This is the kind of overripe book that gives flyfishing its discreet class airs and dubious eco-superiority claims: making a fly selection is the heart of the matter; this not-news/nature gimmick is really "dumbing down" the game.

In addition it's a badly produced object in itself, rife with mis-spellings, bad usage and scientific error. I object to this as anything other than a sort of regressive, exploitive, "Bambi-ized" approach.

As an intermediate flyfisher, and an even more avid follower of the progress of its recorded technique, I find this book a silly, maybe slippery step backwards in the stream of angling writing. It's cute, it's got some Bambi-like charm, but it's a disservice to a beginner to suggest this is a reliable or even a serviceable approach to fly selection (outside the early season and one region of the US). There are several books of near-to-same cost with much greater range, value and reliability. Correlating blooming with instream activity with fly selection is teaching a kind of non-thinking about a thinking person's sport, and a Disneyized version of stream awareness and even conservation. If these guys were doctors, they'd recommend bleeding as a treatment for measles (yea, I know leeches are still in use --but what would you think if your physician recommended leech treatment for the flu? --and charged you $200?). The "theory" here is not WRONG, but you might as well work it backwards (as any good theory will do) --and plant your flowers according to what acquatic insects are found in the local waters. That would work out, too. If flyfishing were not already dragging the weight of its own self-importance around, this "handbook" would do no harm. But this is pure indulgence in the putative purer connection of flyfishing with big N "Nature." Get over it, Piscator. Spend the $14 (never mind the EXTRA $10 for the slide-o-matic chart) money on virtually ANY other hatches book, including the Charley Meck books on eastern hatches. Or make your own notes. This is silly commercial angling "romance" disguised as technique.

I purchased a copy of this book when I first noticed it being carried by the Orvis Company. I personally, being what i consider to be an intermediate flyfisherman, felt this book would not be of great service to me. However, i gave it to my son who was just beggining to learn how to fly fish, and he found it to be great help and a nice read. As too what a previous viewer said, I challenge you to find a book printed today that does not have mispellings or mispunctuations. I also would like to point out that you are obviously hostile, judging by your tirade, toward flyfishermen. I wonder if you even know how to use a fly. Lastly, I would like to say that this book was produced, in part I believe, with the Lyons Press. The Lyons Press, a publisher of note in the fishing genre, would not have affixed its name to this book had this book not been of good quality.

Obviously the authors concentrated their efforts on the English to Czech part, but neglected the reverse translation: the Czech to English part is awfully incomplete.

Incomplete to a degree of leaving your HELPLESS before basic Czech texts.

Here's one: you'll be able to translate the English word "dinner" to Czech (obed), but not the other way, the word "obed" is absent in the Czech to English part, and there are quite a few other very common words you won't be able to translate with this dictionary. Amazing how it survived 10 editions, that's socialism in action: worse than mediocre stuff gets the right of the way.

As of the last word on page 790, it's "obíhat," not obed and the whole letter O starts from "obezliczka" which is by far not the first word under O in Czech. Just small example.

First: The last word on page 790 is obed (lunch, dinner). That's settled.

This dictionary isn't too bad for an eager learner. After all, a dictionary is only as good as (1) the number of words it contains, (2) the accuracy of its definitions, and (3) the inclusion of grammatical points, such as noun-gender, etc. This dictionary may not be terrible, but I spent my first day with it looking up words and found only about 80% of them. A beginner's dictionary, and nothing more

This dictionary is quite complete and will help a great deal when reading and writing Czech. Be warned though, the introductory pages and list of abbreviations is given in Czech only. That said, it's an excellent resource.

Oh, the word for "dinner", obìd, is listed. It's the last word on page 790.

Shallow. Seems to be a rehash and compilation of other grief books and materials. Many, many other books much better.

At the time of loss and intense grieving, one usually doesn't have the time or concentration for a long, detailed book on how to live with the experience. The ABC's of Healthy Grieving provides a quick dose of reassurance and instant strategies for dealing with the pain. While easy to read cover to cover, it's the kind of book that you can open up to any page and receive the comfort and information you need. It shows a sensitivity to our differences yet is written in a way that let's us know we are not the only one feeling this way. I highly recommend this book for anyone dealing with loss, not just the loss of a loved one through death but the loss of a job, a relationship, or even a comfort zone.

I read this book about 7 years ago, and I can never recall the experience without a certain amount of incredulity that the author, Mr. McDaniel, presumably an intelligent man, actually produced this albatross.

As a scientist, pseudo-technical glosses do not pass unweighed in my readings, particularly on matters philosophical... McDaniel's work struck me as an immense flaming verbal orgy which danced around numerous topics while miraculously illuminating none. (Far different from Clymer's works.)

