I had a chance to work with this guy in Texas - has been and still is a crook.....stay away!

Highly recommended book! Ross takes the best inspirational, motivational and self help books and combines it all here in one. If you only read one book this year, read this one!!

This book nicely rounds out the 'Crimson Skies' series, but an actual fighter pilot should have been consulted -- in my case, my brother in the Marines. None of the aircraft depicted had good situational visibility, like the real-world P-51 Mustang. Worse yet, the large number of models is inconsistent with the series' premise of an America split into several countries, because of the enormous engineering manpower and production capital required for even a single plane. America's vast warplane production of WWII came nowhere near having this many different planes. A multi-countried America certainly could not.

The Crimson Skies Aircraft Manual is a must for anyone remotely interested in the Crimson Skies universe. The manual details the history and armaments of each aircraft as well as any weaknesses. The only problem I have with the book is that the diagrams of each aircraft are far too similar. If the planes were really made by competing manufacturers and countries, the designs would reflect that. Other than that, the book is fantastic for casual enjoyment or hardcore gameplay.

As prior reviews state, the text is well-selected from Powell's journal, and the photographs are superb. But how can the author publish the journal of an explorer without a map keyed to the dates of journal entries? The photographs are superb, but again, not keyed to a map, or even associated with the text. The identifying data for each photo is listed in the front of the book, but is not given on, or near the photograph. A potentially superb book, but, because of these defects and faults, one that is maddening to read.

Published in England. Nicely done. Lots of illustrations. Text is very interesting. The only problem is: it is too short. You can read it completely in under 10 minutes. They should have included more kings and queens and more detail on the ones they did include. Its billed as being a children's book, but the names of some of the kings and queens were difficult for me and I have a master's degree.

Immediately after the First World War the Royal Flying Corps made the transition from an arm of the service fighting on a concentrated front to a collection of units dispersed throughout the Empire. Not only the setting but the missions changed as well. As described by Ross, his squadron, and others like it, was responsible for keeping the peace on the Northwest Frontier near the Afghan border. Patrolling the Khyber Pass to safeguard caravans or raiding warring tribes that endangered peaceful settlements was the main mission of the RFC/RAF in the early twenties.

The book is useful in some resppects although not all readers will like it. Its descriptions of garrison life for the RFC (which became the RAF after 1920) in India are excellent. Garrison routine, food, quarters, work in building and maintaining aircraft, and social life of the last years of the Raj are well described. Less satisfactory is the coverage given to the military mission although some details such as the types of aircraft used on the Northwest Frontier (mostly DH4s, DH9s, and DH10s) and the identification of squadrons that protected this area are provided.

The narrative itself is not always well organized and Ross sometimes tends to either repeat himself or jump to another topic without completely discussing what he had started. It is not a comprehensive overview but can be a valuable resource to the specialist looking for detailed information about the air service in India.

I am a senior engineer for network security operations. I bought "Telecommunication Technologies" (TT) to expand my knowledge of networking. Although TT covers Frame Relay, DSL, ATM, ISDN, and other systems, it was not reader-friendly. I recommend buying TT only if you can't find the material elsewhere.

Since reading James Harry Green's 845-page "Irwin Handbook of Telecommunications" in July 2000, I've looked for a more compact telecom book. John Ross' 384-page TT seemed to be the answer, promising "information needed to develop a complete understanding of the technologies used within telephony, data, and telecommunications networks." Unfortunately, this book doesn't offer enough accessibility to average readers. TT uses undefined terms and acronymns when explaining new material. It seems to expect a certain level of familiarity with electrical engineering and communication theory, but claims on the back cover to be "uniquely readable." It mixes material best kept separate; why discuss MAC addresses in a chapter on wide area networks, when MAC addresses best fit with local area networks? Furthermore, the book lacks cohesion and consistency, forcing me to skim half of it for topics worth reading more thoroughly.

TT reminded me of articles in 2600 magazine. They often contain lots of good technical data, but the reader is left to sort out how that data applies to his situation. This is acceptable if you're looking for certain technical details of cable modems or ISDN, but not if you're seeking to really understand their operation and relation to other systems. On the positive side, the book features a great collection of clear, complete networking diagrams for many different technologies.

When explaining networking and telecommunications, it's not enough to state the facts and press on. As a holder of degrees in English and political science, author John Ross should appreciate his non-electrical engineering audience's need for better introduction, definition, and framing of communications material. Perhaps a strong editor with an eye for organization and detail can help produce a more readable second edition.

Let's just say that this set was not worth the [money]
I paid for it. Why listen to them if you can go watch
the originals on DVD or VHS? The radio versions are
pretty much nothing different from the originals, except
for a small amount of added dialogue here and there plus
some added sound effects. While listening to them, all
I could think about was how they were different from the originals. You can't top perfection, and that's what the TV series was. I ask, what's the point of doing them on radio??

"I Am the Night, Color Me Black" - in the original version starring Michael Constantine, Ivan Dixon, Terry Becker, George Lindsey, and Paul Fix, the actors make a rather mediocre story about a bunch of small-town rednecks who get their jollies by watching a man being hung. In the radio version, it sounds like the actors are all reading off of idiot cards. John "Cliff Claven" Ratzenberger sounds like he's bored to death and counting the minutes until he gets his paycheck.

