Churchill Books

clear descriptions with up to date informations. quick understandable, very good for begginers.

The most user-friendly text book of kidney pathology. Residents, fellows and physicians will benefit from this source.

A great asset for public speaking course - either as a main text for simple, straight-forward non-technical (communication science) approach to speaking in public, or as an adjunct to a more formal, traditional text (covering outlines, types, etc.). It addresses attitude as well as content, and gives mnemonics for creating speeches which are not pedestrian, humdrum boring but full of life, interest and distinguished enough to be noticed. All summed up in the basic tenet of Sir Winston Churchill, the greatest speaker of this century (such as remains): care more about the message than yourself as the messenger. It can be read in a couple of hours, and absorbed over seveal months. Each time I use it, I find something which had not particularly struck me previously.

From someone who conducts 75+ public speaking presentations per year and teaches public speaking for a major university, let me say that this is the single best, most concise book ever written about public speaking "do's and don'ts". It's simply shameful that such a helpful book is out of print. If you can find a copy, snag it up as quickly as you can.

My professor things I'm a genius now. Helps a whole lot. I'm understanding the material a whole lot better.

The solutions manual is very thorough in explaining the exercises. It is a great supplement to the book. The only downfall is that is does not have all the solutions. But it does have a large percentage of them.

Hugo Young of the Guardian gives us a fascinating and revealing portrait of Britain's relations with the European Union. He is passionately committed to the European Union, but his book presents much information very useful to those who oppose it.

He recounts that in the 1971-72 Parliamentary debates, "Ministers did not lie, but they avoided telling the full truth. They refrained from stating categorically that the law of the European Community would have supremacy over British law." "Nor did ministers state that the European Communities Act would be, in practice, irrevocable." "Enthusiasts for entry, as we have seen in the cases of Edward Heath and Geoffrey Howe, felt it prudent to mask the radical nature of the transaction they were proposing." He cites Howe's admission that the Government concealed much from Parliament. And he recalls that a Government lawyer said, "Open admission of what was being done to parliamentary sovereignty would be `so astounding' as to put the whole Bill in danger."

None repeated the clarity of Foreign Secretary Lord Home when he told the Lords in August 1961: "let me admit at once that the Treaty of Rome would involve considerable derogation of sovereignty." Its consequences would, he said, be "different in kind from any contract into which we have entered before."

EU supporters said that EC entry would bring economic growth. When it didn't, they said the Single Market would. When it didn't, they said the Exchange Rate Mechanism would - Young remarks, with considerable under-statement, "The story of the ERM was not an entirely happy one." When that failed, bringing the worst slump for sixty years, they said that the euro would bring growth.

He presents the real issue: "The serious case, surely, is ... about national control over big decisions. The EU renders collective a decision-making process, in some areas, that was once exclusively national." Entering the euro would end our national democratic control over policy: is this what we want?

"A history of Britain's relations with Europe since 1945 as seen by the country's leadership. Thoroughly researched, powerfully written, intense and passionate. A book of the decade, not just the year" -The Economist

Somehow I think that the previous review was written by a fellow classmate of mine, or my Professor. I would like to say that I throughly enjoyed the book as a text book for our class. I found the well organized chapters very effective and a wide varienty of information presented.

Lockyer presents a readable survey of Tudor Stuart England that is accessible for moderate to advanced students of this time period. The narrative flows and is interspersed with qualifiable analysis and interpretation. Lockyer demonstrates his generous command of the time period, while keeping his work relevant to the student and not the most advanced scholar. However, the book could benefit from better presentation, including charts, graphs, and pictures. Also, as is typical in British History survey books, organization of topics isolate Ireland and Scotland into their own chapters. While this maintains a good narrative flow, it does damage to chronology. But then this is an on-going problem in the field. Finally, Wales is rarely considered at all. Despite these detractions, however, Lockyer pulls together one of the better surveys of this fascinating time period.

One of my favourite books. Great story, told with great pace. I am in shock at the minority of people who do not like this. What on earth is their idea of a good book?

