John Wayne Books

Just got back form Mexico, great guide. Every question I had I found answers for.

I've used these guide books for years. Chalcatzingo, Morales isn't even in the book. It's an important Olmec site. The major museum in Mexico City (National Anthropology) wasn't high lighted in the index. You have to hunt through every museo entry and there are many. This stuff is annoying.

Honestly, you don't even need to buy this, because everyone else will have one if you're staying at hostels. But I took it on a 2-week trip in May 2008, and it does the job. I wasn't disappointed with any of the hostels or restaurants that were recommended, and they all existed, which is nice.

A few minor criticisms:

The Mexico City Metro map is awful. Too gray and too hard to read. The maps in the station are easier to use to navigate, which is sad.
All the prices are in dollars. That's just silly, and sometimes confusing since they use $ for pesos in Mexico. Further, all the prices are wrong. I assume this is because it's a couple of years old, but maybe it's because the exchange rate changed. In particular, every single archaeological attraction was a different price (48 pesos, not $3.50).
The abbreviations for the bus services are annoying since they don't use them locally.
Should the Author's Choice hostel in a Lonely Planet really be a $325 / night room?

The Lonely Planet was good to have along but shouldn't be used singularly. We were glad we had two other guides along. Some of the LP info was dated but in Mexico the pace was slow and we went with the flow.

It needs to be made clear in the description that this book is written in Spanish - just saying "Spanish Guides" isn't enough. I had to return it and pay shipping twice because of this error.

Because this book has been out of print people have resold it for $25 - $60 dollars. First it is very short and other than no plot the romance and sex is bad. Go buy a $5.00 Harliquin book instead. I spent $30 for my copy and would gladly give it away...could not have been more unhappy with a book.

Michael Fleeman is a well-known true crime writer. This case involves two wives who go missing and both women were married to John David Smith. The first wife was Janice Hartman who went missing after they divorced. His secon wife was a twice divorced older woman, Betty Fran Gladden-Smith whose remains have never been recovered. She was living in West Windsor (near Princeton, New Jersey). The truth about John David Smith was that he was a brutal murderer who could not let the women or his wives leave him despite the constant lies, manipulation, and pathological nature of his crimes. His brother, Michael Smith, would unearth the discovery of Janice Hartman's legs below the knees that were cut off by her beloved husband. She was buried in a box and left aside the road in Indiana. It would be years before she was identified and was named Jane Doe at the Oakwood Cemetery in Morocco, Indiana until then. Her family knew that her beloved Janice was probably murdered by John David Smith. THe story is typical of most murders written about today. The spouse kills the other.

I read this book after seeing a crime show about it on TV. I didn't realize I knew Janice Hartman's mother until the very end. It is heartbreaking to know this lovely, spiritual woman as the mother of this murdered girl. This woman has been to hell and back throughout her lifetime, yet she remains a wonderful person. My heart breaks for the trouble she's seen!

"The Stranger in My Bed" is very similar to another true crime tale-"The Surgeon's Wife" by Kieran Crowley. In each case the authors-or their publishers-made the strange decision to print the outcome right on the back cover! This reviewer learned his lesson from SW. SIMB maintained suspense. New readers are forewarned! SIMB opens with the discovery of a female corpse (a "Jane Doe") in an Indiana field. The reader will quickly surmise that that Jane Doe will surface later in the story. The plot then backtracks through the various marriages / female relationships of John Smith, the main character. John's first (known) wife, Betty, disappears. John is not charged but the police and Betty's family remain highly suspicious. John remarries a girl named Diane Bertalan- who also vanishes. Counting Jane Doe, there are now 3 missing female bodies. How many other corpses will show up? How many past wives or former girlfriends has John disposed of? Pressure from Betty's family eventually starts the wheels of law enforcement spinning. This reviewer won't reveal the plot, but the investigation eventually involves the Law from New Jersey, Ohio, Indiana, Connecticut and California. Is justice served? There is no easy answer. Readers will just have to read SIMB for themselves but as a hint-Jane Doe is very central to the plot. She does indeed "surface" again. To fully enjoy SIMB, amazoners need to take two steps: The first is to ignore the back cover. The second is to remember the "Ann Rule rule". Skip over those tempting centerfold photos. They outrightly reveal the ending. Finally, the author gratuitously drops a major clue right in the text! Readers cannot avoid that gaff. One wishes Fleeman had stirred the pot a bit harder. He had such fine material to work with. Combining this failure with the "security lapses", a rating of 3 stars seems appropriate, if a bit harsh. Other readers may add a 4th star but SIMB falls short of the true crime classic it had the potential to be.

