I thought this was a really interesting book, but I have to admit I had a hard time following it at times. Overall, I thouht he had some very interesting things to say about redemption and grace.

'Most successful applicants probably never consciously question the underlying assumption that the appropriate reward for succeeding in a "general excellence" competition is a relatively low-paying government job with often only limited responsibility over most of its career span.'

I read this in preparation for writing the exam, but now I think of the test only as a personal challenge. With the constant moves, difficulties of raising a family abroad, assumption of an 'at-home' spouse, limited decision making ability, two years of McDonalds-like consular work, poor remuneration and terrible morale I could not seriously consider the Foreign Service as a career. Besides the above complaints, this volume also lists inter-agency rivalry and miscommunication, incompetent political appointees, the lack of options for FSOs to move between the FS and the private sector, and limited clout on the Hill as major problems. All of which leave the reader with the impression that the State Dept is more akin to a poorly-managed Soviet enterprise than a dynamic, innovative American organization.

Basic good study guide with several questions/answers in ASE format on the Automobile Exams A1-A8, L1. Weakness is that he does not explain why he answers the question so. Some of the answers like in all study manuals can be debated. No truck/body/parts etc exams

This was an interesting story, little to do with HPL, but interesting none the less. The humor comes in as you read along and start playing continuity police. Misspellings, characters switching in mid conversation, a magic car that can't decide if its a Lincoln, a Dodge or a Plymouth, etc... Once I stopped being upset at the quality of the editing and got into the game, I started counting/writing down the mistakes from pg 116 on and hit 39 "oopses". This book is a prime example of "proof reading by spellcheck". So the question becomes Did Wildside Press fire all their proof readers before printing this book? If you get distracted by continuity errors, try another of Bischoffs books. If it doesnt bother you, this at least has interesting characters and a plot line with potential.

This Book was very hard to understand. The terminology used to descibe techniques pertaining to Energetics threw me for a loop. Other than that I must say I enjoyed the reading.

This slim volume (100 pages) is an excellent companion to the IEEE color book series, adding information I found necessary. It has helped me understand what I'm looking at when using a harmonics analyzer like the Fluke 41B, it explains *how* some harmonics control devices work, and gives many approaches for harmonics control.

I found that it is very useful book to understand the concepts.

This museum is one of the jewels of Chicago and this book does a very good job of documenting this part of the museum's collection. There are other museums with larger collections of this type, but I think the authors did a great job of displaying this collection in the best "light" that they could. I learned a lot from this book as well as having a good-looking coffee table edition. I enjoyed finding out more about the particular artist and scene. Overall this book is probably geared for the average person that just wants to know the basis of the topic.

There is not a lot of books in the field of Investment casting but as I know it is one of the best. There is a large amount of examples with quality photos and good explanation of advantages of investment casting in comparison to other production process. A very good chapter is " Alloy Selection for Investment Casting" where you can find data for materials from aluminum and magnesium alloys, steels to titanium and alloys for vacuum investment casting. In chapter " Quality evaluation, inspection and control " you can find information which is more or less same for all casting process. But unfortunately there is only 5-10 pages written about process from assemble patterns into clusters, dipping in refractory and stucco to dewaxing. Also you can't find any information about equipment for investment casting. It is written in preface of this book that its main purpose is to provide introduction to the investment casting process and its capabilities so I think that title of this book should be: General Handbook of Investment Casting .

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