This book is deceptively titled. The entire premise of the book is to control the process of soldering in a large manufacturing enviornment. There is value to this, but it should have been noted in the title.

The book does not provide what I had hoped. It does not teach how to solder, what tools to use, or what mistakes to avoid.

If you're looking to learn how to build PCBs in a small scale enviornment, this is not the book for you.

If you're looking to control the process of PCB assembly in a large manufacturing enviornment, this book may be of help. But I suspect it provides little more than established industry standards and guideline document.

Half of the books describes history of some herbs which I did not find useful, the other half it even does not demonstrate you the ability to help cure cancer. It does not show you any scientific data from a recognized company (e.g. FDA). The title should be "Herbs Against What". It was a waste of time this book.

stupid......very much so poop brain

Don't waste your time on this one.

I have nearly thirty titles in this series, four by this author, and this book is the worst of the bunch. There is no story nor conceptual thread that ties the fractured parts together. If you're looking for bon mots on the psychology of learning and memory (as I was), you will find this book is empty of such simple pleasures.

Deja vu, I've seen this stuff before! Twenty-eight of the book's 123 pages are "extracted" from 21 other books in the series. I wouldn't find this such a bad idea (except that, of course, the price should be lower since writer and illustrator are producing a much smaller page count of original work) if there was some coherency to the story and the extractions added to it. They don't. Instead, it looks more like a sales promotion for the other titles. The ordering and consistency isn't as bad as, say, throwing a deck of cards into the air then randomly picking them up, but that's a standard which isn't that hard to beat.

Save your time for better reading.

screen shots of text are most times very small.a basic book should cover paperspace it's real important.region modelling, accessing autodesk's portals, drawings on the web, do not seem necessary for a introductory level book.index d on compatibility with autocad 2002 seems misplaced for a new student to autocad. where is the meat and potatoes for a new student.

This book is only good if you don't have any single ideas about thermoset process, but it's not worthy to pay $70. It's better look at other polymer processing handbook....

Regulation proponent Ralph Nader directed his group in an effort to study monopolies and how government supports them. A pointed and accusatory read, big business is described as an irredeamable taskmaster who seeks to influence or control employees, competitors and consumers alike.Most of the facts and quotes that are used to support these broad wandering accusations and goals are obviously too twisted and disjointed for any real analysis. Quite clearly, they often mix opposing or incompatable findings. Sometimes the read is entertaining but more often it is like the ravings of the confused. Written in 71, printed in 73, this book is only good for historical research of Nader's writings or socialist based theories.

Authors like Woodrow who promote local flood and long age compromises can be summarised as follows:

"'Science' has shown that the earth is billions of years old, therefore the plain meaning of Scripture must be re-interpreted to fit these 'facts'. If we [with our finite understanding] can't explain a clear biblical teaching, it follows that no explanation is possible, so we must re-interpret this also."

However, they fail to realise that science deals with repeatable observations in the *present*, while billions of years ideas are based on assumptions about the unobservable, unrepeatable *past*. Thus science can never show the world is billions of years old. Rather, we should rely on the eye-witness of One who was there, knows everything, and never lies or errs. But Woodrow et al. rely on the testimony of people who weren't there, often err and sometimes lie. So they are using the theories of fallible people to interpret the Word of the infallible God.

We should realise that different biases can result in different *interpretations* of the *same* data. For example, great thicknesses of rock layers could conceivably be produced either by a little water over long periods, or a lot of water over short periods. Because sedimentation usually occurs slowly today, it is assumed that it must have always occurred slowly. If so, then the rock layers must have formed over vast ages. The philosophy that processes have always occurred at roughly constant rates ('the present is the key to the past') is often called uniformitarianism.

I show how presuppositions strongly influence explanations about the past in my book Refuting Evolution, and this also contains a chapter on evidence for a 'young' earth and global Flood.

