Charles Williams Books

Liberty ships, seen by many as the backbone of American sealift in World War Two, actually got their start before the U.S. entered the war. And not long after we became a combattant, we realized the need for a ship that could carry more cargo, and do it faster, than the Liberties. Hence the Victory ships, a class that ultimately included tankers, troopships, and other auxlilary types, as well as basic cargo ships. This book is a catalog of the Victory ships, and also of purpose-built tankers, and their role in the war.

When I say this book is a "catalog," that pretty much sums it up. Much of the text consists of lists of individual ships of the various classes, divided up by where they were built, and including launch date, the name or names they sailed under, their post-war disposition, and ultimate (as of 1974, anyway) fate.

You won't find here any of the stories of heroism at sea, battles against fierce odds, clashes with the elements in the storm-tossed seas, or any of those other fixtures of war-at-sea literature. Although the descriptions of individual ships sometimes include interesting details (like the brief recounting of the MUHLENBERG VICTORY's stint as a livestock carrier, with cows berthed in "first class" accomodations, or the explosion of the tanker SALEM MARITIME in Louisiana in 1956), there's little mention of the ships' wartime service, either generally or specifically. There are, however, many details of design, construction, engines, modifications, and other technical specifications.

A number of the Victory ships are described as being mothballed as part of the US Navy's reserve fleet. Of course, thirty years later, I'd be surprised to learn if there are still any Victories so disposed. Though there might not be much call for updating this particular volume, that is one area in which it is particularly out of date. But for an overview history of some important classes of ships, and basic details about each of the members of those classes, this book might be a useful thing for interested researchers to have around.

This book was NOT edited by me! It is of limited interest only, but perhaps useful to a few researchers.

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Leigh Wyndfield writes some really fantastic and HOT paranormals. I have the ebook version of this story and decided to buy the book. Well, the problem with anthologies is sometimes the stories are too short to get into, short on plot etc. I was hoping I would like the other stories but... not really. A disappointment especially since I have read some of Rae Monet's paranormals and enjoyed those. If you are interested get any of these in ebook form, for me, it was not worth the price for the print form.

DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK. I will be frank. I did not read this book ... all the way. It was too painful for me to continue to the end. The errors of fact and logic became too much for me to continue to waste my time on it, even for a work of fiction. I found the characters juvenile as well. I was going to complete the book to just out of curiosity to see where the author would lead us and hope there would be nuggets of originality. However, I could not suspend logic or fact that long, even for a work of fiction.

The concept for the book, an NBC attack on US soil, is interesting but then it went downhill from the start when author reveal it was the work of an environmental group. I could use the rest of this editorial space to list the many other errors of logic and fact but there is only so much space. I will end by noting that the tempo and personal interplay of characters were childless. This book looks like it was written by a schoolgirl who had sibling in the Air Force, not a military subject matter expert with literary talent.

Do not buy any other works by the author even for light reading until you read the reviews. I would demand my money back for this book but I got it free. I plan to put it into the recycle bag.

Had to grab this book when I saw it. Its the last in its series till the author writes another. Great steal!!!

This book is not real high on plausibility, but if you can stop looking at all the many loose ends, it really is a pretty entertaining read. If you're a stickler for details, pass it by. If you want to read a fast-paced action thriller for the fun of it, this might be for you.

I merely added this to my dale brown collection.

And Suddenly, there was a flash.. and so starts at least 4 battle scenes. We never learn how the task force gets it's intelligence to be where the terrorists turn up, how they get into position, what planning is done or if there is any plan. Each time, they just suddenly appear at the right time and surprise the terrorists.

The action in each of the battles is slow. You can almost count the minutes that the task force is standing around idle whilst the terrorists are firing away.. and of course, most of them get away each time.

The dialogue between characters is incredibly weak and could easily have been written by a 14 year old. That is not to insult any 14 year olds, just a comparison to the language that you would expect from a young teenager of today.

Overall, extremely poor written book and boring cartoonish action.

In most cases, the book shines, the movie is ok, and the soundtrack is forgettable. This title seems to defy gravity. The Simon & Garfunkle music is so powerful and haunting, it is seered into the collective memory of two generations. imagine the movie without the soundtrack, it's ok, but hardly iconic. Perhaps that the problem with the book.

The book started out strong but kind of fell by the waist side at the end. I think it is because they dropped the character of Mrs. Robinson when Ben fell in love with her daughter. i don't agree with. I think Mrs. Robinson should have been a strong presentce from the begining until the end.

I can finish just about any book, but from the minute I picked up this book to read it, I wanted to put it down. Despite my best efforts, I couldn't convince myself to get past page 80, and finally decided to give up when I realized I was dreading picking up the book. The main character is neither likable nor dislikable enough to to be compelling - he's just whiny and obnoxious. However you describe this book (existential, 20-something slump, etc), you can find a *much* better book. Don't waste your time or money.

