This book is full of nonsense and a waste of money. The encoded words Noah found were not even in close proximity to each other and they are not even about the same subject as the surface text.

Most of Noah's findings were not Biblical. His interpretation of the discovered hidden words were unscriptural and were based on his own paganistic beliefs. He twisted verses to suggest that Jesus was not God while ignoring dozens of messages both above and below the same Biblical passages that declared that Jesus (or Yeshua)was indeed the Messiah or God.

I believe that Joseph Noah had his own agenda. He wanted to use the Bible Code to prove to the world that reincarnation was in the word of God and he used random hidden words to create this false message. He forgot that the Bible said in Hebrews 9:27- it is appointed unto men once to die, and after that the judgement. There is not going to be any reincarnation! There is not going to be any second chance.

In conclusion, I was debating whether to buy Mr Drosnin's excellent book or Mr. Noah's book. I found the title "Future Prospects of the World" intriguing and I assumed that Mr Noah was a Christian. I was wrong! This book was almost 100% wrong and could be damning to the soul if one believes this nonsense.

The previous reviewer is a fundamentalist without the fun part.

"Damming to the soul"?!? Not very christian. Perhaps the reviewer would like to discuss the Empress Theodora's 4th century censorship of the Bible? Reincarnation was in it then!

The misunderstood mission of Jesus was to end reincarnation by forgiving one's enemies- something the reviewer should try, if he realy wants to be a Christian.

If you are interested in the Bible Code I believe that this book is well worth reading. It saddens my soul to see how critical and judgemental so-called Christians have become in our society today. I truly don't believe that this author is a pagan as one of the other reviewers claimed him to be. Mr. Drosnin, whom that reviewer referred to as having an "excellent book" claimed himself to be an athiest. Did that reviewer actually read Mr. Drosnins book? If anything, the most important message in this book is that our society is in trouble and that we all need to change and better ourselves soon. It is apparent that this message was missed by some. Because of my strong faith in God, I know that my soul is not damned simply by reading a book. In my opinion, this book was definately worth reading.

Although this book contains the usual advanced topics in classical mechanics, one must be aware of the meaning of its title. It indicates that its contents of classical mechanics are at the advanced level for engineers but not quite at the level and sophistication essential for advanced graduate work in physics; it lacks exposure in Hamiltonian formalism and advanced mathematics (differentiable manifolds, exterior forms, etc.), material which I believe is important to serious physics students

I strongly surmise that engineering students can benefit most from this book. It contains a large body of homework problems, some of them copied from Schaum's Lagrangian Dynamics and other books. This book is somewhat readable, though Prof. Torok's choice of symbols often clouds my analysis.

Too expensive of a hardcover, I am better off with my old Marion or Landau.

This book needed to be proofread by more than the author.

Approximately 30% of all of the information in the figures is missing. Few of the greek characters got printed in the figures for an advanced dynamics book that makes it impossible to read.

Another point of interest to the reader is that the first chapter has ~40 pages, and there are ~40 pages of problems. It just goes to show the author should have put more (some) effort and time into explanations, and less into the pure copying of others dynamics problems. Who needs an advanced dynamics book with more than 200 problems in one chapter alone.

The material presented here would be decent if there were 10 times the number of example problems and the figures showed relevant information. I cannot believe that an author would honestly publish this work without reading through it first.

There are so many errors in this book that I cannot imagine how can anybody rely on any information contained here. The book is probably simply showing the current understanding of CMP, which is poor, but this still cannot justify bluntly bad science. The authors describe all important concepts of CMP like Preston equation, Pourbaix diagrams, but fail to clearly show the limited scope of their usefulness. They do not understand thermodynamics vs. kinetics of chemical processes either. At least half of the chemical equations are wrong, another quarter should not be there in the form presented. Who reviewed this book before publishing?

This area is short of research even though lots of work has been done. This book gives an overview of CMP process, including Cu, W and SiO2.

The book is written from the view of the author (a newspaper reporter) and the sole investigator who couldn't catch them. Therefore much of the story is left blank or filled in by the authors vivid imagination. The online story "Behind The BlueWall Life of NY police officer Kenneth Eurell" is more detailed from the corrupt officers (Dowd & Eurell) point of views and, gives vivid detail of the crimes involved from an inside look. The book is basically rehashed NY newspaper articles from when the officers were first arrested.

