This is a practical handbook for the field or laboratory on normal and pathological variation in the skeleton. Its greatest utility is for anyone who wants to distinguish between normal and pathological skeletons particularly in a bioarchaeological context. I recommend this for all.

I first came across this book years ago at Connecticut College, and was impressed enough by it that I found my own copy years later. This book is an excellent technical introduction to the music of Schoenberg, Berg and Webern, and the author places these composers in the proper historical context by including descriptive chapters on other musical trends in the early-mid 20th century (such as Hindemith and Weill). The introduction alone is an amazingly insightful overview of the history of classical music with a few surprise observations.

Bob Lively has taken the 12 steps of AA (and other groups) and transformed it into everyday life. This captivating book has done more for me than any book I've ever read! God Bless you Bob Lively! From God's lips to your hand, this book is a savior!

I bought and read this book with enthusiasm because of my 35 years living and travelling in Africa, where sunbirds predominate. The illustrations are excellent and the text is as well. This is probably the most colorful of all the family books being issued by Yale, Princeton, and Oxford. Following Sibley and Monroe's DNA analysis, they have finally but the two African sugarbirds in the Sunbird family, with only generic status. They have previously been put as far away as Honeyeaters and Starlings. It would be lovely if the range maps could be put on the pages facing the illustrations, to help differentiate birds of similar appearance, but I guess this was not possible. The maps themselves are very good. Altogether, one of the best family books and a must for collectors.

Dinner & A Movie is a fun, unique way to enjoy some of the best movies out there AND enjoy some great food. The cookbook is just as much fun. The humor and irreverent spirit are still there along with some great food ideas. Grab the book, hit the store, and have a great evening.... with dinner and a movie and some friends!

This is a great cookbook for entertaining! The recipes are fun and most are easy! You can plan a whole menu, have some friends over, and pop in the movies!

If you love movies and food, then this is the book for you! With recipes taken from the TBS series "Dinner & A Movie," you can sit at home and reminisce about your teen angst years watching "Pretty in Pink" and eating Pretty in Pink Salmon Steaks. The majority of the films used for this great book are humorous, cult classics that range from James Bond flicks to "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" and Jim Carrey's "Dumb and Dumber." The recipes are not only easy to follow, but filled with silly remarks from Paul and Annabelle (the two "chefs" from the show), and the book comes with an official "Dinner & a Movie" apron, so your date doesn't need to know how much of a mess you made cooking

Sure the book is lengthy, but so was American involvement in Vietnam...The book's value is as a single volume history that focuses laser-like on the backdoor political story of Vietnam, an aspect usually getting much less attention than headline-grabbing military or protest developments All in all, the book sheds much needed light on 30 years of deceitful shenanigans in Washington that left 3,000,000 Vietnamese dead, 50,000 Americans dead, and generations of wounds, emotional and physical, that will probably never heal. As the book shows, Americans are correct in not trusting their government, especially as it behaves abroad.

Mann walks us through a revealing series of presidential administrations and policies, starting with Truman's, and ending with Ford's. Each has a role in gearing up the meat grinder, some more honorably than others, but none comes off looking good as the country spirals ever downward toward disillusion and defeat. Ditto for the senators who opposed the war (Fulbright, Mc Govern, Mansfield, et. al.), lawmakers who, despite hours of pious rhetoric, could never get their legislative act together. Scarce mention is made of military or protest developments except when either influences major political decisions. As a much needed political chronicle of that 30 year span, the book succeeds admirably.

Mann's perspective is primarily a liberal one (which probably explains one particularly misleading review), but favors no individuals, liberal, conservative, or radical. He emphasizes the extent to which official hands were tied by red-baiting rhetoric of the cold war, in which every communist, nationalist or internationalist, was seen as taking his marching orders from Moscow. Such cramped thinking refuses to distinguish a national liberation movement from an international communist conspiracy, thereby setting policy on a one way track that no one could get off of. Here Mann is on solid ground. But on the allied topic of the domino theory, there is more truth to that theory than liberals such as Mann like to admit. The problem for defenders of the theory is that southeast Asia is not where the dominoes fell. Rather they fell in Central Africa (Angola, Mozambique, the collapse of the Portuguese empire) and Central America (Nicaragua, El Salvador, to a degree Guatemala). As more recent documentation has shown, rebel movements in each of these contested venues were boosted considerably by US defeat, demoralization, and subsequent lessening of a will to intervene. So in the rather ironical sense of being right for the wrong reasons, conservatives understood better than liberals the global stakes of intervention in southeast Asia. Be that as it may, Mann has written a very readable and revealing account of how Washington got us into that bloody mess in the first place.

This is a wondeful book, very well written, and readable. Because it's written by someone who has worked in Washington and knows the political process, I gained a surprising understanding of the political machinations and intrigue behind our involvement in Vietnam. Mann clearly understands that his readership is not the professional historians, but the casual reader and people, like me, who are devoted afficiandos of Vietnam lore.

If you are interested in congressional history, this book will also be appealing. In addition to discussing Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon, Mann also devotes more attention to the congressional side of Vietnam than anything I've ever read. Mansfield, Fulbright, McGovern, Church, Morse, Russell and others are very prominent characters and central to the story.

At times I thought this read like a novel.

The domestic American politics of the Vietnam War has been largely ignored by so many myopic historians who have devoted most of their time to diplomatic and military histories of the war. Many of those histories are also ideologically tainted and repetitive.

