This volume is definitely a must have for those who desire to read the Bible in Hebrew but have not yet been able to read the Tanach completely for themselves. All Hebrew students are expected to memorize all words used 50 times or more in the Old Testament (those who are not willing to do rote memorization shouldn't bother trying to learn any language). These words are provided with their meanings in an appendix. One can begin their memorization right away.

All other words (those occuring less than 50 times) are given, printed every time they occur, chapter by chapter, verse by verse, in the order of the Old Testament books, chapters, and verses (sort of like reading the Bible vertically rather than horizontally). The verbs are given in their particular stem form for each occurrence. In addition, the number of occurrences of the words for the particular book and for the entire OT are given; for verbs, the number occurrences of the particular stem currently found in a verse are given for the whole OT.

What I think is especially good about this volume is that it forces the student to learn much of the Hebrew vocabulary; and, even where words are given each time they occur (for those used under 50 times in the OT), the student is required to have studied enough grammar to recognize the verb stem forms. In other words, the book gives the verb spelling for the stem form used but does not tell the student the name of the stem; the student needs to have learned how to recognize the various verb stems. One might think that such a format is a negative point. But if one is not going to learn Hebrew correctly, one would not have any reason to own a book that is only for true Hebrew students.

I recommend this book over its 4-volume sister "The Analytical Key. . . .," because the latter volumes give away all the answers for every word; they require virtually no study of Hebrew at all. But the "Reader's" version forces the student to learn; thus eliminating lazy language study. So the "Reader's" version is for you if you are serious about learning Hebrew thoroughly without running to an answer key all the time.

With a minimum knowledge of Hebrew grammar, this book makes it possible to experience reading the Hebrew Bible (a.k.a. the Old Testatment) in its original language. It lists every word of the Hebrew Bible which appears less than 50 times in chapter and verse order with definition and page reference to the Brown, Driver & Briggs Hebrew-English Lexicon for detail explanation of that word. In an Appendix is listed all words appearing more than 50 times -- and that list is only about 1000 words. So with a basic understanding of Hebrew grammar, and the acquisition of a vocabulary of 1000 words it becomes possible to read and enjoy the Bible in Hebrew. This book is for everyone--Christian, Jew or whatever--who enjoys reading the Bible, this books opens the way to a glorious experience.

If Pogo and his friends had not been in the friendly confines of the Okeefenokee, but, instead, had been mired in the swamp of a typical modern workplace, the vision transmitted to them as chiseled on a mountaintop would have read: "We have met the enemy, and it is Reductionism!" Authors Neil Douglas and Terry Wykowski, two true students of the real-world organizational mores and imperatives that bubble underneath today's seemingly ever-changing management processes, have successfully identified and dissected the major stumbling blocks to positive change, a phenomenon they aptly title "Reductionism." They use this word to describe the modern penchant of too many who have been intrusted with the obligations of management of complex organizations (and the humans who comprise the organizations) to reduce every process and interaction (and, ultimately, every "job") to a simplistic, jargon-filled state. This book serves as both a breakthrough text and as a teaching aide to those who would seek to have their organizations function in truly efficient, functional and successful ways. The authors identify and describe in detail (and with true to life examples) the constraints on organizational change, and place the onus on the manager (at whatever level) to learn to recognize both objective and subjective factors and imperatives that comprise the status-quo of any organization. The authors give practical advice on the tools of actual management of organizations, the primary one being "delegation." Refreshingly, in dealing with this tool, the authors don't offer it as a trite panacea, but, instead, stress the absolute need for actual delegation with purpose and the need for accountability on the part of those to whom there is delegation. Douglas and Wykowski give many good working examples of how both individual "managers" and the "organizations" themselves can subvert ill-conceived and ill-managed attempts at organizational change. Like the subject and point of the book, the authors fill the pages of the book with facts, examples and discussion. There are no cartoons or other fluff that overly simplify or detract from the thesis and the message. This is not another "management according to Sesame Street" book. However, as it is a serious, thoughtful and thought-provoking book, it would serve well as the basis for organizational study, particularly in groups. The examples utilized are wide-ranging, and relate to many types of, and levels within, organizations. This book is a "must-read and must-study" for a down-sized, right-sized, out-sourced, Kaizan'd, process engineered, empowered, quality-council'd, low-hanging-fruit, change-focused world.

In the preface to his "Life of Lincoln", William Herndon expounded that when writing the history of Lincoln's early life "the whole truth concerning him should be known" and there should be "nothing colored or suppressed." Having set the standard Herndon failed to follow it, for there were something's even Herndon must have felt should not be put into print. Scholars wishing to explore Lincoln's early life beyond the insights offered by Herndon's biography had to turn to examining the letters and notes collected for over a twenty year period by himself and his collaborator Jesse Weik. This often proved to be a daunting task. As the editor's in their introduction noted even though available on Micro roll film specific documents are "very hard to locate" and even if located are "very hard to read." To further complicate matters the index to the Herndon collection prepared by the Library of Congress is "neither accurate nor complete." What Editors Douglas L. Wilson and Rodney O. Davis have done in their "Herndon's Informants" is to transcribe all of the known Herndon, Weik letters and notes into a readable and properly indexed Documentary Edition. What they have also done is create a masterpiece of scholarship that will be used by students of Lincoln for decades to come. "Herndon's Informants" offers the student the complete Herndon collection, unabridged and un-editorialized. To anyone who has a strong interest in learning more about Lincoln's early life this is just about all that is available and it simply must become a part of your personal library.

