The Nasty One is a good read. It doesn't crack the brain overly and is one of the books you just can't put down, you have to finish it at once! The book is not very big compared to other fantasy paperbacks but a story like this doesn't need a thousand pages. Smooth reading, satiric at times, really nice the way Pypers pictures politicians. After reading the first pages, I thought the book would be violent, but instead I was surprised by the intrigue that is the main factor in this book. The women Griwalda is a typical notive and portrayed well, and Desiderius the Drunk Sorceror is a unique, great character than gives this book the fun it needs. The plot is unexpected and great, and the battle with the Dark Body makes this book a must-read. Unknown writer and small publisher, but a great novel! Especially fans of Eddings, X-files, Millennium will enjoy this book!

The expanded combat and construction rules add a new dimension to the Deadlands universe, and can be used anytime to liven up a long day of driving across the wasted west. Modify old vehicles with a whole slew o' new guns, mods and such, or build yer own mean machine, then take to the road!

I thought this showed a different view than what the average person would look at. If you are looking for a book that makes you think then this is it. It will challeng the way you look at sports forever.

This is a good history of the silicon valley giant Sun Microsystems. The material is of course somewhat dated now, but nonetheless provides the read with a good background.

If you want to know something about Sun, pickup a copy.

The Japanese, like the Germans, Soviets, and British, had an atomic bomb program. The appendix notes that the Germans transferred V2 rockets via submarine to the Japanese (a long steam around South Africa), with a view to "revenge" against the US. The Japanese would have used the V2s to deliver atomic bombs against the US fleet. Luckily that particular field-leveler never materialized, as the Japanese bomb project was at least two years behind that of the US. After Hiroshima and Nagasaki, interest in nuclear technology (which the Japanese government had developed in secret) was at best muted. In recent years the possibility of cheap electricity using small reactor designs has emerged.

This book is otherwise about the attempted transfer (in 1944) from the US of silver and other "hard assets" to the Soviet Union, under Lend-Lease. I have to wonder why such materials were of interest to Stalin, particularly in 1944 when the German army and Waffen SS was in retreat. Also available in hardcover (0312205902).

I agree with the review of Kirkus Reviews. The author tries hard to make the search for the John Barry exciting but the ending is anti-climactic, to say the least. The book is very self-serving for the searchers and adds little to solving the mystery of the SS John Barry. Nice glimpse of WW II naval history though.

I found the book to be very interesting. My father survived the sinking of the USS John Barry. He thought that they were transporting gold. He also predicted some day there would be an attempt to recover the cargo. The details of the voyage, sinking, and actions of the crew, are in accordance with his report. He would have enjoyed this book.

The articles in this book are great reading. They provide thoughtful insite on many different topics. The cases, however, are completely useless without the instructors' manual. As best I can tell, the instructors' manual is not available for purchase unless you are using this book for a class. Therefore, in my opinion, this book is a poor value outside the academic world.

This falls between the average "how to" and academic journal type articles. Great for classroom use, or for enterprising individuals who want to teach themselves about negotiation. Nearly all the authorities in organizational behavior and negotiation are included here. Nice variety of approaches to the subject. Exercises cover the range and include material on natural environment and on international negotiation. International material needs more, but gives good beginning frameworks. Exercises need teacher's manual (forthcoming?).

The Book was alright even though it did confuse some people from what i see.
I am truly sorry to dissapoint the Serbs-Bosnians-Croatians-Slovens and all other Slavic language speaking people but there is no way that you can be descendants of the Illyrians.

Almost all (over 95%) of these people speak the same language (called Bosnian or Serbo-Croatian), and come of the same European racial stock, descended from Slavic tribes that settled in the area in the early Middle Ages. The people of Bosnia are traditionally called Bosnians. For reasons having to do with recent history (and as much with 20th-century ideologies as with traditional religious allegiances), Bosnians whose ancestors were of the Catholic faith are now identified as Bosnian Croats (17%), while those of Eastern Orthodox background are now identified as Bosnian Serbs (31%). The largest group of the Bosnian population, however, are the Muslim Slavs (44% in the 1991 census), descendants of Christian Bosnians who accepted Islam some 500 years ago.

