This book discusses most aspects of stormwater hydrology, provides theory of various competing methods, AND many worked examples. The format is very readable, and the explanations helpful. While I found the book very useful, and would buy it again, it has very little information on infiltration basins, and the TR-20 program included has been outmoded by commercially available programs.

Not worth my time to sort through all these sites, when many are already outdated. I need more current information.

This book was touted as the best recruiters book, by Joyce Lain Kennedy (employment columinst). That is why I bought it. To my disappointment it was not the best. Internet Recruiting Edge and The Recruiter's Bible have much more information and resources. But this is a good book if you are a jobseeker.

While it is not possible to publish a totally updated listing of this type (due to constant turnover), it is nevertheless a helpful listing of many of the major sites used by job seekers and recruiting entities. Put it on your bookshelf.

Wayne D. Ford, Ph.D., author, "Breakthrough Technical Recruiting" docwifford@msn.com

I think that it's really great that academics are starting to look at majority groups (whites, men, straights) as they do minority ones. And the intro of this book makes the author sound like a progressive, cool guy. However, I am not convinced that these biographies speak of whiteness as he claims they do. I preferred "Critical White Studies" and "Was Blind But Now I See" over this book. In addition, "Stiffed" and "The Invention of Heterosexuality" are better books as well. This was a great project that turned into a book that will just collect dust on my shelf.

Crispin Sartwell's book is not only bravely honest, but it also causes readers to be honest with themselves. As a white man in the south who both feared and romanticized Americans of African descent, I found Crispin's book to be illustrative not only of the epistemology that he frankly addresses, but of my own hidden feelings. Rarely can I point to a single book and say that it changed how I view myself, but this one has.

I've read and enjoyed both of A.C. Crispin's previous Star Trek novels, "Yesterday's Son" and "Time For Yesterday", and given that the second of those was significantly better than the first (although the first was good) I expected that she was growing as an author, and expected great things from this one.

I got some good things, but far from great, and some very BAD things as well. I expected much better.

There are basically three parts to this book; there is the main plot and two subplots of note.

The main plot is a variation on a common concept, one that was done in one of the original series animated episodes: a spacegoing "Devil's Triangle", an area of space that is a "roach motel" for spaceships. The concept is hackneyed, but it is handled well enough and originally enough that I found myself at least partially willing to overlook the unoriginality of the basic idea. Still, it is a bad sign when the basic idea behind the primary plot needs overcoming.

One of the two subplots involved the relationship between an orphaned Andorian girl and a Vulcan physician on the Enterprise; this subplot was handled quite well, and was quite moving.

The other subplot, unfortunately, involved Data approaching various members of the bridge crew for their opinions on an (appallingly bad) adventure/romance novel he was writing. In spite of the fact that this particular plotline ended with a serious message, and was tied up rather nicely all things considered, still it is apparent that it was supposed to provide the comic relief for the story; as such, it was not unlike many similar concepts used during various episodes of the series, so at least I have to give Crispin credit for being true to the characters as established for the show. But just as was true in MANY of the similar "Data makes a fool of himself trying to be human" stories that aired, not only was this one NOT funny, it was downright PAINFUL to watch. I fail to understand how any author (who has no doubt experienced the insecurity of asking for the opinion of friends about her writing, as well as being asked for her opinion about the writing of others, and the extreme difficulty of treading the line between being dishonest or downright cruel) could POSSIBLY think that there was ANYTHING funny in this scenerio.

On the other hand, if it WASN'T intended to be funny, then we run into the same problem that Troi ran into in critiquing Data's work: if something that was meant to be serious is percieved as being comedy (even failed comedy) then there's something seriously wrong with it.

Much of this book was well worth reading; if you're a fan of the subplots in which Data strives futilely (and painfully) to mimic human creativity, you'll no doubt love this one. I don't.

Eyes of the Beholders is not even close to being a four- or five-star book, although it had the potential to be. It is, rather, a typically enjoyable Trek read, interesting and amusing at times but not terribly moving or powerful.

Crispin is certainly capable of better. Yesterday's Son is a well-deserved classic, and her Han Solo trilogy was very well done. Here, however, she lowered her sights too far. We get an alien artifact that traps the Enterprise and will eventually drive the crew mad (yet none of the major characters except Troi are affected without actually going on board the artifact. Apparently, senior officers are exempt from the effects). And there is a twee sub-plot involving a blind Andorian orphan girl, which is interesting only because it involves the Vulcan Dr. Selar.

Where the novel could have excelled is with Geordi LaForge. Crispin makes token references to LaForge's blindness, and early on it seems there will be a tie-in between Geordi and the Andorian girl, Thala. When Geordi ends up being the only one on board who can handle the visual impact of the artifact, one thinks there will be still more insight offered. I don't mean a "blind people are people too" kind of revelation as that would be both cheesy and condescending. Rather, there could have been a situation where Geordi is truly forced to deal with wearing his VISOR or (as he ultimately did) receiving some kind of neural implant to allow him to "see," and Thala's own handling of a similar choice would have provided a perfect foil. Alas, Crispin presents the dilemma in the first dozen pages then largely ignores it. In the end, it is Data, not Geordi who has the revelation.

