This book is a compilation of 4 other books (which the author admits), two of which I am familiar with. Certain sections (bayonet, knife,stick)are just out and out copies from Cold Steel....except where Cold Steel uses photos this book uses drawings. Also, quoted is Cassidy's The Complete Book of Knife Fighting, though not so blatantly. The book also borrows rather heavily I would imagine from Black Medicine Vols 1and 2...I am not familiar with these two. So (...) you basically get a glimpse into four manuals.Some of the info was new to me and its hard to go wrong (...). My interest in this book stemmed from an article on the relevance of bayonet usage in the modern day. It was dismissive of the bayonet as a weapon but lauded the novel uses found in this book.....novel only if you haven't read Styer's Cold Steel.

There were a few significant technical errors in this book (like the old "jam your fingers through the eyes and into the brain" move -- which does NOT perform as advertised), and the quality of the illustrations is somewhat childish, but it was good for a few laughs. The esteemed Colonel takes himself far too seriously! This book is a bargain compared to his hundred dollar travesty "The Soldier's Handbook," which amounted to little more than the information within this book combined with "The Improvised Munitions Black Books" (which are government documents within the public domain), and a few tidbits gleaned from other government documents (or plagiarized from Minnery's "How to Kill, Vol. 1"). Like I said, good for a laugh, provided you don't take it too seriously. It's kinda embarrassing when your "secret deadly strike" does not work!

This is a very extensive book on the subject of Close Combat. It contains information on unarmed and armed combat, knife fighting and throwing, bayonet use, stick combat,use of improvised/expedient weapons and a detailed examination of just how (medically speaking) the blows you deliver cause the enemy to become disabled.

This book, as mentioned before, provides the reader with quite an extensive amount of information. The main problem with this book is while this great deal of information is presented, it is not properly explained. The author just presents the reader with an EXTREMELY poorly drawn diagram and writes somehing like "bring fist to throat-TO KILL" and while that's all fine and good, the author NEVER tells us how to actually execute any of the blows he mentions (in fact, the fighting stance is only mentioned in passing and really leaves the reader little idea what to do with it).

Also, I don't think have of the moves in this book would kill, which is not to say they're not effective. I'm sorry, as painful as it is to be kicked in the genitals or elbowed in the spine, it just isn't going to kill you. Trust me, I've experienced both (one of which by a black belt in Karate). The author also assumes that one blow will finish of your attacker, even if its to a place like the knee.

Herbert borrows heavily from masters of Close Combat such as Fairbairn and Styers; he actually even uses diagrams that appeared in Fairbairn's "Get Tough" and Styers' "Cold Steel." That's a good thing, because Herbert realizes that it is might be needed to put down an attacker with extreme, possibly even deadly force. He also kept a minimum fancy moves with throws, sweeps, locks, and foolish ground fighting, all of which would not work in a life-or-death encounter.

Overall, a pretty good book for those seeking self-defence/hand-to-hand combat tactics. Its not the best, and Herbert should have been much more detailed and not emphasized on the carrying of weapons for civilians to use. I'd like to give this 3 1/2 stars, but I think I'll give it the benefit of the doubt and round up instead of down.

Earl Anthony's book, Winning Bowling, has several positivepoints. First, I found his concept of spare shooting in this bookvery helpful. Anthony outlines in shooting spares four basicpositions: Strike Position (which also corresponds to Crossover Line), Left Center, Far Left, and Far Right. Anthony essentially takes samples of each spare group and demonstrates what foot position and angle would maximize conversion. I have applied this to my technique, and I have been having greater spare conversion success. However, I found his discussion of shooting Strike Angles, and in particular the first Arrow Angle, somewhat unclear. This book is not one which will aid you in adjusting to given lane conditions, but rather, how to execute each kind of strike shot. In the book, there is no discussion of oily or dry lane conditions. Also useful are the "super secrets", and his description of faults in the swing. I discovered from this book that one of the major faults in my own swing was side-wheeling, and this discovery helped me to swing the ball straighter, as well as save the skin on my thumb! For the advanced bowler, it may not have as much pertinent information, but for the beginning and intermediate bowler wanting to understand the swing a bit better, it is a good book to have on the shelf.

