This was one of the best romance stories I have read, where the attraction of two people, begin long before they actually meet in person. Once Julia Hart and Brad Coleman finally meet face to face, the strong attraction is felt automatically. In most relationships, they are dealt with many hurdles they must jump but as love conquers them both, they soon find life with each other is way better than without. An easy smooth storyline,with the added twist of suspense basically has to do with Brad's occupation but it does not take away from the flames burning between him and Julia. To those Arabesque fans, this author is known to us as "Doris Johnson", if you've read some of her novels under Arabesque, then you are bound to enjoy this one as well.

This is an excellent, well-written exposition relating to the important role General Nathanael Greene played in the American Revolution. Greene was an overlooked, but absolutely key leader, who was given the difficult task of preventing the British from winning the South. Due to extreme circumstances, Greene was needed for his ability to employ a "guerilla" style of warfare. At that time, 1780-82, there were no understood rules concerning this type of warfare - Gen. Greene had only his wits, and humility (he had to accept that he would win no Great Victories) to guide him. As it turned out, he was the man for the job, and this small, readable book captures the similarities between Greene, a tyro at this, and Mao in China, and Gen. Giap in Vietnam, who had decades of theory to draw on, 160+ years later. An important addition to our understanding of the best leaders of the Revolution.

I bought this short but dense book when I was in my third year of law school (3.5 years ago), and I have found its advice to be extremely useful. It is aimed at the "typical" associate in the "typical" law firm, meaning one that draws most of its business from the surrounding community. Nevertheless, much of what the book has to offer will be valuable for any new lawyer in any type of practice (including non-profit and government work). The author not only gives homely advice (e.g., read the Wall Street Journal every day) but also helps you see the big picture -- long-term relationships with clients, continual self-education, giving back to the community, etc. He also provides an excellent list of questions you should ask prospective employers (for those who are lucky enough to read this book before they have a job), plus helpful (and ambitious) to-do lists for each year that you are in practice as an associate. This book will help you succeed in your law firm (if that is your workplace), and, more important, it will make you a better lawyer.

I love this book! I had to do a project on Marie Curie and this helped me a lot! I love how she was a women physicist and how brave she was. And to be one of the first physicists, wow. I think this woman rocks!

This is and excellent book for the researcher, graduate student, or undergrad (with some physics under his or her belt), who wants to learn about the effects of underwater noise on marine mammals. Currently this topic is the focus of much interest and is one of the most active areas of marine mammology research. Richardson et al. do an excellent job explaining the technical information, and have organized the book chapters in a logical sequence. Most terms are explicitly defined and the use of technical jargon is kept to a minimum. This book is a must for any researcher, or student, in the field.

T.F. Greene's "Marine Science" is far and away the best introductory text on the subject I have encountered. It is well written and follows a logical, well written progression through a large body of information. The Units and Chapters are well thought out and each has effective review material. Review questions are in a variety of formats that reenforce without duplicating critical ideas in the text. Supplementary essays (sidebars) are well written, timely and enjoyable. My only conceivable complaint would be the lack of color illustration. Though given the low price, this is understandable. I would recomend this book to any one interested in marine science or marine biology.

This is a marvelous book for math problems that really make kids think! It is well organized and indexed, so that problems are easy to find. In addition to a main problem in each topic, there are additional problems that are similar for more practice.

This book is somewhat dated since Mirror Symmetry III has recently appeared. However, this volume is now being reprinted and so a review is appropriate. The topic of mirror symmetry has to rank as the most fascinating one in all of modern mathematics. It has its origins in high energy physics, and as such to understand it fully, one must have a background in both quantum field theory and in some fairly esoteric mathematics, such as algebraic geometry, algebraic topology, and complex manifolds. A mathematician familiar with these areas will also have to get used to the sometimes hand-waving arguments used by physicists to discuss some of the concepts in mirror symmetry. The book is a collection of articles written by well-known experts in the field, and each article has varying degrees of physics/mathematics interplay. The literature on mirror symmetry has been dubbed "physical mathematics" by some mathematicians because of the physical constructions employed that are not based on rigorous mathematics. The powerful connections between quantum field theory and algebraic geometry are brought out in the first article of the book by B.R. Greene and H.Oogurt. Correlation functions in quantum field theory are related to the collection of holomorphic maps to rational curves on a complex compact 3-dimensional Kahler manifold. This theme of relating correlation functions in quantum field theory and superstring theory to various structures in algebraic geometry and complex manifolds is played out in the rest of the book. Most fascinating is the construction of the mirror manifolds themselves, for these look the same from a physical string-theory standpoint but are different as complex manifolds. The properties needed by physics imply the relevant manifolds are Calabi-Yau, many having been found by computer. The challenge of defining mirror symmetry rigorously is brought out in many articles in the book, with toric varieties showing the most promise: the enlarged Kahler moduli space of a given manifold is isomorphic to the complex structure moduli space of its mirror. Interestingly, some of the authors show that topology change can occur intrinsically in string theories; this is to be contrasted with "effective" changes in topology that occur in quantum field theory (and even in quantum mechanics). Again, toric varieties play the predominant role in showing this behavior. Some of the authors discuss the connection between mirror symmetry and enumerative geometry. This connection has stimulated much research, and the book serves as an introduction to the fascinating area of quantum cohomology. I think it would be fair to classify the results in this book as a kind of "quantization of mathematics". The reasonable effectiveness of physics in mathematics, to rephrase the statement by Eugene Wigner, is brought out brilliantly by the authors in this book.