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Then this is the book for you. I've made 8 shorts now...and I wish I had this book 2 years ago! I've bought dozens of books over the last 3 years but this is the first one that's been wrote by real filmakers. How do I know? There are REAL tips in it. I mean those ones that come from really making a film...not the same moron advice that everyone gives.

There's a real good case study too. It reminds me of my first video shoot for 'The Clan'. There's real good focus in there, but I think they could go further with putting things together.

Buy this book if you're an editor or a director. Definitely if you're a director! I started out editing and some of the directors I worked with could really do with reading this book ;o)

For some reason the British have the best graphics magazines...always the best reviews and tutorials. Thus it is no surprise that the book, Revolutionary - Final Cut Pro 2 by Blissett et al, is such a fine book. About the first third of the book deals with planning a production, actually shooting the footage, and preparing the footage for editing. All of these discussions are accompanied by examples and real world comments.
The rest of the book deals with Final Cut Pro 2 (FCP2) in a logical progression from clip capture to editing, then on to special effects and concluding with sound. Throughout the discussions are examples to work along with as well as a continuing project called "yootclub."
This book gives an excellent introduction to video production, in general, and FCP2 in particular.

Best instructional book for making ribbed baskets that I've seen. Great diagrams and picture tutorials.

This book started my basketry library. It jumps right in by listing the tools and materials you will need and then goes on to describe the 4 basic parts of a rib basket: hoops, ears, ribs and weavers. General directions for making a rib basket then follow. I have many basketry books and what distinguishes this book from the others is the amount of time and space it spends on beginning a basket. In beginning a basket you are making the basket's foundation and it is where your hands can get "tongue-tied". To make this process as clear as possible the author loaded this section with photos and drawn illustrations as well as clear written instructions. After you go thru the general directions, the book describes some decorative options (i.e. "woven handle"). The remainder of the book contains individual instructions and supply lists for different types of rib baskets (i.e. Scottish Yarn Basket). Sprinkled throughout the book are color photos of completed baskets. I have been making baskets for 11 years and I still use this as a reference.

The book is exactly what I have long sought, a complete discussion of the armor, clothing, weapons, and other equipage of the Roman Army. The only reservation that I might have is that the time period covered is that of the early and middle Empire and does not discuss the army at the time of the Punic Wars, the late Republic, from Gaius Marius to Jullius Caesar, or the late Empire of Diocletian on through the end. I do realize that this would have required a very much larger, and more expensive, book. In any case, I have found the book as it is to be accurate in its very detailed discussions and extensive illustrations. It is certainly one of the very best books on the subject that I have found to date.

Picks up where "Roman Legions Recreated in Colour Photos" leaves off. An excellent feature are the abundant line drawings of the sculpture and bas relief from which so much of the interpretation of recreated gear is derived. - Hibernicus, Leg IX His.

I really liked this book because Rosemary is the same age as me,and she has to go and find a witch. Rosemary likes to achieve her goals. she was a good character.She did achieve her goal.The one thing I liked was when Rosemary finds she does not have a title,like her father is a history teacher,and hermother is a dancer,and her brother wants to be an archeoligist, but she does not have one. She later finds she does not need one. So that is why I like this book.

Rosemary's Witch
The novel Rosemary's witch, by Ann Turner is a story about two young neighbors who are best friends and they try to find out why this witch is taking things from them. Ernie, a chubby boy, who lives down the street, from Rosemary Morgenthau, Ernie's best friend. Rosemary, a girl who moves into a 150-year-old witches house in a town called Woodhaven and she finds out that the witch wants her house back.
Rosemary and Ernie go to the witches house, which is in Rosemary's backyard and they try to find out what she wants and why she wants it. What I like about Rosemary is that she's only eleven-years-old and she's very brave. She's brave enough to face a witch. My favorite part of the book was when she became friends and when she was picking on Ernie before they tried to find out what she wanted, and my least favorite part was when the toads were all over the streets. I think the ending of this book is good because it acts as if there is going to be a part two, another section.
I like the way that Ann Turner writes her books, she gives just enough information; not too much and not too little. Her vocabulary is a little but not much easier than it should be. I think that she wrote the book for ages 12-15. I would recommend this book because it teaches you to be brave and don't hold back on your dreams or on your accomplishments!

