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Unfortunately, From the Earth to the Moon always struck me as being on the rather dull side, so it took me a while to get through it the first time I read it. I can't really recommend this to many, except perhaps those interested in the history of science fiction, or really big Verne fans. The story of the first trip to Earth's satellite.

Jules Verne, the father of science fiction, made several predictions
that came true in this book. The book is exciting from cover to cover.
It deserves more credit than it seems to be getting. It was written over
one hundred years ago. I would recommend this book to any science fiction
fan. Danny Fleming, author of How to Prove The Collatz Conjecture.

I love the way that Verne ended the book! His sense of humor is so subtle, and yet so great.

My boyfriend bought From the Earth to the Moon, and since he is an Astrophysics student I expected that he would have enjoyed finding about people's conceptions about going to the moon at that early time. He however summed up the book by saying that it contained a lot of basic things didn't make much sense. Well, from a layman's perspective I found from the Earth to the Moon engaging. It goes into the technical aspects of going to the moon and involves a reasonable amount of logic, Physics and Astronomy. Even from my scientifically deprived perspective, a lot of things in the book didn't make much sense, such as the actual method of getting to the moon, but this doesn't really take away from the book - it adds greatly to its appeal. The book contained some bizarre bits of humour and its whimsical nature never bordered into the ridiculous. I was kept wondering how much of this was actually going to work, and what these poor souls were going to come up with next. Compared to Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and even Journey to the Centre of the Earth however, From the Earth to the Moon is noticeably less imaginative. Verne uses everyday objects and ideas to make his ideas a reality, and much unlike his other works, doesn't stray far from the earthly. Some people may feel cheated by the predictable conclusion, but all in all From the Earth to the Moon is a good read. If you drop at the sight of f(x) = y, then this book is not for you because it involves some logical thinking, Centripetal forces and the like which may be hard to assimilate. If you really know your Physics theory then you may not appreciate the book either because of the theoretical meanderings that may have limited basis today. If you, like me are somewhere in the middle of these two extremes then From the Earth to the Moon is definitely worth your time.

This translation, one of the Barnes and Noble "Classics Editions", is the 1874 English translation by Edward Roth, a Philadelphia school-teacher. In no sense a translation, it is more a parody or retelling of the French original with many embelishments and additions by the author. The editor is Aaron Parett, an English professor from Montana. In an appendix the editor mentions that for furthur reading one might try the complete translation by Walter James Miller, "The Annotated Jules Verne: From the Earth to the Moon" published by Crowell: 1978 and reprinted by Gramercy: 1995. (In reading reviews, make sure the review applies to this ISBN: 07060765197)

the writer is writing the book about himself hoping to have the reader to benefit out of his own history... it is not the case really.

to start with, the language is not good at al. when it comes to chess the writer is like pouring though chunks here and there.

This book has excellent annotation. Well, there's so much more, including Yermolinsky's personal experiences with Soviet training and his gradual advance into the world's 2600+ elite. In conclusion, 'The Road to Chess Improvement' is an honest and sincere book, as well as an top-notch read. I should mention that it is primarily aimed at advanced players, but it could not fail to help those above 1600. For anyone looking to improve and to understand the modern game in a fresh way, I believe that this is one of the most exciting and provocative works to appear in years.

This excellent review was written by A J Goldsby of Pensacola, FL. I have reposted it here as it deserves to be seen by as many people as possible. Mr Goldsby is one of the best and most objective book reviewers and a credit to the Amazon review system.

Dozens - if not hundreds - of people have written me and asked me to review to review this book. I have had the book for close to a year now. I have played over perhaps a hundred of the examples, 10-20 in great detail. And I have just plain 'read' the book from cover-to cover at least twice. And I have also "polled" dozens of players - both in person at chess tournaments, and on the Internet - about this book.
At first I was a little critical of many of the examples in this book, (he only uses his own games to illustrate points that could have been accomplished by better known examples)- but the text is pretty clear and concise. I will give a very small extract from the book later, and you can judge for yourself.

