Essentials of Human Anatomy & Physiology Lab Manual, Second Edition
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Made an A in A&P
  • Human Anatomy
  • Essentials of Human Anatomy & Physiology 8th edition
  • good condition-- a bit long for delivery
  • Nice and Well Organized Book.
Essentials of Human Anatomy & Physiology Lab Manual, Second Edition
Elaine N. Marieb
Manufacturer: Benjamin Cummings
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Spiral-bound

GeneralGeneral | Mathematics | Science | Subjects | Books
AnatomyAnatomy | Biological Sciences | Science | Subjects | Books
AnatomyAnatomy | Basic Science | Medicine | Subjects | Books
PhysiologyPhysiology | Basic Science | Medicine | Subjects | Books
GeneralGeneral | Medicine | Subjects | Books
AnatomyAnatomy | Basic Sciences | Medical | Professional & Technical | Subjects | Books
PhysiologyPhysiology | Basic Sciences | Medical | Professional & Technical | Subjects | Books
All TitlesAll Titles | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books
MedicineMedicine | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books
ProfessionalProfessional | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books
ScienceScience | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books
Similar Items:
  1. Anatomy & Physiology Coloring Workbook: A Complete Study Guide (8th Edition) Anatomy & Physiology Coloring Workbook: A Complete Study Guide (8th Edition)
  2. World Religions: A Voyage of Discovery World Religions: A Voyage of Discovery
  3. Vocabulary Workshop: Level G (Vocabulary Workshop) Vocabulary Workshop: Level G (Vocabulary Workshop)
  4. Medical Terminology: A Short Course Medical Terminology: A Short Course
  5. Principles of Anatomy and Physiology Principles of Anatomy and Physiology

ASIN: 0805353976

Book Description

Award-winning author Elaine N. Marieb brings her unique understanding of students' needs to Essentials of Human Anatomy & Physiology, Sixth Edition. The hallmarks of this popular text, which has introduced countless allied health students to the structure and function of the human body, are a clear and friendly writing style, just the right level of detail, and features that emphasize the relevance of A&P to students' lives and careers. The author uses numerous analogies to clarify concepts, and consistently defines key terms to assist students who may have little or no background in science. The Sixth Edition includes clearer, crisper art to help students better visualize the human body. In addition, a greater career orientation assists students in understanding and remembering information vital to making a successful transition to their professional lives.

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Made an A in A&P.......2007-08-13

I think my instructor had a lot to do with it, as well as some changes in study habits since I went to college the first time (2.68). But this book definitely helped. I had a 96 average in class. It's not an easy read, nor is something to try to do without some class notes, but I thought it was clear and informative.

4 out of 5 stars Human Anatomy.......2007-07-25

This book was purchased for a high-school course.
Class hasn't started yet so can't rate the book
properly. I presume that it is good because the
school chose it.

5 out of 5 stars Essentials of Human Anatomy & Physiology 8th edition.......2007-01-21

This book was necessary for my class. Its good, except I can't get the disk to work.

4 out of 5 stars good condition-- a bit long for delivery.......2006-11-04

the delivery was a bit slow but the book was in perfect condition.

4 out of 5 stars Nice and Well Organized Book. .......2005-08-10

I had this book for about two semesters, in college by the way. The first semester I dropped it and finally the second semester I got a B. Interesting hm? Anyhow, the book contains a large amount of information including very nice diagrams and photographs and has vastly improved in my opinion from the early first few editions. What makes this book extremely informative is the fact that it is pretty well organized and set up including indexing and clear contents listing. 16 chapters starting slowly from the basics of the human body, its relations to chemistry, cells and tissues, and finally going more in depth by digging deep into the organ systems and the human anatomy.

The diagrams are clearly listed, but of course I've seen a few errors. The information is just so much. Unless you are crazy about this, I doubt you'll remember much without reviewing it over and over continuously on a weekly if not daily bases. Almost each part in the diagram is listed out on the same page or a few pages back and forth to give the reader a more precise knowledge if the reader intends to know more of what the diagram/photo represents part for part.

