This book is rife with errors and seems to have been a blatant attempt at using online translators and passing these off as legitimate spanish sentences. The errors start on the very cover of the book itself where "easy to say" is translated "Facil a dice" This doesn't mean anything! A basic elementary school phrase such as "What is your name" is mistranslated as "Como se llamas"
Either "Cómo te llamas", or "Cómo se llama" would have been O.K., but they just couldn't get the verb right again. Expressions such as "let's go" on page five should read "vámonos" but it is misspelled as "vámanos" which isn't a word either. This goes on and on. This publication is a sore disappointment. And, as if by poetic justice, the last page where Mitchell Brothers Press translates their own name, the online translator screws it up, too. It says the equivalent of "The brothers of Mitchell the Press" At least they got Phoenix, Arizona right.

Despite some typos in the old edition, this is the handiest little book I can find with two-way translation and phonetics for Spanish-speakers as well as English--in the simple phrases--as well as the double dictionaries.

I sure couldn't find one. Don't waste your money.

i thought the story was daring and racy. any woman brave enough to trek through the jungles of south america and have sexual adventures while doing it should be a dream vacation for any woman with the gumption to do it. a very entertaining read.

Poetic Voices of America is not an ordinary book of poems. In fact, there isn't anything poetic about it! They have taken a collection of writers' poems and asked them to write poetry and pay money to get their poems published. It's not worth buying.

Poetic Voices of America, Summer 1994 is an enjoyable collection of poems written by many poets from around the world. The beginning of the book contains an eloquently written introduction to the poems, and the contest winners are showcased in the first few pages. Most of the poems are well-written, and there are a bunch of beautiful black-and-white photographs and drawings scattered throughout the hardcover book. This would be an excellent addition to anyone's library or as a coffee-table book. These anthologies provide an excellent place for poets everywhere to come together as one. I definitely think this is worth buying.

If Mr. Hamilton-Paterson wanted to market a character study of salvors, I would have no complaint. However as a "firsthand account of deep sea exploration and a hunt for sunken World War II treasure." he promises more than he even begins to deliver. He begins with a serious handicap of having to use psuedonyms for the vessels which comprise the objects of the search (legal reasons we have to suppose...). But perhaps this book needed to wait to be written properly. Consequently he is able to share little first hand information on how the ships came to the bottom of the sea (often the best part of the read) and even less (other than the interpersonal relationships)of the search itself. I kept turning pages hoping that he would deliver on his promise, but the conclusion proves as unfulfilling as the opening and middle sections of the book. Not that literature is a competitive sport, but in terms of a compelling account of deep sea exploration there are infinitely better books available.

This book is a must read for anybody who has ever wanted to go on a modern expedition searching for sunken treasure. The characters are real people, accurately described, who react in unexpected ways when confronted with difficult challenges. I know many of the people in this book, and I have been to sea with them. This book brought back many memories. It's also an excellent choice if you are interested in expeditions to the Titanic, since so few books have ever been written about modern expeditions to the Titanic. Again, it's the same players on a different expedition. You will get to know exactly what it's like to be at sea, with plots and subplots going on around the ship, and where everybody has a different agenda. This is the next best thing to being there.

Good hunting!

A work of pure fiction by a totally discredited author.

Don't waste your money

Hamilton William's work is sloppily researched and cannot be considered a serious work of history. He seems much more concerned with grinding his own political axe than in presenting an accurate view of history. Other historians have dismissed his work as being closer to fiction than reality.

A better study on the period of 1813-1814 is R.F. Delderfield's "Imperial Sunset: The Fall of Napoleon 1813-14."

I'm not an expert on the history of this period, but I do find it fascinating. That's why I bought this book. The writing style is fast-moving and entertaining. The book does provide an interesting look at the complex reasons behind the fall of Napoleon. For example, I didn't know previously about the attempts to assasinate Napoleon. I also enjoyed the drawings and maps. This was a "fun read."

