After reading The Name of the Rose with few helps, discovering this book was quite wonderful. It goes into adaquate detail with the historical background, and I found the translations to be good and very helpful. A must for those trying the novel for the first time or for those who felt the lack of endnotes frustrating. A wonderful suppplement.

The Key to "The Name of the Rose" by Adele J. Haft, Jane G. White, and Robert J. White is a wonderful little book. When was the last time you used your Latin that you had in High School? You say, you never had Latin... well how do you expect to solve the clues that Brother William of Baskerville in "The Name of the Rose" gets.

Well, the answer is in this little tome as it includes translations of all of the Non-English passages making you as "smart" as Brother William. This book furthers your experience when reading "The Name of the Rose" as you now can decode the juicy clues. Umberto Eco's "The Name of the Rose" is about crimes in a medieval abbey and the obsession of it monks with heresies, apocalyptic visions, and forbidden knowledge.

This "Key" is a delightful guide to the phrases and bizarre characters and has mirthful anecdotes that you're sure to enjoy and you'll solve the mystery of the seven deaths as fast as Brother William and enjoy the intrigue in doing so.

i am hoping to do an intricate performance art piece based on the novel "the name of the rose;" however, many of the lush details and layers were lost on me, because i am not a historian or a scholar well-versed in semiotics... the task is still daunting, but i feel more confident having this "hint book" to fill me in on the background information. it renders the novel much more accessible to a lay person, and makes the story even MORE fascinating than it already is. i suggest that anyone reading "the name of the rose" should have a copy of this to help them along... also, there is a text that does this same task for dante's "divine comedy" (dante has a large influence on the novel, so reading dante will help the reader to understand the apocolyptic attitudes of the characters). joseph gallagher wrote "a modern reader's guide to dante's 'the divine comedy'" which you may also find helpful.

I really liked this book and was able to use much of the advice for promoting my own books online. My only complaint is that the yahoo group for authors to exchange info is dead, and so is the message board at the buzz-your site. There is no continuing support or info after you've purchased the book. Still, I'd say it's well worth buying; especially for newbies in the world of self-promotion.

I've already tried some of the suggestions for my eBook and seen results. Plan for the long-term, but get some short-term results. Very up-to-date to include online and offline resources.

Four stars out of a possible four! Highly recommended: This is the BIBLE for anyone who wants to promote their books on the Internet. Douglas Clegg and MJ Rose know all the tricks of the trade, many of which they invented themselves. I wasn't sure what to expect from BUZZ YOUR BOOK, just because I don't normally buy into the idea of self-help books, but I'm glad I took the time to download this! Clegg and Rose taught me literally HUNDREDS of different ways to promote my title that I had never thought of!

I also recommend BUZZ YOUR MP3 for anyone interested in music, BUZZ YOUR ZINE which I'm going to use to promote my online magazine, and BUZZ YOUR ONLINE AUCTION which is just fantastic -- it'll make ebay-sellers go nuts! There are so many great ideas in all these books. I can't wait to see what else Pigeonhole Press puts out next!

Tough reading to get through with many buzzwords that leave you feeling like you're catching feathers in a windstorm. However, principals defined are interesting and some seem to work for me. But to be clear, once again, there's no "magic" to learning and retaining knowledge - just hard work. This approach has some merit - but requires hard work.

A very well-written and interesting book, which goes over a lot of the same information as "Superlearning 2000" and "The Einstein Factor." There are sections on how the brain works, using classical music to boost intelligence, etc. These sections were very interesting. Toward the end of the book, however, the focus shifts to methods teachers and corporate trainers can use to boost learning in their students, which I could not relate to.

The authors really realize that a reader will have no curiosity if there is no reason to read. That's why they start with some facts and some futurists" idea to make a reader aware that he should change his paradigm and start to learn untill die to be ready in any situation.And they really propose better based on new theories and researches to develop the method or steps in learning to become the accelerators.

I have read many books on this subject and this one stands out as one of my favorites. The author covers many different "situations" and discusses many ideas on how to collect back child support. A lot of research was put into this book and I found it all very helpful and full of interesting ideas and suggestions.

I ordered this book in hopes of obtaining a source of fresh information. I was somewhat disappointed. Yet I was pleased to find that this book was straight forward and easy to read. I'll be sharing it with many of our clients trying to collect child support in the future.

Rose and Malone give us great, easily usable guidelines for tracking down anybody. These authors know their stuff. From schools to property to driving records to work records, we all leave tracks. Now we know how to make those tracks work for us! Deadbeat parents, look out now.

