It's not necessary to know many other books about this subject to understand its importance. This book is indispensable to all the persons who are interested in search Plato's moral theory. You can not agree with the author's point of view but you can not denie his care with the subject.

It's a shame Play Bridge with Reese and Play These Hands with Me are out of print because they're classics. Some books give you rules of play, and group hands into topics and chapters. These are different. You pick up a bridge hand with the late, great Terrence Reese, and follow his thoughts and choices through the bidding. When the bidding is over, the opponents lead, dummy comes down and you follow his thinking through the play of the hand as he develops a plan and builds up a picture of the hidden hands card by card. The method is simple but the results are dazzling, entertaining and instructive. Play Bridge with Mike Lawrence and Play a Swiss Team of Four with Mike Lawrence use a similar style - also wonderfully done - but Play Bridge with Reese is probably the best of the four.

It's a shame Play Bridge with Reese and this book are out of print because they're classics. Some books give you rules and group hands into topics and chapters. These are different. You pick up a bridge hand with the late, great Terrence Reese, and follow his thoughts and choices through the bidding. When the bidding is over, the opponents lead, dummy comes down and you follow his thinking through the play of the hand as he develops a plan and builds up a picture of the hidden hands card by card. The method is simple but the results are dazzling, entertaining and instructive. Play Bridge with Mike Lawrence and Play a Swiss Team of Four with Mike Lawrence use a similar style - also wonderfully done - but Play Bridge with Reese is probably the best of the four.

Part of the H.W. Wilson Company "The Reference Shelf" series, Terence Fitzgerald's Police In Society is a collection of journal and magazine articles focusing on the role of law enforcement in society. The twenty-three informative articles are divided into five major sections: Defining The Police; Police in the Community; Police Misconduct; Answering the Call of Justice; and The Globalization of Law Enforcement. These diverse and informative articles comprising Police In Society are enhanced with a bibliography, a listing of additional articles with abstracts, and an index. Police In Society is an informative and highly recommended addition to any school or community library law enforcement reference collection.

POLITICAL Business in East Asia attempts to draw a link between
businessmen and politicians in power.
The various authors - most of whom are university academicians, provide clear country-studies on how governments facilitate the rise of major conglomerates and how they provide support for industrial growth.
Yet, state influence may extend beyond providing the necessary
facilities. This book uncovers the fundamental issue of the nature of
politics and business. A total of 10 chapters - two on regional outlookand eight on individual countries, highlight the development of capital and the evolution of the business-political links.
Stating that political change would have not come naturally, the bookargues that the Asian Financial Crisis became a watershed for the region.
The authors highlight how the crisis made it imperative for both governments and businessmen to review their relations.
Within this context, Political Business in East Asia, edited by University Malaya associate professor Dr Edmund Terence Gomez, offers a comprehensive introduction to the region's political economy. An interesting read for businessmen and government officials alike.

This is an excellent insight into what traditional Hawaiian life was like, addressing the normal activities in day to day life. Oral history is used throughout the book to bring forth specific stories as instances and examples. If one is interested in Hawaiian history(this is not mythology) this is highly recommended.

This is an excellent read! How refreshing to see older adults portrayed as vibrant and accomplished people. It gave me a new perspective and appreciation for older people. I would highly recommend this for pleasure reading as well as an academic resource.

This book is a passionate tale of a love like no other. Set in a rich, historical period, the author offers a glimpse into the life of French court society, and into the true meaning of love

I bought this book for ideas on paint colors for my 1920s Spanish Colonial home. It is beautifully done, full of design details and the gorgeous colors of Provence, the south of France, that derive from the paint colors, the food, the gardens, pottery and the surrounding dry, burnished mediterranean landscape. It is the perfect inspiration for any California home or a richly hued coffee table book!

According to Terrence Hines, "The continued claims by proponents of pseudoscience constitute nothing short of consumer fraud," a fraud that costs the American public billions of dollars each year. In debunking the most widely believed contrary-to-fact beliefs, he devotes several pages to explaining how cold readings are accomplished in sufficient detail to satisfy all but the incurably giullible that the psychic scam relies on the Barnum dictum that there is a sucker born every minute. He shows that passages by Nostrodamus widely interpreted as foretelling the rise and fall of Napoleon could equally well be applied to Ferdinand II, Adolf Hitler, or any European ruler whose governance was less than beneficial. He also shows that a novel retroactively interpreted as a prediction of the sinking of the Titanic conformed to all of the circumstances that a book about an ocean liner sinking was virtually obliged to incorporate in order to be plausible.
Hines' chapter on psychoanalysis should be mandatory reading for all persons who still believe Sigmund Freud's imbecilic fantasy differs in any qualitative way from spilling one's guts to a bartender, taxi driver or hetaera, particularly TV scriptwriters who regularly portray psychoshrinks as something other than self-deluded humbugs.
Hines catalogues an abundance of evidence that polygraphs are no more effective as lie detectors than tossing a coin, "Heads it's the truth and tails it's a lie." He described an experiment conducted by "Sixty Minutes," in which polygraph operators from several firms were asked to determine which CBS employee was responsible for a series of thefts. Each operator was given a hint that a particular individual was the prime suspect. In fact there had been no theft, and each operator was pointed toward a different suspect -- and without exception each identified the individual touted to him alone as the guilty party. After such exposure on the world's most watched news magazine program, how in the name of science can polygraphs continue to be mistaken for "lie detectors" (there is no such thing) by law enforcement agencies and other unteachables? The answer is that believers in the validity of polygraphs are as impervious to falsifying evidence as believers in the other nonsense beliefs Hines falsifies.