I special ordered this book because I thought it would be really good. I read the reviews and some how got the impression that it was a sensual vampire story. It was a vampire story that dragged on a little to much. It was also vague, and not so sensual at all. I got the feeling that this story tried to capture the elegence of Dracula, but failed. I was shaken because I expected so much more.

I liked this book, but probably not quite as LeFanu intended I ought. The majority of stories are ghost tales, longer and less punchy but more engrossing than those of M.R. James, but with a very similar atmosphere. Most striking is Carmilla, an amusing Gothic story about a female vampire and her relationship with the narrator, her innocent girlfriend. Modern times have robbed the story of much of its horror, and Carmilla becomes as much an object of sympathy as a pure villain - a fact that raises new questions rather than weakening the tale. Like Gormenghast, it is easy to dismiss such writing as plain silly - much of the story IS rather daft - but the charm of the stories remains, provided that the reader enters into the spirit of the book. LeFanu's style is not great - he is rather wordy and his prose a bit "purple", but the meticulous construction of his stories makes them worth reading as exercises in plot alone. His clear love of the atmosphere he builds shows through, and it is refreshing to find a book in which the gothic is not played for laughs. Overall, this is a pleasing collection of stories with a few real highlights. Its atmosphere and style inevitably mean that it will not have much appeal to many people, but fans of the macabre and antiquated will find it a worthwhile purchase. Like Stoker's Dracula or a good Hammer film, it is highly entertaining, simultaneously chilling and slightly camp.

I was going to plan a gambling excursion around the world and bought this book as a reference guide. I was very excited when it came, it listed more casinos than I ever dreamed existed. As I got to reading it, I have never seen more typos in my life: wrong phone numbers, misspellings, and it continues. I am disgusted with it.

I tried to contact the publisher on the web for a refund, and found their site is down. I would not be surprised if it is a sign of things to come for the company.

Very hard to read: even just for reference. Look elsewhere!

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Steinfeld's book is an excellent text for those who have a thorough background in Chemical Kinetics and Dynamics. However, for the introductory graduate level kinetics course or advanced undergraduate kinetics course, I would not recommend this text. Steinfeld does not illustrate any of the concepts with actual data or explanatory problems. Furthermore, the problems at the end of the chapter have very little to do with the material they are supposed to cover. Finally, there are many mistakes in this edition. They are mostly typos, but they add a lot of confusion to the material

I would recommend this book only to people who have a very complete background in kinetics and dynamics as a nice reference book.

This is an excellent book if you know the basis of chemical kinetics. I recommended it especially for university students in
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While lacking in detail, I have found this book a good place to start when it comes to safety equipment and strategies for handling other problems with volatile organic chemicals. In this industry specialization is rare. Engineers need a place to start so that they can get the language right before proceeding to the internet and vendors. The worked-out problems are good but you will find you need to go to the source for details. As I said, a good place to start.

I support vouchers, but if I did not this book would not convince me to do so. It provides some interesting accounts of the history of school financing and of recent conflicts over vouchers, but it is difficult to have confidence in the accuracy of these accounts, because of the author's transparent bias. Studies and arguments that support Viteritti's conclusions are generally accepted at face value, while those counter to his conclusions are criticized at length or simply dismissed out of hand. The "good guys - bad guys" tenor of the writing if off-putting. Beyond this, the reasoning from empirical assumptions is often flawed. For example, he notes a decline in test scores among public school students over the years, and concludes from this that public schools are doing a worse job of educating students, ignoring alternative explanations -- for instance, that public school students increasingly come from home environments that impede their learning, as the number of children living in poverty and in single-parent homes has dramatically increased. But the largest problem with the book, in my view, is that while the author initially, and commendably, claims to have the welfare of poor children as his principal objective, for most of the book his primary concern is actually with the religious freedom of parents, and with not offending any parents by suggesting some might not be expert at choosing schools for their children. There is a good case to be made for state funding of private schooling, but I do not think this is it.

The idea of vouchers has been around for years. But the reasons behind this idea were never sufficiently compelling to get the idea of vouchers taken seriously.

That has begun to change and Viteritti's book is the most thorough and eloquent enunciation of the new raison d'etre behind school choice.

Viteritti casts the question in terms of equality. Why should poor and minority children be so often forced to attend schools that perpetually fail to provide a good education?

It's hard to answer that question. The best one can do is to complain that these schools can't do better because they are underfunded.

But Viteritti and others show that the connection between funding and high achievement is conditional- unless the money is spent wisely, it will do no good. There are numerous examples of inner-city schools where per pupil funding is as high as it is in the suburbs. Yet, achievement remains very low.

In light of this, it only seems reasonable to give those children who want to go elsewhere the opportunity to do so. There aren't enough seats in public schools, so private schools must become the outlets.

