"Never As Good As the First Time" made for interesting reading. My husband's boss gave it to me saying how good it was. Once I picked it up, I couldn't put it down. I asked my husband if I had to give it back.

The book was great. I am not a person who loves to read but when I read this book, I read it in one day's time. This book is really good. When you start reading, you wouldn't want to put it down. That's just how good it is.

The book was excellent!! I was really shocked at the two best friends half the book but I guess that's what happen to some where the women knows more about ones needs than the man. Jake and his baby's mother trying things again is fate because fake has it's way of coming back around when the timing is right. All the events that took place caught you really off guard but kept you reading more and more. I have recommended the book to several at work and they have read it and enjoyed so keep up the good work and can't wait for the second book.

Hicks ventures where few have had opportunity to go. This well-documented, in-depth look at Cowell's parents and the young composer's formative years paints the portrait of an inquisitive youth raised in the San Franciscan bohemian set of the early 20th century.
Henry's wife, Sydney Robertson Cowell (also a musicologist), supressed much information surrounding Cowell, in part -- no doubt -- based on his arrest in the 1930s on morals charges. Archives in New York City's Library became available to public eyes for the first time last year (2002). Hicks was able to take advantage of this fortuitous event and assemble an entertaining, informative, and new look at one of America's most prolific and eclectic composers.

A Warwick! A Warwick! Mr. Hicks work should be applauded. While the beginning of the book is very academic, in verse and research, it attempts look at Richard Neville, 16th Earl Warwick and Kingmaker, as a whole person. Hicks looks back on both primary and some secondary sources, makes some assumptions, buts overall lets the reader decide on Warwick's character. He notes the mixed temperament of 15th Century English - some hated Warwick, many more loved him. As a self proclaimed scholar of Neville, I have to highly recommend this work - along with four other titles entitled "Warwick" or "Kingmaker", all of which are out of print.

Since I had used Microsoft's "Mastering VB" CD series to get up to speed on VB4, I thought I'd give Delphi 2 Tutor's "interactive training" a try. The CD examples are well done - dozens of them (though many are quite brief). This type of training isn't really interactive, though, but rather McKelvy's demonstration of how to do something along with some commentary. There isn't much more in the example than in the book, but I think it's good to watch someone go through the steps and add commentary as he goes along - McKelvy does a good job of that. The text is well-organized and well-written as well, so overall this was a very useful book for me to get started in Delphi 2

This book is for the beginner in Delphi. It is a seamless guide through many of the important features of the Delphi programming interface. The 'interactive' part is up to the user of this tutorial. I made it interactive by pausing the movie, with delphi 2.0 running in the background, I just flipped to it, tried what I saw in the movie and flipped back to the lesson and hit play. This is an iterative process that, if done correctly, makes this a true interactive seminar. Now if it just had voice recognition so I can ask questions, that would be great! When is this book coming out for Delphi 3.0? I want to see ActiveX and many of the new features explained this way.

This is the 'live version of delphi for dummy' the investment for this book is worth for the money. At least it is comparable to attend delphi for beginner class

I don't know what's in the book but I've taken a class from Dr. Hicks and he's an educated man and very informitive so I'm sure the book is great!

I got this book because it had a picture of the Music Machine on the cover,but this is one boring book.It's hard to believe someone could write a book about 60's garage bands and make it boring,but Michael Hicks has done it.I was mildly interested in the chapter on the evolution of the song "Hey Joe",but that's about it.When will authors stop writing pompously about rock'n roll?(See an old issue of "Kicks" magazine to see how it should be done!)

Having been a musician in the 60s to the present, it was a real treat to read this book. Admittedly, none of us players never knew what "flat VII" chords were, but I still related to the musical examples and such. As a guitarist, I can agree with Mr. Hicks' belief that garage musicians arrived at their chord progressions because of the natural tuning of the guitar (i.e. in 4ths). I guess this book is going to be quickly and pleasantly understood by any primitive musician who eventually got degrees in music...!

Never as Good as the first time is the story of Jake, a playboy who's still in love with his ex-wife Indigo. Jake starts dating Kayra, but it don't works out because of his playing ways. Kayra end's up falling for her bestfriend Pam, who's always had a crush on Kayra. Pam end's up getting all of them in some serious trouble.

Despite Shakespeare's play Richard III, the Wars of the Roses is one of the tougher subjects in military history to write about. Nevertheless, English scholar Michael Hicks makes a valiant effort to summarize the wars in Osprey Essential Histories volume #54. It is a daunting task. American readers in particular, will find this subject obscure and confusing. Unlike our own Civil War or the English Civil War in the 17th Century, the Wars of the Roses were a series of dynastic struggles where there was little to distinguish the two sides from each other. The opposing Yorkist and Lancastrian factions fought a series of mini-wars over thirty years to determine who would legitimately rule England, but the warring sides were never marked by ideological, geographical, economic or social distinctions. Opposing leaders even switched sides and loyalties seemingly at will, making it difficult to determine who was fighting for whom or what. Frankly, this book is rather difficult to absorb but the author has done his best, and that appears to be enough.

The Wars of the Roses 1455-1485 begins with 23 pages of background material to the wars, and then plunges into the main campaign narrative, of 31 pages. The volume includes nine strategic maps of the main campaigns, as well as an excellent bibliography. Throughout this volume, the author is hindered by the paucity of surviving details about these conflicts; as he notes, there are no surviving muster lists from any of the campaigns, which makes it estimation of the size and composition of the opposing armies guesswork. Nor is there are any detailed information on casualties, economic costs and even the locations of the major battles are debatable. Furthermore, the subject is hardly compelling to modern readers. As Professor Hicks notes, the wars had little impact on the English population at large, society or the economy. Unlike the Hundred Years War, there was no "scorched earth" tactics or pillaging by marauding armies to ravage the land and people. Instead, the Wars of the Roses were a series of extremely brief campaigns, fought by less than 1% of the population and affecting primarily the noble classes.

Militarily, the Wars of the Roses stands out since at a time when methodical siege warfare was popular, the warring English factions consistently sought to settle their political differences with short maneuver campaigns leading to a decisive battle. Indeed, virtually all of the battles ended in "winner-take-all" circumstances, with the losers forced to disperse and flee or face execution. Nor were there any serious attempts at negotiations between the warring factions, since the long period of political debate that had preceded the conflict had proved so fruitless. However the armies in the Wars of the Roses were second-rate by continental standards, poorly armed and virtually untrained, and the author notes that these wars held no lessons for military theory or practice.

The author notes that the Tudors, who were the eventual victors in these wars, learned four main strategic lessons that were taken to heart. These lessons were (1) invasions must be prevented at all costs, (2) keep internal and external foes divided, (3) prevent regular English troops from being used against the regime and (4) prevent domestic dissent from escalating by "a mixture of conciliation, deterrent and propaganda, so that Englishmen learn to regard resistance and rebellion as wrong." Overall, this volume is a tough read, but it gives good insight into how nasty medieval dynastic struggles could become and how protracted struggles evolve over time.