Mr. Citro never fails to entertain but, this is a case of not quite meeting the high standards set by his other books.

The story is good and the re-appearance of Eric Nolan (central character in Citro's previous book set in Antrim, Vermont: Shadow Child) makes readers of his previous book feel "in-the-know" and part of the story even more.

This story also brings back Citro's most frightening and malevolent antagonists: the Gentry. These are his best invention as it is so easy to picture their child-like laughter in the reader's head and it is amazing how the warming sound of children's laughter becomes so forbodding in this context.

However, Mr. Citro seems to have found it necessary to bestow upon the Gentry new and more unbelievable powers. That is the problem, they do become unbelievable. We accepted their limited (but fearsome) powers in Shadow Child but, with their added powers, any victory by the untrained and average citizens seems so far-fetched that readers may find themselves wondering how the Gentry could have lasted centuries to fall to this group of people.

Finally, on a prudish note. Mr. Citro's repeated descriptions of the thirteen year-old girl's (Mona Grant) developing body (described clothed, partially clothed, and nude during sex) made even me uncomfortable. I caught myself forgetting that he was describing a girl barely in her teens and when I remembered, I felt a bit on the dirty side. I see the point of these references and I do understand that there is a "coming of age" aspect to the book (especially as regards Mona and Will) but, it was still a bit gratuitous for me.

On the positive-side (and please, don't let my tendancy to "criticize first, and praise second" dissaude you from the overall enjoyment that is this book) Mr. Citro gets you to accept his characters quickly (ecpecially the returning characters of the Police Chief and Eric Nolan). Also, he completely immerses you into Antrim, Vermont and give return readers a welcome impression of returning to a favorite spot (given what occurred when last we saw Antrim in Shadow Child, this is an accomplishment). He does his usually wonderful job of conveying locales and moods as well as rapidly lighting a hatred of the Gentry that makes the reader more apt to allow hatred of the Gentry to bond the reader to the protagonists, regardless of their skeletons in the closet or seeming lack of a chance.

Read this book on a summer night when the windows are open and you can allow yourself to wonder, just for a second, if such things really do happen. If you're lucky, you'll scare yourself just a bit, if you are really lucky maybe a child will laugh within ear shot at just the right/wrong moment in the story.

Enjoy this book but, to truly appreciate Mr. Citro and HIS Vermont, read some of his other fictional work (especially Shadow Child).

Great book by a really great author. I don not usually like sequels but this is the exception to the rule. The Gentrys are spooky and then you add a character like Joe Grant to the mix and it really makes it scary.

Guardian Angels is one of those rare books that lives up to the cliche "page turner". I rarely read novels in a single day but this book was so engaging and entertaining I read it in a single sitting. It has everything a good horror novel should have. Chills, thrills, a neat plot, and likeable, smart characters. Highly recommended. When are you going to write a new book, Mr. Citro? Don't leave us hanging any longer!

OK, so I am hard to please... The book was very good- delivered on its promise to teach Java Beans. I have the following observations:

1) Never came out and said exactly what a Java Bean is- a component that can be manipulated in a visual builder. The Beans spec addresses the mechanism by which a Bean exposes its features to the Builder. The book covers additional material, which *should* be covered, but never makes clear what makes a Bean a Bean.

2) Stuffed (padded?) with examples.

3) Section on Introspection was not as clear as it could have been. I downloaded the Beans spec from the Sun site, and that helped fill in the gaps.

Overall, I would definitely recommend this book.

This is a very good book well worth the money. I would have given it 5 star rating, except for one thing. The author should have explained more clearly about the method of mapping used in chapter 3 since it is different from the previous chapters. It took me very long time to figure it out. My conclusion is go buy it, but be aware of what I just said.

This book was loaded with examples. The examples can be downloaded off of the internet, which is great because I've had CDs in books arrive broken before.

The step-by-step RMI instructions helped me a lot with my assignments, and I learned a lot of stuff from this book.

I would not recommend this book to a programming beginner, though. It assumes that you know at least some basics of a high level language.

