Phillips Books

This book is a ptome repleat with every-day events in the life of Margo Phillips that would put most boomers in an early grave. She has masterfully told the tale of her errant youth, conservative mother, odd-ball friends and hangers-on and beloved brother. The honesty, gutsy narrative style and cruel truths of this brainy little girl gone to seed in her 20s is worth every dime. Just following one month in Margo's life is like seeing 5 bad 'B-movies' in one day. Run - don't walk to buy this book if you are of 'a certain age'. This is a movie begging to be made.

I loved this book. The journal-entry style writing made it feel like you're reading something you're not supposed to see, which made it fun for me. At times, I had to force myself to put it down; I kept wanting to see what happens next, and believe me, it does. If even part of this stuff came from the author's own experiences, this lady has lived a wild and interesting life. If you're not a prude and can handle the racy language, and like the idea of reading someone's diary, I think you'll really enjoy this book.

A wonderfully hilarious account of my generations lifestyle (well, some of us). I couldn't stop reading as this woman took me through her everyday life and everyday thoughts. The characters are alive and real. Would make a great movie.

This is a gracefully-written biography of Bram Fischer, a South African lawyer who played a key role in the anti-apartheid struggle in the 1950s and '60s. In spite of his prominence in the Johannesburg bar, Fischer rejected the racist system that oppressed the majority black population. He joined the Communist Party, worked underground, and defended Nelson Mandela and other activists. Eventually, he was arrested and jailed during a crackdown on the Party. Unlike Mandela, who lived to see the collapse of apartheid, Fischer never entered the promised land: he died of cancer in 1975, at the high point of Afrikaner power. Nevertheless, his inclusive, tolerant approach to politics and his saintly personal example influenced a generation of ANC and Communist activists, helping to shape South Africa's current multiracial and democratic constitutional order. This lovely book is a moving testament to a lovely life. Although Clingman is a bit longwinded and uncritical, anyone interested in South African history will learn from and enjoy his tome. Law students and young lawyers should also read it. Six stars!

This biography chronicles the life of an inspiring Afrikaner who, breaking away from the privileges of his family's background, sacrificed everything for his cause. Fischer's spirited dedication to human rights should provide great insipiration to all those who have ever fought for civil rights. The true treasure in this book is Clingman's ability to see symbolism in even the smallest details of Fischer's life. What an invaluable gift this book is to the Fischer family and to South African history. Truly, this book is a fascinating read.

This book is a work of top class scholarship. But when, probably at 4:00am, you finally put it down you'll feel like you've been reading the most perceptive poetry or listening to the most beautiful music. Like the Pablo Neruda inspired debut Juluka album (Universal Men) it weaves a commitment to truth, a reverence for what's most nobel in the human spirit and a feel for tragedy and transcendence together with real wisdom and what can only be described as melody. And, although this book is written with the almost clinical economy of style that characterises J.M. Coetzee's work, there is a passionate undercurrent almost as intense as the more explicit passion of a writer like Frantz Fanon.

Bram Fischer, the Afrikaner Communist who is the subject of this book, was never as romantic a figure as Che Guevarra, Frederick Douglass or Steven Biko but Clingman is so aware of the drama and promise of everyday life that this book ends up being far more engaging than Jon Anderson's recent biography of Che Guevarra.

The book does have its flaws - for example Clingman's understanding of the South African black consciousness movement is poor - but in a strange way the flaws are part of what give this book its character. That's because this book is about struggle and the flaws make the reader aware of Clingman's stuggle to understand and explain Fischer and his country. So while you're reading about Fischers' struggles and South Africa's struggles and being inspired to think about other struggles Clingman's occassional slip ups make you aware of the author's struggle and leave you inspired by his tremendous, although not total, success.

This book is important and valuable in itself. It's also an important work of history which, given the extent to which apartheid and 'postapartheid' mimic the new world order (global apartheid?)is profoundly relevent to life in 1999.

Buy this book, immerse yourself in its riches until they become part of you, and you'll be a better person.

This paperback book is an excellent reference for physicians, medical students, nurses, medical librarians, pharmacists who want a concise, comprehensive oncology reference. Chapters cover the basics principles of chemotherapy, radiology, surgery, and cancer diagnosis. Other chapters cover related- issues such as pain control and late effects. Chapters covering each type of cancer include information on the epidemiology/etiology, detection/diagnosis, classification, treatment and prognosis. The only shortcoming is that the book is somewhat outdated. One can only hope that a new edition is in the works!

Sally Lopez, RN, Medical Information Specialist slopez@erols.com

While I have used this book for several years as a source book to understand specific kinds of cancer I only regret that there has not as yet been an updated version. Not only have there been new chemotherapeutic agents in use, there are also many new diagnostic tools. In the field of medicine six or seven years is an eternity, especially for cancer and related conditions.

