I would have to say that this author has done a fine job creating this book. I am using this book in a Philosopy course and Bonevac has done a good job getting the main idea's of these famous philosophers across. I would highly recomend this book to anyone who is studying Philosopy or is just interested in learning something new.

I am again amazed at Dr. Bonevac prose...they are brilliant!! I am sure this text is difficult to understand for some (see previous review), but to those with the ability to think for themselves, this is one of the best books EVER written.

This book is fantastic!! Unlike my fellow southern counter part, I could actually understand what was written - and I loved it. I am not a philosophy major, but this book is easy to understand and makes the topic come alive. I will read more of Bonevac's titles. This is a great read!! Thank you Dr. Bonevac for enlightening me!!

The story line is a bit allegorical, but still very enjoyable. As another reviewer noted, if you like "Watership Down", you will enjoy this book also.

This book focuses on ecology, but in a "non-preachy" way. It resembles "Watership Down" in that it personifies animals, but more closely defines the characters as animals. Mr. Mannix does an excellent job of telling a story that's fun to read, but which is also thought provoking. I highly enjoyed it.

Good book

I thoroughly enjoyed this book! It's wonderful to see this life affirming story. I have long been a fan of science fiction, but lately much of it has been rather depressing. This book brings back the wonder of the possibilities that might exist and how healthy, rational, intelligent people would deal with the difficulties of being pioneers. I highly recommend this book to anyone who needs a pick-me-up!
As a first time author (of literature other than text books) this is an absolutely amazing accomplishment! I congratulate Mr. Pekarek and hope he continues to write! I am eagerly awaiting the sequel and will buy it.
I met Mr. Pekarek and bought his book after talking to him. He really believes that life is wonderful! His book reaffirms his life views. Please keep writing Mr. Pekarek!

I am a fan of SCI-FI and found this work to contain a little bit for everyone. SCI-FI enthusiasts, romantics, adventurists and the technical types will find something here. The dialog is a little stiff and formal, but the story is great. How would you plan, travel, and establish a new community on a new planet teeming with everything from dinasoars to microbs? Read this and find the answers and a few twists to keep things interesting.

I have never been a fan of science fiction, but that's all changed now, after reading The Ultimate Adventure. It is a gripping story. I had a difficult time putting it down, and I could hardly wait to get back to it to experience the next adventure scenario. This book, while of course fantasy, seems so realistic, so scientific, so romantic, and so daring that it must have been written by a person of many talents. If you want to feel that you are experiencing space travel at "warp speeds", adventurous characters, aliens, a mechanical man, dinosaurs, and much more -- read this book.

It is funny that there is so much hype about Wolfram's "A New Kind of Science" when this book neatly pointed out his big 'discoveries' back in 1995. That is, all of Wolfram's opus can be found in chapter 2 of this book.

The book provides a good (and relatively gentle) introduction to the mechanistic view of non-linear dynamics. Many different applications of non-linear dynamics, from physics to biology, are overviewed and many detailed examples are provided. In all, this is a great reference.

The only shortcomings are the lack of discussions about frameworks, particularly mechanistic systems, and how they influence the applicability of the models. That is, some understanding of systems theory (von Bertalanffy in particular and the work of cybernetics as well) should have been included to point out the fact that the linear causality implied by many models immediately limits their applicability.

This is a gentle introdution to nonlinear dynamics, maths are well explained, illustrations are abundant, the overview is very good overall, even if subjects are only touched. It could also serve as an introduction to finite-difference and differential equations for non-maths students.

Undergrads looking for something smooth on nonlinear dynamics should get this one...but for advanced readers it is probably a waste of time.

It happens that in any field there is a book that iluminates. This is the one in Nonlinear Dynamics. With it's clear and simple but mathematically and conceptually rich presentation this text opens the mind towards the mathemathics that you learn in your two first University years, as aplicated to innumerable Life Science examples, but at the same time interesting for any other field's applications (Physics, Maths, Chemists,..). This book deals with Dynamics in a Superb Way. Contents: 1-Finite Difference Equations. 2-Boolean Networks and Celular Automata. 3-Self Similarity and Fractal Geometry. 4-One Dimensional Differential Equations. 5-Two Dimensional Differential Equations. 6-Time Series Analysis. Apendix-A: A Multifunctional Appendix. Appendix-B: A Note on Computer Notation. Buy it, you might learn how much you can do with you mathematics knowledge!

The author hits home with a war that most have forgotten but we must never. It is also an excellent book on the growing up from a small town to the war to the politics of Washington. It is a nice showing of a man beating the politics to save himself.

As I read this book, I kept thinking of Ambrose's great works, David Hackworth's authobiography, and the best works of Turow! I finished it with a much better understanding of Korean War history and its obvious similarities to the Vietnam War. The descriptions of battle were chilling. It truly was hard to put down.

My wife, who is a reader of everything from Dick Francis mysteries to Julia Child cookbooks, was enthralled with this easy to read, thoroughly well written second novel. The vivid realities of the gore, stench and confusion of the Korean War were a horrendous revelation to her, whose war experiences had been WWII meat and gas rationing and USO dances.

