Come on. These guys are OK, but do they really deserve their own book? Yeah, they've got the twin factor going for them, but as photographers I wouldn't spend 60 bucks on this book unless my coffee table was lacking a good paperweight. You're better off spending the money on some Tri-X film and shooting yourself. Trust me, you'd learn a lot more then flipping through "In Times of War and Peace".

This is the best photography I have ever purchased. Amazing work these two brothers have done over the years. I was touched and awed many times when I was turning the pages. I spent an hour in my favorite reading chair silently looking through this book, beginning ten minutes after it arrived at my apartment. It is an inspiration to anyone who takes photographs. This book has incredible integrity and beauty. The photos are not only glimpses into important events of the last 20 years, but they also work very well as examples of real mastery of the camera and of the power of images in our lives.

This book means a lot to me. Every photography student should have it on their shelf. It has helped refresh my faith in the importance of taking pictures.

I've learned a lot from it and I would like to express my gratitude to the Turnleys.

This book was a major disappointment. I wanted details on a fiancee visa, and the subsequent follow-up, and it had virtually nothing on the subject. It just repeats what you would find in the forms you get from the INS. Also, the stuffy-stilted-boring writing style was all too similar to that of the INS bureaucrats, whereas I would give anything to feel that a real live human is talking to me, one who has actually been through the process, not someone who just studied the forms. The only reason I even give it two stars is that it does offer forms and an overview that may be useful for someone who is just beginning the process; othewise, I would call it superficial.

Excellent guide to U.S immigration. Includes summaries of all necessary INS forms, quick guide and copies of actual forms. Also includes a step by step instructions for all immigration processes. A MUST not only for immigrants who want to gain visa/resident/ or citizen status, but also for U.S. citizens and officials who want to sponsor or deal with immigrant issues.

Even when two writers write well, collaboration is an itchy thing. Unless the pair is deliberately writing two different voices, they must carefully mesh their styles and dialog into a seamless narrative designed to maintain the illusion that the book you are holding is a cohesive and unified whole. When done well, it can be a beautiful thing; two voices telling the same tale, adding idea to idea and raising the entire project to a sublime place.

If the writers are unqualified hacks, however, the mess resembles the result of a Creative Writing 101 final after the TA trips while carrying the manuscripts.

Can you guess into which category "Shadows Bend" falls?

Unqualified ha...I mean, writers David Barbour and Richard Raleigh have imagined a world in which two famous pulp writers meet in order to drop a coin into the jukebox from Hell in order to prevent the end of the world as we know it. "Oh," you think. "It's going to be that kind of novel."

Though HP Lovecraft and "Conan" creator Robert E. Howard never met, Barbour and Raleigh ask us to imagine that they did. Also, that Cthulhu and the rest of the Old Ones are real and trying to rend the fabric of time and space in order to occupy our universe. Also, that any godlike being would think our universe was worth occupying, but that's another matter completely.

It's an interesting premise, interesting enough to get me to plunk down my money and take my chance. But the result is something less than promised.

Lovecraft and Howard set off on a nostalgia tour down Route 66 in order to destroy "the artifact" that would allow the Old Ones into our parking space. Along the way they meet Glory, a college-educated former prostitute who has read the works of Lovecraft and Howard, as well as that of Clarke Ashton, who makes a brief appearance later, who joins them in their travels. Terrible things happen. They save the universe. Blah blah blah.

My quibbles with this novel are large, broad ones. Well, I have small, subtle ones, but I won't bore you with them unless you write and ask for them. First, it appears that Raleigh and Barbour did not even read one another's work as they wrote. In some chapters Robert Howard, a Texan, is portrayed as a fellow with a decent command of English. In others, he nearly eats the scenery by aw-shucksin' his way through his dialog like a cartoon cowboy. Second, do I really need to point out how damned unlikely it is that a woman in the late thirties would be educated in medieval literature, read pulp fiction and work as a prostitute? Third, Lovecraft is written as though he were Oscar Wilde or Quentin Crisp. Fourth, why didn't someone tell Barbour and Raleigh that Southwestern Indians aren't the cool mystical minority they once were? Fifth, well, the ending is so lame you won't believe it. I would assume that the reason a writer would want to include historical characters in a modern novel is because he has something to say about that person, or that person is just the right character on which to hang the plot. In this novel, Barbour and Raleigh might just as well have written about *me*. *I* can slip a coin into a slot, too. And I bet I would have picked the right one the first time out.

If you're a Lovecraft or Howard fan, you might want to read this, but my guess is that it would be just too painful to see these two men massacred in print like this. If you read only one book using Lovecraft and Howard as characters this year, um, on second thought, read something else.

