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The papers in the book are mostly observational analysis and some instrument design. Important problems like the sources of [large] gamma ray bursts are tackled. Speculations include trying to detect TeV photons during or soon after one of these bursts has been observed.

But sprinkled throughout the book are more ambitious theoretical papers. Turner, for example, looks at the possible distribution of dark matter and dark energy in the universe. He mines the small anisotropy seen in the Cosmic Background Radiation, for possible information. Another paper looks at the early universe and how dark matter might have been born.

Testing such speculations is rather hard, to say the least. But the ideas are very imaginative. The book has this dichotomy. Rather down to earth experimental papers and high theory.

This book covers the basics of geology in a not too boring of a way... it is a science book so it can't get too exciting for the average student, but its very thorough.

I is an excellent textbook; however, I was under the understanding that I would be getting the 7th edition , not the 4th edition. I kept it anyway, since 95% of the information is still current. It also came with 2 excellent CD ROM's.

Melody Carlson has created fascinating, realistic characters and a charming town in Pine Mountain. The best part of her book is that it is the first in a series! I, for one, can't wait for the next book. I especially enjoyed the simultaneous renovation of the town, Maggie's house, and her heart!

Fun book.
I never really followed a minor league team's 20th-Century history and nice selction of photographs, coupled with easy reading sections coupled to the photos, made this book a nice smooth read. It was fun to read mentions and stories of 1940's-1960s ballplayers who's major league cards I had collected. Cool!
Mike Egan

A very good book to have in your library or tack room. Good information and directions. Handy reference for years to come.

I seldom finish uninteresting, uninformative or badly written books over the last few years, i leave them unfinished until they are due back to the library or boxed and put back into the shed. The mere fact that i finished a book means that it is well above average, to me, and a worthwhile and recommended read. This book is not an exception to this observation, i enjoyed the book and did get a lot of both information and structured argument from it.

It is a rewrite and expansion of a PhD thesis, it is however not overly technical or difficult to read. It is an analysis of the rise of the social gospel and the tensions this caused during the turn of the 20thC. It is excellent on the analysis of individual social gospel thinkers, it covers the rise of the social gospel well, talks about the confrontation and rise of the contrary movement-Fundamentalism, but there are other books better for this movement.

If you are briefly looking at the book, read chapter 3, the beginnings of Social Christianity, it is representative of the book as a whole. I would have like a much longer conclusion where several of the dominant ideas could have been tied together with the problems of those years. I think the best part of the book was the analysis of individual thinkers and how they interacted and taught each other. I think that the weakness is in analysis of the underlying forces that burst upon the later half of the 19thC with such force and how these thinkers reacted to it and contributed to ways of reconstructing society in it's wake.

I found it worthwhile my time, i suspect many will not. It is nice to see a rewrite and updating of an older serious book as the author learns from research and teaching over the years. I think this is one of the strengths of the book, the maturity of the author in having thought about these things for decades rather than reading for a few years for a thesis.

A must-have companion for Carlson's Physiology of Behavior text. More comprehensive than the companion CD.

This book is about a family of a mom,dad,and a girl named Tina who are like many families today.They are always busy with aports, work, and other busy things. The family learns that they need to find time for theirselves and find time to relax.
The lesson in this story is that family is more important than anything, and everyone should take time to relax.
The age level for this book is 4-8.

Elizabeth Avakian writes of the traumas of growing up as a woman in the early 1970's when large numbers of women were just beginning to become aware of what society had done to them growing up thinking that their place was [only] in the home and the only acceptable way to live as an independent being was to do it vicariously through some man.

What particularly stood out for me was her pointing out the (probably well known) way in which the heroines of Shakespeare's comedies, "all of whom are far superior to their male counterparts," dress as men in order to accomplish things which were forbidden to them otherwise (giving as an example Portia in the Merchant of Venice).

The chapter titles are telling:

I. Men Travel, Women Have Love Affairs

II. Life As Vicarious Experience

III. Men: Can We Live With Them?

Along the way she discusses the dilemma that maternity or potential maternity brings and writes finally of the difficulty of maintaining her! masculine side while living with a man of her choosing.