If there is one good thing about this book, its that I borrowed it from a friend who had been unfortunate enough to be duped into buying it. This woman shows less skill than would be expected from the children she claims to be writing for. The writing is clumsy and inept, the concept boring. Save your time and money and find something written by an author with talent.

This was written very poorly and it is not worth your time to buy or read.

I wasted 6 days to get this book and then spent 5 minutes reading the book then it took no more than one minute to decide to return the book to get a refund.

This story is a complete waste of time!

When compared to some of the other wonderful literature that is available for children, this book doesn't have a leg to stand on. It was poorly written and rather boring. (...)

While I admit, in our pop-culture world, the marketing of Harry Potter has reached an insane point, this does not take away from the fact the Harry Potter legend is as good as The Chronicles of Narnia, Lord of the Rings, and many other fantasy tales that take us back to that feeling of childhood wonder. Catholics and other Christians who prefer to avoid Potter mania need to leave the harmless fairy tale alone. Harry Potter will no more destroy or alter a child's religious belief than Cinderella or Star Wars.

I do have to say that I, myself am not a religious person, yet I hold no poor judgements towards people who do choose to follow it. With regards to Harry Potter, it is fiction. It does not dictate to children how to live their lives, or how to denounce their faith in their religion. I may not be a religious person, but I am an educated one, who is able to take fiction as just that; fiction, and i expect nothing more or less than entertainment from it. About all of this religious sceptisism surrounding Harry Potter due to its references to magic, and evil beings, why does the Wizard of Oz not suffer such scrutiny? It also intertwines its plots with witchcrafy, wizardry, and evil forces. I believe everyone who is critical of a piece of fiction, especialy Harry Potter, for portraying what they take to be un-godly, or anti-religion should take a good look at what this story is about. The Harry Potter series is about a boy struggling to fit in as he grows up into an adult, he just happens to be a wizard. What child in the world could ever be harmed by a book which can show kids it is ok to be different when growing up; how is this in any way evil I ask?

Whatever anyone's personal religious beliefs are, it's wonderful to finally have this book as truth in print to counter-point the insidious Harry Potter mania.

If you want a child to get more interested in reading... turn them on to The Hobbit and the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy by Tolkein. Turn them on to The Chronicles of Narnia (The Chronicles of Narnia: The Magician's Nephew/The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe/The Horse and His Boy/Prince Caspian/Voyage of the Dawn Treader/The Silver Chair/The Last Battle) by C.S. Lewis. How about A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L'engle?

All of these are wonderful alternatives for the imaginative mind.

On the other hand, Harry Potter encourages dangerous bases of thought. I'm glad that this book is here to educate those of us who don't ordinarily think in those terms. Catholic, or not... this book is worth the read!

Un cristiano sin nada mejor que hacer se puso a escribir un libro difamatorio que afecta la opinión de Harry Potter en los niños que lo leen. Y como si fuera poco, ahora es editado al español... hay gente sin nada mejor que hacer en la vida...

Definitivamente no es un libro para niños. Este libro esta dirigido a padres cristianos que deseen tener un punto de referencia para poder conversar con sus hijos acerca de lo que la biblia dice sobre personajes como Harry Potter. Se debe ver como un libro de referencia

This book provides a decent review of electrical engineering, but it misses its mark in preparing you for the PE. It lacks depth and subject material to adequately prepare you for the PE. It also contains numerous errors in the text, examples, and solutions.

The textbook covers a wide range of ee and the
practice problems are good, but the solutions
are very hard to understand.

Kids don't read enough books, but they read J.K. Rowling's. Would you prefer your child playing a mind-numbing video game?

There's no disrespect for Christianity in the "Harry Potter" books, and certainly no blasphemy in them, unless you're a stodgy Brit who can't stand seeing British society satirized.

Finally, the villain in the "Harry Potter" books, Lord Voldamort, is a moral relativist. Since evangelical and other conservative Christians despise moral relativism, why would they have a problem with Harry Potter?

I am a devout Catholic, and I should hope I always will be. I read this book just to see what the author had to say. Becauae you see, I have read all the Harry Potter books and am a huge fan.
Although the book has a good indepth view on his beliefs about the books, I do not agree.
As a Harry Potter fan, yes I like the books. But I know that Harry Potter and the everything in the book is FICTION. I have absolutely no intentions of joining cults and turning to the devil's temptations. My only intent when reading these books is for 'FUN'. I dont think that if I go around trying to do spells and potions that I can be like H.P. I only enjoy them as if they were a book.
Thoguh it was an interesting read, I firmly disagree with what he is trying to put across.

In this board book, Peter Rabbit scurries by his forest friends with nary a word or glance to deliver his valentine. The lesson here: it's OK to be rude to your friends.

Keeneye has always believed there should be a law against imitating Beatrix Potter and (true to form) this effort is a D- with the illustration featuring starchy-looking Jemima Puddleduck the least awkward.

The book is a tad too big for a wee hands but the tot will find a way to open and close the book a million times to hear Peter's brief recorded message on the last page.

All in all, a well-intended endeavour but (parents and guardians) ... proceed with caution! Start the tot with the real thing!

I was disappointed to read on the third page "The Smoking of Rabbit Tabacco Pipe". I realize in the days of Beatrix Potter this may have been ok as part a character sketch but this book was written in 1995, a time of the "Dangers From Smoking" enlightenment. Did the author mean to encourage little children to smoke? We'll have to change the words to "Bubble Pipe" when this book is read to our grand child.

While other volumes deal with largely "philosophically-minded" works (Nyaya-Vaisesika in vol. 2 and 6, Samkhya in vol. 4, Buddhism in vol. 7 and 8), i'm not sure Advaita Vedanta can be dealt with from a philosophical perspective without removing most of its content. Advaita Vedanta is rather spiritual and religious than philosophical in purpose. Advaita is not to be analyzed from a philosophical perspective. This leaves an impression that these scholars have not understood the content of Advaita when reading it (have they really read it ?). If one reads the Bhagavad-gita, Srimad-Bhagavatam and other Advaita texts, one will soon realize that the stories they contain have not just a moral purpose. Their intent concerns the reader, not just ontological aspects as in philosophy but consequences on everyone's life. The purpose is not about trying to win arguments by word jugglery, but to provide spiritual insight for the reader. So i think that this volume misses largely its point, by restricting Advaita to what it is not intended to be. Rather read the non-scholarly works available everywhere than this volume.

I bought this book over some of the other civil review books because it looked longer and all of the other books had complaints about them. However, now I wish I had ignored those complaints and bought one of the others, because it would be hard for them to be any worse than this book. I would not recommend this as a good review. All of the review topics are VERY brief, most consisting of only a paragraph, if there is any review at all. It is basically a book of sample problems. Granted, the sample problems and explanations definitely help, but the problems all seemed rather simple and I'm worried that the exam questions may be more difficult. Also, there are topics on the civil EIT that are not covered at ALL in this book. The three major topics that are not covered are surveying, computers/numerical methods, and contracts/construction. All of these topics have 6 problems on the exam, just as much as geotech, hydraulics, or transportation! Water treatment was also not covered, unless you consider the environmental engineering chapter to cover it. I don't understand how they could publish an "effective review" book without covering 4 out of the 10 topics on the exam. The only redeeming quality to this review text is that it gives you a sample civil examination, but overall you'll be better off with Lindeburg's book.

If you have read the books this book is a waste of time. It mostly sums up the plot and characters and so forth. If you have not read the books and do not have time to have any fun -- since reading the books is lots of fun -- then this is a quick way to find out what is going on.