In their successful 1999 publication, "The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook", the authors Piven & Borgenicht gave us useful advice for surviving everything from a shark attack, to how to take a punch in the face with the minimum of injury. Now, as we swiftly approach the holiday season, they give us their latest work which focuses on holiday survival.

While you won't find information on how to safely jump out of a 2 story window into a trash dumpster, you WILL find information on how to gain control of a one-horse open sleigh, how to defend yourself against a charging reindeer and how to extricate yourself or someone else who is stranded in a chimney.

For the "rest of us" who aren't likely to find ourselves descending chimneys or dodging rutting male reindeer, there are LOTS of very helpful bits of advice for those things you're very LIKELY to encounter during this holiday season, including How To Wear Tight-Fitting Clothing that you've "outgrown" due to holiday eating, how to guess at what's inside a present (and how to PREVENT people who snoop on their presents!), as well as how to avoid kisses under the mistletoe and how to prevent yourself from being swept away by a marauding crowd of holiday shoppers.

Some survival tips are pure fun, like How To Repurpose A Fruitcake (doorstop, object d'art and tire block for your car are just a few), while others may actually be quite helpful in an actual situation: How To Prevent A Turkey From Exploding; How To Extinguish A Burning Turkey; and How To Treat Mistletoe (and food) Poisoning In Both People And Pets (you DID know that the berries of mistletoe are poisonous, didn't you?)

Naturally, this book is heavier on how to act in social settings (like dealing with meddlesome relatives and annoying carolers) and entertaining guests (how to open a bottle of wine with a broken cork, how to make an emergency menorah) than it is on actual dangers, but for anyone who's looking for a fun read and some practical advice, this and the other Worst-Case books are definitely worth getting! With it's festive, reflective silver cover, it's a perfect gift for the holidays as well as displaying prominently among your holiday displays. Besides, you just never know when disaster might strike, and you should always Be Prepared!! Highly recommended!

Being a big fan of the holidays, the snow, lights, decorations, etc. I decided to pick-up the newest addition to "The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook" series. And I am pleased to add, that this was definitely worth the money. The scenarios in this book are so stupid, yet so funny. They remind you of an MTV show entitled "Jack---" From tips on how to fend off a charging reindeer to how to treat a tongue stuck to a pole, you won't be disappointed.

The humor of "The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Guide: Holidays" goes on an on. You'll even find yourself rolling on the floor laughing out loud. This is a must read for everyone.

2 Cool Cards is a great resource for designers --the book contains cards from all over the world, each shown in actual size and in color!

It provides infinite inspiration for business card design and shows many unique designs. If you're looking for unique and distinctive card designs, this is the place to check first!

This book provides an excellent chance to learn more about Aldo Leopold, one of the most important conservationists ever. The editors have assembled a highly instructive sample of Leopold's essays and articles written throughout his career. The essays provide insights into Leopold's development from a predator-destroying wildlife manager to world-class conservationist. The editors' introductory essays to sets of Leopold's writings are themselves first-rate. Brown and Carmony provide the reader with the historical context for understanding the significance of Leopold's essays as his career unfolded. Highly recommended.

This dual authored 249-page book McGraw-Hill paperback covers different investment styles. It is divided into 10 chapters and includes a 15-page appendix of on-line investing resources, and 100 useful Websites, as well as a 9-page glossary. One unique feature is the inclusion of Psychological Quotient (PQ) Charts that can help readers ascertain their investment style and, thereby increase their odds on selecting the most appropriate investments.

The authors put forth the theory that if an investing strategy does not fit a person's personality that he/she will not stick with it for very long. Therefore, they provide a selection of currently used investing strategies together with the personality traits needed to execute the strategy successfully.

According to the authors, the investing process encompasses stock selection, timing of entry and exit points and portfolio management (asset allocation, number of holdings). However, they point out that the strategies for picking investment vehicles depends upon the investor's style of investing.

The authors point out that if an investor can use a systematic investing approach while maintaining discipline that he can more than double the annual return compared to random investing.

The authors created PQ charts. They rate each investment style on a scale of 1 to 10 for each of ten personality traits. These traits are: discipline; patience; risk tolerance; reward expectation; volatility tolerance; time horizon; time commitment; quantitative skill; charting skill; and investing confidence.

Nine specific investment styles are reviewed. The four major styles are growth (high risk/high reward); value (hunting for bargains); momentum (where the action is); and technical investing (using charts). There is one chapter on each style and together they cover 100 pages and are the heart of the book.

Each chapter follows the same format by providing the PQ chart personality rankings, anatomy of the types of stocks that fit that category, chart patterns of these stocks, how to screen for stocks, checklist of questions on evaluating stocks, exit and entry strategies, portfolio strategy, a case study, stock chart evaluation checklist, on-line resources, and helpful hints.

Five minor investing styles are portrayed in a separate chapter. They include: fundamental investing (balance sheet review), income investing (dividend payers), hybrid investing (combining styles), active trading (day traders, swing traders, position traders), and style surfing (style now in vogue).

Also provided are market capitalization strategies. Those covered include: large-, mid-, small-, and micro-cap strategies. A few advanced strategies are briefly discussed. They include short-selling, market-neutral investing, index trading, option hedging, and global investing.

Each style is explained and a PQ chart is included. A table showing the names of specific index funds and ETFs is also included for each investing style or market cap. This table provides readers with the specific funds to consider based upon their investment profile.