Like the rest of the Mediterranean region, Bosnia was part of the Roman Empire during the first centuries of the Christian era. After the fall of Rome, the area of Bosnia was contested between Byzantium and Rome's successors in the West. By the 7th century AD, Bosnia was settled by Slavs, who formed a number of counties and duchies. The 9th century saw the establishment of two neighboring kingdoms: Serbia (southeast of Bosnia), and Croatia (in the west).

I really dont understand why they are so ashamed of the fact that they come from Carpathia, slavic people are also a great people. But one thing is for sure they arent Illyrians.

Albanians(non-slavic) on the other hand are a different story.Data drawn from history and from linguistic, archaeological, and anthropological studies have led to the conclusion that Albanians are the direct descendants of the ancient Illyrians and that the latter were natives of the lands they inhabited. Similarly, the Albanian language derives from the language of the Illyrians, the transition from Illyrian to Albanian apparently occurring between the 4th and 6th centuries AD.
Even most historians believe the Albanian people are in large part descendants of the ancient Illyrians, who, like other Balkan peoples, were subdivided into tribes and clans. The name Albania is derived from the name of an Illyrian tribe called the Arber, or Arbereshë, and later Albanoi, that lived near Durrës. And than you have the Dardanians that are today known as the Kosovar-Albanians.

These are just some of the facts ...albanians still even have the same names, same old traditions and same old language. Just read some more about what historians have to say.

Remember Agroni(albanian name) the Illyrian king?
Remember Teuta (albanian name) the Illyrian Queen?

and you be the judge

Peace
and good luck

I am truly sorry to dissapoint the Serbs-Bosnians-Croatians-Slovens and all other Slavic language speaking people but there is no way that you can be descendants of the Illyrians.

Almost all (over 95%) of these people speak the same language (called Bosnian or Serbo-Croatian), and come of the same European racial stock, descended from Slavic tribes that settled in the area in the early Middle Ages. The people of Bosnia are traditionally called Bosnians. For reasons having to do with recent history (and as much with 20th-century ideologies as with traditional religious allegiances), Bosnians whose ancestors were of the Catholic faith are now identified as Bosnian Croats (17%), while those of Eastern Orthodox background are now identified as Bosnian Serbs (31%). The largest group of the Bosnian population, however, are the Muslim Slavs (44% in the 1991 census), descendants of Christian Bosnians who accepted Islam some 500 years ago.

Like the rest of the Mediterranean region, Bosnia was part of the Roman Empire during the first centuries of the Christian era. After the fall of Rome, the area of Bosnia was contested between Byzantium and Rome's successors in the West. By the 7th century AD, Bosnia was settled by Slavs, who formed a number of counties and duchies. The 9th century saw the establishment of two neighboring kingdoms: Serbia (southeast of Bosnia), and Croatia (in the west).

I really dont understand why they are so ashamed of the fact that they come from Carpathia, slavic people are also a great people. But one thing is for sure they arent Illyrians.

Albanians(non-slavic) on the other hand are a different story.Data drawn from history and from linguistic, archaeological, and anthropological studies have led to the conclusion that Albanians are the direct descendants of the ancient Illyrians and that the latter were natives of the lands they inhabited. Similarly, the Albanian language derives from the language of the Illyrians, the transition from Illyrian to Albanian apparently occurring between the 4th and 6th centuries AD.
Even most historians believe the Albanian people are in large part descendants of the ancient Illyrians, who, like other Balkan peoples, were subdivided into tribes and clans. The name Albania is derived from the name of an Illyrian tribe called the Arber, or Arbereshë, and later Albanoi, that lived near Durrës.

These are the facts ...they still even have the same names, same old traditions and same old language.

