This book was a big disappointment. Published in the late 1970s, it reads like a modern-day infomercial. While the author may be an MD, the style is so salesman-ish, I found myself not believing the words and wanting to double check every biological process cited. I was looking for a book providing alternative ways to use a rebounder, other than straight jumping and jogging. This book had a very limited number of such exercises.

I have to disagree with the one review listed here. I found the book to be quite informative. It discusses the phyisiological benefits of jumping -- including muscle toning, better posture, lymphatic cleansing, stress reduction, anti-aging, increased balance and coordination, improvements in vision -- and more. I have no idea how sound the medical information is in the book, and actually, I'm not reading it for that content. Intuitively, I sense the it's got to be healthy no matter what the medical details are. There are a total of 33 illustrated exercises graded from basic to advanced. I'm 51 and I'm doing the exercises in the book. My muscles are toning nicely and there's no doubt in my mind that my posture is improving and I'm healthier all around. The book is a pretty good guide in getting started gently. The advanced exercises are a real workout. I recommend the book!

Andrew Morton has done it again. He has effectively wheedled and cajoled his way into untold millions of pounds by stroking another despot's ego to the hilt. The Moi of his fashioning rises like a graceful, genteel albatross, obliterating any image of the ruthless, compunctionless savannah cockerel that Kenyans knew as their daily reality for over two decades. Mr Moi must be cackling hoarsely at how gullible the West is when they so readily take to Mr Morton's feckless spiel.

An invaluable resource of history on a great leader. However, the author hasn't brought out the other side of Moi - his dictatorial mien!

As a Kenyan citizen and knowing how Moi has ruled for the past 24 years, I can see the motive of Morton's book as that of pleasing the SUBJECT in order to capitalise on the situation. Morton must have been definitely compromised, to please the establishment, thus not to write much negative things about Moi's person and rule.

There's more to Moi than one can extract from Morton's book. Hoping a future write-up will expose the areas that were left out.

Andew Morton is a foreign journalist who has come to realize Moi's role in Kenya.The only true patriotic Kenyan I know is president Moi.A man who has tried to keep Kenya united despite the economic and tribal hardships.Many who pose to lead Kenya have not shown any national interests outside being president for the sake of it.Andrew has truely written of who Moi is and what Kenya leadership entails .Many in the West don,t exactly understand the intricacies of Kenyan cultures and behaviours.This book will stand the tests of history.It is a great book about a great leader.
Thanks
Zeberio Amwoma[Minnesota]

Well, when this book first came out I was really excited about reading it...but it was either giving my money to her or Sheneska Jackson's book that just came out (Blessings). I'm so glad I bought Blessings! For one, I suppose I expected Naylor to give us background on these men and then move on to their relations to the women she discussed in brewster place. Unfortunately, what she did was tell us some scene from their life. Ben's story didn't need to be told AGAIN. We knew about him from Women of Brewster Place, although I did like the way she used him as a guide for the story (much like "Bailey" in Bailey's Cafe). The only people who I found to be really interesting were Basil and Eugene. I wish I could have just read their stories and closed the book up. I've read Bailey's Cafe and the Women of Brewster Place but I planned on reading Linden Hills sometime soon as well. This is definitely an academic read--not one that I would have chosen for pleasure. I'm glad I checked it out from the library and I suggest whoever is reading this review do the same. I understood Women Of Brewster Place was to demonstrate the strenghth of the female bond, but what was Men of Brewster Place about? The drama black men face? Who knows...

Brewster Place has been the home of many ethnic groups who have come and gone. Now crumbling and decayed this street shares with its readers the stories of its Black inhabitants. You first heard the story about the women of Brewster Place but now the men tell their story.

Our narrator is Ben, the janitor, who takes us introduces the various men and their lives on the condemned street. The reader gets a glimpse of each man as they unfold before us the complicated circumstances of their lives. Gloria Naylor could have given the reader some great insights on the feelings and struggles of these Black men. What the reader is given are undeveloped characters who deserved more depth. The reader gets lost in attempting to figure out how and if these men relate to one another and to the street that they inhabit.

Unfortunately most of the men come across as negative characters. Mooreland Woods is your stereotypical black preacher hungry for power. Ben allows his crippled daughter to be sexually assaulted by a white man while he does nothing. C.C. Baker is your typical drug gang banger out to make a name for himself. In fact the only good man of the lot is Abshu who tries to fight for the young people in his community only to find himself against a brick wall.

As a reader you are so bombarded with these negative images that you wonder what is the message of hope, if any is given in this text? Is Naylor implying that Black men are unable to combat the physical, emotional and spiritual obstacles that come their way? If so, Black people are in trouble.

