A Tenured Professor
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  • CLASSIC BOOK
  • Among my most favorites!
  • A Satire of Academia, Politics or Economics?
  • High-Caliber Intellectual Fiction.........you be the judge!
  • Hilarious Story Contains Human as well as Economic Insights
A Tenured Professor
John Kenneth Galbraith
Manufacturer: Mariner Books
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ASIN: 0618154558

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John Kenneth Galbraith's third novel, A Tenured Professor, is at once an intriguing tale of morality and a comic delight. Montgomery Martin, a Harvard economics professor, creates a stock forecasting model, which makes it possible for him to uncover society's hidden agendas. Seeking proof that human folly has no limit when motivated by greed, Martin initiates mass hysteria that causes investors to assume that up is the only direction. Hailed as "Galbraith's wisest and wittiest" novel (New York Times), A Tenured Professor is an impudently satirical tale.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars CLASSIC BOOK.......2007-03-26

A classic book that you'll want to read, especially if you have ever worked in the area of quantitative investing. A satire, but informative as well.

5 out of 5 stars Among my most favorites!.......2006-04-24

I LOVED this story! John Kenneth Galbraith is one of America's greatest intellectuals, a genuine treasure. His fiction is delightful! Should be on everyone's reading list.

4 out of 5 stars A Satire of Academia, Politics or Economics?.......2002-05-25

Though "A Tenured Professor" was written in 1990, it's just as topical for the post-Internet boom world as it was for Reaganomics and Bush Senior's recession. A story of a liberal economics professor who finds the key to predicting boom and bust cycles for stocks based on consumer hysteria or pessimism, it is told as a satire, but it cannot escape the sting of realism from time to time.

Galbraith himself, aside from being a Professor Emeritus of economics at Harvard, has a great deal of familiarity with the country's political landscape, having been, among other things, a former US Ambassador to India. His familiarity with Washington politics in both parties comes through with striking clarity. At times he need only to refer to a Senator or Congressman obliquely for me to know exactly who he speaks of. Economically, as well, the book sparkles with a cynicism and perpetual questioning of whether or not economic interests control political ones. Even his academic knowledge is impressive - it's obviously that he is both very fond and somewhat sardonic of Harvard at the same time - but it is not so much a book about academics as it is about the direction of our country.

If it struggles anywhere, this book struggles with it's own style. Galbraith is obviously highly intelligent and an accomplished economist. He is not, however, first a novelist. This becomes apparent when he has to push the plot along from time to time in with forced dialogue or grope for it within his satirical meanderings. However, he has enough experience with the novel as a form that it never grinds to a halt.

In spite of it's form - or maybe because of it, this book does have an important comment to make about the interplay between politics and economics in the United States today. He does so so effectively, in fact, that you worry where satire leaves off and cynical reality begins. I found myself reading this book hoping for the former and worrying over the latter. I would recommend anyone with an interest in modern history or the process of government-running to read this and judge for themselves.

3 out of 5 stars High-Caliber Intellectual Fiction.........you be the judge!.......1999-06-16

The Harvard Professors of intellectual glory are at it again! This book will be interesting to anyone who enjoys reading novels on a regular basis. The autodidact who consumes philosophical, historical, and scientific works daily may be disappointed...but you be the judge. Psychological irrationality and economic models allow the hero to elude the "risk factor" that is commonly associated with predicting the market. If academic snobbery and ivory tower elitism is as interesting to you as it is to me you will find something in this book that will get your cerebral juices flowing!

4 out of 5 stars Hilarious Story Contains Human as well as Economic Insights.......1998-06-29

A Tenured Professor is a great read for those of us who find the financial markets fascinating.

The plot weaves events and interactions of a professor who discovers a formula for predicting and profiting from others' irrational investment behavior. Using a host of funny and realistic characters, Galbraith shows how economic insight can cause some humorous personal problems.

And the insight for us trader wannabe's? Can't tell -- it would spoil the story!
Tenured Bosses and Disposable Teachers: Writing Instruction in the Managed University
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    Tenured Bosses and Disposable Teachers: Writing Instruction in the Managed University

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    Tenured Bosses and Disposable Teachers: Writing Instruction in the Managed University exposes the poor working conditions of contingent composition faculty and explores practical alternatives to the unfair labor practices that are all too common on campuses today.



