I bought this book when I was first learning to cook because I love Chinese food and wanted to do my own fried rice. While the other recipes are very good, this is the best fried rice you will ever eat. I no longer eat fried rice in restaurants because it cant match this.

My mother and I share this cookbook constantly. Now that there are some available used, I will be picking up my own copy. The recipes are amazing. Beginners and experts would enjoy them. My favorites are almond chicken and the sweet & sour sauce. The sauce is so good, it's the only kind my family eats. We never buy it. If you're looking for a good chinese cookbook with yummy recipes, easy to understand instructions, and obtainable ingredients--this is the one for you.

This is the best Chinese cookbook!!!! Every single thing I have cooked from it has been delicious - the fried rice is the best I have ever had anywhere - even my brother will cook it in order to eat it. The receipies have flavor, not soy sauce, and they are textured. This is NOT the stuff you get for $5.95 a plate at the food court. I also love the detailed description and histories of all the various Chinese cuisines and ingredients, as well as the defining of the types of prep. I am not a professional chef, but I do cook a lot, and I do cook and eat a lot of asian cuisine. Trust me, you want this cookbook!

What to Do If the Pilot Dies, How to Hop a Freight, all that and more is in this great classic. I bought a copy of this book when it first came out, and I've bought at least one copy (one way or another) every year since because my friends keep stealing mine. The tech stuff is dated, but the rest is golden. I'm ordering another copy now, probably the 20th one. Maybe someday this book will be the basis for some new Guy religion. I'm already a believer!

Like some readers here I too got this book for high school graduation 9 years ago. The book is written in a straight-forward manner and easy to read. I enjoy reading and re-reading certain passages. In fact I use it as a reference to most anything. The only downside I can think of is it's datedness with some of the more technical aspects particularly with respect to surviving in the outdoors. Either way I hope it goes back to print.

I received this book for my high school graduation and read it cover to cover. It has practical knowledge that is easy to read. "The Guide" talks about things my parents never had the never to discuss with me. I hope they go into print soon because many men could use what its got.

America was the land of opportunity. The main character, Rose, seeks out that opportunity with her family in Ashes of Roses by Mary Jane Auch. Rose is known for her hard work and her stubbornness. This book shows the immigrants' struggles to survive in America. Rose's family has to learn to live in America from the different Ireland. Ashes of Roses lets the reader view an insight to the pressures of living in America.
In Ashes of Roses, Rose's family travels from Ireland to America for a new life. But at Ellis Island, tragedy strikes the family when Joseph, Rose's baby brother, has trachoma and cannot go into America. Roses' dad decides to take Joseph back to Ireland to stay with Grandma Nolan. While Rose's dad takes Joseph back, the family stays with Rose's uncle. However, Rose's mother hates to live for free, and Rose tries to find a job. A short while later, Rose's mother decides she does not want to live in America without her husband and Joseph. On the way to the boat, Rose asks her mother to let her stay in America with her younger sister.
Rose and her sister find a place to live in America with a father and his daughter, Gussie. Gussie helps Rose find a job at a cloth factory. BR> In Ashes of Roses, Rose and the readers learn not to take life for granted. The story line is easy to follow and keeps the readers hooked. The author did an impressive job bring the story to life. Ashes of Roses shows immigrants making their life in America by the trials they face.

Rose wants to stay in New York after arriving as an immigrant from Ireland, but she finds that it is much easier for a man to make the riches promised in America than it is for a woman. She ends up working in a sweatshop where the owner tries to take advantage of her. She leaves there and finally ends up getting a job at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company where she believes she has finally found a place where she can build a life for her and her sister. But tragedy will soon tear her new safe world apart.
Auch pulls you into the world of 1911 and creates an atmosphere that allows the reader to feel the desparation that accompanied the fight for women's rights in the workforce. The characters come alive and when many are lost in the Triangle shirtwaist company fire you grieve for them along with Rose. Ashes of Roses is a poignant book that will move the reader to a new, deeper understanding of the struggle for rights and the horror of the fire that took the lives of over 150 people in the Triangle Company fire in New York.

