Lustgarten and Leigh have produced a definitive text on the issues that surround National Security issues for a Parliamentary Democracy. Published in 1994 this should be considered one of the primary texts on internal security issues in relation to Parliamentary Democracy and Civil and Societal Liberties.

I highly recommend it to both graduate and undergraduate students in the field. But if might have the temerity to suggest it. Giving the shifting paradigms of Security issues Lustgarten & Leigh deserve to give us a newly revised edition at their earliest convenience. Having said that, read this book and if they revise it read that one too!

I have treasured this book ever since I bought it 10 years ago. As a beginning picture framer this was the pinacle of perfection to me. Gives full blown diagrams on the construction of the frames and altar pieces along with the history of the frames and icons. Simply breathtaking stuff, incredible craftsmanship and artistry.

Jambeaux is an enthralling, thought-provoking portrait of the drug-and-sex crazed madness of the rock&roll world. Gonzales hypnotizes his readers and leads them through a plastic nightmare world that becomes all too real because of the universality of his characters' thoughts and emotions. Much like Steinbeck's East of Eden, beautifully crafted prose and significant reflections on human nature are artfully blended with a light smattering of subtle smut. The honesty of Gonzales' voice will make you wince, but that's what truth does sometimes. His dialogue is witty, raw, and real. The sheer energy of Gonzales' style moves his story with the speeding, head-rush pace of Kerouac's On the Road, while maintaining a quality of lucid readability, and of course, a plot. My only complaint was Gonzales' apparent preference for the comma over the semicolon. Overall, a raw, powerful, intensely readable story of an innocent trip to hell and a search for redemption. Not bad for a first novel.

i love this cd it has a great selection of songs that i have never seen anywere else i have a lot of fun with my friends when i put this particular cd on my machine everybody ask for it everytime we have aparty

This book has it all; wonderful illustrations, a great plot, humor, romance, and a believeable happy ending. If you want a book to expand your child's horizons that you can enjoy too, you won't do better than this.

L.S Lowry by Michael Leber & Judith Sadling is a fantastic book on the artist. Its 144 pages are full of interesting detail, giving a full insight to the life of Lowry. Plus there are interviews with Lowry by Edwin Mullins a former critic of the Sunday Telegraph. The book is packed full of pictures of Lowrys work, some in colour, postcard and A4 size. Plus a catalogue of works in public collections, giving title, date, size, and type of painting(oil, pencil etc), over 440 listed works, most with a black and white picture. For the Lowry beginner to the specialist this book is a must.

As an avid Spanish Guittarist I was delighted to find this publication to be both informative and entertaining... A must for anyone seriously interested in calssical Spanish or Flamenco guitar! An impressive array of historical and modern guitar pieces.

_Laurence Sterne: A Life_ (Oxford University Press), by Ian Campbell Ross, is a dandy new biography which I will tell you about. But the only real reason to be reading about Sterne is to increase appreciation of his wonderful book, _The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman_, which has been making people laugh for almost two and a half centuries. So let me make the recommendation first of that book to you, if you have never read it. Go read it, and when you finish, I'll be right here.

There! What did I tell you? Intelligent, chaotic, witty amusement, with some bawdiness thrown in. I don't need to tell you of the thousand odd attractions of the book. It is one of the most fun of the classics. Now to the fine book at hand. Sterne was, Ross shows, just as peculiar as his book, and had as chaotic a life. Sterne lived only eight years after bursting onto the scene with _Tristram Shandy_, and to Ross's credit, he has made Sterne's pre-Shandy years interesting. Sterne had led a modest, impecunious life of a vicar in Yorkshire. He did a bit of political writing, but nothing that would have prepared anyone for his comic masterpiece. He had an unhappy marriage, and a remarkable interest in adultery.

Then in 1759, the first two of the nine volumes of _Tristram Shandy_ were published, and caused a sensation. The reviews were very good, and if readers were puzzled by the extraordinary digressions and puzzles in the book, they laughed at them, and they bought them up. Then Sterne appeared in London, and was delighted to wear his black ministerial garments everywhere. This brought his book notoriety as well as fame; reviewers changed tone from praising the book's hilarity to criticizing the vicar for writing "downright gross and obscene expressions." Sterne became a hot ticket at dinners and salons. The zany mixture of adventures and accidents, farcical and sad, reflected the life of the author.

This was an odd man, to be sure, who produced an odd book. Ross's elegant and thorough biography brings Sterne to life for our age. The gregarious James Boswell wrote that Sterne was "the best companion I ever knew," and those who find him to be a good companion in the form of his famous book will find him an even better one after reading this illuminating biography.

The fragmentary structure of _TS_ is ideally suited to Rowson's comic-book reinterpretation. This accomplished editorial cartoonist pokes fun at 'heritage' illustration and costume drama, instead matching Sterne's words with his lively images and contemporary, knowing commentary. Though he shows an affectionate regard for the original, Rowson is not afraid to bring to his own work a brand of mockery not far from Sterne's.

In comparison with John Baldessari's recent photo-collages illustrating the same novel, Rowson is much funnier, more accessible, and more faithful to the spirit of the original.

In summary, a very funny, very successful re-interpretation of this sometimes difficult classic. Rotund Walter Shandy is a particulary appealing figure.

Contains some obscenity (though justified).

Have you ever wanted to read a book where the author decides to "rip out" one of the chapters, or leaves a blank page for you to 'draw' one of the characters? Would you enjoy an 18th-Century story which takes many chapters before the hero is born? The tale is touchingly told. The characters are real, and constantly fascinating. It's not their fault that their story is frequently interrupted by outlandish "digressions" on the part of an author so creative that his modern descendants are considered to be Joyce and Beckett as well as many others. Would you enjoy a chapter about Chapters? About buttonholes? About whether parents and their children are kin to each other? A chapter on curses? Laurence Sterne has so much trouble getting Walter and Toby Shandy downstairs that he calls in the "critics" to do it. Advice on reading such an unusual, even unique book: read the first several chapters, then stop and reread them. Continue that process and soon the book will feel quite familiar, and that's when the fun starts! Walter loves arguments about anything. Uncle Toby enjoys building military models. Tristram is quite busy just trying to get born and baptized with the correct name. His mother Elizabeth argues with her husband Walter about midwives and their methods. (Their wedding contract is here for you to peruse...it causes some problems itself.) This volume "3" consists of the Notes on the text (which is found in volumes "1" and "2".) Amazon also lists several less expensive paperback editions of the novel, the preferred one being the Oxford World Classics Edition.