The Chosen, Chaim Potok. My wife and I recommend this book for its character study and artistry. It is one of the best novels we have ever read. List: $6.99 ~ Our Price: $5.59 ~ You Save: $1.40. One reader writes: great!!!!! The Chosen by Chaim Potok is a must in any person's reading list who is interested to know about the world that surrarounds him/her. Potok takes the reader into a factional world, where fantasy and illusion become reality, and the characters take in life of them, to a point that one could feel part of a Jewish community located in a pre-WWII New York City. His prose is beutiful, with a rich description of every small detail with the same care of the bigger picture. Just as Potok paints the scenery with a skillfull brush, he explains the psychology of his characters. He points out their weaknesses, their flaws, and, in a joyful tone, their triumphs. Reuven, the narrator of the story, lives in a world where knowledge doesn't only provide power, it also gives its owner a great responsability, as is proven by his friend, Danny, who is the son of a rabbi and a also a genius. Danny has to confront the reality of the family tradition that would force him into the service to his community as a rabbi, because his mind is needed there to guide his people through one of the most turbulent moments in the history of Jewery, the discovery of the Holocaust and the establishment of the state of Israel. However, Danny's soul wants him to be the next Freud, the man who would unveil human kind's flaws, and solved them. The book doesn't cointain much physical suspense, but the tormented minds and souls of its protragonists clearly make up for it. Potok has created a universe where poetry is law, and where a dreamer can go and escape from reality into a world of innonce that is controlled by the warm souls of the innocents.When you are finished with this novel, also read Singer's equally compelling: The Promise. List: $6.99 ~ Our Price: $5.59 ~ You Save: $1.40 (20%).
great!!!!! The Chosen by Chaim Potok is a must in any person's reading list who is interested to know about the world that surrarounds him/her. Potok takes the reader into a factional world, where fantasy and illusion become reality, and the characters take in life of them, to a point that one could feel part of a Jewish community located in a pre-WWII New York City. His prose is beutiful, with a rich description of every small detail with the same care of the bigger picture. Just as Potok paints the scenery with a skillfull brush, he explains the psychology of his characters. He points out their weaknesses, their flaws, and, in a joyful tone, their triumphs. Reuven, the narrator of the story, lives in a world where knowledge doesn't only provide power, it also gives its owner a great responsability, as is proven by his friend, Danny, who is the son of a rabbi and a also a genius. Danny has to confront the reality of the family tradition that would force him into the service to his community as a rabbi, because his mind is needed there to guide his people through one of the most turbulent moments in the history of Jewery, the discovery of the Holocaust and the establishment of the state of Israel. However, Danny's soul wants him to be the next Freud, the man who would unveil human kind's flaws, and solved them. The book doesn't cointain much physical suspense, but the tormented minds and souls of its protragonists clearly make up for it. Potok has created a universe where poetry is law, and where a dreamer can go and escape from reality into a world of innonce that is controlled by the warm souls of the innocents.
Drawing on findings by the Medical Outcomes Study, Wells (psychiatry, UCLA) examines the effects of the changing US health-care system on the mental health field, particularly those patients suffering from depression. In exploring the inefficiencies of both the prepaid and fee-for-service systems, he discusses such topics as depression as a clinical and policy concern, clinical management and treatment, societal impact of depression, social costs, measuring quality of care and outcomes, psychotropic medication, counseling, health outcomes, cost-effective care, and differences in payment systems.
Ms. Reynolds's poetic gifts are uncommonly powerful. In The Rapture of Canaan, she tells a truly rapturous love story and presents two unforgettable characters: the teenage heroine and her skeptical but stalwart grandmother, from whom she learns about the acceptance of loss, the pragmatism that must underlie any abiding love, and the place in every heart where God resides, waiting to reveal himself.
Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky. List: $5.50 ~ Our Price: $4.40 ~ You Save: $1.10 (20%) This is a gripping story of a crime and of the thoughts of a criminal. It is hard to put it down from the first word to the last. Don't read it because you "should." Read it because it is a must. Dostoyevsky's first masterpiece, the novel is a psychological analysis of the poor student Raskolnikov, whose theory that humanitarian ends justify evil means leads him to murder a St. Petersburg pawnbroker. The act produces nightmarish guilt in Raskolnikov. The narrative's feverish, compelling tone follows the twists and turns of Raskolnikov's emotions and elaborates his struggle with his conscience and his mounting sense of horror as he wanders the city's hot, crowded streets. In prison, Raskolnikov comes to the realization that happiness cannot be achieved by a reasoned plan of existence but must be earned by suffering. The novel's status as a masterpiece is chiefly a result of its narrative intensity and its moving depiction of the recovery of a man's diseased spirit.
