Roberts and Guelff's "Documents on the laws of war" is a comprehensive collection of the treaties that created the body of armed conflict law and an essential tool for all students approaching this subject. The various documents are preceded by brief introductions which help even the most unacquainted user to orientate himself and to understand the origins, the context and the importance of the various sources. Even the practitioner will find it very useful, thanks to a detailed index at the end of book which allows to find the relevant legal material in few minutes. Last but not least, it contains the most recent treaties of this legal field, such as the 1999 2nd Hague Protocol for the Protection of Cultural Property in the event of armed conflict, or the 1998 Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. I have recently used this book for my exam in international humanitarian law and it has certainly helped me to obtain a first class mark!

Renowned Oxford scholar Adam Roberts, once again has been able to put together an outstanding work, in collecting documents on the laws and by-laws of international treaties and pacts, international declarations and conventions, etc. The book is a reference book. However, it is also an extremely interesting and useful tool (for those interested in those matters) to 'browse through' from time to time. It is a book that cannot miss from the library of any international law expert. While it may be needed from time to time for a quick consultation on specific points, it will also provide huge amounts of information on the legal insights of international conflict.

Adam Roberts and Richard Guelff have further refined their excellent text on humanitarian law. This book is an absolute must for students, academics, operations lawyers and politicians alike. Written in clear, concise and exact English 'Documents on the Laws of War' is a comprehensive collection of treaty and customary law. An operations lawyer could be be considered as 'negligent' if s/he failed to have this guide to the 'law of armed conflict' by his/her side at all times. Essential reading and reference.

This kids' version of the popular Dorling Kindersley guidebooks has many full color photographs on each page to help kids to visualize sites they may want to visit. The book contains a two-page spread about the Millenium Dome, and mention of the London Eye, two new sites you won't find in older travel books. The information in this book is similar to that in the adult version; it's just condensed so there is less text to wade through, and the information focuses on aspects of each area that will be of interest to the younger generation. For instance, under Covent Garden, you'll read about the street performers (who juggle swords and such) rather than the antique market. Basically, you can find this information elsewhere, but if you want to give your kids a guide that they can read on their own on the airplane, this is a nice book for the money. In the back of the book are some write-in quizes and journal pages for that interactive element. It even has a little pocket in the back for saving ticket stubs and other souvenirs.

We bought this book for our 10 year old as part of our vacation planning process. It really helped her feel part of the process and empowered her to choose things she was most interested in seeing. We bought a different more comprehensive guide for the adults but still really appreciated the information and presentation in this kids' book. I wish there were more books in this series. We would have loved to have similar ones for our trip to Rome or our upcoming trip to Paris.

Home sick, for a place you've never seen? It's a great book, not just for kids. Packed full of facts and trivia. The pictures are great.

Cultural genocide has surfaced it's ugly head many times in different places. However, Education for Extinction shows just how devastating this incident can be. It gives an entire new outlook to the "help" provided to native peoples during the conquest of this nation. Long have we been taught of Thanksgiving and the good that has come to native peoples, but this book tells the true tale, for what it's worth.

I chose to read this text for a special assignment for a graduate level curriculum overview course. This book takes one through the historical journey of how American Indians came to be apart of the U.S. colossal education system. American Indian education is the only Federal education system model that exits. With the push for more Federal leadership in schools due to No Child Left Behind legislation, this book can help future (and current) educators scrutinize how successful the federal government has been in the past and present in implementing a standardized education system.

Whether your interest is due to academic reasons or personal interests, I highly recommend this book. The book is divided into four parts: Civilization; Education; Response; and Causatum. Chapter five entitled "Classroom" describes the evolution of the 'standard' curriculum that was decided to be the best/most successful for American Indian children. This curriculum mainly had its birth at the Carlisle Industrial Indian School in Carlisle, PA. That school became a model for the several off reservation boarding schools that were to follow.

