It's content is very brief and concise. As a graduate student in the turrbomachinery field, I've studied important aspects about turbomachinery in a short time. It's a good book.

What an incredible book. This is THE reference for the F-15. Author Don Logan is exhaustive in his research and the amount of information (all in one place) is going to make this book hard to put down. If there was only something like this for the F-16 !

If you like to drive, read this book. If you like nature, read this book. If you like to look at the pictures, read this book. This book and $20 for a tank of gas has become my favorite wedding/etc. present for friends. A wonderful coverage of the roads, the state they wind through and the minds of the authors and photojournalists.

This book is absolutely funny and shows the different points of view between men and women in several aspects, at the same time teaches how they think and behave helping us to understand them better. We act exactly the way is written there, and the men too! It was quite funny (and annoying) to read about their (and our) behavior, but it's all true! It's a funny "day-by-day" book about men and women...

Cleaning without toxic products makes life so much better, seems like a holy effort after growing up using harsh chemical cleaners. This book has an easy style, natural language, and simple recipes that cost but a few cents. It is inspiring to lift my cleaning tote, full of inexpensive homemade products, and do what must be done again and again in a sweet and fragrant manner. Thank you, Karen Logan, I am so grateful to you for sharing this with us~!

My friend and I made most of the major recipes in this book in the course of a few hours! We found all the ingredients at the market, health food store and Target. We both went home and cleaned our houses top to bottom and were amazed at the results. I thought for sure the glass cleaner wouldn't work - boy, was I surprised! I have since bought several copies of the book to give away to friends and family. My friends with young children really love the recipes! Most importantly for me, these products smell divine! I feel like I am perfuming my house rather than cleaning. My kitchen smells softly of lemons, and my bathroom has a lovely, light, lavender aroma. From now on I'm cleaning the natural, non-toxic, better smelling way!

I purchased this book along with another, larger book on this topic by a well-known author of books on the subject. I had assumed that I would learn more from the other book and that this would be a supplement. I couldn't have been more wrong. Not only is this book concise and easy to read, but Karen Logan explains the chemistry behind what makes combinations of ingredients work...or fail. This is critical to success with cleaning products of this nature. Because of her recipes, I have won my husband over to the efficacy of natural cleaning products. He always assumed they just didn't work. Additionally, she does not recommend the use of toxic ingredients (such as LYE! recommended in the other text when making soap!!) in any cleaners, so I don't worry about doing more harm than good. This book has paid for itself several times over. A very good read and an excellent investment.

The Winter of Red Snow, by Kristiana Gregory, is a great book about the Revolutionary War. It is easy to understand and explains much of the War. Two of the main characters are Mr. and Mrs. George Washington. Therefore, you learn a little bit about them and what they were possibly like.
         This Book is a diary of a young girl 11 years of age, named Abigail. She lives 18 miles out of Pennsylvania duringthe war. Her small town is Valley Forge. The 13 Colony's army has camped there during the harsh winter. Many end up with Small Pox or amputated hands andfeet.
         This story goes along with Abigail for six months. The army helps her life in many ways, although it can also be very frustrating and annoying. Abigail her self lives with her family. She is one of three girls, the middle one. Her mom gives birth to a baby boy on the first page of the book. Her mom although has given birth to six sons before whom all died through terrible winters. Johnny is the new sons name, and he lives through winter and grows to be healthy. Abigail's Father is a shoemaker and slaves all winter long to make shoes for the thousands of soldiers without. Abigail is closest to her sister Elisabeth who is 16. They both sew jackets with their name embroidered on the inside. The two girls eventually give the coats to a soldier to wear. Elisabeth's jacket wearer returns and falls in love with her. The women in her family receive the job of doing General Washington's laundry; because of the weekly visit to his house, they become friends with him.
         In this book, it clearly laid out the important events of this war. It explained them more clearly than the text book and made it come together. It also showed the gruesome but true facts about poor soldiers who fought this war for all Americans. This is a great book to read for a Revolutionary War experience.

