This is a great book. It tells you in brief, concise language how to achieve quality recording for all sorts of instruments and situations. It also explains various effects as well as digital recording techniques. I use it frequently when doing home recording.

My only beef (which is why it isn't getting 5 stars) is in the layout. There are clearly sections and subsections within each chapter, but they are not called out. A subsection heading is in the same font and size as a section heading. This is a HUGE nitpick, I grant, and do not let it deter you from buying this book!

I recently purchased a "Small Home Studio" so that I could create my own Ambient, Electronic music CD's. However, I have very little actual experience in recording. The learning curve can be more than a little steep. There is so much to consider when attempting to put together a quality recording. It's almost impossible to remember all the details at recording time! However, Paul White has put together an excellent, handy resource explaining all the myriad technical aspects of the recording process in the Modern Recording Studio...In Plain English!

My Daughter has loved this book since she was 31/2 months old. She loves touching the objects, especially fluffy teddy and the red velvet dress, but hates the feel of the sandcastle. She cringes when we get to that one. The objects are grouped together with similar things like items you wear. It is a truly interactive book that encourages child participation. There is one object you can feel on every page which delights my daughter and frustrates her at the same time. She tries to touch the other objects on the page and seems disappointed that they are only made of the cardboard the pages are made of. I would have given this book 5 stars except I feel a few more items should be made to touch.

Children will be intrigued by the furry bear teddy bear tummy and then open the book to find pictures of objects they will easily recognize. They will find objects from around the house like a pillow, comb or lamp. Those are just visual and children can go find the objects or just learn to recognize the words.

Other touch and feel objects include: Bath sponge, velvet dress, fleecy jacket, orange peel, crinkly chips, tractor tires, woolly sheep, a silky swimsuit and a rough sandcastle which made me instantly wish I was really building a sandcastle at the beach.

One of the best touch and feel books
I have seen so far!

Fans of the "Choose Your Own Adventure" series will want to pick this one up if they ever see it in libraries or used bookstores. This is the series in its early prime, with originator Edward Packard at the helm. He creates a plausible haunted house with a somewhat original cat-and-mouse theme, some genuine terror for kids, and a fine atmosphere.

As a sixth grade teacher, I rarely see my students as fired up to read a novel as they are about the Choose Your Own Adventure series, especially The Mystery of Chimney Rock. They beg me to read to them and often fight over what few copies I have. Kids love to feel like they are in charge of something important and exciting, especially at the middle school age. The Mystery of Chimney Rock is consistent and doesn't contradict itself no matter how your story comes out. The circumstances the reader chooses dictate the action, not the author's manipulating the characters to influence the story. Suspenseful and nailbiting! Students feel genuinely involved and downright nervous as to whether they will live or die in the book.

This books assumes that everyone is here for a purpose and by clearly identifying this purpose and having the courage to live it, one will experience dramatically improved performance and satisfaction.

The book is part engrossing story of a character that goes through the necessary process of discovering his passion. The other half of the book is an extensive list of exercises that are aimed at removing the blocks that have kept most of us from finding and living our true purpose in life.

These well designed exercises alone were more than worth the price of the book.

There is little doubt in my mind and heart that what Paul and Susan have provided us is an opportunity to look within and discover first hand where our true love lies. As one follows the main character in the "introduction," it is easy to let yourself wonder about your own life, your own profession, and the truth about your own passion. It is a journey... or maybe more of an adventure to pursue the true gifts that we have each been given. To pursue what is in our heart and spirit. To know the joy of our own creativity. If you are ready to venture within and discover your real passion before time passes you by, I highly recommend this great experience provided by Paul and Susan Kordis. Best Wishes

I HAVE JUST FINISHED READING THE NARRATIVE OF DAVID CROCKETT FOR AN AMERICAN HISTORY CLASS AND HAVE TO DO A SHORT THREE PAGE PAPER ON THE BOOK. I WAS HOPING TO GET SOME IDEAS ON THE INTERNET TO HELP OUT WITH THE PAPER, AND SAW THIS LINK. THE BOOK WAS GREAT, EASY READING, AND INTERESTING TO THE READER, MYSELF. HOPE YOU ALL ENJOYED IT AS WELL AS I DID!

It is a great book, a real whopper. And I'll be skinned alive and burned by an injun if it aint one of the moost enthralling books I've read. Colonel Crockett didn't have the greatest spelling, or punctuation, but it was a great book. In the 1830's, Edgar Allan Poe wrote a review of the book, criticizing its grammar, but what he forgot to say was how it was exciting, and easy to read. At the time, it was the bestselling book in the nation.

This is a delightfully charming book about the author's life in Paris as a journalist between World War I and the start of World War II. The author's descrioption of day to day existence in the small Paris neighborhood, and his lovingly detailed portrayals of the denizens, are both touching and hilarious. It's worth reading this just to learn the story of la rue du chat qui peche.

