An excellent book that goes in depth(and I do mean IN DEPTH!) into cheating methods used by crossroaders in casinos. For the serious player, this is a good read, as it contains some "legal" methods of advantage play as well. For anyone else, its just a very interesting book. If you enjoy gambling and casino life, you will probably enjoy this book as well.

good book looking at bending and breaking the rules of 21 by altering ones cards and/or money. techniques from the basic to the outrageous. worth a read by any serious player if only to see how others take money off the house.

This is a good introduction to the topic. It contains some interesting points. One is that even very young children are affected by marital discord. Another is that exposure to discord is likely to make a child more, not less, sensitive to it.

The book has its drawbacks. It's repetitive and heavy on fluffy citations, like "How couples handle differences is also important in marriages (Margolin, 1979; Markman & Kraft, 1989)." (p. 21). Do you really need someone else to back up an assertion that how couples handle differences is "important"?

Another example: "Spousal disengagement and withdrawal are associated with current marital distress [three citations follow]." If such statements of the vague and obvious were left out this book would be even slimmer than it is. These statements are the givens which made me want to read the book, to find out the why and how.

I think that this book lays out the critical issues in understanding the consequences of marital conflict on the lives of children. In my opinion, the balance of theory -- to get you thinking -- and actual research findings -- so that you know the big picture of what is really going with children -- is great. I disagree heartily with the previous reviewer that this book is lightweight. Also the citations are NOT just gratuitous "I'm justifying what I just said." They are also there to suggest to an interested reader **further food for thought.** That is an important distinction.

Our school recently did a one-act play version of "Children of a Lesser God." Let me say that the subject is very embracing: a hearing-impaired woman's struggle for acceptance in a hearing world. I find that the most qouted line in our play was from Sarah: "It is a silence full of sound." Truthfully, the most gut-wrenching scene is near the end, as the two main characters have an argument over lip-reading as opposed to signing. If you'll take my opinion, you should definately purchase this playbook. I considered it to be a real eye-opener.

I really liked the plot of this book, but it was a little confusing because they have many scenes going on at the same time. The book is about a speech teacher trying to teacher a deaf person to speek and lip read. The topic is really interesting, because I haven't really read a lot of plays about the deaf, and the struggles that they go through. There is also a big romance in the book, but I think that the romance moves a little too quickly, and in that way is unrealistic. The play is in 2 short acts. I really liked the notes from the author in the beginning about the struggle to write this play because of a deaf friend, and about how it was put on in a small theater and then moved to broadway, and then it won a tony for best actress & actor, and best play! I suggest that you read it because it brings up a lot of interesting issues!

When Kurlansky, the author, describes the surviving Polish Jews, he does so with a less anti-Polish bias than many other writers on this topic. When discussing the so-called Kielce Pogrom, for example, Kurlansky recognizes the fact that this was no spontaneous anti-Jewish riot, but was orchestrated by the Communists (who were being forcibly imposed upon Poland at this time on the heels of the Soviet Army). Unfortunately, Kurlansky also uncritically repeats some stereotypic reactions to historical events. When considering the fact that Jewish involvement in Communism had provoked anti-Semitic feelings among many Poles, Kurlansky gives the standard line about this Jewish-Soviet collaboration being necessary to save Jews from the Nazis. But this is contrary to facts: To begin with, extensive Jewish involvement in Communism had long predated the origin of the Nazis, and continued long after their defeat. Moreover, in 1939, the genocidal intentions of the Nazis were not taken seriously. In fact, most Jews saw the Germans as a civilized people, and welcomed them as such.

More than typing a review , I want to deeply congratulate the author. I am 40 and it is the best book in the subject I have ever read. Eventhough English is not my native language I can feel the passion the writter used in describing us a real life movie in written words I should say BRAVO for his book.... ...I wish I can get in contact with the author and ask thousands of questions.......

This book gives a Mennonite view of one's relationship with God and with Money. To liberal Protestants, the text is a bit challenging, but it is thought-provoking.

Practical illustrations of the benefits of our joyful response to God's love. The Seven Initiatives for Congregations is right on target. Especially Initiative One, which states the pastor must take the leadership role in teaching and preaching about stewardship applications, even to knowing the giving patterns of members "as a window into their spiritual walk."

In a poem entitled "Shells," Mark Nickels says, "I've been praying without knowing it." In this we catch an intimation of his poetry's incantatory power and synthesizing force. However, what we cannot guess from this quote is the massive grandeur that comes through even his shortest of poems. With a sweep like a Mahler symphony, it is hard to quote his work in brief, although, at times, his poems have beautifully quotable lines, such as, "The oranges are a refinement of everything the dirt knows."

