Tom Baker, for being the most popular actor ever to portray Dr. Who, has also stayed out of the sportlight. This book combines episode guides with collected interviews to form a facinating look at Baker's era as the Doctor. Really THE essential book on Tom's era as the Doctor

The book is simply marvelous. Packed with information and some never before seen footage, the book is a valuable source, reflecting on a decade that witnessed the show's birth. Just as important as 'The Seventies' and 'The Eighties.'

This book provides an insightful look into one aspect of the life of the "Peter Pan of Chicago", Dr. Gregg Jarrell of the William E. Simon Graduate School of Business. Quotes such as "Its easier to beg forgiveness than ask permission" should be a part of any financier's repertiore

Although there are probably as many theodicies as there are people in the world, Stephen Davis does a fine job selecting scholars who represent various, major viewpoints on the classic problem of evil to elucidate their positions. John Roth represents a theodicy of protest whereby it is insinuated that God may not be totally good. God, says Roth, has a dark side and so must be persuaded by human protest and prayer to do what is right. Hick, of course, represents the position of an Irenean theodicy where God is portrayed as simply unable to stop all evil since evil is born our of free will and God cannot contradict the free will He gave us (lest it cease being free will). More than that, however, God has created a world in which trouble and evil exist in order that, by virtue of our free will, we might grow in character through the hardship. God, says Hick, is in the business of soul-making and has an overall plan for us as His creation to grow into spiritual maturity through the joys and sufferings of this life. Davis takes the classic Christian perspective position that evil is the result of human sin, that Jesus died to redeem us of that sin. We are responsible for the evil in the world, but God has created a way to redeem the world by taking sin on Himself in the form of Jesus Christ. By recieving Christ into our lives, not only are we promised a future in eternity without evil, but we are able to grow through the sufferings of life instead of shun them as worthless. He argues that there is no logical contradiction between the Biblical God (omnipotent and omnibenevolent) and the existence of evil in the world. Griffin represents the process theology position that God is evolving with the creation and so is learning as He goes. Matter, says Griffin, is eternal like God and has its own kind of "free will." Complexity in the arrangement of matter, furthermore, is tied to the amount of free will something has. Thus a rock can do less evil and yet God is less able to use it for good, but something as complex (and thus having more free will) as a human is capable of doing much more evil by resisting God and much more good by submitting to God. Finally, Sontag takes a highly skeptical position about God's goodness. God is unpredictable and violent at times and all we can do is hope for the best. We must acknowledge God's existence and power, but Sontag's god is semi-demonic in nature which explains evil in the world and why he doesn't stop it.

Of course, this small review doesn't even begin to scratch the surface of the indepth and well written arguments of each of these scholars. The book is complex enough for college and graduate classes but written with the lay-person in mind as well (the writers are careful to define their terms in most cases). Also, I really enjoyed the fact that each contributor has the opportunity to critique the other's theodicies and then the chance to defend against the other's critiques. This point/counterpoint approach was excellent and informative.

My only critique of this book is the subtitle ("Live Options in Theodicy"). While the five views represented in this book are indeed reflective of five major worldviews of the problem of evil, they are not the only *live* options. To suggest so implies that any theodicy significantly different than those represented in the book is not a valid option. But because the problem of evil is more of a mystery and less of a logical problem to be solved with a fancy syllogism, it can be approached in a number of ways -- not just five.

From being secretly admired yet shunned for his bizarre modernistic architectural style, from being loved and loathed alike by the only woman he will ever have, this story of Howard Roark is both compelling and heartbreaking. Set in the roaring 20's, though not any of the focus of the book, Howard Roark sets off to do what he loves, having no one stand in his way and having no one tell him how to do what he is meant to do. To have the only woman he is ever to love marry the man he hates the most, and to make it at what he does the best. Architecture.

