I HAVE BEEN DELIGHTED WITH THIS BOOK. ALTHOUGH I HAVEN'T USED A PATTERN TO STITCH YET I HAVE READ THE BOOK FROM COVER TO COVER BECAUSE ITS LIKE A VISIT TO THE ARTISTS AND WRITERS THAT STIRRED UP THE IMAGINATION OF THE FIRST YEARS OF THE 2OTH CENTURY. IT SEEMS TO PICK UP WITH THE END OF THE ARTS AND CRAFTS MOVEMENT OF WILLIAM MORRIS' WHICH IS ENJOYING SUCH POPULARITY RIGHT NOW. THIS IS JUST AS INTERESTING

I want to buy this book how can I order , Now I live In Japan

I use Cases in Contemporary Strategy Analysis in my Capstone course (final course) for my MBA graduate students. It provides them with excellent insight into corporate decision making and strategic planning processes. The case studies are interesting and rich for discussion. My only criticism is the world of business is so fast paced. I would have like to see an internet site or CD ROM with more current information on the companies. Many of the organizational case studies were dated 1998. A myriad of financial, economic, marketing, and strategic changes occurred since the printing of the text. Overall, I recommend the book for textbook use.

Comprehensive but hard to follow. Not as user freindly as it could be but alot of information in one book.

An invaluable resource.

Covers every film from Sinners in the Sun to Walk Don't Run.

Lots of nice pics.

I bought this cookbook on impulse (okay, because of the cover) and have used its recipes quite frequently since. First of all, since I mention its cover, I have to say that the photography is rich and beautiful and pays great homage to this cuisine. Each recipe has its corresponding photo plus step-by-step photographs of its preparation, which I felt might be overkill, but actually helpful when dealing with ingredients and techniques that I've never met before.

I found unusual ingredients in this book such as ackee, cassava, chayote, taro, green bananas, and salt cod. I took this as an opportunity to try foods that I have never tried before. Such an opportunity is something that I expect from a cookbook and this one certainly delivers the goods! I also appreciate the unexpected combination of ingredients in each recipe. For example one of my favorites is the Caribbean Vegetable Soup with onion, garlic, thyme, carrots, celery, green bananas, taro, red lentils, chayote, macaroni, etc. I promise you will not be disappointed!

Some other favorites are the Coconut Jumbo Shrimp, the Mango, Tomato & Red Onion Salad, the Creole Fish Stew, the Pork Roasted with Herbs, Spices & Rum (very rich!), BBQ Jerk Chicken, and last but not least, the Peanut Chicken.

One more thing to add, if you are trying to incorporate more fish into your diet, this book is for you. Though the fish section is heavy on the shellfish, you will find 4 delicious recipes included for snapper, trout, and salmon.

Enjoy!

I never had much interest in the CGW until this came out. Grant's analysis and historical perspective on this granger road make this book an excellent read. The business/strategy side of railroading is very evident in Grant's writing. There's not much left of the CGW today, but this book gives us a look at one of the midwest's less noted haulers.

The thing you have to realize about THE SPIDER is that he fights bad guys. Not bad guys "they had a difficult childhood", but bad guys "pure evil". In CORPSE CARGO, the bad guys are stopping trains, killing and robbing everyone on them, and then sending trains full of dead bodies zooming off out of control down the tracks. These are not nice people. But rest assured that THE SPIDER will stop them, and that he isn't going to be reading them their rights, or shooting the gun out of their hand. His motto: "Death to the bringers of death!" Not really catchy and not PC-enough to be on a T-shirt anymore, but it gives you an indication of the action and adventure you can expect.

I had the pleasure of being one of the test audiences for this particular book. I'm basing my review on my copy, 1,000+ pages of photocopied draft. I was introduced to it via a full-year course taught by Dr. Temblay and Dr. Cheston.

The book is basically about a couple things: Writing superior Data Types via OO processes and an introdution to OO developement.

The section on datatypes is very good. The datatypes are constructed using string OO processes (the cd contains all the code for the datatypes created in the book) and are a good learning process. There is an emphasis on abstraction and generics in the design which is an intelligent way to do things, and I learned a lot about datatypes and OO through this. The section on formal ADTs, however, I found incomprehensible, but others may have different opinions.

The authors do focus on important OO concepts like UML and use cases, the brief section on software design suggests using the waterfall method. This section is fairly good, and is a decent introduction for a subject that can be fleshed out in further classes. It is still introductory however. For instance, patterns are not heavily mentioned, nor other development practices.

Other ideas focused on were mathematical induction, a strong section on testing, sorting theory and files as well as algorithm timing and reccurence relations.

This is a good book, and most undergrad students could likely learn a lot from it, assuming they are willing to spend a little time learning eiffel.

"Death in the Trenches: Grant at Petersburg" begins with a look at "A Graceful City Imperiled by War," showing how flourishing prewar Ptersburg looked as recorded by a trio of local artists. Of course, by the end of the Civil War Virginia's second biggest city would suffer even more so than the Confederacy's capital. Ironically, the town was situated on the Appomattox River.

This volume in the Time-Life Civil War series begins in June 1864 after the bloody slaughter at Cold Harbor. From the Wilderness on the Army of the Potomac had responded to each engagement with the Army of Northern Virginia, not by retreating as had been the inevitable practice in the past, but by trying to move around Lee's right flank. This maneuvering eventually led to the siege of Petersburg. But this book begins by looking at (1) An Opportunity Bungled, which covers how the corrupt politician turned inept general Benjamin Butler failed to launch a coordinated attack that might have captured Petersburg right then after having broken out of the Bermuda Hundred.

(2) Crossing the James details how Union forces attacked the Confederates but were unable to get past the second line of works erected by Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard, who in this instances at least, proved himself to be as brilliant at defense as Lee, who was first called "the King of Spades" by his troops because of all the digging of defensive fortifications he had them do. (3) Valor and Calamity at the Crater obviously looks at the most celebrated moment in the siege of Petersburg, when Union engineers dug a 510.8 foot tunnel under the Confederate works in which they placed 320 kegs of black powder. Unfortunately, the engineering brilliance of the Union army was not matched by the leadership of the officers mounting the infantry attack. The Battle of the Crater turned out to be the last great military fiasco of the war for the Union army.

(4) Tightening the Noose looks a how both sides extended their trenches during the summer of 1864, while Grant hammered at Lee with coordinated attacks both north and south of the James. This particular chapter has an illustrated section on the performance of Colored Troops during the siege and a photo essay on the trench system used by both armies at Petersburg. (5) Portents of an Arduous Winter covers how both sides settled down for the winter after the attack on Fort Harrison at the end of September.

The Civil War becomes a different type of war after Cold Harbor. "Death in the Trenches" is far removed from the story of the battles of Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, where the strategy and tactics become the stuff of textbooks. The siege of Petersburg is obviously a dry run for the way wars would be fought in the 20th century, especially the First World War. Because the war seems almost like a stalemate at this point, it seems like nothing is really happening during the siege of Petersburg, especially in contrast to the great battles that dominated the early years of the war. But this book does a nice job of showing how much was happening and that the patience Grant learned outside Vicksburg would serve him in good stead through most of 1864.