I could not believe the format and content of this book when I requested it from NU's library. How did it get published? There are so many typos and it was badly written; it's an insult to refer to this material as a book, let alone allow it to represent Black/Latino life. Please attend workshops in creative writing, take courses at your local university, read other literature, something, but don't publish anymore!

This book is a great book that deals with Latino and Black relations. It addresses many issues that these two groups face in their communities and in our society. David Lamb accomplishes this with a lyrical prose familiar to today's urban youth. By embracing this emerging group of individuals. Lamb raises many issues such as race relations and the notion of "blackness." I had the opportunity to meet the author and he is an amazing man. He made me think about issues in our society on a deeper level and from a different angle.

It's a great story that reads like urban hip hop prose. Richard Lamb is an excellent author that captures inner city life like a movie

The debate about financing health care rumbles on, not only in Britain but around the world.

After the Conservative government's reforms in Britain, a new Labour government aimed at renewing the National Health Service in it's own way. This book appeared at around the time of transition.

How to Pay for Health Care gathers together five papers of varying quality which look at the history of the NHS and some options about the then current thinking going on to pay for health care in Britain.

This is not a free marketeer's charter. In some ways it is a significantly pragmatic attempt to incorporate additional funding within broadly party political lines into the National Health Service to keep it essentially available to all.

It is in that context that the book misses it's target audience. The only common feature is reform and the authors explore various options without getting into any depth or to look more generally into the core concept of state provision of healthcare.

The ease by which the Labour Party brushed aside real attempts to tackle the continuing deep seated problems of the NHS by the Conservatives, seen by the continued failure of the current Labour administration to bring about significant reforms, illustrates how hot a political potato health is in Britain.

In essence I see this book as little more of a newsletter about current thinking on the issue of health care funding. What is required is some politically impossible thinking by some brave academics about the whole notion of health and healthcare.

Some interesting notions to consider which is like a meal when once consumed it still leaves one hungry.

The CD's content is useful as far as terminology but what they don't tell you is that you need to purchase a computer foot pedal to use the transcription portion of the CD. That is an additional cost. It will also run using arrow keys but is far less efficient. I have also been having some problems with running the transcription portion.

what is inventory? what are the functions of inventory? what are the types of inventory?

This book is boring. Reader speaks in monotone. Does not hold attention and runs in circles. More informative books available on this subject.

If you want to learn about these composers but don't feeling like reading about them, then this is for you. Each tape has 2 sides, containg information on a certain composer. Different voices are used to portray different people, and excerpts from some of the composers' most famous works are included on the tape.

David Green is a lecturer at University College London, where I study. He recommends his textbook - and only his textbook - for his cognitive science undergraduate course. If you're actually being taught by him, then this book may have its advantages - he tends to teach a lot of his lectures straight out of it. If you're studying cognitive psychology in any other context, though, I'd advise that you avoid this book.

It's poorly conceived and shoddily put together, giving only limited coverage of a complex and significant field. Major themes are left out or underdeveloped, and frequently important theoretical standpoints are glossed over without reference to key works. Green tends to put forward only the side of an argument which he agrees with - frequently completely failing to mention the alternatives. This, combined with only minimal guidelines for further reading, make it almost impossible to use this book as a resource guiding further study.

Ironically, considering that one of Green's specialities is in the cognitive processes of language and communication, this book is so badly written as to be almost incomprehensible. The language used is awkward, strung with non sequiturs, and frustratingly littered with unexplained and undefined jargon.
This is aggravated by weak general presentation. The book is entirely black-and-white, with few diagrams, and those that are present tending to be cramped and confused. The attempts to cross-reference material within the text also fails miserably.

The one positive thing I can say about this textbook is that it's relatively cheap. However, it's also of very little use. I'd strongly urge you to consider the alternatives - for example, Eysenck & Keane's 'Cognitive Psychology: a student's handbook' (I've been using the 1995 3rd edition), which covers most of the same information (and quite a lot which Green's book ignores), in much more detail and in a far more readable style.