This book was truly moving. Jonathan's story is powerfully told in a journal format. I highly recommend it.

Jonathan's Journal is a beautifully written and powerful story of Jonathan, a man who is coming to terms with his childhood sexual abuse. Dr. Fiore depicts accurately the struggles which often become the legacy of the survivor. By deftly switching in alternate chapters from the adult to the young Jonathan, we are able to learn first hand of the turmoil of his childhood and the creative coping mechanisms he uses to survive. This is also an excellent depiction of the process of psychotherapy and the way in which dealing with ones demons ultimately sets one free. Once I began reading, I couldn't put the book down. At times the content was difficult to bear, but it was realistic and, ultimately, hopeful.

Mysteries & Intrigues of the Bible illuminate many of the extraordinary events and fascinating People of the Bible. Interested questions are posed and answered such as what happened to the Ark of the Covenant and what were its contents. Who was the queen of Sheba and who had a wooden rod that budded. If you like mysteries of the Bible you may also enjoy THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO THE BOOK OF PROVERBS by Cody Jones. Many of the mysteries and riddles of Proverbs are explored with surprising new answers. Numerous Biblical characters are pointed out who illustrate King Solomon's witty observations on human nature.

I fully recommend this book, Makes a lot of the bible truths even clearer and easier to place in perspective. A Must Read !

A Study of Crisis is a monumental work on the causes, process, and outcome of conflict. Brecher et al., combine rigourous quantitative analysis with pithy qualitative research on the numerous conflicts (both protracted and non-protracted)with and without war, which have engulfed states throughout time. Brecher and Wilkenfeld's Unified Model of Crisis has transcended the Levels of Analysis problem that has besieged international relations theory in the past. This book is a must have for serious scholars of peace and war.

This seminal work on Crisis in international relations is finally in paperback. The hardback version of this book is one of the best emphirical quantitative studies of crisis ands its impact on war and peace. The book gives an excellent overview of the definitional arguments related to crisis and then goes into detail on the theoretical questions brought up in the study of crisis. The authors skillfully buttress thier theoretical arguments by using the well respected ICB dataset to support them. The paperback improves on the original by putting all the cases and case descriptions on cdrom, making finding the cases you are interested in finding much easier and efficient. All in all this is an extermely useful starting point for any discussion of crisis as well as an excellent example of effective quantitative social science research.

'A comprehensive analysis of the philosophical and intellectual backgrounds and the historical sources that lie behind the rich and complex work of David Jones.'

REVIEWS

'It is a pleasure to welcome this distinctive book...Miles...puts Jones into a bigger context and better perspective than most...I recommend it thoroughly'

Miichael Alexander in Modern Language Review

' 'Thorough and revealing...a very useful piece of research, well concewived and well- documented'

The Planet

'Valuable, highly detailed...a great pleasure and enlightenment'

Poetry Listing

Bland, Quirk, and Sheldon - brilliant theorists and practictioners - have written the indispensable guide for combating abuses of mandatory arbitration.
They show why arbitration agreements hidden inside boxes or stuffed inside bills - alongside ads for kitty litter deodorizers and twenty-seven blade camp knives - are enforced by courts. They also offer the best available guide to keeping a case in court and before a jury.
The practicing lawyer can use the exhaustive case citations to shape a case. The consumer advocate can plumb the text and cited materials to fashion policy arguments to limit abuse of the Federal Arbitration Act, a statute which was never meant to apply to consumer disputes at all.
The book is set out in an easy to read format, and an extensive index makes it easy to pinpoint topics.
Someone should buy 535 copies and ship one to each member of Congress.

My two year old son loves this book. The pictures are good and the sounds are fun to make. This book is a quick read which is great for those toddlers with a short attention span. We read it multiple times a day.

'...will do much to re-establish the reputation of this English painter-poet. Through the exploration of his visual work in relation to his life it exposes the lineaments and patterns of an intensely original mind ... It teases out the strands ... as differing influences weave and interweave' The Times

'a major scholarly work ... placing Jones in a modern and even a post-modern context ... a biography as well as an illuminating critical study ... beautifully designed ... it defines Jones's achievement in altogether contemporary terms, but with an entirely unmodish intellectual and argumentative rigour' New Welsh Review

'ambitious and substantial ... here at last is the full record of the visual work, generously illustrated and essential on chronology' Fiona MacCarthy in The Observer

'A finely detailed study or the drawings and paintings.' Andrew Motion in The Guardian

