betting, you cant beat the action. I have above average intelligence, but I had no common sense when it came to betting. No discipline, no money management and no sense. This book was jumping out before me. the skies opening up. A hundred scratches of the head and a thousand oh yeahs. Changed my life. Follow the tenants of the book to the letter of the law. Be a fanatic and never deviate and then you just might have a opprotunity at being a winner. Without this book, there is no opprotunity. NOw being smart is as easy as bookwork. I own a comfortable life due to Lem Banker and to playing backgammon where the laws of probabilites cant be argued.

A word of warning to the public. This is a mistitled book. It is NOT a film encyclopedia. You cannot look up specific films. Basically, it is a collection of brief biographies of people in the movie business with some unnecessary technical terms thrown in. At the end of each entry is a list of the films in which the subject has appeared.
Fine as far as it goes, but if you want reference work in which you can look up who played the role of Bubba in Le plus Vieux MŽtier du Monde, this is not it.

The film encyclopedia is a wonderfull book for both film lovers and film students. I use this book constantly for my own personall refrence and I'm never disapointed. The book has enough depth for all the characters mentioned.Everything you would want to know about film and significant people involved in film , you'll find it all in this book. P.S.- for those who have complained about the book not having enough Indie and International info, that is impossible to get all on a single book . If you want to know about that , well then buy an encyclopedia which directly deals with those topics. Otherwise , no other book has this amount of depth in a single edition! An excellent buy , definately worth all the money!

I have bought every edition of this book, and each edition is dogeared from use. Almost everything you wanted to know about movies, actors, and people behind the scenes is here. Most of the biographies are detailed with either complete filmographies or lists of most notable films. There are few inaccuracies in this book.

Individual movies are not listed, of course, or else this book would run at least two or three times larger. Still, this is one of the best, if not THE best, reference book on film available.

As one half of a long-time male to male rlp, with a three year periodic sexual rlp with a bisexual male, I was interested in reading Dr Klein's book. This is a scholarly and thoughtful addition to the scant litterature on bisexuality. Dr Klein is a Psychiatrist who specialises in sexual orientation and rlp problems.

In the first half of his book Dr Klein tells us why bisexuality is so hated and misunderstood in gay and "straight" society. He then goes on to reproach the (American) Psychological establishment for their slowness to accept bisexuality as a given. (This reads almost as an apologia, given the conservatism of medical culture). Dr Klein presents a number of patient profiles, and clinical statistics. Disturbingly, there are very few lower-middle class, or poor people represented. The message seems clear: it's easier to be bi' and organise your sexual mobility if you're affluent. This is a book that celebrates the diversity of bisexuality, and encourages the like-oriented to see themselves as "normal". As for the really difficult and uncomfortable issues (ie: the agonising struggle of hetero' and homosexual partners to bisexual men and women, Dr Klein offers little advice. Reprinted from an earlier adition, this 1993 second edition has the "feel good" feeling of 1980's/1990's books on Sociology and Psychology.

This is the very first book I ever read on bisexuality. Since then I've found better books on the subject, but this is still a book I'll put my nose into again. The reason it's not the "best" is because I didn't relate to most of the bisexuals Klein interviewed. It was kind of a downer, some of the uptite bis in this book. Then again, he didn't interview very many people. Especially compared to "Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out". Now that is a book where I related to many more of the people. Just goes to show we (bis) are all different. I will always have a lot of respect for Fritz Klein and found his scale on bisexuality very good. Although I don't agree who we prefer to socialize with has anything to do with orientation. I could enjoy a cup of coffee with anyone, that says zilch about orientation! Other than that, I liked the scale. This is an interesting read, for the most part.

This well-written book is a must-read for anyone struggling, as I have, with bisexuality. It is hopeful, insightful, and very liberating. Dr. Klein presents an engaging balance of theory, research, and case examples. This is a very real and honest presentation of bisexuality.

I am currently enrolled In a distanced learning college and was sent this book.The book Is hard to figure out and the problems give you no pretense on who to solve them go with a different book.

This text isn't awful, but it does jump into things a bit quickly for someone who hasn't taken algebra for about a decade. If you need to use this text as part of a college program, I definitely recommend "Forgotten Algebra", ISBN 0812019423 as a refresher (or suppliment) before tackling this text. It will be well worth the extra [money] spent!

College Algebra is well written. The concepts of algebra are thoroughly explained and illustrated with examples. Answers to half the problems are included in the back of the book.