Excellent,comprehensive overview of transportation policing.Addresses many of the problems facing transportaion facilities as their managers deal with crime and security related issues.The text provides an excellent framework for problem solving in a transportation environment.Easy to read,good research and a valuable research and reference tool.

Lord Bolingbroke is one of the most fascinating figures of the 18th century. The works collected in this volume, most importantly his "Dissertation upon Parties" and "The Idea of a Patriot King," are undeniable classics of political philosophy. Throughout, Bolingbroke expresses a strong devotion to liberty and voices even more severe criticism of government. Yet, it is surely an odd mixture, as Bolingbroke is indeed also a Tory, although, a rather Whiggish Tory if I might say so. The influence and significance of these works is hard to overestimate. In particular, they had a profound impact on the American colonists, including such giants as Jefferson and John Adams. Above all, Bolingbroke was also a fine writer, and his work is a pleasure to read.

This anthology is as exciting and interesting as McDowell's M and W; Stroud's Quest; Crary's The New Wittgenstein; and Brewer's Perception and Reason. This anthology contains new material from some top-flight folks in the field.

M and W is an important text; it engages, as very few contemporary philosophy of mind texts have, the serious and neglected dualisms of conceptual scheme and empirical content; spontaneity and receptivity, which are, needless to say, Kantian concerns. McDowell is a proponent of conceptual content (within the realm of a 'minimal empiricism') and appeals to Kant and Wittgenstein to buttress his descriptive approach to philosophical inquiry. M and W has some brillant and evocative insights (with more than a few expensive obscurities), and some of McDowell's metaphors are splendid indeed, such as the teetering 'seesaw' and the 'sideways on picture.' Of course, it attempts to negotiate Kantian insights concerning human cognition with certain contemporary discussions on the Myth of the Given (Sellars), The Third Dogma (Davidson)and the Tribunal of Experience (Quine), and Rorty's attack on epistemology.

This anthology could offer disenchanted graduate students a reason to complete doctoral studies in philosophy. It is that rich and exciting. I am seriously nervous with glee (nerd alert!).

The most important and interesting articles here are: M. Friedman, "Exorcising the Philosophical Tradition" (previously published); R. Pippin, "Leaving Nature Behind" (on subjectivism); B. Stroud, "Sense Experience and the Grounding of Thought" (always a pleasure to read Barry); R. Brandom, "Non-Inferential Knowledge, Perceptual Experience..."; G. McCulloch, "Phenomenological Externalism" (see A. Brueckner and/or K. Falvey on this topic); H. Putnam, "McD's Mind and McD's World" (also see his Three-Fold Cord on McD and his soon to be released UW lectures from Columbia UP); C. Larmore, "Attending to Reasons."

This is my highest recommendation.

Perhaps your interest in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy was piqued by the Oliver Stone Film "JFK." Maybe you are an American History buff who wants to know more about one of the most terrible moments in the 20th century. Maybe you are just tired of listening to so-called "conspiracy theorists" and want to go straight to their sources to find out just how nuts they really are. No matter where you are coming from, you are in for more than you bargained for with this book.

In a nutshell, this book sets out to prove that a President of the United States was murdered by a conspiracy that involved the military industrial complex, organized crime and the CIA, along with disgruntled Cuban expatriots who were enraged at JFK for his handling of the Bay of Pigs. It also attempts to prove that this conspiracy was covered up by an amazing level of cooperation between various people and organizations who all had a reason to want President Kennedy dead. It seeks to show that the most powerful of these groups, was the group made up of all those who wanted, indeed needed, a war in Vietnam. It seeks to show that President Kennedy was murdered because he was committed to having all U.S. military forces out of Vietnam by 1965.

If, after reading this, you still have the stomach to venture into this nightmarish theory, you will find a well-reasoned, exhaustively researched, meticulously footnoted and beautifully written book of scholarly construction, with copious endnotes, a complete bibliography, and a full index. You will find well-reasoned paragraphs, incisive reasoning and theories that would be impossible to believe, if Henry Hurt did not do such a professional job of both documenting and interpreting his sources.

In the end, you may well find yourself feeling dismay and grief, at the realization that this book has shattered your illusions about America and its institutions right down to their foundations. More than any other book in my experience, "Reasonable Doubt" reinforces the timeless truths, that ceaseless vigilence is the price of freedom, and that the responsibility of every citizen in a democracy is to keep his/her eyes, ears and mouth open.

