In the introduction to this book, Mr. Senior states (rather proudly I might add) that he has so very professionally hacked away 2 thirds( aw, just a few sentences..) of the entire story. He claims that much of it was needless details (such as descriptions of battles, ect.) but rambles on to announce that he has cleanly ripped away a few other side plots not necessary to to the well-being of the whole (as he sees it); any of the adventures of Sir Gareth, you won't find here. Other knights seem to drop into the story, and while all of the characters in the tale will appear to know who they are, you are left in the dark, because they happened to be on the editor's 'bad list' and their earlier excursions were deleted.
But then Mr. Senior finishes with this; that we must "not bewail these losses" (after all, he knows what he's doing). I suppose 2 thirds of Sir Thomas Malory's work was in vain.

180 pages of more techniques than you could possibly use. The formulas are well explained, the strategies (series of 7, magic number of three, moving averages, exponential moving averages, stochastics, csi, rsi, regression analysis, etc) are also well explained. As somone who has searched for the ultimate formula, oscillator, technique or what ever for trading commodities, after reading this book, I've concluded that you can find a chart or group of charts to justify ANY idea. Given any market, depending on which combination of indicators one chooses, one could justify any decision. Now what good is that?

Well written but gets boring reading the same old rehash warmed over with a different person's opinions. Nothing new here, I'm afraid, just a repeat.

The description sounds promising, but I was very disappointed. The author leads you very slowly, with his coddling 'Mr. Rogers' voice that would sound unnatural in any setting except leading a meditation. There are a few great techniques, but it takes a lot of patience to endure the entire series, which I did. On the other hand, I DO recommend "The Sound of your voice", also sold at Amazon. OK, there are a few corny lapses, but there are *plenty* of real-world examples, lots of excercises, and the delivery is very dynamic. Check it out.

If you plan to tour the Napoleonic battlefields of Spain, or if you collect ALL volumes on the Peninsular War, buy this book. Military historians visintg Espana will find Robertson's notes and maps invaluable. He also presents a fairly comprehenisve bibliography of what to read next.If this isn't you, skip it. There are better overviews and surveys available. As a travel guide though, it's awfully good. Bon voyage!

You have to judge this book against the excellent "Military Atlas of the first Word War" by the same author. Just a short comparison to make the point clear: MAFWW had over 250 maps, a short introduction to the course of war in each chapter and as main advantage unbiased information "why" things happened in WW1.
This book now has less maps (about 150) for a much longer period, no written introduction, no "before", "why", "and then.." maps, so what you got is basically 10-20 maps for each section, providing you with nothing else but army movements etc. which would be ok, but then these are the kind of maps that you get with each introductonary book for each of the wars depicted. This atlas does not offer any explanatory information on what happened, so you'll have to buy a companion book, if you're interested in a specific war and most likely this companion book would contain at least the same amount of maps. So there is no point in buying this book. Besides that, the paper quality is quite bad.

Much less a bio than an ego trip for the author. Forum is reduced to about 2 pages in the book. How did this ever get published? Skip it and look for another bio on Mostel.

I used this book as a text in my class 'Physical Chemistry of Liquids, Interfaces, and Colloids'. This book is not a textbook. My students are complaining all the time about the presentation of topics as well as the extent of derivations, interpretations, and lack of examples. I must admit that I have made a mistake for choosing this text for my course. If you are planing to use it as a text, please go through a few of the derivations and you will notice that the book offers very little to a student.

I have found the book very difficult to follow. The book reads more like a research paper than a textbook, in both style and content (for example, there are too many references, most of which are completely unnecesary). Many symbols are left undefined. There are many gaps in the derivations. Many concepts (e.g. the Maragoni effect) are introduced out of proper context. I would not recommend it to anybody. Get an earlier edition if you can.

It was the text book of a discipline in my graduate couse. I and my friends had too many troubles with it, the text is dry with to many references. The text simply order you to look for some reference, instead of explain some obscure part of theory. We only understood many of the problems after Adamson sent the problems answer. The solve some problems we must looked for some references cited in the text, and that took a lot of time. During the couse we used to say that some problems are impossible to solve, others you don't give the correct answer, and the last ones you solve correctely, but you don't understand the why you solve by that way. We used the 5th edition until chapter 10, than we tried another book.

Discover Visual Cafe... because you certainly won't be "taught' anything by this book. This book appeals to two groups, those looking for help in creating Java Applets, and those wanting a reference for Symantec's Visual Cafe. Unfortunately, it won't benefit either one. It says, "Teach Yourself" on the front cover... this is the only beneficial advice the book has to offer... (They should have written, "so why get this book" underneath). Overall, I want a refund!!!

A lightweight introductory text with insufficient detail. The "Tear-out Card" and "Discovery Center" are a complete waste of paper. This book is of no use to anyone with programming experience if they've already spent an hour or two playing around with Visual Cafe.

Everything about this book seems like a rush job: take a huge helping of boilerplate about the Java language, then append lots of screenshots of Visual Café and write some text around them, add some pro forma glossaries, print and ship. The book has about 400 pages of text, not counting contents and index. Of that, the first 185 pages - almost half - pretty much exclusively discuss the Java language itself, with only scant passing reference to Visual Café! In fact, I could find only three, very terse mentions of Visual Café in this whole section, which amounts to nearly half the book! The text doesn't even tell you how to use Visual Café to type-in and run the examples. Even the sections on objects, classes and events make NO use of Visual Café's graphical construction tools, or the Interaction dialog. The front and back covers of the books tout that the CDROM includes "a complete component reference guide". That squib is grossly untrue! There is only a smidgen of info about the barest handful of the supplied components. Throwing ingredients together and serving them immediately does not make a stew. In the same way, you won't find much in "Discover Visual Café" on tying Java and Visual Café together! It talks about Java, and then it talks about Visual Café. When it's talking about Java, it barely touches on how you can follow along with Visual Café. When it's talking about Visual Café, the language at hand might as well be COBOL for all the interest this part of the text has in Java.

As a history teacher I find this book extremely juvenile and geared to the reading skills of a twelve year old. The history is there, but only superficially. If someone is looking for a quick read on Hitler and does not want to get to involved with facts and a variety of other information concerning history, then this book is for you.

A. M. Schlesinger, Jr. provides a somewhat interesting introduction to this book concerning leadership. However, his name and reputation do absolutely nothing to enhance this book. My advice, check the "ole' ENCYCLOPEDIA for it will do as good a job explaining Hitler as this book and it is a whole lot CHEAPER.

I tottally disegree that hitler is a leader because he killed millions of people who were not exactly like him. Just by reading the cover before i read the book i knew it would be bad because hitler aint no leader and thats the truth.

In response to the above statement. Hitler did commit genocide, but he was a leader. He led Germany. Leaders aren't necessarily good people who do good things.