This book has an accompanying deck of the 22 major arcana cards - no minor arcana. The cards I bought come in a plastic slip - an improvement over the cardboard boxes.

The cards themselves are conservative & simple, no complex scenes in the background and they are similar to Rider-Waite cards and Italian decks, but I find them pretty. They certainly serve the purpose of the book.

[for some reason I couldnt find the deck in Amazon or B&N - I bought it in a shop in Haifa]

The cards, in colours, are reproduced in the book. The English source has the cards printed as the first 11 pages of the book, which is less convinient than the hebrew translation that has the card printed at the beginning of the section that explains it.

I really like the book because it explains every detail of every card. The only problem is that sometimes the explanation doesnt match the cards, e.g. the text says (in both the Hebrew and English versions) that the woman in the world card wears a red cloth while the picture (in both the English & Hebrew books and in the cards) she wears a blue cloth.

I had actually lost hope... until I found this book. I actually saw the doctors Berman on their Discovery Health talk show first. The book outlines all areas of female sexual function and dysfucntion as well as the cutting edge potential therapies. I took it to my doctor who is now recommending it to all his patients. A must read for all women of any age

This book has something for everyone. No matter how sensitive, its subject matter is presented in a clear, concise and readable manner. My wife and I have already found it catalytic to our relationship. I am sure that both patients and their physicians will have increasingly open and productive communications as a result of this eye-opening approach to women's sexual health.

I found the mind/body approach of "For Women Only" insightful and easy to understand. Whether you're trying to tackle sexual problems or just hone your game, this book covers the gamut of issues related to finding sexual well being. Do yourself and your partner a favor and read this book.

This is the book for begginers , it gives you
basic rules about creating webpages , it gives
you scripts that you can find in web without any help.
It has true words and nice photoes but nothing more, if
you're searching something about : how to do nice-looked
webpages , how to organize work by using grid, make good color
combinations , work with typography to find attractive
solutions, you will not find it here.

Finally! Someone who knows what makes a website work, and is willing to tell the rest of us. This book is very aptly titled: "Layout", as opposed to "Linux". It teaches me what to look for in a web site design that is effective in both marketing and aesthetic. It gives me all the options I need to design well with plenty of compelling examples. This is not an advanced programming book. In fact, it starts with very basic things. Like using legible fonts. Like pale colored backgrounds (instead of black backgrounds with red lettering). As a professional artist, I know how I want my images to come across on my website. If my site is poor then I lose business. I don't want to spend thousands for a site that looks poor, nor to learn a new career in order to market my current career. The structuring of the lessons, the online resources listed, the tips and commentary in Layout are all excellent.

This book offers a host of useful design suggestions that will help to avoid many of the most common mistakes. If you are a technical person like myself and you frequently wonder why some pages are so much more appealing than others you will find the answers in this great book.

Like the last reviewer I was very disappointed by this set. Mainly because I thought this set would teach vocal techniques. This set teaches theory based information like intervals, scales, octaves, rhythms, notes,etc. Howard and Austin take you step by step vocally thorough all the theory based info on the 4 discs. Still despite my own disappointed with this set I would recommend it to anyone who desire to know theory or may be short of knowledge on music theory. However I wouldn't reccommend this to anyone who just wants to learn vocal improvement techniques or general vocal techiques.

Thanks to Austin & Howard, we finally have a practical training program in Vocal Musicianship. Scales, intervals, chords, rhythm & meter are the building blocks of music. ABCs of Vocal Harmony gears to the human voice and helps you play your vocal instrument with greater skill while learning the language of music. A member of my choir found it at Amazon.com and now I have everyone using it. My choir has never sounded better. Be sure to get the CD version for maximum effect in accessing any subject or exercises at the tuch of a button.

