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This is a surprisingly useful and innovative book. Focus is on individual techniques as opposed to team play. That's what makes this such a terrific teaching tool. Clear, well illistrated, and extremely detailed. If you are a player you can improve your game simply by reading it as an individual since it only focuses on team play as it relates to the individuals contribution. It's strictly a how-to guide to improving YOUR play. If you are a coach it's very valuable but somewhat limited in it's scope.
There is very limited discussion of team play, team drills, ect. so this is not a good source for general theory. But as a teaching tool to help individual players learn to improve their technique this book is second to none. Having played for 20 years and coached 12 more at a Division I level I still learned a few things from this book. If I ever go back to coaching I'm going to give a copy to each of my players.

This is my all-time favorite book. If you like "Pilgrim at Tinker's Creek," be sure to read "Inland Island" by Josephine Johnson. She has the same unromanticized view of nature's uncompromising rule (whatever survives, works), and she has the mind of an agnostic poet expressed in prose. Example: I think it is disgusting to praise God for making us acknowledge His presence by a poke in our eyeballs with His sharp stick.

And: All day, a rain of life and death goes on. A catbird crashed against the pane and fell gasping. Then it gathered itself in a narrow canoe shape and lay there patiently waiting to recover or die. Awareness is a name of agony. I wish there was something to pray to for its life. But one must not get excited. One must not grieve. Nature, Mom, all-powerful, monstrous and monolithic Mother sits and chooses.

The whole book is wonderful! I wish I could read it again for the first time just for the pleasure of its discovery.

This book is a unique record of a vanished way of life - the life of the Irish Christian Brothers, as seen through the eyes of one of their own. It tells the story of Brendan O'Kane who, like hundreds of boys back in the 1960s, entered the religious life at the ripe old age of 13. This was considered normal back then. Desirable, even. In Ireland one of the greatest honours was to have "a priest in the family" - or failing that, a nun or a brother.

This fictionalised memoir (we presume it's autobiographical) brings us right back into Catholic Ireland of the 1960s. We can smell the incense, the lighted candles, the beewswax on the floors of the corridors. We can hear the bells for morning prayer, the Gregorian chant, the laughter and banter on the playing fields. We can hear the silence - as the young, dedicated novices prepare for the monastic life by undergoing eight day retreats with no conversation whatsoever, confining themselves to prayer and meditation.

Of course, not everybody who joined stayed the course - and this dilemma, to stay or go, to persevere or to abandon one's vocation, becomes the central theme of the book, and causes anxiety, scruples and terror in young Brendan (even the title of the book suggests imprisonment).

Yet it's not all doom and gloom. Far from it. The book has many humorous and poignant moments as Brendan and his peers stumble from one hilarious scrape to another. The author keeps the chapters short, with many of them ending on a knife-edge. Yes, it's a real page-turner.

Even if you know nothing of the Christian Brothers, you'll find this book a gripping read. The characters are true-to-life, and sometimes larger than life.

The author has avoided the temptation to make this either an exposé or a cover-up of the abuses which some of the Brothers have undoubtedly been guilty of over the years. He tells it like it was, and leaves judgement to the reader. What comes across between the lines, however, is that he considers the early recruitment, the systemic depersonalisation and the pressure to stay as the greatest abuse, a point which has never really been made - till now.

INSIDE is a must for those who would like to know what made the Brothers tick, what made them so successful in their heyday, and what made some of them, at least, dysfunctional.

I have other language courses, in many languages. This Arabic course is straight to the point: grammer, conjugations, vocab - in large doses, colloquial phrases, long and short sentances, then stringing them into complete paragraphs without the English translation...PERFECT!

I love the clear and "easy to understand" dialect of the speaker, which I have been told is Lebanese.

The course shifts from phrases and sentances in both langauges, building them to complete paragraphs spoken in Arabic only. The verb conjugations are many, but NEEDED to reinforce this oft overlooked skill! [Pimsleur and so many other so called "complete" $200+ courses leave much to be desired with regards to verb conjugations - ahem].

My late high school Latin teacher, God rest his soul, would approve of the amount of conjugational drills in this course.

Well done Topics Entertainment!

This course is truly a masterpiece, and for the money, it stands all alone in terms of value, and greatly exceeds the more expensive courses in vitually all imaginable metrics. Buy it. Salam.

I've loved this book since high school, and recently bought this newer copy here. Set in the 1950s, this book brings us into the life of a brand new doctor during his internship year. Lavishly detailed, the book is autobiographical (with changed names), and we experience it all along with him: the ups, the downs, the fear, the confidence, and the full range of medical experience through the eyes of a beginner.

In later years it has been revealed that the "Anonymous" book was written by Dr. Alan Edward Nourse, who left medicine after a short career to become a writer of science-fiction and non-fiction medical books. He is the author of the Ladies Home Journal Medical Guide, "The Body" (Time/Life Series) and for years was also "The Family Doctor" for a monthly Good Housekeeping column

I first read this look at the actual practice of medicine almost 40
years ago. A few weeks ago I re-read Intern. With only a few minor
changes, this book describes what can happen today!

Today's practice of medicine has so many wonderful new tools; but,
the tools are only as good as the craftsmen wielding them.

Reading this book, I thought it might have been written by a young Robin Cooke or Michael Crichton. In Crichton's book, 'Travels', Crichton
describes some of the secret horrors in the practice of medicine that
caused him to quit the practice of medicine after he got his degree
from Harvard.

I think that Crichton might have had a better experience if he'd taken
training at what is now Hebert School of Military Medicine; but, Hebert
did not open til 1972. I think Crichton would have made a great internist.

I had last used algebra in middle school and high school about 15 years ago. Needless to say, my skills were a little rusty. This book did an *amazing* job at explaining the material in such an intuitive way that it now seems obvious. The book covers about 2 years of high school material, and I was able to (re)learn it all in a matter of weeks. However, it's still math and you won't learn a thing unless you sit down and solve the problems.

I was surprised by how good this book is. I browsed it an Apple store and paid [item price] for it there. I think of myself as almost an iPhoto expert, I read the many online sources, I read the manual, I know a lot of the weird shortcuts, etc. etc.

Even so, I learned a lot from a few minutes with this book. The advice on ordering photo books is alone worth the cost of the book. I can't judge how readable it is for a novice, but it's very clearly written and the pictures are excellent. I think it would work well for a novice too.

The author uses photos of his son Tristan throughout the book. Hopefully by the time Tristan is a teenager he will not have access to this book.

Really, a super book. There's no Apple provided iPhoto manual and the online help file is somewhat feeble. Buy this book.

Haven't read the book (purchasing it now), but I've met the author - and if he can translate even HALF of his knowledge, intuition, and "real world" wisdom to paper, this is a must-read for the masses.

Ron Tierney is still creating books in this series but the older copies are harder to come by. Pity! It is a great series with wonderful and colorful characters. Deets Shanahan is a 70-year-old private detective. He lives with his 40 something down-to-earth girlfriend, Marlene. He has Howie, a younger private eye who gets into as much trouble as he solves, James, his motorcycle riding lawyer and Henry his bar tender who needs a new recipe for stew. All together they make a warm, funny, and gritty mystery story. I highly recommend you meet Deets Shanhan and his crew and spend a lot of time with them.