Barry Books

As a physical chemist/spectroscopist by training who suddenly found myself needing to synthesize & characterize some model compounds for my experiments, I found this book to be a very helpful review of modern synthetic techniques, particularly in regards to purifying starting materials, dealing with air-sensitive compounds, and monitoring the reaction's progress. Definitely a recommended reference for any chemist. It's companion, "Advanced Practical Inorganic and Metalorganic Chemistry", is also highly recommended, though if I had to choose between the two I'd say that "Advanced Practical Organic Chemistry" is most useful.

A wonderful book. Whether you're in need of a nomograph, quick info on your solvents/reagents(as well as some common procedures for certain reagents), or if you're about a senior-undergrad/1st-2nd year grad student working in an organic lab and need a little refresher crash course, this book has it all(in a general sense). Contains a brief, but concise, walkthrough of considerations before starting a desired reaction all the way through the work-up and purification(very, very nice). As the previous reviewer said, and I agree completely, this book is a must-have for any organic chemist.

The book discusses fundamental techniques in organic laboratory. Topics that I found very useful are running the reaction (i.e. air-sensitive and water-sensitive chemistry), monitoring reaction (i.e.thin-layer chromatography), working up reaction (have you wondered why ammonium chloride is a good reagent to work up the reaction? how to efficiently separate layers without emulsions?, etc), purifying compounds (i.e. distillation, recrystallization, determining the sizes of columns, choice of eluting solvents,...) The book should be on the shelf of every chemist.

We are plannign to sail the world with our children. We bought this book for or 9 yr. old daughter. She loved it!!!

Great story and adventure to relive through the eyes of one who was there

of family cooperation, perseverance and adventure! I always thought I was the adventuresome type, but the Barry family puts me to shame. Following their trip from England to the U.S. was fun and insightful, plus a fantastic geography lesson for my 5th grader! He loved looking at the atlas to follow their route. It's so nice to find a book that's not only entertaining, but also educational. A great read!!!

This is a very entertaining book. It is hilarious and has a lot of dry humor. It also deals with a lot of serious issues. You won't be able to put the book down!

Barry Jonsberg's AM I RIGHT OR AM I RIGHT? tells of Calma, who is in love and facing many changes in her life: an absent father who returns to her world and wants to talk, a mother with a secret second life, and even a new crush. Calma's investigations into secrets will bring her face to face with the meaning of conviction in this warm story.

I don't know if everyone else knows this, but Barry Jonsberg is a genius. This book was so funny I was actually laughing out loud in public like a psychopath. The smart but stubborn Calma sees everything in that black & white way that we teenagers are so famous for, and her lack of broad perspective gets her in trouble in more ways than one. Read both of his books, they both feature Calma and are both riotously funny and suspenseful. Great read.

This book is a very good book. I suppose you would like to read it because it is about an Athens man name Theseus being put in a labrynth. Ariadne was the daughter of King Minos of Crete. Ariadne was attacked by the minataur because she wanted to comfort it. Ariadne tried to help Theseus because he was so handsome. She gave him a sword and a ball of thread. Theseus killed the minataur. When they were sailing away, Theseus accidently left her on an island. There she met Dionysis and married him. And that the was end of the story. It was a 5 star story because it was a really good book.

I was so impressed with this version of Theseus and the Minotaur. The reflections of Ariadne are very feminine and will inspire children to think more deeply about her predicament. We read this after reading another picture book version of the myth. After having read a rather brief version of the story, we enjoyed hearing this expanded version, rich with reflection, causing female students to shed tears. A must read for any unit on Ancient Crete!

YOU CANNOT MISS THIS BOOK! This book really goes into Greek myhtology and it is a story equivalent to Theseus and the Minotaur. I liked the adventure and the vividness of this book. I also love Greek mythology. All information here are 100% accurate.

It is about a princess of Crete nemed Ariadne. She was a daughter of King Minos of Crete and Queen Pasiphae. Queen Pasiphae also gave birth to the Minotaur, a half-man and half-bull beast. Athens had to pay 9 youths every seven years to feed the Minotaur. Once, Theseus, the King of Athens' son came to Crete, Ariadne fell in love with him. They danced in the banquet room and later Ariadne helped Theseus to kill the Minotaur by the help of the architect Daedalus. Theseus killed the Minotaur and they at once set sail for Athens with the rescued Athenians. However, Dionysus wanted Ariadne as his bride and Theseus had to leave Ariadne at Naxos. Sionysus became Ariadne's husband.