"Your Vocal Harmony Course is great! It's fun and encouraging too. For the first time we have something other than just a book for the kids. Having both male and female voice to listen to and match makes all the difference ... and filling in the missing notes of intervals and chords and getting immediate feedback is just what we need. Thanks." Jayne Campbell - Westlake - Harvard School

This book is a collection of articles about various aspects of Indian women's lives. Bumiller lived and worked as a journalist in India for 3 years with her husband in the 1980s. She didn't intend to write about Indian women at the start of her stay, but found herself getting drawn into women's issues through her friends and activities. In the book, Bumiller describes and analyzes such topics as arranged marriage, bride burning, female infanticide, women in politics, women in Bollywood, women artists, housewives, and population control. Overall, I found Bumiller's descriptions quite accurate and interesting, but for my tastes, the range of topics seemed too broad. The book lacks the focus found in Bumiller's second book, "The Secrets of Mariko", which describes a year in the life of a Japanese housewife. Nevertheless, it provides a very readable introduction to Indian women's lives for Western readers.

Elizabeth Bumiller does a great job portraying the true lives of Indian women as an outsider. As a forgeiner she interviews many Indian women about different aspect of their Indian lives. Discussions of great women like Indira Ghandi and intense interview with women who had to kill their children because they were females all provided me with a great realistic idea of women's roles and lives in India. This is a great book, it is an easy read and provides a lot of good information.

I enjoyed this book mainly because it is about the lives of Indian women seen through the eyes of a foreigner - ie a western woman. I felt I could relate to this book very well as a 'western' woman myself, albeit with roots in India. I would recommend this book for those who know little about Indian society .

The map guide is a nice compact New York City-only version of the larger Let's Go guide for the USA, plus some very handy laminated maps. Its easy to carry this one around and not look like a tourist. The sights picked, often have a good local sensibility about them, in that they may not be typical touristy places. All the Map guides are great, but this one dissapointed because it never listed cross streets for addresses (a must for most new york cabbies)

What we found most useful in the guide is its geographic listing - after attending an event or touring NYC, one can flip through the guide and find one of the many great restaurants in a nearby neighborhood, use your cell phone to call and make a reservation. The ratings and reviews of the food and ambience appear to be more accurate than other guides. We had so more more luck eating in great restaurants using Marcellino's book. Looking for 1999's version, and keep 1998's until then.

This map is terrific for getting around Manhattan and using the subway system. Very easy to use and read.

This book got me through the exam but only because I was fortunate enough to sidestep the authors' numerous errors, whether typos, incorrect instructions or omissions. Read the book, take the test, and then get rid of the book--don't hang onto it for reference.

This book was a good overview of what will be required on the exam. I took the expert level and passed the first time. But, I did find the sections about macros frustrating, because of errors in the documentation. If needing accurate information on macros, you might want to use a different resource. Otherwise, the general instruction in this book will help with the exam.

Exam Cram for Word 97 will provide all the information that you will need to prepare for the MOUS Proficient and Expert exams. It covers the topics that are on the exams. The review questions at the end of each chapter provide excellent tools to practice the skills presented in the chapters, while the example exams at the end of each section (Proficient and Expert) are good practice for the actual MOUS Exams. The exams are task oriented and the tasks on these reviews are grouped into multiple instructions that simulate the exam and the real world.

There are some errors in the book, but these should not interfere with your reaching the goal, whether to pass the exam or to become well versed in the use of Word.

As an added insight the authors provide hints to direct you over rough spots in the exam. They also give excellent test taking guides to keep you from loosing points unnecessarily.

I used this book as my primary preparation guide and the Microsoft Press Word 97 Step by Step Advanced Topics as a supplement. The Step by Step is more detailed in topics covered, but the Exam Cram will direct the person intent on Word Certification toward his goal. I recently passed the Word Expert exam with a score of 97.

The book contains many interesting tidbits on famous dead movie stars, but it full of glaring mistakes. For example, in one section on William Randolph Hearst his wife is named as Millicent. However, in the section on Marion Davies his wife is named Pheobe, who is actually his mother. I have found inaccurate dates and locations. One paragraph will contradict another. The amount of errors makes the whole book suspect. Also, directions to some of the stars final resting places is detailed and others not all. For a serious Thantologist, I would only recommend this book for entertainment value.

This book has some good stories in it but as far as grave hunting goes, it's not very complete. It's okay to have for entertainment but not as a reference book.

