I was pleased with this book, because of all the repair information it had. Prior to this I had bought similar books that I didn't check out completely and found them to be extensive owner's manuals. I know how to use and hook up my VCR, what I wanted to know is how to repair one. I found this book to be loaded with helpful instructions, on cleaning and repairing your VCR. I have many dog earred pages and post-its sticking out of it. One problem area for me was trying to identify the different parts on MY new VCR, even though there were many useful photos throughout the book and the book isn't that old. I also have an untrained eye, that could be some of the problem. Even with my "handicap," though, I got a lot out of it and am looking forward to my next purchase of volume II. With electronic equipment it pays to have the lastest information. Nevertheless, there are many parts in Volume I that make it well worth the purchase. To me it's a continuing set.

The set-up of this book is too cute. Our heroine, Erin gets a phone call one night from a man she thinks is her brother. Our hero has a cold and they are joking just like old times before they realize who is really on the other end.

When they make the discovery they decide to run with it a bit. There is safety in both strangers and distance and these two need a bit of string-free affection in their lives. Of course, romance being what it is... things stay neither simple, nor distant for long and it's interesting to see how these two deal with their insecurities. They are both defensive, but a willingness to work on their problems isn't enough to solve them. They had to grow, change and trust again and it's the work they put into this process that makes this book a keeper.

I've used this book as a basic guide to building and enhancing several fully-rigged plastic model ships, and it is excellent. Besides having outstanding closeup photographs of built-up ships, basic modeling techniques are illustrated in step-by-step fashion, culminating in a complete chapter covering the construction of a 1/96 scale model of the USS President (modified from the USS Constitution). I especially found useful the special tips on hull strengthening and rigging, which are quite different with plastic models

This is the assisted autobiography of the man who almost singlehandedly built up the energy conglomerate that is known as Royal Dutch/Shell. No doubt aided very much by Mr. Naylor's crafty pen, this book reads as an adventure novel and business guide at the same time. Mr. Deterding gets a platform to tell his story, which turns out to be slightly short on personal detail (there is exactly one mention of a wife, even though he got married four times) and somewhat longer on the history of his business, though for a thorough discourse on the early history of RD/Shell I'd refer the reader elsewhere.

The power of this book lies in the apparant disclosure of this mans character. Much a child of his time, it can't be denied he also was a pretty nasty individual in some of his views. He does mention his admiration for Mussolini, who he sees as a pretty efficient businessman, but also in other respects he sounds as a rightwing gung-ho type of person, which echoes most in the harrowing quote near the end of his story:

"If I were dictator of the world, and please Mr Printer, put this in large type, I'D SHOOT ALL IDLERS ON SIGHT"

There 's quite a few other opinions of this sort which make it not surprising he was seen as the foremost incarnation of evil capitalism in the early thirties, however, he does make some points which portray him as a clever and resourceful (business) man, with some remarkable traits indeed, and discarding him on the scrapheap of history solely for the reason that he was a vile man would do him nor history right.

Again, he doesn't tell all, but for lack of other, this is quite an indispensible resource for those interested in this person, or in the political economic history of the 20th century either. It is a pity that there are very few other monographies on Deterding, (even less so in English) and I wouldn't recommend this book as a starting point, but if one's interested, you can't do without it.

It is extremely interesting looking back on the general American view of Communism during the early sixties. This book picks apart the USSR's Iron Curtain in a rather unobjectionable way. I just used this book for a 10th grade paper. However, I found myself reading it for pleasure. Imagine that MTV generation reading historical novels for pleasure. This book MUST be somewhat good. A very thought provoking read if nothing else. 4/5

This book tells the story of the post-Civil War and Reconstruction era Texas Rangers. Among the chapters are: McNelly's Boys, Sam Bass and Other Bad Men, The Vanishing Frontier, Fence Cutters and Troubleshooters and Ranger Camp Life. This is a well-researched book which offers a lot of new information on, and insight into, the Texas Rangers. Wilkins is the author of the critically acclaimed "The Legend Begins: The Texas Rangers, 1823-1845".

The book itself is like the lime works in which the reader finds him/herself lost, the walls constructed of bits of hearsay and rumor collected and disseminated by various neighbors and acquaintances of the strange old man currently living in the lime works with his invalid wife of whom he takes cursory care and on whom he conducts strange experiments (of the auditory type) because he is gathering information for the book he is writing, the book he has been writing for quite some time, well, actually the book that he has been preparing to write for years but which he has not actually started because he is afraid that he might get it wrong and he knows that it must be a brilliant work -- for his research is of the most brilliant nature -- and he is simply driving himself mad with it, though he seems not to notice anything unusual except for his exceptionally keen sense of hearing and the most amazing thing about the book, not the book in the book, but the actual book by Thomas Bernhard, is that it is about writing the book that the reader is reading and it is difficult to put the book down even for a moment, not just because the book is intriguing and complex and disturbing, but also because the book is composed (to resemble the workings of a madman's mind) of several hundred pages of run-on sentences

Charming book, but I thought it was missing some of the heart of earlier Caroline books. I thought the author did a great job with researching the period and capturing what it could have possibly been like to be a 15 year old in Milwaukee.

this 1800 page book has been placed in the same league as "the remembrance of things past" and joyce's "ulysses". if one is not put off by musil's antisemitism, and unnecessarily longwinded, only somewhat interesting, conversations, one is more than rewarded by musil's keen obervational skills and ability to portray highly ideosyncratic, pathological, psychological states. musil is a genius at capturing the subtleties of sexual relations and their consequences. in my opinion, musil lacks the basic humanity of both proust and joyce; the book would be vastly improved if a good editor eliminated a good deal of the tiresome discussions.

An interesting book that effectively weaves description of people and places with understandable dialogue.Being a fan of Hemingway I personally like the short fiction that uses dialogue to tell a story. This book did a good job of doing that. The subject matter is very relevant and takes a diffferent but believable twist for fighting terroism. D.W.