Bennett Books

Honestly, my fiance loved this series. Typical Shojo drama. There is a Princess, this is a mysterious world and a lot of Manga drama!! It is a very good series if you are fans of The Twelve Kingdoms, Vampire Knight,or Wild Ones!

The Queen's Knight has held my attention since it was first released. It is intense and I have no idea how it is going to end. Never a dull moment with this series. I love it.!

I liked the book and think if you have read the previous series you'll like this one too!

I liked this novel tremendously on many levels. The humor of the story set this above many romances. The passion and quirkiness with which all the characters live their lives make this a not to be forgotten novel.

While 26 year old Hope and 32 year old Emerson are the focal point, I was also drawn to 32 year old Rachel and her journey. Rachel's parents, Katherine and Berlin, are wonderfully depicted as individuals and forces that the younger generation play off and look to.

Make sure to savour each paragraph as there is always a revelation to be found. Another interesting that struck me was that the characters ere not always likable. They say some heartless things and take some insensitive actions, however it was never over the top as to make you not still like or love them. I thought this made the novel all the more real. Good writing.

The first chapter has more ingredients than a dish of paella but the rest of the novel settles down for one terrific read.

The last 20 pages contain some of the most moving and poignant moments, I re-read them several times. I would love to see these characters again in a short story or anthology from this author or the publisher. That would be tremendous fun.

This is a keeper !

This book was incredibly well-written with a slew of wonderful charachters. Their lives all intertwined so well and though the book was a little predictable, there were enough surprises to keep you going. The two main characters have quite the appetite for each other throughout the novel *^_-* Once I picked it up I couldn't put it down until I was finished, and then I read it again! It's got one thing I find essential to any lesbian romance--a happy ending.

Unhappy with her life, but not exactly sure why, Hope agrees to spend the summer away from her lover at the home of her best friend, Rachel. Hope's lover, Pamela, is a university professor and seems to treat Hope as more of a protégé than a partner. Upon arriving at Rachel's mothers' home, she meets the intriguing wild child Emerson.

Emerson was born with a silver spoon. Her mother died in child birth and her father had no idea how to handle her strong personality, so he eventually allowed Rachel's moms to do the honors. Emerson and Rachel ultimately have a young love affair. Rachel never lost hope on reconciliation. Emerson moved on to another lover who eventually broke her heart.

Hope is partnered. Emerson suffers from a broken heart. However, neither woman can resist the strong attraction between them. This all happens under Rachel's watchful eye.

Bennett always includes a large cast of characters in her books. Sometimes the sheer amount of personalities is difficult to follow. However, in `Question' she keeps the cast small and focuses on giving her few characters a deeper dimensionality than her usual stuff.

I liked and felt the angst experienced by Hope and Rachel. I indirectly related to Emerson's dilemma about falling in love with a married woman. I absolutely loved Rachel's moms - their characters really added to the story. In fact, I'd love to read a book about how they met and Rachel's early years.

This one should be accompanied by an ice-cold Coke and a bag of chips...

A wonderful journal! There's an Awards List, which lists the books and the awards they have received. The Author Pages is where you can jot down your favorite authors and books they have written. The To Read section, where you note the books you want to read. There is even a Loaner List section, where you can write down books you have loaned out as well as books you have borrowed. There are columns in between the lists where you can check off which books you own, want to own, have read and recommend. In between journal sections are fun book quotes.

This journal makes a great Holiday gift for any book lover on your list! It's the perfect size as well, about the size of a planner. This is a great way to keep track of your books and to find new books to read.

I love the book lists included with this journal. I was able to go through the lists and mark which books I want to read and add others. I also like the opportunity to write down the title of a book and do a small review on it. Great way for a voracious reader to stay organized!

This is a fantastic book - more of a reading companion - by Rachelle Knight (goodreads author too!). It's essentially a journal to keep track of your books, a real life version of goodreads, but with much more to it. It's loaded with lists, like National Book Award winners (which is great since I have a collection for my daughters of signed first edition NBA winners growing), Pulitzer, Man Booker, etc.... And it allows you to check off whether you've read them or not, want to read, etc and gives you space for handwritten notes on each one.

