>>The author, an established psychological researcher whose contribtions appear regularly in scholarly journals, makes an overview over studies concerning homosexual behavior.<<

Cameron has lost his standing and was removed from the American Psycoholgical Association because of his completely unscientific approach to homosexuality. The only ones who take his writing seriously any longer are the extremists on the Christian Right. The man is a quack.

>>Evidence abound that the homosexual life-style is associated with numerous pathologies. Consider these examples:

* 20-30% of all child molestations are homosexual in nature, although gays comprise 1-3% of the population.<<

Not true and Cameron presents skewed statistics. Pedophilia, regardless of the sex of the victims, is not scientifically defined as either hetero- or homoxexual behavior, per se.

>>* Gays are dramatically overrepresented in crime statistics. According to one source, about half of the young murderers in Washington state have been involved in homosexuality.<<

Most of which was prison rape. Not a homosexual act, but an expression of power. The vast majority of incidents of that type of rape is committed by heterosexuals.

>>* The average life span for homosexuals is 42 years - aids-victims NOT counted. Taking into account those who die in aids, the average is 39 years.<<

This assertion by Cameron is simply a lie and he presents no verifiable evidence to back up his assertions. This is one of the statistics most beloved of the Xtian Reich, and it is simply not true.

>>* Two independent surveys show that aids has caused gays to reduce the number of partners from about 70 to ca 50 annually. Most gays say that more than half of their partners have been one night-stands. Only 4% claimed to have had only one partner during the past twelve months.<<

True, but improving. And your point is? Are you jealous?

>>The author does not claim that most gays are dangerous, but points to the fact that various abnormalities, including violent crimes, are highly overrepresented among homosexuals, which suggests that it is a harmfull disorder.<<

Again, a complete fabrication. He has no evidence to back up this assertion.

>>He also shows that sexual orientation is not immutable - in fact most gays report having changed sexual orientation one or several times during their life.<<

Again, a lie. Simply not true and Cameron knows it. He just makes it up as he goes along. Those lecture fees from the religious reich are hefty and this is the stuff they love to hear. They don't care a bit if it's true or not. Sad.

* 20-30% of all child molestations are homosexual in nature, although gays comprise 1-3% of the population.

* Gays are dramatically overrepresented in crime statistics. According to one source, about half of the young murderers in Washington state have been involved in homosexuality.

* The average life span for homosexuals is 42 years - aids-victims NOT counted. Taking into account those who die in aids, the average is 39 years.

* Two independent surveys show that aids has caused gays to reduce the number of partners from about 70 to ca 50 annually. Most gays say that more than half of their partners have been one night-stands. Only 4% claimed to have had only one partner during the past twelve months.

The author does not claim that most gays are dangerous, but points to the fact that various abnormalities, including violent crimes, are highly overrepresented among homosexuals, which suggests that it is a harmfull disorder. He also shows that sexual orientation is not immutable - in fact most gays report having changed sexual orientation one or several times during their life.

Of related interest is the books by Gerard van den Aardweg, a Dutch psychotherapist who has worked with therapy for gays for thirty years.

The authors cover the entire range of geostatistics - structural analysis (variogram fitting), kriging, multivariate and nonlinear methods, conditional simulation, scale effects, and inverse problems. The chapter on geostatistical simulation is particularly impressive, and much unpublished work of Georges Matheron and the Center for Geostatistics at Fontainebleau, France, is made available here for the first time. Practical and theoretical aspects of geostatistics balance each other very nicely.

This is not an introductory text - there are other books in the area which are custom-tailored to beginners - but it is an invaluable, and very carefully written, reference. For anyone applying geostatistical techniques in environmental sciences, earth sciences, engineering, or related fields, this book is a must-have!

It covers every part of geostatistics. After a useful introduction and preliminaries, different chapters are devoted successively to structural analysis, kriging, the intrinsic model of order k, multivariate methods, nonlinear methods, conditional simulations, scale effects and inverse problems.

Within each section, the book offers an accurate perspective of the different geostatistical methods. Practical approaches as well as theoretical developments are jointly considered, providing a sound basis to the user.

The writing is fluent, with an extensive documentation and a most helpful index.

The book will benefit those who want to know more about a specific method, as well as those who are looking for different approaches to a given problem. It will be valuable for academics and students, as well as scientists, engineers and practitioners from different domains such as mining, hydrogeology, oil exploration, soil science, forestry, and environmental sciences.

I used this book to climb Mt. Handies, Redcloud, Sunshine, and Sneffels (all 14,000' peaks) and was utterly confused on how to find the trailheads! Located in the Alpine Loop that connects Ouray, Silverton, and Telluride, we spent many precious hours searching in four-wheel drive terrain for the trailheads. In the end, the trailhead was a simple location and could have been described in a much better way. The result was that we nearly ended up stuck in the mountains due to running out of gas! We only made it because of a kind stranger.

To Pixler's credit, the description of the actual hikes are good, although the distances seemed consistently off. I especially appreciated a few hints on shortcuts for the Redcloud hike, as it saved about a mile and a half of hiking!

There are definitely better books out there, but this will do if you can't find anything else.

One caveat: the difficulty ratings are for SW Colorado climbs *compared to each other*. I have run across many tourists on trails in the San Juans who tackled a "moderate" climb from the book only to find it extremely difficult.

I think the ratings are accurate, *if* you live in the area and hike regularly. If you're not used to altitude and not in good shape, take this into consideration.

If you're visiting or living in Southern Colorado, you need this book.

Thanks Paul!

Granted, the book is subtitled the "music" of John Mclaughlin, and there is definitely some worthwhile information in the book for McLaughlin fans. A book about his life is long overdue. Its unfortunate that it could not have been written by a closer source or perhaps from the man himself.

But what is great about this book is that they don't JUST go around beating up bad guys. Part of this book, Green Lantern is looking for his father with Green Arrow's help. For the other part, Lantern and Arrow have to fight a potential racial war in New York.

These stories are far beyond your average "Find his secret hideout and beat him mercilessly!" These are actually WELL WRITTEN and thoughtful. The art is great too. And while "pro-Hal Jordan" fans may not like Kyle Rayner enough to buy this book, they are really missing out.