I have this book and it sits on my bookself collecting dust. It was a required text for school and I could never use it. It is poorly laid out and the descriptions of the systems are not in depth enough to actually give you a decent understanding of the material. The systems are out dated with current technology unless you are a general aviation mechanic. For the few systems that are in detail, the writer makes it very difficult for the beginning student to understand. When I taught I tried to lead the other students through the text and I found it easier to just use the book as a door stop than a teaching tool. The rest of the books in this series are wonderful, but I would never use this one again.

This is a great book on theory, but if you're a kit aircraft builder like me, it doesn't have enough specific "how to" information. A great resource to go along with this book is "The Aeroelectric Connection", not available on Amazon as of the writing of this review. It has all the information you need to know about to wire your aircraft; tools, supplies, and the most valuable of all: wiring diagrams for every possible configuration.

I believe this text to be the most comprehensive reference available on basic electricity, electrical & electronic systems and avionics. When I need information about an electrical system or component it is the first place I look.

The scope and detail of the text vastly exceeds that of any of the other A&P "textbooks". The text is not written at a fourth grade level like the other textbooks. If remedial instruction is your objective, this is not the textbook for you. If, however, your objective is quality instruction on basic electricity, electrical systems, and present day avionics systems this comprehensive text is vastly superior to others I have examined.

In the A&P and advanced maintenance curriculum at the university where I teach, this text is used as a reference in five different courses. This text is the one you want to "hold on to" as a reference for your future maintenance activities.

The only flaw in the text I perceive is given the rapid pace of adoption of new electronics and computer equipment in the aviation industry, the text will soon need revision to remain current.

I personally spent a month researching many of the claims made in this book and found them inaccurate, if not completely dishonest. Many of the claims made about abiogenesis (origin of life), evolution, biblical archaeology/scholarship, prophecy fulfillment, early history of the church and the evidence for fine tuning of the earth for life was completely slanted, or downright dishonest. I am only going to cover some of the problem with his book, because there are so MANY!

ABIOGENESIS (Origin of Life)

When Muncaster (the author) is talking about the origin of life, and explaining how it is statistically "impossible," he makes a few major blunders: (1) He claims there are certain odds against the first forms of life "assembling themselves," and presents an outrageously high number against it occurring; he leaves out the fact that we don't have COMPLETE knowledge of the first life, or the conditions under which it formed and thus cannot calculate the probability of it forming. (2) He calculates the odds of the first life forming, assuming all LOGICALLY possible combinations of chemicals, thus increasing the odds against such an event; the problem is that chemicals will only combine in certain ways according to the laws of chemistry--even though we can imagine all the possible combinations chemicals could form, there is only a limited number of ways they can ACTUALLY come together, thus lowering Muncaster's probability considerably. (3) Muncaster leaves out a lot of research that has been done by scientists, giving us incredible insights into how life could have formed...don't believe me? Type in "Dr. Sidney Fox" or "the origin of life" in a search engine, to get tons of links to his work on the origin of life!

BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY

Muncaster cites a few examples of biblical accuracy in an attempt to demonstrate its accuracy. He somehow thinks that this will convince skeptics. There are also a number of problems with biblical accuracy:

SILENCE OF EGYPTIAN RECORDS CONCERNING "The Exodus." -- The history of ancient Egypt is well documented, and can be read by scholars with ease. There is only one problem. Moses, and the Exodus from Egypt by the Israelites is not mentioned. The reality is that if a series of plaques had been visited upon Egypt, such as those never seen before, thousands of slaves escape, and the army of the Pharaoh were swallowed into the Red Sea, these events would have been recorded. BUT THEY AREN'T!

THE MOABITE STONE -- Muncaster doesn't mention, that sometimes when archaeology confirms some of the Bible, it throws doubt on other parts of the Bible. The Moabite Stone, for example, corroborates the biblical claim that there was a king of Moab named Mesha, but the inscription on the stone gives a different account of the war between Moab and the Israelites recorded in 2 Kings 3. Mesha's inscription on the stone claimed overwhelming victory, but the biblical account claims that the Israelites routed the Moabite forces and withdrew only after they saw Mesha sacrifice his eldest son as a burnt offering on the wall of the city the Moabites had retreated to (2 Kings 3:26-27). So the Moabite Stone, rather than corroborating the accuracy of the biblical record, gives reason to suspect that both accounts are biased. Mesha's inscription gave an account favorable to the Moabites, and the biblical account was slanted to favor the Israelites. The actual truth about the battle will probably never be known!