The information is simply mind blowing and pretty exhausting to remember. Most readers of this and other anatomy/medical/etc related books would sooner or later ask themselves "who the heck would make up all these silly names and expect us to memorize it?!" The information is a little too compact for me and this is the only problem I have with this book, the simple fact that its a lot to comprehend and doesn't seem very intended in my Physiology and Anatomy basics class. Like always, mix other text books with this one if you intend to get everything out of this subject. No one book is perfect. Otherwise, its a decent book overall.
Lab Manual t/a Seeley Essentials of A&P
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • A book you can learn a lot from!
Lab Manual t/a Seeley Essentials of A&P
Kevin T. Patton
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Spiral-bound

GeneralGeneral | Science | Subjects | Books
AnatomyAnatomy | Biological Sciences | Science | Subjects | Books
AnatomyAnatomy | Basic Science | Medicine | Subjects | Books
PhysiologyPhysiology | Basic Science | Medicine | Subjects | Books
GeneralGeneral | Medicine | Subjects | Books
AnatomyAnatomy | Basic Sciences | Medical | Professional & Technical | Subjects | Books
PhysiologyPhysiology | Basic Sciences | Medical | Professional & Technical | Subjects | Books
All TitlesAll Titles | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books
MedicineMedicine | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books
ProfessionalProfessional | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books
ScienceScience | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books
Similar Items:
  1. Laboratory Manual to accompany Essentials of Anatomy and Physiology Laboratory Manual to accompany Essentials of Anatomy and Physiology
  2. Fear No Evil: The Pathwork Method of Transforming the Lower Self (Pathwork Series) Fear No Evil: The Pathwork Method of Transforming the Lower Self (Pathwork Series)
  3. Photo Manual & Dissection Guide of the Cat: With Sheep Heart, Brain, Eye Photo Manual & Dissection Guide of the Cat: With Sheep Heart, Brain, Eye
  4. The Anatomy Coloring Book (3rd Edition) The Anatomy Coloring Book (3rd Edition)
  5. Essentials of Anatomy & Physiology Essentials of Anatomy & Physiology

ASIN: 0070272611

Book Description

This manual divides the material typically covered in anatomy and physiology labs into 42 sub units. Selection of the subunits and the sequence of their use permit the design of a laboratory course that is integrated with the emphasis and sequence of the lecture material. Basic content is introduced first, and gradually more complex activities are developed. This laboratory manual also contains boxed hints, safety alerts, separate lab reports, and coloring exercises.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars A book you can learn a lot from!.......2000-08-07

This book is a great learning tool! It "teaches" you about your own body, how it works and why you should care about what you eat, exercise, etc. The book is very well structured, with an objectives list at the beginning of each chapter and reasoning skills questions at the end, that helps you develop study and observation skills. This is a great book that changed the way I see my body, I learned a lot with this book!!
Essentials of Anatomy and Physiology Lab Manual
Average customer rating: Not rated
    Essentials of Anatomy and Physiology Lab Manual
    Bert Atsma , Leigh Rappaport Levitt , Richard McKeeby , and Jessica Potell Sand
    Manufacturer: Benjamin Cummings
    ProductGroup: Book
    Binding: Spiral-bound

    GeneralGeneral | Biology | Biological Sciences | Science | Subjects | Books
    AnatomyAnatomy | Biological Sciences | Science | Subjects | Books
    AnatomyAnatomy | Basic Science | Medicine | Subjects | Books
    PhysiologyPhysiology | Basic Science | Medicine | Subjects | Books
    GeneralGeneral | Medicine | Subjects | Books
    GeneralGeneral | Biology | Biological Sciences | Professional Science | Professional & Technical | Subjects | Books
    AnatomyAnatomy | Basic Sciences | Medical | Professional & Technical | Subjects | Books
    PhysiologyPhysiology | Basic Sciences | Medical | Professional & Technical | Subjects | Books
    All TitlesAll Titles | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books
    Similar Items:
    1. Human Biology: Concepts and Current Issues (4th Edition) (The Human Biology Place Series) Human Biology: Concepts and Current Issues (4th Edition) (The Human Biology Place Series)
    2. Introduction to the Human Body: The Essentials of Anatomy and Physiology Introduction to the Human Body: The Essentials of Anatomy and Physiology

    ASIN: 0805350926
    Essentials of Anatomy and Physiology 4th Edition and Pig Lab Manual
    Average customer rating: Not rated
      Essentials of Anatomy and Physiology 4th Edition and Pig Lab Manual
      Elaine Nicpon Marieb
      Manufacturer: Benjamin-Cummings Publishing Company
      ProductGroup: Book
      Binding: Unknown Binding
      ASIN: 0805340289
      Essentials of Human Anatomy & Physiology 5/E, 1997 and Human A&p Cat Lab Manual W/IP Demo Adhoc Bund
      Average customer rating: Not rated
        Essentials of Human Anatomy & Physiology 5/E, 1997 and Human A&p Cat Lab Manual W/IP Demo Adhoc Bund
        Marieb
        Manufacturer: Not Avail
        ProductGroup: Book
        Binding: Unknown Binding