If the book was intended as a spoof on New Age literature, it could not have been better fashioned. At best, it reads like a good idea that just didn't work, like Gallipoli. Whatever insights the author wished to convey, his pen failed to capture them.

"And that's all I have to say about that."

This reviewer has gone through four copies of this text. McDaniel has given earnest explorers of human possibillities in their indefinite extension an intellectually demanding and methodically rigorous analysis of Translexism. Written and published during the war years (WWII), the table of contents reads like a sign-post to revelation amidst revolution with chapter headings like: "Social Trends in Relation to Soul Consciousness", "Cycles of MisUsed Power", "Group Mind and its Effects", and "Results of Narrowing Psychic Channel". However, in addition to providing relevant social commentary, McDaniel, as a student of the Arcane, points also in a more direct fashion toward his main topic--Enlightenment! In chapters like "Achieving Super-consciousness", "Organization of Soul", "Historical examples of Illumination", and "Psychogenesis Described", McDaniel uses terms borrowed from philosophy, theology, psychology, and epistemology to elucidate the nature, means, and effect of enlightenment upon the individual, culture, and species. "All Tthis and a Whole Lot More!" as the slogan goes. As an associate dscribed it,'Lamp of the Sou' is "an encyclopedia of Arcane knowledge, it is without peer."

This book is pretty much a snapshot of the Linux Documentation Project's documentation. There are some very good chapters in this book, but unfortunately some of them are woefully incomplete, and should not have been included. Understand that all the material in this book is freely available on the net. If you value your printer, and don't mind shelling out some money for a bound tree-ware version, this is a very good book.

Not that it's wholly bad, but I'm still waiting for a real decent, honestly done linux book--something that would at least justify its title. Of course, this book's title doesn't mean much, so I shouldn't complain . Anyway, it's not that much about programming anything, but more about how linux is designed--with diagrams but with little code. (I guess it's no good for us readers to live through another half-a-year without having purchased yet another book with a depiction of i86 paging architecture ;-)

Writing ain't perfect either (I'm being charitable and ascribe the funny stuff to the writing failures, not incompetence.) A IRQ..." and more ponderous blah blah. Well, unfortunately, that's not *assigned* IRQs (on linux and anywhere else where interrupts are used.) This is not nitpicking on my part, this is an example of authors' mental mish-mash that I, as a student, remember suffering from in the past. The problem is that interrupts and IRQs are NOT the same or equivalent things. For someone who doesn't know that yet, this text will impede comprehension of the issues. This kind of thing. Well... whatever, I guess. Hopefully the reader isn't a complete newbie and won't be thrown off by a nice little bit of semantic backstabbing.

I must say, I hate the whole series, this book, and all the "Commentary..." books, where you got 400 pages worth of damn source printout (I'm not kidding, pure source code) with perhaps another 100 pages of questionable 'commentary'. It's clear to me that Coriolis, after having successfully got rid of writers like Abrash, decided to jump on the quick rip-off bandwagon, in that particular case, linux-related. Linux--that's where the money is today!

So, here's my the ones I mentioned from this black-cover series) as it perhaps does contain something of value--but there's not nearly enough there to justify an above $10-a pop price or 600-page volumes. The publishers have clearly mastered the art of fattening books up with blatant nonsense, like api references and, now, even multi-hundred-page source printouts.

Considering how much linux info is available completely free, I can't see any reason to spend money on this book.

Typifying the greed, arrogance and foolishness that has become the Man Utd marketing machine this book is perfect for those wanting to flush their money down the MUFC marketing toilet.

This book has every game from the 99/00 season ,the reveiws of all the games may be little biased but then again it is a united book so why not. I know that i wouldnt like to read to read reveiws from people who cant stand man utd .The book has just about every stat from every game and every competion from rio to tokyo and back to old trafford this book is the only guide to our record breaking year a good chance to relive your fravourite games from a specail season for all red fans.I enjoyed reading this so much i will definatley be making future guides a permanant fixture.

As someone working actively in the field of phytotherapies, I was extremely disappointed when this bbok landed on my desk by our research library - a waste of budget to say the least. The depth of each plant reviewed is on the whole well done, however, Europe as a land mass let alone a group of exciting people, does not appear to exist for this FDA author. The introductory preface clearly identifies that the author is not in tune with real global herbal medicine. Only 27 plants are reviewed, and the choice is bizzare and incoherent. Don't bother with it - there are far better books available!

