For those who want to understand the difference between global warming (which many believe is human induced) and climate change (which is natural and always occurring), Geological Perspectives is a MUST READ. While many would state the book is anti-green biased because it is produced by the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, it references literally 1000's of refereed scientific journal published papers that begin to reveal that this subject is a lot more uncertain than the IPCC claims.

While written for the general public, some sections require a background in the physical sciences to fully appreciate the book's content.

Yes, it is hard to believe that for the past 6000 years, the earth has actually been cooling (near it's coldest during geological time). However, humans have benefitted recently when temperatures have been on average warmer than colder. Don't under estimates the earth's ability to adjust to climate change!

This is a nice survey of Richter's recent abstract paintings. It is packed with beautiful color plates, but it doesn't have much comentary, just a couple of short essays. If your looking for more information about Richter's work check out 'The Daily Practice of Painting : Writings and Interviews 1960-1993'.

The book also includes a Catalogue Raisonne of the paintings from 1993-1998, but many of the reproductions in the Catalogue too small to make out because they are all sized in proportion to the actual size of the work. The plates in the rest of the book are excellent though.

this is a summary of richter's recent oil paintings, with two critical essays. Although a few pre '90s paintings are shown (e.g. zwie grau, schaedel, some abstractes bild), most of the book covers the abstracted bilds and photo-paintings of 95-96. The 'realistic' works include several landscapes, lesende, works with flowers and the most excellent S. mit kind series. Also a rare self-portrait (836-10, 1996). Essays are 'the woman the child and the painting' by guy tosatto, and 'there is no there. gerhard richter at the carre d'Art in Nimes,' by Birgit Pelzer. printing is nice. we read that the artist was involved in the production of this very good buy.

I bought this last summer at MoMA in NYC and it showed me not only a nice chronology of Richter's paintings but it also had select quotes from Richter that read very well next to the plates and gave small insight into his work and methods.

i purchased this book recently and was very pleased with richter's abstract watercolors.

richter does not fall into the anglo-american tradition of watercolor. and, his watercolors tend to be small.

When we talk of the history of German military during WWII, most part crosses our mind is about German Blitzkrieg in which the Panzer and Luftwaffe took the leading role. But few told us about German Navy, except U-Boat, which has planted an incorrect impreesion in our mind that it seems that Germany had no force on the surface of water. And few of us are acquainted with the once famous operations such like "Operation Juno" or "Operation Berlin". Armed with the service in the Kriegsmarine in WWII as his rarely strong background of the author, this book comes to fill the blank. After briefling the gloomy background caused by the harsh and strict Treaty of Versailles imposed by the victors in 1919, the author unfolds the develpement of big ships of German Navy chronically in which politics, economy, diplomatic and military concern took their important parts in it, listing all the ships being laid down, launchd, complexion and commissioned year by year, detailing all the rich data of each big ship such as their tonnage and caliber of the guns, displaying all the magnificent plans of the German Navy built-up one by one, especially the most grand and formidable Z-Plan which would propel Germany to emerge as the greatest sea power in the world. The author narrats all the operations the battleships participated during the war : Victories, the astonishing victories, and the defeats, the tragedies after putting up a most heroic fight against the crushing superiority enemy. Thinking of the superiority of the mighty British Navy at that time, readers will scarcely not feel that the success of the Geramn striking force operating on the Atlantic were all the more amazing. If readers keep the fact of the supeiority British fleet in mind, they will be hardly not astounded by the operation : "Cerberus", which against practically all rules in the art of warfare, in which the large squadron consisted of two battleships, Scharnhorst and her sister-ship Gneisenau, and heavy cruiser Prinze Eugen, escorted by destroyers and torpedo boats and covered by Luftwaffe, boldly and successfully with high speed returned home from Brest by dashing through the English Channel right under the nose of Britian who was completely caught napping until the whole units was passing the Strait of Dover when the possibility to mount effective attack was past, for which incident the British public complained with understanding indignation that "Nothing more mortifying...has happended in Home waters since the 17th-Century"! Readers can not be without surprised when they are informed by the author that at the time when the war broke out, Geramn Navy possessed only two battleships, two heavy and six light cruisers, plus 34 destroyers and torpedo boats and 57 submarines, the force was far weaker than its opponents : The mighty British Royal Navy alone in 1935 had had 15 battleships, 6 aircraft carriers, 19 heavy cruisers, 36 light cruisers, 169 destroyers and 54 submarines! not mentioning the also powerful French Fleet! Nor will the readers not feel suprised when their eyes fix on the beautiful photos of Graf Zeppelin, the sole German aircraft carrier which was launched in 1938, but did not completed until 1942, which will correct our wrong impression that German did not build aircraft carrier; while as the pages running, the puzzle hanging in our mind of why this carier never shown herself on the stage of the war will be lefted. Besides all these above, the author also discloses the important role that Hitler played on the rise and fall of German Navy : It was he who promoted to restore German Navy by successfully getting rid of the yoke of the Treaty of Versailles imposed on Germany, which made all the big ships built possible and legallized and all the masterpiece of navy plans blossom, by boarding battleships and by attending the ceremony of the new ships being launched, by ratifying all the plans of ships built; however it also was he who paved the way of the fall of the German Navy, mostly in 1943, by ordering cessation of all repairs of Gneisenau at the beginning of 1943 which made one of the only three battleships out off the stage of the war which served to further weaken the Navy, by stubbornly intervening the affairs of the Navy which led the downfall the Grand Admiral Raeder, by ordering all the large units under construction be halted. In short, I highly recommend this book which has provided readers full picture of the developement of big ships in German Navy history from 1935 to 1945 which intersts and benefits us who want to have whole accounts of German history during the war.

This is an interestingly constructed book, in that it has both theory & examples in it. There are enough case studies, in fact, that you're sure to recognize some personality types.

I am not personally a grandparent, but am the child of grandparents, & a potential grandparent, of course. I actually bought it for my parents but, to tell the truth, read it first. They liked it too!

One other point is that the book is inexpensive, which perhaps shouldn't be a consideration, but it matters.

I think this is the best travelling guide of Greece I've ever seen! The pictures are brilliant, they really bring out the atmesphere of Greece, i can almost smell the air of kos while watching the pictures.... the text is interesting and easy to read, keep up the good work!

Excellent resource for those wanting to get a deeper grasp of everday economic statistics. Thoroughly explains these statistics and why they are influential in our economy.

Highly recommended read!

Probably this is the best book I've seen on the works of Herzog & De Meuron. This book provides detailed information on the projects and finished buildings, asweel as project drawings and coments by the architects themselves. Every project is profoundly illustrated and commented (6-7 pages per building). Not very commonly, the plans and sections have reference to their presentation scale. The text by Gerard Mack is satistying (although not the best thing in the book), but having everything you need to judge for yourself (excelent photographs, plans and drawings), you hardly need any explanation. For the ones wanting the whole information, all the volumes of this series come with every project and building by the office, indexed in an appendix with one or two images and a short text. Plus the design is simple and beautiful and the information is right where you need it. If you really like this team of swiss architects' work, this book is a good choice.