed a great crime.

A brilliant read.

Seth J. Frantzman

Here's a MALE Annie Dillard..........2007-07-28

I checked this book out of local public library because I am interested
in the subject. Never did I expect such fine, concise, and insightful--
not to mention lucid and expressive --writing! Mister Vaillant is
a joy to read... even though the subject is so depressing. He somehow
managed to bring the great American Northwest and the great Canadian
Southwest into vivid, living perspective for me! Thanks, John.

Potential Reference Document - Not a Structured Read.......2007-04-10

This book tried to force a story line in where there was not one to be had. The structure of the book was impossible to follow and there was no flow whatsoever. Before finishing the first chapter, I was skipping paragraphs and a third of the way through the book I was skimming through chapters. If this book had removed the choppy story line about Hadwin, hired a competent editor and then included a complete index, you would have a solid reference document about the natural and cultural history of the Queen Charlotte Islands. Instead you have a longwinded, well referenced mess. I just finished reading a book about the history of the Dust Bowl "The worse hard time". Now you would think, here is a subject that just could not be made interesting, but the power of a good writer made the book both interesting, informative, and just an overall enjoyable read. In ending - Let me save you some money and summarize the whole book for you - The Pacific Northwest has been deforested, local native people of the region are rich in culture, some nutcase cuts down a Sitka spruce with golden needles because he wants to stop deforestation (what? - don't bother asking why because you will not get the answer), and environmentalist are all good.

The Golden Boy - Vailant.......2007-02-23

Golden Spruce, by John Vaillant, is a book about many things. It is quite a few history and biology lessons, an example of how people can be driven to want to destroy something they love, and a damnned good story - all at the same time. The last book that I can think of that I thought I was reading for a good story and not only got the story but ended up knowing a lot more about nature and my own self in the process was Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver. Vailant was praised in reviews by authors who have a lot of nature cred (get it? Not street cred, nature cred - I think it is funny...), such as Sebastian Junger and his storytelling was compared to John Krakauer.
Vailant's primary theme throughout the book seems to be pain. He argues that humans can cause themselves less in the long run by aiming towards sustainability and living off the resources available to them at the time rather than depleting what is around them for export and profit. The context of this message in Vailant's book is timber, but can be applied to a broader range when the reader starts to think about the moral dillemas that Vailant describes loggers and the Haiida face.
What stood out most in Vailant's book is the imagry. As a native Northerwestern myself I often times wanted to put down the book and go for a walk in the woods. There is passage in the begining of the book that I sent to a friend of mine who is now living in Europe because I knew when she read it she could be standing in a patch of Oregon old growth.
Little of the book focuses on Grant Hadwin, the man who fell the Golden Spruce. What is mentioned of him gives the reader a sight of a man determined, perhaps mentally ill, and with a passionate yet skewed cause. He is compared to Timothy McVeigh.
Vailant's research into multiple disciplines makes for a comprehensive picture of the dense Pacific Northwest. Readers are schooled in botany, marine biology and climatology - all in the context of the story being told. Never did it feel like a lecture, like a tangent or like Vailant was trying to make his research count for something. It was all relative and helpful to what he was trying to explain to us, which he said best in one sentence towards the end of the book, "Most of us are led to believe that we have more freedom and choice than ever before when in fact we are driven by the real, if short-sighted, demands of our wallets, sophisticated advertisers, increasingly large and powerful conglomerates, and a reactive response to the clock."

Lack of Direction.......2007-01-30

I got this book because the cover said it was like Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer. Well, it isn't - in my opinion, not anywhere close to it. Krakauer, for the most part, focused on one main subject / storyline and when he did deviate, his stories were always entertaining. John Vaillant, on the other hand, goes on and on about several different subjects. Now, don't get me wrong - I love to learn about history and facts about people and nature. All of his story lines started out interesting, but got boring and tedious after a while and I even started to get the feeling he was repeating himself. I found the background information about the Haida and Haida Gwaii interesting, but I think it would have better if he had made it shorter and written a seperate book about it instead. I got irritated several times throughout the book because I just wanted him to get back to the main story.

The book just seemed to have no direction and was, in my opinion, just a big mess. It gave the impression that he had done a lot of research and just wanted to give you every single solitary detail and fact that he had read. I felt like I was reading a really long high school book report. He should have focused on the story of the Golden Spruce and given short side stories about logging, the Haida, Haida Gwaii, and Hadwin, where applicable, but left the in depth details for another book.

The Golden Spruce A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed

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The Golden Spruce A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed
Vaillant John
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Mixed gas diving theory reference book.

Mixed gas diving theory reference book.

All you need about mix gas diving

Superb overview, clearly written, and thoroughly detailed.

International Textbook of Mixed Gas Diving: Theory Technique Application (Diversification)
Heinz K.J. Lettnin
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The use of mixed gases and modern dive techniques have opened completely new dimensions for underwater exploration. The International Textbook of Mixed Gas Diving gives a comprehensive overview of up-to-date diving technology, including mixed gas diving procedures. Mixed gas equipment and procedures are explained in a clear and concise style.