"Clinical Oncology: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach for Physicians & Students" did a thorough analyses of all aspects of general oncology. It is complete, comprehensive, and very reliable for evaluating and managing cancerous growths.
This book's well-arranged chapters provide detailed information on the pathology of several types of malignant tumours, before going ahead with their respective diagnosis, management and treatment. Its overview is sound and clear: a useful tool that every oncologist, G.P., or student would cherish.
The included CD-ROM is a big plus: especially for those who need something portable to lug around.

This is a very good cookbook. The directions are awesome and it has high quality pictures of everything so you know what it should look like when you are done cooking. Lots of good recipies. A+

THis book has many delightful recipes to help you enjoy summer grilling season. Additionally, it has helpful hints such as how long to cook various thicknesses of meat, and the most amazing side dishes! Also has plenty of vegetarian recipes for both on and off the grill. My favorites are the stuffed mushrooms and squash (on the grill) and the pasta salad (side dish).

This cook book offered a wide variety of grilled items and practical sauces, rubs and accompanying dishes. It will definitely be used all summer long at our house.

I just began my appreciation for romance lit, and would have to say Susan Elizabeth Phillips is my favorite author of this particular genre. As her first book, it is very well done. I would not have expected anything less! The only complaint, a very minor one, would be the number of pages dedicated to turing the pickpocket into a lady before the story returns to Quinn and Noelle. I very much enjoyed the characters as well as the plot. Unfortunately, this book is a small fortune. I'm not sure why it hasn't been republished. It's a shame it is not available to the masses. I didn't see anything inappropriate about the story, perhaps not as politically correct as it could be, but I wouldn't change a thing.

Would I buy it again? Yes, but I enjoy reading and collecting books. If you enjoy Susan Elizabeth Phillips, it is definitely worth reading.

Wow! What a Great find. This book might be twenty some years old
but it still rates at the top of Historical's I've ever read.
They just don't write them like this anymore and that's a pity.
Nowadays romances have to be "correct" which makes them very dull. Quinn and Noelle fight their feelings for each other til
the bitter end. It's edgy and frank but that's what makes this
story so absorbing. The plot is fascinating...the heroine, Noelle and her mother, a would-be actress, are strapped for money. Noelle is only eight when her mother takes her from her bed to escape debt collectors. They end up on the street and eventually in a hovel where the only work her mother can get is
selling her body to men who sometimes pay and sometimes don't.
Noelle sees and understands what's going on and when her beloved
mother dies and Noelle finds herself alone she swears she will never become a whore. So she becomes a pickpocket! The best.
That is until she tries to lift a pocketwatch from the friend of
Quinn Copeland, heir to a shipping empire. Quinn and his father
are at odds and since his father has been insisting Quinn marry
a girl from a upstanding family what better way to get back at
him by marrying this little guttersnipe and depositing her with
his father and then leaving for a year.
Thus begins Noelle's transformation from Ugly Duckling to a beautiful woman. When Quinn returns and realizes the woman he
thinks is his father's mistress is really his wife the sparks fly. The passion is seething as these lovers brutally battle
each other. And there's so much more. Get this book if you can.
You won't be dissapointed especially if your sick and tired of all the lukewarm romances being offered now a days!!

My rating for this book is like a 30+ it was so wonderful. I lost my copy about 10 years ago and I've been searching for a new copy ever since. I hope that I can find it soon.

This book is the first book on computational materials science that embraces all the scales of modeling (as the title implies). The first 4 chapters are pretty much a review in Quantum Mechanics, Statistical Mechanics, Continuum Mechanics, and Condensed Matter Physics. This book could be used as a supplement text for a condensed matter physics course or a stand alone text for a Computational Materials Science course. This book is required reading for anybody doing modern materials modeling. Finally, Phillips has a lively writing style. For example, if you already know about tight-binding methods you will not be bored by reading that section in the book.

This is the absolutely best book I have seen in the general materials science field--the writing is clear, the explanations excellent, and detail sufficient. The books title is correct, but I think a bit unfair--the book really shines as a general, graduate level introduction to all of materials science, if you take the quite reasonable view that the ability to better model crystals, defects, and microstructures forms the core of the field.

As the author staes in the introduction, this books teaches you habits of the mind and modes of thought that help link up the disparate fields that make up materials, mechanics, and condensed matter physics.

There is no book in my (admittedly limited) library I got more out of during the course of my studies.

Final note: the book has excellent references, and is typset beautifully.

The publication of this book is very timely since it appears right before the happening of the first "International Conference on Multiscale Materials Model(l)ing", which has been held in June 2002 at the Queen Mary University of London. But it is the subtitle (Modeling Across Scales), not the title, that conveys you what the book's content is about. In other words, the author engages himself in the (difficult) task of showing you how real materials can be modeled (or thought of) by mean of a multiscale approach bridging the atomistic to the macroscopic structure & behavior. As you can well imagine, this is an outstanding task!