I bought this book some years ago and have read it twice, gripped both times by the situation Churchill and the UK were in, and by Lukacs' skillful writing. Lukacs succeeded in communicating the intensity of the situation whilst not being portentous. I came back to the book because of Ian Kershaw's latest book which includes as its first issue the same decision: whether or not to seek terms from the Hitler through Mussolini's mediation. I shall be intrigued to see if Kershaw can add anything to Lukacs' account.

A fascinating 'microscopic history' of larger-than-life personalities - Hitler and Churchill. The book gives the reader a real understanding of these few days where the world was held in the balance. A must-read for anyone more than casually interested in WWII.

Several reviewers here don't appreciate scholarly writing. Lukacs (and his editor) didn't adulterate concise prose to produce a coffee table book. There are no fictions here; its conclusions are based on carefully and voluminously researched facts. Lukacs HAD to include concrete historical reference; his argument would have been incomplete without it, his conclusions unconvincing.

Yes, he's old fashioned, even Edwardian; he takes care to say only what he knows and nothing more. Yes, the form he insists on for each chapter erects a scaffold that detracts from his aedifice and might better have been removed after construction. His distinction between sentiment and opinion adds little to his argument. But his conclusion is unassailable and as formidable as a Roman arena. If he writes like a scholar, he is one. Those who object should remember that each of us is entitled to one's own style. To hold otherwise is to telegraph envy or confess to low standards.

He might well be the best living historian, for he's a master of his discipline. What he has done here is to write concisely about events that are exhaustively researched and confer new significance. That is what historians are supposed to do. He knows what he's talking about, and, when you finish reading, you know, too.

Hardly anyone remembers the Earl of Halifax, but he had more support among Tory MPs in 1940 than Churchill did, and he probably could have become Prime Minister after Neville Chamberlain resigned. Halifax believed that some settlement between Britain and Germany was possible that would allow Britain to preserve its independence. Churchill knew that this was a dangerous illusion.

That's the central conflict of this book: How Churchill, the new PM, won out in the War Cabinet over Halifax, the Foreign Secretary, and brought the politicians and then the public around to the view that Britain could resist Nazism and fight for its independence. Churchill's leadership was far from preordained, and Lukacs shows how he established it.

His writing is superb, and his thinking is sharp. Even when I was unconvinced by one of his points, I found it worth thinking about. And he is excellent in establishing the atmosphere of May 1940, when Britain's future was darker than ever before or since. It's very hard for a historian to get away from presentism, the sense that what came to pass was inevitable, but Lukacs manages it well.

This is the best kind of popular history.

Gale is the leader of a band of mercenaries, a hard-core group earning money by doing dangerous jobs that require their unique expertise. They accept a job to bring back survivors from the colony of Avaric, where a strange plague, which forces its victims to commit vile acts, has devastated the population. In addition to completing the job, Gale must deal with the anger and resentment he feels about the loss of his girlfriend on an earlier mission. The Dead Shall Inherit the Earth is a unique blend of science fiction and horror with a fast-paced style and loads of action. It is a well-written book with characters who are often larger than life. There was more than a couple of times when I shuddered with anticipation, knowing what was in store for the zombie attacks. Gale's flashbacks to a previous mission that had gone terribly wrong are also very powerful. I would recommend this book for any library whether it be personal or public.

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"Eyes straining in the hellish gloom, he couldn't make out who was there. The figure leaned in, close enough for the foul stench of death, decay, and madness to be overpowering. Close enough for the man's tight-skinned face to become frighteningly clear. Close enough for the necklace of ragged, severed ears to dangle inches away, dissolving the scant remains of the doctor's sanity. Many leering faces pushed through the deep shadows to hover above him. He could only cackle a broken man's laughter as they descended, bringing horrific pain, then, eventually a much-sought release."

And so it begins, the descent into madness, the endless toil to survive in a world turned upside down by a cataclysmic plague that not only kills its victims, but first, slowly and unbearably, transforms them into psychotic killers. Against this plague, there is no cure, no balm in Gilead. The only hope for mankind is that this devastating disease is on another planet, a formerly peaceful colonization of earth. If only this plague can be examined from afar, perhaps cured with time, as long as it never infects earth. And so enters the Omni Corporation.

