The collection covers a wide variety of drills, from fitness to fundamental skills to tactics. The authors have made a serious effort to index the skills being emphasized, and in large part were successful; it would be possible to plan many, many practices using no other source. The drills are presented clearly, with the text and diagrams interacting to make each drill easily accessible. My only complaint -- and it's minor -- is that there is some repetition; some of the later drills are variations of the earlier ones.

I have been coaching for six years and playing for 20, and I found this to be a very valuable source.

I have owned a copy of this book for over a year. I would rate this book essential for beginning to intermediate soccer coaches. I have coached youth soccer for 4 years (ages 5-10 rec. and select) and have found this book to make selecting drills simple. The drawings are plain ("X's" and "O's") and clearly illustrate each drill. I looked at several other books that utilized nice graphics and photos to show how to run each drill. However, the clear, simple and concise use of diagrams makes the most complex drill easy to understand and run. In addition, each drill is listed by primary area of emphasis (passing, defense, passing, shooting, etc.) so that you can select one or more drills to emphasize the part of the game your team needs to work on. I highly recommend this book as a supplement to coaching soccer to youth players.

This book shines in many different areas. The most important being its ease of use.

The final speeches of Malcolm X was very good and emotional moving. This person has a way with persuativity and I really recommmend this book not only to Muslims or to Blacks but to people in general for we all have suffered inequality one way or another. This book gets to the core of your being and you cant help but be moved by it.

This book is badly needed for people who are still stuck on the NOI days of malcolm. In 1964 on, he became a true sunni muslim and activist for the human rights of African Americans in the USA and the struggle for human rights abroad. This book surveys his last speeches and interviews in 1965. You will know who he evolved into and why we muslims call him the Shahid al Amrika the American Muslim Martyr.

These speeches were written as Malcolm's home was being bombed, as men who would murder him were following him across the country, when he was switching residences every day. This is a man fighting for his life, not for himself, but for the struggle for Black liberation he had long served and for the broader world-wide battle against capitalism and imperialism he had joined. Of decisive importance is his unmaking of the corruption of the Nation of Islam, of its terror tactics against dissenters, its financial swindles, its dealings with racist and facists. If they were most obviously among those who wished his death, he also shows his sense that the CIA, FBI, NYPD and other US government forces were his real enemy.
The speeches also touch onhis growing involvement in the civil rights movement in America as well as Malcolm's growing concern with the war in Vietnam and the need to support African liberation fighters in the Congo and beyond.
Very importantly, the material in this book contains an approach to what Elijah Mohammed and Louis Farrahkahn are about that Malcolm wanted to included in his autobiography. He wanted to revise the book to expose them, but his murder prevented it.

I read this because I remain convinced that Mr Lowry's novel UNDER THE VOLCANO is one of the great tragic works of literature of the 20th century and its power remains with me after 30 years. In this biography the alcoholic writer's creative process is revealed in detail as well as his determination to destroy himself - in detail. I've often thought of Geoffrey Firmin/Malcolm Lowry as the essential 20th century man - we came close to destroying the world last century but failed. This is a solid well written biography and suits the general reader.

This is one of two biographies of Malcolm Lowry that I have read. The first was Douglas Day's biography--a sort of psycho-literary look at Lowry's life. It's not bad, but Bowker's book goes far beyond Day's. This book is much richer in detail--detail that casual readers might find overwhelming, but that Lowry afficionados will wallow in.

Also, Bowker has tracked down Lowry's first wife, Jan Gabriel, who adds to the story of Lowry's life a dimension absent from Day's book.

Anyone who has read Lowry's work has certainly suspected that his art mirrored his life, that much of what he wrote was autobiographical, in spirit if not in detail. This book confirms those suspicions, showing how truly excessive Lowry was in pretty much all aspects of his life: his drinking, fear, childishness...

A great biography of a great writer.

This is a much needed improvement on the Douglas Day bio of some years ago (though, I admit, a bit less fun to read). It's been covered in all the major reviews, of course, and I'm sure all you Lowryeans out there have a copy and love it for the wealth of information it contains that was absent from the Day bio and other sources...But, as a long-term Lowryean myself, I thought I'd add my bolus of criticism: Mr Bowker has a great advantage over previous writers on Lowry: He has found that the great author's first wife, Jan Gabrial, is not only alive and well, but eager to discuss all aspects of her relationship with her former spouse (with Bowker anyway). This revelation colors Mr Bowker's entire biography. It also, however, leads to the greatest flaw in the book: The simplistic polarization of Conrad Aiken vs. Nordahl Grieg as the Dark Angel and Light Angel, respectively, in Lowry's psyche. Ms Gabrial obviously detested Conrad Aiken and credited the dissolution of her marriage to him. No doubt she has cause to do so. But nobody who has spent any time reading Conrad Aiken's beautiful and much-neglected poetry can believe he was as consumately evil as Ms Gabrial, via Mr Bowker, makes him out to be. Still, this is a minor quibble for such an obviously painstaking and thorough work. It's refreshing to see the greatest poetic novelist of our century getting some attention toward the end of it!