My two favorite features so far are the "Biblio Pages", which allow you to keep all your notes on a book in one place (including words to look up later (yes, we ALL still run into those), favorite passages/quotes, and any comments or notes; my second favorite is the "Loaner Lists" where you can keep track of all the books you've borrowed or lent out.

For those of us who have too much going on to remember all this sort of stuff, I highly recommend this book. Although certainly good for mature readers, I also think it could be very useful for a junior high / high schooler who is starting to seriously enjoy reading literature --it helps to jot down thoughts while reading and do so in an organized way. Those class papers will be a lot easier a few weeks from now ....

First, the stats, which provide perspective: 8 writers, 47 pieces, 143 pages that include 25 essays/memoir, 12 poems, 10 short stories/vignettes. There, you see? This is a smorgasbord of entertaining writing. "Something for everyone," as Hal Bennett, anthology editor and mentor of the Lakeside Writers Guild says in his intro.

Bennett is a man with a big heart and a big mind. Both qualities shine through as he introduces the group and its members that formed around him and went on to become friends, writing colleagues, and beneficiaries of his mentoring. He quite rightly celebrates the group as a long-lasting support group more than a critique group as such. ("READS is . . . an artifact representing the efforts of a creative community which can perhaps be a beacon for others of like mind."--xiv--) READS aspires to be a model and inspiration of creative community.

To encounter READS/REEDS is to know Lake County and Northern California more thoroughly. It's filled with humor, sex/sexual politics,alcoholic families and recovery, relationship/relationship addiction, horses/cowgirls/cowboys, political action/environmental advocacy,and transcendental spirituality/unity with nature.

These writers are my homefolks in Northern California. I've worked with members in this group on multiple creative projects in different media in Lake County and have either heard or read much of this work in manuscript. What a thrill to see it brought into fruition and see these writers grow in their craft.

Good bedside reading. I enjoyed my copy on the train, as the miles swayed past.

--Janet Grace Riehl, author Sightlines: A Poet's Diary

My husband gave me a copy of this book and that very night I sat down to just look through the pages, mostly out of curiosity. I read a short poem, then a short story, and then I was really hooked. This is an extraordinary group of writers. The stories and poetry cover so many themes--and when I put the book down, having finished the last piece, I felt like together this little collection of writers had touched my heart, gotten me thinking, and just plain entertained me. It was, as they say, a "great read." I'm looking forward to seeing another anthology from them.

It is very inspiring to find writing of this quality coming out of such a remote area. The stories are well-told and extremely entertaining, the poetry is top drawer. Over-all it is a very thought provoking little volume. I look forward to more offerings from this talented group.

This book explains the concepts of UML for someone who is looking to understand UML or needs a refresher.

When I wanted to learn C language, the second book I picked up was this same series on C [the first one being K & R, which I read later to comprehend].

This book on UML follows the same tradition of "Teach a concept then give plenty of exercises to practice what you learnt". It includes two case studies also. It also includes a chapter on Real time UML, another on OCL and another chapter on Design patterns. A very good buy for the money (16+ dollars).

Pros: Excellent book for beginners Lots of exercises to practice what you learnt. This can be a first book to read before moving into heavy weights like UML series [from awl] or Booch series [from sigs]. Coverage of Object Constraint Language

Cons: May be taking a case tool like Rational Rose or TogetherJ for implementation, as a side-by-side treatment would have made this book more comprehensive.

Overall I am very much satisfied with this book at a elementary level.

Considering the pricetag of textbooks on this subject, this Schaum's outline is an excellent value. This is one of those Schaum's that has enough good narrative to stand alone as a textbook on a subject. The book takes the practical stance of involving two case studies throughout that serve as subject matter for the numerous examples. One is CarMatch, which is a franchising company promotes car sharing. The other is VolBank, which is a non-profit organization matching volunteers with people and groups needing help. This book covers version 2.0 of UML. The book provides a "How To" section in each chapter in whch examples are developed from one of the two case studies. The two case studies provide examples that cover business modeling, information system development, and real-time system development.

