I like this book very much, and believe that it should deserve much more attention. This book eloquently discusses the effect of television, video game and radio onto our minds. Even today, many people still naively assert that viewing television is bad while reading books is good. This book attempts to go deeper into the matter. It reports such interesting research as comparing the effect of television and radio, with two groups of children each hear or view a story from the radio or television. When the children were required to retell the story, it was found that those viewing the story tend to use more pronounce, such as "he" and "she", with a lot of gestures than those hearing the story. It is believed that these pronounce actually refer to the visual images in the minds of those children watching the story. This can clearly be related to today problem of our children, who grew up with the television, of the difficulty in expressing themselves. Another interesting report investigates imagination as affected by different media. Again two groups of children each hear or view a story from the radio or television. The playing of the story was stopped in the middle before its end. The children were required to continue and finish the story. Children hearing the story are found to be more imaginative and creative in terms of the novel elements in their ways of completing the story. The result clearly indicates that the radio often leaves more space for the hearers to fill in. As a whole, this book gives much insight into the matter, particularly on the implications to educating our children in how to view these different media. If the above sounds interesting to you, I will strongly recommend this book to you.

The Rough Guides have always been a good compromise between the traditional Baedeker-style travel guides my parents used and the Lonely Planet guides from my backpacking days. The chunky Lonely Planets (the volume for China has the size and the weight of a solid brick) are still unrivalled when one wants to travel in a country with bad infrastructure and few tourist facilities; but for someone who travels light and wants to visit Singapore, the Mini Rough Guide to Singapore is a good choice.

It is a travel guide that fits easily into a pocket but has all the information one would expect: detailed coverage of the major sights, reviews of the best places to stay, eat and drink, a brief introduction to the history of Singapore, and nine useful color maps (including one for the subway system that came in handy). One of the highlights of the guide is a six-page section with short reviews of books for further reading. It includes not only travel accounts and history books but also works of literature that touch on Singapore, among them works by Anthony Burgess, Joseph Conrad, W. Somerset Maugham, and Paul Theroux (Mark Lewis, the author of the guide, spent a year teaching English in Singapore after graduating from university during which time he regularly contributed book reviews to the Singapore Straits Times).

The book is very readable, well organized, chock full of useful information for the visitor, and very "user-friendly". It would qualify for five stars were it not for two (minor) complaints: One is that travelling mostly on a limited time budget, I have always liked travel guides with a couple of suggestions for day tours around town (none here, unfortunately). Secondly, I feel that a squeaky clean, efficient and hyper-controlled city like Singapore really asks for more irreverence and jokes than Mark Lewis allowed himself in his book. This is a matter of temperament, of course. Or maybe the editors of the Rough Guides series thought that a travel guide is not the right place to really indulge in the joys of oddities and ironies.

An interesting book, that provides a new perspective on our western idea of "progress" and how this myth is constructed and maintained around the world

Enola and Slim make a great team. The book is awesome!! It's weird that they were a team, especially in the 20's. The story has interesting characters and action. It's a good read. If you want an easy read that is entertaining and let's you escape for a little while, get this book!!

This book is both inspiring and informative. Many effective techniques are discussed which can add much to any therapist's list of favorites. You'll refer to it often

I used the book, particularly Eichengreen's chapter on modern perspectives, for a scholarly article I am writing. My field is speech communication rather than economics, and it seemed like a reasonably coherent book to me.

McGuire and Gormley are two writers working at the peak of their craft, primarily because their love for their subjects -- baseball & the briefly famous 'everymen' they highlight -- oozes from every page. Albany-area sports fans have come to enjoy their ability to turn a phrase, deliver a scene and speak knowledgably about the subject at hand. Readers do not have to be baseball fanatics to enjoy this book, but baseball lovers will delight in the anecdotes they provide. Any reader who enjoys stories about the "brief shining moments" we all conjure up in our Walter Mitty-type daydreams will find this a good read. There are players from every era, from every type of American background. Baseball is generally a game of angles, and wonderful insights into the game and human nature emerge in this book. Kudos to Gormley & McGuire for a great read!!

This book is an excellent read for all Monica fans. Even though it is intended primarily for children, there are a lot of facts about Monica's life and career. Obviously, Mark Stewart did his homework. The best part of this book, however, is the number of unique pictures! There are photos of Monica throughout her career, and even as a junior training in Florida! This book is a must for all Monica fans!

Don't let the size of this book fool you. It may be small but it is extremely heavy. Dr. Pestana leaves no question unexplored as he unpacks the philosophical tension between the categories of moral virtue as opposed to mental health. Dr. Pestana plumbs the depths of each category giving the history of the switch to the prevalent modern preference for the category of mental health. Along the way he makes the arguement that the two categories are not congruent and therefore different. I found this book to be a compelling arguement for the need to retain the concept of moral virtue as a distinct, subjective and useful category in a culture where the objective category of mental health predominates.

I like the works of Mark Noll for a few reasons. The main one is that he makes me stop and think about something I simply take for granted and why I think that way. So, the fallacy "More Money = More Ministry" was shattered as I read through this collection of essays, research papers, and opinions about the link between 20th century evangelism and money. This book is not just about the TBN-type swindlers, nor is it a Hard Copy-like expose on ministries. It often presents opinions and facts and lets the reader decide on their own.