For those interested in the developmental history of ambulance/EMS systems and the state of prehospital care across North America in the 1970's, this is a steriling account. While this book details Connecticut's struggle to combat death with new ideas and systems, it mirrors most other jurisdictions in North America. Detailed areas of funding and finance, logistics and operations, and legislation make this book a good resource for supervisors, administrators and politicans. This should be required reading for every mayor, councilor, and health committee chairman. I find it amazing today (Jan-2000), the number of communties and jurisdictions across North America who are still struggling with many of the prehospital care issues encountered in the 1970's that are described in this book. Some of the same (decision making) mistakes are being made today due to a lack of (good) knowledge as well as misleading information. Given the volumes of ambulance/EMS research, its amazing.

This is a must have for anyone involved in Critical Incident Stress Debriefings or Critical Incident Stress Management. Dr Mitchell is the worlds leading authority on CISD/CISM and has conveyed his vast knowledge through this book!

This text is an excellent resource for practicing educators and professors of education. It gives a brief and concise review of major events in the development of the U.S. educational system. I strongly recommend it!

This book is not only a great sourcebook of recipes and physical techniques for rejuvenation and exercise, but is a tribute to the effect that great design and use of color can have in making something memorable and fun to read. It is a pleasure just thumbing through it and even more so that the information is so substantial. It is divided into categories underscored by specific vegetarian recipes and moves from yoga, Chinese internal exercise, and some Pilates. It is like several books combined and makes an economical alternative to getting a whole stack of related items. Definitely worth buying!

This book is small and to the point. There is wonderful exercises to jump start your day or wind ya down after a long days work. I 100% recommend it.

You will be drawn into Mitchell's musical and mysterious creation that is as dangerously tempting as it is playful. Each poem feels like a "bird calling, always up ahead, yearning me deeper in." The same voice that sings "Bye Baby Bunting" and "Wimble and wight" and speaks of whipping the self to "glees of teeter" also speaks of the desire that is "clawing/ the body, finding the weakest spot to break out of."

Mitchell explores human desire and the hungers of this animal existence. "Think flicker and fluid and flow" and you will be caught up in the lyrical transformation that the language lures us into. The poems pull and tug and tempt and stir. Their worlds are worlds worth entering. "What is so strange / it feels like home? It calls. I follow."

This an historically significant work worthwhile for a number of reasons--of course--, but I am particularly interested in its treatment of figured bass. Why? Although it was composed after Rameau published his revolutionary theory of root progression, C.P.E. Bach repudiated Rameau's theory, and this work remains untouched by it. Consequently, reading this is the easist way to get a feel for how things stood before Rameau and (ironically for C.P.E. Bach) to appreciate truly Rameau's achievement.

Also recommended: PENTATONIC SCALES FOR THE JAZZ-ROCK KEYBOARDIST by Jeff Burns.

Henry's description of the year's spanning the turn of the century until the amalgamation and consolidation of Sinn Fein in 1917, tracks the emergence of a political force whose resonances still reverberate in the North of Ireland today. Here, the ideologies and political underpinnings of the Sinn Fein movement are outlined vividly, from the 19C. 'Young Irelanders' movement from which a line of unbroken continuity is maintained by Henry. His vivid description of Sinn Fein's rise to capture the hearts and minds of the Irish electorate is moving and intelligently wriitten, clarifying the nebulous nature of opinion that was the reality of Sinn Fein. His enthusiasm for the movement is never in doubt and undoubtedly as a piece of political propraganda it was succesful at the time. Yet propaganda apart, this remains an arresting piece of literature that lucidly describes the psychological profile of the umbrella-like nature of Sinn Fein. His account of Sinn Fein's evolution is particuarly interesting in the light of the implacable enemies they were faced with. The British as the oppressors, with their malevolent history of rule in Ireland. Their rigged constitutional methods, an illusion that was adhered to by the constitutional Irish Parliamentary Party. The implacabable and threatening attitudes of the Unionists, through all this they rose to greatness. He dissects the moral and spiritual republicans from the constitutionalists and the dual monarchists and lucidly describes their evolution into unity, but unfortunately for Henry, several year's after publication this unity was to be ripped apart. A factor that regarding Henry's obviously deep attachment to Sinn Fein, must have proved deeply distressing. I really enjoyed this book it bound's along at an exciting pace, like a political thriller. It includes everything from blood sacrifice, oppresion and self- regeneration. It embodies a modern David vs. Goliath theme and carries the reader on an emotional tide to the cliff edge of Sinn Fein's zenith. Anybody with an interest in the reasoning behind such event's as the Easter Rising should read this book although those who sympathise with the British or Unionist perspective will probably scream profanities at Henry's reading of event's.

I was first introduced to Stephen Tchudi and Diana Mitchell's "Explorations in the Teaching of English" back in 1990. It is an invaluable tool to secondary-level teachers in particular.

Of all the resource texts for teachers that I have read since then (and I've read MANY), this is by far the best all-around resource for the classroom teacher.

The only problems with it now, in 1998, is that it hasn't been revised. Until a 4th edition is available, this is still a top-notch resource for English/Language Arts teachers - whether you've been teaching for years or are just starting out in the profession.

Lots of twists and turns and a wonderful ironic ending. It's one of those books that you keep thinking about long after you've finished reading.