Anyone who is interested in learning about Astrology and needs a good starting point should read this book. I wish that this book was around when I first began to study Astrology.

"The Only Way to Learn Astrology" is a good book to begin with because it explains and defines all of the terms. It also gives enough information for someone to begin interpreting a Natal Chart.

The down side is that it is for beginners with a strong interest. If you are not really into it, you probably will be wasting your money. If you are serious, you might find that you need some other books that are more detailed for interpretation after studying this book.

Eventually, most astrologers begin reading books that focus on individual planets, trends, perspectives, ect. This book is a part of a series but, even so, there are more advanced books for people who have already invested some time in their search.

This is a great place to begin!

This book was highly recommended to me by a professional astrologer in the 80s when I first started studying astrology. I still refer to this book, and I'm glad to see that it's still available because I still recommend it to friends. The entire series is good, but this first installment is priceless. This first book helps you learn the language and the basic mechanics of astrology, and it is organized for easy reference. By the time you finish reading this book, you should be able to read a chart. Then you'll be ready to start a lifelong journey to continuously improve the art of practicing astrology!

I picked up my copy at a used bookstore for a couple of dollars. I was put off by the seemingly arrogant title and did not expect to get much out of it. After reading through it, I was so impressed that I eventually brought the entire series. It thoroughly covers all of the basics of interpretation, with easy to understand explanations. When clients ask for a book to further research their charts, I always refer March and McEvers. In fact, I use mine all the time and I have the best and most advanced books. Buy this book, you cannot go wrong if you are interested in learning the basics of astrology.

Tara Vanderveer is the author of the inspiring autobiography Shooting form the Outside.  In this autobiography, Tara Vanderveer discusses the challenges and obstacles that she must overcome into to reach her goal of winning the gold medal.  The autobiography discusses the hardships, conflicts, and problems that the team faces throughout the year and shows how teamwork can overcome anything.
This novel is pretty much an overview of the Women's Basketball team throughout their Olympic season.  The novel starts out with Tara Vanderveer talking about her child hood days and how she developed a love for the game.  She talks about how she use to be a mascot for the school, used to write down every new play she heard in a notebook, and how she went and watched the men's basketball team to learn any new play on offense or defense she could pick up.  The story then proceeds to Coach Vanderveer discussing her thoughts and concerns for the year that lay ahead of the eleven woman that have been selected as the national team.  She talks about her past failures like the 1994 World Games that have pushed her and motivated her to win the gold medal.  She promised that the embarrassment and disgrace that she felt from the World Games will never happen again.  One can easily feel the strong determination and motivation that Coach Vanderveer feels, and how she uses this as an ally and works the team harder than they have ever been worked before. 
This book was undoubtedly worth reading from my point of view.  This book taught me information about Title IX that I had previously never even heard about.  The book showed me the true struggle that a woman must face and has taught me a sense of respect for woman who have succeeded in the past. 
One issue the book brings up is that woman are not given enough opportunity to succeed in life.  A woman's determination and motivation can easily be destroyed or brought down by the cruelness and unfairness of discrimination towards woman.  Therefore, since woman can do all jobs just as productively as men, the book suggests that woman should be given fair and equal treatment and equal opportunities to men. 
In conclusion, Shooting from the Outside is an excellent book that teachers lessons and values that should be known and followed by all of society.  The story teachers discrimination is pointless and by not allowing woman to perform to their full capacity we are truly ruining our own opportunities to further succeed in life.

This is a really inspirational book for those who care about womens' basketball. I had a really hard time putting it down. You feel as if you are part of the U.S. Olympic Team, and were there to witness the trials and tribulations of their road to Gold. Great book for those who play basketball or enjoy it. (Especially if you're female!!) I think I will start reading the book from the beginning again tomorrow. It also meant more to me then maybe someone else because I have been to Tara's Camps and been able to interact with Jennifer Azzi and Katy Steding, and other players as well. It is totally my favorite book ever!

