Adamson Books

Loofah Day

On September 1 people will go to any Rupert Murdoch owned facility and wave loofahs. September 1, 2004 was the night Bill O'Reilly made a lewd phone call to his Fox producer Andrea Mackris, and depicted a prospective encounter between the two of them in which a loofah played a significant role. Subsequent disclosure of O'Reilly's antics led to the public humiliation of the Fox News commentator and he was forced to pay an undisclosed sum. It's believed to be anywhere from $2 million to $10 million to ensure Ms Mackris' silence.

September 1 2008 is Loofah Day.

Ah, but the children's book here. Well I can't recommend it. But don't take my word for it, read O'Reilly's fan's reviews and "You Decide".

As a Bill O'Reilly viewer, I felt this book would be a good way to help our adolescent grandchildren look at themselves and see their potential and at others around them as well.

As a "Factor" watcher and conservative, I was disappointed with the book. I have 4 kids and I am trying to pass on our morals and values. Bill is smug in the book (yes, he's a bit smug on tv, too). I didn't like the 'do as I say, not as I do' attitude. He shares a lot of what he did wrong growing up, and says not to do it. I don't like that approach. How about sharing what to do that is right for the right reasons and leaving your bad examples out. Glad I read it before my kids so they don't read it.

I was hesitant to buy this book cause of all the bad reviews, but i did anyway; and im glad i did. Im 19 and this book gave me a lot of inspiration and wisdom. The book is smart but it appeals directly to kids my age (and younger too.) He talks about a lot of issues that most kids feel like they cant bring up to their parents, such as drugs, sex, alchohal that kindove thing. But anyway im really happy i ignored those negative comments, and you should too if your thinking of buying the book. I notice that a lot of the ppl giving the bad reviews are doing it because they dont like Bill, because the book i read was one of the best books on the subject of teen issues. So buy this book for your kids, i promise you wont regret it!

T.D.

Just look at that mug. Go, do it now. Look at that face. Look at the blush on the cheeks, the airbrushing. The makeup. That's the best they could make O'Reilly look. That is a team of people who make their living taking pictures of weird looking people and making them seem human, and this is the BEST they could do.

I'm not fooled. I'm not going to sit here and bash O'Reilly. If you're thinking about buying the book in the first place, it's too late for you. But maybe not for your kids. There still might be hope. The bottom line is, you wouldn't buy a children's book written by SATAN himself. Look at that face again. Think "SATAN". Do it again. As you stare at those beady little eyes, that crooked nose, the Bosley Medical hair implants, try and tell me that he is not the physical earthly manifestation of SATAN himself.

Save lives, don't buy this book.

This book doesn't just squeeze everything into one thick pile, it actually divides into 4 sections for every exam. Each section covers all the subjects you need to know for a particular exam. Although I must admit that there're some obvious errors in some of the questions and it also lacks of detailed illustrations. For passing exams, this might be the only book you need.

Read some of the other reviews here and yes - this text has got quite a few errors in it.

That's inevitable in a book this size.

Most importantly, the subject matter is covered well and enough questions are given to make your memory work - or at least that's the way questions help me in my study efforts.

I bought the New Riders books before and there's nothing in them, (well very little), which isn't here.

Worse still when I first started my MCSE 'endeavour', I paid £1500+ for a course by a certain large education company which came nowhere near the usability and quality of this book.

If this sounds like I'm a fan - then YES I AM.

My only regret is spending money on other study aids - because they weren't necessary.

Congratulations QUE - you have a winner - but you need to spend a bit more time proof reading in the future. Keep it up.

Mark Hodgkinson - MCP - CNA

Agreed, this book does have a few grammatical as well as technical mistakes, but this should not put you off.

As a testament to the brilliance of this books content and structure, I used this book to revise for a week, and passed the MCP NT Server AND Workstation within a day of each other!! I CANNOT cram!! Even if my life depended on it!!

As accurately suggested by some other reviewers, you should not see this book as a one stop solution to exam success, what it is designed for is to consolidate and clearify the subject matter.

It has the uncanny ability to highlight your weaknesses, but then offers you a seamless process of correction that cannot be beaten!!

I gave it 4 stars ONLY because of the glaring sloppiness in the execution of the grammar and the more serious technical errors, but I believe Jay Adamson etal will prevail!!

