Although there were many black and white photos there were no 'high quality' color photos. I found the section on my part of the country, the midwest, painfully lacking. I have yet to positively identify any of my twenty or so arrowheads using this book.

I have enjoyed my copy of this book, finding it particularly helpful in typing points, though not as much so in valuing. In response to the kind reader from Mass., all the point hunters I know, myself included, only hunt sites that are already culturally & historically ruined (i.e. plowed fields), with express permission of the private landowner. We don't go looking for burial mounds,etc. With regards to points being a non-renewable resource, true. BUT, I know of several fields that have been hunted for easily 100 years, and still produce points with each plowing. Many sites were in use as camp or village sites for literally thousands of years. I respectfully suggest that the kind reader turn attention more to construction sites and new road projects when looking for where true historical sites are being desecrated and ignored. Often, these sites are "overlooked" to avoid having projects put on extended (read here, expensive years) hold while the site is thoroughly researched. Happy Hunting!

Great book! Many, many pictures from all regions including the NE. The best book I've found for a vast array of artifacts, many styles, examples etc. A great help for the novice collector! Many great ads for arrowhead sites on the web as well. Finally a visual guide to "see" actual pieces not just sketches!

True, while not a collection of Howard's very best, there's good stuff in here. ... And there are some good, but flawed pieces.

Black Canaan - A story of back-woods blacks being led to rise up and kill a lot of back-woods whites, by an evil conjure man who seeks to make himself "king," and his supernatural femme fatal assistant. Howard's racist streak is nowhere more apparent than here, which is ashame, since this is a truly well-crafted horror-adventure yarn. Lots of great atmosphere and creepy imagery.

... And no one writes about "the horrors of the pine-lands" quite like Howard!

"Black Canaan" is an interesting collection of some of Robert E. Howard's lesser tales, essential for the REH enthusiast but not a good introduction of this writer for the first time Howard reader. Only three of the yarns were published in Howard's lifetime. The best is the title story, an exciting tale of piney woods adventure and black witchcraft (Howard used a similar mileu in his excellent horror story "Pigeons fron Hell"), which first appeared in the legendary pulp magazine "Weird Tales" in 1935. Modern readers will probably be troubled by Howard's use of racist language and cliches in several of these stories ("Moon of Zembabwei" as well as "Black Canaan"). They probably won't know that REH, who died by his own hand at the age of 30 in 1936, was less racist than most of his Central Texas friends and relations, and far less racist than his pen pal H.P. Lovecraft (Lovecraft's defense of Hitler is pretty inexcusable). The collection also includes the story fragment "Delenda Est" which was later used as the basis for the round-robin novel "Genseric," published by Necronomicon Press a few years ago, one of those posthumous collaboration between Howard and living fantasy writers. Howard wrote many fine stories but these are not included in this collection which was printed in that period in the 1970s when practically everything the man ever wrote was published in pursuit of a fast buck.

There are three stories included in this book. The first story is called "swords of the red brotherhood". If any of you have ever read the conan story The treasure of tranicos, then you have read this story, as it is nothing more than a change of setting and the names have been altered, the other two tales are not even worth mentioning. All in all a very poor read.

I understand that Donald E. Grant produced this and other deluxe volumes of R. E. Howard's stories a couple of decades ago, focusing primarily on the ever-popular Conan tales.

Well, like the six volumes of the Bean R.E. Howard Library (which, among other things, collected all the Bran Mac Morn, Solomon Kane, and King Kull tales in single, affordable volumes), Black Vulmea's Vengance collects a handful of Howard efforts that showed that he could create heroes, action, and character interplays far more interesting than anything found in his most famous stories.

Two stories and the novella found in this volume can either be read as top-notch pirate stories, or they can be read as typical Howard action tales. What *isn't* quite typical Howard, though, is the presence of female characters that display a bit more depth than one usually finds in his work.

Considering the relative age of this book and the fact that I received a first edition when I ordered it, I imagine that there are only a limited number of these left. I urge all Howard fans, as well as those who appreciate well-written adventure fiction, to order a copy. The price is definately right for these fine, hard-to-find tales. The book would have received Five Stars if the colour plates present had been better executed. They were the only dissapointing aspect of this hardcover collection.

This book is less a biography of these great philanthropists than a catalogue of the generosity they have displayed over the years. It gives ample information about the Greens' early lives, and it has useful appendices detailing the many donations and endowments these remarkable people left behind at MIT, the Colorado School of Mines, Austin College, UBC and so many other places.

This probably of limited interest to an audience not already acquainted with the Greens and their philanthropy. Nevertheless, I am pleased that such a fine account of their lives and fortune is in print.

The study guide and lab manual is not written on a level suitable for most college electrical engineering courses, I believe, since it is rather mechanical in its procedures, which are of the form "do this, measure that" but do not require much understanding of the underlying theory. Although there are a few questions accompanying the "procedures" these do not probe deeply enough, in my opinion, and it would be quite possible for a student to perform the experiment and fill in all the blanks without understanding much of what s/he did. There are "review" sheets preceeding each experiment which touch on the theory, but again in a mechanical way. It does not seem to me that the experiments would provide any opportunity for creativity or real *experimentation* for students, and therefore the authors' goal of "stimulating your interest in elecricity and electronics" is unlikely to be met.