I bought this author's Autodesk VIZ CD and liked it so much I decided to try the AutoCAD 2000 CD because that's what I use. I really liked it too. The things I like best are:

1) Its cheaper than other CD's and covers more commands.
2) It also covers more than even the big books like
Inside AutoCAD. Its _all_ tutorials so its easy to
understand.
3) Its easy to install. Just follow the directions.
4) Its easy to use. I like using ALT + TAB to switch back
and forth between it and AutoCAD. The READ THIS FIRST
page is the only thing I had to read in order to
understand exactly how to use it.
5) Its easy to print the tutorials. I set my properties
when I print to put two pages on each piece of paper
to save printer ink. I read the tutorials like magazine
articles - they very easy to follow because there are lots
of pictures. You should do this too. The tutorials are long
sometimes.
6) No animations, which is good because they suck up space
and you can't print them, and they are boring to watch -
if I wanted animations I would buy a video which there
are two million of.
7) The index is very good - commands are easy to find
8) It covers everything - beginner, intermediate,
advanced topics. Lines, arcs, circles -> object tracking
and dimension styles -> dimension families, plot style
tables -> 3D commands & custom menus/toolbars. I think
its like 80 hours or more of training. I haven't finished
it yet.
9) The author writes back if you email her questions about
the tutorials. I didn't understand Otrack (even after
I did the tutorial which I didn't read carefully enough)
and she wrote back when I emailed her. She knew exactly
what I was doing wrong. She's very polite.

I recommend this CD very highly. In fact I like both the
things I purchased from this company. The VIZ CD is very good too.

One warning - this isn't a "for dummies" product. Its for people that actually want to learn the product and use it to do real work. If you are looking for something really easy this product might not work well for you.

Easy to install, lots and lots of projects, covers the easy stuff and works up to the hard stuff. I bought it for my office and now everyone is borrowing it. The publisher does answer questions about the tutorials by the way. You email them - they email you back. Pretty cool.

I can't believe this CD is so good! I never knew it was possible to get training, REAL TRAINING, without going to a class. But this CD really delivers. In under two weeks, I've gone from a beginner to an Expert. (Well, I'm making 3D models which seems like expert stuff to me.) Oh, and I got stuck and sent an email to the publisher. Within 24 hours I had an ANSWER from a REAL LIVE PERSON that got me going again. Tell me another publisher that cares enough about its readers to answer their questions. This CD is like a teacher in a box!

I have enjoyed all books I have read by Barry Gifford, including Baby Cat Face. He is by far a genius when it comes to character writing, from Sailor and Lula in Wild at Heart to Perdita Durango(My favorite one) to Baby in this novel, every character had a unique and oddball personality all thier own. The story is great, a quick read because you never lose interest. Another great tale of bizarre adventure from Mr. Gifford's colorful imagination.

Bet you didn't know that The Messiah would never have returned to Earth without Sailor and Lula's help! Well neither did they! (Actually I'm not all that sure of it myself!) S. & L. (See Wild At Heart, etc.) appear in the past - in their youth - as minor characters in the this tale of the totally lovable Baby Cat Face, who, like many of Gifford's other N.O. characters, faces an implossibly complex, alien modern world from an inexplicable wellspring of courage of the spirit. Most fun you've had for a long time!

After reading novels such as "Night People" and "Baby Cat-Face", I am tempted to paraphrase Norman Mailer and claim that Barry Gifford "is the only living American conceivably possessed by genius". Just read it.

the Yankees are my Team,but Barry Bonds is the Greatest Baseball Player that I have Ever seen.two things I always keep up with during baseball season: first how my Yankees did&then how Barry Bonds is doing.this is another cool Book about the Baddest Player in the game.a easy read but also on Point about the Greatest.

Prospective buyers should know that F. J McCormack, a friend of a rival sportwriter, is pushing misinformation. Jeff Savage and not that other fellow (who engages in enough self promotion that he shouldn't need to resort to having friends step all over Savage's work) is the author of this book.

Let's repeat: Jeff Savage, and no one else, is the author of this book.

As he has established a reputation for doing, Jeff Savage has put together a well-written, easily-readable and always interesting book about a star athlete. Readers young and old will enjoy this book - which was written by JEFF SAVAGE and no one else.

This insightful, well-written book is a must-read for the sports fan interested in a personal, inside view of the multi-faceted personality of the immensely talented Barry Bonds.

Bonds has provided few people with the access and insight he provided Steve Travers, the author. History will prove it to be the definitive work on one of baseball's greatest players.

Frank McCormack

This book from 1964 is full of fantastic and timeless ideas for kids parties including party theme ideas, games, and recipes. The game section is the biggest part and has game ideas for children of all ages including the young ones. The book includes a list of all the games categorized by type (guessing games, races, games of skill and so on) and tells for what ages the games are appropriate. It even has a section for adaptations for handicapped children. It is very well organized and also has checklists and practical advice. I have used this book many times with excellent results.

I haven't even received this book yet but I can tell you right now it is something no home with children should be without. I wore my copy out and discarded it YEARS ago and cannot wait to receive this new one. I was so excited to find it on line. Thanks Amazon.com!

Compare this book with similar titles written in recent years, and you will find that sometimes the old ways truly WERE best! Most of the newer books list the same old handful of tired games revised to fit this or that birthday theme (e.g. "Pin the Alien on the Spaceship" instead of "Pin the Tail on the Donkey"). By contrast, the games in this book are ones that children truly love to play, just for the excitement of the games themselves!

