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This book is a perfect collection of poems, many times as sweet as they are sexy, to be enjoyed over and over again. Mr. Michelman weaves the physical and emotional joys of love with a splash of vulnerability to craft thoughtful verse.

I highly recommend Peanut Butter on Bagel or Breast. It would make a great addition to any nightstand. . . a little bedtime story, anyone? Looking forward to more from this poet.

Erotic! Intense passion! Most readers stumble across a handful of books in their lifetime whose words affect them in a stirring way. Turning the last page, I found myself hungering for more and attempting to visualize the woman behind the poems. Wonderful book! A refreshing way to renew the romantic spirit within.

This book leads the reader, step-by-step, through the growth and achievements of Naval Aviation, from the first flight to take off from a Navy ship in 1911, through both World Wars, the Korean Conflict, Vietnam, the Cold War and finally, Desert Storm. Learning the role the Joint Chiefs of Staff played during the whole of naval aviation's history is insightful and often frustrating. The author's obvious meticulous research allows the reader to feel and understand the height of victory and the depth of defeat. I never learned so much so fast!

This is very researched and told from particpants point of view. The author served on a B-29 during WWII and has written many great books on the War. This book takes you from beginng to end in an engaging and thoughtful style without overloading the reader with technical data. He does give plenty of facts for the academic reader. Good reading.

This book gives you a real look at the development and deployment of the B-29 in the war against Japan. Wilbur Morrison was there and gives an excellant account of the experiences of those who delt with a new untested airplane in the worst conditions imaginable. It is a story of courage and technology. This is worth a read if you are sightly interested in the B-29, the war against Japan or in World War II. The author is still alive and writing.

I found book to be interesting and informative but not always factual. I take exception to statements made about the quality of discipline that existed in the 509th Bomb Group. The undisciplined reputation was due to a few people of the Tibbets clique who had special consideration. The 393rd Bomb. Sqd. was a well disciplined organization as evidenced by the outstanding job performed while it was under my command.

Running the Seven Continents: Tales of Travel and the Marathon is a memoir anthology by marathon runner Clint Morrison, about his experiences running long distance upon each of the world's seven continents. A literate first-person adventure about the joy of travel, pushing oneself to the limit, becoming immersed in foreign cultures, and even confronting one's own fear of failure. An insightful and passionate account, Running the Seven Continents offers the closest thing to a true marathon experience short of actually running twenty-six miles by oneself. "There are those that say that Pheidippides did not make the run at all. They may be right. It may be that he was among the first to get there, or that someone did die on arrival, but in a sense it really doesn't matter. If we need to ascribe an individual achievement to Pheidippides the man, it seems likely that he did make the much longer run to Sparta and back." Especially recommended as inspirational reading for marathon runners in training.

This is not actually a book of philosophy, but more of an observation of life, and how decisions affect one's life.

Well written and articulate, and despite some interesting ties to major Philosophers, the language is simple, effective, and not afraid to comment in the modern American English vernacular. This seems, to me, to allow the author to obtain a more complete friendship with the reader.

Perseverance may be part of the guiding thoughts, but moreso the essays are an exhortation to act, rather than merely to be.

Perhaps a bit of Thoreau, Aeschylus ... or even Orwell ... might have influenced some of these writings, but the thoughts expressed will, quite confidently, stand on their own merits.

I have other reasons to appreciate this text that do not necessarily apply to this review, but I would suggest that anyone seeking some direction, or even inspiration, in life might obtain valuable insights by experiencing the stories.

This is a great book to give as a gift. It is written in a very simple format that is easy to understand. It explains how slot machines work, and can be useful to increase your odds in winning. Lots of fun for the price. If you are looking for a gift for that hard-to-buy-for person, this is it. Or buy it for yourself, lots of good advice.

I read this book and it really helped me understand how slot machines worked. I actually win a bit of money on a regular basis, and I have fun. It's easy to read and understand. It has some funny pictures, that really make reading some the technical jargon interesting.

I've passed this on too many friends, who all have enjoyed the knowledge gained.

