The book revolves around its artwork, and this is only passable artwork. The perspective is a little distracting. But, hey, it's not a bad little book, illustrating forms of transportation -- tugboat, rodeo bull, etc.

Joseph Murphy is very well known author on New Thought. He was known as a great lecturer, teacher and has authored some 35 books on personal growth, motivation, spirituality and so.

This book is not necessarily the greatest gem of his life work. The book discusses the inner meaning of some most known Bible passages; revealing their inner meaning and purpose to the reader. Thus, some knowledge on Mr. Murphy's ideology is needed.

If you are an experienced "Murphyist" then this book will benefit you, and I give it 5 stars... However, if you have not read books such as "The Power of Your Subconscious Mind" and "Amazing laws of" or "How to use the laws of mind", then you should read those book first.. They are also written by Joseph Murphy, and will give you far more than reading this book.

Also, reader needs open mind since this book is going to blow out our old beliefs in angry God. This book will definetely challenge you to understand the real and inner meaning of the Bible.

If you are fundamentalist...stay away from this book..because it will save your money!

If you are ready to grow..then buy this item.

This is a very nice coffee table book by Peter Clayton. It features many beautiful photos of classical art, and descriptions of the major figures from various world mythologies. This book is NOT by Joseph Campbell, however it does include an excerpt from 'Hero With A Thousand Faces' as an introduction.

Even if you didn't much care for "The Thin Red Line", you should get this book for general information (though a bit short) on the Guadalcanal long drawn battle.

In the usual Campaign series format, highlights from the book are the topological maps in 3D and the uniforms and equipment sketches. (These drawings actually come from other Osprey series, such as WARRIORS, MEN AT ARMS, or ELITE.)

You could also get MIDWAY 1942 from the same series, to get more information on Pacific battles during that year of WWII.

After reading and enjoying a number of Le Fanu's ghost stories, I discovered that he has considerable skill in handling longer narratives as well. Because of some let-down in the last two or three chapters, I give Guy Deverell three stars.

The main characters include Sir Jekyl Marlowe, a womanizing baronet; Monsieur Varbarriere/Herbert Strangways, his archenemy and ultimately his nemesis; Lady Alice Redcliffe, Sir Jekyl's mother-in-law and chief critic; Guy Strangways/Deverell, Lady Alice's grandson, the true heir to one of Sir Jekyl's country houses and the living facsimile of the Guy Deverell Sir Jekyl killed in an unfairly-fought duel many years before; Beatrix, Sir Jekyl's daughter; Lady Jane Lennox, Sir Jekyl's lover, the beautiful wife of an elderly general; house party guests, servants, lawyers, doctors, innkeepers and their lackeys...

The plot revolves around Varbarriere's efforts to work his revenge on Sir Jekyl by putting forward his nephew's claim to property rightly his, involving deeds stolen from Lady Alice's son, an older Guy Deverell, many years before, the theft occurring in "the Green Room," a chamber Sir Jekyl's father added onto the family house with secret doors and passages attached for the sake of his own amorous trysting long ago. Sir Harry's son, we learn, uses its special features in the same way his old Dad did, currently with Lady Jane Lennox.

Le Fanu sets the story in the context of an October house party, lasting for weeks, with guests coming and going and coming back, some of the guests major figures--Varbarriere and the Lennoxes--others, like Captain Drayton, the Blunket family and others added to the canvas for contrast or humor. Le Fanu has the knack of unfolding character through dialogue, and even relatively flat characters stick in a reader's mind thanks to conversations he records between them or with the majors.

I particularly appreciated the way Le Fanu deepened each of the main characters. None of them is a flat, stock-Gothic figure--Varbarriere occasionally ponders whether to renounce his revenge, Sir Jekyl gradually comes to repentance, albeit too late, for how he wronged the elder Guy Deverell and the women in his life, Lady Jane eventually 'gets religion:' not what one expects in a Victorian Gothic. Nor is Le Fanu's mildly ironic narrative voice what I had expected to find--he writes very consciously, a detached and poised practitioner of his art.

I would recommend seeking Guy Deverell out to anyone interested in reading more by the vast number of authors who were not themselves first-rate general novelists, but provided the reading public of their generation solid, dependable entertainment which still has power to amuse and divert readers in the 21st century.

The edition I own is the Dover Press reprint of the 1866 Bentley edition, ISBN 0-486-24618-3. Dover's reprint was published in paperback in 1984.

This Handbook is a very good compilation of classic and modern topics on Fluid Mechanics and its applications, with special emphasis in modern topics. Due to the depth and detail of the treatment of some topics, it exceeds the level of a Handbook. The scarce extension in the treatment of each topic lets an unavoidable sensation that the Handbook would be able to continue deepening and extending the exposition; this limitation, that would drive to an enormous Encyclopedia of doubtful applicability, is saved by an extensive list of references at the end of each chapter, being one of the prominent characteristics of this Handbook.

