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My 8-year-old history buff loved this book. He read it very carefully. As he was reading, he would get out other history books to read about whatever he was reading about in this book. When he finished this book, he bought a biography of Elizabeth I. He frequently goes back and refers to this book when reading other books about history. I highly recommend this book.

This is a beautifully illustrated, interesting book. Most rulers receive a 1-2 page treatment (although later monarchs have more pages dedicated to them) complete with ancestral charts, timelines, and other helpful additions to the main text. I'm sure this is meant as a coffee table or reference book, but I sat down, read it cover to cover, and then bothered my family and friends with all the facts I'd learned for the next month. A great book.

so great book the best book about british monarchy ever published . a lot of photos and paintings which make an atmosphire let you live in the old ages moving to the middle ages and to the victorian . beleive me you will live the british monarchy , live with queens and kings walk throw the history of uk as no historymania did before

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

I taught 4th grade in a Christian school for 10 years. After trying several grammar programs (including ABeka and Bob Jones), I finally settled on Easy Grammar. It became my all-time favorite, and I plan to use it with my own children as we homeschool now.
Ms. Phillips's approach is brilliant! Instead of teaching the child to weed through all the words in a sentence to find the subject and predicate, etc., she begins by getting rid of all words that are NOT the subject or predicate. How does she do this? By teaching the prepositions first! It works like this:
1) Teach the child a list of prepositions. We made a game out of it, using a stopwatch to see who could say the list the fastest.
2) Teach the child how to identify the object of the preposition (the first noun following the preposition).
3) Using a ruler, have the child cross off the prepositional phrase.
Most "extra" words are eliminated right off the bat this way.
4) Then, after eliminating any other describing words, the subject and predicate are quite easy to identify!
For example, in the sentence "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy brown dog," the phrase "over the lazy brown dog" would be crossed off first. Then, you could either have the child eliminate "the quick brown", leaving "fox jumped," OR it would be easy to ask "WHO did WHAT?" to find the subject and predicate. They were then taught to underline the subject once and the verb twice, using their rulers.
Other parts of speech in the sentence were marked in different ways as well.
More is included in the scope and sequence (such as verb forms), but the real beauty of the program lies in the above.
I also liked that the lessons were not too long.
It was also helpful to use the Daily Grams to warm up, or on days when we didn't have time to do a full grammar lesson.
The only real "down side" is that it's strictly black-and-white printing. I used that to my advantage though. It was helpful to have my students use their highlighters to highlight important information.
Finally, for comparison purposes, I found ABeka Language to be far too difficult, and Bob Jones to be not quite challenging enough.
So, as you can see, I love Easy Grammar!
I wish I had been taught grammar with this method as a child. I am not exaggerating when I when I say that I would have breezed through my college grammar class if I had had this background!

I began using this curriculum not long after the beginning of this school year for my daughter who is homeschooled. The program we were using wasn't working, and she was doing terrible in grammar. I switched to Easy Grammar and at the end of the school year she is extremely improved in grammar, and I'm amazed. I never thought she would be doing this well. I'm so glad I bought this book. I can't wait to see how she does on the state tests. THANKS WANDA!!!

This is the best grammar I have seen out there. I'm so happy with this method. Short, concise lessons that my 9 year old son can get done quickly and yet still learn the grammar skills he needs. I'll be sticking with Easy Grammar for the rest of my homeschooling years. This is my fifth year homeschooling and I have four children, they are all going to do (2 of them are already) Easy Grammar. I highly recommend this. It is recommended by Tapestry of Grace and I concur. Terrific if you are using classical, (well trained mind), charlotte mason, or traditional schooling in your homeschool. I bought the workbook for my son but you really don't have to. You can photocopy the blackline masters of the daily lessons in the book and save your nickel if you like.

Our higher mind and, in many cases, completely ignores the development of the older, the more primeval, earlier mind; which by definition has with humanity for much longer. I believe people are waking up to the fact that we all communicate with each other on an emotional level. Forget about the facades that our conscious adult minds develop to disguise this fact. This book has given me techniques to develop my more emotional self and I am grateful for that.

This book has changed the way I look at my life. Why, because the author speaks about a fundimental human truth, emotion is a gift that when embraced and used wisely can and does change all your relationships, especially the one you have with yourself, for the better.

Maya Phillips writes with authority, humour and a reassuring style on a number of interpersonal issues. Her Emotional Mapping technique is well illustrated and accompanied by excellent and thorough text. Multi Level Reading was a bit disturbing at first as I could feel and sense changes happening in my body that I had no control over. I have to say that this book delivers much more than it promises. I would have paid ten times the price had I known how remarkable it would turn out to be.

