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Leading financial expert Larry Burkett presents more 'World's Easiest Pocket Guides' covering key issues preparing young adults to make practical life decisions. Filled with bite-sized chunks of trustworthy advice and guidance, this guide covers preparing for college. While this may seem so simple to adults, it can be terribly overwhelming to young people. Get the students and young adults in your life started out in the right direction!

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Are you ready for the SAT II: U.S. History exam? You will be.

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OMG OMG THANK YOU FOR THE 800.......2007-09-13

i was an average student in a non-honors chemistry class, who barely got a 90. however, thanks to this book, i received an 800 on the sat ii chemistry test! when i found out, i was extremely happy but not too surprised because on test day, i was able to answer every question effortlessly. i couldn't believe how easily i was able to go through the test. it was amazing how i knew exactly how to answer every question. i left the test center feeling sure that i would get at least a 780 on the test and i did!
i purchased both the princeton review and barrons books but neither can measure up to the kaplan book. the review is perfect; it contained just the right amount of information and was easy to follow, except it lacked the two sections on descriptive chemistry and experimentation. simply read the barron's for those. i also advise you to take the practice tests in the barrons book because they are much harder than the real test.
overall, this book is EXCELLENT!

superb!!.......2004-10-11

This is overally is excellent. Every chapter covers the concepts which you need on the SAT II examination. The depth is actually much deeper, compared with the Baron's and Princeton Review. If one wants a in depth review on the chemistry, this book is for him. After finishing this book(I mean really really understand every conception shown on the book), one is not only well prepared for the SATII chemistry test, but also well equiped for a undergraduate chemistry study. However, I recommend everyone who is using this book also use the baron's because this book is hard enough to confuse anyone by its simple appearance and lack of calculation practice.

Ok but unorganized.......2004-07-19

The Kaplan book is quite comprehensive but the lack of diagrams and the disorganized state of the book can make this a boring read. It goes over a lot of useless info that may be confusing and the text may lose you in some parts. If you have a lot of self motivation and patience, this book may work out for you. Be sure to read up on Barrons because it is quite a bit more user friendly and is organized more like a high school chemistry book which is much more familiar to most students.

Excellent Preparation.......2004-07-19

The Kaplan SAT II Chemistry book provides excellent preparation for the exam. The extensive information covered details almost everthing that you could possibly want to know for this exam. However, there are several useless pieces of information in this book. The equilibrium equations with natural logs, etc. are all extra useless stuff. Also the extra material for atomic orbitals is not on the SAT II. No one will ask you about the specific name of quantum numbers. This extra stuff means that they didn't put in enough descriptive chemistry review and experimentation, hence only 4 stars. Not perfect, but if you buy either Chemistry the Easy way or the other Barrons SAT II book and read up on the two great chapters on experiments and descriptive chemistry you're all set. I recommend buying the REA book as well for the practice. Nothing improves your score as much as practice.

Got me a 800!!.......2004-01-19

I used this book in conjunction w/ Barron's and Princeton Review and I got an 800, mostly thanx to this book. Barron's was too detailed, but good for reference and practice tests. Princeton review was 2 broad.

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This book is about water in Britain. It is about resources, their conservation, protection of water quality for human consumption and aquatic ecosystems. Presently there is a struggle to reverse long-term trends towards contaminated groundwater, polluted rivers and dirty beaches. While farmers have to contend with fertiliser controls, and sewage undertakings improve treatment, industry is now under the most stringent pollution control measures in history. Amidst the dash for more dishwashers and washing machines, and in a country which prides itself on its gardening, we are told the climate is changing and this may put further pressure on resources. Meanwhile, recent dry winters have compounded long-term over-abstraction problems, reducing river flows and resulting in drought orders. Since 1989 there has been privatisation of water and sewage undertakings, and the loss of what was once a public service to commercial providers. This has proved controversial, and anything from low reservoirs to highly paid water executives keeps water in the news year-by-year. There have also been major changes in the environmental regulation of water; with the creation of the National Rivers Authority, and subsequently the Environment Agency and SEPA for Scotland. There is now a relatively stable, and regulated, provision of water and sewerage services across England, Scotland and Wales. With the issues such as sustainable development, demand management (including leakage controls) and environmental assessment driving water policy and planning, there is a price to pay for investment, and this has to be shifted towards the consumer. This book explores all these aspects of Britain's water resources, providing a comprehensive description of recent policy developments. It is written for advanced students of environmental science and policy, and for professionals in the water industry and regulatory bodies.

