Nahin has a lot of interesting things to say with regard to time travel, but he has a tendency to set up as straw men viewpoints not in agreement with his and let viewpoints that do agree with his slide by when, perhaps, they warrant deeper critical examination. Special derision is reserved for various philosophers and their "fairy tales" and such. The chief respect in which I really enjoyed this book was in the many and varied discussions Nahin engages in with regard to time travel in literature. What he has to say is almost always lucid, interesting and fair, and the examples he rescues from obscurity are invariably intriguing. It's unfortunate that he didn't show such equanimity, again, with regard to opposing philosophically-oriented viewpoints. I have mixed feelings about the book because the recurring tendentiousness can wear on one, but I think the discussion of time travel in literature makes it worth the while.

As I have always been fascinated by the idea of time travel, I very much enjoyed its discussion both in 'strictly scientific' terms and from a philosophical, literary, and, essential, pop-culture perspective.
Sadly, Nahin completely ignores one aspect that features prominently in many modern time travel narratives: the idea of alternate universes / alternate realities and, tied to that, the narrative perspective of sequentiality, which follows the POV of the protagonist of a narrative and projects his continuity against the alterations his actions cause. As a result, a number of time travel stories are missing, while others show flaws/inconsistencies in their interpretations. For instance, Isaac Asimov's The End of Eternity (1955), which deals with the idea of realities literally being 'engineered' through minimum manipulations in the course of history, thus weeding out 'mishaps' like world wars and famines but at the same time stalling natural progress, remains completely unmentioned. On the other hand, Nahin points to the 'flaw' in the end of Back to the Future I that the shopping mall should always have been "Lone Pine Mall" and never "Twin Pines Mall" as it was called in the beginning because taken from a timeline perspective, Marty had already been to 1955 and run over one of the twin pines with the DeLorean when the temporal experiment #1 took place in the parking lot in 1985. However, taken from this perspective, Marty's family should have been healthy and wealthy from the beginning on as well, which would undermine the whole plot idea of changing history (which is, added to that, even expressedly discussed in detail in the also unmentioned Back to the Future II).
Nevertheless, Nahin gives a lot of food for thought on the idea of time travel, and the rather extensive bibliography supplies a very good reference for further individual exploration.

As I have always been fascinated by the idea of time travel, I very much enjoyed its discussion both in 'strictly scientific' terms and from a philosophical, literary, and, essentially, pop-culture perspective.
Sadly, Nahin completely ignores one aspect that features prominently in many modern time travel narratives: the idea of alternate universes / alternate realities and, tied to that, the narrative perspective of sequentiality, which follows the POV of the protagonist and projects his continuity against the alterations his actions cause. As a result, a number of time travel stories are missing, while others show flaws/inconsistencies in their interpretations. For instance, Isaac Asimov's "The End of Eternity" (1955), which deals with the idea of realities literally being 'engineered' through minimum manipulations in the course of history, thus weeding out 'mishaps' like world wars and famines but at the same time stalling natural progress, remains completely unmentioned. On the other hand, Nahin points to the 'flaw' in the end of "Back to the Future" that the shopping mall should always have been 'Lone Pine Mall' and never 'Twin Pines Mall' as it was called in the beginning because taken from a timeline perspective, Marty had already been to 1955 and run over one of the twin pines with the DeLorean when the temporal experiment #1 took place in the parking lot in 1985. However, taken from this perspective, Marty's family should have been healthy and wealthy from the beginning on as well, which would undermine the whole plot idea of changing history (which is, added to that, even expressedly discussed in detail in the also unmentioned "Back to the Future II").
Nevertheless, Nahin gives a lot of food for thought on the idea of time travel, and the rather extensive bibliography supplies a very good reference for further individual study.

This book's release in the pre-internet days prevents it from getting its deserved recognition. Erdman has written well-received books since the 1970s. Snappy dialog containing factual information about the world of high finance both educates and entertains the reader.

After reading Den of Thieves this books brings us over from reality to fiction by way of the Grisham / Clancy type drama and action of high finance and intrigue.
Beginning where Den of Thieves leaves off (in the real world) this takes us on a fast passed romp through start-up, cutting deals, leveraging coin, and turning up the heat to create a trading operation in the woods north of San Francisco.
The Willy Saxton character is perfect and handles the presure well.
This of course is not great literature, but it sure is a fast and great read. Books like this are like "Text Movies". They grab and entertain you.
If you like high finance, drama, and intrigue then this is it!

