James R. Giles' critical essays on Hubert Selby, Jr.'s work are a most excellent guide for interested students. Upon reading Selby's novel Reqiuem for a Dream, I was fascinated with his style and content. I proceeded to read Last Exit to Brooklyn and Song of the Silent Snow. After finishing these novels, I decided it was time to research Selby in order to compile a research paper for an English class. My passion for Selby's intense and tragic literature led me to Giles' Understanding Hubert Selby Jr. Giles' criticism was the most complete and accurate analysis of Selby's work that I could find. The edition covered all of Selby's novels with a clear, crisp, and concise diction. Giles' insight into Selby's tempestuous mind supplied the chief source and companion to my own essay on Selby. I recommend Giles' most tremendous essays to any student who loves Hubert Selby's dark and antiheroic works. I have yet to find a better analysis of Selby's novels. Every dedicated English student should explore the wastelands of Selby's imaginations, and Giles' criticism is the most capable and reliable guide.

This book provides a wealth of information on this under-researched field, including both the accounts of those with visibly difference and research information. I study patients with spinal deformity and I found the research background to this area particularly useful. I thoroughly recommend this title.

This was written by my great, great, grandfather! I was so excited about it! Finally I can read it as I do not speak German! My maiden name is Fricke and there are were four Richard Frickes that followed him: my brother, father, grandfather (who are all alive) and then his son and himself (both deceased). Who is George? We must be related!

Analyzes first movements of establishing the dominant design in banking, airlines, and 3 modern stories of USAA insurance (all online), Frito Lay, which integrates to the store, and American Hospital Supply/ Baxter Travenol, which links to all their customers. These designs allowed the companies to dominate their market niche. Great read!

My husband and I have been married since 1986. We deeply love each other, but with "life" our children and other responsibilities we have not knowingly settled for less than what we started out with. That sweetness intimate time had turned out not what either of us desired but not knowing how to change or what had happened in the first place. Dr. Jim Richards and his wife Brenda shows you the steps that are attainable to recapture the love within. This book is PRECIOUS in re-capturing the kind of love and intimacy we all desire. Thank you Jim and Brenda for being vulnerable in your personal life to show the rest of us that their is agape love!!!

I can imagine a world where every high school student was required to read this exceptional treatise on Economics and Prosperity -- a world where creativity, ingenuity, and risk-taking were praised and encouraged; and where appeals to envy, lust, and jealousy were derided and scorned. Today, there are far too many economic myths in circulation and this book shoots down each and every one of them. It's easy to read and easy to understand. The world would be a smarter and better place if each and every person understood the fundamentals of the free-market.

Wheel Boats On The Missouri: The Journals And Documents Of The Atkinson-O'fallon Expedition 1824-1826 is an archival reference showcasing a specialized slice of early American frontier history - as reflected by the original words of the wheel boat men who were directed by President James Monroe to negotiate peace treaties with Native American tribes along the Missouri River. The resulting use of 475 infantry soldiers, "gunboat diplomacy," and man-powered wheel boats across a 3,000 mile expedition is meticulously detailed among numerous primary references. Journals dealing with daily life, navigation difficulties, American Indian cultures and political negotiations provide an amazing glimpse into army life in an America of almost two centuries past. Wheel Boats On The Missouri is an impressive work of scholarship and a strongly recommended addition to academic and community library American history reading lists and reference collections.

Without a shadow of a doubt, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in the williamite wars. Doherty has impecable understanding of the intricacies of 17th century warfare, and I would certainly rate this among the very finest of history books written in the last twent years.

Learned me all i needed to know to pass the exam on the first try (scored 800, 640 needed to pass). Has minor two faults though: First, there is no explanation of the wrong answers in the tests, second, the questions on the CD-rom is the same as in the book and several of them is repeated in the same test which makes the final score useless. The test program has the option to save the test which is nice because the three tests on the CD has over 120 questions each - but there is no option restore, strange. But that is still minor errors.

I would recommend this book to everyone who want's not only to pass the test, but also want's to learn Exchange Server 5.5.

I passed my last MCSE exam Exchange Server 5.5 with just this book. It's the BEST book for the exam. Again, the review questions at the back of each chapter are almost identical to those on the actual exam. Couples of them are even exact word-to-word to the exam. You need to have an evaluation copy of Exchange Server 5.5 installed and follow the book to do the hand on execises. Otherwise you don't know what the book is talking about. If the author can give the explaination for each of the review question will make the book perfect. GOOD LUCKS!

This is a great book, not only for exam prep but as a reference afterwards. I agree with all the other positive reviews so I won't repeat their content. One other thing to add, though, is how well this encyclopedia of information is indexed in the back of the book. It's very easy to "look something up" when you need to. I also read Redmond's Exchange Server 5.5 book, also a good resource but (in contrast) suffers from poor indexing (but goes much more in depth, as well), and also the MS Exchange connectivity guide. I completed a major Mail to Exchange conversion before taking the exam (good education in itself), and referenced these three books often.

The excellent questions on the cd make this book not just a bargain but a steal. I had the new 30 question exam (no more easy adaptive questions), and scored well. I like what MS is doing to make this exam 'respectful' again.

~*~James and the Giant Peach is a very good book for people from the ages 9-12 to read. I choose this book because I saw the movie and I thought that is would be very good. The book was about a little boy named James Henry Trotter, who lived with his aunts and they treated him every badly. He grew a giant peach and he went inside it. He landed into a "Magical World." My favorite part of the book was when James went inside of the peach, he found some new and very good friends. He was afraid of his new friends and they were afriad of him. While they were inside of the peach, they were tryig to get to New York City. I am not going to tell you if he makes it or not you are just going to have to read it to find out. I think that the best character in the book was James because he went away for his aunts, and was attempting to go to New York. I think that he is a very brave person!~ *~By:Ashley *!~*

Whimisical, creative, silly, I would use these words to describe the fantastic story of James and the Giant Peach. James is a boy whose parents are killed by an unfortunate rhinoceros accident at the zoo. He is forced to live with his two aunts, Aunt Spiker and Aunt Sponge. They are mean to him and make him work alot. One day though he meets a magic fellow while he is working in the garden. The fellow gives him magic beans. James is supposed to eat them, but he drops them by the peach tree. In the evening James goes outside and is shocked by a huge peach on the tree. James finds a hole in the peach and he meets his new "friends". This book is interesting and very good. It is an excellent book for adults to read to kids, because both parties would get reading pleasure.

Roald Dahl displays more of his magic that everyone has seen in "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" in "James and the Giant Peach." Poor orphaned James Henry Trotter lives with his mean Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker who make him do all sorts of awful chores and treat him like a slave. The boy's situation is straight out of a Charles Dickens' novel.

Then one day, the tree in their backyard grows an enormous peach -- and with this odd fruit, James makes his escape and finds friends in the form of ... GIANT BUGS!

What's highly amusing is how all the bugs (and even the nasty aunts) all make up songs about their lives and/or each other. Dahl demonstrates a wonderful wit as he makes up the rhymes.

This is a cute quick read for people of all ages!