The price of this book demands better editing. There are a large number of technical errors in the formulae as well as general typos. The reference to the "Language" equations instead of Lagrange Equations in Chapter 3 is absolutely hilarious. This book really needs an index to be a useful reference. Clearer cognitive steps in the derivations would be a plus too.

Robert Maheu gives a one-sided view of his reign under Howard Hughes downplaying his "sins" in my opinion and never really coming to grips with his abuse of power and lack of character. I suspect that what he did reveal is mostly because he was caught with his pants down. Nevertheless, I still found it interesting in helping to piece together the Howard Hughes enigma. I learned much more from reading "Citizen Hughes".

I got this a long time ago and thought I could gut it out, but did not have the skills or tenacity. This would be best for people who are fairly advanced and can sight-read difficult chords. There is no tab and no chord diagrams. Consists of about 20 charts and example solos, with the idea being to learn the chart, tape yourself playing the chords, and then practice improvising over it, with an eye towards increasing tempo throughout the 20 weeks. My 3 star rating is just a median value, I can't truly judge it because it was a bit beyond me.

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

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. We've all heard that statement before, right? In most cases, it may even be true. Something tells me it isn't so with this book. The two authors of this book point out in the introduction (which, along with the map of Howard's fantasy world, is the only interesting thing about this book) that great care has been taken to carefully reconstruct Howard's prose style while maintaining character continuity with his original stories. Even though I've never read a Howard book before--and I will seek some of them out after this--I don't doubt that the prose and descriptions match the original stories. Unfortunately, in their careful attempts at mimicry, these two authors forgot to craft an engaging story.

"Conan the Liberator" tells the story about a revolution mounted against the evil Numedides, King of Aquilonia, by Conan the Cimmerian, a former general of Numedides. People are fed up with the debaucheries of Numedides, and the high taxes that go along with them. But Numedides is under the spell of the evil Lemurian sorcerer Thulandra Thuu, a man who wishes to further his own interests through the king. Conan has other ideas, and assembles an army with the help of Count Trocero, a nobleman of Poitain; Dexitheus, a priest of Mitra; Publius, a rebel tax accessor; and Prospero, another exiled general. The army assembles in nearby Argos, where spies keep watch on their activities, and a beauty by the name of Alcina, in the employ of Thuu, watches Conan. The entire book is a painfully detailed account of the grinding excursion north to a showdown with Numedides and Thuu.

"Conan the Liberator" is the worst fantasy book I've ever read. Page after page is loaded with meaningless dialogue and politics. I always felt the name Conan was synonymous with action. This book showed me the error of that type of thinking. NOTHING happens in this book. Sure, there are a couple of short battles during the course of the story, and Thuu manages to cast a couple of spells against Conan and his army. But overall, these few scenes are not enough to justify writing this book, let alone reprinting it. Almost every scene manages to land with an earth-shattering thud

Character development is criminally, excruciatingly flat. I've seen better character development in industrial training films. Not one character ever rises above simple human traits such as breathing and moving. It will be a miracle if I remember anything about any of them in a few days.

What is good about this book pertains directly to the creator of Conan, Robert Howard. The introduction is good, and the map of Howard's fantasy world is fascinating. According to the introduction, Howard created a world with a mix of ancient, medieval, viking, and biblical place names. Howard placed his world between the sinking of Atlantis and "the emergence of the cities." Our gods and mythologies, according to Howard, are fragmentary memories of this forgotten age.

Avoid this clunker at all costs. Go out and find the original stories, or rent the Conan movies. Learning Esperanto or cleaning the lint out of your navel would be more fun than diving into this cesspool. I suspect Howard would be quite testy if he was still alive today to witness what others have done with his ideas.

This book was a great chance to tell a super part of Conan's life. It misses the mark by being too boring and not enough action.

A fortyish Conan leads an army trying to overthrow the maniacal tyranny of king Numedides of Aquilonia. Conan believes his rebel force has a great chance of defeating the king's forces led by General Procas and consequently expects to topple a monarch who abuses children and kills concubines on some of mad whim.

Conan and his advisors anticipate and plan a war they expect fought in which blade goes against blade. Instead, the evil sorcerer Thulandra Thuu and his servant Alcina intercede. Soon a mysterious illness threaten to do what the king's forces have failed to do, destroy the rebel army unless Conan can find some way of saving himself, his soldiers and ultimately the people of Aquilonia.

This is a reprint of an exciting sword and sorcery tale released over two decades ago. The story line is fast-paced and loaded with non-magical and esoteric action as expected from the novels starring the pre-history hero. Conan remains dauntless while trying to do what he believes is right while his deadly foe Thuu will return for another day (or is that novel - if this reviewer's memory holds see CONAN THE SWORDSMAN).

Harriet Klausner