I think it's quite a good book if you're into the technical parts about aircraft, however if you're into just the planes then it's not worth your while buying it. Overall I wasn't impressed.

a truly sad and dissapointing book.When i got it i was expecting something that would say how to fight slave labor or not promote free trade.Instead the book makes an extremly ethnocentric view of how americans are superior to all other nations in productivity and any reasons for themnot being so is leeching nations stealing jobs.As the book continues it seems not wanting to save american jobs but by just citing examples of effective american companys.Not only does the book not try to go into depth of why the problem is there.All american corporations are made to look just and going against the evil 'trade sapping' countries of the world.There is no look to see why americans arelosing jobs or anything behind what is happening to the country just american nationalism.Do not get this book the name is much better than the book implies

Alma and the Poltergeist begins with Billy Caldwell returning home to Kentucky on the day of his mother's funeral. His father, wracked with guilt over a long held secret, confesses to Billy that the man and woman he believed to be his parents were in fact his aunt and uncle. His birth mother is actually his crazy Aunt Alma whom he has never met. The family has always whispered that there was something strange, almost sinister, about Alma and her daughter Bonnie. Billy's "father" hands him a manuscript outlining the details of Alma's life beginning in the backwoods of Kentucky as a pregnant child bride in the 1950's.

What seems to be a promising premise soon lures the reader into a constant state of frustration. Characters are barely fleshed out, as though merely reading their names is enough to fill the reader in on personality, motivation and back story. I found the narrative to be one-dimensional and quite frankly, confusing. Why is it necessary to even introduce the character of Billy Caldwell? Most of his participation in the story is to sit and read a manuscript about Alma and a poltergeist. Pages are wasted on him sitting, shaking his head over a part of the story and then diving back into the manuscript.

The manuscript he reads is a head scratcher as well. Alma is pregnant, marries a guy, has a baby, then flash forward thirteen years and her husband is abusive and a poltergeist kills him? What? Who or what is this poltergeist? One sentence describes Alma as being able to move things with her mind, but then the daughter is the poltergeist? And is Alma so close with her daughter that they have a secret language as briefly described or is Alma afraid of her daughter, whom she barely understands and tries to kill? And why does the malevolent being disappear 100 pages before the ending never to be heard from again?

Part of the problem is the mish-mash of already successful stories being thrown into a blender and poured on the page. The book uses the backdrop of backwoods Kentucky to have inane dialogue written out phonetically so the reader spends too much precious time reading it out loud to better understand it. Too much like Coal Miner's Daughter. The poltergeist, relegated to backburner for far too many pages, is reminiscent of a toned down, practically sleeping Poltergeist, from the movie of the same name. Alma's daughter is Carrie with shades of Firestarter. And when Alma decides Bonnie must die, she announces she must take her medicine like a good girl, just like The Shining.

4/5/03 This book ,a borrow from the library has much on clinical info(MRI,CAT scans & PET scans).However it gives only 3 examples of actual Alzheimer victims'progressive experiences & a picture of a 4th patient at the Burke Rehabilitation Center in White Plains,NY as she is introduced to other group members and questioning what could be its cause(aluminum poisioning has been almost ruled out entirely those it had been considered);autopsy's of an Alzheimer brain showed destruction of brain cells and lesions.The book ends with remarks by a patient in the early stages of Alzheimer's (Dr. Marguerite Rush Lerner),The 80 page book also contains a Glossary and Index.

The idea is great, the book; too long, and too technical to hold an elementary age child's attention to the end. If you need a resource book on aquatic life for a report this is the book to use. Animals covered are: the Basilisk lizard, Western Grebe, Fisher spider, Water Strider, Water measurer and the Rove Beetle.

This book has a decent supernatural story going, but there is something about Lauria's matter-of-fact style that keeps it from being all that exciting. At first, it's cool that Lauria injects the Voodoo/Obeah elements in as if this sort of thing goes on all the time, but this same relaxed attitude permeates most of the book; there is the feeling that if Lauria would just rev the engines, he would have something special here. Oh well.

The plot involves Dr. Owen Orient getting mixed up with the CIA, the DEA, a houngan and some zombies, plus a whole gaggle of attractive women, initially because a submarine sinks due to undead malfeasance. Orient's spiritual powers help him stay alive long enough to probe deeper and deeper into a mess that seems to center on Montego Bay, where corpses are revivified, hexes are cast, and mental demons come calling at the behest of their evil master.

The ending packs the most excitement, and certainly explains much of what has been going on, but it's a shame that this unique book is drawn up in such a tame, forgettable style. Characterization, too, is slight.

Call it two-and-a-half stars.

I have found this book quite helping for computer science students. This gives you entirely a new concept of calculus research useful for developement of computer.

This book covers the infrastructure of a typical central office telephone switch. It is Circa 1976. The telephone company still uses the lead acid storage batteries and large rectifiers to power the system but the electronics principals described in the book are very basic. Metalic rectifiers went out of vogue in the 60's and now very large silicon rectifiers are common. I was interested in study materials that would be usefull in securing a job as a central office technician for the local phone company. This authors books will probably not get me their.

The book features some very good content, while I recommend it, I have to say like many computer text books they can become out of date as quickly as overnight. The book is well orgranised into easy to read sections and contains many useful links, unfortunately many of those links are now deak links. Another dated part of the book is about promoting your site with search engines, these day search engines have cought on to the fact that they can make money by making people pay to have their site listed, so if you want to have your site listed on one search engine it can cost several hundred dollars, gone are the days of adding your site for free

With the exception of a few good chapters, this book includes summaries of different sociological studies, their methodology and results. As a college student, the book was really hard to understand and find much value in. Perhaps if I were more accustomed to the language of sociology and social research, it would have been more enriching. You really need a basis in the field to understand this collection. I was lucky enough to have a good, clear professor who made sense of it for me, but it doesn't exactly make pleasure reading...for a novice, at least.