I recommend this book to every one of my students, from beginners to undergrads in college. The selection of pieces is extensive, and includes many standards in the oboe repertoire, including the Handel sonatas, the Schumann romances and the Mozart Oboe Quartet (entitled Sonata for Oboe and Piano in this book). The oboe parts are paired with piano scores; buying these pieces separately would cost a lot, so this is an incredible steal. There are also many pieces that are wedding-appropriate, for those oboists that are looking for a collection of pieces to play at such an event. A great resource and investment for all oboists!

This book is great! It's a wonderful combination of great artist songs. Anyone who has played the oboe for at least 3 years could pick up this book and love it in a second! I sure did.

Very good book. You learn and understand the basics of operations management very fast. Also very usefull book on advanced level.

As someone who has taught Operations Management since Spring semester, 1980 following fifteen years in operations management in the steel industry, I've had the opportunity to review a large number of textbooks in this area. Without exageration, this is the most comprehensive, "user friendly" text that I have found. The illustrations, practice problems, power point slides and text book web site are great. Student comments have been very positive.

I strongly urge my colleagues who teach Operations Management to give this book a very serious look.

Written more than twenty years ago, most of the information contained within this guide is still highly usable. The Other Guide is more about what makes (and has made) this city hum, rock, and dance, than about tourist destination-spots. Yet it points the way to some of San Francisco's most interesting cracks and corners.

You'll learn about the Barbary Coast, The Patti Hearst saga, Haight Ashbury, the Beats, the earthquake, Levi Strauss,The Its It, progessive rock-radio, Rolling Stone Magazine. . . . all in bite-size, yet highly informative, segments.

One of my favorite sections is "50 Famous San Franciscans Favorite Restaurants"--an entertaining way to get to know all of the cities culinary offerings.

Hansen knows and loves the city and entertains us with his wry sense of humor and unique perspective. One only wonders, with all the 'tales from the city' that continue to write themselves, why he hasn't updated the book.

The Other Guide prepares you for San Francisco by introducing you to the mythology that built it: The Barbay Coast, Beat Generation, Rolling Stone magazine, Irish Coffee, and KSAN. Yet it doesn't read as a docu-book. Hansen's witty, friendly style makes it a good read whether or not you're planning a trip.

Having The Other Guide along is like having your favorite funky-uncle showing you the City.

I hope he decides to update it. Some of his favorite spots have been reincarnated. But the legends never die.

Pain On Their Faces has recieved the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award for 1999 because the authors of this book "contribute mightily to public understanding of the complexities of differance in North America."

The 1987-8 strike in Jay, Maine, was one of the most important labor struggles of the 1980s. As in other major strikes, a local union (with two others in AL and PA) tried to hold the line against the corporate offensive. Against extremely long odds, the strikers held their ground for what their values and their community. There simply are not many accounts of strikes that are written by workers themselves. The closest that most books come, like the Betrayal of Local 14--which is also quite good, rely on oral histories by sympathetic academics or journalists. If you want to know what it means to hold the line against corporate America for 16 months, and then get sold out by your own people, and still believe in unionism, this book is for you.

Truth in advertising: I helped work on the book (by getting it typed up and edited it for typos).

One would think that a picture book with only one word per page would quickly become dull, but this book keeps me guessing every time I read it to my 1-year-old. The pictures are beautifully done in folk-art style, and although the main picture is simply labelled, each page has visual references to previous and future pages - I find something new on each reading! Most importantly, my son loves it and it's a great vocabulary builder ("clock", "car", "book", "snowman", etc.). I disagree with the suggested age range: this is a board book and great for babies and toddlers, but the reading level is perhaps too simplistic for 7-8 year olds.

At first glance, Alison Jay's Picture This is a beautifully illustrated book of familiar objects. Her folk art style of strong color and simple lines will appeal to young "book lookers." But look further, study the pictures and subtlties catch your eye. The spotted dog jumps and chases his ball on the page "dog" and appears again, much smaller on the following page, as do the two adults. Look again! The adults are now tumbling down the hill, and the dog's ball is featured on the "ball" page! The adults, the dog, the ball as well as a teddy bear, a plane, a lighthouse and many other objects appear and re-appear, often disgused as tiny details. Young readers will spot them! Adults will search for them! Everyone will enjoy this unusual picture book. A perfect book for sharing.

Well, after the previous review there's little left to say. I received this book as a farwell gift from my most recent army assignment. There's a few of us there who are airborne or rangers and we love the art of James Dietz. Our favorite painting is of the 101st in St. Mere Eglise determining a way out of town. There's a print of it in our HQ building and we are constantly arguing over who's going to steal it first! James Dietz truly captures the heart and soul of the fighting man on both sides of WW2 and you see it throughout the whole book. I've decided to make a couple of purchases of his art after looking at this book, particularly the St. Mere Eglise and the Souvenir paintings with the German Fallshirmjaeger and U.S. Paratroopers.

