This book focuses on the major urban centers in the 10/40 window. The background and statistical informaton for each city (including unreached peoples) is laid out in easy to read format. A map is also provied for each city and can help one keep the city in perspective. Specific prayer requests are listed for each city. I have found this book to be an excellent companion book to Praying Through the Window III: The Unreached Peoples. Using these books in tandem will not only make your prayer life more focused, but will also give you a deeper appreciation for other peoples around the world.

It started out as a simple business trip, but became much more. Grant wandered into a bar and found the woman of his dreams. Her name was Alice. He was entranced immediately, and she reciprocated. Their passion for each other was vast and varied, and Alice was up for anything. But morning rolled around, as mornings always do, and Grant had to face facts -- one night in his hotel wasn't enough!

RHAPSODY IN THE KEY OF G, besides having an awfully long title, is a fun book full of diverse sexual experiences. Alice is your typical up-for-anything girl and Grant, well, he's just a man who knows how to treat a lady. There's not much plot to the story - guy finds girl, guy loses girl, and guy finds girl again, but there's lots of enthusiastic sex. Warnings should be made that this book contains some bestiality and a threesome.

This book is recommended for anyone looking to read a straight-out fun account of an unashamedly experimental account of a passionate couple's romance.

"Scandal" has been selected for listing in "Religion and Psychoactive Sacraments: An Entheogen Chrestomathy." http://www.csp.org/chrestomathy

I can say that after "federalist papers" this is the book ,which gives a reader a clear concept on the issue. If I say it is a review of Madison's articals in FEDERALIST PAPERS,it would be right comment on this book. It includes Montesquieu's thoughts and requires its implication in true sense. This is the best book atleast to tell your friends that you have it on your shellf.

In his usual style of scholarship mixed with social commentary, Mr. Wilson has written a book which is a jewel of great price. The sub-title [not shown on this site]"DREAM & BOOK" is characteristic of his approach as he analyzes mystical literature and the dreams of the practitioners of Taoism & Sufism. Ecstatic dreaming and automatic writing are both ways in which the 'unmanifest' may be experienced - one allows the practitioner to 'enter into' the 'other realm', while the other brings this world into our own. These initiatic dreams and oracular drawings when performed with purpose form the basis of a mystical language where with we may embellish our own Great Works. In this regard see Mr. Wilson's 'collegue' Hakim Bey, especially Bey's "Aimless Wandering: Chuang Tzu's Chaos Linguistics". [For some reason this is not available on this site, try abe.com]. Finally the comparison of Taoism and Sufism is wonderfully and plainly disclosed with the depth of a discerning writer and poet.

Having been a serrious engraver for just over a year now, I have amassed several books on engraving: mainly the "standards" for engravers: several of the Dover series of patterns, James L. Meek, Nimschke, etc. This has some of the finest and sharpest photos of engraving I have seen. And this book is cheap compaired to many of the others. Just plain beautiful. And --- worth every penny

"The Viking Achievement" is an outstanding introduction to the culture and history of Viking Age Scandinavia. It includes information on laws, society, families, warfare, armor and weapons, archaeology, ships and trade, art, literature and poetry, religion and mythology. The information is carefully based on the scholarship provided by scientific archaeological research and modern literary analysis.

The previous editions of this book contained a lot of reference information and illustrations for both novice and experienced home carpenter. This edition has changed the emphasis to students primarily, with larger type but less specific reference material such as hanging doors, special framing problems, etc. Disappointing.

This book shows anyone the technical aspects of home construction in very clear terms. The formulas are excellent for figuring the costs of a project. The format is very simple to learn and the tests at the end of each chapter summarize the material well.

This is *the* book, wheither you are a novice or a master carpenter! It contains plenty of helpful and informative charts, diagrams, pictures and examples - how to calculate materials and costs, board feet, compares different materials and specifies the applications. It starts from the basics of hand tools and power tools with clear instructions their use, maintenance, and even some repair. You're guided from planning and preparing the building site all the way to completion of construction. I didn't see where anything was left out. My father was a building contractor for 56 years. This book is like having his knowledge at my fingertips!

