Since I love to read and have so many books on my "to read" list, I am always on the alert for any method that will help me read faster while maintaining my comprehension and still enjoying the beauty of a "well-turned phrase". Naturally, when I saw RAPID READING in the library, I took a few minutes to investigate. The claims of "reading" 25,000 words/minute and comprehending 3/4ths of it sounds incredible...and ludicrous. IF that were possible, I don't believe it can be taught. If someone is able to look at each page in the "photo-focus state" and retain 75% of it I think they're born with that gift (lucky them!). However, since I had been attracted to the book, I spent some time skimming the whole thing. When I had reached the end I concluded that I had actually employed some of the steps author Paul Scheele suggests; I was relaxed, interested, was looking for key words, and skimmed each page. I don't know how many words are in RAPID READING, but after skimming the book from cover to cover and taking approximately 25 minutes to do so, I believe I wasted my time. I really didn't learn anything new, especially how to "photo-focus". Actually, if you know how to skim, you know how to "rapid read". Save your money and skim the book in the library. 75% comprehension at 25,000 words per minute, you can't go wrong.

Technically, this book and "PhotoReading" are the same book. However, this book is formatted in the style made popular by the "For Dummies" series. Combined with the dimensions of the book, this makes it much easier to follow. This version also has more details on syntopic reading.

This book isn't really about reading, or speed-reading. PhotoReading is vastly different, as it involves seeing the words with the peripheral vision and understanding their meaning on a preconscious level. While many would say this makes "PhotoFocus" a useless activity which Paul Scheele uses to sell traditional speed-reading activities as previewing and skimming, events such as lucid dreaming, spontaneous activation, and increased intuitive capabilities prove that there is something going on at an other-than-conscious level.

This book is real good. It's about how to read a book, with more comprehension, and less time.

How is this possible? The system works with different ways to take up information. Normally you read in one way, but this system gives your total brain the chance to help you with understanding the book.

I read a lot of speed/rapid/smart reading books, but this one is the top!

Don't focus to much on the photoreading step, yes it is important, but to much people think they only have to do the photoreading step. No, use the whole system! Then you will notice the good results.

(Rapid reading made E-Z is the same book as Photoreading) There is a course about Photoreading, but I used 'only' the book, and have good results!

So: get this book!

Perhaps I'm just getting tired of reading the same information, repeated by different people. The temptation with three points of view of the rapture is to be complacent (there's no need to worry, we'll be safe), or scared (because we don't have the facts). But then, what if I'm wrong in my choice of one of three? What if all three of those viewpoints are wrong?

The point I'm trying to make is there cannot be 'three' viewpoints on the rapture. Sometimes I wonder if authors raise more questions to mask the fact that they cannot answer the question directly. But somewhere in the Bible there is only 'one' answer to this question.

It is interesting to read Three Views on the Rapture but I'm convinced that none of three views is biblical. I am a Postmil and I believe that the Bible gives enough evidence that the Great Tribulation already happened during the period 67-70 A.D. during which period the Lord unleashed His vengeance on apostate Israel. John himself, in writing Revelation, specifically mentioned that the Tribulation was SOON to take place and the TIME IS NEAR. Moreover, the message of Revelation was specifically addressed to the SEVEN CHURCHES WHICH ARE IN ASIA. These 7 churches existed during the 1st century and suffered greatly in the hands of Apostate Israel. Finally, John mentioned about the great temple which was in Jerusalem that was to be handed over to the Gentiles to be destroyed. History shows that this actually happened. No rapture took place during this tribulation period because it was the will of God for the true Church to endure the sufferings as He himself suffered in the hands of the Jews. Nowhere in the history of Christianity has the Church suffered so horribly than during this period prior to the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 A.D.

The format, three predominant views of premillenialism set side by side intrigued me. I was a little bit disappointed because all three scholars are from the same school, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. I was also slightly disappointed because the book is quite dated, going back to the an early 80's prophecy conference. A lot of prophetic viewpoints have changed since then, which affect interpretations and schools of thought in eschatology.

But, overall I was duly impressed. Feinerg, Archer and Moo are fine conservative scholars, and each make an impressive case for their stance as to the timing of the premillenial rapture. In my opinion, Archer stands out among them, and does an excellent job of setting forth the mid-tribulational rapture.