Gale, seasoned solider haunted by memories of a particularly devastating mission that claimed the life of the only women he ever loved, is instantly convinced of the need to begin a mission to Avaric, the diseased planet where plague victims now rule, not because of the planet's peril, but because of his brother. This beloved family member was aboard the Merlin, an orbiting space ship that agreed to help the devastated plague victims, only to be overrun and destroyed. Perhaps, if luck be with him, Gale will be able to arrive in time and save his brother. Or perhaps, something far more sinister is awaiting him in the dingy blood tinged corridors of the Merlin. Now, with the help of his fellow soldiers and his need to save, not slaughter, Gale embarks on a mission not only to save the earth, but himself as well. However, this odyssey is fraught with perils, deceptions, death, and the undead. Nothing will ever be the same again, not for Gale, not for his friends, and not for those whose restless sprits drift eternally through the blood drenched corridors of damnation. Watch, for it begins anew . . .

The Dead Shall Inherit the Earth is a strange tale; a tale that despite its unrealistic premise is somehow, magically, terrifyingly real. These incidents, these characters, these gruesome abominations, are presented in such a manner as to forcefully impact the reader with a full and unimaginably deep horror. How this magic is accomplished is a mystery to the reader for the tale is seamless, short, and relentlessly effecting. Through some indefinable talent, through some trick of presentation, the author manages to convey an atmosphere rich with paranoia, melancholy, the ultimate horrors, and visions that only could be created in a nightmare realm. "This is real, this is all true." This mantra relentlessly runs through the reader's mind throughout the tale, convincing them of the urgency and peril of the story allowing them to enter a world so disturbing, so shockingly appalling, and so devastatingly terrifying as to invade the reader's dreams and chill their waking hours. Rarely can a simple novel achieve such rich atmosphere, such vividness, and yet, such unending depression that will most certainly make the reader's waking hours bleakly sorrowful. Truly, this is not for the weak of heart.

Combined with this aura of paranoia is the relentless, fast paced, and utterly unpredictable plot that is astounding in both its complexity and almost flawless presentation. The concept is original, well explained, and suitably melancholy presenting the reader with a tale of woe that not only scares, but emotionally impacts as well. The characters matter, we want to see them happy, we want to follow their sojourns through the realms of darkness, we want to know how their story ends and therefore, we cannot abandon them even long enough to finish the pressing demands in our daily lives. We must follow them. We have an emotional connection to all of them that demands our attention and our endless weeping for yes, we must shed tears for them.

The unpredictability and the refreshing uniqueness of the tale leads to many unexpected revelations that are so shocking and deeply evil as to appall the reader, causing them to long for reparation so that our characters may have some small measure of peace for enduring a living hell. What these revelations are, I am unable to reveal, else they would give away too much of the plot. Let it be sufficient to say that the reader will be most pleased with the outcome, and will, undoubtedly, be deeply effected by the conclusion of the tale.

The writing style was appropriate and easily evoked the horror of the situation faced by our characters. However, the author did make one minute error concerning the dialogue. The novel was often somewhat nebulous as to who was talking, creating much confusion until the reader became accustomed to the author's style and adjusted accordingly.

A Warning: For those of a squeamish disposition, I feel it only fair to warn you that this tale is excessively gory taking visceral horror to an extreme. This tale does not contain the normal gore seen in other horror novels, but rather takes gruesomeness to an extreme repeatedly. Not for the faint of heart.

Concluding Thoughts: A horror tale without parallel, The Dead Shall Inherit the Earth possess a rich, vivid, and melancholy plot coupled with characters that truly make the reader care. While the excessive gore and depressive aura might turn away faint hearted readers, true horror fans should be suitably enthralled by the atmosphere and story of a modern horror masterpiece. Highly recommended.


- Ravenova

This is NOT a zombie book. I have read almost every zombie book available on Amazon and this is NOT a zombie novel.

Instead "The Dead Shall Inherit the Earth" is a really bad self-published science fiction novel; replete with several page long flashbacks (Pages 19-22, 37-40, 59-67); cheesy 1960's Star Trek particle clouds; and like 1960's Star Trek, a group of characters who you easily guess will die on a mission but you really don't care about them anyway.