NLP-ers and hypnotherapists hungry for something truly new should take a look at this amazing book to see what the footprints of true innovation look like.

Phillips, has revealed an embarrassing truth about the self-development publishing industry - however good the ideas in any new book, most people simply don't do the exercises.

But, rather than bullying or admonishing the reader, she has taken up the challenge and developed an approach which is truly unique: Multi-Level Reading (MLR) - quite simply, text that brings about the desired change as it's being read.

Robert Masters, creator of Neurospeak, is probably the best known exponent of the relatively recent discovery that the process of reading and understanding certain kinds of text triggers micro-movement of the muscles - the same principle exploited by athletes who use +mental rehearsal+ to improve their fitness or game.

Whereas Neurospeak +speaks+ to the physical body, Phillips has ever greater ambitions - to lead the reader from the present moment into previously unexplored and profound states, creating new neural pathways in the process. Thus, elegantly and effectively, she sidesteps the problem of motivating the reader and accomplishes, unconsciously, the desired result. (A word of caution to the bookstore browser, however: don't read the bold print if you don't plan on speanding the next few hours in a seriously altered state!)

Phillips herself describes Emotional Excellence as a book about "the use and abuse of emotion", and emphasises her mission to guide readers into emotional strength and flexibility. this she does with common sense,humour and flair.

Also outlined is her equally innovative process called Emotional Mapping. I worked with this process and found a powerful therapeutic system for exploring and resolving life issues by identifying, interacting with and testing my "unique and personal inner metaphors and archetypes."

Both processes open entirely new directions in the potential for human self-evolution. Phillips is a breath - no, a tornado! - of fresh air in a field where most new writings are simply regurgitations of what has gone before. And, seldom good regurgitations, at that.

This is a true story, and an amazing one. The "Ern Malley affair" was a famous literary hoax in 1940s Australia - without doubt, the greatest literary hoax of all time. It began when Max Harris, young editor of the Adelaide-based avant-garde magazine Angry Penguins, received a package from a certain Ethel Malley, containing the surrealistic poems of her brother Ern, a Melbourne garage mechanic, who had died recently at the age of twenty-five. Did Harris think they were any good? Did he ever! Harris at once pronounced Malley a genius, and a lavish special commemorative issue of Angry Penguins was devoted to Ern's poems. Then the truth came out. There was no Ern, and no Ethel either - Ern's "works of genius" had been cobbled together in an afternoon by two traditionalist poets, James McAuley and Harold Stewart, in an attempt to discredit the avant-garde.

Up to a point, they did: Max Harris was certainly never the same again, especially after the South Australian authorities decided that the Malley poems were obscene and dragged the young publisher through a public trial. The one-time enfant terrible of the University of Adelaide ended his days not as the great novelist, poet, or even literary editor he had imagined he would be, but as a canting, boorish newspaper columnist, churning out opinion pieces for Rupert Murdoch. (He also, in fairness, ran a chain of bookshops that weren't half bad in those pre-Amazon days; Max, with his cane and floppy hat, used to trawl the world - London! New York! the dealers all knew Max - for remainders, often good ones, which he used to ship back to Australia to pile 'em high and sell 'em cheap, as you do. I still think about Max from time to time: I never met him, never even came close, but he came from the same town I did, and as a child I used to hear his name again and again. He was a legend.)

Meanwhile, hoaxer-in-chief James McAuley, following his youthful jape, became the sort of arch-right winger who would nowadays be a cheerleader for Bush-loving Australian Prime Minister John Howard, and started a horrible fascist (sorry, "conservative") magazine called Quadrant; Stewart, ever the more interesting of the two, eventually moved to Japan where he got into Zen, big-time, and made rather cool collages; interviewed in later years, he never wanted to talk about the Malley business, and said that his old life in Australia all seemed like a dream. (Hell, so does mine.) I rather like the sound of Stewart.