I am a "Chess Pro" (A LIFE-Master), ... for over 5 years now I have made a living teaching chess ... both in person and lately - sometimes giving 3-7 lessons in a [good] day on the Internet. So my questions about this book were twofold: #1.) Is it a GOOD teaching vehicle? # 2.) Is it something the average chess player would benefit from?

Another hard consideration is there are dozens of chess books out there on the market today - all promising improvement. So why should I listen to this guy? (Especially when I could buy the series from Lev Alburt?) Well the answer is pretty simple, this guy is NOT a yutz: this is a [former] U.S. Champion who at one time had played in like 8 consecutive U.S. Championship events. He has won many large open tournaments in the USA and has even played very creditably on the International Chess scene. He is an extremely well known teacher and has written many respected articles for newspapers and magazines on chess. He is also a product of the highly vaunted "Soviet School" of chess - their teaching methods are well known and have produced all but one of the chess World Champions since Botvinnik.

I am not sure I agree with the layout of this book, I might have done it differently - but this is more of an ergonomic and stylistic remark than a valid criticism. There are sections on everything from the Benoni structure to advice on how to handle complex tactical positions. There is also some very frank and extremely instructive advice and commentary on some of the endgames.

In the introduction the author tells you that this book is, "essentially a collection of A. Yemolinsky's games and analysis." (In the Introduction.) So the only question remains did he come through on the two basic questions that I posed above?

Well, a good question to see would be to find one of my own weaknesses and see if the author could help me in this area? The answer was yes.

On page 51, we find an extremely detailed explanation - and the beginning of a whole section of analysis - on, "The Burden Of Small Advantages." (Steadily converting a small ad vantage is an area I have had a lot of problems with.) Here is an extract, I have started with near the end of one paragraph, and the start of another, simply to make a point.
<< they are described as 'plus over equal' in chess literature; and that's the most popular evaluation we find in Opening Books -"White is slightly better."
The positional theory of Steinitz - Tarrasch teaches us (as generations of chess players before) to attack when we are better, otherwise the advantage will disappear - some sort of 'use it or lose it' advice. And we should follow it ... >> VERY good words!
(The author has a dialogue that runs well over one whole page, see the sample pages if you would like more examples of the author's style of writing.)

The next few examples I found to be VERY illustrative - and both entertaining and instructive. I went over them many times, one time playing the main lines out on a big chess board, and looking at the side-lines on a small wooden peg board ... AND a magnetic set. The first example (in this section) is Adelman - Yermolinsky. He shows how White, (who is a very strong player); took a very seemingly equal and harmless position - with almost no visible weaknesses - and went on to lose. I think I learned a great deal from this section. But the real question is not whether he can teach a chess pro; but whether or not the average player would find this book of any real instructional value.

I took one of the examples- with a diagram - copied it, word-for-word; (with a few sparse comments from me); and sent it out to dozens of my friends and students. (Both on the Internet and in the U.S. Mail.) I also asked as many people about this book (esp. in person, at a chess tourney); as I could. The responses were overwhelmingly positive. A medical doctor - who is currently the Pensacola Chess Club's president; felt this was a great book. A player in Tallahassee, FL said, "This is a GREAT book, one anyone could learn from." A player from Kansas, whom I teach on the Internet, said, "This was - without a doubt - the best chess book I had ever read." (!!) A player from Mobile, AL (who attends college there), called this, "A VERY good instructional book!" Of the nearly 30 players who responded, only 1 "Class D" player said, "This is probably good stuff, but I felt it was a little over my head."

My honest take on this book is that it is a VERY good teaching book. I would give it an 8.5, on a scale of one to ten. I also think it is like one of Shrek's onions, it has MANY layers. I.e., I feel almost any player who applied themselves seriously to this book, (a 6-12 month study course); would show DRAMATIC IMPROVEMENT! My only criticism is that a very inexperienced or lower-rated player would be a little lost with this book. Highly recommended for players in the 1700-2199 ratings bracket!!
A good buy (One-volume!) and excellent instruction from one of the United State's strongest and most successful players!!