It is difficult to imagine an erotic photography collection being neither arousing nor artistic, and yet this is exactly what China Hamilton managed to achieve in this less-than-memorable composition. I can only pity these obviously beautiful models presented in such an unappealing fashion. If there is a hidden message here, I failed to see it. My recommendation: stick to the higher calibre artists; Sieff, Newton, Kroll, Kloster, Dahmane, Stuart.

The picture on the cover can be considered one of the better photos in the whole book. The first few pages of the book appears promising. However many of the photographs starts to take on a dark and gloomy feeling especially those with a S&M theme. The different shades and tainting of the photos only add to the gloomy feeling.

A few of the models in the book are fairly attractive and the photographer is able to bring out their beauty in a erotic and suggestieb manner. However almost more than half of the book contains photos of S&M and that may be the downside of this otherwise promising book.

I purchased this book because of the cover photograph. Regretably, there are few other photographs within that have the same grace and directness, few where the subject is as strong. The majority of the pictures within would more appeal to the bondage or S/M fetishist. Although I am in no way a prude, I did not anticipate such a preponderance of that subject matter based on the cover design and the Amazon write-up. Without a doubt there is a great deal of skill and craftsmanship involved, and the photos are wonderfully washed and tinted, but there is much less celebration of the fullness of femininity here then I would have hoped for. Persons who enjoy bondage, flagellation and leather accouterments may rate this work higher.

I'm very disappointed in this book. Except for the cover, there is not a single colored picture. The text is difficult both because it is too technical and because the type is too small. For a $30 soft cover book, I expected stunning pictures of Russia's fascinating architecture and art, accompanied by interesting text. Each museum in Russia has a beautiful, full color book at a much lower cost than this one. If you get to Russia, make sure you buy everything you want there, because there seems to be nothing comparable available in this country.

This book is a volume in a scholarly series designed to present the largest number of pictures and plans at a reasonable price (I know, $30 is hardly cheap, but look at some prices for scholarly books). It is not meant to be much fun. Sorry!

Based on The songs of Bilitis, a beautiful poetry book by Pierre Löuys (about a greek girl who falls in love with another girl) and French Impressionism (Renoir, Degas, etc) David Hamilton tried to translate his photo work to a movie. But a bad screen-play that left no trace of the original, a very pretentious musical score plus Hamiltons' total ignorance on movie direction led the project to terrible results. Maybe nowadays he's achieved a great level as an artist (on photography not on movie direction), he's in fact a master of Light and Shade as he showed on later books; but at the time of the movie he was a very famous mid-level photographer and mainly because of his excesive use of the fog effect. Even that, there were several beautiful photographic moments on the movie that the book lacks of. The book resembles more a big magazine article or a press release for the movie than a real photo book (the same applies to the Tender Cousins' book). I like Bilitis' story very much, but the one by Löuys, and I like Hamilton's later work too, but when it's presented on a real photo book and without his obsessive fog filter.

I am a big fan of using garlic to improve health, but I'm not a fan of this book (really it's more of a pamphlet). I was highly disappointed with the "sales pitch" approach in which it was written. The authors spent more time trying to convince the reader that "aged garlic" is better than other forms, that it reduced their credibility, making one wonder if they have a financial stake in "aged garlic" products. The information provided was very general. Although I've seen other sources with a good deal of scientific support for garlic use, these authors did not substantiate their claims with any scientific evidence. Also, no specific information was given regarding how to take garlic (eg. dosage, different diagnoses, etc.). For the individual who has little/no knowledge about garlic, this booklet can serve as a starting point, but I would not recommend it to others.

Not so much a review of the book - just a warning to you all about the SIZE of the book. Please know that this book is only about 2 inches by 3 inches (If that). I was surprised when I opened up the BIG box that it came in. It has pictures on one side of the page and about 20 words on the other page. So please know that you will read this book in under 5 minutes. It's not a novel. I suggest "Landing it" if you want to read more about his life story. If I knew of the size of this book - and the content - I might of still bought it, but when it's the only thing you orderd - not worth the shipping charges.

Hope this helps you out with your purchase!