by Pam Stone
Second Chair is the 3rd installment of Stan Turner Mystery series, the 1st was "Undaunted" and the 2nd was "Brash Endeavor." Dallas Attorney Stan Turner and his wife Rebekah are having a Christmas party with family, friends, and clients as their guests. During the party the lights go out. As Stan gets the fuse changed and the lights come back on, he hears a scream. Stan rushes to where he heard the scream come from and sees his friend and CPA Bobby Wiggins lying in the flowerbed face up. The cause of death is massive coronary caused by the fall on the ice. Marleen Wiggins decides to sue Stan for 2 million dollars because of negligence in not sanding the sidewalk. This is only one of the cases that Stan is working on. Stan is asked to defend a young woman named Sarah Winters for killing her child, which she claims to remember nothing about. Before the trial even gets started, Stan and his family start getting threats through the mail, the letters are cut out of magazines so they can not be traced, the first one said:

"YE DEFENDERS OF THE DEVIL BEWARE! DEATH WILL BE YOUR ONLY REWARD. REPENT BEFORE YOU FACE ETERNAL DAMNATION. TIME IS SHORT UNTIL THE LIVING WILL AVENGE THE DEAD." Signed DOOMSAYER.

After a court appearance, Stan's beautiful corvette has all of its tires slashed and windows broken out and a message scratched on his hood saying;

" YE SHALL NOT ESCAPE THE VENGEANCE OF THE LORD. -- DOOMSAYER.

Even after all of that, Stan decides to keep on defending Sarah because he believes in her innocence. After the trial starts, Stan is all most run down in the parking garage, his dog is also killed in their back yard, and his trial note book is stolen out of his office the night before a court appearance and he must recreate the note book in 8 hours before court reconvenes.
Stan Turner is a very pleasant guy and the kind of lawyer that we would all love to have in our corner. All of the characters are believable and fit into the plot. William Manchee has done it again with "Second Chair." I have not had the pleasure of reading the first two Stan Turner Mysteries, "Undaunted" and "Brash Endeavor " but you can bet that I will be adding them both to my private collection of books. I have had the honor of reading " Death Pact " to review, and I will say that it is the best book that I have ever read so far; "Second Chair" is a close second to "Death Pact." William Manchee can spin a tale that totally keeps you holding on and wanting more. You can bet that I will read anything that this talented author puts out.

Kudos to William Manchee for a 5 star read again!

Second Chair is the 3rd installment of Stan Turner, The 1st was UNDAUNTED and the 2nd was BRASH ENDEAVOR.

Dallas Attorney Stan Turner and his wife Rebekah are having a Christmas party with family, friends, and clients as their guests. During the party the lights go out. As Stan gets the fuse changed and the lights come back on, he hears a scream. Stan rushes to where he heard the scream come from and sees his friend and CPA Bobby Wiggins lying in the flowerbed face up. The cause of death is massive coronary caused by the fall on the ice. Marleen Wiggins decides to sue Stan for 2 million dollars because of negligence in not sanding the sidewalk.

This is only one of the cases that Stan is working on. Stan is asked to defend a young woman named Sarah Winters for killing her child, which she claims to remember nothing about. Before the trial even gets started, Stan and his family start getting threats through the mail, the letters are cut out of magazines so they can not be traced, the first one said:

"YE DEFENDERS OF THE DEVIL BEWARE! DEATH WILL BE YOUR ONLY REWARD. REPENT BEFORE YOU FACE ETERNAL DAMNATION. TIME IS SHORT UNTIL THE LIVING WILL AVENGE THE DEAD." Signed DOOMSLAYER.

After a court appearance, Stan's beautiful corvette has all of its tires slashed and windows broken out and a message scratched on his hood saying; " YE SHALL NOT ESCAPE THE VENGEANCE OF THE LORD. -- DOOMSLAYER.

Even after all of that, Stan decides to keep on defending Sarah because he believes in her innocence. After the trial starts, Stan is all most run down in the parking garage, his dog is also killed in their back yard, and his trial note book is stolen out of his office the night before a court appearance and he must recreate the note book in 8 hours before court reconvenes.

Stan Turner is a very pleasant guy and the kind of lawyer that we would all love to have in our corner. All of the characters are believable and fit into the plot.

William Manchee has done it again with " Second Chair ". I have not had the pleasure of reading the first two Stan Turner Mysteries, " Undaunted " and " Brash Endeavor " but you can bet that I will be adding them both to my private collection of books. I have had the honor of reading " Death Pact " to review, and I will say that it is the best book that I have ever read so far; " Second Chair " is a close second to " Death Pact. "

William Manchee can spin a tale that totally keeps you holding on and wanting more. You can bet that I will read anything that this talented author puts out.

