The printed 5 volume set provides a fine supplementary lexicon for all students of the Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic. The volumes are finely bound, printed on acid-free paper (though not ANSI certified). Each volume is smyth sewn.

Much more asthetic than using a computer screen, the printed version allows you to view all 5 volumes at the same time, even without electricity! Though it cannot compare with the search power of the CD version. The main text is in a two column format and all of the fonts are easy to read.

These volumes will become the standard Hebrew Bible lexicon. Unfortunately! However they should be supplemented with other works because:

(1) They do not show all of the needed etymologies, many entries display no etymological data. (Ernest Klein's work is recommended here). The data from North/West Semitics could be expanded, it is lacking in many entries. Hittite data seems deficient as well as some Sumerian data -- let's face it, they are early influences on the Semitic languages. The Koehler-Baum. work only skims the surface when it comes to etymologies.

(2) Many important works by evangelical scholars (such as S. P. Tregelles, Gleason, Archer, Kyle Yates, E. Young, Robert Dick Wilson, et al) were not even utilized. Too much emphasis was given to the popular works done by secular scholars.

(3) Ugaritic, Phoenician, Arabic and other fonts (scripts) are simply transliterated. They should have been printed out in their original script. Transliteration tables could have also been included for the scholars who are not familiar with these languages, but accuracy can be jeopardized when the original scripts are just transliterated, and it takes time and effort to "recompose" them. Perhaps they were transliterated so that the digital search engines could be simplified. Poor trade off!

(4) Some important definitions are missing for some entries! Thus other lexicons are needed. For example: sh-r-Ha (shin, resh, he) in volume 4, pages 1652f does not show the meaning as "to shine" (from a possible Arabic root) nor as "chains" or "bracelets" as in Isaiah 3:19.

(5) Textual variations are often not listed, and the Qumran literature and data could have been better utilized.

(6) Foreign word indexes could have been supplied, and an index of Biblical passages could have been added. Several hands worked on the 5 volumes, and a variety of abbreviations are used for the Biblical books, making Biblical book cross references difficult even on the CD version.

All in all, a very useful addition. The price is quite high and the folks at Brill often ask too much for their publications. The work NEEDS to be supplemented, and some entries are woefully deficient -- giving only a partial definition. Coupled with the poor etymological data -- this is not acceptable. Gary S. Dykes

The best English lexicon of biblical Hebrew & Aramaic, KBL is also easier to use than the classic BDB. Words are listed alphabetically, rather than grouped by root, with cross-references to other words from the same root (no more trying to figure out a noun's putative "verbal root"). Akkadian tends to dominate the etymological information, rather than Arabic), along with Ugaritic. Glosses tend to be traditional, although references within the articles and the extensive supplementary bibliography (84 pages; alphabetically by author) allow you to find narrative lexical discussions. The Aramaic section is outstanding, with citations ranging far beyond biblical Aramaic. Although some might be tempted to begin with an "intermediate" lexicon such as Holladay, KBL's layout, clarity, and wealth of information makes this appropriate for both beginning students, pastors, teachers, and other scholars.

This new (4th) edition is more user-friendly than the 3rd, while offering more detailed and up-to-date information and citations. The coverage of extra-Biblical material is extensive. What is fantastic now that it is available on CD-ROM ... , which is allowing me to search by Bible reference, or from English to Hebrew, or for grammatical terms and forms (e.g., roots). I can also do quick look-ups while reading my Hebrew Bible. No more time-waste in turning pages. Going electronic with this work was a brilliant move by the publisher....

The work of Elizabeth Prophet, Richard Hoagland and others is all fitting together in light of these writings. The reader should first study "And Yet...They Fly!" by Guido Moosbrugger to get background on co-editor Billy Meier and important insight about the scrolls unearthing. It's no wonder that the Israelis hunted down the other co-editor and discoverer of the scrolls. There are harsh words for them in this document which fortells the coming of Mohammed and the horror, misery and death that follow. Also told is the falsification of both Mohammed's as well as Jmmanuel's (aka Jesus) own teachings (by Saul) resulting in the creation of cults. "Jesus" here doesn't speak of God, rather he says, "...god is not Creation; instead he is lord over the three human lineages that were begotten on Earth through his will...if you consider god to be Creation, you are mistaken and commit a sacrilege aginst the truth." The aforementioned lineages were found in Israel, India and "the land of the king with horns to the sea where icy mountains drift in the water." The reader will raise an eyebrow when reading in The Prophesy section: "...the basic elements of life and deadly air into the projectiles to kindle the deadly fires..."; or "...the land will burn because of the black oil of the earth, ignited by the people's craving for power."; or "...the human populations will consist of far more than ten times five hundred million people at this time...". The population of earth is growing from 6 billion right now. The puzzle is coming together just as was written: "in two times a thousand years they shall be taught anew without falsification, when humans become sensible and knowledgeable, and a new age heralds great upheavals."

