I have read this book. This book contains a lot of interesting and helpful information for people who would like to know about the history of new york city waterfront. Highly recommended.

I would like to get my own copy, its so goo

This book was required reading in bible school for the life of Jesus course and it'sn pretty good. This book presents a chronological look at the gospels that is very accurate and easy to follow.

Parts of this book are a little difficult to follow. Mainly the stories that are repeated in the gospels. There are scripture by scripture comparissons and notes throughout each gospel story. The way that the book is set up really gives the writer a feel for what each author was writing, their writing styles and how they viewed what happened. It's what you'd expect to see when 4 different people have their own accounts of what happened in the life of Jesus. I really like it when books put the same stories side by side so the reader can read the different accounts and compare them so easily. The footnotes about what the scriptures mean are very helpful. This book is written with the scriptures of the New International version, so it is user friendly. At the end of the book there a number of writings and essays concerning the gospels, how they were written and other important things that readers of the gospels should know.

I recommend this book to any student of the scriptures or anyone who enjoys studying the gospels. This book is a great resource that makes studying the gospels much easier.

This helpful book arranges the four gospels in parallel columns, following the life of Jesus. It is a very helpful resource for anyone desiring to know what Jesus said and did in chronological order. Also, the book provides excellent essays and notes about various interesting and controversial issues involved in studying Jesus' life. It uses the New International Version in the text, making it available to all English readers. I use this book as an important part of the course I teach to ministerial students on the life of Jesus.

This is by far the best translation of Homer's Odyssey that I've read. I may be biased because I'm a student at the University of Kansas, where Lombardo teaches, but I think many would agree with me. Lombardo really makes an effort to make classical texts enjoyable and interesting for everyone. This is a very readable translation - as quick a read as any epic poem will ever be.

This translation brought the Odyssey to life for me like no other translation I've read, verse or prose. I blew through the exciting story like I would a "page turner" novel. I found myself laughing at the wordplay and looking back paragraph by paragraph (well, maybe they're not called paragraphs) to Lattimore's translation to compare. I can't wait to get Lombardo's Iliad.

Not-Hard stories that anyone of just about any mental capacity can read and understand, I liked it for that. Great stories, stories pretty much based on the most common tales of humanity and society, but with an interesting twist. I rated it a 4 primarily for what it offers to a lot of people, the opportunity to read well written novelettes, and because its not quite a 5 (its no Les Miserables or War and Peace) but still enjoyable!

This tiny booklet of short stories offers wonderful vignettes of 19th century life in Sicily. The characters come alive and some of the stories remind me of my late grandparents' tales about villagers in the "old country". Especially nice booklet for people of Sicilian descent.

Parlorpress.com is going to put out a new and full translation in the Fall of 2003. I like this abridged edition for my pocket version. I enjoyed starting from this book to see if the tales also had anything to do with Estensi/Ferarra history...and find it was written as a pleasant pastime for the recovering Duke Ercole...'read slowly on a sunny summer day in a room full of open windows...'
Charles Ross did wonderful research. I have seen commentary by C.S. Lewis on Boiardo and the epic tale and read Fortune and Romance essays edited by JoAnne Cavallo. But C.Ross is excellent for a short history of the time, as well.
For independent background on the D'Estensi (D'Este family) and interaction from Feltrino Boiardo (grandfather) to Matteo Maria, these texts are also good: Edmund Gardner's Dukes and Poets of Ferarra; Ferarra the Style of Renaissance Depotism by Werner L. Gundersheimer and Leon Battista Alberti: Master Builder by Anthony Grafton (not much in this title about Boiardo: I used it to confirm or reference related information on Ferarra).
The Boiardo information from Edmund Gardner's book is also still cited by literature scholars, from what I've seen.

