"The Penguin Atlas of British & Irish History" is the exact opposite. There's an original full-color map on every page. The atlas covers the whole length of British history from the Ice Age to the Chunnel. The maps are very well made and detailed, alternating between overviews of the whole of the British Isles and close-ups of particular cities, regions, and topics. One particularly nice touch is original panoramic reconstructions of historic sites including: Roman-era London, Viking-era York, Medieval Norwich, Tudor-era London, 18th-century Dublin and Edinburgh, 19th-century Manchester, and contemporary London...

Each of the Triumvirate had their assets and their flaws. As this biography illustrates, Calhoun's great assets were his integrity and his intellect; his great flaws included his inflexibility and his adherence to promoting and continuing slavery.

As a biography goes, this one is good but not great. It is a generally well-written work, but Bartlett has a tendency to speculate as to what Calhoun and others were thinking at particular moments and let a pro-Calhoun bias sometimes remove the objectivity from his work. Despite this, I still did not feel I could really relate to Calhoun, who comes off kind of remote.

Overall, there is more good than bad in this book, however, and as an introduction to an important historical figure, this is a worthwhile read.

Praise for THE FUTURE IS OURS:

"A wonderfully and sensibly useful book, full of information for all those hungry, thirsty idealists who search for help in figuring out how to move from thought to action."-Robert Coles

"In THE FUTURE IS OURS, John Bartlett has created a guidebook essential to any young activist planning to make ripples in the world. Whether she is volunteering for the first time with a human rights group, starting her own recycling initiative, founding an AIDS awareness campaign or running for public office in her home town, the committed idealist will need this book in her back pocket. Combining practical information with the voices of successful young activists in the field, Bartlett provides both advice and concrete examples of what works. Hunter Schofield's road map to navigating local government, for example, or NARAL/NY program director Stephanie Creaturo's suggestions on starting after-school pregnancy prevention programs in uncooperative school districts give readers a vivid impression of life in the trenches. Armored with these accounts and Bartlett's extensive step-by-step guide to getting started, young people who want to make a difference will enter the next century equipped to transform their communities."-Chloe Breyer, co-founder, Who Cares?

"THE FUTURE IS OURS is inspirational, empowering, and eminently practical. Our generation faces some big problems, but tools like this book are tremendous allies for anyone who wants to work for positive change. Thank you, John Bartlett. You have inspired me more than you will ever know."-Ocean Robbins, 22-year-old founder of Youth for Environmental Sanity, co-author of CHOICES FOR OUR FUTURE

The chapter organization is good and the review questions at the end of each chapter are very useful in the course. My students are college juniors and seniors, and they find it easy to read.

I tend to avoid texts that don't do an adequate job of presenting research. This text has a sound introduction to current research in the field, and is an excellent choice for me.

Instructors looking for a good presentation of work on cognition in Adulthood will find the associated chapters useful as both a text and reference material to keep on hand for other courses, such as a 'Lifespan Psychology' course.

The new edition includes more on women, cross-cultural aging, personality and clinical aspects of aging, grandparenting, as well as much new material on aging and adaptation.

I would certainly recommend this book for any solid college level course on Adulthood.

Suzanne Prescott, PhD Governors State University University Park, IL. USA