Don't waste your money (and time) on that ancient book.

It's shame to offer a 70's book for regular sale! Although it reprinted again in 94, its content remain.

It is a very usefull book for an computer engineer.If you are in a first class of computer engineer you can have some difficulties about using the mathematical formulas in computer.This book makes you learn yery easy.It is for a starter.

I was disappointed in this book especially since the title contained the word "Refresher". Instead of the book focusing on IFR flying and new techniques, the book turned out to be a collection of short stories and dialog about IFR flying as told by the author.

For a better "refresher" on IFR flying, I would recommend "Instrument Flying" (4th edition) by Richard L. Taylor, which is better orgainized, and does give tips on the art of instrument flying.

I bought this book to use as an IFR refresher without really looking into the content. When I actually got around to reading the book, I was at first disappointed because I had expected a technical review of the hands on techniques for IFR flight.

After reading the first chapter I got the point. Apart from the pretty good read and interesting actual examples, I realized that one of the most important aspects to IFR flight is good pilot judgement.

Poor judgement is what kills most pilots (and passengers) and IFR flight is a most risky activity. Not that technical skill is not important, it is. But pilot judgement skills are often neglected and under appreciated.

The book is well written and the accounts of both personal flights (from two different perspectives) and industry accidents are very instructive and interesting.

Highly recommended for those wanting to go beyond the basic skills. This book is not for new IFR students. I am recommending this book to my experienced students.

Academics generally make little money, so instead they live for their 15 minutes of fame. To obtain this, they try to stir up controversy about a chosen issue to gather attention to themselves, whether or not their claims are actually true. Such is the case with this book. With Slavery, Propaganda, and the American Revolution Ms. Bradley seeks to rewrite American history in a way that will draw more attention to herself. She does this by twisting the truth, taking quotes out of context, and sometimes resorting to making up "facts" that suit her thesis. This is a typical "bash-the-founding-fathers-book" focusing much on Adams. She attempts to portray the founding fathers as insensitive scum that care nothing of poor, suffering slaves. She fails to take into account society's ideals of the time and what was considered normal. She fails to recognize the fact that had the founding fathers put full support into anything as radical (at the time) as freeing the slaves they would have lost all support from the colonists and the American Revolution would have lost its momentum.

Stay away from this, it's not worth your time.

And if you are forced to read it for class, beware that it's hard to sell this thing. Nobody wants it. I have been to several different bookstores that won't touch it.

Thought provoking and controversial to be sure. Nevertheless, a scholarly piece of work from a critcal historian who is not afraid to expose truth -- even if it is uncomfortable.

This book is a lead on for you to buy the authors software program. The software program is worthless and doesn't work. You would be better off spending your money on lottery tickets. DON'T BUY THIS BOOK!

I also have Gregory Morris, Candlestick Charting Explained published by McGraw-Hill. Morris's book was good, Wagner's book is better. Each of the authors present an analysis of each candlestick and the probable forecast of the future stock/commodities/market trends. While Morris provides interesting background data on each candlestick, the symbols are rather small. Wagner's efforts are directed more toward actual application...using the candlesticks from day to day in our attempt to fathom the next stock or market move. Wagner's charts are large--four symbols to a page. Wagner goes on to advise the reader of the need to run certain other programs (Fibonacci numbers, Bollinger bands) to confirm your interpretation of the meaning of the candlesticks. Where Morris provides a table of specific candlestick frequencies of occurrence, Wagner provides many pages of software code. I applaud the author's intention to enable us to utilize a computer in the process of reading the specific candlestick from a bar chart. However, the code appears similar to what was taught in college in our first class in computers (basic)? A code using Excel or even Lotus 1-2-3 would be more helpful. The book is almost outstanding.

The approach of these two authors, despite their own assertions, is pathetic. This book is unreadable. The language is confused. Maybe if you were an expert in this field, this book would make sense. For the novice, this book hurts more than it helps. I hope I can find another text that actually leads me through the ideas that I have to learn rather than putting my mind to sleep with confused jargon. If you are one of the authors of this book, and your purpose was to dissuade others from becoming competent in your field, you have succeeded. Perhaps no one can write a clear explanation of this material. I doubt it. I think geeks just cant think straight and write worse. Will anyone who is capable ever care to write about Digital Design properly? Not I. And so it continues.

Having practiced digital logic design in its many forms (from basic digital implementations to VHDL), over a period of 20+ years, I must state that this is possibly the most poorly written text I have ever seen on the discipline.

Having examined numerous books that cover introductory material on digital logic, I must say that this book is a welcome addition. Indeed, I would consider this book the best among the currently avaialabe books on this subject. The treatment emphasizes the fundamentals very well without an emphasis on the tecnhology or on any design language. Thus, the material covered should be helpful in giving the students a strong and lasting foundation which will be independent of changes in technology. The presentation is lucid, and the examples are very good.

I believe this should be a serious candidate for the text book of any introductory course in digital logic.