Benjamin Braddock comes home after his college graduation with offers for other schools and even a major scholarship to finish his studies. Disillusioned with what the world may have in store for him, he spends most of his time lougning around his parent's pool not thinking about what to do with his future. Then, in walks Mrs. Robinson at a party his parents are throwing in his honor, and by the end of the evening, he's begun an affair with her. However, his disillusionment grows even more, and Ben finally decides that he's in love with Mrs. Robinson's daughter.

None of the characters has any emotional depth so I wasn't attached nor could I empathize with any of them. Ben Braddock comes across as a slacker who can't make his own decisions and won't even try; he's easily manipulated by everyone with whom he comes into contact. So many times I wanted to reach into the novel and slap him for being such an educated idiot. I didn't understand the motives behind any of his actions, and the author didn't try to give any clues about it, either. The dialogue, instead of adding any emotional depth to the characters, comes across flat, unconvincing and sometimes confusing.

I forced myself to finish this book, and if I hadn't been familiar with the movie, I probably wouldn't have picked this one up after reading a few pages at the bookstore.

People don't like this book because they don't like to think. It's mostly dialogue - like a drama, or a screenplay. The reader has to fill in the details. It's called active reading. Not that you can't read the book as a light read but if you're reading passively and expecting revelations, well, it's not going to happen. However, if you use the book as a basis for extrapolation of social comment, you may get what you are looking for.

For those of you with no imagination, don't read the book; see the film or better yet, the play. And for those of you with imagination, I recommend the same to enhance your understanding.

I have not learned too much from this book

The book does not help beginners at all as it claims to. It assumes a prior knowledge of PB otherwise you get lost. The project which the book takes you through has parts missing when you compare it to the downloadable version. You go crazy trying to figure that out. There are other books out there which are much better. Do not waste your money on it esp beginners as this book will only make you hate PB.

This was the textbook chosen by my educational institute to introduce us to PowerBuilder and Object-Oriented Fundamentals. I'd have to say it fails on each of those counts.

You're not introduced to PowerScript until nearly halfway through the book, the code is NOT laid out in a step-by-step fashion AT ALL after the first chapter or so (and even then), there are coding errors all over the place, and the finished product that you can download has all sorts of inconsistencies with what's in the book (it's as though they kept the application the same from PowerBuilder 5 and never bothered to check the new text against it or something).

I'm in the process right now of trying to reverse engineer the example from Que's website and compare my own to figure out what snippets the book has omitted that are preventing my application from functioning properly. Thank you, William Heys, for depriving me of some much-needed sleep. :P~

While the book is good for referencing topics when you already know PowerBuilder. You might find yourself lost if you're starting out and trying to follow the example from the book. There are points where the figures in the book don't match where you are at that point in the code. Not to mention the fact that the code that you can download is different then the code descibed in the book. Definetly not a book to learn PowerBuilder from.

There are numerous errors throughout which would turn many developers away from PB, especially beginners. I cannot recommend this book.

I rate this book very low, because it wasn't laid out well and it always seemed lite there was a cloud of dsapair hoovering around the setting.

I disliked the book because it showed a life despair and the main characters faliures about becoming a "white man," and not staying as an Indian.

cannot find any other books that compare with this book, if I could they would easily beat this book in ratings. The book was very poorily written It didn't stick to the main plot at all. THe characters were always being switched around. For instance, the cheif got killde but he is still at the reservation talking to Alexander East (the main character).

The book was about some indians that were practicing a different religion and planning an uprissing. That scared the villagers, so they took great measures in protecting the rest of the villagers. Alexander East went into an immotional downfal about this time. Then the uprising began. But thats not the crux of the book. You have to read it to find out the rest, though I strongly discourage it.

The Book was written by Jamake Highwater and supposedly a true story. Over all it was book that was written poorlyabout a man who was dispearing and feeling soory for himself.

My critique over the book I read, Eyes of Darkness, was near a seven to an eight. Or in other words a three, to a four star. I enjoyed it, but it was a little hard to understand. The dialog was confusing because, to me, they spoke more in Indian and Chinese language. But still it kept me wondering what was up coming. This novel was like nothing I have ever read, so it was still a good change for me. I would maybe even like to read another type of book similar, but maybe by a different author to get a change in flavor. I'm not trying to put the book down, but I just didn't care of the way it was written. I did really enjoy the plot. It kept me reading on. The character each had their own "way". No one was too much the same. But if you enjoy something different of a different kind, then you'll probably really enjoy this paticular novel. I also was really into the placement of the book. It was new to me because I don't usually read a book form Canada in the "Indian" Time Frame located in Canada. I would really recommend this book to anyone who is into a different harder read. Thank you!