Yes, some of the information in this book is definitely dated, but it will still help you plan the most enjoyable party your child has ever had. I spent a year kicking myself for not having stolen this book from our library before they chose to discard it (if only I had known that they were planning to!!!) Then it dawned on me that I could use the internet to find my own copy. Thank you, worldwide web! :)

This book is simply a must: for those interested in the inimitable Barry N. Malzberg, the history of sf, or what really goes on behind the scenes in publishing. A brutally honest, poetic, and generous book, "Breakfast in the Ruins" is, easily, the finest non-fiction sf volume ever published. "Tripping With the Alchemist" alone is worth the price of admission. Very highly recommended (along with almost anything else by Malzberg).

This is basically two books in one: ENGINES OF THE NIGHT and BREAKFAST IN THE RUINS, which are a collection of short essays Malzberg published over the years about both publishing and the science fiction field. If you're just a consumer of sf or fantasy and all you know is what appears on the stand (or in magazines), what you're missing are the stories of egos, desperation, the vagaries of the marketplace, the rise and fall of the pulps and other magazines that used to be so vital in getting science fiction to the public. Malzberg details the horrible truth about being a writer in the sf field; how _hard_ it is; how easy it is to slip into a crack and disappear; how books get published but don't get distributed (or how distributers come and go). In LOCUS Magazine you find all this happy news about who is publishing with whom. What you don't see that Malzberg provides is what goes on behind the scenes. You see how when magazines die, only the safest science fiction gets published; only the "known" authors get published. He lays on the line the absolutely conservative nature of publishing. How books that advocate literary asperations (and perhaps unhappy endings) never get published in the sf field and he lists names and books long since gone from us that will never be reprinted. You think a book like ON THE BEACH could be published today? Think again. (Even when ON THE BEACH was published in the mid-Fifties, it had to be published in Australia where the author lived.) You think Thomas Disch's THE GENOCIDES could be published today if it were submitted by an unknown writer? Nope. This book is an eye-opener. It shows the human side to a genre that might be coming to an end. He says it himself. Nothing new is being published or if it is, it's mostly dazzle and flash. The publishing field as it exists now is very, very conservative and is only interested in authors who can deliver books that are easy to market and sell well. For writers who want to do something different, Malzberg says this might not be the field you want to work in. This is a book that is at once cranky, witty, angry and sad. It echoes my own experience in the field and it's reassuring to see that someone is out there (and has been out there for over forty years) who has already articulated what's come and gone and what's yet to unfold. After reading this book, I'm convinced that the science fiction being published now is a creature totally different from the science fiction that John W. Campbell Jr. advocated and I don't think men like Heinlein, Sturgeon, Kuttner and Van Vogt would recognize it today. I give the field another ten years. Then it'll become just so much mechanical fantasy and the main novelistic conceit will be the alternate history novel. Malzberg is only slightly more optimistic. Get this book if you're interested in what's _really_ been happening in the science fiction field since the 1950s. It'll surprise you. Thanks, Barry

Barry N. Malzberg's BREAKFAST IN THE RUINS is a nonfiction series of essays offering hard-hitting assessments of the evolution of cutting-edge science fiction over the decades. It's a pick for any avid science fiction or fantasy fan and offers some uniquely compelling viewpoints of science fiction's influence and progress as a genre.

Easily the best of the three stories in this trilogy. There were just a couple of typos here and clearly the author and/or the editor have done their homework on this. Pleased also to see the spacing in between the lines largely eliminated but there were a few pages where this still happened. The editor needs to spot this.
The story was tight, well paced and had the best depiction of Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg I've read. Being in the middle of that was well described. I liked the later part particularly where Casca goes off solo to rescue a woman behind enemy lines; this reminded me of some of the early stories and maybe showed this author's settling down in the role.
The slow death of the Confederacy is shown in part in this story and the ending depicted without straying into silly heroics that some stories have done. Casca himself retains honor and respect even in defeat and even manages to meet Grant!
A good way to tie up the trilogy that began with Halls of Montezuma.

Its taken 3 books but Tony Roberts seems to have grasped the role of author of the Casca series with his best book to date. The cover is more to the traditional type buyers expect to see, me included, but its still short of the standard these books should have. But its going in the right direction. The editing has gotten better too and the annoying paragraph spacing has been done away with.
Roberts portrayal of the Confederate band Casca's with takes them from Sharpsburg to Gettysburg and then to the seige of Petersburg, ending with the retreat to Appommatox where the final surrender takes place. Casca is much more like Casca than many of the books since Casca 11: The Legionnaire. I enjoy the bits where Casca goes off to rescue the girl from occupied Fredericksburg and the chase between the Brotherhood and Casca's men that ends with the shootout at the farm.
I was sad at the way the girls in the story met their fate, but I suppose that's what happens to Casca. He's just a tragic figure. This should turn out to be one of the classic Cascas in years to come.

I sat down to read this as soon as I received it in the mail knowing what the 2 previous installments from Tony Roberts brought I knew this one would be impossible to put down. Well I was right he wrapped up his trilogy with real class tying Casca in with significant historical figures of the period just as Barry Sadler did in the original 22 books. It really is good to have a competent author back in the saddle of writing the Casca series that leave all of his fans awaiting his next contribution to the series.