It's a tragedy this book is out of print, for 1998's Generally Accepted Accounting Principles were literally the most entertaining that have every been promulgated. 1998 was a sparkling and zany year for the Financial Accounting Standards Board, blazing with comic relief and rhetorical slapstick. Several companies took full advantage of 1998's free-wheeling GAAP atmosphere to up their earnings and put liabilities off the books; it was a banner year for such doings, thanks to FASB GAAP pronouncements. If you are lucky enough to find this valuable volume in a second-hand store or garbage sale, buy it immediately. It's a buried treasure that needs to be dug up.

MICROWAVE PROCESSING ATTRACTS CERAMISTS AND ENGINEERS TODAY, BECUAE OF THE REDUCED COST AND IMPROVED PRODUCT PERFORMANCE.THE APPLICATION OF MICROWAVES IN THE PROCESSING OF MATERIALS IS STILL IN THE DEVELOPMENT STAGE... DUE TO THE SCARCITY IN THE INFORMATION ON THE KNOW-HOW OF INTERACTION AND APPLICATION OF MICROWAVES ,THE ADVANTAGES OF MICROWAVES ARE NOT YET COMPLETELY EXPLOITED BY THE INDUSTRY.THIS BOOK THROWS LIGHT ON THIS FIELD BY THE MERE COLLECTION OF EXCELLENT ARTICLES..THEORY BEHIND THE MICROWAVE-MATERIAL INTERACTION HAS BEEN EXPLAINED IN AN INNOVATIVE WAY. THE BOOK GIVES COMPLETE DETAILS ABOUT THE MICROWAVES. IT DEALS WITH THE GENERATION OF MICROWAVES(RECENT ADVANCEMENTS IN THE MICROWAVE SOURCES), DESIGN/APPLICATION OF MONO AND MULTI MODE CAVITIES AND THEIR EFFECTIVE UTILISATION IN PROCESSING ACTIVITIES,THEORITICAL CONCEPTS BEHIND THE DIELECTRIC HEATING, DIFFUSION ENHANCEMENT PHENEMENON,APPLICATION MICROWAVES IN GLASS MELTING ,SINTERING AND JOINING ETC.. CONCLUDINGLY THIS BOOK GIVES THE FUTURE TREND OF THIS ENVIRONMENT FRIENDLY MICROWAVE PROCESSING. WHOEVER WORKS / WILLING TO WORK IN THIS FIELD (ENGINEER/ STUDENT/SCIENTIST) HAS TO READ THIS BOOK.

I gave this book about our connection with animals as a gift to a friend's twins last week. It seems I should have bought 2 copies! They are enchanted, and require it's being read over and over again. The best news: my friend has not tired of it after dozens of readings. This lovely rhyming book seems destined to become a beloved early-childhood companion.

Holmes makes a paradoxical defense of a simple argument, that freedom requires rules, for instance, a constitution is not a straitjacket but the double yellow lines that keep traffic flowing. But what is the alternative? The only thinkable alternative is anarchy, and surely no one would defend that. Conservatives often attack the desiccation of substantive democracy by procedural democracy, but according to Holmes procedural democracy is the grease on the skids of substantive democracy. But if the only alternative to Holmes arguement is the formlose Formende of Schmittian soccer-stadium democracy, then he makes a trivial argument to discredit a non-sensical one. He seems to find endless fascination in the paradox of a freedom engendered by rules and the paradoxes of self-binding, but more interesting and paradoxical is the fact that rules often take on a life of their own and encumber the very freedom they were instituted to safeguard, like the alarm clock which rings on Saturday morning. The argument is a stalking horse because he is not defending procedural democracy, which no one would attack (who loves the constitution more than conservatives?), but rather the regulatory and welfare state, which is not bound by rules but in fact conceals bureaucratic authoritarianism under the guise of democratic proceduralism.

Chandler, Heder, and Ledgerwood are unquestionably among the world's premier experts on Cambodia, and their work is the most unbiased and dependable available. In spite of massive obstacles in all directions, UNTAC's "braintrust" did a remarkable job in attempting to insure that the promises of the 1991 Paris agreements were faithfully fulfilled by all involved. Propaganda, politics, and violence most always win out in the short term, although the future in Cambodia is not yet lost. This history of events during the UN Transitional Authority in Cambodia bears study by all those stubborn enough to remain interested in peacekeeping operations.