If you are looking for a "feel good" lighthearted read this is not it.

Many of the stories are strange, depressing, and disturbing. One questions if in some cases is it truly love or obsession and lack of common sense that is found at "second sight"

The book includes a brief history of the company that made the classic, and some say, best cameras to come out of the 1960's. A sincere attempt to provide detailed coverage of the Spotmatic, K, M and finally, LX series of cameras is moderately successful for those who are familiar with these cameras. A good portion of the book is given over to general photography concepts and techniques. This provides a good refresher course and a handy reference. In many instances, tie-ins are made with various Pentax models, and overall, Pentax owners will find this book very useful. Collectors with considerable experience, both in making pictures and with these cameras will, however, be disappointed by the broad strokes used to describe the details of individual models. Many details, important to serious collectors and those making purchasing decisions, are overlooked. For example, the Spotmatic II is described merely as a Spotmatic with a hot shoe. Significant differences exist and are ignored. If you need every book written about the early TTL SLR Pentax cameras, then this book is a "must-have". If you need a book that is useful from a general standpoint and discusses early Pentax cameras too, this book comes with a good recommendation. If however, you want a definitive work about one of the most influential camera manufacturers and their products, you will do well to look elsewhere.

Bud Lea used his notes and articles published during his years covering the Packers as a Milwaukee newspaperman to put together this book. Also featured is Vernon Biever's excellent photography from the Packer Glory Years.

This is fairly light-weight in content (large print and lots of pictures). But if you were a fan of the Pack during the Lombardi years, you probably will enjoy this book. There are a LOT of photos, many of which I've not previously seen, so the book gives a fairly good feel for the atmosphere at each game.

However I wish the text had been more in depth. The background given for each of the seven games is sketchy at best, unfortunately. There are lots of quotes from the men who played those games, but overall I would have liked more meat. Still, a "good get" for Packer fans.

If you are a collector of obvious statements that then fail to connect proposed solutions to the stated problems, this book is for you. Perhaps if you are interested in learning how politicians can use large amounts of space to write very little, you may find "Making Government Work" insightful. Otherwise, this book fails.
The concept of the book is intriguing. Take the most recognizable names in American state and local government, from Rudy Guiliani to Jeb Bush, and ask each to analyze their experiences in privatization. What results is a series of glorified press releases. This book is neither an honest presentation on the debates over privatization, as only one side is presented, nor a useful discussion of privatization. Little meaningful insight is offered.
What emerges are grandiose declarations of the need for privatization and how great the privatization programs each implemented are operating. Very little data is presented. We are expected to take these public official at their words they are doing great jobs. Perhaps some of their programs have been successful. Yet the lack of honest evaluation makes their claims suspicious.
This book argues that privatization is needed to counter the recent large growth in state and local governments. Yet, instead of analyzing why this growth occurred, the book immediately concludes this growth is out of control and needs to be curbed. Perhaps some growth is excessive. A more proper analysis would observe a.) the Federal government's recent devolution has transferred more responsibilites from the Federal government to state and local government, something, incidentally, most state and local government officials heralded at the time and b.) government has become more proactive in recent years in providing public services, from increased police protection to improving education, something the pubilc heralded at the time. To ask for growth and then recoil in shock when we realize growth has occurred is contradictory. To assume all this growth has been wrong is incorrect, unless you have a liberatarian ideology. What would have been more useful would have been to examine this growth and try to determine which is proper and which is wasteful.
Many of the writers in this book state public managers should look at government as if it were a business. Yet, business managers need to think in terms of managerial objectives such as maximizing profit rather than providing quality public goods. If public managers operate with bottom line considerations, financial considerations can lead to employee layoffs, decreased employee morale, and reduced public services. The business-like objectives may be met, but the initial purposes of the public services may be defeated.
With early data on prizatizion conflicting, this book is noted as a good collection of what public executives approving of privatization think. Beyond that, though, this book has little more to offer.

Jewett attempts to present a coherent theology of mankind as male and female. He makes some advances in his cause and presents some cogent and uncomfortably accurate points. However, the logic of his case occasionally falls short of making the case for a new Christian anthropology. Nevertheless, this book represents a positive step towards a reconceptualization of Christian anthropology. Although this new vision will probably not stand up under scrutiny, there are valid points that should not be ignored because of the flaws in the argument.

Fans of John McCain who want to know about the senator's life history will not be too disappointed. It's all there, from his childhood through his military service through his ascendancy to the national spotlight.
Unfortunately, the book is sloppily written and edited. Alexander repeats himself quite often, and he relies too much on long-winded quotes from other sources. Further, the editing leaves a lot to be desired. Phrases like "centered around," as opposed to the correct "centered on" are commonplace and distracting. Alexander's magazine pieces are much better, which leads me to believe this work suffers from poor editing more than the pedestrian prose.

But this book is really 'dry' to read. Plus, I expected a greater emphasis on computing and the internet, which are fertile areas for this subject. Nevertheless, there's some common sense information that might appeal to some law afficcionado.

Paul ryan did his research on brando and putted all the information from other brando books and library articles into his portrait.In short chapters he writes about the movies of brando,their backgrounds during shooting and many pictures of brando behind the scenes.ryan succeded to give a overall look at this legendary actor ,but it stays in the end distanced because many subjects are way too small expressed in words ,especially the murdertrial against the son of brando in the last chapter.Ryan goes also sometimes into details about one of brando's movies such as apocalypse now,and suddenly writing more about the background of coppola and the other crew then writing more details about the man where this book is about.This disturbing fact comes back in many chapters. And finally Making a portrait of such a complexed and genius actor must contain 1000 pages or more to give a clear look at his life and performances.

I would recommend her Italian language book: "Cassell's Contemporary Italian"-- although I haven't listened to these tapes

Eminently readable, Horwich presents his latest thoughts on the concept of meaning in lucid and engaging style. Nicely produced by Oxford, the book will appeal to anyone interested in the philosophy of language, from about level 3 up.

However, if you're expecting to find a vindication of Wittgenstein's remarks on meaning you'll be disappointed. Horwich takes on board the idea that explanation is fundamental to the concept of meaning, but overplays Wittgenstein's idea that questions of meaning can (sometimes)be answered by looking at the way a word or phrase is used. Horwich tries to explicate the concept of meaning, and answer Quine's demand for 'criteria of identity' for meanings, by appealing to regularities of use and 'acceptance properties'. While traditional Wittgensteinians will see Horwich's theory as compounding the mistakes of modern semantic theories, Horwich makes no claims to Wittgenstein's philosophy and provides some excellent arguments against those theories currently in vogue with philosophers.