I confess that I have been a fan of Tara Vanderveer for nearly 10 years. I think I understand that basketball is a very major part of her life. She likes Bob Knight, sheesh. This book was a very easy read even though you already know how it will end. When you finish the book you might feel like you want to see if the players saw everything the same way. Well, this is her point of view.

This was the very first erotic novel that I ever read and I absolutely loved it! It kept me coming back for more, no lie! My only problem is that it had a little too much of a story line. It's my favorite book of Ms. Lloyd's. I highly recommend it. It's a very juicy book. Not at all for the prudish!

This is an easy read and very informative as well. I enjoyed every page of it, it was totally absorbing for me. I couldn't bring myself to put it down and continue it later. For those who are looking for something to turn them on and ways to spice up their sex life, this is a sure recommendation. I was so turned on reading it that my partner and I adapted some of the scenarios and recommendations and acted them out. And each time our sex experience was just exhilarating! I would highly recommend that Amazon publish this same title in the e-book format.

Wow! A co-worker of mine brought this book in for me to read. They knew I was into torn shirt novels. And this is one for the record. For those modest people who just want a romance, this is definately not for you. It is very sexually graphic, but there is a plot and a story line that make you want to read the whole thing, rather than just skipping to the dirty parts. I love reading and how it can transfer you to a world that you'd dare not enter yourself. This book is not for the faint hearted. If you are looking for an exciting book that may even give you a few steamy ideas for your own bedroom, I recommend this one.

I wonder why all of you are in college, because you are all stupid. No online bookstore or chain retail bookstore can provide any, not any, book at a better price than the university bookstore. Do you understand, that's the point in a university bookstore, or a college bookstore. Don't buy your college books online, no one has them cheaper. Please, next time you leave a thoughtless review, please leave your full name so I know who never to hire for any job.

I think the book is pretty good, but the price Amazon.com offers it at is higher than bookstore prices. Also, the page numbers and organization of the book is very confusing. I am taking a course at college that uses this book and the organization is very difficult to follow.

This book does a great job of showing almost Excel guru functions. Skip the first couple of chapters about formating and how to move around in windows. After those, the book presents easy to follow lessons that will turn novices into experts. Only downside is that visual basic is not ceovered well-- although it does a reasonbable job introducing it-- it should have been left out of scope.

"Pope Joan" or "Papissa Joanna" was originally written and published in 1886 by the Greek author Emmanuel Royidis. The book tells the story of Pope John VIII, the purported female Pope who ruled Christendom for a period of two years, five months and four days in the middle of the ninth century. "Pope Joan" is a comic masterpiece of irreverence towards the medieval Church and the accepted pieties of its revisionist historians. Indeed, insofar as Royidis continued to propagate the legend of Pope Joan, to claim that the work contained only "facts and events proved beyond discussion", the text itself ingeniously combines history and legend, as well as brilliant wit, to subvert claims of authority. As Lawrence Durrell notes in his Preface to his brilliant English translation and adaptation, "the authorities of the Orthodox Church were horrified by what seemed to them to be the impious irony of its author-and no less by the gallery of maggot-ridden church fathers which he described so lovingly." Not suprisingly, Royidis was excommunicated from the Orthodox Church and his book was banned in Greece.

The first three parts of "Pope Joan" tell the story of Joanna prior to her arrival in Rome, before she became an historical personage. Set in the ninth century, the narrative captures the European world in disarray after the death of Charlemagne, captures a time when civilization was tenuous and the Church provided one of the few viable social structures. It is this part of the narrative that is unambiguously fictional, the imagined story of Joanna's life in Germany and then in Greece. After her parents die, Joanna clandestinely enters a monastery where she meets the monk Frumentius and develops a romantic relationship with him. When her true sexual identity is surmised, Joanna and Frumentius flee one monastery and then another, eventually ending up in Greece. Joanna soon becomes tired of her romance and her intellectual brilliance attracts the attention of Church leaders throughout Greece. She leaves Frumentius and departs alone for Rome, where the legend, some say the history, of Pope Joan begins. She becomes a papal secretary renowned for her intellect and, when Pope Leo IV dies, she ascends to the papacy. Pope Joan becomes pregnant and dies after giving birth during a procession through the streets of Rome.

