I used this book to teach a law school course in the Czech Republic. It has an excellent selection of cases from which to teach the major areas of European Union (or European Community depending on your view) law. Get the most recent available supplement (1996 to my knowledge) and realize that there have been recent significant changes in this area of law.

Broyles script is a brillant work in script and structure. I would highly recommend to those who are fans of the movie, to read the script as a companion. The introduction was also very insightful, and left me with an even greater love for the film after reading the shooting script.

A great study for film students in wanting to examine complex structure, with a perfectly formated character and story progression.

This book contains the plot line common in many of Kienzle's books: the murderer has something against the clergy. The story was unique in that the killer goes after prostitutes. One would not expect that in a Catholic novel, but it's a great suspenseful story.

I am a working Ph.D. level school psychologist and I use this book on a daily basis. It covers all of the primary psychological diagnoses of childhood and provides overviews of assessment and treatment. A great tool for those who work with children with mental health difficulties and/or teach psychopathology of children. An important supplement to the DMS-IV TR.

William Temple's 'Christian Faith and Life' is a collection of lectures that Temple, who made a career of being a bishop (and ultimately Archbishop of Canterbury, like his father before him) in the Church of England, delivered at Oxford in 1931. These lectures comprise an easily accessible, down-to-earth exposition of Temple's theology, which has had an enduring impact both on Anglican theology generally, and practical ecumenical theology more generally.

'The mind grows always by intercourse with a mind more mature than itself.'

Temple's writing has been instrumental in giving shape to Anglican theology, which, as the 'official church' of Britain and many parts of the British Empire, also influences the theological directions of many other denominations.

'The whole case of religion, through all ages, is that it is a venture, a quest of faith.' Temple argues that to have direct, concrete and verifiable certainty of the reality of God negates the spiritual merit of faith. Faith in an Ultimate Being, of ultimate good and compassion and mercy, is central to the Christian faith, and has parallels in most other religious constructs, even those officially or notionally polytheistic.

'Faith consists so far in the determination to live and to think as if this thing were true, and to find how far we can solve life's problems by the use of that hypothesis.' This becomes the essential question in practical theology. If there is a God (if we have faith that there is a God) what then must we do? The Christian answer to this is a surprising one, given the nature of God in the Christian concept.

'The Christian conception of God begins with an exaltation of the Divine Majesty, the greatest the mind can conceive, but when the greatness and the far-reaching power, might and authority of God exhibit themselves in man, it is by washing the disciples' feet.'

The fundamental call of God, for Temple's theological construct, is the call of service to our fellows. Temple was living and writing in the post-Victorian world, in which the comfortable stability of culture, society and morals had been shaken by the first World War and the quickening pace of technological advance, urbanisation, the beginnings of post-industrialism, and a reassertion of an accepted skepticism and diversity in most human endeavours. 'Nothing comes under this new criticism more fully than everything which might be regarded as a moral convention.'

Temple espouses a strong moral code that is rooted in eternal truths, one that is nonetheless flexible enough not to be dismissed and ignored by current culture.

Temple explores the role of the church, the role of sacraments and prayer, the relevance of common Christian symbols and the activity of the Holy Spirit in this short book of lectures. Clear and concise, practical and spiritual, this brief book outlines a compassionate and full theology that is as fresh and vital today as it was when first formulated in the inter-war period. High on practical application and usefulness, the scholar may find some rigour missing here. Temple, however, took his charge, as a cleric to be an educator, seriously, in this and other writings.

This book is best for those who have already read a couple of books on leadership, particularly those by Warren Bennis and James MacGregor Burns since these two figure's ideas are present in many of this book's pages. That is not to say there are no new paths taken. Sashkin and Rosenbach's "A New Vision of Leadership" is eye-opening in its redefinition of transformational leadership. This essay also does well in illustrating the differences between leadership and management, a division I was not sure existed until I picked up this book. Payne, Fuqua, and Canegami's "Women as Leaders" was equally fresh and eye-opening. This is a good book to read to start developing more complex ways of looking at leadership.

It's not a textbook, yet might be used as one. It's not exactly a monography, yet ex-post may be considered as one. "Contestable Markets..." is a detailed exposition of a consistent theory of market structure and its determinants. In fact, it's built upon innovative work of late 70s and early 80s that not only provided a new set of tools for examining imperfect market structures, and natural monopoly in particular, but also provided (de)regulatory institutions with much needed theoretical agenda in the 80s.

It is an essential reading for anyone specializing in the field of Industrial Organization. Parts of the book may be of use for the advanced microeconomics course.

This is a highly readable discussion of the 33 and 34 act requirements of the SEC as they apply to accountants. I think it is essential reading for any Controller/ CFO or independent accountant about to perform work for and SEC registrant or private company about to file an s1.

I find it highly readable. The CD alone is worth the price.

The authors are harsh for today's US economists, because they have lost contact with the social reality: "the extraordinary combination of arrogance and innocence with which mainstream economics has approached the problems of a nation that had experienced twenty years of declining real wages, forty percent of whose children live in "absolute" poverty, and which endured an unprecedented erosion of health, vacation, and pension benefits. The commitment to full employment legislated in 1946 has been "honored" in these socially destructive years ... by redefining "full" employment as a higher level of unemployment."(p.6)
The solution of the authors is government intervention in the economy and a re-evaluation of the public sector, although they recognize that Keynesianism was and is not perfect: it was unable to present a coherent theory of inflation; it failed to include a concept of stagflation; and its treatment of the money supply could lead to inflation.
But in fact, the US government intervenes already heavily in the economy, but for the authors not in the right sector: defence.

This book, written in 1995, contains already the central proposition of 'The Silent Takeover' by Noreena Hertz: "On a wold wide scale, this internationalization of finance seriously limits the ability of advanced nations to carry out domestic fiscal and monetary policies that are not compatible with the "will" of a stateless world financial market." (p.120)
Their world vision was correct, but too timid: "On a still lager front, world population growth threatens to bring another billion people into existence within a generation, raising the spectre of large immigration pressures for the advanced world ... Ecological problems ... the forces of ethnic and nationalist unrest ... together with sporadic terrorism." (p.120-121)

It is evident that the above mentioned problems can only be resolved by political intervention. The proceeds of the successes of the market economy can only be redistributed or guided by political decisions, by politicians, not by, but with the help of, economists. The problem is that no international authority has enough power to impose his decisions unilaterally on national states.
Ultimately, the decisions lay in the hands of the voters. If a majority votes for a certain direction, the political authorities have to follow, otherwise they will loose their mandate.
This is a thought provoking book.

William X. Kienzle is one of the most talented and popular authors working in the mystery genre today. Dead Wrong: A Father Koesler Mystery is a classic Kienzle tale and centers on Father Robert Koesler's investigation into the 30-year-old murder of a young woman awaiting a marriage proposal. Scandal between family, business, and the Church loom in this dark tale, riddled with twists and hidden motivations.