As a primer to the state of immigrant children's health in America this book is highly useful, particularly in explaining the impact of welfare reform (PRWORA). Besides being well-researched and structured, the book is also written well.

This delicious book has everything. Each elegant recipe has easy to find ingredients, very clear directions, serving suggestions, preparation hints and even that thing called Nutritional Information. This isn't a book about home cooking, it's a way of making gourmet cooking an everyday possibility. It's become my favorite cookbook and is now my favorite gift to friends and family.

Founded in 1972 as a radical alternative to conventional architectural education, SCI-Arc continues to defy the standard model of an academic institution. According to Neil Denari, SCI-Arc's Director,"since its beginning, the school has always been about ideas of progress and the frontier, by exploring architecture as the fusion of aesthetic, social and cultural concerns." SCI-Arc is continuing that traditional by teaching people to see, design and develop things other people don't see -by not only educating architects, but also by the school's lecture series, community projects, exhibitions, and publications such as this one by Monacelli.

Anyone interested in education, design and/or the creative process should enjoy this book!

This book is divided into holiday/celebration menus - Passover, Easter, Memorial Day, etc. The pictures are wonderful and the recipes are easy enough, even for a relative amateur like me.

Paul Gauguin was at the heart of the Post-Impressionist movement with his lush, colorful artworks revolutionizing modern painting a the turn of the 19th Century. Largely self-taught in a diversity of media including oil painting, printmaking, and ceramics, Gauguin came to his career as a Parisian artist relatively late in life, and went on to paint subjects drawn from where he would live ranging from Brittany and Martinique, to Tahiti, and the Marquesas islands. In Gauguin, art expert Britt Salvesen drew from research developed by Douglas W. Druick and Peter Kort Zegers, enhanced with 79 superbly presented illustrations of which 52 are in color and 27 are duotone. Gauguin is a very highly recommended addition to personal, academic, and community library art history reading lists and reference collections in general, as well as being strongly commended to students of the life and work of Paul Gauguin in particular.

Genes In The Field: On-Farm Conservation Of Crop Diversity is a comprehensive collection of papers focusing on agricultural conservation and diversity issues from around the world. Genetic diversity is critically important to individual farmers and farming communities for several reasons, chief of which is to prevent catastrophic disease and pest infestations wiping out agricultural resources and productivity. Regional and local farm seed variety has been reduced in recent decades because of such factors as increased population, agricultural science and technology, and the integration of the many divers cultures of the world. Genes In The Field discuses key conservation strategies, features numerous case studies with an international perspective, and focuses on policy and institutional issues. A benchmark publication, Genes In The Field is an essential and timely contribution to crop science, horticultural, and agricultural policy and practices studies, reading lists, and library reference collections.

This is a must read for anyone interested in getting prices right. The debate over prices concerns both public policy and pure economic research. The Boskin Commission claimed that the CPI overstates inflation and recommended that measures of inflation be ajdusted to correct for this. This recommendation was quickly embraced by many in the economics profession. It has also had an impact on public policy debate, particularly as regards indexation of social security. The first half of the book presents the Boskin Commission's findings verbatim, and supporters of overstatement are able to speak for themselves. The second half presents Dr. Baker's deconstruction of the Commission's findings. One part of his criticism involves the presentation of technical arguments and instances of CPI understatement. However, the most compelling part is Dr. Baker's reconstruction of recent U.S. economic history using Boskin's implied measure of prices. He shows that 50% of families were apparently living below the 1994 poverty level in 1960. This is implausible. Protagonists of the debate will no doubt continue slinging instances of over- and understatement of prices at each other. However, until supporters of CPI overstatement can explain away Dr. Baker's findings about implied poverty levels, their arguments will ring hollow.

This is a great book. Especially for those (like me) who needed to understand foreign policy 101. So many issues that I've heard discussed in the media and in congress i.e. Exim (Export/Import) Bank, I would have been clueless about, wondering who are they and what the heck do they do????, except for this book. I first discovered it on a library shelf, but decided I needed my own copy. I refer back to it often to refresh my memory on details when I need to. And there is an excellent source of other resources in the back of the book to expand your knowledge in many areas. Anyone who is not aware of how our policies affect the world needs this book. And unfortunately that means most American citizens need to read it.

Experts from four continents here show how Asian nations and others have suffered from government intervention as the world renews its global economic links. Issues of social improvements and reforms are related to increasing world capitalism in a title which promotes adherence to market principles to allow nations to enjoy real prosperity. A recommended pick for any studying world capitalism markets.

I recommend this book highly. I enjoyed the Dayton Art Institute show on which it is based, but missed having archeological background on the show placards. The photography in the book is excellent, and for the tiniest artifacts, it's actually easier to see them in the book than in the show. Every article in the show is also in the book. Production quality is very high. The text narratives are by serious scholars, mostly Chinese or hyphen-Chinese, and the English translations are fluent and idiomatic.

Having been to several Silk-Road shows and having read several books on the subject, I've reached the point where I'm impressed by how much we don't know about the silk road--authorities disagree, and everyone uses different names for the same place. Perhaps it's time for a definitive study?