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George Tice continues his visual exploration of New Jersey urban living with these ninety-nine photos. As with his previous books: Paterson and Urban Landscapes he still manages to see and take amazing photos of the ordinary and everday in his home state, though he did say in his Statement in the 1975 Urban Landscapes that he made five trips to Camden but found it too depressing! Luckily Paterson lives up to his expectations and there are several stunning street scenes here that I think are some of his best work.

'Market & Cianci Streets, September 2003' on page sixty-nine is typical I think. A corner shot with shops, apartments above, commercial signage, parked cars, street furniture and some people frozen at exposure time with shadows creating dimension and depth. A similar photo is 'Main & Market Streets, October 2000', both images are full of detail and texture and pull you into the frame.

Of the ninety-nine photos twelve are called Early Work 1967-1971 with the remainder from 2000 to 2005. There are three spreads of street scene shots, taken with a 35mm camera, with three stacked photos on each page, all the others are whole pages and taken with an 8&10 view camera which explains the rich detail.

I think it is worth commenting on the book's production because, in this case, it really is a plus for the images. The photos are printed in six hundred line screen which really is on the cutting edge of what is possible on a printing press. Most photo books in my collection vary between 175 and 250 but the publisher no doubt thought that to capture the detail in these photos it was worth the extra effort and this obviously required a better paper, too (200gsm Hello Silk). The end result, I feel, is not far short of looking at an original print.

George Tice's photos and the amazing production quality of Paterson II lift this book way above the ordinary and I think thanks should go to James Mairs, publisher of the Quantuck Lane Press for having the vision to produce such a beautiful book.

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Paul of Montgomery is a great historical fiction book which takes place during the American Revolution. Since I live in Rockville, MD (the town where some of the story takes place) I enjoyed the book even more knowing I live where history happened.
The story is about a boy, Paul, and his father taking part in the first vote as our new nation was forming. We get to know about their everyday life including, glassmaking, charcoal making and building a home.
I recommend this book to anyone with an interest in colonial life. We used it as part of our Maryland State history study. Historical fiction as a supplement to our regular history books really makes history come alive.
Jeremy Smith, grade 6, Homeschooler

Intel and other companies throughout the computer and communications industries are adopting PCI Express* technology as the successor to today's Conventional PCI* and PCI-X* architectures. The PCI Express serial architecture offers scalable bandwidth and advanced features to meet the I/O needs of next-generation systems.

PCI Express* Electrical Interconnect Design is a how-to guide for system design engineers, board and layout designers, signal integrity engineers, communication high-speed designers, test engineers and technicians, and validation engineers.

With design flowcharts, example schematics, and testing checklists at your fingertips, you will learn how to translate PCI Express electrical specifications into a reliable and robust interface implementation. Topics include:

Desktop, server, workstation, mobile, and communication system designs
Modeling and simulation in both frequency and time domains
Design guidelines for layout
Validation of the final design using measurement and correlation procedures



Customer Comments
"One can either spend a lot of time experimenting, or read this book. It offers the right level of details on the electrical guidelines. I especially find that chapters 5, 6 and 7 are a MUST READ for any hardware designers and CAD guys who want their board TO WORK!"

--Eric Duchesne, P.Eng., Avnet Design Services

About the Authors
Scott Gardiner is a Senior Hardware Engineer at Intel and holds a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering. Since joining Intel in 1997, Scott has made significant contributions to various high-speed interconnect and PCB designs. Involved with PCI Express since its inception, Scott was the lead engineer on one of Intel's first prototype PCI Express boards and a key contributor to Intel's first PCI Express desktop motherboard.

Dave Coleman is a Platform Application Engineer with 19 years of electrical engineering experience. At Intel, he specializes in electrical modeling and simulation of PCI Express platform designs. Dave is the co-author and editor of Intel's PCI Express Design Guide, and regularly contributes articles to Printed Circuit Design magazine.

Stephen Peters leads a group at Intel developing methodologies for validating next generation chip and board-level interfaces for PCI Express. Over the past 15 years, Stephen has designed high-speed bus interfaces and solved signal integrity issues. From 2001 through 2003, he served as chair of the I/O Buffer Information Specification (IBIS) Open Forum and continues to be major contributor to the IBIS specification.