This book is a must-read for all Revolutionary War fans. Anyone who likes to read accounts about our nation's past will love The Winter of Red Snow. This book is a fictional diary about Abigail Jane Stewart, an 11-year-old girl who lived at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania during the Revolutionary War. It tells of her feelings toward life, the war, the army, etc. It is a great account. While reading this book, I felt like I had traveled back in time. I felt like I was right there with Abigail. When Abigail helped Martha Washington on her walks through the army's camp, I could see, hear, and even smell the sick and dying soldiers in my mind. Abigail's vivid descriptions brought such clear, sharp pictures to my mind, it made me wish I was a painter so I could paint them. I recommend this book to anyone who likes diaries from wartimes, or just the Revolutionary War in general. It is full of detail, description, and vivid feelings and thoughts. It's a real page-turner, and is very hard to put down.

I found this book pretty exciting and captivating. The way Kristiana Gregory described the vivid weather and actions of the people was so real. You felt the cold, smelled the wonderful thanksgiving dinner,and saw the horrible sight of the poor soldiers. Let me start from the beginning, Abigail Jane Stewart is an American girl back in the days of the Revolutionary War. The army soldiers set up a camp near her house and her family provide supplies. She meets interesting people such as General George Washington himself. She has tons to worry about such as her little baby brother, the war, and the loved ones around her. Get this book to find out how she handles her obstacles in her cold, wintery, 1777 life.

I can't recommend this book ENOUGH if you're going to take the Windows 2000 Professional exam (70-210). Authors did a SUPERB job of filtering out all the unnecessary garbage and getting straight to the point. My time is precious, and I needed to pass this exam to move to a new salary level. This book was the best investment I made! I mistakenly bought someo ther books to help me with this exam also. I returned the others. I will keep this book forever - as a reference it's fantatsic, too!! You really need this book if your goal is passing 70-210 the first time around. Good luck, and thank you to the authors!!!

Never having used Windows 2000 except a very limited time with a Professional Client, I thought the process of obtaining my Win 2000 track MCSE would be an up hill battle. But, with the help of this cram and the 70-210 Study Guide from Syngress / Osborne / McGraw Hill I passed the exam flawlessly.

The only problems I had with the book were minor technical errors that conflicted with my other Study Guide and had to be resolved on the Microsoft site...but I stress the errors were MINOR. I also wish they stressed the unattended/Remote install options more in depth...due to the fact the a large percentage of my exam concentrated on RIS.

But all and all this guide, as well as a decent study guide are enough for a power user to pass this exam with very little problem.

I read this book in the two weeks prior to taking the 70-210 exam, I am currently taking classes at a local college for the MCSE certification, I have all the Microsoft Official Curriculum books and I can tell you that this book is a lot better than the MOCs.

Not only brings all the MOC material together in a very concise way, but makes it easy to understand and digest.

I have a couple years experience as a Help Desk Support technician and I used Windows 2000 extensively, but I still learned a lot of last minute details on this book.

I highly recommend it to anyone looking to obtain their certification.

Good luck!

William Boyd's latest novel, ANY HUMAN HEART, focuses on the life of Logan Mountstuart --- a writer, friend, lover and world traveler. His fascinating story is revealed through daily journal entries; his personal day-to-day writings relate his movements, thoughts and whereabouts.

The journals begin with Mountstuart's boyhood in Uruguay and then move to Oxford and the publication of his first book. We next travel with him to Paris --- where he rubs shoulders with the likes of Hemingway, Picasso and Joyce --- and Spain, where he covers its civil war.

During World War II, Mountstuart becomes a naval intelligence officer and befriends the Duke and Duchess of Windsor (though this eventually turns sour). Following the war, he goes to New York as an art dealer, to Africa as a literature professor, to London and finally to France, where he lives out the rest of his days. All the while, we watch him grow up through his musings and his rich life, which is characterized by friends, family, drugs, lovers, artists, booze, military men, fiends and foes, happiness and sadness, triumphs and personal tragedies. It is, journal entry after entry, the entire makeup of a life fully lived.