A masterfully written book. Even though I read the book almost 4 years ago, I still believe it's the best I have ever read. Mr. Erdman crafts a wonderful story about the world of high-finance. He writes about an area of life that few understand and makes it easy to comprehend. The characters are solidly depicted and the hero is even more realistic due to his flawed and checkered past. The flaws in the hero just make him more believable and his goal in the story just reinforces human nature that "even though you're down, you pick yourself up and start over"; (by any means necessary) just makes Willie Saxon's character that much more exciting and real. One can almost imagine being in the character's place. Some may even wish to be where Willie Saxon was. Paul Erdman's characters are always strong willed and powerful. Mr. Erdman's portrayal of a riches-to-rags-to-riches character makes the story that much better. A great plot. A must read. For me, it's a must read "again".

I have seen this technique before in others unauthorized bios... The writer simply goes out searaching for magazines and TV interviews featuring the star on focus, thatn releases a book without having PERSONALLY interviewd anybody related to the star!! Simply sepaking, it's almos a job of Control C, Control V !! (COPY AND PASTE!!)

Paul Bauman wrote a wonderful book about Andre Agassi called Agassi and Ecstacy. I think the book was really enjoyable to read and it was interesting. I liked it because it had a lot of interesting facts about Andre Agassi's life and tennis career. I would recommend this book to tennis players and fans of Andre Agassi. I also recommend this book for all ages of people who are interested in tennis and who like Andre Agassi. I read this book because I really enjoyed tennis and Andre Agassi. I thought it was a really fun book to read and I enjoyed writing a review on it.

Although this biography is unauthorized, it contains a lot of information and interesting interviews. This is a great book. Unfortunately, there isn't a biography on Agassi that is more recent.

I did too. I read this book with an amazement on how basic Bible priniples can me misused to the detriment of oneself and others around them. Please read this book to understand the confusion that enslaves so many Christians. If you truly seeking God, you that they way they tried to find it in this book is not the way to find him.

In this work, Paul Johnson has taken a relatively small and unknown event and used it to illustrate not only an interesting event but also an interesting perspective on the Burned-Over District as a whole. It touches on everything from sexual corruption to radical doctrinal innovations. The Burned-Over district saw the beginning of numerous religious movements such as Mormonism, Adventism, Christian Scientists, numerous smaller religions that did not survive, and even significant political movements such as Antimasonry.

This book is the story of one of those movements. The prologue introduces Matthias as he went to Kirtland to visit with the Mormon Prophet, Joseph Smith. While this event occurred near the end of Matthias’ activity, it is obvious that he stole many of his ideas from Joseph Smith. Matthias initiated the practice of the washing of feet which was common to both the followers of Joseph Smith and Ellen White. He also believed that the truth of the Gospel had fallen from the earth shortly after the time of Christ another Mormon belief. In addition, he had a sword which he claimed was ancient similar to Smith’s sword of Laban, as well as naming the Priesthood after the order of Melchezidek. Likewise, his early mentor Mordecai Noah taught that the Indians were actually a branch of the Israelites which is a central idea found in the Book of Mormon. All of these ideas came out before 1830 when Matthias began his activity.

The most humorous part of this history is the anecdotes that relate to Matthias’ enemies trying to shave off his beard. Johnson has done an excellent job condensing all the most relevant information in this short work. The Kingdom of Matthias is an enjoyable read and a must for anyone interested in this interesting period in American religious history.

This is one of the exquisite books that I have read about this time. And to the writer "Orrin Judd", how dare you be such a anti-intellectual dunce? Just by holding on to the case of the Lewinsky/Clinton trial (which by the way Wilentz and Berman wrote before this happened) and other inane right-winged republican comments, if they are even worty of any name other than trash. They remark on this book as something it is far from being, a peice of garbage that can merely be thrown away as litter. As for the book itself, this is a masterpeice with pen and ink, wonderfully capturing the era. It goes behind the mind of this engrossing man and period, and includes people, such as Soujourner Truth, that were known later on, after the period the book was written. It just so awefully captures all the details and facts behind this, but still making it enjoyable. I reccomend this book highly, and give it 5 out of 5 stars. And to any creep, such as Orrin Judd, who thinks otherwise, then just consider this book one more time, the brilliance of it and the fabulous authors (Paul Berman and Sean Wilentz) who made the making of this book possible.

Apparently, someone thinks Mr. Lansky has talent. Someone, that is, besides his dad, who published "Up the Amazon..."

Like his other efforts, this book is not very good. No matter how entertaining the stories could be, bad writing is still bad writing.

Keep trying, Lansky, maybe someday.

I read a few of Doug's columns a while back and remember liking them. So I picked up the book and brought it along on my trip from DC to SF. I started snickering half way into the first story, then the guy next to me on the plane wanted to know what was so funny. I read the passage. Next thing, we were both laughing. Several embarassing snorts later I had to put the book down -- didn't want to see any airplane food flying out my nose. Finished it in chunk-size portions later as Doug suggests in the Introduction. Liked some stories more than others, but for overall laugh count, I highly recommend.

