Safety First: The Making of New Labour is about the best book on New Labour coming to power, where they came from, where they're likely to go and what they're really about that I've read so far - and I've read many. It traces all those now-so-grand figures of New Labour from their beginnings - the authors are in absolute command of their subject. All the key politicians have got form as long as your arm, most of which they'd like to forget, but this book puts it all in good hard context.

It's excellent as a reference work too - exactly when did all those twists and turns of key policy positions take place, and why? Plus it's very useful as a history book - unlike New Labour, it doesn't only go as far back as 1994. It usefully and readably covers all the important strands of political thinking in Labour all the way through its existence. It also shows up the wonderful relation between principle and expediency, and how when a crunch point comes, expediency expediency, expediency wins without fail. And though I'd definitely say this book is unmistakable polemical, it's all shown with reference to hard fact, not dull rant. But it's also a hilarious read - witty and cutting in parts, and always absolutely on the ball. I'd recommend anyone who wants to know anything about these characters to start here. I especially liked the chapters on Jack Straw and home affairs, and Peter Mandelson.

Not exactly sure where the authors come from politically - the cover cites left-press backgrounds, though, and I'd guess they position themselves on the critical libertarian left. But it's not at all po-faced - refreshingly biting and irreverent, while extremely informative.

I've recommended this book to all my friends interested in Brit pols. And even though it was published at the end of 1997, the same year Labour won the election, and I read it in 1999, it isn't dated or time-tied. I'm sure I'll keep going back to it to check things from it.

I look forward to anything else by these two - not enough writers on the left like them.

This book should be on the shelve of every chemical engineer wanting to understand safety instrumented systems! The authors had successfully made a difficult subject easy to understand. No lengthy paragraphs. Everything is short, sharp and sweet, straight to the point. Their witty writing style and Gruhn's cartoons put the message across most vividly.

This Berkeley Buddhist series volume is the definitive work of the founder of Tendai Buddhism in Japan. This volume of the series steps you through the beginning of Saicho's life into his later years fighting for an ordination platform on Mount Hiei. Included are details concerning the rise of Tendai Buddhism away from the influential Buddhism of Nara. Saicho's views of the bodhisattva precepts and his wish to move away from the Hinayana goals of the Ssu fen lu precepts. This is a treasure of Buddhist history in the Heian period.

This work is a must for any serious Buddhist researcher. Critical for any Tendai researcher to read.

'Grandly conceived and executed' .... 'Magnificent'.... 'Nothing less than masterly' ... critical tributes offered Sartre's Saint Genet that end as mere words. Saint Genet is an unearthly book wrought with the passion of a gospel narrative, explicit and wrenching. It is, finally, an entire act of redemption. The language is apocryphal and never operatic, epic in delivery, even greater than it seems; page upon page of an exceeding pure, and never vulgarly rich, damask brocade! I'll not critique Sartre's thought --it's privilege enough to be presented it!-- but this seminal work is a miraculous construct of human will and unbearable genius that will live forever, a complex and magisterial book ranking among the great achievments of modern literature because of its erudition, humanity, and fierce literary reach. There is not a page that doesn't honor wisdom, nor is there a single idle component. It is indisputably Sartre's crowning achievment as a genius, and as a man. The evocative humanity of two literary giants of the 20th century plays like a dance, the captured aesthetic of which Sartre reveals; everything is taken to the temple of Genet, everything explained, everything mortified, slain and remade. Reading this book is a revealing experience; be willing to be stolen. Theft happens in broad daylight, perpetrators already known.. My favorite chapter is 'Cain,' in which Sartre makes his most profound arguments about Genet as Other, Genet as the living inverse Liturgy, and presents a stupefying image of his subject: 'Everything is possessed, worked, occupied, from the sky to the subsoil...' Intimidating in its greatness.

I was very happy to see this book back in print. Although writtin in 1976, this book provides a clear introduction to Paul and his work. The author is not a theologian or religious specialist, but he is well-read and provides an excellent secular discussion. There are lots of books about Paul and his ideas, which have more density and complexity. But, one needs to read a basic book like this to start. Then, one can read Paul's Letters and other works about Paul.
The style and pacing is similar to Michael Grant's book on Jesus - so if you liked that book, you will enjoy this book too. -WGL-

For children 10 and up. The many inspiring perils and adventures of St. Paul - all endured to bring the Gospel to heathen nations. A truly great inspiration to both children and adults.

I purchased this book to add to an ever growing Saint collection. I found myself drawn into it completely. Paul Simper has managed to track every one related to the show down, and jogged their memories about their time spent (some 30 years ago) on the show. This creates an inciteful, witty and interesting read. I have read it from cover to cover on a number of occasions now. A funny story.. Whilst sitting down having a drink with a friend, I happened to mention that I happened to like this book and recomended it. My friend then dials into his mobile phone. 'Hi, Paul', he says, 'I've found out who bought your book'. It turns out that they are also friends. It's a small world. Buy the book and indulge in some Saintly nostalgia.

(British first edition,published 1997 by Chameleon)

This is a very well-presented publication, plenty of pictures, information and inside interviews. An up-market coffee-table book. We are treated to a behind the scenes look at the television Saint. However, those expecting a review of the novels will be disappointed. The book deals only with TV and film.

The author obviously enjoys his subject, and though plainly serious about it keeps it all extremely light-hearted.

For those that have just come into contact with recent re-runs of the TV series, or for those of us that can remember the originals, this book is an extremely pleasant and interesting trip down memory lane.

For those Charteris afficianados amongst us, the book is a worthwhile addition to a collection as it provides some good background information. It also looks good on the coffee-table.

This is the most important and accessable resourse for anyone intersested in the Salem Witch Trials. It seems a real shame that a person can buy Journey albumn released ten years ago but books go out of print so quickly, especially books as vital as this one. Let's hope the publish on demand people flourish!

Awesome book! I was first made aware of the toxcicity of salt and all its forms in the Miracle of Fasting, by Paul Bragg. Searching for good tasting alternatives to salt and salted foods, I found this book and Sproutmans Kitchen Garden by Steve Meyerowitz, which led me to fermented foods and their wealth of health benefits. The recipes in this book come from a man and wife both over 100 years old living in perfect health without signs of old age!
I constructed an incubator in my kitchen to make fermented foods(they like heat)after I threw out my refidgerator. Salt free sauerkraut and salt free fermented sour foods in general taste much better than salted foods and best of all, they aren't laced with poisenous salt. Fermented foods are rich in lactobacillius(lactic acid), acidophilius and many other living good bacteria vital to good health. Plus when you make them yourself, the precious good bacteria isin't destroyed by harmful pasteurization, like it is in commerically prepared fermented foods like youghert, sauerkraut, cheese and sour cream.
I hope the Bragg people reprint this pricless book so that everyone interested in good health can obtain it easily. The recipes here are probably thousands of years old and will give people long disease free, happy lives. They are a time tested sure way to end disease and suffering. Paul Bragg is to health, what Einstein was to mathmatics.