this book is awsome. Joe Montana, probably one of the greatest QBs ever shares his tips and secrets with the readers. Montana discusses everything from certain exercises to do, how to gain more accuracy, what's kinds of defenses there are, how you should grip the football, the different passing patters, and how he used to prepare during the week for an up and coming game. he goes through his mental preparation and what he's thinking in the first quarter, the second quarter, the adjustments at the half, the third, and then the 4th quarter.
Montana also preaches unity and team. he never places himself above his teamates and always credits the people around him for his success. his offensive line, his running backs, coaches, wide recievers, and his parents.

good book for any kid interested in becoming a QB or for anyone who just needs a little inspiration.

Joe Montana gives fans of all ages the complete package of quarterbacking. He breaks down every little detail associated with the position. This should be the right hand textbook for anyone wanting to play QB. A beautiful photo gallery is depicted in each chapter.

I'm admittedly certifiably crazy about football, the San Fransisco 49ers and Joe Montana. But even discounting those facts, this is one of THE best books ever written on football. Joe really KNOWS football and he and his co-writer really allow you to get INTO his head from a position underneath the center and indeed, from positions all over the field. The diagrams and Joe's explanations of all the intricacies of the game are more than worth the cost of the book, even for veteran watchers of the game. Joe is not only knowledgeable, but gracious and humorous! Having been lucky enough to talk with Joe more than once I can guarantee the truth of those three adjectives to describe him. This book was SO good I sent a copy to my friends in Germany who are also 49er fans (one really LIKES diagrams and one really LIKES Jerry Rice!) I sincerely hope Joe writes MORE books in future. Merfuff

With so many specialized dictionaries abounding, it's a pleasure to report that Weiner's is truly useful for today's communicator. As an advertising/public relations practitioner with a deep interest in the graphic arts, I actually enjoyed finding so many technical terms accurately and often wittily defined. If you're looking for a minibrute to do your bidding, need an Oxberry unit, a Goudy other than Curt, or need a few minutes with a goyu, you're in luck here. You'll even find a goon stand or two, plus a much needed puncheon. All in all, a very valuable and solid book. It is now on my desk permanently, along with Skeat's Etymological Dictionary (1910) and the American Heritage Dictionary (1992). I've been using it daily for the past three months. Highly recommended.

"Webster's New World Dictionary of Media and Communications" By Richard Weiner, Macmillan Publishing ISBN 0-02-860611-6 The glossaries that are on web sites usually are too skimpy, in number and length of the definitions. That's why most of us still use dictionaries and other reference books. One of the most useful specialized dictionaries is Webster's New World Dictionary of Media and Communications, recently published by Macmillan. The 678-page paperback is the most comprehensive collection ever published of technical and slang terms in 28 fields, including advertising, computer, film, journalism, marketing, printing, public relations, radio, telecommunications, television and theater. Written by Richard Weiner, a renowned public relations counselor, the book combines easy-to-read definitions with useful information for students and experts. The 35,000 "base entries" and related terms are more than in any advertising, film, literacy, television or theater dictionary. Several hundred definitions are not in any other dictionary. Another unique feature is the global orientation, with hundreds of British, Canadian, French, German and Japanese words used by film buffs and business people. Listings include abbreviations, acronyms, associations, awards, biographical dates and several hundred major companies in the media and communications fields, including headquarters cities. Current jargon, nicknames and slang are supplemented with historical information, particularly 19th century printing and publishing terms that are still used. Pithy comments call attention to words that are commonly used incorrectly, misspelled or mispronounced. The book will be useful to the many millions of people who are employed in the broadcasting, postal, promotion, telephone and other communications fields, as well as to freelancers, students, writers and computer users, and the many people who are media buffs.

At a job interview, or on the job,it really helps to speak to kmow the lingo of the field. This book has thousands of definitions of technical and slang words used by reporters, broadcasters, printers, advertisers, theatrical and many other media and communications fields, plus helpful hints. It is only $27.95, and Amazon's price is even less! I'm really excited about this investment, and it's easy to read and enjoy.

Chronic Pain: Assessment, Diagnosis, and Management by Michael S. Margoles Md, PhD and Richard Weiner PhD.

Someday they will look back on this era as the Dark Ages in chronic pain management. This book sheds some much-needed light into that darkness. In this field, there has been a pressing need for a book that is both comprehensive in scope and readily understandable. Michael S. Margoles MD, PhD is a board certified orthopedic surgeon and pain management specialist. Richard S. Weiner, PhD is executive director of the American Academy of Pain Management. Together, they edit this book, which fills that need. It contains the material that a medical care practitioner needs to assess, diagnose and manage chronic pain patients, the material is presented in such as way that it is accessible and of value to the patients as well.

