Sheridan Books

We knew Paris, I mean the Paris for grown ups, the nice cafes, the smoky bars, the cinemas, all those things you do when you are a couple. This summer however, we needed a different plan. Thanks to this great guide, we discovered along with our 18 month-old son another wonderful side of Paris; marionettes, playgrounds, boat and train rides all perfect for a toddler and his parents, plus it is great to know in advance which restaurants have changing tables and high chairs.

We recently took our two kids (a 1 yr old boy and 2.5 year old daughter) to Paris with us for a family vacation and this guide proved to be brilliant! I carried it with us everywhere and never once found myself at a loss for what to do with the children. It's super easy and readable and the listings (such as child-friendly restaurants and museums) made choosing venues and planning our days simple and anxiety-free. I was much less-stressed knowing ahead of time that wherever I was going was going to be appropriate for two noisy, energetic children. I highly recommend it!

I found this guide to be useful on my recent trip to Paris with my daughter. I especially loved the sections that highlighted the kid-friendly restaurants and attractions. The information was very detailed and very easy to follow. My daughter and I really had an enjoyable trip. Upon my return, I purchased several guides and gave them to co-workers. I would definitely recommend this guide to families who are planning to travel to Paris in the near future.

This book does not have the details necessary to make an enjoyable trip with your kids to Paris, there are others which look better for planning this adventure. Having visited Paris with our two daughters, we did not find this guide very helpful. The organization of where you select destinations for girls (divas) and boys (dudes)is trying to be cute and nothing more. We had a wonderful time with our daughters, but being spontaneous and talking with others was the key, not this book as a reference guide. I suspect this book is trying to be part of a series, and if it is, I suggest they do a better job with the text and get better pictures for the next city. A total dud, despite the bright cover which I cannot recommend.

Bright Pink cover, but not very helpful. I have one young daughter and we just got back from Paris where I did not find this book very useful for the week we were there. Dudes and Divas, give me a break more like someone's fantasy and not well organized at that, but it only cost $10. But as the end all for visiting in Paris with children, I think readers would not find this book particularly helpful. Keep looking and doing your own research would be the best way to go. Paris was great otherwise.

Art of the Bobber

The book arrived quickly and I was delighted with it - a real 'coffee table' book, well produced with many great photos and details about early-style custom motorcycles - anyone who likes custom motorcycles will enjoy it.

John Walker

Generally the photography is excellent, and covers a good cross section of Bobbers, from the real art of Cyril Huze and Indian Larry to unknows.The biggest downside is that the technical data sheets for each bike are inconsistant in the ammount of information provided, and some of the text is incorrect. It does however achieve its goal of being a companion book to Tom Zimberoffs "Art of the Chopper" and likewise should find a place on your coffee table as it did mine.

An outstand book about custom V-twin bobber bikes. Incredible photos by top motorcycle photographers. For motorcycle affeciandos, this is a must-have book.

Ok, Some books should be judged by their cover. This is one of them. By the books own definition, bobbers are "a machine that had things cut or bobbed off." It then goes on to explain using a stock machine as a starting point. The bike on the cover, like about 80% of the bikes in this book, does not use a stock frame or front end as a starting point. Many of them are aftermarket raked and stretched frames using overlength front ends and mag wheels. Clearly not bobbers. This book should be called Art of the Custom Motorcycle. It is a decent book about modern custom bikes, but if I had the opportunity of browse the book prior to purchasing, I wold not have purchased it. I would categorize this book as a book written by people who are taking advantage of the recent bobber craze without knowing the true definition of the term. On the flip side, the book is a good value for what Amazon charges and if you are into custom bikes perhaps you should consider it. But don't expect to see traditional bobbers.

Not historically accurate. Items are in here that are not Bobbers. I would not recommend the book!

Lacan is not easy to follow, by intent, yet the elegance of his thought processes bring real depth to psychoanalysis and the limitations of language in expressing our evolutionary struggles to identify the conflict between our internal processes and the world outside. Multiple rereadings will bring clarity. I keep a copy in my office for reference.

