If you have seen every episode of year one, you will find nothing new. However, if you haven't taped all the shows and watched them three times over you will enjoy going back a wee bit in time to rural Ireland--the Ireland without bombs and the IRA. A delightful place to spend your spare time.

My Ballykissangel books arrived on spring break from college and I was thrilled to have the time to "devour" them. The characters are so genuine and lovable- I can't wait for the next book to continue the heartwarming journey of a rural village that has become like family to me. Thank you to the writers for a delightful tale.

The beautiful reproductions of Mark Stock's paintings enticed me to keep reading this interesting book about a gifted man and his work. I recommend this book to anyone who is interested in art and the artist of the 21st century. Mark Stock is the modern Renaissance man.

Mark Stock has designed several critically acclaimed sets for the Los Angeles Chamber Ballet and other Los Angeles-based dance troupes. He has authored the screenplay for the 1993 film Fleshtone (based loosely on his life and painting motifs). He spends most of his evenings drumming for a professional jazz trio at the Cypress Club in San Francisco. With the publication of Mark Stock: Paintings, he will now be recognized as a superbly talented and imaginative painter whose artwork is as memorable as it is engaging. The majority of the 112 oil paintings featured focus on the tribulations of romantic passion and ranging from sympathetic to ironic. Barnaby Conrad's lucid text, sprinkled throughout with black and white photography, uniquely showcases and introduces Mark's artwork. An informative essay by Mark Huge Miller deftly examines the connection between much of Mark's work and the seductions and betrayals that were so characteristic of the film noire genre. Mark Stock: Paintings is a highly recommended addition to any personal or public library 20th century artbook collection.

This book is written in a consise easy-to-follow format and went along perfectly with a music history college class I was taking. I found it half way through the course and used it to review and consolidate information I was confused about and then aced the final! Topics are addressed clearly and musicians and their countries are linked for easy reference and understanding. Fun to read and the lay out makes sense. Good reading.

I read Junior Pet Care Kittens. I thought it was a good book because it gave you a lot of information. This book talks about cats and how to take care of them. This book is in a series. There's a guinea pig book, hamster book, parakeet book, puppy book, rabbit book, snake book and, turtle book. I think kids through 6 and up would enjoy this book because it's interesting.

iT IS A GOOD BOOK, COULD ANYONE HELP ME - i'M TRYING TO PURCHASE IT AND IT IS DELETED? wOULD LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU IF YOU COULD. THANKS

The Whitney Biennial is the kind of exhibition that critics love to hate.My recommendation is to ignore thae critics, see it for yourself and buy the catalog. This is a great book for those who love contemporary art. The essays on the exhibition and on the individual artist are informative and well written. The plates are also great.

Ballykissangel: The New Arrival is a wonderful book that tells the story of Father Peter Clifford's arrival in the small Irish village of Ballykissangel. This book tells the story of the first season of the renowned television series. The book does an excellent job of capturing the spirit of the series as well as further developing the characters to paint the picture of a close knit community made up of interesting and intriguing characters. You will fall in love with the town and it's community. This book is a quick and easy read. It is definately hard to put down. A great story.

It is a very good story. It reflects the series. The only thing that lacks from the televeision series is the sight jokes. The book tells the story and the feeling of the storybook town and its inhabitants.

Based on the series with the same name, Ballykissangel is a wonderfully delightful book. The characters are comical but real, interesting and so very likeable. I look forward to each coming installment although, unfortunately, I do know how the story ends. I would encourage anyone who does not know the whole storyline to purchase each subsequent edition of the book- the ending is absolutely shocking! I cried for hours! It would be good if more stories like Ballykissangel were written - stories with real characters that you learn to love.

The jacket of What the Corpse Revealed proclaims Henry Miller as "the author of many nonfiction books and several successful novels." This book had me wondering which category he was aiming for: nonfiction book or True Detective Stories magazine.
The cover, complete with glowing reviews from Publishers Weekly, lead me to believe this was a serious book on the ever-increasing role of forensic science in modern criminology. The preface, however, tells another story. Here Miller reveals that "the names of the characters, places, and certain incidents and photographs... have been changed and/or fictionalized." This information is repeated in a note to the reader immediately following the preface, making his claim of the forensic details being genuine hard to take seriously. The alphabetical index in the back lends an air of legitimacy to the book, though referencing material that may or may not be "changed and/or fictionalized" seems pointless.
While entertaining, this collection of 16 stories read like a cheap detective novel. The stories themselves are indeed fascinating, but I found them impossible to read without wondering just how much truth, if any, they contained. The details of the forensic procedures used to solve these "cases" may be technically accurate, but they were lost in the film noire, dime-store style of storytelling. The stories are all fairly predictable, thanks to an abundance of stereotyped villains, persistent gumshoes and thick-headed cops.
What the Corpse Revealed was informative in one respect; I now know where the expression "you can't judge a book by its cover" came from. I'll be more careful next time I go book shopping.

This book is great if you only have enough time to read during your lunch hour or in bed at the end of the day. The average reading time (more or less) for each chapter was from 15 to 30 minutes, which was perfect for me since I was able to read about the crimes from start to end and mull over how the evidence came together.

The book explains to the readers what certain terms such as sadism and machoism refer to without going into details or overexplaining things. Forensic findings are illustrated and easy to comprehend. In cases where findings are not always agreed upon by all forensic experts, it is so noted as in the case of "drowing" - whether or not a person died as a result of drowing by the presence of certain things in the bloodstream.