While the general outline of the narrative may seem only mildly interesting, the brilliant translation and prose of Lawrence Durrell, together with the biting, irreverent wit of Royidis, make "Pope Joan" an unsurpassed work of comic genius. A flavor for this wit and style can be found in a short passage describing what ensued after Pope Joan gave birth: "Great was the consternation when a premature infant was produced from among the voluminous folds of the papal vestments . . . Some hierarchs who were profoundly devoted to the Holy See sought to save the situation and change horror and disgust to amazement by crying out 'A miracle! A miracle!' They bellowed loudly calling the faithful to kneel and worship. But in vain. Such a miracle was unheard of; and indeed would have been a singular contribution to the annals of Christian thaumaturgy which, while it borrowed many a prodigy from the pagans, had not yet reached the point where it could represent any male saint as pregnant and bringing forth a child."

While the apologist position has consistently denied the historicity of Pope Joan, there is at least some suggestion that the legend is indeed a fact. As Durrell suggests in his Preface, one telling point is that Platina includes a biography of Pope John VIII in his "Lives of the Popes". And no less an authority than The Catholic Encyclopedia states that Platina's "Lives of the Popes" is "a work of no small merit, for it is the first systematic handbook of papal history." Historical disputation aside, however, "Pope Joan" stands as a brilliant work of comic writing and masterful translation, a masterpiece of Royidis and Durrell.

People that buy the Cross version are buying the wrong book. Look instead to the beautifully written, gleefully and irreverently funny version by Emmanuel Rhodes, written over a 100 years ago, translated from the Greek by famed author Laurence Durrell.

Truly, there is no comparison between the Cross and Durrell versions. Jane Austen chided her gullible heroine in "Northanger Abbey" for indulging in pulp Gothic novels that were "all plot and no reflection". The Cross book is all plot and no reflection. Or even worse, it is all agenda and no reflection. It is unabashedly, tediously revisionistic, hell-bent on making Pope Joan an idealized, religiously progressive proto-feminist. Cross projects all our late-twentieth century values onto her, time and place be damned. And it bludgeons you with its purpose for hundreds upon hundreds of pages. Joan never emerges as a character, just a cause. This is a book that in 50 years we will be able to look back upon and say, "Oh, how '90s". Plus, the writing is cliched and really rises no higher than that of "genre" level prose.

The Durrell translation of the Emmanuel Rhodes book is everything the Cross book is not. The prose simply sings, even in translation -- there were passages that were so beautiful, they gave me a palpable headrush. It is filled with gleeful black humor, the plot is tight and well-constructed, and the book, though irreverent, is filled with respect and affection for the character of Joan. Rhodes has no agenda for Joan, he depicts everything with honesty and clarity. For example, he does not attempt to make apologies for anti-Semites, and even adopts their views in casual references as a device to voice the world views of the characters that is required to immerse the reader in the time and place of the book. And Joan's baser impulses driving her actions are never gilded over into something more heroic than they are. Plus, the Rhodes book is simply fun.

I enjoyed Cross's version of this story, especially the historical detours into the state of law and medicine in the Dark Ages. But, I'm glad I read it before I opened the Lawrence Durell/Emmanuel Royidis' version.

This is the funniest book I've read since Fried Green Tomatoes! It's a hilarious, irreverent, bawdy, sacreligious saga at the expense of every prudish, hypocritically pious notion ever spawned in Christian history. It's a scream! I wonder if my neighbors have been disturbed by my uncontrollable howling. As an example, there's the bit where Joan uses the leg bone (sacred relic) of a martyred saint which she and a group of monks are transporting, to fend off the overly-amorous monks during an episode of gluttenous over-indulgence!

