I am a great fan of Shakespeare, so when I bought this book what I was expecting wasn't what I saw. I saw the most intriguing sonnets probaly ever known to man. It wasn't all about love and fear. It was involving a great many things. It had all the human feelings, sadness, happieness, hate, love, curiosity, fear, pain, grief, stress, and you get the ideal. I don't want to give it away so if you seem interested read this wounderful book.

I read these sonnets two a day over the summer, and I wish there were more than 154 of them so I could keep going into the fall. I think I'll pick up "The Tempest" next.

The poetry in this volume is beautiful, equisite and full of passion. What makes Shakespeare worth reading is the way he lets the world into his lines. His metaphors appeal deliciously to the senses, like a beam of sunlight through a high window in the afternoon, or the smell of a new cut lawn in the spring. Shakespeare's writing is immortal, not because a conspiracy of teachers got together and decided it should be, but because it is full of life, and nothing that is full of life can really ever die.

If you're not used to reading Elizabthean English or are put off by the thought of Shakespeare, this is a good place to start. This edition helpfully "translates" each sonnet into modern English on a facing page along with definitions for the more troubling words. Even with the help, I still don't think Shakespeare is all that easy to read. But anything you do in this world that makes you feel more passionate about life is a pretty good thing. If you give Shakespeare some of your time, he's bound to pay you back with plenty of interest.

This edition of Shakespear's sonnets is all you need to read and understand the great Bard.

A very nice feature is the paraphrasing of the sonnets in contemporary English and a translation into ordinary language of the more difficult words.

The edition is a paperback small enough to be carried around to read during one's leisure.

A delightful, yet comprehensive account of a magnificent civilization which has endured great many upheavals and turmoils.
This is a must read.

This is a must for every lover of Persia and its ancient civilisation.
Wonderful photographical excursions in the artistic and spiritual life of pre-Islamic and Islamic times.
It is well worth every cent. Highly recommended for all interested in Persian culture and art.

Dear Sirs,

These are great books if you are interested in Iran and its rich culture. Three volumes will give you exellent imagination of what is Iranian culture from Ancient Persia...
I would like to thank all the authors and photographers of the books. All of You did great job. And this is good price for such books!

most of the weed i.d. books i've seen are line drawings but this one (i assume by courtenay and zimmerman tho it doesn't say) is very good-nice clear pictures with easy quick info and many sub species are listed as well-sure wish i could buy this book to stock for my customers who are now growing wildflowers and have no clue which are flowers and which might as well be plucked from the area-

Everyone should have this book in their personal library. This is the best book I have ever seen on wild plant identification. I use it regularly to identify and know the difference between native wild plants and weeds making sure not to destroy the beneficial plants.

I have learned a lot about plant identification from this book and wish it was more available. Everyone I know would have a copy.

I do volunteer prairie restoration and this book is currently used by many people in the field. The people who use it a great deal say it is the best for plant ID. I have a list of 13 people who are looking for a copy of this book and it is highly recommended. Anyone know how to get 13 copies of this book or get the publisher to put it back in print?

P. Schulte Mokena IL

The stories are varied, entertaining, and required reading for anyone that enjoys listening to baseball on the radio while sitting on their porch on a warm summer's evening. I could have done without Curt Smith's introduction to each chapter, as his over-the-top prose didn't seem to fit with the simplicity of the language of the anectdotes.
From coast to coast, this is a winner. New Yorkers will be particularly fond, however, of the pre-California baseball tales.

Curt Smith gathers some of the legendary Voices of baseball together to (what else?) tell stories. The anecdotes are invarably interesting, funny, moving, and illuminating, whether or not the reader has actually had the pleasure of listening to any or all of these broadcasters. My only quibble with this book is that author Smith seems to have lifted several passages in toto from his earlier, and even more fascinating, "Voices Of The Game." This seems like unnecessary duplication and can be mildly annoying for those of us who've read both. Still, it's well worth the time of anybody who loves the Summer Game.

I saw this book on amazon.com and knew I had to get it. Great stories inside the game and behing the broadcast booth. Couldn't put it down, just spectacular, wish there was a sequel!!!!