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Mixed gas diving theory reference book........2002-12-31

This book takes theory of mixed gas diving seriously. Extreamly detailed you can find all gas and diving related formulas and gas composition data. It's an ideal book for those involved in this matter. The good thing about this book is that it's presented in such a way that even the novice mixed gas diver can understand.

Mixed gas diving theory reference book........2002-12-31

This book takes theory of mixed gas diving seriously. Extreamly detailed you can find all gas and diving related formulas and gas composition data. It's an ideal book for those involved in this matter like commercial divers and mixed gas blenders. The good thing about this book is that it's presented in such a way that even the novice mixed gas diver can understand.

All you need about mix gas diving.......2001-04-07

Complete and very helpfull to anyone who intend to mix gas dive and enhance the knowledge about this kind of diving

Superb overview, clearly written, and thoroughly detailed........1999-09-26

This book will give the desired level of information for the beginner interested in the basics as well as a reader interested in the underlying concepts and physiology of complex dive profiles and physics. Clearly written without omitting the details, broad without being vague, and enough "interesting" examples to keep from being a dry tome.

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Don't Read Unless You Have To!.......2005-09-25

Why the NJ DOP picked this book for testable material is beyond me? After was all said and done, 3 months worth of reading of this boring, choppy, unrealistic supervision theory book the DOP only asked 12 questions from it. Author lives in Fantasy Land when it comes to police work, especially in NJ. Come up with a few distinct "buzz words" and a littney of lists on police tactics, and you to can write a boring book like this one.

Boring.......2005-09-01

Why the Department of Personnel would have anyone read this for promotional testing is beyond me. Put together a few five dollar words and fragmented thoughts and you're an expert on supervision. This book was as interesting as watching paint dry. It should come with a noose so you could hang yourself after reading it!

Long winded........2005-03-27

The only reason anyone would read this book is because it was listed as required reading for a promotional exam. Mr Whisenand is out of his mind and should limit his writing to something he has firsthand experience in. Read this book only if you are having insomnia.

Doing what to whom?.......2005-01-21

This purchase was made out of necessity due to an upcoming promotional examination. I will preface my remarks by saying I have only read four chapters. I am dreading the next eleven chapters but I will keep an open mind. The author, Paul Whisenand, Ph.D., does not give any information in the dedication or preface to indicate what his qualifications are for writing about police supervision other than the fact that he is a member of the Department of Criminal Justice at California State University, Long Beach. By searching on the internet I found that he is a 'former police officer' and 'reserve deputy sherriff' but it does not say where. So far I see nothing to indicate that the content of this book has any relation to police supervision.
For anyone who has studied in the social sciences the writing style will be very familiar. The layout of the information is very poor and it is difficult to tell when he is moving from one subject to another. He makes a lot of use of indented text boxes with statements enclosed that don't seem to bear any importance on the subject matter. There are no references in the book at all which makes me very wary of the material. Is it all truly original thought from Whisenand? In chapter three he used 3 Mission statements from police departments with no reference as to where he found them, when they were issued and whether or not he got permission to use them. Most departments contract out their promotional testing processes and I guess this creates a market for over-priced books for the testing companies to draw their pool of questions from. The diabolical thing is that they seem to be in a money-making scheme with the authors and publishers by updating these books on a continuous basis. Let's face it, the only reason anyone would read this book is because they have to for a promotional test. With that in mind, this book is written very poorly in terms of picking out the material that is 'test question worthy'.

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Nice job.......2002-02-16

Written for the "popular audience", this book has no doubt inspired many who have read it to further their studies in science or even to specialize in gravitational physics. The book is easy to follow, and the author injects a lot of history, making the book even more interesting. Examples of this include the Cavendish torsion-balance experiments, the 1670 measurement of the speed of light, and the discussions in 1796 of "dark-stars". And, considering there is no mathematics used in the book, the author does a good job of explaining curvature of spacetime and geodesics. The physics of neutron stars, pulsars, and white dwarfs, is also given adequate explanation, and the author emphasizes the use of computers in determining their dynamics. Penrose diagrams are used effectively to illustrate the properties of black holes, a fairly lengthy discussion, the result of which is to make what use to be the playful fantasies of science fiction writers become accepted science. Wormhole engineering and time machine constructions are unshamedly expounded upon, with careful caution by the author that such ideas are not yet practical......not yet.

Best Book I have ever read!.......1999-09-24

This is a very informative and interesting book. It is fun to read and you can learn alot from it. I would definitely suggest buying it.

Read it! You'll like it!.......1999-04-14

This is my all time favorite popular book written by a real physicist. In my opinion, it's better than Hawking's "Brief History of Time" because it not only explains the pretty well known areas of physics (black holes and such), but goes beyond this into such abstract ideas as wormholes and several interesting ways that nature might just allow time travel. It plays with your imagination the whole way through.

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