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I would suggest that men everywhere buy this book.... funny, yet a testimonial to the fact that "guys" are under attack in the politically correct world. Use this book as your guide through life.

no longer is there any ambiguity to my sexual orientation. now, when people see me, they all realize that i'm 100% man. THANK YOU, MANIQUETTE! My testosterone level has increased so much that I've knocked up at least one chick that I know of since reading this book.

When I first received my copy of Maniquette, it was with great apprehension that I opened the book and began to read the pages. Were the rumors true? Could this book really be the answer to Y2K?

The answer: Yes.

If you read this book it will be like watching Fight Club and Boondock Saints simultaneously. There will be so much testosterone flowing through your feeble veins that you will immediately go into your back yard and build a cathedral. If you don't have a back yard then you will build one.

Do not be fooled by imitations. Maniquette is the only male-oriented book fully endorsed by the mystical power of the Hippo. Hippos are known for two things: for their sexual prowess and their wisdom. If you wish to attain either of these traits, I suggest you stop cryin' and start buyin', son...

Maniquette is a book that everyone should read. The premise is simple: 21st century society has become increasingly feminized. A man today is a watered down version of what he once was, and the future for this entity formerly known as man appears to be even more troublesome.

The 479 rules in Maniquette offer advice on how to stem the tide. The book discusses such topics as alcoholic consumption, the pursuit of women, and general rules on how a man should act. If you agree with the premise, you'll find yourself mainly nodding in agreement. If you don't agree with the premise, you'll find it wildly entertaining nonetheless.

The book is easy to read and would make a great Christmas gift. The principal author also writes for cbssportsline.com, I noticed, and his skill with words comes through in this work. The comedic value lies both with the rules and the author's ability to frame them. I promise that you won't regret this purchase.

As a guide in Alaska I was surprized to read a book like this with such insight, and helpfull information. I have given copies to friends and clients from all over the country. The feed back on this book has all been positive.
Mr. Russ has really done hunters and or soon to be hunters a great service by putting all this great information together in one book.

This is not the same old trivia. I have 30 years expereince hunting all over the world and I was amazed at how much I learned from this book. Consise, well written, enteraining and packed with useful information. Should be in every hunter's library.

I was surprized how much information I picked up reading this book. It's one of those books that should be reviewed prior to each season.
I've bought several copies for my friends!!

Make no mistake, Tony Russ is more than an artist and writer. That man can hunt! This book not only offers you incredible insight into the workings of a great hunter's mind, it also allows you a buffet table of great stories about Tony's hunting experiences. Thank goodness he finally put all he knows down on paper so others might benefit. Tony takes you through every detail of preparing for and executing a hunt. He inspires you with great photos and detailed drawings. The money you will save following some of his advice more than covers the cost of this reader-friendly book. Tony has devoted his life to the outdoors and has done the dirty work to know what works best. A day of reading will gain you his years of experience.

this is one of my favorite books of all time. NYRB is now my favorite place on earth! THANK YOU THANK YOU! (ps. this is a classic, all should read it)

Shortly after the death of Daniel Paul Schreber, Sigmund Freud used his (Schreber's) memoirs as the basis for a fantasy of his own. Everyday readers are lucky that Schreber wrote down so much of what he saw, heard and felt during his many years in German mental asylums, for his own observations are far more artistic and harrowing than anything Freud ever wrote.

In this book, Schreber takes us into his world--the world of the genuine schizophrenic. He writes of the "little men" who come to invade his body and of the stars from which they came.

That these "little men" choose to invade Schreber's body in more ways than one only makes his story all the more harrowing. At night, he tells us, they would drip down onto his head by the thousands, although he warned them against approaching him.

Schreber's story is not the only thing that is disquieting about this book. His style of writing is, too. It is made up of the ravings of a madman, yet it contains a fluidity and lucidity that rival that of any "logical" person. It only takes a few pages before we become enmeshed in the strange smells, tastes, insights and visions he describes so vividly.

Much of this book is hallucinatory; for example, Schreber writes of how the sun follows him as he moves around the room, depending on the direction of his movements. And, although we know the sun was not following Schreber, his explanation makes sense, in an eerie sort of way.

What Schreber has really done is to capture the sheer poetry of insanity and madness in such a way that we, as his readers, feel ourselves being swept along with him into his world of fantasy. It is a world without anchors, a world where the human soul is simply left to drift and survive as best it can. Eventually, one begins to wonder if madness is contagious. Perhaps it is. The son of physician, Moritz Schreber, Schreber came from a family of "madmen," to a greater or lesser degree.

