Do not buy this book. Period. Worse than useless, it will actually distract you from answering the question posed by the title. More to the point, it's full of disinformation.

I was hoping _But Was It Just_ would be a highly informative debate about the war. Instead, the book turned out to be very scant on facts, filled abstract vague generalizations and hypothetical examples of what might be considered just in the abstract philosophical sense of the term.

You might find this book interesting if you care what Saint Thomas Aquinas said about just warfare, but who in their right mind would defer to the six moral criteria of jus ad bellum when evaluating an international conflict? These are ivory tower issues that have nothing to do with the Gulf War in specific, nor justice in general (according to most people).

That said, when the book does attempt to paint an objective picture of what happened, it fails miserably. "The bombs were 'smart' and the pilots morally sensitive.... And it does appear that direct civilian casualties were kept fairly low: in this sense, at least, the air war was unprecedented." What a load of balderdash.

The truth is, the air war was devastating. As William Blum shows in _Killing Hope_, Operation Desert Storm was the equivalent of a desert holocaust. Thousands of civilians were killed - smartly or otherwise - and the motives were downright dirty. Black gold dirty. Says George Bush, "Our jobs, our way of life, our own freedom, and the freedom of friendly countries around the world still suffer if control of the world's great oil reserves fell in the hands of that one man, Saddam Hussein" (Blum, 1995).

Other critics of the war, like Noam Chomsky, have also laid out serious indictments of American motives. In _Rogue States_ Chomsky provides solid evidence that top U.S. officials were giving Iraq mixed signals, most likely in an attempt to nettle a Kuwait invasion. However, a discussion of motives can only lead us so far in understanding the (in)justice of the Gulf War. One must also pay close attention to actual consequences that ensued.

As this book was written 1992, discussion concerning U.S.-imposed sanctions is not up-to-date. Currently, these sanctions have lead to the death of over 1.5 million civilians (500,000 of those being children under the age of five). There is also no discussion of depleted uranium radiation illness, which has caused Iraq's leukemia rates to skyrocket into the number one slot. See _Iraq Under Siege_ for a thorough discussion of these issues.

If you are interested in learning about the Gulf War, which is in my opinion the first step in assaying whether or not it was just, _Was It Just?_ is of no help. This book is little more than a distraction. Would have given it zero stars if the program allowed.

In the end I am left to wonder, is this perhaps one of the many books the CIA publishes every year in an effort to convince the nation its foreign policies is legit?

This book was first published in 1983 as the Osprey's Vanguard Series No. 33 and this is only a revised edition. What was revised in this book was just a few more b/w photographs and a centrefold cutaway colour-plate of a PanzerKampfwagen II Ausf. F.

In my opinion, Osprey should also revise the other colour-plates in this book as there are all of very poor quality in term of drawing skill. No worth buying.

At the end of this biography, the author aptly summarizes King James as "the most human of our kings." James VI and I was a complex, contradictory, and altogether fascinating character. His life is worthy of study; that said, I do not recommend this particular book.

It is well researched and not without intriguing tidbits, but the writing style provides too serious a distraction to study. It is exceedingly disjointed. Paragraphs are strings of often unrelated and badly sequenced sentences, full of odd digressions. The narrative does not flow any better as it moves from one paragraph to another. The prose itself lacks clarity. Misplaced modifiers are common, punctuation is dubious, and a careless use of pronouns often creates confusion.

What I found most distressing about this book was its consistently salacious tone. It lingers on the king's alleged homosexuality, his coarse sense of humor, and his interest in other people's sexual activities. The author's voice provides an apt frame for this portrayal. At one point he describes Lady Frances, wife of Robert Carr, as follows: "She was beautiful, but her portrait at Woburn reveals her sensuality and depravity. Beneath the curves of her dress can be seen her breasts, ripe and luscious." The reader must wade through a great deal of this.

If you are looking for a solid biography, I recommend Lady Antonia Fraser's book. It is out of print and difficult to obtain, but worth the effort.

This book gives no suggestions for how a dentist can resist HMO's and remain in private practice. The author seems to think that managed care is inevitable and dentists need to get used to the "advantages" of managed care. He never even suggests that independant dentists can stay independant if we reduce overhead expenses and just say "no" to the HMO's.

THIS IS TERRIBLLE.IT HAS USELESS INFROMATION.YOU CAN LEARN MORE PLAYING THE GAME.I RETURNED THIS THE DAY I BOUGHT IT....

Unfortunately, 'Netscape Navigator Gold' by Bryan Pfaffenberger (1997) is just one like many other worthless books, - just wasting of time to read.
The largest part of this book - just explanation of Netscape menu commands (you can find out all this stuff without reading the book), describing a lot of popular web-pages (for example, syntax and menu commands of Yahoo, AltaVista, etc., - but this information is getting old so fast!!!), and telling some well known facts.
Also, there are some shareware programs, included on the CD-ROM disc, but you can always find them on the Net (newer versions!) And sometimes he hides some nice sides of Netscape Navigator in order to promote these programs (I am just wondering, why?), like saving the whole web-page content with all the graphic files on your HDD - he offers to pay for some third-patry program instead!
Sorry, if I am too angry, but buy this book - and you will be anger than me :(

This book contains very little useful information for those of us expecting multiples or who have given birth to multiples. It focuses primarily on twins and the background of the frequency of twins, how twins are formed and the difference between fraternal and identical twins. The book gives no practical advice on maintaining a multiple pregnancy or how to overcome the difficulties of raising multiples.