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John Archer has written an amazingly interesting account of Renaissance travel literature. He uses the concept of "paracolonialism" to discuss a range of Renaissance texts, some well known, some not. The intelligence of Archer's prose and analysis make this book an welcome oasis in the increasingly arid desert that Renaissance studies has become. Old Worlds will also be of deep interest to anyone working in colonial and post-colonial theory.

John Innes Mackintosh Stewart (pseudonym Michael Innes) was born in 1906 in Edinburgh, Scotland. He was educated at Oriel College, Oxford, and his mysteries reflect both his scholarship, and the year he spent in Vienna, studying Freudian psychoanalysis.

"One-Man Show" (1952), also titled "A Private View" is later Appleby. Sir John has already been knighted and married, and has worked his way up to the position of Assistant Commissioner at New Scotland Yard. He and his wife, Lady Judith (a sculptress by profession) play equal roles in solving the double mystery of who murdered the young artist, Gavin Limbert, and who stole two very famous paintings from the Duke of Horton's estate. (The Duke also plays a prominent role in the early Appleby mystery, "Hamlet, Revenge!" (1937).)

This story begins when Lady Judith drags her unsuspecting husband off to a memorial exhibition of the works of Gavin Limbert, a young artist who was thought to have committed suicide. When Limbert's 'chef d'oeuvre' is stolen from the gallery, right under Appleby's nose, he feels compelled to reopen the case on the painter's mysterious demise.

Appleby's assistant, Inspector Cadover is already acquainted with the case and he serves as a stiff upper-lip to his chief's intuitive, sometimes playful method of investigation. When Appleby disappears after a nocturnal ruckus in a junk shop, Cadover takes over the case and brings it to a successful conclusion---just as he later takes on Appleby's role at New Scotland Yard after Sir John's retirement (for more about Cadover, read "The Case of the Journeying Boy" by Michael Innes (1949).)

This particular Appleby is an equal mixture of mystery and adventure---Appleby personally engages the villains in glorious, but somewhat ignominious battle; Judith hides in a closet and overhears an artist plotting murder, etc. There is a wonderful chase scene that ends when Lady Judith and the Duke of Horton save Appleby from a particularly appalling fate.

Don't let the author's gift for playful, erudite dialogue disguise his mastery of character. "One-Man Show" contains a portrait of an amnesiac young woman that is probably the most sensitive and believable in all of mystery literature (eat your heart out, Dame Agatha!)

If you are researching the Civil War, especially the practice of medicine and surgery during the Civil War, this is an invaluable source. This is a personal journal of a Civil War surgeon. As such it is told in his own words. The reader is regaled with day to day details of the surgeon's life.

I was already familiar with Data Warehousing before I bought this book. However, this book takes you step by step, in detail, through every step of the data warehousing process. The "tips" section throughout the text offer insightful clues for what to watch out for and help for a successful data warehouse project. I would recommed this book for the amatuer as well as the advanced reader.

My four year-old enjoys this book very much. It is an oversized paperback with simple drawings (simpler than the original books) but very enjoyable. Paddington causes mayhem at Buckingham Palace while going to meet the Queen - getting trapped in a suit of armour and scaring the servants, falling into a vat of the cook's marmalade glaze. The Queen takes it all in stride and at the end she and Paddington settle down to a chat over marmalade sandwiches. My daughter loves the Paddington books after first seeing the old British series (with stop-motion puppet Paddington) that Disney originally brought over from England many years ago. She finds the new, dubbed-into-American-accent Paddington cartoon a little confusing.

I'm biased: I think John Mortimer's Rumpole stories are so perfectly written that I've never thought his longer works quite measure up. This one comes the closest; in Paradise Postponed, Mortimer follows a disparate group of characters from the Second World War up through the late 1960s, using their stories to reflect developments in England during the same period. As you might expect from the creator of Rumpole, there's also an interesting mystery, but the real focus is on the relationships and dynamics between the characters, as Mortimer centers on a young man from a working class background who eventually becomes a powerful politician. Mortimer has an uncanny knack for creating characters who are believable, quirky individuals, and he makes us care about their struggles. The dialogue crackles, which one might expect since Mortimer was writing the TV adaptation of Paradise Postponed at the same time he was writing the novel. Paradise Postponed has had two sequels, which don't have quite the same scope either in terms of character development or time period covered.

What surprises me is that the TV adaptation of Paradise Postponed has never been released on video, at least in the U.S. There'd be a large market for it.

This book really saved my sanity. I have three kids of various ages and this gave me some great tips to deal with what Dr.Mike calls the "new planet mentality" of the kids today. Whether it's attidue problems, fighting to get them up or to get them to bed or the ever constant battle of homework, Dr. Mike's strategies really work. I have seen Dr. Mike in his workshops and his writing style is like his speaking style. He's really funny, but has some real meat that we all need to hear about. This book and his others are what everybody needs to read. If you get the chance to meet this guy at a talk around the country, don't miss him! If your area carries it, make sure that you watch his PBS show "In Search of Character" and you will see what I mean.

This book should set the standard for pathology color atlases and texts. The figures are excellent and the text provides a large amount of information and numerous references. Anyone working with mice in medical research should have this book.