"It's Now or Never," "Little Sister" -- "Don't Be Cruel" to your "Tutti Fruiti!" If crossword puzzles, assorted quizzes and word scrambles are your game and Elvis is your King, THE ULTIMATE ELVIS QUIZ BOOK, written by veritable Elvis sighters, W. Kent Moore and David L. Scott, is the perfect "Good Luck Charm!" A ton of questions abound respective to THE KING in the form of word searches and scrambles, fill-ins and crosswords, pictures and 'your guess is as good as mine'...in this 70-quiz long masterpiece. If you "Surrender," the answers are included! So, "Doncha' Think It's Time!"

The Ultimate Elvis Quiz Book is so creative, so unique, and so delightful! The authors have many different types of puzzles chock full of Elvis information. Other puzzles don't contain new information, but are just plan fun to answer, such as Letters to Elvis and Word Pictures. One quiz, If I Can Dream, speculates about what Elvis would be doing and recording now if he were still alive. There are even a couple of quizzes about other rock and pop stars who were Elvis' contemporaries. If you're a true Elvis fan, your book collection is not complete without The Ultimate Elvis Quiz Book! (This book is available from another publisher, but the Rutledge Hill book is clearly better because of the larger print and better quality paper.)

"Well make me a peanut butter and bananna sandwich, Priscilla, this is the greatest book I have ever read."

For anyone who truly loves the KING or needs a one-stop resource for all things Elvis, THE ULTIMATE ELVIS QUIZ BOOK is it! With the insight and depth of knowledge that only veteran EAP sleuths could provide, David Scott and Kent more take us on a fascinating, fun tour of the life of Elvis.

The pictures are great, the puzzles are creative, and the authors know their stuff. There are lyrics listed in this book that even the most diehard fan probably didn't know existed.

And the picture of the authors at the Elvis shrine is a classic. I think it should go on the back cover of the book, in color, when you print the next edition. Let me know when the next edition will be out!

Thank you. Thank you very much.

I found this book outstanding and completely to my taste. But I am an aggressive entrepreneur and (in business matters) generally an optimist. That seems to be Peter Kent's personal style, so everything he said made perfect sense to me.

The mixed reviews given here may reflect different personalities, differing degrees of luck, or maybe just differing job markets (the two most negative reviews are from the Pacific Northwest--coincidence?).

In any case: (a) there are nowhere near enough technical writers; (b) there are a ton of outstanding opportunities for people who are bright and well-organized; and (c) if you want to take up the profession, this book can take you from zero to 60 in a couple of years.

But I reiterate: you've got to have the contractor's personality. Kent says that in his book, so (you negative reviewers) don't fault him if you see things differently.

If you have ever wanted to know the facts about technical writing and how to get into this field then this book is a gem!! Once again Peter Kent gets down to the nitty gritty and gives you everything you need to know to succeed as a technical writer. Not only is it easy reading it is full of fantastic resources to get you started. Well worth the time it takes to read and the small amount of money it costs to purchase!!

"Making Money in Technical Writing--Turn Your WritingSkills Into $100,00 A Year" is an
unabashedly optimisticlook at turning the pitfalls of freelancing into a money-making bonanza.
Author, Peter Kent, a prolific technical writer and author of numerous computer books, speaks
from experience. He advocates capitalizing on his three-step system of marketing techniques to
hit the cash jackpot. Fresh approaches to the staples of freelancing are covered with detailed
coaching: networking, negotiating with agencies, sales techniques, contracts, the IRS and taxes,
shopping for medical, life insurance and pension plans, incorporating. This is a prodigious
collection of tips--tried and true tools of success used by the author. Beginners or seasoned pros
can mine just the right nuggets of advice from this excellent reference. You will find a wealth of
on-line resources featured in useful web sites, mailing lists and newsgroups. Appendixes offer
technical service agencies, professional associations, training courses and seminars. Working
the three-step system is not just about increasing your income, but about spreading your wings as
a consultant, author of computer books or entrepreneur.

I'm dismayed by the negative review posted earlier. It's obviously not true!