This book was a severe disappointment. The writers have no grasp of characterization: HPL is portrayed as a mincing wimp, REH as a thuggish nitwitted goon. The dialogue is excruciatingly bad throughout. The plot (what there is of it) is ludicrous, especially since it contradicts itself. Basically, Our Heroes team up with the Happy Hooker to thwart some shoggoths (currently masquerading as a dust-free black sedan) to stop some extradimensional invaders who can't make up their mind whether they want a heavy, carcinogenic, chameleon-like McGuffin put into a cave or not. REH's father is portrayed as a cross between Hannibal Lector and Herbert West, and he's left to perform the ULTIMATE primal scene (as Freud called it) in Bobby's dreams, while the authors put an unpleasantly sexist slant on HPL's well-known dislike of fish. Add a truly imbecilic scene in which HPL and REH exchange potty jokes and you've got the whole picture. This was so out of character that I wanted to throw the stupid book out of the window.

I'm an old fan of pulp fiction, and the works of Lovecraft, Howard, Smith, et al. I found out about this book through an excellent review in Realms of Fantasy mag. by Gahan Wilson. Now, Wilson is no slouch, so when he likes a book, I know it's worth reading. Once again, he led me straight to a great read. The readers below seemed to have read a different book than me, or Mr. Wilson. It's a terrific, literate, haunting read, and does fascinating things with the main characters. I'll read this one again, and recommend it to friends. Bravo to the authors.

As the other reviewer mentioned, this is a good, quick book for those slightly interested in Zinn but without the time or energy to devote to reading one of his books.... not that it is near an adequate substitute....

These interviews are interesting not so much for what they contain regarding Zinn's ideas as for an insight into how he came to them. This is another book that I would read in a bookstore (if that option is available) rather than buy because, really, it doesn't contain that much information that you'd need to have it at home on a shelf to quote. If such is your desire, get 'A People's History' or 'Declarations of Independence'.

The interview style presented here occasionally makes one cringe. E.g., David Barsamian's admission that he does NY Times crossword puzzles, and his hope that Zinn doesn't hold it against him come as treacly. Another example is Zinn's comparisons of himself with Chomsky. Although perhaps in the original radio interviews these sounded funny, they really make Zinn come across as an alienated armchair Marxist from time to time. And that's too bad, because there's a lot of good stuff in this book.

It's a good, quick read, with some nice historical tidbits thrown in. It's interesting in presenting facets of Zinn's personal life, but of course, the main attraction of Zinn is his take on history.

I DO think though he's underestimated the internet- I personally think that here, the rats have taken over the laboratory, and that's the way it'll be.

The book should in no way be your only source of test preparation material nor does it advertise itself to be such. The practice exams following each chapter were helpful for giving you an idea of the types of questions you may encounter on the exam, but I noticed it contained many errors. Some of the errors were very careless which makes me wonder if portions of the book were proof-read at all.

Overall, the book is helpful at highlighting the keywords and concepts, and types of test questions which you need to pass the exam despite the many errors.

This book is not well organized compared with other MCSE TEST PREP books. There are lots of wrong answer in the questions which will wast your time for sure but it still provede some helpful information. Remember, all these book are reference only. If you think you can pass the test with only one book, you are either very good or you must be dreaming.

Although there are some mistakes in the text, and a few obvious errors in the test questions, OVERALL this is a great book to use for your final pre-Test preparations. It WILL NOT stand on it's own (hence some of the bad reviews it has gotten). You must already have a good grasp of the material. This book will help you to reinforce that knowledge and pass the test. I spent 4 days with the book (after taking the 803 and 922 courses in an ATEC) and passed the test with an 855.

Mr. Block continues his series of poorly written books with his latest addition on BEA.

The wording was poor and the overall organization of this book made me contemplate the inner workings of the chaotic mind that came up with this book. It is difficult to follow any theme that might have been intended in this book. Thankfully Block brought on some more collaborators to help the book along and perhaps it is the collaborative effort that makes this book less attrocious than Block's normal fare.

...Fortunately this won't get the traction he might have received from his Silverstream book because this one actually has competition. Don't believe the reviews written on the SAME DAY. They are obviously fake, probably written by someone very close to Mr. Block.

This book is pretty horrible, but since it is the only one out there dedicated to weblogic portal I gave it 2 stars instead of just 1.
Things wrong:
This book isn't organized well at all
Numerous errors that should have easily been caught (screen shots that are the same, things that say: create this domain named "1" now start domain "6"... and you are like, wtf?)
Too many screenshots (I'd say about half the book is screen shots)

Just plain bad. Things that really make me mad are things like this: In the best practices section they state that you should always use the WL taglibs (obviously), and thats all it says. In other words, they tell you to do something that is very important but don't give you any more info about it or even provide a url to a weblogic website on taglibs.

Only get this book if you are tired of staring at docs on your monitor.

From someone who had never programmed using servlets, jsps or web logic, I found this book to be most useful. I was able to build and deploy a fully functional web portal within 10 days start to finish using this book as my guide.

I have used other books in this series and was quite happy with them. But after reading the first few pages in this poorly constructed book, I could see it was only going to frustrate me with it's blatant and carelees errors. Some of the questions were appreciated, but over all it was not worth the time to even scan over it. Too many errors for my liking...Here is a simple explaination found before the 1st chapter.....We all know that the minimum RAM required to install Sever 4.0 is 16MB...right? According to this book..both Workstation and Server require 32MB!!!! DAHHHH

If you can figure out all the errors, then you will probably pass the (70-58) exam. This book was very poorly edited. The concept and design is good, and would be a great help to anyone wanting to pass the (70-58) exam, if it did not have so many errors.