As a layperson interested in the value of medicinal plants, I found this book very interesting. Even though it is primarily a book geared toward the scientific community, I found the traditional uses and pharmacological activities interesting enough to cause me to research these plants further. I like the fact that many of the plants discussed are common food plants and I was not aware of the medicinal values of them. I would recommend that anyone, either scientist or layperson, interested in furthering their knowledge in this area purchase this book. I would think that any scientist interested in this field would certainly want this book as an addition to their reference library.

A way to basic explanation of arbitrage that spends more time on Ivan's "successes"

Who'd have thought that the incubator of liberal socialism would father the definitive term of the '80's?
This is not a good read - legend says it's ghost written by a graduate student - but who cares? I have a first edition, and it's offically penned by a man as notorious as Jay Gould and Jesse Livermore.
Shelf it somewhere in your library next to Hogan's Power Golf, Brealey & Myers, and Vintage Cocktails.
Bon Pillage!

I am an English student translating Kira Georgievna and am finding it difficult to translate and therefore difficult to understand. Therefore I am in need of an english version as to understand the book better. If anyone can help, please get into contact with mr.

I am an English student in London, studying Russian for A Level exams. We have been studying 'Kira Georgievna' as one of our texts, and have found it very challenging. Kira, a sculptress, is depicted by Nekrasov with sensitivity, although her character is by no means one which can be sympathised with. Her relationships with the many male characters in her life show her inability to commit to anything. Her lover, Yurotchka's naivety is taken advantage of, which shows her selfishness and egotistical nature. Her elderly husband Nicolai Ivanovich is a pathetic character because of his infirmity and apparent obliviousness to the way she leads her life. Vadim, her first husband, re-appears to further Yurotchka's self enlightenment, and eventually awakens Kira to her own selfishness. Overall, the book is an interesting exploration of many characters, not least in it's detailed depiction of Kira herself.

Turgenev devotees will be pleased to find a copy of this most seldom reissued and perhaps least known of his novels. Its tidy paperback sheath, studded with sepia snapshots from the historical time it depicts, makes a fine outer garment for the spare and slender frame of a tale we find within. For, at first glance, "Smoke" will not appear to have many of the winning features which normally draw readers into Turgenev's fictional realms and keep them there, so happily immured: absent are the legendary lyrical descriptions of the Russian countryside and its owners to be found in such novels as "Rudin" and "Home of the Gentry," and missing are the complex character development and more involved political reflections which are hallmarks of the somewhat lesser yet still impressive "On the Eve." And the discoverer of "Smoke" will be sorely disappointed should she or he hope to find in this work something to satisfy the voracious literary appetite engendered by the sumptuous meal which "Fathers and Children" invariably is. "Smoke," like "Virgin Soil" which immediately followed it, has no dearth of defects. Its plot moves too swiftly, for example, giving no time for characters to change and events to move in credible ways. Its tone is often mean-spirited and sour. Practically no one likeable, aside, perhaps, from the unhappy Tatyana, appears in its pages. Its plot and even dialogue are too often puzzlingly predictable. Yet, for all its lacks, "Smoke" does accomplish the astonishing novelistic miracle, achieved by so few: the creation of two characters, in Irina Ratmirov and Grigory Litvinov, who are utterly unforgettable. Unsavory from first bite to final slurp, an encounter with them will leave the reader longing for some equally ferocious flavor as purgative to the palate. No small feat! Though to a 21st century American ear, this translation will sound quaintly Victorian (Constance Garnett, whose translating career death has not hurt one little bit) and cozily English (check out curiosities like "phiz" and "fly"), it is well-worth not only buying but reading. What better way, really, to point out the always-to-be-remembered truth that even immortals like the divine Turgenev were not continually engaged in the manufacture of masterpieces.

A very readable translation, although more can be gained with an elementary level of French to catch some of the untranslated idiomatic phrases of the faux aristocracy. This short novel is not as sentimental or melancholy as "Spring Torrents" or "First Love," and perhaps lacks the polish of his best-known work "Fathers and Sons," but the mixture of the setting (Baden Baden, Germany)with the characters from not only Russia, but also France, Germany et al., with a familiar plot device (love triangle) makes for not only an interesting love story but also an intriguing glance at the political history of Russia and western Europe. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants a more complete understanding of Turgenev's works,the Russian novel in general, and the late 19th Century European literature. Personally, I have enjoyed all of Turgenev's novels and would recommend any of them. If you are new to Turgenev, however, I would definitely recommend starting with "Fathers and Sons." All of Turgenev's novels combined make for less reading than say Tolstoy's "War and Peace" or Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment." Sample some Turgenev!