I was looking for a nice photo album which could be at the same time both beautiful and practical. I found this to be the case as it has the right size to carry it and show it around and at the same time I can use it to decorate my new baby's book shelves.

This book was my favorite gift last xmas. I've found countless pages of quotes that relate directly to my life. The thoughtful and thought provoking insights are both entertaining and helpful. I'm buying 4 and giving them to women that I work with.

This book should be required reading for all students in the field of EMS. You will laugh, cry and respect the "people on the streets" like you never have before.

It is a deep shame that Beyond the Nightmare Gate is now hard to find. This is one of the greatest adventure books ever written, and if you can find a copy from Amazon, it's well worth it! We join our hero Grey Star in another plane, the Daziarn. A realm of nightmares and ghosts await the reader, who must battle the fiendish enchantments of the Black Crystal Tower, the Chaos Lord, the ancient god of discord, the Neverness, holes that lead to the past and future that never was and never will be, a mountain that moans, and a whole assortment of twisted foes before the final challenge: to dive into a shimmering lake-to another dimension, and fight his shadow twin in a duel for the Moonstone and human's salvation. From the magnificent flying Ethetron to a terrible lizard that turns those who look at it into stone to the mysterious Room of the Mirrors, you will be amazed by the depth and magnificence of Joe Dever's work. Despite it's HTF status, Beyond the Nightmare Gate and, to a lesser extent, its sequel and predecessors, are definitely worth your time and money

Anybody who has read Christine's previous books Frontiers of Health & Mirrors of Existence or worked through her fabulous Mind and Body Workbook will know they are in for a another inspirational journey when they read this book....

Using Christine's own life experiences she encapsulates the essence of listening to your inner truth allowing you to follow that small voice in your head known as Intuition. The gift of her writing is inspirational and through her use of meditation and acknowledging our own belief systems she enables us to connect with our psychic senses, logic, emotions and instincts.

Christine uses examples from her own life to highlight that we sometimes distrust messages that our intuition is giving us. As we have a belief system that they sometimes will appear illogical to others, cause pain to the ones we love, or cause us to be the source of ridicule or rejection. However if we listen to that little voice and go with that "gut reaction" we will be following our correct path.

With the use of meditations in the book, you too can connect to this inner knowing and connect with the feminine side that is within us all, just waiting to be let out.

Christine is an inspirational author, and her choice to share her experiences endears the book to show you what you can achieve in life with a little self worth and intuition.

I have a copy of this, published in 1976. It is an excellent book, covering a wide range of tricks, many classics, with good drawings and clear text. It evens describes classic stage illusions. My copy is a paperback, printed on acid paper, and is browning as a result. If you can get a copy on acid free paper, that's a better choice.

I never read the book but I saw the episode on TV. Cleo ,
T-bone, and Clifford all were making leave piles. Only T-bone didn't jump in his because, he had to go play fetch with Sheriff Louis. Clifford was extremely tempted and jumped in them. They scattered all over the island. The went all over the island and got them back.They put them back in the yard and waited. Clifford was still tempted, but didn't jump. When T-bone got back they gathered more leaves and added them to the pile.Then they all jumped in it. When they asked T-bone how his game of fetch was he said pretty good. They said they had a pretty good game of fetch too, which was getting back the leaves!Only they didn't tell T-bone. You'll like watching it on TV and I hope you will like the book

Chief of Police Mario Balzic receives a phone call from Miss Cynthia Summers who reports that she has not seen one of her student roomers for several days. Paying a courtesy call sounds a lot better to Balzic than working on the budget report until he finds the body of Janet Pisula on the floor of her room. The young woman has been strangled with her brassiere, wearing only her panties, with a blank sheet of paper resting on top of her body. The murder had happened sometime the previous week and nobody in the rooming house or on campus had noticed Janet had suddenly disappeared.

