I had heard this book was the best one on the Dandie Dinmont Terriers. It is an extraordinary book, and made well. The pictures are absolutely beautiful and highly glossy, with thick paper. There is a lot of interesting information on these wonderful dogs. I highly recommend this book to anyone who owns one of these dogs, or who happens to want one. Well written and worthy to be included in the best of collections.

This is a long overdue book for folks seeking information about the intriguing Dandie Dinmont Terrier. It is informative of every aspect of the Dandie including the history and description of the standard with color pictures throughout. One chapter is devoted to raising a puppy. Several chapters include geographical, grooming and training needs of this terrier. Finally there is substantial material on health maintenance and potential medical problems.

This is a wonderful collection of essays on Richard II. Especially noteworthy is Morgan Griffin's brilliant introduction to the critical history of the play, which synthesizes and critiques decades of scholarly work.

This book offers a complete and informativeview on design drawing. It is perfect for the aspiring *or veteran* architect and/or interior designer. Thorough explanations of perspective and light and tone have helped me in painting and printmaking as well. This text covers multiple point perspectives, interior perspectives, tonal interest and light, and drawing textures, figures, and composition. Very helpful and informative. A good buy!

I am a landscape desinger and was introduced to this book through a landscape architect that I work with. I have been a designer for about 4 years and have never learned how to draw sections or elevations. After reading and completing the exercises in this book I am well on my way to showing section view illustrations for my landscape designs. This isn't a long book, but the exercises are definately worthwhile.

A book in laymans lanquage which explains the complex relationships of what helps and hinders learning; what types of learning there are and what can be done to help young and old learn more effectively.

I found this book hard to get through and not of this authors stanard. He should have taken a better perspective on the story line. The characters were ill defined and not well rounded. all and all this book should be rewritten to suitt this authors abilitis and talent.

For those who love Key West, this book will confirm that affection. It will also offer insight into what it's like for those who arrive, fall in love with Key West, and decide to stay. The twenty delicious stories include one called "Leaf Woman," by Margit Bisztray, a revealing oblique peep into the interior life of a woman who typifies one of the many young people who swarm to Key West to find the only work available is low-end drone jobs. The cover with the Key West row house with the rooster perched on the railing of the porch is quintessential Key West.

I have read this book , and once again the authors from key west have brought me back to the Island that I long to call home. Especially Bruce Weiss's piece " Chicken Wars " was fabulous In my opinion Bruce is one of the best new authors of our time , and I can't wait to see what his next novel to read. Also David Kauflet piece was also excellent. Once again proving that he still has a great depth of talent to pull from. Definitely a book worth reading.

The third and latest short-story collection by a diverse and dedicated group of Key West resident-writers continues to keep a finger on the pulse of this tiny, delightfully deranged island. Their latest offering is whimsical, entertaining and right on target.

This book will help anyone interested in architecture or drafting hone their craft. Mr. Lockard writes and describes how to do most drafting work and puts it in an easy-to-follow manner. His opinions and ideas are valid and up to date. This would be a great help to beginning architecture students.

When I found this book back in college in 1979, I finally learned perspectives and rendering. (it only cost $12.50 then). His way is not about complicated grids but understanding the concepts of depth and perspective. This book also has something you never see which is overlays in color (thin tracing paper sheets) that overlay the line drawing to show the progression of the drawing from start to finished color. I am using this as a textbook for my Architectural Rendering class and reccomend it to everyone.

They say engineers (myself included) are generally poor writers; then David Packard must be an absolute genius. David Packard's book (as has his company been one) is an important contribution and a must read for company executives. But it does require patience and dedication -- like the one he and Bill Hewlette had to endure to make HP a success! Once you get through the first 6 or 7 chapters the book becomes and absolute GEM. Until then -- and unfortunately you almost have to read the first few chapters -- the book is a positive cure for sleeplessness. HP's dedication to innovation, its financial frugality (which shows up in Dave Packard not hiring a good ghost writer or editor) and the importance of Management by Objectives, Decenterlized Organization, and Management by Walkign Around, Expected Returns on R&D are only some of the Gems hidden in this book; but you do have to mine to get to them and IMHO it is a worthwhile pain to go through. What also comes through is how HP slipped their biggest chance of dominating the chip and computer market by not taking the risk and cancelling the OMEGA project. Reading David Packard's fatalistic justifications is worth 10 times the price of the book. Also little credit is given to the inventor of the calculator that made HP a house hold name, and no mention is made of procurement of Appolo(until in Appendix 2)!!! Admittedly, I am at fault for having difficulty with this book. I read it after reading "Hard Drive, Bill Gatees and the Making of Microsoft Empire" by Jamve Wallace and Jim Erickson. These gentlemen are professional writers/journalists that know how to grab ones attention and keep it. Reading them before "The HP Way", which incidently and surprisingly was rated the best business book of 1996 by Amazon readers, is like watching the movie Titanic, and then going home to suffer through 6 hours of Mr. Rogers!!! But I do still recommend the book not to mention that I am more inclined to one day work for the comapny! Cheers, --- Esfandiar

Considering that an electrial engineer like David Packard could have written a, boring, detailed account of how he and Bill Hewlett pieced together their very first piece of equipment in the now famous Pal Alto, California garage. This book surprises you with its simple down to earth account of how it all began and how they built this tiny garage shop into the multi billion dollar company that it is today. They did it not only with a strong belief in new and innovative products, but in the people that helped build the company. This simple belief built the foundation into the HP way of corporate greatness.