I waited a little while before I bought this book because of one of the reviewers bad review. Like many people searching for the truth, you have to make up your own mind about what is truth and what is not. It seems a lot more logical that the Scribes and Pharisees would want to kill "Jesus" because he was exposing their cult as a bunch of lies than him preaching that he was the son of God. In much the same way todays' established religions would not want this book to go public. It always seemed illogical to me that someone with the wisdom that "Jesus" had who was preaching against the false religion of his day would end up the focus of the newest cult religion. Many dogmatic people will scoff at this book because you can't teach and old dog new tricks. If you have an open mind and are looking for some answers I recommend it. Remember early Christians thought the earth was flat, God sat on a cloud above the earth, and they focused a lot more on the Devil than they did on God. Do you think it is possible that the same people that have some of the origional copies of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John also now have this manuscrpit in one of their vaults next to a pile of Gold? I guess you have to make up your own mind.

If one studies bible from the matter-of-fact point of view, this book probably is the most accurate version of the new testament. All the citations and Jesus' action make sense according to the history and culture of that time. The probabilities of achieving such historical accuracy with mere two people would be impossible. It would take many people's decades of dedication of bible, cultural, history study to achieve such accuracy. General public do not have the access to the direct evidence which can prove the authenticity of this book, but indirect evidences are enough to show that how this book can be the true new testament if it ever existed.

Ok, some people prefer to talk when their anger has faded away, but i operate differently. I bought this book one week ago, and fortunately I 'm still angry enough to want to talk.
First of all, my respect for Gufeld is unquestionable. I like the way he writes, and I love his attitude about the game. The other book of the same authors "Secrets of the Dragon" was perfect for me, since it's a book about the ideas behind the opening, and not about rigorous knowledge of the different variations.
On these grounds, I wanted to try this book too. What the hell, the same authors, similar title, I should like this book as much as the "Dragon" one, right? And indeed, the content is of the same value, although of course the king's indian is much harder to generalise on in camparison to the sicilian dragon.
Unfortunately, the similarities don't stop at the value of the content. Same front cover (showing Gufeld playing the sicilian!!), same preface by Schiller(only changing the word "dragon" to "KID"- King's Indian Defense), same back cover (where at the bottom of my copy they even forgot to change the word "dragon" to "KID", so it reads "the Dragon hall of fame" instead of "the KID hall of fame" !), same introduction to the opening.
Don't get me wrong, I 'm not saying that this book is not worth buying, it serves the same purpose that "Secrets of the dragon" served. It's a book about the ideas of the opening, and I 'm sure that it's not only me who's looking for opening books like these two. But I just wanted to warn you about the "copy-paste" method that these guys are using, so that you wouldn't be disappointed as much as I was.

This book is well structured. A part for the history and evolution of the opening (that is seldom seen), another part for the variations, well classified but few comments on the characteristics of the systems. A third part made of specific themes related for Black and White, and a part for important games.

The only real unpleasant thing with this book is the quantity of typing errors. Surely the authors didn't revised it neither the responsible for typing was a chess player.

As my co-reviewer correctly points out, this book, Secrets of the King's Indian, is quite similar to another book of GM Gufeld, Secrets of the Sicilian Dragon, with respect to its cover design. Like most great Grandmasters, Mr. Gufeld is more interested in chess than such materialistic matters as cover designs, etc. The text itself is quite enlightening, and should be taken as authoritative, especially given GM Gufeld's renowned successes with the KI.
It strikes me as rather strange that my co-reviewer would admit to enjoying the text and deriving benefit from it, but seeks to warn potential buyers about deficiencies in the cover design, lest they be "as dissapointed as he was." I will take the liberty of speaking for all serious chess players in saying that content is what counts, and furthermore, "you can't judge a book by its cover."

Shevardnadze is one of the great men of the century(in diplomacy anyway). Unfortunatly he is sandwhiched between the Dobrynin/Groymko periods of the cold war and the more chaotic period of Yeltsin. After all we have forgotten Gorbachev and the period of Glasnost. Is this because the Russians have a propensity to forget them? Its not clear.
Nevertheless this is the only book on Mr. Shevardnadze(the only one I could find). SO its an important document. It seems to glossy to me. It seems to not get at the beef, the meat of what was happening from 1980-1990. I wish it detailed the afghanistan ending, I wish it detailed the various new nations created in the breakup of the Soviet empire. I wish it detailed the new voices that came to the fore in eastern europe. I dont think the book answers the question: How did so much happen, so fast? Obviously Shevardnadze was key. But then why arnt we told more about his role in shaping policy throughout the Russian sphere of influence. I feel that the book approaches the topic from a political scientists analytical eyes, disregarding the historical questions. Lacking flair and literary greatness the book is doomed, and yet essential for those who want to learn more about the Gorbachev era.

