Eugene Richards, one of the worlds best photojournalist, has a gift to not only photograph well but also write about his subjects equally as well! He shows the world a part of this world many do not see nor wish to see. This is one of those photo books that a good photographer must have to essentially help to chisel a path in the photography world for themselves! Taking this style to learn and grow from! One can learn much by the raw and realness of Richard's Cocaine life pictorial!

Cocaine true, Cocaine Blue represents the best of Eugene Richards. If Robert Capa's maxim about your pictures being close to be good is true, then Richards work is hands down about as close as anyone is getting.

This book focuses on the impact of crack cocaine in three eastern cities -- North Philadelphia, Harlem, and Red Hook, New Jersey.

Richards seems to have none of the fear that would stop most people, because his pictures bring a viewer over the comfort line to become shocking. The scenes exceed imagination. In fact, one of his pictures in this book was challenged for its authenticity because it seemed almost too perfect... In it, a women pauses to look at her John, her hands on his zipper, with her young child watching her. On a wall behind her, a picture of Martin Luther King, Jr. is displayed. Some black political leaders saw this picture and insisted that Richards must have set it up. He could only assert that he was truthful in his portrayal.

Truth is always stranger than fiction. This might be photojournalism's answer to magical realism: there is a wickedness and abandon to this world. The cover picture is another example -- the photograph shows an addict holding a syringe in his mouth. His eyes gleam in a way that suggests the insanity in the spirit of this individual.

Richards is for the most part a photographer who works inside America. Some domestic photographers lament that all of the best photographs are made in wars, and that the situations in our home communities preclude us from being able to make great pictures. Eugene Richards shows how this is false. He takes horrifying pictures in Long Island, in Philadelphia, in West Virginia, in Kansas City.

I read Introduction to Algorithms (1990, MIT) and this book is recommended for "further studies" on networks flow and Matroids. However, can anyone tell me is Eugene S Lawler the same person as Eugene L Lawler (a UCB professor)? Or are they two persons?

Combinatorial Optimisation : Networks and Matroids by Eugene Lawler examines shortest paths, network flows, bipartite matching, non bipartite matching. More importantly there is an excellent introduction to matroid theory including matroids and the greedy algorithm, matroid intersections and matroid parity problems, some of these Lawler's own results.

However there is not much on NP completeness, since this book was published in 1976. For a more to date version of events in combinatorial optimisation one might want to look at Papadimitriou and Steglitz's book on combinatorial optimisation (quite old too, considering this was published in 1982), Ahuja, Magnanti and Orlin's book on Network algorithms, Hochbaum's book on approximation algorithms and Cook, Cunnigham,Pulleyblank and Schrijver's book on combinatorial optimisation (listed in the order they were published).

Lawler's book is extremely well written and I am delighted that this book is now published by Dover, and hence easily affordable.

This is a great book for wide variety of audiences -- students in high school to professionals (engineers and scientists) with many years of math training. If you are looking for rigorous derivations or theorem/proofs, this is not the book. But if you are looking for a handy source that you can go to everyday in your professional life, then this is the book. I commend the authors for designing an accessible book with cogent presentation and exceptional clarity.

This text is a hard to find collection of formulas, theorems, symbols and laws that took me quite some time to find. If you like math and/or physics and want to know all you can, then this text is your best bet. It is laid out logically and coherently and culminates in a unified picture of two closely related fields of study. I highly recommend it to any scientific mind.

I first read this book under the title of "Sarkhan" as a college student in 1970. I was so impressed with the book that I have told friends about it for the last 30 years. This was the most insightful of the books about Vietnam available at a time when everyone was terribly concerned about what was developing there. As a political science major I was particularly interested in the steps that drew us into the Vietnam war. I have been frustrated for years about what happened to this book and why it literally disappeared from existence. If you are a history or political science buff this is a must read and if you have not read these authors other book"The Ugly American" I suggest you read it also. The new title,"The Deceptive American",may be more accurate than the original.

