Robert Duncan Books

I believe the events in this actually took place!
I would tell everyone to read this eyeopener!
Onec you start reading, you can't put it down!
Good job and best wishes to the author.

I loved this book!!
I couldn't put the dang thing down until I was finished reading it!
I hope there is a follow up to this story.
It sure tells it like it is!!!

Innocence Turned Deadly is a book everyone should read. As the author says, "It's mostly true!." and..thjat is what makes it so frighting!
I have had the pleasure of hearing Mr. O'Finioan on a couple of radio interviews, and he is great to listen to!
I can't wait to read his nect book!!

This is one compelling narrative that I just couldn't put down. Mr.O'Finioan is a natural story teller, and he relates his experiences as a covert agent for law enforcement with the ability to raise the hair on your neck. Readers are given insight into the underbelly of both law enforcement and criminals. You decide whether they are separated by a fine line.
Ginger Corbett

This remarkable first novel of Duncan O'Finioans brings to mind another first published in my lifetime, CATCHER IN THE RYE. INNOCENCE TURNED DEADLY has the same classical input into today's circumstances as CATCHER'S had those years ago. The urgency lies in the factual information such as when he writes about the Gestapo. Believe it. It is the Truth.

Wireless Intelligent Networking is an excellent publication with rare characteristics: easy to read, well organized and extremely efficient in what concerns quantity and quality of information. Technical protocols, market trends, services deployment, integration, among other IN hot issues are thoroughly dissected in WIN. This is definitely an essential tool for anyone in the Telco business, saving time and money in training for beginners and helping experts on a daily basis. A "dot.safe" investment for any company in the industry!

The telecommunications industry needs a lot of standards and
detailed information for true inter-operability. So, no book
is going to be perfect in its coverage of the material - there
is simply too much information.

Having said that, I find this book to be an excellent way to
understand the issues associated with WIN. It provides the basis
for further study and points people in the right direction for
increasing their knowledge.

I use this book as a basic reference and recommend it highly.
You will not go wrong reading this book - whether you are a
wireless telecom professional (which I am) or not.

The book succeeds in presenting an inherently complex and multi-disciplinary subject in a clear manner with sufficient references to allow further study as needed.

The book provides a broad view of wireless networking, including financial, market, and technical views. The technical information is well organized and presented from more than one perspective. Rather than presenting volumes of minute details, architectural principals are introduced and illuminated.

This is one of the outstanding technical books that I have ever read. I would highly recommend it to experienced hands in the fields of wireless or wireline voice networks.

I would also recommend it to beginners with the following cavaet: this book plumbs some fairly deep waters, and does not delve too deeply into the related fields that are the building blocks of Wireless Intellegent Networking. SS7, AIN, PSTN architecture, and mobility management are all presented, but having some previous background (or somebody handy who can fill in details) would be a big help.

Wireless Intelligent Networking is an excellent publication with rare characteristics: easy to read, well organized and extremely efficient in what concerns quantity and quality of information. Technical protocols, market trends, services deployment, integration, among other IN hot issues are thoroughly dissected in WIN. This is definitely an essential tool for anyone in the Telco business, saving time and money in training for beginners and helping experts on a daily basis. A "dot.safe" investment for any company in the industry!

This is a unique book that compares the intelligent networking standards, the ANSI-41 and GSM. It not only provides useful technical information but also covers the issues pertaining to the wireless intelligent market. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone who is interested in WIN and CAMEL.

I love this book. I found it completely by accident at a used bookstore and immediately fell in love with it. The humor is pure Robert Aspirin (of the Myth Adventures series) and Mel White's illustrations are the perfect complement to the humor. (Trivia note: the two con artists in the book are modeled after Mr. Asprirn and Ms. White) In-jokes abound in both the text and the artwork: keep checking the backgrounds if you don't believe me.

And just to clarify an earlier reviewer's comment, Mallory is most definately a dragon. A small blue dragon. He comes from a family of dragons; this is a plot point.

I'm afraid to say much more for fear of spoiling it for new readers. In short, if you can find it, GET IT!

