Almost every over-sized page contains a full-color photo of a great truck. Truck lovers will enjoy learning about army trucks, tractor trailers,tankers, and a variety of trucks from around the world. A must-buy for your truck lover. He/she will be reading it again and again.

Being an island girl, some place references are inaccurate, that is why this book does not get 5 stars. But it does it job in scaring you. Warning: do not read at night. My favorite scary book of the Hawaiian islands is "Obake Files".

I have eaten 9 or ten recipes from this book over and over. It's my most used cookbook.

"Film interpretation is a form of film appreciation, in the first instance, and then a guide to others about the ways in which they too can come to appreciate the value (and, in some cases, the disvalue) of the films in question." So writes Noel Carroll in the "Introduction" of his Interpreting the Moving Image, a collection of his writings on film covering almost 20 years (1973-1990). With the conception of film interpretation above in mind, the book presents the reader with a rich panoply of insights into many films of various styles and genres through the eyes of Professor Carroll. The structure of the book is a bit unusual but interesting. Rather than laying out the essays in the order in which they were written, the essays here are ordered chronologically according to the films they address. So the book begins with essays on "Caligari," Chaplin, and Keaton, and ends with "Film in the Age of Postmodernism." The styles and genres of film addressed by the essays range from King Kong to Citizen Kane to the avant-garde.

Carroll's cognitive approach to film interpretation is refreshing in a field of study dominated semiotics and psychoanalytic theory. Especially worthwhile are his intensely close readings of Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin films. In a reading of Chaplin's The Gold Rush, he argues that Chaplin's cinematic and directorial style was much more sophisticated and thoughtful than usually believed--especially in regard to how Chaplin's directorial techniques communicate or reinforce the theme of "alienation and loss of community engendered in the transition to modern mass society." The two essays on Buster Keaton, "Keaton: Film Acting as Action" and "Buster Keaton, The General, and Visible Intelligibility," explore the root of Keaton's humor in "the mechanics of work and of ordinary life, and of the bodily intelligence they require."

Other especially notable essays include a pair on the work of Orson Welles. "Interpreting Citizen Kane" expertly and handily reconciles two traditional but opposing interpretations of Welles' masterpiece. And in "Welles and Kafka" Carroll illustrates how Welles, in his film version of Kafka's The Trial, visually interprets Kafka's themes of confusion and geographic disorientation.

The essays are all interesting and intelligent and document the work of an important voice in film studies. Further, they succeed in their mission to be "a guide to others about the ways in which they too can come to appreciate the value. . . of the films in question.

Victorians are experiencing something of a comeback after decades of censure as the strange, repressed, half-crazy relatives we don't want to tell anyone about. We are discovering that the Victorians were not so different from us.

The Victorians did, however, produce their own brand of eccentricity and none are as delightfully eccentric as the Victorian/Edwardian writers for children discussed in Inventing Wonderland. Jackie Wullschlager starts with that greatest of all Wonderland writers, the master himself Lewis Carroll and ends with Jazz Age Pooh creator A.A. Milne.

The eccentricity of these Victorian writers is their confident, and sometimes troubling, obsession with childhood itself. Wullschlager assures us, correctly, that these writers' obsessions did not cross the line into pedophilic behavior. To 21st century sensibilities this seems scarcely creditable, especially after reading letters by Lewis Carroll to various girl children. Carroll, Lear, Barrie and Grahame's effusions about childhood can only be understood within the context of the Victorian age, the age that produced and adored Wordsworth's overly quoted (then and now) "But trailing clouds of glory do we come/From God, who is our home" (Ode: Intimations of Immortality From Recollections of Early Childhood).

Wullschlager is, I think, a bit too dismissive of Milne, who is regarded in the text as a has-been, clinging to the last remnants of the Victorian celebration of childhood. Wullschlager's overall point in this regard, however, is well made. The Victorians invented and took seriously the concept of childhood as a wonderland. Consequently, they produced children's writers of a truly magnificent stature. When the concept of childhood=innocence & pleasure was abandoned, in the early 20th century (thank you, Freud!), the result was an almost tongue-in-cheek parody of the earlier writers. It just wasn't possible to take childhood that seriously anymore.

