This book is a great, but short, biography ont he great Peter Drucker.

This is an important book for future generations. The revolutionary work done by Pinochet and his advisors, copied not only in Latin America but the world at large.

It is also important that this book calls Pinochet by his real name, a Capitalist. These days anybody that doesn't agree with marxists-liberals is a fascist.

I'm still waiting to see how fascists implement free-market reforms like Pinochet did.

In summary: Pinochet is a Capitalist, fundamentalist if you will, who allied with the U-S during the Cold War, which was the fight between Capitalism and Communism. For a Latin American fascist look at Peron.

Wether you are in favor or against Pinochet it is important to get your facts straight.

A great comprehensive book with thousands of celebrity birthdays. The best I've found. Cross referenced by date and alphabetically.

This book, also published as a special issue in the Journal of Aggression , Maltreatment and Trauma (2000;3(1)), is an important addition to the texts on child abuse and domestic violence. Robert Geffner is a professor of psychology at the California School of Professional Psychology (and the editor of the Haworth book series on maltreatment), Peter Jaffe the director of the London Family Court Clinic in Ontario, Canada and Marlies Sudermann clinical professor at the University of Western Ontario Department of Psychology. There are 36 contributors from nursing, social work , law, psychology and education, but medicine seems to have been left our, inspite of family violence being an interdisciplinary field. The book has twenty chapters with a used friendly index that will help the student find relevant information. Due to the contributors the focus is on social, law and psychology issues with experiences from the United States, Canada and New Zealand. All in all a book that should be on the shelves of professionals involved with assessment, treatment and prevention of child abuse and neglect.

Professor Joav Merrick, MD, DMSc Medical Director, Division for Mental Retardation. E-mail: jmerrick@aquanet.co.il

Paves the right approach for pursuing Next Generation Broadband Convergence ,by giving a wholestic view from a 1000 ft level of community needs to a 500 ft level of business process requirement to the ground reality of Technology Realization

Let me put it this way, and I quote another translator of this book, "You have not read 'Confessions' until you have read the Sheed translation."

Highly recommended, there is an excellent chance that this book is the one for which you have been searching. Written by two Australian veterans of the war in Vietnam and standing as a tribute to all who served in that conflict, Crossfire is a unique look at the way in which a specialized Australian infantry platoon operated as a reconnaissance unit in the field. While the style of writing is at once both raw and gritty, it is nonetheless a book with a great deal of soul. It tells the story of how a bunch of blokes at the sharp end, fought (and in some cases, died) in what became Australia's longest and most divisive war. Like so many "Diggers" who went before them, they did their duty and more. They laughed together, felt pain and sometimes cried together, but throughout, maintained that very Australian characteristic in the face of adversity: a stoic determination to see the job done, no matter what.

Crossfire is much more than just another war story, however. It goes beyond the jungle-bashing and the contacts and the firefights; beyond the heat and the sweat and the sometimes gut-wrenching fear that were the essence of the grunt's war in Vietnam. The authors have adopted a mode of presentation that works extremely well and complements the theme of the main narrative. Interwoven with the exploits of the Reconnaissance Platoon as it sought to come to grips with its task in the jungles and rice paddies of Vietnam, is a separate but complementary story focused on the present. It looks briefly at a small group of veterans, some thirty years after the event, as they seek a kind of cathartic release while camping and hiking in the Flinders Ranges, that area of rugged but serene, natural beauty in "outback" South Australia.

Based on incidents and events that actually occurred, Crossfire not only holds the interest all the way, but in many places reads like a best-selling novel. Indeed, it is one of those rare books, which once started, is entirely difficult to put down. This is a very worthy addition to the genre, and it is a credit to Peter Haran and Robert Kearney that they have captured so faithfully what it was to be in action on the ground in Vietnam. If you are a veteran of the Vietnam War, then in a very real sense the incidents and events portrayed in the book will have an uncanny knack of taking you back there. It will take you back to another time and another place - to a conflict and an era that you have known intimately, and which will forever feature in the history of the Australian soldier at war. If you are not a veteran and you read no other book on the subject, you must read this one. As Lieutenant General Peter Cosgrove, Chief of the Australian Army, says in the foreword to Crossfire: "Read this story. Read about these Australians. They are so ordinary but so extraordinary - they are heroes."

Elegant black-and-white images of everyday moments, ordinary situations which are seemingly familiar, yet distant. These are the images of Robert Doisneau as he takes us on a photographic journey spanning over sixty years of his photographic vision. Always direct, his images draw the viewer in to spend time visiting the facial expressions, shadows and light, textures and details captured by his gentle way of seeing.

This book has beautiful photos. It is an amazing river, considering its short run. I bought this for my Dad, but (secretly) I wanted it for myself.
I wish there was more info on the Truckee Meadows ditches;...

Mourning becomes electra is well known as a modernization of the Greek myth of the Oresteria. Perhaps the difference between Aeschylus and O'neill is to some degree a measure of the extent to which the weakening of the sanctions has weakend the emotions with they supported.