I wouldn't like vampires anywhere, and I would be really scared if a vampire would be real. It isn't good to have them on a spaceship. I would hate to be taken to the vampire planet and be held prisoner. Good idea to be still in the spaceship when vampires are there.

Steve Holmstrom's book is an excellent guide for the veterinarian practicing dentistry. I cannot recommend a better practical procedures book. It is small animals only.

The portable cards which constitute this 'book' are well-designed. They will assist any student who is taking undergraduate organic chemistry course prepare for revisions. Although that they lacked details in some respects, their coverage did embrace wide areas.
They are particularly useful in learning about the various nomenclature, as well as the physical and chemical properties of a functional group in a given homologous series.
"OrgoCards" impressed me with the way it handled those nucleophilic substitution reactions that members of Carbonyl group undergo. Despite its haphazard lessons on Acylation, its efforts on Alcohols, Aldehydes, Ketones, Esters, and Carboxylic acids are quite commendable.
This "OrgoCards: Organic Chemistry Review" should be seen either as a textbook complement, or a notebook alternative. I will suggest that you consider buying it if your lecturer is the type that is not enthusiastic about giving class-notes.

These Orgocards were extremely useful not only while studying for my organic chemistry course but especially for the MCAT.

I tried making my own flashcards but I found them immediately obsolete after I got Orgocards which contain the critical information in a very understandable and easy to read format. They were also really a critical part of my studying for the bio section of the MCAT since a lot of the detailed info from o-chem had become a bit fuzzy by that point.

A definite must buy.

I used it for studying the o-chem portion of the MCAT this summer. These cards are fantastic, full of details and great summaries and figures. It is too bad that it was not available a year ago when I was studying for the course. Highly recommended!

I found this book to be one of the best books about command decisions and relationships between Politicians and generals during the Civil War I have ever read. It covers the battles and the leaders of the Confederacy, both great and flawed. I found it hard to believe that some Southern leaders/generals fought harder against their own side in stupid little infights and disputes. The book goes a long way in explaining Lee's strategy and that of Davis and how they were different and the results of that difference. This book concentrates on the Eastern Theatre, the author's other book 'Jefferson Davis and his Generals' covers the Western Theatre of operations and is brillant in its examination of this area. Both books are well worth reading.

It was ok but if your doing a report then it could get a little boring but it is great information!

It is no secret that the questions in this book will prepare you well for the Medical Physiology course offered at the Univ of Tennessee College of Medicine. As Dr. Schneider himself often states, "I can only ask the same question so many ways." If you are enrolled at UT and want a good book to prep for the course then search no farther. If you are looking for a qood question book for the Boards, I would recommend the NMS series of System based question books or the Kaplan Q-bank.

This book contains 900 good review questions, and the reasons behind the answers. These questions are at the level of difficulty for a first year medical student. If you are running out of study time, the questions and explanations cover the topics so well that even if they are read in a "cramming session" you can still learn some physiology

This isn't the best Choose Your Own Adventure book, but one of the best. It follows a good plot, and it has a mild amount of action. The best part of the book is probably the Tour of America race. That part is well written and follows a good sequence of events.

So overall, this is a pretty good book, but, as I said earlier, not the best. Still, give it a try. You may like it.

I would love to fly in the air and be the best biker with the best bike and do amazing things. Although I do have a pretty good bike.

This is a darling poem that my mother learned when she was a girl. For any child who loves animals, this is a must-read!

Every child has a story that they demand to be read night after night, for about 2 years, until the parents become so bored with it that they dread beadtime. This story was mine. Or, I should ammend, the story I loved is still mostly here, but the pictures are far different and lacking in a lot of ways. Some of the most endearing characters seem to have vanished as well. Still the story is charming and silly enough for any child. The Quangle Wangle is a lonely soul in the top of a crumpet-bearing tree. One by one such animals as the "Blue Baboon that plays the flute" come and bring the Quangle and his hat new life. The author's combination of nonsense with a sense of innocent wonder are touching, and project the perfect warmth to send a kid off into dreamland. It's still a tale to love, but I'd give anything for an original copy.