Much of the content of the 1993 edition of the Lonely Planet guide to Mongolia is badly outdated. Things have changed a lot (and for the better, in terms of availability of goods and services) since the author was here. He can't be faulted for that. But he can be faulted for having written a lot that is unkind, unfair, and uninformed. Two researchers were in Mongolia in the summer of 1996, doing research for an updated edition of this book. If you need a guide to Mongolia, try to get their updated edition

Lonely Planet guides are targeted at your average traveller interested in the usual attractions. Happily enough for them, their guides satisfy a good 80% of visitors to a said country. More intrepid travellers would be found wanting.

Sadly enough, the average visitor to Mongolia is likely to be more adventurous than those to other destinations. Herein lies the failure of applying the same formulaic approach when writing a guide on Mongolia. The tone of the book assumes that the reader has to be dragged kicking and screaming into this "God-forsaken" land of fermented milk and crumbling post-soviet era apartment blocks.

Taking into account varying degrees of "tolerence" to the harsh weather and unfamiliar cuisines seems to be an ongoing theme. The writers forget that some 70 odd years of Soviet influence has introduced western style breads, jams, pickled vegetables etc, which are readily available at most aimag capitals. Indeed, the market in Bulgan city was very well stocked. (at least in the summer and fall).

Granted that the country is ever-changing as it is thrust into the 21st Century, but one would expect that the approach to writing this guide would address this as well. Food options in UB are plentiful. Where there had been a handful of chinese restaurants as little as 2 years ago, at least 50 can be listed today.

So leave this guide at home, or better yet, bring it along so your Mongolian friends can share a good laugh.

There are some major problems with this book. It takes a condescending tone towards Mongolian culture/food/attractions from the average expectations for such things if you weren't in Mongolia. Lonely Planet compares Mongolia to the, say, average European country. The average traveler to Mongolia is not looking for an average European country. Taking this mode to guiding you through the country, cheapens the experience with unecessary and biased opinions. I found the maps to be pretty useful, and a good base for finding your way around the country. In the absence of other guide books to Mongolia, Lonely Planet is not a bad choice, if read with a grain of salt.

This is a pretty decent book. I love make-up effects so I thought I'll love this book. Well, it could've been a LOT worse. The pictures in the book was great. Some of the pictures on the were inapporiate. I saw several pictures on the cover of Stewart, Brooks, Shatner, and other actors w/o special make-up. If I was mostly interested in props, this book would've just 1 star. This book is pretty good. I love the Do Your Own Make-up and props section, although the only prop that looks cool enougth to build, I'll need my dad's help. OH, and this is for the guy who said that the Do Your Own Make-up was a waste of time, how the hell would you want to like a Star Trek alien, take days and make molds and sculpt clay? I thought the make-up application pictures were great, except for John Poole's finished Ferengi picture, I saw the edge of the latex, not glued, around his eyes. The authors were kind enougth to tell how to make more base makeup for the pieces except the obvious ones. (Most Vulcans and Romulans have the same pigment as each other.). Overall a pretty good book, if love make-up and want to apply it to yourself.

I bought this book for two reasons. 1: I love Star Trek (all series) and 2: I love looking at and reading about behind the scenes things. And this book was really good for both! It is really interesting as to how the actors got on with their respective make-up whether it be a Trill's markings or a full head mask worn by a Ferengi. My only two quibbles were that there were no pictures of the actors without their makeup (eg. Armin Shimmerman - that would have been interesting!) and also, the DIY section wasn't very long, you had to buy the proper masks and make-up etc and there was only 1 or 2 props to make. But other than that, I'd say buy and enjoy! Adam.

Comprei este livro, como sempre faço com os livros de referência de Star Trek que a Pocket Books lança. É um livro regular, nada de especial, formato pequeno, muito bem feitinho, mas que não traz realmente nada de novo. Algumas fotos foram até recicladas de outros livros. Se você, fã brasileiro ou português, quiser comprar algo que realmente valha a pena, compre o "Art of Star Trek", edição hardcover.

This book does not deliver on its promises. The information has not been researched in each field beyond a few actual cases, making the accuracy of the information highly suspect. There is much better information available on this subject from other sources, including the Occupational Outlook Handbook (put out by the Bureau of Labor Statistics). Very smug, very unprofessional writing. Save your money.

A lot of people talk about changing jobs and exploring new career options, but never follow through with it. Now there's a tool to help make it happen -- Jobsmarts 50 Top Careers. Like Jobsmarts for Twentysomethings, it's a down-to-earth look at today's job market with lots of great information and ideas to help you get started. Whether you're looking for your first or third job, this book can be an invaluable resource.

I really didn't know what i wanted to do, so I picked up this bok to find out what was out there. I chose it becuase the other industry guides seemed to give an overly rosey picture of every career. This book told be everything I needed and wanted to know. Good, Bad and otherwise. Great source to get the skinny on careers. Now my only problem is to figure out which one I want to go after.

I just stumbled upon Bradley's Darkover series recently, and have really been enjoying them, so I figured I'd like a selection from her witch series, as well.