The first two chapters of the book introduce the case studies and provide background to UML. The next twelve chapters explain the notation of UML diagrams and how to produce them. For each type of diagram there are sections on the notation, on how to produce the diagrams, on how each diagram is related to other diagrams, on how each diagram can be used in business modeling, and on how each diagram fits into the Unified Software
Development Process. Each chapter has a set of review questions with answers at the back of the book, solved problems, and supplementary problems. Chapter 15 covers the ways in which UML can be extended. The final two chapters provide information on related topics: Software tools for UML and design patterns. The book concludes with a summary of UML notation, answer pointers for the review questions, the UML Metamodel architecture, a glossary, and a bibliography.

The only thing missing from this book is more integration with tools such as Rational Rose, and more examples of coding from the UML. However, considering the price and the ground covered, I still consider this a five star book on the subject of UML.

I am the illustrator of this book. It was selected for inclusion in Bank Street College Children's Books of the Year, 1997, and also Pick of the Lists (1996) American Bookseller Magazine. It is very popular with visitors to my studio. If you are visiting Mill Valley, California, please visit Susan Cummins Gallery to see more of my work. Thank You Amazon for making it possible to search for books by the illustrator's name. It has not possible to do this at my local bookstores.

I disagree strongly with the Booklist reviewer's opinion of Renee Flower's illustrations. The illustrations are indeed bright, but they are fun, unique and a refreshing departure from the usual fine art style, museum-quality paintings (read: dull) that grace the pages of one too many children's books. Rather than detracting from the poems, they enhance the quality of the book by capturing the mood and spirit of each poem. All too often, children's books are serious, stodgy things. Flower's illustrations are extraordinarily fun, and so is this book.

So glad I discovered this book for my 3rd graders... great for the first week of school. We found all the describing words and one student noticed the "Picasso" illustrations! Lots of similes -- which of course we found as well. Really a DARLING book...

"To play billiards well," quipped Charles Roupell, "is a sign of an ill-spent youth." That image of vice, hustling, and threat to the community used to be a large part of the average American's perception of pool. Then in 1986, The Color of Money came along and revitalized the game and ushered in a new era. It's this era, in all its impressiveness and diversity, that Shamos and Bennett survey.

Shamos is among pool's most accomplished historians, and his knowledge of the game shines brightly in this book. He introduces us to a selection of people who have contributed immensely to the game, takes us on a tour of some of America's classiest and most unique pool and billiard rooms, outlines women's and men's professional pool, and closes with a look at the state of the pool industry.

The life of the book is Bennett's photography. Bennett's lens never fails to bring a sense of animation to the stills and to put us in the moment. Much like buying a better stereo and rediscovering your CDs, Bennett reintroduced me to the image of this game that I've played since childhood.

This book is full of great pictures of pool rooms past and present. Lots of room and player info. Very polished publication. Inetersting for those, like myself, interested in the sport and history. Not an instructional book; but definately worth the price and time to enjoy.

This is by far my favoritebook on pool that I own.Thephotography is awesome,some of the best candid shots ofpro tournament play there is.There are a great deal of action shots too that capture the power of the break and the focus required to stay at the top of your game.Shooting Pooltakes you across the country to meet some of the best players in the game,and to some of the nicest pool halls you have ever seen.I love this book and would never sell my copy!Take care,Caleb

I had picked up one of the author's older books a while ago and was pretty impressed, but it was mostly a collection of stories. So, while interesting, it was no where near complete.

This book, on the other hand, is practically an encyclopedia of feline behavior. VERY cool. She starts with body language, her recommendations for setting up their environment and building confidence, and then goes onto common problems and how to solve them.

