At the crossroads of pure science and practical application, and written clearly and compellingly with an eye to the cutting-edge science, the fast-paced financial markets, and the lives of the “maverick physicists” who have put themselves in the middle of all this.

McCullers has a wonderful storytelling “voice.” She is at once detached from and intimately involved with her characters. Never read this before, but I love it with a quiet, deep passion.

The story is wonderful. Rouse’s prose translation is a little underwhelming sometimes, as he tried to make clear that Homer spoke like regular people, and so used some “regular people” language from Britain in the 1930s. His essay on “Homer’s Words” is terribly frustrating, alternately incomprehensible and overly simplistic.

Family relationships and communication that helps foster resilience in the children of depressed parents. I’m exploring this to improve my own relationship with my daughter, and to pass on the information via my Safe As Bunnies blog.

Murder, cannibalism, the cursed House of Atreus. What more could you ask for? Aeschylus’ poetry (at least as translated by Paul Roche) is very moving, visceral. This is also one of the most important tales from the Ancient Greeks for me, as it deals with the destructive energies passed down from generation to generation until someone has the courage to face the Furies.

Dionysus is the irrrational in humans, our chthonic heritage, which must be acknowledged and honored lest it drive us madly to destruction.

Krazy and Ignatz are one of the great pop-culture couples of all time, and George Herriman is (was) one of the true geniuses in the comics field.

fine textbook. read through chapter 14, and the class was done.

fine textbook. got through most of it before the class was done. valuable reference.

loved Touched With Fire, and this looks to be as well written & presented as any of Jamison’s popular works.