Thanks to political historian Robert Mann, we now have a truly fresh, non-ideological pespective on the war. His very readable, well-written political history will undoubtedly change the way we look at this tragic episode. Mann's masterful account helps the reader understand the whys and hows of one of our nation's most politically charged military conflicts. He does a wonderful job of explaining how presidents Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon were haunted by the political ghosts of the political turmoil over encroaching communism in Asia in the early 1950s. The political damage suffered by Harry Truman and his Democratic Party in the 1950 and 1952 elections remained strong memories for future presidents who were determined not to let the same fate befall them.

This book will likely challenge the well-worn and politically motivated views about Vietnam that have been peddled by diplomatic and military historians who have ignored this important aspect of the war for much too long. Mann's provocative and controversial views will likely offend some and challenge the long-held views of others, many of whom are still captured by the "grand delusions" of Vietnam. In many ways, he is as critical of the war's opponents, as its mindless advocates.

This excellent and groundbreaking work is a very welcome addition to the historiography of the Vietnam War and is a must for any Vietnam War collection.

Be sure you understand all the elementary calculus principles backwards and forwards, all the properities of logs and natural logarithms, all the trigometric identies and properties, differential equations, and have a strong math background. This book lacks explaination. It statements are very broad and followed by very few select examples that are partially worked out. Be sure to understand the vocabulary of mathmatics. I found the concepts of advanced calculus rather easy but the way the books expresses the material makes the course first appear impossible. Each problem should take no longer than 10 minutes tops. Some students in the class spent hours for several nights in a row working 1 or 2 problems. This is a waste of time.

I am no expert in the area of Mathematical Analysis, but I am an avid reader of any book that pertains the subject. I found this book in my schools mathematics lounge and could not resist reading it from cover to cover. This book is of the quality of such authors as Courant, Apostol, Rudin and Royden. As another reviewer has noted, this book is definitely worth every penny. It is not dry or to pedantic as some of the other afore mentioned authors yet it is not simple and lacking in content. Of course like any quality Advanced Calculus book it requires the reader to have mathematical maturity. If one cannot follow simple examples and from those examples formulate their own, they may want to review the very basics of mathematics or consider a different major. I would highly recommend this book to advanced undergraduates or beginning gradutes students as a reference book or for self study.

This is the advanced calculus text I used at University of Washington while getting my BS in mathematics. I loved it then, and I've just purchased another copy to use for review. It's extremely well written. If you're looking for a good second year calculus text, this one's it.

This book is NOT a companion to the box set recordings that feature all of Johnson's songs and alternate takes. This book has a partial arrangement every song, but not every take. The arrangements are not complete, and varies from song to song.

There is not much guidance on playing, just the transcriptions. This may leave many people puzzled about how to approach the tunes, especially with using a slide and the alternate tunings and fingerings.

Take a look at some of the other books available. Robert Johnson: The New Transcriptions is a much more complete effort, with accurate tunings and capo positions. Robert Johnson: At the Crossroads is a prior editon of the same book, and may be found a little cheaper.

A couple of words on the reviews below: this edition DOES indicate the tunings each song is played in, and in the tablature, indicates the exact voicings as well. OK, the five-line musical notation might not, but if you're reading that, you're not a real bluesman in the first place - everyone knows bluesmen don't read music.

But seriously, on that point, Robert Johnson isn't meant to be played note perfectly - if you listen to his own recordings, you'll see he didn't play it the same way twice himself. So what this book gives, a pretty accurate verse and chorus from each of his songs, should be more than enough to get you on your way.

And if it isn't - if you don't immediately feel imbued with the spirit of the great blues masters, then here's what you do - to hell (ahem) with a note perfect trascription: just head down them cross roads at midnight...

Woody Mann does his usual fine job here as he teaches aspiring guitarists to play in the style of the blues master Robert Johnson. Not for beginners, but more experienced players will learn a great deal from these well-notated transcripts.

If you know the Cold War was something involving America and Russia but not much else, and want to learn more then this is a good book for filling in the blanks and adding some meat to your bones. However, it fails to mention crucial facts like Russia felt it was more than justified in installing nuclear missiles in Cuba because America had done so in Turkey years before. Russians had lived under the threat of destruction at the hands of American nuclear missiles for years, yet America panicked and was outraged when they got a taste of their own medicine.

This is a good book, but it is biased in favour of America, not mentioning the USA's faults.

"What kind of a peace do we want?....Not a Pax Americana, enforced upon the world by American weapons of war!!"
John F. Kennedy.

I can't believe I read the same book as the reviewer below. I'm a long-time student of history, particularly the McCarthy Era in the United States and abroad, and I didn't see bias in this book at all. It was very readable and filled me in on aspects of the Cold War that were new to me. I find it a little sad that someone can pick apart a book just to find fault with it when there's so much to be learned from it. As usual for the Complete Idiots series, this was a good read -- and understandable enough to pass on to young people, who seem to have very little idea of what the Cold War actually was.

If you're looking for erudite discussions of Buddhist theory, you won't find them in this text. I found the book to be a little "thin," and the authors do emphasize the negative aspects of character while glossing over the positive. It is a fun little read, although I doubt that customers purchasing books on Buddhism are looking for a fun read. Nevertheless, this is a good book for those new to the Buddhist tradition.