Frank was tired of words ... Tired of stories. So he hits his keyboard and publishes the mess it makes. Ironic, then, that this is the man put in charge of educating young people who wish to persue writing.

I have to disagree. What makes a book is not fonts and sizes, but content. This lacks content.

Frank D'Andrea presents this book that has a "caveman with typewriter" vibe to it. Some of the words are blown up for emphasis and each "movement" of this epic "poem" is startling in its focus and yet wide-ranging madness. The way the book is layed out, LungMouth is required to entertain. And it does.

This book had very little to offer the serious student of mysticism. The first part of the book was an attempt at classifying mysticism into various categories, which ultimately proves to be of little worth. The second part of the book provided the reader with excerpts from mystical texts. These excerpts do not provide any adequate insight into the nature of these mystical texts nor the mystics themselves. The first part of Happold's book is a gross over-classification of mysticism while the second part of the book is an abhorent reductionism of mystical texts which renders the "selected passages" meaningless.

-Kory Harris

F.C. Happold's introduction to mysticism consists of a short (110 pages) essay (broken into readable mini-chapters) and a brief anthology of world religious literature on the subject (300 pages). Those with serious interest will probably want to immediately continue with a reading of some of Evelyn Underhill's works, including her book Mysticism, or complete original classic works in the field. In his anthology, Dr. Happold provides in effect an extended bibliography of works for future study. One value of the book, written after Happold's retirement from a long career in English secondary education, is its immediate 'cutting across' all religious and time boundaries. The reader is immediately given the fact that mysticism has been and is now found in all religious traditions and has a common structure wherever it occurs. This book would possibly be a good supplementary text in freshman philosophy classes, being used to reinforce the currently unpopular view that there are epistemologies other than realism to be seriously considered. In fact, at one point Happold refers to mysticism as a 'critical realism.' An instructor might find that students enjoy reading this book along with some Ayn Rand, for instance.

In my thirties I had an experience totally beyond anything in my previous life. I was not a religious person, but this experience of seeing the 'uncreated light' was overwhelming and entirely unforeseen.

I didn't know how to explain what happened. I did not even know this is the mysticism that various religions talk about. When I found Frank Happold's book, it gave me the framework I needed to understand this life-changing experience, and for that I will always be grateful.

The book provides a starting point and an introduction to genuine mystical experience, the profound kind which alters your understanding of life. Happold offers a helpful introduction to the mystic's universe which is 100 pages long. This is followed by an anthology of mystics from many traditions. The anthology is 300 pages and provides a wonderful source for further study.

I recommend this book with only one mild reservation. Happold believed the experience of Christian mystics is somehow superior. I am afraid I find some of their accounts obviously altered to avoid being burned at the stake! I think they revised their account of experience to bring it in line with church doctrine.

But that is a minor point. Frank Happold's Mysticism is the best introduction I have seen to this topic.

New York Giants: 75 Years.....just ok. First, there are several typos and incorrect facts. Example: incorrect year when Jim Fassel won the NFC East. Also, there were many great Giants such as Spider Lockhart, Joe Morrison, Homer Jones, Bob Tucker, Eddie Price, Ron Johnson, Brad Van Pelt, Dave Jennings, Sean Landeta, etc. who garned little or no mention. Although the period of 1965-1979 was a bleak one for our beloved Giants, it still was a time that was very much a part of the great history of this team.
The photography is good, especially of Gifford, Huff, Title and the like.

All in all...not bad. But it could have been better.

If your a GIANTS fan, this book is unbelievable. The text is a bit trite, very rah-rah. But the pictures are GREAT. They are all high quality, and a great mix of famous pictures (YA Tiddle), and not so famous pictures (Gary Reasons stopping a goal line run). A great gift for a blue-bleeder!

Here you have one of the most beautyful and complete football book I ever read.The kind of book you open at the first page and close at the last one.If you can only buy one football book, that the one you need.You gonna read some parts of NFL story inside the story of the Giants.For sure one of this parts is the 1958 championship game,maybe the greatest game ever play,some pics of the old balls and uniforms.Talking about pics,I give them 100% for the illustrate part of the book,the pics are incredible. For the Giants story now,you learn all you need from the years at Polo ground to the ones at Giants stadium.A look at the greatest players of the team like Frank Gifford,Y.A.tittle,Phil Simms and for sure L.T.The book can`t be complete without the Bill Parcell and Mara family chapters.You`re football library is not complete until you`ve got"NEW YORK GIANTS SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS".The only thing I can say to conclude my review is buy it before he go out of print,that gonna be a collection book.