I bought this book because I am a student of all things Georgian. However, while reading the book, I was constantly impressed how important this book would be for anyone who wants to have even the most basic understanding of Cold War politics or Soviet/Post-soviet studies. The book is a nice synopsis of the events leading to the dismantling of the Soviet empire. Its most obvious flaw is the tiring repetition; Although I usually benefit from repetition as a comprehension tool, this book went overboard, and hearing the same thing repeated for the fifth or sixth time became distracting towards the end.

Considering that the jury is "still out" on Shevardnadze and his deeds, especially as president of Georgia, I found the author tended to lean towards a typical Baker/Schultz (and US foreign policy) pro-Shevardnadze conclusion.

Minor criticisms aside, I'm glad the author wrote the book, and I glad I read it.

"The Wars of Eduard Shevardnadze" is an excellent description and analysis of the former Soviet foreign minister and his role in bringing an end to the Cold War. The book treats Shevardnadze's background in the Soviet republic of Georgia as well as his current role as the president of Georgia. The book is the only biography of Shevardnadze.

I've seen some of the originals these images are taken from and they are quite well done. As the drawings are from art works they are not as detailed as some costume books so be carefull if using them as references for garment making. A great idea to have a wide range of weapons, clothing and armour in one book.

This book contains an enormous amount of drawings, most from the bible of King Wenceslas and a variety of others. The book covers many items of medieval life from 1350 to 1450, like the title promises and then some. The drawings are not so great, but most are provided with backgound information, dates, who the person was and from which source it may have been taken. This book has been hard to find and I can recommend it to anybody who is interested in recreating the middle ages.

This is a 1961 English translation of the classic 1899 work by Edward Bernstein, leader of right wing of famous Second International of Working Men's Associations.

This work sought to revise Marxism and suggest that revolution was not necessary for a Workers' Party to come to power in the governments of the world--they could be elected to office. Thus the title of the book--evolutionary socialism as opposed to revolutionary socialism. This became the predominant ideology of the Second International and was roundly condemned as heresy by Kaul Kautsky, Rosa Luxembourg and Leon Trotsky among others and resulted in a breaking away of members from the Second International to form the so-called 2-1/2 International. Later following the Russian Revolution, the Third International was formed which once again espoused the requirement of revolution to bring the workers' parties to power.

This work then stands as a marker for a special time in European History. It adds much to the understanding of Europue during that time.

Ferdinand Lassalle is best-known for the founder of the German Labour movement which eventually resulted in the General German Workers Association of which he was elected the first president in May of 1863. This entity later became the German Social Democratic Party.

Lassalle met Countess Sophie Hatzfeld of Dusseldorf, Gernmany in 1846. He lived with her the rest of his life. Her financial support of him made him financially independent and allowed him the leisure of working on his political activities on a fulltime basis. Involvement in the revolutionary unpsurge of 1848-49 followed and then in 1864 as president German Workers Association he became one of the leaders of the International Working Men's Association (First International) with Karl Marx and Frederick Engels. Later in 1864 his life was ended when he was shot in a duel.

If Bakunin and Proudhon were criticized by Marx and Engels as being too far to the left ideologically, then Lassalle was criticized for being to far to the ideological right. Therefore, it is significant that the author of this book originally published in 1893, was Edward Bernstein, founder of the Second International, who himself was accused revisionism during his lifetime.

Very concise summary of business and management topics from the German perspective. If your attention span is as short as a Sunday comic strip, you will like it.

Each topic is built like Arnold Schwarzenegger: powerful, yet compact and scientifically engineered with a distinct German accent. The bad side; the subjects are told with the same amount of humor as Arnold displayed in "Conan the Barbarian".
The Germans have a knack for maintaining the discipline of getting to the academic bottomline without starting to ramble. But this did not come easy: The beginning editor, Professor Grochla either died or retired or both during the process and it took more than 10 years to complete the books, sort of a biblical comparison.

Amazing breadth of related topics.

Not for how-to fans, browsing the mall bookstore for get-rich-quick recipes, but an excellent reference, especially for students of the subject who don't want to look through tons of books, but prefer one-stop-knowledge shopping. Sort of the business book version of the Kelloggs variety pack. $250 seems kind of pricey, but think of all the other business administration and management books you don't have to buy anymore...

For students of Mexico's early history and for background on the later conflict in Texas, this would be a good choice. Harkort is a bit self serving, but he was observant. His encounters with Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, as well as other Mexican officers sheds light into their character and personality. Harkort's journal is proof that Europeans played a significant part in Mexico's military clashes. A few maps, period paintings and portraits of the personna involved would have helped.

well this is obviously a book with a lot of content on Husserl and is based on scrupulous scholarship..but also maybe too ambitious for an introduction..the references to Husserl's works contain those works that are little known to the general reader or actually the student of philosophy.. such ambitious study of Husserl'as nachlass is naturally praiseworthy, but it can be confusing and overcomplicating rather than illuminating for those only familiar (hopefully) with some major works of Husserl available in English. Better read for advanced researcher than the average reader of Husserl.