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When i saw Ake Nilsson's outstanding book named "Ground water dams for small scale water supply" in you lists, i really went back to year 1989 when i was an undergraduate in the university. I first learned about forming underground reservoirs using dam technology from a short article appeared in a groundwater magazine in 1988 by Ake Nilsson. Then i prepared my dissertation project on the same subject with the kind help of Ake Nilsson. Groundwater dams are really a good option to supply water in arid areas along the whole year. It is a simple, cost-effective but usefull technique the basics of which are provided in this book. The book provides the theoretical background, examples from practice and cost information from different projects. I recommend this book to the students, engineers, professionals, and other people who work in water industry.

Haldun Kahyaoglu Hydrogeological Engineer

This book is probably one of the best and most thorough books on analytic methods in groundwater (as opposed to finite-element and -difference methods). It is probably the most recent too, since most books on this subject date from the 60's or 70's.

It is the authoritative source on the Analytic Element Method (AEM), which is the basis of the EPA wellhead protection model, among other things.

This book covers the most basic concepts in groundwater through the use of conformal mapping and AEM, it is pretty comprehensive. Analytic solutions for the basics steady-state problems in 2D (wells, uniform flow, etc.), and also more complex topics, like inhomogenieties in permeability (clay lenses) and interface (seawater intrusion) problems. This book is required reading if you want to understand the AEM method, or analytic methods in groundwater in general.

The book is out of print; you can buy a self-published $35 paperback copy of it on the author's website.

This is a marvelous, easy to read book written by one of the pioneers in biological sewage treatment system Design. It is replete with examples of implemented projects and charts that prove their effectiveness. Dr. Wolverton explains constructed wetlands systems design and management fully. You will not be disappointed with this book.

Wolff's estimate of the efficiency of the U.S. economy is 20%, spelled out on his p. 135. His study has been kibitzed on ideological grounds, but there has been no substantive criticism, as far as I know. It is a monumental, book length study, by a respected economist, and no other person is likely to duplicate it. He found that over the 30 year period from 1947 to 1976, literally 80 percent of our work force could have stopped working and the same amount of goods and services could have continued to be produced and distributed. That means we lost 120 years of output over that 30 year time period that we could have had, in an efficient economy, just by working smarter, not harder. Recent studies, using a tool called Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) have confirmed Wolff's results, showing that the U.S. is last but for Greece among the developed [OECD] nations in one measure of effective use of its resources [Brockett, Golanyi and Li 1999], and that less efficient national [OECD] governments produce, on average, 58% less income per person than the most efficient ones [Lovell, Pastor and Turner 1995]. Dowd 1989 showed that the efficiency of the U.S. auto industry was about 10%, roughly confirming Wolff's estimate for the whole U.S. economy. The potential for eliminating poverty [e.g., Ackerman and Alstott 1999; Colbert 2000], and reversing the devastating and ominous failure of our society to foster a thriving labor force [Cohen 1995] should be obvious. Wolff has a very brief comment on that last point on his p. 78. Full, specific citations are available from the reviewer by email: colbert2422@earthlink.net

This is yet another fantastic piece of journalism from Ace Reporter Adam Stapleton. The description in this literary mini-masterpiece truly fills my nostrils with the thrill of life not only aboard a Navy vessel but in the galley as well. The sound bites are thrilling and unique, and the attention to detail concerning the cooking and aroma of a galley are top-notch. Anybody interested in cooking should most definitely give this article the long, pleasant sniff it deserves.

I love this book. I live in Japan and regularly take it the store with me. It has helpful language information, packaging information and explanations of all the "foreign" things I'm looking at in the store. My book has a different cover (older edition, I assume), but it was worth every penny...and it's not cheap!

Global sourcing has rapidly entered the management toolkit as a subject everyone needs to understand. Sparrow has combined an interesting overview of the topic with a more in-depth look at 18 different countries and a comparison of their attractiveness for offshore outsourcing. This is a very useful book if you are looking around and considering an offshore venture, but are not sure how India compares to China or the Philippines. I recommend this book to all managers with an interest in global operations.

I heard about this book at a conference I attended. It is packed with information and resources. I recommend it for any teacher looking for ideas for guided reading!

As the author writes, food is more than nutrients, It is our culture, and thus our laws reflect our cultural attitudes towards food. I picked up this fish-tale of laws by a curator of a mustard museum after I coincidentally attended a mustard festival. Levenson's book requires no pre-knowledge of the law; it provides an exciting, funny, enlightening story of food and our laws. Levenson writes that he toiled at a boring law job until he came across an exciting law case from 1924, in which a man sued a railroad and restaurant chain for requiring diners to wear dinner jackets. Now that was an interesting case (the barbaric diner lost), he thought. It got Levenson on a roll of researching and collecting food laws. The reader is the beneficiary.

The author provides stories and cases on food poisoning; the origins of the USDA FSIS, FTC and FDA; adulteration; advertising claims; and federal regulations defining peanut butter, catsup, fancy and standard ketchup. Also explored are The Delaney Clause, the labeling act, the Lanham Act, the doctrine of privity, the condom in the coke and other stories of foreign objects, fish bone choking cases, and stories about trademarks, such as the case between Planter's Mr. Peanut and Crown Nut's little peanut king. There is a whole chapter on kosher laws, state regulations, and kosher fraud. He explains why restaurant reviews can get around libel laws, why 60 Minutes was sued over an Alar story, and Oprah got in trouble with big beef. A Wisconsin resident, he tells the tale of how a state tried to stop Dairy Queen and margarine from crossing its statelines.

Hilarious synopses of cases are also included in easily readable form, including stories about the robber who left his fingerprints behind on a pack of hotdogs; the court that convicted a man of assault with an edible weapon (a salami); the man who sued a restaurant over having to pay a mandatory 15 percent tip for his party of `six or more'; the murderer who was put to death and whose last words complained that "I didn't get my SpaghettiOs" for his final meal; a 1962 case over a hard stale roll; and the Dept of Justice's prohibition (using the Clayton Act) of Mrs. Smith Pies purchase of LJ Harris Pie Company (so they couldn't get a bigger piece of the pie (market)).

Levenson also explains the law behind how Pizza Hut was able to sue Papa John's pizza over tomato sauce commercials, and why, in Liebeck vs McDonald's, a 79 year old woman, Stella, was INITIALLY awarded $2.86 million over a spilled cup of hot coffee. (She only wanted $20,000, McDonald's offered $800, and then the lawyers got involved). Buy it and read it before you take another bite!

This book is the product of the UN Development Program Task Force on Hunger, headed by two very bright and extremely experienced people.

The book lists the costs of allowing hunger to persist, and the programs which have been successful at strikingly reducing it. If you want to know how to do it, here it is.

Halving Hunger demonstrates that there are no technical barriers to halving hunger, there is only the apathy of the peoples of the earth who don't insist that their governments do the simple and cheap actions which would end it. They don't press the point but as an American, I'm very saddened that we are the laggards by a long ways in keeping hunger in place.