Logan Mountstuart is like Forrest Gump in a way. He is able to meet some extraordinary people and be embroiled in a number of important events. But this does not happen because of a goal or a determination to get someplace --- he just happens to be there at the time. Oh! There's Virginia Woolf again. Oh! Jackson Pollack is a charlatan. The Duchess is vindictive! Poor Hemingway, why did he have to shoot himself? Boyd brings all of these people and events into sharp focus, using a fictional character that you swear is real.

Boyd does throw events and people at Mountstuart with a bit too much gusto at times. The writer thinks to himself: How can I make his life a little more interesting right now? The story is beginning to drag. Yes, okay, I'll ship him off to Nigeria during its Civil War. Hmmm, the writer muses, what funny thing can happen to an old man who has traveled the world? Of course, have him fall in with some sort of terrorist cell.

All in all, however, ANY HUMAN HEART is an accomplished piece. It brings together those small, seemingly insignificant details of one's life (breakfasts, vacations, weather reports), puts them up against world events and shows how one's life slowly, perhaps imperceptibly, changes from one day to the next. I'm hungry so I'll end here. Perhaps I'll cook up some scallops and eat them outside. It's bright and sunny but a bit cold. I'll have to wear a hat.

--- Reviewed by Jonathan Shipley

I loved this book! Any Human Heart is a real treasure to read, and totally ambitious in its scope. Following the trials and tribulations of Logan Mountstuart, it jumps through the twentieth century with lightening speed!

We are witness to Logan from his early childhood in Montevideo, son of an English corned beef executive and his Uraguayan secretary, through his years at a Norfolk public school and Oxford, Mountstuart traces his haphazard development as a writer. Early and easy success is succeeded by a long half-century of mediocrity, disappointments and setbacks, both personal and professional, leading him to multiple failed marriages, internment, alcoholism and abject poverty.

Yes - he isn't a particulary honorable character, but this is what makes Logan so appealing. He's a flawed human being, like the rest of us, and he makes his fair share of mistakes in life. I loved this incredible backdrop of twentieth century life that Boyd has constructed around this character, the personalities that he meets on the way - Virginia Woolf, Edward and Mrs Simpson. And I loved the fact that the story spans so many continents - Europe, America, Africa etc. A great novel, and I'm looking forward to picking up more of Boyd's works.

Michael

In Any Human Heart, William Boyd manages to create a not entirely likeable character, Logan Mountstuart, who nonetheless is an entirely sympathetic protagonist. Logan is not the nicest person in the world. He manipulates friends for his own amusement, sleeps with one of his closests friend's fiance, and commits a number of other, minor atrocities. Yet for all Logan's badness, I missed him when I finished the novel and throughout, I found myself rooting for his finding some semblance of happiness. Logan is entirely human in the sense that his story indeed could be the story of any human heart--any British heart is probably more like it. He manages to come in contact with quite a few notables from the twentieth century and reinvents himself and his career many times over. Perhaps no one lives a life as rich as Logan, maybe so. But that still does not take away from the fact that Any Human Heart is a terrific novel, excellent storytelling. Enjoy.

I am a big fan of Mildred Taylor's books, but I have to say that I was disappointed of how she handled the interracial situations in this novel. It seemed like she was pointing her own personal (and very negative)opinion in how she developed the cousin Suzella as well as the character Jacey who was pregnant by a white person. I know it was 1935, but there seems to be this negative pattern for mixed people that they are mixed up and confused their whole lives and thats NOT TRUE. I understand the dislike of whites by the blacks because of the unfair and cruel way that the black characters were treated. BUT the union between Cassie's Uncle Bud and his wife didn't have to end in divorce! Mrs. Taylor could have used this unique opportunity to tell the world, despite differences in color, interracial ralationships can and do survive just like all other relationships. I felt she coped out and didnt even give them a chance, and I guess I really decided to give the book only 3 stars when Stacey told his brother, "You can't love nobody white, so don't even try it." That line brought tears to my eyes because I love my boyfriend very much and he's white. We are getting married Ms. Taylor...you were wrong.