Anyone who has read the book can testify to the great knowledge and expertise covered in the book. I have read almost every book on marketing, and this is the best so far. For example, it is the first one to cover Truste (which is becoming a very popular registration for many Web portals). Its section on affiliate program is particularly refreshing. It also warns against the use of cybermalls by offering several compelling reasons. Now, you don't even hear about cybermalls anymore.

The coauthor, Peter Kent, has also co-written the Story on CDNow. It's an insider look that has earned rave reviews.

Don't let the negative review affects your learning experience. Amazon.com gives you 30 days to review the book. You have nothing to lose.

It's about time! Peter Kent and Tara Calishain have managed to avoid the tremendous hype surrounding internet promotion, by providing a well-organized volume of solid information. They cover not only search engines and adverting, but lesser-known areas, such as awards, newsletters, discussion groups, press releases, and e-mail, among others. This book provides not only information, but a basis for developing your electronic marketing strategy. Buying this book is a must for anyone with a web site because it will pay for itself very quickly. Highly recommended!

. . . then you must attract people to it.

Many classic proven marketing techniques can be employed faster, easier and cheaper today using new (electronic) tools. The web site replaces the brochure and the media kit while email replaces Postal mail.

Peter Kent and Tara Calishain build a foundation and then cover registering your web site, getting the word out and promoting the inexpensive way-with email. You will learn about affiliate programs, tracking results, electronic news releases and more. For coverage, click on Table of Contents in the left-hand column of this page.

As the author of 113 books (including revisions and foreign-language editions) and over 500 magazine articles, I highly recommend this book to anyone who is in business. DanPoynter@ParaPublishing.com.

If not the difference between Object Pascal and C++, this book is the same as "Delphi4 Unleashed", a must for Delphi programmers. So, this book seems at most a translation version of Delphi4 Unleashed, by just translating the sample code from OP to C++. If you've already owned the Delphi one, don't buy this one! Anyway, the content is peerless as it's nearlly the same as that of exellent book "Delphi4 Unleashed".

This book goes into great detail in how to use Borland Builder 4. There is plenty of program code to use and study from. But it contains some errors in program code. Some of the step-by-instructions are missing or incorrect. The sections on Visual Components and Window Controls go into great detail about these are, but do not give any practical instructions/examples about how to use them in a program.

If you need a good introduction on how to use the various Visual Components and Window Controls, I would recommend getting your hand on Borland C++ Builder 3 for Dummies by Jason Vokes. It give simple instructions/examples on how to forms, form properties, labels, editboxes, listboxes, comboboxes, drawing pen/brush, and etc.

First of all, if you are hoping for the Calvert touch, it's diluted. The main author is Kent Reisdorph, not Calvert - the Amazon description is wrong. Those of you who have enjoyed Calvert's great teaching skills in other volumes won't be delighted. The CD does NOT include old versions, as advertised, which is very unfortunate, as Calvert's previous BCB writing was very useful.

This book is a hacked composite of some of Calvert's BCB3 text, with additional stuff by several bright authors whose pedagogical talent is less polished.

This is a Borland VCL book, not a C++ book. The problem is this: audience. If you are a Delphi user looking for C++ skills (because you fear that Object Pascal is a lame duck), you won't get enough, because you already know the VCL and the C++ fundamentals are missing. For example, the template inheritance example on page 135 is syntactically complex, and nothing is done to clarify it. Add to that the authors' tendency to do C++ code as if it were Object Pascal, with VCL style and naming conventions, and you aren't exactly getting ready for the mainstream.

Conversely, if you are a Microsoft VC++ user, looking for a more productive RAD environment, which BCB4 certainly is, you will find that the Pascal VCL conventions are a bit mysterious and irritating. You will pick up enough to be productive, but in the end the whole VCL is written in Delphi, so you'll probably have to get more comfortable with the Object Pascal world than you'd like. This is not a major problem, but C++ is more than an OP clone, it deserves a little more tender loving. The sections on the allegedly vital STL, part of the ANSI standard stuff that Borland claims makes BCB4 a much purer C++ than VC++, are minimal.

The Reisdorph "Teach yourself BCB4" books are probably great for the Delphi emigrants, filling in the gaps, but for the VC++ refugees, they are too basic, so this book is IT. Amazingly, you will still have to figure out a lot all by yourself. For instance neither the product manuals nor Unleashed cover things like how you select which .lib files to link to.