On a side note, I first read this one over a decade ago and, for some reason, it had left a sour taste. It ended up being much, much better than I remembered.

The Eyes of the Beholders by A.C. Crispin is a first contact novel something the author is good at and you will not be disappointed here. She writes with a refreshing suspensful style that keeps the reader on the edge of the seat.

As a new trade route opens, there are ships missing, both Federation and Klingon seem to disappear, now the Enterprise and crew are sent to investigate these disappearences and find something rather unique. It seems that a graveyard of ships, of all shapes and sizes, are here and some of them are quite old. This is a Geordi LaForge and Data book mainly as the Enterprise trys to figure out the mystery of this graveyard and an Artifact that seems to weld immensely awesome power.

The Enterprise crew are affected by this power and are threatened by insanity. The author keeps you involved with the story and has good character development throughout the book and gives a lot of information about Data. This story is intriguingly captivating as your intrest is piqued with the first contact.

This is a well told story written true to the TNG characters. Those wanting good action adventure with excellent science fiction should buy this book.

I had read all of the Starbridge novels before this one, and was excited to find this one by accident in a local bookstore. However, when I actually read it I was disappointed. The Starbridge universe has always seemed to me to be creative and different, both in the various species that are found and the various ways that they interact. This book had too many rote characteristics of a novel written solely to sell. It felt like the author(s) decided, "People like reading about violence, so we have to include some fights... And they like reading about sex, so we'll throw in an affair [which worked out much too neatly, by the way; in a real relationship, Mahree's sexual fling with someone else would have had some negative affects. I know that some authors write about all sorts of unrealistic relationships, but I liked these particular characters enough to be annoyed by having someone mess with them like this] ... And let's throw in some generic traits that have been in the other Starbridge novels. Hmm; which shall we choose?...." instead of actually having a good, workable idea for a new story and a new people group. As I have mentioned, I greatly enjoyed the first several Starbridge novels, and I was also fond of the one after "Ancestor's World", so I'm guessing it was the co-author.

I discovered the Starbridge series last summer and have loved every book in the series! A.C. Crispin brings interesting *female* characters to the science fiction genre, which I, as a teenage girl, am thankful for. Instead of focusing on the goings on at Starbridge with it's students, Ancestor's World focuses more on what is happening with Mahree as she investigates the murder of a member of an archeological team on the planet Na-Dina, a nice change from previous books.

'Wright writes' in obscure prose sometimes--a graduate of the Dummett school of philosophical prose writing--but this is a fairly good book.

Wright engages various types of realism (moral, scientific...), and most notably, realism in truth--especially deflationary accounts--

Chapter One: On Deflationism. His own view will be 'minimalist' truth.
Chapter Two: Minimal Truth and Internal Realism
Chapter Three: Convergence and Cognitive Command: The Euthyphro Contrast (this is a highly valuable chapter, and encouraged reading for anyone interested in color, and/or various non-cognitivism views
Chapter Four: Realism and the Best Explanation (good for Wiggins fans)
Chapter Six: Quietism (discussion on W's On Certainty/McDowell/Kripke's W)

I also recommend the classic literature on truth: Dummett, Stroud, Putnam, Davidson, Horwich, Wright, Burge, etc.

Wright is well-known for his turgid prose, but this should not prevent people from reading this book. The primary aim of the book is modest: to characterise the debate between realists and anti-realists in any meta-discipline (meta-ethics and philosophy of mathematics provide most of the examples). En route to this end, Wright makes some valuable contributions to several debates in philosophy: he argues, for instance, against deflationary conceptions of truth, and develops a pragmatist or 'minimalist' conception of truth instead. He also includes some subtle and complex arguments against quietism and content scepticism.

In 1927, the 900th anniversary of the birth of William I, a plaque was unveiled at Falaise which listed the names of 406 men supposed to have been companions of the Conqueror. Several more books and numerous articles have been published for and against any such list, but -- infighting aside -- this is still a good source for brief sketches of a large number of Norman and Breton nobles and adventurers. Ignore Crispin's arguments and conclusions, if you like, and use the heavily-footnoted sketches as a biographical dictionary of the long-term Norman conquest.

From a young-insiping point of view, author naomi zack intertwines the dominating themses in modern sociological studies to try to shed light on issues that besiege us. Enlightened by past and present authors and thinkers, Zack develops a mindset of her own, through heavy ctitisisms and contradictory support

A story centering around starbridge itself and its teachers/students.

You are introduced to some new characters, and it DOES set the stage for the 6th book.

i liked 2,3, & 5 better.

This book really pushed the edge of the starbridge series with a more adult story.

There is a constant them of 'el' and 'wo' (life and death) that will bring ying and yang to mind. You are shown that living a short life is preferable to just existing in a long one.

I would say it was a mix of janet kagan's 'UHURA'S SONG' with some Buddhism thrown in.