If you enjoy tasting the finest of foods that have been all time traditional favorites and you want to know how to prepare them yourself, this cookbook is for you. This book opens up the doors of cooking and makes you an instant expert. Contains the best chili and fried chicken you can imagine. I create 11 to 13 different pies every holiday and the pies comes from recipes right here. People think I am the best cook around, I wouldn't be without this book. The soups will imspire you to not only learn how to create these soups but come up with inventions of your own. Seriously, this book is a must have for someone that really wants to learn how to cook and needs a great recipe that will inspire them to continue. I have a whole library of cookbooks but this is my favorite one and the one that gave me the encouragement to make cooking my hobby. The chicken frickase is the all time best chicken recipe in the world. Make that and mashed potatoes and corn and you will have any man coming back for more.

I have all the series of "The Beautiful Cookbooks" and the America and the Mexico one I believe are among the best ones.

Great cookbook with wonderfull recipes that are easy to reproduce. Currently looking for another copy to purchase as the moving company lost a considerable amount of our personal items and included was our favorite cookbook.

The Spivey Assignment is proof that Truth is more exciting than fiction. Larry Spivey went from one dangerous situation to another with a mission.....Catch the bad guys. He proved to have a natural talent for catching drug smugglers. His record speaks for itself, no narcotics officer has ever beaten his record for arrests of major drug smugglers. This book will keep you up late!

Despite its predictability, the story was compelling and kept me interested throughout. Most of the characters were fairly stereotypical: Spoiled Rich Girl, Spoiled Rich Girl's Spoiled Rich Freinds, Bad Boy from Other Side of the Tracks, Ivy League Educated Bored Financial Guy, Bored and Unsatisfied Wife, Mob Underboss Aspiring to be the Boss, Two Bit Mob Soldier/Capo, Exhibtionist Sexy Foreign Wife of Super Rich Guy, Mediocre Career Detective. But the story did take a twist or two that kept it entertaining, but the end was a disappointment. After spending many pages developing characters and plots, the whole thing got tied together neatly at the end rather quickly. Too neat and too quickly--it reminded me of a Brady Bunch episode. It all worked out at the end. Not that many novels regarding the mob are steeped in reality, but the ending here was too neat and clean for a Wall Street meets Godfather story.

This was a fun read from start to finish, with great characters and a compelling story. This was one of the two best novels I have read all year.

To say that HOUSE OF LORDS is a modernized GODFATHER may not do it justice. GODFATHER gave us a compelling look into a world we rarely glimpse, HOUSE OF LORDS however shows us what happens when that world spills out into our own. A frightening tale of intrigue and manipulation often times causes the reader to stop only to ponder the idea of man's essential nature. The way the organized crime world slides in and tears apart a seemingly happy healthy family is both jarring and fascinating. If we loved the GODFATHER, GOODFELLAS, WALL STREET, or BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES for showing us so clearly what different sections of American culture are like, HOUSE OF LORDS should be applauded for showing us what they are like when they collide full force, but beyond that HOUSE OF LORDS begs the question "who will survive the meeting." Especially in today's news where headlines are less about John Gotti's death and more about the decay of corporate America (ENRON, Martha Stewart, Worldcom, etc) this book can maybe help us understand the new crime families of the 21st century.

After looking at ten different writing texts, this one stands out as being so clear and to the point that almost anyone can understand how to craft a good, five paragraph, standard college theme. The student examples perfectly illustrate the priniples. The section on research is good. The section on punctuation and expression could be more detailed and use less jargon, but all in all, this is a user-friendly and worthwhile guide.

This book simply lacks the psychological depth of the Karp novels, which I have read every one of. This leads me to believe that Mr. Tanenbaum employs the service of an excellent ghost writer, although we may never know...

Being somewhat familiar with the case of the so-called "cop-killers" Tanenbaum prosecuted and eventually wrote about, I had to read this book. Though I found the book to be filled with numerous self serving inaccuracies and half truths, I was glad to have read it. The New York Three, who are; Jalil Muntaqim (Tony Bottom), Albert "Nuh" Washington and Herman Bell, are not the cop killing trio you will read about. Nor was the Black Liberation Army, the group to which they belonged, a gang of murderers as it is portrayed in this "book". The real thugs and criminals were the government and its Counter Intelligence Program (COINTELPRO) which routinely harassed, falsely imprisoned and even murdered members of the Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army (among others). The case of Dhoruba Bin Wahad (Richard Moore) and Geronimo ji-jaga (Elmer Pratt) are prime examples of this. Each of them were Black Panther and Black Liberation Army members and were released after 19 and 29 years of false imprisonment, after being able to prove their innocence and the government frame up in cases much like the one written of by Mr. Taaenbaum. In fact, Dhoruba's case was cited in the "Badge of the Assassin" and was portrayed as being guilty. It took 19 years to proove him wrong. Yet, if you were to read the court transcripts, you may have falsely locked them up yourself. Likewise in "Badge of the Assassin." The way it reads you may feel they were the killers. What the book leaves out and what was kept from their trials was the evidence of police and government cover/frame-up. Evidence that when the defense got too close to revealing was conveniently "lost" by the feds and police. It's long time the New York Three were set free as Dhoruba and Geronimo were. Maybe this will help open a door exposing one of America's best kept secrets, political prisoners exist in the USA. Albert Washington, Herman Bell and Jalil Muntaqim are only three out of many dozens. For more information on these and other COINTELPRO cases read "Still Black Still Strong", "Agents of Repression" and "Assata". This would only be for starters.

Two NYC Patrolmen, Waverly Jones and Joseph Piagentini, are visciously ambushed on the night of 21 May, 1971. Who killed them and why? This book delves into those questions and more as the prosecutor who handled the case tells, in vivid and amazing detail, of the assassination, investigation, capture, and trial of the accused cop-killers. A must-read for everybody who knows what justice is, and for those who have yet to find out.

This review was based on the 2000 version, the newest one, of the College Chemistry. After studying this as a guildline to the subject of Chemistry, I found out that this book had very good and short explanations of all the important concepts. However, this study guild's value had been destoried because the amount of misprints and errors in the example problems. This book seemed to be rushed to meet the 2000 year time. Therefore,the mistakes in it was overlooked. To learn concepts, the book is a very good aid, however to look at the examples, it is very poor and sad to see those simple mistakes.