This book, Business and Legal Forms for Photographers is a very valuable resource. I completely recommend this book for anyone getting into photography as a profession.

A fascinating look at the spiritual, mythological, and psychological aspects of money, replete with terrific stories, that leads the reader on a journey that places money in service to life and not vice versa. An outstanding book!

The Writer's Legal Guide is an invaluable reference for published and unpublished writers alike. Relevant and significant areas of the law are explained in helpful and easy to understand terms. This book is essential to dealing successfully with the business side of publishing, as all writers must at some point in their careers. Learn your rights and responsibilities as a writer, become knowledgeable about Copyright and First Amendment law, and be prepared to handle publishers and agents. The Writer's Legal Guide is well prepared to be your "guide".

Ms. Silbert writes clearly and with great knowledge and compassion for her characters. The simplicity of their interactions belies the complexity of the lives described. Ms. Silbert is a masterful writer. This book solidifies her place among American story tellers

Ms. Silbert writes elgant stories again and again. Her prose brings characters and contexts alive for the reader. Everyone should have at least one of her books!

Lonesome Dove is that rare thing, a serious novel that is, inall its parts, fabuloulsy entertaining. Larry McMurtry sets himselfthe seemingly impossible task of summing up the entire western genre in one book, and succeeds brilliantly. This novel has every stock western character and plot device: cattle drives, rattlesnakes, Mexican bandits, Texas Rangers, renegade Indians, gamblers, whores (with hearts of gold), riverboat men, wagon trains, sod busters, gun fights, fist fights, hangin', burnin' and much, much more. The book is brilliantly written with both humor and intelligence, causing the reader to care deeply about the fate of the main characters even while laughing out loud at the dialogue.

This is the masterpiece of McMurtry's long and distinguished career. No one, not even him, is going to top this as the ultimate western. For those who haven't read it, I can't recommend it highly enough.

Lonesome Dove is an amazing epic masterpiece. It transends genre or pop fiction status. Many people have criticized this book for being hackneyed and typical of all western fiction. The part that I think that most people don't understand is that this book isn't about the west. This book is about people. Lonesome Dove explores how people face hardship, brutatilty, illness, death, and even other's expectations. The author treats us to watching the bond formed between men through long comraderie (you will see the word 'companero' often in this book), mutual struggle, and loss of innocence. McMurtry does a stunning good job of exploring the hearts of the women in this book. They are drawn with not just beauty, but with brutal and shocking honesty. Women readers will be surprised at how a male author understands the psyche and coping mechanisms of females.

Aside from all of the amazing things about Lonesome Dove that won it the Pulitzer Prize, Lonesome Dove is a thoroughly enjoyable read. There was not one of the 945 pages that I didn't enjoy. The characters are well formed. You will love Gus and Newt, get frustrated with Call, and your heart will just break for Lorena. Their struggles and disappointments will reach you as little else in fiction does.

The setting(s) in this book are stunning. McMurtry draws amazing pictures of the the Rio Grande, the Texas panhandle, the American praire, old western saloons (and whorehouses), and many other places. While some readers will find the lack of dialogue in some places frustrating, I found the descriptions to be a treat. Having never been west to see any of these places, I felt truely transported.

Anyone who hasn't read this book and enjoys good fiction should read Lonesome Dove - now. Just commit yourself to reading the first 50 pages. After that, you won't be able to put it down. For myself, I stayed up past midnight with this book every night for a week. If I have any complaint about this book at all, it is that it was so good, I am afraid I will never be able to enjoy any other western fiction again.

America's search for a great western epic came to a close when Larry McMurtry wrote his Pulitzer Prize winning classic Lonesome Dove. The novel, though long at nine-hundred and forty-five pages, contains all pieces of the great western including: gunfights, hangings, rattlesnakes, bandits, Indians, Texas ranger, and of course a cattle drive, and leaves the reader thirsting for more. All these elements, along with McMurtry's brilliant use of themes, culminate to achieve his purpose of exploring the "true" Old West. McMurtry, through the course of almost one-thousand pages, never strays from his themes involving death, love, determination, and a journey. McMurtry utilizes death throughout the novel to disillusion the reader of his myths of the Old West, were only bad guy in the black cowboy hat dies. First, Sean O'Brien, the young baritone from Ireland, dies in a brief but graphically detailed scene in which he is attacked by numerous snakes while crossing the Red River. Also, Roscoe and Joe, July Johnson's deputy and step-son respectively, along with a young girl who meets up with them along the way, are brutally murdered by an old enemy of Gus and Call's, Blue Duck. McMurty's graphic detail of these seemingly senseless acts of violence effectively prove to the reader that the Old West was not a time of fun and games but was a serious and dangerous time period. McMurtry counteracts this death theme with a theme of unrequited love. McMurtry keeps love abundant in this epic, most noticeably through the cowhands' love for Lorena, July's love for Elmira and Gus's love for Clara. Although the love is unrequited by all the women, this illusion of love keeps the men's minds off of the hardships at hand and allows them to feel positive, even if only about one thing, throughout the drive. Love is a vital part of history and was no less vital during the Old West, as McMurtry prove. Determination is shown through Call and Newt, coincidentally father and son. Call will never give up his drive to be a hero and to settle new frontiers. He searched for trouble in Lonesome Dove and found his last frontier with a drive north. Newt's determination is for one thing and one thing only; recognition. Newt wishes to be recognized first as a man, second as a cowboy, and finally as Call's son. Determination was forced upon most residents of the Old West because without determination, one could not succeed or even live in most cases. The main theme McMurtry strives to point out is the journey. The obvious journey involves that of the cattle drive from Texas to Montana but there are also internal journeys for some of the characters. Lorena's journey is two-fold. One is her journey to this mythical illusion of her dream city; San Francisco. The other is her journey to respectability as a women. Gus's journey involves finding Clara, or more accurately finding the Clara he knew many years before. Call is searching for a final frontier and also his past self, as a respected and revered hero throughout the Old West. These journeys tie into McMurtry's purpose by showing truly how quickly the Old West became "civilized" and by explaining the strength it took for settlers to travel to such a dangerous place. McMurtry, through a dazzling spectacle of themes and events, created a masterpiece of Western American Literature, which will be treasured by future generations as the great American Western Epic. McMurtry, along with any other writer, will never be able to top the success or greatness of Lonesome Dove.

