Though this is a good introduction to the topic of eschatology, this book wouldn't be the first choice of recommendation. Lewis' point throughout the whole book is for Christians to be wary of end-time madness and speculation. To avoid the "Hal Lindseyan" view of understanding the unfolding of prophetic events. Though Lewis does a good job presenting the reader on what eschatology is and what the main views of eschatology are, he doesn't give firm conclusions on certain issues and passages. He doesn't give his own millennial or interpretive positions. All he does is broadly go against the end-time "madness" of some classical dispensational "speculators". He spends too much time refuting dispensationalism, while not giving firm alternatives to this position. In the last chapter, he even states that we all could be wrong (p. 133)! I got the feeling that Lewis was more sympathethic to the more moderate stream of evangelicalism, rather than the more conservative/fundamentalist stream. Overall, a good survey of different eschatological viewpoints but very weak in conviction and presentation.

Albert Einstein once said that everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler. The problem with many popular works on the end times is that they try to oversimplify this complex subject. Mr. Lewis avoids this trap: this is not an easy subject and he has not written an easy book. Taking a thoughtful look at what the whole of Scripture says, he challenges many common assumptions and offers a perspective that many readers may be seeing for the first time. Refreshingly, he is willing to leave open the issues about which Scripture is unclear.

There are those who will not like this volume. Those who want prophecy condensed into a well-defined, neat little package, or who merely want support for the positions they already hold, or who are looking for the Christian equivalent of the horoscope column will be disappointed. The author doesn't claim to have all the answers, but he does have thoughtful and challenging answers to at least these three questions. I strongly recommend it.

This book is excellent reading and is well-balanced! I highly recommend it to anyone who has an interest in end-time events from a scholarly point of view. There is no sensationalism here, just the facts, presented by one who has certainly done his homework, has taught the subject for many years at a respected Bible college in the Detroit area, and presents the various views on prophecy with dignity and respect. Further, the author has a pastor's heart (for he is one) and is able to take a calm look at the sign of the times and instruct us as to how we should then live.

It may be a small matter to buk fans who have recently come to read his work, but the previous reviewer who quotes Fernanda Pivano as having said, "......you cannot read them and ever come away the same", has taken a leap that must be corrected. On the back cover of Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions and General Tales of Ordinary Madness, City Lights Books, Second printing January 1973, edited by Gail Chiarrello, the third paragraph reads: "With Bukowski, the votes are still coming in. There seems to be no middle ground...people seem to either love him or hate him. Tales of his own life and doing are as wild and weird as the very stories he writes. In a sense, Bukowski is a legend in his time...a madman, a recluse, a lover...tender vicious...never the same...these are exceptional stories that come pounding out of his violent and depraved life...horible and holy...you cannot read them and ever come away the same again." As the reader will note, the photo on the bookcover was from 1980--lets keep the facts as facts.

Thomas Young tyoung@cyberzane.net

I do not quite understand why this should be a recommended Buk-Book. It is a fairly interesting interview, alright. But if you're going to spend money on Bukowski: buy HIS books. And if you want biographical information, go with Howard Sounes. To get a real good look on Bukowski you also might want to check out the 'Bukowski-Tapes' - Film-Interviews by Barbet Schroeder. Pivano's Interview reveals nothing new is not really worth the money.

interesting quick read about a foreign journalist's interview experience with bukowski not great but interesting

One thing Mr. Hoffman definitely cannot be accused of is hating "poor Eddie Poe" - except when to hate means to criticize (good-humoredly) verses like "Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best / Have gone to their eternal rest"... This book is both a work of art and a work about art. It's equally recommendable if you are doing serious research on Poe - Mr. Hoffman offers psychoanalytical criticism of all of Poe's major works - and if you like imaginative writing as much as Poe's beautiful dead women or simply want to read an extremely amusing book. Of course this is only possible if you don't take Poe, Mr. Hoffman or yourself too seriously. Buy Buy Buy Buy Buy Buy Buy!

Too many Poe books play on the reputation Poe had as a genius who lost a high number of woman he loved to TB, and drank himself to death. Hoffman can't ignore history and doesn't, but he does talk, unlike many others, about the writing. He does it in a playful, flirtacious way, yet engages a Poe fan in something beyond the 'same old, same old'. If it is the last word on Poe you want, that authoritative tome of all things Poe, go elsewhere. If you want to kick back and ENJOY a new look at one of the most influential American writers ever, buy this one.