In comparison to the Exam Cram Networking Essentials I found this publication to be more than adequate. In fact I managed to pass the exam mainly through the questions in the book. Yes, there are errors, but if you know your basics you will pick them out. Yes, the publisher should have proofed it better. But on the whole I found that many of my exam questions had something in common with those in the book. This was a second purchase from this series and it's a cheaper method than Transcender

"Exiles" is based on a truly "Roddenberrian" concept. It deals with environmental issues and the preservation of animal species, both subjects still relevant.

Alaj is a Federation member world, that faces a disaster as it's overly industrial culture renderes the planet uninhabitable.

Etolos is a world populated by a people exiled from Etolos centuries earlier. They are the experts on the preservation of nature with high technology. It just happens that their planet faces it's natural end just as the situation on Alaj escalates beyond apparent savation.

The formerly bitter enemies must find a common tone as the people of Etolos offer to save Alaj in exhange of them getting to live there. The deal includes a few individuals of an animal species called Nefittifi, vich is a highly rare sacred animal to both the Alajians and Etolosians.

The result is an uneventfull and cliché filled story, with nothing new to offer.

Howard Weinstein starts off promisingly as he describes the diplomatic situation between the two worlds, but soon the story looses all originality and reverts into a predictable and badly paced sience fiction cliché.

There are only a few twist in the ploand they can be predicted from miles away. The situation is made worse by horrible scenes about Wesley Crusher and his discustingly cute Britney-Spears-clone girlfriend that make vomit crawl up the reader's throat. And it doesn't help one bit to have a bad sub-plot about Troi dealing with a Nefittifi expert in his twenties having a crush on her. A horrible waste of a character, say I.

The characterization is pretty accurate in most parts, though, exept for Data, who's been portrayed as he was in the beginning of the show: a truly failed attempt at forsfully writing an original character. At the point of the series "Exiles" takes place, it should no more be the case.

The ending of the book is as predictable as the rest of it and makes the reader want to finish reading as quickly as possible.

Not worth bying.

But it's more than a bit preachy and overly simplistic.

The plot is good, (except for the deus ex machina toward the end) the characterizations well-handled, the dialogue good if unspectacular. But this is a book with a message, and its message is the same one as in Dr. Seuss's "The Lorax", and this book's presentation of that message ("pollution bad") is every bit as detailed and nuanced as the presentation was in that children's story. There is no discussion of HOW one would go about reducing the pollution and overuse of natural resources in a society, or what level is acceptable, or what sacrifices it might be appropriate to expect people to make to save the world, or any of the other difficult questions that such an issue deserves or any acknowledgement that the issue is a difficult one at all; as in Dr. Seuss, it is simply assumed that if people are poisoning their world, it is because they're too stupid to figure out that they need to stop, or to see the obvious things they need to do to stop. If they'd merely listen to wise people of good will, the problem would go away.

Now, obviously, I have nothing against "The Lorax". It's a marvellous children's story and conveys the danger of pollution very well for its intended target audience. As a children's story, it isn't EXPECTED to have nuance or balance. And while I'm sure that there are people out there saying, "This is a mass-market Star Trek novel; why would you hold it to a higher standard than you do Dr. Seuss?", my response is, that's true of Star Trek stories that are intended to be no more than entertaining action/adventure stories. This (again) is a book with a message. But its message conveys little or nothing; I'm reasonably sure that all us Star Trek fans are already well aware that pollution is bad. The question is, "what do we do about it?" That question isn't even addressed, much less answered, in this book.

Every single book produced by Triad Publications that I have purchased has had glaring typographical errors throughout, and this book is no exception. In fact the amount of errors is so massive in each of their books I actually vowed to never buy a Triad Publication book again, but the inclusion of a CJ Henderson story in Return To Lovecraft Country made me pick the book up. Mr. Henderson's work is excellent as always, but the rest of the stories in this anthology are poorly written and make the book unworthy of its cover price.

After searching for works updating the Lovecraft mythos I thought that I'd be in for a treat when I happened upon this book. I was, in a word, disppointed. The book is poorly edited with numerous spelling and grammatical typos (probably in a rush to publish), its works are horribly derivative and sophmoric at best. I would go so far as to say that it cheapens Lovecraft's works and any true fan would be well advised to avoid this book. One exception I found was 'The Last Feat of the Harlequin' by Ligotti (unfortunatetly not even that salvages this book given the fact that I read it already in one of his anthologies).

Of note only for the TED Klein tale, and "Last Feast of Harlequin" but these two tales have improved in far superior short story collections than this one.

I found this book to be more of a so-called cultural study instead of the old-fashioned facts-and-chronologies accounts of history. The book is highly opinionated to the point where the events unfold along the lines of the author's opinion about the matter. I also found the book to be heavily slanted to the Left-wing way of thinking.

My son was required to read this book for his history studies at school, but I can't help but wonder if there is any good American history book that plainly tells the facts.