Memoirs of My Nervous Illness has definitely made Schreber one of the most well-known and quoted patients in the history of psychiatry...and with good reason. He had a mind that never let him live in peace and he chronicles its intensity perfectly. He also describes the fascinating point and counterpoint of his "inner dialogues," an internal voice that chattered constantly, forcing Schreber to construct elaborate schemes to either explain it or escape it. He tries suicide and when that fails, he attempts to turn himself into a diaphanous, floating woman.

Although no one is sure what madness really is, it is clear that for Schreber it was something he described as "compulsive thinking." This poor man's control center had simply lost control. The final vision we have of Schreber in this book is harrowing in its intensity and in its angst. Pacing, with the very sun paling before his gaze, this brilliant madman walked up and down his cell, talking to anyone who would listen.

This is a harrowing, but fascinating book and is definitely not for the faint of heart. Schreber describes man's inner life in as much detail as a Hamlet or a Ulysses. The most terrifying part is that in Schreber, we see a little of both ourselves and everyone we know.

Others who have posted reviews of this book are certainly correct in their assessment -- it's engaging, harrowing, enlightening, etc. HOWEVER, nobody has addressed the actual CAUSE of Schreber's insanity which, of course, is key to the reading of his memoir. The patient in most cases, and certainly in this case, is unable to tell us matter-of-factly what is troubling him. Instead, he tells us of his dreams or his imaginings, or his horrible delusions. It is then the psychiatrist who untangles the web. I can't recommend highly enough, as a companion to Schreber's memoir, the book "Soul Murder: Persecution in the Family," written by the psychiatrist Morton Schatzman. The book is now out of print, but can still be found used. Instead of describing the book,I'll quote from the jacket flap: "Daniel Paul Schreber (1842-1911), an eminent German judge, went mad at the age of 42, recovered, and eight and a half years later, went mad again. It is uncertain if he was ever fully sane, in the ordinary social sense, again. His father, Daniel Gottlieb Moritz Schreber (1808-1861), who supervised his son's upbringing, was a leading German physician and pedagogue, whose studies and writings on child rearing techniques strongly influenced his practices during his life and long after his death. The father thought his age to be morally "soft" and "decayed" owing mainly to laxity in educating and disciplining children at home and school. He proposed to "battle" the "weakness" of his era with an elaborate system aimed at making children obedient and subject to adults. He expected that following his precepts would lead to a better society and "race." The father applied these same basic principals in raising his own children, including Daniel Paul and another son, Daniel Gustav, the elder, who also went mad and committed suicide in his thirties. Psychiatrists consider the case of the former, Daniel Paul, as the classic model of paranoia and schizophrenia, but even Freud and Bleuler (in their analyses of the son's illness) failed to link the strange experiences of Daniel Paul, for which he was thought mad, to his father's totalitarian child-rearing practices. In "Soul Murder," Morton Schatzman does just that -- connects the father's methods with the elements of the son's experience, and vice versa. This is done through a detailed analysis and comparison of Daniel Paul's "Memoirs of My Nervous Illness," a diary written during his second, long confinement, with his father's published and widely read writings on child rearing. The result is a startling and profoundly disturbing study of the nature and origin of mental illness -- a book that calls into question the value of classical models for defining mental illness and suggests the directions that the search for new models might take. As such, the author's findings touch on many domains: education, psychiatry, religion, sociology, politics -- the micro-politics of child-rearing and family life and their relation to the macro-politics of larger human groups." For me, this book shed a great light on "Memoirs of My Nervous Illness." In reading the other reviews, I get the sense that some people have concluded that Daniel (the son) "simply went mad," or "something went wrong," when the truth is that his father was a border-line personality and one sadistic man who inflicted his own brand of insanity on his children. If only we had something to document the father's childhood . . .

