a book written through the eyes of a great artist, this abbreviated tome covers topics from new york city to cadillacs. le corbusier's intellectually stimulating style applied to everyday life opens up a vast world full of travels and life experiences that, perhaps embarassing to ideological scholars of corbu, is fascinating reading for artists living in the real world. held my rapt attention and i only read part of it over lunch (i now own it).

This book is aimed more for hatcheries that are raising Trout, Salmon, Catfish and other food fishes. However, there is so much information in this book that even ornamental fish hatcheries will find an incredible amount of useful information. The chapters on Fish Nutrition are especially helpful.

This book had me engrossed from the beginning. The photos and maps tell a story that is a must see for the local historian.

Southall is to the writing of WWII, what Tom Wolf is to the journalism of the sixites. He delivers a very subjective history, full of atmosphere, impressions and emotions. But unlike Wolf, Ivan Southall experienced the dangers of operational flying first hand (as a Sunderland pilot during WWII).

For those not in the know, the Sunderland was a converted airliner -- a seaplane used for long distance and long duration patrols over the Bay of Biscay. While no where near as fast (or sexy) as the fighters and bombers that poulate most period literature, it gained a formidable reputation among German aircrew as "the flying porcupine". The pilots and crew of this beast (one of the largest aircraft of it's era) were a unique and highly skilled breed.

"Fly West" is a collection of anecdotes about 416 Squadron (Costal Command) during WWII. Sometimes Southall is part of these missions, more often he is merely recording the stories. Either way "Fly West" (the slang for running away) is an exceptional book, suitable for everyone 12 and up (I was 12 when I read it the first time, 38 the second). While Southall spares us the graphic and more visceral horrors, he doesn't let up on the terror and tension of long (twelve hours or more) operational flights. This is a page turner, with plenty of white knuckled moments.

In short, a must read for any fan of WWII litterature, or flying.

I travelled to Syria and Jordan this November, armed with my first Footprint guide book, and I'm now a convert. It is especially good in giving out well written historical background and cultural titbids that just make the trip so much more rewarding. Lonely Planet and Rough Guides are sooooo shallow by comparison.

Goncharov was the secretary to the Vice Admiral in charge of a Russian fact-finding tour of the world which began in 1952 and ended over 2 years later. His observations, especially of the English, are accurate and sometimes humorous and colorful. He went on to win acclaim with Oblomov. This is a good opportunity to read earlier writings of a great Russian novelist.

This book, written by the world's foremost experts on Rhipicephalus taxonomy, will be invaluable to anyone who needs to identify brown ticks or come to grips with the many changes in their nomenclature. The high-quality SEM photos (several for each species, showing key morphological features) are a particularly useful addition. As a taxonomic work the book is great. Readers looking for ecological or phylogenetic details, however, will be disappointed. The limited quantitative data that are provided (host numbers, and measurements of tick body sizes) are spread throughout the book, with no summary tables provided; the distribution maps are coarse-grained; there is little discussion of tick population dynamics or disease relationships; and the comments on tick ecology reflect the state of knowledge in the 1960s. Despite these criticisms, the authors have achieved what they set out to do and should be commended for providing such a useful taxonomic reference.

VERY comprehensive, and information presented in may different ways/comparisons/ranks/and lists. Two drawbacks: 1) Should have been pulished as a CD-ROM database, and updated every year. 2) Does not separate Forced Induction with Naturally Aspirated engines in the engine comparisons.

Ivan Arguelles, Hapax Legomenon (Pantograph Press, 1993)

The ninth installment in Ivan Arguelles' long and surreal poem Pantograph is the eighty-eight-page Hapax Legomenon, a book it took Arguelles only ten days to complete. Eighty-eight pages of poetry in ten days leads to one of two conclusions: either the stuff blows goat, or the poet is of a singular construction, the kind of person who can spin out, well, eighty-eight pages of at least salable writing in ten days. Arguelles is very much the latter, and I don't think I've ever read a single piece of his work that is only 'salable.'

Arguelles is one of the few American authors extant who is capable of capturing the essence of Surrealist writing and translating it to American culture. Arguelles' obsessions are spilled out onto the page in stream-of-consciousness format, and we are left to interpret them as we will. It's not quite as hard as figuring out tea leaves, but it's close.

As with most surreal poetry, however, meaning takes a distant backseat to the single question every pot should ask upon completing every poem: does it sound good? In Arguelles' case, the answer to that question is always 'yes,' be the poem a few scant lines or an eighty-eight page piece of a much larger epic. When picking up a book by Ivan Arguelles, the one thing of which a reader can be sure is that everything contained therein will sound good; this is no exception. Get out of it what you will, but allow the syllables to flow over you like the waterfall they are, and you will have extracted the true essence of the work.

Is a useful tool to introduce dentistry students in the immunology of oral diseases, and for all people who wants to understand the role of immune physio-pathologic mechanisms that govern the oral cavity and related organs. The text is accomplished by illustrations that clearly explains the multiple factors involved in the immune response, and how these contribute to preserve or to damage the oral health. It is a recommendable book for students, practitioners and specialists, interested on the immunological aspects of oral health and disease.