To appreciate this book readers must grasp the symbolism of its title and front page depicting the author's life story, sometimes in rough seas. At three/four years old he was strongly aware of a call into the Christian ministry, inspiration for a long, fruitful life - growing up and helping on their South African farm, commuting to grammar school on horseback - together enough miles to ride three times from New York to California; struggling financially to become a clergyman. His autobiography is interspersed with short unbelieveable biographies of several classmates and what life was like. Read The Sturdy Warrior (Chapter V) and Albert Schweitzer of the Bush Veld Chapter X. With several appropriate degrees he migrated to Princeton Theological Seminary, United States of America, and became a learned professor. But then the delicate call that had driven him since a small boy was smashed beyond repair. Versility enabled him to commute to Wall Street for a new career, finding that nobody can smash a genuine call to those designated to belong to God's universal Kingdom. Symbolic pulpits and lecturns are hidden everywhere. He sought, find, and applied them with the eagerness of the Roman saying age quod agis - do what you are doing. How did it go? Please find the sequel to this book FAITH, HOPE, AND DETERMINATION and read it.

It was a great honour and a mark of our friendship that RENE DJINDJIAN asked me to present this new work from the Lariboisiere neuroradiological school. Professor DJINDJIAN died on 11th October. Introducing this book now, I feel that I am dealing with a fatherless child, where feelings of admiration and pleasure are mixed with the sadness of the loss and the bitterness of an unfinished task. This work on the superselective angiography of the branches of the external carotid artery is a direct continuation of the previous studies of Professor DJINDJIAN, whose name will continue to be closely associated with the development and progress of arteriography in recent years, particularly with arteriography of the spinal cord. It was realised together with his pupil, JEAN-JACQUES MERLAND, whose remarkable thesis for the Doctorat en Medecine a few years ago also dealt with this subject, and with the collaboration of JACQUES THERON, also for many years a pupil of RENE DJINDJIAN, and is translated here by his friend I.F. MOSELEY.

Spinal phlebography is an "indirect" radiologic technique for investigating verte bromedullary pathology. It is a harmless and almost painless technique that does not require the introduction of contrast medium into the subarachnoid spaces. Its interpretation is based on the modifications of the epidural veins which do not themselves have any proven pathology. The longitudinal epidural veins are situated in the anterolateral angles of the spinal canal between the nerve root and the intervertebral disc. They conse quently represent a major anatomic landmark in the investigation of disc pathol ogy because they are compressed by a disc herniation before the corresponding nerve root is reached. The improvement of the techniques of lumbar phlebography by catheterization of the lateral sacral veins and of cervical phlebography by catheterization of the vertebral veins now permits opacification of the epidural venous system along the total length of the lumbar and cervical spine. Spinal phlebography can consequently be used routinely, primarily in disc pathology but now also in other fields of vertebromedullary pathology such as myelopathy, tumors, or stenosis of the spinal canal, where it provides new information as compared to the other techniques of investigation. The techniq ue and results of spinal phlebography in these various conditions are presented in this monograph which is an attempt, with the collaboration of several authors, to summarize current knowledge in this field. Only lumbar and cervical phlebography will be discussed in this monograph.

To appreciate this book readers must grasp the symbolism of its title and front page depicting the author's life story, sometimes in rough seas. At three/four years old he was strongly aware of a call into the Christian ministry, inspiration for a long, fruitful life - growing up and helping on their South African farm, commuting to grammar school on horseback - together enough miles to ride three times from New York to California; struggling financially to become a clergyman. His autobiography is interspersed with short unbelieveable biographies of several classmates and what life was like. Read "The Sturdy Warrior" (Chapter V) and "Albert Schweitzer of the Bush Veld" Chapter X. With several appropriate degrees he migrated to Princeton Theological Seminary, United States of America, and became a learned professor. But then the delicate call that had driven him since a small boy was smashed beyond repair. Versility enabled him to commute to Wall Street for a new career, finding that nobody can smash a genuine call to those designated to belong to God's universal Kingdom. Symbolic pulpits and lecturns are hidden everywhere. He sought, find, and applied them with the eagerness of the Roman saying age quod agis - "do what you are doing." How did it go? Please find the sequel to this book FAITH, HOPE, AND DETERMINATION and read it.

Readers will greatly benefit reading this book's forerunner SO MUCH WATER SO LITTLE WOOD for they play in contrasting milieus of maladministration and usually well administered milieus of the financial and other worlds. The American Association of Universty Professors deserves praise for its penetrating light on that book's milieu benefitting employees and other educational institutions for future years. Professions have their unique vocabulary and idioms of wisdom as does the investment business. Its truth will be summarized. Business flourished for me. Ruth and I could vacation and travel - a more pleasant life. Sorrow struck. Ruth had developed small brain aneurysms and died within four days. Two and a half years later I married Janice Seybolt Morton, a widow with two young daughters. Life went on. And Princeton Seminary? Purposely locked in a forget corner. Then my phone rang. The same student who wanted a copy of my prayer decades ago, now Seminary Archivist, looked for my file, but it was forever assigned to trash. "I still have your prayer," he said. He came for three days, asking questions and recording my answers. He unlocked the corner. I had portraits of five deceased, outstanding former colleagues at Princeton painted for the Seminary, and eventually established endowments for scholarships and distribution of Bibles in South Africa, together with liberal contributions for a new library. Graciously the Seminary dedicated a lecture room in the new library for me on October 22, 2013. This book fulfills my dream of tribute to several of my friends at Pretoria University dedicating their lives to the Kingdom of God. They are all long gone now, one fifty years ago in 2013, but to all applies the inscription on Johannes Petrus Potgieter's grave stone at his mission station Rivoni: "THOU THEY WERE DEAD, YET SHALL THEY LIVE."

This book covers a concise history of South Africa to the present beginning with unintended colonization by Holland due to a shipwreck near the southern tip of Africa. Between these two markers it touches just briefly on subjects covered more extensively by the author in his book Out of Ashes, the Boers' Struggle for Freedom During the English War 1899-1902. Then it proceeds with the country's political developments. In South Africa, as all over the world where possible, settlements began with husbandry and agriculture. Having been born on and grown up on a farm, the author is salvaging the history of farming methods with the ox, the horse, the mule, and farming implements, all of which have now long ebbed away into the distant past. The apartheid era is covered. The impractical aspect of the theory is well understood, but the author is fair, and also exposes the frequently distorted and ignorant opinions that took hold in the western world, lasting until today. The world did not know, and if it did, it ignored the massive educational programs for millions, and that, were it not for the apartheid governments, South Africa with all its mineral riches, needed in the world, with Russian involvement would be another Cuba today. Throughout pictures, that are indeed worth much more than a thousand words, highlight what is beyond words alone.