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UFO Crash at Aztec
Published in Hardcover by Ufo Photo Archives (01 January, 1987)
Authors: Wiliams S. Steinman, Wendelle C. Stevens, and William S. Steinman
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Very intriguing and entertaining
This is by far one of the best books on the topic of UFO crashes I have encountered. A wonderful follow-up to the classic "Behind the Flying Saucers" (1950)by Frank Skully. Considering all the recent flack that has arisen concerning the questionable credibility of various witnesses relating to the Roswell case (e.g., Frank Kaufmann, Glenn Dennis), the crash at Aztec first reported by Frank Skully doesn't really strike as any less (or more?) feasible. Perhaps other UFO-crash writers might do well to reconsider their opinion that the crash at Aztec was nothing but a "hoax", because presently the Roswell incident doesn't appear to have much more going for it, if applying the same standards by which Aztec has been dismissed.

The previous reviewer has provided a fantastic overview of this work, to which I need not add more. I give this work 4 stars, and would give it 5 if not for the numerous typos. But it's an enjoyable work. What's not to love about a thick 625 page UFO book that has an alien head and a flying saucer embossed on its cover?

Ufo Crash at Aztec
I've been reading and collecting UFO books since 1966 (I have over 200 different titles in my library) and this is one of the top 10! It may lack the snappy writing of Frank Scully's account of the Aztec Crash (Behind The Flying Saucers, 1950), but it makes up for it in content. There are numerous appendixes with actual photocopies of letters (many hand-written), documents, etc. that go far beyond just this one UFO crash scenario and provide a comprehensive review of the government crash cover-up scene from the 50's thru the 80's.

Like most UFO dabblers, I had written the Aztec affair off as a hoax (spurred on by Kevin Randle's account of it in his "Casebook of Crashed UFO's), but by the time I was several chapters into this enormous work, I took time out to re-read the Scully book that started it all. It put a new light of beleivability on the whole Aztec crash story.

If you have any interest at all in Ufo crash retreivals, this book is as much a MUST READ as Scully's original 1950 book.


Bone and Joint Futures
Published in Paperback by Boston Medical Pub Inc (15 May, 2002)
Authors: Bmj Books, Anthony D. Woolf, Charles, Connelly, Cooklin, Dawson, Haines, Hall, Knotterus, and Marinker
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A quick review
This text provides a quick, concise review of the pimary topics covered on emergency medicine exams. I found it to be a good way to prepare for inservice exams and the written boards.


The Exploration of 2503 (Alien Compendium, 2)
Published in Paperback by Wizards of the Coast (1900)
Authors: Steven Schend, J. D. Wiker, and William W. Connors
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A good edition to the collection
It's a ok runner up from the last one. The book looks at a few systems they passed over last time, along with a few new ones. Overall the creatures are real good and designed well. Yet, if you have read the book Zero Point, then this is a must have for the new extarnels offered in this is well worth the money!


Fun Phonics : Blends and Digraphs
Published in Paperback by Creative Teaching Pr (1999)
Authors: Steven Traugh, Susan Traugh, Roseanne Litzinger, and Rozanne Lanczak Williams
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Great Classroom Music and Phonics instruction
I ordered this book, and had to wait a few weeks to receive it, but it was worth the wait. I am currently using it in my third grade classroom to teach my students phonics and how the blends and digraphs make the sounds that they make. The tape is very good, because it has the children follow the singer once, and then they try it along with the singer a second time. I found it very useful, and the kids love the songs.


General Chemistry With Qualitative Analysis
Published in Hardcover by Houghton Mifflin College (1997)
Authors: William R. Robinson and Steven S. Zumdahl
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Excellent Chemistry Book For Exams
I have recently bougth this book for my upcoming exams and thos book has given me alot of information.Thanks to this book my Grades have improved.It contains on General Chemistry.


The Illustrious Client's Fourth Casebook
Published in Hardcover by Gaslight Publications (1991)
Authors: William A. Barton, Mark A. Gagen, and Steven T. Doyle
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Good Anthology Marred by Self-Glorification, Triteness
I found this book in a used book store on a trip West. As someone interested in Sherlock Holmes, I picked it up since the price was right. I almost didn't. I once received as a gift a book edited by two of the three editors of this volume, the second two listed here. It was almost unreadable. The subjects of its essays were rehashes of topics done better by other (real) writers or had little connection to Sherlock Holmes, except in name, like one about Sherlock Holmes and God. The writing was questionable at best. And the two editors just can't edit. It looked like another of those vanity press efforts by some local Sherlock Holmes club with more moxy and money than talent. I gave it away as soon as I found someone willing to accept it.

