This book is absolute nonsense. There is very little science here and that is presented very poorly. I am sorry I bought this tabloid!!

This book hinges on the idea that we are on the verge of rediscovering an ancient knowledge. That "philosopher's stone" of physics - a grand unifying theory.

The author begins by explaining this theory - a continually transmuting ether of existence, akin to the Dirac Sea of virtual particles in quantum mechanics. A theory that describes how matter can be created from fluctuations in chaotic flux, and links gravity and electromagnetic forces. He then continues by providing evidence of how this theory was known long ago, and what implications it has for science and our future.

It does not rely, as one reviewer put it, on the "tired light" cosmology. It, instead, creates a living framework for the universe in which the Doppler red shift could also, to my mind, be explained by Hadrons putting on weight as they get older. This would also explain the "high red-shift, low red-shift at the same distance anomaly".

Although some of the links to mythology verge on the "very tenuous", there does seem to be overwhelming evidence that our ancestors were more intellectually advanced than we are led to believe. Not least, the "instantly civilized" Egyptians, who appeared overnight with a complete socio-economic structure, fully developed written language and advanced scientific knowledge.

It is truly refreshing to find a mind that is not blinkered by the views of his peers and seeks to explore new pastures. Pastures that have not been specifically designed to keep the herd happy, and which the herd is equally scared to stray from.

If you are scientifically inclined, with an open mind and a desire to understand everything, then BUY THIS BOOK!

It may not give you all the answers, but it will certainly give you ideas...

One would suspect that the universe operates as a system analogous to natural systems which we obseve every day; Paul LaViolette has submitted a theory which posits exactly this. Leaving the patchwork ransom note of the big bang aside, LaViolette has outlined the course of physics in the next century and beyond. Beyond the Big Bang takes bold steps to answer some of the most fundamental questions of existance, and represents another decoded piece of the ancient astronomical puzzle. Einstein would be pleased.

This was most certainly the worst book in this whole series, which wasn't very good to begin with. First of all, they make Leia a weak female, not tough and strong like she usually is, and they turn Luke into a total geek! Han's character is hugely exaggerated, and Chewie might as well not even be there for all the parts he has. The only characters who acted even a little bit like themselves are the droids. The writing is not very good, and the plot is even worse. Why would Han and Leia just take off like that in the middle of an alliance mission meanwhile their friends are wondering where they are or if they're dead or alive? And Hollagram Fun World is just plain silly. This is definity a series for younger kids. I myself enjoyed it when I was younger, but now just about anything else would be better.

This book has an okay plot but doesn't fit in with other star wars books. For example: Luke Retires from Commander in the rest of the Star Wars book, Lando doesn't work at Holographic fun world, He works at a gem divers station, Luke would have trained Ken ect. I recommend it to 3rd graders. Mr.Davids if you read this don't get offended because I liked it in 2nd grade and I knew plenty of people who liked it.

It's OK to have a STAR WARS BOOK where Han and Leia almost get killed together and so realize how much they are in love and want to get married. How ELSE could they have twins later if they didn't get MARRIED??! So they decide to elope! OK. Why not? And what a cool place they go to to get married, HOLOGRAM FUN WORLD, it's like sort of Los Vegas in outer space. And OK so Leia gets duped by a magician and is captured. Anybody could. She doesn't have to be a perfect superhero. Sincerely, a FAN of QUEEN OF THE EMPIRE!!!! P.S. READ THIS BOOK!!!

The notion that depression is not real and rather a state of mind is frustratingly misguiding and the reason that scores of people commit suicide around the world every day. Depression is a crippling disease that requires treatment and therapy just like any other and anybody who has ever fought it knows this. What this book screamed to me as someone who is vulnerable to mild depression, is that people allow themselves to be depressed; That depression is an attitude, perhaps one I can wake up tomorrow and throw out the window. But the truth is, it is not. It is not something we imagine nor is it something we can forget. In fact, sometimes, we don't even have a clue what is causing it in our lives so how can we simply "pray for it to end." I'm somebody who talks to God and prays for help with a lot of the challenges that come across my life, but even I know that depression is not something, which will simply go away with prayer. A person needs friends, support, therapy and sometimes a prescription to fight depression.