Writers for children have of course continued to produce masterpieces, largely in the fantasy area, but that particular brand of unself-conscious Victorian nonsense and idyllicism may be lost forever. The Victorians are not as strange to us as we may like to believe, but they are certainly unreproducable.

Recommendation: Interesting, well-written, well-paced. Not the most complete biographical sketches but a complete analysis of biography and art. Give it a try.

In their opening words in Chapter 1, the authors state.... "the purpose of due diligence is to develop information that allows one to make a reasonable estimate of the viability and future profitability of a business being considered for acquisition." I belive that the authors' step-by-step approach and easy to follow guide have most effectively enabled the reader to make just such a determination. The checklists and critical questions that are provided in this text are well worth the cover price, in and of themselves. I believe that this book is an excellent companion to Joseph Krallinger's text, "Mergers & Acquisition: Managing The Transaction." The authors' hands-on business experience, as well as their academic abilities are clearly in evidence in their work. The chapters related to the valuation of the various forms of assets and liabilites (including the potential legal consequences) are especially valuable to the reader. As a leadership coach to CEO Entrepreneurs and as an academcian who teaches courses in entrepreneurial leadership and decision making, I find this book to be a valuable resource. All in all I'd strongly recommend this book to any entrepreneur or would be entrepreneur who is considering the acquisition of an existing business.

I had been looking for this book over the past year since I am a graduate of John Carroll University. Dr. Gavin's historical information about not just the University itself but the Cleveland area and the politics within the Catholic diocese is fascinating. I recommend this to anyone who graduated from John Carroll or who has an interest in Jesuit educational institutaions in the US.

Little has been published on this unique artist, and what has been published is mostly out of print , or only found in Europe. It was in Europe that I first saw Carroll's work in Kassel, Germany during Documenta 9 , the most important exhibition of contemporary art held every 5 years. Ever since I have been intriqued and drawn to the work. Mr. Millazzo's essay alows an entrance into the process of Caroll's work, and allows questions to form that engage the reader. Beautifully designed and illustrated with mostly color plates allows the viewer to glimpse into the range of this talented painter. Carroll's fascination with the fleeting, temporary nature of our very own exsistence is written about thoughtfully in the text. Carroll has been exploring these personal and complex ideas since the early 80's
I highly encourage this book if you are interested in contemporary art of our time.

The story of Alice in Wonderland is repeated in a very readable text and is as delightful as ever. This is not, however, a childrens' book. Barry Moser's illustrations tell the story of Alice in a different, dark and somewhat menacing way. Is the rabbit hole just the means to reach an amusing world of people and animals with strange names and stranger habits, or is it the path to a nether region where the normal rules of social conduct and the shape and size of "people" don't apply? If his illustrations mean anything, Moser thinks perhaps it is the latter. For example, the Queen of Hearts appears not as the crazy, but ultimately harmless, creature of a Disney movie. Moser shows her as a dark and foreboding character and by his illustartion suggests that "off with her head" is a real threat. The text of the book is standard Alice, but the real reason to buy it is to get Moser's illustrations. This is definitely not a book for 10 year olds. But those of us who grew up on Alice as half comedy, half light hearted spoof will enjoy this twist on a traditional tale. Moser's other illustrations of classical works such as Moby Dick and The Devine Comedy are also well worth acquiring.

Lewis Carroll was of course one of the greatest and most influential children's writers who ever lived. He was also a mathematics lecturer at Oxford who wrote excellent books on logic. It has been said that these were two halves of a split personality, but this book is proof that they were not. Here are some wonderful puzzles that unite the children's writer and the mathematician, and will appeal to everyone who has the slightest trace of mathematical ability. Edward Wakeling, a noted authority on Lewis Carroll and himself a mathematician, has done a good job assembling this book.