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The Protection and Conservation of Water Resources : A British Perspective
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In this revised and expanded edition, the authors provide a comprehensive overview of the tools, technologies, and physical models needed to understand, build, and analyze microdevices. Students, specialists within the field, and researchers in related fields will appreciate their unified presentation and extensive references.

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The Physics of Micro/Nano-Fabrication

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In these uproarious collections of essays, William Thomas takes you on wacky adventures to Mexico, the Dominican Republic and Japan, and takes an off-center look at public breastfeeding, drinking and driving in Buffalo, NY, visiting the endodontist, and much more.

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Nice Cold War history book

Thought provoking

At the Abyss - A Fitting Tribute...

History From Deep Inside

informative but self-congratulatory

At the Abyss: An Insider's History of the Cold War
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Thomas Reed is certainly one of the most qualified people alive to tell the real story of the Cold War. He worked at Livermore Labs as early as 1959 and was involved in designing and testing nuclear weapons, he served as Secretary of the Air Force, Director of the National Reconnaissance Office, Assistant to the Secretary and Deputy Secretary of Defense, and as a Special Assistant to President Reagan for National Security Policy. Even when he was not directly involved in shaping policy, he was studying and lecturing on the subject. At the Abyss is the result of his remarkable experience, and it is as fascinating as it is terrifying, for he reveals just how close the world came on many occasions to experiencing the horror of global nuclear war. The book is filled with intrigue and revelations as he sheds new light on even relatively well-known events, such as the Cuban Missile Crisis. Here he reveals that as many as 98 nuclear weapons were located in Cuba, not ! just a few as originally thought. He also reports on what transpired during closed meetings at the highest levels of government and how often events threatened to spiral out of control. He details how the information age and "the economic facts of life" eventually doomed the Soviet Union, offers personal reflections on Ron and Nancy Reagan, tells how Dick Cheney and Colin Powell "coaxed the nuclear genie back into the bottle," and how the steadfast "closers," George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev, calmly and carefully brought the Cold War to a close without bloodshed and chaos---a conclusion that would have seemed inconceivable just a decade before. Even readers well acquainted with Cold War history will find much to learn in these pages. --Shawn Carkonen

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“The Cold War . . . was a fight to the death,” notes Thomas C. Reed, “fought with bayonets, napalm, and high-tech weaponry of every sort—save one. It was not fought with nuclear weapons.” With global powers now engaged in cataclysmic encounters, there is no more important time for this essential, epic account of the past half century, the tense years when the world trembled At the Abyss. Written by an author who rose from military officer to administration insider, this is a vivid, unvarnished view of America’s fight against Communism, from the end of WWII to the closing of the Strategic Air Command, a work as full of human interest as history, rich characters as bloody conflict.

Among the unforgettable figures who devised weaponry, dictated policy, or deviously spied and subverted: Whittaker Chambers—the translator whose book, Witness, started the hunt for bigger game: Communists in our government; Lavrenti Beria—the head of the Soviet nuclear weapons program who apparently killed Joseph Stalin; Col. Ed Hall—the leader of America’s advanced missile system, whose own brother was a Soviet spy; Adm. James Stockwell—the prisoner of war and eventual vice presidential candidate who kept his terrible secret from the Vietnamese for eight long years; Nancy Reagan—the “Queen of Hearts,” who was both loving wife and instigator of palace intrigue in her husband’s White House.

From Eisenhower’s decision to beat the Russians at their own game, to the “Missile Gap” of the Kennedy Era, to Reagan’s vow to “lean on the Soviets until they go broke”—all the pivotal events of the period are portrayed in new and stunning detail with information only someone on the front lines and in backrooms could know.

Yet At the Abyss is more than a riveting and comprehensive recounting. It is a cautionary tale for our time, a revelation of how, “those years . . . came to be known as the Cold War, not World War III.”

From the Hardcover edition.

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Nice Cold War history book.......2007-08-23

A nice little Cold War history book, with some interesting insight into America's economic and military policies during the time period.

My biggest annoyance with the book was that the author could/should have used an editor. There are random military and air force abbreviations which the lay reader simply does not understand. Same with respect to people; sometimes they are not "introduced" until it is too late. Nothing a good once-over could not have fixed.

Thought provoking.......2006-12-21

At the Abyss is a quick read. I was left with the impression of how grateful we should all be for the ability of many people on both sides of the cold war to restrain themselves from creating a nuclear holocaust.

