I loved this book, I felt as if I was there writing the book as it happened,rather than reading the book years after it happened.

but just as good. This book is an update on Diana since her separation from Charles in 1992 and what the future could hold for Diana as a single woman.

Unfortunately, only a year after her divorce, we got the answer, and it wasn't good.

Without question, this is a book sympathetic to Diana's side, and justifiably so. The grey-suited eunuchs of Buckingham Palace have never done the monarchy a favor by meddling in the marriages of the royal family. Morton tells the tale of Diana, her remarkable courage and resourcefulness, and her feelings of alienation, in the face of a smear campaign that would have shriveled us lesser mortals. Diana is a flawed, but nevertheless feeling, human being who did not deserve the ill treatment she received at the hands of her prince and his minions. This is an interesting book to read in light of what's happened since the book's publication in 1994. One can believe that Diana's death may not have been an accident.

there is nothing actually wrong with the content of this abridged version of really great dictionary – there is enough words here to make you understand everything. still, i remember the previous editions of this book as much better organized and with much better print. this dictionary is poorly organized, which makes the Introduction hard to understand, and its print is rather bad, which makes the Introduction Content and Dictionary itself hard to read/reference. (...)

up to date, better organized, with better print and much cheaper editions of this dictionary can be found through “native” bookstores.

don’t be cheated - buy native.

This is still the best available English-Serbo-Croatian dictionary available. I highly recommend this dictionary to all students of the language. Pay the extra money now and don't waste it on the inferior, cheaper dictionaries available. This, along with the companion SerboCroatian-English dictionary are a must for linguists, translators and students of Serbo-Croatian. This is an especially useful tool for those of you heading to Bosnia or Kosovo.

This dictionary is a standard, and very comprehensive. As it contains some Bosnian words, I am surprised that Bosnian is left out of the title as Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian Dictionary is not too long a title.

It is particularly nice that it is available online as orders for it have taken a long time for some people to receive.

Our study group chose this book as a source to learn more about comtemplative meditation. I am very disappointed in the book. Kelsey repeats himself over and over again. He makes statements that have no legs to stand on - and without giving them any - it seems that he assumes everyone accepts his pronouncements as truth.

The short (of the long and the short) is that the book is poorly written and very confusing. It lacks clarity on every page.

This book really changed my focus in life. It satisfied the craving that I had as a Christian for a deeper understanding of my relationship with God. I think that many Christians shy away from the unknown, like meditation and yoga, and as a result, cut out an essential part of our sprituality. Kelsey explains that this is why so many people today are turning to Eastern religions. Through this book, I found a way to incorporate silence and meditation into my life, and as a result, have found a deep peace, the peace that passes all understanding.

I was first introduced to Morton Kelsey and his wonderful books in 1975. All of his books have come at a time when I was looking for confirmation of my lived experiences, expecially the inner life. What a blessing to have this author give of himself in this way. I will be eternally grateful for his passion for the spiritual. In his book The Other Side, one very important point has stayed with me all these years and that would be the focus on dreams. Morton Kelsey does justice to dreams in the christian life when so many other christian authors avoid this means of communicating with God. Morton Kelsey explains that dreams are the safest and least threatening way to visit the other side. God only goes where he is wanted, He will not intrude. MT 7:7 "Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.

The author is a former foot doctor who delivers advice that ranges from totally inaccurate to just plain bizarre. As examples of the former, he espouses phosphorus as being one of the premier aphrodisiacs and he states that DHT (dihydrotestosterone) is an enzyme. Wrong on both counts. DHT is a hormone produced by an enzymatic reaction; it is not an enzyme itself. Furthermore, he spells dihydrotestosterone as "dihydroxytestosterone." Use of incorrect nomenclature makes one wonder if he's truly a doctor of any sort-or if he is, his level of competence. And that gaffe about phosphorus being an aphrodisiac? Simply ridiculous! People have as much need for more phosphorus in their diets as they have a need for more refined sugar and saturated fat. Phosphorus is no more of an aphrodisiac than is water. Unfortunately, his pseudoscientific opinions are the high point of this book. The author has some rather peculiar ideas about sex, such as his precopulatory rituals that would be more appropriate for a warlock than a doctor.

A Gift of Knowledge & it may safe your life! The knowledge in this book saved my life.......... After VA doctors told me that I must accept that my 20 plus injuries and medical conditions can not be healed. I went is search of knowledge. As a ex-US Navy Corpsman who was with the USMC and addition medical knowledge, After reading this book, which A NON-MEDICAL PERSON could easy understand for themselves. I learned what types of "Food Supplement" added to my normal diet would help me.......The author says one should try a food supplement for 6 to 12 months. After that time, if you notice a difference for the better, than keep taking it, if not than stop taking it. THE TITTLE is a catchy way of getting a customer's attention. This book has so much more than just sexual nutrition. I TOTALLY RECOMMEND THIS BOOK!!! -

This book created the most erotic sexual experiences. A book about simple foods such as strawberries and gourmet chocolates that will increase the sensitivity of both partners. The trick with the grapes will do the trick to me everytime. This is a must have book. It almost creates ice breaker and allows for barrier-free relationships

Good statistical presentation of the motivation of colleges/universities in provided financial aid over the past few decades and how it is changing. Little to help parents to how to deal with a financial aid office.

