this book was very inspiring and I recomend it too all people.

Very good! It is a good guide of chintz manufacturers, patterns, and shapes, particularly of Royal Winton. Alphabetically organized. Detailed descriptions of patterns. Interesting price guide.

I first came across this book, at the age of 37, while I was participating in a Cardiac Rehab program. Because of my heart disease, I was required to begin eating a low-fat, low-cholersterol diet. This book provided me with recipes that were good for me and that my family would actually eat. It also gave me practical information and strategies for implemeting other lifestyle changes that would help in preventing additional heart disease related health issues. A very easy read and extremely helpful. Everyone will benefit from the common sense strategies and delicious recipes for maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Don't wait until you have heart disease to buy this book.

Very good explanations and data of the towns covered. I wish the author had included a more cities in the book.

This book is written in reaction to the tendency of neo-scholastic thinkers to neglect the role of the figure of Christ in the thought of Albert the Great, Thomas Aquinas, and other Dominican thinkers. To redress this imbalance, Emery and Wawrykow have done an excellent job of compiling essays to address the long-neglected depictions of Christ in the writings and art of the medieval Dominicans through a multidisciplinary approach.

Roach's use of Paul Connerton's "incorporating practice of memory" (from "How Societies Remember": buy this!) allows him to develop a theory of the genealogy of performance-which seems to me to be a sort of re-construction or re-tracing of origins. This approach allows him to do some extremely interesting analysis of legal ramifications of race, racial categories (the octaroon, for example), public performance of capitalism in the form of the slave markets, and "body ownership." It also reifies race and racial designations and works in many ways against his arguments. For instance, the multiple ethnicities of Native Americans merge together into one self-contained "Other" within the imagination of both African and Anglo Americans. How Africans appropriated these images in their performances of race seem more complex in reality than Roach makes them out to be-related to the idea of "first," land distribution, and the fact that the issue of legal ownership and status was ambivalent at best ("The slave-holding propensities of the Five Civilized Tribes (so-called by whites in part because they held slaves) emphasize the double, inverted nature of the Indian as a symbol for African Americans: the non-white sign of both power and disinheritance" p. 205).

Critique of black/white as a dualism in early American cultural hegemony is something to which Roach also (unwittingly?) succumbs. Although he claims that "the issue of race in America is hard to reimagine without considering Native Americans" (p. 189), Native American identity is seen not as the amalgam of various multi-ethnic groups but as a "buffer" between white and black, thereby reinforcing the stereotypes of white power structures. I guess I am asking if the complexities of racial identity in the United States may be much more complex than we have already seen-African Americans dressing as "big chiefs" could be as multi-layered and problematic in terms of race and identity as high schools using "Redskins" as football mascots, couldn't it?

Not only race, but class, plays an important part in Roach's analysis. In one of the most convincing arguments based on Connerton in the book, Roach discusses the "cities of the dead"-the invention of separation between the living and the dead (ancestors). The tie-in with suburbanization as a model of this physical separation and performance of whiteness seems right on. The section about Congo Square, and the Bataille theories about the economy of excess in violence were excellent. Here I could begin to see the application of the author's theory, however awkward.

This book was amazing and gave a lot of perpective in many people's lives.

Cliff Notes have always been a useful study tool. While this book lacks the details that make Joseph Andrews humorous, it does give a brief background as to the events and characters interactions in each chapter. While I would not recommend this book as a replacement to reading the actual novel, it is an excellent study guide.

I used this book during the preparation of my thesis. For this purpose, it was sometimes too detailed and complex. I think this book will be helpfull for congenital heart specialists, since all information is included for every heart defect, very well-organized. Every chapter on a certain malformation includes the history, physical appearance, auscultation, additional investigations and a clear summary. A lot of illustrations of ECG's or x-rays and pictures clarify the text. The book is (as the title says) specifically focussed on the clinical recognition of a malformation. For other purposes, such as studying longer-term outcome, the book does not provide the information.

Sometimes, you find yourself at a loss as to what book to read next. You like contemporary fantasy and you've read T. Brooks and others. It is time to try J. Belnap's The Coin's Edge. David Freeman is the "hero" of this present-day fantasy. He has noticed a pattern in the ups and downs of his life. David realizes that forces beyond his control have influenced his life. He is a player in the contest between good and evil. The Coin's Edge will appeal to many readers. With CE, Belnap has wrapped up bits of dark fantasy, SF, suspense and conspiracy all in one book. I liked the Coin's Edge, give it a try.