This book is of no educational value whatsoever. A waste of money. I myself in the future will go to Barnes and Noble to physically scan a book I'm interested in before purchasing. You made me give this book 1 star because you only offered 1 through 5 stars. I would have given it a minus -Star rating.

Words have always facinated me. After reading this book and following the exercises as was suggested in the book have created for me, a much deeper yearning to further enter into Greek & Latin. Living in the Caribbean is already quite interesting because of the many different languages and dialects. I myself speak more than one language but to really take the time and make comparisons to words and understanding the stems, roots really gets me going. It's a fabulous way to get any true lover of words, history and understanding of who and what we are all about absolutely going. Great way to get started.

This book has very little substance behind the nice cover! I found it not particularly helpful or useful in any way, except as a extremely basic list of hotels/inns etc. that may accept pets... the book includes extremely generic information like you might find on a hotel flyer or brochure. There is no specific information about the inn/hotel's environment for pets and why in the world you would want to take your pet there in the first place! There are some lists of various parks, but no descriptions or reviews. It almost feels as if the author looked on a map for green areas and then listed a few of them in the book to make it longer... A similar and much better book is "On the Road Again with Man's Best Friend-New England" by Dawn and Robert Habgoo. (Now that's a book worth every penny and more!)

A great book for the dog or cat lover who would like to take their pet on vacation with them. It gives tips on car & plane trips. With over 200 pages of hotels, and inns, phone #'s,e-mails,prices. There are very informative descriptions of the accommodations as well as the surrounding areas. 4 paws!

WHAT IS THIS!!! A STRATEGY GUIDE FOR A RACING GAME!!!! WHAT IDIOT WOULD MAKE THAT!?

This guide is very usefull. Gives you tips and tells you how to unlock everything.

There is so much garbage and misunderstanding when intellectuals write something about an spiritual movement. You have to be a practitioner in order to understand fully what Radhasoami is all about. It was a trick/ploy employed by a would be Saviour but it had nothing to do with Bhagwan Krishna and His favorite Radha. Radha in Radhasoami corresponds to the soul of the disciple/initiate. Soami corresponds to the Satguru. Like the Ramasita movement of Ramananda, the teacher of Kabir Sahib, it has nothing to do with Rama and Sita; Rama corresponds to the Guru and Sita corresponds to the soul of the disciple/initiate. It is much easier to understand if one knows the 'Mother and Child Luminosity' of Tibetan Buddhism. I hope that I did not insulted anyone.

"Good overview book, but nitty gritty of succession

What a load of absolute rubbish. To make money by writing in such a pathetic form abour your country's best president in the 20th Century is American capitalism at its very worst. PATHETIC!

This booklet is a classic. Ironically, I first stumbled across it around 1990 in a Stars and Stripes bookstore at the South Korean DMZ. It's essentially a long, well-organized list of contradictory Reagan quotes - some from the same day. For example, "I love trees and think they are unique" versus "I think that if you've seen one tree, you've seen them all." If you have had a sneaking suspicion that there is/was something flaky about old Ronnie, confirm that suspicion with this booklet.

Of all of the strategy guides I have read, Prima's Offical Strategy Guide for Return To Krondor is the least helpful strategy guide I have ever read. The walkthrough covers a SMALL portion of the book and is vague in a lot of areas. I found quite a few stuff that was not in the walkthrough at all. For example it doesn't tell you what the code for the tomb in chapter 9 is (Feist; code letters found on one of the statues in the same chapter). Another thing it doesn't cover is what tools to use to disarm the traps; they make you guess yourself. The list for the tools to use to disarm each trap can be found on the net. The strategy guide is good in telling you what ingredients to use to make potions (in case you want to do an experimentation if you don't have a recipe for the potion you want to make).Some strategies it suggests, I have found much better ones. And there aren't any good maps in there; only a vague map for chapter 5. I wish Sierra would make hint books again instead of having Prima doing the hintbooks for them.

If you have read the other review then I will echo it. The book is very narrow with details. There are no maps and the pictures that could act as maps are very dark are not helpful. the book gives you one way to do something but there are many better ways. It tells you exactly what you need to do and that is it, you can run around alot and find many more items and events. It could give you better advice like don't collect money it isn't a big issue, I had over 60,000 when the game ended! The first game had many side quests whereas this one has only 2! The caracter view is very limited and is very hard to see what is going on at times. The first game had a much better hint guide, but then again it was written by serria not prima!

This is not "the essentials" and it is not worth your time or money. It is more like a journalist giving you a sketchy overview from his point of view. Some basic points are acceptable, such as Sufism not being apart from Islam; however, Sufism is not just an accentuation of Islam, as Sedgwick would have you believe in the first few chapters.

He completely dismisses the intellectual founding of Sufism, making it appear that someone as great as ibn Arabi is just impossible to understand and thus not worth the effort. If you are really interested in Sufism why bother with the supposed social, cultural and historical elements that Sedgwick claims. There are better Western authors to read, who have much deeper and correct insights.....

