read one of the short pieces in this anthology. They are also incredibly uplifting too. A brilliant bedside companion for any dog lover.

Although each of the pieces in this book was inspired by the loss of a much beloved dog, this is really a book about vibrant, fully-alive dogs: family pets, fellow hunters, soul mates, and best friends. And while none of the dogs remembered so fondly here still lives, Old Dogs affirms the remarkably special place in the heart we reserve for our dogs. My own dog is sturdy in her middle-age, but reading the eulogies and odes in this moving anthology has made me appreciate more all the quirky habits I take for granted, like how she can't resist running off with one of my Reeboks when I'm shoeing up for our evening walk--the little prance she performs when I tell her, "Bring the shoe back!" Not a sad read but a celebratory one, required for every dog owner!

This is a remarkable anthology of stories and poems by outstanding authors of the past, as well as more recent times. Although these moving remembrances are only of beloved dogs, the lovers of any species of pet will find identical sentiments for their own losses. Whatever kind of companion animal you had, you will find your own bereavement and healing tears reflected here, as well.

Care was taken to avoid over-sentimentality, in this assortment of loving reflections of dogs, celebrated here. These accounts are full of love, and are sometimes even funny - and we are thrust into the realization that perhaps that is the most wonderful kind of living memorials we can have for a beloved pet. Too often, we lose this perspective, while trying to keep from drowning in our own bereavement and sorrows.

Rather than being a collection of sad literary memorials Old Dogs Remembered is a joyful celebration of life with pets. This inspires healthy new points of view and adjustments to moving on into our new lives, without them.

Here we are treated to many different outlooks on how they permanently enriched the lives of their owners. Reading these heartwarming pages will broaden the understanding of each reader, concerning his/her own personal bereavement. Here, we are offered the collective wisdom of others, who reminisce on their honored pets. There is much to be shared and learned here, as well as enjoyed.

With so many different authors, one must appreciate that references and styles have changed drastically, through the ages. As an example of this, some might find the essay by the dramatist John Galsworthy to be interesting, but a bit troublesome to read. And, as with any anthology, there may be some accounts not everyone would appreciate. But all pet lovers will readily identify with the overall shared remembrances, here. This is a heartwarming collection, which can be enjoyed comfortably, in several installments.

There will be many an uplifting tear shed in its reading, and we suggest it for your reading pleasure.

This is a wonderful book with lots of amazing wolf and landscape pictures. While some people might be disturb by some of the dead animals in the picture, as a animal lover I reckon this book had shown the reality of the nature truthfully, and I really love this book.

This is an excellent book on artic wolves. I enjoyed reading about their lives. If you are not in the mood to read the photos are worth the cost of the book.

Brandenburg's experience shows the wolf as a loving and compassionate family-oriented animal that is as wild at heart as they come. These highly intelligent creatures seemed to stay a step ahead of their distant watchers. This leads to some hilarious encounters and a tear jerking ending. Follow this up with "Brother Wolf."

The first 5 chapters cover the court-martial of Monitor Corps Surgeon-Captain Lioren, who, dissatisfied with the verdict given in the civilian hearing held just before the story opens, has insisted on "its" (actually he, but "it" is polite interspecies usage) right to a court-martial. He's not defending himself; quite the contrary. He's *prosecuting*, and asking for the death penalty, regarding the Cromsag Incident, wherein most of the planet's population died as an indirect result of his treatment; the incident is shown unfolding in flashback, interspersed with the trial.

O'Mara, against Lioren's wishes, is acting as his defender, and argues that his only fault is that his perfectionist standards - Lioren has lived only for his work - have made him far too hard on himself. He actually requested his transfer from Sector General to the Monitor Corps in search of an environment with higher standards of discipline.

Lioren (who loses his fight to commit judicial suicide) has sworn never again to exercise his status as a Resident Physician; the Monitor Corps can't use him. But O'Mara, who abhors waste, claims him as a trainee for the psychology department, in its tradition of taking talented insubordinate misfits under its wing. (See _Code Blue: Emergency_ for the story of how Cha Thrat, the other non-human member of the psychology department and O'Mara's co-counsel in the court-martial, made the same transition.) Note that the psychology department, officially at least, isn't there for the *patients*, but to catch any signs of problems developing among the hospital *staff*, as well as running the Educator tape system that allows physicians of one species to treat patients of another. One of the routine assignments of the department, for example, is to evaluate progress reports from tutors on various trainees. (The Nidian tutor Cresk-Sar, for example, may look like a fluffy red-gold teddy bear, but his reports are so hideously boring that even the penitential Lioren will do almost any other assignment on his plate before wading through them).

