At first glance this might seem a technical treatise - and in fact those who study internal combustion engines will find sufficient detail to fascinate them. It is, however, a biography which covers the technical, business and personal life of a man whose contributions to transportation technology are far more widespread than his fame. The descendant of families accomplished in architecture and the arts, Ricardo was Cambridge educated at a time when most engineers in Britain learned from apprenticeship. His career spanned nearly seven decades, and his technological innovations found their way into motorcars, trucks, railroad engines and aircraft. John Reynolds pens a good read, and it will appeal to all with an interest in transportation history.

This comprehensive manual provides all the detail any clinician would need to focus on geriatric rehabilitation. There are 7 units, dealing with general physiological health, psychological health and a new paradigm that focuses on concepts of wholeness and uniqueness vs. the traditional medical model. Pathokinesiology is addressed along with therapeutic interventions. Sensory losses are addressed also, a great book for the novice gerontologist or one with experience to have information at one's fingertips.

Creativity is perhaps one of the most profound, important and still mysterious domains of study open to us.

From 1908, when Poincare wrote his landmark essay on creativity and psychology of thought in mathematical invention, through 1950 when Guilford brought this neglected topic back into the mainstream of psychological study, through to today where we have a plethora of views regarding creativity and the creative process, it remains a fascinating study.

This book is an excellent introduction to and reference work to creativity and the creative process as viewed by professionals in the field of psychology. As such, it is immensely useful to anyone wanting to or needing to orient themselves in this field, but it also suffers from the limitations inherent in the methodology and focus of the field itself. These problems revolve around the need to make psychology a respectable 'science' and raise methodological difficulties with evidence from testimonies of creative people and from our own personal experience - two of the most important sources of knowledge for creativity - and with the need to reformulate insights as testable hypotheses. These problems while generally present in psychology as a discipline are exascerbated in the study of creativity, due primarily to the elusive and potentially mysterious phase of the psychological creative process when 'illumination' or insight occurs, and the difficulty or perhaps impossibility of studying it any way other than internal observation or through reports of others' observations of their creative experience.

The book is fair and even handed in its approach, raising many of these difficulties in the discussion and reporting fairly on a wide range of different views in the historical and modern context as well as giving an excellent outline of the field.

This book is an excellent book with which to orient oneself in a professional psychological understanding of creativity. However, if you are mainly interested in practically developing and applying creativity and the creative process, popular authors such as Robert Fritz ('Path of Least Resistance') or the wide range of authors who report on the personal experience and views of outstanding creators (eg 'The Creative Process' by Brewster Ghiselin) may be more inspirational, applicable, useful and satisfying.

The book covers the most important methods of applied and environmental geophysics as used nowadays. The descriptions of the classical methods is similar to the descriptions found in the classical textbooks. The major value of this title is the new material and the case histories which have never been published before, especially the ones focused on GPR.

Though Barrell's interpretation of Reynolds's shifts in political alleigence during the course of the Discourses is sometimnes strained, there is no doubt that his central thesis concerning the 'body of the public' in 18th century art theory is profoundly important and illuminating. Barrell's discussion of aesthetic and poltical theories is always brilliant, provocative and intellectually stimulating. Alas, when he abandons the 'civic' discourse of the eighteenth century to address the world of Blake and Hazlitt he gets into a bit of a mess. His comments on Blake are eccentric to say the least. Neverthless, he does force us to radically rethink our attitudes to all the figures discussed here. This book is indispensable.

This book is ungodly expensive, but so are most books in the Oxford Medieval Texts Series. It contains two works by the eleventh-century historian Rodulfus Glaber (sometimes called Ralph Glaber, sometimes Raoul Glaber). The first is his more important _Five Books of Histories_, which covers important events in the tenth and eleventh centuries from the viewpoint of a monk who had access to some good libraries and to some powerful people.

Those who are not scholars should not be put off by seeing the Latin text on each left hand page and the English on the right. The book makes accessible and pleasurable reading for history buffs. Glaber's stories are entertaining, poignant, and often insightful; they give a taste of what the world looked like to a person with very different cultural presuppositions than ours. He tells stories of kings, peasants, knights, miracles, monks, demons, famines, divine vengeance, and the eleventh-century Peace of God movement. A history buff will find this book interesting and engaging, and will find the translation to be smooth and fluid. The book also contains a translation of his life of St. William, abbot of Cluny, a less important text historically but full, likewise, of great stories.

But this is, after all, a scholarly edition. I wish France would arrange with Oxford to print a cheap paperback version with just the English translation and an introduction for non-specialists. I would use it in my medieval history courses without pause.

For scholars: France's critical edition of the Latin is excellent, and is now the standard critical edition, as well it should be. The notes to the text are helpful and suggestive. The critical apparatus is complete, and his discussion of MS variants often helpful. The translation is a little free at points, but it is well worth the readability it gives. For most scholarly purposes it is reliable, but for close textual work it is preferable to use the Latin and draw one's own conclusions about the particularities of France's (and in the case of the _Vita Willellmi_, his colleagues') translations.

