There are not very many books on the Eastern Front written for the general public, and this isn't one of the exceptions, in spite of its length (it's less than 200 pages all told, including bibliography, notes and index). That being said, you have to wonder at the brevity of the book, given the subject and the material presented. Basically the first third of the book backgrounds the story, the last 10-15% serves as an epitaph for the soldiers (especially the Germans) who fought in the battle. The remaining ca. 80 pages or so consist of a brief description of the opening of the Soviet Summer offensive in 1944 in White Russia. This is interesting, but again, given the specialized nature of the subject you wonder why more focus wasn't given...

Very basic note reading exercises for both treble and bass clefs. Not much for the older grades.

I bought this book but the information was so basic I cannot recommend anyone pay the asking price.

(I already wrote a very negative review of this expensive pamphlet -- not a book -- which you obviously decided to ignore. At least I can return the useless pamphlet.)

This book gave great meaning to what e-books really are now. How you can right your own as well. If your crazy about this new technology then you want this.

The book lacks to too many explanations, and universities shouldn't use it for classes at all unless the proffessors are planning to use it for assigning problems only.Unfortunatly the book has less than 13-20 examples in all of its ~500 pages, which is the worst thing you can do to for a physics student who is just trying to learn the material in an advanced way after General physics.The book has no advanced concepts to say its not meant for introductory, so in both cases the book is not an introductory nor advanced.If you are looking for a better book in a little advanced concepts (( after General physics)) as modern physics then don't waste time looking for a good book if there is an excellent book written by Rohlf its an excellent second year I've ever read -Modern Physics from aá to Z0-
James William Rohlf-
ISBN: 0-471-57270-5

This book tries to be complete at first but excludes many important concepts and basically just talks about developing atomic physics the correct way instead of doing it. It is riddled with bad errors and is actually often incorrect. For instance, when dealing with Einstein's work on lasers, the formula in the book is off by a cubic factor of the energies involved -- yes, that is to the third power. Furthermore, it doesn't derive most of the formulas, so most people would learn the (very) incorrect forms. And when it does derive the formulas, sometimes the derivations lead to the correct result but are not the correct way to get there. The book often deals with deriving equations and results by analogy, in a non-rigrorous form, but then at times it will all of a sudden introduce something completely rigorous and offer no explanation as to where it came from. If it does something from freshman physics like derive the wave equation, why doesn't it introduce other concepts with proper background? Finally, the answers in the back of the book are often wrong. All of this compared with the writing style make this book horrible. The authors sound like they are writing to themselves, as if they have hidden knowledge about some of the topics (as a previous reviewer noticed, it seemed as if there were things they weren't telling, making it appear as if the concepts were hidden somewhere). My advice: get a couple of other books if you are serious about learning this material. Even the format of the book seems as if it is a bunch of notes, as there is no textual organization or pedagogy at all. Because of the nice historical accounts, it almost gets two stars; however, the subject of the book is not history, so it gets just one star. Oh, and this book is in its fourth edition, so errors in actual concepts and formulas (for instance, being off by a factor of a cubic term) is unacceptable. The only reason this book ever got used is because a faculty member at Texas A&M University helped write it, and they required it to be used at the course here for many years (all the way up till 2002, even though the 4th edition came out in 1984). Horrible book, and the faculty's greedy disposition to profit off of it like this should be looked down upon.

This is quite possibly the worst book I have ever tried to use for a class in my life. I was required to purchase this book for my Engineering Physics class at Texas A&M. By the way, Dr. Adair, co author, is a prof here (must be why its required) so I think Ill stay anonymous :). It is complete drivel written in a language that only a person with a doctorate in physics could understand. Its full of flaws, and has absolutely no example problems worked out. After having used this book I have no coice but to assume the authors were trying to keep this stuff a secret. I relied primarially on notes and used it only for homework problems assigned.

This book (in fact the entire STORY OF CANADA series of which it is part) is the sort of thing that gives historical fiction a bad name. The authors have clearly done only the barest minimum of research, if that. Their picture of British North America during the years 1811-1814 is hope lessly flawed.

Historical figures and events are portrayed with such inaccuracy that they're scarcely recognizable. To name only two examples, Governor Miles Macdonell of Assiniboia is characterized as a down-to-earth frontiersman when in reality he was a pigheaded snob, while the account of the Battle of Queenston Heights is peppered with such errors as General Brock's death being an insignificant, unlamented incident and his aide Lt. Col. Macdonell leading an "'Indian style'" attack against the Americans instead of another frontal assault, and overall, betrays a spectacular misunderstanding on the authors' part of Napoleonic-era warfare (the "absurd formality" they so disparage made perfect sense given the inaccurate muskets that were the main weapon of both British and American infantrymen. These weapons were only effective when tightly-packed formations of soldiers fired volleys at other tightly-packed formations of soldiers).

The authors display an equal ignorance of the society of that time. The characters do not think or act as people of their positions would have. The wife of a wealthy merchant in the Niagara region--whose leading citizens enjoyed a relative ly polished existence even at that early stage--is content to slave away at menial household chores and be a slave to the public in her husband's store. And, despite having run off into the wilderness with a notorious rake when she was only sixteen, she is a highly respected woman. Her son, though a commissioned army officer and supposedly sophisticated, shares her humble tastes and lack of propriety--he eschews servants and luxuries, tells ribald jokes in front of the girl he intends to marry (who would not even have been considered an acceptable wife for one of his standing), and jumps into bed with her BEFORE their wedding.

The authors provide very little information about diet, costume, and other aspects of everyday life, and this information is often incorrect. Charac- ters eat fresh corn-on-the-cob in November. A middle-aged matron wears her hair pulled back in a ponytail, while another female character wears hers down long. A young officer wears neither hat, sash, cravat, nor sword, his "uniform" consisting of "pants", "heavy shirt, jacket, and boots". He and his fellow officers at Fort George are crowded together in a barracks and sleep on the same uncomfortable bunks as are used by their men, instead of having well-appointed private quarters.

WILDFIRES does not even have the saving grace of being an entertaining read. The characters are strictly 2-D, and their impossibly convoluted ad- ventures are interrupted by tedious textbook-style history lessons and related in the lamest of prose.