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An outstanding introduction to futures and options markets, clear, concise and bursting with examples and current issues and controversies. Unlike most futures and options textbooks this text focuses on all types of assets - commodity, financial, energy etc. The book's blend between theory and applications and examples is outstanding. The applications, which are an intergral part of each chapter makes this a must for students and established researchers who want to gain a full understanding of the current state of the futures and options industry.

The word BORING is what usually comes to mind when I read textbooks for my classes. They are not something I look forward to because I typically drift off into never-never-land. Usually they're missing some dynamic, and as a result they just don't seem to capture my attention.

However, this textbook sparked a DIFFERENT reaction in me. First off, I found the futures and opinions market interesting and the material in the textbook easy to understand. It was teeming with examples and diagrams that enhanced my grasp on the fundamentals behind the market. Unlike other textbooks, I found that I ENJOYED the reading. In particular, I enjoyed the numerous real-world applications provided in the boxes throughout the chapters.

I believe the greatest asset in this book are these real-world applications like: how price movements in the orange juice markets market could forecast freezing temperatures better than the U.S. National Weather service, to the enormous role hedging plays for the airline industries. By intertwining stimulating examples into the required nitty-gritty, it held my attention. I thought reading this textbook was both educational and FUN. It sparked in me a new-found enthusiasm in futures and opinions.

This is a love story with a difference. Jean and Paul are identical twins, so alike that people have given up distinguishing them and simply call them Jean-Paul. They have a relationship that is "incestuous beyond all others" (meaning it exists at 4 levels: between siblings, between same-sex siblings, between same-sex twin siblings, between same-sex twin identical siblings); each night they make love not in the crude, vulgar, maladroit manner of the heterosexual, but in a sort of seminal communion, a transcendent exchange that expresses the oneness of the universe. But as they grow up Jean begins to feel the suffocation of Paul's ovoid embrace. He runs away from Paul, and Paul embarks on a search in places that reflect their twinship and separation --Venice, Japan, Vancouver and divided Berlin. To Paul, the identical twin is the most perfect of all beings; he feels sorry for the abject solitude of singletons and non-twins, and scoffs at their efforts to attain, through heterosexual sex, a form of imperfect, ersatz twinship. The irony is that his twinship itself is imperfect, because Jean wants none of it. Paul's search for Jean is a metaphysical search for wholeness that is touching and pathetic. Michel Tournier's novel is extraordinary in its rich, dizzying explorations of dualities, complementarities, oppositions, reflections, separations, conjoinings and dispairments. The language --beautifully translated here-- is dense and lush with images, colours, smells, ideas that startle the reader with their sheer beauty and novelty.With stupendous originality, Tournier has given love a whole new dimension.

The richness and profoundity of this novel is not often encountered: every page teems with ideas and insights on the human conditions.It narrates the story of a french family between the thirties and the building of the Berln Wall, and expecially the lives of the twins Jean and Paul, initially forming a very close communion of souls. But one of the twins breaks out and goes to live with a mistress, eventually traveling around the world follwed by his estranged counterprt. Their history is the occasion for exploring all instances of pairing, of complementarity and contrapositions, of the fundamental duality and ambiguity of reality and the human soul. The characters are depicted with profound and original insight of their emotions and the meaning of love and religion. If you haven't read this book, do it! You'll feel enriched and nurtured while sumptuously entertained.

Exiting a Barnes and Noble in Manhattan I spied the title and cover photo on this book. It was on a table of "books on sale", selling for about $4.00. As a new father and a Gemini (astrologically) I was intrigued by the book's cover and when I read the comments from Jean Genet and Salmon Rushdie on the back, as well as a description of the book...I was definately hooked.

WOW...am I glad I bought that book.

I am really into this book and I can't explain why exactly. It haunts me. It keeps drawing me back to it. It's full of ideas, great writing and I love what I learned about Ruah, Zen Gardens and the intimate connections of twins and non-twins alike.

This book is definately for folks who like to think about the interdependence of things, of people and places...and about the intimate relationships of semmingly disconnected phenomenae. Oh man.

I love this book. Find out for yourself...if you can find it!!!

I've read the first in the series (So Dear to Wicked Men) and loved it for its clever plot and funny characters. This one (Go Close Against the Enemy) is even better. The characters are still funny and the plot still clever and there is an added seriousness that is thought provoking and at times heart-wrenching. I highly recommend this book.

If you haven't read one of the 2 books in the series, I highly recommend you do so. The authors have owned restaurants and are now using that knowledge to write entertaining books. The couple in the story own a restaurant in the south. The husband is Greek. They have hired a Greek friend of his who speaks less English. This couple find themselves in many "jams" but always seem to find their way out. A very likeable couple and an easy reading book.

Racism is openly flourishing in Delphi, Georgia. This becomes acutely evidenced at the funeral of a stillborn. April McNabb, daughter of the town preacher, married a black man in defiance of her father's commands. Although he disowns her for this sacrilege, he supports her when she wants her baby buried in his churchyard. However, Deacon Walter Fry objects, wanting the infant buried in the black cemetery. During the burial, a demonstrative and ugly protest occurs.