Most people who know John Wesley at all, not regarding if they like or dislike him, will know at least about his "conversion" in 1738 as the lift-off of the Methodist movement. But research within the last ten to fifteen years has corrected this image totally. One of the scholars who are to earn merits for this surely is Henry D. Rack. His biography of John Wesley and the rise of Methodism in 18th century is one of the most skilful works on the subject I know. For he avoids all hagiographic tendencys which dominated nearly all biographies of Wesley and still do in popular writings. Therefore he provides a fresh image of Wesley and his companions as well as his counterparts freed from traditional presuppositions. For instance, he considers Wesleys development throughout the whole of his long lasting life where traditional Wesley- hagiographies will always put stress on the 1738 Aldergate experience of "conversion" and are not able to discuss his later development. Also, Rack considers not only Methodist communites of the Wesleyan circuit but embeds Wesley and his followers within the whole Movement of Methodism which had a lot of different aspects and leading figures (e.g. George Whitefield). After all, Wesley apears as a man like you and me, his movement as an often troublesome gathering of people like you and me. Nevertheless Rack shows the historical place and merit of John Wesley and his legacy not only to Methodism but to the English society without exaggeration. "Reasonable Enthusiast" provides not only (as the title hints) a lively image of an in many ways contradictuary man but also of his world which has vanished since a long time. (Reader, please apologize for my teutonic English)

In detailing the largest and most significant research study of its type (i.e. The MacArthur Study of Mental Disorder and Violence), Rethinking Risk Assessment describes what is surely to become the seminal work in the area violence and mental illness. The authors point to the methodological flaws in many earlier studies that failed to establish clear links between mental illness and violence. It moves beyond previous studies to point to a clear link between serious mental illness and an increased risk of violence.

Although based upon a North American population (i.e. with its higher societal rates of violence generally) the size of the study, and the relationships it demonstrates suggest that this work has significant implications for other jurisdictions. The book illustrates tools clinicians can use to assist with identification of those with higher for risk of violence.

Although actuarial methods do not offer a panacea for problems associated with risk prediction, they nevertheless provide pointers for increasing the precision with which such assessments can be made. Monahan et. al. acknowledge the limitations of such methods, and point to the complexity of clinical risk assessment for violence potential. The authors also point to the broader contextual, and problematic issues associated with false positives and negatives, in terms of prediction.

Armed with the information contained within this text, clinical staff will have a thorough grounding in the most up to date evidence in the field. This should provide a solid foundation from which staff can approach the complex issue of considering risk assessment generally.

This book is a tribute to a remarkable jazzman, Henry James "Red" Allen. Complete with photographs, this biography reveals the everyday triumphs and sorrows of a working jazz musician, as well as an insiders perspective on all the recording sessions that featured this man with a golden trumpet. Jazz afficionados will recognize other artists mentioned such as J.C. Higginbotham, Charlie Holmes, Albert Nicholas, Teddy Hill, Luis Russsell, Fletcher Henderson, Don Redman, Wil Johnson, Pops foster, Paul Barbarin, Louis Armstrong, and Buster Bailey. A List of compact discs featuring "Red" are included. This is an excellent book to enhance your jazz library at home. Enjoyable reading also.

This is a nice, compact (80 pages, 8.5 X 11" in size) reference book full of photos from which brides can choose their wedding floral arrangements and bouquets. This is not at all a step-by-step, how-to book, and I don't believe it was written or marketed to be one. It is simply a photo book with brief introductions regarding how to choose your flowers, what flowers are in season in what months, a reference to bouquet shapes, etc. The publisher of this book publishes floral reference books for retail florists so think of it as the type of book you use in a flower shop to pick out your wedding flowers. I own a custom floral design shop and that's how it is used in my store.

In the last selection from The Rule of Our Warfare, John Henry Newman begins, "[a]ll God's dealings with His creatures have two aspects, one external, one internal," and, in a postmodern world that all too often bids us to serve only the pleasures and politics of the former, this book provides a much needed account of the Christian's obligations to both. I come back regularly to certain pieces: "Living Faith," "Contintual Conversion," "Devotion and Intellect," "Fasting and Feasting," "The Defect of 'Cheerful' Religion," "Neglecting the One Thing Needful," "Self-Deceit and Self-Knowledge," "Putting Away Childish Things," "The Sternness of Scripture," "The Unseen," and "Divine Dispensations." Indeed, it seems that the "One Thing Needful," that is, self-examination and self-denial, is the one thing that atheist body-snatchers in the academy and American Catholics(Fr. McBrien, I am sorry to say) alike can agree to ignore as an instrument of the "Disciplines," as pre-Vatican II piety, as superstitious "Catholic guilt." It is unfortunate that such scholars, despite all their talk about liberation and apocalypse, are content with such a mediocre faith (post-structuralism, after all, is just another sacred scripture, isn't it?), and such a mediocre existence, that they truly fear the most common devotional gesture. Newman
writes, "[c]onscience is no longer recognized as an independent arbiter of actions,its authority is explained away [. . .] Austerity is an absurdity; even firmness is looked on with an unfriendly, suspicious eye," and the presence of such a
conscience is clear from the startled looks one gets--it's as though the person you're talking with has seen a ghost! Needless to say, "simplicity," a position that is beyond mere revolutionary or reactionary values, does not seem to be written about or get published as often as it should, and for this reason, at the least,The Rule of Our Warfare is very necessary. Indeed, in a culture admittedly confused by the material and uninterested in the immaterial, the revelatory value of John Hulsman's selections of Newman's prose are themselves a "Divine Dispensation."

This book is a very well-written and illustrated introduction to the epic story of Sir Ernest Shackleton and the crew of the Endurance in their struggle to survive the loss of their ship in the ice. If you know a child who feels put-upon because they don't have the latest model gaming system or the right type of monsters in their card decks, get them to read this, and perhaps it will prove a useful antidote to the ennervating softness of "modern" civilization.