For "The Blank Page," the third novel in the Mario Balzic series, author K. C. Constantine has apparently settled on a specific literary modus operandi. Lt. Harry Minyon, the blundering blowhard who was in charge of the local State Police barracks in the previous mystery "The Man Who Like to Look at Himself" has been temporarily replaced by Lt. Walker Johnson, who is more in the mold of Lt. Phil Moyer from "The Rocksburg Railroad Murders" in terms of providing support for Balzic rather than an constant impediment in the search for the murderer. By removing the set of stereotypical clowns getting in the way of Balzic's investigation, Constantine is able to keep the story's focus on the chief's interrogative skills. In the current dichotomy represented by television's "Law & Order" and "C.S.I." franchises, Constantine's Balzic is clearly in the camp of the former. The focus here is not on forensic science or the ability to beat and/or shoot up bad guys, but rather on asking the right questions in order to gather the necessary information. Reading these books is waiting for the key piece of the puzzle to show up so that everything can fall into place, at which point Balzic can go bring in the murderer. These novels are not so much about police procedure as they are the lost art of interrogation. Of course, in Constantine's hands these interrogations rarely take place in a special room at the police station.

"The Blank Page" is the best of the first three Mario Balzic novels, although readers who are captivated by some of the more colorful characters in Rocksburg may well wish Father Mazzo and Mo Vulcanas were more involved in the story as they were respectively in the first two books. Personally, I would like to see a bit more of Balzic's family, since they tend to provide nice counterpoints to the crime being investigated. But the most important other character in these novels to this point in the series clearly ends up being the murderer. I would not go so far a to say Balzic shows compassion for the murderers he catches (with the exception being what happened in the second novel), but there is certainly a strong sense of empathy and understanding towards the story they have to tell. But then, it is that ability to look at things from the perspective of others that is Balzic's greatest asset when it comes to solving crimes.

Comments on recurring concerns: "The Blank Page" was originally published in 1974, which helps to explain the original art on the hardcover edition with is a photograph of a woman's naked torso reproduced four times in pop art style with an empty rectangle representing the titular item on her stomach. Besides any concerns about having a picture of a naked breast reproduced four times on a book cover, there is the problem that it suggests the crime in this novel involves some sort of lurid sex act. However, I tend to think this is more an attempt at titillation by the marketing department for the Saturday Review Press rather than a red herring intended to throw readers off the track of the mystery. The other thing to be pointed out is that Constantine does not believe in chapters, so if you are in the read "x" number of chapter before bedtime school of reading, be forewarned. Constantine's books are ideal for those of us living the commuter lifestyle.

When I read Phillip Khan-Panni's first book, "2-4-6-8, How Do you Communicate?" I thought it was terrific. But when I read "Blank Page to First Draft in 15 Minutes" I thought it was even better. It is full of valuable information from beginning to end. It has everything I would ever want to know about preparing a speech or presentation.

Phillip's style is easy to read. He makes powerful, important points, then illustrates them with narratives that take the reader into the subject and makes it even easier to understand and recall.

This book not only gives you a simple-to-master template, it explains the underlying principles of effective presentations. As the author himself says, his purpose is to help you fashion your thoughts into messages that others will want to hear. At the end of the book he provides a complete checklist that you can consult when you have only a few moments to remind yourself of the essential steps -- at times when you have to make a speech or presentation with little or no notice.

For anyone who has to address audiences, large or small, this book is a must read. Whether you are a new member of Toastmasters International or the CEO of a large corporation, this book really ought to be on your shelf of essential reference works.

What's more, it makes a superb gift for colleagues and clients!

Just like having an informal buddy-to-buddy conversation with the stars themselves. Great book. I couldn't put it down. It's a definite for all levels of guitarists. I was inspired. Check out Secrets From The Masters by Don Menn also. Clapton is interviewed, and I really got a feel for where he's coming from as a guitarist. In this case, God isn't perfect. That's how I like the Blues. Try your best every time. Great book.