This book has unbelievable quantities of mistakes and errors in it. It is just incredible to see Que(the publication company)could have such a lausy book published and sold at such a high price. I read about 35 pages and found more a dozen mistakes and errors and a lots of them existing with the answers. They are so obvious that I have to believe that it had not been carefully edited at all before sent to the printing house. This book is an easy book to test your ability of editing, though. It is a shame!

If you are new to this field, this book has plenty of mistakes to mislead you. This is the first MCSE book that I read and I am reluctant to take any of MCSE exams then until I have a chance to read my friend's MOC books. The questions are not set on the area that is likely to be examined. A good chance to test your technical proofreading skills, suitable for students studying technical writing. Thanks the publisher and author, I spare one whole year for other parts of my life coz of them!

What separate technicians apart from each other are usually the certifications they hold. What is need to get that certification? Time, money, studying and most of all the study material. The MCSE Training Guide for Windows 95 is one book that will make getting the MCP easier.

800 plus pages of information that take apart the exam 70-064 objective by objective. I thought working with Windows 95 for five years I knew enough to pass the exam, this book showed me things I had never seen before.

From planning to installing and configuring to integration and monitoring to the optimization and troubleshooting, this book breaks down what you need to know in a format that even the beginner can understand.

The book comes with Test Prep Software to give you a look at what types of questions you'll get on the exam. Also you have flash cards and a study system to help you better prepare for the test. Overall this book makes passing the exam easier and financial independence quicker.

The 70-64 Windows 95 exam is tricky, but this book provides a very good foundation for the success. It does cover much more than is actually on the exam, and as such serves as a reference for the OS. I do think you will need to supplement study with the Windows 95 resource kit, but all the objectives on the exam are covered in the book. While the sample questions are sometimes lame (and really do not mimic the exam) there is an appendix which provides GREAT last minute study tips. The section on troubleshooting is fantastic, written by a person who obviously has spent time in the field wrestling with the same kind of problems administrators see every day. All in all, it is well worth the money I spent.

I used this book to study for my windows 95 70 064 exams.I scored 734(cut off 632).This book by the nature of its presentation gave me an excellent comprehension of Windows 95.When I started final exam revision with transenders I did well but also found the book did not treat fax,windows messaging and dial-up networking well.

I consider the money spent on this text a complete waste. Concepts are introduced without explnation. Some material is never covered at all (you discover this fact when you attempt the section reviews questions which often ask questions about material the book never covers).I was hoping for a good text to accompany Sybex's Win95 exam prep. This certainly was not the choice. Buyer beware...

I have studied this book for two hours avery day for two years. I'm not joking, it's a class for school. I went to take the exam and I passed but I felt that they did not cover enough Networking stuff. They should emphasize more in this part. I also used the Windows 95 Resource Kit to study and that hepled to clear out the missing networking piecies in my puzzle.

Wooden characters, absurd plot (what there is of it!), pretty bad writing....this book makes even the last few dreadful books in "The Cat Who..." series seem preferable!

I love to read Lydia Adamson's books because of the cats. This book's story line surprised me. As usual, "Swede" and Tony run around in circles, not trying to make any kind of commitment. "Swede" also hooks up with an old friend and talk about the old days. "Swede" makes a wrong accusation and makes a total fool of herself. She isn't perfect after all! Overall, I enjoyed the book, finishing it in a couple of hours like the rest.

. Unemployed actress and cat sitter Alice Nestleton thinks that her prayers have been answered when she receives a call from Jack Rugow, producer and director of the last legitimate repertory company in New York City. To her mind, it could only mean the great man wants her to perform in one of his plays. When she meets Jack, Alice is disappointed to learn that he wants to employ her detective skills rather than her acting skills. A charity that he is involved in is in financial trouble because an anonymous donor who sent a donation every year for twelve years to Sustenance House has not made a contribution this year.

Rugow and the other board of directors want Alice to track down the anonymous benefactor to ascertain whether the contribution was lost in the mail. Alice has very little to go on, but quickly discovers the identity of the mysterious patron. When Alice and her friends go to check out just what the situation is, they discover that the donor is dead, apparently a victim of murder by a street gang. Alice, who cannot drop the case, digs deeper for the truth. This brings her to the attention of someone, who does not want the intrepid sleuth to upset the status quo.