The book was simply written, but it is this style that allowed me to understand the friendship between David Packard and Bill Hewlett and the corporate culture that they developed at HP. I would recommend this book to anyone that is a manager or executive to benchmark the corporate culture that HP established or applaud yourself if you have already embraced the HP Way. I trully believe, as David Packard and Bill Hewlett did, that you need a strong belief in people to make a company succeed.

If you thought that companies become admired by magic then think again - or better still, read the book.

Bill Hewlett and David Packard created one of the worlds most admired companies and it has never stopped going from strength to strength, now with the likes of Carly Fiorina who has taken HP forward into the new millenium by going back to HPs roots.

This book describes the start-up HP company and some of the aspects of its rapid growth and global expansion. There's not too much detail in this book but it does make for interesting reading - although the style is rather dry - for someone who holds up HP as a benchmark against which other companies can and should be measured. If you like me, like HP, then buy the book.

Carly Fiorina has been quoted as saying "in this new world we must always remember that technology is only as valuable as the use to which it is put. In the end, technology is ultimately about people." - that, in a nutshell, is the HP Way. Regards,

martyn_jones@iniciativas.com

From the ashes of World War II, only one nation has been held accountable for its past: Germany. Why? Communism has proven to be far more bloodthirsty that Nazism, yet its sympathizers are legion. Why? Indeed, in such an environment comes Iris Chang's The Rape of Nanking. A book that documents the events that took place from December 1937 to January 1938: The Rape of Nanking. To put it simply: the Japanese Imperial Army went on a killing spree, slaughtering over 300,000 of the city's residents. Slaughter, indeed. The Japanese soldiers subjected their victims to mass incineration, death by freezing, being torn apart by dogs, disembowelment, and beheading. Chang interviewed survivors of the massacre, and their testimony stands central to her narrative. But Chang does not rely on oral testimony alone. The clinching evidence comes from the new, contemporary material Chang has found, in particular the diaries of Westerners living in Nanjing in 1937-8. Chang's work goes on to discuss the failure of the world to respond to the newsreels and newspaper reports of the time, which reported the Rape in full detail.

And while Chang naturally demands that Japan be held accountable for its past, it's important to remember the way in which the Rape has been used by China as a political football to shape international and domestic policy. In the 1970s and 1980s, China's need to cosy up to Japan meant that survivors of the Rape were officially prevented from presenting petitions to the Japanese embassy demanding compensation. It must be said that one of the books more ironic accounts is that of heroic Nazi, John Rabe. Rabe was a business man who ran Nanking's Nazi party branch when the Japanese arrived. He began recording what he saw. Rabe tried to warn Germany of the atrocities and held out hope that Hitler would assist China. Rabe oraganized a "Saftey Zone" that ultimately saved the lives of many thousands of Chinese. He eventually moved back to Nazi Germany. So in the end, Iris Chang's book is a moving and important documentation in a world controlled by self-interest and hypocrisy.

In this book, Iris Chang recounts the story of the Rape of Nanking, the main incident that drives a wedge of enmity between the Japanese and Chinese to this day. When Japanese soldiers descended on Nanking, they slaughtered, in cold blood, hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians. The book was so "to the point" in its horror(pictures of piles of bodies and severed heads included) that it made me want to throw up. I think the book did a good job in describing an event that very few people in the West know of. It is just right in the amount of disgust and types of emotions it evokes in people. However, it could have been more exciting, vivid, and explored some segments more deeply. Totally too gruesome for children, but the rest of us owe it to ourselves to read it, and attempt to prevent such things from happening later.

In response for all those people who ask why Chang doesn't give us a lecture on the atrocity of A-bombs or other incidents against humanity, her story was not about the Holocaust, or the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. We cannot deny that these were horrendous as well, but we must also, when faced with the evidence, deal with the fact that the Japanese did in fact do this, and put aside for a moment whether or not Chang is biased. By arguing about the number of people who were killed or whether Chang is being unfair, we are only muting the voices of the victims. The most important thing is to realize that one isolated event cannot be used to judge an entire nation, nor should it be forgotten.

This book details the intense, savage bloodletting that occurred after the Japanese army occupied the city of Nanking in China. Mass rapes, mass torture, and mass executions in every imaginable way (beheading, burial alive, burning, etc.) was common during the occupation. While exact numbers will likley never be known, it is believed that well over 100,000 Chinese lost their lives.

Readers of this unrelenting book will grimace at photos of victims of the Japanese army including a man in the process of being beheaded, recoil at the glib reporting of a "beheading contest" in a Japanese newspaper in which two Japanese officers see who can decapitate the most Chinese, and finally have some of their faith in humanity restored by heroes in the foreign section of Nanking that refused to leave and saved countless Chinese lives in the process. Especially interesting is that one of the heroes was an ardent Nazi by the name of John Robe. He saved countless lives and risked death numerous times at the hands of the Japanese army.

This book is not for the weak of heart. It is relentless and pulls no punches in the telling of the horrors inflicted on the populace of Nanking. However, it is essential reading for those interested in the Chinese-Japanese War and the period before World War II.