Not a sterotypical, picture-postcard view of Las Vegas, this book captures sights and elements of the Entertainment Capital of the World through a photgrapher's eye. At some types surreal, at all times captivating, it is a pleasant visit to Vegas focusing on on streamlined, beatiful photography. Mr. Newton's introduction properly sets up the visuals, with his insight into this One-Of-A-Kind city. Definitely worthwhile, especially for those NOT looking for a typical tourbook!

It was refreshing to read true-to-life accounts of situations similar to what we have encountered with our 15 year old son who has autism. This is a book that you must read if you love someone who has autism. You will laugh and cry as you identify with the situations.

I have been a clairvoyant for a very long time...psychic work is a real passion of mine. I read most work that is available on the subject. While I liked the ideas presented in this book, the format may be a bit confusing to the novice. The author has diligently made an attempt to be very specific about a lot of concepts that can be specific-challenged. I applaud his effort; but at the same time...wish he would have lightened up a bit. There is a lot of detail here...a lot of diagrams, etc. My advice to anyone reading the book...read it from cover to cover first. Then go back and take it a step at a time. And you should see some results. If you feel a bit challenged by the exact placement of a diagram...do your best and go with what feels right to you. This all seems so intense; but it may not have to be so. I do recommend a lot of what's here.

This book is divided into 2 parts: Part 1 deals with The Clinical Approach, and Part 2 deals with the Essential Background Information.

The Clinical Approach is the best part and includes 10 chapters (CNS, Eyes, Limbs, Head & Neck, Abdomen, Respiratory system, CVS, Hematology, Diabetes, and Skin). It focuses on the physical examination, and on the symptomatology.

The second part contains a summary of basic clinical facts about the diseases which you can read in any standard textbook. In addition, there're many important subjects which are not covered properly in this section (e.g. dermatology).

This book is not intended to be a complete textbook, and I think it should be supplemented by further reading. The margins of the pages are large so that you can add your additional notes. It contains few diagrams (no photographic pictures) and many tables.

This collection is a powerful journey that sincerely spoke to my heart. It's amazing that we still allow pain and sufffering to exist to this day only because we find differences in one another. Powers' poems speak clearly about hurt and betrayal. But most of all they speak of God's unconditional love. I would recommend this book for anyone coming out or anyone that has come out. The underlying message is that no matter what we do or who we are God loves us. ANd that is refreshing to know.

If you teach literature (at any level) and haven't read this book, you probably don't know what you are doing.

Love as we all know is a very strong word! Many people experience this almost everyday in their life, but of course some are unfortunate and feel very little love from other people. This book gives out the stories and reaches out to those who knows what love is. Personally, i think that this book even though it looks simple and sound simple, it still has a way to get out and make its own way to whoever read it. We get little dreams of love, and most of us know how it is. All beauty and harmony. Those who wants to know and those who already know, flip through this book at least and touch that moment! Might help u on in ur love life. =)

Geographers have often focused their investigations on the of the expression Place in the physical and material landscape. In Mapping the Invisible Landscape, Kent Ryden explores the unexplored non-material expressions of Place that dwells in the landscape, coincident with the material and physical reality. The "change of the landscape by experience" is done in the material, resulting in the cumulative idea of the cultural landscape. This change is also expressed in the invisible landscape of the mind, manifest through the written essay and the "folk" expression of the popular and personal imaginations. Ryden explores the relationship betwen imagined and material spaces with a convincing and powerful style.

The structure of the monograph lends itself to the explanation of concepts and meanings, the expression of viewpoint, and the application of methods in a manner that is readable and persuasive. Ryden draws on a wide base of literature ranging from the scholarly expression of geographic ideas (Relph's Place and Placelessness;Francaviglia's Hard Places; and Taun's Space and Place), the writing of place oriented essayists and writers (Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!; Least Heat-Moon's Blue Highways; Lopez's Crossing Open Ground; and Berry's Collected Essays), and the oral histories that emerged in the folklore of the Coeur D'Alene Mining District of Idaho. Ryden skillfully blends these traditions of Place-centered expression. The tools and techniques founded in folklore and geography are used to explore the cognitive landscape that is expressed in the compressed narratives of those who live in a Place. The techniques lend themselves to full exploration of the literary expression of Place that correlates to experiential meanings.

