Peirs Anthony may not be the best fantasy writer in my book, but he has a great gift for light-hearted fantasy! This story takes us all of the way through the punny world of Xanth, but there's something great about this book! Most of it takes place in an even wackier place-unbelievable, right? Wrong! This place is the madness, where angry constellations stir up a fight! It's great isn't it!

In a way, this books needs no explination because really any Xanth book is worth the read, but this is one of the greater ones! Trust me! Don't miss this! Enjoy!

This book was one of the best that I've ever read... and I've read a ton of books. In this book, Gary Gargoyle encounters a pollution that he can't purify, so he goes to the good magician for help. Not surprisingly, the good magician tells him what he needs then sends Gary off to do the job he must do for repayment of the good magician's service of helping him. He gets a hard job though... tutoring (Remember Grundy and Rapunzel's daughter?) Surprise!

Piers Anthony is the king of fantasy writing. He surprises you at every turn with new and interesting happenings. His books are amazingly detailed and interlink seamlessly. The puns in Geis of the Gargoyle were fresh and witty. The way Piers Anthony writes about his characters makes them seem more real than life. Gary the gargoyle was an interesting addition to the Xanth family. This book was a riveting read.

I bought this book in order to review prior to heading off to business school this fall. I majored in finance as an undergrad which involved two accounting classes. This limited background made this book of limited use as it was very basic in nature. If you have any accounting background, I would recommend you save your money and purchase a more advanced text. This one took me approximately 4 hours to get through.

That being said, this book is fantastic for anyone with a limited accounting background. It is concise, well-written, and does a good job of explaining the basic concepts.

With no accounting background, I picked this book up prior to entering my first accounting class. This book is laid out as something of a workbook. It will describe or define something and then ask you to fill in the blank with the concept learned several times. The book progressively builds on the material it has covered, linking concepts together. At the end of every chapter is a review section. It moves from the most fundamental to the more advanced. Overall, a very good book. Be warned, it starts off painfully slowly, but picks up steam a few chapters in. A good book for someone who knowns nothing about accounting and financial statements and wants a basic understanding of how accounting views/treats things and of how financial statements articulate with one another.

I needed a crash-course in accounting prior to starting my MBA. This book gave me what I needed to know so that I wasn't completely clueless on my first day of class. It was also a valuable reference tool throughout school, and a great way to prepare for final exams.

Learning accounting can be tough, but this book helps make it bearable.

This book was apparently the first book ever written on the job interview. It's been updated, but it's full of unchanging principles that can help everyone.

One of the best things about the book is that it abounds in common sense advice. It tells you how things really are. It advises you how to prepare youself for an interview and how to control the interview once you're in it.

As good, it tells you things that bolster your confidence in yourself and in your ability to engage in the interview. It explains how the interview is a two way street, how you should be interviewing them as well as them interviewing you.

I could go on and on, but better you buy the book yourself. You won't regret it!

This book goes beyond the typical question/answer book, it helps you understand what interviewers are going through, what they are looking for and then how you can help them see that you are the best person for the job. You also learn about body language and what signals you are giving and how you are being perceived. This book will help you understand how to get to know people better in everyday life, which is not only good for developing friendships but goes a long way in an interview process.

I found this book interesting and very useful in my job search. I read several books about job hunting including interviewing. I looked at dozens of other books that I didn't even bother to buy or take out of the library. This book is exceptional-outstanding in its readability, usefullness, and realistic view of the interviewing process.

Buy him books like this! My 11 year-old son loved this book so much, he insisted that I read it, too. I'm glad I did; it's a lovely collection of stories about the vivid fantasy life of a young boy. Like many children, he often wishes to be other than he is - an adult, a baby, a hero. Our favorite story was the one in which the boy becomes his cat. This is a wonderful, thought-provoking book for children and adults, perfect for reading together.

I love this book. It is one of my favorite books of all time. I got it years and years ago and haved loved it ever since. Peter daydreams about all sorts of things from his sister's dolls coming to life to turning into his cat and even a baby. It's a great book that you can read in one sitting. Each chapter is a different story, same characters, about Peter's daydreams. My favorite chapters are the ones where he turns into a cat and the one where his sister's dolls come to life and are evil. It's a charming book that anyone can love. ...This book is great for all ages. Enjoy!

