Just as much as the Acropolis was the religious center of ancient Athens, the Agora was its commercial, governmental, and cultural heart. Camp and Renfrew's book finally gives this crucial site the attention and analysis it deserves.

The authors draw on the results of over a half-century of archaeological investigation to relate 1500 years of the city's history. From Athens' rise from obscurity in the days of Homer to its flowering as a military/cultural powerhouse in the 5th century, to the Hellenistic Age and the days of the Roman Empire, to the city's slow decline to the status of Byzantine backwater, this book reveals the evolution of the Agora in hundreds of color and black-and-white illustrations which truly breathe life into the ancient stones and the people who knew them.

The illustrations are sumptuous, and are the true centerpiece of the book. Scores of photographs illustrate the surviving walls and foundations of the Agora's buildings, and careful, clearly-rendered site plans and architectural elevations enable the reader to readily relate disparate elements of the structures and artifacts to their historical and cultural contexts. Accompanying the illustrations is a clear and lucid text which explains the history and the society that the Agora reflected and served.

I heartily recommend this book to those interested in archaeology, classical Greece, the Roman Empire, and urban planning. Echoing Peter Green's review, it's difficult to conceive that this book could have been done any better, and it is unlikely to be superseded for the foreseeable future.

I found the book to be well written. The history of BC and furthermore Nanaimo and Canada's false prophet "Brother XII" really opened my eyes. As a person who has lived in Nanaimo for all of my 17 years I had never heard of Brother XII before. The information in this book and references to Nanaimo and the surrounding area was wonderful. To think such a spiritual scam occurred right on Nanaimo's back door was amazing! My hat real goes off to Mr. Oliphant who researched many of the people who lived in town, in Vancouver, and in many other places affected by the Brother. I will definitely read it again, and I recommend anyone interested in BC or Vancouver Island history also read this book as it is an invaluable chapter to our past!

Traditionally, MTV has held the monopoly on what's hip in the music world, but recently, VH1, MTV's network rival, has claimed ratings ground with its award-winning show, "Behind the Music," which chronicles the beginnings of the great rock bands of the 1960s and 1970s and which is watched religiously by those of us who spent much of our formative years listening to the Rolling Stones and Bad Company (in contrast to today's youth, who prefer the gastronomically-named and oddly-spelled Eminem and Limp Bizkit). In Colin's Campus, as in "Behind the Music," Gary Bouchard, a scholar of the English Renaissance, recounts a crucial yet hitherto unexplored feature of the English Renaissance pastoral: pastoralists' "backward glance" at their university days for literary inspiration. Bouchard posits that Edmund Spenser, Phineas Fletcher, and John Milton, the early modern authors who are the focus of Bouchard's analysis, incorporate aspects of Cambridge life in their poetry. Spenser's The Shepheardes Calender, Fletcher's Piscatorie Eclogues, and Milton's Lycidas wax lyrical on collegiate fellowship, rivalry, poverty, sexuality, and "inheritance" or imitation of previous pastoralists: Theocritus, Virgil, and Sannazaro. Bouchard's argument, however, is not limited to tracing the Renaissance poets' nostalgia for the lost worlds of the campus; Bouchard also describes the poets' realization that they have outgrown student sensibilities, that their re-creation of the campus superimposes mature views of the future. Hence, Colin's Campus possesses an analytical comprehensiveness that does full justice to the complexity of the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century pastoral and to the canon of early modern literature. Also, it must be noted that apart from the absorbing and cloistered subject matter of Colin's Campus, Bouchard's finely tuned prose is to be praised. In fact, every sentence of Colin's Campus appears to be carefully crafted for clarity. At a moment in English studies when literary criticism is often weighed down with theoretical jargon and maze-like explications, Bouchard's examination is highly readable and recommended for specialists and non-specialists alike. Readers will enjoy Bouchard's wit and humor, as in the following sentence, which endeavors to explain Colin Clout's unrequited love in The Shepheardes Calender through the words of the irrepressible Mick Jagger: Bouchard writes, "As for Colin's romantic venture with Rosalind, we learn little apart from the standard Petrarchan predicament: he's so hot for her; she's so cold."

Reviewer: Warren Wellson from Phoenix, Arizona Computer Viruses is undeniably the most comprehensive book on the subject ever written. Put together by the master virus sleuth (McAfee, of Mcafee Antivirus fame), it provides both an easily understood section for the computer lay person, and an amazingly in-depth study of the mechanics of virus functioning for the computer adept. It is engrossing reading from start to finish as has become one of the most used reference books in my library.

This is a must have book for anyone interested in the world of computers, or anyone who would like to find out how those little critters that disrupt our data work.

Inspector Morse is just one of those detectives that are as highly rated as Hercule Poirot. Morse loves classical music and books and he times himself when when he does the London TImes Crossword. Sergent Lewis is just like Cpt. Hastings in the Hercule Poirot series. I suggest any Inspector Morse books and any Hercule Poirot ones as well.

This is an excellent review of our last centuries developmental problems. The author examined all the problems now most cities and developing countries have and suggested excellent solutions.The way to go for economy and policy in the biological point of view.

As Colin Brown's first-rate biography shows, John Prescott doesn't just talk the talk. A vivid picture of the Hull East MP emerges: he developed a reputation for tough bargaining as a National Union of Seamen official, once famously chinning a QE2 purser for spilling his water in pay and conditions negotiations. He was known to contemporaries at Ruskin College in the late 60s for his catch-phrase "You can't make an omelette with egg on your jacket" and for giving the dean a good slapping for "looking at me funny" during his graduation ceremony. Colin Brown also sets out in a handy appendix some of the brawling techniques used by the DETR man - they make fascinating reading. A snooker ball in a sock is a handy weapon if you anticipate trouble at a cabinet meeting and a roll of pound coins held in the palm of the hand lends weight to a punch. Make no mistake, Big John is a handy man to have around when it kicks off.

This book provides with a clear explanation of the field being of Phonetics and its different features. It also provides clear examples of the different elements it covers.

1 John is not the easiest book of the Bible to understand, but Kruse is very helpful in his analysis. Originally a thematic analysis, Kruse expanded his work to be a detailed commentary with the thematic sections appearing as they arise within the text.

Kruse is succinct in style and conservative in content. I am currently using this book as I preach through 1 John, and I am finding his work invaluable. For those who have found certain passages in 1 John to be discouraging (ie Christians don't sin), Kruse shows that the author is writing during a period of time when proto-gnostic heresy was infiltrating the church - a heresy that denied Christ's humanity and sin within believers. Rather than discourage believers, 1 John (interpreted in this correct context) is a great encouragement to all who walk in the light and have fellowship with the Father.

David Jackman (Bible Speaks Today) and John Stott (Tyndale), are helpful side-commentaries - but Kruse is much more helpful.

Demystifying medical institutions is attempted by many, but only successfully achieved by a few.

This book is an out-and-out success.

The author gives a very experienced insider's view of the art of succeeding in a medical job interview. Many of the tips could, no doubt, be extended to other professions, and are not just appropriate to the UK. The book blends serious application to the task with amusing anecdotes, and is essential bed-time reading before any medical job interview. BUY IT!