THE DESTRUCTION OF AI -- According to the Old Testament, Joshua 8: 26-28 tells us about the utter destruction of the city of Ai but the Israelites. However, extensive archaeological work at the site of Ai has revealed that the city was destroyed and burned almost a thousand years before the time of Joshua.

I am not saying that the Bible is a COMPLETE book of myths, but simply that there are a number of problems with Biblical archaeology. Muncaster doesn't even discuss these!

PROPECHY FULFILLMENT

Muncaster cites Isaiah 7:14 (allegedly that Jesus would be called Immanuel, and be born of a virgin) as a prophecy that was fulfilled by Jesus. There are a number of problems with this argument: (1) The actual word used in Isaiah 7:14, is almah, which means 'young woman,' not virgin--the word 'bethulah' actually means virgin, and would have been used by the writer, had he meant that. (2) No where in the New Testament does Mary refer to Jesus as Immanuel. (3) The verse was actually taken out of context--if you look back at the seventh chapter of Isaiah, it is obvious that the child in question is to be born as a sign to Ahaz, king of Judah; not Jesus of Nazareth.

The other prophecies used to "prove" that Jesus was the Son of God are just as [unacceptable].

Overall, this whole book does nothing but demonstrate the ignorance of those who buy into these arguments, and the amazing amount of [unacceptable material] this book was able to engage in. This book in NOT proof of God's existence. ...

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The evidence regarding the statsitical probablity of the existence of God is far stronger than the author's use of prophesies in the Bible which I found to be far less compelling.

I thought the prophesy section was intentionally slanted and did not present a balanced case. It was also a little boring.

The big reason to read this book is that I think most readers would have a hard time doubting the existence of God after reading this -no matter how skeptical they are. That's easily worth the money and makes this book a 5.

Spectacular use of facts and evidence. The author started out as an atheist and came to the conclusion that the scientific evidence leads only to the conclusion that God exists. Contrary to another review on this site, the scientific evidence is beyond compelling. I find it humorous that the evolutionist critic didn't even finish the book. That's like a movie critic watching half a movie and commenting on it. Silly. Read the facts for yourself. If you wish to remain an atheist and a supporter of evolution, then don't read this book.

This 1965 book made the author famous nationwide. It claimed that the Chevrolet Corvair, an air-cooled rear-engine rear wheel drive car, was totally unsafe, even while parked! This is either an exaggeration, or a lie. Like the VW Beetle, the links on the rear wheels would not prevent a rear wheel from folding inward under extreme conditions. The publicity later caused GM to correct this problem.

The Corvair was the most successful GM compact car of the time, and the most fuel-efficient. Could this attack have resulted from the machinations of Big Oil? After this, cars got longer, wider, and heavier with decreasing fuel economy until after the 1973 oil shortage; but it took an Act of Congress to do this (companies are prevented from collusion).

Nader later formed a group to support his activities; this required donations from various groups, some of whom may have benefitted from his work. I think some of his proposals would benefit the special interests of patent holders or manufacturers; such as "childproof" bottle caps.

An old saying is "the perfect is the enemy of the good". I wonder if the proposals of Nader's group ever benefitted some special interests at expense of the common people?

Could Ralph Nader still be acting for special interests today? Read the newspapers and decide for yourself.

As a Traffic Safety Specialist, this book is a MUST, this old book needs to be mandatory reading for any person interested in Road Safety, Ralph documented the resistance of car companies to the introduction of safety features, like safety belts, that looks timely today, for example with the lobby that produce a delay in the mandatory fitting of air bags. Also you will learn how the primitive road safety components, still used in USA, called the three E's (Engineering, Enforcement, Education ) was born as a device to direct the efforts to the community away from the real problems of safety of the vehicles, some of the that was sell with tires that don't resist the weight of the fully loaded vehicle !.

Finally you can understand the lacking level of road safety in US versus European countries that have in service safety policies that will reduce the absolute number of killed by 30% over 5 years.

This book is the necessary building stone to the effort to make car manufacturers accountable for the safety level of his products.