This is a well organized, enjoyable look into this dynamic profession. Bender's work is professorial; young broadcasters would do well to pay attention to his sagacity. Although Bender provides ample warning of his bias toward exacting preparation, he might lose a little of the essence of sports broadcasting. In treating broadcasting as tantamount to a science, he leaves you without the reason why he does it (and why I do it and why we all do it) -- sports broadcasting is FUN. It is revitalizing. Bender at times treats it as something that requires such precision that it saps his energy. I will say, however, that stripping some of the luster away from this coveted and misunderstood profession is necessary. As mentioned in the Booklist review, he provides plenty of "look-what-you're-getting-into" advice. He's done a good job at that, along with providing clear and understandable advice for someone willing to follow in his shoes. Besides, nobody needs to be told how much fun it is. What we DO need to be told, Bender provides.

I am not a big reader of books. Often I will buy a book, set it down and not pick it up for weeks, or even months or years. However, this book I sat and read almost cover-to-cover. As a sportscaster myself, I found it entertaining, informative, and provides excellent direction and insight for younger men and women who are hoping to break into this field. If you are planning or hoping to one day go into the broadcasting industry, whether its in sports, news, or whatever, I would say this is required reading!

I loved this book very much. When I first got a hold of this book,I wanted to read about the rolling stone's founder,Brian Jones. So I was pleased to read so much about him. I found the early days of the rolling stones to be much more interesting than I imagined. It described in detail how mick,keith,and brian lived together in a small,horrible apartment,owned by Mick,and how they hardly had any money for food. I enjoyed how the author started the book out by describing his experience interviewing Brian Jones's parents,years after his death. The author was very good at detail,in this book. He always described the concerts of the stones with the girls screaming,and the last days of Brian Jones,and all of the band member's different love interests,and some certain instances with groupies. I like reading non-fiction books that have some detail in the writing,not just generalization. Lastly,the weakness in this book is including all of the members of the rolling stones. He included alot of brian,and mick,but not enough of the other band members. Overall,I would say that this book is definitly worth reading and I would recomend it to any stones fan. I know a book is good when as I'm reading it,I can get a mental picture of what is happening,and that's what I did.

Stanley Booth not only wrote the best book ever written about the Stones, but the best book ever written about Rock and Roll period. If "Exile on Main St." was a book, it would be this. The book is a rich tapestry of layers and textures. A must read. Please pay special attention to the chapter that takes place in Sam Sheffler's basement on Hudson Ave. It is filty yet fun.

I purchased this book at the same time as my Lomo LCA, my first foray into the world of Lomo. The book contains an amazing assortment of Lomos, showcasing the seemingly limitless possibilities of Lomography. It is an inspiration to both new and experienced Lomographers, and provides plenty of excellent material to peruse. For parents, be aware that some nudity and violent images are part of the collection.

What keeps me from a 5 star rating is the horizontal orientation of the book. While I "get" that it's part of the point, it makes the book a bit unwieldly and difficult to just flip through both as a reference and as a coffee table pick-up. Overall, however, if you are or have interest in becoming a Lomographer, it is a must have.

this book is awesome! for fans of the little lomo book that comes with the regular lomo camera, this coffee table size book is immensely more hypnotic. it features lomo photography from all over the world, documenting different lomo photographers' pictures for the last ten years. it's amazing what this camera has inspired in people. this book is loads of fun--i see something new in it every time i thumb through it! one thing this book will certainly inspire is the desire to shoot your own photography with the lomo!

Booth has chosen representative receipes from all over Mexico. They are easy to follow and prepare. I'm buying another copy to replace the one I lost. Buen Provecho.