Orlando Innamorato is an absolutely beautiful story. It is in the same style as Orlando Furioso (by Ariosto), which is its sequel. We follow Charlemagne's paladins as they traverse the world, pagan and Christian, looking for adventure, fame, and especially love. The Saracen princess Angelica has captured the heart of the brave and chivalrous Orlando and he will do anything to earn her love. The only problem is that she remains uninterested. It also seems that nearly every knight in the Christian and Saracen world desires her too! The Christians and Muslims are almost constantly at war, so this is another obstacle in the way of poor, lovesick Orlando. With this premise, Boiardo narrates a story of epic proportions that is enchanting, funny, exciting, and always beautiful. He combines irony, allegory, romance, chivalry and much more to create a masterpiece. The stories contained are similar to the Arthurian legends, but are, in my opinion, livelier and more exciting. I agree with C.S. Lewis when he wrote: "Our oblivion of these poets (i.e. Boiardo and Ariosto) is much to be regretted...because it robs us of a whole species of pleasures and narrows our very conception of literature."

This edition is beautifully rendered into verse, but it is abridged. The complete poetic text of the story is not present. However, the translator always summarizes (in narrative form) those parts he leaves out. There is also a useful introduction and extremely helpful annotations that explain difficult passages in the story. I highly recommend this book, especially if you are a fan of Orlando Furioso or Pulci's Morgante.

Recommend highly to identify Tek. equipment. About 85% of the book is descriptions of Tek. instruments with photographs. There is no repair information like schematics, but it does have some unique material.

This book is a must for any serious collector of Tektronix oscilloscopes

This book does an excellent job of presenting the material in the complete Robbin's textbook in a very clear manner. It is written in a concise, outline form that allows for easy review of only the most important aspects of disease. While Pathologic Basis of Disease is the standard for the study of medical patholgy, this book is saves so much time that you can get in even more review. That is of infinite value!

This is one my pearl for all second year students preparing for the boards: This book is the gold standard for being properly prepared for the Boards. I memorized this book, Ganong's Physiology, Katzung's pharm review, Jawetz's Micro review. I also memorized Lippincot's Biochem, NMS Neuroscience, NMS Genetics. I broke 255 and am now a first year resident at my first choice for neurosurgery (and I only wanted the most prestigous programs).

If you have high aspirations, then you must memorize Robbins' pocket companion also. It is so much more thorough than the BRS and retains some element of succinctness. There are no path questions on the boards that you won't be able to get if you memorize this book from cover to cover.

That is the key. Memorize this book and the others mentioned above and you too can pick where you want to do your residency.

This book will probably only be read by those opposed to capital punishment, which is a great pity. While the information in the book is dated, and the tone of the editors' introduction (covering several chapters) is extremely, off-puttingly shrill and sanctimonious, the interviews it contains should be mandatory reading for all citzens concerned about our penal and justice systems. Granted, there are no interviews with death penalty advocates, so the book is largely preaching to the converted. The power of the interviews is such that it becomes hard to imagine a rational person -- any rational person -- coming to a conclusion other than that the death penalty must be abolished. The book takes an optimistic view on the decline of capital punishment, which makes it sad to read in these times when the tide of public opinion has swept so heavilly in favor of capital punishment (and mandatory sentences). One hopes that a follow-up volume will be published to update the material. This book is well worth reading, even with its outdated data and outlook and its alienating introductory chapters.

This book is wonderfully written, very informative and truly a must-read!

This book discusses the definition of the Radon transform, it's properties, it's relation to other transforms (Fourier, et al.), it's inverse, and so on. It is well documented. (It even contains a translation of Radon's original 1917 paper!)

This book is the most useful source of such information I've found, so far. I judge it to be a bit challenging to advanced undergraduate students in mathematics and engineering. Graduate students should be able to handle it and may also feel that it extends them.

Four stars instead of five because some of the proofs reference papers apart from the book. It could be more readable, but it is quite good as it is.

I recommend it.

Stanley Roderick Deans shows us radon transforms like never before seen. This is quite a technically sound spell-bounding book. I have found every page to be useful. I even often go through it again and again on a daily basis. Quite a stunning techinical achievement. A must read for anyone serious about the study of mathematics.

This is the 4th revised edition of the popular railroad collectibles volume. It features 200 pages with thousands of listings and hundreds of black and white photos. 1999 values are shown. There's plenty of informative text and item descriptions are very comprehensive. Topics range from art, baggage, books, badges, keys, to passes, playing cards, stereo view cards and wax sealers, wood tokens and time tables. Railroad enthusiasts will find this volume of real value.

I am in the process of selling the collection for a man who has been a long-time railroadiana collector and this book has been invaluable to me. I would recommend it to all.