Having used the Bond films, especially Goldfinger, in the classroom and written articles about 007 I was sadly let down by this book. While it begins with a very clever parody of a James Bond type story and contains many interesting interviews, there are many glaring errors. Sean Connery does not dislike having done this work, at least not as much as is implied, and some of his closest friends are associated with the Bond films he starred in. The information on Ian Fleming relied too much on John Pearson while seeming to ignore other biographers. There were some errors that made you suspect that the author has never seen the movies he talked about. For example, in covering the two Flint movies Lee J. Cobb is identified as the arch villain rather than the equivalent of M to Derek Flint. (It is a shame that master novelist John Gardner, who penned many Bond books, was not consulted as I have had this wonderful opportunity and learned more from him in ten minutes than from this book.) I have also met and talked with a couple of the stars of this film in the past so I do know something about it. New facts were brought out through the interviews so I am glad that I read the book. I do wish that the author had a better understanding of American culture and fandom as that may have eliminated some of the elitism that this reader senses. The book was a great idea, it will be a part of my Bond library, but not one that I will refer to very often. I really wish that it could have been better as I consider Goldfinger one of the great films of the 20th century.

This book has been exhaustively researched and it shows. This must have been a real labor of love for the author, Adrian Turner. This is the one film that really spawned the world of James Bond to the general public. It left an endearing quality on many of us and this book is a tribute to that whole unforgettable era.

I am a huge fan of the James Bond series and thus purchase every book relating to the series that is published. Being the die-hard fan that I am, I often get a book only to discover that it restates trivia and info that I've read a thousand times in other, earlier Bond movie retrospectives. However, I delighted to say that is not the case with "Adrian Turner on Goldfinger." I can assure you that even the most dedicated Bond-o-philes will not know most of the facts recounted in the book. There's a delightful interview with director Guy Hamilton as well as the sound man for the film. Every major player of the film is profiled in detail, and most of the production stories and trivia are not ones I've heard before. The real treat of the book is a lengthy account of the various drafts of the scripts, which alone is worth the price. All of this and much more will make a worthy addition to any Bond fan's (or movie fan in general, for that matter) bookshelf.

Best to look for another electronics dictionary that's a little more down to earth!

This is the best electronics dictionary I've ever run across. All of the definitions are clear and concise. There are many cross-references to other similar topics. Students and technicians will find this dictionary especially suited to their needs.

This book is the most straightforward and comprehensive electronics dictionary I have found. The illustrations are simple, and are easy to interpret. I think some terms have illustrations when they aren't needed. I really appreciate the fact that the mathematics is not too complicated.

Turner is an engaging writer. She could probably write a recipe that would keep your attention. However, the story she develops here entirely lacks a satisfactory conclusion and the beginning of the book seems more pretentious than challenging. If one knew Lucy as a real person, she'd be frustrating as her story bounces too often to maintain rapt attention. Still, if you've nothing else to read soon, it's not the worst book to spend time reading and there are some interesting viewpoints to be shared with the characters.

When I finished this book, I was plagues for weeks afterword by its haunting feeling and amazingly real characters. Thats something that impresses me about Hospital, she writes with such feeling, the characters just would not leave my mind. Sometimes, however, the emotion overtook the evolution of plot, and I must say I was disappointed by the ending. But if you give this one time and are open to it, it will take you on a trip. Masterful prose.

The prose and plot of this story are by far the most difficult of any of hers. It took me 3 tries to get through it but was well worth the effort as usual. Take it someplace where you will have lots of time and relaxation to concentrate. As with all her stuff you'll feel disturbed and unsettled afterwards. Then you'll take it too your friends and say "just stick with it"

This is an excellant map once you are in london, but you won't find helpful info on restaurants and hotels in this one. I would recommend Frommer's guide to london which has climate for each month and where to go.

A very thorough survey of notable buildings and sites of interest around London. Especially strong on churches. Descriptions are brief, however, and nothing is really evaluated, so don't use this as your only guide unless you really know London. Excellent for figuring out what else might be of interest nearby where you're going.

After having enjoyed Michelin guides for years, I believe that this is a better buy. It contains much (if not all) of the same information in a layout that is easier to use and in a typeface that is easier to read. It takes you through sights, attractions, restaurants, and pubs in a logical street by street manner. Saves lots of time in planning. I recommend it highly.