    Editors Marc Bousquet, Tony Scott, and Leo Parascondola bring together diverse perspectives from pragmatism to historical materialism to provide a perceptive and engaging examination of the nature, extent, and economics of the managed labor problem in composition instruction—a field in which as much as ninety-three percent of all classes are taught by graduate students, adjuncts, and other “disposable” teachers. These instructors enjoy few benefits, meager wages, little or no participation in departmental governance, and none of the rewards and protections that encourage innovation and research. And it is from this disenfranchised position that literacy workers are expected to provide some of the core instruction in nearly everyone's higher education experience.



    Twenty-six contributors explore a range of real-world solutions to managerial domination of the composition workplace, from traditional academic unionism to ensemble movement activism and the pragmatic rhetoric, accommodations, and resistances practiced by teachers in their daily lives.



    Contributors are Leann Bertoncini, Marc Bousquet, Christopher Carter, Christopher Ferry, David Downing, Amanda Godley, Robin Truth Goodman, Bill Hendricks, Walter Jacobsohn, Ruth Kiefson, Paul Lauter, Donald Lazere, Eric Marshall, Randy Martin, Richard Ohmann, Leo Parascondola, Steve Parks, Gary Rhoades, Eileen Schell, Tony Scott, William Thelin, Jennifer Seibel Trainor, Donna Strickland, William Vaughn, Ray Watkins, and Katherine Wills.

    My Iowa Journey: The Life Story of the University of Iowa's First Tenured African American Professor
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      My Iowa Journey: The Life Story of the University of Iowa's First Tenured African American Professor
      Phillip C. Hubbard , and Philip G. Hubbard
      Manufacturer: University Of Iowa Press
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      Philip Hubbard's life story begins in 1921 in Macon, a county seat in the Bible Belt of north central Missouri, whose history as a former slave state permeated the culture of his childhood. When he was four his mother moved her family 140 miles north to Des Moines in search of the greater educational opportunities that Iowa offered African American students. In this recounting of the effects of that journey on the rest of his life, Phil Hubbard merges his private and public life and career into an affectionate, powerful, and important story.

      Hubbard graduated from the University of Iowa with a degree in electrical engineering in 1946; by 1954 he had received his Ph.D. in hydraulics. The College of Engineering extended a warm welcome, but nonacademic matters were totally different: Hubbard was ineligible for the housing and other amenities offered to white students. Intelligent, patient, keenly aware of discrimination yet willing to work from within the university system, he advanced from student to teacher to administrator, retiring in 1991 after decades of leadership in the classroom and the conference room.

      Hubbard's major accomplishments included policies that focused on human rights; these policies transformed the makeup of the students, faculty, and staff by seeking to eliminate discrimination based on race, religion, or other nonacademic factors and by substituting affirmative action for the traditional old-boy methods of selecting faculty and administrators. At the same time that he was advancing the cause of human rights and cultural diversity in education, his family as growing and thriving, and his descriptions of home life reveal one source of his strength and inspiration.

      The decades that Hubbard covers were vital in the evolution of the nation and its educational institutions. His dedication to the agenda of public higher education has always been matched by his sensitivity to the negative effects of discrimination and his gentle perseverance toward his goals of inclusion, acceptance, and fairness. His vivid personal and institutional story will prove valuable to this critical juncture in America's racial history.

      My Iowa Journey is part of the Singular Lives: The Iowa Series in North American Autobiography series edited by Albert E. Stone.
      A Tenured Professor
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        A Tenured Professor
        John Kenneth Galbraith
        Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin
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        Federal judge upholds firing of tenured ethics professor dismissed after conviction on embezzlement charge.(around the nation): An article from: Community College Week
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          Federal judge upholds firing of tenured ethics professor dismissed after conviction on embezzlement charge.(around the nation): An article from: Community College Week
          Ian Freedman , and Eric Freedman
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          Release Date: 2007-06-19

