Compilation of various essays written by various experts about Thomas Jefferson life and his politics as well as his psyhcology.
It is not a biography but you will get all from this book, his life, his times, his politics, his philosophy. One learn many interesting things about this president and some unexpected suprises.His thought about woman and slavery, liberty, politics.

Nowhere in print will you find such a variety of topics, approaches, and attitudes toward the subject in a book about Thomas Jefferson. From Paul Finkelman to Joyce Appleby, these essays by the leading historians of the early republic, plus others like Finkelman, span the gamut. Buy it, you'll like it!

I'm in editor Peter Onuf's Jefferson class at the Univeristy of Virginia and this book is on the required reading list for the class. This book is an outstanding collection of essays on Jefferson the man, the forces that motivated him, and the development of the American nation during his lifetime as affected by the man. The scholarship involved approaches the subject matter from many different perspectives giving a very diverse representation. If you want to learn a wide range of points of view on Jefferson's life, this is the ideal book.

The story of a lonely woman caught between love and propriety, self-sacrifice and self-interest, "Two on a Tower" is one of the saddest novels I've read. I kept hoping for a description of a blissful-but-brief interlude for Viviette, but it never materialized. Instead, unhappiness dogged her to the novel's cruel end. Yes, cruel. The final event in the book was an unnecessary stroke. Also, while I usually accept a character's actions, I cannot believe that Viviette NEVER anticipated becoming pregnant. The possibility certainly haunted ME from the moment her secret marriage took place. For all of it's sadness, however, the story is engaging and provides a criticism of the unforgiving social conventions of Hardy's time.

Two on a Tower was the 11th Thomas Hardy's 14 novels that I have read. Hardy can be depended upon to paint a vivid picture of the characters' environment, and their relationships to it, but this time with a twist: One of the two characters being an astronomer, most of the environmental descriptions are of the heavens, and are wonderfully appropriate for the characters' actions and 'aspects'.
Hardy had a gift of creating characters who are fascinating in their personalities and actions, and together with the environmental descriptions, reading his novels is just one step away from watching a really good movie of the story.
Of all Hardy's varied characters, I felt the most sympathy for the two on the tower. Viviette has a great need for love and is selfless in giving it. Swithin, a somewhat naive and literate scientist, is at the same time a tender and faithful lover. Of all Hardy's stories, I hoped that this one would somehow have that "happy ending", and I suffered uncounted times for both characters.
I highly recommend this book for emotional involvement, though it may tear you apart to read it!
I would also recommend another of Hardy's lesser known novels The Woodlanders, which I understand was his own favorite story, and remains mine also.

Beautifully written, Thomas Hardy goes all out to make the reader see, hear, and smell every scene in this book. From begining to end, you never know what's going to happen next, and just when you think the story is calming down, Hardy throws a swerve your way. Great surprises, not predictable at all.

Hardy perhaps one of the better describers of setting of his time, shows once again, why books were so highly read back in his age.

Thomas once again delivered another great book of sadness, happiness, pregnancy and marriage. Although the story is mostly sad, it is still a great book, especially for those who have read previous Hardy books. A great read.

This is my 11th book by Cook and it is very readable, but it is not his best book. It is very sad, considering that the main female died in the beginning and Corman spends the rest of the time trying to get to the bottom of the mystery. Add his personal situation plus the other people in his world and it is worthy of tears. I learned a lot about the underbelly of New York nightlife. But the more recent TC books are much more interesting and mysterious. PS I wish he would get another picture on his book jackets. He looks like a street person. But maybe that's what he wants to look like.

Thomas Cook is most known for his small town mysteries-- except for a couple of books starring Atlanta cop Frank Clemons.

But this atmosphere drenched, big city noir is a perfect example of the genre. A free lance photographer is determined to solve the mystery of a beautiful woman who jumped from a high rise to her death. As he becomes obsessed with the case, he is determined to prove that she did not commit suicide.

The City When it Rains is to noir novels what "Laura" and "Vertigo" are to the movies. This is a masterful book about the risk of chasing a dream. About the balance of risking too much through negligence and of risking too little in the name of love.

Thomas Cook's popularity has risen with his terrific books like "Breakheart Hill" and "The Chatham School Affair." Someone should take that opportunity to reprint this, his finest work.

Passed CIW exam 1D0-420 & 1D0-425 scoring 90% for each.
I found the book very easy to read & a concise Study Guide (at times maybe TOO concise). The Site Design-Part 1, covered all the exam objectives with good explanations. However I felt that the E-Commerce - Part II, fell short of covering 2 aspects of the exam objectives, namely Catelog Design & relating OPI-OBI standards.

All in all, I would recommend this book to anyone striving to pass the above CIW exams.