'A large and illuminating conspectus of Jones's career. The large format suggests an art book, the abundant text a scholarly monograph...mixing analysis with biography and source material' The Independent on Sunday

'This comprehensive.. and finely illustrated book' - The Oldie

'A compelling picture of the brilliant painter-poet' - Western Mail

'with intelligent, sensitive insight ... refreshing and incisive' - The Tablet

'Succeeds in being readily comprehensible while also being scholarly. Exceptionally well produced, beautifully illustrated' The Literary Review

'Major new study...authoratitve, massively researched...a sophisticated aquaintance with thecultural context and many vivid details of biography' The Times Literary Supplement

'this comprehensive study will surprise even those familiar with Jones's writing and art' U.S. Publishers Weekly

'readable, stimulating and highly informative book' Agenda

'admirably illuminating' The Chesterton Review

Death Has Deep Roots (1951) is a classic of the courtroom drama-a tense and gripping thriller with excellent characterisation and an ingenious plot.

Victoria Lamartine is on trial for the murder of her supposed lover, Major Eric Thoseby, whom she is accused of having stabbed one night in March. It seems to the police and the prosecution a 'sealed box' mystery, for there are only five suspects: three hotel staff-members, and two guests, so that one of them must have done it-and Mlle. Lamartine the likeliest suspect. However, as Macrea, counsel for the defence, proves, "the whole thing [is] like a jigsaw puzzle which has been half done by an inexpert child. Any bit that seems to fit has been left in. Any bit that doesn't fit has been disregarded." All of the suspects have connections to either the French Underworld or Underground, so that, although this is a murder committed in England, it is in fact "the murder of a man who had done most of his war service in France, by a French girl, whom he was alleged to have met in France, in a hotel kept by a Frenchman with an Italian waiter who had spent all of his war service in France."

It is in France that the deep roots lie-the deep roots which must be uncovered to expose the dirty truth. It is amongst "the hate and the fear, the hysterics and the exaggeration and the heroism" of occupied France-"an unknown and rather frightening landscape ... where it might be necessary-where it might be most necessary and desirable-to be able to kill yourself quickly" that the pasts of Major Thoseby, of Victoria Lamartine, and of M. Sainte the hotel manager lie. It is in France that "forces [are] at work, forces which ... had already reached out and touched [Nap] at the extremities of their huge, opposed organisations"-gold smugglers and the Sûreté. And it is in post-war France-a country which "is not a very happy one at this moment", as Gilbert vividly depicts-that Nap Rumbold, the lawyer for the defence who appeared in other Gilbert novels, "fight[ing] a long, dirty, blackguarding campaign in which we shall use every subterfuge that the Law allows, and perhaps even a few that it doesn't", searches for the truth, his efforts alternating with scenes of the courtroom drama. These thriller elements are well used, and do not stick out like a chewed-off ear. Although Nap complains that "[American magazines] have one habit that I find irritating. They start a story, get you really interested in it, and then-what happens? You turn the page and find you are in the middle of quite a different one... That's exactly what's happening here, don't you see? I started out reading a murder mystery. It seems to have turned into a gold smuggling melodrama. What's the connection between the death of Major Thoseby last March in the Family Hotel and a large-scale gold smuggling racket?", it soon becomes clear that all the elements tie neatly together, forming a cohesive and extremely satisfactory whole, in this, one of the classic post-war detective stories.

'Scholarly, rigorous and remarkably comprehensive....Miles's skill in placing this period in its biographical, artistic and art historical contexts is admirable and illuminating...This important book will give pleasure.' Book News From Wales

'This valuable book' The Tablet

'has much to add to the previous, necessarily un-focussed accounts ... well-considered and well- executed ... perceptive and helpful' The Chesterton Review

'...well-researched and thoughtful. His book deserves to be read and considered by every admirer of David Jones, as well as by every admirer of Eric Gill' PN Review

'Miles's appraisal of Jones's paintings is not only eloquent, but refreshing ... I would recommend this emminently readable book.' Art Unit

I first read this book as a graduate student in a developmental biology program. It is well-written, engaging and deep. It is not geared towards medical students but towards those interested in what processes are used by a broad spectrum of animals to develop from a one-celled egg to complicated life-forms. Now that I am no longer in the field I find myself wanting to read it again and wishing there was an up-dated version, given all the advances in our understanding of the cellular and genetic processes that underly development of the last decade.