This is a wonderful story, which flows and rhymes, amusing to read. It also reminds me of my own childhood stories. It was the first story my daughter understood, and has been her one of her favorites since she was one. Now, she tells me the story, and still loves it. I would recommend it parents who wants to read nice stories to their children. Coincidently, "The Pobble Who Has No Toes" was also another favorite, and I just recently noticed they were written by the same author. Now, I am going to get more books by Edward Lear.

Three cheers for a great read AND a great life - once you've read this book, you'll understand why Gen. Robert E. Lee still stands today as the most beloved and respected military leader of all time. The simple truth is the man was motivated by honor, duty and most important of all, faith, and everything he did was premeditated by him with those ideas in mind. How refreshing a story after one has been bombarded today with stories of those our children look up to who are motivated by greed and ego and talk about somebody "disrespecting" them - it is very difficult to respect someone spouting obscenities, covered with tatoos, hair dyed eye-popping colors, and sporting metal earrings dangling from various parts of their face! They say "I'm not a role model." I think that is a cop-out spoken by someone who decided he wanted all the glory and money and fame without living up to the responsibility that goes along with it. It's too bad strong and moral leaders, men who stood up for what was right and were willing to pay whatever price that cost, who knew they were role models and did their utmost to be good ones, whose stories we've read about in history class about men down through the years from earliest history through the colonies and the Revolutionary War to the Civil War, seem also to be "Gone With the Wind".

The account of a great historical figure---a gentleman of duty, truth and spirit---a man of God. Yankee carpetbaggers, scalawags and liberals alike, be forewarned: this book may shake you from your nihilistic mind nap. As Robert E. Lee so aptly put it, the Southern States had "sacred principles to maintain and rights to defend, for which we were in duty bound to do our best, even if we perished in the endeavor". Long live the South and those who have fought and died to keep alive her character and ideals! Indeed, those readers 'educated' on a strangulation diet of revised history may be enlightened, perhaps even intellectually emancipated, by this grand book. Five stars Mr. Wilkins, 100 stars General Lee!

This book reveals a side of Robert E. Lee that is not explored as much as it should be. The character and Christian testamony exhibited here should be an example to us all. I found the reading to be spell bounding and very hard to put down. Thanks to the authors for a non-bias view of this great American hero.

THIS HISTORICAL FICTION NOVEL, THE TRIUMPH AND THE GLORY, IS A RAPID-FIRE, RELENTLESSLY-PACED LOOK AT THE SECOND WORLD WAR. CONCENTRATED MOSTLY ON THE AIR WAR THROUGH THE EYES OF A YOUNG ARMY AIR CORPS CAPTAIN, THE STORY REVEALS MUCH ABOUT THE PREVAILING ATTITUDES OF THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO ENDURED THE WORST CONFLICT IN ALL HISTORY. I AM AN AVID READER OF NOVELS THAT DEAL WITH WAR THEMES--THE ULTIMATE CHALLENGE TO FACE ANYONE IS HOW THEY WOULD REACT TO LIFE AND DEATH CRISES, EXPECIALLY WHEN THEY ARE NOT ONLY RESPONSIBLE FOR THEMSELVES BUT ALSO MEN PLACED UNDER THEIR COMMAND, AND IT HAS ALWAYS FASCINATED ME TO SEE AND COMPARE HOW NOVELISTS DEAL THROUGH THEIR CHARACTERS WITH THE EMOTIONAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL DYNAMICS OF THE BATTLEFIELD. RUSTAD IS HARD TO CATEGORIZE, HIS RESPECTIVE SOLDIERS/AIRMEN REACT TO POTENTIAL IMMINENT DEATH DIFFERENTLY AT DIFFERENT TIMES. ALL THINGS CONSIDERED THIS IS AN INTERESTING BOOK, CERTAINLY DESERVING OF ITS PLACE IN AMAZON'S TOP 75 WAR NOVELS.