This is a work of fiction about an honorable young woman's struggles to get out of debt and get on a firm financial footing. She succeeds with the help of a mentor and by working hard, visits to Debtors Anonymous and much will-power. Along the way, she, and the reader, finds out a great deal about dealing with money in all its aspects in an entertaining way. I am not just starting out in life and I learned a lot.

I liked the book, though I would sock any dentist who tried to talk about compound interest while he was drilling. This could be an excellent gift to give anyone going off to college, or starting a small business, especially an arts business. Anyone heavily in debt might find the heroine a wee bit hard to live up to.

I liked this book because the financial information is user-friendly and told as a story, which makes it easy to absorb. It is not dry as if coming from a text book. I found the information easy to apply to my life. It is a great resource book that I will keep by my side for a long time. One of the many important things that I remember from the book is that "I have to do what I love" and abundance will follow somehow. I liked the money exercises at the end of the book, because they are very clear to follow. I was so enthusiastic after reading the book that I started working on my numbers right away and collecting the information needed to help improve my finances. I have purchased the book several times already to give it as a gift to my friends. My thanks to the author.

I highly recommend this compelling story of a young woman's coming to terms with debt incurred by overuse of credit cards. Iris Cassidy is a contemporary "Everywoman" whose coming to awareness about her finances also involves a journey of self-discovery that has a profound spiritual dimension. This is a warm-hearted didactic tale, a novel with a message, of one woman's experiences of life, work and relationships, as she wrestles with her realization that she has been spending more than she earns, and resolves to free herself from the burden of debt. In her story, personal transformation occurs through growing self-awareness, with the help of a mentor. She comes to see that forming a viable spending plan for repaying her debts has to make room for what gives joy and makes life meaningful for her--in her case, dancing. This well-written book can give anyone -- young or old -- insight into how to find financial freedom through careful planning and openness to change. It entertains while it teaches, even includes helpful exercises at the end.

I agree with the other reviewer on the acting... some of which doesn't measure up to this excellent screenplay. However, this movie is still very well put together.

I was kept guessing on the murderer with this one. There are several odd characters, with their own personal agendas, that create a very complex thriller. Some of the acting isn't first rate, but the screenplay carries them well.

I don't want to give anything away, so I'll end this here.

Grabbed this one purely because I needed a Kate McNeil fix. Getting harder and harder to find her these days.

The poor early dialogue and overdone exposition made me think this is another cheesy cable drama, but once the story begins to unfold (and the dialogue lessens) it really rolls out into a darn good thriller. Many different suspects (the parents, the friend, the lover, the co-worker), lots of motives keep you guessing.

Its no frills, you won't have anywhere near the production value of Seven, Silence of the Lambs, or even Kiss the Girls. And try not to pay to much attention to Andrew McCarthy, or Paul Sorvino for that matter, as their minimalist approach to character will only distract you from the story.

Too bad this little script ultimately found itself in the low-budget land of straight-to-video. A little TLC and a few bucks could have paid big dividends here.

All in all a very pleasant surprise.

This book is a fine collection of articles and essays with little editorial supervision. The breadth of the articles means that you're sure to find something useful to your interests whether you be freelancer or corporate design director. There are even sample contracts.

However, this book is very poorly edited. The "its" vs. "it's" confusion runs rampant throughout (just to name one example) and there are more typos than I would expect to find in a book written for a detail-oriented audience such as designers. Sloppy.

Also, quite a bit of the material is out of date. If you're looking for something that speaks to professional design practices as they relate to the World Wide Web, this is _not_ your book. Very few of the articles in this book deal with the web at all, and those that do tangentially touch upon the Internet sound like they were written in 1995.

I found this book to be extremely informative when I began freelancing in web design. There were a lot of great tips and guidelines for dealing with clients. In came in very handy for me recently when I needed to draw up a contract in a pinch.

There are some products out there that are so horrendously bad, they hardly deserve comment. This calendar is one of them.

It was a gift for my daughter and she loves it.

Hey, there is only one bad thing about this calendar...

It doesn't have aarons birthday on it, but thats okay, if you love him you'll buy it anyway :)...its really good