This is an amazingly insightful recounting of the building of one of the finest companies in the US, and it's ultimate demise through greed. Gazel mixes depth and eaxcting factual information in a style that is incomparable. A must for any business student or historian.

The Bountiful Flower Garden is a beautiful, lavishly illustrated compendium for growing and showcasing cut flowers from the southern garden. Beginning with the influences of the European, Asian and American heritages. The Bountiful Flower Garden reveals how to extend the life of cut flowers in order to bring their beauty indoors. It details when, how and where to cut, as well as when and how to employ chemical extenders. The Bountiful Flower Garden offers the reader invaluable information on other plants effective in cut-flower arranging. The Bountiful Flower Garden is enhanced with lists, essays, and step-by-step instructions regarding trees, shrubs, vines, perennials, annuals, foliage plants, and berry/fruit plants. The Bountiful Flower Garden is the definitive guide and a wonderful book for family gardeners and interior designers to simply browse through in search of ideas and possibilities for enriching the atmosphere and decor of homes and offices.

This is great reading materil-what can I say? In this book is a great storyline and a fun, exciting plot. It has its high points and sad points, like any other, with other things mixed in. Shakespeare again displays his wonderful talent in writing and acting. This is a perfect book for anyone.

Discovering the Universe is an excellent presentation of fundamental astronomy facts and principles. A major book for amateur astronomers.

William Kaufmann III writes in a clear and concise style, making complex data and theories understandable to the layperson. No sophisticated math or physics backgrounds are required. Yet, he treats complex topics, such as Stellar Evolution, the Origin of the Solar System, etc. in a comprehensive manner. This book will serve as a lasting reference book for your library.

A CD-ROM is included which contains the entire text of the book.

This text is an excellent textbook for both infectious disease professionals and for students of infectious disease epidemiology. Nelson and colleagues cover a range of essential topics from a survey of important historical epidemics to study designs for infectious disease investigations. The first part of the text covers ID epidemiology background and methodology, whereas the second focuses on specific diseases as examples of different transmission modalities. TB, HIV and Influenza are among the pathogens discussed in great detail. Chapters are written by experts in their respective fields, making this textbook not only authoritative, but also up-to-date in scope and content. Many of the authors are affiliated with the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health or the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. "Infectious Disease Epidemiology" is extremely readable, and serves as an excellent reference tool. I highly recommend it.

Collaboratively written by digestive disorder specialists Dr. William Salt and Dr. Neil Neimark, and now available in a fully revised and updated new edition, Irritable Bowel Syndrome And The MindBodySpirit Connection is an invaluable, hope-giving, practical, non-specialist general reader friendly guide offering seven specific steps to improving one's quality of life and health when living with a functional bowel disorder, Crohn's Disease or colitis. Individual chapters focus on using the power of emotional and psychological attitude as well as more traditionally important habits of proper diet, exercise, water drinking etc. A thoughtful and attentive book and an excellent supplement to a doctor's care, Irritable Bowel Syndrome And The MindBodySpirit Connection, with its practical and whole mind and body approach to maintaining good health, is important even to those who are fortunate enough to have compliantly regular bowels. A very highly recommended addition to personal and community library personal healthy and medical reference collections.

For the serious student of the French Revolution and the discourse surrounding it, Williams letters, along with the wealth of accompanying materials included in this volume, offer a fascinating insight. Kudos to the staff that assembled this piece of work.

Without question, a must-have for any serious art lover. The quality of the text and illustrations are first-rate as is expected from the arguably finest art book publisher of our time. As essential to any library as "Paintings in the Vatican" and "Paintings in the Uffizi and Pitti." Keep them coming, Bulfinch!

Throughout the world, outcome-based education has many supporters and many critics, most of whom will agree that Spady is the most significant contributer to this aspect of educational theory and practice. In the first part of his latest book, Spady traces the development of his ideas on OBE. He then very frankly discusses how everything went wrong as OBE came under attack in 1992 and 1993. He goes on to explain what the major objections to OBE were and presents logical, well-reasoned responses to those criticisms.

In the second half of the book, Spady presents a "Future Empowerment Paradigm" that is designed to help school districts transform the way they approach teaching and learning. This approach is very much oriented to the "techno-information age", and presents a viable alternative to the "educentric" way in which most education systems operate currently.

The book is compelling reading for anyone genuinely interested in provid! ing education that will equip students for the future.

This is really a great book on respiratory care. In many areas it beats out Egan's RC except for sections on mechanical ventilation and neonatal chapter. It has an excellent section on cardiopulmonary diseases(as does Egan's RC)and a chapter on mechanical ventilation for neonates and peds. One section that needs to be improved is cardiopulmonary A&P, which was done pretty much vaguely(Egan's has great section on this area). Also the first section is just too long (important area, but not that important to be included in a major text; needs to be shortened from 200 pgs to less than 50 and use that space for improving MV, cardiopulmonary A&P, and neonatal chapters). This book also has great illustration in 2-color and basically it is a great book; mainly for RT's, but has many sections that can be of use for med students ,nurses,docs and so on. Highly recommend.