To some, the title of this book - Morality and Contemporary Warfare - may seem as much an oxymoron as its subject matter - just war theory. Well, James T. Johnson is out to convince you that your wrong. Somewhere exactly in between hard-line interventionism and soft-line pacifism lies the cool, tempered and thoughtful (if still imperfect) moral approach of just war theory.

According to just war theory, there are seven moral imperatives to be cognizant of before any war can be justified: a just cause, appropriate intent, response is proportioned to the stimulus, their must exist a reasonable hope for success, peace must be the end goal, only those authorized to declare war do, every other option has been exhausted or is infeasible. Similarly, if a nation or alliance decides to go to war, there are two rules, according to just war theory, for combat: first, one must do as little damage to noncombatants as possible, and second, the use of force has to be no greater than is necessary.

Using these guidelines, Johnson takes just war theory (a concet that's been in discussion since Grotius) and applies it to contemporary (1997) situations. He reviews how international law has adopted the just war theory and how the church has embraced it (even as they embraced pacifism, they used its principles as a fall-back plan).

The advantage of a book like this is that a.) Johnson is comprehensive in his theoretical discussions and links them to concrete events (Somalia, Iraqi guif war, American civil war). The second advantage is that as it was written in '97, the book is calmer in tone than those written post-Sept. 11th, particularly in his informative and clear-headed discussion of the differences (but not incommensurability) between Western and Islamic culture.

The disadvantages are two: First, Johnson tends to wander into lengthy digressions in his chapters, so much so that occasionally, I found myself wondering if he'd come back to his original argument. He always did but it left me wondering without the digressions, if the book would've been 140 instead of 227 pages. Second, Johnson is not a good writer. His dull prose meant combined with unpredicted digressions left me wandering my mind a bit, so that I would end up reading the same page three times, each time noticing another better way to work the thought he expressed.

All in all, it is a good book that brings up to date a theory of just wars that was last seriously broached by Micheal Walzer in 1977 (in a classic called "Just and Unjust Wars". The dryness and unpredictability of the text, though, keep this from a four or five star ranking.

Johnson does an excellent book introducing the reader to the development of just war theory. His arguments are clear, well structured, and logical. I highly recommend this book for theorists and policymakers (especially) as a strong introduction into the field of just war thinking and all of its real-world incarnations (e.g., humanitarian intervention, civil wars, international humanitarian law, and peace-building/enforcing).

The only criticism I have is that it is too reliant on only a few sources. Johnson builds almost all of his arguments around Michael Waltzer's "Just and Unjust Wars" and Chirstian thought. If we are to come to a global political consensus on the laws of war, including what a "crime against humanity" is, we need to come to a moral consensus. That moral consensus, as Johnson does admit, will only come through a further understanding of non-Christian thought on the subject.

All in all, it's a strong book and definitely worth reading.

Johnson does an outsatnding job in looking at the developement of Just War Theory. Particularly helpful is his noting the recent development of the pacifist presumption which is new developement in modern academic thought. The book goes a long way in bringing the Just War Theory out of its current misuse by both the pacifists and national leaders. I highly recommend this book.

The comments above on this book are simply innacurate. There is a disclaimer in that it refers to the "Paperback" edition. Since this book has never been available in hardcover, I can only surmise that the comments might refer to an earlier version of this book. Therefore, I feel compelled to review the 2001 version of this book, to eliminate confusion, and to set the record straight about it.

I purchased this book because I thought Harley Hahn's Internet Yellow Pages was just a little too disorganized and a little too cutesy for my taste. And this book indeed is well organized and not cutesy in its website descriptions. It is for these reasons that I am giving it two stars, as opposed to one star.

However, this book has some major flaws:

1) In contrast to the comments above, this book does not refer to any FTP, Gopher, newsgroup, bulletin board, or mailing list sites. Nor are there any Editor's Choice sidebars, or tips on browsers. This book strictly catalogs web sites - and that is all. Nothing else. The only other thing contained in this book besides website reviews, is a 6 page forward explaining how to use search engines.

2) This book is certainly not definitive, nor even comprehensive. Although it does contain a CD Rom of the book inside, the book is only 748 pages, not the 1200 stated above. (817 pages if you count the index). The websites contained under each category are often not the best sites for the subject matter. More often they are a collection of semi-obscure sites that might be of some interest to a devotee, but are not the place to get started on a topic. And the descriptions of the sites mostly lack detail.

