Death has come to a tiny desert town in the form of a dark man named Kane. He approaches like a storm and begins to slaughter the residents of the community one by one. Is it revenge? A curse? Is he human? The survivors race for their lives and try to solve the mystery behind the man known only as Kane... Douglas Borton is one of the best writers out there (he's currently doing crime thrillers under a psuedonym). If you see his name on a book, you're guaranteed a great story. Highly recommended.

Kansas Limited Liability Company : Forms and Practice Manual is an excellent practitioner's reference for L.L.C. formation. This publication covers aspects of the operating agreement (organization & capital contributions): L.L.C. management; transfer & buy/sell provisions; books, records and accounting; and dissolution. This publication has many sample forms which are also included on the companion software, which is in Word and WordPerfect formats. If you are forming an L.L.C. for a client in Kansas, this is an excellent reference.

A wonderful monograph detailing the personal life and the works of the artist who gave the world "White on White". Beautiful full-page color plates are paired with opposing page descriptions, making browsing individual works easy. The descriptions and analysis are insisive and accurate, well-grounded in the images and with only an occasional leap beyond the facts. A separate section follows his personal life and artistic development, including a lot of information about the artists with whom he worked. This narrative perhaps does not focus enough on the political atmosphere in which he worked (i.e., not enough historical background) and how it might have affected his art, but I recommend the book for its pictures alone. It was an assigned book for one of my art history classes.

"What's "A Kind of Dreaming?" It's a collection of stories ranging from a young man's desperate yearning for a change to a mad kick through Las Vegas. It's discovering a newfound reason to stay up late to a soldier's fleeting thoughts of love. It's a husband's little white lie to a boxer fighting for more than himself. It's a poet learning the power of others to an ultimate vengeance fulfilled. It's all of these plus thirteen more. A Kind of Dreaming marks the first work of a burgeoning voice in the literary world."

And if you would like to learn about the author, go to his website....

This book gathers 15 contributions written by the most distinguished international scholars in the field of kinship. It provides an extensive view on methodological and theoretical advances in kinship studies, as well as several in-depth case studies that illustrate how those methods and concepts might be applied.

One main strength of the book is to present a perspective that is at the same time formal (with an emphasis on mathematical concepts and measures), and historical. In other words, unlike many quantitative kinship studies, those papers are respective of the richness of ethnographic information, and do not dismiss the peculiarities of contexts or time periods. Quite to the contrary, actions and decisions regarding kinship are seen as "embedded in specific nexus of social relations" (p. 1). Houseman and White, for instance, in their reanalysis of Leach's classical study on Pul Eliya, are able to show how matrimonial alliances are explained by a theory of practice grounded in the circumstances of the material environment and the social network (p. 83), which are historical in nature. Considering social constraints as emerging interactional realities enables the authors to defy structural determinism, while keeping the project of scientific explanation.

Conceptual and methodological advances are numerous. Duran Bell's article, for instance, suggests to reinterpret bridewealth, dowry and marriage exchange, in relation with corporate groups, and provides an interesting alternative to an analytical perspective in which reciprocity is the elementary unit of social action. One methodological advance that will undoubtedly excite people interested in kinship is the PGRAPH kinship graph, developed by Douglas White, one of the editors, along with Paul Jorion. Unlike conventional genealogical graphs, PGRAPH considers couples as nodes, and individuals as edges, thus providing a very straightforward representation of the kinship space, that enables one to discover relational structures, in cases where conventional genealogical graphs are of very limited help. The software producing PGRAPHS can be downloaded from Douglas White's home page.

In addition to the presentation of methodological and conceptual advances, readers will enjoy reading fascinating case studies, ranging from Papua New Guinea, India, to Mediterranean communities. Thus, this book satisfied my appetite for rigorous and up to date formal analysis, while providing this touch of exoticism that makes good Anthropology books.

This artist gives us a big gift. He shares with us his perspective of Life. The art of Klee is positive, colorfull, visual, and very meaningfull. Well, this book is a nice substitution to the real collection. The colors of Klee show emotions. He colors the world... with hope...

Internationally recognized Klee expert Douglas Hall begins with a perceptive biographical essay on Klee that is illustrated sparingly but effectively with photographs of Klee, his wife Lily Stumpf (whom he married in 1906), his tidy Munich studio in 1920, along with several etchings and paintings.

Hall has read and thought about everything the painter ever wrote, and he quotes from the diaries in his text. Klee fought in World War One. He had begun his working life as a draughtsman, but soon moved toward finer "art." His early doubts about himself as well as his eventually confident assertions are here. The result is a clear picture of Klee the man and the artist - as well as a feel for his artistic and deeply thought-out process - over the years of his too-brief life. (He died at 61, in 1940.)

Hall discusses Klee's significant contributions to theories of color, composition, the relationship of music to visual art; edges, textures, the use of the frame; !abstraction and symbolism. Klee's participation in the Bauhaus at Weimar (closed by the Nazis in 1931) is detailed. He was fired from his teaching job at the Dusseldorf Academy in 1933. The Fascist persecution of modern artists began and Klee and his wife left Germany to return to the safety of their native Switzerland.

The plates' color is good and best of all, many of the paintings in this book are in private collections, so you're seeing some things you won't ever find in museums. Some of the plates show only a detail of the full painting, with the full painting reproduced in black and white, opposite. This is occasionally frustrating.

Finally, Klee's well-known late paintings : boldly colorful, starkly minimal and emotionally expressive - each about his own imminent death - are included with trenchant and sympathetic commentary. There is an Outline Biography, a Select Bibliography, and 48 color plates spanning Klee's entire painting life.

A great book.

Stunningly beautiful, clean and crisply presented. One hundred years hence, this volume will stand as an exemplar of the contemporary aeesthetic. Accessible yet challenging. Unreservedly recommended. (A true bargain at this price, too.)

If you've read Douglas Adams before, you'll know what I mean. I love his writing and his original thoughts and the complex plots he comes up with. It's nice to see that it is being translated. If you're trying to read this, it helps if you've read the other books in the series first. otherwise, you might not understand some things. Anyway, the story goes that -- wait. You know the game of cricket, right? Well, apparently cricket started from the war that the people of Krikket (who hated the space above them) had against the rest of the universe. The people of Krikket hate everything else so much that they want to annihilate it. However, they were stopped a long time ago. Now, there planet is locked up in itself and will only be unlocked after the end of the Universe when they will be free and be alone in the Universe (which is what they want). However, some of their killer whit robots have somehow started gaining the Wooden Pillar, the Plastic Pillar, the Steel Pillar, the Golden Bail, and a purple award from a party, which are the keys to unlock Krikket. But how are Arthur Dent, Slartibarfast, Trillian, Zaphod, and Ford Prefect going to stop these killer robots?

I found this book to be invaluable as a guide during, and for review after, the required dissections that I did in my Anatomy Lab course. The photos are clear, and the diagrams and reference tables are easy to use. I feel that I owe my successful completion of my lab course to the fact that I had a pictorial of the dissection to refer to when I couldn't quite picture it in my head. I highly recommend this book to anyone taking the laboratory course with the cat dissection included.