Adams' research for his text is extremely thorough. Many times American Indians are currently worried when they see texts that have an anthropology 'feel' about them. This text uses many primary sources such as actual letters from the students at schools and excerpts from actual conversations between teachers and children, their parents, and school administrators. Such as this excerpt from Irene Stewart, "...By the time I graduated from the sixth grade I was a well-trained worker...By evening I was too tired to play and just fell asleep wherever I sat down. I think this is why the boys and girls ran away from school; why some became ill; why it was so hard to learn. We were too tired to study." (p. 153). What is great about his writing is that one is not lost in a lot of elitist research style prose. He is able to incorporate his research in a way to make it easily readable and almost in a story like fashion. Lastly, I really appreciated how he tried to incorporate a balanced portrayal of Indian Education when appropriate. By this I mean to say, that Adams is sure to include vignettes and commentaries to show that not all Non-Indians of the time wished to eradicate the 'Indians' and, like today, many Non-Indians have an earnest interest in the true success - however it may be defined - for American Indian children.

I hope you find this book as helpful and interesting as I did.

The outlook was hubris. The deep motive was greed. The set-up was civilization vs savagry. First came the land grabs, coupled with the troops and the missionaries, bearing THE WORD, and the word could not be in Apache, and some whips to back up the loving deity. Then came the schools, on the res, near the res, and in distant towns. The curricula was standardized, identities stolen--in name and body. Some kids managed to assimilate, many died, some burned down the schools. Truants were chased down like fugitive slaves. Free inquiry rooted in the natural curiosity of children, rising from their particular experiences, banned. What struck me about this incisive piece of educational and cultural history was how much the Indian Schools look like so many public schools today. What those white folks did seems to have come around and bit them, so gently they don't even notice. I hope my students like this as much as I did.

A major portion of Gardening in Deer Country is devoted to providing descriptions of deer resistant plants and their growing requirements. The novice gardener will find these descriptions extremely helpful. However, color pictures of the plants would be immensely helpful. The one thing I find annoying about this book is it defines the probability a plant may be eaten by deer as: Rarely, Seldom, Occasionally, Frequently or Absolutely NOT. I question the legitimacy of such detailed breakdowns, as deer are very similar to people regarding food. First, both people and deer have regional food preferences (e.g., Italian food verses Chinese). Deer in my neighborhood may love the same plant that deer in your neighborhood hate. Second, individual deer, like humans, have their own preferences. For example, I love garlic but my mother hates it. As such, it would be much more accurate and useful if the author categorized plants into one of three groups: Rarely, Occasionally and Frequently. This would also help eliminate discussions between confused gardeners and garden center staff trying to quantify the difference between rarely, seldom and, occasionally.

This book is the perfect companion to Deer Proofing Your Yard & Garden, by Rhonda Massingham Hart. The one area where Deer Proofing Your Yard & Garden is weak, plant descriptions, is the area where Gardening in Deer Country excels.

This is a very helpful book listing plants that deer prefer not to eat. Of course, there are no guarantees but the listings, plant descriptions and index should help just about everyone living in deer country.

Gardening in Deer Country is a life savior. I was so frustrated with planning and planting my garden only to have it destroyed by the native deer. Now I have a way to live in peace and enjoy nature; I am guided to plants that are unappetizing to the deer yet pleasing to me. Thank goodness for the book of the season.

I just bought this book and have had a hard time putting it down. The characters were believable. Luke and Tish have a very passionate relationship that makes your pulse race. My only dissapoinment is that I have finished the book. It's a story you want to go on and on. I now have to find out if all of Faye Adam's books are this good.

Thank-you for writing a story I couldn't put down. It has been a while since I have been so intrigued with a series of books. I hope this is not the last of them.

I am so disappointed...that i finished the book..in went out and got all of the title by this author. You mean to tell me there are only four? I couldn't put any of them down. great story telling up there with J. Lindsey. please write some more!!

Every now and then one stumbles across a relatively obscure author
whose work is nevertheless enrossing and highly relevant. "Cruel Tales" is such a work. It's unlikely that even many well-read people have heard of De L'Isle-Adam. And yet, his collection of short storie disturbs and enterains.

De L'Isle-Adam wrote in the mid-19th century, yet many of the idols he lampoons--commericialism, materialism, excessive patriotism, scientific objectivity--are all the more pervasive in today's society. De L'Isle-Adam writes witty, thought-provking satire without coming off embittered; this is no easy feat

Some of the tales have a shocking climax, such as "Sentimentality" or "The Eleventh-Hour Guest" "Two Augurs" is extremely funny; although it deliberately exaggerates society's trend towards conformity, it makes one ponder how much of an exaggeration it really is.