White's galactic civilization has non-interference directives, but unlike some other fictional universes, these directives can be waived in light of good sense, as in Cromsag's case, wherein the population was rapidly heading for extinction. But in one case, the decision of whether to interfere with a less developed culture isn't theirs to make, and the hospital now has a *very* uncommunicative member of that species under treatment. But Lioren, whose problems are so much worse than those of any of the patients, and who no longer has any career or dignity left to lose, has begun to develop a certain talent for getting the most unlikely people to speak with him in confidence...

Some long-term patients from previous books appear as Lioren adapts to his new job: Khone (see _Star Healer_), part of the long-term project of treating its/her species' inherited phobias; the Protectors of the Unborn; and Dr. Mannen, who in his old age has fallen from his lordly Diagnostician status to that of patient. The Carmody incident referred to by Braithewaite, incidentally, is from "Sector General" in the collection _Hospital Station_.

IRRELEVANT NOTE: The Bruce Jensen cover art on the 1st US paperback edition is a full-face view of Hellishomar in his ward, complete with the gantries supporting the lights and equipment for the surgical team shown to scale. And you thought *Emily* from _Hospital Station_ was big...

I reviewed "The Genocidal Healer" once, but pieces of the review disappeared somewhere between me and the end product. Here we go again: "The Genocidal Healer" is part of James Whites "Sector General" series. "Sector General" is an enormous hospital ship/space station that is staffed by and serves a multitude of highly divergent intelligent species (including humans). It has been the setting for an entire series of novels by James White, and none of them have been disappointments. This might be the best of the lot, however. On one level, this is a well-written, fun, and exotic future-space story that flows rapidly. It is also a story of redemption and the need to accept imperfection and to settle for mere excellence. The main character is an alien, highly moral, and highly skilled doctor who, in his zeal to cure a plague amongst a just-discovered species that has been almost decimated, almost causes their complete extinction (a few survive). The surgeon, Lioren, is reprimanded, but feels this is too lenient, and seeks the death penalty. Instead, his superiors accept his resignation from medicine and assign him to the psychology department. Through his own tragedy and a study of many religions, he becomes a highly effective "Healer of the Mind" and saves himself along the way. THIS NEEDS TO BE REPRINTED, PLEASE!

I reviewed "The Genocidal Healer" once, but pieces of the review disappeared somewhere between me and the end product. Here we go again: "The Genocidal Healer" is part of James Whites "Sector General" series. "Sector General" is an enormous hospital ship/space station that is staffed by and serves a multitude of highly divergent intelligent species (including humans). It has been the setting for an entire series of novels by James White, and none of them have been disappointments. This might be the best of the lot, however. On one level, this is a well-written, fun, and exotic future-space story that flows rapidly. It is also a story of redemption and the need to accept imperfection and to settle for mere excellence. The main character is an alien, highly moral, and highly skilled doctor who, in his zeal to cure a plague amongst a just-discovered species that has been almost decimated, almost causes their complete extinction (a few survive). The surgeon, Lioren, is reprimanded, but feels this is too lenient, and seeks the death penalty. Instead, his superiors accept his resignation from medicine and assign him to the psychology department. Through his own tragedy and a study of many religions, he becomes a highly effective "Healer of the Mind" and saves himself along the way. THIS NEEDS TO BE REPRINTED, PLEASE!

This tiny leather bound Bible is really potable.
It's beautiful burgandy and has gold edge also.
And I find this "Word of Christ in Red" very usefull.
Concordance, Color Maps, Index to Maps are enough for
a Bible of this size.
I give this five stars.

