i just want to know why you all are putting my name on your listing of author? Lynda Morris Childress (Amarillo Tx) P.O. box 20274-area 79118

a must have for the serious cruiser, a joy just to read as well.

A wonderful and entertaining resource book. It is filled not only with reference information for the cruising sailor, but geography, advice, local history and accounts of sailing (mis)adventures.

Well worth reading for anyone who loves the Northeast coastline - whether or not they have ever entered an unfamiliar harbor, short of food and fuel, just ahead of a storm.

I purchased this book as a summer "starter" for my two children beginning Latin this fall. I had taken four years of Latin and needed a refresher myself to be able to help them get ahead. I believe the book is very confusing and there is no way without my help that my children could use this book.
The book gives action verbs on page 11 but goes back to show the actual conjugation of the basic "to be" on page 13. Logically this should be reversed! The book also does not immediately address one of the very basics of Latin(finally page 8)...the masculine and feminine declension of nouns...and their relationship to their modifying adjectives is never truly explained well.
This book seems to be set up to "speak" the language as you would study Spanish or French if traveling abroad. The book begins with "hello", "good-bye", "what is your name?" and other vocabulary. Someone should tell the author that learning Latin is to learn the fundamentals of how language works, not to learn the language to speak the language. You would have a hard time finding an audience!

This is a very lively and colourful book, a good asset to learning Latin. On the other hand, unless you have some background in the structure of Latin, this book will be somewhat confusing. Also, this book is more for conversational Latin, which is alright since there are a few places one can speak Latin such as on the net and in universities. So those who seek Latin for literary purposes ought to be warned that this is a more conversational Latin book. Travellers and tourists may find this book useful for even far-flung descendants of Latin like Romanian can still be interchangable. People going to Romance-language-speaking countries will be able to converse in Latin with the natives, be understood, and maybe understand what they say back in their language. Try it on the clergy and educated people too. I would reccomend a backround in the structure first before tackling this book

"Latin for Beginners" is aimed directly at kids, not their teachers. (In olden days, when I began studying Latin, I suspected that our texts were designed to please our teachers. Although the books laid out the material logically, they were dull: completion of homework was a victory over boredom.) Now, along come Wilkes and Schakell-two halves of the same brain?-to bring some pizzazz to learning Latin. Schakell uses explosive colors in a cartoon format, and his zany characters speak in Wilkes' impeccable Latin. The twenty chapters, two large pages each, cover such subjects as What is Your Name?, Your Family, What Do You Like Eating?, Shopping (including Roman money), and Going to a Café. Each chapter introduces some grammar and about 25 words or phrases. Puzzles and quizzes reinforce the pictures (answers in back of book). Concluding pages provide such basics as pronunciation, tables of grammar, Roman numerals, times of day, dates, and a good index. All noun declensions are given but not all verb conjugations. Still, after a student has finished this basic course, he may well be hooked and ready for more. Anachronisms are part of the book's charm: the characters ride bicycles, drive cars, eat hamburgers, and boogie with gusto. A note claims that the modern words have been cobbled by a committee of Latin scholars. (Latin is indeed spoken and E-mailed today by the intrepid, and of course new words are needed.) I'd like to have seen more on this cobbling process, though. The ages targeted by the book depend on the way it's presented. If only Latin-to-English is asked for, readers in the third or fourth grades would probably be attracted to it. Adding English-to-Latin and encouraging the speaking of Latin might intrigue students through middle school and beyond. My one suggestion for future editions of the book is adding a list of common English derivatives, which help in memorizing vocabulary.

For people who don't know much about PTSD this is a good book. I found it to be rather simplistic but it did cover a lot of material related to PTSD. Buy it if you're newly diagnosed, it will help. Don't buy it if you've moved on to books that help with treatment, this one won't.

