In today's day and age of multi-media Internet communication is it sad to discover that the publishers of ESL books are not incorporating this incredible learning tool into their texts. I would have hoped to find a home page with audio and video support for this text. I can't imagine a university without the tools to access this type of information if publishers would make it available. Anyone interested in sharing ideas on how to use this text can contact:

Harvey Schmidt englishb1968@hotmail.com Yonsei University.

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I'm Samara and I am an EFL teacher in Brazil. Cris,True Colors 5 doesn't exist anywhere in the world.It hasn't been released yet. There are 5 levels Basic 1,2,3 and 4. This is a great serie which helps students speak more confidently the new language. I highly recommend this book!

Hi, I'm Cris from Brazil and I need some help. I want to buy a book called True Colors 5 that doesn't exists in Brazil yet. Please, answer if it is possible. Thank you. cristiana

Kind of fun to read (and not without one or two moments of genuine value), this book lays out a plan to win money at home poker games on a regular basis. The theme of this plan: Surround yourself with losers -- the bigger the losers they are, the more time you should spend playing with them. Wallace's "moral" is that it's a good thing to deceive and manipulate people who are of weak constitution, because they can be controlled and you can get in their wallets. This is rather pathetic, but it's the thrust of all Wallace's work: If you find yourself losing, bully the winners out of the game and fleece the losers yourself. You may win a few bucks, but your poker will suffer. And if you adopt a general "Wallacian" mindset, expect your non-poker life to suffer the same deterioration from avioding anything challenging.

Many years ago, this book had a major impact on me as a poker player. While certainly not a "how to" book like (as in what do you do when dealt a pair of Aces) it revealed to me for the first time how much of a skill game poker is. Its written around story lines about a fictional character who is pretty ruthless. Critics who call the book "How to hustle your friends" aren't completely wrong. But it offers much more than that. It offers so many unique insights into the game of poker that you will never get from other traditional books that I must recommended it. The section on tracking your earnings and losses was worth the price of the book.

This book has deep meanings and concepts that may not be understood by beginners but lots of these concepts will not be lost and will work for inexperienced as well. If you are moderate then this book is a must.

I hated this book. I don't even own a Ridgeback yet, and I know more about the breed than is included in this book. This is just a general dog book with a few pages of very basic breed history and breed standard info at the beginning. The pictures are nice, but otherwise it's worthless for someone who really wants to learn about the breed.

It had a lot of info. about RRs and helped me train my puppy. I liked it a lot and I loved the Pics.

I loved it it had a lot of info about RRs. I have a 12 week old RR and it told me how to housebreak her and train. I loved it.

This is really a bad book ..., I wonder if someone ghost wrote it. It is flat boring and depresing. There is no fun. horrible. I...Moorcock can be the #1 writer of sword n sorcery when he's on, ....

.... Moorcock usually get me into his writing when describing the baddies and their plots. There is too much simplicity in thsi eries and it is too quickly ended. ...

First and foremost let it be known to those rabid fans out there that I haven't read much beyond this book and the Elric series. All I can really say as such is that enigma reigns supreme in a book I thought would be far more enlightening as to the state of the multiverse. I guess I have to read the White Wolf paperbacks. I enjoyed the book in and of itself only as much as I would enjoy a toss off read. (Maybe I need to read it again.) It seemed to lack some of the awesome philosophical insights that so cleverly haunted the better parts of the Elric Saga. I should refer to it best as a preview of things to come as I'm sure that's what I'll see it as upon reading the further adventures of John Daker/Erekose in the WW paperbacks.

This novel picks up where "The Eternal Champion" left off. Erekose (a.k.a. John Daker) has finally found happiness with his true love Ermizhad . . . but for how long?

Of course, soon he is swept away to another part of the multiverse to save the day as the eternal champion named Count Urlik Skarsol. The story adds noteable details to the multiverse concept, the nature of the eternal champion, and his nemesis/ally, the black sword.

Also, the book is a good, fast read with great images and nice studies of the supporting characters.

First of all I am not a statistics major and although I find statistics to be a very interesting but challenging subject I am afraid to say that so far I have not been very successful .... I need extra help and I have not yet found the solution manual for this textbook and I am amazed at the fact that there isn't one ? Can anyone help me...