A scholarly statistical work on the trends of how student aid is being disbursed in the United States. Good analysis of the what is driving student aid offices; how they are in transition and sometimes have conflicting objectives. Little help to parents/students trying to weave through the financial aid maze. The reader can assume why dealing with financial aid offices can be so difficult; but the stage is set to provide more specifics which are not included.

This is an excellent economic study of how financial aid affects the decisions of undergraduates to attend institutions, including whether to attend or not. The Student Aid Game should be read by anyone interested in making college more accessable to those who are qualified to attend but can not afford it. Schapiro and McPherson demonstrate that increasing Federal Financial Aid greatly increases the participation of minorities and the poor. It is not, however, a book designed to help parents manuever through the paper jungle of financial aid offers and dealing with financial aid offices. Their goal is far more grand, pushing for policy changes that will increase the opportunities minorities and poor americans have to attend institutions of higher learning

My rating is really 3 1/2 stars...as the previous reviewiers have stated, this book has a lot of previously unknown information and is really written for the Trinity Test/Site enthusiast. Could be a lot more exciting, but well worth the read and should probably be read before you read R. Rhodes "Making of the Atomic Bomb".

If you read one book about the bomb, read Richard Rhodes's "The Making of the Atomic Bomb". I read Szasz as a refresher a few days before visiting the Trinity site, and found that it had a number of nice bits of information. (The Trinity site can be visited on the first Saturdays of April & October.)

In The Day The Sun Rose Twice, Ferenc Morton Szasz recounts the story of the Trinity Site Nuclear Explosion that occurred on July 16, 1945. The author does an excellent job tracing critical details leading up to this historical process, thus changing American history and in effect, changing the world around us.

The book is broken down into nine chapters beginning with the origins of Los Alamos. However, Szasz begins by discussing the conceptual revolutions of human knowledge during the late nineteenth-early twentieth century.

The illustrations included in the book give the reader incredible insight into the actual events. "The ball of fire," a photograph taken of the nuclear explosion in New Mexico gives the reader a visual effect of the actual event. Photographs of the people offer the reader a little more insight into those involved with the project. The map shows the reader how much of the state of New Mexico was consumed for this project.

Overall, I found the book to be easy to read, although
I knew very little about the subject matter. I did, however, ain a whole new insight into nuclear weapons. My favorite chapter was "The Blast." Szasz spoke to a number of different people from all walks of life who experienced the blast of the Trinity. I chose this book as one of my book reviews for a history class and I found it to be an excellent read.

When I first encountered this book I was an undergrad, a junior. I flipped through the pages and could barely read the English portions, not to mention the proofs and examples. I must say that it's a tough book for a beginner; MH quickly runs through group theory in the beginning (pay attention: there are some important sentences in there that pop up later when you least expect them to) and then goes into rather a lengthy description of symmetry (point) groups, fit for a chemist or crystallographer more than a theoretical physicist.

After those two chapters come perhaps the most important chapters in the book: the ones on group representation theory. There is a long chapter on theory, and then a great short one on applications of GR that's extremely helpful in understanding what you've just read. After that MH gets into Kronecker products and Clebsch-Gordon coefficients as well as other operations with GR, and has another neat chapter afterwards on physical applications. He speak about the symmetric group in great length, and then about continuous groups, another extremely important chapter. The rest of the book uses the core of what you've just learned to help you understand linear groups in Hilbert space, and applications to sub-atomic physics.

Here's what you need to do to consume this book successfully:

1) Don't wait for MH to give you an example. Make them up as you go along! And make sure you fully understand each and every little statement he makes: there's no extravagant sentences here, all are vitally important and he will make use of every statement at least once to prove another point.

2) If you haven't had quantum mechanics yet, hold off on the last half of the book until you have! MH assumes this knowledge, but you can get away with your ignorance for the first part of the book, up until chapter six (and then you can skip around a little bit).

3) Know the fundamentals of group theory before you begin. It's true that MH doesn't assume this knowledge, but I assure it's vital for ease of reading. There are enough new concepts to absorb with out making your brain less permeable by not having group theory under your belt.

Overall, this book is good for physicists who want to become more adept in the language of theoretical physics (especially quantum mechanics and quantum field theory). I recommend it; but I also recommend you keep at least three other texts on hand that have their own way of explaining the things MH tries to explain. It is a good idea to do that in any independent learning venture, anyway.

At the time I ran into this book I was doing research on martensitic transformations in metals. For that, as an engineer, I needed lots of information on point groups. The first chapter of the book contains the basics of group theory and teaches the totally ignorant all he has to know about the subject. The second chapter immediately deals with the point groups as one encounters them in crystallography. Very comprehensive and usefull information. Then the formal theory on groups is treated and general theorems are derived. For an average engineer without too much mathematical background this may be a bit too much, but the chapter is well written and provides usefull information that is used in chapter 4 to derive the irreducible representations and character tables for the point groups discussed in chapter 2. After that, I did not need the book anymore besides the short treatement of translation groups at the end of the book. I definately recommend te book for anyone who has to deal with point groups and wants to know more than just the basics.