I feel like depression is both physical and spritual problems. It is a sin to let depression control our lives. I have been diagnosed through the Minirth Clinic as a bipolar individual. I am on medication to help me. The idea behind Dr. Minirth's books are to make you realize that God will help us through our depression. Only through prayer will we have the strength to overcome depression. It will not make it go away but it will help us not to give into Satan's control over us through the depression. If you don't believe that Satan battles for our lives then maybe you shouldn't read this book. May God lead you.

I REALIZE THAT NO BOOK IS A MIRACLE WORKER FOR THE CURE OF DEPRESSION. I WAS GOING THROUGH A HORRIBLE TIME WITH DEPRESSION. I FELT LIKE I WAS IN A PIT. THIS LITTLE BOOKED HELPED ME SO MUCH. THE REASON IT DID WAS BECAUSE IT WAS FULL OF GOD'S WORD, ALONG WITH GOOD SOUND ADVICE. I WOULD READ THE LITTLE BOOK OVER AND OVER AGAIN. I ALSO READ MY BIBLE. I EVEN SLEPT WITH MY BIBLE. LOTS OF THE ADVICE IN THE LITTLE BOOK HELPED ME TO HAVE HOPE DURING MY DEPRESSION. I ENJOYED THIS BOOK VERY MUCH. NOTHING IS A QUICK FIX. BUT THIS LITTLE BOOK WAS A BIG PART OF MY RECOVERY. THE REASON I CAME ON THIS SITE WAS TO SEE IF I COULD ORDER ONE FOR A FRIEND. THANK SO MUCH AND GOD BLESS YOUR MINISTRY, ELAINE

I wish the book had as much luster as the gold it talks about in the title. Bland, dull and obvious, all that in the first chapter. Based on the outline of the story I thought this would be an interesting book, and I have read some of his World War Two based books before which were ok. Unfortunately, the best writing was on the dust jacket. I got the feeling he just put this together to give him more time to get another of his famous spy novels completed. I would skip this one.

... It is clear that he reigns supreme of the war spy thrillers. I must admit that this topic does not particularly interest me, however, I wanted to see if this "king" of war spy thriller could reach the disenchanted. Well, he was not so gifted. I really could not get with this book. I tried as I wanted to expand my subject interest.

After reading the first 20 pages, the author still had not reached any interest in me, therefore, I had to put the book down, never to pick it up again. I am willing to admit that I contributed the largest part to my disinterest, but, the author has to accept some of the blame also. I hope that sometime in the near future (next 5 years) I will be able to pick this book up again and read it in its entirity as I would have grown some. ...

CITY OF GOLD is a different kind of Len Deighton book. There is no cold war Berlin here. No Bernard Sampson risking his life to make one more dangerous border crossing. No Fiona, the non-traitor traitor, nor any of the rest of Deighton's usual cast of spies, counter spies, and stay-at-homes. Deighton, to his credit, has tried something different here.

Far from the cold war in both time and place, we find ourselves in 1942 Cairo in the presence of one Bert Cutler who isn't Bert Cutler at all. He is really Jimmy Ross who doesn't want to be Bert Cutler but can't afford to be Jimmy Ross. We first meet Ross on a train on the way to Cairo in the Custody of Cutler. Ross is being taken to Cairo to be tried for murder when Cutler suffers a fatal heart attack. The quick thinking Ross manages to switch identities with the deceased and shortly finds himself in Cairo charged with finding the identity of a spy who is leaking information on British troop movements to Rommel, the Chief of the German Tank Corps. Ross doesn't want to stay Cutler. He doesn't want to hunt for a spy. All he wants to do is to escape before his true identity is discovered. An escape opportunity never presents itself.

This is not a spy story. It is, however, a pretty good adventure set in Cairo and the surrounding desert. As Cutler, Ross's life is further complicated by the murder of a British soldier that he is expected to investigate. In investigating this murder, he runs across a group of "special assignment" British Soldiers who aren't really soldiers at all, but armed marauders who steal British Munitions and sell them to the highest bidder. To further complicate matters, the second in command of this group isn't even British. He's really German, but none of the other members of his "Unit" have been able to figure that out. In the final analysis, this man is the key to solving both mysteries, the intelligence leak and the murder.

