Burke Books

When I first received this book, I had a hard time really making sense of it. At the same time, I purchased a copy of the Figure Live DVD, also by the Figure Coach. After I watched the DVD, the book started to make a lot more sense and became very inspiring for me.

I had read about figure contests in various physique magazines and watched one live show from the audience. However, the combination of the Figure Live DVD and this book gave me much more insight into what's involved in preparing for and competing in a figure contest. Both are presented from a well-informed and also very encouraging perspective for those considering a figure contest. They present a lot of ideas about why it's worth doing, which take the material to the level of being inspiring.

The main reasons I rated this book four and not five stars were the high price and the quality of the book design. I can understand the high price because the potential audience for this book is probably small relative to the production costs. The strength of the book design is the quality of the pictures but the font choices and placement are a little uneven.

That said, I found the materials quite valuable and have already ordered additional items from the Figure Coach.

When I read the first two stories they were really good, but when I got to Marilyn Lee's portion. Man it was way hot. I like hers because she wasn't afraid to go were ever other author has not gone with their shapeshifters. Yes she went their and man it was just as naughty as can be, but it was very well written to me and I have bought the other one that has been written on Hunters tale. My suggestion to anyone is be open about this story, its so forbidden and thats what makes it so good. I just loved it.

The book took longer than expected to get to destination (more than two weeks) but the book is in excellent conditions

Burke Davis wrote several books on military matters, mostly on the American Civil War. In Get Yamamoto he tells the story of the assassination of Isoroku Yamamoto, commander of the Japanese Combined Fleet and mastermind of the Pearl Harbor attack.

U.S. naval intelligence intercepted and decoded a message that indicated that Yamamoto would be arriving at Buin airfield on Bougainville in the Solomons shortly after eleven o'clock on the morning of April 18, 1943. Nimitz quickly approved of the idea of intercepting and downing Yamamoto's aircraft in order to kill him, after deciding that there was no one waiting to replace Yamamoto that could be a better fleet admiral. It is a shame that at that point in the narrative Davis made no attempt to enumerate the possible candidates to replace Yamamoto, but such a discussion is probably beyond the scope of the book.

Plans were made to send a group of P-38s from Henderson Field on Guadalcanal to intercept Yamamoto at the appointed time. Davis relates the backgrounds of the P-38 pilots' lives, training and combat records. There is only one map in the book, but it is adequate in that it shows both the route of Yamamoto to Buin and the route of the P-38s from Henderson Field.

In the interest of security, other P-38 missions were flown toward Buin in the days after the downing of Yamamoto in order to not draw Japanese suspicion toward the possibility of U.S. code breaking. Also, the P-38 pilots were removed from combat and sent back to the U.S. with stern warnings to maintain secrecy about what they had done.

Overall, Davis tells a well-rounded story, with thorough biographical background on Yamamoto as well as the P-38 pilots. Unfortunately, one star must be subtracted due to the absence of an index.

This book probably has limited appeal, but is valuable in that it shows a parting view of an authentic New England fishing village that vanished when the hotel on Star Island was built in the 1870s. The text and photographs of the fishing village are priceless for those who have visited Star Island. A fascinating bit of history.

As a physical therapist and a specialist in Sports Medicine, I must admit that I did have some background knowledge in the management of athletic injuries before i read this book. But I realized, after skimming threw the pages of this wonderful manual, that I really didn't know that much after all !

As a brief manual that athletic trainers and coaches can carry in their pockets, this well compiled book focuses on several important aspects of sports nutrition.

Ranging from the importance of macronutrients like protiens to the micronutrients like vitamins and minerals, this guide equips medical and paramedical personnel, along with athletes and their families alike on the do's and dont's of sports nutrition in the event of injuries. Now that's something that few athletes stop to ponder !

This book was very easy to follow. The pictures provide very clear directions. The content covers everything a new end user needs to know about R5. Including the basics, using email, C&S, as well topics for mobile users.

...you had better be up on your Civil War basics before attempting to read this book. It assumes that the reader is well aware of the main battles, campaigns, personalities and relative strengths and weaknesses of both the North and the South.

There's bound to be something new in here for everyone but the hardest of the hard core Civil War afficionados. Well-written, breezy, although oftentimes disjointed and random.

This book is also published under the titles 'The Civil War: Strange & Fascinating Facts' and 'Our Incredible Civil War'.

This was a nice companion for my 4th year I.D. clerkship. It included common infections as well as the zebras, and was well-written from true cases. Each case is brief, includes pertinent history, PE findings, labs, and studies followed by a question and a thorough answer with useful references. Not an essential, but a nice augmentation for the book-focuses learner.

Burke deserves terrific credit for detailed research into an untold story about several projects to invent computing machines useful for communications codebreaking and other national defense purposes, during World War II. This story is valuable for computer history and for insights into a little known aspect of U.S. military history. The book is painstakingly documented.

With careful attention to arcane topics, the book is not an easy read and might not appeal to many general readers. It has a narrow focus on several developmental computer projects. However, for those interested in the historical evolution of computing machines and signals intelligence, the book may be rewarding.

Owing to the technological difficulty of these computer development projects and modest resources for them, it is not surprising problems were encountered. Based on this context, the author under-appreciates Vannevar Bush, who was involved in spawning these projects. In a bigger picture, Bush rendered extraordinary service to the United States during World War II, as leader of the National Defense Research Council, which harnessed the inventiveness of civilian scientists in meeting the technological imperatives of the war. Bush was a great inventor and scientific leader. Burke would surely have been helped had Pascal Zachary's fine biography of Bush, Endless Frontier (1997), then been available to him.

Nevertheless, Burke's book represents valuable primary research on computer history and signals intelligence. The author devoted years to researching this book. In so doing, he has rendered highly valuable service to the understanding of history. His book sheds interesting light on the dogged efforts of many Americans involved in cryptological causes and in computer development. This underlying story is intrinsically inspiring and now better revealed.