Songs in Ordinary Time, Mary McGarry Morris. List: $12.95 ~ Our Price: $7.77 ~ You Save: $5.18 (40%). A dark secret lies at the heart of Mary McGarry Morris's extraordinary novel, Songs in Ordinary Time. Rooted in the delicate web of emotions, lies, and truths that bind people together, the story takes place in the primarily Catholic town of Atkinson, Vermont, during the summer of 1960. Here Marie Fermoyle struggles to raise her three children. She already has two strikes against her: she married above her station and now is divorced from her alcoholic husband, Sam. That he is the town drunk and a laughingstock only further marks the Fermoyles.
Enter Omar Duvall, a confidence man. He comes to the door asking for bread and sees an opportunity. Soon he has insinuated himself into the Fermoyle family, promising Marie companionship, love, a willing pair of shoulders to share her burden. Twelve-year-old Benjy knows something terrible about Duvall, but, desperate for anything that will make his mother happy, he hides the truth. This silence gives Duvall time to bring Marie to the brink of financial disaster and lead her sons into mortal danger.
Songs in Ordinary Time is deep and thick as a long, hot summer, a fully realized world . . . wrought with fearless detail . . . the narrative of a town reminiscent of the collective ache of The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
She's Come Undone, Wally Lamb. List: $14.00 ~ Our Price: $8.40 ~ You Save: $5.60 (40%). A poignant story interestingly written, from the perspective of a young woman coming of age in the midst of fast food, television, and a not so "Brady Bunch" family life. Dolores Price's pain is one shared by millions of people, however hers is uniquely traumatic in the fact that she is not only obese, but rage filled at her father who abandoned the family, and her mother who took a mental leave of absence. One reader writes:
Rating=9: Simply one of the best books i have ever read. this book was extrodinary...i am only 15 years old and i found it extremely intresting. i could not put it down for a second. i guess that is why i read it in a couple days...and normally i am a very slow reader. this book was real, unreal, magickal, comical, upsetting, entertaining, and exciting all rolled into one. i would reccomend this book to anyone who could read. there should be a movie. congrats to wally lamb!! i sincerely loved your book. i can think of dolores as a sister, friend, enemy and lunatic. THANK YOU VERY MUCH.....bravo.
Teach Yourself Cgi Programming With Perl 5 in a Week , Eric Herrmann. List: $39.99, Our Price: $31.99, You Save: $8.00 (20%). Java How to Program with an Introduction to Visual J++ is the first Java textbook to include Microsoft's Visual J++ Publisher's Edition integrated development environment on CD-ROM. Java How to Program with an Introduction to Visual J++ includes hundreds of "live-code" programs with screen captures that show exact outputs; extensive exercises (many with answers) accompanying every chapter; a detailed Visual J++ appendix and CD-ROM - see inside cover for details; and hundreds of tips, recommended practices, and cautions - all marked with icons.
Java How to Program: With an Introduction to Visual J++, Harvey M. Deitel, P. J. Deitel. List: $55.00, Our Price: $55.00. Teach Yourself CGI Programming with Perl 5 in a Week is for the experienced Web page developer who is familiar with basic HTML. The tutorial explains how to use CGI to add interaction to Web sites. The CD, which is included with the price of the book, includes the source code for all the examples used in the book, along with tools for creating and editing CGI scripts, image maps, forms, and HTML.
Rating=9 of 10. Good for the beginner A friend of mine suggested this book to me and I was curious. This book assumes that the reader is an absolute beginner in the science of programming and starts from ground up. There is no pre requisite. One suggestion is that a column could have been added giving brief details of each methods.
Rating=10: Good intruductory book that teaches programming from basics. This book teaches the programming from the basics with clear and consise explanation of programming concept and diagram. Author assumes the readers have no programming background and gives a clear and concise lecture on the programming logic, semantics, and syntax. Other advance programming books assume the readers have retained some programming experience or background. This book does not. This is a good book for beginner and those people who start learning programming from the ground. The content of this book is well constructed. It has a tasted of a textbook and is good to be used as textbook.