Not a great eschatology work, but an adequate synopsis of widely held views. I agree with the other reviewers that it is not for the novice, but for someone already familiar with premillenialism and end-times prophecy. It's a read and pass-on, no permanent place on my shelf kind of book.

The writing is fragmented and incomplete statements are often seen, for example:

1. in section 4.6.4, it is written
"If A and B are vectors, A&&B returns true if both words are
positive integers." then no words there to specify "otherwise" part. If you assume otherwise A&&B returns false, you are wrong,
since A&&B returns true when both are negative integers too.

2. In 7.5.1, it says "There are two forms for delay control,...
The first form is ...", but the second form is never explained or mentioned there.

3. You often see
always @ ( a or b ) in examples with "or" in boldface,
but I could not find where "or" is defined. Even though I
understand its meaning, I wish to tell the differece from
using "|" , "||"

4. ... plus many typos

These cause a lot confusion in reading

This book is one best to learn Verilog with. Each chapter starts with an statement of the chapters objectives, then covers the topic with many examples and finally summarizes the chapter at the end. There are an series of questions at the end of each chapter that help to solidify the concepts within each chapter. (but no answers in the book). All in all I think that this is the best overall presentation of Verilog that I have read yet. Samir Palnitar's Verilog HDL is slower paced and thus better for the novice (I read this one first). This book is slightly more advanced and seems to take you further.

The reader from Ann Arbor was unduly harsh in his review of the text. I have read the book cover-to-cover, and found it to be very instructive and helpful. Yes, the author used some devices that are antiquated in a few examples. So what!! The purpose of the text is to instruct how to write good code--and the book does exactly that. In fact, this book even helped me write good VHDL code. Give your career a boost--buy the book.

I didn't care for this book much.

Whether it is poor editing, or poor understanding of the subject, I found it confusing and vague whenever it got anywhere near technical detail. For example the book seems not to understand the fairly fundamental difference between a subway car and a subway train.

On the other hand, if you like good, flavorful tabloid writing, you will like the accident descriptions with their descriptions of the screams and groans of the injured.

As a Brit with a passing interest in the New York subway system I purchased this book and one other as a way of finding out more about the network.

This was the poorer of the two books that I purchased, in that it seemed to be more anecdotal in nature, with few hard facts about the system. Some sections seemed to be a bit strange, such as that reviewing each line from a tourist/riding point of view.

However, I don't want to appear totally negative about the book - it was an interesting read but not quite the definitive tome that I was looking for.

A good book if you want to know the histery and running of the subways. Many little known facts also line the book pages. This is a wonderful update of the orginal book and suggest that you order it.

This book is of no value for the current (2001) AHA course. It was excellent when current back in 1996, but I ordered it not realizing it is out of date. Do not get this book, except for historical purposes

A must have for ACLS. This book makes studying for and taking the ACLS course much easier and more enjoyable. The AHA book has long been the teaching manual and still contains course outlines but this book has references to the AHA manual with page numbers to reference. It is much easier to read and understand. I just hope with the new guidelines coming this year the authors follow suit with an updated version of this book!

I hated this book for all the same reasons that the previous reviewer loved it. Latour's voice changes add some depth to the story, but are done in a manner so convoluted that much of the substance is lost. Using Aramis itself as the voice of martyred technology just becomes increasingly absurd throughout the book. There are much better books than this out there about man's relationship with technology, do yourself a favor and find one of them.

This is a very disturbing but at the same time very thought-provoking book on the adoption of a hypermodern new means of public transportation. Aramis was a small car version of the driverless subway which is now commonly known because of applications in Lille (France) and Orlando (USA)
Latour disguises as a student of engineering sciences and writes a kind of whodunnit on the final question: 'who killed Aramis"? Because he lends his voice to the engineer, to his professor of Sociology,
to the Aramis system itself and to himself as an author, the book shows different views on the same reality.
Highly documented with texts that would be dynamite if they had been published during the development of the Aramis train system itself.
Latour shows why Conservative governments never would adopt really revolutionary developments in public transportation.

At times a difficult book, but hilarious too, and a reader for every technology-minded post-structuralist and post-marxist thinker...

