AJP Taylor's "War Lords" divides each into his own chapter, including Mussolini, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin, FDR, and a back section for Tojo, etc. I first read Taylor's book in college, and upon re-reading it, i noticed it is full of his own opinions, verging on egoism. The best thing about the book is actually the photos and captions; it is also divided well and easy to read. The rest is fact sprinkled throught Taylor's opinions, which he quotes his opinion as being "the right one." Don't waste your money on this, check a library first.

This book is a good introduction to the problems and joys of owning a wood. There are very few books in this area and this one was a welcomed insight. There was however very little technical information. This book was a contributing factor to buying a wood of our own.

This book was horrible. I was forced to use it in a mandatory brainwash...er, history course for school. The book essentially goes like this:

We settled Massachusetts, and the indians, blacks, gays and women were persecuted.

Then, we started a westward expansion which led to persecution for indians, blacks, gays, and women.

During the revolutionary war some white guys fought or something, but it is important to note that the indians, blacks, gays...

This book is a proselyting tool, a transparent piece of propaganda. I didn't convert.

This book tries to teach history without actually including any concrete information. It outlines general trends without emphasizing the historical facts on which the trends are based. While it's certainly important to recognize progressions in history, it's extremely difficult to learn about them based only on the text's vague, 50-page summaries, all of which fail to mention any form of historical evidence.

As a student, I found this book's approach to teaching history disastrous and mildly insulting. First of all, it fails to convey even the most cursory knowledge of history by shunning, at all costs, cruel Old Regime teaching methods that might require DATE memorization or familiarity with historical FACTS. With nothing to "Lock On" to, it's very hard to retain anything. Even worse, however, are the implications of the book's approach. I like History because I enjoy being able to look at a set of evidence and trying to figure out, based on otherwise stale information, what *actually* happened, what life was like. Somehow, I got the sense that by describing outright "what life was like," the book implies that to force students to learn INFORMATION is useless, that students are unable to think for themselves and interpret historical information with any accuracy.

I think I should comment, also, on one reviewer's dismissal of this book as "Nouveau History." I come close to BEING one of the "Tenured Radicals" this reviewer had so much disdain for, and I still hated this book. I would hate it if I were communist. There's so much wrong with it that to criticize it for its left-wing perspective is plain silly.

I would recommend "The American Promise," by James L. Rourke, Micheal P. Johnson, and a few others instead.

This book provides a balanced overview of U.S. History up to 1877. The treatment of social and cultural history is particularly stong. The prose is, for the most part, quite lively.

i was looking in the manual for directions about how to change belts on my a/c,water pump, etc, and it doesn't say anything about something so simple like that..

This book is very informative, it had valuable information of electrical panel locations and how to open up certain parts of the dash board. Could not have done this with out it.

I received this manual last week. It has been very helpful to me from adjusting the head lights, changing radiator fluid and replacing the PCV valve. I am sure that this book will be a good reference for me to do future maintenance work on my Chrysler Town & Country.

The authors have taken a good idea and suffocated it in statistical formulae, factor loadings, and F-ratios. The authors describe seven inviolable norms and nine admonitory norms for college teachers. These make sense, but in many ways they remark the obvious. The writing, while correct, is far from inspiring. I suspect that about 5% of college teachers violate some of these norms, but those of us who don't won't find much here for edification or instruction. Why is it that good teaching and learning can be so inspiring and uplifting, while books like this, which purport to be about teaching and learning, are dryasdust? Save your $.

Finally, someone has written something about faculty misconduct in our universities. Too often, people overlook the behaviour of the faculty in college teaching. Too often, people believe that just because one is a professor, that somehow that means the person is immune from doing a bad job. Professors work under VERY lax environments, and that, combined with tenure, is a recipe for misconduct. Anyone who has spent any amount of time on a college campus can tell stories about professors who don't prepare for class, give high grades for work that is poor in order to be popular with students, or who don't come to class at all. While Baxton and Bayer have made a valuable contribution to the public, more research needs to be done on this seriously neglected topic. When partents are asked to take out a loan against their home, and taxpayers are shelling out more and more money to fund higher education, it is suprising that research like this has not been done sooner.

The first need I had for information from my Haynes Ford Ranger manual was to locate a fuse in my 1999 Ranger XLT. The fuse diagram is wrong. No corrections are available at the Haynes website.

I'm thinking about buying this book because I own a 2000 Ford Ranger, code-named J97, built in Thailand for sale throughout the world except North America.
Could it be that Mr Gow found the manual inaccurate because the US Ranger is a totally different vehicle from the Mazda-based Ranger that the rest of us use?

I was looking for a book that would describe the HTML language and more importantly discuss writing CGI programs that interact with HTML. This book was not what I needed.

A simple search of the 16-page index shows the problems. There are no entries for 'cookies' or 'refresh' (as in client-side pull refresh), and the FORM HTML tag has a total of 3 pages referenced (hardly enough room to describe how to write forms). So if you're looking for detailed technical material, this isn't the book for you.

This book is useful as a broad-reaching primer about the internet, newsgroups, VMRL and many other obscure (and outdated) topics. But I think you would still do better elsewhere.