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This book was helpful when I decided to keep a newt because I was able to find out what I could feed it. It did not give information about a few of the species pictured in the book, but for a beginner there is information about feeding and housing that is useful.

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Medical Virology is not an ideal book for students new to virology. It is currently the prescribed text for an undergraduate course that I am taking, and unfortunately, the book is not well done. Fortunately for me, I've had other courses that provided the background that this book doesn't present in a coherent manner. The book introduces a topic, starts to explain it, and then just drops it. While it might be a good overview for people familiar with virology, students just starting out would be better served by buying Fundamental Virology.

While at first approach I backed away from this book, I later went back to it and found it to be the book to learn virology from. I've tried other books and they fail in comparison. This book teaches you a great amount of information on virology and has a special part for information on the different virus types. This book is highly recommended to students or hobbyists - though beware some information on genetics, chemistry and regular biology might be useful and come in handy, it is not required - just skip any technical parts in the book.

As I have made out in my title, this is the best way I can describe this book. Its small size contradicts its vast amount of information within. With respect to the other reviewer the book I find is excellent at delivering highly detailed information in the fewest words - cutting to the chase - however like the other reviewer comments, its detail can be off putting without sufficient back up by other texts. In this respect the book is probably best thought of as reference material for instant access to cutting edge information on viruses. The book also has sections that individually deal with the virus families and allow the reader to quickly access information regarding viruses belonging to each family, which is particularly useful considering the quagmire of virus names.

As a rank beginner who can't read music or play any other instrument, I bought this book hoping for a quick, friendly intro to the fiddle. But it doesn't really seem to be written for self-teaching; instead, it offers a series of "exercises" (i.e. not music!) for teachers to assign. What little text there is (the book is mostly music and a few pictures) is pedantic and unfriendly, and even in the illustrations the model never looks like he's enjoying the instrument. The material itself, while skimpy, is useful -- you learn how to play four notes on each string. I haven't found a better alternative, but this is not an encouraging place to begin.

When I recently decided to teach myself how to play violin, I bought several "beginner" books, but liked this one the most. I already knew how to read music, but had absolutely no experience with the violin. The Violin Primer begins by identifying the parts of the violin, showing you how to properly hold the instrument and the bow. The book teaches you how to finger the first four notes of a major scale originating on each open string. It then presents some simple melodies using these notes. All this book needs to be perfect would be a section on how to rosin the bow and how to finger chromatic scales. The book does not teach you how to read music, however all melodies are based on quarter notes, so all you need is note recognition skills. If you already know music, you will complete this book quickly and be ready to advance.

This is an excellent primer. As an adult beginner with years of piano experience, what I needed most was something to explain the violin in basic terms. This book does that -- and with many well-thought, straightforward photographs showing the reader exactly how to hold the instrument and bow. A video I had bought frustrated me. The video moved too fast, and hitting rewind constantly was distracting. But this primer is a BOOK! I could take my time (in front of a mirror -- highly recommended, by the way) and compare my position with the photographs. When I find a teacher, the book will still be an excellent reference until I learn instinctively how to hold the instrument and move the bow. If you're a violin beginner, this violin primer will be the best handful of dollars you spend.

I am a family doctor, and bought the book as a reference for my practice. I have attempted to refer to it several times, and am sad to say it had NO USEFUL clinical information I could use.

The book is good for someone who wants a broad overview of all alternative medicine, but is of low utility for any specific or detailed information.

Bottom line: do NOT waste your money buying it.

This 532-page book is intended to help medical students obtain a comprehensive understanding of complementary and alternative medical therapies in modern medical practice. It discusses each discipline with a commendable amount of detail, covering the history, theories, and research underlying each field.

The book's main weakness, however, is that it is not rigorous enough in evaluating some of the disciplines it presents. For example, clinical research trials studying the efficacy of homeopathy are presented, but the authors failed to mention questions concerning the validity of such trials that were raised by the researchers' peers; such challenges could have easily been compiled with a simple MEDLINE search. Even the "Benveniste affair" concerning the alleged "memory of water" is given a strictly one-sided treatment.