Lacan must be read with care. He is not for everybody. He is for those who are interested in the mind, in desire, in language. Specifically, for those who have developed an interest in "theory" or "post-structuralism", which he helped to develop. In this volume Lacan sets out some key concepts in his thinking - but he does not do so systematically! Do not expect him to explain everything to you in a clear, linear fashion. Rather, he plays on words and on ideas, he maneuvers and evades, he skirts around the issue, and comes back to it. Have patience if you choose to read him - discuss his writings with others. If you do this, you may come to understand why Lacan is regarded with so much respect in France and has virtualy reared an entire generation of first-rate theorists and thinkers.

It will help (but will not guarantee understanding) if you have some background in Freud, even if it is only a slight one. Good luck!

Most people who have read Lacan did so in an academic context, which can sour one's experience of truly useful texts. Yet I encourage those of you interested in learning more about psychoanalytic theory, and the way humans ARE in general, to pick up the Four Fun Concepts. Of course its content is difficult and subject to debate, but the benefits of reading Lacan, especially in conjunction with Freud (and even Irigaray, if need be) are immense. A MUST for artists, writers, historians, Psych students, feminist theorists, and anyone else who likes to learn and think.

I love Lacan, and refer to him often in my own work in the Anthropology of Gender, but this particular book is rather befuddled and vague, and I would never submit my own students to it. It may be due to translation (sadly enough, I do not read French), but if you are interested in Lacan's approach to psychoanalysis, I suggest you read Ecrits, unless you are an intellectual masochist.

First, let me start off by saying that I am an intellectual historian with a great passion for the history of ideas, especially those dealing with the mind and how it works-- psychoanalytic thought in particular. I'm well used to reading works that are dense, difficult, and jargon-laden. I'm also quite familiar with intellectual traditions that Lacan is responding to, borrowing from, and those that he himself has inspired (most notably the tradition of French psychoanalytical feminism a la Irigaray, Cixous, Kristeva, etc). I say all this not to pat myself on the back, but to provide some context for this review: I am *not* someone who hates books just because they're difficult, or because they're about such rarefied subjects.

However, I cannot in good intellectual faith recommend this book to anyone. Partly, I freely admit, this is because I really don't think Lacan has really all that much to say. While I don't deny the fact that he *was* instrumental in putting a structuralist (and then post-structuralist) turn in psychoanalysis in some of his early essays (such as appear in "Ecrits") as well as pioneering contraversial new techniques of therapy, such as the variable-length session). But since those early daysthen, his reputation was due more to his charismatic personality and his influential friends within the French academic world, rather than because he had all that much to say.

This book is a perfect example of that. Taken from one of his mid-period seminars (essentially series of lecture courses), Lacan babbles, obfuscates, metaphorizes,and jokes his way through a set of vaguely philosophical points about the mind that could probably have been adequately summarized in a single lecture, or maybe 20-30 pages. (Note to readers of Freud, Jung, Adler, etc. Please be aware that, unlike those guys, Lacan makes no references whatsoever to practical therapeutic experiences to back up his claims; this is pure theoretical speculation. Also, don't expect Lacan's use of terms like 'drive', 'unconscious' or 'transference' to have anything in common with the more conventional psychoanalytical meanings of those terms.) His use of metaphors has a haphazard quality to it that, at times, borders on the nonsensical-- particularly when he starts borrowing them from fields that he clearly doesn't understand very well himself, such as topology. That said, it's undeniable that Lacan's audience was enamoured of his performance. The questions and answers that are included here show a rapt and almost fawning reverence for the man they affectionately refer to as "The Master". But what does a reader, not able to bask in the warm glow of Lacan's personal charisma, get out of this? Not much.... a tiny handful of rehashed ideas, and a few witty phrases here and there, but mostly one gets a lot of dense, pointless verbiage from a man who seems like he's trying to hide the fact that he's got nothing new to say .

If you're going to read Lacan, read some of the real stuff-- when he was actually putting forth new (and at the time, revolutionary) ideas like his essays on "The Mirror Stage", "The Form and Function of the Letter", and "Agressivity in Psychoanalysis"-- or, if you must, some of the early seminars. But by this point, Lacan had long since ceased to be someone worth paying attention to-- and this book simply isn't worth the trouble it takes to get through it. (There are a lot of difficult works that *are* worth the trouble-- Hegel's "Phenomenology of Spirit", Marx's "Das Kapital", Heidegger's "Being and Time", and even a lot of works by the other post-structuralists with whom Lacan is often associated-- but believe me, this just isn't one of them).

