No book in shorter space, with fewer words, will explain the story of the Springhill, Nova Scotia mining disasters. Its author Roger David Brown tells the story with the miners' own words. This book is haunting and bone-chilling to imagine being trapped underground. The book has several black and white photographs. For Anne Murray fans, there's a picture of her and her Anne Murray Centre as well. Which makes perfect sense since Anne is from Springhill.

Blood on the Coal is blood-curling suspense, yet historical, and extremely well written. I highly recommend this book and have rated it excellent.

The Franconia, New Hampshire, farm of the American poet Robert Frost was turned into a museum and center for poetry and the arts in 1976. From that time, "The Frost Place" has been annual event wherein an emerging poet has been invited to spend the summer living in the house where Frost once lived and wrote some of his greatest poetry. The Breath Of Parted Lips: Voices From The Robert Frost Place, Volume One is a remarkable anthology of twenty-four poets, each of whom won that honor of a summer's residency and document the success of the original concept as a means of generating outstanding poetry while nurturing the poet's muse in the rooms and views that were once the inspiration of the great Robert Frost. Poem At 40: Windwashed--as if standing next to the highway,/a truck long as the century sweeping by,/all things at last bent in the same direction./An opening, as if all/the clothes my ancestors ever wore/dry on lines in my body:/wind-whipped, parallel with the ground,/some sleeves sharing a single clothespin/so that they seem to clasp hands,/seem to hold on.//And now that I can see/up the old women's dresses,/there's nothing but a filtered light./And now that their men's smoky breath/has traversed the earth,/it has nothing to do with them./And now that awkward, fat tears of rain/slap the window screen,/now that I'm naked too,/cupping my genitals, tracing with a pencil/the blue vein between my collar bone and breast,/I'll go to sleep when I'm told.

This reader friendly guide for managing the chronic pain of cancer explains the causes of cancer pain and the best methods for reducing pain sensations. From the latest medications and research into how the body feels pain to pain associated with radiation and chemo, The Cancer Pain Sourcebook is filled with details specific to cancer treatments.

The Catholic Challenge Bible Game offers over 2,000 Q&A referenced to The New American Bible and officially approved by the Church's imprimatur and nihil obstat. The game has depth and intergrity for all Catholic Christians who want to test their knowledge in five areas of Biblical literature: the Law, the Prophets, Wisdom, Gospels and Epistles.

The game has all the bells and whistles which will keep a player involved and interested in achieving the best score possible.

A Certificate of Merit can be printed showing the player's name, level of play and total score allowing students, families, youth groups, Bible study groups, etc., to play contests and tournaments.

The game is a "must buy" for any Catholic household with kids in elementary or secondary education. The game promises many, many hours of fun and enrichment enabling curiosity and knowledge about the Scriptures.

This is probably the best single text I have ever seen for the practicing physician interested in clinical gastroenterology. The book is practical, clearly written and does not contain a great deal of extraneous material or information of interest only to laboratory scientists. Illustrations and tables are excellent. The text is very up to date. The physiologic descriptions are concise and valuable. All in all a must for any physician who comes in contact with patients who may have digestive diseases.

Many guide books are long on information and short on readablility.This book by David Piper,who was for some time the head of the National Portrait Gallery is both erudite and witty.He covers all the essentials but puts on a gloss of wit and lards his facts with sotries and comments which compliment the text.His chapters on the Wallace Collection and St,Pauls would be hard to beat.I lived in London for many years and read many books about it.There are some very fine guide books on London but this is among the best that I have read.If you take a chapter you can generally walk the chapter in one to two hours and although some of the landmarks that he mentioned in the earlier editions have since gone, thank God the Salisbury is still there on St.Martin's Lane although sadly the Lyoon's Corner houses have quite disappeared as has the cafe where Yeats wrote his poem.In the fifties this cafe was owned by Cypriot and was a local working class restaurant known to LSE students at the nearby Pasfield Hall as the Greasy Spoon.The owner infuriated my American and Canadian friends by bringing water without ice(wanting ice on an English winter day seemed bizarre to we Brits)and smothering the apple pie with custard.After they had tasted English ice-cream at the time the gladly went back to the custard.