This is not a bad introduction to the life and music of J.S. Bach, however it is nowhere as well written or informative as Christoph Wolff's biography. I found myself falling to sleep reading Boyd, but the Wolff kept me interested all the way. Wolff also presents the death of Bach's parents as a much more central experience, which I found Boyd tended to place less significance on. This is not a poor book, it is just that the Wolff bio is so much better.

Bach scholarship was turned upside down in the 1950s by the acceptance of new scholarship by Alfred Durr and Georg Dadelsen which established a new chronology and authenticity for Bach's music. It took about 30 years for Bach biography to catch up and digest the implications of the new discoveries. Bach biographies published before 1960 are frequently inaccurate in many details, and this include Spitta's famous 3 volume study. Of the recent books on Bach, Professor Boyd's book is one of the very best and the place for anyone with an interest in Bach to start their exploration of his life and work.

This book provides an analyical and important summary of the greatest of all 18th century composers. Boyd succeeds in providing the life of Bach in context with the musical conditions of 18th century Germany, but adds his own perspective as seen from the end of the 20th century. I found this book most enjoyable, along the likes of other biographies of Bach, including Spitta and Schweitzer. To be added to the Bach Plucked! web site's recommended reading list.

Michael Stitt

Beautifully illustrated with nice photos of some important dogs. Biased toward his own dogs in many ways. Good history and care chapters. Bearing in mind this man is a geneticist, not a Breeder, overall a good read.

agree with other reviews in that this book is comprehensive and covers everything from breeding, welping, puppy care, purchase care, showing, qualifications, care and best of all it shows off the beauty and temperment of this rare and wonderful breed.

It then agian doesn't help you. If you want to know more about this breed then I would read the book for more info on the breed.My big sister does not want one, but I do so I read this book and got more info on the breed. Now I am 100% that I want one. I LOVE the back cover it is a picture of 5 cute puppys and 4 lovable puppys that want to be taken home to play with you.

Clinical pharmacokinetics is a good book for students and researchers interested in learning the basics of pharmacokinetics. It has some positive points like the "definition of symbols" at the begining of the book, which help a lot when you forget what's the meaning of them. It also has good figures and tables (although some of them need corrections)and the text is most of the time easy to understand (but not always...). On the other hand, the exercises are not very helpful and some of them require a lot of thinking (more than you usually need to solve most pharmacokinetics problems encountered in real life situation). They also extrapolate the information teached in each chapter and this can make you feel really bad after having so much work to read the chapter. Anyway, I do recommend this book for interested students and researchers, always keeping in mind the limitations of its exercises.

This book is a very finely crafted comprehensive introduction to pharmacokinetics, with enough pharmacodynamics to give one context. If you are new to PK/PD and need to understand and work with the subject matter this is an EXCELLENT starting point and a fine reference. The prose is clear, the organization thoughtful, and the figures and diagrams are masterful - best in class. The authors are both renowned academics with extensive industrial experience. That background shines through in the thoughtful way that topics are motivated and explained. I found the questions useful and thought-provoking. Isn't it the case that the more iron one pumps in the gym, the stronger one is on the playing field?

One thing that I would add to this book (and most other PK books I've seen) would be a comprehensive listing of the different math models (one or two compartment, IV, or zero or first order input, etc), highlighting different uses (closed form solutions are easiest to use for parameter estimations, ODE formulations for repeat dosing, etc.) and their different parameterizations. This book contains some of this information (e.g. Table 19-1), but an appendix with this info would be useful. An additional improvement with great teaching utility might be an elementary modeling/estimation program for MS-Excel.

For those needing an overview of PK (e.g. a pharma executive responsible for a development program) without a lot of the details necessary for practitioners, a less-comprehensive book that is also very good is Peter Welling's "Pharmacokinetics". Gabriellson's and Weiner's book "PK and PD Data Analysis" has a more spotty overview of the basic subject matter, but does have descriptions of many techniques not found elsewhere. The latter book is "WinNonLin-centric" (WinNonLin is a program written by one of the authors) which may be what is wanted.

My favorite intro book and basic referencer for PK is definitely Rowland and Tozer. Bravo!