The book is organized in four parts and it contains 13 chapters:

Part I: Thinking about the Material World
1. Idealizing Material Response
2. Continuum Mechanics Revisited
3. Quantum and Statistical Mechanics Revisited

Part II: Energetics of Crystalline Solids
4. Energetic Description of Crystalline Solids
5. Thermal and Elastic Properties of Crystals
6. Structural Energies and Phase Diagrams

Part III: Geometric Structures in Solids: Defects and Microstructures
7. Point Defects in Solids
8. Line Defects in Solids
9. Wall Defects in Solids
10. Microstructure and its Evolution

Part IV: Facing the Multiscale Challenge in Real Material Behavior
11. Points, Lines and Walls: Defect Interactions and Material Response
12. Bridging Scales: Effective Theory Construction
13. Universality and Specificity in Materials

Considering the difficulty of the subject and how it has been presented throughout the book, the clarity of language and the good quality of both graphs and figures, this book deserves five stars.

Do you ever find yourself skipping through the pages of some of the more popular horror novelists to simply get past all the unnecessary detail that most are crammed with? I cannot recall how many times I have been turned off to a book by what seemed to be an authors attempt at meeting some sort of "page quota" by describing in 10 pages what the morning air smelled like.
So here we have Curse the Darkness. What a relief! Phillip Medley has managed to fill every page with relevent details that paint the picture for you as well as any, and in my opinion, better. Every page held my attention and easily captured my imagination. The emotions and scenarios described in Curse the Darkness are eerily realistic and are enough to make you second guess what that noise was you thought you heard as you were falling asleep. I am mostly entertained by books. This is one of few that have left images in my head late at night. Curse the Drakness is a book that any horror enthusiast or any reader for that matter can enjoy. Being an avid reader, mainly in the horror genre, I highly recommend!!!!!

Phillip James Medley is an immensely talented storyteller. It has it's share of suspence and eerie horror, but what makes it so special is the believable, often moving way his characters react when confronted with the unknown. This book is sure to be a bestseller!!

I sit here in a great dilemma not knowing the words that could possibly describe this outstanding work that is before me. As this book took its place in my reading pile, it seemed to call to me, something which I dismissed as I try very hard to read the books in the order they are received.
As those of you who follow my reviews know; I am a Christian. I was at first a little put off by the title and cover of this work, thinking it was an occult or demonic tale that I might be uncomfortable reading. However, I could not shake the intense desire to see what laid between the pages and soon gave in and began the read. I was totally captivated by the third chapter and finished it in two days saddened that it was over.
Curse The Darkness is a story of a mansion, one that was built by evil, for the work of evil. The author takes you from the past to the present and leads you through the lives of those who have encountered the Kensington estate.
We meet Robert and John, childhood friends who both have experienced the horror of the workings of this ungodly habitat. Grown now, Robert is the local Preacher and John owns a small grocery. They are introduced to Lawrence Tellcott, a self-made billionaire with great hurts from the past, who has now bought the Kensington mansion and is about to taste the nectar of darkness. We also meet a young boy who has become a prisoner as well of the blackness in the mansion. There is an evil presence in the mansion, one so dark that as you read this work you can feel the intense physical presence of evil and the hatred for human life and dignity that this entity possesses. Chilling!

The story takes you back in time to the birth of a witch who spins her evil web and continues her ungodly ways into the present. Now Robert and John are called upon by God to fight this evil that has shadowed them their entire lives. There can be no losing this battle, no running away, defeat is not an option as death awaits the loser.

Philip James Medley has woven a story that has captured the very essence of evil and good. He has penned a work so exceptional that through his words you are totally one with every action and emotion of the characters within the read. In this book you become aware of the evil that surely is within our world and you rally around those who are of the Light, knowing their victory is for all mankind.
His characters are real, not candy coated goody two-shoes, but everyday people like you and me; as he shows it is not their righteousness but their faith in a Creator whose power is above all that will enable them to conquer evil. This is not written in a preachy way, but gently woven into the storyline and whether you are a believer or not you simply must know who the victor will be.
His descriptive power of the dark character is chilling and the dialog he allows this evil to bring forth to her victims is filled with truth concerning the deception that man is under. What a read!

Every so often I find a book that is so good I want every person that I know to read it. I have found this pleasure in Curse the Darkness. If this were a movie I would be standing up and cheering at the end, my applause would be louder than all those within the room. Very few works leave such an impression on me as this one has.
It is a masterpiece and one that I will not soon forget.
Hats off to you Mr. Medley for giving us such an exceptional work. I look forward to more of your writings in the future. Readers, don't miss this one!

