If your in the mood for a road-map of the future printed in the past this is something you might want to unfold. Resorting to a whacky, light-hearted, tone writer David Cohen sets the paces and flavours, the guiding lines and the planned improvements to the coming years, never refraining from penning his comments to vivify the words of the probable or predicted worlds.

Cloned - no thanks! People can't stand the one of me. And I don't need to see a bunch of organ-harvesting headless humans walking around. I see enough of them in the subway already. Will there be a deep impact and an real armageddon from an asteroid or meteorite? We won't not know what hit us anyway or probably care to survive the aftermath but don't worry someone in the goverment is working on it right now. So rest easy my friends! Although stopping it is compared to hitting a bullet with another bullet. About the Greenhouse effect we finally all agree.There is one. But no one can agree whether it is good or bad or when and what to do about it? Virtual vacations may be be the only type we can take if many of the predictions in this book come true.These are some of the topics touched on in this great short read.There is much scientific and general information but it is easy to read and a pleasure to share with other on those extremely hot long winter nights and/or short cold summer days. Perfect for a JH & High school students who want leisurely reads.

Do not be misled by the generally high quality of Mr. Garber's previous work. The "self-teaching" guide is more vocabulary list than textbook. Critical missing features include (a) some notion of life as _process_ rather than a lengthy list of elements of cell anatomy, (b) poikilothermy appears in end-of-chapter questions, but the text does not compare it with homeothermy in any useful way, (c) comparative anatomy illustrations are not drawn to scale, making it difficult to make appropriate comparisons. The vocabulary lists and end-of-chapter multiple choice questions would save a first-year teaching assistant some time preparing for classes for non-majors. The book is not much help in acquiring a general understanding of the basic science.

Clear, succinct, explains everything really well. I wish all my texts were this easy to understand.

My problem with this book is that the review questions at the end of each chapter use terminology and concepts that are not introduced in the chapter's text. Often the concepts in the text are referred to with different terminology in the questions, making them unnecessarily confusing. For example, in 2.3 "particle density" is used to refer (I assume) to the concept of "solids density" presented in the chapter. Also in the same problem, the concept of "air-filled porosity" is used but is not presented anywhere else in the text. There are many such examples to be found. I found myself wondering if this were a ploy to force people to buy the solutions manual.

These University of California, Davis, professors have provided a most useful addition to remediation study resources with this text. They designed it for use in an introductory course on remediation of soil and groundwater contaminated by organic compounds. Petroleum compounds are a prime example of those organics. The text has been "vetted" by environmental engineering students at Davis over a five-year period. The NST/Engineers, Inc. reviewers consider knowledge of bioremediation principles to be a requirement of students in environmental science or engineering. This book is an excellent choice as a study text or as a reference for practicing engineers. Problems, discussion questions, and references follow each chapter. Sample problems are worked-out within the chapters.

Following an introductory overview, the authors cover background material in five chapters. The soil environment is explained. A triangular soil classification graph displays the classes of soil texture, rated according to the proportions present of sand, clay, and silt. Additionally, the authors treat the effects of soil gases, moisture, porosity and other factors on the fate (destruction or preservation) and transport of contaminants through soil bodies. Methods are presented for calculating the distribution of organics between soils and liquids, and between liquids and vapors. The use of Henry's Law is featured for the latter. (Incidentally, a recent reference that will be helpful in providing measured data and best estimates for transport and physical properties of representative organics is "Chemical Properties Handbook" by Carl L. Yaws (McGraw-Hill, 1999).)

Two chapters, "Microbial Ecology" and "Metabolism and Energy Production", provide basic information on types of microorganisms, stimulating cell growth, and maintaining cell health. This emphasis on biological basics highlights the greater contemporary importance of biological than chemical and other methods of destruction of organic contaminants in soils. Attention is focused on bacteria, the most abundant group of microorganisms in soil and groundwater; also the group that plays the major role in biodegrading toxic and otherwise offensive organic contaminants.

A chapter is devoted to the chemical reactions occurring during biodegradation, such as oxidation, hydrolysis, bond rupture, and dehalogenation.