This book really moved me. The description of the city, characters and work conditions made me think about why something was not done about work conditions sooner. I see the character "Mary" as any immagrant coming into the city, or US for that matter, for the first time. This book really changed my perspective on what the world was really like for immigrants coming to this country. I recommend this book to anyone looking for a book that would make them think, enjoys the history of this country, or enjoys reading about courage that was in the heart of every immigrant who came to the United States the way the Nollans did. If their was one thing that disturbed me the most was how the owners of the triangle shirt waist factory got out of prison time, a conviction, and where able to continue running a company, caring little for the welfare of their workers. May all the workers who died in this disaster rest in peace.

.... was an excellent start to the professional writing careers of Larry Hobson/Anita Wilson Shaw in the field of adventure/mystery novels. It had all the intrigue, adventure and romance a reader could want. The end was a real kick in the heartstrings! Almost too .... Oooops! Can't give away the ending, now can I? Am awaiting #2!!

The Day of the Rose is an intriguing book, but what else could it be? When you have sabotage on offshore drilling rigs and bacterial warfare, that's an explosive mixture.

Add to the intrigue not one, but two delightful romances, and you have a book that's difficult to put down. From the first chapter that includes a mysterious first encounter, to the last chapter - an excellent wind up of the story, the book carries the reader from adventure to adventure, from kiss to kiss, and certainly from page to page.

I'd recommend this book to anyone who enjoys adventure, romance and a story that will make them laugh and cry.

I just fell in love with the two new author's page turning mystery! I couldn't stop once started.

I can't help but wonder what Hollywood producer also sees this book as a fabulous potential for a screenplay and who will write it?

I look forword to finding the next of Larry Hobson and Anita Wilson's works.

I am a fan of Michael Phillips and his talent for taking historical facts and weaving faith building stories around them. He had done another wonder with this story of WWII and I have loaned my copy out several times.

A first step in the journey of a deeper understanding of the Father's love.

A must "read" for those who enjoy historical fiction from a Godly perspective.

Just finished the last of the Secret of the Rose series..."Dawn of Liberty."
A lot of spiritural digestion to do. Will stay with me forever.

Love, Obedience, Forgiveness and more Love = all action words.

I read this series a couple of years ago and I absolutely loved it - my husband was fascinated as well and he usually doesn't read fiction at all. It is fascinating how the author combines history, fiction and christian values. Myself I was deeply touched and moved by the different characters - I lived right with them. Since reading these books roses are even more special to me. After finishing one book I couldn't wait to start with the next one!

When I read this book...I laughed...I cried...then I took stock in my own life and realized that I really could do more to help others. I've been doing volunteer work now at a local nursing home, and I've never felt more fulfilled in all my life. Whay hasn't this woman been on Oprah? Maybe because she's too honest and too raw for daytime television. We need more honest, caring people like Rose Martin, whose message is: Rather than feel sorry for yourself, get off you butt and get things done. Others have it worse than you do. By helping them, you're helping yourself. You're helping everyone!

I enjoyed reading "One Rose Blooming". It kept me reading and climaxes well. This book is on the line with "Tuesdays with Morrie". It is inspirational and full of wit. "One Rose Blooming" is the kind of book you keep in your personal library, and buy for others as a gift.

I have lived in Ann Arbor as long as Rose Martin but clearly have missed a lot of people along the way. In her book I was able to put a face to some of the street people and city people that I never cross paths with. Reading this book helped me develop compassion.

Anybody can do it! There are many levels of perception with practice you will learn to be nobodies fool.

Wiser

This is a wonderful book! It was written so clearly and Rose makes it so easy for the reader to understand. It feels like she is speaking directly to you. Rose Rosetree offers so many different techniques to use and explains them all step by step. I was most impressed by how straight forward she is and also by the wealth of information that she supplies in this book. A definite buy if you are looking for any type of spiritual growth ~her writing is filled with some wonderful energy. Be Well.

I love the way Rose Rosetree presents the material. She's matter-of-fact, but very profound in her insight. I've read quite a number of books on this topic over the past thirty or so years. This is the one and only book I'd personally recommend.
This book is for all levels of "seekers", in my opinion. For the reviewer who said she was unsuccessful in her attempts, I'd suggest that she put it down and pick it up at a later time. It's like trying too hard to remember a name--- the law of reverse effect sets in.
Rose presents the material in a new light which may be too open-ended for some readers. Perhaps they need the structure of "here's how". And that's okay. I love the book and very enthusiastically recommend it.

