The Hound at Baskerville was about an evil spirit that haunted a town for years. The spirit was forgotten for a long time but it came back up and haunted the town once again. They think the hound is a dog but I don't know for sure. I think it is because just by reading the back and looking at the front of the cover. The book is scary but hard to understand. There is a tax driver that is really suspicious and doesn't tell the truth all the time. The hound haunts them at night and doesn't ever get caught. The town people are really afraid of the hound and don't really talk about it. I have a filling that somebody will die or come close to dying because somebody always does. I think the hound is a big dog that has been mistreated and just wants to get back at the people that did it to him. The hound does this by trying to kill people that live in the old house know.

Ms. Arthur and Ms. Ardnt are to be highly commended for their efforts to teach children how to study the Bible inductively. They don't insult the child's intelligence with an abundance of shallow statements about God and "just be nice" theology. Rather, they attempt to take the child by the hand and actually teach him or her how to interpret the Bible using some foundational tools that will allow the child to discover the meaning of the text on his or her own. They even do a careful job tacking the thorny theological issue of the Fall of Adam and Eve.

Unfortunately, this book also contains typical young-earth "science" -- teaching children that there were dinosaurs on Noah's ark, that the entire fossil record was laid down in a global flood a few thousand years ago, and other equally bogus "scientific" (and biblical) claims. It's sad that this approach is so commonly used in children's books written by conservative Christians. Although it's taught under the banner of "critical thinking" what it really does is set the child up for a crisis of faith later on when he or she learns about the MOUNTAIN of physical and biblical evidence standing against this paradigm.

And the REALLY sad part is that it's completely unnecessary to impose such a paradigm on the biblical text itself. If the authors would consistenly apply the tools they are teaching the children, they would realize that the text does not demand a view that the earth was created in six 24-hour days a few thousand years ago. A literal, grammatical and historical hermeneutic allows for an day-age approach or a framework apporach -- both of which allow both of God's revelations to man (the words of the Bible AND the record of nature) to inform one another on the issue of how and when God created.

The theme of this book is discovery -- teaching children how to discover the Word of God for themselves. Unfortunately, the authors do not thoroughly delve into either the biblical text or the record of nature. Instead they treath both revelations in a shallow manner and end up misleading children away from the methods of true discovery.

This is the last published work of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, much better known for his creation of Sherlock Holmes---"without question the most famous character in English literature."

Conan Doyle was a long-standing member of the Society for Psychical Research, and became more interested in the paranormal after the untimely death of his son. However, "The Edge of the Unknown" does not present rational arguments for and against the existence of life after death, as this reader might have expected from the creator of the world's greatest fictional detective:

"I believe that all of these varied [psychic or paranormal] experiences have been sent to us not to amuse us by tales to be told and then forgotten but as the essential warp and woof of a new spiritual garment which is to be woven for the modern world. We live in an age which has long demanded a sign, yet when the sign was sent it was blind to it."

The author does not fashion a logical case so much as he harangues and pleads, and indulges in embarrassing name-calling. One of his primary targets is Harry Houdini, the great magician, escape artist, and debunker of psychic charlatans. Conan Doyle claims to be Houdini's friend, then waits until the magician is safely dead and argues that Houdini used paranormal powers to perform his escape routines---otherwise they would have been impossible!

According to this book's dust cover, "...Conan Doyle was a tough, not-to-be-bamboozled skeptic. The reader will find, then, his testimony especially persuasive---encompassing mediums whose bodies produce ectoplasm; weird prophetic dreams; séances with 'ghosts' of Lenin, Oscar Wilde, Dickens and other famous people."

This reader was persuaded of just the opposite. She was especially disturbed by the author's claim that the Great Houdini was a fraud because he 'used' paranormal powers in his escape routines, then turned around and debunked other 'legitimate' psychics.

This title is billed as the Sixth Edition, and reflects the coming and going of co-authors. It is too bad that the editor had so little influence. Sections of this book that stick to their cartographic knitting are excellent. Historical information is very intersting. Basic explanations, such as the evolution of ellipsoids is very well done. Some of the writing is so bad it could have been extracted from a sophmore term paper, sprinkled with such inept phrases as "such as", "similarly", "however" and "in fact". The most glaring deficiency is in the area of computer technology. Either this material has not been updated since some earlier edition, or the author(s) are very uncomfortable with the subject matter. As examples: "Most common procedures used by cartographers have been translated into software programs written in special computer languages such as FORTRAN and C." "Today's well-rounded cartographer is routinely involved with these 'canned' (prewritten) mapping programs..." "The professionsal cartographer should, therefor, have a working knowledge of at least one computer language." We are regaled with three pages of detailed obselescent material on computer structure, but only 23 lines of overview on current instrument technology. There is a whole chapter on fonts and lettering, but no algorithm for conversion from Lat-Long to UTM. The central meridians for the UTM zones are not provided, nor is the DoD lettering scheme. One of the responsibilities of a text book is to arrange the subject matter in a structure where it can be easily referenced. This book reads like a series of articles of varying quality published under one cover, with overlap resolution left as an exercise for the reader.

First, it must be noted that Cotterell is the general editor, and not the single author of this volume. The book is generally very well organised, focusing on the mythology of many cultures and using rich illustration material and special boxes, where it highlights details on specific themes or gods.