This book entirely is a book more for a beginner. Yes,learning progress starts from the basic however, if more writing for improving to higher level average bowlers will be a good credit. Not much pictures and illustrations.

Earl Anthony has managed to pack so much information into this book it's really hard to know where to start this review.

Let's concentrate on something that had never occured to me to ask my coach, among many others covered in this book.

What is lift? Here was the answer in black and white. It was also easy to follow the concept that Earl was trying to get across. Additionally, the simple demonstration that Earl uses in the book really makes the concept even more lucid. I finally see good rotation on my ball, and has it ever made a difference in how well the ball hits the pocket!

This aspect of the game that is so important for anyone who is just learning to throw a hook. Why was it so well kept a secret? It wasn't but I didn't think to ask, duh!!!

This book belongs on any bowling fans library shelves.

First of all, it doesn't state which objectives are for which difficulty levels! I thought my game was messed up because the guide said to find something to complete an objective that didn't exist! I looked on the start menu under Objectives and what the guide told me to do wasn't even there. It does not tell you enough about multiplayer and the cheats. Not as good as Nintendo brand guides. The world isn't enough and neither is this guide!

I am a pretty good Golden Eye player, and I was hoping that this game would live up to it's expections. I played this game when I rented it, and I easily beat the first levels up to one called "Night Watch". Once I got there, I was not able to kill one single person, or I would fail the mission. All you are given is a watch stunner and 12 knockout darts to knock out armed guards. When you walk over their gun you pick it up and take it. That isn't that bad but within 30 seconds they get back up and they somehow have a new gun. Even worse is there is this guy named Gabor that walks around, and if he sees you, the mission is failed. I knocked him out with a dart, and he didn't see me, but I still failed the mission. This level is extremley aggrivating. You buy this game for killing people. I am also dissapointed with the multiplayer games. Every single weapon settings is horrible except if is set for "weapons found in this level". I enjoyed every other level very much. If Rareware made this game, it would have been a lot better. The guns would have been 3d, there would be no "Night Watch" level, you could choose what weapons you wanted in multiplayer,and you could have a lot more options. I like how the weapons have different rounds example: (44magnum, 45acp, 9mm, 5.72mm, etc.) I also liked the selection of weapons better. It was four times as fun with two modes for each weapon. The shotgun being auto/semi-auto. you can fire off five shells in one second on auto. Some other two modes are auto/single, single/silenced, auto/single with laser, etc. All in all, I think it is fairly good and it can get pretty addictive.

i found a link to amazon with this product on the internet while i was looking for cheat codes because i was so stuck on a level when it arrived it had a lot of pitchures to show what you had to do a long with instrutions and they had tips on almost every page! it has dicriptions for wepons and detailed instructions for every level. plus it has the guide for both the psx and n64 version of world is not enough.

Like I said, read your text book! Waste of money!

The Princeton Review usually oversimplifies the material that you need to know, so it's probably not such a good idea to get this book if you're having some or lots of trouble with the material. However, the practice questions are really good because they are very similar to the types of questions that are on the AP.

So if you need more practice questions, then get this review book, but if you only have the money for one, then buy the Barron's AP Psych book because it contains many review questions also (that are similar to the AP type) as well as an extensive review section that easily understandable but will also prepare you for the exam.

Before taking the actual AP Psychology test I prepared using this book. It mentioned all the concepts that were on the test, but remember that it is just a review book. Thus, it did not go into depth on many important concepts. So, if you don't fully understand something mentioned in the book, open your textbook to clarify that topic. Furthermore, I thought the practice tests were very similar to the real exam, so be sure to take those! Overall, I think perusing the book is an excellent way to prepare for the big test!

