Field guides are great for helping you identify the bird you just scoped, but once you want to learn more about the birds you've been seeing the field guides aren't of much use. This book covers a limited number of birds, but the information provided is excellent. He covers the life history of the birds, including a season by season account of the typical year in the bird's life. Mating habits, habitat preferences, and threats to their enviroment are some of the topics covered. In general, there are 3-5 pages devoted to each species. The illustrations are black and white, but are well done.

This is a novel of many pleasures! Ann Harleman writes
intensely sensual prose. At the same time she is a witty,
astute and unsentimental observer of the human comedy. In
this novel, she switches deftly between the voice of a
teenage girl angry and anguished over her father's disappearance
and a mother dazed and eventually awakened by the same loss.
Along the way, Harleman writes with equal intensity about
first-time sex and first-time-in-a-long-time sex, about teen
angst and middle-age muddle. She illuminates not only the
high drama here but also the small actions that make up
our lives: folding sheets; breaking bones; building, figuratively
and literally, a home. This is a book to be savored for
its many flavors, from the bitter to the sweet. Enjoy!

Filomena grew up in a very poor region in Ecuador before she immigrated to the United States where she became a citizen, gave birth to a daughter, and obtained her private investigator license. She and her thirteen-year-old daughter return to Ecuador to see their extended family and to take a vacation in the mountain region where she grew up.

When she has a chance, she visits Father Campus, the priest responsible for saving her life and getting her out of the country. When the politically active priest is murdered, Filomena vows to bring his killer to justice. She starts her own investigation and winds up being framed for a murder that has the earmarks of an assassination. Forced to go on the run, a desperate Filomena returns to the area where she was once well known as a freedom fighter, hoping to get the answers that will clear her name.

K.J.A. Wishnia gives the reader an up close and personal look into a third world country where life is poor and people will kill to for food. The heroine is a brave person who is willing to take on a corrupt government to see that justice occurs. BLOOD LAKE is a very complex tale with several sub-plots that seamlessly blend into the main story line leading to a lasting impression on the minds of the audience.

Harriet Klausner

K.C. Roberts, M.S., C.P., C.C.A. President, American Board of Clinical Autotransfusion, President/CEO, National Transfusion Services The information contained within this book has been valuable to the surgical transfusion programs I consult with. It offers a wonderful balance of traditional transfusion approaches while also doing an excellant job in describing the autologous alternatives for surgical patients that may require bank blood transfusions. The authors have included a section on the "medicallegal aspects of transfusion therapy," which are and will become more and more a problem for any clinician that transfuses blood components. With FDA regulations escalting there will be more need for such information. The last section titled "Special Concerns" includes some very good selections pertaining to the management of anemia, as well as section on general transfusion management, and the specialties of OB/GYN and "Massive Transfusion." If this book is revised I would like t

John Jerome has, in recent years, become one of my favorite writers thanks to his elegant and straightforward prose style. I ordered "Blue Rooms" the moment I heard it was out, and I was not disappointed. This is a terrific book.

"Blue Rooms" is about a lifelong love affair with water. From playing in the muddy San Marcos river as a boy, to kayaking the cold waters of Canadian lakes as a grown man, it seems Jerome has always been fascinated by water. Most of the earth's surface, he points out, is water. So is most of the human body.

What strikes me most about this book is the way in which Jerome takes a personal obsession and makes it understandable to his readers. By the end of the book I could have sworn I had a lifelong love affair with water, too, even though I'm a mediocre swimmer who lives in hills far from any large water source. Really, this is a terrific book. Go out and buy it. You won't be sorry.

Dr. Boyd has done an excellent job addressing the often overlooked influence of pond soils and sediments on water quality in aquaculture ponds. Boyd discusses the obvious as well as the obscure in terms of pond chemistry. Included within is the the best discussion of reduction-oxidation potential in bottom sediments to be found. Dr. Boyd is to be commended on his ability to translate highly scientific material into language that can be grasped and understood by the non-scientist. A must-have for the serious aquaculturist or pond manager.

It's the only book on the Bowron Canoe Circuit I've found that gives a reader a true photographic picture of the rewards he/she will experience when traveling this circuit. Short on the historic value of this area and short on preparing visitors on what's required to travel in a true wilderness setting.

This book has been a joy to use. It put the fun back into working on a computer and at the same time provided a valuable learning experience. Most importantly, the suggestions worked as described and did not result in a crash. Please ask Matthew Lake to write "Breaking into Windows 95". I have been desperately waiting for it to appear on the bookshelf

Detroit has had breweries in its history! Blum, an exec at Stroh's for many years, is an authority on the history of Stroh's and its competitors. Anybody interested in breweriana will find this an invaluable guide to ads, labels, and other collectibles from Detroit-area breweries. (The Stroh company provided many of the beautiful color illustrations used in the book.) Oh, that Motown were still Strohtown!

This is a well written, compelling study of early attempts at police reform in the 1960s. A wonderful analysis of the failures of American liberalism and very interesting biography of a true unheralded American hero, George Edwards, Jr., who attempted to change the tragic course of Detroit history and for a short time looked might he succeed. An excellent read! Highly recommended. This reviewer is looking forward to the next book.