It's a good guide to Chicago. It helped me plan my trip, and navigate my way through the city. However, like any other travel book, some sites in Chicago do go out of business, and is still listed in the book. So, I suggest calling ahead or asking your concierge if the place is still in business. The book is a good starting block for your first trip to Chicago. It gives descriptive information on transportation through the city and suggestions on things to do in and around the city. The book is segemented into activties and then boroughs of Chicago, so it provides a good planning guide for your trip to Chicago.

This book is really helpful for anyone who wants to minister to GenXers or just understand them on a deeper level. "GenXers After God" defines what a GenXer actually is, his long-term needs, his viewpoints, his outlook on life, his insecurities, the kind of discipleship that would be appropriate to reach him, and the sorts of problems you might encounter if you were to disciple him, etc.... It also talks about the positive side of GenXers, their hopes, dreams, and the things they have to offer society. VERY thorough. This book is written by 2 GenXers, just to let you know. Each chapter is prefaced with a short paragraph taken from the actual diary of a GenXer (Daniel Kruidenier) who wrestles with the issues he faces in everyday life as a GenXer struggling to know God and follow His commands. (The handwritten font adds a nice touch).

Sincerely it was a great lecture. The topics of the book are concise and clear. The relevance of the subjects and the fluent text and make this book of great interest.

A scholarly text combined with lots of full color photographs make this book challenging and enlightening.

The myriad pantheon of the gods and godesses of ancient Egypt are discussed and analyzed. This is not just a simple glossary of names, pictures and attributes, although a short glossary is included in the back. The origins of the deities are revealed, as well as the animals with which they are associated, and how the various animal attributes transferred divine power to the gods.

Most of the objects, from temple and tomb excavations, are small, and are divided into everyday and ritual usages. Some monumental sculpture, such as from the great temples at Karnak, are included.

The photographs range in quality from excellent to fair; some of the full spread images are grainy when enlarged, while the brightly colored backgrounds against which the objects are presented are distracting at times.

Buy this book for the well-researched text; there are other books with better photographs.

Hume describes, as usual, in pithy and concise English, the events from Bosworth Field, in 1485, which led directly to the coronation of Henry VII, to the coronation of Henry VIII, who is the central figure in this volume, which might arguably serve as Henry's biography.

In this period, we learn how Henry VII formed close alliances with Ferdinand of Aragon, the wealthy prince of Spain, whose daughter, the Infanta Catherine, at 18 years of age, was first betrothed to the future king's elder brother Arthur (16 years old); but when Arthur dies, Henry, not wishing to return the dowry of 200,000 ducats, dumps Catherine onto his younger son, the future Henry VIII (who is 12 at this time). This fact alone might have caused much of the resentment toward the queen, whom Henry later divorced.

These incidents, the "divorce" of the monarch, the break with Rome, the tightrope walked by Henry between catholicism and the Lutheran principles, the growing power and wealth of Spain, the rivalries and jealousies between that nation and England and France; the growth and spread of protestant reform; Henry's absolute control over the government, his arbitrary and ruthless rule over the people, who esteemed him highly; his death, and the accession of Edward VI, and later, Mary, who reversed the policies of her father, and married Philip II of Spain, a catholic monarch; and Mary's death, and the succession of Elizabeth, close the volume.

As this volume becomes more particular than its predecessors, and covers a period of little more than 70 years, its detail somewhat hampers the flow of events, whereas the first two volumes were more general.

Still, an excellent work of history, and a very good read.

This work is full of information on the condition of House Steiner in the year 3025, and special attention is given to the industrial centers of the Lyran Commonwealth, the Commenwealth's history and the organization of the LCAF, the miliatary force of House Steiner. While an all-around excellent read, this work is not as well done as the House Kurita book in my opinion.

Contains important topics needed in the ICU like : Admission, Orders, Diagnostics, common complications, theraputic drug levels and others all in outlines. help you to remember critical things in the ICU.

There is something tragic in the obscurity of a writer as talented as Todd Walton; the fact that this was Walton's first novel intensifies the feeling. Notwithstanding the charisma and emotion with which Walton imbues his little creatures (Not to mention the fact of an equally obscure film based on the book), it would be a reasonable expectation to at least be able to get one's hands on the work without the hassle attendant to tracking down out of print books. Without a computer, mind you.

Roary is a Vietnam vet: A big hearted but physically imposing fellow with a limp as a reminder of the war; his best friend is Jerry, a tough but likewise handicapped lad who happens to be a basketball virtuoso. The two are pieces of a set of pawns holed up in Max's bar in San Francisco, owned by enigmatic, legless Max. From this setting, Jerry's hopes of a miracle operation that could cure his limp drift up to us; the irrevocable fiats of finances, though, prevent this. Roary sets out to help, at first by going into business selling wooden signs, before his partner absconds, though not without leaving Roary his share of the fruits of their venture. Roary then picks up work at Max's; a philanthropic move by a basketball pro secures Jerry his operation, but at what cost? It seems, at the cost of old friends and familiar haunts.

Walton is certainly a talented author; that said, there are flaws in this book that even the years that have elapsed since I read it can't erase. The writing style is sometimes prosy and predictable, with the characters talking in that grammatically correct "colloquial" language (look at Faulkner for what I mean; four hundred 'aint's' in a sentence, and they still say 'going to' instead of 'gonna'); also, Walton seems to think the reader will feel short changed if an ideal ending is withheld. But a book is a lot like a person: We have to weigh our complaints, and decide whether or not our reservations overpower our sense of good in the object being tested. In this case, for all the triteness and heavyhanded irony of this book, there seems to be a dearth of people looking hard enough at the many nice touches to the book's credit.

This book was excellent for me as a non-experienced computer user. I was able to take a look at mutiple operating systems and discover on my own which I liked best.

The first half of this book is startlingly well written, literary, and even sometimes quite humorous, as when Karpov recounts the story about his mother checking up on him after he had been forbidden to think about chess. As the book nears the present, however, Karpov loses the thread of his own story and begins to wander (some would put it stronger than that) in his analysis of Kasparov and their bitter rivalry. One wishes, therefore, that Karpov had waited til he was well into his 50's before attempting the sort thing he tries here; because his childhood is recalled with vivid insight and the point of view that emerges is astonishing: he just happened to find himself World Champion one day! On the other hand, I can easily imagine chess players not liking this book at all since it has no chess games in it; but that really doesn't matter if one is fascinated by the subject (as I am). I only mention the fact to warn people who might be expecting something other than what they will find here: an autobiography. That said, this is a very good book from the former World Champion which ends with him hopefully predicting his future re-claiming of the world title (the book came out in 1990). You can read that last part any way you like or ignore it, but there it is: Karpov is a romantic who had to somehow make his way through the demi-human universe of Soviet Chess. A number of fans will undoubtedly disagree with this assessment, but one can tell when someone is lying about the unacceptable deeds of their past: Karpov's memoir is, therefore, touching at times, as his telling of the events surrounding the aborted match with Fischer amply demonstrates.... I recomend this book to anyone who has a heart, and, wants to know more about the history of the royal game in our times.