Elspeth Baker is is almost 19 when we meet her. She's an intelligent college coed, a red-haired beauty, unmarried and pregnant. Everyone around her seems to know just how she should handle her predicament, but Elspeth has some strong opinions herself on that subject. As she goes about making those opinions known, the reader is swept up in her life.

Elspeth has an infallible you-know-what detector and isn't shy about letting anyone know when it's beeping loudly, including rabbis, doctors, nurses, or any other authority figure. She says to a pompous would-be author trying to put the make on her, "...sometimes it's hard to tell a wordsmith from a bullshitter. It's a very thin line. You think a book like 'A Fireplace in Winter' isn't literature because it doesn't have all this obscurity and beautiful language that's hard to understand. But obscurity and veiled references, and allusions and allusions, showing how sensitive they are--that isn't everything. Maybe the reason some of these guys make their books so hard to understand is that if people could understand it, they'd know it's just a bunch of crap."

Although the book is almost 700 pages, the pages are turned quickly because you'll want to know what Elspeth will say and do next. Mr. Kaufmann has cannily caught every nuance of speech and mannersim of a 19-year-old girl. The reader can't help but fall in love with her as she tries to set her life in order.

A record of events leading up to two letters from Mary Baker Eddy to Augusta E. Stetson following Mrs. Stetson's excommunication from The Mother Church in November 1909 by the Christian Science Board of Directors. Reveals the special relationship between Mary Baker Eddy, "Love's chosen love," and Augusta E. Stetson, Mrs. Eddy's "best beloved" student. Original publication of Emma Publishing Society. Booklet; 22 pages; Emma Publishing Society, 1995.

My son has checked this book out of the school library so many times he has it memorized! Great fun at home -- inexpensive science projects that really work and are fun to do --- even for Mom! The Rocket created from a 2 liter soft drink bottle and powered by water and a bicycle pump is great. Other favorites include the Archimedes' Screw that moves popcorn and the Rubber Band Powered Boat. Bright, colorful, lots of pictures, easy to understand and easy to build --even for the science challenged!

This book is a great reference for Mac programmers. A quick, easy way to find answers.

Patty was an eight years old orphan, and she was adopted by Mr and Mrs Baker, who had eleven adopted-kids already! When Patty came, her new sister, Hilary, was totally rude to her. And Hilary would do anything that would drive Patty away. Would Patty able to stay in the Bakers, or she would have to go? Read for yourself!

I was lucky to be chosen to preview a copy before publication, and from the first few lines, I was hooked. The in-depth look at this man, and of the author herself, was a memorable read. The man of the book was in the national news (Wolfgang Schug, the Lakeport, CA physician indicted for murder in the death of his 11-month old patient went on trial in 1998) and this is when the story opens. The author is first shocked to read the headline of the Los Angeles Times on January 7th, then pleased to think her ex-husband is in trouble. But she realizes judgment based on a news story and ten year-old memories isn't fair. She recounts her courtship with the young German doctor (met him on, of all things, a blind date), her marriage and move with him and her young daughter to Cheyenne, Wyoming from Southern California, where he begins a three-year residency. What happens to him--the way he slowly changes--and how that affects herself and her child makes for an "I just gotta see what happens next" experience for the reader. And the climactic chapter, "Keys" was a heartstopper. Just be sure you can read the rest of the book from the chapter before "Keys" to the end without interruption! But excitement aside, the author treated her account of that time, and of him, with dignity and sensitivity, and that is what made this story so memorable and touching. I saw myself in her many times. And I recognized men I have known and issues I have faced myself, as I absorbed every word. The author's writing style not only flows beautifully, it speaks from the heart and for the heart. I recommend this book for anyone (men, too) who want a glimpse into real life. Forget Hollywood--go for reality. It's in this book, and you won't be disappointed!