Come explore the most fantastic journey through mankind's fiery history .. from time immemorial, beginning from the Genesis of the Deity's sparkling creation and all there is - through the Revelation of the foretold eternal yet to come. Find for yourself the Truth about True Love, Eternity, Happiness, and the Journey we call Life ... all within the pages of the Immortal Word.

this bible is my favourite bible i own, it's small and easy to carry to church services, it has a flap which closes on the front, a ribbon to find your place, very helpful cross-references and footnotes in the center margin, book, chapter and verse nos. at top of each bible text page, maps at the back, mini concordance, helpful Preface and "How to use this reference Bible" section, words of Christ in red. But, would like to see an extra page or two in the mini concordance, and map dimensions also in metric (maybe one day in a later edition!) And, being all in modern english, makes the Bible easy to understand and read.-

Grrrrrrrrreat! James White does it again with another interesting story. I like the humour that runs through it.

When I finished this book, I knew that it rated five stars, even though I like "The Genocidal Healer" better. I guess that speaks to how good the "Sector General" series is; they all earn 4.8 to 5 stars.

O'Mara, the Chief Psychologist on a hospital ship/space station called "Sector General", has been a major background player in many previous Sector General novels. Now, he is retiring and, in flashbacks, we get his reminiscences as he prepares to leave a long career. We learn how he became a psychologist, how he became Chief Psychologist, where his gruff demeanor comes from, and many other tidbits that fill in gaps in the Sector General saga.

As with all Sector General novels, this is a fast-paced, well-written book, although there is a confusion of names at one point - Padre Carmody gets called Padre Lioren, or vice-versa. Most of the other Sector General novels proceed in a very linear progression, but this one does not. Going along with its reminiscence style, it jumps around chronologically quite a bit.

I still think "The Genocidal Healer" is the best of the series, but "Mind Changer" is a good, fun book.

Until *Mind Changer* came along, I hadn't realized how much I'd missed by not knowing more about the "nasty" Major O'Mara, even though I liked him. It's time for Major O'Mara to retire, and this book, like O'Mara himself, moves from the present to the past, and back. We learn more about the early days of Sector General and O'Mara's role in bringing about many items that are familiar to the series. Although the final revelation was obvious before chapter 15, that didn't spoil the book. Everything leading up to the end was interesting. I think anyone who cares about O'Mara will be pleased at his fate. [Note to the publisher: On p.217, full paragraph one, Padre Lorien is named, but the context makes it obvious that Padre Carmody is meant. If that IS an error, you may wish to correct it for the paperback.] Ann E. Nichols

As I was going through my inquirer's class in the Episcopal Church, I ran across this book in the local Bible Book Store. It only encouraged me to continue. I absolutely recommend it to everyone interested in Protestant Christianity. For example, I was totally baffled as to why the church I was attending had the choir separated from the congregation and facing each other or a blank wall, in a completely illogical manner. Once I read Professor White's description of the church buildings encouraged after the rather over-ambitious Catholic Revival in the Anglican Communion, I understood. I've also been praying for a fire, but I understand! I would love to worship regularly in a building more influenced by Sir Christopher Wren's architecture, designed for the use of the Book of Common Prayer, not just to pander to someone's misguided nostalgia.
But that is only about one chapter in this comprehensive book. Professor White describes with dispassion and accuracy the worship of virtually all the orthodox, mainline Protestant denominations and their development since the Reformation. If you find this topic interesting, this is an indispensable book.

As one who has studied liturgy at the University of Notre Dame and as one who has had a long interest in Protestant worship traditions, I found Professor White's work exceptional. Few other persons, if any, could pull together so much information from such an array of sources and present it richly in a way that is very understandable. As one who has a library of several hundred books on liturgy, this work would definitely be one of the five or ten that I would keep if I had to get rid of all others.

Ever wonder how different denominations came into existence? where did baptists come from? what is the history of methodism? in a consise chapter on each of the major denominational developments following the reformation, James F. White traces the origins of each denomination, and follows them through to their modern incarnations. excellent for the beginning church historian.

I work and coming home to face a pile of raw ingredients that somehow must be converted into a dinner is pretty depressing sometimes. Besides, I'm hungry too!

Many people don't think of the pressure cooker as a tool for speedy cooking, but you can make delicious stews (try the one in this book, it's wonderful) and other roasts and one-pot dishes really quickly. I really love the steamed chicken; it's so digestible and really delicious. It helps to have this cookbook because it isn't always easy to figure out how to convert a regular recipe to a pressure-cooked version. These recipes never fail. We got a T-Fal pressure cooker and really use it a lot. I even make desserts in it.

