I have nothing but praise for Phaidon's publications. Each of their artist's books contain great documentations of the artwork, plus detailed writings by the artist and critics. If you are going to read a description of an artist's work, who better to explain it to you than the artist. This is especially true with Mike Kelley. He is well known for the writings he does for each of his works and he pulls no punches in his delivery.

Mike Kelley's excellent catalog from Phaidon may be the most definitive work to date concerning the merging of Elite and Popular culture. Kelley's use of his own astute observations about the world in which we live to "debunk belief systems" and deflate popular pretentions is nothing short of revelatory. His pathetic stance in sculpture, drawing, performance, sound, and banner-making constitute total war on austerity. All modes of his work are well-documented here with color photography of installations and descriptions and criticism by some of the best in their fields.

You will either love this book or hate it. I loved it mainly for the pictures, which it has a ton of. They are well labeled and there are usually several different views. I found them very, very helpful in identifying structures in anatomy lab. Our professor even required us to have at least one copy at every dissection table every day!
Most of the pictures are hand drawn in black & white (sometimes with red arteries, blue veins, and yellow nerves). They are some of the best anatomy drawings I have seen and are not too difficult for me to visualize three-dimensionally. There is also a section on bones and the skull in the beginning of the book that includes radiographs.
I think the reason some people use this book only as a doorstop is because the text can be overwhelmingly detailed. Additionally, its large size (1113 pages) makes it very heavy to carry around. There is a much smaller book with pictures out of Miller's, the Guide to the Dissection of the Dog, which has many fewer pictures and was therefore not my book of choice.
I would highly recommend Miller's Anatomy of the Dog to every beginning veterinary student, unless you are pretty sure you don't want to carry around such a heavy book. Use it for the pictures rather than the text and you won't be disappointed.

I found Miller's guide to be very helpful. It provides thorough explanations of anatomical structures, as well as wonderful diagrams/drawings that serve as a helpful guide in dissection lab. I highly recommend this book to anyone wishing to fine tune their knowledge of dog anatomy.

This book is truly superb - and an excellent encyclopedia, filled with tons of useful information. However, I must say don't forget this is a British book. Therefore, you will see references to British Pounds and U.S. Dollars. This is not really a problem, except when you are looking up a specific piece of furniture, which may have a different name in England. That said, I doubt most people will even notice the difference - so, not to worry - just something to keep in mind. I definitely recommend it -the images are incredible and all in color, filling every page cover to cover. It is the best book I've ever seen on antiques. In addition, I bought it at my local bookstore and paid $80.

Similar to Understanding Antiques in format, but offers more information. Well written and illustrated with good,clear color photos on every page. This is a must have book for any antique collector.

A mind-boggling array of beautiful and outlandish objects from the 1950s explained, illustrated and priced, with a real sense of perspective and a light-hearted approach. Every page has something to make the collector gasp, and it's not all just the usual 50s Americana -- there's a strong emphasis on stuff from the UK and Europe, including some glorious textiles and enough emphemera to thrill the most jaded collector. A much-needed guide to a still under-explored era of collectables. A real must for anyone with even the remotest interest in understanding both the era and the origins of the objects that help make it seem so glamorous today.

This is an **excellent** resource book! It's not only chock full o' cool color pictures, it has lots of really informative text--a rare combination. Covers furniture (Herman Miller/Saarenen etc), spacey fabric designs, silly kitsch, dishware, lamps, 50s clothing and much, much more. Most books of this sort are either text-heavy, or merely picture books. I highly recommend this for anyone interested in collecting vintage stuff of this period!

Lavishly illustrated guide to movie posters and associated film collectibles. Informative text. This book is valuable to collectors at all levels, from "I just really like this movie," to those who collect rare items as well.

Information about caring for and restoring posters is also helpful to all who care to preserve their posters effectively.

Collectors and film lovers alike will find this book a great addition to their library.

Fans of the PBS series Antiques Roadshow will be glad to see more info from one of their regular appraisers, Rudy Franchi.

Rudy and Barbara Franchi have created, in my mind, the most definitive primer to date that deserves a place in the PERMANENT library of EVERY movie poster or memorabilia fan in the world.

"Miller's Movie Collectibles" packs a wallop - especially for bookish geeks like yours truly who demand a ton of poster and memorabilia images - AS WELL AS fluid prose/text/history laid out beautifully on EVERY page.

Clocking in at 144 pages and a whopping 36 chapters, this sturdy volume is hands down, a spectacular compendium of content and images, coherent and accessible, laid out with a sophisticated, contemporary design aesthetic that makes every page a work of art (e.g., as in the use of faint silhouettes on every page, in different colors, mirroring movie icons and other related images).