It's a well written book and it makes a lot of sense. If you put the kids first instead of the schools and those employed there, you are liekly to come to the same conclusion as Viteritti.

The maps are poorly drawn and hard to follow. It tells how tocomplete the missions, but lacks multiplayer tactics beyond thebasics.

The explanations of strategies in this guide are incredibly straightforward and concise. And the strategies themselves - unlike those in most other guides I've seen - are specific and always work. Take this paragraph from the 10th Soviet mission walkthrough:

"Your Spy Plane should become available in the meantime: Send it a short distance west of the visible water. You should expose the (Turret- and an AA Gun-guarded) Radar Dome complex. Send a Yak to hit the oil drums around the AA Gun, destroying it. Then hit the Turrets with MIGs. Impressive."

I'll say. Works so well it feels like the game designers planned it that way.

The previous review states the guide's major weaknesses- poor maps and limited multiplayer strategy coverage. The maps look like a child's scribbles with computer generated icons superimposed on them. However, they are useful in letting you know what areas are important for a particular mission, and what path you should follow in non-base "special" missions. Still, the guide probably would have been better with the maps left out.

As for the multiplayer advice, it is short but useful and to the point. A lot of it takes place in the chapters that deal with unit strategy.

Treat this guide as a RA walkthrough or encyclopedia. If you're obsessed about the game like I am, it's a great read.

Starts out with easy to read introduction with block diagrams. The next chapter goes into troubleshooting equipment and tools which was good. Beginning with the chapter on maintenance, it tries to show the parts that need to be lubricated and cleaned. With "Determining the Problem" chapter, the amateur is left behind in favor of the seasoned technician, introducing acromnyms and VCR model numbers without explaination. From there on, it gets worse with full schematic diagrams guaranteed to have beginners running to the service center. The pictures are in black and white and hard to make out (quality equal to a photo copier) left me disappointed. The following chapters goes in to problems with each section of the vcr ending with case studies of classic problems likely to be encoutered by techs. I a have background in digital and audio electronics but haven't work in video electronics (TV) since 1981. I thought this book with it's 180 pgs and medium text would get me up to speed on the state of the art. Unforuntately it failed for me. I gave it 2 stars since it could help seasoned service techs with better a better background on the subject then myself. I'm opting for a text book.

So informative, we discarded our VCR repairman & his number! We were so excited about actually taking on a project together being a Married couple and successfully doing so(Thanks to the Complete Vcr Troubleshooting & Repair Guide) That TWO Career Tech Support reps Working for Two Rivals completed successfully ONE Communtity Project!!!

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Very Good to create math problems and help my bro with math!

I was inspired by this book to focus on the future more in general, and in particular to deliberately imagine the future as a spectrum of possible scenarios, which I could watch emerge and either became more likely or fall away as possibilities.

The book was very dense reading, really an MBA text, and had some good case studies and methodology description.

Lot's of comment about the author's reputation and consulting gigs.

I was surprised to learn that the French had made so many very, highly, significant, and important contributions to strategic thinking.

Professor Michel Godet is a Frenchman with 14 books and over 200 papers under his belt. A specialist in strategic planning, he emphasizes the careful use of tools such as scenario planning.

The book is a valuable contribution to the literature of serious-really serious-strategic planners. It will be most appreciated by those who have a very strong scientific bent and are comfortable working with models. Godet's approach is considerably more rigorous than futures-thinking approaches applied in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. The concept of the book is very long-range, evidenced by quotes like "the faster the car, the stronger the headlights must be" and "the longer a tree takes to grow, the earlier you have to plant it." English-speaking futurists tend to look more short-range and medium-range with more of an application of intuition mixed with scientific research.

Americans have become accustomed to engaging in quite a bit of internet research to gather information needed for evaluation, decision-making, and planning. Godet describes the internet as "a computerized dumpster," all the while acknowledging that one may still find gold in a dump.

This book is complex and slow reading. The content is "heavy." Nine chapters are followed by a bibliography and index. The first five chapters are titled How to Think About the Future Now, Why Do the Experts Get it Wrong, Hunting Down Cliches, How to be Rigorous with Scenario Planning, and Initiating the Entire Process. The balance of the book, save the last chapter on The Human Factor, consists of case studies.

Good marks for content. Marks off for not making the learning a bit easier to move through. If you're not a real pro-or aspiring pro-in strategic planning, save your time and money.

Some very good points on where and how to meet women make this book useful. But some of it seems like the author hasn't left the 70's or his college days. Women who have read this book initially think it was intended to be humorous. That could be either because it's in left field,or because it hits too close to home for them.

The read is well worth the effort. Joseph has taken time to blow up the myths associated with dating as well as giving practical advice. I was impressed by the in depth social perspective he provides. Skip the personals, read the book!