Science fiction? Hardly...more like sexual fiction. Would have been fine if I was looking in the adult fantasy section. Didn't find a single thing in this book that grabbed me - except boredom. Forget about continuity or connected segments.

Save your money (. . .)

I normally don't give such a poor rating on anything, but there always has to be a first time. I think the author of this book needs some serious mental therapy. He promotes man as being future gods, there is too much explicit sex and he goes off on wild tangents. I think he and Carlos Castenega would hit it off real well, they could swap notes. I would have to sum this book up with a simple sentence: "Don't waste your money, like I did."

One of the books that opened my perceptions to wonder when I first read it some 20 years ago. Silverberg at his most psychedically powerful stride. Along with "Nightwings" this is a must read for any fan of the Sci-Fi genre.

A terrible pitty that it is not available for my Macintosh or Palm.

Books on "gnosticism" often tend either to be in the academic stratosphere, or full of new age sensationalism. This volume is very useful in that it presents a variety of interesting viewpoints from (mostly) recognized scholars in the field. It's quite accessible and the closing chapter on modern gnostic revivals is of particular import for those seeking to comprehend the continued draw this ancient philosophy -- as radical or paranoid it may be -- exerts upon some elements of our society today. (I adopted this for use in an undergraduate course on gnosticism I teach.)

This book brings a theorectical analysis of the subject of american Indian education that is still fresh today. The problems associated with Indian education raised in this text are sadly still with us and much of the reason for that continuing problem can be found in the failure of the educators, whose job it is to teach American Indian youth, to follow some of the suggestions contained in this text. On the down side, the statistics in this text are dated and in need of revision. I would still even with that proviso recommend it heartily to any anthropologist or educational theorist looking into problems associated with Indian educational failure. Buy this book!

Mayhem on Maui is not what I would call an exceptional book, but it is indeed very entertaining. This book has a mystery to it as well as action and adventure. It is almost a joke between you and the authors how each of K.C. Flanagan's books are, in their own way, a lot like all the others. However, Susan Murray and Robert Davies do acknowledge this through K.C.'s thoughts. In this book K.C. has finally resolved to stay out of her "detecting business," and of course this resolve is broken quickly. K.C. soon finds herself mixed with burning buildings, people who were/are involved with the Yakuza (Japanese mafia), and stolen files, as well as a mystery that is only solved when she is nearly dead. A good read if you want a not too serious book that is at the same time fun to read and entertaining.

Thank you for allowing me to read your new books, about K. C. Flanagan, girl detective.  As a teacher I found them very interesting.  I think that teen age girls will be able to relate to K. C. who is 14 years old.  I learned from these books about Mayan and other cultures in Mexico. They can easily replace the Nancy Drew books which I and my friend read as teen-agers.  I commend you on putting out a book which the modern teen-age girl can relate to. Sincerely, Rae Hoff Retired teacher, East Rockaway, NY

I had the opportunity not only to read Dr. Young's book, but to interview about it as well. He is a knowledgeable historian and very fact-conscious, as well as understanding the larger issues at hand. I recommend this book to anyone who is seriously interested in the American Civil War because it will provide you with a unique story about one player in this immense drama.

Every class has only so much time to give you examples on how to work the different theories of calculus. This book, from the Schaum's Outline series, provides you with additional examples to supplement your classroom time. Each problem is worked out for you, so you can see exactly how the answer is reached.

The outline series also explains some of the concepts, like partial derivatives and Fourier series. At the end of each chapter are some supplementary problems to test your knowledge. Unfortunately, not all of them have the answer printed. It is still a helpful reference to help you master the concepts of calculus.

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In my opinion, "Schaum's Outlines of Advanced Calculus" is the most accessible and most usefull advanced calculus text in print. Combining the precision of Professor David Widder's "Advanced Calculus", the accessibility of "How to Ace the Rest of Calculus", and the problem solving skills of REA's problem solvers, this book deserves to be the favorite advanced calculus text of anyone studying the subject. Of course, in advanced mathematics there is no panacea, but this book makes the job of learning mathematics much easier than is popularly imagined.

Don't believe what you read in the popular press or hear on the media - that's the lesson affirmed by the authors. They review a gaggle of cases where the reportage of some issue or event was obviously filtered, through intent or incompetance, to fit the story the author wanted to state.