...the author was able to tell the reader more about the "bad cop", Michael Dowd, than about the "good cop". I followed this ongoing NY Post story back in the early 90's and was enthralled by the misdeeds of these men in blue who were first coined "rogue cops". However, this book was very repetitive, and bored me at times with the angst of the internal affairs officer. For NYC true crime afficionados only.

As someone who has collected every film, book & magazine about Jennifer Jones, I am casting my net wider and reading biographies of people who knew her, i.e.Paticia Cotton nee, Medina.She wrote this book in 1998 as a suggested therapy by a friend, following the death of her famous husband Joesph Cotton from throat cancer in 1994.

Born in Liverpool, England in 1920 of middle class parents, her mother was quintissentially English while her father was Spanish - hence - Medina.She attended an all girls' boarding school and eventually "got into movies".Of her first husband, Richard Greene (of the 1950's British tv series: "Adventures of Robin Hood" fame), she alikened to her "twin brother".There was evidentally no real passion, just friendship, and an amicable divorce soon followed.

Her initial film career was in European films since she was fluent in French, Italian and Spanish.I must say she is very frank about her first sexual experiences sur la Continent!Eventually she moved her base to Hollywood but did not let the star system blind her to her family.She was not averse to giving up a chance of a film part if she wished to go back to England especially to see her mother to whom she was especially close.I wanted to see an example of her acting after reading this book, especially in the 1940's when she was at her most attractive.I found "They Met In The Dark (1943) with James Mason, still in print which I obtained through Blackstar.co.uk.In this film she played Mary a manacurist but unfortunatly not being the principal female star (it was Joyce Howard), she got bumped off after the first reel.With her good looks, black hair and perfect shoulders, she was often csst in the "femme fatale" roles and rarely saw her part to the end of the film.Certainly her work seems mainly undistinguished, what we would call today a "Hollywood starlet".

The services of a professional literary editor whould have improved the style and content since the chapters and sentences a rather "punchy".

The greater part of the second half of her autobiography is taken up with being Mrs Joseph Cotton and sublimating her career to his, then nursing him through the disease which finally killed him.There are some interesting vignettes of famous Hollywood stars e.g.Rex Harrison giving intimate sketches to which the gossip columnists of the day were not privy.Jennifer Jones was a life-long friend in the genuine sense to her husband (and to her) as they did four films together.

Not being partial to reading Hollywood memoirs, I am left with no basis for comparison. The only interest I had in this book was that for a while she was my favorite actress and at first was thrilled to find this book. The lens, however, is not so much on Hollywood as it is on the more personal impressions of a person remembering and commenting on her past. Divided in two, between the first part, "The Living was Easy" covering from her early years through the apex of her career during the 50's in the first 75 pages, then meeting Joseph Cotton and stories from her marriage another 90 pages. The second part, "Only When I Cry", the last 50 pages, details his illness and ends with his passing. Reads like it could have been a novel, if it were fleshed out, sometimes it reads as if your sitting and hearing quick stories from your grandmother over tea. Sometimes an obscurity isn't explained or a commonplace reported. The friends enter and exit like any friends, but they have names like David Niven or Jennifer Jones. It's a difficult book to rate, and it would have been nice if it had been a picture book because she is very lovely, possessing Hollywood's most beautiful shoulders. Her own character arises from this as a timid tempest and the admiration and love she has for her husband Joseph Cotton is boundless. I always know a good book because I read it quickly, but if it takes 8 months to get through a 220 page book, I can only recommend it for those who have an interest in either of the two actors. The title no doubt arises from a publisher's wish to give the work a slant; this actress never got the film she needed to launch herself into the list of Hollywood icons.

This is history at its most dry. This book does what it says it will do, discuss Van Buren's background as an attorney and its influence on him. Unfortunately, I think only an attorney would find this interesting, as it reads like I would expect a law book would read. Not for the average reader hoping to learn about this president.

I felt that this book was very well researched, informative and interesting. It, however, left me wanting more. The book stops short of not only Van Buren's presidency, but his vice presidency under Andrew Jackson as well. Furthermore, Van Buren's ex-presidency was long, eventful and unfortunately also neglected by this book.

This book is identical with "The Tale of the 1002nd Night," and was simply issued in England under a different title.