By Venyce, Grade 4, Washington DC You should read the Daydreamer by Ian McEwan !!! Many different kinds of people wold like this book. People who have big imaginations would like it, because they can daydream with Peter and become a cat or a baby or even a grown up. People who are hungry for adventure would like it, because Peter makes your parents vanish into thin air with vanishing cream and talks to dolls. Can you imagine that? People who can bring their imaginination far out would like this book because Peter becomes a baby and remembers what it was like. People who can be like a child with a big imagination would like this book. They would like it because they can become mountain climbers or defeat bullies with words. And everyone should read it because it was one of the greatest books in the world.

This is a very useful book on the continuing US-British aggression against Iraq. Contributors include Denis Halliday, formerly the UN humanitarian coordinator in Iraq, Robert Fisk and John Pilger.

It documents the ongoing war's human, social and environmental costs. Eleven years of bombing and sanctions have prevented Iraq from importing food, medicines and other necessities, claiming hundreds of thousands of lives, many of them children, while leaving the government unscathed.

Anthony Arnove in his Introduction shows that the US-British policy towards Iraq is not about enforcing international law. In fact, the record shows that the US and British governments have broken international law time after time.

Resolution 687 states that when Iraq destroys its weapons of mass destruction, sanctions 'shall have no further force or effect'. Yet US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said, "We do not agree with the nations who argue that if Iraq complies with its obligations concerning weapons of mass destruction, sanctions should be lifted." And Scott Ritter, former chief inspector of the UN inspection team, said in October 1999, "Iraq has been disarmed. Iraq today possesses no meaningful weapons of mass destruction." He judges that Iraq does not have the ability to produce, or deploy, chemical, biological or nuclear weapons.

The US government illegally perverted the UN inspection team's work by inserting CIA operatives who spied on Iraq and passed information to the Pentagon (which used it to pick targets).

There is no UN mandate for the incessant US-British bombing of Iraq, or for the 'no-fly zones'. In December 1998, the US and British governments launched their 'Desert Fox' attack without even telling the UN, and before the Security Council had considered the inspection team's report.

UN Resolution 687 did not give any UN member the right to use force. Resolution 1154 similarly empowered the Security Council, not just one member, to decide what to do in the event of non-compliance. Russia, China and France stated that they were not granting anybody the right to use force.

Bush and Blair's planned war against Iraq is against Britain's interests: it is unnecessary, immoral and illegal.

Iraq Under Siege gives a comprehensive view of the ongoing starvation and bombing of Iraq by the US and other governments. It is impossible not to be moved while reading about the terrible conditions forced on ordinary Iraqis, as well as Madeleine Albright's callous declaration that the deaths of some 500,000 children are "worth the price." Read this book, and then join the thousands of people who are actively fighting the criminal sanctions and war on Iraq.

The US imposed sanctions on Iraq have been in force for a decade. The consequences of US Iraq sanctions policy have been quite deadly. Yet the possibility of an end to sanctions is remote unless there is a popular movement to end it. This book, edited by Anthony Arnove, makes an analytical, yet impassioned, case for lifting the sanctions against Iraq. The price that the people of Iraq are paying for the sanctions is colossal. At least half a million children have died as a result of the increase in child mortality due to sanctions. Child mortality in Iraq has risen from a level that was comparable to standards in advanced industrialized world to that of least developed countries with chronic shortages of food or devastated by civil war, such as Sudan or Somalia. Approximately one million people have died due to the sanctions. Iraq's water supply facilities and waste disposal systems are in ruins because the sanctions prevent Iraq from importing spare parts required to operate them. The country's environment and agriculture are in shambles. Sanctions have strengthened the Iraqi ruling elite. Iraqi regime had long denied civil and political rights to its population, but economic and social quality of life for the majority was high before the Gulf War. With the imposition of the sanctions, the economic opportunities and social capabilities of Iraqis are being systematically downgraded and destroyed.

This book is an informed indictment of the sanctions policy. It exposes the brutality of sanctions against Iraq and therefore deserves to be widely read. It should be of value to concerned citizens, activists, academics, journalists, students of actual international regions, and Middle East scholars.

E-Male was an eye-opening read for a woman who grew-up without brothers or the benefit of being exposed to the unique and intriguing as well as the tender personality aspects of men. While being laugh-out-loud funny, the e-mails also reveal a very close, intimate and touching story of male friendship. E-Male is both a fun and interesting read for men and women. You will pick up this book and re-read it from time to time for many good laughs. Highly recommend it!