As has been stated, this is a basic book about a complicated subject. I guess I can see how some people would find it too simplistic or be disappointed that their ptsd wasn't cured by reading the book, but I found the concepts pretty sophisticated even if stated in a simple fashion. For example, one reviewer complained that the book shouldn't include the bit about the patient "falling in love". It seems to me that "erotic transference" is a pretty common experience in therapy, especially in people who have been traumatized, and I kind of liked the fact that it was discussed by the authors. I've read a bunch of books on the subject, and several gave very specific treatment suggestions that seemed--at least to me-- to reflect that the author had a specific ax to grind. While this author is a psychoanalyst, his suggestions seemed pretty commonsensical to me. The q and a format isn't my favorite, but it did make the text move along, and they covered the waterfront. I didn't expect my ptsd to get cured by reading the book, but I did want to understand it better, and I found it one of the clearer books on the subject. I'm not sure why there is so much of a mixed feeling about the book.

I've been struggling with depression and fears that I haven't been able to overcome or understand since my childhood. I'm female, over 40 and still have trouble being comfortable around men. Now I understand why. This book is easy to understand. I really like the question and answer format. As the book explains, if a person is suffering from trauma and stress, there are many mixed up thoughts and feelings involved. The book goes into enough detail to explain fully the complicated issues involved in PTSD but simply enough for the lay person. It gave answers to questions I didn't know I had and even answered some questions that I found too embarrassing to ask my counselor. It was recommended to me by my Psychologist.

I often ponder the meaning of life. I often consider what experiences I might accomplish over the course of my life. And I also consider those experiences I hope not to accomplish. Certainly, I wish reading Locke's essay had been on the latter list. This book is an exhibition of human wastelandism. If your hope is to become truly stupider, I suggest you read this breakthrough in stupidity and worthless Babel. And then eat the book. And then vomit the book up, and burn the book/vomit. And vow never to read another one of Locke's filth-bombs.

John Locke's 1698 "Essay Concerning Human Understanding" is one of the foundational texts of Western philosophy. It is a phenomenal enquiry into how and why people become functional individuals. Bringing into philosophy a developmental model of personal becoming, Locke drilled pre-Berkeleyan common sense into a growing capitalist nation, one which was already moving away from the absolutist model of government and viewing self in the world espoused by Thomas Hobbes in "Leviathan." While clearly building on and stepping on his predecessors, most notably Hobbes and Rene Descartes, Locke deals broadly with ideas, language, and how people come into knowledge, and sets the stage for a new phase of philosophy entering the 18th century.

Locke begins the "Essay" by rejecting and dispensing with the notion of "innate ideas," which basically says that we are born in possession of certain principles, elements of knowledge, or maxims that help us orient ourselves in the world. Through long and drawn out (one downside of Locke is his insistency on detail and repetition) examples and arguments, he attempts to prove that when we are born, we have absolutely nothing intelligence-wise, to recommend us. This is what is popularly referred to as the 'tabula rasa' theory, that when first born, our minds are like "empty cabinets" or "white sheets" of paper - which experience and experience only furnishes with our ideas about the world. His goal here is to get people to question their assumptions about the world, to ask questions and decide for themselves based on reason and experience, how best to interact with the world.

Locke says that the only two sources of all human knowledge are sensation (that information which is passively thrust upon our senses) and reflection (when we consider and think about that sense data, and about our own thoughts). From these "simple ideas," we are able to combine and recombine thoughts to form "complex ideas" and use clear and distinct language to express them to other people. This social aspect of this philosophy is something that really fascinated me about Locke. While focusing on the individual's growing base of knowledge, he is all the while trying to orient people to functioning in society. Saying that the end of all knowledge serves two purposes, viz., honouring God, and being morally responsible, Locke goes on to show how human life often works counter to these goals, with a view to correcting them.

Another of his famous formulations, one all too familiar to Americans, as part of our national idealism, is that the basic state of nature of humanity consists in the "pursuit of happiness." Compared to Hobbes, for whom the state of nature consisted in the attempt to attain greater and greater power over others, Locke's state of nature seems relatively benign - however, he goes to great lengths to show how the pursuit of happiness often leads to reckless and wanton behaviours, ultimately destructive both to self and society. The idea that we must examine our desires and discipline them to the greater good is something that many of us lose sight of, and is an element central to his system.