In the final four chapters, the authors explain the engineering tasks involved in applying the fundamental principles covered in the earlier chapters. They describe the characteristics of in-situ treatment, and then solid-phase, slurry-phase, and vapor-phase bioremediation. In-situ treatment can be highly favored over removal of soil or water to an off-site location for treatment because of economic, schedule, logistic, and other constraints. Providing balance, the inherent difficulties of in-situ work are also covered. There are always some uncertainties about: subsurface soil structure, water bodies, and contaminant distribution. Factors involved in the major remediation methods of: "pump, treat, and injection", "air sparging", and "bioventing" are covered.

A chapter on "Solid Phase Bioremediation" covers the landfarming ( spreading soil to be treated no more than a few feet deep over large land areas) and composting options. In composting systems, various types of covered piles of contaminated soils are maintained with control of nutrients, moisture, oxygen content, and temperature. "Slurry Phase Bioremediation" is something like stirred-tank reactor processing in the chemical industry with microbes replacing catalysts. Microbes and their nutrients, and catalysts and their supports, must be carefully chosen. With proper operation to prevent microbe death and catalyst poisoning or deactivation, both materials may be used in the next batch or in continuous operation. The reactors are large, enclosed, storage tanks provided with feed and discharge ports, agitation, and temperature control. Slurry phase work is also shown to be amenable to existing uncovered, lagoons when contaminant volatilization is not a problem. Floating agitators have been used in those cases.

The last chapter describes, and provides designs and parameters for, "Vapor Phase Biological Treatment". VOCs are almost always present in the off-gases of soil or groundwater treatment. The authors summarize the pros and cons of currently used vapor-phase pollution control technology, such as adsorption and thermal and catalytic oxidation. They then present the case for "biofilters" or "biotrickling" filters. The former has microbes kept alive with nutrients and supported on various kinds of media. Off-gas vapors are blown in at the tower bottom, pass through the media, and exit at the top. The latter differs in that water spray is added at the top and nutrient solution is collected at the bottom and is recycled to the top. In either case, operation must control plugging of the media and thereby prevent a high vapor delta P through the column.

A useful Appendix table provides properties, including Henry's Law constant at 20 deg.C, for about 80 organics currently found in hazardous wastes.

If you expect finding all the groups of metal and all its's genres in this book .. this is not for you, the book cover only commercial bands and is not a product of investigation, good archive photographs but that's all

This book offers brief descriptions of bands, both mainstream (Metallica, Slayer, Blink 182, Fuel, etc) as well as the not-so-mainstream (Testament, Nebula, Hellhammer, Dream Theater, etc). Gives details on how the band was formed, the line-up (including their stage names), their influences, where they came from, and what other bands they have played in. I thought this was a very nice reference/encyclopedia book that covers the past 30 years. But be warned, it is not that informative if you are trying to research bands. If you want more detailed information, look elsewhere or buy separate books.

Let me start off by saying that I was disappointed when I started reading this book. What I was hoping for was a well written, constructed and documented book talking about the major policy points of the Reagan administration and the mature Democratic response to the issues. Instead what the author has given the reader is basically a reprint of selected speeches, letters to supporters and op-ed pieces, all by year. Given that I had the book and the author is a rather good writer I kept reading and it turned out I was the better for it.

What I found was some very interesting, but short arguments against certain Reagan era policies mainly focused on the deficit and missile programs. The arguments were not knew if you have read some on the Reagan years and the predictions are proving to be on the money as the years go by. It was interesting, given the author's history and position, his view of the 80's and some of his arguments were not what I would have expected from a Democrat. Given these few positives I finished the book but ended thinking that I gained very little from reading it. If you are a huge fan of the Senator or just want a starter book on the arguments against some of the Reagan positions then you might enjoy the book, if you have read a number of books on the topic then you will be disappointed.

The master shows his metal.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan shows that there was mature dissent during the Reagan years. Mature in that he took on the Reaganites on there own terms and avoided the simplistic ranting of those who saw no problem with the explosion of government during the 1970's.

Moreover, this collection serves as an encyclopedia of political wit (see the Gridiron Club address), prophecy (i.e. triple digit deficits and the fall of the Soviet Union), and the function of government.

Highly recommended for those seeking sophisticated agruments to demonstrate that Reagan and "Reaganism" did not have a positive influence on this country.