But the story of Ern Malley was far from over. If Ern's fame as a great poet had been brief, his fame as a hoax just kept on growing, and has not abated to this day. The Malley poems confront us with crucial literary questions. With Malley, we are by no means a world away from "exquisite corpse" poems, from The Waste Land (that great modernist echo chamber of allusions), from the cut-ups and fold-ins of Brion Gysin and William Burroughs, from the whole panoply of surrealist techniques. When David Bowie glues together random strips of words to write his lyrics ("Serious moonlight, indeed!" as a friend of mine once exclaimed), he is very much in the tradition of "Ern." Are these techniques all to be condemned? And how much, in the end, does authorial intention matter, as opposed to the words on the page? There are lines in Malley that are better (more haunting, more simply memorable) than almost anything in "real" Australian poetry: "Rise from the wrist, o kestrel / Mind, to a clear expanse"; "My blood becomes a Damaged Man / Most like your Albion" (from a poem addressed to William Blake); "Princess, you lived in Princess St., / Where the urchins pick their nose in the sun / With the left hand"; "I have split the infinitive. Beyond is anything." Are the Malley poems really rubbish - or did the compilers of this hasty oeuvre, in mimicking surrealist techniques, inadvertently liberate a deeper world of meaning? In any case, Ern took on a life of his own, and soon became a cult figure, the missing genius of Oz lit. The artist Sidney Nolan painted his portrait.

I've often thought that the Malley affair is a classic Australian movie just waiting to be made. Recently, the story has formed the basis of Peter Carey's very much fictionalised account, My Life as a Fake (2002); but that is an ill-focused, slackly imagined book, far less compelling than the simple truth about the Malley affair. Heyward's book is the one to read, not least because it also includes the full text of Ern's legendary manuscript. Almost sixty years later, the enigma remains. As Ern put it, "I am still / The black swan of trespass on alien waters."

A brilliantly researched and wittily written chronicle of a great literary hoax. In the nineteen forties Australia's avant-garde arts magazine ANGRY PENGUINS received a package of poems from a woman calling herself Ethel Malley, purportedly the work of her recently deceased brother Ern. The magazine's editor was so overwhelmed with the poems that he published the entire oeuvre in a special edition of the magazine. Then word began to get about that neither Ethel nor Ern Malley actually existed, and that the poems were a hoax. The hunt for the culprits was on. The is a great read: a literary detective story, an intriguing picture of the cultural landscape of postwar Australia, and a book which confronts the reader with crucial questions about the elusive nature of aesthetic judgement.

The Ern Malley affair is still something of an embarrassment to literate Australians. Ern Malley was the creation of two poets, James McAuley and Harold Stewart, who wanted to show up what they regarded as the insufferable pretensions of an Australian literary magazine called Angry Penguins. They concocted the fictitious Ern, gave him an irresistibly romantic biography, wrote a dozen supposedly awful poems under his name, and sent off the result. To their glee, the editor Max Harris swallowed the bait and published a special issue in Ern's memory. Then the facts came out, and avant-gardists all over Australia were made to look stupid.

That would be it, except for the bewildering irony that the Ern Malley poems aren't nearly as bad and incoherent as their authors suggested. Well, not all the time. (Heyward helpfully reprints them as an appendix so you can judge for yourself.) They oscillate in the strangest way between genius and gibberish; I have one highly-educated Aussie friend who thinks that they're the most genuinely avant-garde poetry Australia has ever produced, and Heyward is inclined to agree. The Angry Penguin crowd claimed as much, saying that the authors had surpassed themselves in their attempt to turn off conscious control over their own work. They certainly contain some haunting, extraordinary lines ("I am still / The black swan of trespass on alien waters", "I have split the infinitive. Beyond is anything.") The fact that these lines were never meant seriously by their authors raises important questions about the usefulness of discussing intention in matters of literary criticism.

Heyward's story is lucidly and wittily told. There are no clear-cut villains and heroes. Max Harris comes across as appealingly open-minded and imaginative, as well as gullible. The hoaxers weren't cynical hacks but talented and serious poets in their own right. Amongst those taken in by Ern was Australia's greatest modern painter, Sidney Nolan, who (perhaps rightly) said that it didn't matter whether the poems were "authentic" or not, so long as they worked on some level.

A remarkable book, not only in its picture of mid-century Australian cultural history but also in the tricky questions it asks about sense vs. nonsense in art and the motives behind cultural battles.

This is a wonderful reference for proper grammar and usage. (A must have for me, as I am challenged in syntax!) This is a required text for my English class, otherwise I would not have found how useful it was.

I was very happy with my purchase. I received the item fast and for more than half the price that was offered to me from the school's vendor. I will recommend ordering from amazon for everything. I was very pleased.

This is by far my favorite english book I've ever had! The content is organized so well that it's incredibly easy to find whatever you're looking for. I didn't even have to really read anything because I could so easily find what I was looking for. Very nice! The language is simple, concise, not inflated, and straight to the point. Very easy to understand.