This book is a "must have" for anyone that is intending to walk the South Downs Way. It is written by someone that has clearly walked the route and knows it inside and out. The book has extracts from 1:25000 Pathfinder maps that highlight the route of the Way.

The book contains good practical advice for persons intending to walk the route (carry a whistle, food, many layers of clothing etc.).

The book points out many different places of interest that lie along the route.

The best thing about the book is that it is organised into chapters that deal with an individual section of the South Downs Way. Each chapter covers a section of the Way that can be easily walked in a day (in Winter hours). This helps someone to plan a day's walking.

I have walked most of the South Downs Way, and this book has accompanied me every time.

If you thought they just build the Hubble Space Telescope and launched it, you're wrong. This book let you see what all such projects got to go through from the first bright idea and to the actual launch of an earth orbiting space vehicle. Sander Elvik, aerospace engineering student

An excellent summary of the Spanish Civil War. This is an illustrated book of the war, and Preston is a well regarded historian of this event.
This book is less than two hundred pages, but the summary and photos convey the brutality of this war. I think Preston gives equal coverage to both the rebels and loyalists. Also, a good portrait of the major characters in this war, and the politics involved which resulted in the Civil War.
For a quick summary of the war, this is good book to start with.

This Spanish textbook worked very well for my third year Spanish course. It does an excellant job of reviewing many of the previous concepts in later chapters. However, it tends to pack too many new concepts in one chapter. I would not use it for anything below the Junior year.

"Spatial Epidemiology" mixes practical application with theory to provide a critical review of methods, challenges, issues, strengths, and limitations of spatial analysis in epidemiology. Subsections of the book progress from types of data, to statistical methods, to disease mapping and clustering, then end with exposures and links to health. Each subsection includes at least one chapter presenting spatial analytical theory, one chapter providing an overview of spatial analytical methods, one chapter reviewing a particular spatial analytical method in depth, a chapter applying a method, and one specialty chapter. Authors have included equations, comprehensive examples from both chronic and infectious diseases, and extensive references to other chapters and other works for each method presented. Earlier chapters provide a thorough background discussion of data issues that will be particularily useful to novices in the field. Statistical chapters assume intermediate or more advanced experience with spatial analysis, however, provide references to background and seminal works that will allow novices to the field to optimize their learning experience. There are several chapters devoted to cluster analysis, Bayesian analysis, and modeling which are particularily useful.

Overall, this is a very useful book for researchers at any level of experience with spatial analysis. Although technical terms are used liberally, the overall text is easy to read, clear and concise, serving well as both a teaching text and a reference book.

Other useful features:

List of abbreviations - very helpful for acronyms; Color maps; Comprehensive index; References - each chapter provides references to other works that provide more detail or background on the method under discussion

Like I said, the drawings are great, but the story, despite creative, is not that great, especially the end, wich is predictable, very predictable. If you expect Spawn to show up, it's best if you buy Blood And Salvation, in this one the main characters are two lesbian women.

I bought this book by chance: my cousin appears in the first chapter - Operation Citronelle - and i wanted to know more about what happened. The translation is unpolished in parts, but I am learning something about the structure of German operations in France. I am pleased with the book and have contacted the author. Having read The White Rabbit and Bravest of the Brave, I know what happened to Captain Desmond Hubble in Buchenwald. It is astounding to think of being alone, poorly-resourced, and conscious that several hundred miles away is the largest invasion force ever assembled; but YOU are on your own with Waffenn SS, SD, Gestapo, Abwehr, Wehrmacht, Gendamerie, and collaborators all ready to take you, torture you, kill you. These are the boys and girls who went into the house by the backdoor hoping to make it easier for the invading armies to batter down the front door. Worth reading.

If fusion energy and astrophysical phenomena are your bag, and are fluent in calculus and partial differential equations, you too can learn about the wonders of spberomaks. Spheromaks are made from the stuff of the stars and sun, very hot ionized gasses wrapped in and among magnetic fields -- except that they are produced in the laboratory in a number of research centers around the world. The magnetic fields are formed and sustained by dynamo action, as is the earths' field and the fields in sunspots. It is very competently written by an expert in this topic, and a "must read" for scientists in the field and those with curiosity about such things.

This detailed history of the Spindletop discovery is an excellent study of the boomtown atmosphere and the men who made it happen. A must have from anyone interested in early Texas oil history.

A great storyteller, Paul N. Spellman, spins the tale of the 1901 Spindletop discovery in Jefferson County's Beaumont, Texas. Beginning with one man's idea, Patillo Higgins, that oil was there to be found in Jefferson County, the story details the struggle of making dream a reality.

Many colorful stories of events and the men who made it all happen are included from available pioneer's oral histories. From fighting natures elements, disease, insects, and oilwell fires the mental might of the 1901 oil explorer becomes apparent. Too, the detailed story of man's ingenuity while creating many first time solutions to oil well drilling is most interesting.

The book includes some of the history on nearby oilfields discovered after Spindletop, including Sour Lake, Big Thicket, Saratoga and Batson.

The book provides a very clear view of life in a 1901 boomtown after oil is discovered. Whether it's lawlessness, gambling, prostitution, whiskey, lack of fresh water, housing or food, the boomtown greed, or the Texas Rangers, its all covered.

I. Spinoza is a strange and interesting philosopher. His life sticks out in the history of philosophy. He not only philosophized, but he lived his philosophy. Q.E.D.

II. After an assassination attempt, Spinoza managed to get excommunicated from the Amsterdam synagogue in 1656. Q.E.D.

III. Spinoza turned down prestigious university posts and instead made his living grinding glass lenses. At the same time he composed a classic metaphysical system that he also applied to a political system. Q.E.D.

IV. Spinoza was one of the first philosophers to claim that the aim of the state is individual freedom. Q.E.D.

V. Though Spinoza's metaphysics belong to a different time, it is an example of how a theory of existence can be applied to a manner of living and being. Q.E.D.

VI. This book provides a good but very short introduction to the life and philosophy of one of the most interesting philosophers in the history books. Q.E.D.

VII. Spinoza managed to live a very humble life and still attain fame and recognition in his own time. He corresponded with Huygens, Newton, Leibniz, and other eminent people of the 17th century. Q.E.D.

VIII. Spinoza's works were so controversial they were either not published during his lifetime or published anonymously shortly after his death. Q.E.D.

IX. Spinoza's metaphysical system was based on pantheism, which posited that everything and everyone is God, so that if you hurt another you hurt yourself. There are corollaries to the modern Gaia hypothesis in this. Q.E.D.

X. This book will leave you wanting to know more about Spinoza and why he wrote in a strange numbered aphoristic manner. It can be read in a single reading and will acquaint you with Spinoza and why he is considered important. Q.E.D.

XI. Read this book, then move onto more thorough studies if it catches your interest. Q.E.D.