I've just re-read this book after reading the recently-released 'Chess for Zebras' by Jonathan Rowson (Gambit Publications) and I have been struck by their complementary nature. Rowson, like Yermolinsky, deals with how difficult it is to improve as an adult player, and explores the psychology of chess-playing. But while Rowson is an academic, with a somewhat detached and scientific attitude to the problem, Yermolinsky is much more down-to-earth. And yet, both are basically saying the same thing - to improve, you must play, you must learn to calculate, and you must subject your own games to rigorous analysis to find out what you do wrong. Both have applied this approach to their own chess, and have continued to make progress well beyond the age when most of us find our ratings have been
written in stone.

I may be doing Rowson a disservice here, but it seems to me that although he recognises the effect of emotion on his chess, he seeks to eliminate it. Yermolinsky, on the other hand, seeks to use it - to feed off his own passions and to exploit the weaknesses of the human across the board. Since I can't imagine how I could stop being emotional at the chess-board, Yermolinsky's approach has a certain appeal! In a highly illuminating portion of this book, he explains the idea of 'trends' in a game - from good position to bad, from attacking position to defending. The way you feel about a position may depend on how you reached it, and your psychological state at that point might work for or against you. If a demoralised opponent realises you're dithering in your attack and don't know what to do, he may take heart again and defend resourcefully. Yermolinsky shows you how trends can be identified, and gives advice on how to reverse a trend which is not going your way.

What you won't find (in either of these books) are shortcuts to success. These guys put in the work, and improved, and they believe the rest of us can do it too with a bit of a push. I'd almost put this book on the 'modern psychology' shelves in a bookshop - it's certainly not an instant-soup-type solution to daily woes, but it is an equivalent to sound cognitive-therapy-type books that aim to improve your confidence and happiness. This one improves your chess, which in my opinion means a lot more confidence and happiness!

I am disappointed with this book. It contains just a bunch of articles about different chess topics, illustrated (mainly) with the author games. The articles are rather interesting and well written, games well annotated but ... it is hard to find the idea behind the book as a whole.

I found this very interesting. Although not cruicial to the story of Civil War, it does provide a sound background as to how it all got started and is very cruicial, in my opinion, in understanding the Civil War in its entirety. Definately a good read!

Good points and not so good points.

The concept is outstanding and a long time coming, in my opinion. The overall story is great, one of the best to come out in a while, not as good as DC's Kingdome Come or Justice, but very good all the same.

On the down side, why can't the art on the inside be as good as the art on the cover??? I gess not everyone can be an Alex Ross, alas. Also, the writing really leaves something to be desired. Way too long-winded.

Powerful plotting people.


This gives some of the backstory to the whole Civil War brouhaha in that we again see that some of the most powerful Marvel Universe hero leaders meet in secret to discuss how they should look at the world and their operations in it.

The beginnings of the political split that causes a lot of conflict is here, with Namor and Dr. Strange opposed to Reed Richards and Tony Stark. The X-Men's influence is again negligible.

You know, this is just a great book, a great story leading up to another great story arc, and a cataclysmic event for the Marvel Universe. And really, who else would it be other than these men (Xavier, Reed Richards, Tony Stark, Namor, Black Bolt, and Black Pather--did I forget anyone). They may not be your favorites, but who else would be on this council?

Avengers: Illuminati is really the only comic in this collection that I enjoyed. I was hoping for the entire collection to be more about them, however it was really a random story involving the fantastic four and Thor's hammer and Spiderman's falling into the hands of Tony Stark.
Absolutely not necessary for the Civil War storyline.

The Illuminati story is useful for the new World War Hulk storyline though.

After two miscarriages I desperatley wanted answers, this book did help some but really didn't offer me any answers. If your miscarriage is due to chromosomal abnormalities this book will not really help - if it was due to a specific condition this would be helpful.

This book is excellenet and a must read. It offers a lay man's summary of the causes of miscarriage, what to expect in terms of medical care and testing, and discusses recurrent miscarriages. It also includes a chapter on coping with miscarriages. I cannot recommend this book enough. It was well worth the money.

