Great snappy reading, the authors must have had fun doing the research. Recommended for anyone who loves chocolate, New York, or both. Hope they do an updated version for 2000 and do a book on another New York food subject.

My grandmother was one of the authors of this book, but that isn't the reason I like this book. The book has a lot on my ancestors, and it is so cool to learn where I cam from. I definatly think that if you live in the low country, it is worth reading.

I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. It is very emotional and heartfelt. Each interview opened my eyes to the daily life and status of slaves. I found this book very insightful and recommend anyone who has the least bit of interest in history.

I enjoyed the book and it was easy to read. Provided just enough info to make the reader curious about the controversy surrounding this war time aviator. A few mistakes but well organized.

A great book to have, especially those interested in researching Bishop. Very helpful when doing my report on him.

Good command of language in description of events, on what looks to be mostly opinionated fiction. Most of the time it is 'according to sources' or just plain prose. I wonder how can a book be published just based on authors opinions masquerading as facts.
Disturbing graphic details.

This books was the worst book I've purchased. I'm currently using it to balance a crooked coffee table in my living room.

The book is filled with opinions, lack of support for his arguments, and anecdotal evidence. It is neither scientific nor is it factual. I was hoping to find a good read on Kashmir that was accurate in it's description of the situation. All major reports so far seem to indicate his information is incorrect. The author's writing ability is seriously lacking.

I suggest Mr. Baker refrains from writing books on topics that he seems to think he knows so much about from vacationing.

2 thumbs down. Don't waste your money.

This is a factual account of the author's journey into Kashmir to find the truth behind the Kashmiri people in their struggle for independence from India. At the risk of losing his life and confinement, the author reports the brutalities of the Indian occupation forces on the Kashmiri nation. Particular noteworthy are: the disappearance of the entire male youth between the ages of 16 through 35 that have been picked up by the Indian army and "disappeared", the removal of body parts from the live prisoners for sale, the use of torture techiques unheard of in history, the rape and murder of thousands of Kashmiri women at the hands of Indian troops. There are 700,000 Indian troops trying to control a mere 2 million population who for 55 years have tried to hold a United Nations resolution to hold a plebiscite to decide their own future.

All this makes you wonder what the Kashmiri people are undergoing while the Human Rights sits quietly on the side and accumulating statistics on the Indian brutalities.

The author has done great service to the Kashmiris to let their painful voice be heard to the world. This is the best book for someone who needs to understand the Kashmiri history and the present situation.

I think all books are good but can be better. This one I think is better but could be worse.

"Mission to Venus" is a highly atypical plot-your-own story. Most of these books have very short sections between the places where readers make choices--the reader has to make a decision every few pages. Also, except in Edward Packard's "Time Machine" series, the many endings of the books remove any sense of their having linear plots. But in "Mission to Venus," Emms presents us with scenes that go on for pages without our making a choice. And when we make a bad choice that brings the story to an end other than what Emms considers the "correct" one, rather than writing "The End" or telling us to start over, as generally happens in these books, Emms directs us to the section that was the "right" choice, even when the choice had been made by rolling a die. This often frustrated me, because it seemed a dreadful waste of time to roll dice or draw slips of paper out of a hat just to make a choice that Emms would negate a few pages later. Perhaps the reason for this is that, as is well known, the book is based on an unproduced script for Season 4 of "Doctor Who," titled "The Imps." If it weren't for the fact that the "DWM" Archive on "The Underwater Menace" revealed some plot details of "The Imps" at odds with what happens in this book, I would think that Emms adapted hi scripts very literally. Since that Archive mentions that Frazer Hines was not required for filming on "The Imps" when it was scheduled, it seems that Jamie was not in the scripts, so it would seem that Emms might have simply replaced the Second Doctor with the Sixth, Polly with Peri, and Ben with "you" when writing this book. The strangest aspect of the book, though, are the weird side trips that "you" make, generally within "your" mind, to such settings as a race track, a pirate ship and a circus. Some of these supposedly occur under the influence of a gas emitted by the Leechen pl! ants in the story, or of some field projected by the Imps' spaceship, but some, most wierdly of all, are caused by the influence of the Doctor's mind. These scenes have nothing to do with the story, and are the result of "bad choices" that Emms nullifies by telling you how to get back to what "really happened." They are the main reason I gave this book only three stars, along with its slight over-seriousness--unless they deal with a very serious subject, like the "Time Machine" book about the Holocaust, these books should be primarily fun diversions. However, this book is far better than Michael Holt's "Crisis in Space," the only other book in the "Find Your Fate: Doctor Who" series I've read. If I ever get my hands on some of the others, it will be interesting to see if their authors, some of whom, such as Pip and Jane Baker, wrote for the Sixth Doctor's television era, struck a better balance between somberness and silliness than Holt or Emms, and fully exploited the wonderful concept of a "Doctor Who" plot-your-own book. Until then, I'm glad I read "Mission to Venus," especially for it's intriguing glimpse of what "The Imps" might have been like. (Of course, if it had been made, it would surely be lost now...)

This book is not the book about the Israeli quest to bring terrorists to justice. It is about items located in a museum in the State of Tennessee related to the Battle of King's Mountain.

If you are looking for the book about the search for terrorists named "The Sword of Gideon", look elsewhere.

If you like to see the terrorists get what's coming to them, this is the book to read. Based on "fact", a group of Isreali Mossad agents seek for revenge for the massacre of 12 Isreali athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics. A group of 5 men stalk various terrorists on their official hit list in Europe and a couple of others thrown in for good measure. Unfortunately they don't get them all and a side story of involvement with a mafia type connection for information makes this book a real page turner. Nothing like the bad guys getting greased with their own methods. I've read it 3 times and I'm about to start again. The 1986 movie of the same name dosen't do the book justice.

This is the worst java book I've ever read. The book is unorganized and the content is not suitable for the beginner at all.

The companion CD-ROM is useless.

If the authors would like to publish the new version for JDK 1.2, there will be a lot of works they need to get accomplished.

Simple words from me.... Don't buy this book.

Covers alot of fancy staff but has a great lack of contents. It seems like the author has rushed through the book just to fill it out with the Java 1.1 features and forgot to describe the import basics behind the language. There's now way you're gonna be a Java guru by reading this book!

It is very thorough. Almost everything important about java is in there including JDBC, JNI, Java Beans, Servlets, security management, even the specification of the virtual machine and most is explained well understandble. It is the best java book I ever saw!