Peterson basically tracks the development of astronomy from its early, incorrect (e.g. geocentric) days to the revelations of Copernicus, Keppler, and Newton. From there the focus is on how Newton's mathematical, deterministic laws of motion and gravity were found to be too simplistic. Rather than a complex but predictable universe, numerous instances of controlled chaos exist--for example, Saturn's moon Hyperion cannot have its motion completely predicted but it moves within defined boundaries.

Not being terribly interested in astronomy I found the book to be a bit long-winded. Peterson does a reasonably interesting job of placing astronomers and their discoveries into historical and cultural context; I just didn't particularly want to know such information. Conversely, the details on the type of chaos and the implications of its presence seemed to be in short supply compared to what I would have wanted to know. Nonetheless, the book presents its arguments clearly and quickly enough that armchair astronomers or chaos theorists should find perusing it worthwhile.

I read this book several years ago and write now from memory. I enjoyed it immensely. It provides a history of the discovery of chaos in Hamiltonian mechanics by Poincare', and includes the more recent extremely interesting work on chaos in the solar system by Sussman and Wisdom, including the construction of their special computer constructed to simulate solar orbits without accumulating floating point errors. The background is that we still, today, do not understand the 3-body problem in classical mechanics, except that Poincare' taught us that the orbits may be either chaotic or regular. Newton frustrated himself working on the problem (sun-earth-moon) and finally gave up.

When I first saw the title of this book, I thought "Oh, no, not another chaotic chaos book". There are tons of popular math, physics and astronomy books out there that maybe are useful for people who don't know any math, but who are totally confusing to people who know a bit about the topics. Why? Because the authors themselves are totally confused.

But fortunately there's a small handful of scientists who can write. Ivars Peterson is one of them, and I when I saw that he was the author, I knew right away that this was just the thing I needed for the 5 hours airport stopover that was ahead of me!

A review by Kayvan
A boy, Rob Peck, his father, mother, his aunt and their lonely farm out in the middle of no where. Rob has a normal family he goes to school on the weekdays while his father stays home and tends to the farm. His mother and aunt take care of the house. But it all changes in one day when Robs dad dies. Nothing is the same is after that, Rob is left with a huge burden to take care of his mother aunt while still attending school on the week days!

This story is very uneventful the characters are plain and simple. I liked the way the book described in detail everything that happened. I liked Robs friend Becky Long, she was always supportive of Rob and his poetry and always gave him her lunch. Throughout the story Rob and Becky be come better friends he tells her all about the foreclosure on his home and she gives him advice on how to deal with it. This book has and old back road country kind of take to it. I haven't ever read a book like this most other books I have read have a little bit more excitement than this. The book was very easy to understand though, and if there was a word that I didn't understand the book had and explaination right next to the word. The Plot of the story revolves around Robs dad dying and leaving Rob to fend for himself, and the debt that they have in the bank. The book was pretty long but most of is was useless and had no meaning to the book.

I would not recommend this book to anyone unless you want a book that has no purpose and you want to hear a story about 3 years of someone life, and their everyday struggles. I personally did not like this book at all I hated every minute of it and regret ever getting it.

A Part of the Sky, a sequel of A Day No Pigs Would Die, is a very heart-touching story. Robert Peck, a 13 year old, was forced to end his childhood and grow up to take care of the farm when his father died. He had to sacrifice many days of school to deal with the farm and the mortgage on their farm at the bank. However, because of his determination to see his mother and aunt through this hard time and with the help of kind neighbors, the three of them survive the nigthmare of reality.

"A Part of the Sky" was a great sequel to "A Day No Pigs Would Die" - with some novels, the sequels aren't nearly as good as the originals, but I think that this one is even better!

When 14-year-old Rob's father dies, he is left to care for his mother and aunt, and to run his family's small, struggling farm. Times are hard, but Rob is determined that he won't give the farm up; he plants crops, tries to find odd jobs, though they are low paying during the Depression, keeps in touch with his kind girlfriend, and he also tries to continue going to school.

This was a great novel, on the realistic and yet inspiraional struggles of a poor Shaker boy. Recommended for anyone ages 12 and up wanting a good read, and definitely if you've read "A Day No Pigs Would Die".

I was hoping this book would have some new recipes that I could use with my sandwich maker. Unfortunately, that wasn't the case. If you like to use a variety of fillings and don't mind mixing obscure foods together, then this book is for you. I was looking for recipes that used ingredients that you may already have.