It bothers me that the author took 276 pages to tell the same story over and over again. A man is accused of killing two wives. The bodies haven't been found. Still, a trial is held and the defendant is found guilty.
This could have been written in 50-75 pages, instead of rehashing the same events to the point of boredom.
The book does have one redeeming line on page 270, "There really are monsters out there." Monsters is the key word. They can be any sex, any race, any age, any occupation, any religion. This is the author's greatest message to the readers of this book.

This book is extreamly helpful for academic research. It can be somewhat more technical than most people would need.

I have used this and other texts by Daniel over the years and I find you can not go wrong with his works. He is a no nonsense author and a very good writer who uses plenty of examples. Get his nonparametric book also.

Daniel obviously knows his statistics; but, I wouldnt think that is too helpful for individuals reading or studying from his textbook.
The reasons are numerous, and all these reasons would reduce anyone's chances of solely using this book, or even using it at all.
The textbook is well organized, however Daniel's writing often is pedantic, repetitive (not in the helpful way) and ambiguous at best.
The examples and solutions occassionaly have serious errors in them which affect the overall outcome of the test (A second consideration is that the book is in it's 8th edition!!! therefore such errors are unacceptable for a person such as myself).
An example can be found on page 239 (example 7.3.2). The pooled variance, as calculated by Daniel is approximately off by 100 simply because he didnt give attention to dividing the numerator with the proper pooled D.F of the samples. The chapter ironically was on hypothesis tests, something extremely important to any line of empirically oriented statistics.

In Chapter 8; which is probably the most important chapter in Bistatistics (ANOVAs) he does not mention the relationship between MSW and sample SD. Also, his usage of Summation in formulas often are unnecessarily overcomplicated. Such is not even seen in professional journals.

I did like this textbook regardless of its many shortcomings, its not because I liked the author's style of writing. Its more or less the fact that my lecturer (I assume) used this book heavily in his lectures and so I used it as a supplementary text.

I would suggest, Chap T. Le's Introductory Biostatistics. However he goes too much into nonparametric methods and proportions and doesnt cocentration (to the degree I wanted) on continous data.

More robust and probably cost effect books are :Introductory Statistics for the Life Sciences by Samuels. But the Best book I have ever seen on the subject is "Introductory Biostatistics for the health sciences" By Chernick and Friis. The book is well priced and no portion of this book, I have seen as being useless.

The title is very appropriate - this text provides a solid foundation in biostats. I used it for an intro course in grad school, and working through the text was very worthwhile. Previously cloudy concepts are now more clear, and I have a great reference for future use. More in-depth biostats deserves a consultation with a statistician, not a longer text. I agree with other reviewers that there are occasional mistakes (which need to be fixed - this is not even the first edition), but overall I would still highly recommend it.

I'm taking my first biostatistics class in medical school, but the text I am using in class (Rosner) has lost me. I subsequently borrowed Daniel's book from the library (only because it has 7th editions), and I am glad that I picked it! Daniel is a good writer. The book is well organized and laid out. Important concepts are emphased and explained with minimum mathematics involved. The well thought out examples are worth working through as well for clarification of the applications of important concepts. However, as a beginner in statistics, I was lost in the midst of mathematics on certain concepts (given that I have a relatively strong mathematics background) without really understanding the meaning of some very basic terms, like percentile, confidence intervals.

What I do is to read another reference book that explains the very basic concepts in plain English first before reading this text. I am currently using Munro's Statistical Methods for Health Care Research. While both of them cover the same set of concepts, Daniel gives me the mathematical and more advanced explainations compare to Munro.

