This is a problem solver book with few diagrams and a lot of newspaper-type pages. The text is blochy heavy seriffed and is difficult to read. I have opened it once, maybe twice. Like your typical problem solvers, you can now find a lot of solutions (even to your specific problem) on the web...for free. There are a lot of equations and theories, but not enough useful stuff for applying these equations to conditions in the real world. The equations are not numbered well and it is impossilbe to tell between interemediate derivations and the final useful equations. Unless your deep into this stuff, it is not for the typical engineer.

This was the book used when I took heat transfer. I found it to be a good supplement to the lectures and do still refer to it. I wish Mills spent more time on using numerical analysis.

Like Any text book it has to be opened and read to be useful

Ignatieff's credibility, particularly in the field of human rights, is forever tarnished by his marked appeasement of Serb ethnic cleansers in Bosnia several years ago. It is only because Bosnia was ignored, and those responsible never held accountable, that their appeasers still publish and get read. I recommend, for those who want some perpective on Ignatieff, to read his works pertaining to the Balkans written during the period 1992-1995.

Ignatieff offers a measured, limited, and explicitly political, i.e., dialogic, nondogmatic, nonmetaphysical, pragmatic, approach to human rights advocacy and questions of international jurisdiction. Excellent, compelling, convincing. I can't say I'm entirely convinced, mind you. One surprise is that I found Appiah's essay--I am a great admirer of Appiah and, in my estimation, his reply to Taylor in _Multiculturalism: The Politics of Recognition_ is among the finest essays ever written--unconvincing, particularly with regards to the question of "rights and majorities." On this, see Jeremy Waldron's _Law and Disagreement_.

In this Nancy Drew book Nancy is the detective along with her friends George and Bess. A mystery develops as the team is researching a class project on ice cream. While the girls are doing the research they discover that someone is trying to sabotage the towns new ice cream shop, the Double Dip. The story is told from Nancy's point of view, she does not tell the reader about the clues that she discovers during the mystery. This book did not give the reader the feeling of suspense, there were no cliffhangers or motivation to continue reading. Each chapter ends with a dull ordeal that is solved in the first few sentences of the following chapter. There are better choices for a mystery available.

In this episode, the young Nancy Drew has to do a report on ice cream. After asking around, she ends up taking "lessons" from two ice cream parlors. One of the parlors is an old fashion one, and the bright, new popular one is threatening to put it out of business. But then strange things start happening to this new parlor. Can Nancy catch the criminal and set them in the honest direction?

After reading the book, I didn't see any substantiated facts based on genuine empirical data gathered from the results of the Japanese bombings in 1945 or the Bimini atoll testing throughout the 40's and 50's.

Dr. Lane describes, in detail, the effects of radiation on the human body and its parts. Included are the effects from direct blast, indirect blast, burns, long term radiation exposure, and late effects. Lots of Tables and Graphs. Excellent reference.

The text of the book is full of errors and misinformation. Poorly informed Chapter 2 will give you wrong information about OSI model and internet history. Be careful with this book, verify all the important information by checking other more reliable sources. New Riders is going downhill, avoid them.

This book provides more wonderful information that a NT Server book does not contain. The book covers all different types of connections from dial-in to PPTP. This book should be used if you are not getting the information that you need in an 'overview' book.

This book takes the lesson that it is okay to daydream one step further. The moral seems to be that you can withdraw from family, school and from life itself. The gory end does not belong in a childrens book. I am not in favor of any kind of sensorship of books, CD's or the internet, but let this book be a lesson to any parent that thinks a childrens book is unquestioningly okay for children.

A delightful celebration of the power of the imagination. Browne's exquisite pictures complement McAfee's witty text in a perfect picture book which has echoes of the very best classic fairy tales.

This book was very useful in its time but is now quite out of date. The translation included in it is that of "The Function and Field of Speech and Language in Psychoanalysis," which is now more profitably read in the new translation of Ecrits: A Selection (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2002).

'All speech is demand, the demand for love.'

Jacques Lacan was much more than a psychoanalyst. In his investigations of language and his twenty year long seminar in France, he explored a realm of topics interesting to scholars in a variety of fields: sexuality, language, the self, the unconscious. Probably his most groundbreaking work - partially contained in this volume - concerns the importance of language as expressing our desire, our need for love - a desire, by the way, that can never be fulfilled and results in pain and frustration.

