The teamsters is a book about he most powerful union in the world. This book targets crime, power, greed, money, loath, and the untimly death of some of the best crime bosses of all time including Jimmy Hoffa. The teamsters tells the story of the death of Jimmy Hoffa through the eyes of the people who knew him best. This book describes the powers that the teamsters have over the economy and the people. Jimmy Hoffa was the type of person that nobody would mess with he had the fire in his belly just right for the job of president of the teamsters. Hoffa was was the president of the teamsters during the 60's. He was incharge of 2.3 million teamsters. Hoffa was then aressted. Thats when Fitsimmions toke over the presidencey. Fitsimmions was not the kind of person you would expect to be the president of such a powerful union. He had gray hair, drupping eyes , And wrinkles all over his face. On the other Hoffa was the kind of man with the stocky build, and the glimmer in his eye perfect for the job president. After hoffa was released he dissappered. Many people were suspected for the death Jimmy such as Fitsimmions, Tony Provenzano when he was in jail with hoffa they got in a fight and Tony said that he would kill him, Ron Carey, Allen Dorfman, Charlie McGuire, Jakie Presser, and Harold Gibbions. This book gives you the low down on the of the most power union there is.

This book gives you a concise history of the Teamsters from
the beginning days until the writing of this book.You are able to get a good profile of the Teamster Presidents Beck,Hoffa,
and Fitzsimmons. The battle between Robert Kennedy and Jimmy Hoffa also recieve good coverage in this book.You are also able to read of Jimmy Hoffa's court trials.The author also shows the Teamster's dealings with the Mob.All in all a good history book about the Teamsters union and their history. You will enjoy this book.

This Book is a must for every Teamster to read!

Similar to "Cliff Notes" for literature, but addresses basic Java language topics. Does a greate job pointing out "gotchas" that don't show up until you get deeper into programming. Thus, by reading this book you get some good coding wisdom early, rather than learning it the hard way at your own desk. The book is also quite terse, and gets to the point quickly. Complaint: Exceptions are fundamental, yet this book barely mentions them. A major omission.

If you are looking for a comprehensive guide, this is not it. However if you are looking for quick concise answers on such topics as reflection, interfaces, inner classes, localization, you might be happy to learn that this book won't leave you high and dry. It depicts each topic with just enough theory and examples to get you on your way. The section on localization is very good if you wish to get a quick intro to localization. Reflection is also very nicely highlighted in this book. I wish I had used this book before I used reflection like maniac throughout my projects.
Another cool thing about this book is the price. Under [priced]for a good Java book is something I really like given the fact that I buy books at an astronomical rate.
Enjoy,
Will

Sarah speaks from the inside of a muddled teenager's head. And which teenager is not muddled? Every parent, however confident must read this book - it will open up their minds and help them understand their children. If you think you know your kid - this book will expose the reality- you really don't.

The following book review appeared in the Melbourne Sunday Age
on June 2nd,
2002, written by Lucy Sussex:

Fiction: GLORY, by Sarah Brill, Publisher Spinifex
"Youthful suicide, anorexia and drug abuse are dangerous topics
for the
novelist to handle.  The gatekeepers of younger reading are
nervous about
them, and they are hard to write about successfully.  Playwright
Sarah
Brill boldly and successfully tackles all three in this first
novel.
A young girl descends into an abyss in part of her own making,
and her
loving, if limited, family struggle to understand and cope.
Presenting the
anorexic viewpoint can mire the reader in claustrophobic
self-absorption,
which unfortunately goes with the disease.  However, Brill
leavens her mix
by allowing different characters their say.  There is much here
that could
be mawkish, but is avoided by Brill's stark, clear style.  A
writer to
watch."

For those of you who have seen the movie, you'll probably like the book. It strays a little from the chosen path of the movie, but goes into much greater detail, which may appeal to those of you who enjoy a good read. It wasn't the best book I've ever read, but it was a good adaption of the movie. I enjoyed the intricate detail, perhaps because, as a Mighty Duck fan, I have been unable to find much information on it. If you liked the Mighty Ducks, you'll enjoy this!

It's amazing how a book that's based on a movie has missing scenes. The movie so needed the Iceland/Duckies fight on the beach. It needed Ms. McKay telling Adam his chances. It makes things make more sense.

Wonderful book. You should all buy it :).