There are zombies, but a reader has to wait for 140 pages of tedious dialogue before they first appear. By page 174 the zombies are dead. Imagine watching a zombie movie and waiting an hour before the first appears. The stupidest part of this book, other than the repeated flashbacks is the sudden particle cloud which conveniently appears as the crew leaves the infected planet. No explanation is given for this cloud and it is obviously used as a silly plot device.

The book is about a planet of colonists who succumb to a deadly disease which causes them to go insane and kill everyone around them. A presidential hopeful gets some mercenaries to go to the planet. This is where the majority of the book takes place, all of the stupid flashbacks occur, and where the book drags, a lot. The crew lands on the planet and realizes there are several betrayals. They then start returning home with a dead ship when the silly particle cloud appears. Finally on page 140 the zombies appear.

The book gets two stars instead of one for two reasons:
1. because it is the first book I have read that actually has the phrase: "Dropped a...load" (Page 179)
2. The few pages of violence is vivid and great.

If you are a zombie fan I would recommend the following first:

1. Read the three Brian Keene classic zombie books: The Rising, City Of The Dead City Of The Dead and Dead Sea [and maybe Conquer Worms which is not a zombie book] [If you are a Romero zombie purist, don't let the talking zombies get in the way of the best zombie book written] Also the books are mass paperbacks and much cheaper than this one.

2. Monster Nation: A Zombie Novel by David Wellington

3. Dead City by Joe McKinney [Classic Romero zombies]

4. The Autumn 4 books by David Moody: Autumn, Autumn: The Human Condition,

5. Deadlands by Scott A. Johnson [A sci-fi post apocalyptic zombie story which is a million times better than this one]

6. Reign of the Dead by Len Barnhart [Classic Romero zombies, poor story especially the end]

7. Risen by J. Knight [Not classical zombies]

8. Zombie Nation and Zombie Planet by David Wellington [Not as good as the first two, and adds a lot of paranormal abilities of the characters which ruins the core zombie stories]

9. Down the Road Bowie Ibarra (Author), Travis Adkins (Editor) [Terrible book, but better than this one]

Also check out the apocalyptic, non-zombie books: Blood Crazy by Simon Clark and The Road by Cormac McCarthy

The absolute worst zombie book is Electric Jesus Corpse by Carlton Mellick III. The Dead Shall Inherit the Earth is second worst. At least I could finish The Dead Shall Inherit the Earth.

Where to start?

This book starts off strong with the death of the main character's brother and the introduction of a powerful antagonist, but it's all downhill from there. The powerful antagonist then goes virtually unseen until the book is almost over, and then promptly gets killed. The constant misogynistic descriptions of women and sexual references range from distracting to downright offensive. The action is often lackluster, illogical, and uninspired. Many of the characters have no through development and so changes in characters come straight out of left field and make no sense. Many aspects of the human psyche referenced are completely off base and make little if any sense. Churchill seems to try and incorporate every last recent zombie convention into one story and does so in a way that has everyone coughing, "deus ex machina," under their breath. The dialogue is cheesy and for a book that's supposed to be a professional work, the presence of so many typos is extremely disappointing. A final note, does a hardcore sex scene, even between a married couple, really belong in an action novel? Most of us would have been satisfied with a fade to black there.

In closing, don't waste your time unless you want to be an editor and need material to practice with.

The author of this book tried to make conflicted heroes. He ended up making them all so obnoxious I wanted the zombies to get them; which isn't much of a punishment because the zombies were boring.

This is my favourite Graphic Novel. From the artwork, to the dialog, to the monologue, it's excellent in every way. While "Public Enemies" gives us a story packed with action on a grand scale, "Supergirl" delves into the thought processes and interactions between Superman, Batman, and this new girl, Kara. From Superman's need to protect, to Batman's unwillingness to trust, this story has my favourite portrayals of the Man of Steel and Dark Knight.