I heard an interview with Dr. Becky Natrajan on Conscious Media Network (a GREAT website BTW) and was very interested in what she had to say. I bought her "book" because of it.

This "book" contains very little practical information for people looking to improve their health through diet (or otherwise). I use the term "book" because it is a very large type, double spaced (or even triple spaced) page layout with relatively few pages in the "book".

Regarding content, the majority of the "book" discusses many of the GI problems that people experience. It also discusses the need to cleanse & detox. I would guess if you're reading this book, you are probably already aware of these ideas. There are some "cute" jokes too. If you condense it all down to the useful information, there is a fairly brief section (maybe 10 pages or so) about different herbs and supplements, most of which you can find in a brief internet search. The final thing the book recommends is an expensive line of products by a company called Isagenix, which is a pyramid based food supplement company. Their primary products are a cleanse (mostly Aloe Vera juice) and Whey based protein shakes. In the interview I heard with Dr. Natrajan, she candidly admits that this is the next big money making health movement. She is affiliated with Isagenix, and is highly visible on their website.

I actually bought the Isagenix 9 day cleanse ($150), and when I realized what it was, felt like a complete sucker for buying it. (The regimen is 2 days of the Aloe Vera cleanse, 5 days of Whey protein shakes twice daily with one regular meal, plus 2 more days of Aloe Vera cleansing.) Included with my shipment was an interview with Dr. Natrajan.

I agree with the other reviewer that said this was more like an informercial than a book. These people should be ashamed for actually trying to pawn this off as a book.

The book is cute and very accurate and makes our digestive issues easy to talk about. Nobody wanted to talk about erectile dysfunction or incontinence years ago, why should the way our body works be a subject of ignorance. This is one reason why we are sick. We don't know how to take care of our human body. She makes it OK to talk about, everyone has some digestive issues sometime in their life. Read it, learn from it, take charge of your health. I am now using Isagenix and distribute it. call me for a testimony..I am a colon therapist.
ancientwaters.info or annschnell.isagenix.com. It really is THE TRUTH--- The Colon Lady 520.575.5812

Dr. Natrajan has a delightful sense of humor in a profession that obviously takes some amount of jovial harrassment! She is informative and helpful in her effort to educate the reader on a healthy life style and in having them discover what can happen if they don't. This is a well written, easily entertaining look at how to achieve good health through nutrition.
Annie Mansfeld

A great commentary on wellness!! Refreshing to read an alternative approach to medicine told with a sense of humor. Hopefully everyone will read this book and adjust their lifestyle!

When I ordered this book, I was looking for some new information regarding a more natural approach to healthcare. By now, most of us have heard of "cleansing" and avoiding processed foods and the downside of prescription drugs. By the very end of this book. it is revealed that they are promoting a product that they actually sell. I visited the website and there are a multitude of choices to solve the very problems mentioned in the book. At this point, it felt as if the entire book were one long infomercial for the nutritional supplements. I gave it "2" stars because there is some useful information, but there are much better sources out there that are not trying to sell you anything. That just feels better doesn't it?

I am curious about the reviews in which plagiarism is mentioned especially where there don't appear to be any bad reviews concerning plagiarism. This leads me to believe there have been other known instances in which Ms. Larson has used others' copyrighted material. The good reviews here at Amazon are suspect and sound as if they were written by Linda Larson herself. (the 'author'). Do your research, and investigate Ms. Larson's claims on her websites because I am personally aware of copyright infringement in the case of another book she claimed to have written. If others are aware of plagiarism on the part of the 'author' in any other published books please feel free to contact me.

I bought this as a gift for my boss. I thought the subject was very interesting and bought it based on the positive reviews of other readers. When I received it, I was very disappointed by the quality of the printing. It looked like someone photo-copied it. I expected a $12 paperback to have a more professional look. Needless to say, I won't be giving it as a gift.

Mind you, I am not judging the quality of the writing. Since I know nothing about children or accupressure, I am not qualified to rate that.