I'm a modern history major at Boston College and have always been interested in WWII, so this book was an obvious purchase for me. It was very good, a quick read, with some of the better dialogue you're going to find in this genre, and a delicious dose of wit when you least expect it. I was especially struck by the historical figures in The Triumph and the Glory--Hitler, Stalin, FDR, Churchill, they are all very vividly portrayed, but what carries the book are the deadly struggles for survival of the fictional characters, the Lindberg brothers, Arkady and Yuri Rostov, father and son, the Luftwaffe ace Dietrich, and the villain of the book, NKVD Commissar Pugo. The wayward Irish pub waitress and her lover, Sinclair Robertson, and Wilson's admirer, Gabrielle, add civilian flavor to the book. The brilliantly ironic finish to the book is what pushed it up to five stars for me. The very first confrontation between Wilson and Gunther in the skies over Berlin developed a chain of cause and effect that played out with profound force at the end.

A friend gave me this book about a year ago but I never got around to reading it because it looked like one of those old-fashioned stories about good versus evil with good triumphant, etc etc etc. I picked up the book after Christmas and read it, and it offered comfort and hope during a dark winter. Evil came our way on September 11th and no one seemed to know what to do about it except help each other survive and overcome those who hate us with such irrational fury. Mr. Rustad's novel is about overcoming evil, and I'd give it ten stars if I could.

Mr. Noe has done a great job of forcing people to rethink much of what most people have been spoon fed about eschatology. It was in reading this book that I had to find out much of what was to become of my own views on the subject. I had a hard time accepting the idea that the Second Coming was a past event. (An objection that I still maintain). I had seen that in the writings of "Preterist" authors, they quote Dr. R.C. Sproul in support of their views. And responding to his so-called "inconsistencies". I have great respect for Dr. R.C. Sproul, which forced me to get a hold of his views on the subject. I, like Dr. Sproul have not made up my mind on all elements of the "Preterist" view. Those who hold to the views that Dr. Sproul does on this issue (like myself) are usually called "Partial-Preterist". A title that I think is appropriate.
This task caused me to reevaluate and alter many of my own views in the process. In doing so I found a number of things that Mr. Noe and other "Preterists" are forced to do in order to affirm their view. They are forced to deny fundamentally essential doctrines of of the gospel of Christ. I have no objection to the understanding that Christ came in judgement upon Israel in the first century. I also have no problem believing that they were living in the last days. That the end of the age was the "age of the Jews" which I believe Scripture has in view here. It is what is being denied by these men that troubles me, and gives me great concern.
Because of lack of space I will only concern my self with the atonement. Because of the problem of the resurrection that has been thrown at Mr. Noe. He has had to "spiritualise" the resurrection, taking away it's physicality. So when the Bible says that the day will come when those in the graves will hear the voice of Christ and rise from the dead. (John 5:28) He has done so by affirming that since before Christ finished His work of atonement no one could enter heaven and had to go to the "Hadean realm" a.k.a. the "bossom of Abraham". (Luke 16:22-23) That no one could enter heaven (with the exception of the 'first fruits of the resurrection' "Preterists" are not agreed on this point however), because without the Second Coming the atonement is incomplete. It is the assertion of all "Preterists" that deny the "physical" resurrection, i.e. the resurrection of the "flesh". (Which makes them "Docetic" in their view of the resurrection, i.e. "Docetic Preterists").
Mr. Noe says the following words,
"But just as the atonement ritual of the Old Covenant
was never considered complete with only the slaying of
the sacrifice, neither was Jesus' atonement work
finished at the cross, or even when He entered into the
true Holy of Holies...In order for Jesus to perfectly
fullfill the final, inseparable, and essential act of
atonement: to appear "a second time" to show that his
sacrifice had been accepted, and to fulfill the role of
both goats-one dead, one alive."
("Beyond The End Times P. 192)
This denial is based upon a misinterpretation of Hebrews 9:28 where Jesus is said to return "for salvation". The problem is that Mr. Noe assumes that the Bible is reffering to the atonement in this verse. The word "atonement" however means reconciliation with reference to the payment for sin. The passage says that Christ returns "without reference to sin". If Christ's "Second Advent" is "without reference to sin", then it cannot be to finish the atonement. In fact the Bible teaches that Christ had allready "canceled out the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us and which was hostile to us; and He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross". (Col. 2:14) Mr. Noe doesn't seem to understand the present reality of the reconciliation that Paul believed he had while he was alive. (Roman 5:1) (Though it is true that the chapter is talking about the atonement, the words "without reference to sin" takes the passage to a much more glorious point, the glory of Christ).
He also does not look at the fact that just because Christ comes for salvation. Doesn't mean that it must be to "finish" the atonement. Romans 8:29-30, tells us the elements of salvation entail not only the atonement (which is in reference to our justification) but also glorification. Which in context is in reference to the resurrection from the dead. That is to say that the resurrection from the dead of all believers are "for salvation". (Though the atonement and the resurrection cannot be seperated from eachother with reference to salvation. They must be distinguished from eachother, not confused with one another). It is not refering to the atonement, hence Mr. Noe is setting up a false dillema. He is trying to tell us that if Christ has not returned, then the atonement is not finished.
This is wrong and should lovingly and prayerfully be rebuked.