This same weakness also hampers the unit dealing with Therapeutic Touch. Although the JAMA report is covered, it is the only argument presented in the book that questions the discipline, and the authors fail to adequately discuss the ongoing debates over the therapy's claimed usefulness.

MOSBY'S COMPLIMENTARY & ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE is a worthwhile introduction to alternative medical disciplines - but take it with a grain of salt.

The only thing lacking in objectivity is Mr. Barnett's review. Anyone from an organization called "North Texas Skeptics", isn't looking at things from an unbiased viewpoint themselves. Ms. Freeman does an amazing job compiling information, often not taught and not available in allopathic medical circles, as to the history, approach and practice of the various complementary practices health practitioners need to know about. Her job in this text is not to fully critique all of the medical literature available on the subject, but there is plenty of reference material available and cited if one wishes to do that. The problems with the "skeptics" approach is that, if one does not choose to trash every system that they believe to be flawed (by western allopathic medical criteria), then THAT person is not objective. I think the above reviewer misses the point of this text entirely.

This books contains names that we have all become familiar with over the past several years. There were several references to chapter 7 and how to value these companies. It was really lame and not worth the wait.

If you want a general overview of what everyone means when they say "internet company" this would do the trick. This book won't help you at all in becoming more successful in investing. The information in this book was not anything new and could easily be picked up by reading any general publication.

This book gives a good overview of what internet companies are. It talks about what kinds of internet companies there are and tells of the risks and benefits in them. It teaches the reader all the basic components of an internet company and what everyone should know before investing in this sector

Net Worth gives good sound investment advice that the layman can understand and can also be applied to different business sectors.

Wall Street Journal and CNBC Internet correspondent Stephen E. Frank has written a thorough basic book about where the Internet has come, where it is now, and where it might go in the future . . . and what that means for investors. His view focuses on the pros and cons of the different business models that are being employed and how a thoughtful investor can pick stocks and mutual funds to benefit from the Internet as a phenomenon. The book's only serious flaw is that it doesn't quite link to what you have to expect will happen with the Internet for such investments to be a better idea than simply owning index funds.

As to Internet stocks, "the days of easy money are over." On the other hand, "the time to get involved [with Internet stocks] may finally have arrived." The book "will help you know what to look for."

Where many Internet book authors comment that you should invest in the Internet, Mr. Frank has a different point, "every company will be, to one degree or another, an Internet company." He feels that "for you as an investor, it's important to know what that means . . . ."

He makes three fundamental assertions: (1) "The Internet is for real . . . ." (2) "It isn't too late to become an Internet investor." (3) Investing in Internet stocks requires the same disciplines as any other stock investing ("do your homework, know what you're buying, invest for the long haul, and don't buy stocks that will keep you awake at night").

He is also "assuming you know the fundamentals of investing."

Unlike most books that encourage you to beat the averages, this one often mentions and makes the case for buying the broad indexes through mutual funds. He correctly points out that the indexes are adding Internet stocks to them, and that companies in the averages are becoming Internet companies. So investing in the Internet is almost unavoidable for most.

This is the first in a series of books looking at the Internet after the bust. Based on some of the examples, I would guess that this was completed back in 2000 before the awful fall in stock prices during the first three months of 2001.

Mr. Frank uses AOL Time Warner as an example of how there is a convergence occurring between Internet and non-Internet companies. Amazon.com has physical warehouses, and e-Bay owns an auction house. Car companies now buy their parts through an on-line auction.

The book looks at business to consumer, business to business, Internet infrastructure providers, proxies for the Internet (like UPS), incubators, mutual funds, and most importantly . . . valuation.

Each chapter is filled with mini-profiles of some of the more successful companies in that particular space. Most people will find some examples to be new to them, especially outside of business to consumer.

Pay particular attention to the valuation section. It will help you understand when high multiples may be warranted and when they are not. Using this methodology, you will realize that many Internet stocks are very overpriced even now in light of the slower growth expected.

I found many of the forecasts quoted in here to be ludicrously optimistic. At a time when most people will not even use a credit card on-line, the book talks about very large percentages of basic consumer goods being sold on the Internet by 2004. I don't think so.

