In this ambitious work, Dr. Meno presents an excellent and refreshingly objective history of physics (and much of modern science), including pictures and anecdotes of many of the great and influential thinkers. He goes on to describe his exciting ideas on the role of aether in modern physics, which have sparked renewed interest among physicists.
To keep the title honest, he also discusses the social situation in the modern world, pointing out problems and solutions on a variety of issues from diet to currency. He even includes cartoons.
This book even passes my test for an excellent physics text, by including vector identities, useful astronomical and physical constants, and other useful formulae in the back.

I have greatly enjoyed reading this multi-dimensional book. The author covers many important topics related to the history and evolution of science and the current problems in science and in the social and political structure of our world, and proposes remedies that may correct these problems so that humanity gets away from the current self-destructive path.

The first part summarizes the evolution of science and human thought throughout recorded history. This summary is the best I have read anywhere. Afterwards, the author discusses the main problem in todays Physics, which is the lack of a rational framework that combines experimentally observed results, and which acts as a basis for further advancement. The author proposes a mathematically consistent aether-based theory that succeeds in explaining all that we know about the photon. His approach shows a lot of promise and may lead to a unified theory that explains all of physical phenomena.

In the last section Dr. Meno presents an insightful and illuminating discussion about various topics that cover religion, society and politics.

This book shows that Dr. Meno is a first-rate original thinker whose only objective is the truth. I am quite impressed with the number of original ideas discussed in this book, and I am sure that this book will have significant influence on this generation and many generations to come.

In this 7th outing, the town of Castlemere is being attacked, but no one knows why. Threats are being made that the perp will do great harm to the populace and Liz Grahame, the DI, must find out who it is before he/she makes good on the threats. In the meantime, Donovan is off recuperating from wounds suffered in the previous outing.

This is one of the best British procedurals around. It is best to start with the first entry so you can see the characters develop over the years. Bannister is an excellent writer, the plots are complex without being obtuse, and Bannister has the reader present as each new piece of evidence is put into mix.

If the series has a flaw, it is the subplots featuring Donovan that the author has begun putting into each book. While the circumstances change, the result is the same - Donovan is the unwitting hero.

The timing of the first incident in the American supermarket in Castlemere, England could not have been better planned. Since Detective Sergeant Cal Donovan is on leave recovering from a bullet wound and a nasty cold, he takes his narrowboat Tara and goes off on one of his watery holidays. Superintendent Frank Shapiro also recovering from a bullet has just returned to the desk, but is not cleared for any other duty. That leaves Detective Inspector Liz Graham as the sole field operator of the successful trio.

The supermarket occurrence involved the threat of poisoning yoghurt. The tampering of the high school showers follows the food incident. Though seemingly harmless pranks, the Castlemere police take it very seriously especially when a woman's hands are burned by baby powder. The supermarket head office sends Mitchell Tyler to help the police stop a devious criminal. The brass calls Donovan back to duty to assist with a town on the verge of uncontrollable panic and hysteria, but the law enforcement official apparently is dead.

CHANGELINGS is the seventh delightful appearance of the Castlemere trio. This book is an exciting police procedural that focuses on the conflict between "punish the guilty" vs. "protect the innocent." The story line provides a great understanding of the prime players so that series fans learn more about their heroes while new readers gain insight into the various character traits of the threesome. The plot succeeds because the maniacal thug feels genuine and his actions plausible (think the Tokyo subway a few years ago). Jo Bannister continues to expertly write tales that are some of the sub-genre's best novels.

Harriet Klausner

Dr. Lawrence Frank's exploration of the social, ethical, psychological, and philosophical diminsions of Dicken's work is utterly delightful and highly readable -- a must for any Dickens affcianado or burgeoning scholar! You'll find a whole new level of meaning to all of Dicken's most endearing characters like Mr. Dick (from David Copperfield) and Master Bates (from Oliver Twist).

Egad! It's a pitiful reflection of the almost savage intellectual torpor that has settled upon academia and our nation as a whole that this fine work is out of print. I suggest you try Amazon's execellent out of print books search and order yourself a copy today!

As far as I am concerned, there was ne'er a book on Dickens penned prior to Mr. Frank's superb treatise. I have never been so proud of Mr. Chas. Dickens, a fellow Brit (and, I might add, a fellow writer)--or of Engerland, my home and native land. A true boon to mankind, Mr. Dickens was, and likewise this blessed text. I weep for joy.