        AnatomyAnatomy | Biological Sciences | Science | Subjects | Books
        ASIN: 0201343320
        Marieb Essential of Anatomy & Physiology, Marieb Brief Lab Manual
        Average customer rating: Not rated
          Marieb Essential of Anatomy & Physiology, Marieb Brief Lab Manual
          Marieb
          Manufacturer: Not Avail
          ProductGroup: Book
          Binding: Unknown Binding
          ASIN: 0201343975

          Geochemistry and Mineralogy of Rare Earth Elements (Reviews in Mineralogy,)
          Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
          • Brief Coverage of a Variety of Topics Related to the Rare Earth Elements
          Geochemistry and Mineralogy of Rare Earth Elements (Reviews in Mineralogy,)
          Lipin
          Manufacturer: Mineralogical Society of America
          ProductGroup: Book
          Binding: Paperback

          General & ReferenceGeneral & Reference | Chemistry | Science | Subjects | Books
          GeneralGeneral | Science | Subjects | Books
          General & ReferenceGeneral & Reference | Chemistry | Professional Science | Professional & Technical | Subjects | Books
          ASIN: 0939950251

          Customer Reviews:

          3 out of 5 stars Brief Coverage of a Variety of Topics Related to the Rare Earth Elements.......2007-06-29

          This short anthology covers such diverse topics as REE in the upper mantle, the partitioning of REE in magmas, and REE in metamorphic rocks. There is even an article on REE in lunar rocks. The articles are quite technical, and the discussion includes arcane minerals. Attention is devoted to some of the main REE-bearing sites in the world.

          Geochemistry and mineralogy of rare elements and genetic types of their deposits
          Average customer rating: Not rated
            Geochemistry and mineralogy of rare elements and genetic types of their deposits
            K. A Vlasov
            Manufacturer: Israel Program for Scientific Translations
            ProductGroup: Book
            Binding: Unknown Binding

            GeochemistryGeochemistry | Earth Sciences | Science | Subjects | Books
            ASIN: B0007K8RZS

            Engineering Applications of Noncommutative Harmonic Analysis: With Emphasis on Rotation and Motion Groups
            Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
            • Excellent Book
            Engineering Applications of Noncommutative Harmonic Analysis: With Emphasis on Rotation and Motion Groups
            Gregory S. Chirikjian , and Alexander B. Kyatkin
            Manufacturer: CRC
            ProductGroup: Book
            Binding: Hardcover

            GeneralGeneral | Engineering | Professional & Technical | Subjects | Books
            GeneralGeneral | Mechanical | Engineering | Professional & Technical | Subjects | Books
            Advanced MechanicsAdvanced Mechanics | Aerospace | Engineering | Professional & Technical | Subjects | Books
            MechanicsMechanics | Civil | Engineering | Professional & Technical | Subjects | Books
            GeneralGeneral | Applied | Mathematics | Professional Science | Professional & Technical | Subjects | Books
            Functional AnalysisFunctional Analysis | Pure Mathematics | Mathematics | Professional Science | Professional & Technical | Subjects | Books
            GeneralGeneral | Science | Subjects | Books
            GeneralGeneral | Applied | Mathematics | Science | Subjects | Books
            GeneralGeneral | Engineering | Applied | Mathematics | Science | Subjects | Books
            Functional AnalysisFunctional Analysis | Pure Mathematics | Mathematics | Science | Subjects | Books
            GeneralGeneral | Mathematics | Science | Subjects | Books
            GeneralGeneral | Computers & Internet | Subjects | Books
            GeneralGeneral | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books
            All TitlesAll Titles | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books
            Arts & PhotographyArts & Photography | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books
            Computers & InternetComputers & Internet | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books
            ProfessionalProfessional | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books
            ScienceScience | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books
            ASIN: 0849307481

            Book Description

            The classical Fourier transform is one of the most widely used mathematical tools in engineering. However, few engineers know that extensions of harmonic analysis to functions on groups holds great potential for solving problems in robotics, image analysis, mechanics, and other areas. For those that may be aware of its potential value, there is still no place they can turn to for a clear presentation of the background they need to apply the concept to engineering problems. Engineering Applications of Noncommutative Harmonic Analysis brings this powerful tool to the engineering world. Written specifically for engineers and computer scientists, it offers a practical treatment of harmonic analysis in the context of particular Lie groups (rotation and Euclidean motion). It presents only a limited number of proofs, focusing instead on providing a review of the fundamental mathematical results unknown to most engineers and detailed discussions of specific applications. Advances in pure mathematics can lead to very tangible advances in engineering, but only if they are available and accessible to engineers. Engineering Applications of Noncommutative Harmonic Analysis provides the means for adding this valuable and effective technique to the engineer's toolbox.

