Professor Murray has created a masterful volume cogently and concisely providing the principles of contract law. Murray on Contracts is a must read for any law student, practitioner, or business person seriously interested in a complete study of contract law. This volume contains abundant citations to case law and legal commentary that is valuable to any practitioner analyzing the state of a principle of contract law in his or her jurisdiction. In addition, Murray's lucid and facile style allows the layman and lawyer alike to learn the principles of contract law with pleasure and insight. This is a great contrast to the overly pedantic style of many academic commentators in various courses of study. In short, Murray on Contracts does what few other volumes of its kind can do: make a volume of complex and arcane legal principles read like an engrossing novel.

Imagine that the chief executive of a major record company died of a heart attack. His staff strangle all the members of the in-house orchestra, say the Vienna Philharmonic, chief conductor to the fore, laying them carefully in performance layout in an underground concert hall. The executive himself is placed with attendants (also strangled) in a fully-equipped recording room to one side. Next to each player was his (or, occasionally, her) instrument on which the murderer had first inscribed its tuning. Beside the bodies were illustrations of the musicians in performance, though sadly no scores. Then a roof was put up and the whole tomb encased in earth for a little over two-thousand four-hundred years.
This scenario may sound fantastic, it may even sound curiously tempting to some. It is also exactly what happened in central China. In the Winter of 1977 a unit of the Chinese People's Liberation Army was called in to level a small hill, such that a factory could be built near the town of Suizhou, which lies to the north of the city of Wuhan in Hubei Province. Breaking into a hitherto unknown burial pit of obvious antiquity, the soldiers quickly called in the archaeologists. The discovery that followed was the most remarkable in Chinese musical history to date, and one unparalleled among any of the other ancient cultures, whether in Asia, Africa, Europe or the Americas.
Laid out according to the model of a classical Chinese palace, the stone-lined tomb contained everything the Bronze Age despot would need for a successful, upwardly mobile after-life: an ornately lacquered wooden double coffin to shield both his bones and his dignity; several thousand weapons, pieces of armour and bronze chariot fittings; the bodies of twenty-one women (each strangled-presumably to keep her body pure) and a dog (method of death sadly unrecorded); and, best of all, a full set of ritual musical instruments, including a sixty-five-piece ensemble of studded bronze bells and thirty-two tuned chime stones. Inscriptions on the bronze implements identified the tomb's incumbent as Marquis Yi of Zeng, a minor and long-defunct state in central China. They also recorded that the bell set was presented to Marquis Yi by his powerful neighbour the King of Chu in the King's fifty-sixth year (i.e. 433 B.C.).
Superbly well-preserved in the central "ceremonial courtyard" of the subterranean palace, each bell produced two distinct pitches, depending on where it was struck. The set as a whole had a range of over five octaves, much of it fully chromatic in semitones. Drums, stringed instruments and wind instruments, as well as the above-mentioned lithophones, completed the ensemble. Some of the instruments or other ritual materials found in the tomb bore scenes depicting the making of music. The bells themselves were decorated with both the names of their two pitches in absolute terms and the identification of these in terms of relative pitch, a duplication that means we can today measure both their respective pitches and establish the tonal systems within which the set as a whole was played. The inclusion of five sets of beaters even gives a fairly strong hint as to how many musicians were required to perform the bells.
Discovered at the very beginning of the period of reconstruction following the Cultural Revolution, these instruments, most especially the bell set, have already attracted major attention in China. Recordings of a replica ensemble are available at many tourist sites across the country (though sadly the music chosen is less interesting). By the mid-1990s, enterprising Hubei peasants had taken to buying replica bells from Shanghai's Jiaotong University. These bells are then buried in the paddy fields for a year or two to age them and then sold on to unsuspecting foreign tourists, who are warned not to tell Chinese Customs-antiquities not being legally exportable). Whatever the moral issues of this exchange, the bells are extremely good-looking objects, and they deserve to be better known overseas.
Music in the Age of Confucius (or, actually, a century or so later) is exactly the book to carry out this process. Drawing together the widely scattered fruits of twenty years of research, it talks the reader through the various unprecedented discoveries, and was published on the occasion of the exhibition of instruments from the tomb of Marquis Yi at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington in 2000. Lavishly illustrated with photographs, many of them in colour, it is expertly written by a team of contributors who have kept in mind the intelligent, lay public likely to attend the exhibition. Five chapters examine, in turn, music at the time of Marquis Yi, percussion instruments, strings, winds and the importance of the instruments for our understanding of Chinese music history as a whole. In each case, the material from Marquis Yi's tomb is used as the focal point in a review of discoveries from other sites and references in the surviving literature and relics of the period. Supporting material in the book includes a chronology, map, glossary of characters, reference list, scale diagrams of instruments and an index. This adds up to a fascinating and engaging read, eminently open to the reader new to Chinese music.

