The Eye - Principles and Applications, was found to be an essential tool. Forrester aims (and succeeds) to inform in detail everything a first year university student needs to know about the eye. This is the beauty of the book: It doesn't skim over anything. When you're looking for a book to give more than a general overview, but don't need the complexity a post-graduate may, a book such as this is perfect. The only valid criticism may be that the included diagrams were erratic: some were perfectly presented, but others, whilst correct, were sometimes confusing, especially for students. Overall, a useful book for research and reference.

This book does a great job of capturing London in the post-punk days of 1983. The lead character, Jeff, is an ex-saxophonist now working at a used record store (a la High Fidelity). He's drifting aimlessly, trying to figure out what happened to punk, and what's coming next. Some shit goes down, a co-worker is killed, he's besotted by a woman who keeps coming and going from his life, and his life drifts in and out of contact with an old bandmate, turned semi-big time star. Chock full of bars, junkies, and music industry types, the plot is interesting enough, but the main attraction is the sense of time and place Williams imparts.

A great book for both Christian leaders and lay persons to help understand God's intended purpose for marriage. This book is completely scriptually based.

Review by James M. MacDonald, Economic Research Service, USDA, appearing in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, February 1999, page 252-253.

"Food Processing: An Industrial Powerhouse in Transition," by John M. Connor and W. A. Schiek, is not a textbook, and it doesn't contain much economic analysis: it is best thought of as a data handbook with commentaries.

Connor and Schiek (C&S hereinafter) provide a ready source of numbers on a wide variety of industry topics, and the industrious reader can use the table source citations as a ready research guide to the available industry data sources.

Given the authors' goals and the inevitable space constraints of the book. I don't believe that they could have included more analysis.

On topics that energize them, such as that on food demand and consumer choices in chapter 8, the book does a very nice job of interweaving basic theory, the results of formal demand analyzes, and the information that can be gleaned from item-level supermarket scanner data, while at the same time conveying the strengths and weaknesses of the several data sources for the issues at hand. This section provides a very nice overview on key issues on the demand side of food marketing, and I expect that I'll rely on it frequently. But on other topics, such as the very lengthy chapter on location, the presentation turns repetitive.

One of the book's real strengths lies in its demonstration of the variety of different data sources, aside from the well-known Census of Manufactures, that provide useful support for analyzes of food processing. Experienced researchers as well as managers, analysts, and grad students should be able to mine these pages for new and improved sources of information.

C&S show a keen appreciation of the construction of food demand and consumption measures, along with the strengths and weaknesses of the associated data sets. Similarly, they show a sophisticated understanding of market structure statistics in a short space, and accurately convey the difficulties inherent in attempting to measure rates of new product introductions. But I'd like to see some closer attention paid to the problems of developing useful price indexes.

In general, C&S provide an authoritative one-stop guide to food industry statistics and to the construction of those statistics--the footnotes can almost be lifted out as a separate commentary on data construction. While I wouldn't suggest that anyone should try to read the book through in a few sittings, it should continue to occupy a market niche as an indispensable quick source for anyone relying on food industry statistics.

This book was pretty good. It is about the basics on four wheeling like how to ride and where to ride

Written as a text book for non economists studying environmental management it sets itself the task of providing readers with an understanding of what economics has to contribute to environmental assessment and decision-making. In this regard it acquits itself well. Introductory chapters explain the basic concepts used by economists to describe and deal with environmental problems. Readers are exposed to concepts of supply and demand, externalities and property rights with reference to environmental problems. The authors skilfully avoid making the explanation of economic concepts too technical or overwhelming for non specialist readers by using familiar environmental issues to illustrate the concepts. At times some of the examples used seem almost trivial, but these are linked to more substantive problems as the text progresses. Thereafter the emphasis of the text is very much on decision tools and comparative analysis of policy and control measures. This is a sensible approach given the target audience, and of particular merit is the clarity with which discounting and benefit cost analysis are handled. Throughout the approach taken is that the analysis should make sense on an intuitive level as well as theoretical and this sometimes results in overly long explanations of some concepts. More of the excellent, clear diagrams would have been welcome, and improvements could be made in the layout and presentation in a publication with a larger print run. The final chapter contains seven well chosen examples of environmental economics at work in practice. Each example issue is described, the economic technique used is explained and the analysis presented. The examples used highlight the power of economics in understanding familiar types of problems, and illuminatingly offer hints on the limitations of the techniques employed. This approach is sure to be appreciated by the target audience, because while it emphasises the usefulness of economic analysis it also highlights the need for it to be employed in conjunction with other decision tools (an insight all too frequently lost on some environmental economists).

With any text book there are always limits to what can and cannot be included, it would for example have been interesting to include discussion of extraction of non renewable resources. Consideration of some of the key international policy debates could also have been included (perhaps as an additional final chapter). Issues such as climate change and the "limits to growth", spring to mind as being relevant to the target audience.

A further group of readers not envisaged by the authors, who could profit from use of the text are the increasing number of academics from engineering, science and business studies disciplines who encounter economics in pursuing their research interests in environmental policy. It won't make them economists, but it will help them to understand the basis on which economic debate is being conducted.

If you have an interest in the legal presentation in the Wounded Knee trials that led to Leonard Peltier's imprisonment, this is your book. Sayer demonstrates with clear evidence how corrupt out legal system is coupled with the power of the media in political matters, such as the wrongful imprisonment of Peltier.

The book gets into documents and testimony that you would think proves Peltier's innocence. However, there is a force that is greater than the truth, and that is corruption!

The American Indian Movement (AIM) and its attorneys have little chance as long as the American public remains blind to the powers that be in the legal system and in government. This book is an eye opener. However, be aware that the reading can seem mundane at times unless you have a keen eye and interest in legal jargon. I was lost a few times but finishing the book was worth it to hear the other version of "truth".

I recommend this book if you have any interest at all in the Leonard Peltier story or of the corruption of a system that works for the government, not for the people.

I used this as my study while teaching the Gospel of Luke to a Sunday School Class. This commentary made my lessons fill with great background and history. The outlines are built into the book and ready to use as a template for a lesson. This is one of the best for teaching on a weekly basis or for preaching.

Russell F. Weigley writes that "anyone seriously interested in U.S. military history should benefit from this small but encyclopedic book. General readers, buffs, reenacters, students and professionals should all be able to make use of it. In every way the authors deserve commendation for making an apparently modest little book into a volume of exceptional usefulness."

I am a second year veterinary student. My roommate bought the standard anestesia text-Lumb and Jones and I bought Muir. We both ended up using Muir because it is much more comprehensive at this level then Lumb and Jones (which is an excellent reference but a bit overwhelming for an introductory anesthesia course). In my experience Muir had all the necessary information laid out in an easy to read format, as well as lots of charts which helped to pull everything together.