I started leafing through this book before recognizing it was by the same group and the same editors plus one. But I found listed in the contents several names I recognized from my reading about Sherlock Holmes in other books even if along with some of the pseudowriters from the other book. Many of these essays were of far more interest than the earlier volume. It even had some fiction and some humor. And a third editor was listed, the first one listed here, though he came last on this book's title page. But his name should come first alphabetically as here. Curious. On the strength of the other editor and the listed topics and because it was priced cheap, I bought it. I still didn't expect much. I was pleasantly surprised.

Besides a pompous, overwritten, self-glorifying introduction by a man listed as president of the group publishing it, who probably broke his arm patting himself on the back, and a woefully inadequate and trite rehash of Sherlock Holmes's film career, a lot of the stuff in this book is good and some really good. I really like a story explaining what happened to Dr. Watson's wife, written from Watson's perspective like the original Holmes stories. It was well-written and heartfelt. Probably one of the best I've read, and worth the cost of the book alone. In fact everything in this book was better than the other, which I think was published later than this one. Why the difference? Besides many different writers than the other book, I deduced like Holmes that it was the third editor, the one who had no involvement in the other book, that made the difference. Like the dog in the nightime, he did nothing in the other book. So logic dictates he must have done much for this one. Further investigation uncovered that this editor is a professional writer. His name turns up many times if you search for it here. The others don't, not even for the other book they edited. Case solved. The third editor must have done a lot of writing behind the scenes on this book. He also wrote one of the stories. So maybe he did just too good and that's why the other two no longer work with him, or he with them. His being listed last in the book while his name comes first alphabetically suggests some ulterior motive for the listing and later disassociation. Jealousy maybe on the parts of the less talented editors. If they had any sense they'd have hired him to help with the other book and would get him back if they plan to publish further anthologies, especially if they only use the same people from their own club again. They need real writers and real editors if they want to sell much outside their own circle of friends. Fortunately this book has some real writers and one real editor and is mostly very readable and enjoyable.

My advice. If you find this book in a used book store with a price in the low teens or less like I did, buy it. Look too for anything else by the first editor listed alphabetically here. Same for anything by the author of the Watson story, John Burrows(?) I think. Avoid like bubonic plague anything by either or both the second two editors especially if published under their club name "the Illustrious Client's". There's too much over priced poorly written and edited books in the Sherlock Holmes small press world. Thankfully except in part this is not one of them.


Internal Medicine
Published in Paperback by Fence Creek Publishing (1998)
Authors: Steven M. Mitchell and William J. Mitchell
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Feel Good Book
Yes you read it and you feel good. After so good leading Physical Exam questions and proper responses from the patients you know the answer. It is nice little book in 14 chapters. Each chapter covering certain group of illnesses with average five cases, starting each with initial presentation, physical examination, tests and assessment. Initial presentation and physical examination which is given quite clearly is more teaching part than diagnosis part for it is already implied in presentation part.You learn few tricks, key points in discussion section.


Medicine: PreTest Self-Assessment and Review
Published in Paperback by McGraw-Hill/Appleton & Lange (15 August, 2000)
Authors: S. L. Berk, William R. Davis, and Steven L. Berke
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Good book for self-assessment.
This book contains about 400 MCQs (choose-the-best-answer format), including matching questions. At the end of each chapter is corresponding answers, a reference to the text where you can find the background of the answer, and a short discussion of various issues raised by the question.

Most of the questions are based on case scenarios. In addition, many questions are accompanied by x-rays, diagrams, and ECG.

Chapters include: Allergy & Immunology, Infectious Disease, Rheumatology, Pulmonary Medicine, Cardiology, Endocrinology & Metabolic Disease, Gastroenterology, Nephrology, Hematology & Oncology, Neurology, Dermatology, Prevention & other Topics.


Ready for the Real World (Wadsworth College Success)
Published in Paperback by Wadsworth Publishing (1994)
Authors: Stephen W. Schwartz, Steven D. Blume, William Hartel, and John N. Gardner
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Grauate Tool
The book READY FOR THE REAL WORLD is an excellent preparation tool for college seniors. The book offers information in career planning, personal life, community responsibilities, financial planning, and alum activities.

Written in an easy-to-read style, READY FOR THE REAL WORLD covers most of the elements that college seniors must consider from the more practical aspect of the budgeting of finances to the often neglected consideration of psychological changes that take place as one goes from the rather protected status of a student to that as a job applicant and employee.

This book is an excellent one for college classes which are offered at the end of the senior year to help prepare students for life after college, but would also be helpful to individuals who are seriously thinking about the transition from college to the "real world."

The book includes checklists and activities that allow readers to assess their status financially, psychologically, and personally. I highly recommend this book.


Simply Grace
Published in Paperback by Grace Abound Publishing (1999)
Author: Steven William McCain
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A wonderful testimony
A wonderful testimony of a man going through very difficult
times. Becoming very dark and seemingly desperate but in the
end realizing his true comfort, solice, and salvation. A must read for anyone who has entertained notions of suicide, been
through heartbreaking family seperations, or has felt that
there is no reason to go on.


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