"Escape Clause" - David Wayne is PERFECT in the original by Serling. Not the most imaginative of stories, and not the most Twilight Zone-ish, but Wayne makes the story ten times better than it is. In the radio version, Mike Starr puts us all to sleep.

"A Stop of Willoughby" - One of the best of the original series, and one of Rod Serling's best...it was a story about Rod himself, wanting to escape the pressures of the world. The radio version has some good sound effects for the sequences on the train, and the added bonus that Gart Williams (the main character) meets a girl onboard, one who's much better for him than his shrewish current wife.

"Cavender is Coming" - the original version with Carol Burnett was a mistake...Serling at his very worst. The radio version tries to [improve it], and it doesn't work. Movie theaters don't have usherettes anymore. The guardian angel gimmick works in "It's a Wonderful Life" and a select small number of other films.

Hopefully future series' will be better. I heard that some actors from the original series have done some of the in-production dramas...let's hope they do them some justice...

After reading the review on Amazon entitled "Go watch the damn originals!" I felt compelled to add my opinion regarding this radio version of the Twilight Zone.

In the above mentioned review it makes it very clear that it is better to watch the Twilight Zone than to experience the audio only version. I disagree on several counts:

1. I prefer to listen than watch as it exercises my imagination and lets me create my own version of the images rather than have them force fed to me (all be it superbly done in the original TV version).

2. The Twilight Zone stories are ideal for audio only. Indeed, it is amazing that an audio only version has never released before as I can think of few TV shows that were more suitable for radio.

3. Sometimes a visual medium is not on option. For example if you are traveling down the freeway at 60mph you can enjoy these episodes of the Twilight Zone whereas to be watching it as you drive is neither practical nor recommended.

I found this series of the Twilight Zone to be highly entertaining and enjoyable. I did not find the acting to be below-par and felt that the producers had done an excellent job of being true to the original scripts whilst at the same time making it appropriate for a non-visual medium.

My only criticism would be the inclusion of the commercials. I felt this was intrusive and, to a small degree, made it that bit harder to lose yourself completely in the story. Other than that I think they are very enjoyable indeed.

This book is required for a P Chem class I am going to be taking soon. I read the previous reviews before I bought it and I thought, well maybe those people were not interested in science. I thought this book could not be that bad. Well guess what!
I was WRONG. I bought it and I read several sections in it, about stuff that I am interested in.
This book is absolutely a complete horror.
Terrible presentation, no color (that I can forgive but still), too much gratuitous text. It is the kind of textbook that instead of explaining the material and showing short and concise mathematical proofs, tells you why it is so complicated and why it is difficult to understand.
The equations pop out of nowhere, which is unacceptable for a scientific text. Why don't they show complete mathematical proofs of what they are presenting????
Just show me one or two lines with equations showing how you derived that stuff, dammnit!! I don't care how difficult it is to understand. It takes two lines of equations to show stuff that they are not able to show in 10 pages of text!

While Alberty and Silbey is extremely well written, their discussion is overly advanced for an undergraduate Pchem course.... While the text provides a lot of good info, the writing style is very high-level and unmotivating, I often got very sleepy while reading the book (especially the chapters
on quantum mechanics). A good text supplements the course lectures, and this one *certainly* did not. Also, check out their references sections at the end of each chapter...many of them are from *old* sources! Also, many of the graphs and diagrams in the book were prepared on old, rattletrap software packages. Well, no wonder, in the Preface they say that their book had been written over the last 83 years! Time to ditch this textbook and go for a fresher approach. Atkins' PChem text
is better, I hear...maybe the revised version that came
out in 2000 is better. The one bit of kudos I can give
to this book is that there are some good end-of-chapter
problems.

Alberty and Silbey contains the information needed in order to learn the material, however, the presentation is haphazard and many derivations/explanations are left out. I recommend reading the series of books written by Dan McQuarrie, or another supplement, then going back to alberty and silbey. The exercises at the end of the chapters are very useful, and I recommend getting the solutions manual for step-by-step explanations.

This book is a mixture of Electronics/Telecom basics and no updated Satellite TV Technology. Around 1/3 of the book shows basics concepts ( Resonance , Heterodyning , Demodulation , Full-Wave Rectifiers , Zener Diode Regulators , etc. ). Chapters 3 , 4 and 5 ( around 90 pages ) describe the old Big-Dish Systems , used to receive C-band signals .Chapter 8 , dedicated to DBS systems , is very superficial ( just 25 pages ). The same occurs with chapter 10 , that presents Encryption/Decryption Technologies : 29 pages with no updated information. Finally , the Index found in the end of the book is very confused ; for example ,DBS Satellite Transponder refers the reader to page 214 , where will be found the schematic diagram for an IRD channel display circuit .

Although the repair methods and design of HDTV monitors are essentially the same as the old TV's, this book carries hardly any information about the new decoders or digital troubleshooting techniques of HDTV. ....