Chuan makes his third appearance in Virginia Walton Pilegard's The Warlord's Fish, this time as an artist's apprentice for a Chinese warlord in superbly crafted story for young readers about the compass. Chuan's cleverness blends with an artist's talents in putting together a tool which will buy their freedom in this involving story.

A 'must' for all Macleans who are interested in their roots. Tells of the beginnings and early history of this illustrious Clan. First of a trilogy.

This book provides a wealth of facts on this subject.Excellent references provided for further studies.Written by an economist which adds additional insight to the value of such payments to the budding Israeli nation. This book also provides data on the excellent resources available to Israel in her early statehood,intellectual and financial.

Recommended for those who desire background data on those early years(1948-68) of Israeli financial history.

Katherine Verdery's use of her experience in Romania as the basis for generalizations on 'actually existing socialism' and 'what comes next' left me skeptical at first. However, after more serious study this books constitutes one of the seminal works for study of this region.

The illustrations in the "What it's like to be a baby...." series is absolutely wonderful. The artworks made me smile. Mr Nicholas has a true talent for bringing out the essence of the animals he brings to life with a paintbrush.

I have a son about to graduate from High School. I saw this book in the book store and glanced through it and liked what I read. I bought it and read it in about 30 minutes before giving it to him to read. This book is an excellent book for someone who is about to make a major decision in their life. It tells them exactly the correct process to use to make the right choices. I recommend this book especially for people who do not really like to read much. It gets to the point and is a very easy read.

If you haven't read it, run like mad to the nearest bookstore. The man writes like a god. I'm thinking of a Blincoe Collection, like some sort of shrine... After reading White Mice, I want to read all his other books.

eugen

a great novel of the western and Oriental mind, of Slavery and ships that sale from Asia . This book is a fast read and the writer brings details and events clearly to your mind. Cruelty and the carrying trade as it was called ..from 1850 to 1861 an inheritance of a life that the hero would not have chosen.

Boyle has a capacity to take in the whole of political theory, philosophy, economics, literature, culture, and faith with the deepest insight and with a powerful integration of vision and thoughtfulness. The book has been gestating for many years, but is of timely importance.

In the world of the global marketplace, Boyle maintains, we are all proletarians, 'down to the last yuppie among us.' We are--each and every one of us--consumers and producers, but globalized capitalism pressures us to disregard and forget our place as producers, encouraging us to be mere 'punctual consumers,' unattached to place, to time, to our bodies; solely 'there' as ciphers in the vast exchanges of capital. We thus become slaves to our forgetfulness, while wages, job security and opportunities, and our connectedness to our work and our control over it all diminish. Who said Marx is dead?

But Boyle is no knee-jerk marxist. He masterfully traces the course of modernity and its philosophical blindspots through the political and economic shifts of 19th and 20th century Europe, calling us to an awareness of the moral and religious underpinnings of our meaningful identity as we find it in literature and in daily life--as both producers and consumers. He unapologetically considers himself a 'Christian humanist,' and this perspective affords him a valuable and critical eye toward the dehumanizing effects of globalization, as well as the grounds for hope we may find therein.

See my review of the first edition. This edition is just the first edition improved. I'm not sure what the 'Wie' in the title is, but it isn't on the book. This is just the second edition of 'Exploring Geographic Information Systems' by Nick Chrisman. A great second book on GIS for those who really want to understand GIS.