A super, 200 page book complete with more than 500 large, sharp, full color photos. Plenty of background information is included. Major topics run from: Candy Container Descriptions, Animals, Cars, Characters and Fire Engines, to Motorcycles, Musical, Racers and Windmills. Collectors will surely enjoy looking at these great photos. Item descriptions are very complete. Values are provided. A very useful and enjoyable reference.

This book is packed with photos of both common and scarce pieces. The information on these beautiful items is unmatched and worth owning for the pictures alone. My personal collection has more than tripled in size with the new found knowledge contained within the pages. You'll be thrilled as a collector and "armed" as a dealer. Don't go antiquing without it!

On the strength of the previos review from France, I bought this book in the hope of a nice intro to group theory. Imagine my consternation when I read the preface in which it was clearly stated that the book specifically covers FINITE group theory and presupposes that the reader has had prior, elementary course in group theory. If you don't know group theory already, start with some other book, then try this one.

This book is very complete: it is intended as a guide about group theory for the beginners who want to study it seriously. Exercises are excellent. Moreover it contains a chapter which hasn't been published before (about transfer and splitting theorems).

I really like this book because it is a romance book and i love all romance books. I really like books that are writen in the old ages. I think if a person likes to just read books they should read Romance of the Rose.

The Romance of the Rose is the famous and much discussed 13th century allegorical romance. It consists of two parts of unequal length-- the first shorter part by Guillaume de Lorris and the second longer part continued 40 years after de Lorris' death by Jean de Meun. Throughout the medieval period, this was one of the most widely read book in the French language.

Scholars have rather endlessly debated how unified the allegory really is, and the trend recently seems to have shifted to seeing the two authors as less in opposition, and more composing a complete treatment of courtly Love.

For the casual (non-academic) reader like myself, the experience is rather less unified. The de Lorris section is quite lyrical and fits more with what I imagine an allegorical dream poem to be. When Idleness leads the dreamer into the garden of Diversion and when Love shoots him with the five deadly arrows that bind him to the Rose, the imagery is compelling and lovely.

On the other hand, the second part, while often *very* funny is much more obviously satirical with long digressions that focus more on social mores than on the world of the Dreamer as established in the first half. The effect is sort of like a serious and literary Spike Jones song-- which is not at all a bad thing.

I have continued to keep the 2nd edition close by at work. The authors have put maximum in minimum of words, concise and truly useful from a trainee's point. The articles are brife, and yet complete and pictures are highly illustrative. With extensive new information added to the field of nephrology every day, a new edition of this masterpiece is sorely needed. I will wait for the new edition to hit the bookshelves. Do the authors have any such plans?

I am familiar with both first edition (spiral series) and 2nd edition (Rose and Black's) of this book. This is indeed a masterpiece in nephrology. It is good for both residents and renal fellows, as well as for all nephrologists in private practice and in academia. I highly recommend it. The only current problem is that 1996 is the last edition. I hope that the authors publish their next edition not later than early 2001.

LIP SERVICE by M.J. Rose can be seen as highly intelligent erotica or as a novel with elements of the erotic. Either way, it makes for fascinating reading, not so much for the erotic scenes (although they are certainly well written) but for the psychological insight into a troubled woman's behavior and identity. The main character disobeys her overbearing psychiatrist husband first, by not taking pills to help (read: control) her, and goes on to conceal her phone sex activities from him. She finds her strength (and escapes her helpless self into her real self) by asserting her feminine power during phone sex. She learns she has the ability to take a male caller "from one place and help him arrive at another." The activities she is engaged in eventually lead to her involvement with depravity and with the police. LIP SERVICE is sexy, erotic, and intelligently explores the sexual fantasies of the main character and her customers. The juxtaposition of upper ! class dinner parties and scenes of sexual awakening add to the book's interest as well. I highly recommend the novel.

Dean Barrett Author, Hangman's Point Village East Books, NYC Publishers of Fine Fiction on Asia HANGMAN'S POINT - A Novel of Hong Kong

MJ Rose commanded my attention from the first page. Since reading "Topping From Below" I've waited for an erotic thriller to be this captivating. True to our sensual natures, "Lip Service" takes you, as a reader, on a moral see-saw ride. The crowning glory is the sincerity of emotions that rise to the top of each chapter and become a catalyst for Julia making decisions. Each page showed me a woman whose strongest critic was herself, but I felt there would come a moment when she would also be her strongest support. I always felt Julia to be filled with strength, yet her passion brought out the softest woman. You'll find it difficult with all the twists and turns to predict the outcome and impact on each distinctive character.