Ms. Hexter does a wonderful job incorporating interesting facts about the past and present of Cleveland, Ohio with amusing anecdotes. This book should be on every Urban Studies professor's shelf as an irreplacable reference.

Very comprehensive. Easy to read. Focuses on what the nurse needs to know to administer drugs safely.

Rabbi Scheinbaum is a unique individual - a self made man who offers much to anyone looking for an eloquent, insiteful and moving read on the Parsha. His stories are great, and the fast reading style refreshing. I recommend the entire set - you won't be dissapointed.

"Pharaohs" is one of the best books on Egyptian art I have ever read, second only to "The Royal Women of Amarna." The plates are spectacular, illustrating wonderfully the evolution of Pharaonic imagery from the god-king of the old Kingdom to Egypt's eventual and impartial Roman conquerors. A personal favorite is the statuette of Akhenaten, which graces the book's cover. The commentary is insightful and captivating; the included brief history of the Louvre reflects to a marked degree the evolution of western interests, behavior, and treatment of ancient Egypt, which deserves--but not always receives--the very best.

the thirteen chapers include:
1) in the beginning.
2) we believe in ourselves.
3) making believers of others.
4) setting up the office.
5) the "people helping people" campaign.
6) developing our resources.
7) the "ask".
8) in the news.
9) managing our finances.
10) the fine art of writing.
11) when opportunity knocks.
12) expressing our appreciation.
13) what experience has taught us.

this is a great book with which to introduce people, unfamiliar and uncomfortable with the idea of fundraising, to the ins and outs of basic funraising ideas. 121 over sized pages, with a bibliography.

Excitement, great storyline, well defined characters... Breathtaking action! John McClure, the main character, takes on the Russians and the Colombian Cartel, who are paranoid (and paradoxal) partners attempting to flood the U.S. with drugs to destroy this country so the Russians can at last take over. (In their dreams!) This is a FINE read, believe me. Do yourself a favor and see for yourself! ... Enjoy!

This is a reprint of a well-written personal account by a SNCC member and Howard University student. I am glad to see this book back in print. It will give an insight to the young and not so young who, because of the media's almost exclusive focus on Dr. King, have been lead to believe that the only important aspect of the civil rights movement was the "I Have a Dream" speech.

Cleve Sellers gives us an up close andpersonal report on some of the key leaders of SNCC, especially Stokely Carmichael (now known as Kwame Ture), who later became, for a short time, the Prime Minister of the Black Panther Party and for many years the primary organizer of the All African Peoples Revolutionary Party.

Sellers outlines many of the behind the scenes relationships between SNCC and other organizations and details the tactical and ideological differences which engaged the energiesof the SNCC membership.

This book took me up by the first page and then steadily moved deeper and deeper, taking me into the lives of an immigrant Jewish family, generation by generation, and also into the social history of this country, as both family and country became more open to "outsiders" even while the challenges of being "safe" remained. Sometimes heartwrenching, because you see the reality of the lives at stake. Always an eye-opener! And the writing is beautiful.