"The Faceless Ones" is another BBC installment of reproduced missing episodes of Doctor Who in audio book format. All of these audio reproduction are excellent in terms of the clean-up of the audio track and the linking narration by former cast members. Some of the reproductions, however, fail in terms of actual content. "The Faceless Ones" is one Doctor Who story which does not quite make it.

We find the Doctor and his three companions at London's Gatwick Airport in 1966. After fleeing from the police, Polly witnesses a bizarre murder. After reporting it to the Doctor, the investigation is on! What is happening at Gatwick, and what does it have to do with the strange Chameleon Tours company? This story is simply too long. The plot plods along, moving pretty slowly, and without much enthusiasm. This story might have been decent if the editors had trimmed the fat to make four episodes rather than six. Much of the padding from this tale is made up of running around the airport, trying to convince the authorities of unearthly circumstances, and deviating plot lines that really lead to nowhere special. Most of the supporting characters are "faceless" as well, not enticing much interest. Even the Doctor and his companions lack their usual sparkle and drive that is seen in other stories. I was disappointed, and I wish I had not bought "The Faceless Ones."

I was very dissappointed when I first bought this book an arrangers guide. I was looking for a book that will help me arrange fresh fruits and vegetables in baskets for gift giving.The title gives us no hint that this book is referring to fake fruits. On a positive note, I learned to make beautiful center pieces for my dining table and trees that look so real and truly magnificent. It gives great ideas in decorating mirrors and door accents . Great for creative people.

This is a book for beginners who are intrested in Jazz guitar solo and comping on blues by Herb Ellis Method. It introduce it's Shape System which is simply how to play scale and chord arpeggio by shape.

The materials are few in this book. It mentioned only 1.how to paly Maj and 7 chords/scale/Arpeggio. 2.1 baisc progression and changes. 3. examples - 3 blues(solo) songs.

Though m/dim/m7b5/... could be derived from the same concept, this book only introduce how to play chord/scale/arpeggio 'by shape' over Maj and Seven.

For beginner this is a guide for chord/scale system. For people who already knew chord/scale system this book is nothing new, except the 3 improvised solo. "Joe Pass on Guitar" has more stuff in similar topics. Recommend only for beginners and people who are intrested in Herb Ellis's style.

As a romance, I found this book to be sadly lacking in romantic feeling. As a suspense novel, I felt that it was lacking substance of plot. It was an ok story, but left you hanging at the end.

Having spent time right around the corner from the West Barnstable, Massachusetts cemetery where Percival is buried and also being familiar with the USS Constitution Museum and the ship itself, I wanted to know more. This book's narrative does provide details about Percival's life and the U.S. Navy that he served in, but they seem a bit thin.

It seems that existing documentary evidence of Percival is sparse, or at least this book leads me to believe that. Percival's 1844-1846 circumnavigation of the world in the Constitution gets the longest chapter, and is only 35 pages long. Little context is given to this voyage, surely the most remarkable phase of Percival's career. According to Ellis, Percival commanded five ships (with gun ratings, which Ellis provides only infrequently): Dolphin, 12, Porpoise, 12, Erie?, Cyane, 18, and Constitution, 44.

At times this feels like nothing but the documented facts of Percival's life strung together as a report, with a focus on quelling any "controversy". West Barnstable resident Ellis certainly did a great deal of serious research, but I was hoping for something more than just a book length vindication of the charges of dishonesty David H. Long makes in his Percival biography (the only other full length treatment of the subject).

This book was okay. It spoke about how gays deal with sexual orientation issues in the workplace. The good thing about it is that it included case studies of a gay black man and a bisexual white woman; so the authors were trying to think about diversity within the LGBT community. However, this book is simplistic and doesn't say much. There are large-scale studies and anthologies out there about gays in the workplace that are more thorough, and just better. You should consider reading this, after you've read all the other stuff on the topic.