To begin with, the reader should be forewarned that what the author suffers from is not the idiomatic English "nervous illness," or mild neurosis, but a fundamentally different way of seeing the world, stated best by the author at the beginning of Chapter 5:"Apart from normal human language there is also a kind of nerve language of which, as a rule, the healthy human being is not aware." The book's profundity and the author's depth of insight are such that, after reading a few pages of the first chapter, one is reminded of nothing so much as Proust's Remembrance of Things Past: "Souls' greatest happiness lies in continual reveling in pleasure combined with recollections of their human past."....But, after this, the book becomes as disturbing as Proust is essentially soothing. For the author feels himself utterly isolated from other men, not even deigning to recognize them as men at all but as "fleeting-improvised-men" which "creates a feeling in me at times as if I were moving among walking corpses." (Ch. 15) What I found so disturbing about the elaboration of the author's viewpoint and recounting of his tribulations in the asylum is that there is something in his viewpoint that rings essentially true: We do not and can not know even those closest to us on the deep spiritual or "nerve language" level the author exists on in perpetuum. It is this essential truth combined with the author's matter-of-fact, almost cheery, tone that made reading this work such a strange experience for me. For English readers, such characters do exist in fiction (Poe's Usher kept occuring to me, and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein), but the tone of such psychically unstable characters and what we would call their nervous disposition are consonant with a mind gone awry and thus not to be taken so seriously. Of Schreber, just the opposite impresses itself upon the reader. It is this dissonance between tone and subject matter that render the book strange. For the view it expresses is essentially a dark one. If one reads closely, a terribly dark one. The only thing comparable to it is the worldview of the Gnostics: That this world is essentially some sort of mistake, and that there may be no way to "fix" it, as it were. The main reason to read the book, to my mind, is that it is a well-written,non-fiction account of a unique state of being (although readers might want to check out Proust as well as The Gnostic Religion by Hans Jonas for similarities.) But, caveat lector, the book is not for the faint of heart. It may keep you up many a night. It did me!

I can honestly say I LOVE this series. I have read and reread this book and all of the companion books. Once I found out that Sherrilyn was also writing under Kinley MacGregor I picked up as many as I coudl afford. This woman is a serious talent and I look forward to each new release with baited breath!

I cannot say enough good about the writing of Sherrilyn Kenyon. She grabs me from the first page and holds my atten all the way thru. She has a whole shelf of her own on my Keeper Bookcase. You will enjoy all her books too, I am sure.

The first of the Dark-Hunter novels I read was "Kiss of the Night". I was so enchanted with the story that I HAD to go back to the beginning. Night Pleasures and Night Embrace made me laugh, cry and moan all in one chapter. LOVE this series!!!

A co-worker of mine turned me on to Sherrilyn Kenyon a couple of months ago with the book "Night Pleasures" and that got me hooked on her Dark-Hunter series. So I went out and ordered the Night Pleasures/Night Embrace combo.

If you like hot, powerful, immortals with tortured pasts, strong sexual tension, snappy banter and a happy ending, then you'll dig her stuff. I just like her whole take on this unique realm of supernatural creatures called Dark-Hunters, not quite vampires or Gods, but somewhere in between. She really draws you into their world and does a great job bringing them to ours. Early into it, you wish you could really meet one of these guys.

It's a very erotic series. I've read three of the books in the series so far and loved them, but I have to admit the storylines are a little repetitive. They're still thoroughly enjoyable, though, if you want something fun, sexy and angsty. They're a wonderful escape and well worth your time and money.

This book gives an overview of the developement of particle physics. It did a great job of explaining the motivations of developing those theories. Also it did a great job to explain abstract phenomona in simple ways. If you are really interest in particle physics but don't have the mathematics techniques to deal with a regular particle physics book, this book is a great step stone for you!

I've owned this book for many years now and revisit it often. It goes into excellent detail about the history of particle physics and the cast of characters but it also gives great explanations that make the complexity of the field quite clear.

From the discovery of the electron to the current understandings of the Standard Model (current as of the date of publication), the mysteries of the hidden world of particles is brought to life in lucid detail.

It is not oversimplified yet it is not overly complex. The examples clarify things in layman's terms yet there is enough to keep the person interested in the more technical and mathematical also occupied. While I am no scientist nor am I mathematically inclined, I did not feel left out reading this book. In fact, if one is feeling compelled to dive in a bit more deeply, this book has the information.

The graphs and the photos enhance the text. Of all the books I've dabbled in pertaining to the field of particle physics, this is the one that has perhaps grounded me the most. I never feel too 'esoteric' in my understanding nor did I become bogged down by technical language.

On top of that, there is a bit of a sense of humor on the part of the authors that is quite refreshing. A good book if you are interested in diving in a bit deeper than many of the more general books in the field.

Particle Hunters goes into enough detail for me, a mechanical engineer, to understand appropriately. It has just about the right amount of history to support the details of the particle's development. I found the book at the library and checked it out and read it. Now I am going to be buying it soon for a reference.

This is definitely one of the best books I read in particle physics. It is written for non-experts by a well-known authority in the field. The book has sufficient details, along with historical perspectives and anecdotes, to satisfy the curiosity of a non-expert in the field. Contrary to most other popular science books, one can actually learn something from reading this book. I am a computer engineer by profession and I understood the material well. Reading this book is a thoroughly enjoyable experience.