The only real blank is that she seems to assume that your cat is used to and at least somewhat trusts YOU. The section on a shy cat assumes that the cat is afraid of visitors.

I just skimmed it, so perhaps it's in one of the introductory sections that I missed (like the play therapy section, which she covered a bit in her other book so I didn't read it in this one). I'll reread it more in depth later and update.

I really like her approach, though, because she does not recommend discipline that the cat will associate with the person - like water bottles, noise makers, yelling, and stuff like that. Instead of negative approaches (like locking the cat out of the bedroom) she suggests positive approaches (like creating an interesting environment in another room). Definitely more work, but I think more successful in the long run.

Pam Johnson-Bennett is one of the best authors in the newly emerging field of cat behavior and this book is no exception. She offers no-nonsense, practical ways of understanding and dealing with your cat's quirks and problems. Her solutions are rarely the "QUICK AND EASY" variety (if you wanted that, I guess you should have gotten a pet rock). But this book goes a long way toward helping you understand your complex and mysterious little housemate. If you take the time to follow her instructions and do what she says, you will get results. Do it for your cat!

Some of her methods are fine for a cat behaviorist or someone who has plenty of time (and no job) to spend catering to their kitty. I am a busy person who needs to socialize a rather "psycho" kitty to my already established one cat household. It has not gone well and if I practiced what this lady preaches I would be at this for years. It's a bit frustrating. Also I do not have a local cat behaviorist in my area to consult and my vet is more of the mind of - well just let the cats figure it out. I am still looking for advice. She seems dead set against using drug therapy on high-strung cats but if you cannot even handle the cat how can you practice all of these great techniques?

This is an excellent commentary on Spinoza's Ethics. It is intellectually
demanding and probably too difficult for most undergraduates. It should
be required reading for any graduate seminar on the topic. Bennett is
highly critical but at the same time very fair in his analysis. Spinoza's
Ethics is a rigorous and demanding work, and the same could be said for
Bennett's commentary. With this book Spinoza has found a critic he so
richly deserves.

Bennett could be a poster boy for 20th century Anglo-American analytical
philosophy. I highly recommend his other works, especially those on
Kant and his magnum opus, Learning From Six Philosophers. The latter
work engages the Big Six of Early Modern Philosophy, Descartes, Spinoza,
Leibniz (the Rationalists) and Locke, Berkeley, and Hume (the Empiricists).

At the top of this review it says that this book is out of print. This is not true. It is available in a paperback edition. I am currently reading the Spinoza chapters of Learning From Six Philosophers. Bennett's analysis may be summed up in one word: superb!

I see that Jonathan Bennett is about to publish a new book entitled _Learning from Six Philosophers_. So this looks like a good time to review this earlier book.

As the title of Bennett's forthcoming book suggests, his primary interest in a philosopher is not whether he was right in every particular but whether he can be read profitably -- i.e., whether it is worthwhile to engage the philosopher's thought as a means to thinking things through oneself. And happily, Bennett's close and critical reading of Baruch Spinoza's _Ethics_ is carried out in this spirit.

"Happily" because Bennett clearly has major disagreements with Spinoza, and disagreements do not always foster intellectual sympathy. But Bennett insinuates his way very carefully and deliberately into Spinoza's thought, with the skill of a sharp analytical thinker and the ease of one long familiar with his text. This is the sort of disagreement that makes for good philosophy; every philosopher should have a critic of Bennett's caliber.

His exposition of the main lines of Spinoza's thought is clear and (in my opinion) correct. For example, in setting out the essentials of Spinoza's outlook, he makes a nice short argument that Spinoza was not (as is sometimes claimed) an atheist. (This is, by the way, in the context of a fine summary of Spinoza's "rationalism.") I shall not multiply examples in a brief review; suffice it to say that Bennett takes great pains to let Spinoza speak for himself, and even to make arguments for Spinoza that Spinoza did not think to make on his own, before launching into searching criticism and disagreement. (He often begins his replies with remarks like, "This is the very best I can do for Spinoza, but unfortunately it is not good enough.")

