Cooper's tome tackles an important issue !!!
-- is there a god? -- is god merely absent or has s/he
'died' in some way? -- how are we to make life meaningful?

but Cooper lets his theater-training creep out in one unforgettable chapter, during which the naive reader is drawn into a tangential web of inferences inspired by dramaturgical zealotry. The dude -- Dr. Cooper of East Stroudsburg (PA) University -- tests the patience of his readers with an almost merciless string of references to plays by Eugene O'Neill, Arthur Miller, even Sophocles. and all the while, as you might've guessed, Ole Doc Cooper stridently rails against the Death of God theologians of the sixties! doesn't he even give 'em a chance? Nope. Guilty until proven innocent, for those poor scholars-of-the-abyss.
If you're a-searchin' for an unbiased examination of the ideas surrounding THE last interesting movement in modern theology -- that of 'Christian Atheism' -- then you're in for a boatload of disppointment if you decide to purchase and then read Doc Cooper's terrible tome.

the story did not really have a ending because i dont know what happened to Drew Kate and Bo if they got in trouble orif kate went to her inboundery school

Derek Cooper is a well known British food writer. Snail Eggs and Samphire is a collection of his writings. This work has the problem common to anthologies of this sort; a long string of essays don't really form a single book. I also feel it is too long. Many of the essays overlap, and Cooper often makes the same point in several pieces. Although only about a decade old, the commentary often seems outdated. For instance, many "new trends" Cooper observes here, such as in natural foods, seem like ancient history by now. A final caveat --Cooper is writing primarily for a British Isles audience and much of the material is specific to that region. After all these complaints, believe it or not I can still find much to recommend in this book. One of the points that Cooper repeatedly makes is the preferability of natural foods over highly processed ones. This is probably worth hearing over and over again, as many people remain addicted to junk foods. And Cooper isn't talking about trendy health foods (not primarily anyway); there are many detailed narratives about fresh fish, cheese made the old-fashioned way,
free-range chickens, organic vs. commercial produce and so forth. Squeamish vegetarians should probably avoid this book, as there are some rather graphic descriptions of fish and animal organs. Cooper introduces us to many fellow food enthusiasts along the way (don't expect me to remember any names); other writers, owners of fine restaurants, organic wine growers in California, and countless others. Although most of the writings are concerned with his native England (and its Celtic neighbors Ireland, Scotland and Wales), Cooper also takes us to Russia, America, Israel and Italy in his search for great cuisine. At times he comes across like a crusader, but it's hard to question the rightness of his cause. Since this book came out, the commercialization of food (along with everything else for that matter) has only increased. Despite the growing natural foods movement, fast foods, convenience foods and just plain boring and tasteless homogenized foods are still the norm. Food enthusiasts will love this book and be more tolerant than I was of its redundancies. Others should still listen for their own education, or seek the same information in a more concise format. As this is an audio book, I should also mention that the reader is excellent. He successfully brings to life the many diverse personalities Cooper interviews, perfectly capturing accents from French to Cockney to American.

Dennis Cooper, before turning to novels, wrote several books of poetry and short-short stories. The good news about The Tenderness of the Wolves is its super final story, a longer piece called "A Herd", where Cooper begins to explore dark areas, including mutilation, rape, and sadism, which he later returns to in his novels. "A Herd" is haunting and brutal, verging on shocking on a first read. His exploration of these difficult topics is strong, yet subtle. Also included in this book is "Being Aware," among the best of all Cooper's poetry. Unfortunately, beyond that, the poems are a marked dropoff, distinctly less interesting than in Cooper's earlier book, Idols. He covers the territory of bored, sexually peaked teenagers better than anyone, but these poems don't show more than flashes of true insight. In addition, if anyone wants to read a truly overblown analyzation of Cooper's work, check out the introduction to this book, written by! noted novelist and essayist Edmund White.

The story itself is interesting but the book contained too much "filler". Elaborate detail about subjects that did not contribute to the book in a meaningful way. If you reduced the book to "non-fluff" then it would only be about 35 pages in length. One could read the same story from newspaper articles and have learned as much - without wading through background info that was not pertinent to the story's viability.

Book also contained an unacceptable number of typographical and grammatical errors that interrupted the reading flow.

I found thsi book to be very intersting, especially at first as it was the first book that I read concerning the Runes. As time has passed and my experience and knowledge has incresed, I question some of the interpretations and practices that Mr Cooper gives in his book. Let me give a little example. For the rune Jera he uses a different shape, one that I have not yet found anywhere else. Apart from some differences, like the given example, I find that the book "Using the Runes" by D. Jason Cooper to be valuble and I do not regrett that I bought and read it.

sincerly yours

Per Lundberg

For die-hard (pardon the pun) murder mystery fans, this book might be a bit toned down, but it is worth the time and the challenge. Although this book may have been intended for adult readers, high school teenagers and possibly even junior high students will enjoy this entertaining who-dunit.

The story takes place in small town America and revolves around the antique market, specifically antique bicycles. Details about specific actual bicycles, such as the American Flyer, have been woven into the thread of suspense surrounding the murder investigation. The first victim is a miserly businessman claiming to have in his possession a bicycle hand-built by the Wright Brothers. Before long, most of the neighborhood is suspect in not one, but two murders, and possibly other crooked dealings. Equally threaded through the events is the quietly building romance between a young woman, who is an antique bike collector-turned-amateur investigator, and a former forensic locksmith.

Though a bit tame, "The Wright Special" makes for a comfortable, entertaining afternoon session, without the exaggerated violence and foul language so often found in hard-core murder mysteries on the market.