I would in fact prefer to award this 3.5 stars, but the Amazon system seems to compel one to choose between 3 and 4, and I think 4 is too generous. To begin with the text, there is no doubt that this is not the best Shakespeare to buy. It is to a large extent based on the Oxford Shakespeare, which - quite rightly, in my view - has attracted a lot of criticism for some of its peculiarities. Thus, for example, Oxford prints TWO versions of *King Lear*, the quarto text and that of the folio. Norton rightly takes issue with this, and produces the kind of conflated text that most readers would want, but adds the other two AS WELL (so we are offered THREE versions!). This kind of thing is, in truth, academic self-indulgence - it shows an undue respect for academic concerns which to most readers are not of the slightest interest. There is a similar tendency to pay scant regard to what most readers really want and need in the Introduction: that tells us a good deal about Shakespeare's time, and the material is interesting, but it is not often shown to be relevant, or necessary, to an understanding of what Shakespeare writes. The explanatory annotation accompanying the texts is not bad, but often inferior to that of comparable editions, notably Bevington's. The introductions to individual plays are usually stimulating, but not necessarily convincing. Thus Greenblatt on the one hand says about Macbeth's murder of Duncan, "That he does so without adequate motivation, that he murders a man toward whom he should be grateful and protective, deepens the mystery ..." (p. 2558), yet adds a few lines later: "Macbeth and Lady Macbeth act on ambition ...". Precisely, that IS Macbeth's motivation for the murder, as Macbeth himself points out unequivocally in 1.7.25-7 - there is, therefore, absolutely nothing mysterious about his motivation. The edition does, however, offer a number of good references to other writings about Shakespeare. All in all, I do consider 3.5 stars is a fair "grade", in seeking to assess this for the benefit of the majority of readers looking for a complete Shakespeare to buy; but I consider David Bevington's by far the best edition of the complete works, then the Riverside, and only then this one - though, with its annotations, it is certainly more useful than the Oxford edition on which it is based. - Joost Daalder, Professor of English, Flinders University, South Australia

I confess that after examining 5-6 of the top-selling complete Shakespeares I tried not to like the Norton. There are less expensive editions, there are editions with glossy pages and colored photographs, there are editions that are half the weight and bulk of this leviathan, which is far more Shakespeare than the average reader--perhaps, even scholar, for that matter--would ever require. But despite its bulk and unwieldyness, its 3500 (!) thin, flimsy pages, its sheer excess, I couldn't ignore its advantages. The small print enables the publishers to squeeze in contextual materials--in the introduction and appendixes--that in themselves amount to an encyclopedic companion to Shakespeare's works; the introductions to the plays are written not in "textbook prose" but in an engaging style worthy of their subject; and perhaps, best of all, this is the only edition that places the glosses right alongside the "strange" Elizabethan word instead of in the footnotes. You can read the plays without experiencing vertigo of the eye. So this is the edition, though you may wish to go with the smaller, bound portions that Norton publishes of the same edition--especially if you can't afford the cost of a personal valet to carry this tome from home to office. On the other hand, the complete edition is excellent for doing crunches and other aerobic exercises--activities many of us who read the Bard are abt to ignore.

As a fervent admirer of Shakespeare, this complete collection, comprising excellent introductions to each play and helpful textual notes as well as informative writings on the history of both England and the art of acting that shaped Shakespeare's writing, was like a dream come true. While before I had to walk around trying to find a good edition of the play I wanted to read, now I can open the Norton Shakespeare and read without being afraid of not understanding words or missing the point of the play. This book's obvious drawbacks are its heft and, as mentioned, its delicate pages, but these are easily outweighed by the abovementioned advantages! Buy it and read!

While not as good as the Oxford Dictionary of Celtic Mythology, this is a very good resource on fairy lore from cultures around the world. The entries are well written and very comprehensive.

