Great historical value, but I must admit for the price I expected far more detail. It does have a good set of reference photos, particularly for the historian and modeller, as the Prinz Eugen had somewhat of a distinguished career being a partner to the Bismarck and a A-bomb Test bed for the USA. It does lack good line drawings and interior detail for the Class which I would expect for the price.

The title of this book suggests that it is directed towards the crafter just starting out, but the wholesale trade shows it focuses on are out of reach for me. I recommend it for anyone interested in mass production for wholesale buyers, but if beginning crafteres are anything like me, shows like this are completely out of reach at this point. I was hoping for a book that would help with the issues I'm dealing with on a day to day baisis - like trying to start my business from scratch with no capital except from pieces I sell here and there; most of which must go into supplies for the next piece I'll sell, business cards, a good camera . . . etc. It's a bit outdated as well, and someone should inform the author that some of us do in fact remember macrame. (like the millions of hemp artists out there)

it's not just a medical boo

using this for a sociology class--mildly interesting, I would have liked to have more books to back it up for more detailed info, but overall a generally good book as far as basic info goes.

Dieses Buch ist alle moderne Architektur. Die alte Architektur ist nicht hier. Das ist zu falsch. Die alten deutschen Architekten konnten aufbauen. Sie bauten feste Gebäude mit klassischer Art auf. Die neuen Gebäude sind Trödel. Deutsche Architektur ist jetzt wie McDonalds.

Ok, so the title was mind gripping. It even had the great Beckenbauer's name on it! Written by a well-respected German coach, Gerhard Bauer, nothing could go wrong, I thought as I happily tore it off the bookshelf and spent a cool 12 bucks on a book I never anticipated would make me feel the harsh torture of such disappointment. All kinds of thoughts unfolded as I unwrapped the book from it's carefully-wrapped plastic. I thought of myself emerging as one of the world's most talented players, winning the local league, emerging as top scorer in the Serie A(after AC Milan had bought me), having had coaching from two of the best coaches in the world. Of course, these fantasies swirling around in my head were pure fabrication, and this wasn't going to be a magical book or anything, but how many 13 year olds get an oppportunity like this? It turned out as a good lesson for me. Never get your hopes too high. As soon as I began page 1, I knew I had made a mistake. What it had said on it's cover, Soccer Techniques, Tactics and Teamwork, were only a quarter of what was in the book. Most of it is emphasised on coaching, how to coach, fitness, motivation for coaching and all that. What had been taught to improve yourself as a player, is deeply camouflaged with words of advice for the coaches and all that. Most of it, include techniques which are deisnged to improve your attack or defense, are tactics any Tom, Dick and Harry knows, including the fake, tackle and stuff like that are given more time and explanation than more complex techniques. For some coaches, this book may be sheer heaven, but I really wouldn't put it up for sale to players wanting to improve themselves in the basis of soccer.

Pros: Good for coaches worldwide, a solid introduction for beginners considering taking up football.

Cons: Too much emphasis on coaching, not really a player's self-improvement guide, sort of outdated.

This book has dozens of diagrams meant to explain how one can plan training sessions for an amateur soccer club for a year. The concept is good, and the author does a good job glossing over the basics of conditioning, planning of practice etc. However, when looking at the diagrams, it's very difficult to read the majority because they are so packed with arrows and numbers. In addition, the print is exceedingly small on the diagrams. Finally, although the author talks about being able to tailor the practice sessions to any age-group or level of ability, this would be extremely difficult to do without extensive experience in coaching. At that point of expertise, one would hardly need to use the relatively basic practice sessions presented here as the basis upon which to build a season's practices.

I bought this book just because I have been using MATLAB's ODE function to simulate my physiological models. The MATLAB mannual recommend it. Although I found its content very useful for me, it is too much mathematics. Maybe it is the best book for mathematics major, but not for a non-mathematics major. As a Engineering major, I even find it difficult to read sometimes. I've got the book about two years, but have not finished to read it yet.

This volume of Ritter's Sword and Scepter series is his attempt to challenge the conclusions of Fritz Fischer's groundbreaking study "Germany's Aims in the First World War." Unlike traditional historians like Ritter, Fischer did not paint the Great War as self defense on the part of Germany. Fischer concluded that Germany pushed for war to satisfy her need for world power.

Ritter lived in Imperial Germany and served in the Great War. After the war, Ritter lived in the Weimar Republic that was in great need of preserving her self esteem. Although there was a new government, officials still had to defend the German Empires actions before and during the war in order to demonstrate the illegitimacy of the vindictive Versailles treaty. Considering such an upbringing, it is easy to see why Ritter was quick to discredit Fischer's work.

Ritter's rebuttal is rather weak, however. He concentrates on Chancellor Bethmann-Hollweg, painting him as a moderate of highly ethical intentions who saw WWI as a defensive war. Ritter, however, does not look closely enough at the forces that were influencing German leadership (i.e. economic need for more land). Ritter sees militarism as almost solely political and ignores its influence on German society. Finally, Ritter fails to discredit Fischer's most damaging piece of evidence: the September Memorandum. This document spelled out the minimum war aims of the German civilian leadership (to overrun France and spread German power eastward by weakening Russia). Ritter played it down stating it was a first draft and more reflection than decision. Ritter defended Germany's stubborn claim to Alsace-Lorraine because it was a national "emblem" for Germany's proudest moment. Ritter downplays the greedy Brest-Litovsk treaty as purely out of economic and defensive necessity on the part of Germany that would be revised in later peace negotiations. Ritter makes a lot of assumptions as to the state of mind of the German leaders. Although this volume is an essential source in the debate, if Ritter's goal was to discredit Fischer's exhaustive study, in my view, he failed.

A nice gift for those that can appreciate minimalist architecture and photography. The book contains little text-mostly well composed images of the house on quality cotton paper. Each page contains one image which also folds out into a larger sheet-like a hand crafted photo-journal or album.