It would be unfair to compare this work with its predecessor but Naylor could have done a better job in her characterizations in this work. The Men of Brewster Place is a weak work due to its failure to offer one the stories of men who should have more depth. I recommend this book for those who are Naylor fans and wish to see her development through the course of her writing. The book has its possibilities but comes up short. Purchase it for a quick read. It is not the best of Naylor's works but should be examined for its weaknesses and strengths (if they can be found).

This book is emotionally packed and made me weep buckets. In it, Naylor displayes her gift to write with a stirring, emotional power. Although I do like the Women better than the Men of Brewster Place - just because some of the men have a real hard time acting right - I'm glad that Naylor wrote this book so that the men could finally have their say. And what a say they have, and their words are important enough that I recommend that people looking to read a good story should listen.

A horrible book, ripe with clunky grammer and horrible errors; some which should NEVER have been made by anyone who did even a basic study of submarines.

This book should "run silent" into some dark forgotten corner. Factual and editorial errors abound (stairs on a ship). The focal point of the story is in one page called the Nashville, and then back to its original name.

The most serious fault is just slopply writing and editing with a very real embarrassment for the gallant men and women who serve in the nuclear Navy.

I want to like this book more than I do. It's exciting and fascinating, as good sub stories are.

However, no one edited this book, from what I could tell. Apart from Hyman Rickover becoming Hiram Rickover, and the sub being _Nashville_ in the jacket description (and on one page in the text) but _Centurion_ in the text, there were just typos galore and clunky sentence construction more than once. It got to be painful at times, and I read the book more slowly than expected, because I was editing it for myself.

Another complaint: submarines are traditionally called boats, even though they're ship-size now, and it didn't ring right to me to have a submariner insist that it be called a ship. They call them both boats and ships, but boat's the traditional term.

I also could've done without the pilot character's whining to himself at first about how awful it was to be around submariners, technical geeks and nerds, oh no, spare him. Grow up, sir. Submariners may be "weird" and "bizarre", but they also served well in World War 2. Look into that history sometime if all you think they are is "weird". (Granted, it's written by a Navy woman writing from the viewpoint of a male Navy pilot, and maybe she has this attitude problem herself...)

There are too many good fencing books on the market to waist your time and money on this one. Although an experienced fencer could get some useful information, it is riddled with too much misinformation and poor advice to make it useful to the beginner.

For the most part the book is easy to follow and entertaining, but not terribly thorough and EXTREMELY TENDENCIOUS (some very questionable stuff is said with great aplomb). There is a decent section on footwork for the beginner-to-intermediate and some interesting tactical advice. The sabre section is nearly 10 years out of date (fleche and all). Don't buy this if you are planning to be in the next Olympics, but if you are a recreational fencer with a little bit of experience have a look.

I found this book to be a good example of the "middle ground" of fencing books out there. It caters to the more advanced competitive fencer, something not many books do. However, I find that it's good-advice-per-dollar ratio is somewhat lacking, as the book weighs in at a "whopping" 96 pages, including index/glossary. still, i found a good deal of advice for dealing with specific "types" of fencers one often encounters on the piste. try to read before you buy, but definitely worth a read

This is the worst book in its category, full of contradictions within itself and with its textbook to. Read it only if you must, and only after reading other books when preparing for exams.

a fair source of review but use as a supplement to some text source.

If you are doing work in character recognition, I think you will find something useful here. Otherwise, skip this book and read Theodoridis's "Pattern Recognition". You will find a wealth of practical and theoretical information from all walks of pattern recognition in his book.

In short, Nadler's book seems overly specialized, superficial, and dated.

Anyone doing research into the history of anaesthesia should check this out, but this should definitely not be the last or only word on the controversy. Historians tend to disagree on who should be credited with the discovery of anaesthesia in the United States: Wells or Morton. MacQuitty plants herself well within the Morton supporter's camp, oversimplifying a complex series of human interactions and relationships by dismissing Wells' role in the "discovery" (excuse the scare quotes) and adpotion of surgical anaesthesia, especially when treating ether, nitrous oxide, and cholorform as historically identical substances.

Even at $8.36 this book disappoints as a 3D offering. There are very few 3D images and these are really awful. If you want to dazzle your child (or adult friends) with 1st class 3D imagery, spend $5 more and look into the Mark Blum books - Bugs in 3D and Beneath the Sea in 3D.

If your interest is in Space, and your intent is to teach your child about outer space, there are dozens of better offerings out there with 2D photo graphic images that will pique your childs interest better than this lame example.

This tiny 65-page cheaply made paperback contains only 6 pages of short paragraphs describing 50 square dance steps along with 22 extremely grainy photographs and a single confusing diagram. It is of marginal use for learning square-dancing (or for any other discernable purpose). The rest of the book is filled out with a few primitive square dance sequences and a multiple choice examination for "grading" students. It entirely ignores the many calls associated with ocean waves.