I enjoyed each chapter and I'm amazed at the extent of work they go through to uncover the crime and find the offender. It's a good read for story-telling purposes. Out of the sixteen cases, you're bound to learn something new unless you already work in forensics!

"What the Corpse Revealed: Murder and the Science of Forensic Detection," by Hugh Miller, ISBN 0-312-97573-2 (pbk). St. Martin's 2000 is a 301 page account (including 18 photographs and an adequate index) of 16 unique and baffling mysteries admirably presented by veteran author Miller who warns the reader that most forensic excursions are not spectacular and he succumbed to collecting those "exceptional enough to hold a reader's attention," something he readily accomplished. All cases were based on true events, albeit, the names, places and some incidents were altered, but forensics remained genuine.

Miller's ploy was presenting these cases, oft macabre, in a titillating fashion which presents to the reader's mind both the intuititive reasoning and troubling frustrations tediously overcome by dedicated diligence of forensic detectives. The grisly and deplorable acts are methodically traceable to the underlying motives in virtually each instance, and this works to advantage to find closure on especial cases which might otherwise seem inexplicable.

The book's style makes for easy but informative reading, and its one of those books that once started is hard to put down; and having read one or more cases (15 to 20 pages each) the reader feels compelled to recite the details to whomever will hear him out.

Please ignore the negative review of this book. The reader was obviously looking to be spoonfed. I am a current student of Dr.Fox and I find him very insightful and must say this book is very readable and lucid. Post-industrial societies have become increasingly postmodern. This transformation entails corresponding problems for both society and governance. FM explicate what these problems are what this means for the role of public administration in America. What makes this book valuable? It is able to explain many tenants of postmodernism, public policy theory, and democratic government (as well as what is wrong with them) in less than 100 pages. The first part of the book would justify buying it. Secondly, even in the face of the postmodern condition, FM give us a conceptual scheme of how democratic governance is possible. If you feel their discourse theory seems inadequate and impossible, think through some of the postmodern trappings and you may find this is the stepping stone for paticipatory based will formation that many falsely believe is still prevalent in America. A secondary benefit is that this book helps one to understand "postmodernism" in part, without reading pretentious texts from French intellectuals such as Baudrillard, Barthes, and Derrida. Finally, anyone familiar with most public administration theory will realize this is a god send. Most P.A and Org theory is to state lightly, a sophmoric effort at best. So to restate the obvious, buy it.

Few books have challanged the conventional wisdom in public administraion as well as this work. I have used this volumn at both Master,s and doctoral levels as a text. While it is a challanging "read" for some, it opens new vistas for many students. I concur with most of he review by Mc Swite (White&McSwain)and would add that it has become one of the most influential works in the subfield of public administration theory.Henry D. Kass,Professor Emeritus,Hatfield School of Govt. Portland State U.

Excerpt from review by O.C. McSwite . . . Fox and Miller draw on Habermas' theory of authentic speech acts and Arendt's idea of agnostic tension (there must be argument and struggle). Following these theorists, they propose that discourse must be sincere, intended to be relevant to the situation, characterized by willing (noncoerced, nonapathetic) attention, and must involve participants who are willing and able to make a substantive contribution (no free riders or fools allowed). These are what they call warrants for discourse, freely available to all. The idea seems to be that if involvement in policy making follows these guidelines or rules, it will, perforce, constitute legitimate governance through discursive democracy.

In the book's final chapter, Fox and Miller use their model of discourse as a conceptual tool for assessing the efficacy of an array of real-world programs designed to employ discourse in governance. Their case analysis ranges from instances of elite-dominated manipulation at one extreme to expressionistic anarchy at the other. While they judge both these forms of participation to be democratic dead ends, they find hope or "intimations" in a few cases--for example, bioethical health decisions in Oregon, the Phoenix Futures Forum, the neighborhood health-care program studied by Cam Stivers--that discourse of the kind their model prescribes is possible. These projects had problems, but they also show possibilities. Such "nascent" forms of authentic discourse suggest that where democratic process approximates the out-lines of their model, it begins to achieve the structuration and coherence required of efficacious democratic discourse. As a final note, Fox and Miller prescribe a proactive role for public administration, whereby each administrator would capitalize on every opportunity to reach public action through a process of agonistic discourse with citizens. The key to administrators being able to achieve a proactive stance is that they must learn to listen, which is, of course, the core of the inclusiveness that their idea of discourse seeks.

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE ANALYSIS: I mentioned that I found the critiques of the Blacksburg Manifesto and of communitarianism to be especially engaging and that the book's description of the post-modern political condition is one of the most cogent and gripping I have encountered. These were great highlights. The standout feature of the book, though, is the general integrity of its argument. I have used this book as a supplementary text in two of my graduate courses. While my students (most of whom had minimal exposure to philosophy of the sort employed in the book) often found the philosophical concepts and argumentation to be difficult, they were, nonetheless, thoroughly engaged and followed the argument well. I disagree with the suggestion that this book is thin on practical proposals. I came away from it, and certainly from my discussions of it with students, with a vividly clear idea of what these authors were arguing. In this respect, it is a great book for fostering the very productive discourse that it advocates.

I am reading this book at the moment and the real life cases really get you thinking!Situations that you would think are impossible are explained in a very revealing manner and as you read along,you start to think like the detectives in the cases.This book gets you thinking like an investigator and you find yourself immagining the different scenarios and trying to solve them before the guy in the book!Very interesing.Would appeal to true crime readers and those that love a good mystery book.