"I Was a Communist for the FBI" is the story of Matt Cvetic, a man the FBI planted in the CPUSA from 1943-50 and about whom a B movie and bad radio serial were later made, both with the same name as the book. Apparently, Cvetic didn't really have many real stories to tell about the American communists he had met, so he started making them up. He got away with this for three or four years but, always a drinker, his habit got heavier and finally ruined him. It seems that Hoover didn't care much if his stories were fictional, but he couldn't bare having an obvious drunk running around bragging about working for the FBI.

The book is indeed meticulously researched and Leab tells the story very even-handedly. He takes pains to point out that the communists Cvetic rooted out really were communists, and their penchant for secrecy only served to help people like Cvetic paint them as evil people. This book is not for everyone, though. If you like American history and read lots of it, it will be a valuable addition to your collection. But if you only read history occasionally, and then only popular works, you may find this one heavy going as it is not organized to titillate or tell a story in the Hollywood fashion. So I drop a star to warn those who belong to the latter group.

I would rate this book excellent in letting the child relate to the parent. I am looking for this book now after my children have grown for my grandchildren so that tells you what it means to me. As always Sesame' Street books have good color and graphics and story line.

The Beautiful illustrations in this book are a wonderful complement to a well written and interesting story about how wild animals rely on each other. My children thoroughly enjoyed this book!

The book is about Igneous rocks. It talks about how they form with detail explanation. Also it has a lot of topic talking each of the classification. This book is extremely useful to study igneous rock.

Do you want to learn more about early social cognition? Implicit Psychology, published in 1977, remains a good source for discovering the background of social cognition. Wegner and Vallacher break out the fundamental issues of social cognition, some of which continue to be open areas of debate. A nice classic, a must have for any student of social cognition.

"In a World We Never Made" is a is a deliciously intriguing novel of philosophy, psychology, and social ideas that is also a tale of love, stress, and coming of age - of the conflicts as well as loving interactions of generations as they affect a handful of students and professors at a small university in the early 1970s. It is a well-structured, carefully written work in the tradition of Henry James, John P. Marquand, and Louis Auchicloss - and is good enough to deserve a place alongside the works of these elegant and renown writers.

This novel is a flawed masterpiece - flawed because much of its dialogue is excessively formal, even for an academic setting, and the conversation often sounds more like exchanges of carefully drafted letters. But it is well worth forgiving the flaws of the dialogue for its content, for the richness of its ideas, and of the wisdom that develops from it. And despite this flaw, the novel has thrust, power, and strong human interest, along with much wisdom - some of it of a universal nature, other the private wisdom of one man's unique vision. But I will say too much about the plot, as I do not wish to spoil any reader's enjoyment of its sometimes surprising twists and turns.

I don't know if this book will find commercial success - as a first novel from a small press that seems especially unlikely . But this is a good, wise, and honest work, and deserves to be widely appreciated - in this book form, and perhaps even as a movie - with Tom Hanks, perhaps (with his hair grayed a bit), as the young Professor Justin Post!

'In that stillness' is a book that discusses what is involved in meeting life fully. It has a Krishnamurti flavoring to it. A good read for those who are into such matters.

Table of Contents

I. Talks

The Journey Within Silence

The Important Question

The Need for Essence

A Life in Freedom

A Love That is True

Passages

II. Discussions and Deeper Enquiries

Introduction

The Responsibility of Communication

The Essential Relationship

The Language of Silence

A Deepening Yearning

The Response to a Human Being

The Qualities of Resistance

Coming to the Point of Stillness

The Flowering of a Human Heart

Seeing the Ocean

No Other Life

A Life Beyond Hurt

The Child of Intelligence

The Social Issue

One Need in Life

When the Heart Speaks

Passages

III. Reflections

From the Authors Journal

This book covers the fundamentals of MS Excel. A few chapters such as Macro Language Function Reference and also Complete Guide to Excel Functions would preferably been reduced and appended instead of making it a chapter so as to reduce the volume. Although the book is meant for Excel 7.0 still minor updating is required. It covers a wide range of topics which would be useful for various types of professional and non-professional users. The guided exercises are helpful for the beginners as well as intermediate level users.

Daniels and VanHoose have put together an easy to read, real world applicable textbook. The topics covered are upper level collegiate international finance, but it's presented in a down to earth, orderly fashion. While I would have wanted color graphs, the full examples of complex operations (derivatives hedging, theoretical currency exchange rates and the like) more than made up the difference. They separate the elitist mathematics from that which students want and need. As a college student without a lot of time, that's a huge help. The most important teaching tool used extensively throughout the book is historical data. Being able to show why in theory, give evidence, and then present the deviations takes effort. There is no easy way to explain how the central banks around the world use different tactics in thier policies, but they got through it.

This book is a good example of recent national case studies for understanding school to work transition in developed countries and some developing nations. Many of the case studies that are succesful share similarities in the way students in technical schools have close relation with the work practices and the skills that future workers will need in the work place. However, the rapid technological change in the work place is putting more pressure in the school curriculum and not always the adaptation of school performance to the needs of new industrial trends is the best answer for getting a job for future workers and employees. The wide number of national experiences that have been gathering in this book edited by Daniel Wagner and David Stern are a very useful overview for understanding recent government policies for linking more school and work environments. All experts and policy makers that presented their papers in the OECD Center for Education and Research in Paris during a especial seminar are in this book. Most of the authors took into account the History and pattern of development of each country as important issues to have in mind when analyzing school to work transition in an international perspective as it is discussed in this collective book.