De L'Isle-Adam was a radical individualist and subjectivist. And these stories offer a metaphorical journey into human unconsciousness. One is tempted to call them poetical Freudianism; before Freud. In some ways, De L'Isle-Adam is similiar to Poe; though not as darkly offputting. I see a positive Enlightenment Humanistic impulse in De L'Isle-Adam as well, even as he lampoons much of the Enlightenment tradition.

Finally, I should note that although De L'Isle-Adam attacks science and reason and advocates a personal mysticism, he is not a religious apologist. If anything, the mysticism he has in mind is more of an idealism (perhaps even a solipism as the previous writter suggests); a probing of one's own mind and the very personal, often very weird world it has the potential to create.

In all truth, I think this book deserves three stars, but what the hell, I enjoyed it and I think other people might enjoy it too. It is definitely not a masterpiece of literature, but somehow it forms part of the Western literary tradition and its style has, directly or not, inspired much of current popular culture. Villiers de l'Isle was a member of that strange group, the French decadents, active in the last part of the XIX century, like Huysmans, Lautreamont and Mallarmé (the latter being much superior in strictly literary quality). The whole idea of decadentism is to reject the vulgar, noisy, superflous life of modernity, the disappearance of the nobility, the predominance of the cheap. Decadentists nostalgically praise the life of the soul, the reclusiveness enjoyed by old nobles living in gloomy castles. It is like Romanticism disillusioned, taken to the extreme. Hence comes the idealization of the Middle Ages, as opposed to the most optimistic century in history, the XIX. But decadentism also has a darker face: the fascination with death, sickness, twisted sex, darkness and retreat from society.

In these tales, Villiers treats these themes with varying success, but somehow they are attractive, so different from what we live, think and feel today. Two of the tales were, in my opinion, the best crafted: "The impatience of multitudes", about a warrior returning to an Ancient Greek city from a battle with the Persians. It is very vivid and indeed cruel, as the title of the collection suggests. It could even be said that it belongs in anthologies of this period. The other one is "The desire to be a man", a very sick story. The rest are very original (though it doesn't seem so, for the style has been appropriated by cheap entertainment and a few masterpieces) and they create the right mood, with pale full moons, crows, owls, night horse-rides and all which is now a cliche of ghosts stories. It is an easy and quick read, rather eccentric.

to some, adams is not even significant and wrote nothing of enduring or lasting value. to those of us who can recognize true decadence and solipsism when we see it, however, his work is indispensable to our dementia and creative depravity. how else could we justify our bizarre, reclusive lifestyles, our anti social bitterness, our out and out misanthropy, without recourse to adam's philosophy of pure ideation and subjectivity? sure, not all his material has necessarily dated well, but the exact same thing can be said of huysmans or any of the other decadents. the constant emphasis on religious faith and it's importance (it sometimes seems that adams is trying to convince himself of the reality of his beliefs and not the reader)may seem obsolete now, but it gives a real sense of mystery and wonder to his novels and short stories. adams is the defender of the aesthete and the introvert par excellance, and this collection of really intriguing and poetic tales is a treasure to the connoisseur of the imaginative, the purely mental, the mystical. for anyone who lives 'against the grain', this is an absolute necessity. BUY IT

Although this catalog does not all of the best pieces from the exhibit (most notably absent are the yurts and archery equipment), it does have a good selection of maps ans supporting text for the items that are included. Broken down by time period rather than by object (which for the Nomads of Eurasia and Son of Heaven catalogs proved to be a more useful format) it is nonetheless valuable for its coverage of pieces that have not shown up in any other museum exhibit.

Opens up an array of artworks known to few in the West (or the East, for that matter), since North-Asian tribal cultures have long been rather stigmatized. Lovingly photographed, with quite breathtaking color reproduction. Informative text. A truly exciting introduction to the arts and archaeological finds of the Asian steppes and "frontier" areas.

Thank you for such a wonderfully insightful, beautiful book! It has enhanced my knowledge tremendously of the time period, and is a wonderful addition to my library. I found it to be intelligently written, engaging to the reader, written with a great deal of passion and knowledge. I would recommend this book to anyone who has a love of the arts. Hopefully, the show this was based on might tour again in the future as I would love the opportunity to view these extraordinary pieces described in the book first hand. Thank you again.

This is a a great book for those who love to travel to baseball games with the family. My only complaint would be that it doesn't cover every MLB stadium. On the plus side, it includes independent and minor league stadiums.