American's Nightmare: The Presidency of George Bush II by John Stanton & Wayne Madsen, should be the political science mandatory text of 2008. Every nerve triggered in Orwellian buffs should be screaming in horror with the collapse of the American "free and uncensored press," along with present day "New-speak" code names for military operations that herald the war machine's benignly oozing reports where magically appearing new exploitable markets are ushered into place. These incisive political analysts remind us that as the use of language and articulation dies in the U.S., so does the thinking process. What made us feel a "good old boy" could find a niche in an environment completely alien to his demeanor and too challenging for his intellect? Dwight Eisenhower was eerily correct in his speech: "the potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic process." The corporate megaliths taking over the news networks have created a new entity of "news" that is really nothing more than propaganda. Will keeping the people busy and acquiescent work long term? Oscar Sanchez, the 1987 Noble Peace Prize Winner says it well. "With what the world spends on defense, we could address poverty, inequality, illiteracy, disease, environmental degradation, and drought." We must wake up to the realities of our priorities.

This was a great book. Very informative and finally one that exposes the Conservative Mafia that runs this country. The Bush administration, the junta, is a maniacal filth machine run by a bunch of thugs.

The smear campaign that they used to malign Jessica Lynch - the despicable Rove character assassination machinery soon went into full gear when she admitted they fabricated and lied about her situation in Iraq, hyping her capture for blatent political purposes, the Hollywood-like production used by White House and Pentagon propagandists to document her rescue from an Iraqi
hospital, where she was receiving medical treatment for her injuries (and not abuse by Iraqi soldiers) Poor Jessica found out what it is like to go from America's wholesome young heroine to an accused tart. All this, merely for confronting the evil Karl Rove. And Jessica was not the first, nor the last innocent person to incur the wrath of the White House.

All the planting of bogus stories in the media, production of counterfeit documents, the theft of campaign materials and internal documents, production of false witnesses, electronic eavesdropping, misuse of government resources, unethical political polling techniques, intimidation of minority voters, and "whispering campaigns" to advance the sordid agenda of the
neo-conservative, extreme right wing of the Republican Party.

Nothing would make me happier than seeing Karl Rove and all his cronies, including President Bush "frog marched" out of the White House in handcuffs for thir criminal activity and for undermining and ignoring every document that the framers of our country have written.

The good people of this nation have got their own 'Most Wanted' list" of senior Bush administration officials and it would not
be a complete list without Rove's name on it.

In an era when the battle cry is, "If you're not with us, you're against us," one can't help but see all the smoke and mirrors designed by Rove to mask his special brand of political conniving - a brand of subterfuge and chicanery that is copied from his Teutonic cousins who practiced it so well in the 1920s, '30s, and '40s.

The American people need to be afraid of this administration - to be very afraid. As it was once said, not very long ago, for evil to flourish is for good men to do nothing. The American people are doing nothing to stop this onslaught of fascism.

One of the previous reviewers called the author of this book a Bush hater. No surprise there. There's a lot to hate about Bush and he's well deserving of it.

...Clinton when it comes to fabricating facts and using deliberate deceptions and falsehoods to manipulate public opinion. From tax cuts based on an economic bubble that already burst, to lies about Saddam's weapons of mass destruction, and everything inbetween, George Bush has proved he's no conservative. If anything, he's a 'Dixiecrat'...tied to oil and extractive industries, agri-business and economics based on destroying the middle class on behalf of the rich and the multi-national corporations. Say what you will about Ronald Reagan, he cared deeply about the middle class and the American dream. And George Bush is no Ronald Reagan; Ronald Reagan would NEVER have sold out the American people for a handful of conglomerates and a bunch of lunatic pro-Israel religious ideologues. Richard Nixon and Barry Goldwater would be turning over in their graves at what Bush has done to our proud nation. This book has some flaws, but's it has succeeded in putting together a handy summary of the truth about the Bush2 Administration. It's definately a good read.