I wish more books were written for non-experts in a similar style with as much details.

Perfect Dark: The Initial Vector is a great story if you love sci-fi or the Perfect Dark games. Joanna is pitted against a fierce enemy who has skills nearly equal to hers. It is a great story of battling corporations. I reccomend it to fans or sci-fi freaks.

If you liked Perfect Dark Zero, you'll definitely love PDIV, it's absolutely great and fast paced! You won't stop reading!

Greg Rucka's PERFECT DARK: INITIAL VECOR (1593978820, $29.95) continues the saga featured in the Xbox game PERFECT DARK ZERO: this narrated deftly by Orlach Cassidy with Scott Sowers as it tells of a future world in which corporations control everything and use their own military forces to fight each other without public knowledge. Joanna Dark is an ex-bounty hunter who has seen this war for herself: she finds herself in the center of a conflict which brings her face to face with corporate and personal evil in this riveting thriller, which comes deftly to new life in a powerful audio format.

I have been interested in the xbox 360 game for a while, so when I saw the book, I had to get. Well, I bought it, read it, and enjoyed it. The only problem that I had with the book was that I felt that some of the conflicts were solved too simply. Other than that, I am hoping for a continuation within the Perfect Dark universe. As for a side note, if you have not played the game yet, the book will reveal some spoilers.

An excellent book on midwestern pheasant hunting by a fellow who has "been there and done that." A pleasant read and full of helpful information. I've enjoyed this author's many hunting magazine articles, and this book is in the same fine tradition.

When I started reading this book I couldn't put it down. Larry Brown has prodigious experience hunting pheasants in all sorts of conditions, and he shares his knowledge in the form of anecdotes from his hunts, including information on such things as how to hunt different terrain, pheasant behavior, weather, gun/load selection, use of dogs, etc. I learned alot about pheasant hunting while vicariously enjoying the hunts he describes. I was happy to see that some of the techniques I'd developed via trial and error were validated as well. He describes features of pheasant hunting in yesteryear, which was also quite interesting to me. Overall, the book is very well-written and an engaging read. It is also filled with photos of actual hunters/hunts.

If you are interested in pheasant hunting, I highly recommend this book!

Now in its revised and expanded second edition, A Pheasant Hunter's Notebook offers a compendium lifelong experience based wisdom of practiced pheasant hunter Larry Brown. From using the appropriate shotgun; to ground tactics for hunters who do not use dogs; to recent shifts in bird populations and habitat; to strategies for hunting in different types of cover and weather, A Pheasant Hunter's Notebook is a first-rate and valuable resource for any and all pheasant hunting enthusiasts.

For those of you who know of Larry Brown from the Pointing Dog Journal, this book is exactly what you would expect from Larry - exceptional. For anyone who is not familiar with Larry's work, buy this book. Larry explains pheasant hunting from his perspective, having spent nearly his whole life in the best pheasant state in the union, Iowa. Experience built by killing 50 - 60 wild pheasants each season. The country probably only holds a few dozen men who can say they have done this. The book is well written, an easy read and entertaining - the story about his friend mistakenly shooting a pheasant with a slug on the fly is hilarious! Every pheasant hunter should have this book in their collection along side Datus Proper and Steve Grooms.

Mystery traditionalists will enjoy Hunter's careful plotting and thrills of a chaste and purely cerebral nature.

The relationship between Ransom and Charters is almost as much fun to read as the mystery plot. If your Christmas holidays are always uneventful or unsatisfying, read about theirs. It was lots more interesting.

Lots of falling snow, warm muffins, children's choirs ... and a few dead bodies are laced into this satisfying mystery that makes it just right for a cozy read by the Christmas tree.

Chicago homicide detective Jeremy Ranson decides that his amateur sleuthing partner Emily Charters needs a vacation after undergoing open heart surgery. The grandmotherly Emily agrees to the two of them going to a Michigan guest house for the holidays because she thinks her young charge needs rest before he burns out from his high pressured job.

Neither one expected nor wanted to get embroiled in a murder mystery at Sara Bartlett's guest house. However, this is not to be the case as a nasty drifter is murdered. Emily and Jeremy, who both like to see justice served, learn that Sara's brother was murdered two years ago. The lodge has been closed since then until it was recently reopened. It appears to the unlikely Windy City duo that someone will use murder as a tool to keep a secret involving the guest house buried.