Helo, I JUST WOULD LIKE TO ASK YOU IF THE LAST EDITION OF THIS BOOK IS AVAILABLE FOR READING FROM YOUR WEB SITE? I THANK YOU IN ADVANCE. ANNICK

"Fulcrum' which tells the story of the author's escape from the Soviet Air Force is both the best and most frustrating story I've read about the life of Soviet fighter pilots. In 1989, Alexander Zuyev, frustrated with Soviet life and fearing he might be ordered to fly strike missions against the emerging unrest, stole a MiG-29 fighter (NATO codenamed "fulcrum") and flew to west-aligned Turkey. Zuyev was an elite fighter pilot in every sense of the word - he had been selected to be among teh first to fly the early MiG-29's, this despite his requests for assignment to a combat unit in Afghanistan. Zuyev's decision to defect was not impulsive - the author's elaborate plans included drugging his squadronmates with a cake full of drugs bought slowly and in small quantities to avoid detection.

"Fulcrum" rules because it deals with MiG pilots (the expendable victims in technothrillers) in ways I'm unused to and makes some credible points that the Russians would have more than a numerical advantage against the west had the cold war turned hot. These are not the unimaginative and dogmatic bolshevik robots who populate technothrillers. It's also frustrating because its concentration on the the corruption and deprivation of soviet life both monopolize the book's attentions and provide little more insight into Sovit life then we'd get in any anti-communist screed. All the soviet double-talk will be familiar to anybody who's been reading technothirllers for years - likely the people reading this book.

Even those parts of "Fulcrum" dealing with the author's fighter-pilot exploits are weak because of their paucity of details that Zuyev is best positioned to relate: like the makings of a Red fighter pilot (a breed of warrior given little credit for initiative by the west) and his own maturation from a chubby kid into a disciplined and combat-hungry flier is perfunctory and unsatisfying. Also underdeveloped is the Fulcrum itself - the MiG-29; Zuyev actually began his career in the MiG-23, an interceptor fighter not maneuverable enough for dogfighting and eventually to spend much of its time dropping bombs in Afghanistan. A world apart from the Fulcrum, the -23 is nevertheless a powerful machine, and each plane offers a valuable tool as a comparison for the other. But Zuyev the fighter-pilot takes a back seat to Zuyev, the soviet commentator.

Instead of tales regaling us with his prowess as a fighter pilot - we have tales of the horror of soviet life and of Soviet military backwardness. The irradiated and polluted landscape of the soon-to-be ex-USSR is indispensable because of its historical context, but Zuyev confuses what should be background to the story with the story itself, and we're bombarded, not with missiles, but of generals supplementing their meager incomes smuggling and using connections. He starts into his "the real life in the Soviet Union" story early on, and boy does it get repetitive. Getting further off-topic are Zuyev's revelations about various soviet mysteries now revealed by the end of the cold war - the fate of American servicemen taken prisoner in Vietnam, Korea and other cold-war theatres and the truth behind the KAL-007 shootdown. The book pushes this information as a revelation, even though none of it is substantiated. Not that he's intentionally misleading or that his version of the events culminating in the -007 shootdown are even false: they're just stories he's heard second hand, and he's in no posiiton to verify them. Zuyev wasn't the pilot who shot down the plane or even on duty anywhere near the incident. It would be generous to say that Zuyev heard the story 2nd or even 3rd hand - there's just no way to tell. Zuyev's account - that Red AF generals ordered the attack because they had failed to repair the equipment that would have verified the Korean jet's non-military mission - is credible, but it's the kind of credibility that breeds stories. Stuck for possible explanation that eliminates cold-blooded murder for the more believable criminally negligent homicide, somebody could have thought up the same story - just ask anybody who's ever watched the X-Files or Oliver Stone's "JFK". Zuyev is simply one more person who can't confirm or support a story he hasn't witnessed himself. Just imagine what would happen if some left-wing types tried to explain the shootdown of the Iranian Airbus based on similar circumstances supported by a story the authors got from a sailor who heard it all from a radar operator named "Eddie". Nobody would believe it for a minute.

Unfortunately, this detached perspective dominates the book - everybody is lazy, an "apparatchik", corrupt but - any way you slice it - already a traitor to those noble ideas of Marx. In the end, those who refused to leave the USSR may be it's biggest defectors.

I lived in Russia for most of this decade (1990s). While there I borrowed "Fulcrum" from a friend. It was exciting reading, especially while living in Russia. I found that the book accurately reflected the life I was experiencing everyday in Russia (a lot didn't change--even after the fall of the USSR.) This book is an absolute MUST reading for anyone who really wants to get behind the scenes and understand how life really works in the former Soviet Union. It is a pity that this book is no longer available and I seriously wonder if the KGB had something to do with it going out of print, as it is one of the most accurate books I have ever read. I hope that sometime soon this book can again be available and widely circulated.