Overall, this book provides readers with a crisply written introduction to understanding the different investing styles, determining their style, help in locating funds that track these styles. This book contains sufficient resources to help investors strengthen their knowledge about investing and the markets. I highly recommend this book to new investors, as well as those who don't have a clue as to what they should be focusing on.

The authors provided a host of factual information and quotations, providing a vivid picture of the military conquest by theUS-led military forces in a short, quick read compact format. Theirfollow up book on the weapons that will be employed by the united states in its future wars against powerless 3rd world countries is cause for great concern.

When I first picked up "Arizona Game Birds" a couple of years ago, I looked at it as a serious textbook on Arizona's upland birds (partridges/pheasants, grouse, turkeys, quail, cranes, pigeons and doves). And it certainly is: with it's good-quality black-and-white figures, carefully designed maps, generous captions and an extended bibliography supplemented by a sufficient index, it ranks far above average when compared to similar scientific references. But this book is a lot more than a textbook: it is a unique comprehensive guide offering a straightforward path to both the novice and the expert through the complex, and at times confusing, interaction between the birds and their habitat. The general pattern Brown lays out in his clear, figurative language for each species in terms of life history, distribution, management history and hunting strategies is unsurpassed in the literature, a knowledge and expertise which can only be accumulated through decades of experience in the field as a wildlife biologist, AZ G&F game manager and a hunter. This book has served me as a faithful companion for not only planning hunting trips into new areas, but also to better understand the many biotic communities in the Southwest. Such information does not come easy, and one has to always work for it. Above all, I consider Brown's hunting anecdotes among the best put on paper. Loaded with practical advice and written with respect for the quarry by a true gentleman hunter, these short stories take you right into the field. Read e.g. about Brown looking back to Ward's Dove Night in Tuscon during the early 1970es and you will understand why this fine book is on my shelf standing right next to such classics as Jack O' Connor "Game in the Desert" and Charles A. Sheldon's "Wilderness of the Southwest". May it never go out of print!

No book in shorter space, with fewer words, will explain the story of the Springhill, Nova Scotia mining disasters. Its author Roger David Brown tells the story with the miners' own words. This book is haunting and bone-chilling to imagine being trapped underground. The book has several black and white photographs. For Anne Murray fans, there's a picture of her and her Anne Murray Centre as well. Which makes perfect sense since Anne is from Springhill.

Blood on the Coal is blood-curling suspense, yet historical, and extremely well written. I highly recommend this book and have rated it excellent.

Ok, I've never actually read this book. But David K. Brown is my sociology professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign. I find his lectures fascinating and am sure that this book is just as intriguing. He has lectured on credentialism, and has shown vast knowledge of the subject. I plan to read this book as soon as I have the time. I would recommend this book to anyone just by having listened to Dr. Brown.

David Brown's The Divine Trinity represents a powerful attempt to meet critics of incarnational christology on their own ground. Brown argues that deist anti-incarnationalism is unstable--that it must be transformed either into a more robust theism or into straightforward atheism. After making the case for belief in an historically active God, he suggests the history of Jesus, even understood in relatively minimalist fashion, entails belief in the doctrine of the Incarnation. Basing his argument on the resurrection rather than on any feature of Jesus' practice or self-consciousness, he maintains that the exaltation evident in the resurrection disclosed Jesus as worthy of worship and that subsequent incarnational christology is best understood as an elucidation of the implications of these experiences. Then, he attempts to unpack the meaning of early Christian experience of the Holy Spirit, to the extent that we can retrieve it from the New Testament witness. He seeks to show that this experience points toward belief in the Spirit as in some sense personally distinct from both Jesus and the One to whom he prayed as Father.

With the historical evidence out of the way, Brown examines the conceptual issues. He delineates two conceptual models for the Incarnation--kenotic and Chalcedonian--and concludes that both are coherent and consistent with the available historical evidence. By contrast, when he examines alternative unity and plurality models for the Trinity, he judges only the plurality model satisfactory.

I wonder whether Brown has made as plausible a case as he thinks he has for social trinitarianism. While the social model is widely popular among orthodox Christians today, it seems to me to depend on the assumption that we know more than we do or could know about the inner life of God. I don't think Brown has made out his case that we can infer the appropriateness of this model from the NT evidence.

More seriously, I worry about Brown's account of divine action. The deist accounts he rejects are inadequate to Christian faith and experience. But I think a satisfactory response to the problem of evil requires us to think of divine action as persuasive rather than coercive. Whether this is conceived of as a product of divine free choice or (as in process thought) as a consequence of the nature of reality doesn't matter; once we understand divine action in this way, we need to ask whether we can still maintain a view like Brown's. Austin Farrer articulated an essentially persuasive account of divine action while affirming an unequivocally high christology. But he left us fewer clues than he might have as to his grounds for believing himself entitled to do so. More work needs to be done here. (For those unconvinced by Farrer, John Cobb's winsome process christology remains available.)

Other readers will doubtless find a variety of reasons to argue with Brown. But he has done a masterful job of integrating mainstream New Testament criticism, philosophical reflection, and doctrinal theology. This remains the best defense of incarnational christology for anyone who doesn't feel comfortable accepting the inerrantism or quasi-inerrantism of some of its advocates. This is a great book!

This is a great book for both beginners and advanced players alike! With sections on strategy and layouts of the troops themselves, it's a must-have for anyone who plays Dragon Dice!