This is one of the most unhelpful books on miscarriage out there. I bought it when I was going through losses and quite honestly it made me feel like there was no hope and no answers. I now have two healthy boys as a result of the latest tests and treatments for immune system problems, thanks to being recommended the book by Dr Alan Beer. Finally, I discovered the reason for my losses and was able to get treated. I am writing this to save others from the heartache I went through.

After having gone through two miscarriages, I found Dr. Lerner's book wonderfully helpful. It helped me understand why I probably had my miscarriages and made me feel positive about going ahead to try to get pregnant again. I think anyone who has had a miscarriage and feels bad about it -- and I think everyone who goes through it does -- will benefit from reading this book. We did!

This is a very general book, and almost dismissive of the first time sufferer. My circumstances do not make me the proper audience for this book, and it is not for the person with difficulty in conceiving, with an underlying health condition, a woman over 35, and a host of others. The explanations are fairly elementary, and like another reviewer, find that many other publications contradict his theories. If this is the "best book on m/c available", then I need to go to the Medical School library.

In my personal experience, I find that the author has only a cursory grasp of thyroid and auto-immune issues, and in fact confuses Grave's disease for Hashimoto's. If one is to write a book which will encroach on specialties other than one's own, have the proper specialists at least review it! The best part of the book is the section on the psychological aspect of pregnancy loss. This is the only book I have seen which discussed the differences a man and woman may feel through a miscarriage.

Not the book for me. The author makes it seem as though, suffering "only" one miscarriage, regardless of my circumstances, I do not deserve to "drain the national healthcare" in my quest for answers. Keep looking.

"9/11 the Descent into Tyranny" is an exceptional book that is vital to the inside job argument. The inquiry raised in this book begs to differ from the mainstream media's opposition to the obvious fact, and that fact is terrorist acts were inflicted upon the American people in the last two decades, and rogue elements in our government sponsored these sanguineous acts? Of course, after reading this book you'll start to speculate that this is indeed the case.

After all, all of the question (Radio talk show host/documentary filmmaker) Alex Jones raises are legitimate and need to be answered, but I won't list them all, you'll have to read the book and gather the details. But, here is a taste of what you'll encroach upon.

1:Was Timothy McVeigh set up, and were there Arab agents working for the FBI when the Murrah building came crashing down? The answer is probably yes based on the overwhelming evidence!

2: Did George W. Bush sign executive order W199I, which halted the FBI's investigation of Al'Qaeda? The document (W199I) that BBC reporter Greg Palast uncovered supports that Bush committed treason, while having foreknowledge about the upcoming 9/11 attack and Bush managed to block the investigation before and after the crime of the century transpired.

3:Will the globalists plan to implant microchips to track our every move? More evidence particularly from mainstream news source supports this thesis/fact.

4:Will we lose our sovereignty, and end up forced to adhere to a one-world government in the auspices of the North American Union, and have to live in a cashless society controlled by the Bilderberg Group, and the Money Trust?

5: Will the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) be activated, and will we be under permanent marshal law? It's obvious that this out come is most likely when you consider House Resolution H.R 4079.

Overall, Alex Jones gathers credible documentation and eyewitnesses to support his thesis. Everyone must read Alex's book it is imperative that this information reaches the masses.

At this point in my review, I'll have to ask you to be mindful that Alex's book falls in lines with his documentary film "9/11 the Road to Tyranny" and much of this book is just a reprinted transcript of the film. However, this book is chalked full of extras. Alex interviews Greg Palast about the 2002 stock market fraud, which the mainstream media acquiesced to covered up.
Alex also exposes that the environmental movement is really a United Nations cover to confiscate land from the American people, placing much of the United States under UN jurisdiction, and, last, but certainly not least; an exposé of the Bohemian Grove and the Cremation of Care ceremony, which is an eye-opener.
However, not all of what's in this book is melancholic. There is light at the end of the tunnel. Alex ends his diatribe from a quixotic angle by reprinting the "Bill of Rights" and the "Declaration of Independence," which every household should possess a copy of.
"9/11 Descent into Tyranny" is a must read that will give you a lot to ponder upon.