This quotation from the introduction by Michael Hofmann, poet and translator of four Roth novels, highlights both the delights and limitations of this book. While it has all the ingredients for a greatly exciting read and touches on all aspects of society in the Austro-Hungarian empire--worlds of the court, the army, journalism, night life, the law, popular entertainment, and even prostitution--it really doesn't draw you in or involve you. There's a curious disconnect between the characters and the reader, akin in many ways to the disconnect between most of the characters and each other, perhaps because there are many of them in this short novel. The visit of the Shah of Persia and his one-night-stand with a young Viennese woman provide fertile ground for wonderful dialogue and lyrical descriptions, but the characters are like exhibits in the wax museum which plays a part in the conclusion of the novel. In short, this novel is intriguing primarily for its detailed and exacting recreation of an historical context, but its large scope and small size act as barriers to reader involvement.

This is one of Joseph Epstein's earlier books, which makes some of its commentary out of date (hardcover edition, 1980). The grand subject of ambition has changed quite a bit over the past twenty years, and the contemporary reader may find Mr. Epstein's insights, though comprehensive in scope, behind the times. Although Epstein's historical anecdotes can be witty and original, the way in which he approaches the general subject of ambition unfortunately raises more questions than answers. If you are hoping for some meaningful self-help guidance from this volume, prepare to be both disappointed and further bewildered. (And if you are socialist--which I am not, incidentally--prepare to be insulted.)

The first chapters of the book lack a satisfactory pace, but it picks up during the second half. Epstein's take on the world of high American Society in the chapter on Edith Wharton is especially entertaining, and reads a lot like his current book, "Snobbery: The American Version." The subsequent chapter on F. Scott Fitzgerald, failure, and intergenerational downshifting is downright depressing. One detects a sharp note of disapproval from Epstein towards people who seek to simplify their lives by setting their career goals with modesty. Were he to write this chapter during the current epidemic of corporate scandal and societal Affluenza, I wonder if he would reach the same conclusions. The final chapter on Wallace Stevens extolls the virtues of a bourgeois man driven by immediate career satisfaction, but who still supplied time for poetry on the side. I was surprised to see Epstein write so glowingly about what seems to me as the dullest representative of ambition mentioned in his book.

In the end, the reader is left with a short epilogue that, again, fails to make much sense of the myriad of open questions that surface when contemplating the role of ambition in one's life. Epstein's buried thesis, that ambition does not deserve the scorn it often receives, just doesn't provide enough specifics about the degree and nature of today's laudable goals to be of any real use. As disagreeable as I found this book, I stuck through its 300 pages to discover only a handful of noteworthy passages. The scattered gems within the book's pages are worth reading, but as for the vast remainder, just skim it. You can find better examples of the author's writing in his articles in "The New Yorker" and "Commentary."

This book aspires to mediocrity, and generally succeeds. It isn't actually bad (or I would have given it one star) but it isn't really any good either. The amazing thing is that in 300 pages, Gross manages to produce no significant new insights whatsoever. He relies entirely on secondary sources, but there is no "value added" in his synthesis of these works. You're better off just reading his sources for themselves! Even some trenchant criticism of the existing sources would have been welcome, but Gross simply regurgitates them uncritically. Gross is a retired USAF pilot, so you think he would have a lot to say about airpower, but that is regrettably not the case. I already know what a lot of other historians think about the use of airpower in history, but what does Gross think? I still don't know after reading this book.

I suppose one could recommend this book for undergraduate military history courses (if any even exist, given the sorry state of academia today), or perhaps for Air Force ROTC cadets. Anyone who already knows any military history will find little that is new in this book.

Given that intriguing expressions and turns of phrase often provide a unique glimpse into any culture, such a book as this one should not only provide insightful interpretations of any given proverb, but should also be well organized and indexed. Unfortunately, this book fails completely in these latter two respects. There is no index whatsoever, and the order in which the proverbs appear is neither linguistic nor thematic (I suspect that the entries were made in the order they were gathered during the compiler's research). That is such a loss! Still, I enjoyed reading the book cover to cover, savoring not only the original proverbs (which appear in Arabic script rather than in transliterated Roman letters), but also delving into the world opened up by the anecdotes that accompanied many of the entries, as well as the fairly literal translations made. One of my favorites (p. 94): Eish arraf al-hamir fi akl al-ganzabil "What do donkeys know of preserved ginger" (Do not cast pearls before swine). One should note that the proverbs are described as being "current in Egypt" (19th century c.e.?), and thus are not entirely representative of the Arab world in general.