In reading Final Curtain I found myself back in the Hollywood of yesteryear with those famous names and people who made HOLLYWOOD and its movies great. I enjoyed the book immensely,Final Curtain is not just a book about death and gravestones, but about the people who gave and used their various talents to entertain.

Valentine "Val" Wharton had once been a drunken rogue. His love, Penny, had married his best friend many years ago. He had tried to commit suicide (but Cupid shot him in the leg to stop him) and he almost killed his daughter, Felicity. Everyone had heard of him. Rumors had spread, as they often do.

Valentine was ready to assume his responsibilities! He picked up his now ten-year-old daughter and was going to Wales, to St. David's. Needing a governess for Felicity, he hired Miss Elaine Deering, who reminded him much of Penny.

Elaine did not really want to accept the position with Wharton. However, Lord Palmer, who had been her previous employer, had tried to take liberties with her and she ended up leaving the position. Lord Palmer chose that moment to travel to Gatehouse only for revenge. He intended to ruin her reputation and have her tossed into the streets. He would have succeeded if not for Wharton. Even hearing Palmer's claims, his offer of employment remained. Elaine accepted.

Together they would learn about out another, visit Penny and (in a way) the past, and take a giant "leap of faith"!

** This one is a bit too slow, for my personal Regency taste. I kept getting the impression of the two main characters circling each other warily, though neither really had any reason to.

I do not consider this story to be even half as good when compared to the other novels I have read from this same author. If this is the first time you have read a book by Elisabeth Fairchild and feel about it as I do, please do not write this author off. Purchase one of her earlier titles and give her another shot. Because Elisabeth Fairchild IS a very talented woman in the Regency Romance field. This story though, in my own opinion, just could not capture the attentions of readers. **

Reviewed by Detra Fitch.

As others have suggested, I also recommend reading "Captain Cupid Calls the Shots" before you dive into this one. Matter of fact, the only reason I read that one was because I wanted to read this one so bad! The references to Valentine's past are all rooted in that story and may not be satisfactorily explained here.

Valentine Wharton is a former soldier and recovering alcoholic with an illegitimate daughter and lots of demons to exorcise. He lost the woman he loved to his best friend and, unable to cope with a child and his own problems, packed her off to boarding school. Now Felicity is 9 years old and Val is ready to try and build a relationship with his daughter, having conquered most of his demons. He plans a holiday to Wales and when he arrives at her school, he meets and is intrigued by Miss Elaine Deering, the teacher Felicity writes so warmly of in her letters. He hopes to have Miss Deering come along as governess, but his reputation has preceded him and she is reluctant to agree. She has worked for a man who could not keep his hands to himself before and will not do so again. But that man, Lord Palmer, has just caused her to lose her position, telling the headmistress unsavory lies about Elaine. And so, it looks like Wales for "dear Miss Deering"!

The trip to Wales is a revelation for Elaine. This man, whose reputation is of a drunken womanizer, is nothing but kind, considerate and gentlemanly toward her. His efforts to get to know his daughter are bittersweet and not always easy. But Val is determined and patient and Elaine offers subtle support to both father and daughter. She is also relieved to see that this former drunkard now drinks tea exclusively. Elaine watches him waging daily battle against his past with growing admiration. He seems to be winning with one exception - is he still in love with Penny Foster (Shelbourne)? Though she has no right to, she fervently hopes not, for she's fallen for her handsome employer.

While Valentine still thinks of Penny with longing and regret, he finds himself thinking of Elaine with increasing frequency. He is attracted to her dark hair and eyes, her sweet lips, her calm, cool delicacy. But he must not scare her away by coming off as Palmer did. And so he woos her slowly, subtly, but to what purpose? What does he want from "dear Deering", his daughter's governess? Is he no better than Palmer?

This is a very moving story of a flawed soul striving to be a better man - to earn his daughter's affection and respect and a second chance at love. A highly recommended read!