For a book that is supposed to be about HTML and CGI, this book spends most of the time talking about everythign BUT HTML and CGI. In fact, if you want to find a discussion of HTML and CGI in this book, you'll have to go lookiing for it.

I think the only reason this book sells is because people confuse this horrible book (HTML & CGI Unleashed) with a good book (HTML, Java, CGI, VRML, SGML Web Publishing Unleashed).

This book on the cover seems to say that it will help you learn more HTML and CGI. It does show you some good code but I think this book is more of a reading book then a reference. In the beginning it tells you everything about the web you can think of. There is a lot of information that I did not know, but this book takes you where you have never been. I would recommend this book to the accomplished HTML person with medium CGI experience.

This book will not teach you how to defend yourself. I am not street fighter, but I have some experience. And I know that the material presented by Dr. Yang will not work on the streets. However, there are some interesting information contained in this book - mainly about psychology of attacker. But - again - as a self defence book... NO!

This book looks and sounds like practicle self defense for everyone using kung fu, but it's really a more traditional kung fu self defense approach. The picture on the cover is nowhere in the book. In fact, there are no pictures in the book that show everyday people in street clothes. Their all martial artist in traditional dress. I was very disappointed in this book. If you have a background in martial arts, you might like the book better.

Of the three books that have been published about "The Fugitive" television series (my favorite of all time), this one I would rate as the most flawed. "The Fugitive Recaptured" by Ed Robertson and "The Official Fan's Guide to The Fugitive" by Mel Proctor are both much better.

Cooper's book is largely a series of summaries of each of the 120 episodes in the four-year series. The problem is that careless factual errors pop up again and again. And I am basing this on checking the summaries of only the 60-odd episodes (just slightly over half the total) that I'm familiar with. Who knows about the others!

For example in Episode 27, "Never Stop Running," the author doesn't even get the name right for the character played by Claude Akins. He said it was Jim, when in fact it was Ralph. In Episode 63, "Crack in a Crystal Ball," in which a wife of a phony clairvoyant drives Kimble to a certain destination, Cooper says, "She leads him (Kimble) to believe that she is in trouble and asks him for help....They arrive at the agreed-upon location, but Mrs. Mitchell tips off Kimble and he escapes before the police arrive." Wrong. She drove Kimble because she said she had a lead on the whereabouts of the one-armed man. SHE was the one doing the helping (or so she claimed). She also did not tip him off. She just dropped Kimble off and drove away. He learned about the trap from a friend on the phone.

Sometimes the errors are small, but they still count as errors. In Episode 25, "Taps for a Dead War," the book says, "The police arrive. Joe and Millie hide Kimble in the house." I just saw that episode recently on video. In fact, he hides behind a tree outside.

Perhaps the most egregious example of an inaccurate summary is Episode No. 53, "The Survivors," (one of my favorites) in which Kimble secretly visits his financially troubled in-laws. The book first says Kimble wanted to help them find "a savings passbook, part of his wife's effects." In fact, what he was looking for was any information recorded on paper about a forgotten bank account. Eventually they find some hand-written notes inside a regular book. Cooper also says that Kimble's father in law "believes him innocent." Actually the father in law is uncertain.When asked about his opinion on Kimble's guilt, he says, "I don't know." Also Cooper says that at the end of the story "Mrs. Waverly (is) now thinking that perhaps Kimble is not guilty of murdering her daughter after all." There is no hint of this in the story. The ONLY reason Mrs. Waverly helped Kimble was because she was trying to heal her damaged relationship with her daughter.

Another example: in Episode 14, "The Girl From Little Egypt," a story that starts with a woman hitting Kimble with her car, the book says, "When he awakes, Ruth sneaks him out of the hospital." Not true. They left openly together.

I think John Cooper should do a second version of this book with the various errors corrected.

Frankly I wonder why I even bother reading Sherlock Holmes pastiche's anymore. They are usually so dreadful.

Well, this attempt is pretty dreadful too. And dull. Very dull. And the plot is somewhat unbelievable. Did I mention tedious and dull?

A laughable attempt to take advantage of the Holmesian's desire for new adventures. Giant Rat indeed...must be a reference to the author. Please..Please...Please..don't waste your money. Fortunately I borrowed a copy from the Library. After two chapters I started skimming and finally threw the book aside in disgust.

This one didn't live up to expectations, but to be fair, expectations for a fan of Conan Doyle's series are fairly high, and the elusive nature of this case demands equally stunning writing. While this isn't bad, it's not good either; the "mystery" is thin, and rather than finishing up with a satisfactory bang of enlightenment, it crawls across the finish line, adding another full "chapter" after the "Epilogue" notice. The science-fiction elements had real promise, however much they borrowed from Dr. Moreau, but instead of expanding them, Vanneman tries to focus on poorly-constructed minor characters that seem thrown in for the sake of a larger cast. Watson's sexual exploits are equally pointless, and Holmes' romantic attatchment to the Widow Han seems a desperate attempt to recreate Irene Adler. Too many unanswered questions and shoddy plotting make this one to skip. Instead, try some of Nicholas Meyers' Holmes stories - The Seven Percent Solution and The West End Horror are most excellent.