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          Title: Federal judge upholds firing of tenured ethics professor dismissed after conviction on embezzlement charge.(around the nation)
          Author: Ian Freedman
          Publication: Community College Week (Newspaper)
          Date: June 4, 2007
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          Volume: 19 Issue: 20 Page: 3(1)

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          Tenured adolescents. (Notes & Comments: December 2002).(recent exchange between United States Air Force Academy cadet and Peter N. Kirstein, tenured professor ... in Chicago): An article from: New Criterion
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            Tenured adolescents. (Notes & Comments: December 2002).(recent exchange between United States Air Force Academy cadet and Peter N. Kirstein, tenured professor ... in Chicago): An article from: New Criterion

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            Release Date: 2005-07-30

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            This digital document is an article from New Criterion, published by Foundation for Cultural Review on December 1, 2002. The length of the article is 1491 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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            Title: Tenured adolescents. (Notes & Comments: December 2002).(recent exchange between United States Air Force Academy cadet and Peter N. Kirstein, tenured professor of history at Saint Xavier University in Chicago)
            Publication: New Criterion (Magazine/Journal)
            Date: December 1, 2002
            Publisher: Foundation for Cultural Review
            Volume: 21 Issue: 4 Page: 1(3)

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            To give and to receive: recently tenured professors' experiences of service in major research universities.: An article from: Journal of Higher Education
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              To give and to receive: recently tenured professors' experiences of service in major research universities.: An article from: Journal of Higher Education
              Anna Neumann , and Aimee LaPointe Terosky
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              Release Date: 2007-05-30

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              This digital document is an article from Journal of Higher Education, published by Thomson Gale on May 1, 2007. The length of the article is 12665 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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              Title: To give and to receive: recently tenured professors' experiences of service in major research universities.
              Author: Anna Neumann
              Publication: Journal of Higher Education (Magazine/Journal)
              Date: May 1, 2007
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              Volume: 78 Issue: 3 Page: 282(29)

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              A Tenured Professor
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                A Tenured Professor
                John Kenneth GALBRAITH
                Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin
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                ASIN: B000UZVKR2

                Year's Best Fantasy 4
                Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
                • A few good stories
                • Some good stories, though not as good as last year's
                Year's Best Fantasy 4
                David Hartwell , and Kathryn Cramer
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                ASIN: 0060521821
                Release Date: 2004-06-29

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                There is magic in our world
                . . . and in others.

                The fertile imagination can cultivate wondrous things, aided by ancient myths and memory, enduring childhood dreams and desires, and the power of cultural archetypes. Once again, award-winning editors David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer reap a magnificent crop of superior fantasy short fiction -- the finest to blossom over the past twelve months. A cornucopia of remarkable tales from some of the field#146;s most acclaimed artists -- Neil Gaiman, Octavia Butler, Tanith Lee, and Michael Swanwick, to name but a few -- as well as stunning new works from emerging young talents, Year's Best Fantasy 4 is a collection as magical as its illustrious predecessors, a feast for every true connoisseur of fantastic literature.

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                There is magic in our world
                . . . and in others.

                The fertile imagination can cultivate wondrous things, aided by ancient myths and memory, enduring childhood dreams and desires, and the power of cultural archetypes. Once again, award-winning editors David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer reap a magnificent crop of superior fantasy short fiction -- the finest to blossom over the past twelve months. A cornucopia of remarkable tales from some of the field's most acclaimed artists -- Neil Gaiman, Octavia Butler, Tanith Lee, and Michael Swanwick, to name but a few -- as well as stunning new works from emerging young talents, Year's Best Fantasy 4 is a collection as magical as its illustrious predecessors, a feast for every true connoisseur of fantastic literature.

                "

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                2 out of 5 stars A few good stories.......2005-08-04

                Maybe I have completely different tastes than the editors of this anthology, or maybe there just wasn't a whole lot of excellent fantasy published in 2003 but I found Year's Best Fantasy 4 to be a hit and miss affair. Many of the stories are decent but nothing special. A few are pretty bad. Even the usually reliable Neil Gaiman has a misfire with the dull "Closing Time." Kelly Link's "Catskin" is just plain bizarre (but I suspect it's supposed to be). Among the few excellent stories are the Nebula Award winner "Basement Magic" by Ellen Klages, a clever update on the fairy-godmother story;
                One Thing About the Night" by Terry Dowling, a creepy ghost story involving a mirrored room; and "Dragon's Gate" by Pat Murphy, a well-told high-fantasy quest adventure. There are also some good stories by Lucius Shepard and Terry Bisson. I should also mention the editor's introductions to the stories often contain plot spoilers so I recommend reading those after reading the story.