This book is a collection of essays written between December 2000 and January 2003. The essays cover a wide range of topics, including propoganda in the U.S. media, the role of Sun Myung Moon in the current administration, global arms trade, the CIA international death squad, the relationship between the House of Saud and al Qaeda, Draconian government practices since 9/11, and the overarching role of oil in U.S. foreign policy. These essays were not written for entertainment purposes but to reveal the realities of life here and abroad since the Bush administration came to power. Quite simply, you will find here information that you will not find anywhere else. Very little of it is pleasant, but I challenge anyone to refute the facts presented by these two noted researchers.

The recent review about "Wag the Turkey" was based on the lie that Bush ate Thanksgiving dinner in Iraq during breakfast, not dinner time. This was a lie, not very investigative. ANy book recommended by the wacko former Congresswomen McKinney needs to be avoided.

Honestly, I found this textbook to be hard to follow, difficult to understand, and many of the recipes and formulas did not work. Also, there were not many photos, and the diagrams were confusing. This certainly is not for the home chef, and I hesitate to recommend this to professional students either.

This is another of the books I use as reference for my cooking school. It contains recipes from Le Cordon Bleu schools and recipes from America. Most of the recipes are for large quantities and it is definately not a book for the home baker, this is a great reference book to be used in a professional pastry kitchen.
I particularly like this book because it gives you a basic recipe for let's say a bavarois cream, and then it gives you ten other variations (chocolate, coffee, strawberry, etc) that you can make by changing or adding one or two ingredients.
The instructions are clear and easy to follow.
I highly reccomend this book to anyone who is thinking of baking seriously.

This is not a cookbook for the home baker, but no professional should be without this all encompassing book.

I also had to purchase this book for culinary school. While this book can be difficult to understand, the quality of the instructor has a great deal to do with the user's comprehension of the subject matter. I find this an excellent book and continue to use it today (because I know how to make it work for me).

NOTE: The formulas in this book work, provided you have had proper instruction in how to use them, and in how to use Baker's Math to increase and reduce the yields.

Biggest waste of $35 I've ever seen ! This was a required text in school , and approximatly 25% of the formulas were completely unusable. It was if this character wrote these recipes off the top of his head without the slightest concern for whether they worked or not.I shudder to think how many copies of this waste of paper have been sold to culinary students and the general public alike.

I am a Simpsons geek; I admit it freely, and with pride. I have greedily grabbed up all of the academically-slanted studies of the show that have trickled out over the last few years, including studies on philosophy and religion in the show. They have all been interesting, but flawed. Finally, in Leaving Springfield, I get a book that does more than simply summarize plot lines I already know, and then run off its own agenda. This book analyzes episodes, and provides new insights by interpreting them through a variety of critical perspectives. The most interesting essay, for example, examines The Simpsons as a bridge between so-called "high" and "low" art, combining the "lowbrow" media of television and animation with literary "highbrow" irony, self-reflexivity, and wit. Other essays examine the way the show uses ethnic stereotypes to undermine social racism, gay life on The Simpsons, and The Simpsons' place in the animation tradition. All the essays are brought together under a broad topic: can a show like The Simpsons, which is owned and televised by a multinational conglomerate, still be a legitimate social satire?

The writing is academic, and at times a bit dry, but if you like The Simpsons, you'll love this book. Even if you aren't a big fan, I still recommend it; books like Leaving Springfield are becoming more and more important, because as visual media continues to take over print, we need to start looking seriously at television for the few (albeit very few) works of true art it offers. This book is a bit hard to find, but well worth the search.

I'm probably numb to the nuances of Cultural Criticism, but the essays in this book are the worst sort of claptrap from grimly earnest strivers in the groves of academe.

Trying to evaluate the cultural significance of The Simpsons is a fool's game--it's there in plain sight every night in reruns--but these authors are undeterred. They are bound and determined to override a work of collaborative genius with their own stale biases and canned interpretations.

And not a one of them shows a sense of humor, so far as I could discover. The writers and illustrators of The Simpsons are miles ahead of these writers in evaluating contemporary culture.