I have used the information in this book and it is truly great and very helpful to new mothers with infants. I am devastated of what another reviewer has to say about Ms Larson's book. This sounds almost like petty jealousy and no where did I read that Ms Larson was proclaiming to be a doctor. Her techniques and methods are proven and very good. I did not see anywhere in her book which I own,falsehoods at all. I am sorry, this is a great book and every new mother should have it in her home.

I think this book offers much advice and help on the baby massage. I beleive the other person who wrote the other review is jealous and petty. No where in her book does Ms. Larson proclaim to be a medical doctor nor have I found any plagerism in the book. This book is of great help to all new mothers with their infants and from I have experience from the book helps greatly. I would give this book a high 5 star rating no matter what any other reviewer says. I have this book and use it and I would not be without it. I did not think she talked as though she had a medical license. This book is a must for all new mothers with infants. To accuse someone of what this other reviewer has done is duly unjust and unprofessional.

This book has wonderful information on Chinese "TUINA" Acupressure and Aromatherapy. The author studied in China, and the valuable information taken from both Chinese Medicine Doctors and a very well known Registered Nurse Jane Buckle, author of "Clinical Aromatherapy in Nursing" of whom wrote the foreword in this book. There is much credible information in the book, great for new mothers and for those who simply want to use acupressure to help their children! Sincerely, LOVED THE BOOK!! AMTA (AMERICAN MASSAGE THERAPY JOURNAL IS DOING A FRONT COVER ARTICLE ON THIS BOOK SPRING 2001. A NATIONAL MEDICAL ORGANIZATION, BOOK REVIEW WILL FOLLOW IN SEPTEMBER 2001 ISSUE OF THE MASSAGE THERAPY JOURNAL.

The book is filled with stories about boats, not about boat building techniques or anything really of use to someone who is interested in building plywood boats, buyer beware! This title is misleading.

It follows the style of Mr. Jones prior book "Low Resistance Boats/ Boats to Go". It is informative on the different methods of building boats and the advantages and disadvantages. It is especially informative to those like myself who often ponder building a wooden boat and have pre-conceived notions that we are going to use "traditional methods". Tom has tried a great variety of methods and candidly admits that some of his pre-conceived notions and methods did not always turn out as he expected. He also describes how modern methods and materials can be used to build boats with a tradional appeal and why traditional is traditional and not always practical.

Great book, with provisions... For someone with some previous knowledge about boat building, design and terminology this can be a very enjoyable and inspiring book. The boats covered in this book cover a broad range of types, for paddle, oar, sail and power. The information on them however ranges from brief descriptions with hand drawn scetches to fairly complete plans with offsets suitable for someone with previous knowledge of boatbuilding to be able to build from. One would not expect all of the boats to be fully described in plans because some of the boats are not the authors own designs but are included to illustrate the authors experience or modifications of the design. The book was well worth the modest price for me for the one design alone, the 9 foot "Dandy Dingy" which is one of the ones with adequate plans. This boat looks to be fairly easy to build and cute as could be.

One day I dream of building the sailboat that will carry me through my retirement years; to that end, I've read a lot of books on boatbuilding, and encountered a lot of strong opinions. And of all the modern-day authors I've read, few are more opinionated than Thomas Firth Jones.

Jones doesn't mince words when giving his opinions of designers, materials, or other builders. He's very critical of the stitch-and-glue method, and of builders like Sam Devlin, who strongly favors it- although that didn't stop him from modifying one of Devlin's designs to fit his building style. He is very critical of Phil Bolger's popular small sailboats, though he counts Bolger as a friend, and is effusive in his compliments of Bolgers' powerboat designs.

Jones didn't start building boats until he was 40, although he spent a lifetime as a woodworker, and he seems to be very much an autodidact who taught himself a good deal of what he knows about boatbuilding. He's not afraid to describe mistakes he made along the way, or to describe some of his designs as failures. In general, his opinions are backed by experience and experiment. There are exceptions, of course. His knowledge of kayaks, and of kayak paddles, is poor, which wouldn't bother me if he didn't make sweeping generalizations about the optimum paddle for a boat. And his opinions about economics are startlingly ignorant. He doesn't appear to have read much or spoken to many people with different views, and (for example) dismisses Phil Bolger's libertarianism in an almost condescending manner.

