Being a zoologist frquently contracted by universities, zoos and TV companies, this book has saved much time in the research of locating specimens. The text is well written, concise and accurate. The natural history sections answer most of the questions that would immediately come to mind when trying to plan a trip to Trinidad to study the heptofauna. Worth every penny to the serious scientist in the field!

this book is cool, i also know the guy, he works at the high schoo

Hollywood has not been kind to the long constrictor. In its view, they drop out of trees or rise up out of rivers, big as buses and determined to squeeze the guts out of that hapless human being who has wandered within reach of their treacherous or lecherous (depending upon the sex of the victim) coils. Though big snakes have, in fact, never been much interested in people, people have always been fascinated by them. Sensational stories of villagers squashed and gobbled up by monstrous serpents fill the accounts of explorers and early "naturalists." For all the satisfying fear they engender in far removed readers, such stories do the snakes injustice and divert attention from their remarkable morphology and living habits. These authors are scientists, but they are also literate and obviously snake enthusiasts. So while they stick to the facts, they write clearly and engagingly in defense of remarkable animals who, when it comes to encounters with humans, are much more sinned against than sinning. There are chapters about feeding and breeding of course. But there is also a serious review of the extraordinary stories that impute lengths of sixty or more feet to anacondas and pythons. By the time the myths have been detonated, the terrified lay reader is ready for an honest answer to the question, "How long can a snake grow?" Read the book to find out. But I will say it is longer than some buses.

I purchased this book on a whim, knowing of the authors' credibility. When I got in to it, I realized it was going to be more than I expected. This work discredits one by one all the ridiculous length claims on snakes from around the world. Instead of these (sometimes outrageous) claims, the authors provide you with THE FACTS AND NOTHING BUT THE FACTS!

It is about time herpers spread the honest truth about these species to the general public, rather than the typical "My python should hit thirty-five feet because that's the maximum size!".

This book is an educational experience for ANYONE with an interest in these species or herps in general. I wholeheartedly recommend it!

The human attack accounts are pretty eye-opening, too!

This well-written, fun book is definitely required reading for any would-be Macintosh expert. Although it's now far too outdated to be of very much practical use, it is full of colorful tidbits, descriptions, pointers and secrets from the Mac's "middle period" -- when System 7 was state-of-the-art, when Steve Jobs, the chair behind his desk at Apple still warm, was trying to make NeXT Computing the next big thing, when the PowerPC processor was years into the future. Perhaps the most interesting thing about "Inside Track to the Mac," however, is that its author, John Dvorak, is now notorious for his anti-Macintosh opinions as a columnist for a prominent computer magazine and website. That makes this book fascinating as a relic of Dvorak's past, as well as of the Macintosh's.

This book was interesting, but still left a lot of questions open in my mine. I especially enjoyed the chapters from the theological perspectives, but did not learn much new on the neuroscience research. I liked all the different perspectives that the book had to offer. It is definately technical reading!