RANSOM FOR A HOLIDAY is a very interesting Midwest cozy, starring two likable characters who turn the series into the fun experience it is. Emily is the classic star of cozies while Jeremy is the epitome of the caring inner city cop. The who-done-it is well designed and the secondary players add much depth. However, like the previous books, this novel is clearly not for those who like non-stop action. Instead, readers who enjoy a an intellectual plot need to try all five of Fred Hunter's Ransom-Charters tales.

Harriet Klausner

This book offers the reader a wonderful means to "know thyself." The book, and the course by the same name which is taught by Dr. Hunter has been the basis of my life for over 10 years. I still go back from time to time and do some of the exercises I learned. A timeless work, and a heartfelt thanks to the author.

This is the paperback version of the $65 hardcover; see a review under Therapeutic Uses of Writing.

I was a member of one of the classes Dr. Hunter taught on the Therapeutic Uses of Writing. I learned so much about myself and how to think about how I developed into who I am. I currently work with college students and use the book to aid them in their thinking and growth and development! It helps us to build a bonded and cohesive team and to develop life-long relationships with each other. The exercises are user friendly and don't make you wonder what to do next or how to use them appropriately. They are perfect! I highly recommend this book for the work that you do with others and within yourself!

I found this book to be full of excellent exercises for finding out who you are and how you are in the moment. It makes clear that our emotional well-being is something that we create for ourselves and not something that others can give us or take away from us. The writing and drawing exercises are thoughtful and clear and the text sheds light on fundamental issues and passages. This book makes a wonderful companion and guide for nourishing your own wholeness and well-being. Great!!

After listening to the 13 disk audio with narration by Christopher Kay I find that awarding only a five star rating is an injustice to both author and reader. Since the writer of the diary and the author of the book are not of the Jewish faith, it lends much credence to the events that took place. Readers with high blood pressure and a weak stomach must exercise caution when getting involved in the atrocities that took place during the Nazi regime in Germany. There is much blame to go around, but the failure to prosecute these sadists who escaped the hangman's noose and fled to a life of luxury is extremely galling. This book is definitely a page turner and very dificult to put down as the process for hunting down some of these killers gets underway. This is the first review I have ever written, but it took something this powerful and moving for me to turn on the computer and write the above. In conclusion, this is a must read!

this book is about a canadian jews who had migrated to canada with his aunt ruth after the horror of WW2. He had not known about hitler and the SS until his aunt told him everything. Its a very sad and doleful book about the brutality of hitler and the life in the concentration camp. a person reading this book must have a gut to read it because of all the sorrows and misery of the jews written in the book. i studied world history and learned about hitler. i didnt really think he was that bad because all my book represented was facts and figures. not until i read this book did i find out the horrible time of the WW2. i couldnt even believe and swallow the way the jews had been killed. for all those SS who escaped death must be captured and hunted down. they are not condoned to live in this world for what they did and how other people suffered because of them. what derek jacobs did was praiseworthy. no matter how old they are not they deserve to die.
if u truly wanna learn the horror of WW2 read this book

As a history major with a particular interest in WWII, I found this book both riveting and horrifying.

History books tell you that Hitler systematically murdered 6 million Jews. But they don't give you the details. In "The Secret Hunters" Fiennes pulls no punches, and gives a gruesome account complete with details of how the Jews were abused by the SS in WWII.

The only reason I gave this book only four stars instead of five is that the blurb gave me the impression that I was picking up an adventure tale of a treasure-hunting journey in Antarctica. While that is the direction the last quarter of the book took, it wasn't the main focus of the narrative. There was much more about the Holocaust and its atrocities itself.

A thought provoking piece of work with an inconclusive ending that makes me wonder what happened to Derek Jacob.

Fascinating read i could not put it down. The gist of the story is that a Canadian Catholic named Derek Jacobs learns from his aunt that they have jewish ancestors and as a consequence the brutal inhumane sadistic tortures inflicted on jews during ww2.
His aunt tells him of a man called Karl Bendl alias Seidler raped Dereks mother and abused her during the nazi regime in ww2. Derek then in confronted by a man who tells him about an underworld organisation called the Secret Hunters who track down Nazis that have commited war crimes and to bring them to trial.
Fuelled by hate tracking down Bendl becomes an obsession and leads Derek onto a boat to Antartica by nazis who think they have found gold thus kickstarting neo nazism and a re-rise to power.
This book is gripping to the end and is not for the faint hearted as it goes into detail of what happened to the jews which some people may find unsettling. All in all i truly give it the thumbs up.