Kudos to William Manchee for a 5 star read again!

Just like Sheehan's book on Viet Nam, this is just another example of our amazing self-defeating government in action! Everything the CIA does overseas seems to backfire on itself-Like Bin Laden and 9/11!
This book gives the whole thing away with terms just like "Caseworker" and "Spy Station" and Compartmentaliziton and "predictive science"! We hear that are old profs in college might be spies or even the pastor of our local church or the evangelist on TV or radio! I had read this very good book in the summer of 1985-just after the year where paranoia began about government intrusion on our lives-George Orwell's 1984!BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING! Turner had also stated that the college professors who tend to work with alot of foreign students may be recruiting them for the CIA to be spies when they return home!
He introduces the book discussing the legitimacy of intelligance gathering comparing it to Joshua and the 12 spies scouting out Canaan for Israel. Yet to me, it looks like it is God himself that causes so many things to backfire for the sinister evil CIA! I guess the Hostage Crisis in Teheran in 1979 was just another fine example. "Egg on their face" was the expression Turner had used to describe iot when things backfired on them and humiliated the CIA! I would also say that these confused self-righteous people think they are the embodiment of moral righteousness of Christianity!
But I think that from the Bible, Ezekiel the Prophet condemns America and its foreign imperialism when he condemned historical great empires like the Assyrian Empire for spreading terror around the world with the sword-and how God condemned them to the Pit forever!
I deduced that many foreign immiagrants may work for the CIA because they are exiles who want to overthrow the government of their homelands! So many bad people come to America hoping to hide behind Washington's skirts!
This is a real eye-opening book!
I had read in this book and on the CIA's website that the CIA has no actual legal authority or jurisdiction in the US. Maybe this is why I get so many helpless threats, insults and attempts at persuasion from enemies. Because they really can't do a damn thing to me in America!
But the CIA has kinks in its armor as the 1993 massacre of MaCleans, Virginia CIA headquarters pointed out to me. They had to enlist the aid of Maryland State Troopers to protect them from further terrorist attasks!

Stansfield Turner was a Rhodes scholar and naval officer who rose to command of a carrier task group, a fleet, NATO's southern flank, and the Navy's most prestigious intellectual institution, the Naval War College. He served from 1977-1981 as Director of Central Intelligence under President Jimmy Carter, and his book in my mind was the first serious contribution-perhaps even a catalyst-to the growing debate over whether and how much reform is required if the U.S. Intelligence Community is to be effective in the 21st Century. His eleven-point agenda for reform is of lasting value, as are his ideas for intelligence support to those responsible for natural disaster relief and other non-military challenges.

I am on the middle scale of chess rating (~1700) so the reader needs to factor this.

Mr. Kotov provides a scientific approach to chess calculations. In reality chess cannot be defined. Science just helps. What makes a better help is actual life lessons.

This is really what this book is about. It does not matter how strong is the material of this book, whaich I am sure is for the very advanced player, but the style of thinking that everyone should be looking for. We are not computers, so pretty suitable for Mr. Kotov's work, but we are human beings that we need to factor many things when it comes to playing chess.

The reader will not regret the time spent in front of this book as the material is very enjoyable to read as well as the sujects presented.

The book presents to the reader an approach in thinking, i.e. analysing, in chess with a support from a great chess trainer and games played by GMs. What else you might ask for?

I hope this review does not look like I am selling this book or the book is like a magic stick that will do mirecles for the reader. The book, above all, needs dedication and determination from the reader to gain the required benefit.

Good luck and happy reading.

I am not completely through this work, but it was very informative on the endgame. Some may look for more than that, but we are reminded that "Opengins teach you openings, endgames teach you chess". Dvoretsky has good reason to be considered the best trainer in the world.

Fritz Leiber aptly dubbed H. P. Lovecraft "a literary Copernicus," for his liberating of Weird Literature from the thrall of hackneyed superstition. But Lovecraft clearly spent most of his time not writing fiction, or ghostwriting fiction for others, but rather corresponding with a huge list of faithful correspondents. Many of these correspondents would drop Lovecraft a letter consisting of three paragraphs and receive in reply thirty pages, written single-spaced front and back in a tiny, cramped handwriting! It was in his letters that Lovecraft poured out his personality, his opinions, and his (not always reliable) erudition. The total number of letters he wrote during his lifetime is almost impossible to estimate, and alas only a tiny fraction survive, but that tiny fraction would apparently fill around 20 volumes the size of this one, if published unabridged! If you love Lovecraft, you need to read these letters. I'd recommend beginning with the final volume, containing letters for the last few years up to his death (1937) and then delving into the earlier letters, going back to his amateur press days. It's in these letters that you see the "real" Lovecraft, warts and all... and these letters also somewhat paradoxically contain some of his best writing on any topic or theme.