I picked up this book because, like many baseball fans, I've thought of one day seeing all the major league ballparks (or at least those worth seeing). Baseball Vacations doesn't disappoint, offering information on baseball parks clustered into chapters by region or theme. It's mainly addressed to families, but a couple like us can get a lot out of it too.
My only beef with their reviews came when they labeled Dodger Dogs mediocre, quite a slight to the Dodger fan. Hmm, maybe they didn't try the grilled ones.
Anyway, they offer seating tips (like which seats have obstructed views), parking, lodging, sightseeing and entertainment options, although the latter two would be better served if you accompany your trip with a local guide.

I really like the pleasure they take in describing the historic parks. You can identify with their love for the game.
I would recommend it to the true baseball fan in search of the past.

I really like this. This is a terrific resource (especially when combined with team websites for game schedules) for planning a major baseball-oriented family excursion, or for fitting in a ballgame--almost anywhere in the country--to a non-baseball business or pleasure trip.
There's an index in the back that lists addresses and telephone numbers for virtually all professional teams in the U.S. and Canada, but the regionally-organized sections of the book focus on the cities and parks that the Adams/Engel family found to be NICE places to see ballgames, and to visit before and after the games. They are obviously devoted fans of the game itself, but recognize that there's much more to a great fan experience than the star power on display. Thus, some major league teams are barely mentioned while some minor league and independent ballparks are highlighted. For example, the New York-Penn league affiliates of the Mets and Expos are judged worthier destinations than their major-league parents. Admittedly, the judgements are personal and perhaps idiosyncratic, and completists may well be annoyed by some omissions, but I can't argue with the authors' priorities.
Besides all the baseball material, each section suggests hotels, restaurants, historic sites, and non-baseball entertainments worth visiting to anchor the regional flavor of each destination.
I was already planning a six-day, five-game trip with my young daughter for spring, but this book has me thinking about the NEXT excursion! If you want to actaully experience "baseball as America," this is a nice guidebook to have.

This book, and its companion, God, are excellent sources for all people who are exploring their spirituality, and even better for those that aren't. The authors present their brief introductions to the Goddess concept and let short retellings from world mythology supply their evidence, a system which both helps the book flow and makes the reader a more apt critic of the authors' interpretations of the myth. Granted, the retellings are short and the book's subject matter is too broad to be discussed in depth, but it presents its ideas of coherence and unity powerfully and respectfully, satisfying to both the mind and the soul. I recommend it wholeheartedly, especially if you are a Neopagan, this book makes an excellent outsiders' view of a subject dear to our hearts.

Although the authors are two men, Leeming, a professor of English and Mythology, and Page, a science writer and novelistÑthey believe the story of Goddess belongs to and is important to everyone, regardless of gender. And, their intent, to present a "coherent tale of Goddess," is successfully realized without entering into gender politics. With short stories, and equally short introductions, the reader is introduced to all the favorites as well as many lessor-known Goddesses such as the Apache "Vagina Girls." For in-depth detail on the Goddesses, one must go to other books, but while reading this overall "biography" of the archetype, one can begin to sense the unity of the archetype that has existed in all parts of the world with that which is within.

The men who wrote this book are very feminist. It is touching the way they refer to Her as Goddess; not once do they slip up and call her "the" Goddess. This shows that She is as important to Her followers as God is to his.The strength of this book is its beautiful writing. Most of the myths are short enough, pretty enough, and reverent enough to read out loud durning rituals.Another thing that i loved about this book is its multi-cultural scope. Despite being an avid reader of books on Goddess for 12 years-this book has some myths and some goddesses that i have not heard of before.i highly reccomend this book. The language is delicous and each goddess is portrayed not as a figure from myth but as a diety worthy of worship.

Good book. Has about every scale and mode of the scale that every guitarist could want and more then most will ever use. However the book qualitys kind of [bad]. After a few weeks the first 20 pages of the book came out. Aside from that its a good scale book.

This is by far the best guitar book ever written, and it will be the best [money] you ever spend. It has accurate descriptions of intervals and scales and easily enables anyone to teach themselves the information.

At first when I opened this book, I felt lost. It was like reading German. But after a few sit downs without my guitar in my hands, it came very clear. The introductory sections on intervals, scales and modes were fantastic. I've read a bunch of guitar books, and this is the only one that precisely and adequately describes intervals so that you know exactly what they are. It's just a great great book.