Even though this book is a little expensive, it is one of my favorite books on Porsche. Weitmann lived just a short distance from the Porsche factory, and for years was the official photographer for Porsche. His photos, and those of several other photographers, make this the 'family photo album' of the Porsche factory. You may recognize many of these photos because they are some of the most famous Porsche photos ever. Combined with Michael Cotton's fine editing and writing, this later revised-edition has grown to over 400 pages and covers most of the Porsche production and racing up to 1991. It is an absolute 'must' for any collector of books about Porsches. Buy your copy before it disappears from the shelf.

Most urban planning books are expensive disappointments. They overintellectualize the subject and are poorly written. Most serve mainly as portfolio pieces highlighting the writer's successes. The Powers of Preservation is the rare exception. It's entertaining to read and the author avoids posing easy solutions. It argues for the widespread adaptive reuse of everyday buildings instead of concentrating on a few isolated "showpieces." It tells the stories behind the author's successes and failures. The Powers of Preservation leaves readers empowered that, in their own towns, they can make a difference. It's the best I've encountered in reading numerous books on the subject.Excellent photos and layout, too.

this is one of my best book it helpped me during my training in the endoscopy unit i think this booc is key book for endoscopy .

This is a great overview of pediatric otolarygology. The algorithms are very helpful and this is a great book to help study for the board examination.

Through this carefully researched biography the reader is transported into the midst of the French Revolution, the American Revolution, and plantation life on Jekyll Island, Georgia. The globe hopping Captain DuBignon experienced so much during his 86 years, and Martha Keber has crafted a riveting account of the small and large events that shaped his life journey. Whether plying the blue waters of the Indian Ocean or the halls of the Savannah Courthouse, DuBignon succeeded in furthering his interests and preserving his family's well-being through some of the most turbulent times in history. This is a detailed look at a fascinating man with seawater in his veins and account ledgers on his mind.

This collection of funny poems and adorable prose is a great one to share with the family.

Arnold Adoff captures the essence of being a fumbling, embarassed teenager through his poems. Love, drugs, and school are just a few of the topics covered in the many uniquely formed poems. Adoff, who writes successfully from many perspectives, can bring you back to your youth or identify with a young person today with "Slow Dance: Heart Break Blues."

A wonderful boy that you either wish to be your son or to be yourself is the hero of this new American classic coming-of-age story. Each part of the book communicates American heart and soul and grit. I recommend it to all, young old and between. If you don't read another book this year,read Tailwind by Lad Moore because your heart will swell with joy.

"Cotton" Ivy -- a professional humorist who's also served in both the legislative and executive branches of Tennessee government -- and Roy Herron, a current state senator, have compiled a good-natured compendium of tales about famous Tennessee politicians from Davy Crockett to Al Gore. There are plenty of wonderful stories here. Although the co-authors are both Democrats (Herron was the state chair for Gore's presidential campaign), there are good stories about figures from both parties here. The photos are great, too, with some interesting little historical tidbits in the captions. If you can't get Cotton Ivy to come and speak in person, this is the next best thing.

No other American Puritan has fueled both the popular and academic imagination as has Cotton Mather (1663-1728). Colonial America's foremost theologian and historian, Mather was also one of its most powerful voices advocating millennialism. His lifelong preoccupation witht his subject culminated in his definitive treatise "Triparadisus" (1726/27), left unpublished at his death. In it, Mather justified his ideological revisionism; his response to the philological, historical, and scientific challenges of the Bible as text by English and continental deists; and his hermeneutical break from the orthodox exegeses of his father, Increase Mather, and Joseph Mede. In his critical introduction to this edition of "Triparadisus," Reiner Smolinski demonstrates that Mather's hermeneutical defense of revealed religion seeks to negotiate between the orthodox literalist position of his New England forebears and the new philological challenges to the scriptures by Hugo Grotius, Thomas Hobbes, Isaac de la Peyrere, Benedict Spinoza, Richard Simon, Henry Hammond, Thomas Burnet, William Whiston, Anthony Collins, and Isaac Newton. In "Triparadisus" Mather's hermeneutics undergoes a radical shift from a futurist interpretation of the prophecies to a preterist position as he joins the quasi-allegocial camp of Grotius, Hammond, John Lightfoot, and Richard Baxter. The "Threefold Paradise of Cotton Mather" also challenges a number of longstanding paradigms in the scholarship on American Puritanism, history, literature, and culture. Smolinski specifically calls into question the consensus among intellectual historians who have traced the Puritan origin of the American self to the Errand into the Wilderness and the idea of God's elect. He also challenges the commonplace argument that New England represented the culmination of prophetic history in an American New Jerusalem for the Mathers and their peers. As an important link between Mather's premillennialism in the late 17th century and Jonathan Edwards' postmillennialism in the Great Awakening,"Triparadisus" provides important biographical insight into Mather's last years, when, liberated from his father's interpretations, he put forward his own.