Although I am a young adult, I still enjoy kids's books as much as I did when I was a kid! My mom bought this one for my little sister and I started reading it and laughed like crazy! This book deserves to come back into print; its sure to be a best seller among kids!

In this interesting review of Mace: The Dark Age, there are many helpful hints and tips to help reveal lots of different secrets of the game. I would suggest that everyone (including myself) should own this guide.

This is a book that reminds me of my favorite restaurants back in Mexico and it is great for those who are not familiar with most of the ingredients. I'm from Mexico and even for me it is a good ABC of the most popular dishes. The brief introduction to Mexican culinary art and eating habits, the description of basic techniques and the guide to the spices and chiles is great. Other books have dishes I have not heard in my life and the food they present looks more like something out of a fast food resataurant. Here the dishes have their original name in Spanish and the tips for ingredient substitutions are a great help. For those who are looking for a book with the basics in real Mexican food and one that is easy to follow, this is it. Enjoy!

This is an awesome book for the Esthetician just starting out and those who need a re-fresher. Purchased this book at a convention and cannot put it down. Highly recommended..

A complete easy to understand review of the vitamins and supplements citing solid scientific evidence is presented without any bias. To the best of my knowledge, it is the first time that a book on this subject matter has been written from an objective point of view. The author writes clearly with a style that shows that scientific matters can be expressed in a language that can be understood by people of every walk of life. I also recommend the book to those individuals who want to learn to write concisely and clearly.

Most game books don't provide such in-depth coverage as this one. This is the official guide and it lives up to it, with all of the moves, fatalities, codes, strategies and secrets of the game. This is a must have for anyone who enjoys playing the game or the Mortal Kombat series. It really makes a great collector's item!

This is an excellent resource book for portfolio assessment. The book provides the history of portfolios. It provides many examples of how to create and use portfolios for assessment in elementary, middle school, and high school. The teachers in the examples share the areas they found most difficult as well as how they were ultimately successful. The examples include estimated time frames for creating, managing, and grading.

Powers of Fate is the love story between Mario and Antonella. But it is so much more than just a love story...it's a slice of history...a story of destiny...two lives from two different worlds, eventually coming together. It provides a personal view of World War II from both a soldier's and a victim's point of view. Powers of Fate is a wonderful story of courage, survival, personal growth and the strong bonds of love and devotion of family. Reading this book is an invitation sit by the fire and look through a close friend's family album or read their diary. It's about the power of love and about all the women who left their homelands, families, and everything their lives were made of, for the sake of it.
Cecilia A. Schneider, Santa Barbara, CA

Why America Should See More than Black & White By Samuel R. Cacas

Race, Rights & The Asian American Experience By Angelo N. Ancheta, Rutgers University  Press:  1998, 224 pp, Hardcover.

        While taking a civil rights class in law school during the late 1970s, I felt cheated by what I felt was a significant gap in the course and text material which almost exclusively focused on the achievements for and by African Americans.  As a very politically conscious Asian American in college, I knew that while immigrant groups like Asians were a very minuscule minority population-wise in this country, they had still made a significant contribution to the eradication of "Jim Crow" policies and other racial segregation laws.

    And I would often expound on such contributions  during class.  For instance, the Yick Wo v. Hopkins case - in which a  Chinese American laundry owner in San Francisco successfully sued to  overturn a racially discriminatory city ordinance - has been cited in countless legal briefs and court cases involving the Fourteenth Amendment1s Equal Protection clause.  Or U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark which has long been the major legal precedent establishing birthright citizenship under the Fourteenth Amendment.  While my civil rights teacher and fellow classmates were warm and respectful to my tendencies, I still felt the contributions of non-Black minority groups deserved to be covered more thoroughly in print. So reading civil rights lawyer Angelo Ancheta's "Race, Rights & The Asian American Experience" was a refreshing affirmation of my daily, righteous meanderings in that civil rights class.         Ancheta pulls no punches in citing his motivation for writing this ground-breaking text on civil rights and race relations.  In the book¹s preface, he relates his racial experiences growing up in San Francisco during the 1960s:  racist landlords that limited the sections of the city where his family could live, discriminatory employment practices which prevented ! his parents from the career they desired, and the endless anti-Asian racial taunts he endured throughout elementary and high school.  And even when such experiences receded as he grew older, Ancheta was still exposed to significant, though subtle, forms of racism such as law school classmates who marveled that Ancheta - a second generation, American-born Filipino American - could not understand Chinese or Japanese.     The book's bifurcated focus - how Asian Americans are affected by civil rights laws and how civil rights laws are affected by Asian Americans - forms the basis for why all Americans should read this book even if they are not of Asian descent.  If anything, they will come away with a more encompassing mind-set on civil rights that accommodates the racial experiences of the fastest-growing minority group in this country. A major polemic addressed throughout the book is the problem that civil rights protections available to Asian Americans are most often contingent upon the rights granted to African Americans.  In effect, says Ancheta, Asian Americans "have been treated primarily as constructive blacks," forced to make "unseemly, curious choices" when they sue for their civil rights, such as asserting that they are white in order to attend the best public schools.     But Ancheta emphasizes that periods where Asian Americans were treated by courts as "honorary whites" were "short-lived and more unusual." And not always beneficial.  The recent exclusion of Asian Americans from affirmative action programs due to their repeatedly being lumped with whites is an example of the latter, according to Ancheta, even where "Asian American still face racial discrimination and remain underrepresented." Such exclusions are built into all civil rights protections and policies which are premised largely premised on the color discrimination premised on the treatment of African Americans.  While such bias may apply to Asian Americans, Ancheta contends, the stigma! of being labeled foreign-born - even if one is American-born - has been one of the primary bases for Asians in this country being the target of hate violence, media-based stereotypes, as well as benefit-entitlement laws like California's Proposition 187 premised on citizenship, among others. Ancheta¹s solutions for such racial inequities which feed on the anti-Asian tendencies in the law and among most Americans is very concrete:  develop new laws or amend old ones that rely on theories that comprehend the complexity of race relations beyond the black-white racial paradigm.     Essentially this means including immigration status in hate crime laws. As well as recognizing that discrimination can be based on ethnicity and being labeled and treated as foreign-born, not just race.  In asserting such remedies where the interracial friction involves African Americans as victimizers, such as the current conflicts occurring between Asian Americans and African Americans in San Francisco's housing projects, Ancheta encourages transracial, innovative solutions such as the Asian Law Caucus suing the city housing authority instead of racially targeting individual tenants.  After all, he posits, "expanding the civil rights agenda to include Asian Americans cannot come at the expense of African Americans."     While presented in tightly written, sometimes analytical prose, this book could probably be well understood to the average lay person not well-versed in the law.  Many of the principles Ancheta expounds on are based on real-life stories that Ancheta and other Asian Americans have lived.  Stories, along with perspectives, often missing in the media1s coverage of important issues such as immigration, affirmative action, and hate violence.  Their absence in headlines as well as history books are complemented by the law¹s insensitivity to immigrant groups such as Asian Americans.  And Ancheta addresses that insensitivity very eloquently.

I've read this book, and it's so "right on"! The timing couldn't be better - Rules for Civilized Behavior gives us
the tools and step-by-step answers to behaving civilly toward each other, and toward our world. It's a fast, easy read, and the author displays just a touch of down to earth humor, which makes this an interesting and worthwhile read.