This time, my host asked me if I was part of LinkedIn, a buzzy Web site intended to link people with similar business interests.

the usual discardings of country folk

… The two assets of the book are clear explanation, and a multitude of extremely helpful diagrams, some in two colours, and cutaway photographs; these clearly unravel a difficult subject for the layman, as well as the student engineman for whom the primer is chiefly designed.

the Golden Horseshoe