This book often introduces terms with little or no meaning. In the early chapters, it refers to various ontologies assuming the reader knows terms like frames, slots, ...etc. Ex: pg. 18 "Class Defintion (frames) have an (optional) addtional field that specifies whether the class definition is primitive (a subsumption axiom) or a non-primitive (an equivalence axiom)." I was more confused after reading the definition. The book has very few diagrams and does not always realize how important it is for a reader to understand a fundamental concept before they go on to learning new concepts - which are based on solid fundamentals.
In later chapters, the case studies are helpful as one can start relating the myriad of concepts learned in previous chapters.
It is obvious that the authors know their stuff but their teaching style has a lot to be desired.

Disappointing in that there needs to be more written about this early WWII history but this book falls considerably short. The reader should be aware that the book is nothing more than a compendium of diaries of various british participants of this amazing retreat and rescue operation. As such the stories (diaries)are not always well written. The book lacks dialogue and smooth flow like a historical novel and becomes tedious in the reading. I resorting to skipping pages in the back of the book.

This might be a good book for someone who's really just starting out. I found it, however, much too basic. The authors tend to make it seem that academic publishing is as simple as building with legos: just follow these easy steps. The really hard things about publishing are glossed over. There is an attitude throughout of mild condescension (anyone can do it, so you must be awful if you can't). The examples they use are also too long and boring.

This book is poorly written, contains many errors in programming method and is also missing a lot of crucial CNC topics.

The software crashes constantly and is also inflexible and inaccurate. I don't recommend this book.

I don't think this should be sold as a CNC schoolbook because it has too little information and the software doesn't work good.

Spent too much time reading an over hyped bio of a sports figure. The cause of death was too sensationalized. Book was bland. Frank Moriarty did not cover the issue of the total lack of safety by NASCAR. They are to blame for unsafe cars, races, and procedures.

In short I wasted money to buy, wasted time to read, and wound up throwing the book out

AS happens with CART, NASCAR is sometimes an amateur organizati9on, making unbelivable blunders. Compared to the FORMULA ONE environment, they are amateurs, really. Concerning security, the difference is abysmal.

If one is looking for an honest, unbiased biography of the great fundamental preacher Frank Norris, as I was, this is not the book to purchase. It is just a waste of your time and money. The author quickly identifies himself as a modernist and a hater of Biblical fundamentalism by his comments regarding Frank Norris. The further I got into the book the worse it got. His attack on Frank Norris is bad enough, but his misinterpretation of fundamentalism and the Bible just go too far. The author is, of course, entitled to be a modernist and not to believe that the King James Bible is the inerrant Word of God, but should not disguise his opinions in the title of the book. This book makes me have second thoughts about purchasing any more books over the internet.

This book was good in giving you the basics facts of Norris' life, but it left me wanting a more in depth biography along the lines of the one of Jimmy Swaggart done a few years ago. If you want to know the highlights, and low lights read this but if you can just check it out of the library.

Too bad about this book....Great topic, some good pics, but the author just ran the subject into the ground. I don't think he could connect two thoughts if his life depended on it, so to make up for it, he simply spilled out every mundane detail he could dig out about Frank Kurtis and/or his cars. There is a lot of good primary stuff here, but the author did a lousy job of historiography in distilling it into a concise, engaging story.

The pictures COULD have been awesome, but they are not. Many look like they were photocopies or bad digitals that were reproduced. I am surprised the publisher even considered them...in any case, it contributed to the overall fact that the book is a pile. It really is too bad. This is a very cool period of racing and an interesting, albeit, not crucial, part of the history. The neatest thing about the book is the cover. It will look darn nice on your shelf if you end up with a copy. You will like the pictures, but don't try to decipher the author's ramblings. It will only turn you against Frank Kurtis and his very cool cars.

This is book full of cool pictures of cool cars. I really like these early roadsters, so I buy everything I can about them. I have to agree with the other review, though, the writing in this really is bad. There are so many cool pictures, though, that they make up for the writing. If you like roadsters and already know a good deal about them, buy the book. If you are a first timer looking for an introduction to the history, this one probably isn't for you.

As an atheist I thought I would order this book for a laugh. It certainly provided me with that.

It is both pathetically simplistic and misleading. The "proofs" for god's existence have all been thoroughly refuted, and their logical inconsistencies exposed, yet here they are again. Evolutionary theory is completely misrepresented, either from ignorance or intention, by repeatedly referring to it as a purely chaotic and random process. This, of course, neglects to mention the power of natural selection as a non-random mechanism.

The authors attempt to answer the "problem of evil" was especially hilarious. He offers the "gift of free will," and our misuse of it, as an explanation for evil in the world, which says nothing about natural disasters, plagues, parasites, cancers, etc. The best part was his conclusion "On the other hand, some suffering, especially the suffering of innocents such as infants, raises difficulties that we cannot pretend to answer." Wow . . . what a compelling defense of an all-benevolent God and the seeming inconsistencies in our suffering filled world.

All in all this book is great fun and blast to read. An amazingly lame effort. Enjoy!