                4 out of 5 stars Some good stories, though not as good as last year's.......2004-07-19

                Having recently finished David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer's Year's Best SF 9 because of Kage Baker's story, imagine my horror when I discovered that, for the first time since Book 1 of their Year's Best Fantasy series, there would not be a Baker story in this year's edition. I decided to soldier on, however, as the other stories have always been exceptional. I would just have to read a book that did not contain a Baker story. *shudder*

                Now, all kidding aside (I love Baker, but I'm definitely exaggerating above), the stories in Year's Best Fantasy 4 did not grip me like they have in past years. In fact, going back and writing out the story titles and authors for the list below, I'm having trouble remembering what a few of them are about. Some are charming in their own way, but didn't excite me. Others left me with disturbing images (and not the pleasurably disturbing ones that good horror novels leave). "Catskin," by Kelly Link, is about a witch's son and the cat that has become the dead witch's revenge. The cat creates a cat suit for the boy out of the skin of all the other dead cats that the witch had taken care of, and they go out to avenge the witch, dealing with the other witch who poisoned her. Not my cup of tea. Even the mostly reliable Michael Swanwick's story isn't up to his usual standard, though it is mildly entertaining. "King Dragon" is about a world of elves and dragons, but this world is brutally technological. The dragons are intelligent, but they are also mechanical constructs. In an attack on a village, one of the dragons crash-lands, demands that the village cater to him in order to eventually fix him, and takes a boy to be his eyes, ears, and feet. The boy becomes very powerful in the village, a resistance group forms and the boy has to eventually decide whether he likes the power he has (despite the horror of his master) or if he is loyal to his village. It's an interesting story, but I found I didn't really like the atmosphere that much.

                So what's good about Year's Best Fantasy 4? There are three really good ones. "Basement Magic," by Ellen Klages, is about a young girl with a horrible stepmother, and a maid who knows just a little bit of that voodoo that you do so well. She quickly befriends the girl and, after seeing how the stepmother treats the girl, decides to help protect the girl with a couple of spells. The girl takes things just a little too far, however. This tale was very sweet, but not too sweet. The characters are interesting and I just loved the friendship that grew between these two people. The ending is actually quite surprising, and sad in a way. I loved it.

                Another good one is "Dragon's Gate," by Pat Murphy. In this one, a girl tells a story of the ice women in a bar near the glacier. They are upset and her mother goes into a coma-like state. The girl must travel up the mountain pass and get some blood from the dragon there, the dragon that has killed every expedition that has gone after it. Upon getting there, the girl finds things a lot different then she expected. The story has a nice twist to it, with the dragon being a credible character in its own right. The little bit of history of the area is interesting, also tying directly into the outcome of the story, which is nice too. Excellent stuff.

                Finally (both in this review and the book itself), there is "Almost Home," by Terry Bisson. This story is a voyage of discovery and the beginning of a new life. Troy and Bug are two boys who enjoy fishing in "Scum Lake," a big pond that's out by the old horse track. Troy discovers that various aspects of the track (the announcers' booth and other bits) are beginning to form what looks like an aeroplane (you know, one of those older types). When it finally forms, they are able to take Troy's deformed cousin for a ride. They discover, past the seemingly endless desert, a community that is almost, but not quite, exactly like theirs. The story only contains these three characters, and Bisson captures the wonder and the fear of kids going on an exploration of the unknown vividly. It's kind of sad, but contains an uplifting ending. It's also quite imaginative, with this plane being powered by electrolytes from soda pop. This was an excellent ending for the book.

