Mario Party 2 is obviously the sequel to Mario Party where you and up to 3 other characters compete in a board game loaded with mini games and fierce, intense competition. This is really fun to play without the guide, but the guide tells everything. It shows the behaviors of all the computer-controlled characters, all the secrets for the six adventure boards, and thoroughly explains accurate strategies for all 56 mini games. Although, it doesn't have anything extra. Most of the mini game strategies won't be realized right away so get this to show all your friends who's boss.

It explains the game so well.

This book can be found at the Montello Museum in Key West. There also is a new book about Mario called, Mario Sanchez, Before and After. by Nance Frank , Key West Press.Both are very good with prints and copy,Very informative and enjoyable.

Massage Made Easy begins with background information on the history and benefits of massage, basic massage strokes, and information about acupressure and reflexology. The rest of the book consists of massage routines for specific goals, including relaxation, and relief of backache, tension headache, and joint pains. The reader is given a step-by-step routine of which stokes to perform, and acupressure and reflexology techniques. The routines are illustrated with hundreds of color photographs that show exactly how to do it. Important safety guidelines and information about massage oils are also provided. Overall, I found this book very interesting and easy to understand.

As a middle school substitute teacher, I'm always looking for things to use as daily problem to open the class with. This book is GREAT!! Problems are divided by topic so it easy to pick & choose. Answers are completely explained.

On the surface of it, you wouldn't think a book such as this had much to offer us today, but you would be wrong. It belongs to a class of books which teach what I call the art of 'Crooked Wisdom,' but which could be more simply thought of as the art of survival in a far from perfect world.

Other books of this kind are Machiavelli's 'The Prince,' Balthasar Gracian's 'The Art of Worldly Wisdom,' and the 'Maxims of La Rochefoucauld.' Although the first of these may be a little too specialized to suit the needs of the ordinary person today, anyone who doesn't know one or two of the others, unless they happen to be exceptionally astute, is asking for trouble.

These books are both highly realistic and extremely practical, for they show us, not man as he is supposed to be and as we would like him to be, but man as he is with all his selfishness, stupidity, ambition, arrogance, malice, laziness and other imperfections, and they teach the art of how, not merely to survive, but even to thrive in the midst of our far from perfect fellow men and women.

'Crooked Wisdom,' then, should not be understood as the product of a crooked mind, but as the clear-sighted wisdom one needs to survive in a world teeming with such minds, a world involved in "the sordid struggle of self-interests, and in the scramble for power, position, and influence."

Another way of looking at 'Crooked Wisdom' is to see it as the art of avoiding dumb mistakes, an art based on a deep insight into human nature and into the quirks and foibles of our fellow men and women.

I first read Guicciardini many years ago, and on re-reading him was surprised to realize how many of his maxims had lodged themselves firmly in my mind, how I continued to act on them, and how they had served me very well indeed. I just wish I had remembered many more.

Here are a few brief examples of Guiccardini's counsel: "Small beginnings, hardly worthy of notice, are often the cause of great misfortune or success." "It is easy to ruin a good position, but very hard to acquire it." "It is prudent not to talk about one's own affairs except when necessary." "If you have offended a man, do not trust or confide in him...." "The weakest always get it in the neck." "Be careful in your conversations never to say anything which, if repeated, might displease others." "A ducat in your purse does you more credit than ten you have spent." "Deception is very useful, whereas your frankness tends to profit others rather than you."

Taken out of context, these fragments hardly do justice to Guiccardini, and suggest little of the importance he will come to have for anyone who takes the trouble to read his fascinating book. It was written to help his contemporaries survive their version of the rat-race and even come out on top, and since human nature hasn't changed it still has the power to do the same thing for you. All you need do is read it.

Dr Sideris has painstakingly sieved through enormous amounds of information contained in patents in order to select from them and present in an organised and structured way the state of the art for the technology in this field and the separate contributions of the companies involved.

The book brings up to date anyone interested in the field of Catalytic Converter technology.

It would be particularly useful for the use of engineering and science students who are interested in this area as well as for people already working in it that need to have a consise reference covering all the technology and easy to consult.

PT

One of the easiest books I have seen for teacher use. The activities require little preparation and materials. Students become actively involed with various aspects of the English Language. I can find activities for all levels and age groups.

A wonderful introduction into the world of Multimedia.

NAKED AS WATER is a very exotic volume, a translation by Grazio Falzon of the work of Mario Azzopardi, a contemporary Maltese who writes in Maltese, a language which is a rare blend of Arabic and Italian/Sicilian. The poems themselves are a studied primitivism filled with the primal reality of sea, sun and moon but always with a sophisticated awareness of the "isms" of 20th century art and literature. Or is it possible that this meditation on the nature of time is independent of any referencing back to Dali? ----- "Time is flat/ minute hands roll down stunned/ dripping anstractions..." ( "Suite 345" p. 26 ) (HUGH FOX - Small Press Review, Nov. 1996)