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The article reviews the book "Best Practices in Residential Treatment," edited by R. A. Ellis.

This article explores the ways that The Book of Margery Kempe engages with medieval devotional and dietary practices in order to better understand Kempe's selfpositioning as spiritual authority within her various communities. These "communities"--intersecting and overlapping groups of people united through official, affective, or temporary means--understand her as a liminal figure, whose ability to traverse and transgress boundaries is often determined by her eating practices. Divinely ordained by God, yet frequently castigated by those around her, Margery's diet is a subject of complex preoccupation and debate throughout the Book. As a former miller and alewife, as well as mother of fourteen, her relationship with food is integral to her social identity; I contend that it is integral as well to her spiritual identity. This paper examines key instances of eating, fasting, feeding, communal dining, and dietary change in the Book and how these moments serve to engage (or disengage) Margery with the people around her. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviews the book "Asset and Liability Management Tools: A Handbook for Best Practice," edited by Bernd Scherer.

There is a footnote in Alfred Gell's 1992 essay "The Technology of Enchantment and the Enchantment of Technology" where he observes that enchantment is just as relevant to capitalist societies as it is to a place like the Trobriand Islands. Kimberly Chong's ethnography of management consultancy in China explores, in effect, a parallel magic standard in a financializing world - best practices - and some of the key players involved in producing it - management consultants. Costless production, Gell observes, "is not costless at all but [entails] the minimization of costs to the corporation by the maximization of social costs" (p. 62fn). [Extracted from the article]

The article reviews the book "Best Practices: Australian Clinical Legal Education."

The article reviews the book "Patron-Driven Acquisitions: History and Best Practices," edited by David A. Swords.

The following books are reviewed: "Power Electronics and Motor Drives" (Wilamowski, B.M. and Irwin, J.D.; 2011); "Carbon nanotubes for Polymer Reinforcement" (M, P.-C. and Kim, J.-K.; 2011); "The Diffusion Handbook" (Thambynayagam, R.K.M.; 2011); "Welding, 7th Edition" (Jeffus, L.; 2012); "Best Practice Handbook for Rotating Machinery" (Forsthoffer, W.E.; 2011); "Scale Relativity and Fractal Space-Time" (Nottale, L.; 2011); and "Science for the Curious Photographer" (Johnson, C.S., Jr. and Peters, A.K.; 2010). [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]