Lavishly printed on heavy paper stock "Movie Collectibles" is an photo- and text-intensive product of the likes rarely seen. It attempts - and succeeds - to cover every slice of our hobby.

Color illustrations decorate every page, accompanied by disarmingly breezy and informative text by this husband and wife team (the former a charter popular arts historian featured weekly on PBS' most-watched television series, "The Antiques Roadshow").

There's a timeless quality to this product that makes one wonder if a second edition will ever be necessary.

Think of the most desired movie posters in the world, from "The Mummy" to "Tiffany's" to "King Kong." Think of the great cult favorites and hyper-popular genres, from James Bond to Hitchcock to sci-fi to film noir to Disney to foreign classics to horror to musicals to silents. Think of the most obscure, the bizarre, the provocative.

You'll find them here, in glorious color, jammed with easy-to-read prose that every collector or dealer, from novice to advanced, will gobble up like inmates ending a hunger strike.

It gets better.

Rather than sticking with silent and vintage films and dismissing post-1960 products, "Movie Collectibles" devotes special chapters for each decade, from the 60s to the 80s.

You wanna know more about special illustrators, from Vargas to Brown to Bass to Peak to Frazetta? Yeah, they get their own chapter.

What about repros, re-issues, pressbooks, programs, stills, slides, lobby cards, sheet music, film books, autographs, promos, and props?

What about signed contracts, Academy Awards and other ultra-rare items that we see, oh, once every solar eclipse over the continental USA? What about restoration services, types, styles, what's bad, what's good, etc.?

Taken as a whole, Franchi's inaugural edition of "Miller's Movie Collectibles" represents a stunning debut, an opulently produced yet slim enough volume to carry in your satchel. The authors have a way with prose that is unlike most other books about movie posters and related collectibles. And its contents are akin to what you'd find in a product costing much more.

"Miller's Movie Collectibles" is a keeper.

I read this book every week. Seriously.

The one commonality they have found in 90% of all Millionaires is that they had mentors. Mentors, people who have SUCCEEDED ALREADY and guide us along the path.

Reading through this book is like having hundreds of Mentors each telling you the one idea which encompasses all of their success.

BEST money I have spent on a business book, period.

This is the best business philosophy book since The Art of War by Sun Tzu. I can't say enough good things about it. It takes about an hour to read the whole thing, but you will learn SO MUCH from people who are already financially successful.

What you'll find in this book is excellent business wisdom such as the fact that making millions of dollars is easy--it's making the first $500,000 that's the tricky part. After that you just hire smart people and they make the rest for you. I learned that you should always schedule a meeting in the other person's office because it's much easier to leave when the meeting doesn't go your way, than to get them to leave. I learned that if you aim for an eagle and miss, you hit a rock, but if you aim for the moon and miss, you might hit an eagle. I learned that people who live from paycheck to paycheck are sacrificing wealth for pleasure. It goes on and on. It's like a new spiritual understanding of the mindset of wealthy people, and the mindset it takes to build wealth.

If you like philosophical approaches to business, or if you are a person who understands philosophical concepts and would like to learn more about business and wealth-building, you will love this book. I seriously believe that what I learned in this one little book will ultimately make me a millionaire.

After traveling in Germany, you will truly love this little village which is nestled between the Cascade mountains in Washington. We have visited Leavenworth many times and there is always something fun going on.

Whether you love art (catch an art show in the summer) or love to watch the annual Christmas lighting, this town is one of the treasures in Washington.

Around the first half of the second week in December there is a Christmas Snow train which departs from King Street Station, Edmonds Train Station or Everett Train Station. Alki Tours has a magical train ride to the "Bavarian" town of Leavenworth. On the way, you can explore Leavenworth's shops (do visit the bear shop! and gingerbread shop), see the town aglow with lights and have a catered dinner on the ride home around 8am-11pm. The train ride is around one hundred dollars per person and you can call one eight hundred, eight, nine, five, two, five, five, four for reservations and departure times.

If you need a place to stay, there are quite a few nice bed and breakfast locations. That is, if you are driving up the winding roads to Leavenworth, WA yourself. Look for the Mountain Home Lodge (A lodge overlooking a sloping, 20-acre meadow which blooms with wildflowers in May) which has a breathtaking mountain view. In the winter, it becomes a snowy playground and you can put on your snow shoes or cross-country skis to ski the snowy trails and enjoy the scenery. In the summer, these are hiking trails.

If you are still not convinced to head off to this town in the winter and brave the mountains, you can also travel in the summer. We have taken a short raft trip down the Wenatchee river and had the treat of seeing two little fawns drinking by the river. You will also love rafting on this river and take a longer "tour." Watch out for Deadman's drop! Rafting is still invigorating in July.