9/11 was an inside job and the New World Orders plans must not be realized!
"Power to the People!"

Unless your a "true believer" (aka insane), don't bother reading any of Jones' books. But for sheer freak entertainment value, check out his dvd called "Path to 9/11," or something like that. Obviously the only people who will appreciate his brand of "documentary" filmmaking are delusional true believers of everything conspiratorial, but if you can stomach over two hours of his growling, used car salesman voice, the movie has its entertaining moments. For example, he "disrupts" a lone news reporter's coverage of a staged chemical spill with a bull horn, screaming "Fake staged event! Fake staged event!" The bewildered reporter finishes her report, then gives a classic "What the %&*@! was that?" look into the camera. Then the camera pans over to reveal a very proud looking Jones, who obviously thinks he's just exposed a major truth. It's classic!
But don't waste your money (or help line Jones' pockets) by actually purchasing any of his drivel. Just call up your friendly, neighborhood "9/11 Truther" and he or she will be more than happy to give you a copy (along with at least an hour long speech on how Bush is Satan, skull and bones, Bohemian Grove, blah, blah, blah...)

I agree with those that suggest that the author goes over the top sometimes, but I will also be quite explicit in saying that I think Alex Jones is a very important part of the patriotic truth movement, and all that he does is in my view at least 80% vital to improving public intelligence in the public interest.

This book plays out a theme that relates the bombing of the Federal Building in Oklahoma with 9-11, and I read through it at the same time that I was watching the DVD "Painful Questions" which actually had news clips about additional unexploded bombs being found in the Federal Building after the fact.

I am increasingly frustrated as I read so many of these books, each with vital tid-bits, many of which I can see correlating with one another, but yet no one anywhere has cut the spines off all these great books, digitized them, and created a visual diagram that makes sense of all this.

One thing I am certain of: the White House and Larry Silverstein are both hiding information from the public, and one day we will have proof of the degree to which elements of our own government allowed 9-11 to happen and went the extra step of helping to murder thousands of Americans solely and exclusively to manipulate a mandate for combining a police state at home with a unilateral ;militarism-terrorism abroad.

This may not be the total truth and there is no book that can explain the total truth about 9/11. But i'll bet you Alex Jones comes closer to exposing the government involvement in 9/11 than the corporate media. What iam trying to say is Jones is more credible than the media which is twisted to what your supposed to believe. And what your supposed to believe is not true. The US government was involved in 9/11 and used it to create a never ending war, justify taking away our liberties so they can become more powerful and make us scared so we let them take our liberties away. If you cant see that by now you never will. Spread the word, we must be heard.

It is a sad sign of the times that so many people have apparently swallowed Alex Jones's ramblings and disconnected assertions hook, line and sinker.

Seems like they tried very hard to get the book out very fast to capitalize on the "WAP craze" that was happening a year or so ago. It shows -- it's incomplete, inconsistent, poorly written, and even full of typos. Try "Dynamic WAP application development" instead, it's more complete and better written.

this was one of the first complete WAP books. The book covers all the begining and advanced topics. I recommend this book to someone with good previous knowledge of web development.

This is the best way to get really confused before writing your first WAP application. Try Ben Forta. Application programmers need a simplified architecture showing what is relevant to their task. This book is not relevant to my task. I regret I bought it.

I took 3 hours this past weekend to quickly read through this one and decided to send it back. Each of the sections doesn't work with the others & I didn't find the sample applications very helpful. It's got a great deal of information, it just needs to be organized more clearly.

I consider this book to be the best for giving introduction about all the aspects of WAP. I guess the title "Professional" misled the people. This book is very nicely laid out and contents are good. (The)... examples are not all that great in some of the chapters. For instance examples in Java, ASP, JSP areas are great but in the push/pull technology chapters, there are no examples at all.

Still this gave me very good insight of WAP and helped me to finish my first project on WAP.

I would definitely recommend this to any beginner to WAP. For others, this is not the book.

Back To Salem is Marcoux's second book and is significantly better than her first, Facades. The improvement is so significant that I wonder how Marcoux managed to get so much better so quickly.

