Whether you're interested in researching a house's history to start a historic neighborhood society or to aid your genealogical research, you'll find great details here for how to determine the age of a home.

The book explains how changes in technology and the American landscape affected home construction. Rooms used to have multiple functions until the Victorian era, when they became more specialized and each room acquired a specific function. Some functional rooms, such as the 'family room' and the garage would not appear until the end of WWII, as a result of the baby boom and increased mobility.

You will learn about common building methods and how homes in specific regions were affected by cultural and environmental influences.

There are also interesting anecdotes about unusual discoveries... such as the story about the woman who was puzzled about groove marks in the floor of a room, until she learned that the building had once been a dentist office, and the dentist used to roll the dental chair across the floor in that spot.

Each chapter contains a useful bibliography, and the section on finding written records is good too.

This is a good intermediate book for the student of hypnosis. Besides presenting numerous techniques, this book discusses the "hypnotic seal" which a few doctors and psychologists have (unwisely) planted into the subconscious minds of some of their patients in order to prevent others from hypnotizing their patients. While somewhat dated, it is a classic. This book was used as reference in The Art of Hypnosis.

A very well illustrated book with a simple way to explain "modus operandi" to install and maintain dental implants. Very good to day-by-day dentist consultation.

Dr. Freedman has succinctly explained the Intifada in an accessible and interesting manner.

This book is really good, I read the out of date version, cause thats all we basically have at our lousy school library. Anyway, this book portrays of a teenage girl who doesnt tell the truth of her life to a poor boy she falls in love with in Central Park while singing for the tourists to make money. I read this book in 2 days, and when I returned it the librarian said "was this a good book?" and i said it waz excelent and she said "well ok, i guess ill read it now too!". Ever since i returned it, i keep thinking bout it! I wish there was a sequel!!

Elspeth Baker is is almost 19 when we meet her. She's an intelligent college coed, a red-haired beauty, unmarried and pregnant. Everyone around her seems to know just how she should handle her predicament, but Elspeth has some strong opinions herself on that subject. As she goes about making those opinions known, the reader is swept up in her life.

Elspeth has an infallible you-know-what detector and isn't shy about letting anyone know when it's beeping loudly, including rabbis, doctors, nurses, or any other authority figure. She says to a pompous would-be author trying to put the make on her, "...sometimes it's hard to tell a wordsmith from a bullshitter. It's a very thin line. You think a book like 'A Fireplace in Winter' isn't literature because it doesn't have all this obscurity and beautiful language that's hard to understand. But obscurity and veiled references, and allusions and allusions, showing how sensitive they are--that isn't everything. Maybe the reason some of these guys make their books so hard to understand is that if people could understand it, they'd know it's just a bunch of crap."

Although the book is almost 700 pages, the pages are turned quickly because you'll want to know what Elspeth will say and do next. Mr. Kaufmann has cannily caught every nuance of speech and mannersim of a 19-year-old girl. The reader can't help but fall in love with her as she tries to set her life in order.

You can read my review of this book in the Journal of Rehabilitation, vol 68 (1), 53

This book has 1 main character, Will Dean, and three secondary level characters that change his life forever. It is a suspenseful story of an attorney brought up on 1st degree murder charges and only he really knows that the killing was in self-defense. This book is not of the courtroom genre but looks at the effects the legal system has on a number of people. The book raises interesting thoughts on the death sentence and even hints at a theory of the JFK assassination. I found the book easy to read, very suspenseful and yet I felt I got to know Will and his family personally. Some of the violence is graphic but is not superfluous to the story. I would highly recommend the book to anyone who loves a good, thought provoking read.

Myron Goldfinger designs some of the most impressive homes. The book covers a wide collection of his unique designs. Ultra modern!

My father was a son of the manse who lived a life of commitment to his faith and love of people. He was a stirring pastor who always had time to counsel, visit the home-bound and hospital-interned. His motto with those with whom he disagreed was 'you may be right.'