Anthony Wilden provides a decent translation, but all translations of Lacan's work - like the writings of Derrida - face a very difficult task. Highly recommended...

My niece saw this book here in Amazon, had her heart set on it.
but never really looked over the accompanying info.

In my opinion, the publisher has committed a travesty. this book has only 28 readable pages including the table of contents.
It has 6 black and white photos, and the print is all large
print. any "big star" to allow such a book to be sold for this
price is pathetic. DO NOT PURCHASE THIS BOOK!!!!

I never knew how talented this guy was until I read this book. It is chock fullof information and a great read for kids who have an interest in the business or just in Anthony. I'd like to read and see more books like this!

I have exactly the same feelings as the earlier reviewer: this one is no different from most of the other books covering the same subject. I agree that there are too many personal testimonies and not enough "meat," but even so, this is certainly not a bad self-help book. My favourites of the genre are by Joseph Murphy and Catherine Ponder, and although these also include lots of testimonies, there is something special in theit writing style. Norvell also emphasizes the 2 main techniques of conditioning yourself for success, by (1) affirmations (2) meditation. Other authors to be investigated include Stuart wilde, John Randolp Price and Florence Scovel-Shinn. But this one is OK, especially at the reasonable price.

This book is really no different than a lot of other books covering the same subject on the market today, but it is a good read if you want to see a different point of view on it. It covers good luck, personal achievement, energy, astral projection, esp, clairvoyance, healing, and love. The major problem I have with most of the books published by Parker is that they include way too many supposed personal testimonies, and it ruins the flow of the book. EX: "How one man conditioned himself into a heart attack". If you want to learn how to do these things and can waddle thru the personal stories, then by all means find a copy of this book. In terms of practical content, it is not that bad.

Mr. Clark, a previous reviewer, made some comments on this book without having read (at the time) the primary book of this trilogy: "Life in the World Unseen." This is unfortunate, because many of his complaints about "More about Life..." would have been more then adequately answered in the first book. I presume that he has read the other two books by now. While I would rate the first book with five stars, I agree that the two sequels, "More about Life ..." and "Here and Hereafter" might barely rate three stars (especially read alone). They merely give some more experiences and detail on the main points which were basically set forth in the first book.

I disagree with Mr. Clark's approach, in that he judged apparently the book with a "checklist" of all the features that he should expect to find in any experience of someone passing the portals of death. That is a mistake, especially since the purported source of the verbiage in this books, Mgsr Benson, never claimed to be delivering to us an all-inclusive description of either God's plan for men on the earth, nor of the precise experience of dying and passing into the world beyond. Not only that (and I speak from the collective message of all three of the books), Robert Benson admitted that his own progression is not what it might have been, and that he only claimed to describe things that he witnessed in the realm where he took up residence (the lowest of the realms of light), and in his brief excursions into other realms.

It is clear from the context of his descriptions that those who inhabited the realms lower than his own, the realms of darkness, lacked certain comprehensions of how things worked, or had certain unresolved character issues which prevented them from moving up. It is only reasonable then that Mgsr. Benson might have also had certain things that he hadn't yet mastered or comprehended which prevented him from inhabiting any of the four realms of light higher and more brilliant and beautiful than his own beautiful realm. Consequently, it would have been impossible for this book, given its context, to give any comprehensive description of "The Plan," as Mgsr. Benson not only wouldn't have had much personal glimpse of higher realms, but likely he wouldn't have comprehended all that might be required to progress through them.

Nor do I feel that the descriptions given in these books rule out "reincarnation," as he is simply relatively silent on the actions necessary to move up in progression. It is interesting that during one visit (given in the first book) he had with an extremely high-level being, a ruler of all the realms, he says that this man had been in progression for "countless eons of time." How inconceivable that someone could be in progression for such a long period of time, and yet have only 40-80 years of experience in mortality "on the earth plane" so to speak, where we must "walk by faith," as clearly from the collective near-death literature, the issue of "faith" is not so difficult as it is in our present situation. As these books attributed tremendous importance to our actions and attitudes in this life as a determining factor in what realm we "suited ourselves to" within the hierarchical realms of the spirit world, it seems therefore requisite, to me, that one have again mortal experiences to be able to "do the work of progression" "by faith" in order to qualify for the higher realms.

