Fox's book is a truly monumental contribution to the field of suprasegmental phonology, a "superb synthesis of all approaches to all aspects of prosody", in the words of Manchester University's Alan Cruttenden. It is as 'pre-theoretic' in approach as it is practicable to be, explaining all concepts in simple terms and referring to the views of Sanskrit or ancient Greek grammarians in the same breath as modern phonological theories such as autosegmental or metrical phonology. Fox illustrates his views with reference to well over 200 languages.

Rather than organizing the book according to chronology or school, as Durand does in his "Generative and Non-linear phonology", Fox introduces prosodic features -- length, accent, tone and intonation -- one at a time. These headings, sandwiched between an introduction and a concluding chapter entitled "Prosodic Structure", form the chapters of the book. As an example of the book's thoroughness, the chapter on length consists of approximately 100 pages, with section headings including among others "The Paradigmatic Interpretation of Length", "The Syntagmatic Interpretation of Length", "Length and the Syllable", "The Non-linear Approach to Length", "Length as a Prosodic Feature", and "Length and Prosodic Structure". These in turn are divided into numerous headings and subheadings.

The quality of the prose is high throughout, making even complex argumentation accessible to undergraduates or even possibly the general reader. Nevertheless, the sheer volume of information may be sufficient to turn off the non-specialised reader. Professional phonologists, on the other hand, may, on leafing through the index, be disappointed to see only two brief references to prosodic phonology and none to harmonic phonology, government phonology or declarative phonology, for instance. Optimality Theory earns only a couple of paragraphs towards the end of the book. Fox gives two reasons for this: that he is concerned with "the nature of [prosodic] structure itself, rather than [the] mechanisms whereby it might be specified", and that "any such constraint system is actually derivative; it depends on a prior understanding of the structures which are to be specified". Earlier, in the preface, he clarifies his approach further: "If readers find that their favourite model is given short thrift...this is not because the theory is necesarily dismissed as invalid, but merely because its contribution may not be specific to the major theme of the book."

It is likely that this approach will lose Fox many potential readers amongst his fellow phonologists. Yet it is arguably they, rather than the undergraduate or general reader, who stand to gain the most from his book, as Fox himself hints, again in the preface: "research in our field is not a simple linear progression towards an ever greater understanding...we find that earlier insights are lost when the overall models in which they are expressed are rejected, only to be reinvented later and proclaimed as new discoveries." The sheer scope--geographical, temporal and doctrinal-- of Fox's book is the best possible antidote to the concentration on a narrow range of issues that gives rise to this problem.

The editing is first rate, and I could find only one typographical error: "supralarygeal" for "supralaryngeal" (p. 76, and repeated in the index).

This is a very ambitious and comprehensive encounter with psychoanalysis and cultural theory. From Freud to Lacan and beyond, Elliott is wise and erudite. A good introduction indeed.

The Pushcart Prize is the most wonderful and rewarding annual anthology out there because, for one thing, it's the most fair--as Bill Henderson says in his introduction, there's no money here. You don't have to have written a bestseller or be in with the "New Yorker" crowd in order to be published here. All you have to do is be a good writer. Here is fiction and poetry at its rawest and purest form, from writers who write for the sake of writing, for the sheer love of it. This is a noble thing.

How many times in your life have you looked at the physical formula and thought perplexedly: "What does it mean?" Remember the first time you looked at the formula E=mc2? If you are a curious freshman or even a hoary professional the question, "How did he get this result?", comes up. Now you are close to looking on the other side of the coin, at something wonderful, something fascinating. You are about to reveal the workshop of the theoretical physicists! To be honest with you, I did not see the English translation of this book, but long time ago I read the original Russian book, "Qualitative Methods in Quantum Theory", by A. B. Migdal, and still keep it on my desk. There were about two dozen students during the semester who attended his lecture/seminar of similar name, "Qualitative Methods in Theoretical Physics." Those lecture/seminars were informal, quite unusual, unlike where lectures when a professor smoothly narrates a well-known subject. He worked on a blackboard before the audience. The subjects were the different aspects of quantum mechanics, statistical physics, and nuclear physics, with numerous examples from modern and classical physics and mathematics. We watched all movements of his mind when he discoursed some interesting problem and derived a result using several different methods. He told us, "Don't be afraid to make mistakes. The secret is to be able to find them." Sometimes he interrupted his work with a note about an analogy between an art and science: "In sculpture, as well as in theoretical physics, you have to know where you can disregard", or "Solving a real difficult problem is the rarest phenomenon, like falling in love". The book summarizes his experience as a practical physicist and is a great collection of treasures that you can not find anywhere else. This book is the greatest resource if you want to know "the secrets" of theoretical physics. You will know about model and scale estimations and the great importance of symmetry principals, analytic properties of the physical world, the WKB approximation, variety of perturbation theories, etc.,.. Also, if you aspire to be a practical physicists or engineer, you will learn how to use these principles to get your own results. It seems to me this book is unlike his other books because it summarizes the most valuable results of his life's work.