You really do have to be a Catholic to truly appreciate this wonderful book. As a Catholic schoolgirl entering her eleventh year in Catholic school (scary, isn't it?), I can fully relate to this. I honestly don't think I've ever laughed so hard in my entire life.

You know what the funniest thing about this book is? Everything in it is true...from the different kinds of nuns to Father What-a-Waste (sigh); from the description of mortal and venial sins to the purchasing of pagan babies. Well, they don't sell pagan babies anymore, but they did in my mother's day.

Even a staunch Catholic like my grandmother would have to crack a smile at the descriptive, colorful language and the abfab portrayal of the sometimes ridiculous traditions of the world's most scandalous, under-fire church. This book is a must-read for all Roman Catholics, practicing or no.

I laughed all the way through this, which must be a sin! If you are a Catholic like me you will remember everything this book talks about. In fact, I had forgotten a lot of it. I'm a little surprised it did not go into Knights of Columbus Halls (a.k.a. - the Catholic bar) and Bingo (a.k.a. - Catholic gambling) a little more. But heck, they sure covered everything else. I have to go now, I have to finish crossing myself and say a few dozen hail Mary's.

...because if you went to Catholic school, you can relate. I first read this book ten years ago when I was in Catholic school, and the nuns didn't take it away from me (amazing!). I laughed my a** off. For those of you who have read it and aren't Catholic, yes, we do practice for everything, yes, the nuns are that bad (but they don't have clickers anymore). This book is hilarious. Please, please get it and read it, cover to cover. You will laugh every time you read it.

a good history of the nex pierce
this work could have been stronger if the author would had defined the nez pierce relationships with the other indian tribes better and whther or not the nez pierce became indian scouts themselves

The new version has 366 pages. My 1963 edition has 374. Either way, you will get your money's worth from I Will Fight No More Forever. This is one of the best books I have found on the Nez Perce history or on Chief Joseph. Merrill Beal goes deep into the entire situation surrounding the Nez Perce at the time. He uses the first three chapters to cover the Nez Perce history and culture, setting the stage for the action that followed.

I will give Beal credit. For a white man writing about Native American issues during a time when they were still considered second-class citizens, he did a remarkable job of portraying them as a peaceful, agricultural people. He seems supportive of them and even quite respectful of their accomplishments.

One thing that I particularly like about this book is the use of frequent quotes from both sides, especially from little-known military documents. As you read the book, you start to feel the turmoil of some of the troops that were forced to pursue this tribe, a tribe that had always welcomed and befriended the whites.

This is one book that will rip your heart out! You cannot read it and remain untouched. It is the story of a peaceful people chased from their land, forced to abandon most of their belonging. A few men that were able to fight were trying to protect the women, children, and elderly as they fled to reach the safety of the Canadian border. Of the 450 Natives, only 150 were able to fight. They had more than 5,000 head of half-wild livestock to herd along. Their belongings were piled upon the little Appaloosas, making their going extremely difficult.

For 11 weeks, from 11 June to 5 October, 1877, these tough Natives traveled almost 1700 miles, zig-zagging across the worst terrain in this country. They fought to a stand still or defeated the 10 best commands in the U.S. Army in 13 battles. Their tired, heavily laden, half-starved little Appaloosas consistently out-maneuvered the Army's fresh, well-fed remounts.

The Army used every dirty trick in the book. They even violated flags of truce. They killed women, children, elderly, and the wounded. They went so far as to allow their scouts to scalp the dead. It is a horrendous story. It sickens you that it is a true story and that these were crimes perpetrated by Americans on American soil, not in a foreign, third world country by "uncivilized" people.

The Army wasted $931,329.02 chasing down a group of people that only wanted to leave the country. This entire ordeal was brought about by the government's desire to teach the Native Americans a lesson and to use the Nez Perce as examples. The cost in human lives was 127 soldiers killed and 147 wounded, 50 civilians killed, and 122 Nez Perce killed with 93 wounded. But these numbers reflect only the casualties of the actual "war." More than half of the "apprehended" Nez Perce died in military custody or under direct military supervision, long after the fighting ended.

