I acquired this book solely for its superb illustrations. Each piece is given its own, full-colour page, opposite which is a description, not only of its use to the society which produced it, but of the body, glaze, and decorative technique and style. I found much information therein which had been ignored by longer and heavier books on the subject of English ceramics. Also included with each description is a brief selection of titles which will ease further research. This is a beautiful little book (like all the Firzwilliam Museum Handbooks) which would make a very welcome gift for any ceramic historian or collector.

This is a very good Business English text for low to intermediate level students. The material is relevant and interestingly presented. Unfortunately, there is a lot of British English (After Sales Department for Customer Service Department, lift for elevator, etc.) which is an inconvenience if you're teaching American English.

I loved Thoreau's Walden -- and therefore loved the backdrop of this mystery -- and I love mysteries, though I read only about 1/3 of the mysteries I pick up and this one was fun and one you can put down, as each chapter was rather a chocolate; the characters were foibled, the conversations spirited and it was engagingly plotted.

This is the MBA school version of "One L". Peter Cohen takes you through his two years at the Harvard B School in the early 1970s and he does an excellent job of describing the backbreaking work and the ethos of graduate business education. The characters of his classmates are well described. When I went to B School myself in the mid-1980s (at Ariz. St. Univ.) I found that my experiences were very similar to Cohen's.

This book was really good for what its worth, you should buy it if you want to learn about those areas, see ya later.

In her first book, my cousin Ms. Boyer, has done an excellent job talking and compiling oral history facts with many of the delightful and interesting residents of North Cambridge. One does not have to have been a resident of North Cambridge inorder to enjoy and learn of North Cambridge's rich heritage. IN OUR OWN WORDS is an excellent book to pass down through the generations. North Cambridge has to be proud of Ms. Boyer's IN OUR OWN WORDS. I look forward to more historical and factual books by Ms. Boyer in the near future.

This collection of papers from the first international workshop on the topic of steganography contains some of the earliest papers available, ones which are often referred to in the literature. This book should be considered as a conference proceedings, and anyone looking for a general introduction to the subject should look elsewhere. The papers are included full-length, and the collection constitutes an essential background. Together with the proceedings of the second workshop (IH'98), this text certainly goes recommended to anyone doing serious work in the area.

I especially like the original research that the author did to write the book. His use of examination papers seems to be a novel method and yields good analyses. The gems of his research cannot be found elsewhere in the form. However, his writing style is rather bad. He really likes to repeat things. His sentences and paragraphs are loosely structured. Honestly, I believe that if he write in a more succinct style, the book can be five times shorter and five times more pleasant to read at the same time. Furthermore, there are a lot of typos - I would say about one or two every 20 pages. Anyhow, the book is worth reading if you are an avid reader of the history of the sciences.

MICCAI, as a merging conference of VBC(Visualisation in Biomedical Computing),MRCAS(Medical Robotics and Computer Asisted Surgery) and CVRMed(Computer Vision, Virtual Reality and Robotics in Medicine)- really present some high quality scientific papers in medical imaging. We can see that from the high percentage refusal of the submiting paper.

The book collected the accepted paper for MICCAI in 1999. It covers the topic of Data-Driven Segmentation, Segmentation Using Structural Models, Image Processing and Feature Detection, Surfaces and Shape, Measurement and Interpretation,Spatiotemporal and Diffusion Tensor Analysis, Registration and Fusion, Visualization and Image-Guided Intervention. From this book you can see the detail of most recent development, some of them comes from very famous researcher and scientists working long time in this area. And I found some papers shown in this book have their further publishing in the high impact journals such as IEEE Medical imaging, Medical Image Analysis and so on.

So my brief conclusion is this is a very nice book for the people working in the area of medical imaging and related research.

In Richard Hunt's "Murder Benign," an archaeologist's last day seems to be devoted to cultivating suspects for his impending murder. First, he is in an accident when he hits a biker. As it is, the biker belongs to a group that is especially upset about the lack of diligence motorists exhibit with regard bikers. Then the archaeologist upbraids two students on a dig when they find a clay tablet with cuneiform writing--a tablet the archaeologist is certain must be a hoax.

Before long, Detective Chief Inspector Sidney Walsh and his team are investigating the archaeologist's murder and trying to whittle down the list of suspects. A great deal of their job involves setting up several stakeouts, one of which leads to an incredibly funny scene.

"Murder Benign" is very well written, and Hunt keeps the pace moving quickly, dangling enough mysteries to keep the pages turning toward the resolutions (though not all are revealed, unfortunately). In the end, I found myself more interested in the authenticity (or lack of the same) of the tablet than in the killer's identity. Since I have no particular expertise in archaeology, I think that fact stands as some level of praise for the book.