So, whether you want to explore a snowy wonderland or take a break and get away in the summer, this town will never be disappointing. In the summer, take bikes or you can stay at one of the great B & B's and they sometimes have bikes you can use for the day so you can bike to a Salmon hatchery or to the stores.

Breakfast at the B & B's is always delicious. So, if you are dreaming of places to stay or can already taste those German pancakes with berries and crème fraiche, this is the book to buy. Regardless of the season, you will want to make the trip for the delicious food! This town has many great restaurants.

While you are dreaming of your own journey to Leavenworth, you can read all about the transformation of the town of Leavenworth.

As a long time resident of Leavenworth I saw and was involved in the wonderful improvements that transformed leavenworth from a town dead and nearly buried to the very much alive, little town it is today. The book Miracle Town tells the story fully.

This book includes the results of a five-year study on the mechanism of effective prayer. Dr. Miller says the question of why some prayers are answered and some not has always puzzled mankind. He says prayers are anwered by, not one, but by a number of means: (1) contact with a source of healing energy, (2) by mentally creating a condition whereby the energy which is present everywhere flows into the object or subject, (3) by power of suggestion and, (4) most important, attunement to the source of all power and healing energy by prayer and meditation.

The middle chapters outline research into healing and healing enrgies by such well-known persons as Olga and Ambrose Worrall, Dr. Carl Simonton, Cleve Baxter and himself; also, he cites studies in effective paryer by Dr. Benson of Havard Medical School. Dr. Miller believes scientific methods and measurements have and will be used to understand what is actually happening in the miracles we call prayer and healing . This should not be seen as substitute for faith, but rather as a revelation that enhances and strengthens our faith. Properly pursued, these experiments - and others like them - let us analyze, step by step, these tremendous and remarkable "miracles in the making." Judie P. Stidham, Spiritual Frontiers Fellowship International

Miracles in the Making is a book which details some of theearliest scientific evidence for the effectiveness of prayer. Itcontains the results of a five-year study on the mechanism of effective prayer sponsored by the Holmes Center for Research in Holistic Healing. The author of this book, Dr. Robert N. Miller, has presented the work in the experimental sections in the style of the journals and magazines in which it was originally published. It is an inspiration for those in the medical profession, scientists and other investigators to recognize and do their own research on the effectiveness of prayer and healing energies in the life of all who want to improve their health and life conditions. The healers who participated in the scientific experiments reported in the book included the devoted Spiritual Frontiers Fellowship International members Olga and Ambrose Worrall, Rev. Alex Holmes, and the Rev. Dr. Richard Batzler. Today, with the renewed interest in the subject of healing and healing energies, this book presents us with scientific evidence of the effectiveness of prayer and healing energies. Thank you, Dr. Miller, for sharing with us these outstanding experiments and for renewing our dedication to that which we in SFFI know is possible still today. Elizabeth W. Fenske, Ph. D. Executive Director Spiritual Frontiers Fellowship International

Romanyshyn explores the assumptions regarding person, others, body, and world, that are the cornerstones of scientific psychology, anad he compellingly dissolves these in terms of the metaphors of our cultural history. In doing so her articulates the irreducibly metaphorical character of psychological life and opens the possibility of a phenomenological depth psychology. This little book is a classic in phenomenological psychology and metabletics. Its gifts are numerous, and it is essential reading for anyone concerned with the meaning and direction of psychology.

Of all the books I have read, very few so profoundly affected me so as to literally change the way I see the world. This is one of them, among a select few. I am amazed how Dr. Romanyshyn can write with such lucidity about ideas that are so profound and otherwise complex; it speaks to his essence as a teacher, who knows how to provide a perfect balance between the concrete and the abstract.

In the very beginning of the book, Dr. Romanyshyn begins with the example of looking in a mirror, and from there he unravels with apparent ease the basic assumptions of modern psychology, and in its place, builds the foundation for a different "psychology" that is concerned with "psychological life." Such a psychological life is profoundly metaphorical in nature--and yet unmistakably grounded in concrete experience.

Make no mistake, Dr. Romanyshyn's thesis, if taken seriously (as it should be) has widespread significance for what it means to understand, teach and practice the discipline of psychology. Psychology from the perspective of psychological life will be a psychology that is not reducible to a natural science, nor to philosophy, nor to literature. But, rather, psychology as a way of seeing comes into its own--and for the first time in the history of the discipline, would finally come home, in the sense that it would for the first time have its own identity.

