This was the 1st triathlon book I bought. It gives an overview of the equipment, types of training in chapters on swimming, running and riding, time requirments, nutrition and sample training plans.
It is NOT a training book perse. It will give the reader an idea of what it takes to start triathloning without overwhelming him and her.
I think Triathlon 101 is better but it's a personal opinion.

I found this book to be fairly helpful. I especially liked the descriptions of form drills for all 3 disciplines. The informaiton was useful. What I did not like is that since I am new to the sport of triathlon, there were phrases used that I did not understand. This was most evident in the workouts. The text would describe everything well, but then in a listing of a sample workout it would use terms not explained in the text. This made it hard to figure out what to do sometimes. Also the author says he'll show you how to have many peaks in a season, but then really doesn't ever give that information.

A fantastic book and on the "top two" of my recommended reading list for beginning triathletes. If you are going for detail and want in-depth and technical information on how to develop a training plan, go with the Triathlete's Training Bible. If you want a solid overview of the sport of triathlon, this is the book for you.

Swim, Bike, Run is written in a very straight-forward style and gives sound, practical advice. I am an avid reader of "things triathlon," so I've read just about every book out there. The most telling insight into how much I value this book is that this is the book that I consistently return to and read the night before a race. I also look to it for a "refresher" when I want to improve form/technique and when I am evaluating how my training is going mid-season. The swimming section is particularly effective and the illustrations greatly helped me on technique issues.

A great read and highly recommended.

Although published as three separate books, the Tenth Planet trilogy should really have been released as a single compilation. None of the three books are able to stand on their own. As a set, they are a light but engaging read. These books are pure escapist fun, with stereotypical characters, some plausible pseudo science and a fast paced plot. As long as you are not expecting great literature like Gene Wolfe and are prepared for sci fi that is more in the spirit of Edgar Rice Burroughs, you will enjoy this series.

In the third and final book in this series, Earth and the Tenth Planet are locked in a battle for survival. Badly damaged and knowing that they are faced with extinction unless they can harvest most of Earth's resources, the Malmurians turn to their distant past and the spirits of their Elders to find weapons to subdue Earth. Meanwhile, the elite of Earth's scientists work frantically to develop new weapons in their fight against the alien menace.

If you enjoyed this series then you will probably like the Heritage Trilogy by Ian Douglas, which is far better written.

The third and final book in the Tenth Planet series. Somebody earlier said it was pure escapism and they were correct. I read this strictly for fun and I enjoyed it.

In the third and final book of the series, Smith describes Earth and Malmuria (our solar system's tenth planet) locked again in mortal struggle. Both worlds have gained experience from their previous encounter six months before and are now prepared to confront each other with new resources and knowledge. The war is a fierce one, for only one species can win.

This is the type of book that would make a perfect movie. Much action, many dialogues, places which are described but would much better be seen on screen, planes, spaceships which would make the special effects people happy. This is how you must think of this book: an adventure/SF movie. You should not look for philosophy or character development, monologues, any "serios literature" stuff. This book does not intend to do that.

It is easy-reading, but pleasant nevertheless, the action is fast-paced, it keeps you on your toes all the time, the suspense is mastered beautifully.

The book gets a minus (hence 4/5 stars) because of the human characters. The book pictures the entire human race as prejudiced. The aliens are more human than the humans.
The aliens explain the reasons for their actions all the time and are considerate towards the human race - before the war had started, every time they had "harvested" the Earth they had tried to do minimal damage to the population. Their violence, which shocks so much Earth's people, is never unjustified, it is dictated only by their will to survive - and we all can understand that.
On the other hand, humans always refer to the aliens as "those bastards", they only want to "blast them off", think only of killing them. Never once did they try to find a way to solve the conflict other than by completely exterminating the Malmuria. Kind of like Will Smith in "Independence Day": "Take that, you bastard". If that sums up the human attitude towards an alien species, I'm disappointed.

And another thing: I had expected the nano-stuff Portia designed to be more used. All that work... for nothing. This was quite a let-down.

Still, a pleasant reading. And I appreciated the quite unexpected ending... read it to see what I mean.

I thought this book was a fair, mediocre overview of different Bible versions, although I would strongly hesitate to call it a "complete guide." It doesn't really go into depth; so if you are looking for a mere skim over different English Bible versions, it may be alright. However, for a more in depth study of the different English Bible versions, I would rather refer to and recommend Jack P. Lewis' The English Bible: From the KJV to the NIV.

