This book is a comprehensive manual that addresses each and every aspect of United Nations' mandatory sanctions. It covers almost every dimension related to sanctions, including their legality, effect on human rights and humanitarian conditions in targeted states and the effect of santions on third States who are bound to respect such sanctions and charter remedies available before such states. A must Buy for every reader, academic and scholar in International law

This is one of the best reference books thus far in my personal medical library. The information provided is in a concise, clear manner that places the book on top of the list. It offers excellent pictures, and a couple of very useful chapters on automated visual fields interpretation. Books to compare to: Clinical Ophthalmology by Kanski, but this is an "improved" version! This is definitely a must buy.

A beautifully written, often poignant description of life at "the 'Tute." Hapgood is very effective at creating the atmosphere of life at MIT: it is, above all, intense. But it is also quirky, has people who are very bright doing things that are sometimes incomprehensible, and who are headstrong. Fortunately, he explains why this must be so, and he does it well.

Parts are comical, parts bring a lump to my throat every time I read them. All of it's good. A friend said that he thought it a bit "gushy" about the place, but I, of course, disagree.

I can't believe it's out of print.

Few people get hurt more often than military members, and they are very imaginative in the ways they find to damage themselves. (Like the drunken [man] who rocked a vending machine while trying to steel a pop, and instead got the whole machine which smashed him flat.) Whereas there was not a lot his buddies could have done for him, most of the injuries I see could have been ameliorated had someone known what to do. I wish more people knew more about basic first aid. Many times, when people die in car crashes or whatever, the person could have been saved with some very basic, very easy steps. Stop the bleeding, open the airway, etc. Please read this book. Sooner or later, the little things you learn will almost surely come in handy. I'm tired of seeing injured people totally untreated until the ambulance arrives when there are often a dozen or more adults around who just do not know what to do.

this is an excelent book of conversational japanese.if you need to go over seas this is the perfect book for you!!!

In WWII the US subjected around 60,000 US servicemen to chemical warfare experiments. The objectives of these experiments was two-fold: improve protection and defense against enemy CW, and comprehend the requirements necessary for an Allied CW retaliation.

BG Alden Waitt stated in WWII that what the US lacked was something authoratative on CW. These field trials led to the two part report "Tachnical Aspects of Chemical Warfare in the Field" (TACWIF, 1946), and the experience that may have been necessary in response to an Axis CW offensive.

Unfortunately, these 60,000 servicement were exposed to chemicals that are now known carcinogens at a time when such latent effects were not appreciated. That, on top of the intense security surrounding CW research has resulted in a large body of veterans that had suffered health consiquences without compensation or assistance.

Veteran's at Risk is a technical report on what those health consiquences are by reviewing the toxicology and medical knowledge on Mustard Gas and Lewisite. It also reviews the technical literature resulting from the WWII field trials and experiments. In the end, the NAS concluded that there was cause to believe that veterns had been adversely affected, and that all documentation from these experiments should be made publically available to assist these veterans.

The authors do an excellent job of covering the pathology of Mustard Gas and Lewisite. The details of WWII field trials and experiments are also still useful today in comprehending the disposition of vesicant casualties. This book is required reading for anyone anticipating treating vesicant casualties.

The only faults to the book that I could discern was poor military posology. The authors did not always calculate dosage correctly, and could have revealed more on unit cancer risk for these vesicants. These faults do not by any means take away from the importance of the book - this is just a word of caution on blindly accepting all the figures reported.

This book provides an excellent representation of VMI history--bar none. It makes an important contribution to an understudied and much-neglected topic.

Virginia Tech professor of history takes readers step by step through the rich history of Virginia Tech. Professor Wallensein has a wity writing style that you cant put down.

No matter how much you think you know abou Tech history, you will learn much from this book. It was even used as a textbook for "History of the University" class.

A record of unsettled questions which arose in the year 1909 between the Directors of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston, Massachusetts, and First Church of Christ, Scientist, New York City, eight of its nine Trustees and sixteen of its Practitioners. This important work records Augusta Stetson's spiritual defense of genuine Christian Science against the material concept of Mary Baker Eddy's teaching held by the Christian Science Board of Directors. Mrs. Stetson also explains the Directors' mistake in attempting to assume the prerogative of the forever Leader of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, who spiritually guides those members of her church who have risen to a responsiveness to her constant and continuous spiritual leadership. Contains facsimiles of excerpts and letters from Mary Baker Eddy to Augusta Stetson. Brown cloth; 405 pages; reprint of the 1917 edition.