                Very few of the stories in Year's Best Fantasy 4 left me cold. There's "Catskin" as mentioned above, but also Neil Gaiman's story ("Closing Time") also did. Perhaps this is because I'm getting tired of the motif of people within the story telling a weird story themselves. It's starting to get a bit old, and since the story that was being told didn't inspire me, it just sort of fell flat. Others were ok, but nothing special. Surprisingly, Tanith Lee's story ("Moonblind") was one that I actually enjoyed, which just may indicate that my feelings about a Year's Best Fantasy book may be inversely proportional to how much I like Lee's story. The past two books have contained Lee stories that I didn't like, and I liked those volumes a lot better than this one.

                Still, my disappointment with this year's edition does not mean it's not worth picking up. It's still a great collection, just not as good as past years'. If you're a short fantasy fan (as in a fan of short fantasy, not meaning a height-challenged fan), I would definitely recommend that you pick this book up. Just make sure you pick up the first three as well. There's some good stuff there.

                David Roy
                The Best Fantasy Stories of the Year: Fantasy 1988 (Landmark Series/4 Audio Cassettes)
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                  The Best Fantasy Stories of the Year: Fantasy 1988 (Landmark Series/4 Audio Cassettes)
                  Orson Scott Card
                  Manufacturer: Dercum Audio
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                  Orson Scott Card, the winner of the Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy Awards for fiction, and Martin H. Greenberg, editor/author of over 100 different short story and novella anthologies, have teamed together to produce the Dercum Value Collections. Each volume in the series contains four ninety-minute cassettes, with six hours of some of the best stories in the genre, for under $20! These collections are not available in book form anywhere: they were selected and recorded especially for Dercum Audio. The first of three fantasy value collections, this volume includes seven critically acclaimed authors and their stories read in their entirety. It includes such classics as Perpetuity Blues by Neal Barrett, Jr. and Maxie Silas by Augustine Funnell.
                  The Best Thing
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                    The Best Thing
                    Jennifer Anna
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                    Natalie and Sonja Bloom live with their mom in an everyday working class neighborhood. On the first day of spring, all Natalie wants to do is look for ladybugs. This doesn't make her little sister very happy. But with help from a magical key to Ladybug Land, the two sisters discover the best thing in the world -- each other. Each copy comes with a ladybug pouch and magical key for young readers to create and a certificate autographed by the author.
                    Year's Best Fantasy 4
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                      Year's Best Fantasy 4
                      David; Cramer, Kathryn Hartwell
                      Manufacturer: Eos
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                      The Year's Best Fantasy Stories 1. 2. 3 and 4 (sold as Set only)
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                        The Year's Best Fantasy Stories 1. 2. 3 and 4 (sold as Set only)
                        Lin (ed) Carter
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                        ASIN: B000WXGIF6
                        THE YEAR'S BEST FANTASY STORIES 4.
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                          The Year's Best Fantasy Stories: 4
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                              The Year's Best Fantasy Stories: 4
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                                Lin (Editor) Carter
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                                Uranometria Two Thousand: The Southern Hemisphere to Plus 6 Degrees
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                                • Stay away from the 1987-88 Edition
                                Uranometria Two Thousand: The Southern Hemisphere to Plus 6 Degrees
                                Tirion , Rappaport , Loui , Rappaport , and Lovi
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                                1 out of 5 stars Stay away from the 1987-88 Edition.......2006-08-28

                                In 1987 and 1988, the two-volume 9.5 magnitude Uranometria became the first star atlas to go deep. It included thousands of deep-sky objects for owners of the large scopes that were coming onto the market. But the first edition had a flaw that made it a nightmare to use.

                                Imagine opening a road atlas to a two-page spread of, say, the State of Montana and finding the eastern and western halves reversed. In place of one state, you have two disjointed halves.

                                Ridiculous, you say?

                                Of course. But, believe it or not, that's the way the first edition presented its two-page chart spreads.

                                How could any cartographer be so colossally stupid? It comes from following tradition without thinking for oneself. All previous star atlases had ordered their charts in ascending right ascension, presumably so the user would move forward through the book as the sky rotated. But what does this mean for users? With north at the top of the chart, users reach the right edge of a chart, have to stifle the instinct to continue right to the next page, force themselves to reverse direction, and turn--of all places--to the previous page instead. Many users unconsciously learned to live with the inconvenience and even got used to it.

