The authors have done a very good job in integrating the words in real-life context.

When I first got this audio book, I was a little nervous that it was going to be overwhelming and littered with obscure, little-used words. What a surprise to find a plethora of words I thought I already knew plus a prodigious amount of words I didn't--and always wondered what they meant! If you're looking for something that's easy to digest, learn, and recall later, buy this book. You won't be disappointed and you can't help but learn something new.

This was the recommended textbook for my undergraduate program in civil engineering in Pakistan for the course titled, guess what "Properties of Concrete". I am now a practising water and wastewater engineer, and my main focus is not concrete. However, I have very good memories of the ease with which I could follow the text even at the undergraduate level, and also how the book was comprehensive enough to give almost all the answers as far as I was concerned. Excellent book, and very well written.

I'm a graduate student now and my field is creep and shrinkage of concrete.with those books which written by Prof.Neville,I've begun my graduate study and made some progress.These books are really a big help to me

Loved the unknown case format. Classic and atypical presentations of high-yield psychiatry diagnoses are reviewed. Answers cover important info and give you a feel for differential diagnoses and how to distinguish among similar conditions (e.g., schizophreniform, schizophrenia, schizoid and schizotypal disorders). Quick read written in easy-to-understand language, with terms explained well. Definitely recommend!

I don't like psychiatry, but I didn't want to miss any easy points on the exam, so I wanted a quick review of the topic. I used this book in conjunction with First Aid and got all the info I needed to do well on the psych questions on the boards. Cases are presented as unknown in a format similar to my exam. Great explanations cover all related info including differential diagnosis pearls and other high-yield info.

Quiller, creation of Adam Hall (Elleston Trevor's non de plume) is a secret agent's secret agent. He is offered missions all over the world and he executes them. He shares all his fears and thoughts with us. Hall has a unique way of building suspense with hiss use of sentence structure. Marvelous books of which Quiller Barracuda is a good example.

No one, not Fleming, not Clancy, no one does it better than Adam Hall. His entire Quiller series is far and away THE BEST of the genre`.

Search through used bookstores to find his earlier works. They are worth the time and effort.

Quiller, the shadow executive for a British undercover agency is sent on a mission to Berlin that requires him to uncover the plans of Phoenix, a Nazi group. Quiller is beaten and battered but finally uncovers several planned exercises in terror. The novel is a synthesis of a James Bond novel with the best of Len Deighton. There is plenty of action for the Bond fan, but taut believable plots for the more serious spy aficionado. No supervillains, but a shadowy ominous realistic group of villains. Quiller Memorandum gives you the best of both worlds.

When it was first published as The Berlin Memorandum in 1966, this novel won Elleston Trevor the Edgar Award for mystery fiction. Trevor, whose other literary credits include The Flight of the Phoenix and Bury Him Among Kings, was spurred by his success to write a nineteen-book series about Quiller's further missions under the pseudonym of Adam Hall. Although the books have had a loyal following, especially in Britain, none has received the acclaim which greeted this first novel in the series. A bestseller on both sides of the Atlantic, it was eventually filmed as The Quiller Memorandum with George Segal and Alec Guiness. Quiller is a "shadow executive" for an officially unavowed British intelligence agency known only as "the Bureau". The novel opens in post-war Berlin where he has been working with the Z police, a German agency devoted to the prosecution of war criminals. War-weary from an undercover assignment at a concentration camp during WW II, Quiller is due to return home. The Bureau convinces him to stay, however, by revealing to him that a forming neo-Nazi movement in Berlin may be headed by Zossen, the commandant of the concentration camp from which Quiller had helped Jews escape. Working alone in a faceless city which presents hidden threats at every turn, Quiller accepts the assigment that has already left one agent dead -- stepping into, as his field director puts it, a gap between two mobilizing armies which cannot see one another in the fog. Hall's writing is consistently terse and compelling. He is at his best in evoking the tension of working for a manipulative secret beaurocracy whose motivations remain obscure, but whose local culture seems vitally real and believable. Quiller is a soldier at work for an army that he knows only from the ranks, whose generals are shrouded in shadow. It is in evoking this culture that Hall's writing transcends the genre, exploring complex themes of loyalty and disillusionment, and the specifically 20th century Kafka-esque relationship of an individual to the beaurocracies that determine his fate. But the real strength of the novel lies in its pure ability to entertain. Hall manages to maintain a level of tension and suspense worthy of comparison to any of espionage fiction's masterpieces, from The Spy Who Came in from the Cold to The Ipcress File. If some of the writing now seems cliche, that is because to a large extent THE QUILLER MEMORANDUM created the cliches. It has had hundreds of imitators both in print an on the screen since its publication, but anyone going back to the original (even thirty years later) will likely agree with the New York Times Book Review that "no one writes better espionage than Adam Hall."