The Corvair was the Pinto of the '60s. Ralph Nadir was the first to say, "Enough is enough!" and took the Big Three to the mat, in this case just Chevrolet. If you liked Roger and Me you must have to read this book--it will change the way you look at modern day power structure. To think one man who came to define "consumer advocate" could topple a mighty giant of American Indusrty! This car was dangerous because the company tried to cut costs on the rear suspension, but all they saved was $4 per car!!! Incredable to believe human life could mean so little to some, but that is why you must to read this book.

TERRIBLE book! I have no respect for the authors. Even in 3rd edition, there is a mistake on about every other page and some of the formulas are even printed wrong! They keep a known error page on the web (bad) but there are many more (even worse).
The book is incredibly difficult to use because there are very few examples and of the few examples many steps are dropped and does not explain clearly where the formulas came from. As for the problems in the book, besides the fact that the answers in the back are often wrong, the authors often require formulas not mentioned in that particular section and sometimes not even in the chapter or the book itself! As for the text of the book, every chapter includes too much chatter on the background of the discovery and not enough words explaining the concepts themselves.
The worst book I have used and several students agree. Physics is hard but these guys make it harder. My advice: get a book from a good publisher with authors from good universities.

This textbook is extremely difficult to follow and doesn't flow very well. I had a difficult time trying to understand the concepts the author was trying to make without having to read it several times.

This is very well written and easy to follow. My required text was from Eisberg/Resnick and I hated it. This book is much better to read from. The problems are not quite as hard, but if you're learning modern physics and have any trouble then read the corresponding chapters or sections from this book and then go back to your required text. It will help make physics fun to learn again.

When I began this course, I felt lucky that I had already had a lot of experience in the world of e-commerce, just because I had problems paying attention to the book when I was reading it. I found myself doing two things at the same time in order to retain any of the information in it. It has a lot of information - but it's presented in an extremely boring manner. I put off reading quite a few chapters until the day before my final exam. The only thing of any interest were the case studies at the beginning of each chapter.

mmm... If I didn't have to have this book as a course text, I would have soon discarded it. Maybe I'm missing the point of what PRINCIPLES of Information Systems are all about, but I get the distinct impression from this particular book that Principles of Information Systems is simply an exercise in 'reading someone's watch, then telling them the time'. The authors formalize with great diagrams, case histories and explanations, how Information Systems are structured in business today. However they only lightly touch on what principles (good logic if you wish), should be employed in designing a 'quality' Information System. The closest they really get to this is sometimes posing the issue in the question sections (answers not provided!). I know Information Systems is a lot more than simply knowing how existing ones structured but if you want to know more beyond this, don't expect to find answers in this book.

It was an informational book, discussing the importance of information systems.

Unfortunately, I came across a mention of this book that included, a couple of interesting paragraphs. I expected a stylish, rather high energy work. I agree with the review posted immediately before this one, you will not learn anything about investing strategy here. And Wanger's record has not been that good lately. Try Sy Harding's "Riding the Bear" and become a stock market strategist.

Ralph Wagner is a decent enough writer, his problem is his inability to do more than scratch the surface. If this is your first book on investing in the stock market, then I'd completely recommend it. But although I agree wholeheartedly with Warner's Growth At a Reasonable Price (GARP) strategy, this book is nothing more than a philosophical discourse. There is no attempt to give the reader any usable strategies.

Mr. Wanger's Book is probably the most honest, sensible, intelligent and realistic book written on investing. Reading this book helps you acquire the necessary logic, method, style, and discpline to use in order to succeed in the market for the long run. Thank you Mr. Wanger.

The Parkin book is dumb down but so much so that you dont understand Microeconomics the way you'll need to if you plan on taking advanced theory, money and banking, etc.

I prefer McConnell Brue who has been the staple and bible of Microeconomics for years!

Smart universities choose McConnell Brue and dumb ones like Micro econ at Rice seem to choose Parkin.

Parkin's text was designed for the beginning economics student. Those who state that the text is not rigorous enough should understand the text was not written for the advanced student. Those who complain that the text is replete with explanations of basic topics do not understand that beginning students need reaffirmation of presented concepts. Parkin's text strives to appeal to the broad base of students without the dilution that seems to occur when a text is written with "non-majors" in mind. I read several introductory texts before adopting the Parkin text for my advanced placement class. I chose the Parkin text because it provided the optimum mix of rigor and explanation, without sacrificing analysis (within a mathematical context) for a purely verbal approach.

