This book is GREAT....one of my favorites. And I am sure it will be for all Christian Malabarites. It would definitely surprise a lot of Indians just as anyone would be if you seek your roots. It wouldnt interest any other ethnic group though, unless if you are researcher in the topic.

This collection of essays is a good introduction to the study of film as it pertains to society. The major claim, which every essay alludes to in some way, is that film was in many respects the inevitable outgrowth of modern life--its urban-ness, its speed, its repetition, its mass-production, its visual nature, etc. I found this work quite effective in the classroon, and personally, but I can't recommend it to anyone who wishes to avoid a scholarly-researched/written text.

Let's face it, most people won't be buying this volume by choice--they'll buy it for a class. Still, it's good to know what you're getting into. This is a pretty good anthology of American literature, starting all the way back with Native American myths and Columbus's journals and continuing through Puritan, Enlightenment, Transcendentalist, Romantic, and modern periods of literature in America.

The introductions to the pieces are good--as good or better than Norton's--and the selections themselves are generally good. Still, though, there are a few notable things missing, but that is to be expected in any compendium, I suppose.

One of the highlights of this volume is the full reprints of Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography and Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn. If you have to buy this book, it should be useful and may even be worth keeping around after the class is over. I know I'm going to keep mine.

Leo has written a wonderfully funny book, to help express new bible-based ideas, in the form of humorous life-experience parables.

It's not quite as good as Stick Making, a Complete Course. There are no pictures of the various trees used, but he gives a good description about how and where to get good stick material.
The latter book is more complete, however, listing sources for suppliers. The former does have an appendix of tips, a chapter on judging, and directions for assembling a ring-horn cane (Horn Disc Sticks). In all other respects, I'd say The Craft of Stickmaking is equal to the latter in information, interest, and comprehension, just not as many color pictures, although there are enough black & white pix to illustrate to my satisfaction.

This is an informative book, and is reasonably interestinggiven the dry subject. I found it more helpful than the Jon Toigobook. It has an emphasis on telecom recovery and redundancies that was missing from Toigo. The book is weaker on IS recovery, and the author is not really well-acquainted with computer security topics, although he discusses them. In spite of this, the book has an excellent little LAN security policy.

The references to Qmodem and Procomm are hints that although this is a 1997 book, it is based on earlier material.

Wrobel includes a number of helpful checklists and interview guides. His "Sample Operating and Security Standards" in Appendix F is a useful section that could serve as a standard for data center physical security. END

I would like to make this book to be one of my references in computer batik design.

This is a very well written book about marital therapy. The writing is crisp and very informative. It presents both the theory and particulars of family therapy in a simple way. It is not a comprehensive review of family therapy, but the writing style, I think, makes it the book to buy.

I thought this was a cute little book. It starts with the journey of two fleas and the adventure they encounter. First comes the dog and the decisions of where to live on that dog. Next comes the chicken, a porcupine, a mole, a turtle, a duck, and a crow. So you see these were adventurous fleas, but they both had different opinions on where they should live. One stayed on a crow, and the less adventurous one went back to stay on the dog that he originally started from.

This collection of articles takes an unusual approach to law and economics. In its first two chapters, it gives some theory. It then provides, in the third chapter, a brief overview of applications to property, tort, contract, criminal law and procedure (the basic model). The next four chapters are devoted to 'refinements' of the basic model, to wit strategic behaviour, risk and insurance, information problems and bounded rationality. These core chapters are followed by one on various strands of critique of the economic analysis of law and by a concluding chapter on the economics of family law, presented as the frontier of law and economics. Each chapter has introductory and concluding notes and questions, exhibiting admirable mastery of the law and economics literature.

In the second chapter, law and economics is presented as relying on two distinct models. One is called the market failure model, or alternatively the Pigovian model. The other is the co-operative or Coasean model (explained through excerpts of Coase's 1937 and 1960 articles). I wonder whether these two should be presented as alternative models. The first one is clearly normative: markets can be left alone, save when market failure is thought to occur. In that case a form of corrective intervention is called for. Coase's point appears to be descriptive first: transaction costs explain why interested persons choose particular institutions, from amongst several possible options, for structuring their relations. As against Pigou, he argued that supposed market corrections did not in fact alter matters and indeed that the supposed failure of the market was imagined only.

The chapters on the 'refinements' all deal with matters that are particularisations of what were traditionally considered forms of market failure: externalities, public goods, imperfect or asymmetric information as well as monopoly. While this may be sound pedagogically -- start with the basic model briefly, then devote most time to examining deviations which call for particular rules and explain observed legal rules in that manner -- it weds one to a rather traditional approach to law and economics, however admirably the reader is otherwise put together.

The collection devotes no space to public choice or game theory (although it mentions the book by Baird et al.), nor to the Austrian and (neo)institutionalist views of law and economics (although Williamson's work is mentioned in notes). Surprisingly, not a single excerpt of Richard Epstein's work is included, although again his name pops up several times in the notes.

Whoever has even skimmed the Palgrave Dictionary of Law and Economics will surely agree that there is more to the field than is dreamt of in this reader. But perhaps such a solid straightforward approach is just what beginning L&E students demand.

EJAN MACKAAY