Thanx

Norma_Zuniga@yahoo.com

Having taken an introductory college course that used this book up through most of chapter 9 (infrences based on two-samples using confidence intervals and hyopthesis tesing), I must say as usually happens in intro stat textbooks, the probablity chapter (3) is the weakest area, it needs more worded explinations on counting rules to clarify seemingly ambiguous situations. I've also heard professors complain that some of the examples used are over simplified and ignore obvious possiblities in the interpertations of results that add new dimentions to the problem. Not to mention the whole things needs a few more passes by some competent editors, as there's quite a few painfully obvious mistakes and misprints. Other than that, it's understandable enough, the applications problems are welcome, if occasionally flawed. For a more intensive introduction to general statistics, I suggest you seek a textbook that wasn't aimed at the widest possible market. (try the texts that say something like: statistics for engineers)

Often using real-life examples taken from the media, McClave presents materials in an orderly fashion. Sub-sections are small (usually 5-6 pages) and problem sets are very nicely divided into Mechanics, Basic, and Advanced problems. My only dislike was chapter 3 counting rules, which seemed to be added without proper foundation. As both a student and now a tutor of this text, I find McClave's level of explanation sufficent for an introductory text.

This is a dismal book. Badly written, unedited, and full of mistakes, this is truly a vanity project. Unless you are a member of Thana Harris' immediate family there is no reason whatever to purchase this. Frank Zappa fans looking for informative details on the recordings of Ms. Harris's overdubs on the "Sleep Dirt" tracks will learn nothing new. Fans of Bob Harris and/or Steve Vai may be a little less disappointed, but this is just one more book that only got published because it has a tenuous connection with Zappa. ...

The subtitle of UNDER THE SAME MOON is MY LIFE WITH FRANK ZAPPA, STEVE VAI, BOB HARRIS AND A COMMUNITY OF OTHER ARTISTIC SOULS. I purchased the book because of the subtitle.

Suzannah Harris has a nice writing style and is quite a romantic. However, I was really disappointed. I was much more interested in capturing the unique picture of the Frank Zappa, etc. UNDER THE SAME MOON is a personal biography with little emphasis on the community of artistic souls.

Thus if you are seeking greater insight to the community, you need not read this book. If you want to read the thoughts and feelings of a person moving from girl to woman, this is the book for you.

I've been a huge fan for years of Frank Zappa and Steve Vai, so it was with much happiness that I discovered this book and ordered it... Just for those parts of the book alone, it was well worth the purchase.

This book was scrapped together with content almost totally downloaded from software makers' web sites. Not even edited together in any coherent fashion. The same topics were treated multiple times in numerous places. Mr. Roman may be knowlegable about PDF workflow, but it doesn't show in this overpriced, over-rushed, overly-complex and already out-of-date book.

This book fills a BIG gap in the computer press - i.e. the lack of good books on Adobe Acrobat 4.0. It contains a lot of really useful information for the intermediate/advanced PDF user. I bought it to learn how to tweak some advanced PDF settings for a large document job, and I am pleased to say it gave me exactly the information (compression settings etc) I was looking for.

That said, I'm only giving it three stars. This is because the presentation of the book is not good. It has spelling and grammar mistakes. It occasionally references the wrong product (Acrobat 3.0?). The writing is verbose, and the logical structure of the book leaves a bit to be desired.

It is also completely Mac-centric. It does not mention that its screenshots, examples etc are all taken from a Mac, which might confuse some Windows readers (they look pretty similar, but not exactly the same). And it offers almost nothing in the way of Windows-specific information. At least it tells you when fumctionality is different between the Windows and Mac versions, though.

Overall, a great book for the PDF power user - highly recommended for the detailed information it provides. However it's only great because there are so few books out there on this topic. I'd buy a better-written one tomorrow, if such a book existed.

"Acrobat PDF and Workflow InDetail" is the book to have if you know the basics of Acrobat. Written for those who have some experience with Acrobat, PDF, and prepress, "Acrobat PDF and Workflow InDetail" will fill in those areas that can be somewhat confusing. The early chapters cover the PDF format its roots and relationship to postscript. This is followed by features in Acrobat 4 including plug-ins.

"Acrobat PDF and Workflow InDetail" covers all aspects of the PDF format and the application of PDF files in various workflow environments. From prepress to web publication "Acrobat PDF and Workflow InDetail" addresses many questions that come up in real-world situations (e.g., correct compression settings, trapping, imposition and other print related issues). Use of Acrobat with Excel, Word, and Quark are covered as well as a section on PDF and InDesign.

Distiller 4 is covered in detail from fonts through color management, including compression options. There is not too much about Acrobat and PDF that "Acrobat PDF and Workflow InDetail" does not include. If you use Acrobat or want to know how to take better advantage of PDF and what a digital workflow has to offer, I suggest you read "Acrobat PDF and Workflow InDetail." This is the reference book for PDF and its application in digital publishing.