Ross, along with some real British Soldiers and the profiteering phonies are all caught in the desert in a major raid by Rommel. All but Ross die, but not before he has solved both questions. In the aftermath, Ross, whose true identity is discovered. is set free and never tried on the murder charge against him, but to get the answer to the key question: who was leaking the strategic information, I'm afraid that you will have to read CITY OF GOLD. That is what this review is about isn't it?

Paul Theroux is not a bad writer, but his novel "Chicago Loop" is one of the worst novels I've ever read. I didn't like a single character in this book, and the main character is no more than a twisted sexual deviant. I would give this book zero stars if that were allowed. I would not recommend this novel to anyone unless you enjoy reading about the psychological breakdown of a very unlikeable person.

I have been transported by Theroux's fiction, especially his Collected Stories and My Other Life. But this book has problems. As an exploration of the anguish of a man trying to face the innate aggression of male sexuality, it sometimes succeeds. But the main character does not cohere, and his psychosis is no excuse for the author's failure. It reads as though the character had been rewritten at least twice, but was never integrated.
There are also problems with the setting. It might seem petty and provincial to quibble about details of local color, but Theroux is after all a famous travel writer. The neighborhoods and buildings depicted exist, but the businesses and people he describes would never occupy them. A Polish-American woman says she is from "Milwaukee Avenue," which would be like a New Yorker saying he came from "Third Avenue." Most unforgiveably, she puts ketchup on her sausage. This horrifying lapse makes me wonder whether he visited Chicago at all, or just referred at a map.

The few negative reviews posted here can, in my opinion, be discounted. If you're looking for likeable characters or a taut crime sage, er... you picked up the book. This is as chilling an account of a psychotic's interior life as one is likely to read (it buries Ellis' similarly-themed, far less insightful "American Psycho). The protagonist, Parker, isn't simply unlikeable, he is - for a time - eerily unknowable, and the book's greatest acheivement is how it mirrors this notion in the cunning narrative tricks Theroux employs. Once Parker's soul is indeed laid bare to him and us, the descent is a harrowing one, but worth the journey.

There is nothing new and all the information are copied from original documents. You can get all the information and more from website like msdn or iplanet. It's a shame that trees are cut for this book.

Decent coverage of ISAPI, but far too many code examples had errors in them that prevented them from compiling. Errors were corrected on the CD.

You can read this book in a day, and walk away with a good understanding of the life of an HTTP request from client, through server, web application, and back. This is no work of art, but it quickly gets the job done. Useful examples that watch the HTTP exchange reveal exactly what the client and server say to eachother. The NSAPI coverage is a good compliment to our (Netscape's) online documentation - the latter is a better reference, the former, a better introduction.

I have to agree 100% with the previous reviewer. I found this authors intent to be deceitful.. the weakest arguments from the opposing viewpoints are stated and then refuted. It is common sense that if you want your argument to be taken seriously you should always attack your opponents strongest points. On this the author fails. The author has also failed to show where objective morals come from?? Do we have an authenticated record in Gods own writing? Failing this, all documents are men's words, and men being fallible means there are no objective morals.

It poses as a conversation between several parties with varying viewpoints about "morality" in order to come to a better understanding of morality. The various viewpoints are represented by a Christian, a moral relativist, an evolutionist, a secular humanist, and an atheist. However, the Christian author's intent is merely to show the other points of view as foolish and sets up one straw man argument after another in an attempt to bolster his arguments. The author hopes to show us how only objective moral principles can help us wade through the really tough moral issues of our time. He assumes we all share these objective morals; indeed, he assumes they are universal in all cultures, a fatal flaw in his argument that could be skewered by anyone who's taken a college level sociology class.

He refuses to give his "opposing viewpoint" characters the intelligence to ask the demanding questions needed to really explore this topic; because he doesn't really care to explore it, he just wants to impose his view on others. His attempt to justify his "my moral view is right because I got it directly from god and you didn't" attitude falls completely flat on anyone not already buried in theistic dogma. If you want to read what humanists really think, read Free Inquiry; if you want to know what atheists really think, go to the American Atheists website; if you want to know what an evolutionist thinks, read Dawkins. This book isn't worth the time.