If you never read any other book about Native Americans, read this one. It will illuminate why the Nez Perce are held in such high regard by other tribes and viewed as role models for all to follow. It also explains why the Appaloosa became the most desired horse in America. Of over 1100 horses taken, 870 were shot under the order of General Sherman (a man of some claim to fame as an arsonist in Atlanta, Georgia). Sherman desired to "make sure" that the Nez Perce could never repeat their performance during this horrendous flight for freedom.

I cannot recommend this book strongly enough. It should be required reading during high school. It is an outstanding book of literary and historical value. It is simply the best reading to be found anywhere! Get a copy today.

Reprinted from Gotta Write Network Online

This book is gut-wrenching and difficult to read at times. It is packed with so much emotion. The book also helped me in understanding more about the Indian Wars and how they were fought on the Western Frontier. Good Book!

I purchased this book in 1994, when I first sought to begin the practice of meditation. Joseph Goldstein's writing gave me the understanding I needed to pursue the practice, and find my own meditative space. There are a number references to Buddhist concepts that some may not find useful, but those pale next to the foundation that this book can provide.

I highly recommend this book and any book by Joseph Goldstein. He is an absolutely incredible teacher,author,and spiritual friend. His teachings have had a deep impact on my life. This book is amazing!

I have read quite a few books on meditation, but this one has actually helped me to dig a little deeper past western thought, to understand the nature and philosophies of buddhism. I tore through this book- even missed a subway stop because I couldn't stop reading in the middle of the section on karma (go figure).In addition, I'm actually learning to be mindful - to see things differently. This book is, as its title suggests, insightful. Moreover, it is wonderful, in the true sense of wonder.

A detailed and well documented trip through the mind of a great leader. An 18th century gentleman caught up in the burden of a 19th century conflict. Symonds shows how Johnston agonized through the days with Hood in the west, avoiding decisions that may have had a marked impact on the eventual outcome of the war in the west. Johnston's feud with Jefferson Davis is also well covered and it is clear that Johnston became so engrossed with this struggle that one cannot help but wonder if things in April, 1865, might have been very different had these two men cooperated rather than bickered with each other. Johnston's relationship with his classmate, Lee, is covered lightly, although the jealously in Johnston's heart sneaks through. The only reason I did not give the book five stars is the brief treatment of Johnston's early life - probably due to a lack of source material - and his life following the war. The treatment of this latter period seems rushed. All in all, an excellent history and an insightful look at a often unfairly maligned warrior. ...But, I'm prejudiced.

Symonds presents a well-balanced account of Johnston the man, the soldier, and the friend and husband. This book is interesting, not overly complex and contains as much detail of Johnston's life as one would require to render an objective opinion of Johnston.

Not until I read this book did I understand the impact that Johnston's leadership had on the Confederate army's achievements and set-backs during the Civil War. Johnston could be cautious in his execution of battle plans and overly sensitive to criticism of his leadership and the strategic use of his army. However, Johnston understood that winning battles against numerically superior odds required picking the right circumstances in which to use his men. Johnston's first priority as a soldier was always the well-being of his men. The book also explores in depth the antipathy that Johnston and Jefferson Davis shared toward each other, indeed for a lifetime. This biography provides an easy-to-read account of all significant events in the life of Joe Johnston.

This is an excellent, well written, un-biased look at the life and military carrier of Joseph E. Johnston. I now better understand Johnston's strategies, and the numerous problems between himself and President Davis. I must read to better understand the war in the western theater of operations.

I didn't like this book very much. Hardly learn anything from the book except a bunch of famous persons name.

Basically this book is a collection of quotes lifted from secondary sources. The authors then take them and write about entrepeneurship trying to extract the key concepts.
I was not excited about the purchase although I imagine if you have limited experience in this area, you will gain some benefit.
I am an active angel investor and previously ran companies in both the USA and England.

This is one of the most inspiring book I've read. It has been carefully presented in the most simplified form. Any would-be entrepreneur will definitely pick up something valuable from this book in their quest for success. With up to 70 world renowned entrpreneur as your Guru, nothing could possibily go wrong.