It's difficult to read this story now without a tinge of melancholy in light of the recent heartbreaking and tragic passing of Michael Turner. The entire comic industry, along with his family and friends, has lost a remarkable talent and, by all accounts, a great guy also. He didn't do many complete stories outside of his own projects, which makes this rare assemblage of impressive illustrations all the more cherishable. This trade is one of the very few that I occasionally peruse strictly for his beautiful artwork alone. From his fearsome Batman to his gorgeous Wonder Woman, his amazing ability is strikingly evident in every panel. Not to be slighted, Jeph Loeb's writing talent is also quite evident in this tale that is easily the best of the four that he worked on for this title. His trademark dueling internal monologues are showcased, as is the return of Supergirl. This time around, Superman and Batman are joined by Wonder Woman and Big Barda on a perilous mission to Apokolips to rescue Supergirl from the clutches of that dastardly despot Darkseid, highlighted by a titanic physical battle and also one of high stakes poker between Batman and Darkseid. The sole flaw is that the story should have ended about thirty pages sooner upon their return to Earth, since the closing pages appear more like an epilogue whose primary purpose was to set the stage for the introduction of Kara to the rest of the DCU, and painfully cheesy it was at that. Nevertheless, still a very solid story with stunning art, the likes of which, sadly, we will never see again. Michael, you will be missed.

Jeph Loeb is known for two things in the world of comics, creating amazing stories that become instant classics and creating unreadable dribble. This stories falls into the latter category, and being backed up on art by Michael Turner who apparently has never seen a human body doesn't help matters. Save yourself some money and skip to Superman/Batman Volume 3.

I came in late for much of the comics and their first printings so getting this little trade paperback was lovely. I enjoyed the art and the story (though I stopped reading super-girl long ago because quality went down hill).

I'd recommend this paperback however.

First things first.

I am not a gigantic comics fan. I've never been to a comic book shop. I know the big names. Basically, if they had a live action TV show, I know them.

So, my opinion is not as well-informed as that of some.

One of the readers I am not a frequent reader of comics is the silliness involving Supergirl that this collection tries to correct. Big fans know what I'm talking about - Supergirl is dead, she's replaced by an ectoplasmic being who is called Supergirl, yadda, yadda, yadda.

So, Supergirl from Krypton is re-introduced here as a concept. Thank goodness.

The story itself is good, but not nearly as good as Volume #1 in this series. The art is interesting - the men are hyperdeveloped to the point of silliness (their suits look like they are painted on to professional bodybuilders) but the women are wonderful - this rendition of Wonder Woman is the best I've ever seen, including Linda Carter!

And they were right. David Irving tells a compelling story demonstrating that far from the great statesman view of media and historians, Winston was a drunken compulsive gambler heavily indebted to jewish financial interests, and repaid them by turning Englan against its natural ally Germany, which could and should have destroyed Bolshevism. Recall the "iron curtain" speech? Churchill should know-it was his fault.

With the publication of Lord Alanbrooke's "War Diaries", and the (finally!) re-publication of Henry Williamson's "Lucifer Before Sunrise" and "The Gale of the World", Irving's well-documented, totally supported theses are independantly ond objectively confirmed. The mythologizing of the origins and conduct of World War II was begun by Churchill himself, and has accelerated in the last 20 years to a point that anyone not toeing the "politically correct" line is attacked as a Nazi sympathiser.

Irving's early books were universally praised. Almost all authors of major works on Hitler's war leadership and the Wehrmacht High Command -- including the multi-volume official histories written by the MGFA (the German Federal Military History Research Office) -- cite Irving's own books or the sources he has uncovered and employed. However, the "political acceptibility" of the material uncovered (not fabricated) by Irving has lead to his current demonization.

Sometimes, the truth isn't as pretty as we'd like it to be. And when it comes to World war 2, the "truth" is getting harder and harder to find.

I used to be a convinced Irving reader. Convinced that is that he represented an alternative view of history. This book is the one where he really departed from reality.

All of Churchill's faults, alcoholism, cronyism, poor financial judgement, are high-lighted. The fact that he saved civilisation as we know it is ignored.

The early Nazi leaders biographies and Hitlers War were interesting. I never even picked up on the holocaust denial views in there at the time.

One is judged by the company one keeps......inspect the ranks of Irvings defenders nowadays.....This is not rational objective history.