It surprises me that one could read Hoffman's humor in this engaging critical study as anything but reverential to Poe's work. Hoffman isn't (as so many reviewers here have suggested) picking on Poe; instead, he's tempering his reverence with some very honest comments about an author whose work (like that of all authors) is not entirely consistent. I found it enlightening to read Hoffman's section on Poe's poetry, which brings out the steadfastness ofthe author's attempts, whether they succeed entirely or fail. In fact, Hoffman's honesty about the writings of Poe was this Poe devotee's first view of the author from a perspective other than absolute worship. Hoffman doesn't dwell on the misses in Poe's ouvre to belittle the author; he does it to show the experimental quality of the author's work. He illuminates the author's process and his struggle. Considering that writing is a struggle, and that "genius" is a problematic term, I think Hoffman justly humanizes Poe in this excellent, engaging book.

Betty Broderick knew exactly what she was doing. This book just helps perpetuate her con. The author propagates Betty Broderick like a poster child for all vindictive spouses who whish to murder their partners. Martyrdom status and all that implies for Betty! No way I say!

I have seen and continue to see this type of behavior in marriages emanating from either spouse. I am not referring to the act of consummate violence such as this book chronicles but to circumstances that can lead up to it. They are happily married, have children, live comfortably and one day it is all over. It may be the husband or the wife but one spouse decides that it is time for a change. One spouse may be cheating or not. It really doesn't matter. It turns the world upside-down. What brings a person to make such a traumatic decision? I do not believe that any one person knows for sure. Who knows what goes on inside a household or behind closed bedroom doors? In a relationship does any one person know what is going on in the mind of the other? What it all comes down to is impressions. These impressions can be based on reality or imagination. It is all a matter of how well a person interprets the facts and what those facts mean to that person. It's sort of like a psychiatrist with a patient who comes in with an emergency. A broken nail can be an emergency to some patients. Author Stumbo is obviously biased to Betty's unique denouement to a relationship that Betty has envisioned through some delusion of reality. It seemed like Betty really needed this relationship and the children for her own stability. I believe she thrived and survived on a role of self-imposed pity because it filled some void in her psyche. This books made me wonder about the meaning of love. I don't believe that Betty really loved her children or her husband. She just went through the motions because she needed that void filled in her life. There were obviously things that Dan needed in his life. Dan was a smart guy. I think he eventually saw the physiological makeup of his wife. She was sick and she needed help. How many people in a relationship really understand when their partner needs professional help? Not many do. I think Dan just took the quickest and easiest and most accessible out there was - Linda Kolkena. Unfortunately it is the children that suffer the most. However, my main contention about this book is that Linda Kolkena was just as much a human being as Betty Broderick is. Dan Broderick was just as much a human being as Betty Broderick is. They both had a right to live their own lives. Now Linda and Dan are dead. Betty never manifested any symptoms of psychosis. If a person is truly psychotic I do not believe they are responsible for their actions. That's my personal belief. Betty knew perfectly well what she was doing. There are tens of thousands of male and female Betty Brodericks out there. My advice to this author is to go hang out in some singles bars from which you will hear horror story upon horror story. Like Tarzan said to Jane: It's a real jungle out there. People fall every day but they pick themselves up and grab hold of the next vine. And come to think of it Tarzan never did like guns in his jungle.

While I in no way defend what Betty did, the movie version had Dan and Linda as angels just picked on by Betty. In the book, it showed the way Dan really manipulated the system and got what he wanted. They knew she was crazy but I don't think she would have went over the deep end as much if Linda hadn't took over her house, kids, even the Notre Dame games, just stepped into her shoes. You see it all the time, women work so he can go to school, give up their career and when men go through their "menopause" they want a younger woman along with their corvette. This is definitely a tragedy and I just wonder now how the kids lives turned out.

This book contains brief summaries of several topics related to building pools. It does not contain enough information on anything to enable you to build your own pool, or hire subcontractors to do it. It does not address how to hire subcontractors, what type of subs to hire, things to watch out for, etc, nor does it go into any degree of detail on how to build a pool. It is a basic intro to pools -- a waste of time if you need to get information to help you actuually do something. I would return it except postage will cost me about half the price of the book.

The content of this book could have been condensed into 20 pages. The information was much too general, even for me (I'm a new pool owner and not technical or mechanical at all).

book was clear and concise. No technical language to get confused. drawings are helpful and well done. swimming pool maintenance and equipment information was extremely helpful.