Doug Lansky picks up where he left off with Up the Amazon Without a Paddle, giving us another book full of hilarious tales of his various & sundry misadventures around the globe. As any traveler knows, it's one thing to dream of the peripatetic life, quite another to put up with the discomforts, loneliness, and fatigue that travelling on the cheap actually entails. Lansky's secret weapon in the war of attrition that travelling can become is, of course, his terrific sense of humor. His intelligence and long experience on the road have attuned him to the often hilarious ironies & contradictions produced by the commodification of leisure. His reports can be read as a warm-hearted, self-deprecating reminder of the bad faith that sometimes underlies our quest for adventure in a world whose possibilities are already ordered according to the logic of the market. Lansky has the mind of a skeptic and the gift of laughter--a great combination!!!

The book was a compelling read for chapter to chapter, but at the end you feel cheated. While it makes an interesting Fiction, it did not have the makings of a good Mystery. The solution was rushed in the last two chapters of the book.

Nowhere were clues during the read that could lead even a careful, experienced Mystery reader to try and even speculate on who did it. For me, half the fun is trying to deduce the murderer(s) before the author reveals it.

There are clues dropped as to why it happened, but you'll just flat be told who it is at the end. You just sort of plod along, hoping to find something to bite on and BAM the author spills his guts in the last chapters. The author did a great job running a second plot along; although it suffered the same clueless, fast wrap up.

The characters that did do it were really underdeveloped. If they were better developed, and some clues dropped along the way, this would be an amazing Mystery book.

It is, however, a damn good book for specifically [weak] content. A good book, not a good Mystery.

Great Mystery....Mark Zubro has done it again! Paul Ben his 2 children Mrs. Talucci even his partner all came to life again in another ongoing Turner mystery...thank-you Mr. Zubro for continuing this series

This was an very well written mystery novel! I fully enjoyed the suspense that was driven into this book. Being in the technology industry myself the references to computers and technology was great! It fully added to the suspense!

The gist of the book is Chicago homicide detectives Paul Turner (who is gay) and Buck Fenwick (who is straight), in their investigation into murder of Internet tycoon Craig Lenzati, stabbed over hundreds of times in his security-laden apartment. When Lenzati's partner Brooks Werberg is killed and parts of his place smashed into smithereens, the pressure is put on from the Mayor's office.

But these dot-com boys' nack for putting aggressive little startup companies into trouble, and possibly even bankruptcy by stealing their ideas had won them a great deal of enemies.

What could possibly make this story even better? How about a secret storehouse of theirs filled with names, addresses, and tapes of the boys' sexual misconduct? In fact as it turns out, Lenzati and Werberg had enjoyed an ongoing sexual-conquest game, their preferred prey heterosexual couples, including a pair who'd been suing them and another pair who'd been working for them. A freelance "cracker" (a computer whiz who breaks into and paralyzes systems) employed by the boys will die, and Paul will receive boxes of chocolates and scary e-mail from a serial killer targeting police detectives all along Interstate 90.

Before Chicago finally settles down and Paul can reassure his son Brian of his safety and fall into the arms of his lover Ben. Brittle but funny dialogue between Paul and Buck; tender moments between Paul and Brian; sentimental relationship shows between Paul and Ben.

I personally would have liked a bit more drama at the point of the different confessions, but it did not distract from this book in any way.

You need to read this book... !!!

This book was very helpful. It's an easy read, and helpful to both the abused and abuser without being preachy to either side. I believe it's a must-read for both the abuser and their victim...

Implement! Do it! Half of my counseling career dealt with violent, angry men, incarcerated for life because they totally lost it... and now regret it. "If only someone had stopped me before I did her in." This statement said over and over even when some went in for counseling sessions yet departed because they did not want the "counsel." That meant dramatic change and they loved their power position so much their "security blanket" was not about to be given up.
Hegstrom's book skillfully presents these insights with all the "on the scene" drama [routinely seen by deputies] as you cannot help but empathize along with all the hurt, pain, and grief experienced by the two parties tied together in these agonizing episodes. Nonetheless, if the solution is only pondered and never applied, they spin their wheels agonizing forever. Read and heed his counsel!
For those couples who will read, I can give them a copy of this book. It is that helpful.

This book doesn't do the "submissive" drivel - it empowers women and holds men accountable. I do believe that wives should listen to their husbands - and vice versa. I believe we have a responsibility to trust our husbands WHEN THEY EARN IT. But too many abusive men use religion as a club to verbally beat up their wives.

This book addresses that facet very VERY well.

It also lays the cold, hard facts on the table, exposes the secret wickedness and pain of verbal and emotional abuse and deals with it.

The author is a former wife beater who turned his life around. He was a PASTOR - and a wife beater. This book is powerful - because it is so honest and presents his wife's side, as well.

If you're looking for a scholarly tome, this is not the book. But if you want a book that is interesting, readable, understandable and practical - AND - conveys its message with an undercurrent of Christian love, this is the book for you.

