I used this book for a graduate course on the urban principalship and liked it very much. It offered us ideas on how to think about the comlexities of schooling. Particularly good on decision making and the changing role of leadership.

I was assigned this book as part of a Native American Studies course at California State University Sonoma. I read virtually every poem in this book and went on to read some of the books that this book used excerpts from. My prof. was one of the authors in the book. The poems apart from being good literature were a wonderfull way to gain an insight into how a modern native american views his or her world. The poems speak of schools, gov. problems, conflict of tradition and modern life, and much more, giving a look into a world post people only have a stereotyped view of. If you are interested in poetry this is an excelent book and will be even more enticing if you are interested in Native American Culture as seen by them.

Kimbrough provides an excellent glimpse into 19th century Indiana and the early history of the Tarkington family. In addition, he offers detailed insight into the chronology of the evolution of Methodism. If you're looking for a strict biography of Joseph Tarkington only, this is not the read for you, but if you're looking for a good understanding of the Methodist religion, you'll find it here.

This is a highly underrated anthology, exposing the diversity of Contemporary American Poetry with a dash of rock n' roll irreverency. This is the perfect book for that teen or twentysomething who thinks they don't like poetry!

An illuminating miniature on a legendary house that was almost destroyed by the New England hurricane of 1938 and succumbed to fire in 1973. It was NeutraÕs grandestÑand most unlikelyÑcommission: a summer house for a famous Rhode Island family on Fishers Island. John Nicholas Brown picked Neutra after seeing the MoMA exhibition on modern architecture that included the Lovell Health House. Neumann, a professor of architecture at Brown University, recently curated an exhibition on the house that may eventually be shown in LA. Meanwhile we can enjoy his entertaining account of how the patrician client and progressive architect corresponded and faced off, and the camel that resulted from the collaboration of this odd couple. (Michael Webb is the book reviewer for LA Architect magazine.)

The author begins his biography about "Armand" (his given name) by explaining the historiographic effect of the relative lack of good information on the Cardinal before he took charge of France's internal and external business during the reign of Louis XIII. He debunks the notion of the Cardinal as the "Great Man," destined to practically rule France, just because he was Richelieu. The truth is that Armand struggled like any other petty noble or inchoate middle class, financially, politically, socially. His rise to prominence had several downturns, including termination of employment by Louis XIII, exile, ecclessiastic setbacks, and run of the mill intrique. What makes Richelieu so striking, and why this book is so necessary to understand the history behind the power of France, is that he met every challenge, learned from every experience, and never failed to keep his eye on his goal. Persistance as much as political savvy brought the Cardinal back into favor in the court of Louis XIII.

Much of the book describes in detail how Armand developed as a young man. Readers will be surprised to see how seriously he took his church calling. Unlike most bishops, he actively took part in the secular as well as spiritual goings-on in his see. He even took to the pulpit and learned valuable governmental processes and people that would prove useful to establishing his power base later on. His attachment to the Queen Mother, Marie de Medicis was a well calculated risk, that caused him as many problems as it provided opportunities.

The climax is described in the chapter "The Arts of Survival." Richelieu weathered many storms, was never too partisan to expose himself to the vagaries of others fortunes, and understood when he could advance his interests and those of his patron (which he considered inseparable.)

Fills a gap both in biography and narrative that provides great background to the rise of Modern France.

This is an economics textbook but can be read and enjoyed by anyone with an interest in auto transportation. The author explains what's wrong with car transit in the US and how it could be improved by various methods. The method that promises the best result is road pricing. This is done by charging cars for their use of the road.

He doesn't doesn't explore the possibility of road pricing using onboard GPS units perhaps because the technology didn't exist in 1997 when the book was written. But today it is possible to equip every car with a GPS unit that would charge the driver for the use of the road. One could imagine expanded use of this device to charge for parking and creating "smart" street lights and better traffic management. Such a GPS unit could also be used to implement "pay as you go" auto-insurance.

I wish the author would put out a new edition that used these ideas to imagine a transportation scheme breath-taking in its innovation.

Maybe I'm biased because I'm one of Iannotti's ex-residents, but I found this book to be a quick and easy way of learning all about rotator cuffs. I read this overnight while on call.

This Book is a life time of information. All questions you can asked is addressed in this book. The only draw back is that some of the medications mentioned in the book are no longer produced. But as far as information on picking a good breeding pair to building a healthy loft to conditioning your Birds for the Big Race this book is unsurpassed. If you are going to buy only one book on Pigeon Racing, make this the one!!

This book provides a good overview of the development of Soviet tanks from the early 1920s to the end of World War II and beyond. It also provides a good explanation of the Soviet's strategic military aims after the Revolution and Civil War and the tactics that these aims would entail. The tank was central to these tactics and Soviet armor design has to be seen in that light. In other words this book is not just a list of the tanks and their statistics.

The book also provides a detailed background to the design, manufacture and use of each major tank type. The T-34 and KV-1 are given the most coverage, as is only proper. The book also includes, but does not overemphasize, some of the odd prototypes and experimental vehicles that the Soviets developed. The book concludes with a discussion of the legacy of WWII Soviet armor and tactics down to the present day.

The book is attractively laid out and there are many good pictures and line drawings. There are also a number of interesting tables in the back of the book.

Unfortunately this is a very good book that is marred by numerous instances of lack of proof reading in the text and one badly mislabeled picture (an ISU 122 self propelled gun is labeled as a IS-2 tank on pg 26). I was able ignore these problems the first couple of times but it kept happening and became a bit annoying.

Errors and all, I read the book all the way to the end and enjoyed it. The authors obviously know the subject and I learned some things I didn't know. Even with the errors I give it 4 starts. If the publisher would clean up the editorial mistakes in the next printing this would be 5 star book.