David Brill's marriage is falling apart and, in an attempt to save it, he builds his family a cabin in the Cumberland Mountains. Brill draws parallels between the slow death of a marriage he doesn't want to end and the redemption that comes along with reestablishing his place in the world--literally through watching his cabin in the mountains be built up piece by piece as his marriage, figuratively, comes down piece by piece. Constructing his cabin--which eventually becomes his alone--helps him come to terms with the loss, and reconfiguration, of his family.

David Brill's book manages to beautifully capture a sense of place with his vivid descriptions of the landscape and people of modern-day southern Appalachia. The natural world serves as a lush backdrop to Brill's painful, yet ultimately affirming story of the end days of his eighteen year marriage.

Too many books about divorce offer only a laundry list of practical advice. David Brill lets us in on the truth of the matter, which is that each divorce is as unique as the marriage that precedes it. With a stark honesty that is never maudlin or exploitative, Brill offers readers a deeply personal glimpse into his own divorce journey.

If the story were not compelling enough, Brill's deft and engaging writing is a pleasure to read in an age when a well-done literary memoir is a rare find.

Highly recommended.

Katie Allison Granju - Author of "Attachment Parenting" (Pocket Books/1999)

Don't get me wrong here. This book has the most detailed, true to life 3-Dimensional models around, including the dragon, horse, box of cigarrettes, nut & bolt (harder than it sounds) but there are very few intermediate and beginner material. Get this book if you want to see some of the great things Origami is capable of. Get this book if you want to try some really challenging pieces of work. But don't get this book to learn how to fold paper.

Don't get me wrong, these are 5 star designs. The horse especially is a masterpiece, created from a single uncut triangle it has perfect proportions and looks virtually alive. Brill's unusual style involves creating very solid, 3D models and tricky modular geometric shapes.

However, these are very ambitious models, and the generally poor quality of the diagramming means they are very difficult to fold, even for a fairly experienced folder. The book would have benifited greatly from either photos or clear and well explained diagrams, as found in the 30+ year old "Best of origami".

Oh, and one more thing. It's mearly a biproduct of the complexity of the models, but most of them are impossible to fold from normal sized origami paper. I have found that a roll of parcel wrapping paper is ideal for these projects.

David Brill is, to my believe, the best origami designer ever, his work excelles over the common "complex engineering" (you see in most designers work) & reaches the level of engines art.
The projects in the book are as difficult as they are amazing. The diagrams are very difficult to understand (However they holed all the information needed)
If you just started with origami, the designs in it are not for you!!! , However I can't get my self to recommend against buying it, I would buy it & wait the day I'll reach that level.
By the way... (This is what interested me before buying the book), yes, the design on the front cover is diagramed in the book, so are David's (amazing) elephant, lion, lioness & cub, horse, rhinoceros & more

In a letter to his confidant and friend, Wilhelm Fleiss, the then middle aged neurologist, Sigmund Freud, was in the midst of researching and writing his beloved 'dream book'. He wrote the following:

"Now I have finished and am thinking about the dream book again. I have been looking into the literature and feel like a Celtic imp."Oh, how I am glad that no one, no one knows..." No one suspects that the dream is not nonsense but wish fulfillment."

Indeed, this is the premise of Freud's entire thesis: dreams are no more than repressed unconscious wishes, battling for expression and consummation.

In his own words, Freud had 'dared' to rally against the 'objections of severe science, to take the part of the ancients and of superstition.' In 1900, the official year of the book's publication, its reception, despite its provoctive title, was tepid, and in the course of six years, only sold 351 copies. Freud never gave up hope, and 30 years later, in the preface of the third English edition, he wrote, "It contains, even according to my present day judgement, the most valuable of all the discoveries it has been my good fortune to make. Insight such as this falls to one's lot but once a lifetime.' In present day, one can question any Freud scholar about ~The Interpretation of Dreams~ and they will say the same thing: the book contains everything that 'is' psychoanalysis.

Anyone interested in the history of psychoanalysis and the mind of Sigmund Freud, reading this book is an absolute must. The reading runs along too, quite easily, as Freud was an excellent writer: his unique prose style even shines through some clumsy translations.

If you are interested in the book's process of development, I would suggest reading ~The Complete Letters of Sigmund Freud and Wilhelm Fliess~; another gold mine for understanding the growth of psychoanalysis.

Easy to read and perfectly inteligible for the average
non-professional reader like me. This is the most important book written by Sigmund Freud and is in the Freudian tradition of writting some books which focus on difficult issues with a rather simple to understand language and fine style. The purpose of the author, in his own words, was to disturb the sleep of mankind.