Briefly then, a couple of other items that might be of interest to someone thinking about picking up Locke's "Essay": His philosophy of language is one that still has currency and influence on linguistic theory all the way to Saussure and the post-structuralists; Locke's manner of addressing cultural and gender diversity is progressive, but vexed, which makes for fascinating work in trying to determine his stances toward non-white European males. Locke's constant invocation of gold in his examples can be maddening, which can only mean that there is some significance therein; and finally, his other hobby-horse, so-called "monstrous births" and their status in the human race bears heavily and still importantly on the debate over a woman's right to choose. All this and so much more awaits you - over 600 pages of Lockean goodness. Beware though, Locke is extremely repetitive and can get bogged down in what, for us to-day, may seem common sense notions. But this is quintessential reading, nonetheless, for everyone interested in the formation of the modern self.

The most important book in the History of Western Philosophy. Anyone wishing to understand the western tradition will have to grapple with this work eventually.

Its not that Locke got everything right, but he does at least point us in the right direction.

every english major and writer should have a freshman comp handbook. this one is okay. it covers everything well enough.and if it weren't for the Little, Brown Handbook, i might suggest the Scott, Foresman Handbook. But the little brown handbook is by far superior, and i suggest that anyone interested in the scott foresman, or any other freshman comp handbook, check out the little brown before making a purchase.

This book is aimed mostly at students and inexperienced writers. The subjects covered range from commonly-confused words to punctuation to creative inspiration to revision to research papers and business letters -- basically, everything. For students, there are sections on how to write for particular academic subjects.

As a general reference, this book has just about everything you'd need, although the sections on computerized research and word processing are a bit outdated. There is plenty of advice for people who need help with grammar or who are trying to make their writing less awkward and more effective. It is well-indexed, allowing you to quickly find answers and advice, which is good because plodding through the book sequentially (even with the help of the table of contents) would be very tedious.

Hey guys, If your not sure this book will help you. I am telling you it will. I had a English course in college,it was required for class. Although, I would usually return my books, I kept this one. It has helped me during the course of my college years. In addition, it helps my sibling who is in high school.This book will help with any English problem you may be having.

book is backwards, writers early years are at the end of the boo

I loved reading this book, even without chapter headings and even with dubious captions (I cannot point these out, as I am not an expert.) I do, however, live in the Sulphur Springs Valley, and have some knowledge of the Chiricahua Mountains where the Rucker Ranch was located. Gray's memories of the tall grass and red clover that filled our valley before it was overgrazed by the cattle consortiums, his stories of life as a cowboy and its dangers from Apaches and outlaws cannot, in my opinion, be replaced by technically correct second-hand histories however accurate. This is like sitting on the veranda listening to your grandfather spinning tales of cattle drives, Apache raids, and trips to Tombstone, with glimpses of the characters we have grown up knowing. His view of them is personal and reflects his preception and experience. As primary history, I recommend this most colorful account. Read it with a salt shaker if you must, but enjoy it as an authentic memoir of his life and times.

This is a superb book, well indexed, footnoted, etc. The notes in other reviews about misinformed captions and lack of chapters is bogus. The historic memoir had no chapter headings. The photo captions are absolutely accurate. Mr. Rogers has done western history a marvelous service by his obviously through research that has provided the readers of the Gray Memoir with valuble insights into the people, events and places that Gray wrote about... Enjoy!!! When is Rogers going to bring out another book? This and his Crimes and Misdeeds: Headlines from Arizona's Past are wonderful reads.

While this book is certainly an entertaining read, and covers Holliday's life quite fully, I consider the scholarship somewhat suspect.

The problem is that, rather than confine her account to the facts, the author often states how Doc felt, or what he thought about various things, people, events, etc. throughout the book. There is just no way she could possibly have such detailed and complete knowledge about such things, since Holliday never kept a diary, and indeed the only written accounts directly attributable to him were some letters written to his cousin, a Catholic nun - none of which go into the level of detail that would be required for Ms. Johns to know all of the things she appears to know. Most of what we know about Holliday comes from what others (many of whom disliked him cordially) said or wrote about him. Yet Ms. Johns writes as though she has an inside track on his innermost thoughts.

