This book is chock-a-block with interesting insights and hilarious anecdotes set against a scrupulously researched tissue of culinary-cum-cultural history. I could not put it down, and there were moments when I laughed at loud! To read and understand *The Raj at Table* is to taste the cross-cultural confluences that continue to temper our sense of culinary style today

This book is a collection of SOME of the works of William Howard Taft but the title is quite misleading, as it does NOT include State of the Union Addresses. Also the author has not taken the time or effort to provide the reader / researcher with an INDEX, which, of course, means that one has to read the entire collection to find references to a particular subject matter. In short, this book is merely a reprinting of some of Taft's speeches and addresses and nothing more!

This collection of Taft's public papers is the first such endeavor, and a praiseworthy one. Readers looking for analysis won't find it here any more than any other "letters of" or "papers of" any other historical figure.

What they will find is William Howard Taft in his own words. The Taft papers at the Library of Congress number into the tens of thousands, and as such are useful only to serious researchers. The student or casual reader of the Taft era will benefit enormously from David Burton's collection of Taft's public papers.

Taft was a proficient and thorough speech writer, and one can follow his era precisely according to this collection. History shall benefit tremendously from these volumes.

A future edition will make available State addresses and, one hopes, a full and final index.

Other than the little mention of Colter in the Lewis and Clark Expedition journals, there is no verifiable material for this biography. His life is a mystery and remains so, inspite of considerable effort by Burton Harris. If you are interested in the life of J Colter, sorry, its just not known and this book is a waste of time.

Yellowstone...Colter's Hell...geysers...Indians.... I found this book a total pleasure to read. Couldn't put it down! Although it is true that Colter's life was somewhat obscure by a lack of more historical documentation, Harris does an exemplary piece of work with what there is to work with. Citing such references as William Clark, Thomas James, Brackenridge, Bradbury and others, Harris does make a justifiable attempt to back up his story. Required reading for those into this time period of the early American West when mountain men roamed the wide open spaces, high mountain valleys and peaks. It must have been a tough, but very rewarding way of life...if you survived the perils and hardships of that day.

The write-up and history sections of each breed in this book are very shallow, not detailed, and in some cases inaccurate. For example, the Tiffany cat was NOT produced from crossing Burmese cats with Persians as stated on page 71. It did not show any accurate pictures of the Chantilly/Tiffany breed.

Most of the information is of the level of detail about what you would expect from a middle-school or high-school book report. I was very disappointed. "The new Encylopedia of the Cat", by Dr. Fogle, which we ordered at the same time, is much better and has a lot more accurate and informative details. If you want one book, get Dr. Fogle's. "The Ultimate Cat Book" is not ultimate at all. It was a disappointment.

This is an amazing,187 pg. photografic book. Including pictures and details about 100 different cat breeds its amazing...You see Pictures of cats and they explain certain features of that purrr-ticular breed.. Includes information even on how to Keep a Cat,Knowing what to look for in a cat,Taking care of your cat,Basic equitment for your new friend,Diet tips ,food categories,Grooming your cat,Health Care and Reproduction. You have to see this book to Believe it!! If you ever wanted to know something about a certain cat this is the book! Buy It know!

Don't buy this book it lies and it is way too much money!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (tell everyone my review was helpfull) :-)

I bought the book and it is worth every dollar, including the additional 18% sales tax in Israel. It is a monumental work, very clear and well written. We needed this book. Having said that, I feel that the reuse aspects in general and the "unplanned indirect drinking reuse" in particular, have received only a marginal coverage in the book. That may be sufficient for the U.S.A., but innumerable European and Asian cities base their water supply on rivers that are mostly treated wastewater. In Israel, agriculture is based on reuse yet in the book, agriculture has the same weight as golf courses. Again, in the U.S.A. it may be so, but certainly not in the rest of the world. Industrial reuse mentions only evaporative cooling and that without the critical problem of blowdown disposal. Additional examples would be helpful. In reuse issues, "emerging patogens" (i.e., those feared but yet inexistent) are given more attention that critical problems such as salt content and subsequent aquifer and soil salination. Table 13-6 does not even mention salt. The inclusion of European and Israeli contributors would have produced an even better, a more balanced work.

I read a review of the book in a industry magazine and it described it as useful for a professional financial advisor, as the title also implies. It turned out to be a pretty basic educational book with general but basic financial information. A good book for a beginner or someone who is just beginning to break into the financial services industry, but not necessarily for a seasoned professional.

Maybe it is unfair to evaluate this book by the coverage of one condition, but I ordered it for one reason, to find out what is the best available evidence about inflammatory bowel diseases (Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis). The 34 page index includes only one of these terms: Crohn's disease. This leads me to the section titled "Inflammatory bowel disease". In it ulcerative colitis is mentioned as many times (once) as Crohn's disease. Yet those terms have escaped indexing.

The section contains only one paragraph with 6 lines. Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis are not differentiated. The therapies mentioned are surgery and the drugs that are already most often prescribed and most toxic. Nothing about elemental diets and other nutritional approaches. Nothing about nutrients that are depleted due to the disease or due to the recommended drug therapies. Unlike most sections in this book, this one contains no references to literature.

This is a fine example of authority based medicine in an evidence based medicine book. The only reason for including this section must be that the chapter on "Bleeding from lower gastrointestinal tract" would not be complete without it. The authors did not have the time or interest to search for evidence on this topic.

My only other impression is that the frequency of numbers (mainly percentages) exceeds the frequency of words that could be found in a general purpose English dictionary.

I did find a list of references for inflammatory bowel diseases in another book on evidence based medicine. This book is in Japanese but most references are in English. Publisher Kinpodo, 1997/11, ISBN476530874X.

I found this a rather disappointing read as, although the author has a wealth of scholarship, he seems to misconstrue Nagarjuna's basic position. In particular, he equates the conventional (i.e. empirically real) with the absolute (i.e.necessary but not apprehensible) levels of reality, possibly due to the potential linguistic ambiguity in having at least two very distinct senses in which the word "real" is being used.

To do this, though, is to discard one of the fundamental aspects of Nagarjuna's system, namely that there are 2 forms of reality - phenomenal reality against noumenal reality, and that they are not equivalent, but that both are void of self-nature. By equating them and then taking Nagarjuna's view of the lack of self-nature of the empirically real, the author reaches the conclusion that Nagarjuna's philosophy entails absolute nihilism.

Nagarjuna's philosophy does entail a certain amount of idealism in the Kantian sense, in that we can never know the world as it is in itself, but only know it (as an apprehensible object) as it appears to us. The philosophical standpoint of the author appears to be one of philosophical realism based on the Nyaya worldview. The Nyaya system of debating entails advancing a thesis against an opponent's thesis, and so Nagarjuna's approach doesn't fit in with the Nyaya mode of argumentation, as Nagarjuna is quite at pains to avoid presenting ANY metaphysical thesis. I think that the author of this book has misunderstood sunyavada on account of his realist tendencies.

Readers will save themselves much unrewarding labor by disregarding both "Precision and soul" and, I daresay, the highly-touted "Man Without Qualities," reading instead his first work "Young Torless" and the stories collected under "Five Women." Musil's derivative philosophical and psychological preoccupations invite inevitable comparisons with Nietzsche and Freud, both of whose work is vastly more durable and fruitful. Despite the powerfully bracing, if not occasionally repellent, astringency of his style, Musil's work subsequent to "Five Women" falls considerably short of his enormous and difficult ambitions which preoccupied his later labors; and, what's more, such a gaping failure of world-historical pretension tends to pollute enjoyments one might otherwise have had in reading it.