            Customer Reviews:

            5 out of 5 stars Excellent Book.......2001-07-25

            This is an excellent book, and combines depth of theory with many practical applications of the presented ideas. The chapters dealing with robotics and image processing applications are very illustrative of the presented ideas. I wished there were more books like this in other areas.

            Henry James: Novels 1896-1899: The Other House / The Spoils of Poynton / What Maisie Knew / The Awkward Age (Library of America)
            Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
            • Intended for an extended shelf life
            Henry James: Novels 1896-1899: The Other House / The Spoils of Poynton / What Maisie Knew / The Awkward Age (Library of America)
            Henry James
            Manufacturer: Library of America
            ProductGroup: Book
            Binding: Hardcover

            James, HenryJames, Henry | Classics | British | World Literature | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books
            19th Century19th Century | United States | World Literature | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books
            ContemporaryContemporary | General | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books
            LiteraryLiterary | General | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books
            GeneralGeneral | Short Stories | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books
            James, HenryJames, Henry | ( J ) | Authors, A-Z | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books
            Similar Items:
            1. Henry James: Novels 1901-1902: The Sacred Fount / The Wings of the Dove (Library of America) Henry James: Novels 1901-1902: The Sacred Fount / The Wings of the Dove (Library of America)
            2. Henry James : Novels 1881-1886: Washington Square, The Portrait of a Lady, The Bostonians (Library of America) Henry James : Novels 1881-1886: Washington Square, The Portrait of a Lady, The Bostonians (Library of America)
            3. Henry James : Novels 1871-1880: Watch and Ward, Roderick Hudson, The American, The Europeans, Confidence (Library of America) Henry James : Novels 1871-1880: Watch and Ward, Roderick Hudson, The American, The Europeans, Confidence (Library of America)
            4. Henry James: Complete Stories, 1892-1898 (Library of America) Henry James: Complete Stories, 1892-1898 (Library of America)
            5. Henry James : Complete Stories 1884-1891 (Library of America) Henry James : Complete Stories 1884-1891 (Library of America)

            ASIN: 1931082308
            Release Date: 2003-03-10

            Book Description

            This fourth volume in the Library of America edition of the complete novels of Henry James contains the four novels he wrote after a failed attempt to forge a career as a playwright on the London stage. Together they mark the beginning of the brilliant period in the novelist's career known as the late phase.

            The Other House (1896) shows James incorporating an act of murder into the heart of his narrative. Long neglected, the novel is a fascinating glimpse into a very different side of Henry James, as he explores the violent implications of jealousy and possessiveness. In The Spoils of Poynton (1897), the artworks conserved in the manor house of the title become the object of a protracted power struggle between the mother and the fiancée of the heir to the house. The struggle, in this most tightly constructed of James's late novels, hinges ultimately on the sensitivities of a third woman.

            What Maisie Knew (1897) recounts the aftermath of a divorce through the eyes of the couple's daughter. James adopts what he described as "the consciousness, the dim, sweet, scared, wondering, clinging perception of the child." Similarly experimental, The Awkward Age (1899) maps the interrelations of a large cast of characters, a group of old friends and their children, almost entirely through dialogue. The ambiguity of childhood innocence is central to both of these novels.

            Customer Reviews:

            5 out of 5 stars Intended for an extended shelf life.......2003-04-08

            Compiled and edited by Myra Jehlen (Board of Governors Chair of Literatures at Rutgers University), Henry James: Novels 1896-1899 is the fourth volume in The Library of America edition of the complete novels of Henry James and contains the four novels written after James failed in his attempt to create a professional career as a playwright on the London stage. The novels include "The Other House" (1896); "The Spoils of Poynton" (1897); "What Maise Knew" (1897); and "The Awkward Age" (1899). Like all more than 150 titles published by The Library of America, Henry James: Novels 1896-1899 is printed on high quality paper, intended for an extended shelf life, and is a mandatory addition to University and College library collections.
            What Maisie Knew (Penguin Classics)
            Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
            • Maisie, light of my life, fire of my loins
            • The Corruption of Maisie
            • Developing Moral Sense
            • Several Turns of the Screw
            • What Maisie Knew.....Do I Really Care?
            What Maisie Knew (Penguin Classics)
            Henry James , and Patricia Crick
            Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
            ProductGroup: Book
            Binding: Paperback

