This book was beautifully and passionately written. It is a love story unique and philosophical. Do we choose our own fates? Alvina will tell you.

Just like SISTER CARRIE, THE LOST GIRL is about a young woman searching for her place in the world. Meaning, floucing from one man to another, flirting, playing, getting engaged then dashing away for fun. And just like JEANNIE GERHARDT, this old man gets herself in trouble.

But the most fascinating part of this book is it's glimps into her background. How she was brought up in a wealthy and rich household, only to try out different occupations against her father's wishes, then ends up as a lower classed female in life. Very tragic.

I recently got done reading this wonderful, yet forgotten novel of Lawrence's. Truly compelling in it's intricate details of a young woman trying to find herself. Literally. She goes on the 'universal' self journey and discovers that she was lost and finally finds her identity and sensuality in the man she loves. D.H. Lawrence has a wonderful way of not wrapping up the ending in a nice,neat little package. As always, Lawrence is the ultimate man of mystery, sensual needs and desires. A "must read" for those who love to read Lawrence and for those who never have!

Just magnificent. A piece of art by one of the greatest artist of the asian continent.

Finally, we can have the last of the three parts of the Manga Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back. As always, spectacular drawing and the best version of the Donald F. Glut script ever made!

Just when we were enjoying the marvelous comic book of A NEW HOPE, the manga version, Toshiki Kudo strikes back with this spectacular version of the sequel of the trilogy created by George Lucas. The price is a little elevated, but the drawing is excellent. A must-buy book!

I GIVE 5++++ Stars to this book. I you're a student taking a Math I course and need EXTRA EXTRA help this book is for you!!!! I was a D student in Math and i managed to get a 76 raw score, hey, not bad for a D student. Well, All the other sequencial math, also the history and the sciences books for the regents exam by Barron's are great! Barron's has an A+ in this area. I graduated from High School already and i didn't pass my Sequencial math III Regents because I didn't use Barron's Regents book. Is a MUST book for any student taking any of the Regents. Espacially does in NY who need to pass most of them. With the barron's book you're guaranteed to succeed all you need is 1 hour or 2 per day and you will pass your regents. I talk from personal experience.

This book is very helpful in reviewing for your sequential I regents. It not only has the old examinations in it, but also the answers so you can check your work after you have finished. It is a very good review book, and is a necessity in reviewing for your regents!

This is the best book on this subject I've ever come across. It has beautiful pictures, good close-up pictures to accompany the step-by-step directions, and a lot of helpful information.

If you're looking for a book on cake decorating (or just want to gawk at some yummy pictures), this is THE book.

I only recently heard about this book & i'm very glad that i did.It has detailed instructions,color picture's of the work process & the finished product.This is a book that i will refer to again & again while decorating a cake.Not just for ideas but for instructions or reminders on just how to make that flower.Its covers buttercream as well as fondant,has recipes for each & cake recepies.

This is the best book that i have. It is a must read for all who can read and all Special Forces. It put life on hold as you read it.

The most moving is "self pity"

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself. --D. H. Lawrence

This book of poems shares the top spot in my bookcase with Whitman's "Leaves of Grass". They are accessible, highly perceptive, pertinent and intensely personal. My favorites are:

"FIDELITY" - "...The wonderful slow flow of the sapphire..."

"GOD IS BORN" - "...And so we see, God is not until he is born. And also we see there is no end to the birth of God."

"SHIP OF DEATH" (Appendix III version) - "...Pulling the long oars of a lifetime's courage, ...and eating the brave bread of a wholesome knowledge..."

"GRIEF" - "...How am I clotted together Out of this soft matrix... The air, the flowing sunshine and bright dust..."

"WEDLOCK" - "...How sure the future is within me. I am like a seed with a perfect flower enclosed..."

Finally, as a scientist I marvel at his intuitive grasp of relativity in "SPACE" and "RELATIVITY" - ..."As if the atom were an impulsive thing always changing its mind."

I would be delighted to share my enthusiasm with other readers.

this book is sensitively written and full of fascinating details, which bring the history alive.

This book kept my interest cover to cover. Lawrence Cane is obviously the epitome of a soldier and family man, the essense of the American service man in W.W. 2. From basic training thru the occupation of Germany,he was a man who had not only to fight for his place in the war ,but then to fight the war from the first wave to hit the beach on Normandy,to the liberation of the concentration camps, to time spent in the rebuilding of Germany in Eisleben.

Allthough I knew little about Frieda Lawrence when I started reading this book, I found the topic fascinating--mainly because the writing is superb and the descriptions are vivid. I know it's a book I'll read again (and again) because it's rife with compelling detail and history. I found myself wishing I had known Frieda Lawrence almost as soon as I started the book. She did seem to have a genius for living, but it took a skillful, gifted biographer like Byrne to capture her fully in print with humor and insight. I recommend this book--it's unforgettable. It's also a great gift (as I discovered with numerous friends).

Here is a biography that contains many surprises: historically and artistically. It's exhaustively researched and detailed and is always funny and fascinating. Byrne's sense of humor shines throughout the book. She's a terrific artist; her way with words makes this a quick read. The insights into the marriage of Freida and D.H. Lawrence are often harrowing. But throughout, Freida's relationships with all the people in her life make up a powerfully compelling story. I was sorry when I reached the end

The knots are easy to learn and usually described clearly except for every twist of the spiral on the bracelet (about four separate knots) then the braiding cords start to twist, too. You can essentially change direction every 4 knots to take out the difficulty in the braiding cords. If this doesn't make sense, just try to do the spiral as described in the book and you will find the braiding cords get twisted up. Also there were definitely *not* enough beads. Right after getting the book, I bought a bag of plastic pony beads to practice more. I really enjoy making these bracelets, but overall I expected more out of this book. I recommend it as a decent introduction to hemp beading which is an exceptionally enjoyable craft.

