From the masters of the finite element method, this may well be the best book ever written on the subject. In this book, the authors come across as the sages of ancient India preaching what they know best, guiding us and setting a stage of research for the years to come. This is a monumental piece of work in the history of engineering.

The Poetry of this astounding collection is heart-taking. It captures the moment of the struggles, hopes, and dreams of each poet presenting his work. The arrangement of each work of poetic art and word painting builds in intensity as it slowely, yet enjoyably leads the reader to a climactic conclusion with Coleridge's heart-pounding and breath-taking "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." For poetry fans, it is a must read, and for casaual readers, the joy and plaeasure of reading this colection still shines through.

An excellent book about the history and hauntings of the historic Avon Theatre located in Decatur, Illinois! This theater was brought back to life by one of the authors, Skip Huston. If you haven't yet been to the Avon, read the book and then go for a visit. You'll find yourself looking over your shoulder and wondering what visitors you can't see...or maybe you will!!

This book is a very useful guide to a large variety of Florida plants, as well as a superb collection of truly stunning photographs. It can be used for simple visual identification, but its organization by family and its binomial key make it user-friendly for the botanist as well.

I am a professional botanist so my standards are high. I checked Huxley and Taylor's book out of the University library and carried it in my backpack for a month. The only thing is you really need a backpack with an easily accessible pocket if you aren't going to just keep this book in your hands.

The see how they grow series is yet another quality series put out by Dorling Kindersley (aka DK). Purchase them all if you can! Both children and adults will enjoy "watching" the chick grow. The last two pages are a pictorial summary of how the chick went from egg to eight week-old rooster.

Great Book! I Found These step-by-step guides easy-to-read, and easy to understand! The books are packed with information. They reminded me of "cliff Notes" from my college days.The information is comprehensive without the fluff you find in so many of the more expensive books out there on the subject. The books are also packed with resources such as phone numbers and the web sites of the companies they are discussing - there is no "theory" just great information.

I love this book, I wont let my friends touch it. It's totallyworth the dollars, it tells you about the greatest NFL players ever. For example: Steve Young, the best left-handed Quarterback ever,and Jerry Rice, the greatest all-time wide receiver ever.

I've heard that Jim Taylor is one of the nicest guys in the small circle of veteran Western scholars of Thai Buddhism. Along with Peter Jackson, Donald Swearer, Louis Gabaude, Santikaro Bhikkhu, and Stanley Tambiah, Taylor has made a vocation of Thai Studies. Forest Monks and the Nation-State is Taylor's great work, and it is no understatement to say that it has few peers in rigor or style.

Taylor traces the complex interplay between the state and the sangha in the Lao-influenced region of Northeastern Thailand during what may be loosely called the "modernization period" - that is, the period in which the state was using the sangha as an instrument of national consolidation. The story pulsates and oscillates between discussions of reform in the Thai metropole and intimate descriptions of the lives of wandering forest ascetics, whose charisma was co-opted by the state as a part of it's self-conscious formation. Taylor discusses the charisma and routinization processes around well-known Northeastern monks, portraying in vivid detail the ways in which communities, landscapes, and the teaching of the dhamma was changed over time alongside transformations to the Thai countryside and local relationships with Bangkok.

Rather than relying exclusively on the broad strokes of theory and a few scattered historical references and interviews, Taylor has painstakingly gathered mountains of material in order to provide one of the most comprehensive, balanced, and multifaceted social-scientific studies I have ever had the pleasure of reading. Taylor's understanding of the culture, language, and social context of his work is profound; I found him to be a major influence on my own thought as I did fieldwork in another part of Thailand.

As an ethnographic writer, Taylor has few peers. His learned, erudite style and rich vocabulary are academic models for writers in any discipline; yet his sympathy for his informants and deep understanding of the particulars of their inner, spiritual world is as intact as it is with any other writer. Taylor has achieved the extremely difficult task of balancing a systems perspective, on cultural change over a large geographic region and a substantial chunk of time, and a perspective that does not do symbolic violence to the dhamma of his monk-informants, by reducing it to something to be merely classified and catalogued as irrational, emic "remainder."

It was Taylor, along with Michael Taussig, who convinced me to quit anthropology. If work like this is possible, then I could aspire to no more than a series of footnotes to their towering achievements. As a book to inspire awe in scientists of all stripes, though, I can think of no finer example than this book.

This is one of those books that's perfect to put on your coffee table--especially if you're an Elvis fan. The only text that appears in the book is that on the dust cover. The rest of it is made up only of pictures of the King. It's a must-have for any true Elvis fan!