Comprehensive in both theoretical and numerical presentation. The authors show how to model invicid, incompressible aerodynamics using pnael methods which are based on potential theory. They also show how to incorporate viscosity inside the boundary layer. I found the book's detailed treatment of panel methods for unsteady aerodynamics particularly useful. Most textbooks only show the steady state case. The book is very practical with very good description of algorithms. At the end of the book, you can also find sample programs developed by authors' students.

Joseph Tyson is professor emeritus of religious studies at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas and in his latest book, Luke, Judaism, and the Scholars: Critical Approaches to Luke-Acts, surveys the history of critical scholarship on the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles. Professor Tyson draws particular attention to the interpretation of Luke's treatment of Jews and Judaism as he notes that the Holocaust was a major turning point in the history of New Testament scholarship, including the study of Luke's writings. Professor traces the evolution of scholarly view of the text over the past two centuries and examines the work of leading New Testament scholars, both European and American. Luke, Judaism, And The Scholars is a splendid contribution to the growing body of New Testament scholarship focusing on the writings of Luke and the study of Christianity's Judaic roots.

I find that "Macworld Mac and PowerMac secrets" shows me the coolest secrets and tricks of the Mac. The typical humor of Pogue and Schorr make this book the best. I have never read anything better than this book. I read it anywhere -- even in bed, lights off, torch on, browsing through the book, and occasionally giggling at the stupendous humor. If I was to go anywhere with only one Mac book, this would surely be it...thank you, David Pogue and Joseph Schorr! This is an excellent book I'd recommend to anyone!

LeFanu's Irish provenance and his superfluous stylistic skills - not to mention his safe dead distance - make him the a prime candidate for Gothic master celebre. But add to that the fact that Bram 'TombRaider' Stoker pinched his plotlines, and the fact that Monty R James 'approved' of the maestro, and you have utterly impeccable credentials.

But I didn't know this as a young man. All I knew was that my father had told me terrifying banshee tales - that his grandfather had told him in Ireland during the forties - and that by chance I discovered 'Madam Crowl's Ghost' in a wet school library one dismal dark afternoon. I read 'Sherry' (if the James afficiandos can refer to MRJ as 'Monty' then .... you get the picture) that afternoon and my life imploded ...... overnight, or rather, over afternoon, I became a devout depressive, marked by a strangely aloof and artistic air. I quoted Wilde, went to Cure concerts before they left London, and wore black eyeliner to compliment my drear Gothic clothing.

Enough about me. The tales of LeFanu are stunning. Everyone loves something because of a basically selfish reason, steeped in sentiment or posture. LeFanu was sublime. He deliberately plotted where Stoker stumbled. Only Aickmann and Machen took up the mantle of provacateur ambiguer as competently as he did. (Joyce doesn't count, though 'The Dead' from 'The Dubliners' comes close.)

I write, and if I could pen a story half as brilliant as 'Carmilla', then I would die ..... now.

Read LeFanu. Trust M.R.James. Ghost stories are not Stephen King gross horror hell raiser tasteless gore fests, they are dream haunted poems, visions of ambigious insight. Close your eyes. Picture a moonlit garden with an avenue of silver trees. At the end, a blue grey statue, a stretching saint reaching for the glitter above. You walk down the avenue, soft grey grass underfoot, running cool fingers through the mossy leaves. Somewhere a stream is gurgling. The moon washes your tired face. Then you look up, and to your horror, the statue has changed! It is facing you. The saint has shifted from his stance, and is slowly clambering down. You look up to his face .... no, you cannot! It is too horrible! His grey lifeless eyes are now emblazoned with volcano hate, boring their way into your very soul ......

And there the story should stop.

Which is why, dear reader, you should always read books by dead people.

I own this book & have been privileged to know several people who knew & heard the great singer. Can't say enough nice things about this, but there are a few technical glitches that are mostly due to the fact that the author isn't a musician. I can forgive these blips. The book is a grand look into the life of a truly remarkable person. Two Thumbs UP on THIS ONE!!!!

The artist herself bills her work "Taos Expressionism", and this collection of her various artistic achievements provides many dramatic full-color reproductions of her works. New Mexico author Dispenza provides the biographical introduction to Frank's life, opening for a revealing, involving gathering of her achievements.

I would recommend this book as the FIRST, early introduction to magnetism -- OUTSIDE of school! (or even for home-schoolers) -- for the ever-inquisitive mind of a young grammar-school age child who already has some curiosity in science. I would give the child a refrigerator magnet or, ideally, a horseshoe-shaped magnet, to use along with this book. Even some bright 6-year olds could get something from this interesting book, and a lot of 8-to-10 year olds could, too! Still probably suitable for up to 12-year olds who have never really taken up the subject, but develop a sudden interest or practical questions.

The vocabulary is not difficult and the printing is large and double-spaced throughout the book. While this is an older publication of "Scholastic Book Services," the many, many black-ink drawings will be inspiring to the learning child.

The book is organized around these questions, which are excellent for the young mind: How do people use magnets in their work? What things will stick to magnets? Can a magnet work through things? What part of the magnet is strongest? Why do we make horseshoe magnets?

This book is a great value as an early, FIRST way to handle this subject for a child.

This book is tribute to the love of the land - land that was owned and culivated by the Nearings (The Good Life). It shows in pictures the beauty of the Maine coast land, and what honest labor can bring. It also documents local culture and custom to give a flavor for the year-round life in a harsh winter and short but intense summer.

"Oct. 22nd, 1837. 'What are you doing now?' he asked, 'Do you keep a journal?'-- So I make my first entry today." Thus begins Thoreau's Journal, made up of more then two million words and covering about twenty-five years of his life. No other work of Thoreau's better exhibits his discipline as a writer and his devotion to the natural world. In the Journal can be found the fragmented foundations of masterpieces such as Walden, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, The Maine Woods, and Cape Cod. But what is perhaps more interesting to a reader of Thoreau's Journal are his thoughts and insights on topics such as friendship, love, religion, nature, bravery, heroism, war, slavery, the art of writing, and, most important to Thoreau, the art of living. Anyone with any interest in Thoreau will find his Journal to be an invaluable aid in understanding and following the life of one of America's most profound prose writers

Lanza del Vasto is a voice crying in the wilderness. He gives a vision of a spiritual life which encompasses *all* of life without compromise. Nonviolence from the inside out, and a vision of a way out of the labyrinth of modern technocracy and incipient omnicide...