Based on the life of Dr. Charles Alexander Eastman, a full-blooded Sioux, who was taken from his people at age fifteen. In writing an introduction to the reissue of Eastman's own autobiography, Indian Boyhood, author and scholar Jamake Highwater became fascinated with the subject and wrote his own fictionalized version for young adult readers. It is a true story, gleaned from Eastman's own words. It vividly shows a man trying to live in two worlds, and it is written by a man who understands what it is like to do so.

At times, I really liked the book. Then it got disappointing: especially since it was an assignment. My reccomendation? Skip it. There are a couple times when you can really get into it and then there are the more common times when you can barely stand it. Not worth it!

My kid uses this book for middle school course. It is quite good, clear and in a certain depth for middle school student.

The item I purchased was the wrong edition; but, was not clearly identified as such. My 9th grade son went without a textbook for almost 2 weeks. I returned the book using the label you provided. You received the returned item and never gave me a credit on my purchase. I will have a very difficult time convincing myself to ever purchase anything from Amazon again.

This book is for my son's summer class. It's a typical modern textbook - bigger and heavier than and not as good as the book I used and still have that was first published in 1962.

Written by actor Charles Francisco and published in 1985, a year after the death of it's subject, Gentleman is the only ever biography published about one of Hollywood's greatest stars of the golden era, the man who first set the standards for light comedy acting in motion pictures - William Powell. Francisco's main sources were Powell's own writings (most of Powell's contemporaries had already passed on) which undoubtedly make the main bulk of this book very satisfying to read. The author gives very good accounts of Powell's days studying at the American Academy of Dramatic Art and even better accounts of his meetings with the women in his life - sometimes going into intimate details about his marriages to Carole Lombard and Diana Lewis and his relationship with Jean Harlow (she died before Powell ever proposed marriage) as well as a sometimes harrowing account of Jean Harlow's final illness and Bill's own battle with cancer in the late thirties. The author also gives us a good account of Powell's career - from his stagework in the 1910s (though the First World War goes unmentioned) to his debut in films in the early 20s (often playing suave villainous types) to his eventual arrival at stardom in the 30s as well as his working relationship with Myrna Loy, how his parents helped in his career (his father became his manager). The best accounts of his career are his years of stardom at MGM which saw a peak in 1936 with films like My Man Godfrey, The Great Ziegfeld and Libeled Lady. The problem I have with the book is that so much of his life is missing - we are give a very fleeting look at Powell's childhood and the last years of his life are similarly rushed (Powell retired in the mid 50s and it is only a few pages from there until his death - what Powell did in the 1970s isn't mentioned at all) and there are few recollections from other people (Myrna Loy appears to have been interviewed though). Apart from that this is a good biography (which every Powell fan should read) and the author is in no way derogatory about his subject. Francisco sums up Powell and his screen image perfectly in the epilogue.

This first-and-only full-length biography of the fabulous William Powell is regrettably short and shallow. While the reader can forgive Francisco's dry and lackluster writing, what cannot be forgiven are the glaring errors. Anyone interested in old Hollywood knows that Powell's second wife Carole Lombard was born in Indiana - her moniker was The Hoosier Tornado! - but Francisco claims her home state to be Ohio (perhaps confusing her with Lombard's second husband Clark Gable who was born in Cadiz?). He also erroneously credits Powell with having appeared in the film Dishonored opposite Marlene Dietrich. I read this book to learn; the fact that I (with very little knowledge of Bill Powell's life) detected these mistakes made me doubt the veracity of the entire book.

This amiable bit of under-researched Hollywood fluff has been out of print for many years and is currently demanding top-dollar. While its hard-to-find status greatly increases its value, if you can hold out for a reasonably-priced copy to come along, do so.

For a more in-depth and intelligently written read about Powell, I highly recommend William Powell: The Life and Films by Roger Bryant. While not a full-blown biography (focusing as it does on his career), it comes very close and is infinitely more satisfying and more fully researched than Francisco's work. Sadly, the "ultimate" Powell biography may never be; he lived such a private life that these two volumes may indeed represent all that is possible to learn about the great actor.

Calvin bases his ideas on this 'observation' in chapter 7:

"The axon acts like an express train, skipping many intermediate stops, giving off synapses only when about 0.5, 1.0, and 1.5 mm away from the tall dendrite (and sometimes continuing for a few millimeters farther, maintaining the integer multiples of the basic metric, 0.5 mm). "

This is a plain lie.

The so-called "reconcilation" promised by the title is not entirely delivered. Both Calvin and Bickerton seem too taken with their respective ideas. It is an interesting discussion nonetheless, and good points are made by both writers.