You be the judge

Peace

This is a great book!It explains the origins of Bosnians,and many other nations in the Balkans.
Serbian propaganda,and many "so called" historians from neighboring Serbia were spreading many lies about true origins of Bosnian Nation.This book explains in details the earliest inhabitants of Bosnia of whom we have any historical details,and they are Illyrians.,a collection of tribes which covered much of the modern Balkans including Albania and Bosnia.
The archaeological evidence from several sites in Bosnia shows that Illyrians were the stock-breeders specializing in sheep and goats.Also,the archaeological evidence from more than 300 sites in Bosnia shows that Illyrians believed in many gods,and they were very warlike.
A warlike tribe in central Bosnia,the Daesitates,whose last rebellion against the Roman empire was finally crushed in AD 9.
From then on,all the Illyrian lands were firmly under Roman rule,and a network of roads and Roman settlements was gradually established.Several roads ran across Bosnia from the costal town of Solona(near Split):these served as delivery routes for the gold,silver,and lead which were mined in eastern Bosnia in Roman times...I enjoyed reading it very much especially because it talks about origins of many peoples in the Southeastern Europe including Bosnians and Albanians.

What a SUCK-FEST! This is the worst book I've read in a long time. The (unlucky) 13 authors seem only slightly concerned with plot continuity, and the result is like a novel with every third page torn out. Characters come and go, and come back again for no apparent reason, other than to satisfy the authors' self-indulgent egos. In particular, the chapters by Elmore Leonard and Vicki Hendricks were appallingly bad. Hendricks ignores all the preceeding chapters and suddenly changes the eponymous manatee from an aquatic pinhead into some amalgam of Lassie and the Hardy Boys. In a later chapter Carl Hiaasen openly mocks this sudden swerve in character. (Tip: avoid books where one co-author ridicules another co-author's writing) Elmore Leonard contributes a time capsule that might have been hip 25 years ago, with a black character refering to someone as a "cat", and in the very next sentence actually using the phase "shuck and jive". I am very happy I checked this book out of the library, instead of squandering 22.95 on this train wreck of a book

OK, thirteen of Miami's favorite writers are sitting around a campfire (this isn't a joke). Dave Barry kicks off a story involving a couple hit men, a manatee, a 102-year-old woman and a box containing the head of Fidel Castro, and passes it to the writer to the left. The next eleven writers circle the story around the campfire in an attempt to blend this motley cast of characters (and heads) into the literary equivalent of a refreshing Miami Beach smoothee.

Throwing in monkey wrenches, stranger characters and even more heads-in-boxes in the process, they mostly succeed in creating a wholly unbelievable, extremely offbeat and wildly entertaining mystery. Poor Carl Hiassen (of Striptease fame) is challenged with tying up all the loose ends without playing the Demi Moore card, and succeeds in delivering an ending as strange as a manatee is large.

Above all an interesting experiment, Naked Came the Manatee is also an entertaining quick read.

Booger is the answer to the walls talking. Suspend belief and enter the world of a manatee that thinks, feels and reasons like us. He becomes involved in a mystery not as a victim, but as a participant in important events. The concept of a manatee detective aiding the likes of Brit Montero in solving the case of the Castro heads is only exceeded by the writing of this by the many different writers, from Dave Barry to Carl Hiaasen. No mystery should be this much fun

If you're looking for an intelligent, open-minded book, look elsewhere. This book is an utter failure.

John Lahr writes with such care for his subjects and this book is no exception. Reading this book is like standing next to Barry Humphries as he is preparing to go on stage. It also gives a good background of Humphries' work from its earliest days. Quirky, humorous and consistently engaging.

This book is an amazing tale of an amazing man. If you've ever seen Dame Edna live or on T.V. you know she's a hoot. This well-written bio of her creator, Barry Humpheries, is truly fascinating. It actually had me laughing out loud time after time. He's a brilliant man who's carved a truly unique place for himself in the world of clowns.

This book offered so much and delivered very little. If you're looking to discover why "byte" is spelt the way it is or where the term originated from, you won't find it here.

Unless you are well coached in the babble of English Lit then a lot of Barry's prose will go right over your head. He seems to have received most of his information from the Random House Unabridged Dictionary - every second pages seems to quote from it. If I were interested in what Random House had to say then I would have bought their dictionary and not this book!

Don't bother looking here for lively and interesting tales about how various words came to be, instead have a look at such books as Hackers, Digital Deli, The Devouing Fungus, The Naked Computer, and The Hackers Dictionary.

this book does very well at helping us understand computer lingo, though it might be slightly over the head of some people. A highly original book