I first read this book while I was in Southeast Asia in late 1967 or early 1968. It was a shocker. I was living this book "in the flesh" even as I read it. Originally titled, "Sarkhan" it could easily have been Viet Nam, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, or Burma. While I wasn't a major player I experienced much of what was written by Msrs. Lederer and Burdick. I was stationed in northern Thailand, had a Hong Kong Passport, and spent many days aloft with Air America (CIA) flying to train Laotian and Cambodian troops on repair and maintenance of T-28 aircraft armament systems. I only wore a uniform while on base. This book seemed to have vanished from the bookshelves for many years (actually the U. S. Government had it removed.) First printed as "Sarkhan" in the fall of 1965, it didn't show up again until it was reprinted as "The Deceptive American" in 1977. I didn't run across a copy until December of 1998 in the Rockford, IL Public Library. Of and on I searched for "Sarkhan" for more than 30 years. For anyone who is a student of the Viet Nam series of conflicts this book summarizes the deception of the American public that took place under both the Johnson and Nixon Administrations. While still a novel, it would fall awfully close to "fact" if a few of the names were changed. I enjoyed it the first time I read it and my suspicions (concerning our Government pulling it off the shelves in the interest of security) were confirmed in the Preface of the 1977 version. Thank you Mr.Lederer.

This book is useful for beginners and advanced pray-ers alike. For beginners it will dispel so many of the doubts associated with prayer and help head off many problems and difficulties before they arise. For those already well immersed in a prayer life, Fr Boylan offers encouragement and insight garnered from his many years of deep prayer life. This book offers a solid, orthodox approach to prayer. The wackiness found in so many books on prayer is mercifully absent here. I would recommend reading this book every couple of years to ingest its deep content as one advances in prayer.

This is truly a classic in learning how to grow in friendship with the Lord Jesus. Fr. Boylan is an extremely lucid writer and will help any and all grow in prayer.

This is one of the few books I've read that, if I were an unbeliever in God through Jesus Christ, would start me thinking in new directions towards believing. The theme remains constant: that it is impossible to not be involved in spiritual warfare, a topic that is the whole of all life. There is no neutral place in which to hide from both good and evil spiritual forces, no place of perfect indifference (a belief of itself is an evil tactic!). It is also one of the few books about spiritual warfare that is strongly anchored in the Bible, not just the author's opinions. While I disagree on a few points (e.g., that demons lead people to buy lottery tickets, but can I prove that they don't?), Miller and Peterson's work is in good alignment with the Scriptures. It is the closest thing I have found to date that wasn't somewhere out in space. It is a perfect start for new believers as well as would-be believers, and is strongly reinforced by the author's pastoral experience. I'm glad to see other writers who are not afraid to mention the sonship of Jesus Christ, rather than just the generic use of the word "God." Some of the topics discussed in this book take some Christian maturity to fully grasp, challenging some parts of different beliefs, but the overall tone is sincere, candid and sober. "Disarming the darkness" is one of the few perfect books that the enemy (the devil) prefers not to be promulgated. The enemy savors thoughts of his non-existence by people on earth, so books like this-like real believers-are the salt in his wounds. This is one enemy, the authors indirectly point out, who is beyond mercy and for whom we should not feel the least bit sorry. Merely acknowledging the enemy's existence is half the battle (to a greater spiritual understanding); the other half is "disarming" his three favorite tactics: misuse of money, sex and power. I'm glad I found this book. I am very critical of "religious" (more importantly: spiritual) books, as I am with myself when it comes to these matters. Miller and Peterson's book offers reassurance that believers are tuned to the same frequency before we get off the sinking ship. I found it surprisingly short, only 160 pages, wishing the book was longer. I hunger for words like this. I look forward to a second edition. "Disarming the Darkness" should be required reading for all Christians, and also for those who are considering conversion in the slightest. Get it, read it!