I found this book to one of the most entertaining pieces I have ever read! Once I started, I could not put it down. The true-to-life stories being told as they unfold are warm and witty. "E-Male..." will make you laugh out loud with Jeff and Anthony as they traverse through life. A must read for women everywhere!

A close friend who I correspond with primarily via "e-mail" sent "E-Male" to me and said " You must read this!! We are Fe-Male!"

As a confirmed literature snob (Give me Pynchon or give me death! . . . yes some could argue there is no difference) I would have tragically overlooked it. Instead . . . I read the book cover to cover - unable to separate myself from it until its conclusion.

Rarely have I been so amused and touched by such fresh,honest,direct,unique yet eerily familiar voices. While I grew up in a completely different world from Anthony and Jeff -- I felt an instant connection. This book is a timeless anthem to the Generation "X" pilgrims.

While the book is remarkably clever and hilarious at times -- the unwavering focus on the men's friendship and lives remains brilliantly subtle -- and these delicate layers of friendship, marriage,career and maturity must be properly appreciated or the essence of the book is utterly lost. What makes this book particularly precious is that some people just wont "get it"

I've said it before, and I'll say it again. Piers Anthony books are like crack. They're everywhere, and once you start, you have to read them all. It's awful. Because everyone I know who's read them has read them all, and I suspect almost everyone who reads them reads them all, and yet at least a third of every one of them is exposition. You can skip whole chunks of any book that's not the first in a series, and you will miss nothing. It's like old newspaper serials, where "The Story So Far" would be twice as long as the new installment. I've been here before. I know these people. Get on with it. And this is not complicated stuff to begin with. This is not hard to pick up.

Stile is a serf on Proton, a planet where the all powerful, obscenely rich, Citizens are the ruling class and the serfs are there to serve. A serf must leave after 20 years, unless he can win Citizenship in the annual Tourney.
Stile is also an Adept in Phaze, a beautiful planet where magic is operational. And, Stile, is the strongest magician in Phaze, where he is the Blue Adept.
Someone on Proton and in Phaze wants Stile dead. Forced to enter the tourney three years before his tenure would end, Stile is now crossing between Proton and Phaze seeking the one who is trying to kill him and has already killed the original Blue Adept - his identical self.
Stile has a friend on Proton, a beautiful self-aware humanoid robot named Sheen. She is programmed to protect and to love Stile. In Phaze, Stile has Neysa, a Unicorn with the ability to transform into a woman or a firefly.
The "Blue Adept" is the second book in the Double Exposure trilogy. The first is "Split Infinity" and the third is "Juxtaposition." It is very strongly recommended to read "Split Infinity" first. The trilogy is an excellent mix of Science-Fiction and Science-Fantasy.
I enjoy this trilogy, and have read it three times.

This is actually the first book I read by Piers Anthony and I was simply overwhelmed. A good combination of science fiction and fantasy that's hard to beat. To think he created a world where logic and magic work! Get it! Get the entire series while you are checking this book out

Summary on back of book: "To Xanth's precocious shape-shifter Prince Dolph, searching for Humfrey, the missing sorcerer, is a perfect chance to see the world. Setting off with his faithful companion Marrow, an enchanted skeleton, he will penetrate an island of illusion...excape a goblin kingdom...outwit a husband-hungry mermaid...nest-sit for fiery dragons...and find romance with a slinky princess--all on his way to discovering a magic coin with the answers!"

I LOVE Anthony's Xanth series, and of all his characters, Prince Dolph, Nada, and Electra are my three favorites. The love story that occurs among the three is riveting. If you read any of the several books in this fantastic series, read Heaven Cent--and make sure that you catch the conclusion to their dilemma in Isle of View!

IF you want adventure here is the perfect book. Heaven Cent. Journey with Prince Dolph and Marrow, and experience love-sick mermaids, Dying maidens, and much more. Read this book now.

I have only read two of this series, but I really loved them! I thought that Heaven Cent was wonderful, and would even recomend it for children its just so adorable, and I love the puns in the book, they are wonderful. The whole thing is wonderful, and so is Piers Anthony!

The book: COMMON GROUND (c.1984) by J. Anthony Lukas, was poorly written, poorly researched, and is ponderous to read. It lacks footnotes, endnotes, and citations; a lot of its information cannot be verified by the historian; and has been refuted by some of the same families which the author supposedly interviewed.