For $41 I expected a lot more than this. I expected a fat reference book packed with information about all sorts of inventions and technologies. After all, for about twice the price you can get the entire Encyclopedia Britannica on CD-ROM. Instead, I now have a slim volume which only skims the surface, with entries for only the most well-known of developments.

For example, there is an entry for nitroglycerine but none for ordinary glycerine. There is a general entry for aromatic hydrocarbons, but nothing for such important compounds as benzene, toluene, or phenol. There is no entry for the split trail, the interrupted screw, the recoil cylinder, the brass cartridge, the armor-piercing discarding-sabot round, or even the modern artillery piece itself. There is an entry for "cannon", but it mentions nothing more recent than 1350 A.D. There are no entries for shock absorbers, springs, pistons, rivets, or riveting machines. There is an entry for welding, but none for acetylene or welding flux.

The entries themselves are very skimpy, and often enough only the name of the device, its purpose, and the date of its invention are given. There are a fair number of cases where the authors appear not to have understood what they were writing about. For example, in one case the Russian word "kamera" is translated as "camera" when it is obvious that "chamber" or "room" was meant. For another, the entry for "Stellar Distance" states that trigonometry did not work, therefore they used parallax. But parallax is a type of trigonometry.

A fair list of references is provided, and perhaps they will make it a little easier to find the information you want to know, if you have access to a large library or a lot of money to spend.

A good explanation for the strengths and weaknesses of this book is easily found by searching the Amazon.com book list for other books by Ellis Mount. There are dozens of them, all about libraries.

Frank Smith was truly a man with ideas before his time! He fought and sacrificed to ensure everyone had the same rights that are guaranteed all under our Constitution. This was unheard of in the segregated South in the '50 and '60s. "Mississippi Liberal" is an excellent history of the Mississippi Delta and the environment that shaped the ideas and life of the Congressman from Mississippi--Frank E. Smith. A man who worked hard to make a difference for all races... and he did! A very comprehensive work by Dr. Dennis J. Mitchell--A superb job!

Finally, a study guide has been released to help us study for the Praxis II - Middle School Science test. Unfortunately, I was shocked to see the number of errors throughout the book. Mistakes ranged from typos and incorrect grammar to duplicating entire paragraphs. One or two mistakes are understandable, but the book is completely filled with errors. It is as if they released a rough draft (can't they afford proofreaders?) Due to the poor editing, I am forced to question the reliability of the content.

This book, written in 1931, is today (2002) of interest mainly to hispanophiles. It has not withstood well the test of time. On the basis of five trips to Spain during the 1920s, Ellis (the author of, among other works, a volume with the curious title, "The Task of Social Hygiene) brings together here a series of brief essays, part travelogue, part pseudo-sociology, and packages them as an effort to identify the eternal "soul" of the Spanish "race." For example, there are chapters on "The Women of Spain' and "Don Quixote," as well as on the cities of Segovia, Granada, and Seville (but not, curiously, on either Madrid or Barcelona). This book is not without worthwhile pages. For example, his discussion in the introductory chapter of Spain's democratic spirit is fascinating. Ellis is a good observer of human behavior and when he says that "the Spaniard shows that he is entitled to courtesy by knowing how to return it", the strength of his observations lends credence to his judgement. Most anyone who thinks about Spain these days would tend to consider democracy as a relatively recent development, and in a modern, political sense that is true. Reading Ellis, we are reminded that there is also a social sense in which it is valuable to consider the term, and here Spain's history is quite rich.
Ellis' artistic judgements are, on the other hand, often baffling, even comical. Of Spanish art he says the following: "Aesthetic sensibility - Velazquez always excepted - meets us nowhere in Spanish art." His chapter on "Don Quixote" is uninspired; one wonders if he even bothered to ever read the novel. His final chapter, on contemporary Spain, offers some interesting insights into intellectual climate in which the group of writers know as the Generation of '98 was working.
Overall, one would do much better reading a younger compatriot of Ellis, the always interesting Gerald Brenan, who spent a good part of the twenties living in Southern Spain.