Barton Books

i think this book is informative &shows a lot about his life and family. it contains informative graphics. i recomend it for anyone above the age of 10, or enjoys reading information books or has a good concentration span. GO AHEAD AND READ IT!

I know Jay Brady who was instrumental in this book being published. However, the author, was under contract to the government, and as a consequence a lot of damning evidence was either omitted or edited out by UCal which operates Lawrence Livermore Laboratory. The conclusion was watered down without author knowing. I was responsible for some information on Operation GREENHOUSE that author referred to. I am Director of Mortality Studies for the Atomic Veterans Radiation Research Institute, Inc. at this e-mail site.

Payne has succeeded in producing a volume of clarity, precision and quality. Highly recemmended for any student of the Bible.

For the serious James scholar, this book is indispensible. For those of you who are not too familiar with Jame's ideas and their background, this book is probably too much - and too boring at that. Even for scholars of epistemology, this book can be rather frustrating. Originally written for his grad students at Harvard, the book lacks much in the way of context, and it is completely theoretical. Furthermore, it is filled with many untranslated passages, from German to Latin. I gave the book four stars because it could use some editing. This is the modern era: Latin is dead - even for the most serious philosopher - and German is no longer the language of Philosophy. The passages should be translated, and some of the more abstract essays should come with introductions. That said, the book is still a valuable contribution to empirical epistemology, laying out James of view of "radical empiricism" - where subjects and objects collide. Indeed, the book itself is a pure experience!

This book offers a reasonably balanced discussion of the WTO, especially from an historical, political point of view. The workings of the WTO are very much based on power politics, notwithstanding its ostensible one member, one vote constitution. Some of the topics I was impatient to hear discussed during the first three-fourths or so of the book, such as environmental issues, point of view of developing countries, "democracy deficit," etc., are dealt with in Chapters 6 and 7, so some patience is helpful.

I'd have certainly given this closer to 5 stars but for a couple of points: First, the analysis tends at times to be a bit too orthodox, and written from a US point of view. The underlying economics of free trade aren't questioned enough, and the "generativity" of the WTO dispute resolution mechanism -- its judicial lawmaking -- is underestimated. To be fair, one reason for that assessment may be that the book went to press before the 2006 panel decision on genetically modified organisms. Second, and more important in this context, it's a challenge to stay awake while reading this book. The analysis is usually written at a high level of abstraction. The literary style is quite leaden, with a real written-by-committee feeling. (The rather dense typography may exacerbate this impression.) The book could have used a more forcefully-stated point of view (notwithstanding the conclusions stated in the final chapter), or at least more piquant details and anecdotes from time to time. Although it covers a narrower topic and is itself quite dry and academic in literary style, Trish Kelly's "The Impact of the WTO" nonetheless manages to be a fun read by comparison. That's a very oblique compliment, to say the least. And although it does not go into the depth of the book under review, Amrita Narlikar's "Very Short Introduction" to the WTO from Oxford U Press is a much more vivid way to learn about the history and key issues, including WTO politics, if you're new to the subject.

Fairchild's Passage is an engrossing tale of the West; but not the romaticized Louis L'Amour's West. This is a harsher, more realistic story of a wagon train heading to Oregon and of the hardships encountered. The characters are interesting and well defined; their situations are basic, difficult, and (at times) horrible. I suspect that this is what the Old West was really like. This book definitely held my interest; I only wish it had continued for a few more chapters; there were additional problems in the story that needed (in my opinion) to be resolved. But I would recommend this book to a friend. If you like Westerns, you'll like this book.

Although I have recently switched to another textbook for my Media Law class, I greatly enjoyed using as a class text Carter's First Amendment and the Fourth Estate. The text lent itself to excellent discussions in class and readily provided excellent case studies and reading material for the students. (Currently I use two texts for such diversity). My only concern is that, at an undergraduate level, the book is unclear on direction for the student not versed in legal and analytical thinking, and like all comphrehensive and advanced texts, a bit too overwhelming academically for freshmen and sophomores. I would highly recommend the text, however, for graduate studies in media law.

