True to the left-of-center credentials of its author, Christopher Brookmyre, 'Country of the Blind' takes multiple swipes at right wing businessmen and government ministers who, according to the story, arrange a violent murder and cover-up, eventually raising the wrath of improbable superhero, crusading journalist Jack Parlabane.

Though far from supporting left-wing politics myself (or any 'wing' for that matter), I still found myself cheering the good guys and booing the baddies. As with other Brookmyre novels, 'Country of the Blind' had me hooked from the first pages where his description of a young lawyer's first clients (Mrs McGrotty) had me in hysterics. Having kicked off to such a great start the story kept up the pace and was as memorable as this author's other novels. The style of writing is very 90s Scotland and includes many pointed comments on the right wing government of 1980s England. Most of these comments aren't entirely original but will reassure the likely leftish, middle-class audience that they have a liberal-minded fellow-traveller who is also quite cross about what went on. Sadly, as comedian Alexei Sayle memorably pointed out, you can't change the world with the lyrics of a pop song - you have to do the dance as well !

Bueno por lo que llegue a leer del libro se me hace un buen libro ya que te explica diferentes cosas sin que te trabes, asip que tiene continuidad y se podran crear obras maestras.

asi que es recomendable su compra

I had to read this in my senior-level German literature course on post-war German literature. It was the one book I went into completely blind. I knew nothing about the author or the piece. Christoph Hein is not one of the greatly-known German novelists of the century, like the other novelists studied in my class: Heinrich Böll, Max Frisch, Christa Wolf, Siegfried Lenz, and Günter Grass. But his work is illuminating.

The book is simply the story of a young to middle-aged woman trying to figure out who she is and what she wants following the death of her lover. It has great insights into the female mind (strange coming from a man!) and into the general human psyche. It isn't as dark as the German novel usually is, and the geopolitical themes (so common in German literature) are non-existent.

I don't know if it has been translated into English or not (I had to read it in German). If you can find it, please read it.

I strongly recommend this book to every Catholic. Mr. Schreck covers the Catechism in a very readable manner. It is detailed enough to bring an understanding of the Church's teaching. Nothing else it will enrich your faith.

This book is truly a wealth of knowledge on this well known area. For years I had wondered about the creatures that had been preserved in the Hunsruck slates. This curiosity was only compounded when I would see some animal named in a reference but without any graphical representation. Well, no one has to wonder anymore as this book delves into the entire fauna of the slates. In fact you MUST have this book if you wish to be a knowldgeable collector of these German fossils. This book has in-depth narratives of everything from blastoids to trilobites and a bunch of strange things in-between. Pictures, and in some instances radiographs to show the soft body tissue preservation, are also included with the descriptions to make them even more helpful. Although "technical" terminology is used it is easily understandable by beginning collectors. I give my highest recommendations for this truly insightful work.

This is a very nice collection of papers: tutorials, and well written research presented to a wide audience. They cover stochastic aspects, geometry, analysis, iterated function systems, algorithms, to mention just a few. And they are written by authorities in the field. Fractals make headlines from time to time[--are they everywhere?], and and they make lovely color pictures; but they are also part of a substantial mathematical theory, one with an exciting mathematical history. This very important book presents the subject in a way that it can be taught to students. Or it can be used for selfstudy! In view of the many applications to geometric analysis, to PDE, and to statistics, it is likely that fractal geometry will soon be a standard math course taught in many (more) math departments. A recent example of this: By now it is widely recognized that the selfsimilarity aspects of the wavelet algorithms are key to their sucess. The authors have produced an attractive book on fractals. There are others, for example one by Falconer from 1985[The geometry of fractal sets] with a slightly more potential theoretic bent.

Stemming from a 1999 lecture and slide show for the New York chapter of the American Institute of Graphic Artists, this crisply designed book with almost 150 images is sure to be of interest to designers everywhere. The works included here come from the personal and professional lives of three young designers: Nicholas Blechman, Christoph Neimann, Paul Sahre.

Blechman is the art director of the New York Times Op-Ed section, and met the other two through his self-published political 'zone, Nozone-samples from which constitute about a fifth of the book. Neimann is German a freelance illustrator for a number of well-known magazines, and a teacher at the School of Visual Arts. His samples have a slightly quirky and offbeat amusing air concealed in their simplicity. Sahre is a well known book cover designer and postermaker, and his samples tend to be more outrightly commercial and graphically appealing than the others.

The book is a quick read, you can probably absorb it in about two hours, and well worth it for those interested in how graphic designers work and arrive at solutions. My own favorite part was the brief "killed work" section, where the three designers discuss work of theirs that was rejected and why. I'll definitely try to track down Fresh Dialogue 2, which covers the next year's lecture.

This book is an extremely useful research tool book for anyone writing about or looking for more information about German foreign policy between World War I and the Cold War. The book lists all the possible sources (books, articles, dissertations, documents, treaties, memoirs/diaries, etc.) relating to German foreign policy. With this book readers can quickly look up all the materials of a certain aspect of German foreign policy. The book is definitely great for researchers of history, and it's also useful for readers that want to look up works of the same topics.

Schonborn does a masterful job in presenting the Trinitarian and Christological foundations of iconography. Actually, I use this book mostly for the Christological sections. It is VERY well done! All the major and minor aspects of Christology are examined and continually related to the role and meaning of the Incarnation and, thus, the meaning and role of icons. A few well chosen color icons are in the book.

This work is highly recommended. I wish I could buy it for you!

I found this book for helpful for providing evidence of polytheism in Ancient Israel. It's not easy reading or for the faint of heart.