A very concise must have book that condenses the material down into what you really need to know to obtain high CIW grades. It helped me pass the Site Designer exam with a 93 and E-Commerce with an 83. The Assessment Test at the beginning of the book gave me a very accurate look at what I needed to concentrate on but I read every page too. Especially helpful were the chapter summaries, exam essentials, and key terms at the end of every chapter which exactly pinpointed what I needed to learn. Also, the questions with answers at the end of every chapter were very exam like and perfect for practice exams when not near a computer. I took the book everywhere. But I also spent many hours with their Sybex EdgeTest Engine on the included CD simulating the exam until my scores were passing. I tried out the included flashcard feature, too, but much preferred the multiple choice format. Since this is their first edition, it does have some typos and a few questions with errors but they were very easy to spot and fix. Many thanks to the author, publisher, and to Amazon.

its got it all. this book has a wide collection of wonderful text on the history, use, politics, future, and concepts of surveilence. its like a text book, but its not. the only complaint i have is the foot notes are in the middle of the pages in a ligher font and it makes it kind of hard to read the actual text on the page. and they have these red lines all over the place in the background of the text. good book, bad layout.

Have you ever wanted a book that not only informs and educates you about surveillance and social control, but also offers you visual examples and responses from a varied and unusual selection of academics, journalists, artists, film-makers and more? I may be unusual, but I know I have!

CTRL [SPACE] offers not only new artwork and new articles from important researchers and theorists like Lev Manovich and Peter Weibel, including a fascinating piece on the links between the eye of God and modern surveillance by Astrid Schmidt-Burkhardt, but also: reprints of classic pieces from the likes of Foucault, Virilio, Deleuze, extracts of work on the cold war and computing by Paul Edwards and top-class investigative journalism on the NSA's Echelon system by Duncan Campbell, descriptions of efforts to resist surveillance from groups like the Surveillance Camera Players and the Institute for Applied Autonomy, and reconsiderations of both artistic, architectural and philosophical contributions to surveillance theory from Bentham to Warhol and Yoko Ono.

Although, it features almost no contemporary work from the field of surveillance studies (David Lyon, Gary Marx, Clive Norris et al.) it is a combination of sourcebook and idiosyncratic lucky-dip of contemporary surveillance discourses. This book is MIT Press at its best: it is beautifully-produced and does full justice to the work of the artists and commentators featured in the exhibition upon which it is based. The only slightly irritating feature about its otherwise admirable design is the use of intertextual footnotes in light grey, which are sometimes hard to read.

Altogether - recommended and worth it even at this price.

Everyone should give this book a go. Fal goes on a quest and on the way discovers a lot of things he never knew.........

Man, this was one good book. I've read it 3 times and I'm in the process of reading it again! I love the way the story is layed out, it doesn't jump around too much and there's plenty of action and intrigue to keep the reader interested. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes true fantasy stories with magic, dragons, and plenty of humor. Another interesting thing about this book is that some of the songs sung in the book are accompanied by actual music in the back for those adventurous enough to try them out. I haven't done that yet, but I imagine they are just as much fun as the book!

There is hardly any significant fact about viruses that missed-out in this edition of "Fields Virology". Page after page, this sound all-inclusive reference doles out authoritative information on both viruses and viral syndromes. From taxonomy to etiology, metamorphosis to replication; the analyses of this text is grand. The same applies to its attached CD-ROM. Its practical outlook was intended to benefit both microbiologists and pathologists. Bernard Fields and his colleagues made their mark with this book. It is a great effort.
However, most botanist may not be pleased to know that little attention was paid to plant viruses. Again, many potential buyers may be demoralized by the rather high price that this virology-set demands.

It covers all fields of virology. Perfect and wonderful ! Easy to understand. I really recommend this book to who is involved in biology

"We are like the body, which needs all its parts to work. We are like the fingers of the hand." These were the early, impassioned words of the apparently soulless doyenne of the garment trade who is found murdered--and mutilated by the severing of her hand--in her sophisticated apartment. The case comes to Frank Clemons, as he anticipates: "He didn't know what he'd been waiting for but only that when it came, it would be wrapped in something else, that he wouldn't recognize it until, like a hand in the dark, it suddenly gripped him from behind." The wrapping turns out to be the garment trade itself, and the grip is the long, hidden past of a woman who appeared to have no past. Clemons' investigations lead him back into the lives of garment workers in the 30s, the world of women and men who "worked their fingers to the bone" and ultimately, to the continuing injustices done against workers in our own day. As always, Cook shows himself to be an extraordinarily fine writer, casually shedding incandescent images the way a welder's torch sheds sparks. His main character, Frank Clemons, is a man suffering from the deepest alienation. Grey is his color, night his time, dullness his tone of voice. He represents the determination to mourn truthfully for his own daughter, a suicide victim, and also for the victims of crimes he has solved in the past. There is integrity in his stance, as against his lover's determination to fuzz the edges of her own grief with material comforts and pastel colors. But one has to be grateful that Clemons picks up an exotic and witty sidekick in Farouk, whose fatalism is lifted by a certain joy in companionship and the human condition. If the novel has a flaw, it's that a host of characters cross the stage, do one stunningly informative turn, and then disappear, never to be seen again. To Cook's credit, he endows each with individuality, and the story strung together on this series of encounters is fascinating--even a little fantastic toward the end--but never outright unbelieveable. What remains most moving is the image of the victim as a young woman, speaking out in the cold, a defiant fist raised for justice. Cook's antihero does justice to her--brings all her life together, like the fingers of the hand.