As a technology educator, I can not give a book about computers a good review when it is more than five years. This book is about Macs, but predates the iMac.

If you want to learn how computers work, get something newer.

As an instructor of computer graphics for designers I give very high marks to this publication. Great images, captions and text. For introductory students all is approachable and the gamut of material is broad enough to go on helping outside of the classroom when it comes time to configure their own work stations. Understanding how it all works helps and helps again when trouble shooting. This publication is too old now (1996) so I hope Ziff Davis is listening in!

This is an excellent book that needs updating. Design is very good and explanations are clear. Essential topics such as the PowerPC G3 and G4, "Velocity Engine", AirPort, Firewire, DVD, Mac OS X, are not covered. Wait for a new edition.

if this book makes the claim that race doesn't exist, I hope that everybody can see right through that (although at least one fellow reviewer seems to accept everything he's told, as long as it fits with the egalitarian myth). Here's a little example that everyone ought to understand.

My aunt and uncle have a mixed-breed dog: a chihuahua crossed with a dachshund. This dog has a dachshund-like body and a chihuahua-like face, and is very nervous and skittish like a chihuahua. Does the fact that this dog is a mixed breed, keep us from concluding that there does in fact exist the breed "chihuahua" and the breed "dachshund", each of which has its own distinctive shape, coloring, and personality traits?

This is what people are claiming: that because there are lots of mixed-race people in America, then race doesn't exist. This has got to be the dumbest argument I've ever heard. And "no biological basis for race" -- so, I guess that melanin all comes from one's environment? These arguments are so dumb, it's no wonder that regular people never question them. It's a case of the Emperor's New Clothes.

This book was written as a response to the 1994 book "The Bell Curve" by Herrnstein and Murray. But unlike several other books that condemned TBC without any empirical data, this book actually does expand the issue of racial differences intelligence and is well worth reading by any one interested in this ongoing debate. At least in this book, while still motivated by an egalitarian goal to deny racial differences in intelligence, the authors do give TBC credit for being essentially a very sound book empirically, while picking away at some of the issues at its periphery. But as they do this, they also make many fundamental errors and omissions. This is to be expected however because TBC is very hard to refute on empirical grounds alone.

As an example, the authors take TBC to task for using heritability in the broad sense rather in the narrow sense like breeders do, which reduces the heritability between races supposedly by about 20% or so. The problem is, as shown by Jensen in "The g Factor", heritability in the broad sense should be used in comparing group averages, while heritability in the narrow sense should be used in predicting the expected intelligence of one's children. TBC was not a book on how to have smart kids or breeding cows for higher butter fat production. So the argument was a feeble attempt at obfuscation.

Later in the book they admit that Blacks almost make as much money as Whites when wages are adjusted for the average difference in intelligence between the two groups. But they go on to say that "almost" is not good enough. The error here of course, as even they argue in this book, is that earnings are not just a matter of intelligence. It is the most important trait with regards to wages, but other traits are also important. Research has shown that conscientiousness is the second most important behavioral trait after intelligence in occupational success, and one would have to assume that conscientiousness would vary among racial groups as easily as intelligence due to evolutionary forces on selection under different ecological conditions. And Rushton has shown that many behavioral differences exist between Whites and Blacks on average, including conscientiousness.

So this book is a mixed bag on not denying that there are differences in the average intelligence between Blacks and Whites while trying at the same time to ameliorate the damage that recent research has produced showing that the differences are in fact real and persistent. But the funding for this book was such that the authors had no choice but to use some very fancy footwork to dance around the primary issue and try to diffuse its impact with regards to education and equality. Politics always comes into play, depending on who is paying the piper.

This book is fantastic for the layperson that was swayed by the misuse of psychometrics in science. These authors evince clearly that there is no biological concept of race. Any effort to compare races is simply false beacause even anthropolgists and biologists cannot decide the cutoff point in races.So why do psychologists put people in categories that do not even exist? Ideology.The authors of the Bell Curve have no way to define the boundaries of race- even so there is no such thing as racial purity. In America 20% of whites have black ancestry. Unless psychologists can clearly delineate where races end and begin, books like the Bell Curve have no scientific legitimacy.

ITS DUMB, IT HAS NO INFO ON HOW TO USE PALACE STUFF OR ANY INFO... IT ONLY SAYS HOW PEOPLE ARE ON THE PALACE AND STUFF!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have been using palace for numerous years,its a great program for people who are creative, but i had to delete it to update my hard drive, now i want to re-install it but i can't find where to download it, can anyone help me find it,or send me the program?thanks.

