This guide is comprehensive and the only book out on the market that really showed me how to make a video. It also explains how to buy a camcorder and the different formats--the difference between Hi-8 and VHS, as well as digital still cams and digital camcorders. I recommend this guide most highly!

I was actually afraid to use my video camcorder. This book encouraged me to shoot a real program. It was easy to read and understand. I really liked the sections on video awareness and composition. And the chapters on how to buy a camcorder and accessories are outstanding. I have progressed from a true beginner to a "semi-pro". Watch out Steven Spielberg. And thank you Miriam S. Jersky for writing this book. I highly recommend it to everyone who has a camcorder. Or is about to buy one.

Martin P. Pearl

I love this book,it is my favorite of all the her stories. It was the first one that I read 6 to 7 years ago. Since that time I have read everyone of her books, except for this last one that I just found. It was this book that started me on reading all these Amish books. Went on to read all of Borntrager series, plus Beverly Lewis books. Again I`ve read all hers except the last two which one I am starting now. I have nothing but pure raves for all of Carrie Benders books. Read them you will surely enjoy, happy reading.

I have read all five of Mariam's Journals and enjoyed them all. I felt like I was part of her family.Carrie Bender done an excellent job. I like to hear about the Omnish People. Their beleif is similar to mine.Great job, Carrie Bender

I got this book from the library and found it to be so helpful that I decided to buy a copy of my own. The instructions are clear and very simple, and also the book shows you what to do using pictures. It goes into how to breast and/or bottle feed without the huge lectures and guilt trips for mothers who decide to bottle feed. It doesn't include every aspect of child care but it's gives the new mom a very good start. It also helps that the book is short and very inexpensive. Makes a great shower gift, especially for the giver who is short on cash.

I was surprised to find no reviews of this book. After the birth of our first child, we received this as a gift and although this reference was a small paperback, it was so full of information I referred to it frequently. The photographs are terrific and this book is an excellent primer for any new parent who wants more information on how to manage the newborn phase of life. I highly recommend it.

The latest in the compact, trivia-filled, exciting and entertaining 100 series, 100 Books That Shaped World History is a chronologically organized listing of books, both fiction and non-fiction, that changed the way people thought about the world, ranging from the "Epic of Gilgamesh" of antiquity to Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" to Betty Friedan's "The Feminine Mystique." Each book has a one-page section devoted to it, as well as a black-and-white photograph of the cover or of the author if available. An amazing tour through time and the history of human ideas, 100 Books That Shaped World History is a superbly organized list and highly recommended for reading club selection processes and anyone wanting to educate themselves with respect to the seminal and ground-breaking ideas comprising the foundation for contemporary society and civilized human history.

Overall I thought this book was very informative but more importantly, this book exemplified reality. Too often drug abuse is misinterpreted by many on account of generalized stereotypes, scare tactics and inaccurate information, this book refrained from all of the above. Also this book is directed towards the adolescent reader and as a result, puts many complicated physiological terms and processes in to comprehendable reading material (without losing or misconstruing the definition or meaning). I think this book did an amazing job at explaining the facts and consequences of drug use. This is the kind of book that should be incorporated somehow into the high school education curriculum.

As the title sort of indicates, "Alexander the Great and Ancient Greece" is really two books in one. In the first part Miriam Greenblatt provides a biography of Alexander the Great subtitled "A Passion for Glory," that tells how the young prince of Macedonia ended up conquering most of the "known" world. What impressed me was one detail that stands out in Greenblatt's narrative: she tells two different versions of how Alexander dealt with the Gordian Knot, pointing out that "Both tales fit his personality." That was the point at which she sold me on the value of her biography. This section is illustrated with paintings and mosaics from ancient times to modern, focusing on the legendary figure of Alexander.

The second part, covering "Everyday Life in Ancient Greece," is really separate from the first. Greenblatt covers the religion, games, theater, and education of the Greeks, as well as the elements of everyday life such as food, drink, hairstyles, cosmetics, and clothes. Like the first, this second part could stand on its own as an introduction to what it was like to be living in Ancient Greece, although certainly I would like to see what Greenblatt would do with the same topic and twice the number of pages. I have read books devoted entirely to this topic that are not as good. This part is illustrated with a dozen pictures taken from ancient urns and pottery that I always find absolutely captivating. This volume also offers up a third part, "The Greeks in Their Own Words," which includes excerpts from Homer's epic poem the "Iliad," Euripides's tragic play "The Trojan Women," a Aesop's fable and Aristotle's "Politics." Overall, I think the first part of "Alexander the Great and Ancient Greec" is pretty good, but that the second part is even better.

Stacy Keach is magnificent. The rocky relationships in this production are so life-like! You can feel what's going on and you can relate to it.

the trickester is doing it to us again...there's a major war trying to start because the sons of Ishmeal are wanting to follow the word of Yah by allowing the House of Isreal to come home....and the Isreali people in control of the Holy City Jersulem (not from the tribe of Yudah) so therefore not even jew and may not even be of the children of father Yacob=Isreal... so if there where no uniforms no way to tell one from another....then the word of Yah would be easier to do...because the House of Isreal scattered by Yah for being disobident into these same lands that are willing to go to war for them lands that in effect do belong to them... so no uniforms then the peolpe children of Isreal can and will return home.... the false jew can not stop the word....but if we took the war from the evil one and got the uniforms taking away there would be no blood-shed any comment get back to me Ira Pray for the peace of Jerusalem... whats that you say then where are the true Isrealites....a good number of us are here In the USA BROUGHT HERE as slaves...and still under all the same task masters only the type of whip has changed....

In many ways, this is a disappointing book. Predictable in its attempt to create a 'scathing' rebuttal to the hideous 'Bell Curve', this book offers little to anyone versed in the incredible variety of contemporary feminist discourse. For those prepared for some *real* thinking, try more transgressive/radical voices, such as Patricia Williams, bell hooks, Mary Daly, and many others; also, see various radical works related to Lacan. The Assault on Equality is simply too simple, a statement of the obvious racism and stupidity of Charles Murray et al., and it cannot be said to contribute orginial thinking on the issue of race. Feminists in particular will find this book a bit simple-minded. Well intentioned, but dull, even as the authors are trying to sound angry.

This is a great reference -text book- for anyone who wants to learn about the principles of interior decorating or interior design. From learning the elements of design, to being able to understand what defined the style or interior decor of an era. Lots pictures, illustrations and at the end of each chapter you can test your acquired knowledge by answering its questions and/or doing the hands-on-assignement. If you are serious about learning the ABC of decorating, this is the book for you.