"Computer Science Project Work: Principles and Pragmatics" has the three hallmarks of a classic: it is passionate, well-researched, and well-written. It is passionate about educating new software developers, designers, and analysts wisely and humanely. It is full of real information--the authors collected data on hundreds of real group projects and pedagogical best practices. It is written without ostentation or obfuscation--it is as clear as water. I wish I'd had this book from the beginning of my teaching career.

Suspense novels are inherently interesting. Math books are inherently...well, spiritually asphyxiating. Clark's Contemporary Math, which, if I recall correctly, I got as a member of the Popular Science Book Club, is a terrific introduction to basic and advanced math. I have treasured my copy over the years. His chapter on the binary number system--the basis of computer science--is as valuable as ever. The chapter on logic was also superb. Indeed, the whole book is a tremendously helpful introduction to the practical side of math. Anyone who digs up a used copy has found a real prize.

The scientist authors of this interesting book discuss a variety of topics dealing with sudden, often destructive, cosmic events. Since the 1800s geologists felt that the earth and the cosmos followed a concept of uniformitarianism, i.e. that cosmic and geologic evolution had proceeded at a gradual, steady state. The main catastrophists were religious people who viewed Noah's flood as an absolute reality. In recent years scientists have come to accept the significant effect that meteorite impacts have had on the earth, moons, and our other terrestrial planets. This is not to say that the authors accept any of the theories of creationists or writers like Velikovsky. They do not (some time is spent debunking these theories). Instead they explore how various heavenly bodies - asteroids, comets, and meteors - have caused abrupt changes on earth and elsewhere.

Interesting tales are also told of several of the moons in our solar system. Uranus's moon Miranda looks like it was once torn to pieces by an impact, and then reformed as a patchwork quilt of rock formations going in all different directions. There is a chapter on chaos in which we explore Saturn's fascinating little moon Hyperion. This moon seems to have a mind of its own, ignoring all the laws by changing its rotation speed and spin axis for no apparent reason. And, it never repeats an orbital performance twice!

The most recent theory of the origin of the earth's moon is presented. There is a section on supernovae, - don't worry our sun will never become one- and there is a discussion of the atmospheres of Venus and Mars, and what they teach us about the greenhouse effect. Will global warming be our downfall? What are the chances of another large meteor striking the earth and causing another mass extinction? The authors' conclusions seem well reasoned.

This book covers a variety of topics in Astronomy, and does so at greater depth than you would usually find in a college Astronomy text. It is also one of those ideal books for the non-scientist: highly informative yet easily accessible and entertaining.

The author gives easy-to-follow instructions with lots of pictures. The technique used is great for using up scraps in a crazy quilt, and makes it simple to take a theme and run with it. Adaptable to everything from baby quilts to Victorian lace. This is an excellent book for beginning quilters.

After attending one of Ms. Mimms courses, I bought this book. It is explicitly detailed and offers the critical care nurse a sound base of knowledge. I have implemented several of the chapters into our competency program and refer to it regularly. Thanks to Barbara, we have a reference guide soley for the purpose of teaching new critical care nurses.

As a Latina bride-to-be born in Dominican Republic and raised in the US it was hard to find a book that contained what I believe are essentials in a wedding where the hispanic culture reigns.

After buying four different wedding organizers, this one helped me the most (especially after I threw out the rest) because it has everything I needed in one place. From what to write in the invitations to the Thank-you cards. It was easy to follow and I didn't have to translate it to my mother because it is in Spanish!

I recommend this book for any Spanish speaking bride-to-be. It's more than a wedding organizer, it's peace of mind!

I've only used one other module from Guildhouse games and, like that one, this module is excellent. Though pictures are far and few between, we get an amazing amount of detail for our money. They pack as much as they can into these 32 pages, and it shows. The characters end up on a wild goose chase that ends with them realizing that one villain isn't responsible for ALL of the problems that the village is going through. I cannot wait to run this module for my players.

Dr. Clark has struck a sensitive nerve in the consciousness of a nation in his 1965 study of black neighborhoods. Revised in 1989 with an introduction by William Julius Wilson, and a foreword by Gunnar Myrdal, it is apparent that other scholars respect Clark's work as well. I was particularly impressed by the self-honesty of his methodology -- he calls it his "involved observer" method, which shows much more concern for the subjects of the study than traditional "disinterested observer" approaches, espoused by so-called "value-free" social scientists. Also recommended are other books by Clark, and most anything by Cornel West, Lewis R. Gordon, Allen Spear, and Alex Kotlowitz. A related book to "Dark Ghetto" is "Racism & Psychiatry," by Alexander Thomas and Samuel Sillen, with an introduction by K. Clark.

Everything about "Dawn of the Floating World: Early Ukiyoe Treasures from the Museum of Fine Arts" is superb: the quality of the unglazed paper, the beautiful design and color reproductions, and the solid scholarship that accompanies the presentation of rare Japanese prints from the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

If you are a collector or student of Edo-period Japanese prints, you undoubtedly have dozens if not hundreds of books in your art library, but few will match the quality of this volume or give you access to such a rich lode of information on the earliest of the Japanese printmakers (1650-1765). Nor will many other books stand up to the quality of the text provided by an all-star team drawn from the British Museum, Museum of Fine Arts/Boston, and Dartmouth College. The text entries present: poems in romanized Japanese as well as English translation, aesthetic assessments of the prints, biographical information on artists, interpretations of symbolic devices, and details--where relevant--of the kabuki plays, actors, locations, and activities depicted. Even the footnotes, printed at the inner margins of the pages devoted to text, are fascinating and will help intellectually curious readers to readily locate the best of source material.