But those few points aside, this book- and Jones' earlier book- are a treasure trove of ideas about design and construction, and a very useful addition to anyone's boatbuilding library.

Author rambles on about various old designs and the philosophies of the designers/builders, interspersing a few fuzzy B&W pictures and snippets of hull profiles. Might be interesting to the history buff, but if you want clear, relevant information on how to build a wooden boat... this book isn't for you. There are many others to choose from - I'd recommend Buehler's Backyard Boat Building and Gerr's Strength of Boats as two helpful books I've read so far.

I purchased this book for a class, and Ill admit, once I picked it up, I couldnt put it down. The relationship between the characters and gender identity issues and very interesting. The only part I didnt like (and debated in class), was the multiple narrators that created a story within a story. It seemed out of sync and a little unnecessary, but thats just my opinion! A+ I'd still recommend it to anyone.

First, you must ask yourself if you are reading this for enjoyment or academic purposes, because you are unlikely to get any enjoyment out of this novel. While offering an interesting critique of society in Morocco, the novel is littered with attempts at complexity that ultimately drag it down. The author's intent to make this story have a multitude of stories isn't entirely wrong from the beginning, however as the story evolves the reader may find a lack of interest. This is because the characters are almost entirely shallow constructs, attempts at characters. While the story has many plot twists, I repeatedly found myself thinking, "Why should I care about what happens to these characers?" And the answer is, You Shouldn't! The author gives no life to the bland and pathetic list of characers, which not only grows, but also has character playing multiple roles.

As to an academic reading of the novel, it simply serves to challenge the reader by following this complex story. If that is incentive, I might add that there are many novels with complex stories just as challenging and much more intriguing. In accordance with the statement on Moroccan society, there are many books which discuss this in an engaging way.

An earlier reviewer criticized the translation, perhaps that was the problem. However, I found the real flaw here to be a poorly constructed story.

If you are interested in the a dynamic world of storytelling read The Sand Child. It takes you through many tales which weave in and out of social constructs. What constructs create a female? What constructs create a male?

When I read this novel it took me through a range of emotions. It took me into arid land and it made me feel as if I was experiencing The Sand Child's world.

This book question gender construction. It has all the makings of a wonderful novel. I loved it and it made me change my perspective on how I view my world.

Tahar Ben Jelloun is a master of the written word, able to weave into his novels issues of social and political concern while at the same time composing sometimes humorous, often lyrical, and always thoughtful story-lines.

This translation--unfortunately the only one of the Sand Child-- misses the mark in conveying an accurate representation of Ben Jelloun's novel. There are a number of glaring errors and omissions of original text. If it is at all possible to read the work in the original, one must. My rating is of the translation, not the original.

Includes very useful information including basic information about boat and trailer handling. A book to consider if you don't know anything about boats and are considering purchasing one.

Might be somewhat useful for a used boat buyer. If your looking for information on what to look for in a new boat save your money. There is little or no information on what makes one boat better made than another. What information there is, is of the most basic kind ("drip pans under the engine should have no oil in them"..duh). Some of the information is outdated also. I finished the book in about 20min and will donate it to the library.

As an experienced sailor switching over to powerboats I have been reading both magazines and " How to Choose," books on powerboating.I figure with such a large purchase you can never be to well read.I found Gould's book to be too basic for someone with boating experience.The chapters are brief and often read like a text book.I also purchased Lamy's boat buying book and found it to be more detailed and loaded with interesting anecdotes. Gould's book does get into more details on boat accessories such as anchors, air-conditioning, refrigeration,and electronics and these topics are not well covered by Lamy.Lamy gives tremendous detail on the purchase process, but only briefly covers accesories and primary systems. I recommend this book as a quick read to inexperienced boat buyers,but recommend that experienced boaters also read a few other books to suppliment "How to Choose Your First Powerboat."

I bought "How to Choose Your First Powerboat" before I spent much time shopping for a boat. I was approaching the project with no boating experience at all, and really felt the need for some general information about boats.