This is the kind of book that will help you a lot in understand the mechanisms behind one's dreams and all the relationship between what Freud calls your "waking life" and your "dream-life". Before going on interpreting a lot of his and his patients dreams, something that took a lot of personal sacrifice to someone so jealous of his private life as Freud, the author introduces us to the then (1899) accepted theories of dreams, which basically took the dreams as irrational and confuse manifstations that didn't have nothing to do with our real or waking life.

The rationale Freud uses to demolish the anti-Freudian myths is powerful and convincing and he even suggests that reading the book will have some effect on our immediate dream life (it happened to me). Despite quite voluminous (700 pages) it deservs the attention and the effort of all of us who want to understand what dreams are all about. Here also, one reads the first paragraphs Freuds devotes to the Oedipus complex, and one has the opportunity to explore along with Freud the mechanisms of the UCS (unconscious) and of our Conscious activities, which some decades latter would lead to the concepts of Ego, Super-Ego and Id.

As a trademark the text is always polemical, remembering this same quality one faces in Marxists texts.

Dreams are some of the most mysterious, most enchanting, and most sacred experiences in all of human existence--and yet they are also some of the most elusive, and so their meaning has been scrutinized by every culture of the human race, for thousands and thousands of years.

In all of these inquiries, perhaps none has been more thorough, more scientific, and more systematic than Dr. Sigmund Freud's "Interpretation of Dreams" (1900). In his book, Freud surveys the scientific research on dreams put forth so far (a remarkable achievement of scholarship in itself), and then puts forth his own theory of dreams.

Dreams, Freud claims, are nothing more than a fulfillment of an unconscious wish. He supports his theory with analysis from a selection of actual dreams from his patients and from his own experience.

Much of this book is entertaining and enlightening. Freud's good taste in literature is reflected in his own engaging style, and his sense of scholarly adventure is catching. Plus, he doesn't shy away from the big questions. How can we interpret dreams? How does a dream come about? What is the purpose of dreams? Why are all dreams wish fulfillments? What are the meaning of typical dreams, like losing teeth?--all these questions are tackled here. This is the book where Freud first puts forth his Oedipal theory.

Freud's theory is always insightful, if not totally accurate. He seems to try too hard to make all the data jive with his "wish-fulfillment" theory, and when it doesn't, he resorts to ludicrous arguments reminiscent of Anselm's ontological catastrophe. For example, when a dream is clearly not a wish fulfillment, Freud asserts that it has actually fulfilled a wish--a wish that his theory is wrong. Poppycock.

Despite these occasional stretches of reasonability, you'll come away from this book with a much greater understanding of the nature of dreams and the mental processes that bring dreams about. Highly recommended.

This is a good intro to Freud; consider also "Introductory Lectures on Psychoanaylsis."

I would have given this book zero stars if I could. I recommend *against* reading this book.

The authors express a mistrust for modern medicine that throws the baby out with the bath water. While I agree with them that many aspects of the standard hospotal birth are based on (male) doctors' convenience, these authors do not acknowledge any positives coming out of that knowledge base. The authors also paint the vast majority of sperm banks as homophobic, which I simply don't think is the case.

Additionally, I find it disturbing that the authors promote a variety of alternative parenting arrangements (co-parenting with 3 or 4 adults involved, for instance) without discussing the many different ways it affects the child. If they were going to tackle such complex child-rearing topics, I would prefer that they had a child or family therapist consult with them on the book.

The Essential Guide To Lesbian Conception, Pregnancy, And Birth is jointly written by the co-founders of Maia Midwifery and Preconception Services, Stephanie Brill (a lesbian mother of three) and Kim Toevs (member of the California Association of Midwives, and the Midwives' Alliance of North America). Designed specifically for the non-specialist general reader, the authors have effectively collaborated to present information on how to plan and create an ideal family; decide between the many sperm-donor options; choose a co-parenting situation; legally protect family and custody rights; create a healthy, fertile lifestyle through nutrition, exercise, and herbal remedies; select a method of insemination; track fertility cycles and recognize fertility signals; diagnose and treat infertility; and handle both the physical and emotional challenges of pregnancy and birth. The comprehensive, "reader friendly" text of The Essential Guide To Lesbian Conception, Pregnancy, And Birth is wonderfully enhanced with easy-to-understand charts and illustrations, checklists, up-to-date fertility information; and personal exercises especially appropriate for lesbian, bisexual, and single mothers. Unique and very highly recommended.