Back to Salem is a psychic, past life, karmic cycle, new-age thriller. Normally I don't read much of this stuff, but it was on the top of the pile. The plot is farfetched. Really farfetched. Jessie Mercer is a best-selling lesbian author who writes a thriller about a woman who is framed for the murder of her girlfriend's husband. Years later, Jessie finds herself living out the plot. Turns out Jessie is a psychic & the book was actually a precognitive revelation of a karmic cycle that Jessie has played out through many lifetimes with the same souls, always leading to the same tragic ending. Can you suspend that much disbelief? If so, Back To Salem is well worth your time.

Marcoux's writing flows well & she does a nice job of moving the plot along. She handles the time-shifts to the Salem witch trials well. My biggest disappointment was that the ending is a bit rushed. However, this is a thriller, and like most of the genre, ends 10 pages after the big climax.

I think BTS is Marcoux's best book so far. I give it only four stars because I think Lauren Maddison does a better job with psychic, past life, karmic cycle, new-age thrillers.

Again, Marcoux puts out a thriller. Unfortunately, I got lost in the middle and put it down. I started again and finished it in one sitting.

It was good, eerie,and wild. The dreams!

If you don't mind if loose ends are left untied and that multiple timelines end up not quite matching up and that one of the main characters "isn't really a lesbian" then the plot of this book will work for you. I read it about a year ago and was really lukewarm toward it. Parts were exciting but it didn't work as a whole. I can't believe it ended up getting some award nominations; there are some holes you can drive a truck through. Plus I didn't see how the Egyptian timeline meshed at all with the Salem one. I felt like this was a nice try, but as someone else says, others have done this plot better. I would recommend Laura Adams' Christabel (a romance not a mystery), which does the timeline thing really well.

This one has it all, a clever MYSTERY, a heart-filled ROMANCE, some HISTORY, an exciting ACTION ADVENTURE, and some interesting metaphysical lessons. GREAT MOVIE material! An exceptional story that keeps the reader interested.

I read Alex Marcoux's first book, 'Facades,' and was less than impressed. I had already purchased 'Back to Salem,' but because of my experience with 'Facades' it stayed on my bookshelf until a few days ago. I can't believe I let myself go without the pleasure of reading this book for so long! Marcoux makes incredible strides toward becoming a remarkable writer in this second book.

Jessie Mercer is a successful writer who begins to have very real dreams of a past life as a man. In her waking hours, she finds herself drawn to straight singer Taylor Andrews, a woman she hasn't even met. Was Taylor her wife in this previous life? Jessie's publisher sells the movie rights to one of her books and Taylor is cast in the leading role. The women become friends as a wild series of events, mirroring those in the movie/book, begins to occur.

The author does a wonderful job transitioning between present day and the past, and cleverly reveals Taylor's awareness of her link to Jessie's past. Other characters in the present and past also come to light. This is certainly one book I will recommend to my friends.

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SERIOUSLY, FOR ALL THAT TIME AND ALL THAT FILM I THINK IT ISN'T THIS PHOTOGRAPHER'S BEST, ALTHOUGH IT'S PRETTY DAMN GOOD

this work is about light, color, composition, and one of the most interesting and mysterious places left on the planet. webb has winded his way through his now familiar terrain in central and south america, and produced one of the finest books of our time.

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This is not a nature book!

Please note that for all intents and purposes there is not a single nature photograph in this entire collection!
There are only two and with little photographic value.
One on the first page and one on the last page.

There is not one picture of either animal, insect or plant.

As a photographer myself, I consider the pictures ok but not great(the people who live along the Amazon). Not worth the effort and expense of a journey along the great Amazon for such meagre photography.

And as I recall there are no photgraphs of any indeginous peoples
along the Amazon either(very dissapointing).

This is also an old book and the photographic print quality is not comparable to what might be published today.

Mr. Webb's images reflect a sensitive photographer, a thinking photographer with a great eye. His graphic approach to documentary photography adds a wonderful artistic quality to the images.

The images bring me to the Amazon, the real Amazon with its beauty, danger, ugliness, etc.-- not the romanticized Amazon of just beautiful sceneries.

