As a philosophical text, Grice's work is a bit difficult to plow through. His prose is quite full of flourishes and there's enough amusing references in there to keep an interested reader going, however the reader must indeed be interested for this book to be of much use. Anyone expecting to fully digest any of the papers in this book would do well to plan on reading it 3 or 4 times. However, if done successfully, the concepts you'll take from it will indeed do much to expand your view of how linguistic communication works.

Rated 5 stars for its philosophical importance and 2 for readability, the 4-star rating given here is a sort of weighted average.

In the last 200 years, many religious groups have tried to start their own economic societies, usually based on some kind of communalism. And most of these have disappeared. The grand experiment of the Soviet Union and other forms of forced communalism also collapsed from their own weaknesses and failings.

What these writers offer is the usual Ivory Tower approach, somehow trying to persuade or even force the rest of us into their way of thinking and living. All without a lot of details of how this would work out for Joe and Jane Lunchbucket in Peoria.

As I noted, this is less about individual greed and more about the effect, real and perceived of large international companies. I offer three reasons that the writers shy away from individual accountability. First, if ordinary people really read this kind of stuff, they might begin to feel threatened, and they might get politically involved and start to speak up for themselves. The Ivory Towerists loathe that. They want a world run by "experts" like themselves. Second, someone might ask about individual and local responsibility in poor countries. As in, what are they doing about it, besides waiting for the next handout, or the next bit of graft? Then, finally, they're great with the ideas, but poor in the execution. Either they haven't thought that far, cannot see that far, or don't want to let us, the unwashed, in on their Grand Plans.

This is a must read for those who look around and see world poverty and ask what we could do about it. This book is important because it represents a very powerful idea that is widely popular among academics and "anti-poverty" activists. We need to know what everyone is thinking in this area, and not just read stuff that we agree with.

The second half of the book is devoted to different types of competitions with helpful tips for every one. Obviously you can't use the exact technique for rapid firing shooting as for slow fire shooting. The book is written for a British audience, but the author includes all the major American and NRA competitions as well. Very helpful overall and well done.

"THE BACK of the BOOK": Elizabeth, retreats in exasperation to the bathroom. Soaking in a warm tub will ease her tension.... not to mention provide an scape from her mother's questions. But the next thing Elizabeth can recall, she's in a strange unknown world -- like her own, but unlike. Everyone there calls her Sarah, and no one has ever heard of Elizabeth Forde. What's going on? Is she mentally unwell? as "Sarah's" friends presume? Is she suffering from amnesia? But if it's amnesia why does she have a whole lifetime of memories from a diffrent time and place? While Elizabeth/Sarah struggles to figure out who and where she is, Elizabeth's parents and best friend, Jeff, are frantic to find her. Jeff's unusual Uncle Malcom has an idea where she might be....some nutty theory about alternate realities. Could what seem like coincidences really be the secret workings of God? Maybe they should give Uncle Malcom's theory a try...

I haven't read all of the solutions yet, but only a very few puzzles had truly implausible answers (those that did are why I didn't give the book top rating).