I was pleasantly surprised when I received this book as a hostess gift. What I thought was a simple token of appreciation has turned into one of my family's favorite sources of creative eating. The sandwich choices are amazing but what is neat is the condiment chapter with recipes for about 30 different sauces, slathers, and relishes to enhance the sandwich. Not only that but each recipe comes with a mix and match suggstion offering tips for changing the nature of the sandwich by adapting another condiment topping. My friends are constantly wowed by what I have served from this book, not only for casual picnics but for formal gatherings as well, yes, a whole chapter deals with delicious recipes elegant enough for the most glamorous of gatherings.

For those tired of entertaining in a traditional manner this is all the inspiration you'll need, with sandwich meals perfect for impromtu gatherings to sit down affairs. The last chapter alone, filled with 32 different condiments, sauces, salsas, and spreads is worth the price of the book alone. Using Ray's concept of varying different toppings, each recipe can be interpreted into a new and different taste sensation.

Where Are You Whe I Need You is a young adult story about a girl named Missy Cord who received a scholarship to go to college. The only problem is that she is worried about leaving her family, friends and her community. She lives with her mother, uncle, and grandmother. Every time that she wants to bring something up about college her family would go crazy. They never wanted her to go to college or move away. Her teacher keeps on telling her that she is going to have to bring it up to her family sometime and so Missy does. She tells her mother that she had received a scholarship to a college called Moriah (which is an all girls school). Her mother thought about it for a while and she finally told Missy that she could go. Her uncle isn't too happy about it and he doesn't want her to go. It was very hard for Missy to live with her uncle because he never liked anything that she did and he would always say the opposite of what Missy had to say. Missy only had very few friends. Her closest friend was Jim. Missy and Jim had grown up together and had always gotten along. During highschool they were still good friends, but not like they used to be. The reason is because of a girl named Melony and she was trying to take Jim and Missy friendship away. One day Missy and Jim were riding home from school and she wanted to ask him a question. She asked him if he thought that she was pretty. Jim had never really looked at her that way before until she had mentioned it. He didn't really think that she was and she could tell that in the tone of his voice when he answered her. She asked him not to drop her off at her house but to take her to a hair place. She decided right then and there that she had to change and try to look pretty. She cut her long hair off and she liked it a lot. Her uncle, of course, wasn't very happy when he saw that she cut her hair, but Missy didn't really care about what he thought. The next day when she went to school everyone was starting to notice her and so did Jim. After that Jim started to like Missy, but she didn't realize it. A few months later there was going to be a school dance. Missy never really expected Jim to ask her to the dance, but sure enough he did. They had a lot of fun at the dance, but she was thinking that now she had fallen in love and she had to move away to college soon. I really liked the way that Suzanne Newton wrote this book! Every time that I would get to the end of one chapter I wouldn't want to put the book down I would want to keep on reading to find out what would happen next. I also really liked the character Missy in the book because she stood up for what she believed in and she wasn't afarid to tell people how she felt. I think that it is a very good example for teens because it shows them how to be strong and it also shows them that they can do anything that they want to do as long as they try their hardest. The part about the book that I didn't really like was how the writer ended the book. I think that she should have gone on and told us how Missy liked college.

This book is fantastic, it tells about a high school girl who was gratuating from High School and preparing herself to go to college. Well, she had this really good friends of hers and they always hung out together. This friend was a guy, who she suddenly felt in love with... Now the ideas to go to college got more complicated because she was falling in love with the guy. I mean It's never easy leaving home especially when you've fallen in love for the first time. This books explains how she worked that out!!It's a great book especially for girls who are falling in love for the firt time or going away to college!

This book has a gentle narration that goes well with the suburban setting. It doesn't have beautiful, brilliant characters who will wow you out of your senses. The characters are ones whom you see everyday as you go to school, go shopping, ride a bus, whatever. That may be one of the strongest point of this book- it is never pretentious. It manages to convey across the urgent emotions of the narrator, Missy Cord, as she struggles through the problem of picking out what is the best choice of her life, without loosing her famliy, boyfriend, or education in college in the process. The ending was not what I'd expected, but it's realistic, if not exactly grand- but then this is not that type of book.

This book is great for all, beginer / intermediate / advenced. It has a wide range of projects that are fun to make, but some are very difficult. I would recomend this book for not-so-serious folders.

This book has lots of color photos and pretty simple instructions. I would not exactly recommend this book for beginners. Most of the projects are pretty easy, but there are a few that are tricky and time consuming. Over all a pretty good book to have in you collection if you into Origami.

This is a very good book for beginners to cut their teeth on. Some very good projects that are practical as well as fun to make. The only drawback of this book would be the lack of history regarding origami, etc. I would have been interested in learning more about how origami came about and evolved into its present form.