This guide is well written in my humble opinion: It is friendly & unassuming (very accessible); concise & beautifully succinct; authoritatively objective and nearly complete. You can breeze through it in a day or two and come out feeling like you've been enlightened by a respectable professor of Theology. Find a used copy or just look for it in your local library. I am confident that you won't regret tracking it down and spending just a little time out of your life for this little gem. I especially urge agnostics & atheists to look at this guide willingly, honestly, and with humble & open-mind for understanding the where/what/how & when of the Scriptures. I remember with enthusiasm that, 'There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance. That principle is contempt prior to investigation.' - (Herbert Spencer) and 'The most important thing we can know about a man is what he takes for granted and the most elemental and important facts about a society are those that are seldom debated and generally regarded as settled.' - (Louis Wirth) enjoy enlightenment

I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in the history of the Bible or interested in what is the best translation for their personal use. It is interesting that the King James Version was completed in AD 1611 by more than 50 scholars trained in Hebrew and Greek and was a revision of the Bishop's Bible which was a revision of the Great Bible. Previously William Tyndale's thanks for translating the Bible into English was to be burned at the stake in 1536. Modern translations are explained right up to today's New Living Translation (1996) which is an update of The Living Bible.

This book isn't really what I was expecting. I was wanting a book that would show how to do everyday, necessary calcs, how to properly stake various objects, etc. What I got was a book that taught me how to set up and level an instrument, proper communication techniques, comments on schedules, etc. The two redeeming values of this book is the section on checks you can do to your instuments, and slopestaking.

I have been working in the field as a chief engineer for 5 years, and have read this book from cover to cover. I would advise any new layout man/woman who plans on starting a career in the field to obtain a copy, and by all means issue these to your rodmen. You will find a drastic improvement on work skills and habbits, and less rework. C.J. Finn

I have used this text to teach surveying to Construction Management students who need to only know the basics of construction surveying and layout on the jobsite. I have found this book to be easy for construction students to use and take with them to industry. I look forward to the next edition.

This is a good book for someone who has no OO knowledge/experience wanting to learn Smalltalk for several reasons: 1) it avoids overloading the student with too much theory. It is particularly good at side-stepping a high-level description of objects in chapter one followed by designing objects with classes as an exercise in chapter two. In fact, it takes the opposite approach of those Fasttrack books; the first five chapters gently introduce the student to the Smalltalk environment and to object interactions. 2) It sticks to the task at hand: teaching Smalltalk to the neophyte. It does this by avoiding the Language Comparison Holy War and the My Style Is Better Than Yours Holy War. 3) It takes its time with each topic, reinforcing each point with words, exercises and homeworks.

There are two points weighing against this book as it stands: 1) it's dated; it's based on an older version of Smalltalk/V and uses constructs avoided now (such as the message "become" to change a variable's state). 2) For the person on the fast-track, it's slow. It spends a whole chapter on numbers, and waits three more before discussing classes.

In summary, this is a good book from which to learn Smalltalk and objects. I recommend using Smalltalk Express, a descendant of Smalltalk/V freely available from ObjectShare, along with the book.

A good book for those wanting to get their "feet wet" in Smalltalk. Doesn't go over advanced topics. Overall, a good book.

The book is exceptionally well written and is ideal for Smalltalk beginners. It might also be suited for Smalltalk literates who want to see how CRC design and Smalltalk fit together (Chapter 8).

The book takes you step by step through problems and takes you to a real discovery because it is honest enough to admit that first attempts turn out to be insufficient in later stages.
It, therefore, spares you to wonder how an experienced designer gets everything right the first time, but teaches you to rethink what you have done after each step and how to systematically perform iterative development.

I wholeheartedly recommend the book, which is by the way an excellent fit to the freely available Smalltalk Express distribution (Smalltalk/V).

tHIS WAS A GREAT GOOD BOOK. I personaly like the part where they eat him. poor guy though. It teaches you not to boast or be big headed about yourself

The Gingerbread Man

Have you ever chased a gingerbread man after it jumped out of the oven? A lot of people, a cow, and a fox run after just one gingerbread man in this story. Will anyone eat the Gingerbread man? This book is funny and good. I like how they all chase after the Gingerbread man.

I recall this book and bought it because it was the exact one I read when I was a child. I love how it repeats and how the photos are just so colorful. I read this one every night to my daughter and my favorite part is the ending when the Gingerbreadman gets eaten but it's not sad because they remind us how they come back again when we bake more gingerbread men. It's a must for anyone who loves the classics.

"Harnessing Peacocks" is a sometimes comic, sometimes slice-of-life novel about a prostitute who takes up gourmet cookery and earns money at both so she can send her child to a fancy boarding school. With great effort she keeps her personal and private lives separate. You know, of course, the dam has to break at some point or there wouldn't be a book.

Perhaps it's just my American impatience but I thought the book took too long to get off the ground. Characters' habits and daily activities were explored more than necessary and by the time the farcical elements got going, I felt relief more than enthusiasm. Still, the writing was excellent and the characters were well drawn. I can see why Wesley is a popular author in her native Great Britain.