A friend of mine gave me this book when he found out I was an atheist. The book may give "warm fuzzies" to already established christians, but if a christian thinks he can use the arguments presented in this book against an educated atheist then he's wrong. The book is poorly written and seems to bounce around without giving any definitive proof of anything. As an atheist, I've read much better books defending the faith.

I did not find the arguments in this little book to be much use to me, although perhaps others will. There is not enough information on any of the topics to really substantiate the points that the authors make. In fact, I think that if someone tried to use this book as a primary tool in a conversation with an intelligent and well-educated New Ager or atheist, he would be pretty much shredded. On the other hand, the type size was nice and big.

The photographs are fab,then you start to read ,and a little voice says wait a minute,espically as ive just finised his way by kitty kelley,i know he is dad ,and she's his little chicken,but how anyone in there right mind would fill a book cover to cover with such sugar sweet garbage,as this is beyond me,unless of course your ego and arrogance is higher than everest,now where would she have got that from,her explaining away the acts of voilence and cruelty,of one of the most feard performers to ever tread the boards,are airily brushed away with "hell get mad,and youll get mad",but if you face him them all will be well, ah shucks ,that is if your head is still on your shoulders,here and there,the veneer seems to slip,such as when descriping Richard Burtons,tribute to sinatra,at a luncheon in sinatras honour.She commends burtons tribute,then icily adds his words were by someone else, burtons diaries (Rich a life)leave no illusions of he really thought of sinatra,somehow i get the feeling this didnt escape her,its these little cracks in the facade, that show the true nancy, like father like daughter,sorry honey you dont fool me for one minute, little chicken,little vulture,more like it.

This is Nancy Sinatra's biography on her father, the legendary Frank. There have been many stories about him over the years; his drinking, his suspected alliance to the mafia, his womanizing... In Nancy's world none of this existed. No, Frank was a saint according to her, with no faults whatsoever. The greatest man that ever lived! I am not interested in some kind of tabloid-style, gossip-based diving into the rumours about him, but it would have been interesting to read a more nuanced view of who Frank really was. Nancy ignores all of that, and her perpetual praise of him, page after page, is very tiresome. Also, she takes the opportunity to use the book as a sort of biography on her own career (almost a third of the book is about herself -that's OK but then the title is misleading, I think). The only credit I can give the book is that there is interesting detailed information on Frank's career and I learned a lot about the music industry in the 40's and 50's. But I would like to read an outsider's story about Frank, a more objective one.

Unlike the recent book by Tina Sinatra (which I give five-stars) this book softsells any of FAS's well known liabilities. Nonetheless, it does contain some interesting details about his life. My one complaint is that Nancy Sinatra's other book "Frank Sinatra, American Legend" seems to be indistiguishable from this one, and indeed contains 80% of the same material yet was not published as a revision. This, earlier version is better in my mind because of her notes about each of his movies and albums at the end of the book. That material is missing in the American Legend version. Given her softsell, I do have to wonder what Nancy has to say about her sisters more forthright approach to their father's story.

I didn't like this book, I liked the original book but this sequel just didn't cut it! The book had potential and started off okay but the plot quickly fell apart and by the end I was very disappointed and dissatisfied, I would recommend the original Audrey Rose book and the movie instead.

I too liked the original Audrey Rose book and when I saw that the author wrote a sequel I bought the book and read For Love of Audrey Rose and like these other reviewers I found the book disappointing and the characters who I liked in the first book were total strangers to me, they had the same name as the original characters but did not resemble them at all, it was like who are you people and what did you do with Janice, Elliot and Bill? I could see Bill having a mental breakdown after the death of his beloved daughter Ivy but a lot of things in the book didn't work for me, first of all the affair between Janice and Elliot bothered me becasue she was still married to Bill and I always thought of Elliot as being a very moral, spiritual man and I just didn't see him as the type of guy who would sleep with a married woman so his affair with Janice seemed really out of place and out of character! My advice buy the first book which is called Audrey Rose and avoid this mess, I myself want to remember how much I liked Audrey Rose and forget I ever read this sequel and completely purge it from my mind! For the love of the original Audrey Rose book do not read For Love of Audrey Rose! I really wish I was able to rate this lower then a 1.

I just finished reading De Feitta's, Audrey Rose, and was mildly interested in the sequel "For the Love of..." After reading the review here on Amazon[.com], I was getting the feeling that the story was going to be horrible, in fact it wasn't.

I started reading with low expectations, the original novel, was well written, and I was finding it hard to believe that this author would massacre his characters as the reviews here lead you to believe. I feel Janice's journey to India, and Bill's madness, after the death of his child were believable esp since Bill's rigidness was established in the first book. I also believe that Hoover had mild affections for Janice in the first book, esp with the difficult choices she made in going against her husband in the trial, thru their pain they bonded.

I am not one to usually listen to reviews; I take them with a grain of salt. I feel "For the Love." should be given a chance, if you trust the author, you will like the book. The Journey is a bit different and its not as strong as the original, but it holds up wonderfully on its own, and in the end I believe Janice's love For Elliot, even though they may never be together.