I belive this is the same book that I have, mine is a old book club edition. I have loaned this book to several friends who were traveling to paris in the last 25 years, and all have liked the background it gives. The book paints a much different picture than you see on the street now. I have also stayed in the Hotel Du Montblanc, where Mr. Paul lived. I find his writing to be informative and he paints a picture with details that takes your mind to the places that he writes about, and gives you a feel for the people and places. Mr Paul was a contemporary of Hemingway and lived and worked in similar places, Paris, Spain, and the American north west. If you are planning a trip to Paris and a visit to the Latin Quarter, do yourself a favor and read this before going. Then take it along, get a little bottle of wine and a "sandwich Grec" sit on a park bench at the end of the street, and take your mind back 70+ years. I am compilling a Bio. for Elliot Paul to be posted on the web (because there ain't one) if you have any information about him, or would just like to send me a review of one of his books that you have read please do so at elworks@yahoo.com.

Four steps for recreating your life.

Four steps that will change your life.

Four steps that will bring you into NLP,

photoreading and mindmapping.

Life will become grand.

Learn how to tap your personal genius within.

Learn how to slowdown and learn something new.

Learn about paraliminal tapes and

how to learn in a whole new way...

Tap into your natural brilliance easily

and effortlessly, now.

Another great book besides his classic

book, Photoreading.

I thoroughly enjoyed the tape cassette

edition by the same name. Natural Brilliance.

Read this before buying his tapes.

I can't wait to attend a training,

Paul if you're reading this send me

two free tickets to your upcoming seminar

for my wife and I... I can't wait to meet

the creator of such an elegant mind paradigm.

Own this book, forget this review.

Learn how to tap once more into your

natural brilliance.

Witness it.

With this book, Paul Scheele takes his rightful place among Stephen Covey, Anthony Robbins, and Win Wengar as a leader in personal development. Anyone who has ever 'known what to do' to change their current situation only to find themselves right back where they started 'must' read this book. This book goes beyond the "Just Do It" pep-rally, feel-good nonsense that crowds this field. It models the mind when it learns perfectly and then explains why most 'self-help' books miss half of the story, leading their readers into eventual oscillation and failure. It shows you how to recognize your 'stuck states', define the 'real' problem, generate many solutions, take action, and monitor feedback in a way that assures success and eliminates fear and procrastination. Lastly, it introduces the reader into several of the most profound accelerated learning techniques in existance today. In short, this book changed my life.

This book is an enjoyable mix of travelogue and environmental philosophy, but the travelogue portion is more limited than it seems at first glance. A few chapters describe Gruchow's visits to interestingly empty places in Minnesota and Nebraska, but most of the rest of the book deals with two backpacking trips in the mountains of Wyoming. In each chapter Gruchow's writing evolves quickly from a scenery-based travelogue to soul searching and very in-depth musings on mankind's place in nature. The book essentially becomes a series of essays on why people have become disconnected from nature in the modern world, and should spend far more time in the empty spaces that Gruchow enjoys visiting. His thoughts on these matters are deeply philosophical with a real talent for big-picture analysis on the state of human society. Some great examples are Gruchow's use of the population distribution of robins to describe how corporate America is homogenizing our natural diversity (chapter 9), and a staring contest with a trout in a mountain lake that kicks off a wave of social and personal philosophy (chapter 18). Gruchow's writing has the tendency to get drifty and to go off on very long and mundane tangents - beware of sections that are written in the second person especially. But this style of writing (and thinking) is what happens when you're alone in nature with nothing but your thoughts. Gruchow proves that more people should experience this state of mind.

I thoroughly enjoyed The Necessity of Empty Places. It's vivid desciptions of the praririelands of the US and it's thought provoking insights into the relationship that humans have with their environment make the book a satisfying page-turner. Bits of humor and humility keep the book fun and refreshing

This is a pretty cool guide to Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. For each episode they list the stardate, any new planets, aliens and technology encountered, quotes, a plot summary, and many more tidbits. The only reason I gave it four stars is that after episode #52 of DS9, the entries have no detail and are abbreviated to just a few lines. It's as though they didn't have time to finish it!

There are also a few interesting pages at the back that explain how Star Trek is a metaphor for the American way of life.

Overall: If you watch Star Trek TNG and DS9 a lot, you will defintely not regret buying this book.

This is a very informational book for all Star trek NG Fans. It contains a synopsis of each episode. All though a few of the Episodes are a bit out of order, the book is a great guide, espicially if you own the entire series. The only enhancement I would make is an author's rating of each episode.

Depositions are part of the arcane ritual of American litigation. I was recently deposed (as an expert witness) and found the book full of practical information. I can recommend it to anyone unfamiliar with the process.

As typical from Nolo press writers, this is a very effective book well structured and with useful materials.
The framework given is very practical and applicable. I strongly recommend for anyone involved in a deposition.
Just to give the proof, it helped me to face 3 days of deposition by a nasty attorney as under handed as you can get....I survived it.
Thanks to the authors and in all cases, be prepared !