It is an excellent book!

This is a clear concise guide to the burgeoning PACS world that no clinician or radiologist should be without.

Best book so far on PACS and filmless imaging

In the style of the Footprint Series the Thailand Handbook is an exhaustive source for even the most ambitious of travellers. It is the best source for practical information on hotels, transportation etc. It is not, however, as easy to use or as visually pleasing as many others. For those who want to have all the information with them on their trip, this will be the book that makes it into the luggage. Not for those who have trouble with fine print.

When I left for Thailand, I was uncertain that this book would provide the information I needed to navigate Thailand. I quickly discovered this book had a wealth of information. The book led me to many relatively undiscovered towns, hotels, and restaurants, all of which provided a truly rich traveling experience. As for its practicality, the book is lightwieght, durable, using small fonts to pack data in. When in the company of those carrying Lonely Planet, I found others consistently closing their books in favor of the recommendations in my Footprint guide.

Forget Insight, Travel Bug and even Lonely Planet. They are all too heavy to carry on your destination. Leave them behind next to the armchair. Real travellers will want any book from this series: They are small, written on thin tissue paper, and print tightly spaced. The Thail book, which I am updating every two years has so much practical information, from hotels and fax numbers, to suggested itineraries, and maps. Indispensible to the travelling traveller.

Good detail about the crimes committed by Mr James B Garretti aka Garrett Brock Trapnell in and around Montreal as well as the carribean,shows just how bad the airport security and the banking industry was back then

I really enjoyed this book. The life of Garret Trapnell fascinates me. I hope he behaves so he has a chance for a real life sometime in the next decade or so.

Garrett happens to be a family memeber of mine, and the book is wonderful. It is wierd to see things form the other side. Reading about your family can be very interesting.

Morison was the official historian of the USN during WWII. He experienced the action as it was happening and therefore brings a unique perspective to the acccount. It is presented in a highly readable manner and is exhaustive in detail. Well worth the time and expense.

LEYTE is the story of what many consider to be the greatest naval battle of all time and it is also a tale which focuses on some of the most famous personalities of World War II such as MacArthur, Nimitz, Halsey, Stillwell, Arnold and Lemay.

Morison had a small but capable staff assisting him in his research efforts for this book as well as the other volumes in the series. One of his staff members actually sailed up to Leyte in Vice Admiral Wilkinson's flagship. In 1950 Morison himself visited Japan and discussed the Battle for Leyte Gulf with leading Japanese participants.

LEYTE is one of the most important studies in the HISTORY OF UNITED STATES NAVAL OPERATIONS IN WORLD WAR II.

The best book in the "Naval Operations of WWII" series. If you are a combat veteran (Army or Navy, any war), it will make the hair stand up on the back of your neck.

Or maybe because we have never been told about it. This book takes all our misconceptions about Jesus' personality and throws them out the window. If you want to imagine a real, human Savior who knew how to love and enjoy life, read this book and see a Jesus you were never taught about. Thanks!

What a life-changing read! Sherwood Wirt stirs the hunger and passion in your heart with the LOVE and JOY that comes from getting to know JESUS, and clearly unveils the secret so long hidden.

I really enjoyed this book, after all, Sherwood Wirt is the ultimate expert on JOY! Bruce's introduction was just as wonderful.

There is no question, regardless of which side you are on, that we are losing the war on drugs. In fact one might look at drugs as the new Vietnam. We spend ten billion a year (and are failing) doing what we spent five billion on (and failed) only a few years ago. The Marshall book presents some level headed insights onthis topic. Better material is published by the Drug Policy Foundation (who's motto is "Drugs are bad ... but the war on drugs is worse"). However, this book is a noble effort and should be read to look at one of the most bizarre activities of the 20th century

smoke a blun

The government does not realize that keeping marajuana illegal is a mistake. It can be used, not only to smoke for pleasure, but to heal. My grandmother has glaucoma, and I make it my duty to buy her an ounce per week, so she can heal her pain from her sickness. She feels so much better having smoked it, and so do I. It really blows because I shouldn't have to go to an underground dealer to buy it for her. I should be able to go to a pharmacy. There is not one proven death by smoking marajuana. I'm extremely angry at the government, so just smoke your blunts and bongs all you want. screw them.

Unfortunately, it has been labelled a baseball story, and this limits the amount of people who would be even remotely interested in it. And while it is probably true that if you don't like baseball, or know little or nothing about how the game is played on the field, then this book is probably not for you. Nonetheless, Asinof does a wonderful job of chronicling the career of an athlete who never got a break, but in the end the long descriptions of game situations scattered throughout the book will quickly wear on the reader who isn't interested in baseball, and this dooms the book to a limited audience. What's interesting about the novel is how each of the chapters is really a self-contained short story. If you find yourself not liking the first chapter, jump to some of the other ones and give them a try; you can easily do this without losing the thread of anything, because it's not a novel at all but a series of situations which put together can make up a bigger picture. I'm giving it a four because, again, the game descriptions get tiring, even for a baseball fan like me.

This is a must-read book! Very well written and insightful. It gives a realistic view of baseball in America as opposed to the usual romantic view presented in other books and films.

This is one of the best books I have read with baseball as it's central focus. It is a grity story of one ballplayer's long time struggles in the minor leagues trying to make it to the majors. I would strongly recommend this title to anyone interested in baseball!