I have used Parkin as an auxilliary source for my micro 102 classes for years. His examples are products that can be related to by 19-year-olds, AND he does not use wheat or other perfectly competitive products to exemplify a downward sloping demand curve! Many other do, which causes great confusion among the students. What is wrong with careful, thoughtful, comprehensive explanations of concepts that are difficult for first time micro students? He covers several complicated topics that are left out of the more highly rated texts by Mankiw and others. I am wondering if we are even rating the same book...I give it the maximum rating!

We have red this book both in Turkish and English we found out that the orginal of the book is perfect but on all of It's Turkish translations we are faceing lots of difficulties especially on figurs and formulas.That's because the printing quatity. Most of the figures and formulas are unreadable.We wish that the writers of the the book would tell the publisher(GUNES YAYINEVI LTD.) what they have to do in all ways.These unforgivenable problems couses deap damages on the books sciencetific value.If you would like to contact us for more information we would'd be happy to give any help you need. e-mail:dogankeskin@hotmail.com

I have had this text for an intro to organic class this last semester, and using the old version for the class was easy since it hasnt changed in the new revsion. I hate to say it but it is well written except for the structure of the molecules since they are all in letter format, why couldnt they revise the new edition with line angle drawings the ink cost is the same.... it makes it that much harder to read with the current typewriter style samples

This is a fine text. The authors have broken down a rather difficult subject into easily digestable units, which helped my understanding of the whole. You should also use the companion CD. This is a great tool for visualizing the 3-D structure of complex molecules. I bought this book and have refered to it many times. Do yourself a favor and buy this great text!!!

This book is shallow and poorly researched with a paucity of sources, few names, dates or places of occurrence related to the subject matter.The author allows his Judeo-Christian bias to completely color the work and his intolerance of other forms of religious observances is a great turn off to the reader.His primary source for his arguments is the Bible with little acknowledgemnent to other viable, valuable and prooven sources of information.In a nutshell - it is purely supermarket checkout stand material. A definite waste of trees to produce the paper to print it on. The only people who would find it valuable are those who already share the author's point of view so why read it at all??

I found "Guardians.." to be very fascinating and a must read for anyone who wants to protect their freedom. It is a stepping stone to understanding policies/procedures that affect our health, wealth and very lives today. These people are real and they are very busy behind the scenes and only a few committed crusaders are bold enough to give us the truth. It is well written, the research is sound and I couldn't put it down. I couldn't sleep either. Read it.

the background and research alone are worth reading this book for. i learned so much about history that i never knew. it was a fantastic book for that alone. he untangels some of the greatest cults of all time, and then traces them back to their roots. then ties it all together in the end. more like a great detective after the truth than a writer of theology. and in the end he's both. great stuff!

Do not waste your money on this one. Nothing here that has been written about already and generally much better. Reading this, you would believe every artist in Nashville, past and present, is a tremendous talent, since old Ralph spends half the book... telling us how great the artists are.... Really bad.

Ralph Emery is a country music radio/TV personality who knows his stuff. When Ralph puts together material for a book, the reader knows they are going to get authentic data. Ralph's contact with and dealings with the people he wrote about in this book are real. I know the music well and I applaude his analysis of who had the hit songs of the year he was focusing on. Once I started the book, I couldn't put it down. Please let Ralph know, it was thoroughly enjoyed by me. I have been a country music fan since the early 40s when I was about 6 years old and able to turn on the battery operated radio and listen in wonderment at the music I heard. It fascinated me then, and the traditional music still fascinates me today. I am having a very difficult time being as broadminded as Ralph is about the sound of today. I rarely listen to the radio today. I buy albums by Dolly, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Loretta Lynn, Asleep at the Wheel. Need I tell you more. When I am driving, my discs are playing the music I love. I'm not listening to the so-called " country music" station which only play sing-alikes with a sound that doesn't touch my soul. Thank you Ralph, for your many years of touching the souls of your listeners. Tho I never listened to you on WSM (hard to get in S Dak. and Calif is too far away), I loved your TNN Nashville Now program. You were my must see program each day. I surely miss the authentic country shows on TNN. I rarely tune in, except for the Grand Ole Opry these days. Thanks for the book, Ralph. Keep up the good work. Hope to see you soon on TV.

This book had some great stories that you don't get to hear on CMT or in Country Weekly. I thought this was a well-written account of the history of country music by someone who has been an institution in the industry for over 50 years. Very good book!