This book seems to be written for women. I wish every man I know would read and understand it. Women will find much of themselves in "Lip Service", but be prepared to lose yourself in it as well! I treasure my copy! I hope MJ Rose will continue to give us many more erotic thrillers!

Could a novel be erotic and intelligent at the same time? Of course! M.J. Rose has made a special blend of erotica and suspense in Lip Service. This novel is utterly intelligent and extremely well crafted. It is also very sexy and provocative. Also, the author must have made a lot of research on psychology.

In Lip Service, Julia Sterling's life couldn't be better. Well, at least the social circle around her thinks so. After all, she is married to a respected psychiatrist, has a wonderful stepson and lives on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Her ordered life is suddenly threatened when she decides to research the perverse world of phone sex for a book. She has discovered a sexy, perverse and sinister world in the fantasies that she concocts for the anonymous callers. This is a world that her husband knows nothing about. Will she tell him her dark secret? What will happen to Julia? And are sexual fantasies and fetishes as disturbing as one might think?

This book covers several taboo subjects regarding male and female sexuality. It questions morality and the inhibitions that society has placed upon us. I marvel at Rose's courage to write about such thought-provoking subject. This is one of the best thrillers I have ever read. I recommend it most highly.

In Fidelity by MJ Rose is a great sophomore follow up to Lip Service. Twenty years ago, Jordan saw her father die at the hands of her ex-boyfriend. She made sure he was convicted of that crime. For twenty years Jordan has been trying to adjust to her father's death, while building a family, falling in and out of love and helping her patients face their demons. Meanwhile for twenty years her ex-boyfriend has been dreaming of freedom and reclaiming Jordan.

Jordan's past has come pack to stalk her, during a time when she is trying to re-adjust to her ever maturing daughter, get back together with her husband and help a patient who has become obsessed with her life. In Fidelity is what I would call a good example of suspense romantica. The underlying theme of romance is spiced with erotica and suspense. Strong characterization and plot make this book a page-turner. I can't wait to see what MJ Rose comes up with next.

M.J. Rose's debut novel, LIP SERVICE, was an erotic
thriller that I couldn't put down . . . so when I came across
her second novel, IN FIDELITY, I naturally made a point
to read it too.

While not quite as captivating as her first book, I also
liked this one . . . it is the story of a psychotherapist,
haunted by the long-ago murder of her father, who
fears the killer's revenge when she learns that he has
been paroled from prison.

There's an interesting subplot involving the infidelity
of her husband . . . in addition, the story is moved
along by believable encounters with patients, her
teenage daughter, etc.

And then there are the parts involving sex . . . though
not quite as hot as LIP SERVICE, this book definitely
would carry an R rating if it were a movie.

Lastly, I liked the dialogue . . . it was very realistic.

There were many memorable passages; among them:
We made love for hours that first time, leaving my bedroom only for something to drink, or eat. We smoked some marijuana and spent the rest of the night listening to a combination of classical and rock music. I watched Robert change the music on my stereo. We listened to records then, and I marveled at the care with which he handled them: only by the edges, not allowing his fingers to touch the surface of the plastic.

[the daughter in response to her mother's food purchases]
"That's not the point. It's about greed. About being aware of what things cost. You know, there's a Zen story about a very rich man who died and someone asked what he'd left. And someone else said--Every thing. You can't keep it. You have to share it. It's not really ours."

It wasn't an exaggeration. I finally understood. If you accept that nothing is perfect and are willing to forgive, if you look at the people around you and recognize them for who they are and for the gifts they have to offer and not damn them for who they cannot be or what they cannot give, if you acknowledge that we are all perfect and imperfect, then you really can live happily ever after.

I thought that M. J. Rose's first novel, Lip Service, was one of the most clever thriller/erotica novels I have read. It was well developed and had excellent character and story development. Needless to say that her second novel, In Fidelity, is just as, if not more, suspenseful and erotic as her first novel.

Dr. Jordan Sloan's world shatters all over again when her father's murderer is released on parole. The key witness to his murder trial, she fears that he'll seek revenge -- though everyone, including her daughter, seems to think that she is just being paranoid. A psychotherapist, she tries to help her patients' problems while trying to figure the psyche of murderers and coming to terms with her about to be ex-husband's infidelity. Jordan is bound to suffer several more betrayals -- which leads to a spellbounding conclusion.

Suspenseful, erotic and, yes, romantic, In Fidelity should be devoured in one sitting! I highly recommend it!