Shirley Johnson
Senior Reviewer
MidWest Book Review

I totally agree with Reviewer: KDP of Indiana. Their description of the book is dead-on. This book is a must read! I have read all published works by this author and The Dead Pool definitely doesn't disappoint. I was hooked from the very first page. I thought about the characters, places and events long after I had finished the book and was so glad I visited The Dead Pool. The ending was so unexpected and very moving - it made me cry and it made me think. Take a swim in The Dead Pool...you will come out refreshed and feeling very much alive.

This author never ceases to amaze me with her lyrical writing. The main characters are intensely likeable, the plot is well paced and the ending is a surprise, as usual. I highly recommend that you read "Tainted" first, as this book drops many clues that are related to the other.

Once again this author takes my breath away. Subtle hints are hidden throughout the book that will only be recognized if you have read the author's last book, "Tainted" as a special treat for those of us who read everything JD writes. The story opens with a man who is escaping from someone (or something)and collapses outside Bella's house in the middle of a stormy night. As she helps him, they discover he doesn't know who he is or what's happened to him. Strange otherworldly events occur as their relationship grows. We unravel the mystery of who the man is, where he came from and where he is going at the same time the people in the story do. Once again I never saw the twist coming but it brought tears to my eyes and hope to my heart. Actions do have consequences and maybe once in a while people do get what they deserve with a little help from the dead pool.

Fast moving story with lots of unexpected twists and turns. Once I picked it up I couldn't put it down.

I was privileged to review this book prior to publication and I repeat now, what I said at the time. In `Dealmaker', Gigi Phillips proves herself to be Queen of Chill. With a wonderfully adept Post-Modern technique and distinctly different narrative, her total mastery of the language will grip your heart and your soul from the very first page. In a style that is clear and uncluttered, the author displays her gift for writing, and her equally precious gift for understanding how to inspire, provoke and arouse people's minds. This is the power of Gigi Phillip's pen. It is a power she should wield with caution as she tells a tale of terror that spans six decades and touches the lives of numerous families. Dealmaker is a book to be handled with care-with great care-in the full light of day. Lock it in a cupboard at night. Do not be tempted to unleash the demons when they are at their most powerful.

If, like me, you enjoy finding new blood on the literary scene, you'll LOVE what Gigi Phillips has done with Dealmaker. It's a scary story, a story of abject terror in places, a story that will have you white-knuckling the pages. But it's a story that will leave you waiting for her next release - the same as I am. A truly AMAZING debut!

In DEALMAKER, Gigi Philips pushes her reader, wave upon wave, to a universal conclusion. Sometimes temperate, sometimes cataclysmic, Phillips' structure is a relentless as the surf, her prose as liquid as the sea. Read it! You're not afraid of drowning, are you?

David Thomas Lord, author of BOUND IN BLOOD

Phillip Depoy can write as many of these stories as he wants to and I will always be ready for the next one. He writes Southern characters like nobody else - not even Grisham can capture the flavor of the South like Depoy. His books are charming, witty and a pleasure to read and the more I read the stronger the images of Matthew McConaughey and Sandra Bullock form in my mind's eye when I think of Flap and Dally. I'm about done with 123 and ready for 4 Phillip - hope you're writin' it! You readin' these son?

This book is a real page-turner. It's the characters that keep me looking for the next Flap Tucker book. You don't need to be a mystery buff to enjoy this series. The writing is elegant and the characters interesting and well-developed.

I read the first of the Flap Tucker series, EASY, and was on Amazon minutes after the last page ordering another in the series, EASY AS ONE, TWO, THREE. I really like this good ol' boy with a feng shui brainpan. These are readable, clever mysteries in the style of Lawrence Block. The only problem is...after number 4, you're Tucker'd out. We need more of this great series.

Flap Tucker is an easy going guy, who has been there, done that, and has no interest in stirring the pot. For the past few months, he has refused to leave his house. He finally goes outside when his best friend Dalliance Oglethorpe, owner of the Easy's night club, asks him to accompany her to a North Georgia mountain town to see her newborn niece.

When they arrive, the two visitors join the search for a missing little girl. Flap, a private detective who uses Zen to help him on an investigation, begins questioning the townsfolk and follows the threads of his hunches. He soon finds a town loaded down with a lot of secrets and plenty of individuals with much to account for as he meditates in one last effort to locate the child.

There seems to be a feel to Phillip DePoy's Southern mysteries rarely seen in other novelist's works. EASY AS ONE TWO THREE is a spectacular psychological suspense blended inside a well-plotted who-done-it. The Flap Tucker novels are getting better and better as readers begin to understand the hero's mindset and his relationship to Dally. This series is clearly one of the most entertaining regional mysteries on the market today.

Harriet Klausner