Is this to suggest that BCB4 does not stand alone as a pure C++ environment? No, it's just that it's not well documented by anyone. So here we are. Making the best of an outstanding tool (BCB4) that is underpromoted, even in the book department. Even the examples on the CD seem rushed, their numbers for instance don't match up with numbers they have in the text.

All of that does nothing to diminish the value of what is here, a wealth of material on a highly productive tool that you won't find anywhere else. At least all of the material is in print, not only in .PDF format on the CD like with some previous Unleashed volumes. You have 1200 pages dealing with a lot of topics pretty well. This is one of the very few books on BCB4, so you have little choice, and it's fortunately worth buying.

This book is a must-read for parents of angry teenagers. Matt Kent perfectly vocalizes the thoughts of suburban angst-ridden kids, lashing out against everything and anyone. At times insightful, at times self-indulgent, the book is a fantastic window into the mind of affluent, frustrated suburban youth.

Kent was arrested for what he wrote on his website. An unfortunate mistake on the behalf of the authorities, since the arrest only gave Kent more fuel for his hatred. The arrest made this book possible, so the police really only succeeded in spreading Matt Kent's words to an even wider audience.

I'm not going to say this book is well-written--Matt Kent is very much obsessed with himself and his own self-satisfied righteous anger--but it provides an important perspective on how spoiled, frustrated youth are dealing with their affluence and priviledge.

I referred to kent as antabanez because i wanted to.

Maybe i dont qualify for this review because i havent read the book. However, i have read the entire website and am led to believe that the website and the book are the same, if not similar. I also have read other reviews given to this book.
Personally, i am a prime example of an undereducated middle class teen who is writing this from my parents computer. I believe there should be a revolution, however, i dont thinka successful one can occur without humanity changing first. I agree with much of what the "reader from southern NJ" said. However, he(she) is wrong to pretend he knows what wheeler's readers are like. I know that i am wrong, and i also know the world around me is wrong too. I can think for myself and form my own opinions while i am fully aware that i dont have the whole story. I also believe that everyone *including myself* should be annihiliated. The critic should consider what he knows, first, then critisize.
Now to get to the actual review part. I really like what i've read of wheeler antabanez. I believe that what he has to say can't be ignored just because of his financial background or how self-obsessed he may be. If what he says speaks out to people in need of something to hear (troubled people, perhaps?) then no one can discredit what he has to say. That reviewer should have focussed more time on slamming his literary technique (although quite a bit of time was spent doing that) than his personality. One can pick out any well known figure and point out his personal short-comings. I believe Antabanez' writing is suprisingly good, and his opinions are worth listening to, even if one doesn't agree.
If nothing else, the reader will walk away having learned something--whether its about the government/relogion/terrorism, the mind of one person, a group of people, or oneself.
To end quickly: i won't discredit everything the critic has to say, but he must realize that he is no better than the people he critisizes if he acts sagacious while accusing people (middle-class anitsocial revolutionary teenagers)of thinking they know everything. I am the exact demographic he talks about, but i can think for myself while i still know i dont know everything (actually, i dont know much at all). Antabanez' work is worth the readers time (which is the highest praise a book can get).

I don't consider myself a home expert but may reconsider after reading this book. There was very little that was new to me and much of it was common sense. When I did come across something new, (home repairs for example) there wasn't enough detailed information. I needed to consult other resources. I think the book tries to be everything to everyone. I much prefer Hints from Heloise, Decorating for Dummies and, the Readers Digest repair books.

...If you like cutesy decorating ideas, you might like this book. If you're looking for practical household tips, there's nothing beyond the obvious and some tips are very impractical. For example, they advise you to keep candles in the refrigerator so you can find them easily in a power outage. I don't know about you, but in a power outage, the last thing I want to do is open the refrigerator and spoil my food. The book tries to cover everything under the sun and, as a result, isn't really good for anything.