This is an amazingly comprehensive volume cataloguing spirits--supernatural beings less powerful than deities--from cultures around the world.

A book like this is hard to summarize in a review, but it suffices to say that this is a wonderfully broad overview of the subject, covering every culture and every spirit you can think of, with only a little bit of oversimplification. (Durga, for example, is referred to as evil, which is somewhat less than accurate.) Spirits, demons, djinns, faeries, and their kin are all present and accounted for. Use this as a first reference, then make sure to look more deeply into whatever interests you most.

This is one of the most superbly compiled works of encyclopedic knowledge that I have ever come across.
First, the scholarship is impeccable. This is no new-age rubbish dump of poorly researched ideas, bizarre inventions disguised as 'folklore,' and ridiculous insinuations. Carol Rose has given us an authoritative, dare I say definitive, treatment of the subject.
Many people will already own Katherine Briggs' admirable encyclopedia, which is now out of print apparently. I like Rose's better, to tell the truth: her collection is so much more expansive in terms of cultures and literatures. I am *amazed* at the breadth of her studies; Rose has brought together a truly global encyclopedia of the 'little people.'
Now, because it is so expansive, and because 'faeries' is such am ambiguous category, there's loads of things in here that you might not expect: Miltonic devils sit side by side with Hawaaian meneheunes on these pages. Rose's descriptions are crisp, detailed, and non-judgemental: she does not treat faeries as cold psychological tropes, nor does she sentimentalise them, nor does she invent religious or pagan significance to that which isn't there.
Her appendices demonstrate some of the tidiest and most practical skills at organising I have ever seen! Herein she categorises the all of the creatures in her book according to geography, cultural features, habitat, and habits. You can look up all the faeries associated with Iceland, or Mexico; you can see a list of all the creatures associated with trees. This is utterly invaluable for students of comparative mythology. I cannot praise enough how useful this feature is.
My one criticism, albeit small, is that there are few references given for her entries. So, for example, if you're interested in the Korrigan of Brittany, there's no citation to point you to legends, myths, or texts that might give you an example of Korrigan. I can appreciate how difficult it would be, in a work of such comprehension, to give references all the time; but for example under 'hamadryad' it might be nice to list certain Greek poets who write about hamadryads. 'Djinn' are listed, but now Qur'anic references are given. She says, "They're in the _Arabian Nights_," but doesn't tell you the tales you might find them in ("The City of Brass," for example).
Briggs possesses a finely detailed understanding of the lore surrounding Ireland and the U.K., so her work is highly informative in regards to local customs and local places of interest. Rose's work is simply too broad to offer such intimacies, unfortunately; but the benefit is that she has a much, much more broad list than Briggs, and includes studies of cultures that Briggs doesn't even acknowledge.
Students of folklore, faerie enthusiasts, dreamers, old wives, everyone will love this book . . . love reading it, and love learning from it. I think if you want specifics, you'll need to invest in books of lore defined by geographical region. As for an exhaustive encyclopedia, as a reference tool and a central piece of research, you're looking at the best book on the market right here.
Amazingly, this book is about the cost of a couple of pints. Never have a couple of pints, even of the most angelic of pulls, has given me as much pleasure as this book.

This book is sensitive, honest, comprehensive, and personal. It is a must-read for anyone dealing with gender/transsexual issues, and it is very good reading for anyone.

I have read alot of transgendered bios , This one was the true language of the heart .Sharing all her pain , but giving hope at the same time.Knowing that there had to be light at the end of tunnel even if at some times it seemed like a train .I know first had also how hard this road is , but as Donna says in her book, we all need each other with help along the paths in our lives .anyone could benifit from this book. God Bless .

After reading just about everything ever written on this subject, I have to tell you, this is by far the most intriguing, insightful, and honest a work I've ever seen. As the former practice manager for one of the world's largest gender clinics, I've known over a thousand T-women --- heard all their stories, and seen hundreds of them struggle through transition. And if I could distill them all into one "classic" story, it would be Donna's "Wrapped in Blue" ... it is truly an inspired work. This is a book that is perfect for the families of TS's, especially those having a difficult time understanding what is happening to thier loved one.

There is no question in my mind, if you are reading this, you need to read this book.