This book includes chapters written by counselors, chiropractors, osteopathic doctors and those special chronic pain experts-the patients themselves. The dilemma of the modern day chronic pain physicians, primary care givers and pharmacists is presented. On one hand there is the need to treat the patient in the best way possible to maximize function and minimize pain, and on the other hand there is the very real fear of the DEA--government agents trained to deal with drug abusers and illegal narcotics, with very little understanding of chronic pain. The result is that patients turn to the "Kevorkian option", due to their doctors' fears and lack of training. This book gives realistic, well-documented guidelines for the use of opioids in the care of chronic pain care. True patient stories give an intensity and humanity to this struggle that goes on every day and night, and will continue to do so until this problem is resolved. This book gives suggestions for the resolution of this problem. One of these is medical coding for myofascial pain syndrome, the most common source of chronic pain, which has been mostly ignored by the medical and insurance professionals simply because it is a complex condition.

As a chronic pain patient as well as care giver, I hope that this book finds its way into every library. I pray that doctors and other care givers, chronic pain patients, medical board members, insurers and drug enforcement agents read it, and become enlightened.

Very useful for those who have been practicing as well as those going to practice ECT. Questions at the end of each chapter help the memory to retain the learned information. James Staudenmeier, MD, MPH

Levin and Weiner cover all the issues in this book, from food to soils to land use to participatory land reform. A critical and uncompromising look at the land reform process in South Africa. Up to date, precise, well written - without question it will become one of the key documents on the land reform process. Participatory research at its best. Bravo!

Having known Mr. Razzano for over 40 years it was with some enthusiasm that I read this book. Since each have a unique process of analyzing information I was very interested to see the nuts and bolts of one of the first and one of the best NFL Scouts. In looking back at some of the college scouting reports it is interesting to see how successful the judgements were. Everything about a player taken into account including character, intelligence, besides the size speed factor which is sometimes overated in my opinion. This was an excellent look inside one of the most successful NFL operations in recent memory, one that won 4 and contributed heavily to a fifth super bowl. I highly recommend this book if you want the facts.

Is it as simple as a princess in love being able to save the life of her beloved? You read it once and it sounds as a tale for kids. You read it twice and you can understand there's a circle that never ends. The lady or the tiger? or What would you choose when the choice is love or death?

Is it as simple as a princess in love being able to save her beloved's life? You read it once and it sounds as a tale for kids. You read it twice and you can understand there's a circle that never ends. The lady or the tiger? or What would you choose when the choice is love or death?

"In my idea the doors at the end of the story represent the struggle for someone in love and the travisty it causes."

One of the big reasons for reaching for a book on DirectX programming is that while the SDK documentation and examples are generally complete in content, they leave you wanting for both the 'big picture' and for a strategic feel for how to adapt DirectX for your specific needs. This book does nothing to help bridge that gap. The author makes early assumptions about the sort of program you want to write, then goes about writing wrapper classes that obscure all of the functional features of DirectX just to fit his unhelpful viewpoint. You'll spend most of your time with this book trying to track down what DirectX functions are called when, and if they're really necessary, or just the excess baggage of the author's desire to use the same code example for the entire text

This book presents experienced programmers with some help in understanding how to use DirectX. It assumes you already know how to program in Windows. Examples are concrete for the most part, with line by line descriptions of each one. Some take a little time to get through your head, though. The book tends to focus on the programming itself and not on how a certain item might be useful in an actual game. But all in all, it's a rather helpful book. One thing that's missing, though, is a handy reference of all DirectX functions briefly explaining each one. The one included with the DirectX SDK is none too helpful..

This book is a great find for experienced programmers who know nothing about DirectX. Some might complain about the wrapper functions, but they work fine if you don't fight them, and I've had great success incorporating them into my own programs. My chief gripes are the blocky pictures (some of the worst I've seen) and the lack of coverage for Direct3D Immediate Mode and DirectPlay. Of course in DX 3 you have to use execute buffers, which would take up too much space to explain, but DirectPlay could've used some for examples. Also, the supposedly "finished" game at the end of the book that tied everything together was designed horribly and ran rather slow. However, it's an overall good book and I would recommend it to any experience programmers wanting to make the jump to DirectX.

The title of this review is perhaps appropriate, as only one with the approximate intelligence of Elmer Fudd would give any merit to this convoluted, highly questionable stab at serious scholarship. And no, I'm not a hopeless Wagnerian who tailgates at the elitist festival at Bayreuth or who owns 50 different copies of Die Feen on CD. Wagner's anti-Semitism was real enough, but this book goes so far over the deep end that in the end it actually comes close to redeeming the accused (to a certain extent).