A very heart warming story to give you hope on a cold and miserable day

"Harnessing Peacocks" is one of my all-time favorite books. In some ways, it's a typical British comedy-of-manners, but with terrific, quirky characters and a gentle, romantic plot.

Teenaged Hebe runs away from the home she shares with her grandparents when she overhears them and her bossy older sisters plotting to get her an unwanted abortion.

We see her again as her son, Silas, is growing old enough to question his background. His mother has raised him on her own, cooking for wealthy elderly clients and "tarting" (as she calls it) for several selected men, to be able to provide him with the same upbringing she had. She is smart, fiercely independent, and vulnerable (although she doesn't realize it).

One of my favorite things about this book is Wesley's wonderfully quirky and complex characters.

If you enjoy other authors such as Barbara Pym, Laurie Colwin and Jane Austen, I think you will enjoy this book.

As a Human Factors professional that owns the 1st addition, shortly after purchasing this version (2nd edition), I questioned my wisdom.

This book is about 200 pages shy of the original and not surprisingly repeats many of the same information as it's predecessor. Unfortunately, it gives us little more than dated information with a bit of new stuff tacked on.

What really dissappointed me was that the anthropometric data that is provided here, dates back to that of the original's 1960's data. What is the point of a new edition? The census data stated here is so dated it is ridiculous, both in composition as well as age. I wish I had known that this data was not updated prior to my investing in the new edition. I would not have purchased it.

I question the usefulness of data published in so recent a book based primarily on Air force personnel of the 60s. That type of data had it's day & was appropriate at it's original publishing. Today's Human Factors professional needs more diversified data that is more international in it's scope. For that matter, I'm certain 1960s air force personnel (who are screened for height and weight) hardly represent the year 2000 demographics of the United States much better.

I found it interesting that the same graphics that may have been the best you could do in the original were repeated in this new document. Couldn't they refresh some of the look, clean up some of the old graphs. As the original was, this document is a mix of font styles, graphics and inconsistent data presentation. Does this truly represent the user of the document well? I recognize presentation is not "everything" but on a second pass of the same information you could dress it a bit better at least.

The major addition predictably is the data surrounding workstations and computer usage, however, I'm questioning it's usefulness relative to the anthropometric data also here. Is this new data based on aged human measurement data too? Will it only fit the 1960 US air force man and woman?

I think this book would have been better printed as an addendum to the original version costing about $25. This way the workstation data could be added plus any items that are new.

A review of our book stated that the body measurement data came from 1960 Air Force studies. The reviewer should be pleased to know that the book actually contains some of the latest anthropometric data available for the U.S. population. Just before publication of the Human Factors Design Handbook, the U.S. Army completed measurements of nearly 9000 subjects. These data are contained in our book. While this is not a profile of the civilian population (male and female subjects ranged from age 18 to 51), it does provide fairly good estimates. Unfortunately, even now there is no comprehensive survey data for United States civilian population. Currently the Society of Automotive Engineers is coordinating a massive survey of United States and European civilian populations. The project participants include Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and several industrial partners. The survey is called the Civilian American and European Surface Anthropometry Resource, or CAESARTM and data should be available late in 2001.

Just before updating the Human Factors Design Handbook, the author completed development of NASA's Man-Systems Integration Standards. This is the NASA "bible" of human factors design guidelines. Readers should feel confident in that these resources and data (including anthropometrics) were integrated throughout the revised edition of the Human Factors Design Handbook.

most everything necessary for rudimentary ergonomic evaluation in all aspects of design

