Lots of physics stuff that isn't too useful. Confusing chord charts(edge gets a bit dull after a while), not worth the money.

If you want to really understand the guitar as an instrument, you want this book. This is not for posers who just want to play Green Day covers. Although I could say it sometimes refers to musical terms the way a guitarist does instead of the way accepted in music theory courses, the information is generally correct and answers all the questions that no one else does. This book is aimed at the serious (and intelligent) guitarist. It is in pieces because I use it so much. The diagrams are something that you look at and don't get, then it hits you like a rock and you are hooked for the rest of your life. They are gold. The book is actually hilarious most of the time, but definitely steeped in technical information. A final word: if you really want to play, put down all those tab sheets and buy this book. If you actually read through it, it will change your life.

This book is one of the best, and I have gone through many. It is concise, to the point, and does not leave any mystery. Now I have to go buy the tapes that go with it. The book really does not waste time with stuff you don't need to know, like the "great staff" and how to read music. It uses pictures of the fret board...How else would I learn. It is not a book for rocket scientist, it is a book for someone who owns a guitar. Also try "Blues You Can Use" by Ganapes and "Guitar Handbook" by Denyer.

Too bad the author didn't offer a money-back guarantee. This book is filled with everyday words that have nothing to do with naming a child. Chimmney and Ajax? Come on! No definitions or pronunciations were given either. Even the "From the experts" section on the back of the book with comments from Dr. Spock and Dr. Brazelton stunned me. The only things these experts had to say was that they did not have enough time to comment. I just want to warn other parents interested in this book to try something else such as The Everything Baby Names Book by Lisa Shaw.

This book is a simple concept with a magical result. There are hundreds of baby name books out on the market, but none like this one. If you're looking for some inspiration for naming your kid, you will find this book a tremendous resource. It is full of poetic, interesting, unique names gathered from all corners of the earth. Even if you don't find THE name for your child in this book, it will give you lots of new ideas and open up the possibilities. The only drawback of this book is that there is very little information on the origins of the names listed--maybe a fascinating project for a revised edition?

I beg to differ from the other review I read her on Amazon on this book. I really enjoyed this book, and have since gone on to loan it to several expecting parents - who also really enjoyed it. This is a fun and irreverent look at the old dillema of what to name baby. Expecting parents will find the name suggestions refreshing and thought provoking compared to the old standbys in this book category.

Heck, I've had friends come up with some really bizarre names that sounded awful in hopes of pacifying all the elders in the family by using one syllable from each name (like Jolanke)....spare me. I'd rather go with something MEMORABLE like Bridges, or Madrid - two of my favorites in this book.

There isn't really much action in this book; it's mostly hinted at rather than actually described. This is understandable, as the book is intended to be more of a look at the philosophy of the Federation and Starfleet, rather than an action-adventure story. I found the characterizations intriguing, particularly that of the characters original to this book; mostly (with the exception of Worf and to a lesser extent, Picard) the established characters are background filler. But I found the basic concept of the Magna Romans (from Original series "Bread and Circuses") having advanced far enough in 80 years to have joined the Federation and been entrusted with a Starship of their own more than a bit dubious; I doubt that either the Federation or Starfleet would be that foolish. Further, I found it disappointing that the people who were too pacifistic to defend themselves (but not too pacifistic to ask for help so that somebody ELSE could defend them) were never actually forced to face the consequences of their actions; further, those who were unwilling to allow them the luxury of that hypocrisy were portrayed as villains. Granted, changing their culture without permission was villainous, but it would not have been out of line for Picard (or Sejanus) to refuse to help those who would not attempt to help themselves.

Clearly, the authors intend to bring Sejanus back in some future story. For all I know, they may have already done so; if they have, I've not read it yet.

The return of the Romans from "Bread and Circuses" is unexpected and appreciated, though the use of a Constitution-class vessel is anachronistic, in my opinion. The plot with the cat-like aliens is secondary to the real thrust of the novel: that cultural differences spawn different ways of doing things. The dress of the ship, the holodeck sequences, what foods the Neo-Romans eat, and, most of all, their attempts to assimilate a culture into their own, are NOT Federation standard... but they do make sense in the Roman ethos. An excellent contrast with everything Star Trek has shown us before. Hail Ceasar!

This novel told about how 2 StarFleet captains, Picard and an officer from the Magna Romans (from the TOS episode "Bread and Circuses") squared off against each other in helping a planet deal with 6 ft tall cat-like critters who invade the planet and eat the people. Picard wants to negotiate and help the cats feed themselves (the cats invade the planet because their race is starving). The Romans want to get rid of them (they don't like cats).

There's a subplot involving a Roman officer romancing one of Picard's crew, but who gets killed by the Roman captain. The only good thing about this book is that it follows up on the Bread and Circuses episode into STTNG's 24th century.

Cliffnotes are Cliffnotes but who you buy them from is what counts. This seller charges more for shipping than the cost of the book. Shop around guys, highway robbery here!!

I was sugested to read the book the once and future king. I did not know if I wanted to spend that much time on a book so I purchased the cliff's notes. After reading them I had to read the book and it was fabulas. The fact that I already knew what the book was about also helped me understand the book.