This very literate debauchery is the work of a genius.

Joan's first book, Past Imperfect, was absolutely awful! In fact, I gave it a grand rating of ONE star! So when I saw this book, Second Act, on sale at the local library, being a glutton for punishment, I decided to read it. Well, I was happily surprised as I turned the pages and read an entirely different Joan Collins. This book was extremely entertaining as Joan told about her very eventful life. All the famous people she worked with. I had fully expected another bunch of dribble like her first book which was filled with 'poor ol me' stories about her husbands screwing her over but this book turned out to be the total opposite. Maybe Joan learned by her first disasterous attempt at writing that it's not at all easy to be a best selling novelist as her sister Jackie is. This book was obviously researched and edited a lot better than her other one. So, I will give it three stars and if you're a Joan Collins fan, then this is definately a 'must read' for you.

At first i thought this memoir was a rehash of her Past Imperfect (which i enjoyed immensely), but from the beginning, it was clear that JC had plenty more to say. This is an amusing, bright woman, with keen insight. Her discriptions of her meetings with Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor and Mae West are priceless, PRICELESS i tell you. One must fully realize that the phenomenon known as Celebrity happens to so few people, that its fascinating when one of "them" actually talks about it. Its also hysterical when she discusses how people treated her as if she were Alexis, the conniving b#@%h, when in fact she is a nice mother of 3 and step mother of 3. Doesnt it scare you when you hear that people actually believe that the characters she performed were real. Or that she was asked to give advice (as Alexis)? The revelation here isnt that she can write (she can), its that she continues to be a interesting woman, a beauty, and is gifted with an amazing memory.

when i started to read the book i immediately became involved with miss collins life and it was like she was actually speaking to me although some of the information was incorrect(she stated that when she brought out her signature perfume every woman wanted to be like alexis or krystle. however if one was to look in the photos of joan with donald trump and ivana trump it says it was in 1990. dynasty had finished a year earlier due to falling ratings)it was neverthe less a brilliant read.

This book SUCKS! I hated this book and I recomened that you just turn around. I hated this book from cover to cover and I'm sure that you will too

This is a wonderful, detailed book about Joan of Arc as a girl. You will not want to put this book down!

I read this book a couple months ago but, here's what i remember. Even though this book is about Joan of Arc, it's a great book for anyone. My friend told me to read this book a while ago because she loved it so much, and she's jewish, and right now, not that much into religion. So truly this book is for anyone who wishes to read something out of the ordinary. Not just a plain fictional book, but one that allows you to think and experience what the life of someone living in the early 1400's

Recipes for Hot Sex - I found it to be a a light hearted exercise to reinforce and re-ignite the fires that burn within each one of us.

These "chef's" have put together a list of ingredients that add to the pleasures of making love and being loved. Some of the recipes I'm sure you've thought of, but it makes them worth trying when the two of you need to follow the directions in black and white! I've found that sometimes trying to find that certain spice to heat up your Noche di Amore' can be difficult if you don't know where to look or don't remember. For the mild to the almost wild - there is a great recipe for everyone.

This book is truly a great "coffee table" book and it is one of my favorite books to give as gifts. My friends have bought it and pass it on to their other friends too!

This book, like the best of cookbooks is easy, practical and lots of fun! Just pick your favorite recipe and add spice to your own taste. I especially enjoy giving this book as a bridal shower gift. The bride always gets a kick out of it and of course it causes a howl from the other shower guests. Of course, if you're a guy, don't forget it makes a great stocking stuffer gift. You could have a Christmas Eve or New Year's that blows the oven!

It's an easy, fun, fast read. A jumpstart to re-heat, re-ignite the fun, the naughty, the sexy and the sweet in your sex life!