If you've just started using The Palace or if you've been using it for quite some time, get this book. It tells you everything you need to know about Palace, including helpful commands and a variety of other useful information.

Based on the description of this book, I thought I could gain a better grasp of the subject, only to discover that I was more confused than when I started. New concepts are thrown out with no explanation and examples are obscure at best. To make things worse, the silly cartoon-like attitude of the book is insulting to anyone who's looking for a serious solution to their dilemma. The implication is that the material is as easy to understand as a child's book, but there is no help for those who don't immediately grasp the concepts. After completing a Calculus class (and feeling quite comfortable with the subject) I revisited the book and confirmed that it is a terrible presentation for those who are in fact "Utterly Confused". I have sent it unceremoniously to the local landfill.

This little book is a terrific idea. However, it needed a careful editing before printing. The diagram on page 33 was not labeled. The answer on page 51 is wrong. The answer on page 55 contains an answer (t=533) that not only is wrong, but should have rung a bell with the authors when they got it. (The correct answer is 53.3, which can easily be verified.) This proves that using a hand calculator without thinking about what size the answer ought to be leads to embarassing errors. This actually is a very instructive example, but the conclusion that 27 years is the most appropriate time to harvest the forest has no supporting theory. At this frequency of errors, I expect to find more as I progress.

This is one of the most easy to understand and clear calculus books that I have read in a long time. It concentrates on some of the most used/practical subjects that most college students will need for their undergraduate studies. I have recommended this book to some of my friends and the reason for me writing this review is because I would like to let other "confused" readers know about how much of a big help this book has been.

Francis Dashwood--a wealthy 18th century businessman--restored and developed the family estate at High Wycombe, England. The estate included an intricate set of passages and chambers in nearby caves. Dashwood--a well known lecher--oragnized a group of like-minded individuals who called themselves "The Order of the Friars of St Francis of Wycombe" or the "Hellfire Club." The members included the most elite and politically influential men in England--including the Duke of Queensberry, the Earl of Sandwich, and Hogarth. Apart from their fascination with debauchery, they were also all interested in the occult and were sworn enemies of Christianity. The Hellfire club developed secret rituals and ceremonies which were frequently performed in the underground caves at High Wycombe. During the ceremonies, the members of the club wore elaborate costumes, and the festivities were finalized by orgies attended by both prostitutes and ladies of high rank.

I was a frequent visitor to High Wycombe some years ago, and I've been fascinated by the Hellfire Club since I first heard about it. I was initially thrilled to actually have my hands on a book that dealt with the subject. Unfortunately, the book was badly written and disjointed--even anecdotal at times. There are no references for further reading, it is flimsily researched, and overall the book was a huge disappointment. I am still looking for the definitive book on this subject.

not a bad book,and historically accurate,but it really doesnt tell us many details about this infamous club.very repetive "they had orgies,they drank a lot" etc, etc..ad naueseum.i was really disappointed by the lack of insight into the minds of these people.this may have been considered a wild book when it came out in 1959 but it seems timid today

This book serves as a very interesting and entertaining introduction into the topic; very fun reading, and provocative in a few of its statements.

Right off the bat, it should be obvious to the reader that this is not a serious analytical or academic study of the topic, but more of an overview and a baptism into the subject it treats. There are no citations, as other reviewers have mentioned. That is perhaps a downside to the book. No indices, citations, or tables of contents tells any reader from the start that this book is not trying to create a reputation for itself as a definitive reference work.

This book itself should be read for entertainment purposes, and as a teaser to draw a reader into the topic. If you're looking for a definitive history and unbiased reference and academic treatment of the subject, look elsewhere. But if you have no idea of the Hell-Fire Club in the mid 1700's involving Sir Francis Dashwood, John Wilkes, the Earl of Sandwich among others, this will definitely whet your appetite.

This book does include many references (not in an academic manner, mind you) that give a reader some insight into the rumors and myths surrounding the club scene of the 1700's and some of what life was like in England during those times. It took me a day to read this book, and I don't count it a wasted day. Fascinating reading, the book itself is well-written in an easily readable style. Names are mentioned and subjects touched on in a way to provide the reader, should he or she so choose, with the names and subjects to look into and do some more investigative reading. I know that I will.

And the cover is cool too. ...