A great deal of the recent work on matters of Place has been conducted by those outside the field of Geography, and have been offered for popular consumption. Works such as Least Heat Moon's Blue Highways and Prairie Earth, Guerreau's Nine Nations of North America, and Lopez's "The American Geographies" contribute to the body of academic geography while popularizing the importance of Place with the public at-large. Ryden successfully contributes to the body of scholarly knowledge in a manner that appeals to the popular audiences.

Ryden succeeds in exploring the different cartographies that are possible when rethinking the meaning of "maps", the symbolic representation of reality. The use of actual or metaphorical artifacts in the definition of the reality in which they exist is skillfully employed to structure the work. The exploration of material items, such as the stone post marking the Connecticut-Rhode Island boundary and the bump in the driveway of the author's childhood home, serve to illustrate, in clear and concrete terms, the power of Meaning attached to Place or Object revealed in relation to the contextual reality. These concrete examples are used to bookend the metaphorical and symbolic meanings of real and literary "objects", such as Wallace Stevens "jar in Tennessee" and Bunker Hill Mine in the Couer d'Alene, creating meaning in the invisible geographies on the mind of the resident or participant observer. The actual landscape has meaning only in relation to the "jar" of the self.

Surprisingly, even though we spend much of our lives using public transportation, there is very little written about it. Washington Metro, one of the great success stories of public transportation over the past quarter-century, is the finally the subject of an informative, well-illustrated coffee-table history book produced by WMATA, the folks who run Metro.

Conceived as early as the 1950s as a partial solution to the growing traffic problems in the nation's capital region, Metro rose out of a series of studies into an active project by 1969, despite concerted opposition by powerful highway lobbyists on Capitol Hill. The book's early chapters provide an overview of the road to the initial groundbreaking ceremony in December 1969.

Metro opened for the first time in 1976, but remained a work in progress for years, as the original segment slowly expanded to fulfill the original 103-mile adopted plan by 2001. The book gives a blow-by-blow account of all of the major and minor historical mileposts in the development of Metro, right down to the opening of each station.

The main success story of the Metro system, of course, is the series of subway lines crisscrossing the city, carrying roughly a million riders per day. Yet the Metro system would be incomplete without the story of the Metrobuses that service the subway stations. Coming together from four separate regional carriers in 1973, the book describes how Metrobus has continued to expand and improve its operations ever since.

The book also takes a behind-the-scenes look at Metro operations and maintenance and gives a hint at some of the projects on the horizon, including additional stations on the blue line, and a proposed Dulles transportation corridor.

Of course, no glossy book produced at the behest of a corporate board is without its faults, and this one is no exception. The book is relatively short considering the number of pictures and the subject matter at hand. And, as with any publicity book, controversies and detailed, descriptive accounts are few and far between. The book rightfully extolls the virtues of the development which has accompanied many of the stations in D.C., Maryland and Virginia (including several eye-opening before-and-after shots). Much of the corporate history, though, reads like a Communist-party newspaper -- pictures of dignitaries and ceremonies, biographies of enlightened board members, dates of important reports and events -- without the hard-hitting reporting of an academic or journalistic product. When problems are addressed, they tend to be framed as uncontroversial or minimized. The lack of a Georgetown line or station is dismissed as unwanted by the locals in Georgetown, who oppose any further growth in that congested part of the city. Perhaps some people still do view a Georgetown Metro link as a bad idea, but frustrated commuters stuffed on the infrequent Georgetown shuttle buses every day will tell you otherwise.

Another problem is that the book barely touches on the construction techniques used to create the Metro system or the revolutionary design of the stations that set it head and shoulders above any other similar system in the United States.

As a whole, this is still very much a worthwhile purchase and an essential inclusion into any public transportation library. The book is chock full of facts and a fascinating historical timeline, and the vivid, colorful pictures give you that "you are there" sense. The real problem with this book is that it just simply isn't enough of a good thing. I'll be waiting patiently for 2026, when the fifteth anniversary coffee table book comes out. Hopefully by then we'll be looking at a 200-mile-plus system...

this book is good for those who are in teh senior year or first year of gradute school.gives insight(though not extensive) into the many tools which are used by a materials engineer in his research.....should be coupled with a lab experience so that the reader will appreciate the book's content.Overall,recommended for beginers.