Something for everyone -- and many different somethings along the way. My husband and I enjoyed it, my girlfriends love it as a gift (weddings, baby showers, engagement, birthdays and yes, even Christmas) the only ones I haven't bought it for yet are my clients. I have to draw the line somewhere.

Was it good for you? I'll look forward to my gift reviews . . .

Hey! People if you want an exciting and extraordinarily funny, but realistic fiction story by the great author named Joan Bauer, I recommend the book Sticks. The 2 boys in the book are the main characters. Mickey Vernon is 10 has freckles, blisters on his finger sand Arlen Pepper has glasses, carries his calculator, and a protractor that why everyone called him the math wiz. He is very intelligent with any kind of math and science. Ever day Vernon always got beaten the big fat bully named Buck Pender.

Once in the pool hall of Cruckston, New Jersey [Where Mickey's family lived] when Mickey was young, he wanted to be the pool best player like his dad who had died. Arlen and Mickey are searching for secrets of pool. One day Vernon 's grandmother Poppy stuck up a poster that said," 10 to 13 Year Old Pool Tournament". Absolutely. Mickey was going to join, but he'll have to be much better in pool because Buck is joining, too. Days went by, but something strange happened at the pool hall. When Mickey is practicing pool a man with reddish beard came to Mickey and tells him that Mickey will win the tournament. The next morning day when Arlen and Mickey are walking Buck and his ugly friends came to block Mickey and Arlen from walking. The man from the pool hall came with his green truck and scared the bully off. One day that man came to the pool hall and talk to Ruthie [Mickey's Mother]. Mickey and his sister Camille were watching them as they talk. Then Ruthie introduce the man to Mickey and Camille who his name is Joseph Alveraz one of Mickey's dad best friends. Mickey rushed to him and asked him if he can teach him pool? He said, "Yes". Ruthie sigh and said, "Okay". They both together play Ping Pong and archery to make Mickey focus. Days went by until something bad happened. Joseph has to go to someplace away from New Jersey, before leaving he said not to play a single match with Buck. What do you know? Mickey didn't obeyed Joseph's command. He played a game with Buck and loses and other bad news Mickey broke his left arm because Buck slammed him on the floor. The doctor said it will cure in 3 weeks and real bad news that the day that the tournament is starting. Will our Mickey Vernon be able to practice only for a week to win the tournament? If you want to know, go ahead buy the book Sticks by Joan Bauer and you'll not be bored ever.

Are you looking for a breathtaking realistic fiction book? Well, Sticks is a thrilling book from Joan Bauer. Here, a 13 year old, normal boy named Mickey Vernon wants to win a pool championship for his father's death. His friends Arlen, was helping Mickey with mathematics. Mickey lived in the Crookston, New Jersey Pool Hall. Mickey had a coach, but he went helping someone else. Then, when he was playing pool with Arlen his friend, they heard a rumbling sound like a bull running into a red carpet, he saw it was Joseph Alvarez. He started to teach Mickey pool, and the championship started. Mickey was nervous of all the people he had to play first, but he beat them. Then, he fought against the gorilla looking bully named Buck Pender. He shot those balls really hard and correct. He won, but there was a 13-year-old gigantic boy who won the other game. Finally, this, was it! Mickey against Sledge Hammer. You'll find out if Mickey will win this shocking story. I recommend this book because anything is possible with training.

The book I am recommending is called Sticks, by Joan Bauer. This book takes place in a modern day pool hall. The main character is Mickey Vernon. Mickey wants to win a pool tournament so badly that he would do anything to win it. He is a very determined boy. Arlen is Mickey's best friend and is a math wiz who helps Mickey with some of his pool shots. Mickey couldn't get a better friend than Arlen. When a kid named Sledgehammer begins to whack balls into pockets like a giant machine, and Mickey doubts he can win. Sledgehammer wants to win the pool tournament too. I love this book because you just don't want to stop reading it once you've begun. I recommend this book because it shows you how a determined person can really be to reach a goal, and that you should always try your best.