If she actually qualified such statements with words like "It seems probable that...", "it is very likely that...", or "the evidence clearly indicates that..." this would solve the problem; after all, it is a historian's job to present possible explanations for things the bare facts may not explain sufficiently, and to try and see past events to the causes and motivations behind them. But speculation and supposition MUST be labelled as such. To present it as though it were incontrovertible fact is poor scholarship. As a historian myself, I know this would never fly if the author were presenting this as a graduate thesis.

Ms. Johns is also inclined to make some pretty wild claims, such as Wyatt Earp's and Doc Holliday's "...friendship, may have caused many deaths, even Doc's own."(p.134) How Holliday's death from tuberculosis, several years after he parted company with Wyatt could, in any way, be attributable to Earp is a complete mystery to me. And this is only one example of some of the author's questionable assertions.

If your looking for entertainment, you'll enjoy this book. But I consider much of the information contained herein to be highly suspect, given that the author's scholarship is often very sloppy.

If you're interested in the life of Doc Holliday, than you will probably want to read this book.

It is definitely filled with some historical truths, but at the same time the author tries to tell the reader what Doc might have been feeling when relating things that happened to him. I found that to be slightly annoying, because it's just based on pure conjecture. Sometimes it seems more like a fictional story rather than factual information.

It also seems like more information could have been put into the book regarding the relationships between him and Kate and him and Wyatt Earp.

All in all a worthwile book, but one not too put too much credence into. "Doc Holliday: A Family Portrait," by Karen Holliday Tanner is a better choice for the Doc Holliday fan. It has a good deal more factual information information about Doc, and much of it is based on family records, letters, etc.

I am basically an expert on Doc Holliday so when I read this book I was impressed with how accurate the author was. Many authors try to make him out to be either really good or really bad but Jahns brings out both sides of him. I greatly admire Doc for both his good and bad qualities. He feared nothing and yet was full of respect and undying loyalty for his friends. He is one of the most fascinaing people in all of history and this book gives alot of info about this interesting man.

This book is a major overhaul of the earlier Digital Web book for Mage: The Ascension. It has lots of little detail-ey improvements over the first edition, and some nice thoughtful material about games in the web, and storytelling in general. I'm not sure I'd encourage anyone to buy it if they had the eariler edition, unless they're obsessed with running games in the Web. But a modern Mage game ought to have *some* Digital Web in it, and if you don't have any verion of this book, I highly reccomend it. Also hs plenty of cool terminology and saucy web culture tidbits, and an interesting piece of history on the "recent crash" of the Web.

The Digital Web 2.0 is a book full of information about de Digital Web and the virtual reality world that makes a good home for the Virtual Adepts. These creatures of magic, once followers of the traditions, now spend their time exploring this new realm. With the hope that some day they will bring all the human kind to the acension. The plans are to take all in to this digital web. The book itself doesn't explain how this will be posible, but explain te secrets areas of these realm, as well the most comon places to hang out and search for hot information. At the same time indicate waves of moving, fighting and hacking in the tree posibles ways of inmersion. The normal, the astral und the holistical. Each one have their advantages, and each one have their ones problems. The digital web, and his famous meeting place Spy Demise are the structural line of this book, and the structure is very good.

I was given this book as an introduction to Java having come from a PowerBuilder background. For that purpose it's rubbish. I speed read the first 6 chapters without learning more than a paragraph of useful information. For novices to computing I can see the need for a book like this but for anyone else steer clear! The guys that reckon it's too difficult should look at changing degree courses ASAP.

I have been studying OOP, and can honestly say I could not have passed without the help of this book. Ignore the negatives from those who obviously have Java experience, this is a book for beginners and is honest about it. I have bought 5 books on java and this was the best for a first timer. For those who hate it...It's always easy to slam something like this if you already know what your doing. Remember when you were new?

A very well written and easy to understand text on intorduction to OO concepts, programming logic and JAVA in general. Excellent usage of diagrams to get the point across. Probably not suitable for an advanced student or user of JAVA. The authors do let you know that they have assumed that the reader of this book has no programming background. Therefore, if posible, it is wise to read the introduction or the back cover of the book before purchasing it. I do tend to agree with one of the reviewers that if you find this book hard to understand then you do need to rethink about changing your field of study. Do not worry if the examples do not compile the first time, there are many books out there that have similar glicthes. Plus it is a good dose of reality, because there is no software application that hits the mark on the first pass. If you don't have the patience and the tenacity to debug, then you are headed for doom. Do not worry about examples not compiling---- learn the concepts, after that its all a piece of chocolate mousse.