Rabid liberals who don't realize how far left the media has seemed to come will view this book as a subtle right-wing treatise. However, these are people who, like their reactionary counterparts, internally filter out anything that doesn't fit into their own paradigm, and they are better ignored. Nothing will help people who are too tilted in either direction, but this is not a reason to dismiss important work.

In all, this should be required reading for every newspaper and television reporter and editor and journalism student, not to mention every adult who wants to think independantly.

Once again,we have a book that exposes the PC-orthodoxy of the media and of some of the junk scientists out there. Once again, we have mini-reviews (in content and thinking) which use ad hominem (the author's are right-wing) attacks; question the author's motives and finding sources--and, never deal with the content. And, these "reviews" are from the usual suspects (places): Cambridge, San Jose and other bastions of leftist university cant.

Well, as a person with a BS in math and both as MA and Ph.D in psych--the authors are dead-on in the misues of stat by both the media and the junk scientists the media are so fond of.

Try not to present your thinly-disguised PC/Leftist ideology as a "review." It is but a knee-jerk reaction to the cognitive dissonance produced when the truth invades your little world. But, do not worry, you will find others to reinforce what passes for logic in your PC-laden miasma.

Oh, yes, lest I forget, get the book--and Bias and Coloring the News and The Shadow University--then, try and say it's all a vast right-wing conspiracy. If you are sane and open-minded, you will be both disgusted and ready to really question what gets on the biased, PC media and why.

This is one of the most-used lies in the English language, and these authors demonstrate that another often-used whopper is "Studies Show That..." This book is a well-balanced and sensible expose of junk science and the misuse of "facts," especially by researchers and the mass media. But the authors do not claim anti-corporate bias as the only possible explanation. They show how the demands of journalists' jobs give them incentives to be lazy, careless, and all too quick to hype dramatic bad news in place of good news that isn't so interesting. Many actual facts are cited to prove the authors' points. One of the points they make by logical argument rather than factual proof, however, may be the most important of all: the intolerable smear that a researcher's "corporate funding" (which is often very tenuous, exercising little or no actual control over the researcher's activities) automatically invalidates his research! This tactic is often used today (as can be seen in one of the reviews below), but the only honest approach is to question a researcher's FINDINGS, not his MOTIVES. After all, as the authors point out, journalists (and certainly political activists) have their own agendas that give them strong incentives to fudge the truth; and the fact that their motivation is not pecuniary matters little to the only important question: how much truth is in what they say. Also, many researchers DO have a sort of vested interest of their own: they know that if their studies "prove" that a pressing problem exists, they'll get more funding to do further studies, so they won't actually have to go out and WORK for a living! Not surprisingly, their "studies" tend to find terrible problems everywhere. One gets the impression that there are so many new, horrendous health hazards now that a person would have to be lucky to reach old age. So why are people living longer and longer, if there are so many health dangers lurking everywhere? Read this excellent book and you won't be so quick to believe that all the junk science hype that's being quoted everywhere actually proves what it claims to prove.

This is not a scholarly book, its analysis is non-convincing, and it obviously relies mainly on secondary soources. But the innately intersting nature of the story it tells makes the reading enjoyable.

It's well written with many illuminating insights but is a scholarly work aimed, I suppose, at people who have read, or thought they had read, all of Waugh. Actually,for those who wept that there were no more Waughs to conquer,he uncovers some obscure writings and some differences between editions that are more radical and more interesting than such textual variants usually are.
Only the first section and the bits about the early novels live up to the promise of the title by relating Waugh to contemporary writers of his time. I had always been puzzled by the way that in "Decline and Fall" a taut, ironic, detached, witty style emerged suddenly in 1928 from the unreadable tomes of the early century when humor was arch and ponderous, description long-winded, and plots melodramatic. Genius is the primary explanation of course but Davis puts it into context and I shall be scouring the used book areas for some of the avatars and exemplars he mentions.
Later on he loses track of this theme of relating Waugh to his contemporaries. Just every now and then he reminds us that that is what he is supposed to be doing. There is a discussion of "Brideshead Revisited" in relation to "All the King's Men." Warren did not read Waugh and Waugh did not read Warren. At the outset Davis says "any thread of external evidence linking them is rather tenuous" Well - yes.