Buy and keep a copy close by, whenever you're feeling down or run out of ideas in your long and lonely journey to success, you need all the help and "lift" you could get and this is when the Gurus will come and save your day.

This book was given to me at a time that I was desperate to understand how to become a care giver over night. I found the information in it to be very helpful. The resources listed are excellent, and the authors' examples of various care-giving situations, with suggestions and thought-provoking assistance, not only helped me in my own situation but also inspired me to think further about this whole subject.

I'll Take Care of you is an excellent book that offers insight and information on the challenges of caregiving. Some day we will all be faced with either being a caregiver or one who receives the care. In this book we are given permission to feel the emotions and know that we are not alone in what we feel and what we are experienceing. I have purchased this book for a friend and am recommending it to all those I know who are currently giving care. It is comforting to know that there is a resource available that offers support, understanding and real concrete suggestions. Thank you Carole Rothman and Joseph Ilardo for making such a sensitive issue "speakable."

This clearly written book has been extremely useful in helping me deal with my disabled husband. Its advice is useful for all caregivers, not just for those dealing with the elderly. The section on "hidden caregivers" sheds a lot of light on why I feel the way I do. The practical advice has been most helpful. I have suggested it to many of my friends who are also caregivers, and have also given copies of it to may family to help them understand what I am going through.

The delightful legend of the Ong's Hat travel cult has been posted in the form of the Incunabula Papers since the earliest days of BBS and Internet communications. The mythos is an historical and cultural curiosity for that reason alone.

Has the great world-mind of the telecommunication infrastructure begun to breed its own myths? The elusiveness of the Incunabula's original proponents, Emory Cranston (a pseudonym) and Joseph Matheny (his real name), has spawned wild speculation that the Ong's Hat legend is nothing but a media hoax. However there is a dark side to this story that has never been fully told, which may help explain their circumspection.

What began as an heretical Islamic sect founded in the early 1900s by Black circus magician, Noble Drew Ali, evolved over the century into a techno-tantric commune whose members managed to escape this befouled world into a pristine, Edenic parallel universe, a New Jersey Pine Barrens devoid of inhabitants. This latter rag-tag group built the "Egg" - a glistening Faberge-like device that enabled trans-dimensional travel into unpopulated mirror worlds (per the Everett-Wheeler-Graham model). A special quantum-tantric feature allowed passage for two occupants while they made love, irrespective of their race, age or gender.

But wait, there's more! Add to this mix a benevolent race of humanoids descended from Javanese lemurs on a parallel Earth, capable of dimensional shift without machinery, who have been world tripping for thousands of years. You've got your chaos; sex magick; applied quantum physics; shadow conspiracy; crypto-palaeontology and enlightenment hopes all wrapped up in one neat package. What the Hell more do you want?

There are few conspiracy theories quite as enchanting as the story of the abandoned village of Ong's Hat, New Jersey and the happenings there in the late 1960's-early 1970's. The account involves renegade Princeton researchers, lesbian anarchists, Paramus runaways and Chaos theoreticians who together achieved the most important scientific breakthrough of humankind's history: the ability to travel - instantaneously - to the remotest parts of the universe, perhaps even into other universes inhabiting other dimensions.

Narrated by Joseph Matheny, an investigative reporter who - following up cryptic leads on the internet - discovered the OH story decades later, this must surely rank among the most unusual Alternative History works ever published.

Various related accounts of the Ong's Hat commune-cum-research facility have been posted in the form of the "Incunabula Papers" since the earliest days of BBS's and the internet. Irrespective of the veracity of these accounts, the mythos is of great historical and sociological interest for that reason alone.

The elusiveness of the Incunabula's authors has given rise to a host of theories that the Ong's Hat legend is nothing but a "media hoax," or a vastly exaggerated account of actual events there. There is, however, a dark side to this story that has never been fully told, which may help explain their circumspection. That 'dark side' is amply hinted at, if not expressly revealed, in this fascinating volume.

Dive into the depths of "Alternative History" with this fascinating work that is a pure pleasure to read.