I rather enjoyed "Valentine's Change of Heart." True, it is a little more brooding in tone and has a little more than the usual quota of angst-filled moments, but if you're looking for something really quite different from the usual Signet fare, and you enjoy novels that celebrate the beauty of nature, than you might want to give "Valentine's Change of Heart" a go. Though I have to admit that if you haven't yet read "Captain Cupid Calls the Shots," you may want to do so first -- it's not really essential, but it does help explain the dark and slightly despondent tone of this novel, and why certain characters are important to each other -- not everything is explained fully in "Valentine's Change of Heart."

Having conquered his addiction to alcohol, Valentine Wharton now sets off to reclaim his daughter, Felicity, from Gatehouse, the boarding school to which he had sent her. Valentine is hoping to be able to build a relationship with this daughter he barely knows (Valentine discovered that he had fathered a child just before he set off for war in "Captain Cupid Calls the Shots") by taking her to St. David's in Wales -- a place that he has very fond childhood memories of, and where he's rather hoping to be able to create new and happier ones with Felicity. Of course he also needs a governess for Felicity while they are in Wales, and it looks as if fortune may finally be smiling on Valentine when he is able to hire Felicity's favourite teacher to be her governess.

Miss Elaine Deering never thought that she would be grateful to secure a post with such a notorious employer as Valentine Wharton. But beggars, she discovers, cannot be choosers; and when an unscrupulous ex-employer causes her to loose her current teaching position at the Gatehouse, she finds an unlikely knight errant in Valentine Wharton. But while she is a little cautious and leery about deciding to throw in her lot with such a notorious rake (and alcoholic) as Valentine, she finds herself being totally disarmed by Valentine's attempts to win Felicity's trust and affections. But, she also finds to her dismay, that she's not all that immune to Valentine's charming ways either. Can she afford to trust a reformed alcoholic and rake not to take advantage of her heart and affections? (Add to that Elaine's belief that Valentine has never gotten over his first love, Penny Shelbourne). And then there is the whole issue of the disparity of their positions -- can a governess of no particular distinction hope for any kind of honourable relationship with a gentleman of wealth and connections?

Be forewarned: "Valentine's Change of Heart" is quite contemplative in nature. Both Valentine and Elaine spend a lot of time thinking about and going over past actions. So that if you prefer books with a lot less rumination and a lot more action, this may not be the ideal romance novel for you. I rather liked this book though. I had mixed feeling about "Captain Cupid Calls the Shots" -- Valentine's character (to me) seemed a little over the top in that book -- but really had very few reservations here. I enjoyed the slightly melancholy tone that the book seemed to be imbued with, the description of the towns (the castles, the towers, the moats, the streets) and the nature scenes, I liked that Valentine's attempts to connect with Felicity took time and patience and a lot of effort on his part, and I particularly enjoyed the pairing of Valentine with Elaine. (I liked that Elisabeth Fairchild allowed for the romance between these two to build slowly and believably.) If I had one disappointment with the book it was the rushed ending, and that it took the interference of another to bring these two together. But that is a minor quibble, and on the whole, I'm recommending this as a must read.

For anyone who finds larger texts too intimidating, and who needs just a basic personal web site (for which FrontPage is eminently suited), this book may help, at least if read in conjunction with doing the examples in the "Getting Started" book accompanying FP2000.

You'd have to like adages such as "too many cooks spoil the broth" and other non-technical stuff throughout, and an index of only average (i.e. poor) standard.

For more serious web site builders who may wish to restrict access to some web pages, or who want to use FP2000's more advanced features, and given that Microsoft has made such a dog's breakfast of FP2000, this book has gaps that you could fly a jumbo jet through. Consequently, some of the steps outlined in the book do not work.

When I began to use Frontpage I was given a copy of this book to help get started. While the book has many pictures - it provides no practical help when you start working with Frontpage. The online help will provide more details than this book. Check out the alternatives before deciding on this one.

This book is an excellent way to begin using Frontpage 2000. I knew nothing about websites but in 5 hours I had created one with frames, links, pictures, tables, online forms and a hit counter. This book is an easy read and simple to follow, with enough advanced tips to not make it useless after the first read. Very glad I bought it.