I would say there are samples of other books, like "Revolutionary Suicide", I don't see exactly why, as this book ("Revolutionary Suicide") isn't out of print...and the fact that you have people like David Hilliard behind this isn't really a good selling point for the true defenders of The Cause. anyways, there are some scoops I would say in this book, and it allows a better understanding of Mr Huey Newton

I searched this book from beginning to end, and nowhere does it mention Newton's stay in Cuba. If I am wrong please correct me.

What IS it with goofy liberals who *think* they know what "The Cause" is and take it upon themselves to diss someone like a David Hilliard??? For the record, Mr. Hilliard was the childhood friend of Dr. Newton, the BPP Chief of Staff, and has more true knowledge, fervor and *experience* in "The Cause" than any ne'er do well might think s/he posseses in their small liberal brains.

This compendium is essential reading for anyone interested in revolutionary politics in general, and for an inside look at the theoretical underpinnings of the BPP in particular. Talk a lot but do nothing liberals aside.

A must buy if you are looking to purchase a post-war Triumph. The book really cuts to the chase and tells it up front. It is a good resource for distinguishing the differences in model years and what things to look for in each.

The book is a little hard to take as a Triumph enthusiast when he cuts up certain models. "The TR6... was old when it was new... the design was ancient, the car got lousy gas mileage... it was never bolted together properly" Hey!!! That's my baby.

Just don't let this book scare you away from owning a Triumph altogether. As the author states "All Triumphs are a good value". I personally would just say it with more enthusiasm

Great information for the enthusiast or shopper. The rating system for ability to match or beat the market trends is a good indicator of how much flexibility there may be in the price if you're shopping.

Overall, a decent book, but the author seems to go out of his way to emphasize the TR7's troubles. Although it's true that the 7 will not likely be an collector, it is a great value in an open top car, and has always been underrated. That he derides the model is probably not such a bad thing, as this will help keep prices down for those of us "in the know". One aspect he neglects is the ease of converting the TR7 to a TR8 via an engine swap, making the car a poor man's cobra (ok, almost) for the masses. Forget matching-numbers purism in this car, it's for driving. Other than that, his advice on selecting a TR7 is fairly well founded.

It's a lovely book, but I thought it would be more discography, picture, and biography related. It's a collection of articles that have written before and now reprinted. It has a nice section of fan stories and they are the highlight of this book. There is NO new revalations on Olivia that any die-hard fan doesn't know or hasn't known in the past about Olivia. I was hoping for a book that would be useful in research on Olivia. Maybe Olivia's story will be told by Olivia herself soon and it will be the must have book on Olivia surely, not this one. Sorry about that chief :o(

This book is a great book to have if you are an Olivia fan. Mr. Wincentsen does a fantastic job piecing together magazine articles, quotes and fan stories and artwork. I would highly reccomend this book to NEW Olivia fans who want to know more about this lady and how she's touched fans all around the world. I love how he used articles from the last 35 or so years to chronicle how Olivia has been covered in the press. There's some nice quotes in here that the lady has made too....all in all, I highly reccommend this book.

I am proud to rate this book because I had
supported the author's work by giving him
photos and reports of my 2 personal meetings
with Olivia Newton-John.

It is an unusual book because it is not a biography
but nevertheless describes Olivia's career by
using newspaper and magazines comments or the reports
of fans who described how they felt when meeting
Olivia or how they have been influenced by Olivia
and her music.

I was in bliss, paging through these journalism greats when I suddenly realized the author left out Charles Kuralt. As a journalism student, I'd so much rather read about beloved people like Kuralt than 15-minutes of famers like Matt Drudge. The authors even included his replacement, Charles Osgood. What gives, editors? Shunning him because of his affair?

I've been lucky enough to see the uncorrected proof of this work: It's excellent -- by the editor of the Newseum, a truly amazing news museum in the DC area -- his previous work, The News History Gazette, is used by professors in some of the best journalism schools in the country, like Missouri. Includes great essay by Tim Russert. Loads of "corrected history," and "did you know."

Unfortunately this purportedly comprehensive survey of landscape architecture fails to include even one woman in the entire history of the profession. It's as though the female gender never existed! It is inexcusable that this book is still in current use as a university text.

This is THE textbook for the history of landscape architecture. From early city planning in the cradle of civilization to recreating nature in the design work of our contemporaries, this book provides a chronology of land designs and theories, and outlines the formalizing of our profession by the father of landscape architecture, Frederick Law Olmstead. This book provides a framework for more intense study of both landscapes and the design theories associated with them, including the layout of ancient cities to New York's Central Park. This is one of those textbooks worth keeping well after graduation!