This book is very good at helping you guess the right answers on the SAT. It features Joe Blogg who always misses the hard question and gets the easy ones. So if you are not really confident in taking the test and want to score higher on SAT you should get this book.

This book describes the life and times of a man whose life spaned the self sustaining lifestyle of the Maine north of the beginning of the 20th century through the depression and into a prosperous career in the construction industry. The chronical of this man's life gives us some understanding of the stuff that the dedication, determaination, self-sacrifice and patriotism of that generation we read so much about in books such as "Flag of Our Fathers". I found it instructive, humorous and very interesting.

The fall of communism affected Cuba much like the stock market crash of 1929 affected the USA. From relative prosperity prior 1990 to economic disaster. How would this affect the life and spirit of Cubans? This is what Adam Kufeld want to know, and see, thus in 1991, after a 15 year absence, he returned to Cuba with camera in hand and captured over 100 intriguing and beautiful photographs of today's Cuba. He has framed a kaleidoscope of life, children, old people, farm workers, doctors, sugar cane and tobacco, working men, beautiful women and of course Castro. The writing by Tom Miller lacks the inspiration and connection to Cuba of Kufeld's photos, but then who buys a coffee table book for the writing? Recommended.

I found this book in City Lights ... on my own quest around sacred mountains of the world. It was fun to find Evans-Wentz had anticpated much of my route ... many years before. Cuchama is also Mt Tecate, a mountain on which young American Indians were set to spend the night, coming down with their vocation in life. Well edited by Frank Waters, with what were to me fascinating additional observations. A great intro to the phenomenon of the sacredness of mountians, from a man who lived his life by such things.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book which is set late in Pinochet's dictatorship as democracy was just starting to return to Chile. An exiled pop singer, who has been in Europe so long he is nearly European, returns on a whim bringing his son, a six-year-old who speaks only French. He arrives just in time to learn that his old friend "La Chascona," widow of poet Pablo Neruda, has died. The next 24 hours find him at the wake, hiding in the streets during the curfew all night with his former lover, who has been in the underground all these years, and finally at a climactic scene during the huge funeral. During it all he tries to come back into touch with his origins as a poor boy in the remote, mystical, and unsophisticated island of Chiloe in the south. The action in the book, despite many flashbacks, covers just about 24 hours. The book is very skillfully written and translated and brings the contradictions and conflicts of life in modern Chile a little closer to those of us in the rest of the world.

Great pictures & text. Well narrated with exciting, clear & concise images. A must for a student with a point and click mentality!

I was looking for a latest edition of a book on data structures using Java. Lafore, Martin etc. are good texts but since collection API has introduced in jdk 1.2, those books seems to be obsolete. This book discusses new API and classes provided by java environment, so we need not to be bogged down by writing the unnecessary code. I feel this book is good for professionals in the industry as well as students of computer science. Algorithms are dealt with in detail with all the mathematical proofs involved, regarding efficiency and complexity. Various data structures are discussed with sufficient number of examples. Its a language specific book on data structures and algorithms, so if you are looking for a general book ar if you are working with any other language you will be dissappointed but surely a good book for java programming language.

These days, the typical movie novelization consists of little more than a direct transcription of the movie's screenplay; not much thought goes into creating a "new experience" for the reader. "Dead Man on Campus," however, despite what looks like decidedly threadbare source material, reads more like an actual novel than a quickie movie tie-in. The story revolves around Cooper and Josh, two party-hearty college roommates who find themselves in grave danger of flunking out. In desperation, they turn to an obscure clause in the school charter -- the "Dead Man's Clause": If your roommate commits suicide, the college compensates you for your trauma by awarding you straight A's for the semester. Cooper and Josh embark on a search for the most suicidal guy on campus, in the hope that he'll move in with them, "open up a vein," and solve all their problems. Various complications and hijinks ensue.

The book drags a bit during the f! ! irst 80 or so pages, mainly because of the endlessly repetitive scenes of Cooper and Josh partying and getting high. (This is an MTV Book, let's not forget.) But the authors compensate by creating a series of marvelously funny vignettes depicting the past history and inner life of each of the characters. And the story really kicks into gear once the Dead Man's Clause is introduced, and our "heroes" begin their quest.

The legendary David St. Hubbins once said, "There's a fine line between Stupid and Clever." In the course of its 215 pages, "Dead Man on Campus" jumps back and forth across that line more often than you can count. The set pieces range from the painfully obvious (a misunderstanding causes the other guys in the dorm to think Cooper and Josh are gay) to the genuinely inspired (a depressed poet hurls invective at his adoring groupies during a coffeehouse reading, to no discernible effect; Cooper gives outrageously inappropriate adv! ! ice to a bulimia sufferer who's contemplating suicide; a mo! ving van driver delivers a profane and hilarious monologue about the best customer he ever had). One suspects that the novel's funniest bits -- a stand-alone prologue that combines the sensibilities of O. Henry and Howard Stern, and a surreal chapter detailing the bizarre family history of Buckley, one of Cooper and Josh's potential roomies -- probably aren't even in the movie (which is as yet unreleased). No matter. In the duel between Stupid and Clever, Clever manages to win more often than not, allowing "Dead Man on Campus," the novel, to stand on its own as a lighthearted, enjoyably crass, and raucously un-PC entertainment.

This book is a quick fun read. The biology in it is actually well researched and fairly good, although somewhat dated now. A bit of the science is a bit fantastic, but it is fiction after all. Be warned that it is for an older audience as some parts are a bit graphic.

This anthology of Delta Green short stories presents a good introduction to the conspiracy/horror concepts of the DG world. Some stories are better than others, and each tale has it's own merits, but the story by Arinn Dembo stands head and shoulders above the rest. The story, a DG-flavored explanation of the life and times of a rockstar who closely resembles Nirvana lead singer Kurt Cobain, is truly fantastic in my opinion. I'm probably a bigger fan of the story because of the unsolved mystery of Cobain's death, but it's well-written and sucks you in with a mixture of present-time and flashback sequences. I recommend the book as both an introduction to DG, and as a source of fresh new historical fiction authors.