Basic Concepts in Immunology was extremely valuable in allowing me to learn the essentials of immunology in a very short period of time. The material was well organized with many figures to help with explanations. By its nature, the depth of information is limited but now I have a good foundation to learn more in greater depth from other sources. The index was not quite as comprehensive as I would have liked, but the book is short enough to easily find what you need. For immunology novices, I highly recommend reading this book before delving into a detailed textbook.

This is a good, sweet story which is also somewhat predictable. The two main characters are well-developed and complement each other.

This is quite a different interpretation of the New Testament book of John, but it is, perhaps, one of the most accurate, none the less. How do I know this? Because the book describes the experience of the person recieving the spirit far better than the traditional translations do. Those of you who have been there will know what I'm on about.

John Hunt Morgan....This name stirred up the passion of both Northerners and Southerners, and in his biography of the General, James Ramage does an excellent job in telling us why. The Morgan in Ramage's biography comes across to us the readers, as not very religious...deeply rooted in the Southern lifestyle of the times, and as a careful soldier. I found two Morgan's in the book...The Morgan who was at his most successful after the period of his first wife's death, and

the Morgan who seems to lose interest in the war after his second marriage, when failure would always seem to bear its ugly head whenever the General attempted to do anything. Ramage has done a good deal of research, rooting out letters to and from the General, with special emphasis on Morgan's relationship with his second wife. This research helps us to understand the transformation of Morgan as the war went on, and helps the reader to ultimately understand this diverse per! sonality of our great internal conflict. The chapter on the death of Morgan is probably the best in the book, as Ramage tries to put down the various stories and myths that have cropped up over the years. All in all, I found Ramage's work a good read, and I recommend it to all Civil War enthusiasts.

Gratifying edition of recent research in the bootstrapping field. Exciting,satisfying, excellent.

James Morgan describes driving a Porsche Boxster from Miami to St. Louis to Portland to San Francisco. Morgan seems like the sort of person who experiences life as a series of car stories, and during the journey, he tells his life history with an emphasis on the automotive angle. The pivotal part of his road trip is in Portland, Oregon, which is famous for its anti-car, pro-transit policies that are known as the "new urbanism." Morgan attacks the new urbanists, and wonders why anyone would choose to stand on a windy rain-drenched street waiting for the bus when they could be driving their own car instead. It's particularly ironic when Portland planning specialists use contorted rationalizations to explain why they drive to work instead of taking the public transit that they're forcing down the throats of their fellow residents.

Morgan writes well, if you don't mind the autobiographical element overpowering the travel narrative. However, he's a dyed-in-the-wool car buff writing for other car buffs. Unless you're the sort of person who loves talking about cars, you may have difficulty connecting with this author.

Here's the life lesson this book confirmed: if you're going to share a long road trip with a companion and a car, best select both carefully. The Porsche Boxster featured in this book is obviously a primo vehicle for the journey. Alas, James Morgan is not the companion of choice, and this book -- whose premise of a Interstate journey from Miami to Portland atttracted me to it -- lost a star about every fifty pages. Ruminating on whether Americans as a people (and we are basically talking men here -- women exist mostly as ornaments impressed by cars) long most for the open road or the comforts of home, Morgan tells car stories, but not enough of them or particularly interesting ones. He worries about the designs of people he meets along the way and how much he spends on the motels where he stays. Earrings, scruffy beards, long straggly hair on those he meets seem to evoke in him images of horrors about to be inflicted on his person, although these folk invariably offer him kindness both small and large. Frequent flashbacks to his adolescence -- wink, wink -- hint strongly at the seductive qualities of cars he owned in his early driving years. He quarrels with his wife before embarking from Miami and too many pages are spent alluding to this quarrel (details of which are never shared) and the in-trip visit and numerous telephone calls that only seem to exacerbate it. On the evidence of this book, Morgan's trip brought more bother than pleasures or answers, and he writes of it with prose that is neither original or engrossing. My advice: don't subject yourself to his angst. Instead, take a fast car out for an open road run.

I receieved this book as a Christmas gift from a fellow Porsche lover and read while I was heading home back home for the holidays. I am in my late 20's, so I have not reached my "mid-life crisis" yet, but I still enjoyed following the tales of Morgan and his thoughts about how the car has influenced our society. I enjoyed his talks while he was in Portland, Oregon. Hearing his own tales on how certain cars throughout his life played a major role in certain cross-roads kept me intrigued. I love Porsches, but I also love the idea of just hitting the road and seeing life outside my little world. As soon as I finished this book, I began "On The Road" by Jack Kerouac. So far, I see some similarites.

Callaghan was in some ways a pivotal political figure. He not only lead the Labour party to a critical defeat which not only saw the conservatives dominate Britain for a record period but his loss of office led to the destruction of everything he stood for. That is the union movement, Britain's place as a manufacturing nation and the notion of the labour party being a working class movement.

The writer of the book has been absorbed by Callaghan's career and has come to like him (as did most of the British Electorate). His biography thus lacks a sense of the tragedy of Callaghan's life and the failure of his Prime Minister Ship and the desolation which resulted.

Instead we get a picture of a man on the right of the labour movement who was a decent man and tried in his political career to stand for what he thought was right.

A readable biography which looks to much at the man and perhaps not enough at the political context.

James Callaghans political life covers so much ground over such a period of time,that even at 750 pages this is a breezy read. It enscapsulates an interesting and significant period of Britains history and this well written biography neatly captures the feel of these times. Callaghan's premiership has often been perhaps judged rather too harsely with the memories of the final period, rather than earlier acheivements being to the forefront of most peoples minds. this attempts to be a revisionist biography and in truth the author is a little too reverential towards and uncritical of his subject.

I was given this book for my Database Management Class. I found as a beginner it was full of jargon and therefore difficult to read. It was rather overwhelming and confusing.

I used this book as the textbook for my Effective Database Management class and one student wrote in his evaluation that the book was his favorite thing about the class! It's hard to find a comprehensive book on database management and I think the authors did an excellent job of providing an overview of such topics as database design, security, database administration, etc. The summaries and questions at the end of each chapter are very helpful, as well. The authors include an airline reservation as their sample database application. For their next edition, I suggest that the authors include a sample application that is more generic, such as a sales and and marketing application. Then they could expand the data warehouse section to show how an OLTP (online transaction processing) system differs from an OLAP (online analytical processing) system, although they both are using the same data. The authors may also consider a chapter on Web-enabling a database and an introduction to data mining.

I thought this book was pretty cool. IT is based on the telivision series which comes on Saturdays at 11:00 am on SciFi. The book is set in the near future(2058) and our first out of the solar system colonies are attacked by a once unknown alien force. Our best pilots and Starships are no match for them when we are in very little numbers, our SpaceCarriers end up shredded. Anyway, it is about an air wing called the 58th which are later called the Wild Cards since you don't know what they are going to do to the enemy next. IF you want to find out the ending, read the book and see how it turns out.

I was disappointed with this book. I was hoping for a deeper spiritual lesson for my daughter. It does talk about love in general which was good.