Despite the strangeness of H.P. Lovecraft's imaginative fiction, and his nearly as strange personal life, he was a lucid and engaging letter writer. His observations on matters worldly, personal, and literary illuminate his life and times. Fortunately for us his many correspondents cherished and preserved his letters

Trying to update your home? Are you redecorating or remodeling? Have you recently purchased a new home and are low on cash for the curtains and new linens for your bed and bath? Or are you just dreaming about things to come? You can't afford not to buy this book, as well as the other books on sewing for the home from the Singer Reference Library. These books are absolutely the best I have ever seen on how to select fabrics, how to select designs, and how to construct home decor items such as window treatments, throw pillows, bed linens, and other decorative items for your home. Each section is supurbly illustrated with color photographs detailing every step in the construction precess, as well as photos of the completed items in a home setting. As a newlywed scraping to purchase our first home, I found this book and the others in the series invaluable to making my new home look like a designer had been there for only the cost of the fabric and a little time. Now, having been married several years and several homes later, I still sew many of my soft furnishings myself rather than pay the huge prices decorators demand for their products. If you can sew a straight line, you can use this book with great results. My personal copy is dog-eared from years of heavy use

I ran across Sewing Projects for the Home by the Singer Sewing Reference Library at our local fabric store and I knew this was a book I had to have. This book has a variety of different home decorating sewing projects. Not only are there wonderful pictures showing what the items will look like when completed but it also has easy to follow instructions. The illustrations are inviting and lead your mind to wonder about other fabrics and textures that could be incorporated into each project. I would reccomend this book both for its instructional value and its ability to stir up creativity.

Ann Turner Cook is the individual behind the famous Gerber baby picture we all grew up with. She is a retired English teacher and member of the Mystery Writers of America. She resides in Tampa Florida with her husband, who assists her in her research.

Brandy O'Bannon is trying to make a name for herself in the newspaper business, and to do that she needs the elusive "big story." When her editor sends her out to investigate the story of a woman from New York who has been missing for twenty years, she springs into action. The woman had a two and a half year old daughter, and they simply vanished in the Cedar Key area. When O'Bannon arrives in Cedar Key, she quickly meets a woman named Cara Waters who may be the missing child, and learns of a skeleton found in the cistern in the basement of a local hotel which could be the mother. But what events transpired and how to track them down is the big challenge for Brandy. Her husband, John, is being actively pursued by his architectural intern, Tiffany Moore. The folk of Cedar Key are tight-lipped, and Brandy thinks they know much more than they admit. A fellow investigator is murdered, and Brandy begins to worry for her own safety:

"She had started across the narrow sidewalk toward a street lamp when she heard the scuffle of footsteps behind her. She whirled. A thick figure was rising from the basement entry, its face grotesque, a blur of mashed lips and flattened nose. Brandy dropped her suitcase. Her heart thudded and her fingers tightened around the straps of her bag. A stocking mask, of course."

Ann Turner Cook writes quite a colorful story for someone with such an angelic face. Her writing is of a high caliber, clear and full of action. She allows the reader to savor the story, yet become totally enmeshed in the action. Shadow Over Cedar Key is a high action, suspenseful, and yet tragic tale that is sure to pull at the reader's heartstrings. Brandy O'Bannon is a wonderful example of a young person trying to find her place in the world and yet keep her marriage from crumbling. Her own tale is a love story most haunting, as Poirot would say. An excellent and entertaining read from a talented and insightful author.

Shelley Glodowski
Reviewer

A phenomenal effort by Mrs. Cook. I was intially drawn to this novel after a recent 3-day trip to Cedar Key and I'm so glad I came upon it. I'm an avid reader of Randy White, RBP, John D. MacDonald, Peter Matthiessen, Dennis Lehane, etc., and I'm sure that Mrs. Cook's books will lay next to theirs' in my bookcase for years to come. Brandy O'Bannon can hang with Doc Ford and Travis McGee any day of week. I almost wish I'd had Mrs. Cook as my High School English teacher, too, as maybe I would've turned into the writer I always wanted to be (instead of the 9-5 software professional I ended up being). Highly engrossing, highly suspenseful, highly characterized, highly rich in FLA history, and highly recommended.