This book was the first book to be published after the fall of the Soviets, and it attempts to create a photographic chronicle as well as containing well written text. The photographs are better than other books, simply because they are different and you can't stop looking at them. For anyone who enjoys the Romanovs history, this book is a must. For anyone who enjoys a good history book, this is also a must. This is an excellent book and I recommend it 100 percent.

I bought this book to prepare me for two years in Africa. I can tell it will be a great easy resource for everyday conversations and daily life. I highly recommend getting this book if you intend on traveling to a swahili speaking country.

I used this book to teach system safety engineering to graduate students. The author provides the reader a background into system safety that lays the ground work for a functional and proactive system safety process. This book provided workable examples to the student for comprehension of the material. Students as well as the instructor had a better understanding of system safety and the integration of the processes into general industrial and avaition safety programs/processes. I wish I had this book when I was trying to explain to my management what system safety engineering was and how it benefits the engineering department.

This textbook, edited by Robert Lahita MD of Lupus textbook fame is a different approach to autoimmune diseases. The first part of the book offers an overview of the main aspects of immune response in basic science, while part 2 deals with the clinical aspects of autoimmunity.After that he dedicates 12 chapters to approaching the autoimmune diseases by the organ that they act upon. The rest of the book deals with autoimmunity in the old-fashioned way, that is, by specific pathological entities. Lahita ando co-editors deal with autoimmunity in a modern fashion, eliminating ancestral concepts such as self and non-self and establishing the terms antigen, epitope and response as the words that will guide research into these disease throughout this new century. In all, a defininitive, new approach to these emerging concepts, so important in modern medicine.

If young students do not know what Thomas Alva Edison is arguably the most brilliant scientist in American history, then they will after reading this juvenile biography by Nicholas Nirgiotis for the Cornerstones of Freedom series. Nirgiotis begins with the famous story of Edison inventing the electric light, using the example to emphasize the scientist's determination testing 1,500 different materials to serve as the filament. This biography tells how the young Edison exhibited both of the key qualities that defined his work: scientific curiosity and economic profitability. Time and again Nirgiotis relates Edison's inventions to his scientific method, at one point noting that Edison "never questioned WHETHER something might be done, only HOW." The book ends with Edison's inventing the phonograph, which he considered his most important invention, and motion pictures. Edison himself noted the changes wrought in his life time: covered wagons traveled West past his home in Ohio when he was a boy and now electric lights illuminated homes and businesses across the nation. There are not that many volumes in the Cornerstones of Freedom series that focus on people rather than events in the history of this country, but certainly Thomas Alva Edison deserves such a volume. Nirgiotis gives young readers a sense of the scope of Edison's genius and achievements that goes well beyond what few words are devoted to the man in our history textbooks.

This book successfully presents the importance of the work of Thomas Reid to those who are familiar with the Western philosophical tradition, or, as Reid likes to call it, the Way of Ideas. In particular, the explanations of Reid's arguments against the philosophical theses of the British empiricists (Locke, Hume and Berkeley) is particularly well-done, and are helpful in revealing assumptions of their outlooks. See especially the sections on indirect vs. direct perception and the chapter "Reid's Way with the Skeptic."
The only warning that I would issue concerning this book is that the section on the doctrine of common sense may be difficult for those with little background in the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein, especially his "On Certainty," since Wolterstorff explains Reid's doctrine by way of Wittgenstein. However, he does a fairly good job of explaining both, so that this characteristic ought not to be a stumbling block for the sufficiently patient reader.

A twentieth-century version of 'The Revenger's Art', a dying aviator invites the people he hates most to his estate for Christmas. When he is found murdered, the guests are put under house arrest and start dying. The aviator has planned their deaths from beyond the grave and the hero has to race against the clock to solve the mystery and save the victims. Beautiful.

Originally published as "Monsarrat at Sea". It contains all his short stories about the sea: HM Corvette, East Coast Corvette, Corvette Command (all publ. during the war), HMS Marlborough Will Enter Harbor, Ship that Died of Shame, etc. Everything but "The Cruel Sea". Some stories are fiction, others are not, but they're all great tales told with eloquence, wit, style and substance. I read almost no fiction but this is one of my favorite books.

I already reviewed this book. Where is my review? Nicholas Albery has now died in a car crash. Is this your idea of respect? I suggest shoppers search this title directly and find it listed under the Institute for Social Inventions and buy it direct.

Vera Nicholas-Gervais takes an often-overlooked approach to the stay-at-home phenomena in Time Out: Soul Talk for Stay-at-Home Moms. While celebrating women's decisions to spend quality time with their babies, Nicholas-Gervais is not afraid to tell the truth: stay-at-home motherhood is no cakewalk. Written in an easy-to-read, conversational style, Time Out depicts the gamut of new mothers' emotions, from exhilaration and bliss to depression and anxiety. So the next time you're on your knees, cleaning up spilled formula while the phone rings and the baby screams, you can take solace in the knowledge that you're not alone.