I couldn't make a case for buying stocks that are mostly on the Internet from reading this book. So I think the book is irrelevant to almost all investors in the current market.

The discussion of the risk you have to take to match or exceed the market averages was inadequate here. In the early days of most new technologies, over 95 percent of the public companies become ultimately worthless. That process still has a long way to go on the Internet. I suspect the arguments here will make more sense in 2-5 years when the future prospects are clearer.

Mr. Frank's arguments were also light on considering the risks of future technologies. For example, in a time when bandwidth is about to become virtually unlimited, the Cisco router technology becomes not very valuable (as George Gilder and others have pointed out). Many of the hardware and software suppliers described here are riding outmoded or soon-to-be outmoded technologies.

Also, the Internet business models are very primitive and usually ineffective. I suspect that we have not yet seen the first good one. So take much of the work in here on business models with a large grain of salt.

Still, I think Mr. Frank did a much more creditable job on this subject than any other book I have read about Internet stock investing. Until something better comes along, this book will be the gold standard on this subject.

I do believe that very few people should be buying Internet stocks, except as part of owning mutual funds invested in braod stock indexes such as the Standard and Poor's 500.

To put this book in perspective, imagine that you were reading about buying the companies that were participating in the radio boom in the 1920s. How well would you have fared if you had taken this approach then? I haven't figured it out, but you probably would still be losing money. After all, something else better will supercede the Internet someday in the same way that television dominates radio.

Measure your downside risk first, then see whether or not there could be enough potential to repay you for taking that risk.

This book is used as the textbook for my optimal control course.i think that the authors already done a good job in presenting the ideas.actually i understand the ideas pretty well through the help of this book.but again there is a lack of examples.sometimes i find difficulties in solving the problems as the illustrated examples are not so structured.nevertheless,it's a book for graduate students,so i think that it's ok.also it can serve as a good reference book

The authors do a nice job of deriving the basic equations of optimal control. However, the examples are lacking. Also, they do not present an organized approach to solving optimal control problems.

I had the pleasure of having taken my control courses at Georgia Tech while the author, Frank Lewis was a professor there. He was probably one of the best professors in this area amongst a stellar group of control professors. He explanations and presentation of the topics were concise, clear, and extremely applicable. These same traits are present in this book. One of the main knocks against control theorists is that they tend to refrain from using real world examples to illustrate their point. Dr. Lewis is quite the opposite, he believes that the real world problem is key to understanding the theory and he is never shy in using those examples. The number of examples may be a problem here, afterall, students live and die by the worked problem to get to understanding.

This book is an excellent introductory guide to the fascinating world of optimal controls.

I find it difficult to give a self-help book much credibility when it is filled with spelling errors, grammar errors and printing errors. I would think that someone who cares enough to write a book to help people could at least care enough to check her work.

Upon reading this book I feel the author is doing her best through examples of others to demonstrate those that have hit burnout. Once its established if you have reached it, or if you are on your way, she moves on to how this can happen, and how much you are empowered to change this. Tips and ideas are given on how to reduce stress and how to help change or tailor your job in a direction that you have the most power. She does not advocate moving on before you have resolved some of the internal issues that have caused your displeasure at your current job. I feel ths examples of how real people in the book overcame their burnout and became happy and sucessful once again.

There are few books on burnout that deal with practical strategies. Many times, we know - at least in part - why we feel burnout. The problem is moving forward, and theoretical analyses of organization structure, etc. are often not that helpful. This book provides detailed strategies for recognizing the factors that lead to burnout and strategies for dealing with burnout. For example, the book indicates that frequent "negative wins" will lead to burnout. We get a "negative win" when we do something in order to avoid something negative. A kid cleaning her room to avoid being yelled at by a parent is an example of a situation with a negative win. An adult cleaning the living room because he wants to relax in a comfortable environment is an example of a situation with a positive win. Potter suggests that we develop ways of providing our own positive wins when we do not get them naturally from the situation. I find these insights valuable in developing my own recognition of situations that can lead me to burnout. I have implemented some of the strategies, and they have helped quite a bit. This is not the perfect book on this subject, but it is a good and useful book - most importantly, it actually does help. I'm very happy that I purchased it.