Reviews for Technology transfer to the USSR, 1928-1937 and 1966-1975: The role of Western technology in ...

The average rating for Technology transfer to the USSR, 1928-1937 and 1966-1975: The role of Western technology in ... based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2021-03-23 00:00:00 Mina Roditis The New Essential Guide to people you probably already know. This book probably has the unfair disadvantage of being the least interesting and least useful in the Essential's series due to it's subject matter. Everybody remembers the characters. Planets and moons, vehicles and vessels, weapons, even droids are more interesting. They're more ambiguous, It's nice to have little manuals on the less memorable aspects. It's cool to read the specifications of a starfighter, to see diagrams of luke's lightsaber. To try to memorize the little bibbits we should already know. To use the vehicles as references to create our own cool designs. But we know the characters. We can tell you, whats happened to them throughout their life. And for the aspects we don't know it's far more interesting to go out and find the book they're in and read that. This book was written in 2002 really an inopportune time, badly chosen. This is before the end of the New Jedi Order series, and before Revenge of the Sith came out. This means the book only has partial information of these events. We had been waiting for new guides for years, we could have waited a bit longer for more complete information. The artist uses a variety of styles from accurate representations of characters from the movies, to comic-book like portrayals of others. These are pretty good for the most part, but often he leaves us asking "what is with that outfit!" or "What is with that facial expression." His portrayal of the Yuzzan Vong is not the worst I've seen, but I would not consider it very accurate. I also have to wonder at the images of some of the aliens, which not having read any comics I've not seen images of. They just don't seem to fit with what I have in my mind from the books. We also have to wonder at his reducing Han's age from the movie to meing in his teens-20's especially when he is of course displayed so closely to his chjildren and wife. He has also chosen to deviate from the images of Kyle Katarn and Mara Jade, who we also have had real actors for. I have no real objection to this I jut wonder why he has chosen to do so. The author claims the book is written in an in universe survey of some of the most well known people. This generally is seen briefly at the beginning, occasionally with a bad joke, and then just turns into a quick run through based on book, comic, movie, game in chronological order. This make the book an uninteresting read, as it is so disjointed and encyclopedic. They wanted to limit the book to a certain length and have it be a mix between the two. They should have either made it a true encyclopedia, or had it be a true in universe piece and given it more space to go through the characters lives.

Review # 2 was written on 2019-11-05 00:00:00 Jennifer E Combs Although this is out of date, this book has a lot of interesting information about various Star Wars characters.