This was a good book, and I loved doing all the knots and especially not having to go buy everything for it. All you have to do is get a pair of scissors and begin. Out comes professional jewelry that you will love. So, I guess you are wondering why I gave it 4 stars. Because the knots don't stay. Several times the knots came out on the bracelets. If you want the bracelet to just stay on, it won't. If you plan to take it off all the time, the loop and knot idea is cool. Secondly, there are two designs that you have to used your own judgment on how big the loops should be and if it's straight. I'm a perfectionist, so that was a challenge for me. All in all, I am harsh just giving it just 4 stars,butI will still recommend it to my friends.

I have to say that I love this book! I'll admit that it did not come with enough beads or hemp, but you can buy those cheaply at any craft store!! This book has so many patterns to try, and gives the simplest directions! I would definately reccomend this book to people, because it is fun and easy. *I would reccomend it for kids 9 and up*

The 1920's through the 1940's were prime time for literature and the most popular authors of this period included Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Steinbeck and Louis Bromfield.

Louis who?

Although Mr. Bromfield's novels never earned the long-term respect that was anointed on authors as Steinbeck or Hemingway, his story is as interesting as that of any author who lived during the twentieth century.

He was one of the group of writers whose skills were honed in France in the roaring 20's (like Hemingway, he served as an ambulance drive in World War 1). He enjoyed critical and considerable financial success as a novelist. He won the Pulitzer at a young age for the novel Early Autumn. Several of his novels were adapted for the big screen. He was an adventurer, world traveler, pal to the rich and famous.

But in the midst of this success, deep down he longed to return to the farmland near where he grew up in Mansfield, Ohio. A farmer at heart, he became one of America's most influential and revered conservationists after he founded Malabar Farm near Mansfield. After his death, the farm and the "Big House" ' a marvelous home if ever there was one ' were purchased by the state of Ohio and remain one of the state's most popular tourist attractions.

Mr. Bromfield was hardly the stereotype of a farmer. While he loved to get his boots as muddy as any sodbuster, he also maintained the grand social lifestyle that he and his wife Mary had cultivated in France. The "Big House" was constantly filled with thirty or more guests. At any one time, it would host movie stars such as Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall (who were married at the house), New York Socialites, writers as E.B. White and Inez Robb, farmers from overseas, and of course the children and a platoon of slobbering Boxers.

Mr. Bromfield loved to be surrounded by compelling and conversational people almost as much as he enjoyed being surrounded by the lush and bountiful fields of Malabar Farm. Both fed him.

It was a life was well lived, and his loving daughter does a fine job of capturing the mystique, the paradox and, yes, the weaknesses of her larger than life dad.

Louis who?

If you don't know, you'll be better for finding out through this eloquent, entertaining and insightful memoir by Mrs. Geld.

The 3 chapters on OOP (Classes and Objects, Inheritance and Interfaces, and Event Handling and Delegates) are by far the clearest I have read on the subject. That goes for both text and example code, which are working! If only for these 3 chapters, which cover 40% of the 422 usable pages, it's worth the price of the book.

Gary Cornell does state that these 3 chapters form the core of the book, and after reading this book and Dan Appleman's "Moving to VB.NET", I totally agree that developers "will find it extremely hard to take advantage of VB.NET's new powers" if they don't utilize OOP in VB.NET. Knowing, and being comfortable with, OOP makes it so much easier to develop solutions using VB.NET, and the .NET framework in general.

I thought the 2 intro chapters on VB.NET IDE and "vocabulary" were informative and not boring, and that goes for the chapter on Multithreading.

I would have liked to see a longer and more detailed treatment of Error Handling, and some "real" examples for the Windows Forms chapter.

In "About This Book", the author set 3 objectives: a complete treatment of OOP in VB.NET, fundamentals of VB.NET techniques, and differences between VB.NET and earlier versions. He has succeeded in these 3 objectives!

I will disagree though with the note on not assuming any knowledge of earlier versions of VB. Experienced VB5/6 programmers WITH some real C++ (OOP) experience will benefit the most from this book.

This book is a GUIDE for people with programming experience to using VB.NET. If you are an experienced VB developer, this book will be of GREAT use to you in converting. If you are a programming novice, the high speed approach used in this book will probably leave you unable to do much in terms of real programming. The explanations are so clear, that it may still be useful for a novice though. For people who are using other languages, and want to try their hand at VB, this is also probably very useful, especially if you know Java.

Please note that this is NOT a complete how-to, nor do the authors attempt to infer that it is. It is just a rational explanation of the core bits of VB.NET and how the language has changed from VB5/VB6. In particular, their breakdown of the new totally OOP approach of VB is very good, although it may bore you a bit if you have a solid understanding of Java. In an hour with this book, I knew more about the new features/changes in VB than I did with two days of studying the docs from Microsoft.

I was looking forward to upgrading a few small applications that I've written in previous versions of VB to VB.NET, but wasn't sure exactly where to start. This book formed an excellent basis. Even if you've only had a little bit of experience with VB, you should find it to be an invaluable resource for learning the ins and outs of OO programming and VB.NET's implementation. The book provides very through coverage of most of the important concepts that real-world developers will need. It does move quickly through most topics (perhaps the reason for the "A Guide for Experienced Programmers"), but I found the pace to be perfect for me (although I'll be re-reading some sections soon). In fact, the only portion of the book that I found to be lacking was coverage of database access using ADO.NET. The book does provide a brief chapter on teh topic, but refers the reader to the documentation for more details. A little extra coverage here (especially since dealing with data sources is such an important topic for real-world developers) would have been helpful.

I would highly recommend this book to anyone that wants to get an great basis of knowledge for working with VB.NET. Good luck!