I strongly recommend it to all serious students of social ephemera. It probably wouldn't hurt physicists to give it a gander as well.

Before the continents assumed their present shape, countless ages before intelligent protohominids walked erect and began using tools, aeons before alphabets and settled agriculture were new-fangled things, Ong's Hat - a now deserted village in southernmost New Jersey (USA) - was fated to become the most important point in all of space and time, the nexus of uncountable quanta of probability matrices joining at the confluence of those temporal rivers known as past, present and future.

Since the event known as "the Opening of the Gate" occurred at Ong's Hat these thirty-four years ago, much of the paltry amount of writing on that cosmic shifting of gears has been of an intendedly "disinformational" character, for reasons made apparent in this volume. Dr. Matheny and others have sifted through a mass of such spurious reportage to uncover neat and naked the truth of what occurred, why it was made to occur and the continuing consequences for all of humankind.

Dr. Joseph Matheny and his collaborators have produced a breathtakingly scholarly work in writing "The Incunabula Papers: Ong's Hat and Other Gateways to New Dimensions," which is a tour-de-force not only of the Ong's Hat incident, but of quantum mechanics, temporal theory and the systematic theology of Moorish Orthodoxy as well.

I wholeheartedly and unreservedly recommend this masterwork to all serious students of the Ong's Hat phenomena.

An interesting and scholarly look at what makes Jews funny, what's behind the humor, along with numerous examples. An eye-opener, it also makes you think while you're laughing. For another point of view, I personally loved A Little Joy, A Little Oy, part of which takes on similar issues of humor but from a different angle, along with contrasting the humor with pathos. But both are excellent and should be in every Jewish library!

In this book, we learn about the Jewish experience as expressed in humor. For example, Jews have often reacted to antisemitism by joking about it. Usually such humor includes irony, often having a punchline in which a hapless Jew gets the better of his oppressor. Sometimes, however, the humor is bitter.

Rightly or wrongly, ethnic groups are stereotyped and Jewish humor makes great use of its own stereotypes. Even the most religious Jew can poke fun at rabbis and generally, such humor is gentle and endearing. The conflict between the major branches of Judaism is fertile ground for jokes. So too, the Jewish family and all it's stereotypes e.g. the Jewish mother, is a tremendous source of humor. Even Jews who are totally non religious, such as Woody Allen, nontheless are greatly influenced by their Judaism in their humor.

This book explores the Jewish experience and then relates how this experience surfaces in humor. The book also exposes ugliness in Jewish humor such as the nasty, antisemitic "JAP" jokes that were popular, generally among non Jews. This book is not a collection of jokes, although there are plenty of jokes in this book. Rather, this is a book about what makes Jewish humor tick as illustrated by the jokes which are included as examples.

I gave the book four stars rather than five because there are extensive end notes, many of which are worth reading and I feel that they should have been integrated into the text. Instead, the reader must flip to the end of the book to reference these notes. This is somewhat annoying. Despite this criticism, I really liked the book and found it to be very enjoyable reading.

Everybody knows about Jewish confidence: "We're smart! We're chosen! We have more Nobel prizes than we deserve! We're a light unto the nations!" Those are the things we say out loud.

But, like everybody, Jews are also insecure. Among ourselves, we ask, "Are we really smart? Why does nobody like us?" And the deeper, more difficult question, "What's going to happen to us?"

Humour has always been the Jewish way of looking at these insecurities in the fresh and optimistic light a smile can shed on any painful issue. From the days of the Talmud right on up to Adam Sandler (and hopefully *beyond* -- I'd hate to think of the "Hanukkah song" as the "end-all" of Jewish humour!), we use humour to poke away at ourselves, examining the things that make us unique and also the issues that frighten us the most. Sure, this book's honesty made me squirm a little, but as Socrates once said, "So, nu? From an examined life, you don't die."

Telushkin has masterfully grouped the best Jewish jokes into categories. His illuminations are helpful but never intrusive -- this is above all else a FUNNY book. If you're wondering what makes us tick and why the funny bone is so often the way to a Jewish heart, check out Telushkin's book and be prepared to squirm a little -- and learn a lot.