This book has numerous addition and multiplication errors aswell as grammatical ones. I counted more than twenty in the first 100pages, then I stopped counting. There were even several concepts that were incorrect. I would be ashamed to put my name on this book. Buy one endorsed by the National Society of Professional Engineers.

I used this book in my preparation for the FE exam and had
no problems. I ended up passing. The book provided me with
a good comprehensive overview of the concepts tested.

This book is a waste of money. Raising non-native fish species in ponds anywhere is a bad idea. Goldfish and other carp are especially bad, because they are messy and they have a habit of ruining a pond, river, or lake environment. Really, goldfish and koi should be called waterpigs, not carp, because like wild hogs, starlings, house sparrows, and so many other non-native species that have found footing in the North American wilds, they are nothing but trouble. Do yourself and the native game fishes in North America a favor, and keep that cute little comet of yours in a tank.

This a interesting book, it is easy to read and understand.
You donÂ't need to be a profesional.
If you wanna be a carp ponder this the right book, but I think it is ...
Somenthing really strange this book donÂ't have bibliografy.

"Forming the shape of a bonsai can be a very individual subject and therefore it is very difficult for me to convey my ideas to you."

While the author is undoubtedly a talented bonsai gardener, and may well be a good teacher 'at the elbow', his informal jargon may leave the reader puzzled, and his concept of 'dimensional drawings' for tree planning is still unclear, despite numerous example drawings.

Readers will save themselves much unrewarding labor by disregarding both "Precision and soul" and, I daresay, the highly-touted "Man Without Qualities," reading instead his first work "Young Torless" and the stories collected under "Five Women." Musil's derivative philosophical and psychological preoccupations invite inevitable comparisons with Nietzsche and Freud, both of whose work is vastly more durable and fruitful. Despite the powerfully bracing, if not occasionally repellent, astringency of his style, Musil's work subsequent to "Five Women" falls considerably short of his enormous and difficult ambitions which preoccupied his later labors; and, what's more, such a gaping failure of world-historical pretension tends to pollute enjoyments one might otherwise have had in reading it.

I have had some terrible professors, but I have NEVER had a book that was as insufficient and wholly undeveloped in its topic. Mayo et al. may know what they are doing in the laboratory, but they must know NOTHING of writing books to convey knowledge. Someone told me that this is the most widely used book for organic chemistry labs. If that is true, I hate to see the sad state of science in a few years when we start to see all the chemists it produces. Because of the overwhelming difficulty of the problems in this book, students are forced to concentrate on specific answers to the questions that are asked and not on the concepts overall. The result: for all the complexity and effort involved, the student learns NOTHING. The second half of the book outright states (in the intro to Chapter 7) that "the mechanisms ... are more involved and not generally developed at the introductory level." I am an undergraduate student whose second semester of organic chemistry lab far outstrips the two- semester academic textbook.

Chances are you are not buying this book for your home organic lab. You probably are buying this for a class. I feel sorry for you.

I used this text for my organic labs (2 semesters, for majors). I thought the book was pitiful. From the undergrad's perspective, it was disorganized, unclear, verbose; generally excessive. The black and white pages with black line figures are not exactly a pleasure to read. I HAD to buy it. I hope you don't!

I've read two translations of Ovid's Metamorphoses and enjoyed them so much I wanted to hear them read out loud. The first shock was just how abridged this reading was, it fits on only one cassette. But the second shock is how beyond painful it was to listen to the narration which was less about Ovid's (or Boer's) words, and more about the overacting of the reader. It's the worst thing I've ever listened to, and if this stops even one person from buying the tape, I'll rest easier. Waste of money. Waste of beautiful poetry.

Ovid's Metamorphoses is wonderful, essential reading and gets 5 stars easily.. I like Mandelbaum's translation best.. However here I am reviewing the audio tape reading of the Boer translation with Noah Pikes as narrator. The quality of the recording is horrible, but even worse is the "performance" of the narrator. Because of the extreme histrionics (to put it mildly), poor diction, it is impossible to understand 90% of the words. and the reading is stilted and sounds like Tonto (yes, of the Lone Ranger) reading. It is only a few selections from the Metamorphoses, poorly choosen at that.. easily the worst puchase I've made at Amazon (of over 1500 items so far). 1 Star is too high a rating.. I threw in it the trash..

The author of this book gives us little more than a synopsis of the plots of the Marjorie Allingham books featuring Albert Campion. There are few, if any, insights into the development of the character. To anyone who has read most or all of the Campion canon I would say, don't waste your money. To those who are interested in Allingham and Campion I would say, read the originals. In summation: a waste of the reader's time and money.

Having sampled briefly from some of Pike's work, I have concluded that the man is most certainly biased in his views and accounts. Pike is a Scottish Freemason and, in my suspicion, a white supremacist (please don't construe my words as a statement against all Freemasons, merely Pike). Pike belonged to an intellectual institution which asserted many "facts" about the Aryans and their origins which are not verified by other institutions and are, indeed, found to be quite dubious by some. In his Lectures on the Arya (a seperate work, not the work under review), he makes the claim that the Aryans were of a white skin which is of course not agreed upon at all by the institutions of the world neither is it verifiable through any legitimate historical accounts. He makes many assertions on the geographical origins of the Arya which are also not verified or corroborated by other intellectual institutions. He goes on to proclaim that the Aryans were the race which gave rise to the Celts, the Saxons, the Angles, and Europeans as a whole and I shouldn't have to point out that this is utter speculation on the part of Pike and his intellectual predecessors.

In his Lecture on the Arya, it seems to me that Pike was attempting to construct a history in which his ideal white man is an original being completely uninfluenced by the Semites or any other peoples in the fields of spirituality, linguistics, and culture as a whole.

While I have yet to read Indo-Aryan Deities and Worship As Contained in the Rig-Veda by Albert Pike, I am certain it is full of his bias. The appearance of the phrase "Indo-Aryan" in the title is further evidence of his slant; the "Indo-Aryans" are an "ethnic group" whose very existence is uncomfirmable.

Do not be mislead by the words in the book's description which read, "I found the most profound philosophic or metaphysical ideas, which those of every philosophy and religion have merely developed; and that, so far from being Barbarians or Savages, the old Aryan herdsmen and husbandmen, in the Indus country under the Himalayan Mountains, on the rivers of Bactria, and long before, on the Scythic Steppes where they originated, were men of singularly clear and acute intellects, profound thought and an infinite reverence of the beings whom they worshipped." The statements about the geographical home(s) of the Arya as well as their movements are purely speculatory to say nothing of the origins of the aforementioned "philosophic or metaphysical ideas."

While I am not in a position to judge it as so, I suspect that Indo-Aryan Deities and Worship As Contained in the Rig-Veda
by Albert Pike is little more than a continuation of the author's endeavor to create a mythology of the ideal white man and his "influence" on world culture. The aspect which Pike's works display the most paucity in is that of concrete evidence; his conclusions are drawn in the absence of absolute proof of the assumptions. This book may not be valuable for it's historical accuracy, but as a piece which reveals the suppositions and fallacies of an intellectual institution, it might be interesting.

A very, very basic book that gives advide similar to the following:

make a plan, have a support group, execute...

Does an ok job on the tax issues, but there are better books.

On the basis of the title "Red Hot Handouts," I expected a trade book that would provide tips for how to prepare training handouts as well as provide a variety of examples. Instead, the book contains a number of silly exercises (e.g., a paper airplane, a maze) that can be copied and used for training. I have been in the training field for 18 years and found none of the examples in the book to be useful ...