I absolutely loved this book. It saved me so much time in the kitchen. The recipes were delightful as well. If you like this book, you'll love Angela Spenceley's two new books "A Taste of the Caribbean" and "Just Add Rum! Cookbook". Both books feature recipes which can be easily adapted to the pressure cooker. A must for any good cook who wishes to add exotic island cuisine to her list of accomplishements.

The recipes in this book are easy to follow and taste wonderful. The Steam-Roasted Chicken (page 83) was falling off the bones and was very tender and juicy. The Low-fat Chicken Cacciatore (page 84) was just as wonderful. I had to buy my sister her own copy so she would quit taking mine.

The first 4 chapters form the novella "Resident Physician". The entire book tells the story of the events that culminated in the Eltan War. The events of a later novel, _Final Diagnosis_, focus on a man who grew up on Etla after the war, so this book should be read before tackling _Final Diagnosis_, if possible.

The Monitor Corps has found a representative of a strange species alone in a drifting spacecraft, under circumstances indicating that it killed and ate its only fellow crewmember - its personal physician - apparently in a fit of paranoia as recorded in its journal, believing that the healer was sabotaging its physical health. Paradoxically, the Ians (the dragonfly-like beings discovered in the last story of _Hospital Station_, the previous volume) insist that the survivor is from their own galaxy, of an immensely long-lived race known to be invariably benevolent, noted for taking over fixer-upper planetary cultures - e.g. wracked by disease, war, and other long-term problems - and leaving them vastly improved. But if the patient didn't commit murder, what happened to its personal physician?

After that mystery is sorted out, the newly encountered VIP continues its journey to its next project: the planet Etla, a troubled outpost of a self-styled interstellar Empire previously unknown to the Galactic Federation. Etla has been wracked with plagues for generations and is subject to the rather corrupt imperial government - it appears to be an ideal candidate for Lonvellin's expert help. But in a fit of xenophobia, they lash out at the stranger in their midst, and leap to the conclusion that all their problems are the result of biological warfare. And the only coordinates invariably installed on every ship, and thus the only "enemy" target the empire can find, are the coordinates of Sector General.

"Resident Physician" is *extremely* clever. The political infighting resulting in the Etlan War is very believable. The only quibble I have is a situation leading to Sector General's translation computer going off-line without the hospital being destroyed in the process - it should be so well protected that it couldn't be so severely damaged without taking the hospital with it - but the incident leads to some very dramatic crises that make a good read.

General: James White wrote a series of novellas and novels about a huge, inter-species hospital space station called Sector General. Sector General is staffed by a variety of different intelligent species, including humans, and treats the hardest cases from all over the galaxy. White seems to delight in generating as varied a population as possible for this ship, and gives great detail about the different physical forms seen in the staff, along with their eating habits, social habits, mating habits (in a very PG, if not G-rated way), and cultural beliefs.

Specific: "Star Surgeon" is one of the earlier Sector General stories. After treating an apparently very ill alien whose species was new to everyone in the hospital, Sector General sends a medical team to Etla in a nearby galaxy. Etla is suffering through decades of disfiguring plagues, despite the "help" of the vast Empire to which it belongs. When the Sector General staff tries to lend some real help, the Empire declares war and goes after the only target it knows of in our galaxy: Sector General. After taking quite a beating, Sector General staff resolve the war in a rather non-standard way.

Technical: James Whites writes with great pace, simple dialogue, good character development, and frequent light humor, while tackling fairly complex plots and issues. While "Star Surgeon" is not the best in the series (I would give that honorific to "The Genocidal Healer"), it is a great introduction to a very enjoyable series of books that spanned several decades.

Senior Physician Conway's latest patient belongs to an unidentified species originating in a neighboring Galaxy. It is in deep coma - and apparently guilty of cannibalism! As Conway explains; the problem is basically something it ate.... Once its medical problems are solved the being, Lonvellin, joins forces with the Monitor Corps, the Galactic Federation's exploration and peacekeeping arm, to bring aid to a newly discovered planet whose humanoid inhabitants suffer from an appalling variety of endemic diseases. Conway is called in to assist but the mission blows up in all their faces and Sector General finds itself in the middle of an all out war. Casualties among the senior staff leave Conway in charge of the medical side while Fleet Commander Dermod leads the forces defending the station, but the odds against the defenders are getting worse all the time. Sector General may not survive. Perhaps my favorite of the whole series.

