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This book is a must-have for any serious quilter. It contains the most comprehensive information on all aspects of color as they relate specifically to quilting, with marvelous full color illustrations that amplify the already-excellent written material. The color photos of magnificent quilts are in themselves worth the price of the book. This is a book to be consulted over and over-- a complete reference manual.

I am an RN and enjoyed Magnets for Health: A Practical Guide because it is comprehensible reading telling what everyone wants to know about magnets. How and why they work and the impact they have on health & wellness. The book gives the history of magnets as far back as 400 B.C., the application of magnets in the health field today, the effects of magnets on our bodies, and recommended applications. As a health care professional, I feel obligated to share this information with everyone. It is a wonderful way to make a difference for others.

Ursula Huws' "The Making of a Cybertariat" is a collection of essays on the political economy of technology and its myriad social consequences. Throughout this fascinating book, Dr. Huws has developed an original and compelling critique of contemporary capitalism. While the articles in this book span from the 1970s to the early 2000s, the analyses are consistently razor-sharp and the insights appear to remain as valid today as when they were originally written.

Dr. Huws has worked for many years as an activist, researcher and free lance writer in Great Britain. She currently serves as a Professor at London Metropolitan University. Both the immediacy and solid scholarship that infuses her writing is evidence of these myriad roles as well as Dr. Huws' professionalism and dedication to her work.

Integral to Dr. Huws' analysis is the Marxist-inspired concept of commodification, or capitalism's tendency to draw into the cash economy activities which had been previously carried out by unpaid labor. For example, the hand-washing of clothes is replaced by the laundromat and in turn by the home washing machine. With each succeeding wave of technological advancement, the division of labor increases in a manner that richly rewards technical specialists while it enslaves the large masses of deskilled workers and consumers into an increasingly contingent and impoverished lifestyle.

But Dr. Huws goes well beyond Marx by emphasizing the Feminist identification of the home (not the factory) as the primary locus of struggle. As telecommunications and computer technologies increasingly blur the distinctions between home and office, it is the female who disproportionately bears the cost of capitals' expansion, Dr. Huws posits. Capital benefits from self-service banking and other technological innovations mainly by offloading labor to the consumer. Dr. Huws goes on to state that the machines, laws and social norms that regulate domestic female behavior turns housework into "drudgery" and helps enforce male domination and control.

Within this general analytical framework, individual chapters are dedicated to discussions of the Internet and its facilitation of corporate restructuring and the outsourcing of work overseas; how women's health suffers due to inequalities in the workplace and the female ethic of sacrificial caregiving; technology's role in the failure of collectivity in the 1970s, the rise of individualism and the decline of the public sphere in the 1980s to today; a debunking of postmodern theories pertaining to the supposed dematerialization of the economy; the contestation of time wrought by the automation of routine tasks and the application of Taylorist management principles; the myriad challenges of forming a "cybertariat" class consciousness in a contingent economy that is segmented by space, status and culture; and more.

At the close of each chapter, Dr. Huws ponders how citizens might wrest control of the work processes and technologies controlled by capital and state in order to channel it towards the cause of enriching society and empowering people.

I highly recommend this superbly researched, persuasively argued and highly readable book to everyone.

Rosser does a good job presenting the results of a series of related studies and discussing the implications of their findings, especially in their broader context.

Originally published in 1864, Marsh explains in wonderful detail the consequences of humankind's manipulation of earth's resources. Truly an enlightened thinker.

John Passmore's book first appeared a number of decades ago, but is still setting the agenda for those with a concern for the environment who think that support humanity's actions in living and developing a coherent society and a care for nature are not mutually exclusive concerns. Passmore's argument is basically that man's concern with the tratement of the environment is basically an argument between people and that it is a mistake to assume that nature or animals can have any rights in an area in which they have no consciouness. Passmore contends, (in a very rough way), that rights cannot be bestowed on beings without a consciousness. We may decide to protect the environment for many reason, aesthetic, a desire to sustain bio-diversity, security of resources for medical research, etc. But the essential element in all such decisions is that a human or humans, not an animal or a plant make the decision! As we cannot abrogate to overselves the right of proxy to what a non-sentient animal, plant or habitat which 'desire', we can only make ethical decisions on the basis of human morality as it affects other humans. Therefore, Passsmore contends, we must make our environmental descisions on the basis of 'conserving' the environment for humans, not on 'preserving' it for a nature that can have no awareness of these ethical decisions.

In reality this may make no difference to individual actions- the preservationsist chained to the redwood who wishes to save the tree from the loggers on account of its contribution to nature's spirit, may be joined on his chain by a conservationist who wishes to preserve the tree for the aesthetic benefit of future generations of humanity. Passmore does not condone treating nature as a resource at the total whim of humanity, but of instead the prioritising of mankind's legitimate needs in any equation that involves an intervention in the environment. Thus if a wetland on the edge of a human settlement is a home to a significant malaria-hosting mosquito colony, the 'conservationist' decision whether to drain it will be a balance between the loss of bio-diversity and the healthy of the people of the town. In some cases the decision will fall on draining the swamp, in others the conservationist will say, the wetland should remain on account of its other benefits.

It was the call for new standard of ethics to meet the growing environmentalist movement that promoted Passmore to publish this book. He claims, (and this reviewer finds his claim complelling), that traditional ethical standards are perfectly adequate to meet the challenge of concern for nature. Instead of a new standard based on the rights of nature, Passmore contends, that a more effective and coherent avenue in protecting the environment is in the prosecuting of 'vadalism' -damaging the enviroment without sufficent benefit to mankind.

Since the publication of the book, Passmore stand has been condemed by many in the environmentalist movement, but without in this reviewer's judgement, his case has not been seriously damaged by any of the attacks. To those of us who care deeply for the environment, but also care for the legitimate rights of humanity to live in that environment, Passmore has set the standard. Read this book, even if you disagree it will give much food for thought.

I found this book of greater interest to thoses that require much more then the bare bones information regarding the effects of Cannabis. The medical aspects are indeed nessary reading for anyone who requires the effects on the body of using cannabis.

I believe that if anybody seeks to understand these effects, this book has the required information.

A must read for anybody in the oceanography field! Dr. Laevastu is a genius!

This is and excellent book for the researcher, graduate student, or undergrad (with some physics under his or her belt), who wants to learn about the effects of underwater noise on marine mammals. Currently this topic is the focus of much interest and is one of the most active areas of marine mammology research. Richardson et al. do an excellent job explaining the technical information, and have organized the book chapters in a logical sequence. Most terms are explicitly defined and the use of technical jargon is kept to a minimum. This book is a must for any researcher, or student, in the field.

A momentus conceptually driven volume packed with profound works from the undisputed leaders in this groundbreaking area of research.

The chapter authors and volume editors must have all had very special mothers...