Are there boys in your life? In your family? Neighborhood? Anywhere? Not the immature, adult version but the true bonafide youth. Then reading this book should be on your "I've gotta do this now" list. Mary Polce-Lynch has crafted a highly accessible piece of work that gets you inside the sometime mysterious world of boys, as defined by today's culture and morals. You know, "boys don't cry" or "boys are tough-being an athlete maks you a real boy" or "boys don't talk about their feelings" or "don't show other guys your feelings" and the list goes on. Boy we have a knack for screwing people up, don't we?
The good doctor delves into the emotionless world of boys as outlined by the infamous "Pack Rules." But she goes beyond just identifying the problems we lay at these guys' feet(at a very early age). She offers a solid guide to raising emotionally complete boys who are able to express their feelings not supress them. And emotionally competent boys grow up to become much better men.
Dr.Polce-Lynch includes her research and clinical experiences to buttress what she has written. All in all, this book is a wonder and a joy to read. It offers a challenge too, to parents or any adult involved with boys to find ways to make them better people, to help them interact positively with the world around them. I have two sons, teenagers now, and this book opened my eyes to what I've done well and not-so-well in raising them. "Boy Talk-How You Can Help Your Son Express His Emotions" is a great guide for helping boys become better boys and superb men. Get it. Read it. Make a difference in a boy's life.

I am an elementary school teacher and this book is just what I needed. It's usefullness in the classroom came as a surprise since I read it as a parent interested in my sons' emotional development. Background information about emotions and specific suggestions for supporting boys emotions at different ages (birth to 18) are invaluable. I have always wanted to support my boys' feelings but was reluctant...for all the reasons described in the book. After reading "Boy Talk" I feel freer to provide this support.

I haven't totally changed how I teach or parent. Rather, as the book suggests, I started doing a few small things differently. As a result I have observed fewer behavior problems in the classroom. (I think the boys just generally feel more respected and supported, too.) At home, I notice a closer relationship with my sons.

I recommend this book to anyone who wants to know more about boys' emotions but has been afraid to ask.

I was there during this era, as the wife of a driver, as a licensed flagman and while I thought this book made a heroic effort to cover this very exciting time I thought it missed the true uniqueness of the era which was the beauty of the people and the mystery of the machines. This book spends a lot of time talking in depth about a few people, one of the author's brothers for example. It is really not so much about American racing as it is about California racing - lines saying that Sports car racing (even Vintage car racing) may have begun in the Northeast but came to maturity in California give evidence to the bias toward covering this era with a definite prejudice toward certain people and certain geography. Like a previous reader, I too would like to see Volumn II perhaps the authors can cover the era with more of an eye to history and less self interest. However, to their credit these authors have assembled a tremendous number of interesting photos and despite the wordiness of the text much fascinating data.

When my book "American Racing ~ Road Racing In The 50s and 60s" was published I was deluged by calls from the West coast. Everybody wanted to know, "When are you going to do a book about West coast racing." I had to tell them I never photographed over there.

Well here it is "American Sports Car Racing in the 1950s" by Michael Lynch. And it is a winner! I learned things about the racing scene on the left coast that boggled my mind.

Michael Lynch's words hooked me and I could not put the book down. He owes a couple of nights sleep!

"American Sports Car Racing in the 1950s" is the perfect companion to my book.

I highly recommend it. Buy it today.

Tom Burnside

I was there at St Jo and Elkhart and Sebring and the airport circuits in the Midwest and this book is awash in memories. The pictures are perfect for bringing back the cars and the people that as a teenager I worshiped...remembering the ride with neighbor Masten in the Allard to the Leawood drug store on snowy streets to buy the lone copy of Road & Track. We didn't have California, but the trickle down was pretty good...Denise at Meadowdale, Hall in Kansas, Bunker and Katskee and the rest. I sold my '32 Ford for an MG and never looked back...American Sports Car racing as I recall and Lynch describes formed a life long love for the era and the cars...as I read now sitting in my '54 Morgan in my garage with a can of Schlitz. This book is a keeper.

I read The New Money Masters after the Market Wizards and the New Market Wizards. When I saw "winning investment strategies of: Soros, Lynch, Rogers, etc etc on the front cover, I immediately bought it. Like any trader who jumps into the market without a plan or thorough study, I lost this trade. Train tried to portrait what's in the masters brains but he failed. Even worse, his writing skill had been quite bad to convince me to complete the whole book. Well, how am I supposed to expect something from a 379 page book that carries 147 pages of appendix?

If you want to read a concise book about the investment styles and philosophies of recent great investors this book might be the one for you. Any student considering asset management as a career should read this one as well as The Money Masters, its predecessor.

