Alex To Books

Sandor Kvassay had an amazing life of adventures on the edge. His book is both funny with many anecdotes and an excellent intorduction to the world of business aviation... This is also a book about endeavors, fate and hard work... But most of all, this is a book of passion...

I finally understand making leather garments without an industrial sewing machine! this is a wonderful book for the hand sewer and craftsperson who wishes to make leather garments. Very valuable information if you already know your way around sewing. Glad I got this book.

Well, I got this book about three days ago, and it's pretty nice. It's very thick, and there is a lot of very good information in it. It covers a wide range of System.Web namespaces, and goes into some of the System.Data namespace, but it neglects something as important as the System.Web.Mail namespace. I guess it's hard to include everything in one book, but something are more important than others, and I think that the ability to send email is one of them.
Overall, I think I am really going to like this book, but I am going to be aware that there are some things left out of it.

This is a unique book, unique in the sense that it does not tell you how to work for McKinsey, PwC , Andsersen, Bain or BCG. Rather , it is focussed on the professional who has worked for 5-10 years in organizations, built up an expertise and would like to leverage that as an independant consultant, or would like to open up a small consulting firm.

Lucidly written, and brutally frank, this book covers every conceivable thing such a consultant might need to think over or act ! Sample this "Should you have a fax machine or e-mail address or both"..."how can you approach prospective clients?" to "how to write proposals" to "how much should you charge?"...this book covers them all...

So if you want to convert your expertise in a consulting career , and would like down to the earth, jargon-shorn advice, this book is meant for you !

Go ahead , pick it up !

The Color of Life is a good surprise. An enjoyable and educational book that I find quite inspiring. Ancient and contemporary works of art with polychromy. The quality of the photography is excellent. But the most impressive aspect is the selection of unique sculpts.

This manual was a great help to our program at a time when we were painfully low on funding. Although we have yet to try the programs outlined in the book, our eyes have been opened to the possibilities. It seems like there is always another government program that is under-utilized, and the guide seems to cover the bases.

This book is well good, i read it in like a day, its hard to put down, The pictures of ewan inside are well nice, hes sooooo good looking!!!!

Have second edition updated 1999
Good key, discussion of bark catagories, leaf phases, & other distinguishing features.
For each tree has:
Good photo of overall tree shape/form
Good photo of bark characteristics
Excellent photo of bud
some with bud and flower (maybe one out of 6-7 trees)
Excellent photo of fruit
Very few photos of leaves.
Would have liked to see juvenile and mature leaves.
Discussion of distribution gives clues to type of soil tree is adapted to.
Would have liked to seen some comment if trees adapt to cultivation or are invasive etc.
Overall, best Eucalyptus book I've seen to date.

Alex Raymond's artwork is maturing in this increasingly elegant fantasy, originally created as a rival to the popular comic strip: "Buck Rogers in the 21st Century".

Having destroyed the monster ray gun of the evil Ming the Merciless, Emporer of Mongo, heroic Flash Gordon, his plucky but fretful girlfriend Dale Arden and brilliant scientist Alexei Zarkov flee to the forest realm of Prince Barin and the latter's new wife, former Flash flame Princess Allura. Ming learns that Barin and his buddies are growing their hair; he plots to kidnap the newborn Crown Prince of Arboria to bring the kid up right. Peril abounds for Flash and Co.!

Raymond essentially abandons space-fantasy in this part of the series; Flash is now an actor in a kind of modern Ruritarian romance. Campy fun!

There are two parts to this book, very nearly independent of each other even when they share a page: the illustration, and the text of the Koka Shastra.

Kokokka's medieval text is heavily based on the older Kama Sutra, but differs from it in important ways. The biggest is that it very nearly isolates the act of physical love from every other part of life, where the Kama Sutra treats it as one of the many ways for people to enjoy each other's company. Another is that this later text seems much more concerned with social proprieties and taboos than the Kama Sutra. Although both books seemed aimed at a male readership in male-dominated societies, both do pay attention to a woman's wants and physical satisfaction. The Koka Shastra, however, puts the woman in a more subservient role, "wholly subject to her husband and honor[ing] him with word, heart, and body, as a god."

The illustrations are very informative, but rarely have much to do with the text around them. They show a wide variety of couplings and love-play, in a wide variety of artistic styles. I was continually disappointed, however, by a near-total lack of information about them. When were they created? By whom and for what audience? What sources provided them? None of these questions are answered, and that detracts seriously from the book's value.

Still, there's a lot to like in this book. The physical practices are interesting, whether or not each one is something that the reader might want to share in. The book's real value, however, comes from in its looks into the bedrooms and the thoughts of that distant time in India.

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