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I helped build the community college system in Nevada from 1970-1975. This paperback was published in 1973. Employees from the house came to our college to take course in psychology and business. Sitting along madams in airplanes was a common event. The book serves as a piece of local history.

gene ritchie disappeared although sen. schofields body i understand was discovered murdered.it had some connection with genes then wife and prostitute known as sherrie.id like to know what happened and have some info to share,it has been a mystery for a # of years and need some answers.

This book is precise and to the point. The book is very well written, organized very well and has one object in mind - helping you to learn real estate rules and passing the salesman exam.

The Real Estate Primer is also an excellant tool for somebody who wants to improve their knowledge of real estate terminology, laws and procedures.

After each short chapter you will find questions which can easily be answered or you may choose, as I did, to fill in the answers and then study the question with the proper answer thereby reinforcing your understanding of the chapter.

I passed the exam the first time after reading through this book. I have used it many times since for review and to look up specific areas.

It is A MUST for anyone taking the sales exam.

Jerry Zeldes, CPA

I'm studying this book to pass my broker exam. A friend was using a terribly rated study guide and failed twice. He then studied with this book and passed. It's clear, factual and doesn't include trivial facts or try to be clever.

Very well-plotted mystery. Especially, the process to the murder is very complicated and fascinating. The disclosure of who is murdered is so surprising, so explosive! That makes this story outstanding.

It is well-known that Mason's clients are always innocent. That seems to limit the mystery, but Mason mysteries are not so easy. It is not sure whether the clients tell the truth. They often tell various lies on various reasons, but sometimes they tell the genuine truth. This is perplexing, and that makes it difficult for Mason and readers to guess what really happened.

Very well-plotted mystery. Especially, the process to the murder is very complicated and fascinating. The disclosure of who is murdered is so surprising, so explosive! That makes this story outstanding.

It is well-known that Mason's clients are always innocent. That seems to limit the mystery, but Mason mysteries are not so easy. It is not sure whether the clients tell the truth. They often tell various lies on various reasons, but sometimes they tell the genuine truth. This is perplexing, and that makes it difficult for Mason and readers to guess what really happened.

The Case of the Lonely Heiress

Perry Mason gets a visit from Robert Caddo, the publisher of "Lonely Lovers Publications". Caddo has run an ad from an heiress. The authorities suspect some sort of fraud and are investigating. But since the advertisers are anonymous, Caddo wants Perry Mason to verify this item. Caddo explains the market for this publication, and how it works (Chapter 1). Perry explains how his letters will try for a response from than anonymous heiress. Perry wonders if that ad is part of a scheme (Chapter 2). One letter draws a reply, and Perry will have detectives who can spot and follow "MM" (Chapter 3). In Chapter 4 Perry and Della visit Union Depot to watch the meeting. The next morning Perry reports the facts to Caddo. Later that day Perry gets a report from the young detective who met "MM"; was there a trick? An errand brings Perry and Della back to Union Depot, and they see familiar faces (Chapter 6). Later Marilyn Marlow visits Perry to ask for help with the problem about a will. She explains the purpose of her ad (Chapter 7).

In Chapter 8 Perry gets a visit from Mrs. Dolores Caddo, who is upset by her husband's involvement with "MM"; she's not so dumb even if she is a big blonde. Perry tries to calm her and fails, so he calls Marilyn Marlow to warn her. After this Bob Caddo shows up. [This is one funny scene!] Marilyn Marlow calls with terrible news: Rose Keeling has been murdered! Rose's prior testimony will stand. Perry and Della arrive, question Marilyn, and Perry decides to take a chance with his client (Chapter 9). Lt. Tragg arrives, and holds Perry and Della for a while [another funny scene]. When they are released they try to visit the other witness, Ethel Furlong. But Perry is fooled by appearances (Chapter 11). In Chapter 12 Perry meets the Endicott family: Ralph, Palmer, and Lorraine. [The new ballpoint pen is mentioned here.] The Endicotts will benefit if George Endicott's will is broken. Ralph had seen Rose Keeling a few hours before her murder. Next Marilyn Marlow is intensively questioned and she blurts out some facts to Sergeant Holcomb. Next Lt. Tragg takes her to his office. It is an example of a police interrogation using `bad cop, good cop' (Chapter 13). Perry sums up the known facts in Chapter 14.