I agree with the other reviewers that Frank Kozik's ODE TO JOY is plainly overproduced. But, I'm unconvinced that the book is spoilt by its overproduction. On the one hand, the clarity of Kozik's prints clearly suffers from the competing background noise of so much vibrant digitized wallpaper and acid commentary. But on the other hand, isn't this brilliant pop art gaudiness exactly what Kozik's artwork is all about?

I'd liken this to the headache of hanging a baroque or Queen Vickie period painting: yes, we the modern, general viewing public may yearn to see the work hung on a clean, white wall--as art for art's sake--but an art historian would want to see it in its proper context, in a room loaded to the gills with seafoam velvet wallpaper, cherry red furnishings, gilt bric-a-brac and the like.

Admittedly Kozik has become well-known enough that his work is now hung in galleries on those same clean, white walls, but I find it boring in such tasteful surroundings! Perhaps this is because I remember Kozik posters in their early context, plastered on walls and electric posts against generations of competing punk rock posters, well before Kozik became a post-pop art darling and his work started selling to collectors.

Never mind. Kozik's artwork IS overproduced, and commercially so; that's part of it's devilish charm (?). It deserves and looks right against the shrine of weird, self-referencing, self-aggrandizing background noise that ODE TO JOY makes. Busy, ugly, distracting, obnoxious, but right!

As for the quality of Kozik's recent work in and of itself, it's true that it has have lost some of the edge of his earlier work.

But that's to be expected. With his best indie clientele moving to fame, fortune and MTV (with or without his help?), Kozik the poster artist is facing the music that he is much too popular a talent to create and publish as a pariah anymore. Call it the loss of street credibility--after all, you don't see his posters pasted, unprotected, to building walls in bad neighborhoods much anymore!

I would never call Kozik a "sell-out" for his success (what a rotten, jealous term that is!), but I do think he might broaden his scope, evolve with his clientele--beginning by calling himself an artist instead of a poster artist. At least as long as he's going to hang his work on those clean, white gallery walls...

The second Kozik book is disappointing but not without its charms. Contrary to a previous review, I find the production value VERY poor, with confusing background overprinting and thin magazine paper ultimately taking focus away from the images themselves. Too much reliance on computer graphics cripples the low-brow immediacy of the best of Kozik's "art."

Kozik's recent stuff isn't up to the level of his earlier work --he'd probably be the first to admit this! This book is certainly worth getting for Kozik completists and those interested in poster art's slide into the 21st century.

If you DON'T have the first Kozik book, "Man's Ruin," GO GET IT NOW!!!

Just want to make a comment about the review here from NY - the statement says Frank Kozik's art is second hand poster art. Well I hate to disappoint that customer but Frank Kozik is pretty much the person who SAVED poster art. That comment is clearly based on an unknowledgeable buyer. Please do not let it prevent you from checking out this wild book! Kozik's style is all about regenerating art - thats the most significant point it makes about POP art.

The book is a continuation of a long career by an artist who literally saved rock art as a serious form of creation and helped to bring punk subculture into mainstream America. He started this stuff a VERY long time ago. Prior to his work, poster art was not considered fine art. Now its in museums and galleries all over the world - Japan, Australia, Canada, Europe, etc.... ANY poster artist and POP gallery will confirm that. All successful poster artists today, with exception to Art Chantry, are following in Kozik's footsteps, and his work is respected for that - gaudy and mean and abnoctious as it is, afterall, thats rock-n-roll! He paved the way for poster art and took it to a completely new level never previously seen in history; poster art/artist as art/pop star - thats why we collect the book. I bought the book and do think some things could be different, but its totally worth owning it and I look at it for my own art inspiration all the time.

I bought and read this book hoping to gain insight into a more fulfilling sex life with my wife. This book does go into great detail as far as explaining a one hour foreplay session, but that is exactly where it ends. Techniques for prolonged, satisfying intercourse were not even mentioned, as though sex for a couple is only a mutual masturbation event. I finally gave up reading this book, totally disgusted. The funny thing was, the author gave me the impression that he (& she) were the greatest authors of all time. Well I am sure of one thing, with a title of The One Hour Orgasm I'm sure they laughed their way all the way to the bank with a s__t-pile of $$$.

Big title with unique viewpoint that women are the stimulus for all sexual activity...that may be true as described, but this book is repetitive and only of moderate interest. Many typos and errors, I found this one to be a waste of time and money. Much better choices might be by writers such as A. Comfort's "New Joy of Sex", or any number of Anne Hooper's illustrated and descriptive texts. One-Hour Orgasm was a disappointment in content, writing skills, and generality.

Excellent! Excellent! This book saved my marriage