As a college librarian, I've been exposed to lots of book, Both professionally, and as an avid reader starting since I can remember. I have literally read thousands of books, and have been reading science fiction since I was a teenager. It is my favorite genre of books. I've read the usual authors, such as Heinlein, Asimov, Poul Andersen, Andre Norton, Larry Niven. Right now I'm reading a lot of military science fiction, and in my own 300+ book collection include authors such as David Weber, David Drake, John Ringo, John Steakley, Sharon Lee, C.J. Cherryh, and others. Simply put, I love reading science fiction. I tell you this because it should give some credence to my statement that Derelict is one of the worst written books I've ever read of any genre. Or I should say started to read. It is 714 pages long and I couldn't get past page 41. I really tried to give the book the benefit of the doubt, but the pain of reading it soon overwhelmed any optimism I had that it would improve. While I admire the author's ambition and effort to write a book of this length, I sincerely wish he had taken some writing classes, or at least had someone edit the book. The book is published by Writer's Showcase, an imprint of iUniverse.com, Inc. What this publisher allows authors to do is to pay to have their books published. The website for the publisher states that Writer's Showcase is for "authors who could benefit from additional editorial and marketing direction." I think Williams, the author, should ask Writer's Showcase for his money back. The only editing direction this book took was backwards. Where to start? One problem was that I kept stopping to mentally correct problems in basic grammar and punctuation, and wonder why an author would include exclamation marks (!) at the end of almost every other sentence and even use them in place of question marks. These may seem insignificant matters, but grammar and punctuation can greatly assist or hinder the flow of a book. So it should come as no surprise that the sentences themselves that comprise the book have no flow, no cohesion, and seemingly no purpose other than to use up as many words as possible. Try reading a few pages of sentences such as: "like the steel jaws of a soporific leviathan the access doors parted, breaking in half the great chrysanthemum painted center as the two doors vanished into the overhead and deck, unveiling ahead the rapier like probe which pointed directly towards the Promenade Room like a glaring broadsword." And no, reading it in context does not help a bit. Here's another one: "Human bodies caught by the section's gravitional pull twirled slowly about its imaginary axis, all frozen hard into grotesque poses like hearty contortionists condemned forever to remain the still objects of their bizarre craft." And lastly, "Unannounced, Heather Gagnon quietly entered Goss's office and eased her dark-suited endowments into a cushiony swivel high-back and friviously gave it a twist....Quickly Gagnon placed her compact away and just a quickly produced a Virginia Slims Menthol and placed it into her thin, frosted lips. Taking a quick puff she pushed her brunette fullness away and primly adjusted the high collar of her imported smock." Now imagine paragraph after paragraph, chapter after chapter of this, for 714 pages. I can't really tell you about the plot of the book because I didn't finish it. If I was a paid reviewer, I would have made a more heroic effort to read the book. I just couldn't. Instead, I went to a bookstore and purchased one of Terry Pratchett's Discworld books, and read it to restore my faith in good writing. By the way, if you think I am being too hard on the book, then spend the $.. to buy it and make up your own mind. And you can enjoy how "in the spot of lighting a small hatch sprung and beings started dislodging enmasse from the hellacious innards of that old, rotting hulk. The 24 men immediately tore in horror from the onrushing denizens. These were hideous insectine beings with huge brains deranged of formaldehyde and age: a segmented rabble bearing ancient weaponry and rusted bludgeons in their scaled claws." Don't say I didn't warn you. The terrors in this book are nothing compared to the terror in reading it.

I bought and read this book based upon a single customer review and wish to add my opinion to the mix. Good things: The character developement was fairly well done, and the story is unique. I personally like longer stories, so the length of the story seemed appropriate. Bad things: The story did get off to a slow start with a several hundred page description of the shore leave taken by a group of soliders. While many emotional bonds were made, I got sick of reading about all the drinking, eating, and sex. As a healthy male, that was easy to grasp and seemed beat to death. The technology of this fairly advanced society was not well described, nor were the political situations detailed... Finally, my biggest complaint is that the author used WAY too many exclamation points. Its weird, and I'm normally not a stickler for things like that, but it got annoying. In summary this is an average book which is unfortunately not worth its cover price.

