This is a very good text to introduce groundwater hydraulics. The book start by the basic definitions, goes to Darcy's law and then guides the reader through the derivations of the different equations that govern the groundwater hydraulics. The book also provide very useful examples on how to apply these equations. The book is written in a tight readable style that makes it easy to follow both the logic and the math. I think that the strength of the book lies in its many clear and well presented examples which in conjuction with the many useful exercises it contains, makes it very useful to senior and graduate students. This book is NOT for those who are interested in the practice of groundwater, but rather the theory of groundwater hydraulics.

Long Title, short book! I found this book to be an easy quick read with "real stuff" I was able to use now. I have used the techniques and tools described in the book to get more work done, more effectively from a special team. While the book is not new, Daniels' uses a straight forward language to educate us on the dynamics associated with team behaviors during team meetings. If you need to lead or facilitate team meetings, you must read this book!

Very interesting book about what it was like to grow up with a historical figure in the family. The author talks about how having a famous grandfather influenced his life. The author also talks about his experiences in and around Washington and his perspective on them from "the inside".

This is a very nice picture book -- there is relatively little details about the species (which is inevitable in such a short book). It contains 253 beautiful pictures covering the whole range of marine invertebrates, but notably excludes nudibranchs. A must have if you're interested in what is, in my opinion, the most fascinating marine fauna.

This book is an engaging first person account of the exploits of a rather daring Confederate foot soldier. The book is lifted from a series of newspaper articles John Blue wrote over 30 years after the War for Southern Independence ended. Blue does not get into the political and social issues of the day, but recounts in a straigtforward and interesting style the struggles of a soldier, including his experience as a prisoner of war and escapee. This book is particularly interesting to those familiar with the geography of the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia and the corridor through Brocks Gap into West Virginia where Blue grew up in site of what is still known as Hanging Rock.

A very good introduction to all major legal issues presented in what is called Health Care Law. Topics covered include: contractual aspects of the doctor-patient relationship (duty to treat, termination of relations); the legal nature of health care organizations; ERISA preemption; medical malpractice and informed consent; anti-trust; and ethical considerations.

Research today does not come cheaply - especially when projects have involved extensive and prolonged data collection and analysis around substances which are difficult to identify, costly to quantify and whose behaviour is poorly understood. This Report on Disinfection By-Products (DBPs) is a good example. Furthermore, it talks about carcinogenicity, it concerns drinking water and it looks at an ever increasing number of familiar and newly identified DBPs.

To quote directly from the Report: Risks projected from epidemiological studies of chlorinated drinking water and risks projected from toxicological studies in animals are quite different, both qualitatively and quantitatively. Results of epidemiological studies identify a high level of risk from bladder cancer and to a lesser extent, colon cancer in humans consuming chlorinated drinking water (as many as 10,000 cases per year). In contrast, among the DBPs that have been selected for toxicological studies, risk has been identified for liver, kidney and colon cancer, but collectively at much lower levels of estimated risk than for epidemiological studies.

The difficulty arises because the epidemiological studies available cannot establish causality, in part because no bladder carcinogen has been found in toxicological studies of chlorination by-products. On the other hand, only a handful of the by-products produced in chlorination have been studied toxicologically. Thus, the basis of this difference is the critical question related to whether or not chlorination of drinking water needs to be substantially modified or discontinued as a method of disinfecting drinking water.

Included in this Report is a new updated review of DBPs, a synopsis of occurrence and available toxicological data with a notable increase in the sophistication of the available data over material previously published. To assist readers, a chapter is provided to facilitate a better understanding of how the decision-making process for establishing safe levels for chemicals has changed in recent years, especially with regard to carcinogens and of the use of epidemiological data. Also included are chapters devoted to both practical considerations for water treatment plant operators and ways to communicate effectively with the water consuming public about drinking water issues. - Reviewer - Australian Water Association

This book is good if you like science fiction that takes place in space. You'll also like it if you like alot of action in books. This book is not only about action but an alien named Indiw joinging a human task force and trying to adapt to living with humans. I would give this book four stars if I was a critic. So add this good book to your shopping cart today

Lucy Daniels nearly lost her life when she became severely mentally ill, including an intense period of anorexia that left her weighing only 60 pounds at one point and forced her to be hospitalized. But she not only survived and came out stronger from her ordeal but even managed to produce an award-winning book (Caleb My son) before succumbing to a 40 year period of writers' block. She credits psychoanalysis and intense therapy with giving her back her ability to write and even with giving her back her voice, her courage.
This book, which reveals what it is like to be institutionalzied, given shock and insulin treatments and more, should be read by anyone interested in the ongoing debate about whether medication or psychoanalysis is the best treatment for those facing mental illness.
I should note that Daniels has been getting renewed media attention of late for her funding of an innovative program which allows writers and artists to get free or low-cost therapy for a period of several years. If (as I expect) psychoanalysis proves yet again to have significant value, perhaps the pendulum in the mental health field will swing back from using primarily medications to treat those with depression and other mental illnesses. Someday psychiatrists, psychologists and others in the field may even use analysis and no meds and stop handing out meds like water (now THAT'S a revolutionary thought these days!).

For people who want to know what happened in BC from 1991-1995, ie the Harcourt adminstration, then this is the book to read. It will be the book of record of the first term of the NDP government. An especially good book for BC expats