This book has it all. Various locations, intriguing plot, good prose style. Makes the overhyped Authors like Clancy seem stereotyped and predicatable.

WARNING you'll need an IQ of over 120 to understand the Plot!

I use this book with 7th and 8th grade students when doing field ecology studies. The reason I really like it is because it not only provides a closeup photograph of the leaves, wood and seeds but ALSO provides a photograph of the entire plant, as it looks to a student walking up to it. Additionally it gives data on the nutritional value to wildlife and livestock as well as native uses. Botany is a personal weakness, but I find the book easy to use. A field guide for botany bozos. Experts may like it too, but I cannot speak to that. (We use it to identify vegetation in West Texas too.)

I think this is awesome! Joe and Frank are dealing with a million dollar scandal coming from a computer genius. Frank and Joe are at a college and boy was it hard for them to get in. Only one of them make it in, but the other finds some ways to get in. The most exciting part is finding out who did it. You never would have thought it was that person. WOW!

GOOD AND EVIL: A NEW DIRECTION is an amazingly readable and thorough inquiry into the nature of human ethics from a purely secular point of view. Without God or any supernatural force outside of human beings (who likely came into existence by evolutionary chance), what is the true nature of morality? What can be the purpose of life? Richard Taylor explores these grand questions with disarming clarity and a sense of exciting discovery. Unlike so many other writers and philosophers in the field, Taylor avoids the usual pitfalls of circular arguments and cheated "self-evident" givens to defend secular morality and meaning. Indeed, Taylor's is the most rigorously honest and solid exploration of secular morality I have yet read, from the classics to the moderns. Instead of the typical appeal to reason alone, which Taylor cogently argues can never truly explain or defend morality, GOOD AND EVIL appeals first and foremost to innate human desire and will. His crisp style and easy use of fable and analogy (most notably, clever variations of the Sisyphus myth) make this book appropriate for the casual reader and advanced philisophy student alike. Remaining true to a purely secular view without condescension toward other points of view, Taylor not only offers airtight explanations of morality and meaning, but he sends the reader off with a greater sense of hope and joy than do many theological and spiritual texts on the same topic. No matter what one's personal point of view is, this book is a must for all who ask the big questions and find the answers lacking. Hell, it's a must for those who feel they have the complete answers, too!

A beautifully woven piece of work that shares the trials and travails of parenthood, Taylor's return to surfing in the formidable yet inspiring waters of Byron Bay, and a reminder of how to love even the most minute aspects of life.

Beyond excellent, without a doubt. Enjoy.

I bought my first deck twelve years ago and avidly began studying them. I read numerous books, and none of them taught you how to read the cards like this book does. It teaches you how to tap your intuitive powers and to be able to read tarot, instead of giving you another conflicting interpretation to memorize. If your only going to buy one tarot book, make this one it!!!

Gives McSweeney's a run for thier money. I am now eagerly awaiting works from several of these contributers.

The author calls his book a "rejoicing" and his affection and respect for honeybees is readily evident in his lively, interesting and perceptive writing. Indeed, he lets us know that beekeeping is an art and the results of our working with and observing bees may result in far more than the delicious comb honey which the author favors. Richard Taylor, besides a beekeeper and author in this field, is, additionally, a teacher--a professor of philosophy. I, like many others I suspect, enjoy being one of his students and dancing with him and his bees in this wonderful ballroom called life.

I found the book to be extremely interesting. I was impressed that the author was actully the general manager of the Hacienda and traces the history of one of the first Las Vegas "mega-resorts". Mr. Taylor gives insight on the internal workings of a Las Vegas hotel that only someone who is an insider could. As with all of Mr. Taylor's books on historical events, it is filled with interesting information from well preserved archives. It would be worth your while to purchase if you have an interest in the history of Las Vegas or the hotel industry.

Can't wait to see this one. Lilla and Dworkin is like a collaboration between Ken Vandermark and Wynton Marsalis.