Maggie would not countenance their hogwash.

The reviewer who complained that this book is just academic twaddle seemingly couldn't possibly be a true Simpsons fan. This book is an excellent entree into the culture theory of ideological poisoning that is at the heart of all media--conservative, right-wing media--in America today. (Not that there is any viable liberal left-wing media in America today, regardless of what the GOP would have you believe.) Every image you see coming at you from TV, movies, video games, etc. is designed to suck you into the consumerist ideological trap that the writers of the Simpsons are dedicated to making you question. The Simpsons as a cartoon is show to be highly worthy of penetrating critique, something that most viewers aren't bothered with attempting. The first two chapters of the book, both of which examine consumerism/capitalism's failings and how the Simpsons manage to exploit those failings, are the highlights of the book. If you just want a listing of movie references, read the highly entertaining episode guides (I own all three to date), but you want to understand how the film references are used to provide further dissident and subversive layers to the show, buy this book. The only quibble: It fails to entertain the question of how oppositional--to consumer culture--the Simpsons can be when it produces billions of dollars of revenue from merchandise.

From an academic perspective, David Arnold et al's book is amusing, but too "lite" on theory at times, with non-media-scholars coming to grand conclusions that media scholars in the eighties came to. Mark Pinsky's book is a very amusing book, written with such a love for the program that it's delightful, but I didn't feel it enlightened me about The Simpsons as much as it made a strong argument for and defense of its morality and ethics (a book that's a must for Simpsons-dislikers). Steven Keslowitz's book is atrocious, poorly written, and not worthy of a single purchase. Which leaves this book as the best serious treatment of The Simpsons.

Why not the 5th star? Well, several of the contributors start to wander away from the topic, and I also feel that if you're going to analyze the media in an academic way, you need to secure a few more articles from actual media scholars. This oversight is evident in the lack of essays looking at The Simpsons from some form of structural or economic standpoint. The book is more humanities-based than social sciences, and that's a pity.

However, it still examines some important issues, and thus digs under the surface of the text in a convincing and thoughtful way. Alberti's introduction is arguably the best "article" in the book, as he positions the program brilliantly, and gives a great sense of the ways in which The Simpsons might be doing something special that very few if any other programs in television history have. I found the essays thought-provoking, and a lot more dense than other writing on The Simpsons.

So, while I could see how a fan of the show who wants to keep viewing it as light and mellow wouldn't enjoy this book or appreciate it, if you actually want to engage with the program and its politics on a deeper level, this book does an admirable job. Very good stuff, some essays especially excellent

I received this book in excellent condition. It arrived one day earlier than expected, which was great. I would definitely order again from this vendor and I actually am placing another order today.

The print quality of this book is awful. It is barely readable.

0 Stars!The Book of Yields: Accuracy in Food Costing and Purchasing

This is an excellent book for any chef or food and beverage manager looking to save time while maintaining accuracy of food cost work sheets. Contains a lot of food yield tables as well as many excellent examples of worksheets that you can use. Money well spent to save time.

His friends & fans simply call him Duke.

More than 20 yrs. after his death he is still coming in 1st or 2nd in polls askings Americans who their favorite actor is.

Why is this?

Come on, he's dead already!

Beginning in 1930 with THE BIG TRAIL & ending in 1976 with THE SHOOTIST, DUKE has been bigger than life, a symbol to the world of the ruggedness, tough independence, personal conviction, & courage that make up the American character.

I love him not just because he was a great actor, but because he played roles that showed us an America to be proud of. He was the type of guy you wouldn't mind sitting with in a bar for a few drinks &, definitely, you'd love him at your back in a fight!

The author of this book will help you understand & appreciate John Wayne the way I & millions the world over do.

You will never look at John Wayne, the actor & the man, in the same way ever again.

He is my favorite American Actor of all time, and, before I sold the collection a couple of years ago, I owned nearly all his films on Video.

Not the best book out there, but still informative.