In the 1970s, when I was a student at a very Dispensationalist higher educational institution, I was told that Dispensationalism was, at that time, "in a state of stasis." On the one hand, stasis can denote stability, which can be a good thing. On the other hand, it can simply mean that nothing was happening to worsen an already unstable situation (as we see in some science fiction movies when an extremely sick patient is placed into stasis). Unfortunately for Dispensationalism, all evidence now points to the latter as being the true nature of the situation. ¶ Several years after I heard that remark, the chickens came home to roost on the house-of-cards that would later come to be known as "Revised Dispensationalism" -- revised to patch up some problems inherited from those who came to be known as "Classical Dispensationalists" -- and the inherent instability became apparent. Within a short time a "new, improved" brand of Dispensationalism hit the bookstore shelves: Progressive Dispensationalism. Time will tell whether the cards were replaced by something truly more substantial and enduring. ¶ One of the architects of Revised Dispensationalism, Charles C. Ryrie, was the consulting editor of the book under review here, "Issues in Dispensationalism." In the 1960s he wrote an irenic apologetic entitled "Dispensationalism Today." At that time Dispensationalism presented a unified front, and all of its opponents were to be found outside that system, mostly within Covenant theology camp of Reformed churches, and thus Ryrie's apologetic was directed at them. But the situation has changed dramatically since then, and now Ryrie's brand of Dispensationalism must contend with new opponents from within the camp -- even from the very institution where Ryrie himself was schooled in the system, and where he held court as one of its preeminent instructors for many years. ¶ On the back cover of the book we read a quote from Ryrie: "Dispensationalism dying? Hardly -- read on." Unfortunately, the book as a whole does not confirm Ryrie's confidence. If the older forms of Dispensationalism are not actually dying, they are certainly suffering from advanced hardening of the arteries and even severe atrophy. A patient in such a condition cannot have high hopes for longevity. This new volume could easily be subtitled "Dispensationalism Yesterday" for all the hope it extends to the future of the system it defends. Some of its more noteworthy essays are as follows: ¶ Ryrie's own "Update on Dispensationalism," which forms the first chapter, attempts to address what he believes are the weakest points of the new Progressive Dispensationalism (PD). Here he is strongest when he questions whether PD truly qualifies as Dispensationalism at all, and this is an issue that will have to be discussed and explored in future literature. But he is weakest when he challenges PD on its individual conclusions. ¶ Ryrie's rather icy contribution is followed by "Dispensational Hermeneutics," by Thomas Ice, who defends the method of literal interpretation, but does not deal with historic Dispensationalism's own failure to consistently apply that method. ¶ "The Biblical Meaning of Fulfillment," by Charles Dyer, is somewhat better, but disappoints by failing to deal with the crucial issue of initial or partial fulfillment. The Dispensational bias of using the Old Testament as its hermeneutical starting point also comes through loud and clear, which simply begs the very important question of whether this is the most appropriate place to start when defining "fulfillment" in the New Testament sense of the word. ¶ John F. Walvoord's "Biblical Kingdoms Compared and Contrasted" is helpful, but the questions he's raised have been answered in the book "Progressive Dispensationalism," by Craig A. Blaising and Darrell L. Bock. ¶ By far the worst contribution to this volume is found in "The New Covenant," by John R. Master, who very nearly (if not actually) returns to Lewis Sperry Chafer's long-discredited "Two New Covenant" theory to explain how the New Testament could apply the language of Jer. 31:31-34 (a prophecy addressed to ethnic Israel) to the church. ¶ Zane C. Hodges is up to his usual habits of incendiary overstatement in "A Dispensational Understanding of Acts 2." The credibility of his essay decreases as his use of hyper-emotional rhetorical slams increases. ¶ It's not that this book is a totally lost cause. There is some good stuff here, and even some tentative attempts at dialogue with the PD viewpoint, even though they sometimes seem artificial, and perhaps forced by the fact that the advocates of Classical and Revised Dispensationalism may feel backed into a corner, and are beginning to notice the substantial thinning of their ranks. ¶ Meanwhile the book serves the useful purpose of providing us with something to gauge the size of the fault-lines along which the world of Dispensationalism is currently dividing. It also shows how as paradigms shift, thought patterns that refuse to jump over to the new paradigm begin to harden and fossilize. The main question, I believe, is: as conservative evangelicals continue to make progress in the field of biblical hermeneutics, will Dispensationalists have any share in that progress, or will they be left behind? At this point the train is leaving the station, and many have yet to climb on board.

I've checked out this book from the library many times and am saddened to see that it's out of print. I would very much like to have my own copy of this book. Although it is nearly 10 years old, and thus deals with issues occurring back then (this is why I only give it 4 stars), it will help the Bible student answer some questions regarding dispensationalism and the kingdom of God. In fact, a reading of this book might cause those who are considering progressive dispensationalism (is it actually dispensationalism?) to see why the traditional view of dispensationalism makes good sense of history and the future. It answers some of the errors of progressive dispensationalism in advance, showing that Christ is not presently seated on the Davidic throne. (Progressives have yet to demonstrate where Scripture shows the Davidic throne as a heavenly throne; it is always pictured as a purely earthly throne.) This book is extremely helpful for those who are seriously considering the implications and some of the issues of Dispensationalism.

A valuable overview of a wide variety of Dispensational thought by many competent scholars within the Dispensational Community. I especially like the chapters on "Dispensational Hermeneutics" and "Israel and the Church."

I felt ripped off by this paperback dictionary. For $35 you only get 84,000 words defined. By comparison, you can pay $25 for the American Heritage College Dictionary in hardback and get over 200,000 words defined.

I feel Longman is exploiting their customers, who are primarily ESL students.(...)

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This is a wonderful book for ESL students. The definitions are easy to understand, and the examples really help clarify the meaning and use of each word. There are also pictures of many things that aid in definition. I recommend it for intermediate - advanced ESL students. It is much clearer than a dictionary written for native English speakers.