I bougth this book to read about new features in java 1.1. Well, what I found is only a simple intro to each of new java 1.1 concepts. The idea isn't bad but isn't used in the best way.

Currently out of print, this book deals with missionaries sent out by individual congregations. A later mission book still in print by this author is the Paul and Barnabas Syndrome published by Star Bible in Ft. Worth. This book deals with the formation and maintenance of mission teams.

I'm usually fairly open minded about stuff and give writers lots of space to engage in what might is obviously their particular discourse of interest. However, the movie The Mission and this companion journal by Daniel Berrigan fall into the same trap that they are setting out to either make apologies about or to reverse.

From reading this book, it is clear that the center of the movie is not an examination of the missions but the examination of the Mendoza/Gabriel duo and the whole Jesuit discourse. What is absent in this book is a lucid examination of the effect that the Jesuits had on that and just about every part of the world.

Where is the examination of the Guarani as a subject with agency and voice? As in the movie, virtually absent. As an examination of a Jesuit take on things - this reads like the manual. Berrigan is the poster boy of Liberation Theology for a reason - his blind adherence to a discourse that was full of contradiction, self interest, and politics as opposed to the amorphous agape they purport to preach. The Jesuits really need to take a long hard look inside and see that movies like The Mission, Black Robe, etc. do more harm to their image - when actually examined.

As a research tool, I give it the thumbs up. It is full of insight on what Berrigan whishes to expound on but it is not a full and comprehensive analysis of the movie. Since the mechanism of truth creation is a factor of who says what and Berrigan does carry a lot of weight as an "ex-activist". The Mission: A Film Journal reads like a travel diary a naive and inexperienced writer would even consider publishing or is it a monument of narcissism. You be the judge.

Miguel Llora

Namco is the king of the classic games like Pacman who would want to see Ms. Pacman on Nintendo 64 and buy a guide?? She got her 3-D 64 game before Pacman [Mr.] But the truth is that Ms. Pacman Maze Madness is a brand new puzzle/exploration style game. There are 12 areas spread over 4 worlds and many secrets to unlock. You're still going to munch more than 200 pellets per stage but experience is so different. There's a deep plot and the difficulty is only intermediate making the guide pretty useless. Don't sweat it since you can STILL play the classic **Ms.** Pacman. Not that the bow will makes much of a difference, there's a build to this style of game. The exploration may not be deep or engrossing, but besides who wants to use a guide to completely spoil all the secrets??

Whereas I am always greateful when new Holmes stories are released, particularly in anthology form, and as long as they do not deal with utterly bizarre places or events, I found that these stories were rather lack-luster. Within the first three days I had the book, I read through five pieces, none of which were as remarkable as I hoped they would be. The usual contributors are here, and one can usually expect outstanding entries by Loren D. Estleman and Edward B. Hoch, but here their stories are as flat as the rest. Hopefully in their next effort, the writers will write more engaging tales.

If your child is a horse lover, she is sure to enjoy the lovely illustrations found in this book: wild mustangs galloping through the canyon, Little Pinto being nuzzled by his mother, a fierce encounter between the herd's leader and an intruder stallion. The pictures have more action in them than the plot actually does. There isn't much of a story. What was nice, though, was the glossary of equestrian terms at the back of the book. The author uses "grown-up" words such as "roan" in the story, and the reader can flip to the back to look up the meaning of unfamiliar words. It's a good way for a child to become more educated about basic horse terms. Overall, I'd say this book is a pleasant book with wonderful pictures of the amazing creatures that wild horses are.

The idea behind this book is a good one: Moynihan attempts to bring light to the ethnic troubles that plagued the world at the time of publication in the early 1990s (which seem to have become even more acute now) by delving into some of the origins of this problem. He essentially focuses on two themes: ethnicity, ethnic identity and the persistence and predominance of ethnic loyalties (as opposed to class loyalties); and national self-determination, particularly how to define this term and the international legal conundrums this concept has caused since it first became a part of mainstream political parlance about a century ago. In its initial sections, the book does succeed in shedding some light on the role of ethnicity and self-determination in the political history of the last hundred or so years, and how essential they have been to international relations, even if often ingored by mainstream scholarship-especially during the cold war-which tended to focus almost exclusively on ideology and political "realism" a la Henry Kissenger (which, as Moynihan points out, was far from realistic). Perhaps the best thing about this book is that is offers a good introduction to the problems of ethnicity in international politics, and provides an excellent reference list of sources for further reading on the subject. As an introduction, however, it suffers from being superficial at times. At times it seems as though Moynihan implicitly accepts the "primordial" thesis on ethnicity and nationalism, for he cites without critical commentary the all-too-common lament of many journalists and other armchair experts who bewail the "ancient ethnic hatreds" burning in some remote corners of the world. He doesn't really look into the fact that ethnicity politics and the ensuing nationalism tend to be the product of contemporary political agitation which often have little to do with historical fact. Although he mentions the general multiethnic harmony of certain pre-nationalist communities, e.g. in Central Europe, he doesn't really go anywhere with this. This the general fault of this book: its disjointed approach. At times Moynihan goes into excessive detail on certain examples while skimming over other cases. In addition, the text is riddled with extensive quotations (some as long as two to three pages) of other works or his own previous works on this subject. Since the book was based on a lecture delivered at Oxford in 1991, I can only assume that he rather hurriedly adapted the text for publication. This is unfortunate, for this could have been a really top-notch work on a very important subject.

What struck me most about this book was the ease in which we slip into the mob mentality. Man's brutal nature is exposed when lines are divided and another group is singled out as "the enemy". It's as if war gives us license to commit unspeakably evil acts. I was a student of Dr. Gahan's. It helps to read the book with an Irish accent in your head

As with the vast majority, but not all, books that bite off huge taxonomic groups this one fails to provide detailed updated information on this group but does provide an overview and excellent illustrations. If you desire more than the basics purchase Johnsgard's books or some other title that limits its treatment. If its the basics that you desire its worth the money.

The good news about the book is that it just gets over 100 pages thus you can finish it in a few hours. The first thing that struck me when starting to read this book was that it seamed like a report created for a government Agency that they decided to publish as a book. That is not all bad, it just makes for somewhat flat and dry reading. I really enjoyed the discussion on the current (as of 1999) political and economic issues of the Gulf States. With the current focus on this part of the world it is interesting to read about some of the underling factors to how and why they act the way they do.

The book was not the one source for your Middle East education, but it could be used as a primmer for Middle East reading. It gives the basic facts that many other sources scan over or skip. I especially liked the details on Iran, which proved to be very interesting. The authors made Iran look to be more of a threat then Iraq, with all the trouble they have caused during the 90's via Hezbollah. One hole in the document seams to me to be the complete lack of mention of Al Queda even though the test covers Non State sponsored security issues. I think they were mentioned all of tow times even though the attacks on Americans in Africa and Saudi Arabia were discussed a number of times. Overall the book is interesting but not the one and only book to read on the subject.