This guy is a phenom! In this book, a bit technical, he outlines the domains of various sciences and their relationships to and between each other. It doesn't go into the detail and grime of specific books, nor is it a 'cross-discipline' analysis, rather it tells you how far disciplines are from each other! It's like a taxonomy of the universe and the university.

I think this will help anybody make sense of the chaos we call a univeristy system. It helps you figure out exactly what people are studying and what they aren't studying. It would help if you've been through college and you still want to know what to do with your life because the information is technical, but it should be read by people going into college.

If you ever wanted to know a little bit about a lot, this is the book.

"Blue Upright", "Cause and Effects", "Slight of Hand" - These 3 Henry Tyler mysteries can be found on the unabridged audio _Cause and Effects_, read by Edward Raleigh (see my review for details).

"Bare Essentials" - See my review of the audio collection of the same name.

"Devilled Dip" - Anthony (known as 'Ant'), as a professional pickpocket, doesn't take much stock in his wife's announcement that his horoscope says he'll be the life and soul of the day's events.

"Double Jeopardy" - While Sloan and Crosby are waiting for a report in the mortuary, Dr. Dabbe the pathologist tells one of his doctor father's stories, about an experimental high-fever treatment for VD (infecting the subject with malaria to sort of cancel things out) that very nearly went into the doctor instead of the patient...

"A Fair Cop" - This is really Happy Harry's case rather than Sloan's. A young nurse, coming off duty late one night, found herself being pursued by another driver for miles. (That story doesn't turn out quite the way you'll expect; very clever.) Now Harpe has 'chummie' locked inside a car, and wants Sloan (as CID) to tell him what the creep can be charged with, since the girl mercifully hasn't been hurt.

"The Hard Sell" - Harpe, meeting Sloan over tea and sandwiches in the police canteen, had to deal with a death by motorcar at the Calleshire Classic Car Club. A Jaguar being put through an engine test for a prospective buyer, with no one at the wheel, managed to kill a man. Sloan has to cross-examine Harry to get all the details.

"Her Indoors" - Leeyes is relaying a request to Sloan from the Assistant Chief Constable: he'd like Sloan's opinion, as a working detective, on an unnamed woman whose husband was murdered by her daughter's boyfriend. See if you can work out exactly who the ACC is asking about before Leeyes spells it out.

"Home is the Hunter" - Sloan and Crosby are sent to carry out an extradition order on Laura Vercollas, whose much older husband died in suspicious circumstances in a small-town hotel in France. If she didn't kill him, what happened?

"Lord Peter's Touch" - This was originally written for a book dedicated to *the* Lord Peter. As it happens, the 8 ringers at Almstone church in Calleshire are always called after the ringers in Sayers' _The Nine Tailors_, and one of the ringers was killed when his bell's stay broke, toppling the bell over its balance point and slamming the ringer on the other end of the rope into the ceiling. This story consists of Sloan's final report to Superintendent Leeyes; a friend of the Almstone rector's, substituting for (who else?) the ringer called William Thoday, seems to have worked out most of the case before Sloan even arrived.

"The Man Who Rowed for the Shore" - In an unusual twist, the viewpoint character is Norman Pace, who has just cleverly arranged the murder of his wife. He seems to have thought of everything, even timing matters so that her death and funeral arrangements happened while he was out of the country. The question is how Sloan will ever find out about it, let alone be able to prosecute, as Pace had his wife cremated and is about to scatter the ashes at sea.

"Memory Corner" - Crosby has just taken a call from Almstone University, asking the CID to please come around, because the caller just killed a man. (Sloan's first reaction is to call people in white coats instead). We're treated to the weirdest confession of a supposed murderer I've seen in a long time - is the guy crazy, or crazy like a fox?

"The Misjudgement of Paris" - Henry Molland has the most experience in among the candidates, but isn't likely to win in the final interviews for general manager (UK), being held in Paris to see how the candidates get along without support staff - the higher-ups think he's too old. Instead of having a stag night with the other candidates, he opts for breakfast with his daughter in the hotel on the morning of the final interview, which has unexpected consequences. Not a mystery, but entertaining.

"One Under the Eight" - Sir Paul Markham of Almstone is a distinguished scientist, working for a clandestine agency. (Sloan has some private, uncomplimentary comparisons with a nutter under the railway arches who also has problems with unnamed outside agencies.) Sir Paul's research was stolen the night before, and now the chief constable has been called in to help contain the problem - because only 3 members of the security agency could have tipped off whoever bypassed Sir Paul's security system. The question is, when did any of them have a chance to pass on the information, and how did they do it? They were at a wine-tasting exhibition all evening...

"Steady as She Goes" - After the sudden death of Anna Macmillan, Dr. Dabbe found she died of antimony poisoning. Her sister says the husband did it - but he shared the cocktails that were the last thing his wife had to drink, and both the husband and the sister have financial motives. How did the poison get into the victim, and when?

Debra is a Yoga instructor, Michael is a NLP trainer.

The book is very fast, 10 minutes a day for 1 week !

The reader is provided with poems by a broad selection of poets, with the date of the poem and a succinct anecdote about the poet.

Best of all, there are questions that guide the reader to reasonably interpret the poems. This is helpful to the novice or the expert.

I would certainly recommended this concise, yet highly valuable and detailed book about reading poetry. It will lead you to truly understand the poems presented and to develop the skills to read any poem.

Poetry serves to afford us with crisp and detailed accounts of our historical and immediate world. The imagery and other poetic techniques enhance our understanding of ourselves and others.

So, go for it. Read this book! View the world with a sharper lens. Express yourself so another can relive your experiences through your words.