Kanin's research is solid, and for those interested in San Francisco during the Gilded Age, or labor history, this is a must-read. Focusing in on a clique of unionists that seized contol of the city government, with a particular emphasis on Patrick Henry McCarthy. No, he was not a typical business unionist, but rather a urban progressive who combined a pratical wage-worker consciousness with a social reform mentality. On the other hand, he had no problem fusing a racist ideology into his form of progresivism. If you bothered to read this review, buy this book.

"Rebirthing" is an artform that many aspire to and few attain. Michael's book captures both the spiritual as well as the practical aspects of many facets of the breath and breathing. He is quite poetic as well. A must buy for anyone interested in transformational breathwork and the study of the breath.

Michael Howard tells you how to work with candles. Candle have been used by esotericism and religion alike for centuries. They have a practical usage. More than that, however, candles can literally bring about change: they induce magic.

Now I am not writing this for unbelievers. They are too short-sided to appreciate the art of candle burning.

Tuner and Crawford provide an easily read summary of the key characteristics of successful change organisations. After extensive studies of corporations undergoing change, they have identified the key capabilities required to change. They provide useful models around this concept which are easily adopted. Lots of case study examples also provide easy reference and "trips for young players"!

As an international law student, I am much interested in the process generating international rules, especially international customary rules. And also, as a political science student, I have recognized the limitation to explain the customary process only through the discipline of international law. This book is in answer to such a consciousness of mine completely and in detail. In my thought, this book will be a masterpiece in the interdisciplinary approach between international law and international relations.

Specifically, this book contains plentiful precedent studies and deals with various issues relating to its subject. Hence I could learn much from this book. And the conclusion it reached as to the basis of the binding force of customary international law is held to be persuasive enough to make scholars in both disciplines understood clearly.

If you are to study international law or international relations or both in the new century and in the global society, you cannot help getting and reading this writing.

My son used his own money to purchase this book and he really enjoyed it. I grew up reading the Spider Man comics and so I also read it. It is a combination of the description of the powers of Spider Man and how he obtained them and a list of facts about spiders. This is an interesting and effective way to teach children science. While he was reading it, he would come up to me with questions like, "Daddy, did you know spiders . . . ?"
Written at a level perfect for the later elementary school child, this book teaches science in a unique and interesting way. I strongly recommend it.

The book allows anyone from an electrical designer to an electrical engineer a practical way to develop their skills in power system engineering. There are many worked examples which get you to understand the concepts being put across.

The short circuit method discussed (without the annoying use of the per unit system) is flexible and powerful. I refer to it time and again.

This is a must-have resource.

This is the best overview of the state of the literature on Emerson. It gracefully carries the reader from the initial evaluations of Oliver Wendell Holmes, George Santayana, and John Dewey, through the development of what had become the standard view represented by Matthiessen's American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman (1941) and Stephen Whicher's Freedom and Fate: An Inner Life of Ralph Waldo Emerson, (1953) to the contemporary 'detranscendentalizing' movement that reads Emerson "after Nietzsche, after Wittgenstein" as Stanley Cavell puts it. The book aims in part to counter the mid-century views that stressed the moral idealism and 'naive' optimism that made some experience reading Emerson's Essays as akin to taking "happiness pills" (Kennith Burke).

Lopez continues a revaluation of Emerson's "demanding optimism" that had its first roots in Newton Arvin's compensatory essay "The House of Pain: Emerson and the Tragic Sense." (Hudson Review, Vol. XII, No. 1, Spring 1959) Lopez describes a "New Emerson," like the "New Nietzsche" that has emerged since Gilles Deleuze's Nietzsche and Philosophy (1962) Jacques Derrida's "Differance" (1968) "The Ends of Man" (1972) and Tracy Strong's Friederich Nietzsche and the Politics of Transfiguration (1975).

Lopez's book is an excellent corrective to the conventional wisdom and what has nearly become the standard interpretation of Emerson, although Lopez argues forcefully that no reading of Emerson has established itself as the accepted standard view. Emerson is distinguished from other major American writers of his time such as Poe, Whitman and Melvill precisely on the lack of a consensus as to what his main writings mean. This is in part because scholars have been reluctant to take what Emerson says in his major published works at face value. The typical response to his 'hard sayings' is to attribute the hyperbolic style and his exuberance and enthusiasm. But Lopez shows more than that Emerson expresses ideas in line with the intellectual and philosophical milieux of the ninetieth century. He also shows that Emerson's ironies, aphorisms, peculiar voicing of claims and subtle forms of self-erasure warrant a view of his work as significantly more 'modern' or even 'post-modern' than has been allowed

There have been so many management and quality theories over the years - but nobody has told us how they all fit together - in fact they always bad mouth different programs. This book tells how different quality philosophies build on one another. It also has real world examples of how to effectively implement ISO, Six Sigma and "Fusion Management". With the current economy and layoffs I'm ready to use the roadmap to get my company back on track. It is a good quick read, with interesting case studies (I read it on a four hour flight). It may be the most usable business book I've read in quite a long time.

Michael Roberts is perhaps the leading authority on Swedish history today, and this book is extremely well written. The writing style is clear, detailed and easy to understand; one is not bogged down in a slough of meaningless facts. What is brilliant about this book as well, is that Roberts carefully places Sweden and the actions of Gustavus in context with the events happening in Europe. It covers every aspect of Gustavus Adolphus and his reign; there are in-depth chapters on Gustavus' foreign policy, the domestic and important military reform that he carried out, the king as a person etc. Roberts has also painstakingly gone through many Swedish primary sources as well; the book is written by a historian who has definitely done all the hard work to get the facts right, and more besides. This is a book I would recommend without hesitation to anyone studying Swedish history.