Known as a writer of children's literature, Zibby Oneal's trilogy of "young adult" books, beginning with "The Language of Goldfish", continuing through "A Formal Feeling" and culminating with "In Summer Light", presents a gentle, compassionate and totally enjoyable view of young teens feeling the first pangs of adulthood; trying to cope with all the confusion and heartache associated with "growing up". "In Summer Light" takes the plight of a young teenaged girl, spending her summer vacation at her parent's summer island home, sick with mononucleosis, trying to understand her often distant, artist father. Complicating matters, is the budding romantic feelings she has for the college student intern who has arrived to assist her father in cataloging his painting collection. Zibby Oneal tells the story in concise form, using the briefest of pharsing and style to convey the hazy, shimmering imagary of a New England island during a hot, summer season. Beautifully told, this is an execellent book I know young, teenaged readers will thoroughly enjoy. Adults, too, will especially appreciate the clear imagery and literary form that has become a hallmark of Zibby Oneal's style. Not to be missed!

What can be said about this book?

It is the first comprhensive view about bureaucracy, but not in the opressive way that Kafka intended, but in the Romantic's essence. This book is also some kind of pedagogycal atlas of the knowledge of the world in th middle of 19th century. Conclusion: It is worth reading; moreover, if you have only ten books to carry to a desert island, this should be one. Ah!, i have forgotten that this book was rated by Nietzsche like one of the top five works of german literature.

Author is British journalist James Cameron (the man who heard the famous words of a Gandhi staffer, to the effect that it costs a fortune to keep Gandhiji in his simple lifestyle).

This short but meaty book is a loving portrait of a marvelous country. Cameron uses the incident of a horrific car accident he suffered in Bangladesh to tie together his own sense of mortality and India's great endurance.

Pace can be a little rough at times, but that is the only detraction from this beautiful, appreciative look at India and its foibles, humanity, grace, sufferings. His treatment of conversations (with little hints of well-observed Indglish) are a joy to read. Many tender and thoughtful passages about mankind, but it's really a very personal memoir of Cameron's ongoing yet troubled love affair with a nation.

Indispensible part of any India-phile's library, great pre-departure (or take-along) reading for anyone going there.

I love the protagonist of this book. Valerie Atha is a private investigator from Canada, who happens to be a beauteous Indian solving a casino-related murder in the city of Detroit, Michigan during a hot Indian summer. She is sexy, chic and dresses with the best of them. She stops at nothing to find the killer of a Detroit casino czar's young daughter, whose fiance is charged for the crime. A must read for all mystery, whodunnit and gumshoe fans.

This novel truly captured the feeling of that unique period in San Francisco known as the 'summer of love'. I remember that time as being full of hope and optimism, but it was also scary as new ideas challenged established behavior. Lawrence takes the reader on a wild ride of adventures and introduces you to a large cast of unforgetable characters. In the center of it all is Sam, the idealist, who is searching for himself by constantly throwing himself into the next experience. It was a fun and exciting read and a hard book to put down!

I read a condensed version of this wonderful book...3 times. I deeply appreciated the view into Quaker life with which I was previously unfamiliar, and which I found deeply soul-satisfying. This amazing love story is grounded in the values we can so easily lose sight of in our busy, overly stimulating modern world: simplicity, devotion, honesty, equality of people, and oneness with the land. Imagine marriage based on the desires of two people to cherish and serve each other. I look forward to reading the complete book because I don't want to miss even one detail. Enjoy!

There's a lot of variety in this book. It's fun to read about the author's adventures in Nepal. I liked getting a feel for what life was like over there. And reading about Tibetan medicine from experiences instead of looking at some dry textbook. I especially liked learning about connections between Tibetan Buddhism and Tibetan medicine--the ways that the mind and spirit can affect one's health. The stories of the Tibetan elders she interviews are fascinating. A good balance of action and reflection...

"Interpreting Precedents" is an outstanding analytical work as well as a unique source for further analysis.

The majority of the book is devoted to separate chapters on the eleven jurisdictions studied by the group: the Federal Republic of Germany, Finland, France, Italy, Norway, Poland, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States (State of New York), and the European Union. The jurisdictions can be roughly located on a continuum of approaches to determining the ratio decidendi, with fact-based holdings at one end and theoretical legal abstractions at the other. On this continuum, the approach followed in the United States be longs near the fact-based end of the spectrum, followed by the United Kingdom and the Scandinavian countries, and then perhaps Germany. The remaining jurisdictions, including France and the European Court of Justice, can be plotted or grouped near the other end. The eleven chapters on separate jurisdictions are followed by insightful studies on individual topics.

Continental European reliance on precedent will increase in the coming years under the influence of at least five interrelated forces. The first force is the Europeanization of Europe. Citizens within the European Union are constantly being confronted with new, sometimes foreign legal norms and concepts. Second, the homogeneity of European courts and bars is eroding. Third, the proliferation of computers puts past decisions at the fingertips of judges and lawyers. Fourth, the ever increasing density of regulation, and the rapid changes in norms, mean more need for precedents, not less. Fifth, and most profoundly, legal realism, or some theory akin to it, is replacing positivism. This evolution reinforces the tendency to view judicial decisionmaking as something personal and individual, rather than as a component of a harmonious system of legislation. As judges become more self-conscious of their regulatory role, they will intensify their nascent, self-imposed adherence to precedent in order to reduce political disapproval, and to forestall legislative measures to restrict their ability to stray from precedent.

For decades to come, "Interpreting Precedents" will serve as a benchmark in the Europeanization of precedent, and as a sourcebook for further research. But it is much more. It is a unique collection of outstanding insights into judicial structures and legitimacy, legal theory and reasoning, and comparative law.

For further criticism and analysis see Professor Lundmark's review at 46 American Journal of Comparative Law 211 (1998).

Summers and Aitala have created a manual which aptly takes the student from lab to lab, in a straightforward and understandable method. The perforated pages are an excellent idea, allowing the student to turn in lab assignments once completed in the text. Excellent resource for professors who teach introductory astronomy.