Peter M. Pringle: Master Decoy Maker by William C. Reeve (Professor, Department of German, Queen's University) and organizer of a showing of Pringle decoys for the Canadian Decoy and Outdoor Collectibles Association in October 2001) is impressive and biographical study of the late Peter Pringle, a truly gifted decoy maker for duck hunting. Chronicling Pringle's life through his death in 1953, and following the fate of Pringle's effective and artistic creations through extensively researched text and enhanced with both color as well as black-and-white photography, Peter M. Pringle: Master Decoy Maker is a highly enjoyable reading experience, and is especially recommended reading for dedicated duck hunters and appreciative connoisseurs of the specialized art of decoy making.

This drug book is organized extremely well for easy use. You can obtain dosaging information quicker than other veterinary drug books with a convenient formulary in the front of each section. It is nice that the doses are separated for large animal vs small animal. The only drawback of this book lies in the drug descriptions in that they are not complete. The specific drug descriptions will provide a general idea of the drug's uses and major side effects and available sizes, but not some of the more comprehensive information that is sometimes necessary.

This book contains three sections; small animals, large animals and exotics, with each section being split into drug dosages, antimicrobials/anthelmintics and descriptions of drugs.

Each sub-section is alphabetically ordered making it quick and easy to find whatever drug you are looking for, and there is a comprehensive index in the back containing both generic and trade names as well as some diseases and therapies! The down side of this is that the trade names relate to Canada and USA so some of the British drugs aren't listed by trade name. I haven't found this to be too much of a problem, but sometimes it is difficult to find drugs if you only know the trade name.

I found the drug dosages sections very useful as not only does it give the dose but also it gives the different doses for different indications and administration routes. I especially liked the exotics section since it gives you detailed information on rodents, rabbits, ferrets, reptiles and birds; subjects on which data is usually difficult to come by.

The size of the book makes it very handy to keep in your bag for reference during lectures and it is small enough to fit in your pocket when on clinics.

This book provides the usefulness of a formulary and the convenience of dosage charts, all combined into one pocket-sized handbook. It has been a great aid to my studies and I highly recommend it to vet students on either side of the Atlantic.

This book was obviously well researched, and contains an excellent summary of the litigation history basically starting with the initial leaked Merrill documents through the Mississippi settlement. There is also some coverage of the Caprione lawsuit. The books strength and value is how well it lays out the solid legal foundation for the current wave of lawsuits.

I liked the coverage of the Mississippi players, and this book provides great background to the current wave of lawsuits, it is incomplete by nature (since the lawsuits are still occurring), basically ending with Mike Moore's initial deal.

I was very disappointed in the coverage of the Minnesota players. Mr. Pringle dedicates one chapter to the Minnesota lawsuit, and treats them as bit players to (in his opinion) the central figures of Moore and Scruggs. There is also no coverage of the Texas nor Florida lawsuits. He also does not take the time to present the case from the Minnesota, Texas nor Florida points of view, using only Mississippi's legal case. In light of the recent settlement decisions, and document releases this is disappointing.

Since the issues are changing so quickly, much of the information in this book is getting dated, despite the new release status of the book. (The recently released 39,000 documents from the Minnesota trial occurred after this book was published for instance) However, the strongest elements of the state lawsuits are well laid out and I would consider buying the sequel.

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Imagine reading and finding that disease you have had or developed wasn't one you had chosen to have?. Imagine a substance freely sold nation wide and in fact world wide, totally subsidized by a humane society and government to wit U.S.A. and deliberatly concealed by both as one which the user 'chose' to kill them selves with being at last freely described as 'addictive'. Destroying the myth of over 75 years that Americans as well as citisizens of our entire Earth freely chose to use, therefor making the purveyors untouchable in the US Courts of Justice when brought to the bar of justice for redress admitting ipso facto Yes We Have Lied. Imagine your father dieing of lung cance (2 Packs of Pall Malls) your mother dieing of heart attack (2 Packs of Viceroys) and yourself now smoking Marlboros to the tune of 2 packs a day. Then behold your five children two of them now smoking. Three (12, 10, and 9) already exposed to the deadly toxins we have exposed them to. Read This Book!!. If your angry after reading it - your normal. If your not then you cannot read or lack comprehension. Sincerely Bob Jones, Sr. A Smoker since 14 years old now 55 years old and for al intents and purposes already dead in so far as the Big Tobacco Lobby is concerend and no help in sight unless Jerry Spence see's this and wants another cause to help some poor slave (me) with.