I would encourage everyone to understand the difference from this book and its predecessor. This book is primarily focused on investors that became household names in the 1980s such as: Jim Rogers, Michael Steinhardt, Philip Caret, George Soros, George Michaelis, John Neff, Ralph Wanger, and Peter Lynch.
The prior book, The Money Masters, deals with Golden Age investors who, for the most part, attained their reputations prior to the crash of 1973 and 1974.

Both of Train's books are in the form of interviews he has with them. Train's writing is crisp and entertaining, and his interviews uncover many pearls of wisdom applicable to any investor's philosophy.

The biggest brand name interviewed here, for most, is Peter Lynch who ran Fidelity's flagship Magellan fund. Lynch pioneered a consumer approach to the investing process and invested using a hybrid of the growth and value style that has come to be known within the industry as GARP, standing for Growth At A Reasonable Price. Both Soros and Rogers have fairly interesting ideas about the nature of investing and the sentiment behind it. Both of them worked at Soros' Quantum Fund, which was the largest and most successful hedge fund for decades and left both of them extremely rich.

If anyone is interested in books on the people behind the financial industry read Money Masters, New Money Masters, Predators Ball, Money Culture, Den of Theives and F.I.A.S.C.O. 25 Investment Classics and Goldman Sachs: the Culture of Success are other notable books. I gave the book 4 stars because, while it was very concise and well written I didn't find any information within the book that was of great help to me. It was entertaining and informative but not ground breaking or made me say "AH HAH" or have that light bulb go off in my head.

sorry if you expected a how-to in 25 words or less; the guys highlighted within could think- arriving at creative solutions, work obsessively or at least- with discipline [ check out Rogers' work sheet in the appendix..], and were rock solid in their convictions .....

good to see efforts like these highlighted in the newest go-go era, in which for a lucky few- monster payoffs, quickly, were more common than lottery winnings. [ I know more than a couple who've gone from 15 to 500 in a virtual heartbeat, sometimes with no more conviction than : 'Sure, why not!! ' That's not how these people scored. Nor how most of us ever will.]

Regarding, Train- I'd be inclined to buy a book of his blindly; can't imagine him disappointing.

"Over 40 fun, easy tricks anyone can do!" That's what it says on the cover and thats what this book is about. 42 of the most basic effects. For instance, how to simulate and earthquake: Shake your camcorder and parts of your set.

I was really disappointed. If you consider applying make-up a special effect then you won't be. This would probably be a good book for kids.

Well, I was amazed to see that the special effects section of this book was very helpful. This is definitely a book I would actually pay for, considering I work for a book distribution company.

The format of the book was incredible! The sections were each displayed very descriptively, while most how-to books I read are poorly descriptive.

An unimportant comment of this book is that it is too short. You fail to learn all of the basic concepts of digital recording.

This book deserves a 5-star remark, but I would feel much more comfortable giving this book only 4-stars. I felt it could be longer and contain more concepts of digital recording.

I just want to say another thing on behalf of my new company, Titanium Skate Co. We would like to inform all of the skaters that our products will begin the manufacturing process in August.

Stacy Combs Lynch has given a beginners book on Classic Music, however I am not sure what age group the beginners have to be. Although there is some interesting information here, it seems as though something is missing in this book. Perhaps its not focused enough, for the idea of Classical Music alone can be very broad. She carts down the famous composers dedicating a page or two to each of them pertaining to different eras and different classical styles. Once in a while there is be an interuption in what a particular style or instrument does. Overall the book is brief and could have been better with more information. A better book is "Classical Music (Teach Yourself".

What a great approach to the subject of classical music! I think the cartoon drawings add a lot of life to what could be a very dry subject. Young people will especially find this book helpful. I enjoyed the humor and art very much!

Lynch's study of neurobiology is unique among the "laboratory studies" books that I've read in that Lynch refuses to make broad conclusions about the epistemological status of science in general. Whether this comes from what he got out of his data or prior methodological commitments is a little unclear, although it seems like laboratory studies somehow always end up supporting the author's prior convictions. There is a lot of (almost) raw data in the book, especially in regards to recorded conversations from the lab. These transcripts are very interesting. So is Lynch's treatment of laboratory science as shop work. Don't look to this book for the answer to the question of whether or not science is socially constructed, though. Lynch seems to think that sometimes it is and sometimes it isn't. He gives science more credit than most of the other laboratory studies I've read, but this may, as I said, come from prior convictions. I think that interpretation is given support by Lynch's commitment from the beginning to the idea that the "anthropologist" in the lab must know at least something about the science being studied. Compare with Latour and Woolgar's Laboratory Life (they have a very different view both methodologically and interpretively) and Karin Knorr-Cetina's The Manufacture of Knowledge.