3) A mammoth weakness of this book is that the authors go out of their way to make sure that any website is only listed under one category, no matter how comprehensive the site might be. For example, ESPN.com is listed under "News-Services". Then ESPN.com is not listed again anywhere under any sport category, even though it would be an obvious choice for many. CBS Sportsline is only mentioned in the "tennis" category, and CNN-SI will not be found at all. Similarly, many mega-stores selling many products, including Amazon.com and BN.com are solely listed under "books". Meanwhile, AddAll.com, the premier book price comparison site, is nowhere to be found.

4) The combination of the three things mentioned above combine to make for a weak guide. Since the authors refuse to repeat listings of websites under multiple categories, categories can run incredibly thin. And because the authors are not careful or comprehensive, the thin lists are not usually the "short list" of sites you would want to visit. For example, the Football category (which does not mention the sports websites I listed above), mentiones merely six websites. They are "Division I Football Schedules"(?), "FootballSites.com" (a fun site for football history buffs), "The NFL Players Association", "The Nando Times NFL Football Server", "The Pro Football Hall of Fame", and "USA Football Center Online". I think it goes without saying that most of you who follow football could think of 20 sites you would visit before any of these. I only use football as an example; those of you who do not follow football can expect similarly poor listings in many other categories.

I cannot recommend the 2001 version of the QUE Official Internet Yellow Pages. I will leave it to you to investigate the alternative books, most of which I have not read. I do know that despite imperfections, the Harley Hahn Yellow Pages (3 1/2 stars from me) is at least significantly better than this offering from QUE.

I use the yellow pages in order to find businesses. I use the yellow pages in order to find what is local to me. Since the inception of the internet business or web sites are virtually at your fingertips and the yellow pages can take you there.

Literally from A to Z is what you get, in over 800 pages covering just about every category you can think of and then some. Each entry includes the correct URL and a brief description of the Web Site .

What you don't get is an electronic version of the book with an ability to update on a regular basis. Like any yellow pages this book is only as accurate as those putting it together and having to buy this book year may not be the value you think it is.

At the end of the book is an index that cross references the entire book, overall there are a couple of improvements needed and this book should have parent approved section.

this book is just full of links to all kinds of sites. everyone in my house uses it.

This is a book that takes a look at practical, primitive religion. However, I wasn't pleased with the stereotyping of the characters. When speaking of black women, it would have been nice to see them described as gently as the other characters (who were assumed to be white). Black women do not have "broods" of children and black female police officers are not imposing and threatening. Anybody in a police uniform is imposing. This fact was neglected when the main character was giving communion with an armed guard present in the room. Am I too assume that he/she was white and less imposing by way of his whiteness? The overall message of the book was clear, and I can appreciate what the author was trying to say. However, the descriptions of the ethnic races throughout the book didn't reflect the message the book was trying to present.

Charles Turner has a friendly writing style that's realistic and thought provoking. I think I'll carry this story and its message with me forever--to refer back to every time my Christianity is challenged. What kind of a Christian am I, anyway? And just how far am I willing to go in loving my neighbor as myself? Mr. Turner has me asking myself these questions.

I loved this book! The mystery was intriguing and his depiction of Christianity-in-action was challenging. Charles Turner's characters could be found in the pews of any church. He writes realistically about the questions we must ask ourselves as we struggle to live our faith in these confusing times. This book both provokes thought and brings pure enjoyment.

A police procedural that is crude and poorly edited. The serial killer's descent into total madness is unexplained. The detective-hero spends 2/3 of the book as baffled as everyone else, then has a sudden epiphany that even Sherlock Holmes would not see the connection. This is sloppy writing. Our shy, pseudoanon. author should take a few lessons from Ed McBain another nom de plume who writes great procedurals.

The so-called final twist was screaming from the first journal excerpt revealed. Moral: Never let your readers get ahead of your hero. Reason for one more than the obligatory star: McQueen's characterization is good, and the author knows his way around a police department.

This book held my attention throughout the whole book. Ending is amazing...jaw literally dropped! Highly recommended!