This book is great for beginner locksmiths. It goes over how to temper the springs, make the keys, and even how to make your own rivets. It wasn't worth the price I got it at ($117.00) ut I'm still glad I got it. If there's any beginner locksmith's out there, this is the book for you.

I saw Bill Morrison come to my school and he had a copy of the book with him and it was a great book. I would reccommend it to anyone if the y are interested in Locksmithing.

Herbert A. David turned 70 in 1995. Much of his long career was spent as chairman of the Department of Statistics at Iowa State University. David is well known for his authoritative texts on pairwise comparison methods and order statistics.
He is known as H. A. at Iowa State so as not to confuse him with his colleague Herbert T. David who also is a Professor of Statistics at Iowa State. In fact at the end of this book Herbert T. David write a very interest review of the life and career of Herbert A. David.

H. A. David made major contributions to the theory and application of order statistics, biostatistics and the design of experiments. This is reflected in the topics chosen by the distinguished statisticians that contributed articles, most of whom are students or colleagues of David.

Noel Cressie write on a generalization of Akaike's information criterion for model selection. Dunnett talks about applications of the multivariate t distribution. Galambos and Xu discuss multivariate Bonferroni-type inequalities. Kale and Sebastian provide some interesting examples of distributions that are symmetric and have kurtosis equal to 3 (the same as for the Normal Distribution) but are non-normal. Some of the densities have very unusual shapes. These are a few of the papers under the general category of "General Distribution Theory and Inference". The articles are all entertaining and interesting and some contained discussion of David's contributions to statistics. Other anecdotes and appreciation letters were combined in the last chapter in this volume.

The volume includes six papers on general distribution theory and inference, six on the distribution theory of order statistics, five on the use of order statistics for statistical inference and applications, three on analysis of variance and experimental design and four on biometry and biomedical applications.

Herbert A. David turned 70 in 1995. Much of his long career was spent as chairman of the Department of Statistics at Iowa State University. David is well known for his authoritative texts on pairwise comparison methods and order statistics.

He is known as H. A. at Iowa State so as not to confuse him with his colleague Herbert T. David who also is a Professor of Statistics at Iowa State. In fact at the end of this book Herbert T. David write a very interest review of the life and career of Herbert A. David.

H. A. David made major contributions to the theory and application of order statistics, biostatistics and the design of experiments. This is reflected in the topics chosen by the distinguished statisticians that contributed articles, most of whom are students or colleagues of David.

Noel Cressie write on a generalization of Akaike's information criterion for model selection. Dunnett talks about applications of the multivariate t distribution. Galambos and Xu discuss multivariate Bonferroni-type inequalities. Kale and Sebastian provide some interesting examples of distributions that are symmetric and have kurtosis equal to 3 (the same as for the Normal Distribution) but are non-normal. Some of the densities have very unusual shapes. These are a few of the papers under the general category of "General Distribution Theory and Inference". The articles are all entertaining and interesting and some contained discussion of David's contributions to statistics. Other anecdotes and appreciation letters were combined in the last chapter in this volume.

The volume includes six papers on general distribution theory and inference, six on the distribution theory of order statistics, five on the use of order statistics for statistical inference and applications, three on analysis of variance and experimental design and four on biometry and biomedical applications.

This Author had me in mind when this was written. She lets the reader in on the "secrets" of Massage and the importance of maintaing the benefits long term. The sleep positioning program was incredible! No more tossing and turning! Thanks Cynthia!

"Stop The Pain" by Cynthia Van Der Smissen, great book, nice author, well written in terms that can be understood by a complete novice,easy to follow diagrams, mixed with a refreshing sense of Humour. The introduction has you smiling & liking the author before you even start into the technical stuff. Large Text which is easy to read whilst practicing the "moves". Well Done! I have had a few years of severe back pain & my doctors have told me there is nothing else they can do to help me. Buy this book.... It really does help, I can vouch for that, after months of not sleeping due to pain my wife massaged me using the techniques in this book & I could feel the benefit straight away, I slept right through the night! .