'Witch Hill' is a quick and somewhat entertaining read about a young woman who has just experienced a horrific series of deaths in her immediate family that quickly wipes everyone she's close to out. But, right before her father's death he starts to tell her about an aunt of his, her namesake Aunt Sara, and she soon learns she's inherited Aunt Sara's ancient house in rural Massachusetts. Sara heads out to check out her inheritance, and decides to spend the summer. Everyone in the town thinks she's Aunt Sara (who died seven years earlier at the ripe old age of 80), and a portrait shows the resemblance IS uncanny. Ol' Aunt Sara was a powerful witch, and the town is ready for young Sara to take up her Aunt's reigns in the local witch temple. Meanwhile, a sweet romance has sprung up between Sara and the young hunky doctor.

But all the intricate plot-work aside, this novel never really gets revved up. The reader is put through the paces, but the story is pretty two-dimensional. The characters have the MOST atrocious dialogue ever. But, it's a fun, goofy, light, and FAST read, so I give it a neutral two-stars.

I gave this book 3 stars because, while I enjoyed it, it was totally unlike the other MZB books I have read. But thats OK. It was essentially pulp. It reminds me of some of the Gothic type romances I used to find at our local used book store when I was a kid. Way back in the day when books cost a dollar! So I guess I enjoyed this story, with the old dilapidated inherited home setting, and steamy sex scenes more out of a feeling of nostalgia. But, you know, sometimes it's just nice to read something that flows along and allows you to relax. There's nothing wrong with that. A Calgon bath for the mind. I am tempted to give this a higher rating just because I enjoyed it, but I suppose it doesn't really warrant it. Not a bad read for all of that.

I'm a fan of MZB, but this book was just- different. I felt that it definitely was rather risque, and believe that it definitely has some chapters that are just pure porn, which is unlike MZB. I think it's very pro-sexuality. The plot gets a little bit odd, and is sort of cut off, but is not impossible to follow. It starts out well, but about halfway through goes sour. I really wish it had been better, and I enjoyed it even though it was absolutely nothing like what I expected. I just wouldn't expect something like that out of MZB. She's usually different.

I would've given this a "0" rating, but that was not an option.

I learned some extraordinary facts:

-The Jews are descended from Neanderthals.
-The Jews are an aggressive, ruthless people who once fought with axes and clubs but today try to dominate the world and annihilate people of color via their control of corporate America, Wall Street, and the media.
-The Jews ran the African slave trade.
-The Spanish conquistadors who decimated Native Americans following the arrival of Columbus were mostly Jewish.
-In the American colonies, Jews started to import African slaves after they killed all the Indians and no longer had them available as slaves.
-In the American south, a higher percentage of Jewish families were slaveholders than non-Jewish families.
-European Jews have no historic connection to Israel, because they descended from pagans from the Caucasus who converted to Judaism in the Middle Ages and then enslaved the neighboring Slavic populations.
-The catering and security companies at Logan Airport may be Jewish-owned. That may be part of a conspiracy in which the September 11 attacks were staged as a pretext to wage war on people of color.

Needless to say... Aside from his obvious anti-Semitism and paranoia, his science and history are half-truths or flat wrong. The Khazar theory was disproved long ago. The Neanderthals left no descendants. Ashkenazic Jews have proven genetic ties to Middle East. Bradley cited no genetics, and relied a theory of the evolution of the races that has not been taken seriously since the 1950s.

What about the gullible souls that apparently have actually fallen for this claptrap? If this person who bases fact on what he saw in a dream were to make the same kinds of inflammatory statements about African Americans, Asians, or any other minority group do you think he would've actually made it into print?

Jews are Semites, not Caucasians. There is hard scientific evidence to support this statement. The rest is just too silly to justify a response.

This is one strange book. That anyone takes it seriously proves that any crazy idea dressed in scientific sounding terms can be taken seriously if the reader is so disposed.

How do you evaluate an author's credibility? It may help to know that Bradley now says that his theories came from vivid dreams that also involved missing chunks of time - experiences that he says are similar to experiences claimed by UFO "abductees" and "contactees". He also publishes guides for "survivalists".

Michael Bradley's Chosen People will only make sense to those who are well-read in the background of the Caucasian Man. After reading Bradley's "The Iceman Inheritance" and "The Columbus Conspiracy", I found the Chosen People to be highly informative. Bradley takes the reader through the brief and short history of the Caucasian Man (Origins from somewhere in the Caucasus Mountains in Central Europe) to the misinformation being purported about Jewish Ancestry and its ties to Europe. With the knowledge of the reader, Bradley clearly shows that the conversion of Caucasians to Judaism occurred around 729 A.D. by the Arabs; these same people today deny the real Jews of the Bible, the Falasha of Ethiopia, their real identity and relationship in relation to the "White-Washing" of the Bible today. Insightful reading for people of color who may be confused as to what a Semite really is and who is really a Jew and is there such a thing as Yiddish being the language of the original Jew. Be warned: This reading may be above most individuals level if they don't have knowledge of the past and its influence on today's psyche and present situation of those being oppressed in America.