If you just want to have the very basics you are better off looking into a dictionary or encyclopedia of religion. At least you will not get the subtle biases of Sedgwick to interfere with a true understanding.

This book offers a very thorough overview of the subject, particularly considering its length. One of its strengths is that Sufism is placed within the context of Islam as a whole rather than treating it as a separate entity. For someone new to Islam such as myself, I valued being taught some basic things about Muslim beliefs and being shown that Sufism cannot be separated from it and retain its real significance, contrary to what I'd heard previously elsewhere. Also, despite being written by an academic, the book is completely free of academic abstraction and instead provides a very realistic portrait of what life as a Sufi is and has been like. The only criticism I might make, which is what caused me to only give it four stars, is that I would have valued a bit more information on the more esoteric beliefs of the Sufis, but as is mentioned in the introduction perhaps that is best gleaned from the Sufi masters themselves.

Admirably, Professor Cohen proposes "..a broad investigation of Medieval Islamic-Jewish and Christian-Jewish relations that builds on comparative insights..". A serious, objective comparison of these, or any other similar historical relationships requires, at minimum (1) a valid research design; (2) inclusion of ALL the relevant data. Unfortunately, Professor Cohen's scholarship fails to satisfy either of these basic criteria, rendering his analyses completely invalid.

There are intractable flaws in both the basic design and (arbitrarily limited) scope of Professor Cohen's analyses. Cohen acknowledges deliberately choosing northern European Christendom to make "..contrasts..more vivid..", as opposed to southern Europe, where the Jews had an enduring, indigenous presence. Cohen further confesses to omitting discussion of the northern European "..Polish-Jewish experience during the late Middle Ages.." precisely because these Jews enjoyed a status "..so seemingly the inverse of their ..beleaguered brethren in western Latin Christendom..". Cohen's highly arbitrary, selective categorization of an alleged northern European Christian "heartland", should at least in fairness have been compared to its Islamic "equivalent", i.e., Arabia, North Africa, and the Sahara, as opposed to the Islamized regions of the conquered Byzantine Empire with their inherent religious and ethnic pluralism. This geographical arbitrariness is matched by Cohen's highly selective periodization (i.e., 640-1240 C.E.). Clearly, comparing the fate of Jews under Islam and Christendom during the combined historical period covering the Ages of European Enlightenment and Emancipation would result in a completely different view.

Even when one ignores these serious basic flaws, multiple other problems with Cohen's analyses persist. Accepting Cohen's arbitrary periodization, for example, the expulsions of Jews from Christian Europe to which he makes reference, actually occurred AFTER 1240 C.E. (i.e., in 1290, 1306, 1394, and 1492-97, C.E.). Moreover, the first three centuries of Islam in the in the East overlapped the Carolingian rule in Christian Europe (747-987 C.E.), a period recognized by scholars as one when European Jewry experienced a considerable degree of security and prosperity. Muslim chroniclers themselves, in contrast, have described the ongoing jihad conquests during the same period involving the massacre of large numbers of indigenous Jewish populations, the enslavement of women and children, and the confiscation of vast territories. Indeed, the period between 640 and 1240 C.E. witnessed the total and definitive destruction of Judaism in the Hijaz (modern Saudi Arabia), and the decline of once flourishing Jewish communities in Palestine (particularly Galilee), Egypt, Syria, Mesopotamia, and Persia. Finally, by 1240 C.E. the Jewish communities in North Africa had been decimated by Almohad persecutions.

As documented by the scholar of Islamic history Bat Ye'or, numerous Koranic verses and hadith (sayings attributed to the Prophet Muhammad) associate the Jews with hell and Satan. She notes three compelling examples of this association. First, that Ibn Abdun (d. 1134) a Muslim jurist from Spain, quoted from the Koran (58:20) to this effect in a legal treatise, "..Satan has gained the mastery over them, and caused them to forget God's Remembrance. Those are Satan's party; why Satan's party are surely the losers!". Second, a decree by the Caliph al-Mutawakkil (850), directing "..wooden images of devils be nailed to the doors of their homes to distinguish them from the homes of Muslims..". Finally, Jewish cemeteries were considered a part of Hell, to which the dhimmis were destined. Professor Robert Wistrich, a scholar of anti-Semitism, summarizes the overall Koranic image of the Jews as justifying their "..abasement and poverty..". He further notes how the oral tradition (hadith) maintains that the Jews had a "perfidious" and "conspiratorial" nature, being responsible for Muhammads's painful death from poisoning, as well as "...to blame for the sectarian strife in early Islam, for heresies and deviations that undermined or endangered the unity of the umma (the Muslim nations).."