The deceitful Jenuaq, Zenu, seeks revenge on Queen Romey and Sam for the death of her wicked sister (in the previous book). She transforms herself and an accomplice into perfect mirror images of Romey and Sam, then replace the real characters in the castle.

Molly and Netty are summoned in hopes of rewriting the awful things that have taken place. However, good and evil forces battle in their own realm, as well as, within Rairarubia and Zzyukka. Because of this, not all the two girls write actually happens! Worse, Romey's clone, Yemor, is quickly figuring out how to teleport between dimensions!

***** This one is loaded with twists! Just when you believe you have it all figured out - ZAP! - another twist pops up. A delightful story that will keep you reading and reading to see what happens next! *****

Seeking revenge for the death of her wicked sister Janu, the deceitful Jenuaq, Zenu tries to seize control of the magical realm of Rairarubia. Transforming herself an accomplice into duplicates of Queen Romey and her companion Sam, the two imposters replace the rightful rulers and begin a cruel reign. Sixth-grader Molly Doogan and her reluctant best friend, Netty, respond to a desperate plea for help. The girls must rewrite the story in just one night if they hope to save Rairarubia, but they soon find themselves caught in a struggle between forces much larger and stronger than they are. With the aid of a mysterious cloaked figure, they learn a lesson in honesty, and discover the true power of their thoughts to influence both good and evil. Raid On Rairarubia is a superbly written and original fantasy for young readers that continues the "Rairarubia Tales" series under the gifted authorship of Royce Adams. The two earlier, and highly recommended, titles in this outstanding series from Lost Coast Press include Rairarubia (1999) and Return To Rairarubia (2000).

co-author raymond baxter's authentic deckhand stories blend well with the historic photos and brief histories of the railroad ferry companies. dispatching of the chambers street boats had been "dumped" somewhere over the years on the gatemen. Once the rush hour ferry Youngstown left two minutes earlier than the scheduled 5:28PM departure. As a result a large number of angry commuters missed their Erie suburban commuter trains out of Jersey City. Many interesting stories abound. The photos of the ferries and the deckhand stories enabled me to relive my years of New York commuting by train and boat. Fordham University Press deserves praise for this book.

There was always the view of the busy harbor-ocean liners,freighters,tugs and barges.In the hot summer months there was always a breeze on the open deck. During heavy fogs there were close calls-making the trip a real adventure. This authenic book brought back good memories of my days commuting on the railroad ferries of the Hudson.The many rare photos and the short histories of the ferry operators add to the local color, and increase the value of this book.

It is said that hip hop scholarship to this point has either come from too academic or too informal a source. This book is accredited by street and university alike. Krims successfully analyses critical aspects of hip-hop, namely songwriting and lyrical style. This is truly great piece of work.

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Picking up a book on Renaissance Florence, you would expect to get a book almost solely devoted to art and culture. However, this book is fascinating in its analysis of all aspects of life in Renaissance Florence. Covering the period between about 1300 and 1500, Brucker divides the book into six subjects, including the economy, politics and the church. Through a lot of use of contemporary (and unpublished) documents, Florence comes across as a pretty chaotic place, with 40 religious holidays per year, public executions, workers' riots, plagues, wars with Milan and Naples plus a booming population (the fifth largest in Europe at the time). How a huge cultural revolution emerged from all of this seems like a miracle, but Brucker argues that it was the confluence of several factors: the even influence of the Greco-Roman-Christian tradition and the vernacular tradition, being stuck between feudalism and capitalism, the flexible social structure and, last but not least, Dante.

Brucker also traces the decline of Florence in the late 1400s and early 1500s as the city grew conservative and public patronage of the arts declined with the rise of the Medicis. Finally, he does devote a good chunk of the book to describing the achievements of Giotto, Michelangelo et al., making this an important read for any student of the Renaissance.

Gene Brucker sets new standards for World Historians! When you think about your purchases, think very hard before you walk away, so to speak, without a copy of Renaissance Florence. 'Cause if you do, you'll leave with a hole in your spiritual and cultural life.