This book contains some rather outdated concepts. Such as advising you to store garlic in oil. This has long been warned as dangerous due to potentital food poisoning, yet the book does not include any caution about this practice. The book also tells you to extract egg whites from passing the egg from one shell to another, which again is not an adviseable method (I checked my Better Homes & Gardens book and Cook's Illustrated).

The index of this book is wrong a lot of the times.

I'm a native Californian and lifetime bike rider. Like a lot of people, I've always had a kind of fascination with Hells Angels--and that debauched life-style. I bought this book on a whim, thinking it might be interesting anecdotes/episodics. I was wrong; really wrong.
This book is a loose string of stories--some interesting, some boring. The thing that really impacted me as a reader is the poor prose. Even with two "with" writers/editors, it reads like a series of remedial essays. Mix in the justifications, sexism, and plain hostility and it's just sad and a waste of time and money.
There's no way I'd read the other book (Hell's Angels) now. This was so poorly written it was a near painful read. I wish it had been different--but I just can't get past the constant attitude and room temperature IQ presentation. Oh, one other thing; it's stated early that some of the stories are "true" and some are not...what the ...?!? Yep, I used to teach and tutor English; given the context of publication, I'd have to give it a D.

Throughout the book, Sonny talks about one of the Oakland Chapters members, who he referrs to as Cincinatti. Now, whether this person is himself or not, I think that this person has imbibed in way too many foreign substances. There's multiple stories of running around and talking to ghosts, taking ghosts for rides on their motorcycles, then hooking the ghost up with ol' ladies in the ghost world, etc. There were other typical Sonny Barger hidden slams about other clubs selling their old ladies in houses of ill repute, when in reality, it's much more believable were it to have been a confession. Either way, I really like the quote from Freewheelin Frank in his own book (a 60's paperback, now out of print) where he Quotes Sonny as saying: "When I make money from the patches on my back, I will no longer be a Hell's Angel". Bravo. And to think, ghosts riding on your motorcycle, eh?

This is one of the best books I have read on the biker lifestyle. One story got my interest up for the next and made putting the book down near impossible. It would make a great "First" of a series on biker stories. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who travels on two wheeles and lives by the adage, "Live to Ride, Ride to Live".

Simply put, this was an awful disappointment. James Michener is one of my favorite authors, but I remember when he came to Kent to do the research for this book, and he evidently didn't do any himself, because the inaccuracies in this book outnumber the truths. It's so poorly put together that I stopped reading any of his books for several years after this one came out. Do not -- I repeat, do NOT -- base your perceptions of what happened in Kent on the material presented in this book. There have been so many other books written since then that are more accurate -- pick any of them. Better yet, read several. Everybody seems to have a different idea of what really happened anyway. As a member of the KSU class of 1970, I had several friends who were there that day, and some of them couldn't talk about it for 25 years. This is not a subject to be dismissed so lightly with so little regard for the truth. My feeling is that this was a true American tragedy that didn't need to happen, and only did happen because of political power, arrogance, and greed.

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When I read the reviews of this book I became curious. Several reviewers, who claimed to have been there, stated they did not want me to read this book. I began thinking, 'What do they not want me to know? What are they trying to hide?' So I took a gamble and read it. All the other books I have read on the subject were completely biased toward the students, but Michener interviewed students, friends and family of those students killed, the guardsmen, local politicians, faculty, police, firefighters, business owners, citizens of Kent and Ravenna, etc. I was surprised he didn't ask the janitor what he thought. When all the opposing points of view came together, I got a much clearer picture of the situation, and the circumstances, which led to the tragedy. If you want a biased book that ignores any facts that do not support their case, (e.g., Ohio law relieves the National Guard of liability for any injuries or deaths incurred while combating a riot) I recommend, I.F. Stone's 'How Murder Went Unpunished at Kent State.' But if you want a book that is unbiased, and lets the reader draw his or her own conclusions, this is the book. Or better yet, read them both and determine for yourself, as I did, who you believe is telling the truth. But in my opinion, James Michener's dedication to uncovering the truth made him one of the greatest writers in American history. And as for I.F. Stone, who the heck is he?