I had a chance to hear Alexander speak to a full house at EAA Convention 1994. His account of how he could no longer support a government who spent most tax dollars on war machinery while the population stood in line for essentials of life was most revealing. The things we learned about the MIG training from him later as a consultant to the Pentagon enabled our military to develop maneuvers in combat with Soviet Aircraft.

I read this book after "Cloud of Sparrows",based on another reviewer's recommendation. I have to admit, although much shorter, it is a better read. The plot is believable and the characters sympathetic. I identified readily with the main American character, the diplomat. Also, I liked how the author wove a Civil War connection into his tale. However, the book is short, only a little over two hundred pages; and as a result the characters aren't as well defined as I'd like. I haven't read anything by this author before, but I think Dickson may be going places in the future. He does need to make his books a bit longer though. This was more like a novella than a novel.

I read a lot of fiction, especially historical fiction; and stumbled upon this little gem of a book while surfing Amazon.com.
It's only a little over two hundred pages, but Dickson crams a lot of vibrant action and original plotting into those pages. I really liked his female main character, the Ninja courtesan, Lady Miyoku; and the Civil War connection was very original, too.
I look forward to reading more novels by this author. I also think this book would make a great movie.

A fast read, this swashbuckling action adventure takes the reader back to mid-nineteenth century Japan and the American South like a time machine...compelling and completely absorbing...I highly recommend this book.

I would recommend these books to first graders that are excelled readers. For my daughters reading level, the chapter books at school seem to encourage children to talk back to teachers or parents, mock or play tricks on others and lie. The Jewel Princess series are wonderful fantasy tales with a good moral ending. Thank you Jahnna and Malcom!

This wonderful book is about Sabrina telling her friend, Atlanta, secret.Can their friendship be saved? This book is great for children who love adventure.

A good book showing what happens when you lie

These collected writings, of various sorts, while not the cream of the Wodehouse crop, are still Wodehouse. As such, they are still superior to roughly 95% of everything else written in a humorous vein. What's more, taken as a whole, they show the evolution of Wodehouse's writing from schoolboy days into his prime. And, some of them are, in fact, gems.

Not, perhaps, the book with which to makes one's acquaintance with Wodehouse, but a worthy addition to the published Wodehouse collection.

When the wary reader encounters "The Uncollected So-and-So", he is wise to keep a tight grip on his billfold. He may suspect that what has gone uncollected may have been left lying about for good reason and perhaps should have been placed in the hands of a "collector" of a kind other than literary.

Happily, P. G. Wodehouse inspires no such fears. One might say that, while some Wodehouse is better than others, none is worse. Though falling largely into the second class, the pieces in this modest volume lack nothing of the familiar Plumsian delight.

The historically minded will find the very first writing for which Plum received pay ("Some Aspects of Game-Captaincy", in which the terms "blot" and "excrescence" are coupled in the way that would someday rolling trippingly off the tongues of Bertie Wooster's aunts), his first appearance in Punch ("An Unfinished Collection", the prelude to many a future collecting mania), his first published short story ("When Papa Swore in Hindustani", where, not for the last time, a recalcitrant father learns the hidden virtues of his daughter's beau) and his first butler story ("The Good Angel", whose Keggs misplaces his h's and lacks Jeeves' nobility of spirit but nonetheless applies a keen understanding of the psychology of the individual to reunite young hearts separated by an interloping poet).

There are, in all, fourteen stories, none likely to be familiar to even the most assiduous Wodehousian, and fifteen occasional items from newspapers, including a couple of poems. The non-stories ("nonfiction" would be distinctly not le mot juste) are very slight (averaging only two pages each), and some depend on topical references for their humor. They are best enjoyed as bon-bons between the more substantial fare.

Wodehouse unfortunately stopped writing a few years ago. Editors must now fish into the barrel for new entertainments. It is our good fortune that this particular barrel has no bottom.

This book is a scattered collection of Wodehouse articles and short stories spanning many years of his writing career; it was still so good I read it straight through without stopping and then paged back through it to copy out priceless sentences like:

"Eve could still see the look on Peter's face as, having shaken hands with his hostess, he turned to her. It was the look of the cowboy who, his weary ride over, sees through the dusk the friendly gleam of the saloon windows, and with a happy sigh reaches for his revolver."

or:
"If men would only stick to gifts and quarreling, there would be fewer bachelors."

These aren't the classic Wodehouse stories everybody knows and loves already, but they are still fabulous (and hilarious) pieces so buy the book and read it already!