While not as obviously venomous as Paul Lawrence Rose's Wagner: Race, Revolution & Redemption, RW & the Anti-Semitic Imagination is just as questionable. Weiner's thesis is that all of the unpleasant characters in Wagner's later operas, with their appearance, smells & voices, are clandestine Jews. Weiner uses such airtight evidence as using another composer's (Mussorgsky) alleged anti-Semitic work to prove that Wagner was doing the same. I hope Mr. Weiner is never my attorney.

One of Weiner's favorite examples in trying to prove his thesis is The Ring's Alberich. Alberich is short, ugly, greedy, manipulative, and cruel to his own race. According to Weiner, this is proof positive that this character is a metaphor for Jewish people. Well....the Nibelungen, the race that Alberich enslaves with the ring & is a member of, were peaceful & not portayed by Wagner in a bad light before Alberich used the nasty little trinket. I suppose it never occurred to Weiner that the Nibelungen were depicted as dwarves in the saga centuries before Wagner even set the tale to music. Of the Nibelungen, only Alberich, Mime, and Hagen are shown as ruthless. The rest are downtrodden. Incidentally, Alberich is the only major character to survive the whole Ring cycle. If Wagner had truly genocidal feelings towards this metaphor, surely he would have had Wotan spear him in Rheingold.

Secondly, Weiner claims that Wagner had Hegelian notions of "the East" being a place of degeneracy and fear, while "the West" was enlightened. However, anyone who knows even a little about Wagner knows that Schopenhauer was a much bigger influence on his thinking than Hegel ever was. What were those statues of Buddha doing at Wahnfried? Why exactly did Wagner become a vegetarian? What is the entire premise of Tristan und Isolde? It was Schopenhauer's love of Eastern thought (primarily Buddhism) that motivated Wagner to formulate such things. Buddhist resignation, rather than any Teutonic drive to conquer, is at the heart of Wagner's later masterpieces.

If you want some good books that deal specifically with Wagner's anti-Semitism, I suggest Ring of Myths and/or The Darker Side of Genius. Unfortunately, both of these books are a little over Elmer's head.

Wagner's art is too profound and rich to be viewed as Marc Weiner desperately tries to convince us it should, ie, a tool of hate propaganda. Taking Weiner too serioulsly would only impoverish our experience of Wagner's operas. Weiner is so bigoted that he can only see hate in every note of Wagner's operas. Do not let it diminish the rich experience there is in Wagner's works awating for those who want to really explore them.

The most naked flaw of the book is that its rather simple themes are described in graduate school vocabulary of the most indulgent kind. Often, complex ideas require complex language. But here, there is little complexity beyond word choice. For example, instead of 'walk' Weiner consistently chooses 'perambulate'. Is MW's tongue in his cheek? Is he punishing us for all his years of educational drudgery? Is he (un)consciously emulating Wagner's steriotype of Jewish intellectuals being little more than stuffed shirts spouting flashy, showy, yet ultimately shallow knowledge? Other examples:

perambulatory peregrination

topoi, gustatory, mephitic

(he uses vouchafe at least 4 times!)

A big diction (my penis may be small but I have a huge diction...) is an asset, but MW continually trips over it. Obsfucation, like sloppy handwriting, is an aid to the inept--it forces the confused reader to assume that the writer has made some sort of profound point when in fact there is little beyond the vocabulary. But this style is endemic to academia, and it contributes to no one 'in the real world' taking academics seriously. More odiously, an anti-semite could take such an observation, combine it with the disproportionate representation of Jews in the academy vis a vis general population, and conclude that MW's book is evidence of the deleterious effect of Jewish thinking on higher education [pretentious word choice deliberate]. In this light, MW's book becomes fodder for high-brow anti-semites--and I assume that this was not his point. But again, this is a style problem, and there are much worse examples out there, I just can't think of one right now.

The content is simple. But even more simple than MW realizes. In the 19th c. Jews were often associated with 'bad' or evil attributes. So much so, that if one were to make an opera with an evil character, then the attributes of that character could be construed as Jewish. Furthermore, there any fool can find anti-semitism in a Wagner opera, particularly if one looks for it. But that is the beauty of Wagner. There is such a degree of complexity to his work, so many levels of interpretation, that one can find a myriad of meanings. I believe MW is on to something. But it is not profound, it is overdone, and it misses much more profound and meaningful levels of interpretation. The book would make a nice thesis, especially if it was shortened to about 100pp. But the book oversimplifies Wagner's operas, and it has the potential to ruin a reader's couriosity in Wagnerian opera, especially if that reader is sensitive and Jewish. And if you want to hate Wagner as a person, which I do, or if you think you like him, read 'Köhler's Nietsche and Wagner, A Lesson in Subjugation'. Here is a book that gives you more than you thought possible. And if you want some high-brow-dirt on Wagner or Nietzsche, its here.