This book, is not what I expected, I thought I was going to read a two volume bashing on the British leader during World War II. But instead, David Irving once more demonstrates his skills as a thorough researcher and an easy to follow writer. You get an intimate look into the life of Winston Churchill, you learn about his vices, his faults but also you grow to admire him, to admire his dexterity as a cunning, resourceful, manipulative and a brilliant man, you finish reading, the two volumes, understanding why he was the only man capable of being the Prime Minister and why he took the Allies to final victory.

Along the pages you'll learn of a lot that things that happened 'behind the curtain', you'll know of military operations that you never heard to talk of before, as well as familiar topics as the Battle of Britain, the sinking of the Bismark, the Battle of the Atlantic, North Africa: Rommel vs Montgomery, the 'Dambusters', etc. Learn how the United Nations Organization was born, how the Manhattan project was put under way, or why at No.10 Downing Street they knew, beforehand, of every german military operation (and japanese too!); & you'll read about family gossips too.

Let's hope that once David Irving is released from prison, he can conclude writing, and that he publishes the long awaited volume III. I'm sure that in several decades from now, and once this policy, politically motivated, of mental censorship be over, David Irving will go down in history as one of the best WWII historians.

Irving is a discredited "historian" of dubious credentials and poor reputation, but this book is fascinating in the creative manipulation of supposed new information. In that, Irving is at the top of his game. Sadly, one simply can't believe what he writes.

I really hated this book enough to give it 1 star, but I have learned so much from it. It is true that complex analysis is harder than real analysis, and requires extra care in learning it, but I have always found it difficult to enjoy what I am reading.
I have read 3/4 of the book, tried to reproduce most of the proofs, and solve all of the excercises in the sections that I read for a Phd qualifying exam. Most of my colleagues recommend Asmar's Applied Complex Analysis with Partial Differential Equations to this one. I have tried to take a look at it occassionaly. It looked Ok, but I can't be a good judge of that.

I purchased this book because the undergraduate course I took in complex analysis was taught by a professor who preferred to use Schaum's Outlines: Complex Variables (With an Introduction to Conformal Mapping and Its Applications) accompanied by some fabulous lectures. I didn't save my lecture notes, though, and I wanted a more thorough refresher in the subject than Schaum's can give. So, my qualifications when turning to this text are the following: undergraduate degree in math, previous experience with complex analysis, more extensive experience with real analysis, very recent review of multivariable calculus (which I mention because of the numerous parallels between some of the line integral theorems and contour integrals in the complex plane).

When I first picked up the book, it wasn't quite what I hoped for. Very short sections are divided into well-organized chapters. The sections themselves are hit-or-miss in terms of both depth and breadth of material. Some sections deal with a topic that seems meaty enough to warrant its own treatment (branch cuts and branch points) but without going into anything near the detail necessary to use the concept; others devote an entire section to a single theorem (Cauchy-Goursat) and another section to its proof; others combine several new ideas in one section devoted to treating a larger concept, the way most mathematics texts do. These sections are, unfortunately, few and far-between. In skimming superficially over an important topic or ponderously plodding through a single theorem without tying it to other material, the authors have created a book that feels disorganized and nebulous.

For my purposes--review of a subject with which I am already passingly familiar--this text works fine. I can see connections before they're introduced because I already know where the theory is headed, and my previous experience with mathematics makes it easier to see how things fit into place in the larger framework of analysis. But I have to wonder how an undergraduate with no previous experience in complex analysis would fare using this text. Concepts are introduced before they're used, and some material that I thought was pretty complex (pardon the pun, har har) is glossed over as if it were completely obvious.

The poor organization and layout contributes to the difficulty in comprehension. While the chapters are well-defined, and the sections are at least labeled by topic and numbered, I don't see how you could find your way through this text without copious highlighting. Theorems are offset with a nice bold "theorem/corollary/lemma" in front of them, but several are typeset to take up several lines so that, after the first paragraph break, it's easy to miss where the theorem ends and the discussion begins. The proofs are even worse. I never thought I'd yearn so desperately for three simple letters, but QEDs are completely missing from this text. Proofs go on for paragraphs, often interrupted by figures or even examples, without any sign from the layout that a conclusion has been reached or a new topic begun. Figures are often useful but poorly placed, so that the material referencing them is on a totally different portion of the page. Some theorems are stated more conversationally than elegantly, but at least that means I get to practice rephrasing in my notes.