I occasionally check out new selections by authors that are relatively unknown, looking for something different. This is how I came across "The Derelict." At over 700 pages, this novel is really a two to three book series and I can honestly say that I am ready for two to three MORE! The first thing that amazed me was how fast these characters developed into people I could relate to. The second amazing thing was that this didn't happen with just one or two "leading" characters, but with about a half a dozen personalities! Most books that attempt this kind of thing seem to have the peoples personalities too vague or blurred together. This crew rapidly turns into memorable people as the adventures begin. You move along with one of these Guys or Gals for a while then suddenly things pick up someplace else. "Hey, what happened to-, Oh what's this?, WOW!, ok." and then off to yet another place until all these different sub stories weave into a clear pattern of action and adventure. Did I say "action"? I meant to say "ACTION"! About half way through "The Derelict" I couldn't believe how fast things were happening. In fact I was a bit worried since I have had too many books "peak" early on and the ending just seemed "added on" to clean up the left overs. Not here! "The Derelict" brings you on to the edge of your seat and keeps you there. Think you can see what's coming? Wrong! You just never know what to expect next. This book doesn't fall into "typical" scenarios, it takes two twists and then a left turn that makes you dizzy, but what is really stunning is that fact that everything is made believable! None of that "Oh yeah, right" kind of stuff. The book just keeps building and getting better. As the crew finally boards "The Derelict", this adventure starts to blend into a mystery and then adds moments of absolutely heart stopping terror. The action never stops. After the last page, I found myself taking a deep breath and dropping back hard to Earth. Apparently the author, Anthony L. Williams, has been working on a totally different book, but has indicated that he may consider a sequel. I, for one, am waiting and I am pretty sure that if you read "The Derelict" you too, will want to see more adventures in "The Bartolian Vector."

I didn't like this book too much. A little bit too simplistic...

The above question has stimulated debates and arguments throughout the centuries and still hasn't been resolved. Jesus For Beginners attempts to answer the question through exploring the Jesus of history, the Jesus of faith and the Jesus as seen through the eyes of the institution called the church.

Readers are given a clear and broad historical view of Jesus, the times he lived in and the context in which he preached his message. From there we are led into the theological developments of Jesus as interpreted by the Apostle Paul and finally we are given a sweeping view of how Christianity in the form of an institution (the church) dealt with defining the person of Jesus in order to stifle doctrinal dissent.

The material in the book is good as well as its presentation. O'Hear attempts to be objective but ends up in a quagmire of doubt in finally pinpointing who Jesus was. In many cases the author shows his ignorance about theological views that focus on Jesus by not giving them a closer examination. If anything, O'Hear keeps the debate going. Those who have theological training will appreciate O'Hear's attempts to introduce Jesus and his place in history. I picture this book as one for stimulating discussions about Jesus for those who are professional religionists (clergy, seminairians, laity in full time ministry) as well as someone who wants to know about the historical character called Jesus.

If you are looking for a fast, simple introduction to Jesus and Christianity, this is a superb starting place. There is more comic-strip illustration than text, and it does try to cover all the basics in a very short space, from issues such as who Jesus thought he was or was not, as the case may be, who his followers thought he was, through to the early Church and on to phenomena such as liberation theology.

It could be used as a resource for groups wanting stimulating discussion.

This is a good overview to hand a beginning avionics or flight controls engineer who needs to get familiar with the very basic principles of inertial nav. Good coverage of various types of instruments, but many of the designs covered are outdated and of little use in modern design work. Given the paucity of works in this field, I welcomed it as an introductory text, but you could not perform any serious trade studies for a real design with only the knowledge in this book. It doesn't cover GPS in any depth, or the important topic of GPS/INS blending. Other topics missing are a good intro to optical gyros (Sagnac effect) and the overall integration of nav systems (steering modes, landing systems, cooperative nav, effects on weapons delivery, and so on). Still, for the money, I would recommend it to a neophyte who has some extra cash...you have to start somewhere!

This book has the potential of being extremely useful; certainly it is an ambitions book. In the discussions of the mechanical gyros the disertation flows fairly well. However, once into the optical gyros, the result is just about worthless. The Sagnac Effect is the basis for all optical gyros such as the ring laser and the fibre optic gyro. The discussion of this effect is just about useless. It is virtually impossible to see how one equation follows from the preceding equation. The fringe shift from two interfering beams which rotate in opposite direction is the basis of all optical gyros, but the discussion in Lawrence's book is little more than hand waving. In other words, if the reader has a background in optical physics, then the discussion makes some sense. However, the book must be judged upon its own merits and here I think it fails miserably. So I would recommend the book for the discussion of mechanical gyros but as an introduction to optical gyros I would recommend that the reader look elsewhere.

The technology in the field is quite advanced, and the research is particulary active and in costant evolution. Producing a comprehensive reference is quite difficult but the author delivers clearly the advantages and disadvantages of each system analyzed in the book. As a guide, the work has neatly reached its goal, since it delivers a clear picture of the current state of art and the trend of each system development. In fact the author is covering every subject quite extensively without the dispersion of innumerable specific technical papers, which are, of course, much more detailed but far from comprehending the scope of the whole field.

