A great volume of the hilarious minute mystery series contains brain moving stories about a prankster, costume party, and an antique car just to name a few. The characters are fun to read about in their AE Parker personalities. Kids will most surely get a kick out of the Clue Series. I certainly did when I was younger.

If you ever get your hands on this very large book and are an intermediate astrology student you'll enjoy it very much so don't miss the chance.

It's very handy and informative, contains information about almost everything in astrology. Even though it's from the 70's the information applies well for today.

If you're an expert astrologer, don't bother. Unless you want to add it to your collection.

Though limited in the content there are quite a number of excellent pictures of different models. As a newcomer to the hobby it greatly helped in my learning. There is an excellent list of variations with prices, however they are a little outdated. Good as a starting point.

I don't normally buy "art" books - but when an artist friend of mine showed me her copy, I couldn't put it down...and I knew I had to get my own copy to share with my friends. The artist creates art in a fascinating way. I found her sculptures to be both amusing and mesmerizing.

I read this book some thirty five years ago. It is the biography of a minor criminal in England, who was a person who was totally unrepentant and attempted to blame no one for his choices in life.

It was probably the first book that I read which gave me a picture of life outside that of a normal middle class existence. From that point of view it was a revelation.

One of the interesting things about the book was that it told of a criminal underworld before the spread of drugs. Robbery and theft were purely motivated by commerical considerations rather than by any addiction.

The narrator in the book is a person who despite spending a third of his life in jail is able to tell his story with some ironic detachment and at times the book is hysterically funny. The scene with a social worker from the Salvation Army is particullary amusing.

One of the interesting things in the book was a description of how to do an Armed Robbery. The narrator explains how the best weapon to use is an iron bar. People will often think that they might not be hit by a bullet or that they can overpower their attacker. An iron bar is something which everyone sees as causing harm and will lead to a robbery going ahead smoothly without resistance. One would hardly think of the modern drug filled criminal being able to muster the self possession to think through the crime and the likely outcome as used to happen in the past.

Not a book which fills you with a golden vision of humanity but a readable and interesting book.

I read this book a couple of years ago and it still stands out in my mind as one of the best testimonials for energizing organizations through developing shared vision. Through the telling of a powerful story the book relates in luscious detail how one organization made it work. I still recommend it to clients.

This book is the second in a trilogy of books on the issue of poverty and human development undertaken by the World Bank. It is estimated that there are 2.8 billion poor people around the world and this book will tell you stories about 20,000 of them from 23 countries in Africa and the Middle East (like Egypt and Zambia), Eastern Europe and Central Asia (like Bosnia and Uzbekistan), Latin America (like Argentina and Jamaica) and South and East Asia (like Bangladesh and Vietnam).
The idea began in 1998, planning during 1998 and field studies in 1999 with final reports targeted for the 2000 World Development Report. A very impressive and quick research study that in this book focus on well-being and ill-being, problems and priorities, role of institutions and the role of gender relations. For each of the 23 countries a national research team selected 8-15 communities to be representative of the target population of poor people with field interviews and studies performed in a short time span, sometimes under very stressful and sometimes dangerous situations.
The authors of this book then had to go through about 10,000 pages of field notes and national reports from 23 countries and make a useful and readable book out of it. They have really done a good and impressive job out of it. The pages are the stories of many experts on poverty, not from academics or universities, but from the mouth of the poor person him-or herself and there is a lot to learn. Seven themes for change emerge:
·From material poverty to adequate assets and livelihoods
·From isolation and poor infrastructure to access and services
·From illness and incapability to health, information and education
·From unequal and troubled gender relations to equity and harmony
·From fear and lack of protection to peace and security
·From exclusion and impotence to inclusion, organization and empowerment
·From corruption and abuse to honesty and fair treatment
A powerful statement for change that we hope the World Bank will be instrumental in fullfilling, so that the dream of a world free of poverty can someday soon come true.

Professor Joav Merrick, MD
Medical director, Division for Mental Retardation, Box 1260, IL-91012 Jerusalem, Israel. E-mail: jmerrick@aquanet.co.il

Geula Merrick, CDA, BA(Psych)
Child development specialist

I love this book! My family had an old torn, falling apart copy that says it was published in 1911! I have read all these stories a thousand times and never gotten tired of them. It occurred to me that I might purchase another copy but alas, they aren't publishing it any more. The stories in it are very Eastern European, which of couse I didn't know until I was older. The flavor of the stories is just enough different from the more traditional ones that we're familiar with that they have an exotic feel. I still wonder what a ducat is! If you ever get a chance to read this book don't pass it up!

As a person who had very little background in dance notation, I can say this book has been of great help. It is organized in a very comfortable didactic order and offers an intreseting first view into the field of dance notation.

A great book. Involves some great minute mysteries and plenty of well timed laughs. I used to be a big reader of the Clue series. This is one of my favorites. Contains classic stories of theft, and solving most of them is all a matter of who had what weapon and where that person was. Highly Recommended.