I have studied the end times off and on now for almost 3 years. It started with a study on Revelation at my church. I read my bible more than ever while studying Revelation because in order to understand Rev., you simply have to! During my own personal study, something about the "Left Behind" theory just didn't seem to fit scripturally, even though I was raised to believe it. I delved deeper in scripture and read books on different end times "theories" and beliefs. I kept comparing scripture to scripture and would come up with contradictions with my old beliefs. I prayed that God would lead me to the truth. This view point (preterist) makes more logical sense and is more in line with the scriptures than anything else I have read. In the last chapter of Revelation Jesus told John 3 times "I am coming soon". Jesus himself told his disciples that all "this" (Matt 24) would be fulfilled during "this generation". Many have tried to spiritualize that statement, yet make others literal. Since there are so many instances where the disciples and Jesus said that the time was "soon" it makes perfect sense to take these "time stamps" literal.

In Chapter 21 the New Jerusalem is described: "the old order of things is passed away", "I am making everything new", we get to drink from the "spring of the water of life", there is no longer any sea (no separation from God),"now the dwelling of God is with men, and he will live with them". I believe most Christians would believe that the old order of things has already passed away and that we are already drinking from the water of life,we do not have a separation from God and that He dwells with us NOW. The New Jerusalem is present! We don't have to wait...we are living it as Christians. Yes, He also said there would be no tears/pain, but pain can also mean anguish and He was talking to believers THEN. Their anguish and tears were wiped away by the Holy Spirit.

Also, while Daniel was told to "close up" his prophesies concerning end times, John was told NOT to seal his up because "the time is near". Daniel's prophies came totally true to the days he layed out if you believe the preterist view.

I have found this view to be lacking in the inconsistencies that the other views seem to have. I have also found this view point reminds me of the tremendous gift (the Holy Spirit) that I have as a believer and the power He can give. I need to live my life for Christ now and make a difference for him now and not wait to be lifted out and hoping for an escape.

I would highly recommend this book to every Christian believer who has studied and feels that the scripture isn't "matching up" to what they currently believe. This book lines up scripture and compares scripture to scripture so that you can see the Bible is a book of truth and common sense.

Easy to read book on the fulfillment of all NT passages
dealing with "end times". The author lays out that the
utter destruction of Jerusalem in AD70 marks the coming
of the apocalyptic Son of Man, descending in judgement
upon that very generation. The Jews answered Pilate to
let Jesus' blood be upon them and their children, and so
it was !

Read a few excerpts at http://doctrine.net/ontheclouds.html