April pushed to the limit, fires a shot at Fry, but misses. However, Fry is soon found murdered and April is arrested for the crime. She calls on her friend Julia Lambros to help her since Julia has successfully conducted a murder investigations before. Though she and her spouse are having problems with an IRA agent, she decides to help her friend. Her snooping places Julia in danger from an individual who wants to remain anonymous.

In SO CLOSE AGAINST THE ENEMY, the victim has many people wishing him dead who also have the means and opportunity to kill him. This makes the story line very complex and difficult to solve. The protagonists are a working class couple whom strikes an immediate chord with the audience. Takis and Judy Iakovou demonstrate that racism is a destructive force that can tear apart a town. This enjoyable book tells a good story while making a powerful social statement.

Harriet Klausner

I bought this book for the Shrimp Provencal recipe, which I'd been looking for over many years. I found numerous versions of that dish, but this cookbook offers a recipe that is closest to my sensory memory of eating Shrimp Provencal on the Left Bank in Paris 20 years ago.

It is not unusual for me to buy a cookbook for one recipe alone (!), but what is unusual is that, after doing so, I discover a veritable treasure house of delicious and fun recipes to add to my repetoire. That's what I find here. While the reviews focus on the 'comfort food' aspect of this collection, I have been best served by the vegetarian selections, the many wonderful ways of cooking vegetables (from sauteed spinach to baked beef tomato slices, stuffed avocados and much else - including the provencal vegetable recipes (nourishing and delicious).

This is truly a gem of a cookbook and the recipes are delicious without being difficult (or full of ingredients one has trouble finding). The lovely illustrations and line drawings are an added delight.

I truly recommend this wonderful cookbook and wouldn't give up (or even lend) my copy for anything. Bon appetit!

It's easy to use this cookbook and you'll feel like you've stolen some of your grandmother's secret recipes as you cook. I've had this book since the author and her husband gave it to me on my 21st birthday when I was in regional theatre in upstate NY. At 40 yrs old, I still tease the book's dog-eared pages to make many delectible dishes and desserts from this treasure. I substitute for the listed ingredients and add to what is already an exceptional value; you can too. Enjoy!

Serious comfort food. Having been a customer of the restaurant since the beginnings when it was tiny and a haven of warmth and real food, I was quick to buy this book from the shop when I saw it. It contains reliable recipes that are savory and hearty. I always know the recipes, which allow for variation will be a success. The illustrations are delightful and set the country kitchen stage well. Family and friends are always blown away with my Good Enough to Eat creations. I highly recommend it even though I've always thought of it as a best kept secret.

This book helped me to resolve questions and fears regarding the shame and guilt of divorce in my life. Coming from a Christian background and having a desire to do the right thing, even after four years of recovery, this was not fully resolved with me, especially in the area of remarriage. Les is able to explain God's grace and where divorce fits in there, in a way I never fully understood before.

This is a great resource of understanding and empathy for anyone who has not experienced divorce in dealing with anyone who has. This book sheds light on this often avoided subject and often neglected action in Christian churches today. This book is a MUST HAVE for Christian lay ministry and pastors.

I ordered this book for my friend who's going through a tough divorce. She said that the book is a really great read and comforting.

Dr. Carter provides great encouragement for those of us that are divorced by reminding us that God's grace in there for us, too - just like it is everyone else. Sometimes, in the midst of the turmoil, it is hard to remember that and, unfortunately, it is ofter hard for others to remember that about the divorced folks as well. This is a great book to encourage the divorced and would also be a great book for a pastoral staff member to read.

I often think about this work. It is witty and thought prevoking. I would like to see it taken to the stage. It would also make a great movie!
I see so many movies that have such meaningless- sterotypical plots,characters, and settings.
For example, I watched a terrible movie called Daltry Calhoun, with Johnnie Knoxville a few weeks ago. Daltry Calhoun takes place in Ducktown TENN, a few miles from were Hillbilly Budda takes place. There were so many parts of this movie that were not consistant with the area. All I could think about was how I wish they would have made Hillbilly Budda instead. Hillbilly Budda is meaningful, realistic, and unique. It presents a less sterotypical picture of the South. At the same time there are some great laughs along the way.

It is a breath of fresh air when someone writes something interesting - testing the bounderies - tackling hard hitting issues like alcoholism, gender bounderies, and the like with a bit of Southern Humor. Any hard hitting issue goes down better with a spoon full of Sounthern Humor. Kudos to you, Mr. Carter, for braving it all, and in the form of a play, none the less! I commend you - Keep up the good work!

This was an exellent read! A great look at the new south.
Good job Mr. Carter.