            19th Century19th Century | British | World Literature | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books
            James, HenryJames, Henry | Classics | British | World Literature | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books
            19th Century19th Century | United States | World Literature | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books
            ClassicsClassics | General | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books
            James, HenryJames, Henry | ( J ) | Authors, A-Z | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books
            Theroux, PaulTheroux, Paul | ( T ) | Authors, A-Z | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books
            Look Inside Fiction BooksLook Inside Fiction Books | Trip | Specialty Stores | Books
            Similar Items:
            1. The Spoils of Poynton (Penguin Classics) The Spoils of Poynton (Penguin Classics)
            2. The Ambassadors (Penguin Classics) The Ambassadors (Penguin Classics)
            3. The Awkward Age (Penguin Classics) The Awkward Age (Penguin Classics)
            4. The Golden Bowl (Penguin Classics) The Golden Bowl (Penguin Classics)
            5. The Princess Casamassima (Penguin Classics) The Princess Casamassima (Penguin Classics)

            ASIN: 0140432485

            Book Description

            What Maisie Knew (1897) represents one of James's finest reflections on the rites of passage from wonder to knowledge, and the question of their finality. Neglected and exploited by everyone around her, Maisie inspired James to dwell with extraordinary acuteness on the things that may pass
            between adult and child. In addition to a new Introduction, this edition of the novel offers particularly detailed notes, bibliography, and a list of additional readings.

            Download Description

            There was visibly, however, an influence that made Ida consider; she glanced at the gentleman she had left, who, having strolled with his hands in his pockets to some distance, stood there with unembarrassed vagueness. She directed to him the face that was like an illuminated garden, turnstile and all, for the frequentation of which he had his season-ticket; then she looked again at Sir Claude. "I've given her up to her father to KEEP-- not to get rid of by sending about the town either with you or with any one else.

            Customer Reviews:

            5 out of 5 stars Maisie, light of my life, fire of my loins.......2007-06-16

            Doh! I meant Lolita. Well, I think that Maisie is a protyope for Lolita. She adapts to being shifted around by her parents and their various lovers by becoming something of a nymphette herself with Daddy Claude. This is a must read for all of us Nabakov fans. I'm quite sure he read it too.

            5 out of 5 stars The Corruption of Maisie.......2006-08-15

            WHAT MAISIE KNEW is probably the weirdest novel by Henry James. He had already written of seamy themes before this, but now he writes a variation of one of his favorite themes--that of the corruption of the innocent. Maisie is a young female child, perhaps six years old whose parents are getting divorced. In the best of situations divorce hits hard, and this was far from the best. Maisie's parents, Beale and Ida Farange are morally depraved and care not a whit for the welfare of their daughter. Maisie is a good-natured child who wants only to be loved by the parents she loves. Maisie is the prototypical Jamesian innocent about to be plunged into a maelstrom of decay.

            The terms of the divorce allow Maisie to live with each parent at six month intervals, and this she does. It is what she sees and happens to her that begin to cloud Maisie's moral universe. To begin with when she stays with her father, his friends paw her in ways that smack of sexual abuse. Maisie's mother, Ida, hires a governess, Miss Overmore, to care for Maisie. Soon enough Miss Overmore begins an affair with Maisie's father, Beale, ultimately marrying him. Ida follows suit by marrying her lover, Sir Claude. So now Maisie must adjust to a set of step parents. Claude's interest in his step-daughter verges on the incestuous--indeed later on when Maisie is thirteen, she outright propositions him. Ida hires a new governess, Mrs. Wix, to take the place of the erstwhile Miss Overmore. Mrs. Wix is a decent elderly woman who truly loves Maisie and tries to inculcate in her a moral center of goodness. This sense of goodness is put to the test immediately, when Maisie's remarried parents begin a new dance of musical lovers.