One of the primary purposes for the books stated in the first volume was to set certain things straight that Mgsr. Benson feels were errors committed during his life. As a well-renowned Catholic author, he had written extensively on "Orthodox" Catholic dogma. When he arrived on the "other side," he simply discovered that virtually all that he had written simply wasn't so. Consequently, he seemed to focus on those orthodox doctrinal errors that he felt he had incorrectly written about, and for which many people had placed deep trust in him for as a religious teacher, and by the way, which things are still read today by many avid Catholic devouts. Most of Mgsr Benson's writings are available on-line today on Catholic-related web sites. It was these errors that he felt the strongest desire to correct, and not to give any descriptions in any comprehensive way.

I found the first book (and the sequels only if considered as one work with the first book) to be refreshing and enthralling, and were also a tremendous balm and comfort to my sister who at the time we gave her the books, was dying of cancer. In the remaining few days of her life, she was in and out of the "spirit world," and during one of her last moments on "this side," related seeing the "rest homes" so to speak that Robert Benson described in some detail in the first book, where newly arrived people often go in the spirit world to recover from a traumatic passing, or to adjust to conditions there.

Please read the first book first. Read the others then if you have a thirst for more of Robert Benson, however, the sequels do not contribute significantly further to the understandings and concepts encapsulated in the first book.

John Pratt

prattjw@sisna.com

Manti, Utah (non-LDS)

I have not had the pleasure to read the other two books, having only found this one and reading it. I am comparing this one to other books on the topic of spiritual life after death. Supposedly, the real author is a discarnate Monsignor, at least from the viewpoint of the text. The one thing I found lacking the most, was any recognition of reincarnation. Supposedly, when one dies and goes to this part of heaven, one never gets the opportunity to be reborn again (something entirely in keeping with current Christian thinking, but entirely out of line with every other book on the subject I have read). You have to read the book, but obviously, Peter Ilyich is Tchaicovsky, and Franz Joseph is Listz the piano wizard...what is the big deal with hiding who they are by not sharing their last names. From what I have read, the reflection of earthly life (trees, grass, flowers, etc) is on the outer periphery of heaven...until such a time as one is ready to shed Earth-Like contrivances. No mention was made of any kind of life review, no meeting of friends or relatives who had already died or those we knew before we were born into this life, no mention of any kind of soul group. The fact of the matter is, time does not exist, from what I have learned, in heaven, and so time and age and earth years are meaningless contrivances. All time is RIGHT NOW, past, present and future. What we are treated to here in this book is like a Sunday School walk through a lovely garden, without any kind of hint about the reason of what we are doing other than we have a right to learn how to make flowers or weave. There is frequent mention of higher beings, but no mention of how one gets to be one. A mention was made of a spirit guide of the departed, but not one further word about this important person in relation to the development of the departed's soul. Not everyone who dies, is treated like a gentle butterfly, as you will find out if you read more about this whole thing...frequently, souls are left to roam the earth in total ignorance of the fact they are physically dead. Others are left here for an eternity because they are insane and don't have the capacity to go towards the light. Others still, sit in the darkness, waiting for help with no help forthcoming. I think God should do better! Create souls, put them on Earth, and if they are helpless, then use some of that infinite power to not leave one of them on the Earth Plane. Here, we are told, we shall be lifted up gently and placed upon a tranquil bed or find ourselves in a wretched hovel if we have been BAD. There are elements of truth strewn here and there throughout the text, but I am left in serious doubt as to the relevance of this text. I shall reserve my judgement after reading the other two in the series...But for now, the second book lacks SUBSTANCE, centers on the frills, and trivialities and the niceties and doesn't concentrate on the purpose, reason and rememberance of what we are doing here or what REALLY happens when we get THERE. I think they are there because they don't WANT to advance beyond the merest opening space of Heaven...they never ever seem to even get to their life review...something every one of us is going to have to face, like it or not!