About the treatment of the different topics, we remark:

- the emphasis in Computational Fluid Dynamics, as many to dedicating it practically half a volume of the 3 making the Handbook - the same observation is valid for Experimental techniques - an extensive revision of available videotapes and didactic movies - the excellent presentation of some topics that not only overcomes the Handbook level but that of many texts (i.e., Internal flows, Separated flows, Stability in pumps and compressors) - the wide revision of specific topics of Fluid Mechanics (i.e. Transonic and Hypersonic flows, Unsteady flows, Complex flows, Multiphase flows, etc.) - the wide revision of specific application topics of Fluid Mechanics (lubrication, acoustics, combustion, fluid dynamics in nature, vehicles drag and lift, cavitation, ship propellers, helicopter rotors, etc.)

The character of Handbook and collective work doesn't impede a methodical treatment of the topics; nevertheless, in this work there are some particularities that it is thought they should be corrected: - some topics are exposed more than once (i.e. load losses in pipes, pressure losses in bends) - some chapters are inserted in an unnatural way (for example, Ch. 2 Properties of Fluids, Ch. 17 Videotapes and Movies). It would be preferable to put them, as usual, to the end of the book as Anexes to have an easier access for consultation. - the treatment of some topics leaves a sensation of insufficient material included. For example, Hydraulic Turbines, Wind Turbines. - some topics would benefit of a more modernized mathematical treatment, using matricial tools more extensively (i.e., Non newtonian liquids)

In summary:

It's a very good Handbook that highlights mainly for the variety of focused topics and their up-to-date content. The wide list of references makes it extremely useful for an approach to the current topics of Fluids Mechanics and its applications.

Daniel Schenzer - Eng. - URUGUAY - schenzer@fing.edu.uy

Hi, I'm Ferald Bryan. I wrote HENRY GRADY OR TOM WATSON for an academic audience, but many non-academics have found it useful. I am planning a sequel on southern oratory at the turn of the 20th century. I welcome all comments and criticisms. Thanks your your interest. FJB

Measured by his own narrow objectives and admitted limitations the book of the author is a success. The entire time span of prophecy is covered in one book and he develops convincing arguments for a tradition of prophecy in Israel.
Blenkinsopp does not let us know who the intended audience of his book is. He could not have in mind the time -pressured human of today's high tech world. One cannot find a single chart or graphical overview in his book, maybe a modern scholar of his educational level considers charts and graphical overviews as unworthy of a scholar.
The main method Blenkinsopp uses is the analysis of literary development, or source criticism (=historical). In many aspects Blenkinsopp is influenced by the theology of Bernhard Duhm. Considering that Duhm was a personal friend of Wellhausen and a fellow professor in Goettingen it should not come to the reader as a surprise that source criticism is overemphasized at the cost of a more thematic approach. Like Gerhard von Rad in his preface to Genesis said, "source analysis is not the final conclusion of wisdom" the reader sometimes feels that he could draw the same conclusions as Blankinsopp, but without all the detailed speculative source analysis.
For the conservative Christian who believes in the inspiration, inerrancy or infallibility of scripture Blenkinsopp offers some unacceptable pills to swallow when he states that: biblical sources are confused and self-contradictory (p.199), this narrative appears to be a free composition (1 Kings 13:1-32; p.158), ideological reasons drove the composition of texts (p.151), Chronicles is not the most reliable of sources (p.119), failures of the biblical historian (p.117), and hyperbolic fantasies of Nahum (p.112) etc. However one wonders if the author leaves room for partial inspiration of texts when he talks about Isaiah 53 (p.192&193) In general though supernatural prediction are excluded as a possibility, so that a prediction about the fate of Bethel in Amos automatically leads to the assumption that this section has been added later in the light of Josiah's reform (p.164).
The conservative Christian might ask himself what the critical view of the prophetic scriptures offers over a traditional or non-critical. It does not need a critical view of prophecy to identify one's social responsibility. But maybe the book offers solutions of dealing intellectually with prophetic phenomena in the Pentecostal or charismatic movement.

Originally published in 1929, this book is surprisingly "modern" in its appraoch to world religions. It is certianly not brilliantly academic, but it attempts to take a broad view of religions from all over the world in all time periods. It tells stories about all of the major religions, without being critical of beliefs or giving too much credence to stories which require faith. Of interest to the casual scholar of religion, or someone who wants a different perspective on their or another faith.

althought this book gives off important info, it leaves us w/ a desire to want and know more. our minds are expanded and challenged we discover a new way of thinking and comunicating with others.