Discusses the investigatory work performed in laboratories using such clues as fingerprints, tire tracks, bullet holes, and artists sketches.

"The privilege of a lifetime" is what the author thought about the opportunity to minister to American prisoners of war. Chaplain Eugene L. Daniel Jr. began his 27 month odyssey as a German prisoner in a manner that was, perhaps, unique in the annals of WWII. While his comrades in the 34th Division evacuated a doomed hilltop position by stealth of night, the Chaplain stayed behind, waiting for dawn. He stayed behind so he could get medical assistance for two wounded German prisoners. The prisoners would never have made it back to an Allied field hospital, and they surely would have perished had they been left behind. Their one hope was delivery to the nearest German medical station. Chaplain Daniel's "surrender" saved the lives of the wounded soldiers, and this singular act of humanity was a fitting beginning to Daniel's years of ministry to his fellow POWs. "In The Presence of Mine Enemies" is a story of a heroic captivity. From the rugged mountains of Tunisia, to the frozen Silesian Plain, Chaplain Daniel buoyed the spirits of his comrades by sharing the scriptures and holding fast to his faith. In his first message to fellow inmates at Stalag Luft III, Daniel wrote: "It is my dominant prayer that together, we may learn more of the grace and love of our heavenly Father." Of the tens of thousands of American servicemen captured during World War II, not one was prepared for captivity. Some thought about death, many imagined being wounded, and most all dreamed about returning to their loved ones unhurt. But no man was prepared for the abject humiliation of becoming a prisoner of war. Many Americans were already wounded at the time of their capture, and there were little or no medical resources to attend to their wounds. For all, hunger and malnutrition were a grim fact of life. Allied officers fared slightly better than enlisted men, in their segregated camps. For that reason, Lieutenant Daniel requested his German captors to transfer him to an enlisted men's prison camp, so that he could minister to those in the greatest need. And so, Eugene Daniel shared the same starvation diet as the enlisted prisoners. Near the war's end, when the Germans desperately marched their captives over a frozen Europe, trying to dodge the advancing Russians, Daniel was reduced 115 pounds. But throughout his ordeal, he continued to serve to his fellow prisoners a steadfast diet of hope and grace. Even some of his captors fell under the influence of Daniel's spiritual light, and more than one German prison guard formed a bond of lifelong Christian fellowship with the American Chaplain. This extraordinary story is told with humor, humility, and elegantly simple prose. "In The Presence of Mine Enemies" deserves special honors in our inspirational literature. It will surely lead the reader to better understand the mysterious promise of the 23rd Psalm.

This book is not for the faint of heart , the easily discouraged or those to busy for a quiet break. In the Silence of Solitude offers some gentle guides to enhance every day with the spirituality found in a silent retreat. Read it, follow it if you dare. The results can only be a closer relationship with God.

If one is to buy into Plato's theory of perfect forms, then I must say that this comes infinitesimally close to being a "perfect introductory Calculus book". I couldn't help but get the impression that this was a book that was crafted to be enjoyed. Even without looking at the content, its physical properties are admirable. It's much smaller than those over-size Calculus textbooks you're used to lugging around in school, yet the print is large enough that it's easilly readable. The organization is quite impressive. The book allows you to delve into the complexities of hyperreals from the get-go, or skip the technicalities and still understand enough of the concepts to apply to the rest of the book. But the most remarkable trait of this book is that it is actually entertaining!!! Not because it consists of a lot of lame jokes that detract from the book's mathematical content as other "friendly Calculus" books sometimes do, but because the authors actually appear to be competent writers as well as mathematicians! Background is intermixed with theory, and in the midst of it, you'll find lots of interesting little anecdotes interwoven in the sidebars that enlighten your perspective of mathematical concepts and the personalities of the matematicians who discovered them. Content-wise, the book is completely rigourous, concise, and very consistent. It's such a tiny book that I was sure that it must have skipped something important, but comparing it to the much longer long-winded Spivak book, I couldn't find anything missing...except epsilons and deltas. That of course is the main goal of the book, to take the traditional introductory material of a first-year Calculus class and apply the techniques of Nonstandard Analysis, which were discovered in the last few decades. The result is that the authors have created a very concrete and rigorous treatment of Calculus that has all of the traditional uglyness removed from it. The authors even provide one epsilon-delta proof in the beginning, just to show how much more cumbersome it is compared to their elegant hyperreal system. The system itself is very abstract, but the authors take us to the point where we can see that abstraction and intuition do converge! Amazing. My only warning about this book is that it may not help you very much with your current curriculum, simply because the approaches it uses are so different than norm. Most of the topics in this book are not even covered during undergraduate studies, much less a first year class. If this book was actually used as a textbook for a real math course, I'd be the first to enroll!

