This book was great. I have always had an interest in history and this gives you a different view on how the world was run hundreds of years ago. Through the Kings paramours. I have read this book and liked it so much I am going to get her other book.

Young students reading this history of "The Disability Rights Movement" for the Cornerstones of Freedom series will not remember a time when there were spaces for handicapped parking or ramps for access to buildings. Such things might be taken for granted today, but Deborah Kent's book begins at a time when they were not. However, she quickly catches out interest by pointing out that one in seven Americans have some form of disability, making them by far the largest minority in the nation. Despite the examples of disabled "superstars" like the deaf Ludwig van Beethoven and the polio-stricken Franklin D. Roosevelt, the vast majority of disabled Americans had to struggle for full participation in society. One of the people Kent focuses on, Judy Heumann, also suffers from polio and was not granted a teaching license by the state of New York, prompting the New York "Daily News" headline: "You Can Be President, Not Teacher, With Polio."

Most of this volume is devoted to the legislative and legal efforts by the disabled to get their rights. Consequently, while this book has its share of inspiring stories of Americans overcoming their disabilities, it is also quite an interesting primer on how politics work in this country for "average" Americans (by which I mean those who do not have powerful lobbies or positions already entrenched in society). The changes that were required had to over come not only "architectural barriers," such as not having sidewalk curbs with ramps, to "attitudinal barriers" regarding the supposed inferiority of the disabled. Kent not only ends her book by sketching out the next areas were reform and aid are needed with regards to the disabled (e.g., being able to live at home rather than in nursing homes), but also with the example of "disability art" performed by the "Wry Crips," a theater troupe of disabled women. This interesting little volume provides a nice little study of the impact the Disability Rights Movement had in the last half of the 20th century.

This book was written to make people aware of many Doctors who, in many ways,aren't honest with their patients. There are many treatments prescribed that are un- necessary. This little book will open your eyes to the fact that all Doctors aren't your friend. Excellent reading, with humor.

aren't honest with patients. There is medical treatments prescribed that are un-necessary. What terms to be leary of,

Legend has it that Araki was a member of an experimental poetry group in post-war japan, and was one of the first Japanese poets to read Jack Spicer and Frank O'Hara, as well as the Beat writers. Before his death in 1972, Araki apparently left his papers with a friend, Tosa Motokiyu, who then passed the work onto poet/Japanese Scholar Kent Johnson. It was Johnson who then presented the work to the public, a gesture that saw a rapid series of publications in such journals as Grand Street, Conjunctions and First Intensity. It was just before the publication of Doubled Flowering, that rumours began circulating about the authenticity of these texts.

Regardless of this speculation--and regardless of the identity of the author--the poems in this book mark a distinct turn in the tradition of Japanese poetry. Utilizing traditional forms such as the renga and the tanka, the author of this book brings these ancient forms to life with his (or her?) decidedly contemporary poetics. Subtle, yet harrowing, these poems merge the lyric simplicity of traditional Japanese verse with the myriad possibilities of experimental textworks--linguistic hijinx, collage, recontextualization and deft conceptual leaps. Set mainly in a post-nuclear landscape, these poems spin uncontrollably (suggesting nuclear power itself) around the outer reaches of human experience, refusing to rest on their subject. Instead, the author chooses to write "around" subjects of death, lust and tragedy, never attempting to portray these experiences, but rather evoke them; he seems acutely aware of the falsifying nature of putting experience--especially traumatic experiences--into words. In short, these are beautiful, intangible works that favor the reader's intuition, rather than representation. If you are concerned about the authorship of these texts, file the book beside Alvaro de Campos or Bernardo Soares (two of Fernandoo Pessoa's alter-egos) or Andreas Karavis (David Solway's fictional Greek poet). If you are unfettered by this, file it under Araki. Regardless the author, Doubled Flowering is an essential book for anyone interested in contemporary poetry.