                                The compilers of Uranometria, like everyone before them, applied this tradition to their new atlas, which had charts on both sides of the page. It wasn't until their atlas reached the field that the magnitude of their blunder became apparent. Users definitely did not appreciate the reversed two-page spreads.

                                The compilers of the Millennium Star Atlas took note of the fiasco and brought out the first atlas sequenced in order of descending right ascension. Besides correcting the page-spread reversal, it made page flipping intuitive: from the right edge of a chart rightward to the next page and from the left edge leftward to the previous page.

                                When the second edition of Uranometria came out in 2001, the compilers were wise enough to correct the fault; the Second Edition of Uranometria also sequences charts in descending right ascension. Uranometria is, finally, a practical work for advanced astronomers with large telescopes.

                                Uranometria vs the Millennium? The paperback Millennium shows over four times as many stars to magnitude 11, but some reviewers remark that it shows fewer objects. Whether true or not, the added precision of Millennium is certainly an asset, especially considering the small difference in price: Millennium is listed at $150 and available for as low as $116 plus shipping to Uranometria's $100. Will Uranometria answer with a softcover edition?

                                Whether you choose the Millennium or the second edition of Uranometria, you will not go wrong. The first edition? Don't even take it as a gift.

                                Great Grilled Cheese: 50 Innovative Recipes for Stove Top, Grill, and Sandwich Maker
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                                • Outstanding recipes!
                                • A cheese addict's bible
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                                Great Grilled Cheese: 50 Innovative Recipes for Stove Top, Grill, and Sandwich Maker
                                Laura Werlin
                                Manufacturer: Stewart, Tabori and Chang
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                                Binding: Hardcover

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                                Brie and apricot jam on a baguette; spinach and goat cheese on a croissant; blue cheese and fresh figs on crusty Italian bread: this is not your mother's grilled cheese sandwich. In Great Grilled Cheese, cheese expert and award-winning cookbook author Laura Werlin presents 50 scrumptious grilled cheese and panini recipes that range from the traditional to the contemporary. In addition to the more inventive combinations, including grilled cheese for dessert, there's always room at the table for the classics: grilled American on white, or apple, ham, and cheddar on sourdough.

                                Werlin discusses techniques-nonstick versus cast-iron pan, whether to cover during cooking, how to use the ultrapopular panini machine. Maren Caruso's tantalizing photographs perfectly convey the appeal of creamy melted cheese pressed between two slices of crisp, buttery bread. For cheese aficionados, parents whose kids insist on grilled cheese at every meal, and the kid in all of us who craves comfort food, Great Grilled Cheese will satisfy everyone's cheese dreams. AUTHOR BIO: LAURA WERLIN, who won a 2004 James Beard Award for her book The All American Cheese and Wine Book, is a food journalist and cheese expert whose articles have appeared in Saveur, Cooking Light, and Country Living. In addition to having written two books on cheese, The New American Cheese (2000) and The All American Cheese and Wine Book (2003), Werlin writes a biweekly syndicated column on cheese.

                                MAREN CARUSO is a San Francisco-based photographer who specializes in food photography. Her work has appeared in Wine and Spirits, Chocolatier, and Taste magazines, and in more than ten books, including Grilling and Barbecuing (STC).

                                Customer Reviews:

                                5 out of 5 stars Outstanding recipes!.......2006-12-14

                                This is my favorite of my 5 panini recipe books. I bought it when I got my Cuisinart Griddler with Panini Grill. These sandwiches are truly fantastic. Some of the other books have some really wierd combinations and only a few recipes that sound appetizing, but this book is a real winner. These hot sandwiches are very addicting...delicious and so fast and easy to make!

                                5 out of 5 stars A cheese addict's bible.......2006-06-24

                                The recipes are imaginative, the directions are clear, the results are sublime. My only question is, I look at her photograph and ask, how can the author look so slender?!

                                5 out of 5 stars Yum!.......2005-12-11

                                Some of the most delicious grilled cheese sandwiches and quesadillas I've ever had. I use this book every weekend.

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