The book is well done and put together. The only issues I noted are that the author does not give photogrpahic credit to several contributors. Least of which is Carlyle Luer. The author has used several copied photos right from Dr. Luers "Native Orchids of Florida" without permission or proper credit.

Some of the taxonomic changes and listing are not as accurate as they could be, but the overall work is complete and covers all known species to occur in Florida. One helpful note, future books should follow the Luer style for various stories and all photos should have dates taken and county listings.

I had been hoping for a Florida orchid book for a long time to help me understand and identify native orchids. This book goes beyond my expectations. It is wonderfully thorough, with each species covered on two full pages. One page describes the distribution, identifying characteristics, habitat, flowering period, and has a Florida range map and plant illustration. The facing page has several photographs of the plant, showing growing habit, flower close-up, and different color forms. I particularly appreciate the range maps identifying all the Florida counties where the plant has been found. I was able to easily go through the book and make a list of all the species found in my area. The photos are very good and the variety of scales really helps. Reading this guide, it seems like there are orchids all around just waiting for the trained eye to notice them. A must have for your field guide collection.

Paul Chudecki has filled this small book with just about everything anyone that is either an owner of , or just interested in , the V8 engined range of Aston Martin Lagondas. He covers the development and racing heritage with a wealth of illustrations and pictures of many wonderful examples of the marques , many of them quite unique . The thirteen chapters and six appendices cover every aspect of the various marques that the V8 engine was fitted to including the DBS & Vantages , Lagondas and even the Zagato & Bulldog specials and prototypes. He has a vast repository of information to pass on and manages it superbly in this concise and well laid out book , even managing a chapter advising on the points to look for when buying and a complete reference on chassis and engine numbers for easy identification of any model found ! I found this book to be both informative as well as very absorbing as the information is given in a very easy flowing style with no lapses into geek speak.

Well worth the money either as a definative reference book or a fascinating coffee table quick read .

This books presents a review about attachments and help clinicians to indicate your use. It's very important for correct approach about prosthodontics with attachments, fixed or removable.

I first read Maxine Hong Kingston's Woman Warrior when I was in 10th grade and I fell in love with it! I am Asian American myself and I could relate to various aspects in the novel. However, a lot of the novel can be confusing so I was not sure if I had gotten enough out of it. So, when I saw this book, I had to buy it! I wanted to know her thoughts and feelings about the book and everything else. I was not disappointed! This was a great supplement to her novels and a great read in general. If you are a fan of Maxine Hong Kingston, this is a definite must have!

This new title is most interesting for those of us who are aware of Martin Buber's many sided interests and his philososophical contributions to physchology and phychotherapy. The book contains essays he wrote over the years, his connection and exchange of thoughts and opinions with Jung and many others. The final chapter is the dialogue about the history of the unconscious . Altogether a most interesting and inspiring read.

It is fascinating journey to relate Martin Luther's theology to Buddhist beliefs. One key thing that struck me in reading about these finer points of theology or religion is that most Christians or Buddhists or Muslims or Hindus live their lives ignorant of these finer points and hold a simpler faith.
To me, Amida Buddha comes the closest to the Christian concept of Jesus Christ. Amida Buddha is appealed to by two innocent and powerless characters in the conclusion to Akira Kurosawa's film masterpiece, Ran, an adaptation of William Shakespeare's tragedy, King Lear.

At a price of over $1,000, I had expected a very interesting look at one of my faviorite industrialist genuises. J.D. Rockefeller Sr. is one of the most interesting Captians of Industry both personally and professionally I have seen in my life. These published papers of his were a deeper insight into his mind and how it worked. This most fascinating man had class, style, intelligence, and logic. I can tell by these papers that he is not only consevative but also not, contratry to popular belief, an ultra malterialist. He beleived he needed to surround himself with such riches and luxuries to "meet the social image of a man of my stature". These papers are a must for any "fan" of John D. Rockefeller Sr., founder of the Standard Oil Trust and richest, in most all respectes, man of his time.

I read Trick or Treat
I thought it was a good book. It was good because it was funny. The kid went trick or treating and he got scared by a person on the tenth floor and everything turns wackbards and everybody tricks him. I recommend this book. This book is for ages 8-11.