I was working as an actor in the fair city of Cleveland, when a neighboring theatre presented a musical about the events described in this book. I will not comment on the show but it did spark a morbid curiousity about the facts. Blame it all on the restlessness of being away from home. So after reading series of articles about Badal in the local rags, I picked this up at first opportunity.

While utterly thorough, I felt the same frustration Ness & the boys must have felt. The case is a baffling and horrific one and I suppose the point of writing this was to put an end to more sensationalist takes on the matter. Badal paints a vivid picture of Depression era Cleveland and very honorably does not seek to solve the mystery. What he succeeds in doing is giving the reader a guided tour of the murder sites coupled with all the false leads, rumors and suppositions that followed. Come here looking for drama and climax and you will be disappointed. For the curious, this is a concise account of a city gripped in fear and corruption. Enlightening, yet shedding no new light.

The Cleveland Torso Murders were among the first, accounted for, serial killings in America. Because of the gruesome details, not to mention that fact that the case is still open, they deserved much more attention. Criminologists, especially those interested in psychological profiling, would learn much from studying this case, than from other, more publicized murders, including the Sam Sheppard case.

Though we have not seen each other recently, I knew Jim Badal many years ago when I lived in Cleveland. His expertise in the Torso case at that time merited, at least in my opinion, a book, but Badal held back until he could bring real additional knowledge to the discussion, not just rehash and theories. His wait was worth it. Not only was Badal able to track down and interview members of the victim's families (and thus put a real face on persons previously portrayed through stereotypes), but he was the first Torso case author to read through the extensive records left by the lead police investigator. Thus we have a book of superb accuracy and detail, that reads better than a good crime novel.

The best part of the book is that Badal does not push his own theory of who was the Torso murderer. While some may find that disappointing, he instead takes the high road by giving the readers just the facts, and thus allows them to come up with their own theories. We will probably never know who did these awful crimes, and speculating for a little added notoriety would have only diminished the book's true horror.

"In the Wake of the Butcher" is the most complete book I have read regarding the topic of the Torso killings in Cleveland, Ohio. Not only can you uncover new details and new information about this case but James Badal has an uncanny way of putting "faces" on the victims and people involved. From Elliot Ness to Peter Merylo to Frank Dolezal...you'll walk away from this book feeling like you have gone back to the Thirties, have your Sherlock Holmes hat on and come up with your own theories of "Who Done It"! This book will not disappoint you.

I received my copy of the new (2001) printing of NATURE'S CHAOS earlier today. While the Porter photographs are both unusual and beautiful, it's great pity that this edition is poorly printed. I've not seen the original edition for comparison. In this printing, color is poorly balanced for many photographs, often to the point that the original vision is obscured. Plus, some photos are very "soft" and lacking in detail, which is surely the fault of the printers as well. What a shame, and what a surprise coming from Little, Brown.

If a tree falls in the woods and no one is there to listen...does it make a sound? Is there any sense, order or meaning to the universe beyond our human projections?

These photographs of Eliot Porter--selected to provide an illustration and counterpoint to James Gleick's eloquent text--are among the most rapturously beautiful ever produced. They are the visual equivalent of poet Wallace Stevens' attempt to grasp that which lies beyond the limits of sentience. Looking through the original hardcover edition is both an act of meditation and of homage--to the greatness of creation, in all its mystery, as well as to the human need to think, feel, and reach for meaning. As I journey through these images, I ask myself, do we look out upon the universe from afar--or do we do so from within, as integral parts of the greater mystery? Let go...allow Gleick's text to pose the question--and Porter's photographs to frame the answer.

As a graduate student, there is little time or mental space for pursuits beyond the academe-especially one that does not operate in the verbal realm. At nights, on weekends, and in reveries induced by deoxygenated library atmospheres I am a photographer. An early inspiration for me was Eliot Porter. Very early on I became enthralled by the careful studies of trees and fields. I was drawn to the intense, microscopic details in his works, which could not be characterized as minute in any regard. I was amazed at how, by capturing a dizzying array of detail in his work, he could portray the raw, intricate, complex beauty of something I had stared upon, vacuously, every day. Later, when I first became interested in chaos theory, dynamic systems and complexity, I enjoyed a new appreciation of Porter's craft. I found that in the visual sense I was always looking to portray the orderly chaos, or the chaotic beauty of nature. Once, whilst in the office of a professor that I am writing book with (about cognition-emotion interaction as a self-organizing system) I came across the book "Nature's Chaos" by Porter. I immediately recognized the photography and picked the book up from the shelf. To my amazement, Gleick, whose book "Chaos" started a revolution of sorts in the biological science community, was a co-author. I was enraptured. I borrowed it. I tried to buy it from my colleague. I wandered through used book stores on my way to the campus. I made inquiries at the publisher.

Nihil.

So I ordered it through Amazon.com. It arrived, ahead of schedule. I justified the price to myself because I had won a small award for a photograph that was inspired by Porter.

The book is astounding. The text is lyrical and erudite, it flows and meshes with the startling images. I can't say much more-but if you are a photographer, or chaos buff, or god-help you both, then this is a requisite volume. Don't hesitate. Ta panta re!

Jason Ramsay