I am not myself a neurologist or M.D., but merely a lowly graduate student in psychophysiology. However, I found this book to most informative. To understand much of what it says does require a good working knowledge of biology, anatomy, and physiology, and familiarity with neuroanatomy and general neurosicence could be quite useful aswell, as is a reasonable medical vocabulary. (If you are not an M.D. or very experienced nurse you may want to keep a medical dictionary nearby, just in case -- and be warned that it may not contain term used!) Like most medical texts, and many other high-level books, each chapter has it own set of expert authors. This book does not beat around the bushes with basic information or trivial points, but delivers huge amounts of technical information on neurological disease, with an emphasis on the brain. This is wonderful! -- as long as you are ready for it. If you lack the back ground, however, you may find yourself overwhelmed -- and no-one should be so naive as to think you will remember everything it says, though you will learn a lot no where to get details in the future. One possible weekness of this book is it emphasis on the brain -- chapters on periferal neurology are included, but they are few compared to the numerous chapters on the brain. Also, this is a neurology text, and has only a short chapter on psychiatric conditions -- which is as it should be -- if you are interested in psychiatry, go to a psychiatry or neuropscyhiatry text, or on specifically on behavioral neurology.

Generally, I enjoyed this book, but I'm wierd, and suspect many would find it "dry" or to fast paced. Also, I read it straight through, and I am not sure that is how it was intended to be read -- it does work well as both a textbook and a refference, however, and I would recommend it highly for those with the background to understand and who find the price worth it.

How good it is as a text for actual medical students or physicians I can't say for sure, since I am researcher not one of the above. However, I suspect it would be excellent for them, too, as this is clearly the audience it was written for, and it spends a lot of time on practical issue in treating patients.

Democracy of the Dead: Dewey, Confucius, and the Hope for Democracy in China is an impressive attempt at dialogue between Confucianism and American Pragmatism on the subject of fostering democratic reforms in China. It is both a history of philosophy text, highlighting Dewey's thought and subsequent Pragmatist scholars, liberalism, and Confucianism, and a polemic about the limitations of liberal thought in China. Although some acquaintance with the texts interpreted by the authors is recommended, the authors' synopses are trustworthy and ably and judiciously given. There are also generous quotes and and a and a nine-page bibliography provided.

Admittedly, I was skeptical about the authors' project, which seemed like a desperate attempt to bridge two subjects, pragmatism and Confucianism, that are both equally unprofitable, with a popular item in the news, China. I wanted an appealing interpretation of Confucianism, that would allow me to understand the cultural divide between east and west more easily. I was also interested in any study about pragmatism, which, as the authors also argue, deserves more respect. Last, I wanted a framework to understand Korean and western dialogue, since Korean interpretations of Confucianism are also relevant to Chinese reform historically, and are also a factor in Korea's relations with western countries. The book satisfied my demands more than satisfactorily.

Some readers may be angered by the authors' use of Deweyan Pragmatism to criticize traditional liberalism, but the authors have good reason. Dewey did have a small role in Chinese educational reform before the Communist Party assumed control in 1949. Dewey, and pragmatism in general, are both better exemplars of distinct American realities than liberalism. Also, using pragmatic terms, the authors couch Confucian concepts in a way more palatable and approachable.

The authors argue, that a Confucian interpretation of democracy is possible. This Confucian democracy is useful as a tool for political reform. And then, by using Deweyan thought, it is possible for Chinese and American reformers to share ideas for reform in both countries. The book, therefore, is ultimately a practical one.

The authors eschew nationalistic and philosophical bias, which is necessary for productive dialogue. This is not a book that celebrates western values over eastern ones. It has relevance also in Korea, yet, ironically, it will not convince Americans of the need for reform in their own country, especially if readers refuse to abandon implicit faith in liberal thinking. This is not a book about dead things, but a very lively, well-written, timely offering..

The parts of this book I've read have been clear and accessible for someone with an undergraduate degree in mathematics and some knowledge of stochastic processes. It doesn't needlessly multiply the jargon like some books, and it focuses mainly on the one-dimensional case so that the intuition isn't constantly obscured by matrix notation. Many subjects also have chatty introductions that offer intuition and a bit of relief from the hard work involved in learning this subject.

The Encyclopedia of American Soccer History is a long-overdue addition to the neglected story of soccer in the United States. While it may surprise many, American soccer history begins long before Pele. This book fills in many of the details of this largely forgotten history. The book is arranged as an encyclopedia, with hundreds of alphabetically arranged entries on different topics, including teams, players, cups, leagues, etc. The authors, Roger Allaway, Colin Jose and David Litterer are the triumvirate of North American soccer historians -- clearly the right men for the job of compiling this history.