This little red book contains most of the major human rights treaties including:
UN Charter (excerpts only)
Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR),
Int'l Covenant on Civil & Political Rights (ICCPR),
Int'l Covenant on Economic, Social & Cultural Rights (ICESCR),
Torture Convention,
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
Convention on the Elimination of ALl Forms of Discrimination against Women,
Convention on the Rights of the Child,
Genocide Convention,
Refugee Convention,
And some regional documents from the Council of Europe, OAU, OAS, and the Islamic Conference.
On the other hand, this book lefts out some important treaties and documents. For example, Geneva Conventions and some milestone resolutions of the UN General Assembly (e.g. Declaration on the Right to Development) are not included, although it is understandable that the book aims specifically at providing for very basic documents in the international human rights regime. Also note that there are no annotations or comments attached to all the documents.
You might not need a book like this when you can get a free copy of legal documents on the Internet, but one thing good for owning this book is that it's easy to carry. And easy to see. It would be worth owning it if you have an academic interest in human rights issues and unless you're a law student.

The very notion that one could get something called "Heidegger" in 90 minutes is profoundly ridiculous. As any one who has studied Heidegger for (apparently) more than 90 minutes can tell you, Heidegger's thought is extraordinarily complex, and often impenetrable even to the seasoned student of philosophy. More to the point, Heidegger himself is famous for railing against the superficial "chatter" of the industry of letters; yet few philosophers (aside from Nietzsche perhaps) have been subjected to as much useless chatter as has been Heidegger.

My advice - dispense with the "industry" of philosophy altogether, and especially its pathetic popularized forms. If you're not up to trying to read Heidegger (or any philosopher, dead or alive) himself, then just stay out of philosophy altogether.

It would be easy to look down on any book that offers to inform someone about Heidegger in "90 Minutes," yet Paul Strathern's book provides some good perspective on a philosopher hailed by some as the greatest of the twentieth century. As a former philosophy student who spent a semester on Heidegger's supposed masterpiece Being and Time (Sein und Zeit), I do not share that assessment of Heidegger. Strathern rightly raises the fundamental question whether the jargon or verbiage of Heidegger is meaningful at all (p. 33). My own personal conclusion matches that of the psychologist Jung who referred to Heidegger as the "master of complicated banalities" (p. 75). Only in a nihilistic world that has lost all faith in logical and clear thinking as a way to the truth can the absurd verbiage of Heidegger be hailed as a philosophical advance.

Strathern also rightly raises the active and eager Nazism of Heidegger in the thirties that was indeed related to his philosophical ideas (p.62), although Strathern chivalrously tries to salvage the pure core of Heidegger's ideas from Nazi affinity. Finally, Strathern does not shrink back from recounting the failure of integrity and character seen in Heidegger's turning his back on his Jewish philosophical mentor Husserl during the Nazi era (p. 60) and from recounting the deception involved in Heidegger's lengthy adulterous relation with his much younger student Hannah Arendt (pp. 35-40).

The author has attempted to write a short biography and a short introduction to one of the last century's most significant (and difficult) philosophers. I have a Master's in Philosophy and a Doctorate in another unrelated field, and read parts of Heidegger's Being and Time (Sein und Zeit) during a course in Sein und Zeit while in grad school.

Let me begin by saying any attempt to condense Heidegger's life and thought into 90 minutes is a cross between desperation and ridiculousness (someone like Woody Allen might say that St Peter would use it as a test to see who got into Philosopher's Heaven). I remember that trying to read three pages (sometimes three sentences) of Being and Time in 90 minutes was like speed-reading, and I still consider reading any part of Sein und Zeit to be a superb exercise for developing mid-term memory and cognition. To paraphrase Boswell, the miracle about "Heidegger in 90 Minutes" is not that it's done well, but that someone tried to do it at all.

Well, all that aside, I suppose this is as good an attempt as any, but don't get your expectations up. Strathern is heavy on the dark side of Heidegger's life (his Naziism, his ethical derelictions, his occasional philosophical and personal ridiculousness) but light on the good side of Heidegger (I don't think you will be able to impress a knowledgeable person with your knowledge of Heidegger by reading this book, if the subject should come up in a bar). He gives a reasonably good critique of Heidegger's thought and he focuses reasonably well on Heidegger's emphasis on Being as philosophy's major raison d'etre.

In summary, I think it's well worth the 90 minutes as an introduction, but don't plan on using it to write any essays for your philosophy class. Check out the internet, any good summary book of German philosophy, and the recent autobiography by R. Safranski. Make sure your pencils are sharp and your erasers plentiful. Bring a sense of humor and don't drive while listening to the audiotape (you won't fall asleep, but you won't pay attention to your driving, either).