At the Abyss - A Fitting Tribute..........2006-12-08

Albert Einstein once famously said, "God does not play dice." But if perhaps he had been around long enough to witness the Cold War in its entirety he also would have justly added a corollary: "Ah but Man...Man does indeed play dice." In this he would have been ominously correct. For when the realization sets in of just how precariously close the world was to the brink of nuclear annihilation throughout the Cold War, it is readily apparent: "We did roll the nuclear dice." Many times over in fact. Amazingly, our number did not come up.

The Cold War, 1947 - 1991, was a period of intense rivalry between the world's two major superpowers: the United States and the Soviet Union. It was also a period of great technological achievement. With that scientific advancement came first the advent of the atomic bomb, quickly followed by thermonuclear weapons with their vastly horrific and unfathomable destructive power, and then in quick succession the development of ballistic missiles, nuclear powered submarines, long-range jet-engine bombers, and a multitude of varying space technologies including satellites; all of which only served to intensify and increase the dangers and implications of the American - Soviet standoff. The possibility of armed confrontation was ever present. And indeed the major proxy wars of Korea, Vietnam and Afghanistan were in actuality, de facto wars between the two superpowers.

Against this backdrop, Thomas C. Reed's uniquely interesting account of the Cold War, At the Abyss: An Insider's History of the Cold War, serves to put a personal touch on the conflict. Dedicated to the "Cold Warriors" of both sides who "never lost their respect for the fires of hell that would surely follow any careless act at the edge of the abyss," Reed's book is a tribute to the professionalism and level headedness of the politicians and soldiers alike, on both sides, who never lost sight of the ultimate consequences that could befall us all, if we should fail to keep the peace. For this, he seeks as his thesis, merely to recognize their immense achievement and to pay homage to their `against-all-odds' victory. And Reed does so in a most fascinating way. By giving his own personal eyewitness account of the Cold War and by recounting for posterity many lesser know episodes that occurred during the conflict. As a former Secretary of the Air Force (and service member), as a defense contractor and expert in nuclear weapons, and as a top-level advisor to numerous administrations, Thomas Reed is aptly qualified to render such a work. The result is a mesmerizing, yet scary, personal journey through the nether world of high-tech weapons, high-stakes diplomacy, and nuclear brinkmanship.

Resplendent with little known facts, unbelievable tales, personal biographical sketches (of both major and minor figures - specifically American and Soviet nuclear weapons scientist), and intriguing technical details of Cold War weaponry, At the Abyss, is a riveting confession of the Cold War. Backhandedly, it is a condemnation of the Soviet system. Although he doesn't purport to give an overt explanation of just why the Cold War occurred, or to delve into the deeper ramifications of such events, Reed's portrayal is invaluable in ascertaining the significance of such scholarly questions. His insight is invaluable. Quoting from Whittaker Chamber's book Witness, Reed clearly saw the Cold War for precisely what it was: a turning point in history, where it was decided "for generations [to come] whether all mankind is to become communist, or whether the whole world is to become free..." (pg. 11). And Reed certainly held no illusions about the other side and what he and his fellow Americans were fighting against throughout the duration of the Cold War. Citing the Soviet Gulags, or labor camps, Reed is quick to point out that the Stalin regime alone sent over "eighteen million souls" to "five hundred Gulags" during his tenure. Ignominiously but perhaps befitting, when Stalin passed his remains were interred into a little known grave beyond the Kremlin walls "at night and in great secrecy" on none other than Halloween night. His successor, Nikita Khrushchev, actually met Reed's father once in New York. Reed graciously relates his father's experience and characterization of Khrushchev as a "brittle, ill-informed, and doctrinaire peasant devoid of charm one usually expects from a visiting head of government" (pg. 28). He goes on to add that when his father entered his hotel suite, Khrushchev was "barefoot and in shirtsleeves, sporting a pistol in a holster around his chest." Such poignant pictures painted by Reed grandly capture the essence of the era and helps to fills in the little known details of the period.

Humanitarian atrocities aside, with all their inherent intrigue and woe, Reed also denounces the Soviet economic system and rightly points out that it was predominantly this causal factor alone that ultimately lead to the demise of the Soviet government and thereby harkened the end of the Cold War. Including such interesting tid-bits beyond what Washington officials secretly knew, Reed quotes a 1992 Economist report which compared the worth of Soviet raw goods to finish products, and astutely recognized that, the "Soviet system was subtracting almost half the value of the raw materials produced before delivering products"(pg. 224-225). Reed adroitly makes the case of how the Soviet Union had become an unsustainable military-industrial complex tittering on the brink of collapse. That the end would surely come was inevitable, but when and in what fashion was the million-dollar question. Would it all end in a nuclear holocaust? Just how close we came to this fiery conclusion is also related. During the Korean Conflict, when the Chinese entered the conflict, "Nuclear weapons were on the table" (pg. 36). Again, on October 26, 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, "Castro asked Khrushchev for a preemptive nuclear strike on the United States" (pg. 18). So many times, so hauntingly close we came to that disastrous final ending of all humanity.