            As Maisie ages toward young girlhood, she shows signs that she has well learned the lessons of moral depravity that abound. She has no problem adjusting to a series of new adults zipping in and out of her life as parents, step parents, and lovers of parents. Maisie even makes it easy for these newcomers to pull the wool over the eyes of their cuckolded partners by making suggestions to facilitate what is by now a familiar routine or illicit romances. By the end of the novel, a thirteen year old Maisie desires Sir Claude as her own lover. Mrs. Wix, when she hears of this, angrily demands of Maisie what has happened to the sense of moral decorum that she thought was by now firmly instilled in Maisie. The answer, of course, is that the sense of propriety was doomed from the start since Maisie early on learned the difference between words of decorum and deeds of decorum. The Maisie at the end of WHAT MAZIE KNEW suggests that children--or adults for that matter--need a ongoing foundation of goodness to show that the ugliness they may see unfolding around them need not envelop them.

            4 out of 5 stars Developing Moral Sense.......2006-07-23

            Henry James' 1907 WHAT MAISIE KNEW provides deep psychological insight into a young girl's predicament, as a result of her parents' bitter divorce in Edwardian England. Inspired by a friend's comments on the "shuttlecock" lifestyle of a divorced child in the vicious game of spousal revenge, this novel studies the harmful existence of an innocent victim of a joint custody dispute. Even at the tender age of seven, Maisie realizes the wisdom of playing dumb. Although she reports little back to the opposing sides, Maisie keenly observes and thoughtfully listens to all that occurs in both her uncomfortable biospheres. Eventually she adopts the simple policy of not telling--thus refusing to provide more fuel for animosity on either side.

            As in THE GOLDEN BOWL--a lengthy novel dealing with the marital and emotional battles among a very limited cast of characters--this shorter work could easily be adapted for the stage, as the chapters fall naturally into Scenes. James' protracted dialogues between Maisie and the impassioned adults who dispute her parenting rights would be delicious to dramatize, although readers would lose the private psychological depth as Maisie copes with increasingly new information. She reconciles her maturing lucid udnerstanding to the empowered adults in her universe with private schemes to protect one or the other parent and later, step-parent.

            These intense colloquies are designed both to elicit information re events which have occurred offstage, and to stir Maisie to the brink of definitive action--which will directly effect the five adults whom we assume are most interested in her welfare: Beale Farange, Ida Farange, Sir Claude, Miss Overton, and Mrs. Wix. Little Maisie unwittingly serves as a catalyst for adult passion, while she secretly exults in bringing her favorite people together. One of the great literary ironies of this novel springs from the unexpected separations which her warm-hearted meddling precipitates. To her childlike logic, being Free is the most desirable status for formerly married persons--free to love and marry whom they choose--free to make a cherished home for her and to ease their own heartache.

            Maisie is further isolated from children, even girls her own age; thus she is left to puzzle out the world using only her keen observation of adult interactions. But how can the lonely girl truly develop a sense of morality--at least by Edwardian standards? Is she herself Free to choose her new and permanent step-parents? Does she have the right to demand that the adults who love her make extreme sacrifices--just to retain her presence and loyalty? Does Maisie at 12 know what is best for herself? Which path will she ultimately choose? Her final decision will impact the lives of three far-from-blameless but well-meaning adults. Maise at 12 is too worldy-wise to indulge in Child's Play. This absorbing work is truly Vintage James.

            4 out of 5 stars Several Turns of the Screw.......2006-04-07

            What hubris to review a work by such a major novelist as Henry James, even though WHAT MAISIE KNEW may not be one of his major novels! All the same, a review can perhaps be useful in two regards: by commenting on this particular edition, and by suggesting how the novel might appeal to those familiar with other James works but not this one.

            The Penguin Classics paperback is crisply printed, comfortable in the hand, and well annotated. There is also an excellent essay by Paul Theroux. It gives too much away, I think, to be read as an introduction, but it does make a helpful afterword. If you do read the essay first, which is how it is printed, it may seem that Theroux has revealed virtually the entire plot, but in fact this is not so. James's narrative exposition is unusually swift in this book, and a lot happens very quickly, but his main interest lies in exploring the psychological depths of the situation that he has established; there is a distinct change of gear at roughly the halfway point of the book.

            As Theroux points out, the novel is generally considered a transitional work between James's earlier style and his later one. Theroux also locates this gear-change at the point where James ceased writing in longhand and started dictating his novels to a stenographer -- a crisis described so well by Colm Toibin in his biographical novel, THE MASTER. The first half of the book shows a leanness of style and also a great sense of humor not often associated with the author. But the book's premise is intrinsically comic: Maisie, a five-year-old girl, observes the doings of the adults around her as she is shipped from household to household in consequence of her parents' divorce, as the parents take lovers and remarry, and then as virtually everybody else in the story take other lovers. The humor comes from the fact that while Maisie understands so little at first, the adult reader quickly picks up what is going on. The spider symmetries of the expanding web of sex make a formal pattern as clear and intricate as a dance, illuminated by James's dry wit and his beautiful ability to see through childish eyes.