A great book for a beginner. I recomend i

Basicly, this book is an account by Marion Mainwaring about the research she did to write it. She goes to the south of France, she reads some old letters, she talks to some people who knew Morton Fullerton late in life. Etc. etc. Along the way she gives a somewhat confused account of the slanging match she got into with Wharton's official biographer (about how she did all the research for his book but got no credit, blah blah blah). All of it's pretty tiring and you get the feeling that Mainwaring is desperately trying to pad out an already thin book.
Having said that, Fullerton led a fascinating life, something straight out of a Henry James novel. To anyone interested in Edith Wharton or even about expatriate life in early 20th century Europe, this book is a must read.

This is both the story of Elizabeth Wharton's cad of a lover, and the earnest researcher exploited and spurned by the Scholar in the Field, who she won't even deign to name! Hot stuff, to those who care about such things.

The scholar-cad dismissed her earlier cries de coeur as attempts to elicit publicity for this work, but you have to have read the LRB review to know this.

Literary hearts are broken all around. If you understand this for what it is, it's one of the best books ever, but a bit of an objet trouvee, if you know what I mean.

I greatly enjoyed this book after I realized it was not a quick read of connecting the dots/facts and racing to a conclusion. The joy of this book is that it offers the reader the chance to join Mainwaring as she roams through Paris seeking out the truths of rogue M. Fullerton's life. I loved the descriptions of Paris, the street scenes and the old buildings with their old bureacrats serving as gatekeepers to the dusty stacks of information in the registries of births, deaths and marriages. In her quest for the facts she encounters characters ranging from counts to charwomen and her style, humor and voice make me feel there with her, mulling the facts and planning the next step in the detective work.If you need a vacation from your life, read this book. I now open it to any page and just dive in and quickly become captivated again. Mainwaring is an artist in her impeccable choice of words. Enjoy the process of her quest, indulge yourself and you will find that you will forget about the mundane matters of your life. An instant vacation, what a relief!

Imagine two great champions vying for the world chess title. They are Boris Spassky and Michael Jordan. They have agreed to follow the rules of basketball and hold a "slam-dunk" competition, and the winner will be seen as having the better grasp of chess. In the end, of course, Spassky is forced to concede that Jordan may have the superior vision of the game and greater comprehension of how chess should be played.

Absurd as it may seem, that is approximately the premise of "A Question of Faith." Notwithstanding the title, the two authors, an atheist, Morton Shor, and a rabbi, William Kaufman, debate faith and the existence of God using criteria of science, logic and "independently verifiable evidence." They are discussing an issue of belief using rationality as the benchmark. It should be no great surprise, that the atheist is much more convincing using these tools, for the rabbi can only raise non-provable philosophic and religious arguments which have no standing in a scientific debate. So in the end the rabbi, who inexplicably has accepted rules which have no bearing on issues of faith, must concede that the atheist may have some right on his side. The atheist has no need to concede anything, and he does not do so.

The concept of the book makes little sense if the goal is to illuminate the issue, nor should it be expected that the two authors would have common ground for any reasonable discussion. They are playing basketball to decide the chess championship.

Atheists will love this book. The religious will not.

I thought that this was an "okay" book for comparing theism and atheism, but nothing went together and it was difficult to keep track of the issues. As an atheist, I felt that this book did nothing for my beliefs. I did, though, enjoy being able to look in on two people who were open-minded enough to have a debate over theism.

This book is perfect for anyone questioning thier belief in "God" or wanting to strenghten thier ability to debate the existence of a higher power. Both sides are wonderfully defended. I personally believe the atheist wins the debate. However, there is still hope left if one choses to have faith (belief without proof). Everyone should read this book. However, if they did, there would not be as many places of worship.

I used this book for a beginner 68HC12 class at my college and I thought it was extremely hard to understand. Most of the examples involve C programming and at the time I hadn't taken a course on C so I didn't know what it was talking about. I think motorola has a lot of useful books if you want to program using assembly language. They have a small black book that goes over all the instructions and then also another book that goes over all the registers. I also beleive this book is wickedly expensive.

This book is an good introduction to a broad range of topics and as with most books on embedded systems programming the examples are oriented to a particular CPU - frustrating if it's not the one youre using. Note: 'five star' reviewer Jean J. Labrosse WROTE the UC/OSII operating system featured in this overly expensive book. Try instead "The Art Of Designing Embedded Systems" by Ganssle...

"Embedded Microcontrollers" is an outstanding book for anyone who whishes to understand the inner workings of embedded systems. This book covers both software and hardware aspects and Mr. Morton does an excellent job in presenting the material with ample illustrations, tables, timing diagrams, schematics and lots of practical code examples. This book will certainly become a favorite in Colleges and Universities. If you're into embedded system design, you need this book on your bookshelf!