This is great history from the pen of someone who helped make it.A definite must for cavalry research,especially those interested in last campaigning.The author lets us become dusty troopers,hungry,cold and exhausted.The 1912 experimental saddle gets a pretty poor review by the author ,and it is interesting to see his comments on local population.My personal interest is ww2 cav but this book beats any other

I have to welcome with great glee this reprint. Now I will no longer have to wear out my original. This book is the best available on the Punitive Expedition of 1916-1917. It was written by the hero of Columbus, Maj. Frank Tompkins, U. S. Cavalry in the 1930s. It also includes as one of the appendices, the report of Capt. Benjamin Foulois, U.S. Signal Corps, who commanded the 1st Aero Squadron. (At this time, aviation was considered an adjunct function for scouting, patrolling, and communications and was still part of the Signal Corps. Foulois went on to a distinguished career as one of the founders of the U.S. Air Service.) Tompkins, a major at the time of the raid, went on to higher command in France. During the Columbus Raid, he organized the pursuit of Villa's forces and chased them well into Mexico until turning back only because his men had exhausted their ammunition and did not have complete field equipment, having hastily fallen in with only their saddles and weapons while under attack. I have done extensive research in the National Archives on this period and have analyzed the raid itself in detail. I recognized that many of the passages in the book were lifted directly from the files of the Southern Department, the immediate higher headquarters, and those of the Punitive Expedition. Whether Tompkins deliberately omitted his sources or the publisher did, or it just was that the historical writing conventions of the time did not place the emphasis on sourcing that we do now (footnoting to excess at times) makes no difference in the validity or usefulness of the book. After all he did give complete sourcing for the appendices which were copied verbatim. Where he expresses opinions they are clearly recognizable. As Tompkins had almost twenty years to think about and work up his book and having the advantages of complete access to the official documents, of having been there, and knowing all the other officers who were then serving, no one today could do what he did. Thus the work qualifi! es for a triple--personal narrative, reporting, and well-considered history. A really useful memorial to a gallant group of professionals whose like we shall hardly see again. Carter Rila

The author does an excellent job presenting how Tlingit are attempting to celebrate, embrace and reestablish their cultural ways in this honor book for the 2000 Carter G. Woodson Elementary Division Award, National Council for Social Studies. The author describes how the Russians and then the United States attempted to erradicate the culture of the established Tlingit and how children are encouraged to go to week-long camps to learn about Tlingit art, storytelling, language, and customs. It would be important for children to understand why an author would write "some Tlingit must have a hard time looking at the American flag." Discussion will abound in relation to this book. Photos are interesting and provide helpful information. Maps are included. Good for classroom, school, and public libraries.

I feel this book is a very good representation of the Tlinget lifestyle. Both my daughters have gone to the Islands in Southeastern Alaska to teach Bible School to the Tlinget Children and do work projects. Both my daughters enjoyed learning about the Tlinget culture and this book will teach children who are unable to visit Southeast Alaska about this special culture. The pictures in this book from Kake were taken when my one daughter was there and she is the person doing the face painting on page 12. My daughter fell in love with the children of Kake who were starving for attention. I thought sure when she arrived home she would have Nicki in your suitcase. He is the little boy in the purple shirt on the cover of the book.

Often people say that Frank Chin is an activist. This is true, but we shouldn't forget that he is also a writer. After all, it was his play Chickencoop Chinaman that help open doors for Asian American artists. In this book you will read eight great short stories by Frank Chin. The stories include: "Railroad Standard Time", "The Eat and Run Midnight People", "The Chinatown Kid", "The Only Real Day", "Yes, Young Daddy", "Give the Enemy Sweet Sissies and Women to Infatuate Him, and Jades and Silks to Blind Him with Greed", "A Chinese Lady Dies", and "The Sons of Chan". After reading these stories, you will understand why Chin won the American Book Award.

If you liked Frank Chin's book Donald Duk, and enjoy the short story collections that are sprouting like weeds these days, you'll like this one. :)

And if you liked Maxine Hong Kingston's book The Woman Warrior, and know how much Mr. Chin doesn't like the Mulan spoof Kingston put it, then read the Afterword to this volume (this one alone is a laugh and a half).