This is the best work in the Alice Nestleton series to date due in large part to the antics of the endearing and special cats, Tiny and Tim, and the line drawings that turn this welcome mystery into a holiday gift. Lydia Adamson has infused the spirit of the holiday season into the story line, a device that demonstrates how special her female protagonist is. While A CAT ON JUNGLE BELL ROCK is not complex novel, it is a fun cozy that should garner Ms. Adamson a lot of new friends.

Harriet Klausner ------

Though this book is put together nicely, I have to admit I was very disappointed in the recipes it contained. I was looking for more "every day" type recipes and it just isn't the book. There are a handful of recipes that will work for my family, but must of them are not those types of recipes. I am sorry I ordered it.

This is a FABULOUS book. The other reviewer is correct that the recipes are fancy -- this book will allow you to use the slowcooker to create remarkably gourmet meals.

I don't use it for its fancy recipes. I use it for two things.

One is its UNRIVALLED information about the "how and why" of slow-cooking. E.g., which veggies should always be loaded lower in the pot, and why is that? Which type of bell pepper will make your dish bitter after 6 hours in the pot...and why? This book has a hundred or so pages of "basic techniques and principles" before it gets to its recipes. I own 10 or so books about slowcooking, and this is the best coverage of basic techniques I've ever seen.

Another thing I use it for is its wonderful desserts. How to make flambes, sweet sauces, puddings, cakes, etc. -- this is a BRITISH book, and it provides wonderful BRITISH dessert recipes for the slowcooker that simply don't exist anywhere else.

The copious, professional photographs rival the best cookbooks I've seen of ANY kind. The photos are luscious, gorgeous, and exceedingly useful.

It's sad that the book is out of print now. But if you snatch up a copy for pennies on the dollars now, you'll learn a lot that is unavailable elsewhere.

I really enjoyed this book i have read many Alice Nestion storys and can't wait for July 2 for A Cat Named Beat to come out

I read "Cat of a diffrent color" just to see if "Cat in the Manger" was a fluke. It wasn't. "Different Color" is better, but still is a bad mystery. It starts with the news that a whacko theatre guy is dead, and Alice goes to his funeral, where she is accosted by another whacko theatre guy. If this sounds cliched, it is. Adamson makes almost everyone invloved with theatre a raving lunatic. The three elderly Russian guys have got to be the worst excuse of villains I've ever seen. There is also a cat at the center of this, and the importance of this cat is ludricous. Read this book only for campiness.

Yes, in this work you get all sorts of little details about Comanche habits - food preparation, preferred camping spots, etc. All very nice and quaint. As for their more notorious habits, well, these have been omitted or sanitized ( These days, authors must never be Pollitically INCORRECT by writing about uncomfortable FACTS surrounding all the lovely Native Americans of yesteryear! ) and so the reader who buys books like this is aways left in the dark about many, many things connected to the Comanches which they should know about in order to acquire a complete picture of these Indians.
For a far better overview of just what these aboriginals were like, read my reviews of Nine Years Among the Indians, 1870-1879: The Story of the Captivity and Life of a Texan Among the Indians and also Three Years Among the Comanches: The Narrative of Nelson Lee, the Texas Ranger and don't even think of missing Scalp Dance: Indian Warfare on the High Plains, 1865-1879 and Life Among the Apaches (Bison Book)
If you take the time to read my extensive reviews of these books and then purchase them, you'll easilt get much more on the Comanches than these present-day, Politically Correct, sanitized works can offer by far.

But for the ULTIMATE in information on the Comanche - and their even more fierce allies, the Kiowa - quickly purchase

Comanches (Pimlico Wild West)

and

The Kiowas (Civilization of the American Indian Series)

These are two books which far surpass any others which are strictly dedicated to AmerIndian tribes.

