Book Too Tiny Reviewer: A reader from Erie, CO United States I normally am an advocate of any book or magazine published by Cook's Illustrated magazine. Unfortunately, this series of books are too small and the print too tiny to be practical. You have to hold the book too close to your eyes to read it which makes it totally impractical for putting in your cookbook holder to refer to while cooking. I like the recipes but it would be nice if I could read them without straining by eyes.

When a classic book is re-written for children, one of the things I expect is enough faithfulness to the original story so that a child who has read the children's version can, as an adult, pick up the full original and recognize a story they are familiar with. I have read John Bunyan's Holy War, and I have read this re-write called "Target Earth!" Target Earth fails the test. It is true there is imagery and a story line coming from Bunyan's original work, but it is crowded out by the un-nessecary device of telling the story through the experiances of two "young" angels, and a general mediocrity in writing that falls far short of the richness of a true classic.

I am also very concerned about how Mr. Christopher Wright choose to describe the Trinity (Page 107). At face value, the description sets forth the modalistic error in contrast to the full and careful Trinitarian view of the historic orthodox church that John Bunyan would have held to. (See the Westminster Confession of Faith, Chapter 2, paragraph 3.) On this basis alone, this book is not one I want my children to read. I want to believe that Mr. Wright does hold the orthodox Biblical view of the three persons of the Trinity, and this passage reflects an un-fortunate choice of words. I leave him free to explain or clarify as he chooses.

It will be for someone else to re-write this classic in a way that repects the original, and gives children an authentic introduction to John Bunyan's "Holy War".

Awful, horrible, it's not worth buying it at all, even if you don't know nothing about the Luftwaffe. Terrible waste of money.

The book claims to have over 200 unpublished photos but these photos are of generally poor quality and rarely show Luftwaffe aircraft! Many of them show ground target scenes, allied aircraft or other subjects. However, the most objectionable thing of all are the captions to the photos of the Luftwaffe aircraft that are included (many of which are old standard shots seen many times before) which are often completely misidentified as to the manufacturer, major type of aircraft, the sub-type, the location, unit, date and other information. This is one of the worst books in my collection of over 500 books on the Luftwaffe and not worth buying.

"Includes over 200 previously unpublished photographs" is grossly misleading. The quality of many photographs is horrendous. A book I wish I would not have purchased unseen.

Here is an investment volume screaming for a reason to exist. Since there are now at least a couple of near up-to-the-moment resources on convertible securities information, anyone who picks up a book like this is likely to be looking for some insights or practical advice on how to buy and handle these increasingly complex instruments. If that's what the reader is looking for, s/he won't find it here. So what does one find?

Over the past 2 years I've rummaged through several Noddings books, his work from the 1970s to this present volume, and they're all cliffhangers. That is, Noddings promises to guide you somewhere, and indeed he guides you to the top of a cliff --where he leaves you hanging. Interestingly, the best observations he currently offers concern warrant hedging, which is getting increasingly difficult to do successfully. Thus what's the point of the observations, here? Most of the rest of the book is a bit like looking at an owner's manual for something you don't own, with lots of diagrams and no supporting text/instructions.

Although this is an investment volume screaming for a reason to exist, there is a screaming need for good how-to literature on convertibles and convertible hedging. Noddings should have filled this need decades ago (when he started writing prolifically about this stuff), and might have kept a worthy and useful corner niche to readers hungry to understand this market. Instead, Noddings has a much larger and expanding corner of the second-hand book bin, which is exactly where this volume will go once you've spent about 20 minutes with it.

A large proportion of this book is devoted to tables of data that by the time you get round to reading will be well out of date. ...Furthermore, as a relative newcomer to convertibles, I frankly I can't see who would find this book useful. For beginners, it skimps over the details leaving you with the feeling you haven't learned very much and the pages and pages of numbers leave you feeling angry that you've wasted your money. As for the experts, anyone who's actually in the business would know all this stuff already, and would know enough to fill in the gaps (and there are a lot of gaps). Which begs the question: why and for whom was this book written ?!

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I am afraid that I must agree with this book's other reviewer. I, too, was delighted to see this title, and chose it to be my daily meditation reading for Lent. After only three days, however, I am determined to exchange it at the church bookstore for a title that is more fitting the solemnity and introspection of the season.

It is simply mond-boggling that someone, particularly an Anglican scholar or priest, feels called to edit Donne in the way. One of the glories of the Anglican tradition is an acute sensitivity to ritual, language, and the spiritual life of the intellectual, and unfortunately, this book seems to respect none of these. It's such a disappointment. Who better to read on the 40 days of Lent than John Donne? I will still do so, but on my own, in the original, glorious language.

When I spotted this title, I was delighted. The idea seemed excellent, nay, inspired. Upon receiving and reviewing it, however, I was dismayed to find that, while the excerpts have been judiciously selected, they have also been subjected to an editorial process which deprives Donne of much of his rhetorical force. For instance, Donne's quotations from the Bible are replaced with those of a modern translation, both his language and syntax are modified to conform to modern American practice, and his prose further altered to reflect gender inclusivity. Is it really necessary to change every "thee" to a "you" in order to make these writings accessible? Isn't it hubris in the highest degree to re-write the "Holy Sonnets" or the "Hymn to God the Father"? This edition may be fine for those who like their Donne strained to the consistency of baby food. Others should be forewarned that this isn't Donne, but Donne as translated into contemporary Anglican liturgy-speak. Deeply disappointing.

Priest's book isn't a good transposition of Cronenberg's eXistenZ, in my opinion. I'll give you some short items: 1. there are many different things and episodes between them 2. the author describes characters' feelings in a way that has no correspondance with their behavior 3. the book explains really EVERYTHING! The readers should have the chance to try to play their own game! 4. why in the end TranscendenZ and not transCendenZ? Anyway, I'm not a writer, only a reader, and I hope you will not get angry for my comments! Bye, Paola

I have used (and liked) "Jane's Chem-Bio Handbook" for the past four years.

This book, however, is another story. What little information presented is poorly organized. Information is scattered throughout the book. Some of it is duplicated. Information that is presented as being targeted towards a particular section (such as Hospitals, Utilities, Entertainment Facilities, etc.) is most often of a nature that should have been presented as base data. As a result, the targeted sections loose their "punch".

The book is very good at telling you that you need do something, but often doesn't tell you how to do that thing...So we have a document that manages to fall short as a checklist (for those that have a knowledge of the basics), and which also fails to provide much in the way of fundamentals (the discussion of explosives hidden in the Utilities section fails to mention ANFO (ammonium nitrate/fuel oil).

A good idea for a book, but wait until Jane's revises it.

This book certainly doesn't reflect what the publicity said about it. It's mostly just a bunch of b&w stills from Lee's Hammer Dracula series that we've all seen 1000 times before (and not even reproduced very well, for that matter.) There are a total of 27 pages of text, most of which are plot summaries. I cannot too strongly warn experienced Hammer readers that you will feel more than a bit of anger upon purchasing this particular tome. I am going to be very wary of anything under the "Glitter Books" moniker in the future. Johnson & Del Vecchio's "Hammer Films: An Exhaustive Filmography" or the Rigby book are far superior on this subject, among just a few alternates to look for.