John Edward Ames is an expert at using the New Orleans environment and the local Louisiana weather to add suspense to an already tense story. The "Asylum" takes off like a bullet out of the barrel of a saturday night special. And the character of Reno Sloan, a lawyer turned detective, fits the scenery like it was molded for him. The "Asylum" is a fine gumbo of hardboiled horror. I recommend it as a fast read.

This catalogue has excellent photographs that gives one a sense of the attitude of the Beat Generation. Everyone is familiar with the writers of the period, but not everyone knows about art generated during those years. This catalogue gives a review of art, film, and writing being created at the time. Not only that but it devotes a chapter to women and a chapter to minorites working during the time period. A good source of information for anyone interested in the 1950's to the early 1960's.

Below the Salt is one of those books that is hard to put down. The author recreates the history of the 90th Division as they fight their way through France and into Germany. What makes this book a gem is the focus on the everyday struggles of the soldier. As an avid reader of WWII history, I learned alot from this book.

Not only does this guide have tons of strategy for each and every character, but it also has several pages of artwork that is just gorgeous! Definately pick up this guide if you are a fighting game fanatic!!

This book is practical, and includes real life situations. My students found it not only interesting because of the authors writing style,but because they could understand the pitfalls and other minefields that they will have to face when they enter the field of business. I think the author did an excellent job.

Edward Schillebeeckx is born in 1914 in Antwerp, Belgium. He is one of the best known catholic theologians of the twentieth century, and is still going strong. At this moment he lives in Nijmegen, Netherland. 'Church: The Human Story of God' (first publiced in Dutch in 1989 as 'Mensen als verhaal van God') is part three of a trilogy. The first part calls 'Jesus: An experiment in Christology', and the second 'Christ: The Christian Experience'. The third part 'Church: The Human Story of God' is given a surprise to the reader. Only a little part of the book is about the catholic church. The church is not a goal, but only a medium to make God's people happy, now and in the future. Therefore the church have chanced itself continuously. Also in other churches is the mystery of the bible present. The relationship between God and human beings, mediated by Jesus Christ, is the main part of the book. What means God for Christian and other people, for all people in the world, that's the question. Speaking on God is speaking about what god means for you and me. The last sentence of the book rings:'The invited force of God is: Come on, my dear man and my sweet woman, you are not standing alone.'

Drs. John Swartzberg and Sheldon Margen and the editors of UC Berkeley Wellness Letter's Complete Home Wellness Handbook [...] provides a home health encyclopedia which allows readers to self-diagnosis and treat many common minor ailments from arthritis to snoring. An A-Z reference makes it easy to locate information, while the authorities involved lend their expertise to all topics.

In his short life John Keats created some of the finest poetry in the English language. I have read his shorter poems and odes many times, not for study, but simply for enjoyment. I am not a Keats expert, but I can now easily recognize quotations from Keat's odes, sonnets, and other poems. I especially like "The Eve of St. Agnes", a story of romance and danger in a medieval setting that illustrates Keats' remarkable command of language.

Keats is not difficult, but footnotes help with archaic words and references to more obscure Greek mythology. I prefer to read Keats unaided, then read the footnotes (best if tucked away in an appendix), and then return and read the poem again. For longer poems I jump to footnotes more quickly.

Initially, the inexpensive Dover edition "Lyric Poems", was exactly what I needed. Later, as I tackled longer poetry like "Endymion", I migrated to more complete collections with commentary and footnotes.

Keats" works are widely available in hardcover and paperback. Which collection is best for college study or independent reading? I have two favorites, one by Penguin Classics and the other by Modern Library. Both are available in softcovers.

The first is "The Complete Poems" by Penguin Classics, edited by John Bernard and a standard choice for college classes. I have the second edition, 1977. Barnard's extensive footnotes and commentary are quite good and offset his somewhat brief introduction. Additionally, the appendix discusses textual variations in Keats' manuscripts and has a useful guide to Greek mythology names. The third edition, 1988, adds 20 pages of selected letters, Keats' notes on Milton's Paradise Lost, and his notes on a Shakespearean actor.

The second choice (my favorite) is the newly published "Complete Poems and Selected Letters of John Keats", Modern Library 2001 edition (not the earlier 1994 hardcover version). Apparently as a direct challenge to Penguin Classics, this edition offers a longer introduction (22 pages) by Edward Hirsch and excellent footnotes (not too many, nor too few) by John Pollock. Also, as the title implies, it has selected letters by Keats, some 25 pages in total. Somewhat hidden in the appendix is commentary by six well-known literary critics such as T. S. Eliot, Mathew Arnold, and Keats' biographer Walter Jackson Bate. Lastly, the font is larger and more crisp in the Modern Library version (but is still quite acceptable in the Penguin edition).

Overall, I prefer Hirsch to Barnard, but both are good choices. Both are 5-stars.

Decades after its first edition, this is still considered the best work on interrogating a criminal suspect. The authors walk you through every step, towards the goal of clearing the innocent and eliciting confessions from the guilty. No detail or nuance is left unexplored, not only of the suspect's behavior, but of your own as well. This book is a must read for anyone involved in criminal justice.

The generation that passed between the death of Victoria and the accession of her son, Edward VII, in 1901 and the death of Edward's son, George V, in 1936 was one of great change not only in the British monarchy but in the state of monarchy throughout Europe. Edward's personal power was subject to the close limitations of the unwritten English constitution, but his cosmopolitan personality and astute knowledge of international affairs gave him great informal authority, especially since the emperors of Germany and Russia were his close relations. George, though likeable, shared neither his father's eminence abroad nor his extroverted style, and was much more subordinate to his ministers - and during the early part of his reign, as a result of the Great War, the empires of Germany, Russia, and Austria ceased to exist. The author of this well-researched study, who has written a number of other books and articles on modern European royalty, follows the complex interconnections among the royal houses of Europe during this period, pointing out just how much diplomacy depended before the War on personal relationships between monarchs, and also just how little such things came to matter during the subsequent Age of Dictators. He includes a great many photographs and illustrations, many of which are new to me, as well as a (necessary) genealogical chart and table of accession dates.