Artist James Dietz's work comes alive in this magnificently illustrated and highly anticipated volume, well timed to benefit from the growing wave of interest in the Second World War.

Portraits of Combat boasts one hundred pieces of art, seventy-five of which are in full color. Each is a moment frozen in time, carefully chosen to depict the war's most compelling land, sea, and air actions.

The presentation is chronological, beginning with the war in the Europe and branching out thereafter as the conflict assumed global proportions. Accompanying each reproduction is the companion text of Jay Broze, a veteran historical writer specializing in aviation and maritime subjects. Broze's word portraits compliment Dietz's efforts perfectly, describing the people and events depicted by Dietz's brushes and pens. These narrative text essays are both helpful and insightfully written.

The mainstay of Portraits of Combat is its color reproductions, which indeed are stunning in their artistic quality. The black and white pencil sketches which often escort their more resplendent sisters through the pages of this lovely book, however, are in many ways just as bewitching. A certain grittiness of war lingers about them, something the color images often lack. Each black and white drawing comes with explanatory captions describing specific attributes of the drawing, such as the thought that went into each, and how the final color composition came to be. Each sketch, regardless of size, tells a story worth reading. Thus each mini-article and piece of art stands on its own--a rather remarkable achievement in and of itself. Portraits of Combat is one of only a handful of military art books greater than the sum of its component pieces.

Rounding out Portraits of Combat are a preface by James Dietz, an introduction about the artist, a recommended reading list (which is rather gaunt), and an index. Even the end papers, which tell their own sad tale, evidence careful advance planning. There was a team of experts behind this production, and its shows from beginning to end.

Almost certainly some students of World War II minutia will carp that "such and such" an event should have been depicted, or a particular button on a uniform is not correct. No rebuttal is necessary. The beauty and horror of war that leaps from the pages of Portraits of Combat will discredit such banalities.

Theodore P. Savas
Box 4527
El Dorado Hills, AC 95762

The Practical Princess and other Liberating Fairy Tales is a wonderful book. It has all the normal things one would expect in a book of fairy tales; princesses locked in tall towers, enchanters, giants, a girl who when she speaks has gold fall from her mouth, bold knights, the un-noble blooded girl who marries a prince, and even a cockatrice.
The main diffrence inbetween fairy tales in this book and other fairy tales is the strong female leads; the princess who rescues herself from being eaten by a dragon and then goes back home to her father's castle for her Geography lesson is just an example.

This wonderfull book contains six short stories that are all enchanting. It also has simple drawings scattered throughout it's pages.

This is a marvelous book for children. Unlike typical fairy tales, the princesses in this collection of stories are not "damsels in distress," but strong, powerful women who can take care of themselves. These aren't male-bashing tales, either, but stories where women and men work together, before living happily ever after.

These stories have all the qualities of the old-fashioned fairy stories: dragons, sorcerers, knights, witches, and princesses. They are quite enjoyable, with little life lessons here and there, and everyone living happily ever after. I think any kid would enjoy these, boys and girls. And it teaches that girls are just as good as boys.

This book is a terrific resource for new bankers, or even experienced bankers who want to understand more about the teller and payment functions.

This is the text used by the American Bankers Assn. (ABA) to teach beginning bank personnel how banking works. My company, a large banking software company, also uses it to train new employees.

Only the 1st chapter is a sales pitch. The rest is easy to read, comprehensive presentations of teller functions, payments, credit, reporting, business banking, marketing, history and current trends.

This one hooked me and held my interest right through to the last page. Exciting, thrilling, sexy and more. Highly recommended reading.

A tale of a young girl's initiation into sex and the seedier world of S/M and bondage. Discriptive sex scenes with a sensual feel so unlike the coarse terms used in most books of this type. Modern settings and compelling storyline make this a book not to be missed.

This is the most coherent, wise and well-founded book I have read on the topic of how we react to the stresses of postmodernity, which mainly involve historical dislocations (which are traumatic), the mass media revolution, and the threat of extinction. We can react to these by becoming flexible, or protean, which has the potential to create life-affirming species, or communal, consciousness. We can also close down and express some degree of dogmatic or fundamentalist (antiprotean) beliefs. In the process of describing the psychology behind this, which is backed up with interesting interview information, Lifton gives us the most cogent psychological explanation of the kind of fundamentalism that leads to terrorism that I have ever seen. I can't recommend this book highly enough.

Nothing characterizes the modern age so much as change. Whereas individual of the past could orient their lives within the framework of absolutes recognized by their cultures, we are cut adrift in an ever-changing sea. Yet, we survive and thrive. How? Dr. Robert Jay Lifton explains in this book. He describes "proteanism", the individual's ability to re-create himself as exterior conditions demand it, just as the ancient Greek god Proteus could shapeshift as needed. For anyone grappling with constructing a meaningful life within the rapid changes of the modern world, this might be the best book ever written.