After looking through endless craft books on paper craft and not finding anything inspiring, this book appeared. It has great photograqphs and telling crtiques my the two editors and short blurbs from the artists regarding their works. It's stylish and modern and wonderfully artful. There are no how-to's in this book, it's simply a great collection of pieces from an overlooked art form.

Have been hunting for a good safari book to orient my 4 & 8 yr old sons before we go on a safari to east Africa. This book was easy to look at for the 4yr old, and pretty easy to read for the 8yr old. (Although he needed help with some words). The illustrations are good & it has great basic information about some of the major animals, as well as sample tracks to look out for. My only negative comments are that two of the animals are not given their more popular names (even in parentheses) so it was hard to match this info up with other books. Also,some major animal types are left out, so that was disappointing. Those are minor gripes though, and on the whole the book is great.

This book gives the ranging patterns of various species of primates, from ring-tailed lemurs, to mountain gorillas to sulawasi black crested macaques. Most of the chapters are based on the reseachers own work, but some chapters are only reviews of others' work. Very good resource for those interested in ranging as a general topic, not quite as good for specific primate info, although the chapter on the lemurs gives a great summary chart, and so do a couple of other chapters. We used this text for a class at State University of New York, Stonybrook campus and it served our class well. Good springboard for research papers, although the chapter sequence seems to be haphazard. All in all, a very good, solid text on primate ranging, recommended for anyone with a serious interest in primatology. The methods are given for each research undertaking (note the various forms used), and while some may leave you scratching your head (a little to much info on tree diameter), if nothing else this will surely make you appreciate all the work that goes into animal tracking (there are some chapters on other species, including one on human nomadic travelers).

This is quite a different memoir from others I have read. Worsham, who appears to have been a tremendously organized individual, gives minute tactical detail relevant to his company for almost every engagement he was in -- the Valley Campaign, First Winchester, Kernstown, Williamsport, the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, etc. etc. As far as I can tell, he's generally pretty accurate, with the exception of the end of Third Winchester, during which he was wounded and not on the field. (He was disabled from then till the surrender and was left behind in Richmond when the city fell.) Worsham also follows up the fate of his company and of many of its members, giving a useful picture of what happened to the many people who left their original units during the war. I wish authors of regimental histories, in particular Reidenbaugh, would learn from this! On the other hand, Worsham's account is rather lacking in personal information, to the point where he quite often refers to himself in the third person. He had a very good career, being steadily promoted through first sergeant and to adjutant, but tells us rather little about this. His memoir is short on the sort of amusing or touching anecdotes that fill many other accounts. Because of that, this might not be the most congenial memoir for someone who just wants something fun to read, but its value to the historian is inestimable.

Anyone that likes magic tricks should enjoy this book immensely. Amazing images that metamorphose with the changing perception of the viewer make it an amusing pastime read. I remember an illusion which asks whether the lines shown are straight or curved; I am still willing to bet they are curved. Are they? Why don't you find out?

An excellent collection of OR cases developed in Europe in the last decade, presenting different categories of problems, consulting process used and (in a lesser degree) technique. Very good bibliographic references in most cases. Emphasizes trade-offs for organizational fitness, data availability, user interface and other practical topics not commonly found in the field of OR. Useful discussions of "theory vs practice" and the future of OR: Should be very useful as a complementary text in OR courses (I plan to use it on mine).

Lawrence and Lorsch's groundbreaking work "Organization and Environment" was a key step in the study of organizational integration. They used a precise definition, studied integration's impact on organization performance, and explored a subset of the factors that lead to integration. They defined integration as the "state of collaboration that exists among departments that are required to achieve unity of effort." and measured it by asking people to rate the state of interdepartmental relations on a seven-point scale going from "serious problems exist" to "full unity of effort is obtained". They used the term differentiation to refer to different departments having different structures and orientations (e.g. short versus long-term time orientation, relationship versus task focus, and high versus low formality of structure). A key finding of their research was that although organizational integration and differentiation were usually inversely proportional to each other, the most successful organizations simultaneously achieved high levels of both. Prior to Lawrence and Lorsch, organizational experts generally believed that issuing orders from above was adequate to achieve organizational integration. In contrast, Lawrence and Lorsch believed that integration required resolution of conflicts between departments through the efforts of teams and individual managers working both inside and outside of formal channels. These "integrators" need to be in the middle of the organization, and not simply at the top. Factors leading to effective integration included having an orientation that was intermediate between those of the departments being integrated, high influence based on competence and knowledge, and integrators being rewarded for achieving effective unified solutions. Moreover, high performing organizations resolved conflicts at the level in the organization where the knowledge (competence) needed to find a good solution existed. For organizations in stable environments this tends to be high in the organization, while for organizations in rapidly changing environments it tends to be lower down. High performing organizations confronted differences in perspectives in an open problem solving manner, rather than immediately finding a compromise, or trying to smooth over conflict, or referring the issue to a higher level for decision. Lawrence and Lorsch's recognition of the importance of organizational integration and its dependence on the work of "integrators" was a major step in our understanding of organizational effectiveness. The primary weakness in their work is that it focuses overwhelmingly on only one organizational integrating mechanism, namely the use "integrators" to resolve interdepartmental conflict.

Paul Jenkins brings the subject alive in this informative account of the basics of organometallics. The books consise nature makes it a great assett to any chemistry undergraduate.

I HAD I VERY NICE SURPRISE WHEN I RECIBED THE ORIGINAL VW BEETLE BOOK. IT IS VERY GOOD ILUSTRATED, WHITH GOOD QUALITY, FULL COLOR PHOTOS. THE CARS IN THE PHOTOS ARE REALY NICE, IN EXCELLENT ORIGINAL CONDITIONS. THE BOOK PRESENTS VERY USEFULL INFORMATION ABOUT THE EVOLUTION OF THE VW, INDICATING FOR EACH YEAR, SINCE 1945, THE MAIN CHANGES. IN RESUME THE BOOK LOOKS LIKE A BARGAIN BOOK, BUT HAS INFORATION LIKE A CONSULTING BOOK. I WILL RECOMEND THIS BOOK TO MY FRIENDS, THOSE WHO ARE INTERESTED IN THE VW. ALSO I THINK THE BOOK USEFULL FOR PEOPLE INTERESTED IN THOSE INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTS WHICH HAVE MADE HISTORY.

This text is an excellent resource for administrative staff with limited clinical background. It is invaluable in composing letters of medical necessity and in conversing with insurance providers. Some changes could be made to the layout of the chapters for ease in finding specific orthoses, but overall the book is a great help.