It's sad to see professing evangelical writers fall into the errors that characterise the 'scoffers' prophesied in 2 Peter 3: 'all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.' Peter reveals the huge flaw of the uniformitarian scoffers: they are 'willingly ignorant' of special creation by God and a cataclysmic globe-covering (and fossil-forming) flood.

To answer some of Woodrow's specific anti-global-flood arguments:

* The word "erets" translated as earth (Gen. 6:17, 7:19-23) sometimes refers to limited land areas.

However, erets is also used in Gen. 1:1-2, where it must refer to the whole earth. It also fits in with 2 Peter 3:6, where the 'world' was deluged (Greek katakluzo, from which we derive the word cataclysm) by water. Here the Flood is described in universal terms, and paralleled with the coming universal judgment. _Erets_ is often used to refer to the entire dry land surface, e.g. Gen. 1:10ff.

*Woodrow says that the phrase in Gen. 7:19,20 "under the whole heavens" is often used in a limited way e.g. Deut. 2:25.

But no one denies that such phrases are sometimes used in a limited way, or that 'all' is sometimes less than universal. But in the Flood account, God is going out of his way to emphasize the universality of the Flood -- from Genesis 7, NIV: 19 They rose greatly on the earth, and *all* the high mountains under the *entire* heavens were covered. 20 The waters rose and covered the mountains to a depth of more than twenty feet. 21 *Every* living thing that moved on the earth perished -- birds, livestock, wild animals, *all* the creatures that swarm over the earth, and *all* mankind. 22 *Everything* on dry land that had the breath of life in its nostrils died. 23 *Every* living thing on the face of the earth was wiped out; men and animals and the creatures that move along the ground and the birds of the air were wiped from the earth. *Only* Noah was left, and those with him in the ark. Question: just suppose, for the sake of the argument, that God had wanted to teach a global flood -- how could He have said it more clearly than in Gen. 7?

*Woodrow argues that it would require 726 feet of rain per day for 40 days to cover the mountains.

But this assumes that the mountain were at their present height. However, much uplift happened during and shortly after the Flood (Ps. 104:8, 'The mountains rose; the valleys sank down' as the NASB correctly translates it). This is because of the catastrophic earth movements and huge amounts of still-unconsolidated sediments. Woodrow never bothered to find out what creationists actually teach, so set up a straw man, here and many other places. As computer programmers say, 'garbage in, garbage out'.

* Another straw man: cold and thin air above Mt. Everest?

Again, faulty assumption. Also, Woodrow is ignorant of the fact that air pressure depends on the height of the air column over the earth, relative to the main sea level, not altitude as such. Thus even if the Ark was above the mountains, because the sea level was also higher, the pressure would have been almost normal.

*Woodrow has a whole chapter claiming that Ark's crew could not have cared for all the animals.

Woodrow slavishly follows the usual bibliosceptical ploys, assuming that the animals needed to be taken care of, one at a time. But plenty of labour-saving mechanisms would have been available to the crew of eight, for example, long sloping troughs for both food and water that could have been loaded from only a few central filling stations. There are also systems to deal with waste, e.g. sloped or slatted floors; very deep, absorbent bedding; vermicomposting.

Don't waste your money on Woodrow's book -- buy John Woodmorappe's scholarly and comprehensive book _Noah's Ark: A Feasibility Study_ for thorough demolition of all attacks on the Ark by atheists and their compromising evangelical lackeys. Woodmorappe shows that only 16,000 land animals would have been needed on board as passengers, and also covers a wide range of topics including rapid post-Flood variation, generation of rare alleles, food for the animals after disembarkation, and much more.

This is a book of pictures, not poems as I had hoped. If you are looking for a collection of Persephone poems, this is deffinately not it.

The 2003 Planetary Calendar has numerous errors. I glanced at the January 2003 page and easily found at least 10 mistakes. The quality of the paper used is inferior to previous calendars. I have purchased this calendar for the past eight years. This will be my last.