Dominion is one of those rare books that rivets your attention from Chapter One and intensifies from there. It wouldn't be fair to detail the plot because one of the most intriguing aspects of the book is the intricate weaving of subplots that leave readers guessing where they are being led. Suffice it to say that Dominion mixes adventure, sex, social commentary, humor and suspense to render a tale that both entertains and educates. I can tell you that there is an End-Of-The-World-As-We-Know-It scenario, but it is different from anything I have ever read. The crisis is very creative - no giant comets or Doomsday viruses - and no superhero comes to save the day. Read this one. I promise you've never read anything like it before.

Bartholomae and Petrosky and their collaborators show in helpful detail the theory and practice of teaching college writing to underprepared students.

This book is one of a kind! It is the kind of book that everyone who golfs should own. This book even has an illustration for the definitions of Knickers and Plus Fours. . .she's even kind of cute! A must have book!!!!

very good presentation, practical every day problems facing in paediatrics. good book to read if you are preparing for MRCPCH exam or DCH exam.

It is unfortunate that many of the other books in the Routledge Great Philosophers series do not follow the same pattern as Quinton's HUME, because this particular book is a model of what a brief introduction to a philosopher should be. Quinton offers short summaries of David Hume's life, his philosophical assumptions, and his views on causation, material things, the self, scepticism, morality and the passions, politics, and religion, with each summary followed by a list of relevant quotes from Hume's various works. Reading this book is an ideal way to orient oneself before engaging in a deeper study of Hume.

This is the most comprehensive book on the Kachina to date. This book is the only one where the illustrator has depicted not only the front of the figure, but also the back and this makes this book a must to own for anyone who studies the Kachina or who is an artist and wants to be completely accurate in the depiction of the figure. The figures are historically and spiritually exact and are certainly meant as a tribute to the figure as a revered being.Truly a fine publication and well worth the cost.

It seems the most popular budget classical music label, Naxos, not only makes most of the Western musical output available at very reasonable prices (no top stars who demand absurd fees make this possible), but it has also issued three very nice boxed sets of recordings on cassettes and CDs (I have the latter) that together give you a quick, fairly accurate, and quite enjoyable survey of three major topics. Perry Keenlyside's (NA 314412) is on three tapes or CDs and more or less delivers what the title promises in about 3 hours and 40 minutes. The text is considerately divided into sections--"Mozart, the child prodigy," "January 1762, the first journeys," "Paris and London, 1763-4," and so on--with tracking cues for each section. The narration and quotations from letters and journals of the time are accompanied by the appropriate music drawn from the bottomless Naxos catalogue. Nigel Anthony is the narrator, aided by Paul Rhys (Mozart), Edward de Souza (Leopold Mozart), with David Timson and Anna Patrick in "other parts." I have not seen the original books to see how much of an abridgment this is, if at all, but that is immaterial. The voices are personable, the information digestible, the whole project very worth while, especially at the price. My only objection to the Naxos recordings of books in the low recording level that makes it a bit difficult to hear on a walkman set up on (say) a noisy train. But this should offer no problem to home hearing or even in your car. These sets are really perfect listening for long trips.

This is a very enjoyable collection of stories based on scripts from the original radio plays.

Basil Rathbone was a "softer" version of Holmes. The original Sherlock could be hard and unfeeling - a machine as Watson often describes him.

That probably didn't play to audiences so, by comparison, Rathbone is just mildly eccentric. He's far more tolerant of the inability of Watson and others to keep up with him than is the original Sherlock.

It's a little as if someone had found the dichotomy betwen Hamlet's magnificent spirit and his fatal flaw disconcerting and had rewritten Shakespeare's classic to make Hamlet just a typical troubled young adult struggling with newfound freedom and responsibilties.

And Nigel Bruce's bumbling Watson is largely comic relief and equally unlike the original Conan Doyle version.

But at least the original radio playwrights kept the two heroes in late 19th century/early 20th century England. I think that most of the movies that Rathbone and Bruce made were set during World War II. I mean, no one could be a worthier contender against the Nazis than Sherlock Holmes, but still...

The story of how Holmes and Watson first meet Moriarty is unconvincing, as is the portrayal of Moriarty, and equally unconvincing is how, in "The April Fool's Adventure", Holmes finds all of the clues that the pranksters leave for him to find but doesn't see how they were intended to point to himself as the culprit. His inability to recognize himself is bewildering, and he must have forgotten to use his magnifying glass to look at the calendar.

But so what? When a classic is changed for mass market effect, the result is often disastrous, but not so here.

The bottom line is that all of the stories are very enjoyable. For all of the merit of the original Conan Doyle classics, they were written as a disagreeable chore to satisfy the public's demand for a character that Conan Doyle himself had quickly grown tired of.

These stories were crafted with a lot of love and care, and that might be why the two main characters themselves draw more affection than do the original versions.

Our debt to Conan Doyle for bringing us Sherlock Holmes is incalculable, but equally incalculable is our debt to his contemporaries for forcing the author to resurrect the great detective from (what we were led to believe was) the bottom of Reichenbach Falls. Perhaps the public also deserves credit for rescuing Holmes's humanity as well as his life from the clutches of his original creator, and perhaps this kinder, gentler Holmes is an example of this second rescue effort.

And speaking of Holmes's life, the last story in this collection provides a plausible explanation (entirely consistent with the Conan Doyle concordance) of why Sherlock Holmes cannot die. Literally. That's worth the price of admission, in and of itself.

Hard to believe no one has reviewed this yet. For those seriously interested in the poetry scene in this country, the Morrow Anthology is essential. Some of the poets--Rita Dove, Tess Gallagher, Jon Anderson, Stephen Dobyns, Carolyn Forche, etc--have gone on to bright careers, while others have faded in the decade or more since the anthology was first published. But what a monumental task Dave Smith and David Bottoms---excellent poets themselves---took on by putting together this book. Incredible book, hands down.

This compact and highly readable book seeks to explore just exactly what policy there is about mental health care and mental health problems in present day England. England's mental health services, almost all government run and funded, are engaged in at least three major roles: providing care, controlling deviant behaviour, and rationing the dispensing of public support to sick or disabled individuals. In this complex morass, Rogers and Pilgrim indicate their preference for looking harder at what the key political and professional actors do than at what they say.

The first half of the book maps out the ground. It starts with an overview first of the many groups of individuals involved, their vantage points and their strongly expressed perspectives, and then of the history of mental health care in England. This should be an invaluable introduction for social work, nursing, psychology, sociology or medical students. The book goes on to explore a number of the key themes in the current debate. Many of these are obviously desirable ideas that seem tantalisingly impervious to implementation - mental health promotion, effective interventions in primary care, community based longer term care, getting rid of institutional care. There is a particularly good chapter on the issues involved in assessing the effectiveness of care.

The most interesting aspect of the book is that it is among the first to be able to respond to the fruits of the Labour Government elected in 1997. During the 18 years of the preceding Conservative administration, many commentators wrote as though they believed that this change would solve the problems. The authors show that in the event, the continuities have been more striking than the differences.

At times I felt the book failed to locate the research cited into the experience of service users and their carers in its relevant historical sequence - important at times when powerful advocacy is changing the context fast. It failed to explore the implications of the effects of the radically different training which professionals of different age groups have received. And I guess that reading the book as a white, middle class, non-disabled, male doctor who has worked in the English ministry of Health for many years, I did occasionally find myself wanting to ask the authors 'well what the hell did you expect x to do in that situation?' But even with these minor gripes, I would recommend it to students, practitioners and anyone else interested.

Gyles Glover, Professor of Public Mental Health, University of Durham