This book is exactly what it says it is: A list of lists. Occasionally, the reader is even "treated" to a little tidbit explaining the list.

Between the lack of supplementary material and the sometimes pathetic lists--The "Dynamic Duo" (Batman and Robin) get their own list? and so do the Monopoly properties, as if I couldn't just look at a board--I have to say I was less than impressed.

If you're looking to quiz people with trivia, though, it's not bad, I suppose.

Having been extremely taken with "The Last Dancer", I've been trying to get my hands on Moran's other books. This is an interesting story that moves along very quickly (too quickly in my opinion), but there isn't the same kind of character development here. It comes off as kind of simple in comparison. Maybe incomplete is more the word because the book is so short and leaves you with the desire to pick up the next one right away. Entertaining, but why didn't they put all three into one volume!

A big book, nearly 700 page long but a very detailed picture of the thoughts and life styles of the France which ushered in the Age of Enlightenment, leading up to the Revolution. Some information was too detailed for me, such as references to percentages of populations which did this or that. Some of the book contained only Roche's opinions based upon the facts he dug up. Overall, it was highly informative but not surprising. I suppose that I was not surprised with the finding that the rural areas of France were slower to change than the cities, that Paris set the intellectual pace for the rest of the nation, that blind faith in religion suffocated thought, that nobility made every effort to maintain its position over the lower classes.

Roche, however, did give a good picture of how the stage was set for the Enlightenment, going into almost every facet of day-to-day living in France in the late 18th Century. I got a good picture, though a brief one, of the reigns of Louis XIV, XV and XVI and for the first time in my education, I am able to get these reigning monarchs straight.

Roche has a quirky, teacher style of writing, though clearly expressed. Almost on every page, he will tell you that such-and-such happened for two, three, or four reasons. The numbering method of exposition is an insight into the way his mind is organized. It is also evidence that he did not merely set down his factual findings, but that he thought about what he found and tried to relate them to what was the historical result.

All in all, a very worthwhile project, reading this massive book.

Melman and Raviv maintain that it is odd for the US a capitalist nation to be so staunchly allied to the "Socialist" Israel. They fail to realize that the socialist zionism is essentially a dead concept, that zionism has become a right-wing capitalist ideaology. It's simple, we finally created a nation based on zionism and where did it tend to capitalism or communism? capitalism...

The book seemed to be all over the place in the first 30-40 pages. I found myself constantly flipping back pages trying to figure out what was going on. The book settled down into a good yarn by the middle of the book. Some occurrences in this book seemed unbelievable. So ignore them and just enjoy the good action.

It's a great and easy book to help you to learn the basic of futures markets. But it is too old, it was published 12 years ago. The new development of futures market couldn't be included.

If you can get this book, buy it. This book is well written, and thought it falls short in some respects, it is likely to hold your interest with its information. Geckos and the lizards covered in the book are fascinating, and this book proves it.

God Speaks Through Trials is an inspirational book. Ms. Morris uses references to the Bible in her poetry. A well thought out plan of simplicity and inspiration.

I am one of the initial contributors to this trial primer from the ABA General Practice Section. The orignal authors, all veteran trial lawyers, produced a work designed to help the occaisonal litigator get through the morass of a jury trial.

First published in the mid-1980's, it had become a popular book for the ABA Press. Recently a Second Edition was released, which attempts to bring the guide up to date.

Within its modest ambitions, the book works. It contains numerous checklists for each stage of the pretrial and trial process. It cannot substitute for trial experience, however or with knowledge of local practice rules.

If you don't get to trial often, this book can help. That is all it ever aspired to do.

The book seems to be for people who already know Ugaritic and just want a comprehensive reference, assyriologist types who already know several semitic languages and just want to be able to formulate opinions about Ugaritic, etc. The book is NOT suitable for someone who just wants to use it to learn the language. Normally, I am not afraid to use reference books as text books as I am used to making my own lesson plans and the like, but this book does not even have a glossary. The texts in the back are provided in Latin transliteration, so there is no way to familiarize one's self with the cuneiform alphabet other than completely self devised excercises or aquiring cuneiform texts from other (probably comparably expensive) sources. The book is a fantastic reference, however, and makes wonderful efforts to make Ugaritic useful to scholars of Biblical Hebrew, showing how Ugaritic has possibly shed light on a number of Biblical passages and constructions. As a reference, the book is excellent, but there is no glossary of linguistic terms, so if you do not know what a voiceless aspirated labio-dental fricative phoneme or a jussive or cohortative is, you may need a dictionary. Most terms will be familiar to those who have studied Biblical Hebrew though. Overall, the work is for scholars and quite a good treatment of the language, but even a scholar will havbe dificulty relying on this book to learn the language. Excellent reference work. Nothing more. As a reference, I would give 4 stars, but lack of thought about how they could make the book more suitable for a wider variety of uses (a glossary of Ugaritic vocabulary and more involvement with the cuneiform) forced me to knock it down a star.