Although of course I had heard of Bloody Sunday, I did not understand exactly what happened, I was too young at the time.

This book contains some very touching accounts of those who were there and relatives of those who died. An excellent collection of photographs present a very sombering account.

I would definitely recommend this to anyone interested in the subject.

This is a book that examines the events leading up to, and encompassed by, the infamous Bloody Sunday incident in Derry, Northern Ireland. One of the book's strong points is the level of detail with which the events of the day are examined. However, the analysis seems to be biased in favor of the nationalists. Still, there is alot of valuable content in the book as long as one recognizes that it represents but one point of view and is not necessarily impartial. For some additional information, there is some valuable commentary on Bloody Sunday in Tony Geraghty's book "The Irish War: The Hidden Conflict Between the IRA and British Intelligence".

In terms of sheer body counts, Bloody Sunday was not the worst day of the Troubles, as a number of IRA and Loyalist atrocities were to kill more people. However, the negative impact of Bloody Sunday on the course of the Troubles was incalculable. The assault on a civil rights march of Derry Catholics by the Parachute Regiment was intended to round up "Derry young hooligans," with the expectation of a few exemplary Catholic casualties, while reasserting the rule of English law in the "no-go" Catholic ghetto of the Bogside. Instead, 13 unarmed youths and middle-aged men were killed, and the British Army found itself in an operational, logistical, and public relations disaster. Political means toward achieving reform in Northern Ireland were discredited for the next 25 years, and 1972 was to become the bloodiest year of the Troubles. When the British Army arrived in the North in the 60's, they were often welcomed by Catholics as protectors from Protestant pogroms; after Bloody Sunday, every British soldier in Northern Ireland was to lead the miserable and paranoid existence of an unloved army of occupation, a constant target of unseen bombers and snipers.

The strength of Pringle and Jacobson's book is in its detail, stomach-churning at times. Although their style is journalistic and their prose plain, I supposed it must be effective, as I frequently found my eyes welling up with tears of rage. Most accounts of Bloody Sunday focus on the out-of-control nature of the Paras, but Pringle and Jacobson appropriately detail the command failures that led to the tragedy: the ill-conceived use of an elite, lethally-armed regiment to perform a police function; the decision to place civilians at risk; the lack of any overall political strategy to deal with the North; the failure of radio communications that placed the Paras beyond control of headquarters.

Aside from the political significance of Bloody Sunday, the drama of that day illuminates human nature at its best and worst: the teenaged first aid worker Eibhlin Lafferty, preventing a rabid soldier from finishing off a wounded man, asking him, "Are you mad?"; Barney McGuigan, waving a handkerchief to come to the aid of the dying Paddy Doherty, saying "They'll not shoot me" moments before his head was blown apart; Alex Nash, grievously injured running toward his dying son, Willie; the priests who braved gunfire to administer the last rites; the hapless Catholic businessman McKinney, stuck in the march on his way back from meeting an associate, shot by the army with his hands up.

I would have given the book 5 stars, but the account of the political aftermath of Bloody Sunday is perfunctory, and more follow-up on some of the participants would have been interesting. What happened to Alana Burke, who apparently had a spinal injury after been struck by a Saracen? What happened to the young soccer player whose leg was shattered by a bullet? How did the tragedy affect the lives of those involved in years to come?

There is a decent map of the Bogside included, which could have been more detailed, and might have been labelled with the location of exactly where the fatalities occurred.

Pringle and Jacobsen, the reporters who broke through the governmental code of silence to get to the truth behind Bloody Sunday, present a highly detailed and thoroughly engrossing report of the events of January 30, 1972, where 13 unarmed Catholic protesters were shot dead by British paratroopers. The authors provide an unflinching look at the chaos and horrifying events of that awful day. They also detail the events leading up to the incident, and pull no punches in looking at the causes and fallout from the indident. This is a must read for anyone interested in the events currently shaping Northern Ireland.