Hermes

I was introduced to this book when I was eleven years old and my sixth-grade teacher read it to the class. It told of a young girl who was trying to hide her epilepsy (something I had never heard of before) from all of her friends, and how when they did find out, they didn't mind it because they still recognized her for who she was, not the condition that was only a small part of her life.

Two and a half years later, I was attending school with mainly the same classmates when I had two major tonic-clonic seizures in the school library during lunch hour, and was diagnosed with epilepsy. It was strange to realize I had had this all of my life, just unrecognized. In my case, of course, everyone "knew," but because of some positive input from teachers and friends, the others realized that I was still the same person as before and that this was nothing to joke about. I was always grateful for Miss Manning having shared this book with me and my friends, and have read it again many times.

This is a great book! it deals with a girl that that has epilepsy. She doesn't want anyone to find out.a girl named Carrie finds one of her pills and finds out about it. And she threatens to tell everyone.

This is a delightful book for young kids that is very well written and illustrated. It represents good family values and touches on race relations using life in the fidge as an example of home and community life.
Excellent!

What a great book! Harvey takes a timeless message of kindness and acceptance and gives it a new look. No doubt, it's entertaining, but the biggest benefit is what it will do to spark a conversation between you and your child.

This book was great because the author showed lots of detail. It was a sad book to me,but it was great.

After doing a lot of research into Catullus translations for a class, I picked this book. His edition is 1) complete and 2) consistently good. His use of modern slang and idioms is pretty convincing, and this is absolutely crucial since Catullus' poetry involves so much use of lively street expressions. Catullus selections in anthologies almost never reproduce the really filthy poems... I highly recommend the complete Martin translation for a more balanced view!

Children of the Sierra Madre by Frank J. Staub and Jules Hermes includes interesting text and beautiful photographs showing life for the Tarahumara or as they refer to themselves, the Raramuri people. The Raramuri live a traditional life in the mountains of north western Mexico. Daily life, family, food, homes, clothing, feasts, and contemporary issues such as health and clean water are revealed. My second graders were inspired to further research this group of people.

This book is an excellent over view of the individual authors methods of manageing the wide range of problems in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. Unfortunately, the book is somewhat dated having been published in 1988, but it is still a very good reference. I wish that another volume would be published.

For all those who want to study the the sublime Occult Mysteries this book is one of the very few that reveals the TRUE LIGHT. This is not a book for those seeking "glamour", "thrills", "mystery" or "instant enlightenment". Within the golden pages of the "Divine Pymander" the genuine, sincere seeker after Truth will find the answers to the great questions of life clearly and beautifully set forth. Here are true elucidations of the secrets of the Soul, Mind and body, of the beginning of Life, of the universe, and the ultimate purpose of Man and his true constitition and destiny. One could read a thousand books and not find the great truths revealed in this little volume. No sincere seeker after Truth and spititual enlightenment will be disappointed with this book.

The hills are alive...and in ways we might not notice if it weren't for such keen-eyed observers as Shari Hermes. This is a unique memoir, especially when you consider how easily the writer could have capitalized on the more dramatic aspects of her life (and justifiably so). Orphaned at eight in World War II, brought up by a series of relatives, escaping from Hungary during the 1956 Revolution, she lets those facts speak for themselves. Instead, she treats us to a series of colorful vignettes of happy years in Yosemite Park and in the San Gabriel mountains where she and her husband establish a mountain home.

An inveterate hiker, nothing along the mountain trails escapes her notice and she is quick to report on it all. A cook who shares her menus and recipes, along with her mistakes, ("next time, bake at...") an admittedly physical coward (she is spooked by a fellow hotel guest, by a waitress's talk of killer bees -- "non-homicidal bees" are bad enough, thank you), a demanding taskmaster of herself as well as others (even sunsets get demerits when they prove unspectacular), and a nervous mother hen when her son ventures too far out on rocky ledges, this writer seems to spill it all, sparing no one, least of all herself, in her original and often hilarious judgments. She pays loving attention to the details of the natural world, and to the lives of those she encounters, and to the feeding and comfort of her guests. Reading this book is like sitting down with a cup of coffee and talking to an old friend.