The exercises in this text are very helpful. Examples are interspersed with the theory, often providing immediate applications and almost always assisting with the exercises at the end of the section. The exercises themselves are quite frequently guided with hints as to how to proceed (particularly with proofs) or accompanied by answers to enable work-checking. The progression of exercises is also very natural, working from simpler concepts to more advanced ones in a way that doesn't overwhelm the student.

Generally, I would recommend this book to someone hoping to review a subject that they already have some understanding of. Enough of the theory is obtuse enough that I wouldn't recommend it to someone who was looking for something to help them better understand the subject, but, unfortunately, I also can't think of a BETTER text. Overall, this book has no killing flaws. It does what it sets out to do. I just can't imagine how the eighth edition manages to have organizational flaws and skimpy detail after seven previous editions for students to complain about.

Brown and Churchill's book is neither rigorous nor intuitive; it is a true pedagogical nightmare. The authors are extremely sloppy with their exposition, structure and rigor.
Some trivial results are "proved" with pedantic detail, but even there the proof is not exhaustive. As an example, to prove sufficient conditions for differentiability (p. 63-5), two pages are devoted to setting up some elaborate structure, but the real meat (basically Taylor's theorem) is not even mentioned, rather the authors cite another text. Similarly, equality of mixed partial derivatives is waved off as "a theorem in advanced calculus." What is complex analysis but advanced calculus, and why do the authors here devote space to prove thoroughly trivial results (e.g. limit of sums converges to sum of limits), while leaving out other important foundations?
A similar sloppiness is shown even in those results that are more fully proved in the book. For example, the theorem presented in Section 26 depends on a theorem in Section 68! Pedagogically this is inexcusable, as the authors introduce these results willy-nilly, not as a coherent whole; the book must be read at least twice to check its consistency!
The layout of the book is awfully confusing. There is practically no white space, and a single font and font size are used throughout the book, for explanations, theorems, examples and exercises. Examples sometimes are placed within the section they illustrate, and sometimes bizarrely they are given their own section. This means that the table of contents cannot indicate the relative importance of book content. Likewise proofs are sometimes given their own sections, sometimes buried in an overly large section.
The exercises are mostly computational, and usually they are spoiled by "hints" that are so exhaustive that the only thing left for the student to do is to move some symbols around as directed by the book.
In general, the book causes both my mathematically rigorous colleagues and my application oriented colleagues to cringe in pain. Compared to some other works on analysis, this volume is a true abomination. Walter Rudin's Principles of Mathematical Analysis is an exquisite, mathematically thorough and rigorous treatise on the subject, in which practically every exercise is meaningful. That the publisher of the present book dares to charge as much money for this seventy-year old volume as Rudin's book costs is farcical.

God knows this book is used by everybody and their brother to teach Complex Variables. Why, I do not know. Dry as dust and even more boring. "Proofs" are minimal and the exercises are plug and chug. Still, it has the acceptance of academia. Enjoy.

This is a nice book for understanding the basic concepts of early Complex Analysis. The integral formulas, residue theorems, Fourier Analysis, infinite series/sequences, etc. are all covered. There are plenty of exercises and examples. Everything is so clearly presented, that it is easy for people with very little background in analysis to read (ie, you don't really need real analysis before reading this book).

My problems with the book are thus: There are very, very few proofs to any of the theorems. I'd rather have more proofs than examples. The problems are almost all computational. Almost none of the exercises require much thought, although some of them will take a while to do. There is no discussion on the importance of certain topics to the wider context of math. No discussion of certain standard complex-valued functions like elliptic functions, zeta functions, or gamma functions.

If anything, I see this as mostly a how-to book for engineers and physicists who come across complex variables in their work. For math students, I'd recommend the books by Shakarchi/Stein, Lang, Conway, Ahlfors.