If you enjoy and are blessed with beautiful quotes, then this is the book for you! These quotations by that great "Prince of Preachers" are most definitely in a class by themselves. As a faithful reader of Spurgeon, (having read roughly 18,000 pages of his works) I can honestly say that this is the best gleaning of quotations from Spurgeon's works that I know of. The reader will not be disappointed, for every quote is a jewel!

This book is the best book that i have seen in the subjects that covers(Radiotherapotic management of prostate adenocarcinoma).

Ralph The Heir, written late in Antony Trollope's life, is not as well known as his Palliser or Barchester novels, and this is a great shame. To my mind his talents are on display here in all their mature glory; his penetrating observation of human motive and weakness, combined with a raucous, convaluted storyline and a wicked sense of humor. Trollope knows people through and through, and it is no small thing that he refuses here to make even his villain a monster. In true Trollope form, Ralph who is the heir (there are two Ralphs and two heirs) is in embarrased circumstances. Having spent a rather idle life waiting for his uncle to die so that he might inherit (and with the old squire hale at sixty, this will not likely happen soon), Ralph finds himself in debt up to his eyeballs...or perhaps his hand-tooled hunting boots. With a stable of hunters and a fierce riding breeches habit, Ralph must do something, but what? Just what Ralph does, and how it touches the whole pantheon within his circle (and a few decidedly outside it!) gently underlines Trollope's deep concerns for his time: just what is a gentleman? What, indeed, is nobility in man and woman? And how are we so often willfully blinkered by love, loyalty, ambition, and hate? There are several storylines in Ralph The Heir, and the author does not disappoint those who delight in watching him tie all these delicious tales together in almost Seinfeldian fashion. Parliament figures prominently and the election (or rather the attempt at an election) of a principal character is so marvelously portrayed, so wicked, it alone is worth the price of the book. Trollope is a gem. Gentle, kindly in his characters, he truly loves people and when he laughs at them, I rather think he is laughing also at himself. Enjoy this; it's one of Trollope's best.

This book offers a look at the natural history of the rat.

It answers questions people that work with or keep these animals find themselves asking.

How do they learn and adapt? Why does it behave the way it does?

It offers insights that are not generally found in husbandry texts although they should be.

For the student of behavioral study or a pet rat keeper this book is tops! It will enrich your appreciation of the animal as well as the life of the rat that lives with you.

An absolutely marvelous selection of essays, articles and papers by true believers and skeptics alike on the logical/philosophical issues surrounding parapsychology. Of very particular interest, in my opinion, are three pieces in part two, Describing and Explaining -- "Analyzing the Concepts of Parapsychology", "But What, If Anything Needs to be Explained", and "Coincidence and Explanation". Make some very interesting foundational and often overlooked points. Of further interest is material regarding the conceptual coherence of immortality/afterlife, materialist theories of consciousness/mind and other such things and how these issues relate to parapsychology. Includes a generous selection of work from both present-day and past authors, i.e. Hume, Hobbes, Descartes and others. Very highly recommended.

There are cookbooks and there are cookbooks, and probably too many of them to begin with, but Recipes from a Provencal Kitchen is definitely not one of them. The recipes, the format, the photographs are first rate and throughout the book one easily senses Michel Biehn's love for Provence. First rate!