When Perry visits Mr. & Mrs. Caddo he learns that Dolores Caddo met Rose Keeling after 11 am. But Mr. & Mrs. Caddo deny everything to Lt. Tragg. Did they outsmart Perry (Chapter 15)? No one seems to have a motive for Rose Keeling's murder except Perry's client (Chapter 16). Perry and Della return to take another look at Rose Keeling's apartment. Della tells the difference between packing and unpacking. But they get a big surprise when they leave (Chapter 17). The Preliminary Hearing starts in Chapter 18. A bloody knife was found hidden in Marilyn's car, wiped clean of any fingerprints. On their return Perry and Della see Robert Caddo with the Endicott brothers (Chapter 19). The cross-examination of Lt. Tragg involves the difference between packing and unpacking clothes (Chapter 20). Perry sends Paul Drake to get more information. An important and new fact arises from the use of the then new and rare ballpoint pen (Chapter 21). The case against Marilyn Marlow is dismissed, and Perry explains the solution (Chapter 22). "Once you get the correct solution all of the evidence fits into place." [You need to multiply the dollar amounts by 20 to adjust for today's values.]

Perry Mason mysteries are always dependably interesting and fast moving, and "The Case of the Lonely Heiress" is no exception. As per usual, Perry is defending a client who has been framed, and Perry engages in a few unorthodox practices to protect his client. The client anticipates inheriting wealth from her mother who had nursed a sick man. The man wrote a will to her, leaving the bulk of his fortune. Needless to say, his family did not appreciate the bequest, and one of the witnesses to the will is considering changing her testimony to the effect she did not witness the signing. Murder enters within the confines of this thick plot.

It is not easy to figure out "who done it," but Perry, assisted by Della Street and with minimal help from Paul Drake, manages to frustrate Lieu. Tragg once again. You can't go wrong with any Perry Mason mystery, but this one had an extra touch of human interest.

While silk-screened images of Che abound on tee shirts around the world, few are aware of the study this leader of the Cuban revolution gave to economics, banking, finance, incentive systems, and, most important, the role of voluntary labor.

Introducing this book is a speech by Fidel Castro on the twentieth anniversary of Guevara's assassination. In it, Castro urges the world to take a good look at Guevara's contributions to creating a socialist society in Cuba. In reality, under the impact of opposing views, along with aid, from the then-Soviet Union, many of Guevara's ideas had been left by the wayside.

Castro's speech, given in 1987, was part of broad effort to return to the Guevara course-an effort to completely change society and, in the process, make it possible for human beings to change as well. The speech, and the book, take an honest look at Cuba's errors along the way -and the efforts made to correct them.

The essence of what Che stood for was well put by Castro, who said, "Che believed in man. And if we don't believe in man, if we think that man in an incorrigible little animal, capable of advancing only if you feed him grass or tempt him with a carrot or whip him with a stick--anybody who believes this, anybody convinced of this will never be a revolutionary..."

This is an award-winning book, specially praised by Fidel Castro when it appeared. It charts the revolutionary political and economic strategy that Che Guevara advance in building the Cuba revoltuion. Che besides being a political leader and an internationalist fighter, was one of the leaders of the economic struggle to build a socialist Cuba.

His ideas stand in start contrast to those that were advised by the Soviet Union and Cuban Communist Party members who had looked to the Soviet Union. Rather than the bureacuratic approach of centering on offering material incentives, and increasing social differentiation, Che put forward a strategy remarkably similar to that advanced by Lenin and Trotsky in their struggle with Stalin. Che believed that while economic growth had to be based on realism, science and the limiatations of the Cuban revolution, that the political mobilization of the Cuban masses, their attention to the world revolution, and the struggle against bureaucratic priveledge has to be at the center of the revolutionary Economy.

Tablada gives an excellent description of Che's ideas, not only in theory, but how they were practiced in the first five years of the Cuban revolution.

The publication of this book was a result of a renewed struggle by the Cuban revolutionists to revive Che's ideas and the struggle against buraucratic priviledge in Cuba after Cuba rejected the Soviet model at the end of the 1970s. This is why a Cuban socialist revolution, almost the total opposite of the Stalinist bureaucracies that collapsed in the USSR and Eastern Europe still stand.

Tablada is a clear writer who provides great explanations of complex economic concepts and clear documentation.

While this pamphlet is not always available on Amazon, it is always available from BooksfromPathfinder, an Amazon Z store that you can get to by clicking on New and Used further up this page!