Mohammad Kolbehdari is a Senior Staff Hardware Engineer at Intel involved with PCI Express interconnect design and simulation. He developed a 3D full-wave modeling methodology for high-speed bus and package design used extensively throughout Intel and is currently creating second-generation PCI Express design guidelines. Mohammad holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering and is a regular contributor to IEEE professional journals, COMPEL, and Journal of the Franklin Institute.

Chistopher Aristide Desbouillons Murphy (called Charles AD Murphy for most of his 71 years) was born in 1902 in Savannah, where he actively played and explored and walked throughout the city he would later depict and define through his art. His parents were interested in art and Chris Murphy, Jr. studied art in Savannah and New York.
At the time of this review, "Picturing Savannah" is a handsome accompaniment to the more than120 of Murphy's works from private and public collections now on exhibit at the Telfair Museum of Art in Savannah.
Murphy knew the city intimately, not ony its landmark buildings and outstanding architecture, but also the city at work, its more humble homes and its busy waterfront. He has portrayed all of this in his paintings and sketches and the book also includes a section of his portraits and still lifes.
It is Murphy's genuine love and respect for Savannah's many sides that allows him to capture the essence of this extraordinary southern city.
"Portraits of Savannah" is perfect for those now living in Savannah who love the city and its history and for those who have visited Savannah and wish to remember and re-capture the feel and allure of the city.
This book is a rare talisman of Savannah.

There is hardly anyone that matches Rumi's ability to talk about love in a spiritual, sensual, ecstatic, yet very pure way. Both translation and narration are true to that spirit. Wherever you are on the path to truth, you will find inspiration here.

I purchased the 'Power for Life' Bible, Crystal Cathedral for a lot less in price if I would have ordered it from the Crystal Cathedral. It's a true 'Power' Bible with very positive verses which is an inspiration and a Blessing. I thank the Schuller's for such a great version.
I do enjoy watching 'The Hour of Power' weekly on TV where the verses are read from this Bible.
Blessings,
Dr. Charles Langeberg (ret.)

What a creative writer. This book is DEFINITELY a psychological thriller! I was excited to see what was on the next page, but I expected to be sickened by fright. I HOPE that the sequel is written very soon!

Textbooks are usually out of date by the time they are in print. Not so with Delbeke et al's new Practical FDG Imaging! This book is not only timely but excellent, written by outstanding clinical physicians and physicists who are also world-reknown educators. It is a very practical, "real world" book that is released at a critical time of explosive growth in FDG PET imaging. It stands alone in filling a badly needed niche in the education of imagers using this new technology.

The early chapters on the history of PET and the physics of PET are very helpful in understanding the basic science and political milieu involved in the subject. It is sad that this technology, with so much to offer suffering patients, has been held back by regulatory red tape and government shinanigans. PET still suffers in this regard to a large extent.

The later chapters are very instructive in pitfalls, normal varients, and in demonstrating "real" clinical cases, from the basic to the complicated - just as a practitioner sees in a "real life" practice of taking care of sick people.

If you are involved at any level with FDG PET imaging, I cannot recommend this book more strongly. You will find many useful pearls, broad understanding, interesting background, and exciting cases that will aid you (and your patients) immeasurably in delivery of state-of-the-art care in the foundation of 21st Century Medicine!

Well done, Delbeke and crew!

The Practice of Principle is an important book by a leading legal philosopher. Coleman makes penetrating observations regarding a range of topics, including tort theory, analytical jurisprudence, and jurisprudential methodology with typical clarity, novelty, and rigor. In Part I Coleman attacks the economic analysis of tort law: he argues, persuasively, that such an approach fails as a conceptual analysis, as a constructive interpretation, and as a causal-functionalist explanation of the development of tort law. Coleman uses economic analysis as his foil in displaying the virtues of the corrective justice account defended at length in Risks and Wrongs. In Part II Coleman articulates his version of inclusive legal positivism (which, he thinks, and I agree, was also H. L. A. Hart's) and defends that version against a number of objections from Ronald Dworkin, Joseph Raz, and Scott Shapiro. In conversation with his brilliant but often uncharitable interlocutors, Coleman's analytical abilities absolutely shine. Part III defends conceptual analysis as a sound and intellectually profitable approach to legal theory; if it less gripping than the previous sections it is only because the quality of Coleman's opponents has fallen (from the likes of Posner and Raz to Brian Leiter). I recommend this book to anyone who cares to see the state of the art in legal theory through the eyes of one of its central figures.

I believe that this is a great book for anyone entering into Network Marketing. Toni has a pulse on the industry and I can't wait to see what she comes up with next.