While the book jacket calls this "The SCI-FI Channel Encyclopedia of TV Science Fiction," it is more a product of England's TVTimes. It is a very good resource for British SciFi and, for the price, is worth owning for that reason alone. However it is more notable for what it omits than what it includes. Space limits a point by point critique, but two things became apparent almost immediately. First, it does not have an index. While, like most encyclopedias, it is in alphabetical order, with out a comprehensive index it is impossible to cross reference information. Second, It has many glaring omissions. No work can be total, but the history of TV Sci-Fi is not that long. In the whole realm of TV shows, few are Sci-Fi, so a complete list should not be that hard to assemble. The authors have made a good try, but where they fall short is questionable. If "Journey to the Unknown" is classified as Sci-Fi, why is "Thriller" omited? If Sci-Fi comedy such as "Captian Nice" and "Holmes and Yoyo" listed, where is "My Living Doll," "Mr. Terrific," or "It's About Time"? Why didn't the "Star Lost" make it to the "41 obscure Shows. . ." list at the end of the book? The inside jacket says that, "no true SF fan should be without this up-to-date reference guide." In reality, any true SF fan will find this book cute but annoying. And any casual TV fan looking to add to their reference library would do better buying "The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows." It tends more to deliver what is promised

I'm a life-long fan of Science Fiction who was raised with TV as my primary grow light, and as such, I gotta tell you that THE SCI-FI CHANNEL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF TV SCIENCE FICTION, by Roger Fulton & John Betancourt, it is pretty cool. It contains lots of information about all those great--and even not-so-great--Science Fiction, horror, and fantasy TV shows that we SF fans all love and cherish, including some stuff on obscure, nearly forgotten shows like NBC's short-lived SF comedy QUARK. There are also program guides for a lot of the shows listed, with air dates and short episode synopses.

While I really like the book and think it is a must for any serious fan of SF, there are, alas, a few shortcomings--but only a few. For one, it does not contain an entry for BORIS KARLOFF'S THRILLER, which is surprising not only because the show is an American classic, but also because the show itself is currently broadcast on the very network that is sanctioning this book. Also, fans of certain less-popular but relatively recent shows may be disappointed to find that the entry for those shows do not include an episode guide (e.g., THE FLASH or THE ADVENTURES OF BRISCO COUNTY, JR.). I must also mention that there are a few mistakes in the book's Table of Contents, but this is only a minor annoyance and is easy to surmount.

In short, if you love SF, especially Television SF, you will enjoy this book.

"The Sci-Fi Channel Encyclopedia of TV Science Fiction" is an impressive achievement by co-authors Roger Fulton and John Betancourt. The book is a guide to dozens of science fiction TV series dating from the 1950s to the late 1990s. The authors include British and U.S. series (as well as a few productions from elsewhere). A nice touch is the inclusion of children's series and short-lived series (such as TV's "Planet of the Apes" and "The Fantastic Journey"). Fantasy, as well as sci-fi, series are included.

For the main series profiled, the authors provide an introductory article as well as a complete episode guide. For each episode, they give a plot summary, as well as writing, directing, and guest-starring credits.

Not all the series are given such detailed attention; some only have the episode titles listed, and some don't even get that. In general, shows that get less comprehensive attention are shows that are primarily thought of as representatives of another genre: "Bewitched" (sitcom), "The Six Million Dollar Man" (action/adventure), etc.

Despite its sometimes incomplete nature, this is a wonderfully informative and entertaining book. Sci-fi staples and cult favorites are well represented: "Babylon 5," "Blake's 7," "Quantum Leap," "Star Trek" and its various sequels, "The X-Files," etc. I particularly liked the ample attention given to short-lived shows that were nonetheless loved by devoted circles of viewers.

Of course, a book of this nature is generally out of date by the time it hits the bookshelves, so I am already anticipating a new edition. But until then, this book remains in an honored position in my library.