Note: Do not buy this book if you are an advanced GIS user, you probably already know most of what is contained in the book.

This book helps you make the transition from making maps to doing GIS analysis.

This knowledge-packed, 82-page paperback, is composed of five major sections:
- Introduction to the Ignatius Study Bible
- Introduction to the Gospel according to Luke
- Outline of the Gospel According to Luke
- Gospel with Commentary by Scott Hahn and Curtis Mitch
- Study Questions by Dennis Walters

The commentary includes historical background, with maps, and categorized notes. The notes have symbols next to them indicating whether they are:
- content and unity
- living tradition
- analogy of faith

The study questions are grouped by chapter, and then broken down into two sections per chapter: "For understanding" and "For application." The understanding questions are textual analysis questions. " The application questions are pertinent for the spiritual lives of Catholics. However, space was not provided within the questions themselves for notes. There are several notes pages at the end of the book, but white space was not allotted within the questions themselves.

Overall, the organization of this study guide makes it an effective tool for novices, and challenging for for more knowledgeable Catholics.

This is a great book for both individual and group bible study. The questions are better than most study questions, but still could be a little more directed.

The one complaint is that we have to wait between series.

Stan Mitchell sheds a lot of light on the "behind the sceens" inner workings of the Windows 95 File system. This book is not for the faint of heart! By end of Chapter 1 you're waist deep in the IFSMgr.

Stan Mitchell provides an excellent utility with the book, MultiMon, that allows you to see what's really going on at the Ring - 0 level of Windows 95. This utility alone is worth the price of the book.

If your an advanced Windows programmer and your looking for a great resource book, "Inside the Windows 95 File System" delivers the facts clearly and without a bunch of fluff

This is a clearly written "how to" book about basic business principles that work. It is full of informative examples from the history of business and it is the one book to read if you are serious about succeeding.

Gold Rush 2000 by Ed Mitchell. Salinas, CA, California Coast Publishing, 1999. 386p., ISBN 0-9668447-3-4. $24.95.

There is nothing wrong with this book that a good editor could not have mended. However, because present-day publishing houses have become too timid to nurture new authors, self-publication has become the norm for those who can afford it.

Be that as it may, Gold Rush 2000 is one whale of a page turner ... a saga of corporate greed, government corruption and fall from grace. A vivid illustration of how "power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

The tale begins with the dilemma of a modest, unassuming man named Nolen Martin who must find a way to obtain decent medical care for his cancer-stricken foster mother. He learns of a new gold field in California and sets forth on his quest of mercy.

Yet, when he has enough gold to pay for the care of his foster mother several times over, he chooses instead to first use it to seek revenge on his enemies and amass a fortune.

As he sinks lower and lower into the ooze of amoral rapacity and violent retaliation, becoming that which, initially, he claims to despise, the reader finds himself mesmerized by the process, and unable to toss the book aside in disgust.

The plot is fresh, rich and complex, peppered with memorable characters. It portrays a world to which few of us will be exposed, yet find too fascinating to ignore. Perhaps because there a bit of Nolen Martin in us all. One hopes this will not be the last we hear from Ed Mitchell's fertile imagination, and that next time he has as good an editor as he is a writer.

------------ G. Browning Bordages is a free-lance writer and newspaper columnist living on Galveston Island, Texas.

"This is a great book! It's done in the best "Clancy" tradition, but even more so! You've out Clancy'ed, Clancy. You are to be congratulated on this well written, exciting, fast paced, and entertaining literary achievement. I'm heading for the hills to find my gold. Steve S, Proposal Consultant

"It's your fault I have a sunburn. I couldn't put the last three chapters down and stayed in the sun too long." Carol D., Business Operations Manager

"Just finished the book last night. If I had to choose one word that would describe the book it would be 'Fabulous'. The more I read, the more I felt the pain and success of Nolan Martin. My question is, when are you going to do another book?" Dave K., President, Minnesota Gold Prospecting Association

"I received your book and am now having a wonderful experience reading it. It has a great story line and I am having a hard time putting it down. I was reading it this a.m. in the restaurant. My eyes were so full of tears! Such a great story!" Grace V., Housewife

"Friends, the title is Gold Rush 2000 and I can't stop reading it. If you like the Tom Clancy Red October type story, you will love this book. Normally I don't share things like this unless I feel strongly about it." (E-mail message) Bruce V., Product Assurance Engineer

"There were so many twists that at one moment I was angry that all Nolen's and/or Digger's efforts were going to be wasted and the next chapter or two, all that was turned around.  It was great to use an innocent older lady, Hilda, to play against Nolen. Good luck with becoming a best seller.  It's bound to happen when you have such a piece of art!" Laura G., Executive Secretary

"You plot better than most well known authors. You hooked me. I'm cheering for the good characters to not be hurt and for the bad ones to be punished." Larry M., Senior SW Designer

"I loved the hero, Nolen. He's the type of man any woman would want to marry." Brenda C., Medical Assistant

"I thoroughly enjoyed your book from cover to cover. I read it in two days which is fast for me. To me it was every bit as good as The Firm." Dan D., Proposal Manager

"At first I was skeptical (after all, it's a Mitchell not a Clancy) and expected it to be second rate. Then I was swept up in the triangular tension. The ending was terrific!" Bob T., Manager Aerospace Compan

The characters are all strange and enticing, but the plot is superbe, difficult and mysterious. It is a fascinating book even if could not be considered strictly a literary masterpiece. It is gloomy, spooky and enigmatic, indeed very gothic, and lovers of literature with strange, mystical situations will enjoy it.

Considered a masterpiece of fantasy and expressionism, Meyrink's "The Golem" is an oneiric novel with a strong religious gothic tone, a mirror of Meyrink's intellectual pursuit and involvement in occultist movements. The main character and narrator, Athanasius Pernath drifts in a state of hypnagogia, his memory blocked from the past, desperately in search of his own identity -- "Who am I?" In his quest, the Golem will take Athanasius into an inner journey, in a shift from consciousness to unconsciousness. Meyrink also introduces the mystic and cabbalist concept of the "secret of intercalation" (Ibbur), a combination of God's determinative and guiding hand and of man's freedom of choice and responsibility.

It is a novel with a phantasmagorial plot and visionary settings, where characters are drifted by a reality outside their understanding. Some readers might find the journey altogether weird, abstract and surrealist. However, the magic of Meyrink resides exactly in an artistic vision which embodies infinite interpretations. His own words best illustrates his own perspective of life: "when men arise from their beds, they think they have shaken off sleep and they know not that they have fallen victim to their senses and are in the grip of a much deeper sleep than the one they have just left."