P. J. Nugent

Asst. Prof. of Religion

Earlham College

Richmond, Indiana

The 2CV is chronicled and detailed from its design brief to the last model to roll off the assembly line in 1990. The title of this book implies that the history of the 2CV is an ongoing saga and of course it is, in fact we will be celebrating the 50th anniversary of the 2CV next year. The conception and birth of the 2CV was not an easy delivery. The gestation period was delayed by the advent of World War II, and the Citroen designers used this period to perfect a design that was being rushed for the 1939 Paris Auto Salon. Citroen 2CV documents the design considerations that were part of the 2CVs development and led to the birth of a 2CV, in 1948, that was quite a bit different from the 2CV that would have appeared at the 1939 Salon. The further evolution of the 2CV is detailed with model changes and special versions explained. The 2CVs family relations; the Sahara, The Mehari, and the Vans are presented along with the AMI-6 & AMI-8 and the Dyane. The Parentage of the 2CV is explored with an excellent chapter on Pierre-Jules Boulanger, André Lefebvre, Flamino Bertoni, and Walter Becchia. If you do not now recognize this names, you most certainly will from now on. The 2CV in the UK is well presented with great photos of the 2CV pick-up that was used by the Royal Marines and the most unlikely 2CV of all, the Bijou, a British attempt at an up-market 2CV. We next get a quick look at the 2CVs adventures, 2 CV advertising and to put the 2CV in context, its contemporary competitors Fiat, Simca, Renault and VW. The book concludes with a look at the last days of the 2CV production line. Citroen 2CV will be enjoyed by all. Review from Citroen Quarterly Vol 15#4, Oct 1997

Statistical Ecology was easy to interpret. Examples made this book excellent.

The book comes with a disk containing BASIC programs. This is of little help for individuals having win 95/98. The BASIC interpreter, mentioned in the primer, was terminated when Windows 95 replaced MSDOS as the OS for PCs.

So if you have win95/98 you are BASICally hosed.

I would suggest the authors correct the compatibility problem, or just not offer BASIC programs.

The book addresses various features of programming languages from a mathematical viewpoint. It discusses semantics of things from simple imperative language to failure to concurrency issues using channel based and shared memory concepts. It is a good book to get an idea about most of this concepts if you do away with the math involved. If you can swallow the math you will be able to come up with semantics for various systems fairly quickly. I have read the Winskel's book on semantics. I feel this book is a touch away from all the math stuff compared to Winskel's book. It would be better to refer to Winskels book after this book.

I cannot recommend this book to the beginning magician. The author of this book states that he assumes the reader is already familiar with the basic techniques of magic, and he backs up this threat. Therefore, the book is useless to everyone except people who are already magicians.

While there are a few chapters on other kinds of magic, this book is mostly about card tricks - and it immediately became useful to me only as a paperweight. The tricks sound interesting, I agree, but I cannot perform them, because I don't know the basic sleights that make them work.

The basic techniques that ARE described are described so poorly that I could not understand them ... and I am not a beginner at learning magic from books. Adding to the problem is the lack of illustrations and photographs, which are very helpful when learning some illusions.

There are texts on magic that start with the very basics, walk you through intermediate level illusions, and even go all the way to the most advanced, professional magic. From these kinds of texts, you can actually - with enough practice - become very versed in magic.

"The Art of Magic" by T. Nelson Downs is NOT such a text. I am sure that magicians who already know a bit about card magic would get a lot out of this book. They also probably value it for traditional reasons, since Downs was an acknowledged master magician - he even has sleight of hand coin tricks specifically named after him. But I suspect that other books on card magic that actually describe the basics of magic probably also cover most of the tricks in this book ... and do so with more thorough detail, illustrations, etc.

My area of practice is coin magic, and so - I am sorry - I cannot recommend another text on card magic. I suppose you could look at the reader reviews of other books to find a more appropriate learning manual for your skill level. HOWEVER, UNLESS YOU ARE ALREADY A MAGICIAN, I MUST TRY TO STEER YOU AWAY FROM THIS BOOK! Since I didn't already know card tricks, it was a waste of my money and time.

In today's time, words are not enough to describe a sleight. Reading this book is not very easy. I would appreciate more pictures, more details . Many pictures in the book are completly useless and should be replaced by detailed photos. Sorry, I don't like it.

I'm not sure why a beginner in magic would attempt to critize a classic of magic so thoroughly if he is just a beginner (above reviews)...while the book does not have many illustrations, its text does give enough detail to perform the sleights quite accurately. I also would like to say that if you are a beginner in magic, this books is not for you. You should already know what a top change is, bottom change, double deal, second deal, bottom deal, palm, rear palm, side slip, and so on are. If you do not know these, don't get this book.... Also, for the serious card conjurer, GET EXPERT CARD TECHNIQUE BY JEAN HUGARD AND FREDERICK BRAUE...it is THE best book on card magic written and it so thoroughly describes technique that I think a fly could do the tricks. Again, this book is a classic...I suggest you get it if you're an experienced amateur.