Inside/Outside Nietzsche: Psychoanalytic Explorations is an innovative, scholarly study of the philosophical world Friedrich Nietzsche created for himself and the external world that challenged that philosophy. Social theorist and practicing psychoanalyst Eugene Wolfenstein focuses on the opposition between the principles of psychoanalytic theory and Nietzsche's concepts of the will to power and perspectivism. Wolfenstein brings Nietzschean concepts into the purview of contemporary psychoanalytic theory and practice, and then conducts a psycho-biography of Nietzsche. Inside/Outside Nietzsche will prove engaging, fascinating, informative reading for students of Nietzschean philosophy, psychoanalysis, and critical theory.

What sort of rooms did middle-class America live in during the fifties? Just have a look at the 250 room-set photos in this fascinating book. The advertising folk at Armstrong Tiles had the neat idea of showing the companies product as part of a room set to inspire home owners. These photos were used in their ads in the leading consumer magazines of the period. The photos are sharp, well-lit with no deep shadows, everything had to be visible and they capture the time between mom just cleaning the house and the folks arriving! I find the many kitchen and bathroom shots the most interesting, living in London during the fifties my parents would have loved to have such units and facilities. This book and the companion volume on the sixties, are a wonderful reminder of how we lived in the recent past. Although it does not detract from the photos the typography and presentation are rather bland.

As a decorator for one of the well respected prop houses in the Los Angeles area, as well as a student of interior design, I found this book extremely helpful in giving me the direction I needed to finish a project that had me stumped. The book is graphic intensive (which I like)with just a few words written about each photo. I shall use this book without fail for many years to come. Now if I can only find the volume covering the 50's and also the 70's.

I bought this book a few years ago, while still a college student. Very useful as a gift for any college student, and a handy guide to making and looking up drinks from around the world!

As globalization presents statesmen, businessmen, and ordinary citizen alike with a bewildering array of complex interdependence, there is a need for a clear, forthright description and analysis of contemporary international currents. Donald M. Snow and Eugene Brown, in their fourth book together, have succeeded wonderfully well in providing the single best book to do just that. This volume can be profitably read by students, ordinary citizens, journalists, cholars, policymakers, anyone-- in short-- seeking a strikingly clear and level-headed guide through the intricacies of the contemporary global scene.

VERY highly recommended.

"Introduction to phase transitions and critical phenomena" can be considered a classic in the subject, and, despite its first edition is now nearly thirty years old, and some of the results presented have been worked out in more detail along these years, I highly recommend it as an introduction to the subject. One fundamental advantage of the book that makes it different from newer teatrises like "The Theory of Critical Phenomena" by Binney et al (1992), is that it allows a

"softer" interface with "classical" thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, which is very convenient for beginners. Another important feature is the systematic "compromise" with the experiment, quite rare in theoretically-oriented books: it covers from the classic experiment of the critical point in the cyclohexane-aniline system, to the description of various spectrometers. Of course, "modern" topics in critical phenomena such as percolation are not examined and should be consulted in newer books. I might also criticize some lacks in the subject index; for example, the excellent survey of critical exponents in Binney's index is not matched in this book.