When you read between the sometimes funny, often poignant lines of "Hollywoodaholic," you realize that it is actually a coming of age story. The protagonist, the wayward screenwriter Wayne Carter, through the use of letters written to his loved ones over a 20 year period, shows us how he learned and grew from the ups and downs, loves and losses of his life in the movie business. As you read his letters, you can see his progress as a writer, a man, a friend, a son, a husband, and ultimately, a father. While striving for something just out of reach, he learns over time to trust God and to trust what he has in his hands. At the end of the book, though not the end of his journey, you find that he has found peace. You may also find that while reading the book, you took his journey with him.

Wayne and I were roomates during our college years at University of Miami. I personally watched him in the beginning as he focused on his dream, and can say that he tried as hard as anyone could to write and develop great screenplays. I was glad to see he has written a book of his experiences and can say it is truly revealing of an incidious industry, where talent does not always rise to the top. In hopes that you may read this, please contact me at "dscarmichael@alltel.net" Hope to hear from you.

David

"Hollywoodaholic, Confessions of a Screenwriter" is the tale of one man's dream of making it in Hollywood. Recounted from a journal-like approach, "Hollywoodaholic" is an inspirational and educational vehicle for the professional and the amateur alike. While the book may be somewhat of a Hollywood career guide, the "novel" also reads like one of the author's own extraordinary blockbuster movie adventures!

Finally, a book that explains the emotional and spiritual aspect of being a military wife and mother. It's easy to find books about moving in the military, or what types of insurance you need, or how to use the commissary, etc. or even coping with one-time deployments and separations. This book goes beyond that. I feel like Marshele Carter Waddell spoke to me directly and to my friends whose husbands are gone many months of each and every year. I have highlighted passages over and over in her book and read it each night. The Scripture readings are wonderful and I have posted them around my house as well. I highly recommend it, for military and civilians.

Written by the devout Christian wife of two decades to a career military sailor and commissioned officer in service to America, Hope for the Home Front: God's Timeless Encouragement for Today's Military Wife is a faith-inspired testimony and advice guides for dealing with the particular trials and tribulations of spouses separated by their loved ones by vast distances and even the threat of death in service to one's country. Topics addressed include how to confront fear with faith, raising children when their father is absent for long periods of time in service to one's country, learning how to stay together when duty forces a couple to be apart so much, and more. A deeply powerful testimony that combines personal experience, trust in God's plan, and practical wisdom into a heartfelt whole.

This book was better than I hoped it would be! It has encouraged me so much! She uses personal experience and scripture to equip you for the challenges faced daily during deployment. It's not a pitty-party, it's encouraging and uplifting. I couldn't put it down!

If you are the wife of a deployed service member, this book is for you. It is for everyone--enlisted and officer! I LOVE this book. I'm taking it to my church's spouse's group. I'm sure they will all love it too!

Great for anyone that has some experience in painting but is just beginning portraits. Detailed step-by-step instructions work you through the process. Lots of illistrations and color pictures.

A workshop guided by a master painter of portraits. Robert Carter Clark sets out here to teach you thoroughly from her professional experience, without cutting corners or resorting to caricature. Fully one-half of this fine book is given to draftsmanship. She begins with proportions of the head (male, female & infant) in Chapter One, then moves on to drawing features -- with special attention given to the windows of the soul, the eyes. Chapter Three is dedicated to drawing the body. In Chapter Four, Ms. Clark presents the difficult skill of capturing fabric folds. Chapter Five covers lighting for four different views. Charcoal portraiture comes next, then using color, stepping through hue, value, intensity, & flesh & hair tones.

Finally, she devotes chapters to painting portraits from life in oils & in watercolors. Oil techniques include wet-into-wet, monotone, & glazing.

"How to Paint Living Portraits" is a standout, user-friendly instructional book within a genre glutted with volumes that can be too light or too dense, or promise too much, too quickly. Roberta Carter Clark cooked this one right. She's an excellent teacher.

Bob Rixon, Pearl Art & Crafts

I work for an artist who owns a gallery in Lahaina, Maui for over 12 years & has a 30 year reputation as a respected International artist. As a budding artist, myself, I requested Jim Kingwell to critique' a painting of mine that was in progress - he handed me Roberta's book and told me that she was his teacher and great influencer in painting. After a few days I re-emerged from the book with a painting that captured not only the subject, my mother, but also captured the emotions I wanted to communicate. Jim could proceed to help me with small refinements...then he asked for the book back. He jokingly referred to it as his "bible". I since have ordered my own and Roberta's book on capturing children's portraits! A must have! Incredible guidance and techniques. Mahalo.

In a world filled with fearful news from home and abroad, this book, written by a talented writer, points the way to freedom from worry. I highly recommend it to those who are searching for peace in this troubled world

After reading this book, I found myself moved by the inspirational and biblical messages the writer offered as solutions to end the senseless time and energy that we spend worrying about life. This was a well written and deeply touching book, that entered my life at the right time. Anyone who has ever found themselves anxious, paranoid, and in fear of the unknown, would benefit from reading this book. The very basic answers are there.

A must read for every mother! Follow the advice in the book, and your faith will be strengthened and your own mental and spiritual health restored--and you will actually be of much greater help to the loved ones you're inclined to worry about than when you engaged in endless hours of incapacitating worry.