If a reader has no idea about forced busing in Boston, they still won't have any idea after reading COMMON GROUND. I began my senior year at South Boston High on September 12, 1974, the first day of forced busing in Boston; and spent my entire life in the city of Boston, particularly in areas during the time period mentioned in this work, and after reading COMMON GROUND three times I regard it as a piece of historical fiction. You cannot 'de-segregate' something that was never segregated, and the Boston public schools were never segregated! Its winning of the Pulitzer Prize shows how: 1.) the Pulitzer Prize commission has lowered its standard; and, 2.) how the commission kowtows to tendentiously written pieces of liberal propaganda. The book: COMMON GROUND conforms to both of these categories.

The book operates on the presupposition of the infallibility of a court's decision, Morgan v. Hennigan, which was signed but not written or read by a federal judge. The author, like the judge, ignored contradictory evidence and the testimony of thousands of life-long neighborhood residents that there was no segregation, 'de facto' or 'de jure', in the Boston public schools. The author claimed to have spent six years in research yet all he can come up with is highly anecdotal information which would not hold up to critical inquiry; it contains unverifiable information which would make an intelligent reader question the veracity of the author's research; it is in error regarding riots since Boston has never had a single riot in its entire history (Martin Luther King's assassination in 1968 went virtually unnoticed in Boston - the Afro-American population had just reached only 6%); the author strangely or purposely ignored all other caucasian ethnic groups (Polish, Italian, Lithuanian, etc.) in Boston and focused primarily on the Irish American; and COMMON GROUND was made obsolete by its publication date (1984) when the Boston Public Schools achieved a reverse imbalance of 80-89% of Afro-American students attending mentioned schools due to white flight!! Yet forced busing is still happening in Boston to this very day.

Yet the greatest omission of all in COMMON GROUND is that the author virtually ignored the most segregated and insulated of all of Boston's neighborhoods - Chinatown! The Chinese American was spared both the collectivization process as well as the color coding process!

A book published in the same year which should be read in conjunction with J. Anthony Lukas is: THE BOSTON SCHOOL INTEGRATION DISPUTE: Social Change and Legal Manuevers(c.1984) by anthropologist J. Brian Sheehan, just to compare its information content, objectivity and superior historiographic handling of the same issues and events which shames COMMON GROUND.
The book COMMON GROUND, if one can get through it, should be read just for erudite readers to recognize the contrivance for which it is.

Common Ground is by far one of the best books I have ever read. Lukas's meticulous research, carefully crafted writing and sensitivity toward a very delicate issue makes for a truly powerful work of non-fiction. He tells the story of the Boston busing crisis through the lives of three families. He tells each perspective carefully and graciously. If you are from Boston, care about the young people of our country, are concerned about education, racism, classism and urban issues you must read this book! (While you're at it, make sure you read All Souls by Michael McDonald!)

I was so deeply saddened by the death of J. Anthony Lukas about two years ago, that as I have often found when a beloved writer dies, I didn't know what to do with myself. In the end, my solution was to reread Common Ground and I try to get as many people to read it as I can!

Though Common Ground is non-fiction it reads like great literature.So detailed and moving is the story of the families and individuals that Lukas traces, that while you read this involving and complex tale of idealistic politics and failed expectations, you end up caring deeply for all the people whose lives over two decades are being traced.If you were going to read one book to understand the state of race relations in the late 20th century this would be it.There are only a few books that I have read that made me want to meet the author and thank him for writing it.This is one of those.

This book is excellent as an introductory guide that covers most of the modules with graphic illustration. It is useful if you are a new user to SAP or an experience consultant to prepare your training materials. Since the books covers version 3.x, I am expecting a new edition for version 4.x. As usual, this book is weak in IMG (Implementation Guide).

By the time I finished CHAPTER 6 (no worries, they are all very short chapters), I feel as if I have used SAP! It's amazingly simple (yet comprehensive) in its explanation and you don't need to be a technological buff to understand SAP/ this book! Highly recommends this INCREDIBLE book to all out there who have always wanted to know about SAP but have no experience with it!

Also provides very precise step-to-step guide with pictures of the SAP dialogue box. Whoa!

This is the first book that covers the major modules from the user point of view, indirectly covering the implementors responsibilities. It gives the navigations to the required screens so that the learners can practice the things taught. I recommend this book very strongly to the learners as well as managers who wants to know the full scope of the SAP R/3 system. I did read a few books on SAP and this would have saved me a lot of time if I would have read it first.