In re my review earlier today... Oops. Mel White. Not Phil Foglio. Some similarities, but not all. ::sigh::

First. Duncan and Mallory is hilarious, lavishly illustrated in the best comic style, reminiscent of Foglio. Who's stealing styles from who here? It's generally a good read. Like most full-color graphic novels, it's too flaming short -- about fourty double-sided sheets, if I recall correctly. It makes a great coffee-table book, even though it's paperback (8.5" x 11") -- people pick it up, start thumbing through (USE THE GLOVES!! USE THE GLOVES!!) and start laughing. If you buy it, buy the sequels the same day. My promise to you... you will read all three within two hours and laugh yourself breathless repeatedly. --Phil

Duncan & Mallory is the offspring of Robert Asprin's hilarious Myth Adventures, and Fan Artist Mel White's equally funny imagination. The story revolves around Duncan, a hapless adventurer and Mallory, a machiavellian, vegetarian dragon who is also an outcast. With Mallories 'Guidance' they get into many predicaments that still bring a chuckle today. If you like Asprin's work, his brand of humor abounds here. White's work is remeniscent of Phil Foglio's but retains a zany originality of it's own. If you want to read one of the funniest graphic novels of the early 90's, THIS is the one to get. 10 turnips!

Spicer and Ginsberg influenced one another, as is clearly shown in this book. Ginsberg stole a lot of his ideas from Spicer, but he was still the greater poet because he touched upon the conversation of his times, while Spicer went whacko and had no real impact on his culture. Academics have taken up Spicer, but this has again had no echo at all in the popular culture.

It's particularly interesting to study the automatic side of Spicer's poetics from surrealism forward -- the relinquishing of choice for a ouija board automaticism that resulted in odd nonsense that probably did not come from the dead, but resulted in an arcane verse that did indeed catalyze some of the lazier aspects of SF poetry but which was a dead end.

Magisterial biography that brings to life a tormented alcoholic who was not even trying to be nice, or even well-dressed, enough, to enter into the public forum.

His best work is the discussions he offered in The House that Jack Built -- astounding to see what he could do when he DID enter into the public conversation. Too often in his poetry he seems to be mumbling to himself. Poets need to reconnect to the real world -- because the world is real -- it has an ecology and texture, and the poets who got this will survive. Others form dead ends into their lost selves.

Gnosticism is a dead end.

I find that the Kirkus review available here does ill-service to this important biography of Jack Spicer. One would have no inkling, from reading this review, that Spicer's poetry is one of the most influential sources for postmodern poetry and poetics in the 1990s. It is not some recent academic fad to study Spicer; rather, Spicer has been a crucial poet for many younger writers for over three decades. This biography, published at the same time with his collected lectures, should provide the opportunity for even more serious study of his work.

Poets in the 1950s and 1960s have been well served by some of their biographers, and in this thrilling critical treatment of Jack Spicer and the poets of the San Francisco Renaissance, Ellingham and Killian join the ranks of Peter Davison (The Fading Smile: Boston Poets from Lowell to Plath) and Bill Berkson and Joe LeSeur (Homage to Frank O'Hara) in magically capturing the soul of an important school in the poetic ferment of those years. The San Francisco circle around Spicer was intense, prolific and inspired, but they didn't get the publicity that the New York poets received or that the Beats had showered on them. Lack of media attention didn't stop them. They were dedicated to a pure vision of poetry as an almost religious vocation. On his hospital death bed in 1965 (he died at 40 from acute alcohlism), Spicer told friend Warren Tallman, "I was trapped inside my own vocabulary." His genius/mania to use that vocabulary in service of the Muse produced great work and reminded others of the seriousness of their purpose. Spicer, in all his contradictions and drives, leaps from these pages. The book as a whole bristles with the very energy it celebrates, both poetic and sexual (intrigue was in their blood), and is essential reading for all of us interested in the circles that nurture poetry in every creative center. As if that is not enough, the quotations from a vast number of interviews of the surviving participants make this a delicious oral history as well as a compendium of hair-raising gossip of the wild times in North Beach before tourists took it over fom artists.

I have read Poet Be Like God, and I wish neither to rate it (but there's no option available that allows one to opt out of the rating game) nor review it, but to make a correction to the idiotic Kirkus review: Jack Spicer was NOT a "Beat" poet. There were a group of Beat poets in San Francisco in the late 1950s, early 1960s (e.g.,Bob Kaufman), but Spicer wasn't one of them. His intentions in poetry were different from theirs; naturally, so was his aesthetic. Spicer was part of a triumverate of poets that included Robert Duncan and Robin Blaser who met at the end of World War II in Berkeley, Ca., and were sometimes known as the Berkeley Renaissance group, or more simply, and more accurately, as part of the San Francisco poetry scene (which was part of the New American Poetry movement). That the Kirkus reviewer could make such an elementary and stupid mistake should be taken as a clear indicator of the idiocy of the rest of the Kirkus piece of schlock.

