Overall this proves to be a useful volume. It's the type that is nice to check out of the library, but it isn't necessarily one essential to your collection. A note about its title, it means what it says. This volume neither discusses the Arab state nor the Islamist opposition. Rather, it examines the in-between of the two, usually meaning secular liberals. For this reason, it is a much appreciated volume with the books on Islamic fundamentalism and the non-democratic regimes approaching infinity. If you're interested in exploring this aspect of society in the Middle East, this book comes highly recommended. Overall, its essays are written with solid scholarship.

The book is decent. But is not a great text book. It's highlihgted formulas, etc... are very helpful, but it doesn't seem to explain a lot of things in a way to make them easily understandable. I have used many different math books, and I would not use this one unless you are teaaching extremely bright students.

Charles Esdaile's short monograph provides students a basic outline for twenty-three years of warfare in Europe -a continuum traveling from Valmy to Waterloo. Solid maps and chronologies compliment the author's readable prose as, chapter by chapter, Esdaile deals with the efforts of succeeding anti-French coalitions. The author concludes with a chapter investigating the recent historiography of the era, discussing key points of the various works. He concludes with a short but useful bibliographic essay. I think this book is ideal for those who want to begin serious study of this period's conflicts. I recommend following it with Esdaile's The WARS of NAPOLEON, Gates' The NAPOLEONIC WARS and Owen Connelly's BLUNDERING to GLORY.

Enjoyable, though not very in-depth. Good illustration

Whiting's is the latest of the Murphy biographies and shows no evidence of new research on the subject. He reports what was published in two previous bios, by Simpson and Graham, and fills the gaps with annoying speculations about his subject's thoughts and motives. One of the more interesting stories, about how Murphy plotted to kill Howard Hughes for stealing his girlfriend Jean Peters, is not substantiated by reliable sources. The book contains a few photos but not much else to recommend it. Get it if you want to complete your library of Murphy bios, but get the other two first

In the preface to "The King and the Gentleman" Wilson boldly states his determination not to shrink from a thorough examination of the religious issues of the time, a subject about which Wilson finds previous biographers to be diffident. He delivers on his promise, but to the detriment of the book: the book is often bogged down by the minutiae of 17th Century Protestantism. However, the dual biography format is often informative, particularly in describing the early lives of Cromwell and Charles I.

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I used this book for a college freshman composition course I teach. I liked it and found the essays useful. The students didn't respond quite so well, but then again, they don't like most anything that requires thought....

This is another book by some christians attempting to link the delusional chirstian beliefs to Taoism...Book is also poorly reasearched and written.

It is a quite challenging work to embrace the insights from Taoism for the sake of constructing a new theology for a world Christianity. The difference and distance between Christianity and Taoism is far away. On the other hand, there are many Christians who are struggling to deepen their understanding of God and faith. Then, this book can be a suggestion for those readers.

This is a dire piece of drek. It combines everything that was bad about the New Wave, made the sex and violence both utterly gratuitious and utterly uninteresting, and makes blunders about biology, physics, and computers on nearly every page.

But what's worse is that it's not a novel. It is, instead, a writer's bible for what could be a novel. The structure alternates between chapter long exposatory dumps, and chapter long meetings between talking heads where they give each other "As you know, Bob" style exposatory lumps.

Avoid.

I, Weapon was one of the first SF books I ever recall reading back in '82 or so when I discovered the public library (I was 10).

I thought it was awesome. Sex, violence, weird aliens, slimy creatures, and weird aliens having slimy sex with violent creatures.

I reread it a couple years ago, and literally had to laugh out loud at how terrible it was. Even worse than John Norman's Gor series.

Pretty entertaining, even if it will never be literature. If you make yourself read stuff like "The Fountainhead", you might as well relax, throw some Dub Reggae on, have a mohito, and laugh at this ludicrous book.