The only point is the mathematical level,that is maybe too simple for engineers and scientists, and a little bit complicated for the average pilot, one of the most interested user in the field.

Although this book touches on a variety of topics it does only that - touches. There is a great deal of information that is not in this book that I as a developer find necessary. Even the title is misleading. A developer's guide should me a reference of sorts not a text that requires scouring for info. Searching for info on implementing winsock, for example, is frustrating because like many other topics it either can't be easily located via the table of contents/index or has just been avoided. Do not make the mistake of trying to learn how to impliment Crystal reports using this book as a sole source of direction. This may be a good book for decorating the bookshelf, but other than that I cannot even recommend it for beginners due to the spurious method with which the author presents material- A method which can easily leave one confused and frustrated. I was amazed that SAMS could allow themselves to publish such a book given the quality of many of their other books. Save your money for something more worthwhile.

I've only read a few selected chapters, but what I did read did not have enough depth to actually be useful. I can't pass judgement on the book as a whole, but don't bother with it to learn about using VB with databases.

Here's the most egregious example of lack of detail: Chapter 34 deals with Crystal Reports. 25 pages are spent explaining how to use the Crystal gui to build report formats, but there is no text at all about how to invoke a report from VB. Very strange. I mean, isn't launching a report from VB the reason that a VB developer would care...? The author refers you to the application developed in chapter 42, but there is no text there either. It's just bizarre. There are two pieces to the puzzle and the author just leaves you hanging with one of them.

I started to read this book wiyh limit idea and knoledg about VB5. Start using the book at work and togeter with the great tips I got excelent results. Thanks to the book I now more then I use to know in the history. This book is also built in good order which take the system and the windows environment in first part and then VB as integration with it. Many thank Anthony for your excelent book. I am waiting for your next book ( vb 6.0 ) I warmly recomend it for beginers and non beginers developers.

This author uses fiction and mythology to write this book. It is filled with historical errors and pure sugar coated wishes...the major one: Constantine as a Christian Martyr....He was far from it.

The author, writing from an Italian and Latin perspective, is understandably less than effusive regarding the interventions of St. Constantine in the internal affairs of the Church. Eastern Orthodox Christians celebrate the Great Councils, beginning with Nicea in 325 as establishing the "conciliar" pattern by which Orthodoxy defined itself against the variety of heretical uprisings in the Patristic age. With certain limitations, this is a factual, sympathetic, and balanced account of an heroic, and sinful, and ultimately repentant, man. Nevertheless, the result, with Contantine's acceptance, of the rise of Christianity in the Empire was dramatic and swift. Crucifixion and other public cruelties were abolished, the infanticide of female children was suppressed so that women came from perhaps 1/3 of the population to equality in numbers with males, slavery and other evils eventually disapeared... and the Empire lasted another thousand years until overwhelmed by the Muslim invasions.

I really wanted to enjoy this book. The moody English setting seems ripe for suspense, the characters all have something to hide, and the standards of this genre are low enough that I thought this would be a sure-fire laundromat read. Alas. The characters are one-dimensional and affected, and it is apparent not too long into the book who did it, though you don't find out why until the end -- and the revelation comes in a clumsy equivalent of finding a letter of confession written by the culprit. Also, the author's apparent fondness for the class system of Britain gets boring, and fast.

I'm the kind of mystery reader who prefers Agatha Christie to Dorothy Sayers: I prefer linear development, a sturdy sense of plot, character, and color, to the florid wordy thickets that some mystery afficiandos seem to go for.For my money, "Avenging Angel" delivers: the plot speeds ahead efficiently, and the characters are memorable and often plain funny. But it's the atmosphere--the half-satiric donnish details--that really stands out. I'd read a few books about the Cambridge Apostles, including John Banville's excellent novel "The Untouchable"; this isn't in the same league as the Banville, in my opinion, but it's far more enlightening and entertaining than the other fiction and nonfiction treatments of the famous--notorious?--Cambridge society I've seen. The book isn't readily available, though: I got mine at a second-hand book barn. I hear, by the way, that a new bio of Anthony Blunt is coming out next year; I wonder if anyone else knows about that?