I used Chemical Structure and Bonding by Roger L. DeKock and Harry B. Gray and found it very approachable.

You may also want to look at Chemical Bonding and Molecular Geometry: From Lewis to Electron Densities by Ronald J. Gillespie, Paul L. A. Popelier

Please see my other reviews for other undergrad chemistry books.

I must be brief, again: This book sums up all the chemical bonding concepts met with in the typical, present-day undergraduate Inorganic, Organic and Physical Chemistry courses, as well as basic Q.Chem. The idea is that a student (a clever one, that never makes mistakes!) asks a master questions, and together they go through many areas of chemical bonding theory, and make interesting connections with ideas from other areas too.

All is Very accurate, which can be expected from a world-leading authority on chemical bonding and structural inorganic chemistry. Also, the writing is "madly" passionate and is likely to inspire many of those ho really go through this book to take more advanced courses (or just start thinking!) - since it will be realized that they will add immeasuarbly to one's enjoyment of everyt chemical discussion.

Ever felt that you were assuming things about chemical bonds on weak grounds? This book will clean all confusion out and send you to excellent literature for more detaíls.

Yes, all the physical chemistry of a typical basic text is assumed, as well as a basic facility with the algebra of quantum mechanics.

This book I will recommend to every single student I meet... and to colleagues that dare not confess their doubts about Q.M., (that I am sure noone ever REALLY has understood)!

Finding this book is a diamond in the rough. It is simple the best book on roses. This book was published in 1981 and does not have the roses of the last 20 years. However, as a resource book excellent! I love roses and understanding them just adds to their luster.

Excellent information on many aspects of roses - roses in history, origins of various roses, lists of recommended roses, botanical information. The best rose book I have found.
(The German title is Rosen, Rosen, Rosen - thus my review title.)

"Curbside" chronicles the relationship between Rob (the author/protagonist) and his partner Tony. Unlike the second book ("Curbside Boys"), this one is more humorous, cheery, and has that "happy-ending" feel to the story. I really liked the change in the artwork over the years (from very cartoonish to more refined; it's interesting how Rob maintains his cartoony look (pinocchio nose and all) while other characters are rendered much more realistically). I think that maybe he does this to put a buffer between the "cartoon" Rob and the "real-life" Rob (as Rob states "I'm not a fine artist."), therefore allowing himself to exist in different dimensions at once (or something to that effect). Otherwise, I hope Rob keeps up the superb work, and I'll be waiting for the third installment!

Robert Kirby's "Curbside" is the best gay comic I have ever read or perhaps I should say the best comic ever that happens to feature characters that are gay. If someone asked me to recommend one book that captures the humor and pathos of modern gay life most accurately I would unreservedly recommend this little 80 page paperback. Kirby's strip is not only one of the funniest things I have ever read but the characters are incredibly likeable and believable which results in the strip becoming as dramatic as any novel it progresses. This book is a compilation of some strips from the first four years of this series and the only downside is that it makes one wish that every single one had been included in a larger, more comprehensive collection....

I discovered this book in a store in Boston. I thought I knew a good deal about contemporary Irish poetry. However this book took me by surprise. It is outstanding. I had not come across this poet before. What a pleasure his work gave me. This is an original, I have no doubt.There is a dark imagination at work here which I don't think I have seen in modern Irish poetry. I will be ordering all of John Hughes's work . Highly recommended.

One of the few books of poetry to have made the hairs stand up on the back of my neck. This book has poems which use language in an evocative and mysterious way. A challenging book in terms of the intellect and imagination at work within its covers. Highly recommended.

Drawing upon the vast knowledge of the ancient sages of India, a great yogic master gives a detailed look at what happens to a person when he "dies," and what happens to the soul thereafter. This book is for anyone who has ever wondered about his own mortality, or has suffered a loss of a loved one. My father passed away several days ago, and the knowledge and understanding gained through this book are invaluable in helping me to overcome the grieve and in providing hope.

This is the question that has perplexed mankind for ages since many religions expound "there is no death." How can this mystery be resolved? Swami Muktananda, one of the great Masters of our time tackles this subject from the perspective of his vast knowledge and his experiences in meditation which he discusses with great clarity in this book. Basically, he cautions, "If a person doesn't use this birth to know himself, to understand his own inner Consciousness, then his life is wasted."