A few weeks ago I recieved my school reading list. I was happy that the Once and Future King was on it because I had already read it. I purchased the Cliff Notes. The refreshed my memory with out taking to much time. I also liked how they list the characters and what they did in the beginning of the book. That way if you forget you can always look it up. The comments that are contained also help widen my perspective on what the book means. I think that everyone who has read the book should purchase these cliff notes.

I am about half way through this book and am straining not to put it down. It is full of rhetoric reminiscent of born-again literature, which makes me question some validity. Full of fantastical stories and not one reference as to where the information comes from. As far as his allopathic understanding of physiology/biology, it is hashed, at times incorrect and simply doesn't make sense. Another book just to turn a buck. Save yourself the time a read a better book!

I was introduced to the practice of chi gung through the writings of Daniel Reid--this book and another on traditional Chinese medicine.

The descriptions of the exercises are the best of any of the books I have read since (about 8), and the practice routine he includes is extremely well-structured and beneficial. I have been doing this routine daily for about 6 months, and have enjoyed numerous substantial benefits from it. No other author I have found has provided such a complete workout routine. I have continued to use it as a basis for additional material I have learned from other sources.

I am most grateful that Mr. Reid, among others, has been willing to make this information available to us in print.

For those of you starting to learn Chi Kung, this book will give you thorough information about the whole history, the different practices and forms, and the relation body to universal chi. It?ll also give you explanations about the benefits of practicing Chi Kung for yourself as preventive healthcare as well as how it is used to heal others. It covers the various ways of working with Chi, best locations, best time and environment, and a few sets of daily practices.
This book is excellent for beginners wanting to know what they are dealing with or for curious people to get a good knowledge of Chi Kung. Highly recommended.

I am a pacifist on practical, rather than religious, grounds, but I wanted to read this booklet (not really a book-- only forty-five pages) to ground myself in the Christian concepts. It did provide me with some information, but it was very poorly organized and written, to the point of distraction. I cannot recommend this for any but the true scholar, who's already been through other materials and is looking simply for perspective.

If you are a follower of Jesus of Nazareth, in both letter and spirit, then this is a great tool for witnessing. It presents succinctly the case for Christian pacifism. I take exception to the books "anti-protest, anti-demonstration" remarks. One of the best places to stand up for the Christian peace witness is at an anti-war rally. Jesus mingled with the masses and spread his views among the crowds. We need more books like this one that can be handed out everywhere as a witness to the life and teachings of the Prince of Peace. As the Messiah opined, the children of the world are often wiser and closer to the Kingdom of God than the children of light. While I was reading this book I kept thinking, "What if ancient Israel had accepted the teaching of Jesus?" The destruction of Jerusalem and Masada may never have happened. But they continued their hate-war against the Roman "enemy," instead of learning the law of love. Could it be that fundamentalist "Christian" America, the nuke nation, is headed toward the same fate of escalating and ongoing violence as consequence of its apostacy? -JL

This is a succinct, readable presentation of the Biblical and historical case for Christian opposition to war. It is written from a non-denominational viewpoint, and not necessarily that of any of the pacifist denominations. Mennonites, Quakers, Brethern, Christadelphians and so on will already know of the Biblical case against participation in war; this book is for the rest of Christendom, the vast majority of churches who either teach that war is acceptable, or dodge the issue.

Every professing Christian should read this, as it calls attention to a Biblical mandate which is often ignored among believers.

Beware of these three things before you use this book: One, this book is only helpful if you know the material, if you are thinking by practicing in these exams will teach you everything about Global History, you have another thing coming, two, some of these books are out of date since the new regents for Global history came out and you should wait until the new books come out, three, if you want to review for the Global Regents and get to the 90's mark, Study in your textbook, get a good review book which has all the material from Rome to Hiter, and don't be afraid to ask your teacher for help. Remember this is a Regent and it will not kill you, Good luck to all of you!

As a Global History teacher I found this book to be very good. It has good practice questions, essays, and a good list of vocabulary and famous people and places. But most importantly it explains the correct answers and why the other choices are wrong. This is a good review book.

This book helped me pass the Global Studies Regents. It is great and is filled with practice assessments. Buy it, trust me.

Jonathan is adorably feckless in Europe but annoyingly clueless in California. Pears' books are fun to read but this one barely makes it as beach material. Sorry.

I'll admit it--I missed the complex and worldly European setting that usually surrounds a Jonathan Argyll/Flavia di Stefano mystery. Transplanting Jonathan to Los Angeles on a business trip was a novel idea for Pears, and it works. Jonathan's being a native Brit wandering forlornly through LA with its lack of public transit and decidedly non-European look and feel adds a breath of fresh air to his well-intentioned bumbling. That bumbling, of course, is the comedy that redeems a topic that could become very dry-art history, wealthy art collectors, and old, aristocratic European families.

I love mystery stories, especially serials, but it is always a fine line an author walks while trying to offer fans what they love-and what they want to see again in three, ten, or twenty books about their favorite hero/ine-without coming off as derivative or lacking imagination.