            Several things change at the half-way point. Maisie becomes old enough to understand a little more. The adults whom she had previously observed from below now become more conscious of her as a potential ally and start using her unscrupulously to further their own ends. Twists of the plot which had at first seemed only amusing now appear as quite nasty turns of the screw, as Maisie's affections and loyalties are forced into the vise. Questions of morality come to the fore, and eventually dominate the action. The narrative tone also changes; although Maisie's knowledge and moral awareness develops considerably, James is forced into using his own voice to describe it, as though Maisie herself has lost the words to follow her own farewell to childhood.

            The reference above to THE TURN OF THE SCREW is deliberate, for WHAT MAISIE KNEW (1897) seems almost like a preliminary draft for the more famous story, published in the following year. Yes, there are differences: this is comic rather than tragic, complicit rather than mysterious, and much less hermetic. The child heroine appears to come through with more wisdom and less trauma than the situation might have caused. But the final scene is astonishingly close to the ending of the later story: a struggle for control of a once-innocent child waged between a humble governess and two charismatic figures who exert a powerful hold both on the child and on each other. Only the ending is different, though no less worth waiting for.

            1 out of 5 stars What Maisie Knew.....Do I Really Care?.......2005-02-03

            I am not a Henry James fanatic, as a matter of fact, this is the first work of his that I have read, and with that I must say that this novel is horribly written and completely unrealistic in it's portrayal of the child, Maisie and especially her dialogue. I have been assigned to read this for an english class as an undergrad and I have tolerated many a badly executed idea...but never like this. Boring, boring, and more boring. And as a result, I am comnpletely turned off to James other works. I hear his other works are great.....read those first, you may fair better.
            What Maisie Knew
            Average customer rating: Not rated
              What Maisie Knew

              Manufacturer: Doubleday
              ProductGroup: Book
              Binding: Mass Market Paperback
              ASIN: 038509289X
              CONC JAMES' WHAT MAISIE  KNEW (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities)
              Average customer rating: Not rated
                CONC JAMES' WHAT MAISIE KNEW (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities)
                Hulpke
                Manufacturer: Garland Science
                ProductGroup: Book
                Binding: Hardcover

                19th Century19th Century | British | World Literature | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books
                19th Century19th Century | United States | World Literature | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books
                GeneralGeneral | Criticism & Theory | History & Criticism | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books
                United StatesUnited States | Short Stories | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books
                BritishBritish | Short Stories | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books
                ASIN: 0824043480
                Frames in James: The Tragic Muse, the Turn of the Screw, What Maisie Knew, and the Ambassadors (Els Monograph, No 59)
                Average customer rating: Not rated
                  Frames in James: The Tragic Muse, the Turn of the Screw, What Maisie Knew, and the Ambassadors (Els Monograph, No 59)
                  Paul G. Beidler
                  Manufacturer: Univ of Victoria Dept of English
                  ProductGroup: Book
                  Binding: Paperback

                  GeneralGeneral | Criticism & Theory | History & Criticism | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books
                  ASIN: 0920604706
                  A Probable State: The Novel, the Contract, and the Jews
                  Average customer rating: Not rated
                    A Probable State: The Novel, the Contract, and the Jews
                    Irene Tucker
                    Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
                    ProductGroup: Book
                    Binding: Hardcover

                    GeneralGeneral | Jewish | World | History | Subjects | Books
                    GeneralGeneral | Classics | United States | World Literature | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books
                    GeneralGeneral | British | World Literature | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books
                    GeneralGeneral | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books | Classics | Comic | Contemporary | Literary
                    GeneralGeneral | Criticism & Theory | History & Criticism | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books
                    Movements & PeriodsMovements & Periods | History & Criticism | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books | Arthurian Romance | Beat Generation | General | Gothic Revival | Medieval | Modernism | Postmodernism | Renaissance | Romanticism | Surrealism | Victorian
                    LiberalismLiberalism | Political Doctrines | Political Science | Social Sciences | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books
                    ASIN: 0226815331

                    Book Description

                    Why has the realist novel been persistently understood as promoting liberalism? Can this tendency be reconciled with an equally familiar tendency to see the novel as a national form? In A Probable State, Irene Tucker builds a revisionary argument about liberalism and the realist novel by shifting the focus from the rise of both in the eighteenth century to their breakdown at the end of the nineteenth. Through a series of intricate and absorbing readings, Tucker relates the decline of realism and the eroding logic of liberalism to the question of Jewish characters and writers and to shifting ideas of community and nation.