Certainly, Romanyshyn is standing on the shoulders of giants: Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Sigmund Freud, Paul Ricoeur, Carl Jung, Martin Heidegger, Edmund Husserl, Wilhelm Dilthey, Michel Foucault, and many other thinkers in the history of the philosophy of the human sciences. But no one has quite synthesized and formulated psychological life the way Romanyshyn does so in "Mirror and Metaphor." I have no doubt that if Dr. Romanyshyn's text were to be read widely and carefully, psychology as we know it would never be the same.

It is a must read! Don't miss it!

Anthony Griffiths is the principle author of both 'An Introduction to Genetic Analysis' and 'Modern Genetic Analysis.' The former book is in its sixth edition, while the later is in it's second. I highly recommend both textbooks as the best teaching texts I have ever come across. Personally however, I prefer using 'Modern Genetic Analysis' because it is easier to understand, and less frustrating and confusing for students. The 'Introduction to Genetic Analysis' textbook is larger, more annotated, and has more difficult problems. The 'Modern Genetic Analysis' textbook provides a better basic framework on which to build an understanding of genetics, without going into too many unnecessary details that (in my opinion) only confuse students new to the subject.

The second edition of 'Modern Genetic Analysis' is very similar to the first edition, and only about ten percent of the material (at most) has been changed. Most of the problem sets are the same, but have been renumbered. This is actually a teaching advantage because it gives students the option of buying used copies of the first edition rather than new copies of the second.

One major improvement in the second edition, however, is the addition of internet-based genetics tutorials. Students are directed to the various public genome databases on the internet, used by real researchers, and are given practice assignments to do. They are shown how to conduct gene and protein homology searches, how to find open reading frames, and how to access other forms of information from the various public domain databases on the internet. Since internet databases have now become one of the most important tools available to geneticists these tutorials are a welcome addition to this textbook. I highly recommend it.

Greg Doheny (Vancouver, Canada)

In the last few years several very good textbooks and monographs in genetics have appeared, due mainly to the success of various genome projects and also to the rise of bioinformatics as a new discipline in biology, computer science, and mathematics. Most of these textbooks have appeared in many prior editions, and comparing these older editions with the newest ones, one can indeed see a remarkable difference in enthusiasm in the authors. They are clearly very excited about the developments in molecular biology and genetics that have taken place and the confidence among biologists that the fundamental understanding of life is finally within reach. Readers can share their excitement by the study of these books, and doing so one cannot help but be marveled by the incredible ingenuity of the scientific methods used to unravel the processes of life.

Of all these excellent books, I find this one to be the best, and my judgment of the book's quality is from the standpoint of someone who is very involved in the algorithms behind bioinformatics and mathematical biology and is attempting to gain, as quickly as possible, the necessary background in genetics. My review therefore will be primarily addressed to those mathematicians or even physicists who plan on moving into bioinformatics.

To relative newcomers to genetics such as myself, the learning of molecular biology and genetics can involve a huge amount of memory work. To the more mathematically-inclined reader, the memorization of facts can be most unpalatable. The learning of the material in this book will also involve such extreme exercises in memory, but there are a few strategies that the authors employ that, even though they were directed at a general readership, actually serve to make the learning much easier for the mathematician or mathematical biologist. These are the use of concept maps and the assigning of "challenging problems" at the end of most chapters in the book. These serve effectively to make the reader think through and interconnect the many concepts, which for the mathematician who is used to the economy of thought that mathematics brings, is an absolute necessity for the learning experience. Also, the authors are well aware of the need for students to learn how to analyze data and interact with online databases, so a lot of the material in the book is written to address this need.

Even from merely an aesthetic point of view the book is exceptional, as the soft colors used in the illustrations are very beautiful, and actually serve to make the learning of the material very pleasureful. And in addition, the reader can access the book's Website and follow the many animations that were put together for the book. And here again, the playing of these animations increase the speed in which one can learn the subject.

The authors also ask the readers to consider the impact that biotechnology and genetic engineering will have in the upcoming decades. One of the most dramatic, and I think the most important paragraphs in the book is the one in which the authors state that "the public cannot relay on reports published in the general media for the kind of critical evaluation needed to make informed personal and political decisions. Nor can it be left to experts, who have their own biases and agendas. There is no substitute for acquiring the kind of basic knowledge of genetics that is essential to all informed decisions." Their goal is provide the background that will allow the reader to differentiate between bad and good claims about genetics, and to think critically about both the negative and positive aspects of genetic research and genetic engineering.

I believe the use of genetic engineering and biotechnology in all biological systems, both human and non-human, holds the best hope for the future of life on earth. This book has given an excellent introduction to the biology and genetics behind these technologies. The excitement and optimism expressed in the book will no doubt encourage many individuals to further their studies in genetics and enter the new biological professions of the 21st century.