Everything to love about Jonathan and Flavia remains in The Bernini Bust. Jonathan is kind and tends to get confused. Flavia is quick and sharp and alternately frustrated by and worried for Jonathan. The ever-evolving relationship between the two does do some growing in this installment.

I often guess the ending of mysteries written by favorite authors. I can't be the only one who starts to know how an author's ideas tend to turn out after a time. "The Bernini Bust" actually surprised me at the end, and the hilarious conclusion of the murder investigation in LA soothed my ego for guessing wrong. Aside from the murder, the mystery of the Bernini Bust was another clever puzzle that made this yet another great installment in Iain Pears' mystery series.

Jonathan Argyll is almost an anti-hero. He's an art broker who isn't very good at his job, and a lover who suffers from a stuttering inability to express himself. Nevertheless, he's sold an overpriced Titian to an L.A. museum and Argyll must travel from France to the US to oversee his sale.

But L.A. is filled with bad guys--sneaky thieves, tacky museums, and thugs of all descriptions. The art world is turned upside down by murders which expose the darker side of human greed: tax evasion, fakery, and adultery.

Jonathan's friend Flavia, a member of the Italian art fraud squad, joins him in L.A. to help unravel the increasingly twisted skein. Together they solve the crimes, and return to Italy as friends and lovers for the final, surprising scene of this delightful novel.

Enjoy the setting, the characters, and the literate humor of a wonderful mystery story. I highly recommend it.

This piece of pro-abortion propaganda, charading as scholarship, is seriously misleading. Some problems:

1) The authors ignore the anti-abortion position of the early, patristic church. The Didache, Tertullian, and Athenagoras categorically condemn all abortion, regardless of what stage at which it is performed.

2) The authors rightly show that Augustine and Aquinas supported the theory of delayed animation, but they fail to show that these authors also categorically condemned abortion at all stages. Later abortion was more gravely evil than an early abortion (just as first-degree murder is more evil than second-degree murder), but all abortion was condemned as wrong. The canon law of the same period showed the same graded but clear condemnation of all abortion.

3) The authors fail to explain to the reader the absurd biology on which delayed animation was based. Aquinas (following Aristotle), thought the female fetus became "human" later than a male fetus because the woman contributed nothing to conception! He also thought that the early human fetus was some sort of vegetable! No one today disputes the fact that from the moment of conception a huam fetus is purely human. It is not a tiny grapefruit or cat that suddenly becomes human at some later stage of gestation.

4) From the beginning of its existence the Catholic Church has strongly condemned abortion at every stage. While its reasons for condemnation and the degree of condemnation have varied, its position has remained remarkably consistent. Its strengthened opposition to abortion at every stage is completely justified by new knowledge in genetics and gestation. Every human person's history has a radical beginning at the moment of conception.

The authors of this book go into great detail on the history of abortion in the Catholic Church and Catholic tradition. They look at the views of St. Augustine and Thomas Aquinas and trace thinking on abortion throughout history. They show how Catholic thinking has changed as scientific and medical knowledge increased and changed as well as looking at the views of society. Although the book can be slow in places, the author's points are very interesting and show that the abortion debate within the Catholic Church is not a simple, clear-cut issue. While the authors are not theologians, and do not pretend to be, their discussion is interesting, informative and relevant.

It's enlightening to learn the gradual ensoulment of the fetus was Catholic dogma before the 17th cent, taught by Augustine & Thomas Aquinas.After that time the immediate infusion of the human soul was taught to occur at conception. A strong case can be made for a vegetative soul, then an animal soul, preceding to the human soul in the last trimester. "the moral permissibility of abortion in the early stages of pregnancy is, AT THE VERY LEAST, an intellectually respectable view when the history of Catholic thought on abortion is considered in its relation to the history of science" the philosopher authors conclude. While some of this is difficult to follow, it is well worth the effort.

At first glance this book seems to have it all, browsing through the contents it mentions all the right chapters and even has a 60+ page unix tutorial. Examing the book further the book level is for beginner/int/adv users and the type is described as a how to/reference book. You even get a free copy of Sackware Linux. Looks great, however the content is frustrating to say the least. The book is good at telling you about what buzzwords mean, don't expect it to actually give you relavent command syntax. At best it normally points you to one of the linux documents contained on the CD and one starts to wonder why you pay all this money for a book that doesn't explain anything to complettion. A good example is looking for information about the find command. It is easily found through the index and the information given about this command is "The find command can be useful in locating files,...". That's it, no command line parameters? In fact in this case, just like many other cases it doesn't even mention the relavent document to find the syntax for the find command.

In a nutshell, Sybex has let slip an appalling piece of computer literature that should be withdrawn rather than tarnish a fairly good reputation as a publisher of quality IT reference manuals. As for the author, well, I don't know how you scammed this work as being a reference manual or a how to. The only How-to was how-to use only 10 fingers to jump back and forward to various spots of the book on a quest for information tha wasn't there.

This is an intro level book to Linux. It was pretty good, but only covers the basic installation of Linux

This package includes Slackware Linux on the CD, a nice convenience compared to having to download the software. The book's two parts are a hands-on guide by a Linux programmer and strong documentation by a Linux celebrity. Linux is no picnic, but I found this book very helpful.