Thomas Beer was known for academic books such as "The Mauve Decade," but paid the rent by writing short stories for national magazines. This book is a collection of many of his stories. By far the best is the series about the Egg family, a farm family in a fictional Ohio town. This somewhat unusual family consists of the matriarch, a common-sense woman who is a fantastic cook, her son Adam, and her three married daughters who drift in and out of the stories as the plot requires.

The stories are all long by present-day standards and the plots can be somewhat melodramatic, but they are extremely readable nonetheless. The value of these stories to me lies in their wealth of detail about everyday life in the twenties. Throwaway sentences tell the reader that the farmhouse is not yet wired for electricity, that the Eggs use gas jets and light their way to bed with flashlights, that they have an ice chest instead of a refrigerator, and so on. (No television or radio - the high point of the week is driving to town for the silent movie show!) The characters and family dynamics are also well written; many of the stories are told through the point of view of Mrs. Egg, Adam's mother. I felt transported to this time and this town while reading these stories, and can highly recommend them - although the other stories in the book aren't particularly readable. Out of print, but try a good library.

This text provides a quick, concise review of the pimary topics covered on emergency medicine exams. I found it to be a good way to prepare for inservice exams and the written boards.

Journals are my favorite historical reading. I was amazed at TKW's World - and his view of the final antebellum years in New Orleans.

The read is interesting for what it includes and what it excludes. TKW knew and met every major citizen of the time; from Polk to Beauregard to Dr. Barton. You get a very detailed picture of what it was like for a man of the times; his everyday travels and travails. What it excludes is equally interesting - very little on the women he lived with, slavery, Mardi Gras and occupation.

The accent is definitely architecture and I found myself scanning - rather than reading - page after page of discussions on bricks and beams. Also, novice that I am, I found two errors (in the footnotes).

Still when I reached the end, it was a shock to the system. It felt as though TKW could not deal with occupation - of New Orleans and of his beloved Custom House - and just decided to die. It left me wanting more.

A very luxurious book, richly printed with tons of illustrations.

Favorite passage: "Some are Americans, but the French predominate, and the difference between them appears to be that the former have a little to say about everything, the latter a great deal to say about nothing at all."

Bailey has written an excellent book. It demonstrates the reasons why Wilson's attempt to create a lasting peace failed, and then the author gives quality support that not only supports his view, but knocks down opposition to his standpoint. He also includes political cartoons from newpapers that allow you to see public opinion and they support his own opinion. I enjoyed the book for these reasons and because the way it was written helped me to remember what I had read. I would especially recomend this book to any student studying American History. Bailey's writing is clear and concise and will be an eye opener.

I read the book when I was a 4 grade student in Dental School. The book was included lots of concepts of immunology and biochemistry, and the clinical practices was relatively rare.. I think this book is suitable for the basis of periodontal research, but not for dental clinican. However, I had learned lots of knowledge about cell kinetics about periodontics from the book. So I recommended this book to you who are interested in periodontics.

While I did not expect the contributors to this collection of essays necessarily to be Europhiles, I found little emphathy that anthropologists usually show towards their object of study, in this case the European Union, as a result of their long-term and in-depth research. One author, Marc Abélès, still speaks of a virtual Europe for what in fact is already very much reality, whether one likes it or not (and I speak here as the citizen of a European country that is not a member of the European Union). At times, the editors and several authors even strike me as Europhobic, rehashing old arguments about the problems of a unifying Europe rather than focusing on its achievements and opportunities. I thus find disappointingly little about either experiencing or imagining and building Europe in this book, and the question arises: Where is the anthropology here? Sadly, this collection of essays also lacks historical depth at either the micro or macro level. Yet a truly anthropological discussion of unifying Europe could benefit much from examining for contrast the very developments of earlier multilingual-multicultural federations such as Switzerland in 1848. Anthropologists furthermore have much to contribute by providing a broader historical context for understanding modern Europe, i.e. the development of complex societies into international conglomerates of states from an evolutionary perspective. Ultimately, this collection of essays fails in this respect as well, and does not offer any new insights into what other social scientists (economists, political scientists, sociologists, etc.) have already described and analyzed for some fifty years.

Emanuel J. Drechsel, Professor, Liberal Studies, University of Hawai'i

I can appreciate where he was going with this book but how will the systematic annihalation of the african american and jewish races help my daughter come to grips with the problems youth face in the 21st century??

I enjoyed the illistrations but the word "towel head" deeply disturbed both my daughter and I!