Stefaan Van Ryssen

Upon getting released from prison, Milo "Meat" Pitts, indulged himself in a plan to rob an armored car at a department store. He was aptly named Meat because of his bulk and strength; but his only friend . . . or just sidekick, as he sometimes considered . . . was Ducky, who was comically the opposite in structure.
Mitchell Morse who had once been a good linebacker in college, but chose a career as a police officer, eventually lost that job due to his excessive force. Then as a security guard . . . which he eventually lost . . . ended up as a guard at a discount store, where he was to meet Starla who worked as a cashier.
Starla, whom was very loose with herself in an attempt to get out of a dreadful job, and dreadful city, encountered more grief when an ex-husband whom she had self-proclaimed being divorced from eight years ago came knocking at her trailer. She didn't like being around Meat, but his idea to get a lot of money held her interest. Though it would be a long two months before the robbery, having to put up with Meat and that goof Ducky in the meantime.
Doc Kasperson (a scammer of sorts . . . teetering legitimacy with his hair growth idea) was an acquaintance of Meat, and who was brought in to get the details of the job. Unfortunately throughout the novel there is a client who constantly is pestering the Doc, along with the story, but becomes relevant towards the end.
This novel contains an occasional interlude of dark humor that may or may not pertain to the story, but when it involves Meat and Ducky these humor parts make the story worth reading. It's well written, but overdone and could have been shortened by 40 pages.

It would have been good to have kept the book from seven years ago. Looking to get it again. Kakonis writes better than Elmore Leonard in some ways. He makes criminals even more realistic. Criss Cross had a strange duo that went well together, but a duo I've seen in real life...when a huge tough guy is partnered with a weakling. Another tough guy...who is a victim of occupational circumstance...ends up in a battle of wits and brawn with the criminals. A attractive woman is also good to have in the mix; and there is one.
........So, now that this has been re-read: The ex-cons were "Meat" and "Ducky," the huge and scrawny, respectively. Starla is the wife of Meat, whom she hadn't seen in eight years, and is forced into helping with robbing an armored truck at the department store she works at.
Starla looks for help in the plan (and for her own sake) by getting "Morse" included. And Morse, who has gone from college linebacker, to police officer, to security gaurd, to then hit bottom at the department store looking for thieves, goes along, but not for the sake of Starla or the money; he want's to break up the robbery.
There's Doc Kasperson involved, too; who mixes upgrading the plan of the robbery with scamming men over hair products. This charactor, and the man he is scamming, might be a bit of an annoyance, and interfering with the interesting and comical escapades of Meat and Ducky, who are without a doubt the main attraction.
This crime novel is well written, but to me, about a total of 20 pages here and there too long, maybe more. Ranking Tom Kakonis's novels: 1. Double Down / 2. Michigan Roll / 3. Shadow Counter / 4. Criss Cross

This is one of many books that Ironman publishing has produced over the last few years. It is really a repeat of what they state in their magazines every month. The book has many different routines, covers every thing from pre-exhaustion to their stretch/contraction routines. [ what they have stated in many of their other books ]. I would not recommend this book, nor would I recommend any of Ironmans Books [ any books pertaining up until 2000]

I was upset to see the ratings on this great book. Most people don't undrstand the modivation it takes to follow an amazing workout program to get huge results. This book is not for the weak. Its not a question of whether the training routines work, its a question if you have the drive and dedication to improve yourself! This book will show you the proper form and movements of each exercise using the popular P.O.F. movements along with pictures. It shows you how to not overtrain your bodyparts. I recommend this book to serious person about getting results.

An intense book all should read. It really brings out the sociopath in everyone. For me the first few pages taught me more than Howard Hughes could teach the modern Major General. Don't forget to wear your pith helmet while reading this book, ha ha ha ha...ha!

The content of this pocketbook deserves at least a 4 on rating, but design is almost horrible. It is held by HUGE plastic spirals and is very thick. What is up with many of the largest med books pubkishers such as mosby and others? They just do not know how to design small pocketbooks. They used such huge fonts that the book is about 180 thick pages instead of using smaller font and condensing it a little more (could easily be made less than 100 pgs...easier to place in shirt pocket). It is too spread out: certain tables which with a little creativity can be placed on one page run over 4 pages, making it difficult to follow. Also, it is about 2.5 in wide, which is too small if using huge fonts. They should at least used wider format: 5 or 6 in by 3.5 or 4 in. If you have the large textbook, save your money and if want to create pocketbook, buy other ACLS pocketbooks or just make your own on white 6x4in, make a hole for ring and thats it.