In 2002, I first noticed Edward Burtynsky's gorgeous 40 x 50-inch color prints at the AIPAD conference in New York. To me, Burtynsky's work stood out from all the rest in that immense exposition, which annually showcases international photography galleries. I hoped his gifts would receive appropriate recognition. I didn't realize the degree to which his reputation as a master photographer was already well established by museums, collectors and critics. Since 1985, the Charles Cowles Gallery has represented his work in New York and the Mira Godard Gallery, one of Canada's most prestigious galleries, represents him in Toronto where he is based. So I am now delighted to report that Yale University Press' handsome catalogue from his recent retrospective exhibition in Ottawa is a remarkable accomplishment in every respect. The National Gallery of Canada organized the show and co-published the book. Although the 64 color plates do not deliver what I love most about seeing his work in person - that is simply not possible to achieve in small-scale, half-tone reproduction. The fact is that this book's design and color plates are wonderful. Every aspect of this book is highly accomplished and carefully, thoughtfully considered. Assistant Curator of Photographs, Lori Pauli, deserves special recognition, firstly as editor for selecting top professionals and for coordinating their efforts seamlesslessly. Secondly, Pauli also wrote a scholarly, insightful essay that sets the tone for engaging inquiry and discourse that is maintained by a distinguished panel of co-authors, each with a different approach, including Mark Haworth-Booth, Kenneth Baker and an interview of the artist by Michael Torosian. Their different perspectives should satisfy many questions that might arise for the reader who wants a broad social context without losing a sense of personal connection concerning aesthetics or individuating details about Burtynsky himself. He grew up in southern Ontario, Canada's most populous and richest province. Much of Ontario's wealth comes out of the ground itself and even more significantly, comes out of manufacturing industries, particularly auto plants. Mining and heavy industry are major themes in his site selection both close to home and far away. He traveled half way around the world for some locations. Burtynsky's beautiful art of otherwise terribly distressed places is absolutely authentic, warmly human and almost always immediately engaging. The reader learns that there is neither pretense nor opportunism in Burtynsky's choice of site selection and content. His deliberate ideological detachment also distances him from the controversy and rancor that often accompanies polemical discourse. However, his personal connection with his sites is another matter. Burtynsky reveals his distinctly individual sense of place in almost all of these man-altered landscapes. Considerable skill, intelligence, time, and expense were devoted to every composition. He certainly did not need to work this hard to simply provide compelling evidence of the consequences of large-scale exploitation of natural resources. The color reproductions are only a small fraction of the size of the original photographs but they still illustrate his career-long attraction to detail and immense, complex space. He understands color, light and large-scale abstract composition like few others in his medium. In fact, I believe that he could make anything appear beautiful anywhere -- and yet he doesn't. At the exclusion of everything else Burtynsky chooses places transformed by human desires - including his own - for commerce and comfort. His pictures of mine sites, quarries, oil rigs and rusting steel can truly astonish the viewer for their visceral impact. They convincingly demonstrate decades of demanding study, persistence, experiment and high critical standards but his conflicted passion for his sites is a separate, far more complicated matter that for the most part remains undisclosed. As a fellow large format photographer and colorist, I can attest that there is nothing he takes on to photograph that is simple or easy. Tripod-mounted view cameras are cumbersome tools to use, especially outdoors at the mercy of ever changing natural light conditions as well as the unavoidable and unexpected shifts in weather. It is slow, complex, painfully deliberate work in conditions that are always unpredictable and often physically uncomfortable. Burtynsky makes it look easy - it isn't. Ian Hunt, the designer, also hides his craft. His design reveals wise William of Occham's razor, keen balance and restraint. It is what only the very best design can demonstrate. This is certainly a book worthy of collectors but it is accessible for us all. It showcases an artist about whom we shall hear many more richly deserved accolades in the years ahead. There will definitely be more books about Edward Burtynsky, but Manufactured Landscapes will be difficult to surpass.

Marijuana Medicine provides a visual record of cannabis growing and its role in medicinal applications around the world, from Asian healing traditions to applications in Latin American and Indian folk medicine. Anthropology blends with medicine in this survey of how marijuana is used around the world.

Dr. Eric J. Snyder, Senior Pastor, First Presbyterian Church,

Dr. Marvin Baker has provided an important contribution to the Kingdom and to the spiritual growth of young adults by the publication of his book, Mark's Story. Baker combines sound scholarship and a conversational style to present Mark's portrayal of Jesus in a format designed for pre-teens. For example, chapter 1 begins, "In the Old Jewish Bible, a man named Isaiah wrote that God would send someone to help people get ready to welcome His son who would be coming to earth. John the Baptist was the man God sent to do this."

Baker, of course, desires that young adults study the Scriptures. But Mark's Story gives a delightful and accessible introduction to the gospel message. Prisons have requested copies for inmates. The book will be a valuable resource for Sunday Schools or Vacation Bible School. It will also have an enthusiastic third-world audience.

The Marketing Book is now one of the leading texts and references used by students all over the world. Covering key contemporary issues in marketing, it gives the best overview currently available on marketing.

Edited by Michael Baker, Professor of Marketing at the University of Strathclyde Business School and the UK's most important and influential marketing thinker, this rigorously revised, updated and substantially extended fourth edition now contains articles on Marketing and the Internet, Social Marketing, Marketing of Services and other issues. All the original chapters have been reworked and many of them have been completely rewritten to reflect changes and trends in current marketing thinking and practice.

The book's 30 chapters highlight the quality, breadth and depth of the ideas from the best minds in modern marketing education. Professor Michael Baker, and with specially commissioned contributions from top UK marketing educators and writers, sets out the scope and nature of contemporary marketing, its managerial application and its contribution to corporate success. Its list of contributors constitutes a virtual who's who of UK marketing experts today.

The Marketing Book is an indispensable reference work and textbook for students and practitioners, all over the world. This textbook is essential reading for those students taking the Chartered Institute of Marketing's Certificate and Diploma examinations, as well as business studies, management, marketing, MBA, DMS, and BTEC Higher National courses. Being an invaluable resource to practitioners-especially those taking executive courses in marketing or pursuing Continuous Professional Development-it deserves to be on the desk of anyone who aspires to be a marketing manager, and certainly on the bookshelves of anyone who is practising a significant marketing role in their organisation.

The author of over 30 books on marketing, Professor Baker is also President of the Academy of Marketing, Dean of the Chartered Institute of Marketing's Academic Senate and founding Editor of the Journal of Marketing Management.