In that most memorable of scenes from Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol (1843), the villain-hero Ebeneezer Scrooge has just been shown a vision of his desolate future. Like his partner Marley, he will soon be dead, buried unceremoniously, then completely forgotten -- save for the moments when his life is ridiculed, mocked as an example the greatest miser in the history of London town. Terrified of this abysmal future, Scrooge cries out:

"Spirit! Is this the shadow of things that MUST be, or only MIGHT be. Tell me, Spirit!"

Fortunately for Ebeneezer, it was not too late to change his stingy ways, give up the futile accumulation of money, and find true happiness by devoting himself to helping the less fortunate human beings around him.

Perhaps it is not unreasonable to say that our planet today resembles the troubled Scrooge. Our environmental predicament is perilous, yet it is not too late to save ourselves. We can improve our world if and only if we act, soon, with compassion and intelligence. In facing this crisis there is no place for these classic Dickensian spirits: Apathy, Panic, or Ignorance.

Obviously, Earth 2000 is a culture far more complex than the Victorian society of 150 years ago. Today we have easy access to mountains and megabytes of paper and electronic data. But how can we discern which peaks of these information mountains are reliable, trustworthy, and wise?

Accurate information and keen insights is why this yearly book from the Worldwatch Institute -- Vital Signs -- is a publishing event of the utmost importance. The facts throughout this book are categorized into trends in these areas: food production, agriculture, energy, atmosphere, economy, transportation, communication, health and social problems, and military issues.

The facts and the numbers are astonishing. For example: Last year the world endured 35 wars: except for the Kosovo conflict, all the others occurred in third-world countries. Cigarette smoking last year was responsible for the deaths of 4 million people, a number which is expected to increase 2.5 times, to 10 million, by the year 2030. In 1999, the total number of persons infected with HIV was almost 50 million. About 2.6 million persons died from AIDS last year (most of these in Africa), pushing the total cumulative death toll from AIDS to 16 million. World population last year increased by 77 million persons, as the total population of Earth swelled past the 6 billion mark.

One of this year's most disturbing trends is the growing economic gap -- and the quality of life gap -- between the privileged persons and the poor. The World Health Organization has estimated that more than 1.1 billion persons are malnourished, at the same time that more than 1 billion persons suffer from health-related problems caused by obesity. Last year's edition of this book, in the section "Malnutrition Still Prevalent" shows that nothing has improved:

"Nearly 1 billion people worldwide do not get enough to eat each day, and several billion get enough calories but their poor diet falls short in providing basic nutrients. ... Regardless of the form it takes, malnutrition levies a heavy toll on human health, leading to increased susceptibility to disease, reduced levels of energy and productivity, and increased morbidity and mortality." As to be expected, the poorest nations, especially in South Asia and Africa -- Bangladesh, India, Ethiopia, Vietnam, Nigeria, Indonesia -- contain the highest numbers of malnourished persons."

If it all sounds like a nightmare of gloom and doom, take heart. In a number of areas, significant environmental progress is being accomplished. In the all-important realm of energy, the world is beginning to make the necessary shift from burning fossil-fuels (the major contributor to global warming) to non-polluting and renewable sources such as wind and solar cells. Organic farming -- without pesticides -- is thriving. More world treaties have been formed to control environmental degradation. Western Europe is now heavily taxing corporations who exceed pollution limits. Nuclear weaponry is shrinking; life expectancy is on the rise; and Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs) are growing in numbers of groups and volunteers, and already making an impact for positive social and environmental change.

The premise underlying Vital Signs 2000 is that the trends depicted here will shape the nature and quality of our lives in the coming years. Vital Signs 2000, the companion volume to State Of The World 2000, are the two most authoritative and insightful publications in their field. Everyone who wants to help to make this world a better place -- socially, economically, politically, sustainably -- should raise his own social and ecological awareness by beginning with these two books.

Michael Pastore, Reviewer