This is by far the most comprehensive book I've found on lesbian conception and pre-parenting issues. It goes far beyond the medical and physical issues to cover communication between possible donors and coparents, tools to facilitate conversations between partners, and lots of passages that incite that, "wow I have never thought about that" feeling. As a labor and delivery nurse myself, I find the advice of these well-educated midwives to be right on. The information and advice in this resource is invaluable! I highly recommend this book to any lesbian or bisexual woman thinking seriously about starting a family.

I like this book, it really gets down to the root level. The author's approach to the topic is very methodical, which is good.

I think that this book is good for people who are advanced VB programmers, and any C++ programmers wanting to leverage COM+ in their applications. Anybody who is truly an advanced VB programmer should be able to read IDL and C++ code and see what is generally going on.

I really liked the level of detail that the author went into about COM+, and I liked how the author got under the hood.

I consider this book as a good COM+ reference book.

Finally a book that goes deeper than just showing you how to do something, this book actually exposes the guts of COM/COM+. This book does not give extensive examples, but it does show enough for the reader to digest and understand. The bulk of the code in this book is written in visual c++. If you can stand reading a book of theory, this is a must read.

Gregory Brill's Applying COM+ is an invaluable resource to help application designers, programmers and managers conceptualize the new functionality of COM+ and how it can be utilized within their enterprise systems. Applying COM+ goes deeper to provide much-needed insight into coding techniques for both VB and C++ developers, and when and how to make use of specific COM+ services. Unlike other books which assume little programming expertise from their readers, Applying COM+ also offers intermediate and advanced level users new tips and insights. 504pp.

I came across this book at the local library and was intrigued by it's Walden like premise. The first half of the book, which dealt more with the building and moving to the cabin and talked about his earlier experiences in the woods, was fairly entertaining. The rest of the book was a chore to complete. It grew difficult to listen to this grown man whine and complain about his life: how he lost touch with his wife (it always seemed to be her fault), how work was interfering with his spirit, and how he shares his feelings (constantly) with his circle of friends. The chapters describing his experiences in nature in the second half of the book tended to be pedantic ("I did this. I saw that."). ."). Overall, I agree with the first reviewer. There are much better books to be read that cover these topics.

This book proved to be a major disappointment to me. There are far better modern day books on building a cabin in the woods and surviving (see Coming out of the Woods-Kaufman). There is Bryson's Walk in the Woods for humour and environmental insight. And as far as coming to terms with the ending of marriage grief ,stick to Heat-Moon's Blue Highways. What Brill accomplishes here is very little new ground and I don't think he has a very good way of saying it. The first 90% of this book is about how awful his wife is- reducing her to someone who dislikes him because he didn't provide her with a large home, big car and country club membership- hard to believe she would be that shallow. He wishes only to be with his kids during the good times and gets his best revelations at drunken Halloween parties. He selfishly builds a cabin in the woods and doesn't unserstand her aloofness. Maybe he should have asked her. Than after forty years he finds religion- just when its convient because he needs forgiveness. If Brill spent as much time talking and communicating with his wife and kids as much as he sits on the Rock Of Contemplation he might not have had to written this mess. This tale is too little naturalist story("We saw Foam flowers"): too one sided divorce tale( she stopped this, she did that) and too little on cabin life (I had to split the logs for the fire) to be helpful to anyone. The only thing keeping this from one star or less review is he does come to some realization of his transgressions in the end(while repairing a riding tractor no less a condescending sexist swipe at his wife again). Take my advice... read the books mentioned in the beginning of review first. If you've done that go outside and enjoy what you have learned from the masters and leave Brill to himself, I think he likes it that way.

Like many people, the idea of settling in the wooded mountains has always held a fascination to me. For that reason, I breezed through the book soon after it arrived and found it to be a fairly thorough summary of the author's experience. He recounts in some detail how he arrived at the decision to build, settling on a location, finding a builder and his excitement at seeing this hope realized. Many of us toy with the idea; he made it happen which I find immensely admirable. And I couldn't get enough of Brill's description of rural, East Tennessee!

That said, his frequent departures relaying the pain of his failed marriage gave the book a dismal tone that was, to me, a little tedious. To be fair, his divorce was obviously a monumental event, marking this season in his life and shaping his decision to retreat to the woods; it warrants more than just a fleeting reference, I suppose.

All in all, a very well-written and engaging book. Certainly worth reading. Four stars.