The chapters (10-13) on RDS made this book well worth it for me, since true client-side recordsets were integral to the suceess of a particular intranet project I was on (don't hold your breath waiting for any useful documentation from Microsoft on RDS). Some of your own experimentation is necessary as you expand out further from the RDS examples they give. They could have taken RDS a bit further than they did, but what they gave was still helpful to me. Everything they do cover is well-represented with code examples.

I kind of thought the amount of space devoted to ADO was excessive, since if you're trying to implement RDS, you probably already know much of the ADO they teach here. Some of that space would have been better used to expand on RDS a bit.

The included ADO 2.0 reference (Appendix A) and RDS 2.0 reference (Appendix B) are useful, and the sections on Oracle are helpful if your code has to work against Oracle backends.

One other note: In books like this, I rely on the index a lot to quickly get to topics I need. The index in this book is pretty bad. If you want to reference things for future use in this book, buy yourself a highlighter pen.

Bottom line, if you need to use RDS, bite the bullet (kind of expensive) and get this book. For ADO, however, you might want to look elsewhere.

This is a great book because it shows you exactly what you need to know. They get to the point effectively with every topic. I like the real world questions being answered. Like client side or server side cursors. And topics on how to write the more efficient rs object. The only problem I have with this book is the writers lack of expertise with other databases. Like MS SQL server, and Sybase SQL server. Getting information on pitfalls with other database platforms would be invaluable. They kind of tickled us with the Oracle info, I want more now.

I am an Internet Engineer for a Fortune 500 company. I recently designed and implemented an enterprise-level customer service Intranet application. This book provided many thorough explanations and examples of advanced ADO features.

I made heavy use of disconnected recordsets and data shapes, both of which I did not know how to use before reading this text. These methods allowed me to store recordset objects in session variables (remember, this was an Intranet application so I could dictate the client browser) and thus greatly reduce the load on the back-end database.

Criticisms are few and far between. I found a few nit-picky errors, nothing major. I also would have appreciated a chapter with tips on creating MTS COM objects, but I realize that topic can span an entire book (and it has).

I appreciated this book so much that after I had purchased and expensed a copy for my department's reference library, I went back and bought another copy for my personal collection. It definitely earns a five star rating.

A dis-jointed book. The only thing I found interesting was Ian's view on sorrow.

It is curiously significant that this major document of noble clarity should be by the hand of Ian Brady. Like comets, burning insights that are delivered with acid wit pelt the landscape of lies otherwise known as the modern world. Even the messenger's past challenges the lie in those who may use it to hide from the truths expressed here in Ian Brady's present. In many ways this is a hymn to honesty -- a rather unusual combination -- that will delight those who miss the English language. In terms of confronting the root issue of values in our time, this is a clear expression of facts that many may suspect but are afraid to admit. It raises the valid question as to the distribution of character between those who obey and those who transgress. Unsullied by pretense or compromise, it by implication challenges the value and virtue of fear based morality for human authenticity, thus it shall find its place in the library of heresies' golden truths of soul. Our future will be born from how we see our present. Those within a box are sometimes expert at thinking outside them. Denial of their contribution enriches none but those who prey upon weakness and denial.

To just put down Ian Brady as just another mindless criminal cashing in on his infamy would be a mistake. This is a serious tome that has Brady casting a critical eye on the crimes of people like Ted Bundy, John Gacy, The Hillside Stranglers, Richard Ramirez and more. He also spends time speculating on such topics as the debate between insanity, sociopathy and psychotic behaviour, motivations of crime and more.
The forward by Colin Wilson and final chapter by Peter Sotos are also worth a look.

In years to come this will be regarded as a truly thought-provoking book which raises many interesting points. It's just a shame that many people won't buy it becasue of the nefarious activities the author carried out prior to his incarceration. This is just the kind of narrow-mindedness that will deprive the same people of much food for thought.
I doubt Brady's partner-in-crime Myra Hindley would ever be able to come up with such a literate and serious book. She was pliable and easily manipulated but as this book proves, it was Brady who was the brains behind the crimes.