Between the rise and ebb of the Cold War, Reed's narrative is jam-packed with intriguing tales of Cold War events and military chicanery such as the Frogman Episode, "Cabbage Ravine," the Teapot Committee, Francis Gary Power's untimely demise, Talent-Keyhole, how the U.S. covertly financed the deployment of the Thor missile system to the U.K., Project Q, how nuclear weapons were made safe with P.A.L.S., the CIA's OP34A, America's Flexible Response strategy, and the Brezhnev Doctrine. Interestingly written and encompassing a wide array of topics, Reed's style is informative, colorful, and easy to read. My main criticism of the work would be in Reed's referencing - it does tend to be a little on the sparse side.

So who would have thought back in 1962 during the Cuban Missile Crisis, when we were deep in the midst of the Cold War, and when the Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev said to President Kennedy, "[We are pushing] mankind towards the abyss of a world nuclear-missile war" how it would have ended. So many times it could have abruptly ended in total nuclear devastation. Instead on Christmas day, 1991, Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev called President George Bush to wish him "a very quiet Christmas evening.... I am saying good-bye and shaking your hands." The Cold War was over. It had ended peaceably. At the Abyss is a fitting tribute to those who made it that way.

History From Deep Inside.......2005-10-01

Mr. Reed has written an excellent account of pivotal Cold War events, along with details that many of us haven't heard before. The real meat of this book is in his personal accounts; Other authors must rely on documentary research to gather the same material and don't approach the depth of understanding. This book manages to pack an incredible amount of information into only 360 pages.

Other reviewers have stated that Mr. Reed's book has a self-important tone; I heartily disgree. It appeared to me that he merely acknowledges that he had the good fortune to be in the right place at the right time to observe history unfold. At times, he was in a position to influence policy and events in a positive way. His narrative not only describes how events unfold, but also how contributions of politicians, generals, scientists, and foot soldiers kept armageddon at bay.

My only complaint is that the last few chapters seem to cover a lot of ground without much detail, as if he was closing in on a publishing deadline. Other than that, it was a great read that helped this old USAREUR soldier put his little contribution in perspective.

informative but self-congratulatory.......2005-09-12

This book contained a lot of information about the Cold War, but the tone was unrelentingly self-congratulatory and put me off the book.

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"It's easy to imagine ways the future can be ugly and depressing. It's harder, but more worthwhile, to imagine plausible ways we can make it better," says Stanley Schmidt, and he should know. As the editor of Analog (and a science-fiction writer himself), he's thought about the future more than most. Since the golden age of John W. Campbell (editor from 1938-72), Analog magazine has been renowned for editorials that provoke, prod, inspire, anger, and ignite the magazine's readers into thinking, questioning their own assumptions, and looking at the world with fresh insights. From 1978 to the present, the man challenged to light a fire under the readers month after month has been editor Stanley Schmidt. He has succeeded in exemplary fashion, which helps to explain why he's a twenty-two-time nominee for the best editor Hugo Award. Now, for the first time, thirty-five of his stimulating essays have been gathered in book form. In "King of the Hill (No Matter What)" he considers the questions of animal and machine intelligence. "The Fermi Plague" offers a frightening answer to Enrico Fermi's famous paradox about the apparent absence of alien civilizations. "Invisible Enemies, Intelligent Choices" examines the proper role of science in public policy. Running the gamut from how to challenge scientific orthodoxy to the flaws of our educational system, from the serious value of humor to the difficult choices between jobs and conservation, all the pieces are, in different ways, answers to the question asked by the title: Which way to the future? Schmidt's answers will engage anyone with an eye on tomorrow.AUTHORBIO: Stanley Schmidt has a doctorate in physics and lives in upstate New York. His fifth novel, Argonaut, is forthcoming from Tor Books.

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In the tradition of Isaac Asimov's essay collections, this is a collection of short non-fiction essays on science and society originally published as editorials in Analog magazine.

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Best part of the magazine.......2002-03-22

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