Power station - constrauction and operation. Very easy . Very usfull. If you first time read about Power Station - it's your book.You wiil be know all about construction this plant.

I've bought this book for shower gifts and borrowed it many times. I'm finally ordering one for my self. It give easy to understand discription of illness' and gives you advice on what you can do to help and when you should see the doctor.

Fair illustrations, fair discussion of the basics, good practice tips and techniques. If I drop my handicap by 2 strokes this year, its a great book.

This is a case that has haunted me since I first read about it in Law School. Frank Armani and Francis Beige were Central New York attorneys appointed to represent serial killer/rapist Robert Garrow, who went on a crime spree in the Adirondacks in 1973. Their client was charged with one killing but revealed to them the location of two other bodies. After checking to be sure the bodies were there, the attorneys tried, unsuccessfully, to use this information as part of a plea bargain. Meanwhile, they were contacted by the distraught father of one of these victims, begging for information about the fate of his child. Believing that forensic evidence available from the remains might tend to further incriminate Garrow, they refused to acknowledge any information about other potential victims. Eventually, Garrow himself revealed the information at trial and the attorneys were charged with violating the code of professional conduct. Though the case and the surrounding publicity had devastating effects on the two men, they were ultimately exonerated, on the basis that they had acted within the scope of attorney-client privilege.

Though I would have behaved differently, I do not particularly quarrel with the attorneys' actions. I do though find the ethical regime which requires such a result to be abhorrent. The basic theory underlying attorney-client privilege is that in order to guarantee the best possible defense, clients must fully disclose all information to their attorneys, and that the only way to insure that they feel comfortable doing so is to grant the privilege. This reasoning is simply not compelling. If full disclosure really is essential to a good defense, then the client has a vested interest in disclosure--they after all are the ones most interested in a good defense. It seems entirely fair to let them choose between holding back incriminating information at their own expense, or sharing that information at some peril.

Moreover, to allow (arguably, to require) lawyers to withhold such information from the Court is to turn the legal system into more of a game than a search for truth and justice. I have no problem with a set of ethical rules, societal laws and constitutional rights, which seeks to protect the innocent from unfair prosecution and even to protect the guilty from abusive practices, but this must be balanced against society's interest in protecting its citizenry, enforcing the law and meting out justice. There has to be some difference between preventing law enforcement officers from beating information out of a suspect or illegally searching his premises, and officers of the Court actually withholding evidence that they are aware of, however obtained. I just don't see what interest was vindicated by concealing the existence and location of the two corpses. Were they revealed to law enforcement it would not negatively impact Garrow's access to a fair trial : if he did not kill them, he'd have nothing to fear. If he did, evidence from the bodies might well point towards him, but so what ? The essence of the legal process should be that impartial examination of the evidence reveal the culprit and that evidence be used to convince a jury of his guilt. The mere revelation of the bodies would not have sent Garrow to prison, he still would have been afforded all the legal protections of the trial system and his fate would have still depended on the judgment of a jury of his peers.

As I say, I would have acted differently than did Armani and Beige--I would have told the father where the bodies were, informed the Court of my action and resigned from the practice of law, accepting whatever punishment this action entailed. Then again, I never practiced, so that's easy for me to say. Further, I understand that many attorneys believe in the necessity of rules such as this and feel that they serve noble purposes. For that reason, I too would have exonerated these men. It is the professional code itself that leads lawyers to make these kind of decisions and we can hardly punish them for behaving ethically. But it does seem that ethics and morality diverge at points like this : one would prefer to see morality triumph over ethics. Regardless of how you come down on the issues involved, this book offers a fascinating look at how such issues and decisions play out in the real world and how they impact the people who have to deal with them.

GRADE : B+

As a primer for pre-press imaging, and printing, this book is excellent. It is up to date and, in general, it is well written, and easy to read, sometimes with mild humor. However, that said, there are deviations from this standard. Thus there should also have been more explanatory diagrams, and some are illustrative rather than instructional. For example, the explanation of Under Color Removal would have beeen helped considerably by a good diagram.

Unfortunately there are occasional more serious lapses from the generally high standard of writing. Thus, if this reviewer was not already familiar with the concept of unsharp masking, it is doubtful if the explanation on pages 335-336 would have helped! Similarly, in the discussion of Under Color Removal, the sentence "GCR is more powerful an effect than UCR since it affect the whole image, and often 100% is excessive" is distracting and requires thought to understand within the context. Then, the very next paragraph appears to be discussing a picture than does not exist in this book!

If the reader is looking for an explanation of the background science then he/she should look elsewhere. But that does not appear to be the primary purpose of this book. Instead it is excellent primer and introduction to the technology. I am glad I bought it for that purpose.

Elvin T.

The Promethesus Crisis, (written around 1975) deals with a nuclear power plant melting down....and goes into detail about how this happens and its aftermath. Written some years before the 3 Mile Island Accident, this book almost seems to be an omen, warning of the dangers of nuclear power and what can happen when that "1 in a million" chance of an accident happens. A very fightening and informative book, and extremely well written.

Aping the DC comics' Elseworlds line, Marvel puts a similar alternate-reality spin on their trusty vigilante. The new setting: the Wild West! And, like his modern-day counterpart, his family's been kilt, & he's left to die. But somehow he survives, and gets on the trail of the guys who'd done him wrong.

Noted action/adventure comic writer Chuck Dixon borrows & competently adapts the attitude, feel & some of the elements of "The Man With No Name" trilogy & "The Wild Bunch", and puts them together into a pretty good (if somewhat standard) little throwback tale of one man's revenge in the turn-of-the-century frontier. And the legendary John Buscema helps bring it all to visual 'life' with his renderings in this Punisher tribute to classic westerns. Definitely worth a look for Punisher buffs of all stripe, as well as Wild West aficionados!

This book is 64 pages long, and includes the standard deluxe-edition comic book cardstock cover. Art is printed on semi-glossy paper.

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This book presents an excellent exposition of the history of the Quapaw people. The author, David Baird, has masterfully presented a condensed yet thorough history of the Quapaw nation which focuses on the Quapaw's ultimately destructive interaction with Europeans and Americans.

This comprehensive book of quilt patterns using the stained glass window designs of Frank Lloyd Wright is a treasure. As a quilter and stained glass craftswoman, this book is a dream come true. The extensive explanations which accompany each design are easy to understand; the step-by-step illustrations make these complicated designs feasible for anyone. These deceptively simple-looking geometric designs make beautiful quilts (I've seen them in quilt shows), wallhangings, windowcoverings or they could be used to try your hand at stained glass. Jackie Robinson really did her homework, and her resulting book is one I use often.

This book is a great starting point for anyone interested in the business of commercial production. The book is concise with many good practical examples. Although the process of commercial production is one too wide to cover in any detail, in a book of this length, the authors still manage to cover a complete spectrum of commercial producing options and possible projects. Whether you are in the production business or you are considering entering this exciting and rewarding field, this book is a good read.