THIS IS THE BEST ACCOUNTING TEXT I'VE SEEN YET. ALL CONCEPTS ARE EASY TO FOLLOW AND UNDERSTAND. WISH MORE PROFESSORS WOULD SEARCH FOR TEXTBOOKS AS GOOD AS THIS.

Another excellent airliner book from Airways Magazine. Buy it..!

I've searched for a long time a good DC 8 book which would show and describe what happened in the planning-time, in the production-time, what for problems the engeeners had and so on.
And I've found it, I recommend this book strongly to everybody who loves the DC 8 and the early jetliners.

I just received this book, but I am already very happy with it. It is full of lots of details on this wonderful old aircraft and a large number of color photos. It makes me remember a childhood trip I took on a Delta DC-8 and we got to sit in this lounge type set up in the very front of the airplane, ahead of the galley. With 2 sets of 2 seats facing each other with a table between them. What a wonderful and elegant airplane. I can't wait to finish the book.

Beautifully illustrated referene book covering every aspect of the Douglas DC-8. This is by far one of America's greatest aviation achievements and this title certainly demonstrates that honor. As part of a top-of-the-line series (Great Airliners), the reader will find this addition to thier airliner book collection priceless.

Well written, complete history of DC9, including those variants that never made it off the drawing board. Would like to see more about the aerodynamic design decisions made in the design process, but that may not appeal to all readers. Overall, very interesting to anyone who flies, maintains, operates, or just likes the -9.

I have reviewed many books regarding the DC-9 but I have never seen a book about this aircraft that covers both the design phase and the major operators of the aircraft. Any airline that has ever operated the DC-9 is referenced in this book and includes all color schemes of the airlines. For anyone who is interested in collecting books about airliners this is a must have.

This is a really informative and interesting book. My father was an airline pilot who retired in 1986 flying the DC-9s, originally with North Central, then Republic and eventually Northwest. He and I found this book to be very interesting to read with lots of really nice photos of the DC-9 in lots of airline's liveries including many of the excellent airlines who utilized the plane who are no longer flying. I would recommend this to anyone who has any interest in the DC-9. It also has a nice list of every DC-9 ever made when it was delivered and if it is still flying. All and all a really good book.

The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time, edited by Peter Guzzardi, consists of a collection of material found on Adams's hard-drive after his untimely death in 2001, together with various earlier essays, stories, interviews, etc. It forms a tribute to the creative genius of Douglas Adams (and a last chance to squeeze some money out of the Hitchhiker franchise).
The book begins with a prologue, originally written by Nicholas Wroe for The Guardian, and an introduction by Christopher Cerf. After that, the collected material by Douglas is arranged into three parts, entitled, appropriately enough, "Life," "The Universe," "And Everything." The third part contains, among other things, some unfinished chapters from the next book that Adams had been working on before he died. That book was to have been entitled The Salmon of Doubt. These chapters have been edited together from several different versions that Adams had left behind, and forms only a short beginning, frustratingly, of the whole story, ending as it does abruptly in the middle. As the result stands, it is a story about Dirk Gently, but Adams had earlier confessed himself stuck, having found that the ideas he had been working on were more suitable for a Hitchhiker story, than for a Dirk Gently story. His plan was accordingly to write the sixth Hitchhiker book, and incorporate the best ideas from what he had already written on the Salmon of Doubt. Sadly, he never got a chance to do this.
Among the other material in the book, there are two pieces of writing that were of special interest to me. The first one is a reprint of an interview that Adams gave for American Atheist, and the other is a printed version of an extemporaneous speech that Adams delivered at Digital Biota 2, Cambridge, in which he gave his view on the origin of the concept of God.
The material collected in this book shows Adams at his funniest best. The chapters of The Salmon of Doubt that he had finished gives as a glimpse of what would have been another triumph of comedic writing for Adams, had he only been given a chance to finish it. The book ends with an epilogue written by Adams's close friend, Richard Dawkins.

The first two-thirds of "The Salmon of Doubt", as assembled by Douglas Adams' editor, consists of essays, lectures, magazine articles, and other short pieces written by Adams. It is an interesting glimpse into his mind, his work habits, his love of computers and gadgets, and his views on religion, atheism, and evolution. As an added bonus, the last third of the book contains the first eleven chapters of what was meant to be Adams' new Dirk Gently novel (although he tantalizingly hinted in interviews that he might turn it into a sixth "Hitchhiker's" book), also named "The Salmon of Doubt."

The essay/article portion of the book, while interesting, does have an unavoidably hodgepodge feel to it. Most of this material will be familiar to diehard Douglas Adams fans (in fact, much of it has already been printed elsewhere - little here is new material), but it is nice to have it all gathered together in one place. Unfortunately, no index or table of contents is provided, so finding a particular piece is rather challenging.