These features would make it a very good book; however there is an important disadvantage which makes the book unreliable, esp. to those who are not specialists in history, mythology, or archaeology: There are serious mistakes in historical information and maps.

In one example (p.55), there is a map of "Ancient Greece, circa 400 BC". The map looks really strange, because although it includes a part of Eperus and Thrace, it shows an "artificial" funny frontier in order to exclude the area of ancient Macedonia. It is beyond any doubt today, thanks to the numerous excavations and hard archaeological evidence and reports, that the ancient Macedonians were a Greek tribe who instead of adopting the
city-state organisation, they retained monarchy, something disapproved by the democratic Greeks.

This is not an accidental mistake, as the book again on p.102, clearly names Macedonians among the Eastern European Yugoslavs, along with the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, and consequently, disregards the ancient Greek Macedonian culture, by giving to it a false older slavic character. It is true that today the land of ancient Macedonians is divided among three countries: Greece, Bulgaria, and the South former Yugoslavia. In the latter, the
current slavic and albanian inhabitants tried to take advantage of the glorious Greek Macedonian past, even though they have no cultural connection to it.

It is unfortunate that a book published in 1999 has such important historical mistakes. As the board of writers consists of professors and Drs., it is difficult to believe in their
ignorance and not in intentional political purposes. But these must be left out from a book on mythology and kept for books in politics and diplomacy.

In short, this book is helpful to those with a solid background on history, folklore, archaeology, anthropology, classics, BUT will misguide the non-suspicious reader and young students.

This book does not contain any "meat", I'm sure in 1963 the book was great. It suggests using lead solder, which as we now know will leach into the milk. Throughout the book it contains problems such as this. The last publication was 1980, I don't believe much Engineering editing occured. It is outdated....P>Roy Metzger, BSEE
Sr. Food Process Engineer.

This is the only source I know for F.A. Hayek's essay "The Creative Powers of a Free Civilization." Most of the remaining essays are indifferent, but the Hayek one is very important.

The publishers description says it all. If you're looking for specifics on fishing BC rivers, (locations, flies, lodging) this isn't for you - it's mostly stories and recollections

This has been the text for MAT 105 at the University of Georgia for several years, and I have taught the course from it ten times or so. On the whole, I am quite unhappy with the book.

In writing an elementary math text, there often must be a compromise between rigor and ease of comprehension. This book, however, is poor in both areas. It is both mathematically unrigorous and difficult for students to read. In several important cases, principles are stated which are not merely unrigorous, but are actually incorrect. This would be somewhat forgivable if the book were more readable; but students cannot understand the vaguely worded definitions and theorems in this book any more than they could understand the correct, rigorous statements.

The redeeming feature of this book is the selection of topics in it. The topics, such as graph theory, voting, game theory, and scheduling algorithms, require little or no algebra. In this way, students can improve their mathematical and analytic abilites without being subjected to the streams of equations many of them have been trained to fear. Also, each topic covered is directly applicable in a way which is visible to students, which helps hold interest up.

This book contains a collection of essays on classification most of which are written by rather well-known contributors.
Overall the book is a disappointment and points to problems in library and information science (LIS) as a research field. Classification is often regarded as one of the core subdisciplines of the field and as one of the core qualifications of library and information professionals. Nevertheless, no classification researchers are today visible in bibliometric maps of LIS (e.g. White & McCain, 1998)!
One of the problems in this book is that it fails to define classification and to distinguish between different kinds of classification. By only considering systems like Dewey, LC and facetted classifications, it fail to consider, for example, bibliometric approaches in LIS as kinds of classifications and thus to consider the basic strength and weakness of different methods of classification. In computer science the term "ontologies" is very popular and can be considered a modern development in classification research. Vickery (1997) made a useful introduction to this research, but it is not considered in the present book.
If the electronic environment is to be fully considered, one need to compare the relative strength and weakness of all kinds of subject access points (cf., Hjørland & Kyllesbech Nielsen, 2001). One have to consider what utility-if any-classification codes can have in relation to all other kinds of access points.
In Chapter 3 Julian Warner actually do take a step toward considering inherent weaknesses in current approaches to Information Retrieval (IR), and this chapter was in my view the best one. I think he is right in making the point that the IR-tradition has built on the assumption that the system should provide a set of records that satisfy a query. What an IR system in his view should do is to enlarging the users' capacity for informed choice between the representation of objects in the given universe of discourse.
In recent years the methods of classification and more generally: Knowledge organization has been reconsidered. Hjørland & Albrechtsen (1999) claimed that the four basic methods are respectively empiristic, rationalistic, historicist and pragmatic. If one uses, for example bibliometric methods, one applies an empiricist method. The best representatives of the rationalist method are the facetted classifications. An example of the importance of historicist methods are given in Hjørland (2000) considering the classification of the social sciences. An unfolded comparison of all methods used in one domain is given in Hjørland (1998). In my view, the future of classification is connected to a combination of these four methods of classification and to the further clarification of strong and weak aspects of different methods and systems. Unfortunately, these issues are not addressed in the book, while it fail to answer the fundamental questions about the future of classification in LIS.

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