Let the Circle Be Unbroken, by Mildred Taylor is a great book. I like this book because it has a lot of tragities, riots, and cliffhanggers. This book takes place at Stawberry, Mississippi in the 1930's. The book is told by an 11 year old girl named Cassie Logan. One chapter that is very heartbreaking is the chapter where Stacy's good friend T.J. served the death penalty for being accused of murdering a white man. Another good chapter is when Suzella, a mixed girl, comes in town and flirts with a white boy making him believe that she is also white.
I recommend this book to people that like history or people that would like to know more about what happend durring discrimination. The only thing I didn't like about this book is that it call blackes ni**ers. Overall this was a great book.

I enjoyed the book Let the Circle be Unbroken by Mildred Taylor. This book is mostly about family and love. The book is about an eleven year old girl Cassie, and her family, the Logans, and the hardships that Cassie and her family have to go through because they are black. The Logan family has to make a living on their cotton crop to pay for their mortgage and their food. When Stacey goes to the cane fields, the Logan family learns why they need to stick together in times of hardship. This book was truely one of the best books I have ever read. I feel this book should be read by all teenagers because it definatly teaches you a lesson about family values. I really loved this book and suggest everyone read it.

"Roll Of Thunder Hear My Cry" is an interesting book written by Mildred D. Taylor. Set back in the 1930's. The main characters (a black, poor family) are struggling to keep their land and house. Their sharecropper (rich white man) is trying to protect his land and their house. There's always talk about the KKK and other racusts groups throuought the town. The family goes up to a local town "Strawberry" every weekend to get food, supplies and go to the bank to talk to their lawyer.

Half way through the book we see signs of racism at the kids school, the mother is fired and the dad is as well. Uncle Hammer, their rich uncle, comes down to help protect the family and lend some money. He also helps doing some heavy work, because he is very strong. Sooner than expected much confusement comes over the fanmily.

Over all I give this book 3 stars out of 5 and I reccomend it to kids of the ages 12-14 who are studying American History and wish to learn about Black History. I didn't particuarely like it but the book did have a good story and context to go with it.

-Matt

In a word I can describe this book as amazing. This book is about the Logans-a Black family-living in Mississippi in the 1930's who overcome racial segregation and bias, struggle to stand up to their white neighbors, and fight to keep their land. The land is the center of the Logans love toward each other. Their land is what holds the family together and keeps them from spreading apart. The story is written in Cassie's-the main character-point of view and how she sees things. Taylor does a great job in maneuvering Cassie so she can overhear certain conversations that are important to the books development of the conflict, and the resolution. Throughout the novel the Logans go through a Bus accident, a little girl that finally gets her revenge, and a great sacrifice that no one will ever forget.

I was introduced to this book when it was assigned as a literature study in my English class. Though I, along with others, groaned when the assignment was made, I have greatly taken that moan back. Once I started, I couldn't stop. The author's supense, humor, setting, and a great use of southern dialect for the dialogue make this book a hard one to put down. Though I have only read this book once, I plan to read it many, many times in the future. Take my advice, this book is unbelivable. Don't let the dust gather on it too much longer; it deserves to be read and cherished.

The book that I read was "Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry." The author is Mildred D. Taylor. This book is about a girl named Cassie and her family. It tells about racial injustices and how the family dealt with them. The main idea was that Cassie stood up for herself and what she believed in and didn't let anybody bully her. She had a good self esteem about herself and her color. I like this story because Cassie stands up for herself and doesn't let anyone get her down. I like the author's style of writing and how I can read it and feel the way that Cassie felt. Most parts of this book is exciting and keeps you on the edge of your seat, like the fire and the fight with Lillian Jean, a local white bully. This book gives me a better understanding of how difficult and frustrating it was for many people and how hard it was to make money. It gives me some knowledge on how people solved many racial problems during the days of prejudice. In my oppinion this book should not be called "Roll of Thunder Hear my Cry," but it should be "Cassie and the days of Prejudice," because only one scene in the whole book is about the field catching on fire. The rest of the book is about how Cassie felt. In conclusion I think this book would be great for someone who enjoys a lot of action. It is a terrific book and I recommend it to the whole sixth grade.