I thought "How to Choose Your First Powerboat" gave me a thorough overview of boats without getting into minute details. No way did I expect that any one book would make me completely informed, but I wasn't comfortable proceeding in complete ignorance, either. During the (successful) shopping process for a used boat, more than one seller or broker tried to make some fairly far fetched claims about different boats and I had learned enough from "How to Choose....." to avoid at least one carefully laid trap.

Gould does an excellent job of communicating important basic concepts. There are moments of humor, and the style is easy to read.

I would recommend this book to anybody getting into boating for the first time.

This book provides information in a summary format... to the point info on sail trim. It is madeup of a number of articles written by experienced sailers with their own beliefs in what is important and what works best. Where else can you get a room full of experts quickly explaining the key to proper sail trim under many different situations?
Good book, but for those with sailing knowledge and experience. Not for the beginner.

Each of the chapters are written by separate authors... some better than others. Overall there are some very good chapters on sail trimming.

This was one of the first books I read about sail trim and I nearly gave up the sport on the spot. Conglomerating clippings from the magazine produced a very uneven book, sometimes conflicting, and frequently pitched to people of widely different experience. One chapter would assume years on the water while the next was aimed at newbies. Avoid this. Of the half dozen books on the subject I've read since, North U's sail trim book was easily the best. I'd suggest buying that instead. (And I'm still sailing.)

A good book to read. Has some nice, concise articles on a variety of topics. I found it useful.

Bernard Moitessier was born in 1925. He spent many years sailing in Southeast Asia, the Mediterranean, and the Pacific. As a result of good common sense and so much experience, Moitessier clearly knows much about sailing.

The first two sections of "A Sea Vagabond's World" are delightful. He gives very practical advice about boat material, choice of sailing rig, self-steering gear, lighting, heaving-to, anchoring, navigating, etc. His sailing advice is very reasonable and reflects a great love of simplicity. There is much to learn in these sections. The lack of modern technology is actually a strength. Modern junk will eventually fail; knowing how to perform daily tasks with simple gear is a huge strength on the sea.

The last section, called "Islands and Lagoons," is deeply appalling. Moitessier repeatly gives advice which is incredibly destructive to local habitats. For example, he advocates pouring "kerosene into any holes," including pouring this toxin "into the sand crab (tupa) holes." Moitessier gives this advice as a method to control mosquitos. He doesn't seem to understand that applying poisons into the environment will poison the environment. He also writes about bringing topsoil in bags onto an island. His generation didn't understand about the invasive insect and plant species that can be introduced onto an island by unthinking transfer of soil.

Still, I believe that it is important to forgive our ancestors for their lack of knowledge. If you view Moitessier's book as a document of a certain type of sea travel during the late 20th century, "A Sea Vagabond's World" is a splendid little book. There is much to learn about sailing in the first two sections of the book, and much to learn about unthinking environmental destruction in the last section.

On the whole, in spite of my reservations about the poor environmental example that Moitessier sets while writing about land, I much enjoyed Moitessier's very good advice about sailing.

This is the last book published under Moitessier's name--he never finished it himself--of tips he had collected over the years. It's divided into three sections: (1) preparing a boat, (2) sailing, navigating, weather forecasting; and (3) how to become self sufficient once you reach your island paradise. It's a practical guide, NOT a story, but if you are interested in tips on how Moitessier learned to harvest coconuts, plant a garden on an Atoll, (he brought his own topsoil) or built many of his boats then this could be for you.

When the great Moitessier died in 1994, was working to his "manual", and " A Sea Vagabond's World ", finished by his companion Veronique and printed in 1996, is the result, the summa of his thought. You have to forgot electronic equipment, regatta tactics, crowded moorings... and enter in his philosophy, in his primitive method of rigging, in his innumerable astuteness that at the right moment may be your salvation. Feel how is a life in an atoll, in harmony with everything and everybody. If you will follow his philosophy even only in a Sunday sailing, you will feel better, more autonomous, free and you will understood what beautiful and big is the world and you will wish only to set out and sail on it.

In my opinion, a metal boat in the tropics, using 50 year old technology, is way behind the times. He does share some interesting ways of doing things, and has a unique philosophy.