This is a pretty decent book. I love make-up effects so I thought I'll love this book. Well, it could've been a LOT worse. The pictures in the book was great. Some of the pictures on the were inapporiate. I saw several pictures on the cover of Stewart, Brooks, Shatner, and other actors w/o special make-up. If I was mostly interested in props, this book would've just 1 star. This book is pretty good. I love the Do Your Own Make-up and props section, although the only prop that looks cool enougth to build, I'll need my dad's help. OH, and this is for the guy who said that the Do Your Own Make-up was a waste of time, how the hell would you want to like a Star Trek alien, take days and make molds and sculpt clay? I thought the make-up application pictures were great, except for John Poole's finished Ferengi picture, I saw the edge of the latex, not glued, around his eyes. The authors were kind enougth to tell how to make more base makeup for the pieces except the obvious ones. (Most Vulcans and Romulans have the same pigment as each other.). Overall a pretty good book, if love make-up and want to apply it to yourself.

I bought this book for two reasons. 1: I love Star Trek (all series) and 2: I love looking at and reading about behind the scenes things. And this book was really good for both! It is really interesting as to how the actors got on with their respective make-up whether it be a Trill's markings or a full head mask worn by a Ferengi. My only two quibbles were that there were no pictures of the actors without their makeup (eg. Armin Shimmerman - that would have been interesting!) and also, the DIY section wasn't very long, you had to buy the proper masks and make-up etc and there was only 1 or 2 props to make. But other than that, I'd say buy and enjoy! Adam.

Comprei este livro, como sempre faço com os livros de referência de Star Trek que a Pocket Books lança. É um livro regular, nada de especial, formato pequeno, muito bem feitinho, mas que não traz realmente nada de novo. Algumas fotos foram até recicladas de outros livros. Se você, fã brasileiro ou português, quiser comprar algo que realmente valha a pena, compre o "Art of Star Trek", edição hardcover.

I would've given this a "0" rating, but that was not an option.

I learned some extraordinary facts:

-The Jews are descended from Neanderthals.
-The Jews are an aggressive, ruthless people who once fought with axes and clubs but today try to dominate the world and annihilate people of color via their control of corporate America, Wall Street, and the media.
-The Jews ran the African slave trade.
-The Spanish conquistadors who decimated Native Americans following the arrival of Columbus were mostly Jewish.
-In the American colonies, Jews started to import African slaves after they killed all the Indians and no longer had them available as slaves.
-In the American south, a higher percentage of Jewish families were slaveholders than non-Jewish families.
-European Jews have no historic connection to Israel, because they descended from pagans from the Caucasus who converted to Judaism in the Middle Ages and then enslaved the neighboring Slavic populations.
-The catering and security companies at Logan Airport may be Jewish-owned. That may be part of a conspiracy in which the September 11 attacks were staged as a pretext to wage war on people of color.

Needless to say... Aside from his obvious anti-Semitism and paranoia, his science and history are half-truths or flat wrong. The Khazar theory was disproved long ago. The Neanderthals left no descendants. Ashkenazic Jews have proven genetic ties to Middle East. Bradley cited no genetics, and relied a theory of the evolution of the races that has not been taken seriously since the 1950s.

What about the gullible souls that apparently have actually fallen for this claptrap? If this person who bases fact on what he saw in a dream were to make the same kinds of inflammatory statements about African Americans, Asians, or any other minority group do you think he would've actually made it into print?

Jews are Semites, not Caucasians. There is hard scientific evidence to support this statement. The rest is just too silly to justify a response.

This is one strange book. That anyone takes it seriously proves that any crazy idea dressed in scientific sounding terms can be taken seriously if the reader is so disposed.

How do you evaluate an author's credibility? It may help to know that Bradley now says that his theories came from vivid dreams that also involved missing chunks of time - experiences that he says are similar to experiences claimed by UFO "abductees" and "contactees". He also publishes guides for "survivalists".

Michael Bradley's Chosen People will only make sense to those who are well-read in the background of the Caucasian Man. After reading Bradley's "The Iceman Inheritance" and "The Columbus Conspiracy", I found the Chosen People to be highly informative. Bradley takes the reader through the brief and short history of the Caucasian Man (Origins from somewhere in the Caucasus Mountains in Central Europe) to the misinformation being purported about Jewish Ancestry and its ties to Europe. With the knowledge of the reader, Bradley clearly shows that the conversion of Caucasians to Judaism occurred around 729 A.D. by the Arabs; these same people today deny the real Jews of the Bible, the Falasha of Ethiopia, their real identity and relationship in relation to the "White-Washing" of the Bible today. Insightful reading for people of color who may be confused as to what a Semite really is and who is really a Jew and is there such a thing as Yiddish being the language of the original Jew. Be warned: This reading may be above most individuals level if they don't have knowledge of the past and its influence on today's psyche and present situation of those being oppressed in America.

I love baseball. I love to read about a players stats while playing AAA ball, or who led the majors in stolen bases in 1933 (27-Ben Chapman, Yankees)or how many times Ty Cobb won the batting title (12). I don't consider myself a serious student of baseball, but in my leisure time, what there is of it, I enjoy reading about the history of the game and read the stats for myself. I remember Carl Yastrzemski won the triple-crown in 1967. I go back to that year and discover that not only did he lead the AL in average, home runs and RBI (.326, 44, and 121), but that he also led in base hits (189), slugging percentage (.622) and runs scored (112). I guess that would make him a double-triple-crown winner. By the way, Harmon Killebrew was tied with Yaz for home runs.

The 1997 Baseball Almanac arrived at my house last week and I was disappointed. This edition is much smaller than the first one I bought in 1993, although the price is about the same. Its more difficult to read and more cumbersome for someone who just wants to browse. It still has all the same categories of stats, but its not quite as fun to flip through. I may not use it as much as my old one. When the 1999 version comes out, I want to be sure to get the full size edition.