                    Whereas previous critics have explored the relationship between liberalism and the novel by studying the novel's liberal characters, Tucker argues that the liberal subject is represented not merely within the novel, but in the experience of the novel's form as well. With special attention to George Eliot, Henry James, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and S. Y. Abramovitch, Tucker shows how we can understand liberalism and the novel as modes of recognizing and negotiating with history.
                    The Turn of the Screw and What Maisie Knew: Henry James: Contemporary Critical Essays (New Casebooks)
                    Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
                    • Great structure
                    • Great structure
                    The Turn of the Screw and What Maisie Knew: Henry James: Contemporary Critical Essays (New Casebooks)

                    Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan
                    ProductGroup: Book
                    Binding: Hardcover

                    HistoryHistory | Drama | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books
                    GeneralGeneral | History & Criticism | United States | World Literature | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books
                    GeneralGeneral | British | World Literature | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books
                    GeneralGeneral | Criticism & Theory | History & Criticism | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books
                    WalesWales | Europe | History | Subjects | Books
                    ASIN: 0312214669

                    Book Description

                    After 100 years, critical production on The Turn of the Screw shows no sign of abating. A long-standing controversy over the "reality" or otherwise of the ghosts has given way to a general recognition of textual ambiguity. This book gathers recent developments in criticism, including feminist, materialist and poststructuralist readings, which have brought out fundamental underlying issues of gender, class and sexuality. Also included in this volume are essays on What Maisie Knew, one of James' most lucid, yet aesthetically and morally complicated, novels.

                    Customer Reviews:

                    5 out of 5 stars Great structure.......1999-11-10

                    One of the most meaningful, descriptful pieces of literature out there

                    5 out of 5 stars Great structure.......1999-11-10

                    One of the most meaningful, descriptful pieces of literature out there
                    WHAT MAISIE KNEW
                    Average customer rating: Not rated
                      WHAT MAISIE KNEW
                      HENRY JAMES
                      Manufacturer: PENGUIN
                      ProductGroup: Book
                      Binding: Paperback
                      ASIN: B000S59YZO
                      What Maisie Knew
                      Average customer rating: Not rated
                        What Maisie Knew
                        Henry James
                        Manufacturer: John Lehmann
                        ProductGroup: Book
                        Binding: Hardcover
                        ASIN: B000K0PL4U
                        WHAT MAISIE KNEW
                        Average customer rating: Not rated
                          WHAT MAISIE KNEW

                          Manufacturer: Penguin Books
                          ProductGroup: Book
                          Binding: Paperback
                          ASIN: B000HFCIGC

                          Books:

                          1. Explore the World Using Protozoa
                          2. Family Houses by the Sea
                          3. Fay Jones: A 20 Year Retrospective : Boise Art Museum August 31-October 27, 1996
                          4. Form and Fabric in Landscape Architecture: A Visual Introduction
                          5. Frog Dissection Manual (Johns Hopkins Dissection Series)
                          6. Great Leap Forward / Harvard Design School Project on the City
                          7. Handbook of Construction Tolerances
                          8. Health Fitness Management: A Comprehensive Resource for Managing and Operating Programs and Facilities
                          9. High Access Home: Design and Decoration for Barrier-Free Living
                          10. Historical Building Construction: Design, Materials, and Technology

                          Books Index

                          Books Home

                          Recommended Books

                          1. Dancing Naked at the Edge of Dawn
                          2. The Simplest Path to Personal and Planetary Awakening, Step One: FREE YOUR MIND: 10 Keys for Unlocki
                          3. Morpholoogy G: Visceral Organs
                          4. Models & Methods for Project Selection: Concepts from Management Science, Finance and Informatio
                          5. The Absolute Sandman, Vol. 1
                          6. The PowerScore LSAT Logic Games Bible
                          7. The Guide to Owning a Pembroke Welsh Corgi
                          8. The New Family Home: Creating the Perfect Home for Today and Tomorrow
                          9. New Orleans Architecture: The University Section : Joseph Street to Lowerline Street, Mississippi Ri
                          10. Biomonitoring Air Pollutants with Plants