I'm sorry to see the negative reviews here. I found this book compelling. While reading it, I ignored the phone, the door bell and the barking dog. I've been in a verbally abusive relationship for years and our home life is now changing, thanks to "The Verbally Abusive Relationship" by Evans and "Angry Men and the Women Who Love Them."

This is a powerful pair of books and I highly recommend both of them.

Wierwille's thesis must be taken seriously. His book must not.

Although he makes an attempt at being reader-friendly, he does so at the expense of sound proof of his thesis. This is a laughably bad book, and its primary usefulness lies in reassuring you if you already agree that Jesus Christ is not God.

A much more comprehensive attempt at addressing this issue can be found in Anthony Buzzard and Charles Hunting's "The Doctrine of the Trinity: Christianity's Self-Inflicted Wound" and the book "One God and One Lord" by former Wierwille followers John Lynn, John Schoenheit and Mark Graeser. Of course, defenses of the Trinity doctrine can be found in any Christian bookstore.

If you're going to disagree with the Trinity or try to disprove it, Wierwille's book should be your last resource.

This book really opened up my spiritual eyes. I am going to preaching a lot different now that I understand the truth. No wonder I could never make much sense out of what most preachers said about who Jesus is. I recommend this book for everyone who wants to know God and how Jesus relates to God.

I found this book to be a very in depth study on this subject but broke down piece by piece that anyone can understand. Dr. Wierwille handles the few scriptures the trinity stands on and does not miss out that 68 times it says son of God and nowhere does it say God the son. He points out the few scriptures the trinity hangs once looked at from a bibical reasearch method three steps of letting the word interpet itself either in the 1)verse where written or 2)in the context or 3) where the word is used before. This keeps you from just looking at it from a trinity perspective. He also states the trinity is nowhere in the word! His research on the history of the trinity was very helpful for me to start my research to build an even bigger foundation on this subject. Jesus Christ is not God!

I couldn't get into it, but my 8 year old son did. These were illustrated and interesting, as they were written Pre-Zahn Thrawn trilogy. If you want star wars for young kids that are readable and have pictures, check out the darkhorse comics.

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This is actually one of the better books in this series, which is not very good. This book had a bit of a darker feel to it, and thus felt more like Star Wars than the other books in the series. However, this book may have been somewhat entertaining, but that can not take away the fact that the writing is cheesy, the characters undeveloped and not like themselves, most especially Luke, and the intire plot is somewhat silly. Kids too young or to lazy to read Young Jedi Knights, or Heir to the Empire, but would still like to see the Star Wars story continued would probably like this series. Fans older than twelve would probably get more enjoyment out of just about anything else.

Back in 1993, the book sounded ominously prescient. Those were the years when the intellectual fashion was to predict the demise of the US and the coming supremacy of Germany and Japan (Lester Thurow, etc.). Kennedy said Japan, with its cohesive, educated society, would do better than the US and Europe, with their aging, diverse populations. Well, it's still early in the century to say anything, but so far Japan's homogeneous society looks stagnant, while the US and many European societies are extremely dynamic, thanks in good part to the energy of immigrants.

Of course it is not a dumb book. Kennedy is intelligent as a historian, but makes a very poor prophet (the Rise and Fall of the Great Powers is another interesting but very flawed book). Kennedy does not talk about Internet, for example. Not his fault, certainly, but anyway it's a thing to miss in a prediction of what the XXI century will be like. Summing up, the book was interesting eight years ago, but by now it looks very dated. Prophesizing is always an exciting but risky game to play.

Along with Francis Fukuyama's THE END OF HISTORY AND THE LAST MAN, Paul Kennedy's book is a most invaluable resource for citizens of this new century.

A classic in every sense, PREPARING FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY examines the profound changes in the global arena wrought by globalisation, free-trade, the information (IT) age, and the new scientific revolution, in particular biotech- the treatment of the subject, although concise, is valuable, and the analysis of its economic effect highly competent.

(Note, however, that Kennedy made no serious reference about human rights in this book. It is recommended, therefore, to consult Robertson's CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY: THE STRUGGLE FOR GLOBAL JUSTICE, along with this work)

Like Kennedy's other great book THE RISE AND FALL OF GREAT POWERS, it is detailed, scholarly and very convincing, and the narration readable and enjoyable

Always revealing, this non-fiction still is relevant and important even in a post-Cold War era.

I have just seen an interview with Paul Kennedy, the author, here in Greece, and I cannot wait to read the book he has written "because of a question from the audience that caused me to reflect further" to help all of us who care about the future of our planet. I may be wrong, he may be wrong - time will tell -and yet the ideas of Paul Kennedy need to be read and considered carefully! From"
An artist who wants to continue painting beautiful landscapes and their indiginous people!