Though very in-depth in explaining each movie John Wayne appeared, the book lacks somewhat in explaining who John Wayne was. In comparison, Donald Dewey's recent biography of Jimmy Stewart gives the reader a more detailed examination of Stewart than Ronald Davis does of Wayne. Ronald Davis also relies too much on the self-centered Pilar Wayne, the third Mrs. John Wayne, for anectdotal information. Davis's use of interviews with Harry Carey, Jr. are quite valuable and illuminating. It's a shame that Davis didn't thoroughly interview other actors who shared the screen with Duke, including Ron Howard, about whom Duke thought highly or Kim Darby (Mattie in True Grit), who didn't like the Duke (remember, True Grit was filmed in 1968). Mr. Davis does an excellent job explaining Duke Wayne's desert years in the thirties doing one-reel westerns. One has to admire Wayne's persistance. One note Pilar Wayne reveals through Ronald Davis that puts Wayne in a very bad light and has changed my personal views toward him to the strongly negative, was Duke Wayne's insistance that a pregnant Pilar get an abortion. The baby was inconvenient as Duke was in the divorce court with number two wife Chata in a highly charged divorce battle. The baby was killed but Duke Wayne received a fairly good divorce settlement. A conservative icon, when the chips were down, was capable of a selfish, dishonest, sordid, dirty act. The Duke was a great actor and icon but was not a good person. He was not a great American.

--Derek Leaberry

This biography succeeds in its evenhanded portrayal of John Wayne. No doubt some will criticize it because Davis doesn't spend his time eschewing Wayne's politically incorrect opinions, but neither does the author lionize Wayne the man. What you have left is a concise and readable 400 page biography that covers all the movies and all the wives. Davis gives his opinions as to why the Wayne legend still survives, and what his fellow actors thought of him way back when.

Interesting is the story behind the making of the ALAMO, a film he produced, directed and starred in, the subsequent Oscar campaign, and the aftermath. Also interesting is Wayne's relationship with director John Ford, whom he loved, and their disagreements.

The book is 4 or 5 pages of writing about John Wayne's conservatism mixed with commentary about Bush's 'troubled' presidency, and finishes with a bunch of John Wayne quotes. One quote per page for the remainder of the mini-book. 6 inches by 6 inches square...and no page numbers, so I'm guessing 70 or 80 pages. It's less about John Wayne and more about how the editor is using current politics and John Wayne's name to make money. If you're looking for something on John Wayne, as I was, don't buy this.

Please! Someone send a copy of this book to George W. Bush. NOW!

This clever little book can be read from two points of view. The first, and I suspect the way it was intended, is to compare the words of an old-school Conservative with the rhetoric of today's ideological phonies. The second, is to get to know the real John Wayne -- not in a 300-page biography -- but in his own plain-spoken words. Both on and off screen quotes are divided into sections: "Philosophy," "On Himself," "On His Profession," "On the Cowboy," "On the Sexes," "On Faith," "On Politics, and "On Country." Highly recommended reading on both counts.

The John Wayne Paper Dolls is just great. Shipped and received in short order, arriving in excellent condition - thank you.

My parents bought this for me a few years ago. Not wanting to ruin the book, I haven't actually used any of the paper dolls. The details of the costumes are suprisingly accurate. My favorite is the one from "The Quiet Man."
The book includes 2 dolls with different poses. The first is a younger Duke with a slightly slouchy pose, which I don't care for as John Wayne would never slouch. The second is an older Duke in a sort of walking pose that's much more in character.
There are 16 costumes that go with the first pose and 15 to go with the second pose.
Along with the one from "The Quiet Man," other costumes included in the book are: "Stagecoach," "Fort Apache," "Red River," and "The Sands of Iwo Jima," to name just a few. They start with his earliest films and end with "The Shootist," his last film.
A great book for die hard John Wayne fans or paper doll collectors.

as a kid growning up in the seventies, John Wayne was one of my heroes. Larger than life, so I collected everything on the Duke including Paper dolls. So my parents bought me the booklet and I still have it totally intact. I can't see any "guy" actually playing with them but for collectors they're awesome. Good details from his most popular movies.