This book, like many of Miller's works, blends imagination and 'humanness' with the wonderfully liberating foundation of the Word. There are so many off-the-wall presentations dealing with the influence of evil in our lives, this book is a joy to experience. Without underestimating the power and presence of the Evil One in the world, Miller clearly puts the proper perspective on the Christians stand. For Miller, the operative word here is Christian. If you are not fully given to Christ and open to the protection and leading of the Holy Spirit, you can expect problems and pain. If, on the other hand, we are true vessels for Him ... there is no fear and no risk. Calvin Miller is an expert in practicality and scripture ... a perfect blend.

I can't agree with the reviewer who spoke about this great drama as demonstrating a sort of mystical personal eternal significance. It's an open attack on Nazism, a veiled attack on Stalinism: in written form a heroic/romantic fairy tale(hence passed by the censors)(the author had been banned fom writing for adults, but allowed to present children's plays): in performance, actually a biting and bitter heart-wrenching, hysterically funny and scary political fable written with blazing imagination and uncannily acute social observation(hence banned after the first night).

A stunning book, full of magic and wisdom -- yet another masterpiece written by wonderful Eugene Schwarz. The dragon in this play is the dragon in each of us -- a deeply hated horrible being that is at times more powerful than anyone else. That is, until someone like Lancelot shows up and stands up to him. A must-read!

A story of courage for a young girl. The author put her in dire straights and had her use her ingineuity to get to freedom. Once there she made good use of her experience. Held the readers interest the full length of the book.
should be required reading for history buffs.

I thought this was an excellent novel. The plotting and characters were very good, but what really caught my attention was the detail with which Mr. Barber treats the everyday facts of life -- how jobs were done, what things looked like, how people talked, etc. He truly re-creates the period.

James Falen's translation of this Russian classic is the best I have been able to find. Other translations by other Americans are nowhere near Falen's accuracy; on the other hand, Nabokov's rendition of the epic poem omits the most important part of Pushkin's masterpiece -- the iambic pentameter familiar to all Russians. James Falen combines the accuracy and the poetry to produce the best translation of Eugene Onegin available to an American reader.

Reading Eugene Onegin was my first taste of poetry outside of school. The experience was wonderful. Although the idea of deciphering a novel in verse was certainly somewhat daunting at first, especially with no guidance provided by a teacher, I discovered that I enjoyed Pushkin's poetry, which seemed so perfectly balanced even translated into English. I was sorry when it ended.

If you have ever dealt with the FAA, you will love these stories. If you have taken a flight test, had your facilities inspected or tried to get a part certificated, you will enjoy these stories. If you are a pilot, mechanic or a recovering aviator, you will find these stories irresistible. Gene Turner relates dozens of interesting, fascinating and historical accounts of amazing, puzzling and dumb things done by FAA inspectors. He also provides captivating behind-the-scenes reports of aviation testing. For coverage, click on Table of Contents in the left-hand column of this page.

Gene Turner has been a pilot and aeronautical engineer for over 50 years. He has work for and with the FAA for 38 years. He was there.

As a pilot (SEL and gliders, hang gliders and paragliders), skydiver (1,200 jumps, D-454), author and publisher of 7 books on parachutes, I fly quite often. I recommend this book to every aviator. DanPoynter@ParaPublishing.com.

Fabulous Affairs With Aircraft And Federal Aviation Airheads is a collection of short stories that provide an inside look at FAA how engineers test new aircraft, as well as government flight test pilots' experiences. Here are also examples of manufacturers trying to develop new designs, FAA engineers and inspectors who were more of a burden than a help to the progress of aircraft design development. Eugene Turner draws upon his more than thirty-eight years with FAA as an FAA Designated Engineering Representative who has worked an additional seven years aircraft design engineer in the aviation industry. Fabulous Affairs With Aircraft And Federal Aviation Airheads is an informative "must read" for any student of American aviation history in general, and the workings of the Federal Aviation Agency in particular.