I am a dancer and all I have to say for this book is NO!!! This book is basically telling people that you have to starve yourself to be a dancer or to look like one. And also it's giving the message that all dancers starve themselves as well!!! This is not going to accomplish anything except making yourself sick! Dancers *at least those who I know* stay in such great shape by devoting countless hours to dancing and practicing, and to eating healthy *not starving ourselves*...All in all I thought this was awful...it's promoting eating disorders and disgracing healthy dancers everywhere.

This is a good book that gives a young dancer an idea of how to keep their weight in check for their art. I was a professional ballet dancer (recently retired) and found this book to be very helpful in my career. It was published for the first time before there was the extensive research done on dancers, weight management and the 'healthy' ways to go about controlling weight. If the serious dancer wants to get and keep dance jobs, they have to know that their art demands they maintain a lower weight than the average person. Hopefully by the time they get to the point where they are looking for a book like this they have figured that out. It would be a good idea to read other books on dancers and diet that are newer, and use the information in this book along with the newer information to make sure that they are getting all the necessary calories, etc. to sustain their bodies for the training. No book should replace the advice and supervision of a doctor or nutritionist, but this book is a good guide and has really good recipes in it.

This book is really only meant for dancers, and only for professional (or aspiring professional) dancers at that. Ms. Kent is up-front about a dancer's awkward situation: a ballet dancer must stay strong and energetic while maintaining an especially lean figure. And that's exactly what makes this book wonderful. While most fat-loss books address the needs of someone who is medically overweight and needs to slim down, this book focuses on dancers who are already thin to begin with, but need to slim down further.
I find Dancer's Body Book to be both motivating and honest. You get to hear the dieting struggles and successes of those who have made it to the top (NYCB and ABT company dancers,), which is quite inspirational. Plus, you learn exactly how these professionals manage to maintain their extraordinary bodies. A great portion of the text is dedicated to the "philosophy" of a dancer's diet, which I found very interesting and informative.
This book does not encourage unhealthy behavior of any sort. It acknowledges the fact that watching what you eat is a sacrifice inherent to ballet, but presents a healthy way of achieving and maintaining the proper figure. A 1,200-calorie diet (which is regarded as a healthy weight-loss intake for females) and a 1,600-calorie maintenance diet are provided. These sample meal plans along with the "seven diet sins" (snacking, eating junk food, undereating and bad nutrition, not getting enough rest, inactivity, not knowing your own limits, and neglecting your equipment) are excellent.
The bottom line is that a dancer must know the body and treat it well.
PS: I was recommended this book at a nutrition seminar that was offered at my pre-professional ballet school. As someone who has wasted a year of training due to anorexia and regrets it terribly, I found that my philosophy agreed 100% with Ms. Kent's: an eating disorder is completely counter-productive to the art of ballet.

The illustrations are lovely, but the agenda of Mr. (I will not refer to him as Dr. since his degree comes from a diploma mill) Hovind is quite clear in this book. This book claims to base it's "facts" upon science which is patently dishonest. If you want a good laugh, pick up the book, but you can achieve similar mirth by simply doing a search on Kent Hovind and reading the miriad of sites exposing him for what he is.

C.S. Lewis once pointed out that there are certain issues in which reasonable men may honestly disagree. Among American Christians, the "Creation vs. Evolution" debate falls into this category, with many persons of good will -- AND strong, personal faith -- on both sides.

Sadly, this does not come through in the work of Hovind. His work has been hammered -- even by other creationists -- for its lack of accuracy. Even more troubling is his theological insistance that it's "his way or the highway" -- EVEN with regard to other strong, Bible-believing Christians. It is this tendency to equate Hovind's interpretation with actual inspiration that I find very off-putting.

A more reasoned, more irenic approach would facilite the discussion much more readily than what is presented here.

I found this book to reinforce what seems to make sense to anyone who is willing to look deeper into the subject of cryptozoology than the Discovery Channel. The subjects of Nessie, other pleziasaurs, giant snakes, and other legendary creatures are discussed and illustrated in this excellent book for young people and adults.

I gave it to my 8 year old son and he and I discussed the contents of it for hours. He finished it that night and could not put it down.

It is important for open-minded people to see the possibilty (or probability) that the earth and all of creation is not ancient and that science has never proven that. This book shows evidence of that from the field of cryptozoology.

Great stuff for the whole family!