The mystical undercurrent of his work comes to us under the peculiar banner of the confessional. Unlike other poets whose mystical explorations are distanced by scholarship or stylization, or are simply a cultural impulse, Nickels' interest is from natural affinity, which means from the most personal point of view. It is this fusion of a confessional voice with a natural mystical affinity that I find unique to his poetry. It is as if self-examination discovered the universal at its center. For instance, he opens the poem "Ludlow Café," with the line, "A voluptuary of unknowing, I huddle/in a vast wool coat." I can think of no other poet who conjures such an image, it's as if the anonymously written mystical text "The Cloud of Unknowing" had actually been authored by Oscar Wilde. A witty tack to take, but also quite profound.

Consequently, the speakers of Nickels' enchanting poems shift and change, as in his poem "Cicada" where the speaker, in one section, is in the present, and in another section, is in the year 1669 untying a woman's bodice. Or, time itself shifts as in "Astor Place Opera House Riot" or "Spiral Maneuver" where the poet tells us,

. . . last Tuesday
rhymes with the same day
in 1124, because the moment
is adjacent, contiguous to the other
on a clear, winding helix of days.

Here we find another theme peculiar to Nickels-at least, peculiar for a modern poet-for in spite of his obvious fascination for the multiplicity of things, he does not share the modern faith in the fragmentary.

In "Waterfall Effect," he tells us, "A poem is a record of the way the world rhymes with itself."

Certainly in a world which the poet George Oppen called, "The shipwreck of the singular" we need to hear the message that, in fact, the world rhymes with itself, and we have a record of that rhyming in Nickels' poetry: musical, mystical and integral.

A resident of NYC, Nickels spent his early life in Grand Rapids Michigan where he wrote poetry and fiction, winning a local festival prize for his poem, "The Lorca Orchestra". This new work includes a CD with the author reading about ten of his poems. I recommend this title. See also the publisher's website where audio samples, cover and author pictures, and other information is available.

Reprints from Peterson's Magazine from 1861 (beginning of Civil War) and 1864 (end). This book omits the recipes and literature, but includes hair styles, children's and women's fashion with some patterns.

The limitations of the book are due to the limitations of the source material itself -- art work is pen-and-ink drawings, and the printing is small and sometimes hard to follow. But that's part of dealing with a primary source.

Good as a companion to more detailed books about reenactments and costume history (authors such Janet Arnold, Jean Hunnisett, Nancy Bradfield, the Cunningtons, and Norah Waugh). Probably wouldn't stand alone or be that good for a beginner since it would need some "interpretation" for the modern reader; the introduction to the book covers the limitations and would be good to review before delving into the work itself.

I found the close-ups of the hair styles and gowns to be helpful, but again, the novice might be asking, "Where do I go from here?"

This is a wonderful compilation of material from Peterson's magazine & Self-Instructor in the Art of Hair Work. There are embroidery patterns, lots of clothing patterns for women & children (to be enlarged), black & white fashion plates, sheet music, crochet patterns & knitting patterns (somewhat difficult to translate, but great ideas to get you started), craft instructions for pin cushions, purses, fashion accessories, & househould items, hair styling pictures & how-to's, and much more! This book is a great source for costumers, reenactors, and people who just enjoy the era. Even if it's special order, it is certainly worth the wait.

Found this book to be rather lacking in clear elucidation of fundamental physical topics, but the pictures were good

I used this book to prepare for IIT-JEE in India. It is an excellent book! Two-enthusiastic thumbs up!

This book is an excellent primer on the subject of colloidal silver. It's full of reasons and stories of why you'd want to use silver in the first place. If the reader happens to be beyond that point, the less than informative directions for the old 9-volt battery-operated colloidal silver generator may not suffice. There are cheaper, easier and more eco-friendly methods of colloidal silver manufacture available. Nobody beats Mark for his "time in the trenches" though. The information in the book is crutial to the new medical "researcher".

I have read many articles about colloidal silver and found this book to be a composite of most important details of most of them.

This book will compel even the most skeptical critic of colloidal silver to give it a try.

Having already been familiar with the medicinal properties of colloidal silver in livestock and personal use, this book personified my belief that in silver we see another example that God put everything here on Planet Earth to address our health needs.

This book is easy to follow, covers about any aspect of colloidal silver and even presents it with a sense of humor.

In the typical format, The Complete Idiot's Guide to a Beautiful Lawn is easy to read and understand with abundant simple definitions and explanations and well-formulated, easy-to-follow instructions. However, there is comparatively little on revitalizing an existing lawn, and the major emphasis is on putting in a new lawn. Granted, lessons from putting in a new lawn can be applied to revitalizing an existing lawn, but the techniques for doing so are not detailed and are rarely even mentioned. A useful book, but not my favorite Complete Idiot's Guide.

The "reader" in the above review did not read the book. It contains extensive instructions for renovating existing lawns. In fact, I have just renovated my lawn based on information in the book and now (3 weeks later) have a nice green carpet of turf in my front yard. She also discusses topdressing at length, a technique I didn't find in any other lawn book I looked at. I found this book very useful and quite comprehensive. IMHO, this is the fundamental homeowner's reference work on lawns.