I found this book in a used shop for $... and it has become my most prized Mexican Cuisine cookbooks to date. Some of the recipes are so unusual I have never seen them anywhere else in my extensive cookbook collection. George C. Booth has a real gem in this one, and the amazing thing is its age - 1964 - at the start of the home cooked Mexican Food revolution! With its extensive descriptions of ingredients, methods of preparation and serving techniques as well as a complete glossary of cooking terms and foodstuffs I have found this one book to be an indispensable reference material for my cookbook shelf. And the copious selection of mixed and prepared drinks in the back of the book is spellbinding! I highly reccomend this for anyone who wants to have a solid grounding in the Cuisine of Mexico. PS 07-16-01

Professors Amato and Booth present a wealth of statistical summaries regarding families in _Risk_. The suggestion from stress indicators that marriage satisfaction among couples has diminished in recent decades presents an interesting basis for policy discussions. Some of the statistics conform to contemporary expectations, others appear contrary. The book's value stems from the synthesis of these facts. Policy recommendations however, presnt a mixed bag. As sociology professors, the authors retain an overt fondness of current fad of maximized individual freedom as embodied in "no-fault" unilateral divorce statutes that discourage marital investment and facilitate dissolution, at the expense of children. While couples in low-conflict but unsatisfactory marriages are suggested be more accommodating for the sake of children, until the law protects the interests of the non-divorcing partner and/or offspring, such recommendations will fall on deaf ears.

A Generation at Risk holds appeal as compelling as its subtitle suggests - Growing up in an Era of Family Upheaval. Indeed, we have probably witnessed the most rapid change of family as an institution over the past decades throughout family history. Research is numerous and has addressed many aspects induced by "family upheaval" from macro- to micro-level. Amato and Booth's work has systematically mapped the cause-effect relationship between two generations: how each set of family-of-origin's characteristics (including parents' socioeconomic status, parents' gender nontraditionalism, parents' marital quality and divorce) affect offspring's well-being of various dimensions (including children's socioeconomic status, children's quality of intimate relationship, social integration and psychological well-being). They have done a remarkable job to answer the question we all have: whether changes in family life have harmed or benefited children, and to what extent.
The great advantage of their research is to use longitudinal design to obtain information on independent variables from the parents over a period of 15 years as their offspring grew up and to obtain information on dependent variables from the offspring by the end of the study period. Therefore it avoids the inaccuracy due to retrospective errors and lowers the same-source bias. The longitudinal design especially remedies the point-in-time data provided by most surveys that are poor at measuring changes over time. It enables the researchers to analyze the data with life course theoretical framework.
However, like all surveys in which every respondent is given the same set of questions, in-depth probe cannot be pursued. The authors have drawn lots of inference that possibly or probably links the independent and the dependent variables. For example, in explaining why unmarried children of non-traditional parents tend to leave home relatively early, it is assumed that their parents encourage residential independence yet such an assumption cannot be substantiated by the given data. Another drawback lies in the sampling bias that only married parents in 1980 were chosen and the non-traditional form of families were left out.
Having said that, the data source for this research is extremely rich. Besides the standard information available such as parents' education and income, this study also has collected extensive information on the gender division of housework and childcare, gender attitudes, marriage quality, marital conflict, and divorce proneness. The measurement of offspring's well-being is also inclusive from the socioeconomic attainment to intimate relationship, from social integration to psychological well-being.

This book is well researched and very objective. The researcher uses extensive data sources to offer support for the claim that money has only a secondary effect, and that parental involvment is a much more important factor for child sucess. In short, to improve society, we need better parents rather than more money.

The author, Ernest Mason Satow, wrote a book in 1905 which still nowdays is a masterpiece. In his fifth edition, Lorde Gore-Booth, editor, and Desmond Pakenham, assistant editor, include in this referecial book the kind of cartesian information about United Nations that Lorde Mason would consider of deserving all his honours. Read this book must be not so much as a diplomatic decision but a decison of any human being in a diplomatic mission.

Mansell begin to write a book in 1905 which still nowdays is a masterpiece. In his fifth edition, Lorde Gore-Booth, editor, and Desmond Pakenham, assistant editor, include in this referecial book the kind of cartesian information about United Nations that Lorde Mansell would consider of deserving all his honours, not so much as diplomat but as an human being in a diplomatic mission.

Satow's book is the master piece for the "diplomatist" of not only 20th Century but also of the 21st. Satow and his Guide, indeed is the materialisation of the mystic bond that the diplomats of the world have towards each other by virtue of their special profession.