Sparked by her recommendation, I read through non-stop with absolute fascination. My wife was right. The differences between life and people in a small southern town, the bloody Korean MLR (Main Line of Resistance), and today's Washington politics leap into the reader's mind with clarity and definition. As a youth, I had read the great sagas written between World Wars by Erich Maria Remarque, Ernest Hemingway and countless less memorable authors. Serving much the same purpose for the Korean War, this ranks in my list of must readings on the same level with "All Quiet On The Western Front" and "For Whom The Bell Tolls."

Beyond that, the author provides a sense of personal understanding to a war that seemed useless and wasteful to those of us who had forgotten. Interwoven with the reality of war is an underlying series of personal interrelationships, reminding the reader of how great novels were written generations ago.

Not only will participants in the Korean War be unforgotten, the author will be remembered for a marvelous contribution of excellent literature.

Although everyone can find Anthony Daniels' wit entertaining and his observations keen, the overwhelming emotion created by this book is depression. How many people have spent their lives suffocating under awful regimes composed of banal torturers and Kafkaesque bureaucrats of no imagination ? (with apologies to Kafka) UTOPIAS ELSEWHERE is a series of articles written on five countries where Communism was about to disappear as a way of life, or at least, it seemed that way in 1989-90. In Albania and Romania, the author was probably among the last writers to attempt description of the obscene systems of government that held power there-totalitarian Balkan dictatorships with a Marxist frosting. In Vietnam, the government was in the process of change, and in the two last, North Korea and Cuba, the melting process has at last begun, albeit a decade later. Daniels, with an average of about two weeks' stay in each place, puts his finger precisely on what makes these places so awful, despite the fact that a lot of Western intellectuals, none of whom actually settled there, praised these places. [recall for example the Swedish couple, Myrdal and Kessle, and their unbelievably naive book, "Albania Defiant"] Daniels is able to describe the worst aspects of these so-called "worker paradises" very succinctly. Comments about everything, from ugly,grandiose architecture to triumphalist propaganda, hit the mark. The author often casts doubt on his own opinions, makes you consider whether he has been entirely objective or not. I thought he did not consider well enough the fate of millions of poor people trapped in horrible privations in many Third World countries. For such people, without electricity, clean water, schools, or health care---living maybe inside a cement pipe---under constant threat of petty harrassment or brutal intimidation from 'local authorities', perhaps Cuba or Vietnam would not have seemed so terrible. Am I one of those dreaded "apologists" for tyrannical regimes of the left ? No, I've lived in India for five years. When it comes to North Korea or Hoxha's Albania, however, it is really debatable whether becoming a virtual automaton and slave of the state (and still starving) is still better than abject poverty and exploitation. Is life at all worth living under megalomaniacs like Kim Il-sung ? People may indeed think that they are already dead when they are still walking around. When Daniels describes an entire Potemkin department store in Pyongyang, fake customers and all, you have to agree with him that North Korea managed to "out-Orwell Orwell". Romania under Ceaucescu, which I saw some 11 years before Daniels, was, as he correctly describes it, a kleptocracy with fascist trappings and Marxist vocabulary ruled by a modern Dracula: nobody believed in anything. While Daniels noted the similarities of all five would-be utopias, he did not note their differences so clearly. If you're aware of these differences, they do appear in his writing, but he takes no pains to underline them. This is the major fault in a very interesting (but sad) book.

What struck me most about this book was the numbing similarities between the plight of the people in the stricken lands visited by the author. Tyranny is not a very original or creative form of government, and must resort the same horrors wherever it appears around the world. A very insightful and entertaining book. Read it.

Anthony Daniels is a very funny writer in some of the very saddest places on earth. All right, perhaps he is biased, but he is biased the way a psychiatrist is supposed to be---he's biased toward the pursuit of happiness. The most tragic moment is in Romania, where two engineers tell him privately, "We are dead already," referring to the nature of their meaningless lives. I wonder if he'll go back and report again on these places?

Elvis is happy to be back in Vegas after a month in Graceland where Priscilla gave him a hard time because of Ann Margaret. Elvis drops in on insult comedian Howie Pickles' show at the Sahara. Besides irritating Elvis with his irreverent references to the Lord, Pickles unmercifully picks on an obese woman. The other act, Siva Ree's exotic dance with a panther, thrills Elvis who finds he desires the performer.

The next day, Elvis learns that Pickles' victim Mrs. Donaldson was murdered and nailed to the billboard of a chapel (the same one that starred in an Elvis flick). The police arrest the husband of the deceased, but the person who found the corpse Digby Ferguson believes the local cops rushed to judgment. He tries to persuade Elvis to join with him to investigate as he knows the rock legend has experience in solving crimes (see KILL ME TENDER and BLUE SUEDE CLUES).

