A penetrating study of the lives and world view of young
Japanese women today plus a comprehensive analysis of the failures of higher education for women in Japan.

"a proper undersanding of how anger occurs in the local congregation, how it is expressed, and how it may effectively and responsibly be channeled in the Christian community." " An eyewitness report of the driving forces behind the alienation of church members. He bases his work on solid interviewing ... and upon his intensive experience as a chaplain, associate and senior pastor."

Dr. Bonevac is brilliant...period.

To most biologists soils are the ultimate "black box." We know that civilization could not develop without soils, and that soils are not only the foundations of all terrestrial ecosystems, but also the environment for >99% of ecosystem biodiversity. Soil scientists have gained tremendous views inside of this black box, and Richter and Markewitz provide a grand tour for scientists and students of other disciplines. This wonderful book explores how fertile, biologically rich soils develop over long periods of time (including the major chemical change of acidification), and how these ecological systems change dramatically as humans alter the balances between inputs, outputs, and cycles. About half of the story focuses on the development of deep, ancient soils (accounting for 40% of the soils in the humid subtropics and tropics), and the other half on the broader context of time, soil development, and land use by people. The authors develop these themes by exploring a deep, highly weathered soil at the Calhoun Forest in South Carolina. Changes in the soil are traced from the Devonian to the Holocene, through the heyday of cotton agriculture in the early 1800s to the Civil War, to abandonment and planting with pine trees in the mid 1900s. The changes in the soils, both long-term and short-term, derive from weathering of the soil by acids produced by plants and microbes (carbonic acid from respiration, and low molecular weight organic acids), and by the accumulation of organic matter (a byproduct of decomposition of plant tissues). Native forest ecosystems are remarkably productive on the Calhoun soil, despite the soil's advanced weathering stage. However, this productivity declines rapidly in managed forest plantations (or agriculture) unless fertilizers are used to augment the slow cycling of nutrients in the ancient soil. Soils are not only one of the most important parts of the Earth, but also dynamic, rapidly changing, living systems. The authors conclude with an important plea for international networks to monitor rates of change in soils. This book is a great window for biologists into the most important black box on Earth.

simply and easily explains economic terms and explains international economic terminology for the lay person.

WONDERFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Victor Perera is a native guatemalan who took the better part of 6 years to write this book. This book is chock full of great information gathered from hundreds of interviews. Perera doesn't waste time trying to interpret the events he writes about, instead he let's the participants and witnesses speak for themselves. He interviews everybody for this book from wealthy landowners, government officials, military personel, catholic and evangelical clergy and mostly the mayan people who have suffered from 30 years of civil war. He then fills in the cracks with historical background. His writing is very precise and specific, his descriptions paint a very vivid picture of the oppression and genocide that continues to take place.

The book begins with his visits to the garbage dump slums of guatemala city and proceeds to other hot spots of violence. The core of the book is those chapters about the ixil triangle area where as many as one third of the local mayan population was killed, disappeared or forced to flee the country.

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This is one of the best Jewish books that I have read recently. The best thing about Boyarin is that he has this ability to really synthesize the Jewish male ethos. I don't agree with his anti-Zionism, though...After reading this I read Rabbi Jeff Salkin's new book Searching for My Brothers: Jewish Men in a Gentile World. Salkin goes further than Boyarin, and even quotes him. Salkin believes that Zionism is Jewish macho, and he seems to approve. You will love Salkin's book if you love Boyarin's.

This book presents very insightful and interesting analysis of movie romance [in Hoollywood cinema] as means of social criticism. The author based his argument on such examples as "Pretty Woman", "Guess who is coming for dinner", "My Fair Lady" and some other... This book is essential for everyone, who is interested in film studies and cinema criticism.

Daniel Keyes has done it again. Another great book he has done. Riveting like all the others.

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