Thomas H. Cook is an above the average mystery/detective author. His descriptions of environment, human emotions, and situations outdo most modern writers. This is one of his best novels centered around the main character who has appeared in his other novels: Frank Clemens, a former policeman from Georgia who is now in New York City functioning as a private detective. Frank Clemens, himself, is a unique star in that his personality is a dark, brooding one, with dominant and admirable traits of honesty, loyalty, and commitment. He demonstrates a deep desire and need to undestand and unfold the lives of the people he investigates, digging into the depths of their souls, and bringing to light their passions, weaknesses and strengths. In this novel, Clemens teams up with Farouk, who along with Frank investigate the murder of a garment industry worker who rose from sewing machine operator in the 30's to a major consultant in a firm upon her murder. Her murder is a little different in that her right hand has been severed at the wrist and is missing. Frank is hired by the head of the design company to find a next-of-kin for this woman, Hannah Karlsberg, who seems to have no past. What Frank and Farouk unravel is a long trail of murder, suicide, rape, corruption, revenge and forbidden love. An exciting book, I read it in 2 days, not being able to put it down. The ending is a "sure to grab you" twist you'd never figure out until the last few pages. Exceptional!!!

This book is based on the true life experiences of two girls who accompanied their whaling families aboard whaling vessels at the end of the ninteenth century. Their experiences are combined in this fictional journal chronicling a character's life at sea.

The girl's voice is vivid and real, her experiences easy to imagine.

The illustrations sometimes try to look like a child's ink sketches in a diary and sometimes are double-page color depictions of incidents in the book.

I think the placement of the glossary at the beginning is great. I enjoyed the author's note at the end also.

Nine-year-old Laura, daughter of a whaling captain, has never even seen her parents' home in New Bedford, Massachusetts. She was born on the Sandwich Islands (present-day Hawaii) and has lived most of her life there. But now, her father has decided that the whole family will join him on this voyage home to Massachusetts. So Laura, her mother, and her seven-year-old brother board her father's ship and sail north to the Arctic, where they must face excitement, danger, and long days of boredom before they can return home. This book featured lovely drawings and was told through Laura's diary entries. Laura's character was based on two real daughters of whaling captains, Laura Jernengan and Mary Williams. This is a good book for younger readers interested in historical fiction.

I used Online Law as a reference for my E-Commerce project at the community college. It covered all the important topics in great detail. The book is organized like a textbook, so it is easy to find the information you need. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in doing business on the Internet.

Any book on "online law" that was published in 1996 is going to include _some_ things that are out of date. Nevertheless this volume has held up extremely well. And it was written by a group of attorneys who know their stuff in both law and technology.

The coverage is thorough. A short introductory chapter explains what's "new and different" about online law; then a second chapter gives an overview of the legal issues that affect e.g. websites and e-commerce.

After that, the books breaks out into subheadings, each including multiple chapters on specific topics. Part I covers information security; Part II, online transactions; Part III, intellectual property rights in electronic information; Part IV, the regulation of informational content; Part V, the regulation of online conduct. As if that weren't enough, there's an appendix that provides a quick overview of cryptography. (If you think you might actually need to work with the stuff, you'll eventually want to invest in Bruce Schneier's book. But this is a good intro.)

As I said, some of it is a _little_ out of date. There's a lot of talk, for example, about modifications to the Uniform Commercial Code that were under debate in 1996; and of course any book written in 1996 can't take account of, e.g., the Digital Copyright Clarification and Technology Act of 1997, let alone the final outcome of _New York Times v. Tasini_. But the underlying legal issues haven't changed much, and this volume is still about as good an introduction as you'll find.

If you want a solid grounding in the law relating to information technology, supplement this book with Jonathan Bick's _101 Things You Need to Know About Internet Law_ and you'll be in good shape. If you want to specialize in this field there are other books you'll want too, but by the time you need them you'll know what they are.