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While lacking in detail, I have found this book a good place to start when it comes to safety equipment and strategies for handling other problems with volatile organic chemicals. In this industry specialization is rare. Engineers need a place to start so that they can get the language right before proceeding to the internet and vendors. The worked-out problems are good but you will find you need to go to the source for details. As I said, a good place to start.

Wonderful overview of the history of cults around America. Cohen seeks to inform! His skeptal approach to the histeria and myths of cults is refreshing. He trys (I think sucessfully) to explain, "what is a cult?", "who joins a cult and why?". He discusses witchs, satanic cults, mind control and brainwashing. This book was written in easy to understand language, not a book for theologens but for the everyday person hoping to understand the history and psycholocy of cults.

I liked the book. Although listed as "young adult" I found it to have sufficient substance to be satisfying fare...even though I am far from "young".

I was particularly fond of his treatment (OK, his opinions) of occult and witchcraft. Those two subjects make fantastic newpaper copy and the stories throw long shadows.

I think the book would be much stronger with a slightly different organization. As a parent, I am particularly interested in "cult-proofing" my children. Unfortunately, that material is sprinkled over many chapters.

I strongly encourage Mr. Cohen to develop a "quick test" that young adults can use as a litmus test when approached by possible Branch Davidians. The test (list) would not require absolute accuracy. The objective of the test is to separate wolves from sheep, not to identify sub-species of wolf.

A short biography of Daniel Boone (1734-1820) written by James Daughtery for children, probably for ages 10-14. It won the 1940 Newbery Medal for best contribution to American children's literature. This was a good biography when it first appeared, but better ones have been published since 1939.

In a nonfictionalized text and bold illustrations, the author not only portrays the famous American trailblazer, but provides an authentic picture of pioneer life at the beginning of the great Westward movement. The biography begins with Boone's youth in Pennsylvania and closes on the day he died in Missouri at the age of eighty-six.

Appropriate emphasis is put on Boone's important role in the opening up and settlement of Kentucky. Boone proved to be the ideal man for this time. The author's style, vigorous and simple like the subject's life conveys the pioneer spirit and suggests the frontier speech without reproducing the idiom in tedious detail. The lithographs of pioneers and Indians--done in black, brown and forest green--enhance the epic proportions of the narrative.

I personally say liberskind in person at a lecture of his and was astonished by the magnitude and precision of his works, the ideas and making of his buildings give great testament to an awesome architect, BUY IT!! great buy full of information

This is a very good documentation of an extraordinary and important museum. The building itself is a critical intervention in the German cultural landscape and in the history and art history of that country. It could and should change the way we think about art museums and about the connections between art and history. Daniel Liebeskind is the architect of the Jewish Musuem in Berlin, and there, too, he is reimagining the museum building as a physical and psychic intervention. Felix Nussbaum was a German artist of the late 1920s and 1930s, before being murdered at Auschwitz. He was a figurative painter who did some very profound and moving self-portraits, which captured the pervasive fear of a Jewish artist living in hiding from the Nazis. The Nussbaum Museum in Osnabruck is a difficult building for a difficult art; it is also difficult to describe, even in photographs. This book does an admirable job, and is lavishly illustrated. The text is informative but somewhat uncritical, and some floorplans would have been a great help. But at the same time, Liebeskind's own diagrams and drawings are included, and these are works of Deconstructivist architecture in and of themselves. This building should be as widely know and regarded as Frank Gehrey's Guggenheim in Bilbao.

The Digital Designer is interesting in that its kind of a survey of who was hot, or doing something in New Media in 1997. Many of the people in this book have no other reason for being in it other than the fact that they are friends of the primary writer, Daniel Drennan. Drennan spent many years as a participant in the ECHONYC.COM BBS system in New York City. It was there that he forged most of these acquaintances.

The book might have been more interesting if he had looked farther afield for his content.

Having worked in digital design and education for nearly ten years I found this book to be interesting and informative. I recommend it to my students as it is broad in its scope and in the work analyzed. In the fast-changing "new media" world many of the individuals interviewed have gone on to do other works/projects of worth. (As a one-time member of Echo, I'm not sure what the other reviewer means -- very few individuals listed were ever Echo members. My guess is that acquaintances were forged professionally and through the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU.)