I showed this book to one of my photography instructors at the college I attend and we discussed how wonderful the use of color and composition is in Alex Webb's photography. He is an extremely insightful photographer. Many of the photos are so skillfully composed that they are almost like two or three photographs in one. This book is filled with "decisive moments" - similiar to Cartier-Bresson's approach to photography - but in beautiful color.

I'll never look at color photography in the same way after having seen Mr. Webb's work. I learned things from this book. And I am proud to own it.

A student's call brought the review post by Lynette Arnett, Mar 2000 to my attention. The tel # in the posting contains the # for an insurance company and although I share the name of Jenny, the phone # posted is not mine nor does it belong to anyone else here at McGraw-Hill.
I work in the New Media dept (not customer service) of MH and my manager and I thought best to post the 'correct' phone numbers so if someone does need to request an answer key for this text or any other, they might best be served. The correct number for customer service at McGraw-Hill for Students is 1-800-262-4729 and 1-800-338-3987 for instructors. Thank you!

This is an excellent book, with much information. Alas, for such an in-depth workbook, it was totally aggravating not to have the answer key. Okay, all you out there, I called McGraw-Hill at 1-800-252-4729 and was then told to call a Jenny at 1-630-789-5305 (she works at McGraw-Hill) and request an answer key. She will send you one for free. Then make it known to Jenny, tactfully of course, how the answer key should have been included in order of the workbook.

This book is very helpful for the person entering the medical coding profession, and it would be a good review for the professional.

This is an excellent book, with much information. Alas, for such an in-depth workbook, it was totally aggravating not to have the answer key. Okay, all you out there, I called McGraw-Hill at 1-800-252-4729 and was then told to call a Jenny at 1-630-789-5305 (she works at McGraw-Hill) and request an answer key. She will send you one for free. Then make it known to Jenny, tactfully of course, how the answer key should have been included in order of the workbook.

Glad I read the reviews and learned that an answer key could berequested from the publisher. Considering the [cost of the book]...this should be included! I agree with others..what good areexercises if you've no way to check how right/wrong one's answers are?

The book was really well written and easy to read. The stories were interesting and very funny. I found myself laughing out loud many times. Great behind the scenes info for all of Ewan's movies. It encouraged me to purchase his movies available on DVD. This book gave me great insight and helped me appreciate his work that much more.

I love Ewan McGregor and I think this book is a bit tired. Nothing I didn't know, really. But the irony of it all strikes me. Playing Obi-Wan appears to have really boosted Ewan's career to most Americans, though he is a very successful actor in Europe and quite famous in the independent film circuit. The ironic part is this: Ewan's predecessor as Obi-Wan, the famous and sadly deceased Alec Guinness, received the opposite end from the role. He was hounded and practically went into hiding. When he died, the first I heard of it was on the Star Wars web site. Then, subsequent announcements always contain something like "The 86-year-old actor, famous for playing Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars..." I wonder if that's what Ewan will be remembered for? I hope not. If you really want to see him be an actor and not just a handsome face in a movie that is heavy on effects and light on plot and dialogue, go rent Shallow Grave or Brassed Off or Trainspotting or Emma or Nightwatch or A Life Less Ordinary or ... See my point?

I found this book to be both enjoyable and informative, and it has some interesting information about Ewan's childhood years in Crieff. Filled with amazing photographs, from black and white to colour. This book is worth the money. It also has a filmography at the back, if you want the titles of all the acting bits he's done. By the way, Ewan is talented and gorgeous!!!

Robb's book is an amusing and quite compelling book. I enjoyed it a lot cause I discovered many things about this cool scottish lad called Ewan. The book includes some interesting information about Ewan's life and how did he managed to get to where he's now: an outsanding actor that can play a heroin addict, a glam rock star or a venerable Jedi Knight. Don't miss it if you're a fan!

This book is an okay biography with incredibly BEAUTIFUL photos. It is worth buying just for the pictures. I did actually read it, and I did learn a lot about Ewan. However, the pictures are the real reason to buy it. They are stunning.