Q and A Books

I had Dan Q. Posin as an astronomy instructor at San Francisco State University in the mid-70's. Dan was a great teacher and his classes were fun as well as educational. I haven't read this book but if it's as good as the other things he's done, it's bound to be well worth the trouble of finding it and reading it.

This is my review for Where In America's Past Is Carmen Sandiego? You Are The Detective Series, by John Peel, Illustrated by Paul Vaccarello. This is definetly a five-star book, that I highly recommend! It's so entertaining, that I've read it over again, many, many times! This time around, Carmen Sandiego, and her elusive gang are sneaking through American History, and have already taken 4 priceless treasures. In this book, there are 4 mystery-adventure games for you to play. How you play them: First, you choose what item you want to go after, first, out of: Old New York City, Robert E. Lee's Horse Traveler, Benjamin Franklin's Bifocals, and The Apollo 8 Space Capsule that orbited the Moon! Then, turn to the indicated page number. Example: Say you first went after The Apollo 8 Space Capsule. The number would be: 133. Well, there aren't 133 pages in the book. But, on each page there are several numbers. So, you'd find the number 133, not the page. Read on, until you have choices. You could either question people, or go to a new destination. First, question people. There are 3 people that you can question. {You don't have to question all 3 if you don't want or need to!} As usual, turn to the number indicated. Once you know where you're going, next, go to your new place, and time period, by turning to the indicated number. Do the questioning, and traveling, repeatedly, until you have only one option: Question 1 of 3 people. Now, you have to be careful. The thief is nearby, with the loot. Question whoever you like, until you find a list of addresses for all of Carmen's sneaky gang. Then, choose your thief. {By the way, you should have recieved clues about what your suspect looks like. Then, you should have recorded all of your clues on the Score Card, and what treasure you're returning, how many travel points you have, That means put down 1 point for each move you make. and who you think you're suspect is.} Then, choose which one of Carmen's gang is your suspect, and turn to the page that's indicated. At the end of the case, add up all of your travel points, and check the final number against the Scoring Chart in the back of the book. This wonderful book comes with 8 suspect cards, 8 Map Cards, 4 Stolen Object Cards, and 4 Bookmark/ Scorecards. I love this book, and recommend it to anyone who loves mystery, and adventure! Enjoy! I hope that you liked my review, and, maybe, even considered buying the product!

This is a wonderful book! There are 79 reproductions, the pictures are good quality, and color works are reproduced in color (etchings are black & white, as were the originals). There are examples of works from through-out Wistler's life, as well as all the different media he used. The text seems useful and descriptive, and the bibliography is extensive. I suppose the only complaint could be the size of the book (about 11" X 8"), but since many of Whistler's works are modest in size to begin with, I really don't find it to be a problem. Most of the pictures are half- or full-page, and the color balance seems true to my eye. Overall, for a concise, and reasonably compact book on Whistler, you couldn't do better!

This book vividly describes WW11 and the men that risked their lives to keep our country free. They were young and brave and many gave their lives to see that the America that they loved would endure. I am so glad J.Q. Frierson wrote about the personal aspects of the war because the young men and women of today can best identify with the plight of these young men when seen through a soldier's eyes. This book is especially meaningful to me because my father was one of these soldiers mentioned in the book. A Great Read!

Will Rogers has no peer in America today, Rogers was a populist who is actually smart and wise, which is currently a contradiction in terms. Today's populists compromise theirselves by their loyalty to a political party. Rogers on the other hand was an equal opportunity skewerer of either party when they threatened the well-being of the common man.

About the only peer today would be Bill Maher for the country's intellegsia, however due to the fragmentation of the media, we have no common spokesperson for populism, our loss.

This is the Hallmark Edition and with contains not just the most popular of his sayings and excerpts from his newspaper columns, but also a great number of photographs of Mr. Rogers. What's especially fascinating is how timely many of these sayings are even today, like the following in the foreign policy section:

"No nation has a monopoly of good things. Each has something the others could well afford to adopt.",

or

"Several papers have asked, 'What would Europe do if we (the U.S.) were in difficulties and needed help?' So this is in reply to those inquires: 'Europe would hold a celebration' ".

Here's a sample of the wisdom: "The two finest things that can happen to a man is to have a good wife and to know that he's accepted by the people he comes from."

This a tiny book packed with wisdom and hilarity, highly recommended to put out where it can reviewed when a spare amount is available.

I liked this book because it was very interesting and informative. This book was a good read, and it taught me alot of things I didn't know before. It also got me interested in American Govt. even more. I recommend this book to every American Government student.

I re-read this book whenever I am faced with change, whether I'm trying to sell or implement change in an organization, or dealing with changes in my own life. It reminds me that "change" doesn't change, it is how we deal with it that needs to change. Being human, sometimes I forget some of the simple principles in this book, and it is amazing what a difference it makes when I am reminded of them and begin to follow the process once again!

Witches of New York is an clever and engaging sketch of psychics, astrologers, and fortune-tellers operating within Victorian New York City, written from the perspective of a popular American humorist. Noting that the "Witches of New York exert an influence too powerful and too wide-spread to be treated with such light regard as has been too long manifested in the community they have swindled for so many years," the author set out to patronize a representative sample of fortune-tellers, and to expose to public scrutiny, in a series of written narratives, the quality of witchcraft which could be bought for a dollar.

The outcome is at once a delightfully entertaining read, and fascinating primary text for the historian of the 19th century occult movement. Doesticks relates many of his encounters in terms of an ill-conceived search for a wife with supernatural powers, but it is fortune-tellers themselves who lend the text its greatest humor value. We meet the mysterious "Gipsy Girl" of No. 207 Third Ave., who delivers her prognostications in a rum-induced slur. Madam Morrow's women-only policy obliges the author to appear in drag, a ruse sufficient to award Doesticks with a glimpse of his future wife. Whereas most female fortune-tellers offer a love charm to their customers, the scientifically-minded Dr. Wilson, by contrast, predicts that Doesticks will poison his future wife, and then offers his own services for the job.

It would be an injustice, however, to present Witches of New York as merely a humorous text, as it contains detailed accounts of sessions with astrologers, mediums, palmists, and other fortune-tellers, with rich description of their methods and devices employed, and the social context of their practices. Often, these are the stories of New York's underclass, of impoverished women who, in many cases, are earning a living in one of the least disreputable ways available to them. Indeed, the most important historical contribution of the text is that it situates fortune-telling within the wider social context of New York's underground economy. Doesticks argues, as best he can in lieu of a possible libel suit, that fortune-tellers are frequently former prostitutes, and/or in the business of recruiting prostitutes, and that their establishments are frequently fronts for brothels, abortionists, and their ilk. Though viewed through the lens of an unsympathetic humorist whose end is to expose and to entertain, Witches of New York retains tremendous importance as a window into an interesting and poorly-documented Victorian subculture.

i t was very good. I like how it had the page on each player's favorites and such. It had a little too much information. I also liked the statistics on the end of the year. The first part with the coparisons of the WNBA andNBA.

I have tried almost all the recipes in this cookbook and they are uniformely good, even the non traditional recipes such as Chinese/Cajun Jambalaya and Chinese Paella are excellent. The recipes seem to have been carefully taste tested and the ingredient amounts are right on target, unlike many other cookbooks i've tried. My only quible with the book is that the recipes often vary from the ingrediants used on the television show, although the taste results speak for themselves, a great cook book Martin. No, this isn't Martins Mom!