Raymond P. Scheindlin is a scholar of early Hebrew literature, specializing in the Hebrew writing that emerged from contact between Jews and Arabs in the Middle Ages–the medieval Golden Age of Hebrew Literature.
Usually, Barron's language texts are good, but in this one, someone saw fit not to include a way to look up a particular verb using the English word, which is included in their other verb books. It is very time-consuming to find anything in here even if you have the Arabic root. This really diminished its value as a reference book. I guess I'm going to have to spend hours compiling a list of pages of at least the most-frequently-used verbs. Disgusting.