I think this is the 3rd edition of this book, and is a must have for gun owners living, working, or traveling in New York State. It contains all of the laws related to firearms and related matters, as well as commentary on interpretation of the law and some previous court decisions. A must have to stay legal.

If you read this book in conjunction with Kent Bowen's Harvard Business Review article 'Decoding the DNA of the Toyota Production System (Sept. Oct. 1999) you will get more out of both. The language and case studies are a little different, but the purpose is the same: to develop a system to utilize the scientific method in problem solving at every level of the organization. This book can take you through this complex world and tie together all the fragments we've been studying for years. Whether it's called lean manufacturing or operating systems or TQM, they are all systems that tie tools together in a common purpose. Understand: (1) how to tie it together, (2) how to teach and learn about it, and (3) how to implement it. This isn't a book with just one idea rehashed over and over; the devil is in the details, and this is filled with useful details that have been tested and proven effective. Before you set about trying to change or design your organization, read this book first. The only thing that I would have liked to see to make it better is a chapter on Toyota, the most benchmarked Integrated Management System in the world.

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Blackstone Audio has given me an assortment of Audio Books to review and each time I have thoroughly enjoyed what I heard. This audio book is certainly no exception to that rule. Living Biographies is a great look into 20 of the most famous rulers in history.

From the rise and fall of Solomon to Julius and Augustine Caesar and their reigns of power and conquest, you'll feel as if you are right there with them. Listen as Kubla Kahn takes the vicious Kahn tradition and becomes a more gentle ruler.

Hear how Henry VIII rids himself of his wives as he tires of them; hear how Queen Elizabeth rose to power and Catherine the Great takes control of the Russian empire. Listen as Montezuma and the Aztecs are invaded by Cortez.

Stories of Ivan the Terrible's reign of bloody terror to Stalin revolution to Mussolini's total dominance of Italy to Hitler's rule of mass genocide, you'll simply be amazed. The 6 1½ hour cassettes are easy to play while driving, making your trips go a little faster. Well done!

A very rare book that brings Heart and Soul as well as Intellect to the reviewing table. In consequence Neitzsche and Schopenhauer are completely debunked, whilst Plato, Socrates, Hume, Kant et al are rightly given their due positions on the high table. Easy to read, easy to digest, fascinating and luminous. This book could save you hundreds of hours you might otherwise have spent unnecessarily wading through dense philosophical tomes. There is nothing else quite like it, when it comes to understanding the western philosophers in an objective context. It is both truly astonishing and a sad reflection of the times that no one else has reviewed this book before.

I found that this book was the most authenic and has easy to follow instructions. The foods were wonderful just like my mom would make. The author who is the cooking school instructor at the time she wrote this book knows that people need to see how the food is made and how the finished product should look. By giving step by step instructions with pictures it was very easy to try the recipes. I've ordered her first book in the series healthful korean cooking and can't wait to recieve it.

Very often the way to best care for the patient with heart disease leads through the department of cardiac surgery. It is obvious that a good understanding of the surgical possibilities, the surgical indications and contraindications is mandatory to the cardiologist. This "Overview" paves the way for such an understanding. Important general issues are addressed like anaestesia for cardiac surgery, cardiopulmonary bypass, and myocardial protection. Special areas such as CABG, HOCM, the valves (native and prostetic), pericardium, congenital heart disease, transplantation, complications of acute myocardial infarction, endocarditis, and reoperation. The book however does not go into other important aspects of the relation between cardiologists and cardiac surgeons such as "what does the cardiac surgeon need to know in details from the TEE" and "what insight in surgical technic is necessary for the cardiologist to have when attending the patient with postoperative complications". The goal of the book however "is to help nonsurgeons answer their own questions about common cardiac procedures, and to help prepare these physicians to address the questions raised by their patients". It is very well-written and very easily read. It is a little dated though and a new edition should be very appropriate.

This book provides practical and useful lessons as well as important information about teaching at the middle school level.

Of all of the meditation books specifically for men, and there really are a number of them, A Quiet Strength is by far my favorite! While it has an issue and meditation for each of the 366 days, I prefer to look up an issue I am dealing with in the index and, every time, I get very pertinent advice. Now and then I leaf quickly through the pages, stopping abruptly and read the section I have stopped on. It always seems to be very pertinent to what is happening in my life at the time. This is well worth the time to search for a copy and encourage (them) to reprint. Your life and those around you will be much the better for it....

The author (my father) shows that no groups of white people (Irish, Jews, Italians, etc.) have ever in the United States faced any sort of appreciable discrimination in terms of housing, employment, access to public facilities, or education. In contrast, blacks all over the US have faced severe, organized, legally enforced discrimination on all these essential fronts. However, most white ethnics have created for themselves the myth they their predecessors overcame the same sorts of obstacles faced by blacks. My father's elders had a phrase they used to demean black people: "We made it, why can't they?" My dad wrote this book as a PhD candidate in history at the University of Chicago. He examined two of the claims of his elders: (1) Just like Chicago's enormous black ghetto, the city had many white ghettos (i.e., ones for Irish, ones for Italians, ones for Jews, etc.); and (2) just like blacks, members of these white ethnic groups faced severe discrimination in their attempts to elevate their lots in life. What my father discovered is that claims of white ethnic ghettos and discrimination are purely mythical. None of the ethnic neighborhoods contained a majority of any particular white ethnic group. He found, for example, some supposed "Italian" neighborhoods would contain more, say, Jews than Italians, and vice versa. (He writes that his mother told him she had been raised in a Jewish neighborhood, but that the census data revealed her contained more Irish than Jews during the time she lived there.) He also found that for jobs and education, there really was no effective discrimination against any groups of white people. (Enrollment caps against Jews at Harvard or strictures against Jews at country clubs being minor exceptions that look quite silly compared to the discrimination faced by blacks banned from public elementary schools and union jobs.) He found for example that businesses with "Irish need not apply" or "No Jews Allowed" in fact employed Irish and served Jews. Ultimately, he showed discrimination among white ethnics against each other are most usefully viewed as resulting from ethnic rivalries in which all the participants "win", in terms of achieving full US citizenship and all the rights and privileges that go along with that. One of those rights and privileges turns out to be a subordination of these rivalries in the name of discriminating against blacks, of denying them full US citizenship. All white ethnic groups, according to my father's research, have throughout history united together to ban blacks (but not each other-with the rare and ultimately insignificant exception) from their places of employment, from their neighborhoods, from their schools, from their public facilities, their professional societies, from their families (i.e., intermarriage), from their political parties, and from their public institutions (i.e., voting, testifying in court, holding office). Granted, you can argue that blacks have in recent years have overcome all these bans (though my father didn't necessarily think so). However, no groups of whites have ever been faced any of these bans. I regard this book as essential for understanding why white immigrants have succeeded as a whole, whereas blacks have not.