Having muddied the waters of physical chemistry, Atkins proceeds to write this low-grade inorganic text. This book is laughable next to the Huheey, Keiter et al text. This text is also far below the Miessler & Tarr text.

This book is printed in large text, in black & white, with some line art. It has no more pages than M&T but is twice as thick. Its descriptions are shoddy and the explanations lacking.

Do yourself a favor and pick up the Miessler and Tarr text and leave this book alone.

Atkins presents quite a bit and there are some flaws (the group section...), but, they nice thing about this book is that it presents quite a bit on the mechanism of reactions and doesn't seem encyclopedic (see my review for Cottons "Basic Inorganic Chemistry, 3rd Edition") A very good reference. If I were going to teach a two part course in inorganic (maybe one day...) then I would have the first section be mainly based off of Cotton and Wilkinson and then the second section based off of Spessard's "Organometallic Chemistry". I must strongly say that this is a good comprehensive presentation of the subject which gets into the real down and dirty on the subject...

If after reading of dozens of chemistry textbooks you still have a mess in your head and feeling chemistry is something very tricky, this is the right book to put things on their places.

Have you ever begun reading a book and gotten so distracted by the technical and English errors? Have you ever waded through a manuscript that was so filled with misspelled words, terrible grammatical constructions and English so poor that a 6th grader can spot the errors? This describes my experience with this book.

A few months ago I went on a buying binge of alternate WW2 books, which, unfortunately, included this incomprehensible piece of trash. The author has no style, no concept of how to provide the reader with any sense of continuity, absolutely no schooling in the German language, and very lame technical errors liberally sprinkled throughout the book. For instance: There is a passage that refers to the yield of the atomic device as "twenty thousand kilotons." This comes out to 20 megatons. By contrast the device that was dropped on Hiroshima was a 15 kiloton device. There are many anachronistic references to agencies (NSA, US Air Force) that didn't exist until after the war.

Then there is the junk German: "frau" is a noun and should be capitalized. "tochers" should be "Töchter," which is the plural of "Tochter," the word for daughter. "Prostituierens" is a nonsense word. In this context the author probably means "Prostituierte." "prostituieren" is a verb, not a noun. "Kornel" is not a German word. The author probably means "Oberst," the German equivalent of colonel. "Kreigsmarnie" is a poor spelling of "Kriegsmarine."

The response by an editor at this publisher who responded to my extensive list of problems replied, "In a topic of Alternative History, we depend on the author for his research. And as we come across corrections that need to be made, we apply then in the next printing." In other words, they don't even do a copy edit of the basic English, which was totally atrocious and bears no relation to the language you and I speak and write.

Not recommended on any level. I wish there were negative stars to rate this juvenile attempt.

"The Triumph of the Third Reich" will appeal to WW II afficionados as well as alternative history fans. Mr. Cooper has done his homework and it shows in the accurate historical details about the participants, tactics, weapons, policies, and economics presented in the story. In fact, it's often hard to know when truth ends and fiction begins. The minor shifts he introduces in the timing of certain key events are quite plausible and could easily have happened, perhaps leading to the alternative scenario he envisions. I found the book to be a very enjoyable read.

Readers of alternate history will find Edward Cooper's Triumph of the Third Reich an interesting and rewarding experience. It is well researched and well written.

Those of us who have wondered what would have happened during World War II if the Nazi had been the first to develop vastly superior weapons in quantity, will find Cooper's narrative frightening and compelling. Yet, in the end, it is also a triumph of sanity and humanism over the madness of war. The German people finally reject authoritarian politics, racism, and hatred. They prove themselves to be both civilized and humane. This book is very sympathetic toward the German people and their struggles to atone for their mistake of embracing Hitler and fascism. As such, it will probably not appeal to modern day Neo-Nazis.

Cooper's coordination of complex personalities and events in Germany, France, Italy, England, America, Japan, and The Soviet Union is quite remarkable. The dangers of unrestrained nationalism are demonstrated as patriotic heroes from different countries struggle and often succeed in destroying each other.

And yet the real struggle for supremacy is not on the battlefields but in the scientific laboratories where the Germans win. But ironically, there is an even more basic contest going on at the same time, which the Nazis lose. This is the struggle of the human spirit for freedom. Freedom loving people in Germany and also in other countries reject authoritarian government.

One can only hope that Cooper's optimism is somewhat based upon reality rather than a naive assessment of human nature. Eric Hoffer and others claim that the vast majority of people crave authoritarian certainty and strong leaders who will tell them what is true and false and who to love and who to hate. They claim that most people don't like the responsibility that comes with doing their own thinking and making their own decisions. They are only too willing to turn their freedom and decision making over to some authority figure. We can only hope that Cooper's optimistic view of human nature is more accurate than those who offer little hope for the future.

I have recommended Triumph of The Third Reich to my friends.

The author should not even be trying to write about Java, let alone about applying patterns using Java. Abysmal book - I read it in the local library and thought, wow a Java patterns bookk based on Gof. More like Goof. Stay away, stay far far away.

I don't think this book is any clearer than the GoF. I feel that the material presented in this book is pretty much the same as that of the GoF. Instead I would recommend: "Design Patterns Explained, by Alan Shalloway".

The idea is great - provide an explanation of design patterns using visual java components as examples. The author's explanations were usually clear. But there are so many typos that I quickly lost confidence in the code samples and the book itself. It also looks like the coverage Swing was an after-thought. The last few chapters are a superficial tutorial on Swing that provide very little insight into Swing or design patterns.

Looks to me like the author did his job, but the publisher (editors, proofreaders, etc.) let him down.