This is the third book of Ms. Barton's "3 Babies for 3 Brothers" series (though it should have been called 3 pregnancies for 3 widows) and it's the most enjoyable of the lot. Our heroine starts off the book with only the child and the memory of our hero. Our hero starts off the book being blind-sided by our heroine's pregnancy and determination to keep him out of her life.

Then they have to work at it. They have to make a conscious decision that they're going to live beyond their pasts and find the courage to be together. That's what I liked about this book, both the hero and the heroine had to work at the relationship. It didn't just work itself out because they fell in lust. It's not the best book ever - the dialogue with the secondary characters felt stilted and unrealistic, the plot was too convenient. But I liked and could understand the main couple. I wanted them to be together and by the end I believed that they had what it takes to stay together.

I found this book in a used book store on a trip West. As someone interested in Sherlock Holmes, I picked it up since the price was right. I almost didn't. I once received as a gift a book edited by two of the three editors of this volume, the second two listed here. It was almost unreadable. The subjects of its essays were rehashes of topics done better by other (real) writers or had little connection to Sherlock Holmes, except in name, like one about Sherlock Holmes and God. The writing was questionable at best. And the two editors just can't edit. It looked like another of those vanity press efforts by some local Sherlock Holmes club with more moxy and money than talent. I gave it away as soon as I found someone willing to accept it.

I started leafing through this book before recognizing it was by the same group and the same editors plus one. But I found listed in the contents several names I recognized from my reading about Sherlock Holmes in other books even if along with some of the pseudowriters from the other book. Many of these essays were of far more interest than the earlier volume. It even had some fiction and some humor. And a third editor was listed, the first one listed here, though he came last on this book's title page. But his name should come first alphabetically as here. Curious. On the strength of the other editor and the listed topics and because it was priced cheap, I bought it. I still didn't expect much. I was pleasantly surprised.

Besides a pompous, overwritten, self-glorifying introduction by a man listed as president of the group publishing it, who probably broke his arm patting himself on the back, and a woefully inadequate and trite rehash of Sherlock Holmes's film career, a lot of the stuff in this book is good and some really good. I really like a story explaining what happened to Dr. Watson's wife, written from Watson's perspective like the original Holmes stories. It was well-written and heartfelt. Probably one of the best I've read, and worth the cost of the book alone. In fact everything in this book was better than the other, which I think was published later than this one. Why the difference? Besides many different writers than the other book, I deduced like Holmes that it was the third editor, the one who had no involvement in the other book, that made the difference. Like the dog in the nightime, he did nothing in the other book. So logic dictates he must have done much for this one. Further investigation uncovered that this editor is a professional writer. His name turns up many times if you search for it here. The others don't, not even for the other book they edited. Case solved. The third editor must have done a lot of writing behind the scenes on this book. He also wrote one of the stories. So maybe he did just too good and that's why the other two no longer work with him, or he with them. His being listed last in the book while his name comes first alphabetically suggests some ulterior motive for the listing and later disassociation. Jealousy maybe on the parts of the less talented editors. If they had any sense they'd have hired him to help with the other book and would get him back if they plan to publish further anthologies, especially if they only use the same people from their own club again. They need real writers and real editors if they want to sell much outside their own circle of friends. Fortunately this book has some real writers and one real editor and is mostly very readable and enjoyable.

My advice. If you find this book in a used book store with a price in the low teens or less like I did, buy it. Look too for anything else by the first editor listed alphabetically here. Same for anything by the author of the Watson story, John Burrows(?) I think. Avoid like bubonic plague anything by either or both the second two editors especially if published under their club name "the Illustrious Client's". There's too much over priced poorly written and edited books in the Sherlock Holmes small press world. Thankfully except in part this is not one of them.

Yes you read it and you feel good. After so good leading Physical Exam questions and proper responses from the patients you know the answer. It is nice little book in 14 chapters. Each chapter covering certain group of illnesses with average five cases, starting each with initial presentation, physical examination, tests and assessment. Initial presentation and physical examination which is given quite clearly is more teaching part than diagnosis part for it is already implied in presentation part.You learn few tricks, key points in discussion section.