THE TURNER JOURNALS BY ROBERT LEIGH WAS THE BEST BOOK THAT I HAVE EVER READ. I READ THIS BOOK IN TWO DAYS, ONCE I STARTED READING IT I COULD NOT PUT IT DOWN. THE ENDING OF THIS BOOK WILL MAKE YOU SCREAM. I WOULD LOVE TO READ MORE BOOKS BY ROBERT LEIGH.

Jane Turner Rylands has lived in Venice for thirty years and, according to the jacket copy of this collection of short stories, her husband is the director of the Peggy Guggenheim Museum of modern art. One can assume therefore that Ms. Rylands is fairly well positioned to write a perceptive account of what really happens in Venice. The surprising and disappointing thing is how many of the stories in this book involve unpleasant people stabbing each other in the back and jockeying for social position.
To be fair, Rylands' writing is polished and she can tell a story well. But she has an annoying fatal flaw: it's her irritating condescension, which never lets up. Really talented story-tellers are truly engaged with their characters; Ms. Rylands' haughty tone sets her apart and puts the reader off at the same time. In addition, she often strains for effect with awkward or even downright silly results--as in the book's very first sentence: "When the last quarter of the twentieth century opened throttle for the millennium and the Venice of today...."
Rylands would probably have been better off writing a book of nonfiction about her own life in Venice and the lives of other real people who live there. But then, maybe she did and this is it.

I've been to Venice a few times, and Ms Rylands' book is funny and moving and most of all, gives you a real feel for the city. I think it's really sympathetic to the inhabitants. My favourite has to be the story of the Countess-a woman who is struggling against the collapse of her family and what she perceives to be the slow death of Venice, as tourism ruins life for the local inhabitants, who are leaving for the mainland. Like one of her famous courtesans, her beauty has brought Venice tourism and wealth, but at what cost?

Like all Turner-Rylands' depictions of family life, the outcome of the Countess story is very touching, and definitely optimistic. She clearly has adopted the italian reverence for the family.

...I don't know if these are real people she's based her book on as the Iowa reviewer seems to think (perhaps he/she knows something I don't), but it's to the author's credit that they seem so utterly real. If they are, I'd love to meet them...Venetian Stories certainly made me wanna go back to Venice soon!

Jane Turner Rylands' collection of stories is, by turns, hilarious, moving and surprising, with depth of characterisation hardly ever found in the confines of the short story genre. Although this is Rylands' first published work, it confirms her as a storyteller of unusual perceptiveness and intelligence, and it can only be hoped that she writes another book of this calibre in the near future. A great read, and highly recommended to anyone.

I just finished this in the Adept series, and plan to read 'em all.I am SO at polar odds about these books, though. Kurtz and Turner REALLY know their stuff about cerimonial magick, the Knights Templar, Fae folk, Reincarnation and the Quabbalah-just for starts! That they so seemlessly weave it into a rousing adventure is enough to make me keep on(I cant wait to read #4, Dagger Magic where they will hopefully make good the promise in Lodge of the Lynx that Hitler was a black magician)But WHY are the characters so shallow!?!Peregrine is never described as any more then "blond and owl eyed" Adam has "distinguished greying temples" and drives a Jag. FORGET about any female characters, except for Adams mother they are convienent background material. I find it almost hard to care about these people, but the elegant and descriptive writing, the lushious depections of castles, magickal artifacts and the most beautiful mansions you ever wished you lived in PLUS the AUTHENTIC (And so rare to me)weaving of real magick and lore into the plot will keep me reading anyway. Better then most fantasy fiction. And I hear their new Knights Templar series is better.

Suspend your logic for a trip into a magical world with The Adept series. Yes, Kurtz and Harris make good use of just enough historical fact to maintain plausibility, while adding a good dose of fantastical magic for a wonderful read. While The Templar Treasure may not contain enough fact for fans of that bygone order, it does contain some reasonably accurate description of Qabalistic ritual. I am certain that either Kurtz or Harris are familiar enough with the Golden Dawn tradition to have fashioned their psychic detective in similar tradition. A delightful read.

Having renewed my interest in fantasy/sci-fi book reading just recently, i came across this book at a second hand bookshop. Being familiar with the author's past works, i expected the same Knight/Chivalry stuff from the author with the added magic/sorcery mix added. The book was a good read. The mix of historical fact and fictional elements were very interesting and made me very interested about the stories of the Templar Knights and Scottish history.

However it wasn't a perfect book with the ending a little too predictable.