21st Century Complete Guide to Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) - "Star Wars" SDI Program, including Threats, Sensors, History, Boost, Midcourse, and Terminal Defense Segments, Patriot, Intercept Tests

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Summary: Save the $$$ and use Google instead
Review: Don't overlook the fact that this is a CD-ROM, not a book. That could be considered an innovative delivery mechanism, especially for the various movies (".mov" and ".avi") that are included. From the README on the disk though, you'll learn that this is a "privately compiled collection of public domain U.S. Government Documents". Translation: "We're charging you for putting stuff you could get for free onto CD-ROM". I guess that saves you cruising the net yourself, but I'd recommend doing a web search over actually paying for this collection of otherwise free government information.

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Summary: Disappointment
Review: I had hoped to use this CD in preparing a course "Physics of Weapons and Their Control" for non-science majors, but found it next to useless for my purposes. It contains perhaps 200 images, each with no identification other than a file name like "pic7.jpg", and thousands of pages of government documents with no index or useful table of contents (its "table of contents" simply names 4 groups of documents averaging over 6000 pages each). It advises the user to use Adobe's search function to find information of use. For me it was useless.