Usually I read a lot of books in the bookstore than I put them back on the shelf (sorry B & N) but when I open this book and started reading, there was no way I wanted to put it down! I went right to the register and bought the book. I especially like the case study sections. The book is organized well and it is an easy read. I also like the b-school slant in has. Not often do you get a book on this topic written by someone whos business knowledge began way before his/her first venture. I recommend this book to not just those who want to start a business but anyone who is involved in community development.

Have you ever come to great a idea and gained great understanding in an instant and then break out in a cold sweat, due to the depth of that thought? And suddenly on day, just be browsing through the book store and just happen to pick up a book which carefully outlined your exact thought in black and white. Because that is what the case was with Mr.Wallace's book. Powerful!

A must read for any person looking to take the entrepreneurial plunge.

A fantastic book. It covers all the major topics of ancient history. It is a big book but it doesn't cover any topic too deeply, giving you an introduction to the ancient world. A perfect stepping stone towards more dedicated research of the many ancient civilisations shown here.

The book is arranged chronologically and has many great pictures, making it a delight to read. Highly recommended to anyone interested in history.

If you have read and liked World History, you will like this one also. This is more illustrated and maybe the young ones will like it better.

I bought this to start a collection of cookbooks for my granddaughter. I love it. She is going to be so excited to receive this as a gift. She is an avid baker and will love it.

I was impressed with this book and the service from Amazon.com with my ordering process.

The standard Cake Box is full of unimaginative sin. Active ingredients: Air and sweetness. (Like a politician on election eve?) With the help of this book and the zany ingredients suggested, your Cake Mix becomes something else entirely.

You will need a friend or two. The whimsical nature of these "recipes" brings a touch of hilarity to the kitchen that is best shared. Rolling around the floor in fits of laughter by your self is just not proper. You will also need a friend to help you eat the resulting behemoth. 3 bananas, after all, do add a certain bulk to the product.

This is a fantastically fun kitchen fantasy. Just don't get carried away. You will need some place besides your own tummy to tuck these treats.

I was planning a big career change and relocation, and I was really afraid of negotiating my salary. This book taught me all the tricks I needed, how to evaluate how much I could negotiate and how to know when to speak and when to be silent, etc. I am eternally thankful for this book. Everyone should get it and assess how they can feel more comfortable negotiating.

The book teaches you how to evaluate how much negotiating power you have, based on things like are you the only one that can do the job, is the job being created for you, etc. Also even if those odds are not in your favor, it teaches many other tricks to learn how to benchmark and more. Having read it, I became clear and confident for myself. Plus after having successfully renegotiated a major raise of $12,000 I knew how to advise very curious friends how to have confidence and how to go for the gold!

I hope you enjoy this, it is worth it!

Negotiating Your Salary & Perks is a no-nonsense career guide to maximizing one's salary, title, responsibilities, perks, work flexibility, and other job benefits. Focusing on how to negotiate the terms of one's job from the moment one starts looking for it, Negotiating Your Salary & Perks discusses such topics as the importance of knowing one's market, the necessity of being firm to win respect, why one should discourage premature offers and always talk to the decision maker rather than an intermediary, being wary of the employer's bag of tricks, what to do when one's employer thinks the grass on the other side of the fence is greener, and much more. A subtle guide to the art of the deal and creating win-win situations, and enthusiastically recommended as its tips, while directly applicable to salary negotiation, are useful for deal-making in virtually any business context. Highly recommended.

The title of my review says it all--this is an essential collection for anyone serious about sound art/theory/poetry or avant-garde music. The CD is a very nice bonus, full of unbelievable rarities as well.

By focusing on "earplay" in texts by James Joyce, Ezra Pound, and other modern writers, this collection's twelve essays investigates the relationship between acoustical technologies and 20th-century experimental poetics. The accompanying CD offers soundtracks of early radio sounds, poetry readings, Dada cabaret performances, jazzoetry, audio-poems and contemporary Caribbean DJ dub poetry.

If you love great photography and are bored by all the predictable efforts that appear in most wine books, this is for you! Some of the shots by Max Alexander are really breathtaking, and, like the text, they really give a sense of the place. A terrific, affordable coffee table book