This work is philosophically naive and a bit immature in presentation. It is presented in the attractive package of fiction, somewhat like a Platonic dialogue without the art or wit. As a resource, even the sources Chamberlain cites are not very thorough, and his choices of what to refer to seem odd and haphazard at times. A student who wants to understand the issues would do better to look elsewhere. Most problematic is the fact that Chamberlain has a shockingly shallow grasp of human character, and an even weaker understanding of the positions he aims to refute.

The main problem with the book is its naivety. An author should not use fiction as a device if he does not understand people or how to write them. The characters in Chamberlain's story are childish and naive and almost never talk or act like adults. His presentation of their viewpoints is also shallow and sometimes insulting. A "graduate student in philosophy" goes through the whole book as if she had never heard of any of the ethical theories or ideas being discussed, a rather absurd notion, and so far from reality that it fails to suspend disbelief. People storm out of the audience in the middle of a debate because they "can't handle it," something that never happens in real life and looks ridiculous in fiction. In essence, since Chamberlain is pitting his Christ-like figure against such ignorant children, he cannot fail to win. But not being a fair fight, the result is not useful to the reader, who would like to understand the other characters and their views better than Chamberlain allows.

Besides this, the two central philosophical flaws in the book are first, Chamberlain dismisses subjectivism far too readily (see p. 176--a responsible study of ethics requires a serious look at the full arguments on the subjectivist side, not just Chamberlain-style characatures), and second, he rests on an argument that was destroyed by the Euthyphro dilemma defined by Plato over 2300 years ago (see pp. 182-7): what is good is good because it is in God's nature--but why then is it to be called good? Because it is God's nature, or because we can see that God's nature conforms to an external concept of goodness? This tautology gets us nowhere. Chamberlain never explains why what is in any god's nature should be called "good." What if it were in God's nature to call for the summary murder of family members who become Hindus? (and he does, cf. Deuteronomy 13:9) Would that make it good? In other words, Chamberlain never answers the question that the book aims to answer, for he only addresses the divine-command aspect of the Euthyphro dilemma, totally failing to see that the same dilemma applies to divine-nature explanations.

A trash book, pure and simple. "Boilerblotto" below is typical of Purdue fans...

This guy is right on the money. I spent a year in Indiana, and these morons think they're the only place on the globe, only the whole place [is bad]. Bloomington is like a regular college town without all the fun and attractive people. ...

Anyone who knows what kind of trash Bobby Knight spews and what a joke Indiana University is will get hours of laughs from this. A great party starter/coffee-table reader!

I learned a few things from this book. One was that Davenport, Ohio is on the banks of the Mississippi(I think they ment Iowa). This however seems to symbolize the effort these "journalists" put into getting their facts correct. Insightful, balanced reporting is not the forte of this duo. This book does not even pay lip service to being balanced.

Don't waste your money.

Me thinks thou protests too much! Chiropractors claim that thier treatments are safe, however this book exposes the real dangers of manipulation. It is not a treatment which should be consented to without full knowledge of the risks. The consumer has the right to be informed and this book does a good job of exposing the BUSINESS of chiropractic "medicine". Manipulation has a definate purpose and value, but the risks should not be swept under the rug.

Not only should State Legislators, their senior advisors and insurance agencies read this detailed, well researched expose' of the 19th century mind set of chiropractic, the public should be encouraged to become informed of the implications of having those elusive 'subluxations' manipulated......

I am german and looking for a good way to teach my american fiance my language. This book is pure horror. Don't waste your money on it, it makes neither sense nor is it a way to impress. Learn "propper" german before you go slang. It saves you a great deal of embarressment.
This book should be taken from the market. Sad that any german author thinks that is the way to TEACH someone.

Hi,
I am a graduate student from germany. After I just read the excerpts online, I could not believe that anyone ever bought this poor book and thinks it is a good start to learn Colloquial German. Living 25 Jears in Germany I definitely know what German slang is like and this book doesn't have the foggiest idea. Please don't ever use one of the words from the book in Germany!

Hy leute...
Hi ich komme aus Deutschland...
um Deutsch wirklich zu checken müsst ihr ne Zeit in Deutschland gelebt haben...
um den realen deutschen Slang zu reden müsst ihr einfach Deutsch reden und ein paar englische wörter dabei machen.
Ist der deutsche Hip-Hop oder punk Slang
Haut rein... leute