Ideal as a suplement for undergraduate economics courses, or as a principal text for a course focused on economics and politcal/ethical reasoning. Shows the flexibility of resoning with economics, which is, for better or worse, the basic "grammar" of contemporary policy debate. Also shows that the political implications of such reasoning are not always easy to predetermine on a liberal/conservative axis. The analysis of economic efficiency, for example, does not preclude one from examining distributional consequences or questions of fairness

The Federal Aviation Regulations (FARs) can be somewhat overwhelming becuase they're not in layman terms. This book attempts to clear up ambiguity by analyzing the regulations in FAR parts 1 (definitions), 61 (airmen), 91 (conditions of flight) and NTSB 830 (reporting incidents and accidents).

It's a pity this book hasn't been updated in five years because it's a good reference. Each section of FAR parts is examined, usually with a plain-language explanation, references to Advisory Circulars or other regulations, National Transportation Safety Bureau (NTSB) rulings and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) chief counsel opinions.

For example, many pilots get confused regarding 61.118, "private Pilot Privileges and Limitations: Pilot in Command." This is the section that attempts to spell out when a private (versus "commercial") pilot may be compensated for a flight. Subsection (b) specifies a pilot "may share the operating expenses of a flight with his passengers."

While this would seem pretty straightforward, people interpret this in ways that the FAA didn't intend. Consider three scenarios:

1. I am a software engineer and have a business trip to Portland. My salesman, who wants to sell more widgets, and I fly and I submit the actual rental and parking expenses for reimbursement from my company.

2. Friends of mine are parachute jumpers and pay me to carry them up so they can jump. I charge them $100 of the $150 it would cost me to go on the trip.

3. A friend wants me to fly her to Friday Harbor. I charge her for half of the gas, oil, parking, insurance, and maintenance.

As the "Federal Aviation Regulations Explained" might point out, #1 is legal because the flight is incidental to my job (programming).

#2 is not legal because I'm not really making the trip for my own purposes. In this case, FAR Explained points out the NTSB case "Administrator v. Reimer, 3 NTSB 2306 (1980), where the pilot was found in violation because there was no common purpose. The pilot's motive was to build hours partially paid for by others.

#3 is not legal, either, because the passenger would not be paying out of pocket expenses. Insurance and maintenance are usually factored over a period of time.

According to the FAA Counsel opinion, in #1, I would be able to expense it and build flight hours because the destination is where I have a paritcular business incidental to flying for a living.

The FARs can be painful to read, but this book helps clear some of the ambiguity and provide some background on NTSB and FAA interpretations such that a pilot won't be caught by surprise.

I found this book to be well illustrated. And although not as comprehensive as i'd hoped, it is still the most complete guide I have found. Overall, I feel it is well above average--and I'm quite hard to please!

Campbell's discussion of common flaws and fallacies in statistical reasoning is clear and useful, but those cringe-inducing "sexy" cartoons from those swinging, wife-swapping, care-free early 1970s are manna from camp heaven! Every other page features would-be witty drawings of hip, bearded, wide-tie-wearing swinger dudes ogling mini-skirted chicks and making sexist remarks--all of which bear scant relation to the topics being discussed. Example: In a chapter on rates of rise and fall we see Hepcat Swinger Dude leering at backside of chick's tiny miniskirt as he wishes aloud that trends will continue to rise. (How very droll, Noel!) Yeah, that'll go over well in today's colleges. No wonder it's out of print and has been replaced with a heavily revised and re-titled version for today's market.

If you have a taste for politically incorrect 70s kitsch and want to learn some useful stuff about statistical fallacies, get this book now!

A well rounded and in-depth analysis of the formalization of object oriented systems. This book brings together 15 papers relating to formal methods and object oriented software engineering. A great investment for any student of these two areas of research.

Got it, love it ,"hooked" on it. This is a great, first "fossil"
book or an excellant addition to an existing library.Kent manages to cover 88 million years in 146 pages. The novice collector will find the 11 sections and 5 appendices well organized .The numerous line drawings make identification of common specimens easy. Every question about collection and preservation is answered.