This is the most inclusive and interesting scholarly account of Jazz I have read so far. Unlike many scholars who have adopted Bakhtin's theory of dialogue wholesale in their discussion of ethnic women's writing, Tally supports all her arguments with unique clarity and consistency. Her book also gives a detailed overview of earlier critical responses to Morrison's Jazz.
The most intriguing is Part Two, where in her chapter-by-chapter analysis Tally demonstrates the manifestation of Morrison's dialogic imagination in Jazz. In disagreement with so-called "jazz critics", she examines jazz "not as the structure, strategy or aesthetic behind the creation of the novel, but as a perfect metaphor" underlying the novel: stories and the language used to tell them (61).The interpretation of generic intertextuality in the novel is most interesting, Tally notes that "the voice of the narrator is an imitation of hard-boiled fiction" (32)whose representative is Raymond Chandler.
In the book Tally explores the subtle ways in which Morrison is preoccupied with story-telling making at the same time room for the narrator's and other characters' voices "via the inflection of the words and phrases that call to intertextual references, or via the techniques of hybridizing which include other types of discourse within the surface narration"(138). Tally also highlights Morrison's narrative strategies which require active readerly participation such as the delaying of critical information, the extensive use of repetition, the narrator's intrusiveness, free association and circularity.
On account of its merits, I wish to recommend this book as a significant introduction to understanding Morrison's most complex novel for both scholars and "common" readers.

First of all: Tally's book is listed in the wrong category - it has nothing to do with music but is a study of Toni Morrison's novel 'Jazz'.
The Story of 'Jazz': Toni Morrison's Dialogic Imagination, is a worthy sequel to Justine Tally's previous monograph on Toni Morrison's 'Paradise'. With refreshing clarity Tally discusses structure, theme, and the intricate subtleties of Morrison's literary discourse in this novel, without ever losing sight of her main hypothesis, i. e. that 'Jazz', though set in the Harlem of the 1920s, is not primarily a book about African American music or the Harlem Renaissance, but rather one about story-telling itself, about how our knowledge of events is created, changed, received, and (mis)understood. Mikhail Bakhtin's ideas about the 'dialogic imagination' in literature serve as congenial theoretical tools for this analysis. In fact, Tally's use of Bakhtin's theories is one of the most convincing and illuminating applications of Bakhtinian thought one can find in the fields of literary criticism. On the side, Tally also makes readers aware of the affinities of 'Jazz' to the 'hard-boiled' detective novels of Raymond Chandler, whose laconic style and implicit social criticism Morrison employs but also subverts in the second novel of her trilogy. At the end, the narrator has no definite story but rather acknowledges the importance of the dialogic nature of language and its consequent shaping of our perception; this includes the recognition that the "self" can only be formed and perceived through the "other." The story of 'Jazz' is ultimately the story of the relationship of language to the conceptualization of the self. For Morrison as for Bakhtin, "[a]n independent, responsible and active discourse is the fundamental indicator of an ethical, legal and political human being."
A very rewarding read, highly recommended for everyone who is interested in literature and stimulating scholarly criticism.

This book was already out of print when I bought it the first time and I have since searched for other copies to give to colleagues. It is excellent on cultural differences, especially between European and U.S. attitudes on work, work product and business culture. The authors have seized on a few basic beliefs that Americans hold dear and then analyzed how those beliefs affect their attitudes towards quality, but also towards work itself. Great Book, if you can find a copy.

At first I thought this was some type of BS sociological treatise on American culture, but as I skimmed through it in the bookstore, I saw lots of interesting business stories. The authors do a great job of identifying seven forces of American culture and relating them to business successes and failures. These seven forces are: 1. Insistence on choice 2. Pursuit of impossible dreams 3. Obsession with big and more 4. Impatience with time 5. Acceptance of mistakes 6. Urge to improvise 7. Fixation on "whatsnew" The authors make a convincing argument for each of forces shaping the American character and American business. Well worth reading. Found it on the remainder table.