This is a genuine 21st century article. Liberalism--based on the idea of the sovereign individual--has no future.

R. P. Kraynak, who teaches political science at Colgate, reminds us of Augustine's Doctrine of the Two Cities, meaning that the state's sphere is political and economic management and the church's sphere is salvation of souls. The two realms or swords are distinct but not separate. Indeed, the effective implementation of the Augustinian proposal, Prof. Kraynak maintains, preserves us, on the one hand, from the danger of totalitarian politics and, on the other, from the danger of theocracy. In an effective and even elegant argument, he warns us, however, that the church's (or, perhaps, churches') embrace of Kant's "personalism"--that we are people and not things--is, after a point, incompatible with Christianity, for Kantianism is rooted in naturalism, denyiny our eternal destiny and supernatural duties. Christianity has become so suffused with the liberal language of "rights" that it is increasingly given to the kind of sociological leveling and mass taste which are the poisoned fruit of the Modern Project but are finally destructive of political order. The Gospel, Kraynak suggests, tells us not only of the law of love but also of the fact of sin. Recognition of those eternal realities are at the heart of prudent statecraft and of Christian faith. We witness today a secular chiliasm which, to use Moynihan's apt phrase, "defines deviancy down" (238-242) and leads to moral relativism, nihilism, and emotivism which deny the transcendent and exalt ungrounded and unbounded "rights." Kraynak's insights into the ideas of freedom and dignity (61; cf. Rom 7:22 and 1 Pt 3:4), of proper Christian resistance to human rights (153), and of the roles of the secular state (189, 228-229; cf. 1 Pt 2:13-17) are simply superb. Although he might have mined Voegelin's works more effectively--and should have learned the proper spelling of "supersede" (!)--he cogently marshals the work of Solzhenitsyn, Goerner, Niemeyer, O'Donovan, Maritain, Novak, John Courtney Murray, John Finnis, MacIntyre, Strauss, and Lasch, in addition to John Paul II and Reinhold Niebuhr, while standing in principled opposition to Ackerman, Dworkin, Rawls, and Rorty. "Modern culture has cut out the highest part of the human soul," he writes, "the part that longs for eternity and for spiritual transcendence of the here and now, the part that seeks the presence of the Incarnate God . . ." (270). Warmly recommended!

This is a great book for the K and Pre-K students to supplement their regular school work. The one page worksheets vary in difficulty so finding the right level for your child is simple. We copy a few pages out of it to give to our Pre-K child while we work with the Kindergardener -- it keeps her busy and she enjoys it. As well, we use many of the worksheets for our kindergarder. I would recommend this as useful part of your overall curriculum.

This book was the basis of our kindergarten curriculum for our first year of homeschooling our daughter. This book includes fun worksheets in handwriting, math, and letters as well as suggestions for fun learning activities. It helped make our first year fun, and the need for planning was minimal.

We used this book as the basis for what we covered, and then added additional activities according to what our daughter needed and wanted.

An amazing resource for every congregation! As a senior minister of a growing congregation, my challenge is to use the time and talents of lay leaders effectively. When our growing staff required better personnel procedures and records, Church Administration made it possible for a brand new committee chair to quickly understand what was needed and put a system into place. Why re-invent the wheel when this book by church management experts offers exactly what you need to get the job done. We've saved weeks of committee work--and had more time for ministry. Every church board needs a copy of this book.

A huge timesaver for anyone involved in church administration, either as an ordained leader, member of a church's board/vestry, or church secretary/administrator. This book is accessable and clear, full of practical advice and very useful forms and policy "boilerplate." These forms save a lot of time and trouble, because you don't have to re-invent the wheel whenever you need a hiring policy or a church facility use agreement form. In addition, this work has a visible spiritual and scriptural core.

While this book was largely written by Methodists, as an Episcopalian I've found it very easy to adapt to my own church polity. It is used by my vestry and my seminary! I would definitely recommend that your church own a copy.

Finally a citrus book with really great tasting recipes. I made one of the appetizers for a family dinner and got compliments from everyone. I would easily reccommend it to anyone who likes to cook.

Great book. Plenty of healthy citrus recipes from everywhere in the world. We've been into citrus cooking for years and this is the best book we've found to date.