And Bennett's disagreements are well-founded even where I disagree with them in turn. For example, he closes the volume with what is undoubtedly a controversial claim: that, based on his close reading, the second half of Chapter Five of the _Ethics_ really has nothing of value to offer the modern reader.

Bennett does not especially like this conclusion and almost wishes that he could have omitted it from the book. Yet he finds himself driven to it by the difficulty -- which even Spinoza's defenders must surely acknowledge -- of finding anything in the passage that admits of any clear interpretation at all. Bennett concludes, with a great deal of justice, that if even Spinoza's keenest expositors descend into feckless handwaving and purple sermonizing when they come to this passage, the view that there is some crucially important meaning in it can hardly be maintained.

Here again, this is just the sort of close, critical analysis to which anyone claiming the title of philosopher should expect to be subjected. (Time and again in reading this work, I am reminded of the tone and manner of C.D. Broad's _Examination of McTaggart's Philosophy_.)

And again, it is clear that Bennett _does_ regard Spinoza's _Ethics_ as profitable reading. This is the sort of approach that helps to keep disparate philosophical "camps" talking to one another.

(And it is a blessed relief from, say, Ayn Rand's nonsensical attacks on Immanuel Kant. Readers of Rand who want to see what genuine philosophical criticism looks like could do worse than to study Bennett. For that matter, some of Rand's shriller _critics_ might well emulate Bennett; though frankly I find Rand a good deal less profitable than Bennett finds Spinoza, it is still a pity that so few critical discussions of Rand's philosophy devote much effort to determining what she said and meant. Then, too, Rand's outlook shared some important features with Spinoza's, and some criticisms of the greater philosopher will therefore apply to the lesser one as well.)

Bennett's work succeeds on several counts, then. Besides being a highly competent dissection of the best-known work of the "saint of rationalism," together with some much-needed critical analysis, it is also a model of how to engage a thinker with whom one has important and perhaps irresoluble disagreements. The enterprise of philosophy can only be strengthened by this sort of thing.

I shall therefore look forward to Bennett's discussions of Leibniz, Berkeley, et alia in his forthcoming book. If they are of this quality, they will be worth reading and rereading.

I grew up in science and have only recently found philosophy. So once past Philosophy for Dummies I can find myself in serious trouble. Bennett is not easy, perhaps harder to read than Spinoza. But he allows me to catch my breath with his generous examples, and I learn process while working on content. A degree in philosophy is not a prerequisite to read this book, but persistence is.

Spinoza closes Ethics with: "If the way that I have shown to lead to this seems to be very arduous, yet it can be discovered. And indeed it must be arduous, since it is found so rarely. For how could it happen that, if salvation were ready at hand and could be found without great labour, it is neglected by almost all? But all excellent things are as difficult as they are rare."

Bennett's book echoes this sentiment.

All types of nonvascular interventions are covered in this book. I prefer it for both the beginners and experienced workers.

Together with the book by Karim Valji (Vascular and interventional radiology, ISBN 0721670032) this book forms a formidable addition to any prospective interventionalist's library. The book essentially forms two parts. An introduction describing in a review format some common fields of interventional radiology such as lower extremity arterial disease, but also enlightens the user on the highly busy part of interventional radiology - that related to dialysis vascular access and its importance for the dialysist and (no lesse important) for the patient with a dialysis access. The second part of the book describes case stories with appropriate images and narrative content. A few areas seem a little different from modern approach with almost no vascular CT or even mention of multi-detector vascular CT, an important emergent technique. Also - albeit this may be from my lack of familiarity with American settings - a curious case of a patient with a brain abscess is related and the sequelae of that is never really mentioned. In general the book is informative, well written, clear and with a lot of interesting and highly educational examples.

I found this a great book on vascular radiology as a 1st yr resident and an unbeatable resource for the radiology boards. It's easy to read, and easy to learn from. It should be in every radiolgist's personal library!