Jihad conquests, and the imposition of dhimmitude on the vanquished Jewish populations, institutionalized these Koranic and hadith conceptions of the Jews as a people meriting humiliation. Thus Cohen errors when he contends that the Jews were somehow degraded "uniquely" under Christendom by being forced to practice usury, which was reviled by Christians. Cohen appears oblivious to the fact that under the yoke of dhimmitude in Muslim countries, the most degrading vocations were set aside for the Jews, including: executioners, grave-diggers, salters of the decapitated heads of rebels, and cleaners of latrines (in Yemen, in particular, this was demanded of Jews on Saturdays, their holy sabbath). Islamic societies also exhibited their own unique forms of severe oppression of Jews, NOT found in Christian Europe, such as: abduction of Jewish girls for Muslim harems; enslavement (including women and children) during warfare, revolts, or for economic reasons (for example, impossibility of paying the jizya, a blood ransom "poll tax" demanded of non-Muslims); the obligation for a Jew to dismount from his donkey on sight of a Muslim; the obligation in some regions (like the Maghreb) for Jews to walk barefoot outside their quarters; prohibiting Persian Jews from remaining outdoors when it rained for fear of polluting Muslims. With regard to enslavement, specifically, from the Middle Ages, right up until their mass exodus in 1948, rural Yemenite Jews were literally Muslim chattel. For example, in her essay, "The Dhimmi Factor in the Exodus of Jews from Arab Countries" (from: Shulewitz, M [editor], "The Forgotten Millions", Continuum, [2000, New York], pages 33-51), Bat Ye'or observes :

"Thus, if a Jew belonging to tribe A, is killed by a Muslim from tribe B, then a Jew from tribe B would be killed by a Muslim from tribe A. So two Jews are killed without the Muslim being arrested, a game that could go on for generations as a form of retaliation. In this legal system, a Jew like an object or a camel is excluded from human justice."

Finally, it is particularly important to note that there has NEVER been in Islam (including up until present times) a current analogous to the movement initiated after the 16th century Protestant Reformation in Europe that lead to Jewish emancipation, equal rights, human rights, and secularization of Christian societies.

It has often been asserted that in medieval times, Jews living in the Muslim lands had it better than their co-religionists in Christendom. Is that assessment accurate? Cohen, professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University, attempts an answer in this first-ever book on the comparative history of Jewish life in the two civilizations.

Yes, he concludes, Jews were better off in the Muslim world. In part, this was a matter of physical security. "The Jews of Islam, especially during the formative and classical centuries (up to the thirteenth century), experienced much less persecution than did the Jews of Christendom." Living among Sunni Muslims brought other benefits as well, which Cohen meticulously and convincingly documents: in Dar al-Islam, Jews enjoyed a more regular legal status, they participated far more in the mainstream cultural life, and they had more social interaction with the majority community. In all, Jews living among Muslims were less excluded, making them less vulnerable to assault. Of particular interest, while Christians had a horror of intermarriage, Muslims allowed it on condition that the man was a Muslim. Indeed, Islamic law requires the Muslim husband to permit his Jewish wife to observe her religious rituals, to pray within the family house, to keep the Sabbath, and to maintain the kosher requirements. She may also read her Scriptures, on the important condition that she not do so out loud.

Cohen's study ends with the thirteenth century; we would be much in his debt were he to follow this pathbreaking and excellent study with another on the subsequent deterioration of the Jewish position in the Muslim world.

Middle East Quarterly, September 1995

This was the text for my environmental engineering class at Cooper Union (Fall 2002).

Speaking from my own experience and that of many of my classmates, this book is highly frustrating to use and is a poor learning tool all around. Solutions to example problems often have no units shown in intermediate steps, leaving you to guess. The writing often deteriorates into recitations of mind-numbing laundry lists of the numerical particularities of a given topic. The book rarely gives the reader a good, gut feeling for what's actually going on in a process under consideration.

A complete rewrite in collaboration with a skilled technical writer is suggested. More sample problems are needed. Mr. Hammer is no doubt exceptionally experienced as an environmental engineer, but his pedagogical skills as evidenced by this book simply don't make it.

Basic things like key words and concepts should be incorporated. Graphics, which are generally poor and sometimes illegible should be improved and expanded upon. An earlier 2nd edition by Wiley that I came upon at the library was actually better than Prentice-Hall's current low budget 4th edition, which is the one my class used.

In short, avoid this book, either Wiley's 2nd edition or Prentice-Hall's 4th. I'm currently scouting around for a replacement, so that I can actually learn what it was I was supposed to have learned.

This is an excellent book to read if you want to learn about wastewater treatment or just if you want to refresh your knowledge of this theme. The book presents easy to follow examples in many of the topics, say, clarifiers design (primary, intermediate, final), Aeration basins, etc. I prefer this book rather than Viessman & Hammer because it is much more friendly. I have not check yet the part of the book corresponding to water treatment, but the wastewater part is very good.

Terrible. I had to get a brake job done. Went to the store and was told that I needed to get my rotors ground down and perhaps replaced. I declined, and just got the pads replaced. However, this is the second time this has been told to me. So I was curious if this was a scam, which I suspected it was.

I looked around for a book, and found this one.

I got it, full of generalities, no specifics. Just "beware." Not, the "top ten scams are..." Just no specifics. Just garbage. I wouldn't recommend this book for a door stop. Its not even that thick.

Don't waste your money.

This is a great book for people who like to repai their cars themself. This is also a great book for people who love cars.