... darn the Dutch publishers. Just imagine paying 379 bucks for this book. Clearly outta reach. Someone must drive some sense into the publishers to make it affordable to professionals who have to slog hard to make their living ! The same goes for other Kluwer books as well.

"LSD: Still With Us After All These Years" has been selected for listing in "Religion and Psychoactive Sacraments: An Entheogen Chrestomathy" http://www.csp.org/chrestomathy

This book was one of the luckiest finds I've ever happened upon! It is full of quick, easy, and low-budget ideas to give your classroom an exciting, hands-on boost. My favorite snack was the soap film painting, but there were dozens of others to captivate my students' interest. I was so inspired by this book that I have started having Friday "snacktime" in my class each week. The short experiments in this book make excellent stand-alone enrichment projects that provide opportunities for inquiry-based learning in a short time frame. They also make great introductions to larger-frame studies of light, color, reflection, refraction, diffraction, etc. I found the activities to be appropriate and adaptable to a wide range of grade levels, from elementary through highschool. This book is a must-have for anyone teaching science, or for parents who want to do kitchen chemistry with their children at home.

Can the postal service maintain its federal associations in the 21st century, or will it go private? Considerations of the new online payment forms and correspondence raise questions about the service's future, and Mail the Millennium contains 16 essays by economists, scholars, lawyers and others who detail the communications and delivery services of the present and possible future. An intriguing title.

Making A Prince's Museum is informative, engaging reading and highly recommended to students of architecture and the history of 18th Century museum development.

Mickey R. Dansby, James B. Stewart, and Schuyler C. Webb effectively collaborate to edit Managing Diversity In The Military: Research Perspectives From The Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute, a compilation of twenty-four lengthy, critical essays of a subject that inevitably arouses heated debate: issues of diversity in the United States military, and how to best resolve often widely conflicting opinions. Managing Diversity In The Military is divided into five main sections, which address issues from diversifying military leadership to gender integration/sexual harassment to race and military discipline. A scholarly, academic examination of a highly complicated subject fraught with human complexities, Managing Diversity In The Military is essential reading for anyone directly affected by or interested in this key managerial issue affecting the readiness and performance capabilities of the United States armed forces today.

The Marketing Book is now one of the leading texts and references used by students all over the world. Covering key contemporary issues in marketing, it gives the best overview currently available on marketing.

Edited by Michael Baker, Professor of Marketing at the University of Strathclyde Business School and the UK's most important and influential marketing thinker, this rigorously revised, updated and substantially extended fourth edition now contains articles on Marketing and the Internet, Social Marketing, Marketing of Services and other issues. All the original chapters have been reworked and many of them have been completely rewritten to reflect changes and trends in current marketing thinking and practice.

The book's 30 chapters highlight the quality, breadth and depth of the ideas from the best minds in modern marketing education. Professor Michael Baker, and with specially commissioned contributions from top UK marketing educators and writers, sets out the scope and nature of contemporary marketing, its managerial application and its contribution to corporate success. Its list of contributors constitutes a virtual who's who of UK marketing experts today.

The Marketing Book is an indispensable reference work and textbook for students and practitioners, all over the world. This textbook is essential reading for those students taking the Chartered Institute of Marketing's Certificate and Diploma examinations, as well as business studies, management, marketing, MBA, DMS, and BTEC Higher National courses. Being an invaluable resource to practitioners-especially those taking executive courses in marketing or pursuing Continuous Professional Development-it deserves to be on the desk of anyone who aspires to be a marketing manager, and certainly on the bookshelves of anyone who is practising a significant marketing role in their organisation.

The author of over 30 books on marketing, Professor Baker is also President of the Academy of Marketing, Dean of the Chartered Institute of Marketing's Academic Senate and founding Editor of the Journal of Marketing Management.

The Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute is a world renowned center for the fine arts. Ably edited by Anna Tobin D'Ambrosio, the Curator of Decorative Arts at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute Museum of Art has compiled essays by herself and other decorative arts scholars on more than 65 finely crafted examples of American furniture encompassing nearly every 19th century style and explores the careers of America's most influential cabinetmakers and shops of the era in Masterpieces of American Furniture From the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute. Her introductory essays traces the evolution of the museum's decorative arts holdings. The informative text is superbly illustrated with more than 90 color plates, plus detail images from period sources and labels. The outstanding and scholarly presentation is highly recommended for students of 19th century American furniture, cabinetmaking, and home decorative fashions.

Collaboratively compiled and written by Maurice Bazin, Modesto Tamez, and the Exploratorium Teacher Institute, Math And Science Across Cultures: Activities And Investigations From The Exploratorium is specifically designed to enable teachers and parents to make science and math both relevant and interesting to children through the use of hands-on activities drawn from different cultural traditions. While construction the Cuica (a Brazilian instrument used during Carnaval) students can investigate and learn about the science of sound. Through the use of "Sona" (Southwestern African sand drawings), students will re-enact ancient storytelling traditions the use complex, interwoven patterns which reflect basic mathematical principles. From counting like an Egyptian, to decoding like a Mayan, to drawing like a Tchwokee, Math And Science Across Cultures will entertainingly and informatively engage children in the discoveries, innovations, and creative explores of cultures from around the globe. Highly recommended as a traditional classroom curriculum supplement, Math And Science Across Cultures is also ideal for use in a homeschooling environment.

This is a very good book on a very interesting and good movie. Christie explores the origins of "A Matter of Life and Death," discusses its attitudes toward time and how the film uses color. I especially liked his examination of the film's historical context, namely how although it was inspired by WWII issues, it was still relevant when it came out in the early years of the Cold War. (Christie quotes a Soviet review of the movie which is quite interesting.)

This book is strongly recommended for those who love the movies of Powell and Pressburger.