The Comanches: Lords of the South Plains, by Ernest Wallace and E. Adamson Hoebel, is a comprehensive ethnological study of the Comanches. It assesses the minutia of their origins, social structure, government as well as a history of their communal existence. An underlying tension regarding this work is the credibility of late day informates as opposed to period records. At issue is the comprehensive interpretation suggested for Comanche government and law as opposed to the meager allowance given to Comanche cosmogony. Regarding government and law, after citing very limited source data from informants, the authors suggest an extensive system of government and law. Focusing on various aspects of the Comanche social experience, they drew parallels with modern day legal code. In the end, it seems, the authors imposed a system with nomenclature upon the Comanche social culture that did not in totality exist. On the other had they are adamant that the Comanches did not maintain extensive philosophical or theological thought. Yet, the evidence they present clearly suggests they did. Comanches commitment to the "guardian spirit complex", and the "Great Spirit" in every aspect of their lives evinced an unequivocal as well as pervading theology. Nineteenth century observers of the Comanches, Dodge, Neighbors, Babb, Burnett and others noted that the Comanches maintained deep theological notions. Nonetheless, Wallace and Hoebel are skeptical and suggest that later Christian writers forced their views upon Comanche theology because descriptions of Comanche cosmology, similar to certain Christian believes, were not supported by the evidence given by informants in the 1933 Santa Fe Laboratory group. It truth, informants said very little about theology or cosmogony. Clearly, data taken from the Santa Fe Laboratory study is given credence over recorded witnesses from the period.
Despite the source issue, overall, this work is a superb study of the Comanches.

This is definitely a great source of information for those who wish to groom their own pets.

I found this book to be more focused on the bathing process and not much at all on cuts. Its filled with too much common sence information. Alot of words, not much useful info. Out of all my materials on grooming, this has been the one I just leave at home. Sorry.

Sojourns of a Patriot is a compelling read. It esentially follows the life a Confederate infantryman, Corporal A.P. Adamson, throughout his tenure of the War Between the States. The book is composed primarily of his letters home and a journal he kept for the last year of the war. Secondarily, the editors provide comment and explanation to some of the entries. Most revealing were the roles that camp gossip played in his thoughts on the morale of the Southern troops. Also quite interesting were the false or incomplete pieces of "news" that reached Southern camps. This aspect of the book provides the reader with an insight that is often not present in regimental or campaign histories. Often, readers know the outcome of the battle, the makeup of the casualty list, or the result of a particular election. The letters in this book permit the reader an escape from that biased knowledge and to live through the life of the writer. The love of the writer for his home, his yearning for a return to his previous life, and his concern for the future are poignantly brought to the fore through his letters to various family members. However, some of the best writing is not included in these letters, but is in his later journal. These entries are poetry disguised as prose. The images brought forth by his writings are disturbing, comforting, melancholic, and often heart-wrenching. Brief though they are, they are some of the most powerful writings of the War this reader has encountered. The only detractor to the book is in the commentaries by the editors. They focussed a little more than was perhaps necessary on the personal histories of peripheral protagonists. Some of the information was repititious. However, in their defence, the editors do warn the reader of this in the beginning and they do have personal bias to this information. Additionally, the other commentaries they provide would be useful to readers who may not be as familiar with the conflict (in fact, these could have been expanded somewhat, but there is a conscious effort by the editors to provide suggested readings which are appropriate for each entry). Overall, I highly recommend this book to any person interested in the War Between the States. It will be especially appealling to readers with interest in the personal experiences of the war and an informative diversion to those readers who generally limit themselves to straight histories.

The editors have tried to add value to this rather unexciting collection of letters and brief diary by interspersing their own comments among the letters. This is all very well when they stick to facts, but too often they inflict their own 20th-century political beliefs upon the readers. That's particularly annoying considering the lip service paid to "objectivity" in the foreword.

The letters themselves are not exactly thrilling. The soldier in question saw little action and his letters (typically of Civil War letters) concern themselves mostly with relatives he's met and what he wants to have sent from home. His prison diary is interesting mostly in that its tone differs markedly from that of the letters; it's emotional and romantic, whereas the letters are downright dull. Still, the diary offers little factual information -- though he does undermine his editors' hoopla by stating that he was actually treated reasonably well. Whether he was "unreconstructed", as the editors claim, is unknown, because no post-war writings of his own are included.

I'd skip this. The editing is annoying and the primary material adds nothing new or entertaining to the wealth of Civil War primary sources already in print.

The '70s are scary.


Especially if you are an 11th century bloke transported in time to this particular period.

Apart from dodgy trousers you have to deal with all the technological stuff that you just think is magic, and only get a kid to help hide you from everyone.

Then there is that little problem of magically finding your way back in time.


2.5 out of 5