This book isn't just for enforcement people. For someone like me who isn't a law officer and just wants to understand how terrorists and drug traffickers work, this book is great.

I always thought of terrorism and drugdealing in simplistic terms of what happens in the street. Now I understand how the system works and why our fight is so unsuccessful.

What I learned:
Our laws change slowly in response to rapid innovation by the traffickers and terrorists.

Horse-and-buggy standards for banks like "know your customer" are pointless in a modern world economy.

The worldwide supply of drugs is variegated and impossible to control. As a result, our approach to fighting drugs by cooperating with drug-producing countries is stupid. My guess is that a bread-and-butter approach of customs inspections and death penalty for dealers and launderers would work better. The mindset of modern law enforcement is dead wrong.

As icing on the cake, it was interesting to learn that the Afghanis, Arabs, and Iranians who attack America for our moral degeneration are number 1 in heroin production and smuggling.

A few disappointments:

Richards barely treated terrorists. If he had, his book would have had more mass appeal.

Some of the explanations would have been clearer with flow diagrams.

I still don't understand why layering is so effective. It sounds as if a simple computer trace would unpeel the layers.

This book is not light reading. But if you really want to know how the world works, it's worth the effort!

I became acquainted with James R. Richard's Transnational Criminal Organizations, Cybercrime, and Money Laundering : A Handbook for Law Enforcement Officers, Auditors, and Financial Investigators when it was used as a text in Utica College's Economic Crime Management Master of Science Degree program in the Advanced Economic Crime as well as the Legal Concepts of Criminal Fraud and Corporate Criminal Liability graduate courses. After quickly thumbing through it, I immediately recognized that it truly contains a bounty of useful, pertinent and relevant information.

Extremely well written, it is a well flowing, very easy read that is both highly informative and enlightening. The book provides a very extensive and detailed examination of organized criminal enterprises engaged in international financial crime. The book fully details the specific steps of the placement, layering, and integration stages of money laundering as well as fully itemizing the techniques and uses of non-financial institutions (casinos, securities et al.) in money laundering. The expanded international focus documents a very detailed and thorough examination of the scope of global financial crime. The book fully integrates an expanse of information on banking, money laundering and cybercrime basics, international criminal organizations - in both a national and international context - in a manner that is easily understood by the reader.

As a police officer, I would highly recommend this book as a "must have" for the reference shelf of federal, state, local or corporate based investigators engaged in financial crimes inquiries and analysis. For the non-professional who is interested in organized crime of a more cerebral nature, the book is more than worth the purchase price.

As a side note, Mr. Richards also gives an excellent presentation and lecture on the topics and subject matter covered in his book.

My father wrote this book. Even though I am only eleven years old I already want his job. I love to read and learn and I am very interested in this field. I read his book and I can finally understand what he's talking about at the dinner table! He now tells me about his cases in the car and I love hearing about them. This book helped me learn about things I wouldn't have learned about in college. It really opened my eyes to what was out there. Good work daddy! PS - Your kids books that you wrote for us are just as good! Publish them!

This is a superb, well-rounded historical picture of our Buckeye State Presidents and their families. This book should be required reading for all elementary students help better understand the shaping of our country. Rate this book an 11 on a scale of 1-10.

This is a very readable, entertaining, and enlightening book about eight men Ohio claims as native son presidents -- William Henry Harrison, Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B.Hayes, James Garfield, William McKinley, William Howard Taft, and Warren G. Harding. The author makes a convincing case that they are not rated as highly as they should be. All, for example, stood more for civil rights for African-Americans they other candidates and presidents of their eras who are commonly rated as better presidents. Another theme is the heroism of several of them in the Civil War. Another is their humble demeanor, in marked contrast to such self-promoters as Theodore Roosevelt. This is a well-written revisionist look at Ohio's presidents, written for lay readers with interest in history. Also, it contains many "human interest" facts and anectodes about these presidents, who should not be forgotten.

Author James Cash takes a fresh look at Ohio's presidents. Much maligned and always rated near the bottom of presidential rankings, these leaders, Cash believes, deserve a second look. His book, Unsung Heros, makes the case that they should be seen in a more favorable light. The stories and insights Cash provides about Ohio's presidents make for an entertaining read that will appeal to both the casual and serious historian.