The portion of the book actually devoted to "The Salmon of Doubt" is very intriguing. As the editor notes, the eleven chapters are stitched together from three separate "versions" of the novel that Adams was working on at the time of his death. As a result, some of the chapter transitions are very choppy (and of course the story sputters out without a proper ending, although this does seem vaguely appropriate for a Dirk Gently novel). However, I found chapters two through seven of the book to be very engaging; a bit rough, certainly, but this was shaping up to be a great Dirk Gently novel. It was with sadness that I reached the end of this story and realized that there would be no ending, and further, no other novels from Douglas Adams.

I don't fault the editor for assembling the story the way he's chosen to, as an amalgam of three different manuscripts - I'm sure this would have been his suggestion even if Adams were still alive. Still, I would love to see a completely "unedited" version of the novel, i.e., one that includes all three working versions; I think that would be fascinating to read. It's certainly a tease to know that certain parts of the different versions were skipped over in assembling this edition.

Having said that, I still do think this book is a must-own if you're a fan of Douglas Adams and his work, due to the inclusion of the unfinished novel. However, when reading "The Salmon of Doubt", you must be prepared to read an unpolished, unfinished story; if you're able to read it in this frame of mind, it's actually very rewarding.

I purchased Douglas Adams' posthumous book exactly one year and one day after his extremely untimely passing. I have always thought that there is something inherently wrong about losing one's idols. "Salmon of Doubt" is a prime example of how wrong it truly is.

"Salmon of Doubt" is so absolutely and quite wonderfully Douglas.

This collection of articles, interviews, random thoughts and unfinished novel is an genuine treat to read. His unmistakable voice shines through on each and every page. For someone who professed to agonize over the whole "writing thing", Douglas did it with a style that is often imitated, yet never will be duplicated.

I was delighted to see "Cookies" make its way into this collection. I laughed when he included in the 4th Hitchhiker's novel, and was fortunate enough to hear him retelling this true story. He had everyone at this Chicago hotel bar in absolute hysterics some years ago, reliving the moment. I have never forgotten it.

"Maggie and Trudie" also stands out as one of my other favorite entries here. As does "The Private Life of Genghis Khan". The interviews included also give a further glimpse into this marvelously gifted man.

There is no doubt in my mind that the ever-so brief "Salmon of Doubt" story/novel itself would have been a joy to read had he been around to finish it. It would have worked perfectly well as the next Dirk Gently (or possible 6th HH) novel. I found myself reading this portion quickly, watching the pages dwindle and knowing it was going to abruptly end. It did. Now I'm left wondering what happened to Dirk and Desmond the rhinoceros. It's going to bug me till the end of time. Which I am sure would thrill Douglas to no end.

I'll have to ask Douglas when I see him at the Restaurant at the End of the Universe how it all ends.

It was anice book it covered the basic of what i wanted to know

Let us start with a quick quiz: in which city does the London Bridge stand? Lake Havasu City, Arizona, USA. OK, another one: who wrote Douglas Adams's Starship Titanic? Well, Terry Jones, of course.

So what does Douglas Adams have to do with Douglas Adams's Starship Titanic, if anything at all? Well, he is the author of a storyline for a computer game of the same name. I believe that the phrase "a novel written after the computer game" pretty well summarizes it, and prepares the reader for the quality of plot (s)he is to encounter. If you are considering yourself a great fan of British humour, please try to forget the names Douglas Adams and Terry Jones for a moment and re-evaluate it pretending that it was written by an unknown author from Ukraine, or Nebraska. See what's in it?

As a great fan of Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy from over twenty years ago, I have saddenly observed the stagnation and decline in originality and quality in its author's later works. It's sad to see Douglas Adams and Terry Jones (ex Monty Python's Flying Circus) themselves prostituiting like this. Really sad.

I really wanted to like this book as I really like both Adams and Jones.

Unfortunately the book is not cohesive. There are amusing lines and the potential for funny setups but it never really delivers. It needs more depth.

By the time I was done with the book I was not only suprized that it was already over but also left with that strange taste in my mouth, like when you eat some new foreign delicacy that leaves you wondering "What did I just eat and do I like this?".

This title is not at all worth the cover price. Only buy this at discount or better buy used.

Introduction:
Loved the game, Disliked the book!
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I found this book to be a complete mockery of it's game origin. I found countless errors and pieces of conradictory information in this book regarding the starship and its crew and passengers that were hopelessly tried to be copied from the book in a failed attempt. But I found the begenning to be very creative and well tracked to the storyboard of the game plus a good ending. I also thought that some of the characters were poorly made including a nymphomaniac journalist and a (soon to be hopeless) couple plus the ship's crew (working bots) to have conradictory personalitys and vocabularitys to the identical ones in the game! Not only that but some of the technoligy is off-beat to the game including the end solution to get back to earth.
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Summary:
Bad storyline + facts not based on the game + nymphomaniac journalist + good beggening & ending - the touch and mind of the real Douglas Adams himself = the really dissapointing Starship Titanic book!