Though Elvis amateur sleuth takes a long time to begin, fans of the superstar will relish this tale awhile wondering if Daniel Klein had a sighting as the plot brings Presley so vividly to life. The story line engages readers with its insightful look at a complete Elvis to include frustration with movie scripts (Roustabout is the current one) and his complicated love life that is made more complex by Siva. The story is well written, but more for the Elvis guru than the amateur sleuth aficionado.

Harriet Klausner

I thoroughly enjoyed this third Elvis mystery novel by Daniel Klein. It follows on the heels of Kill Me Tender and Blue Suede Clues. Elvis manages to be the hero and solves the murders. His character has been drawn so that the real Elvis shines through. Elvis would have loved the character and so will his fans. This particular novel takes place in Las Vegas and includes some very strange murders and some very strange characters. Of course he falls in love with beautiful Shiva who has a young daughter Kali and is accompanied by her black panther. A Don't Be Cruel peace concert is put together and Elvis is in the center of it. The ending is not quite what you would expect. I would recommend that you start with Kill Me Tender and then move on to Blue Suede Clues and finish up with Viva Las Vengeance. There is some slight tie-in in this book with the other books. I am anxiously looking forward to book #4!

Without a doubt, Klein's take on Elvis Presely is going to go down in US literary history as one of the most creative and dynamic treatments of the musical icon. The first two books were fantastic, and this third book goes even further in giving the reader a new way to look at the King. As soon as the New York Times and People magazine weigh in with their judgments, Klein's series of Elvis yarns will become part of American literaary culture. Viva La Klein! Can't wait for the 4th and 5th installments, too.

Daniel Cohen's "Werewolves" is really a childrens book in adult clothing. It is written in a straightforward, easy to read manner that is appropriate for younger readers.

Mr Cohen makes no attempt to impress the reader with scholarly musings or voluminous research, instead using a number of interesting anecdotes, historical conjectures and mythological references to weave an interesting albeit shallow examination of the werewolf phenomenon through the ages.

Werewolves makes an excellent first excursion into the world of the lycanthrope and the paranormal. For those new to the subject matter, it is excellent. For anyone looking for a deeper examination of the subject matter, the book will be disappointing.

The novel is very enriched in information. I love this book. It was written by a great writer, with a great imagination. I hope that one day I will be able to write a book as good as Daniel Cohen.

It has many subjects on werewolves, such as people who thought they were werewolves and went to trial, to werewolves of the internet. A very good book for anyone (such as myself) interested in werewolves

In Veils of Deceit, the reader gets Free Fall by Jasmine Cresswell and Keeping Secrets by B.J. Daniels.

FREE FALL...I give this book five stars. As one of my favorite authors of romantic suspense, Cresswell didn't dissapoint in this read of desire, danger, and espionage. Liz Mercham has lost her last three roommates to suicide. With the first two it all seemed like a bizarre coincidence, but when her third roommate jumps to her death, Liz gets suspicious. Especially since Karen was a secretary to her ex-husband, Senator Dexter Rand. It had been nine years since their turbulent nine months of marriage, but Dex could still make her blood boil. Now it seems that people all around them are dying, and all the fingers point to them. You will be on the edge of your seat with this book and you won't be dissapointed by the ending.

KEEPING SECRETS...I would only give this book three stars. This is my first B.J. Daniels book, and I was a bit dissapointed. Paige Grayson just found out that her father just died four days before, one day after her mother. The thing that shocked her was that her mother told her that her father died twenty three years ago when Paige was three. Suddenly Paige is smack in the middle of a blackmail scheme that she is trying to uncover with the dangerous Devon St. Cloud. The story line was pretty good, but the characters were a little shallow. Not happy with herself, Paige has an alter ego 'P.T. Alexander' that she converses with. We don't get a lot from Devon's point of view, but what little we do have doesn't show us he's dangerous. It doesn't show us much of anything. Also the desire between the two was luke warm at best.

I would get this book because I would definetly recommend Free Fall!

Free Fall is the best of the series. Jasmine Cresswell does an fantastic job as always of creating a terrific whodunit with so many twists and turns you won't guess to the very end. B.J. Daniels was okay but like her other novels better.

Review From Romantic Times
4 1/2 stars (Fantastic)

"...With all the fun of a "Romancing the Stone," Daniel's book will delight. Blending danger and excitement, a resourceful heroine and brooding hero with classic movie-type storytelling, this novel is just plain fun." Debbie Richardson, RT B0OKclub

I read this book several times when I was in elementary school. I have children of my own now and I wanted to give them a book I loved as a child. I always loved this book maybe because I have red hair just like Eula Bee. It's a good book to show children how powerful the love between siblings can be.

I enjoyed the book and it wiill be well used in the classroom. I will be teaching the book and am looking forward to seeing my student's reaction to Lewtie and his "responsibility" to Eula Bee at such a young age. As well as the shocking truth of children in captivity in our own country. I am very interested in finding supplemental texts to this book.

I read this book YEARS ago and it still stands out in my memory. It was my favorite book in elementary school and I also bought this for my daughter. It's amazing how what you read as a child can affect your adult life.