The author's speech patterns and cadence may be distracting at first, but once you realize that they probably reflect her native tongue, they add to the charm of the narrative. Peppered as it is with menus and recipes and (especially in the first part) divided into definite time periods, this is a book you can browse if you want to. A great vacation read.

The third volume in Llewellyn's Golden Dawn Journal series is the best in a very good series. It is a superb anthology of materials relating to Hermeticism and the Golden Dawn, including scholarly research, inspired speculation, and original rituals. It is a treaure trove for the student and particularly the practitioner of the Hermetic Arts. Five Stars, absolutely.

I know more about the very beginning of this book than about the rest of it, but I consider it a fundamental approach to understanding the nature of war as it is understood in ancient cultural situations. Hermes is one of the earliest figures that we might associate with such struggles, being described as an infant in comparison with his older brother Apollo, in early versions of a myth about Greek gods that forms a theme of this book. There might have been a number of scholars who knew what the basic scheme of references cited in this book when it first appeared in 1947 were all about. I assume that today, people may be vaguely aware of a few themes that the book inspires, but not much else. When Homer wrote, cattle were assumed to be the reason for going to war:

"Cattle-raiding, as depicted in Homer, was a public enterprise, led by the kings and participated in by the whole people. It is described as a war--a resort to force, and open force. The institution appears to have been a common heritage of all the Indo-European peoples and to have had everywhere the same general characteristics. To cite one illustrative detail: the Sanskrit word for `war' means literally `desire for more cows.' Coexistent with this institution of warlike plundering, or robbery, and terminologically distinguished from it in the Indo-European languages, was another type of appropriation, called theft. Theft is appropriation by stealth; robbery is open and forcible appropriation." (pp. 5-6).

I do not have a "Homeric Hymn to Hermes" to see how well it departs from this distinction. "Side by side with occasional terminology suitable to the raider appear terms suitable only to the thief. The cattle-raid described in the `Hymn' is not the usual resort to open force, but a peculiarly stealthy operation. There is no more incisive delineation of the contrast between the cunning trickster and the fighting hero than in the `Hymn,' where Hermes, a helpless infant relying only on his phenomenal cunning, challenges Apollo, the embodiment of physical power and the majesty of established authority." (pp. 7-8).

Much modern drama is based on traits ascribed to the god Hermes. "That gift was not merely `stealthiness'; it was `stealthiness and skill at the oath.' `Skill at the oath means guile or cunning in the use of the oath and derives from the primitive idea that an oath was binding only in its literal sense; a cunning person might legitimately manipulate it in order to deceive, as occurs often enough in Greek mythology. In the `Homeric Hymn,' when Hermes uses just such an oath to deny that he has stolen Apollo's cattle, he is said to show `good skill.' " (pp. 8-9).

I have a translation by Richmond Lattimore of works by Hesiod, which confirms that Hermes was responsible for giving Pandora "lies and deceitful words and a stealthy disposition." (p. 9). As Lattimore renders the Greek myth, "but to Hermes, the guide, the slayer of Argos,/ he gave instructions/ to put in her the mind of a hussy,/ and a treacherous nature." Also: "But into her heart Hermes, the guide, the slayer of Argos,/ put lies, and wheedling words of falsehood, and a treacherous nature,/ made her as Zeus of the deep thunder wished,/ and he, the gods' herald, put a voice inside her, and gave her the name of woman,/ Pandora, ..." (HESIOD, pp. 25-27).

HERMES THE THIEF has an index which lists a lot of Greek names. Appendix A didn't help me much. Instead of providing an authoritative text for anything about Hermes, it engages in the kind of speculation that modern philologists use to decide who actually wrote the accounts that we now have. Appendix B, "The Text of the `Homeric Hymn to Hermes,' " only provides the Greek Oxford text for lines 533 and 515 on p. 150, lines 414-417 on pp. 151-152, with an alternate reading on p. 153, lines 418-420 on p. 153, and lines 471-474 on p. 154. Norman O. Brown's explanation of what these last lines mean is, "Hermes says he is willing to be to Apollo in the matter of the lyre what Zeus is to Apollo in the matter of prophecy--a typically impudent statement for Hermes to make." (p. 155).