It's just that I can see the author probably never met M. Congdon and just wrote the story from articles and interviews. It would have been a better telling with a little psychology....there was no mention of her upbringing or really of anyone's real personality. The whole thing was a bit cold I guess. It was interesting to see at the end that M. Congdon's name may be in the news soon...............

I had never heard of Marjorie Congdon or Glensheen's Mansion before, so this was very interesting. So much detail, I thought it would never end, but interesting nevertheless. What a creep she must be! Thanks to Amazon.com I found this book; I have never seen it in a book store in my area in southern California.

I'm going to visit the Glensheen mansion this fall and so I picked up the book hoping it would fill me in a little about the history of the mansion and the murder and boy did it ever! This was a page turner from the beginning and I didn't put it down until it was finished. Experiencing Glensheen will be all the better thanks to this book.

The story is so unbelievable it's hard to believe it's not fiction!

Sharon Hendry did a wonderful job!

I discovered that you can make really cool programs with VBA i have used it for a week and it is so easy(that is what I think) so,dont read but make !!!

i will like to have more information about visual basic...i will like to have your program in my computer

Hola Bob me gustaria aprender visualbasic6.0 ,ya que es una buena herramienta para el estudio. Yo estudio Ingenieria electronica en el Peru y necesito saber programar en un lenguage de programacion , yo elegi el visualbasic yaque es el que mas me gusta y es realmente fabuloso, me gustaria que me ayudes aprender este programa ya que me va a ser muy util para mi carrera como profesional, te pediria porfavor que me envies el manual de visualbasic para poder estudiarlo , aprenderlo y ponerlo en practica . Gracias

What brings an obviously bright young woman to an obviously corrupt organization like the SLA and then, even more mysteriously, has her completely change her stripes and become, inexplicably, a soccor mom. Because Sarah Jane lived in my back yard, so to speak, I wanted to know who she was: the soccor mom or the terrorist. The book refused to answer that question for me, as it should, but rather than making judgements it told her story, using facts and the voices of people in Soliah/Olson's life. This book was better than a summer mystery and reads like a novel: I couldn't put it down. I heartily recommend the book.

The Last book on the Symbiones Liberation Army was written 20 years ago (Every Secret Thing, by Patricia Hearst, released in 1988 paperback as "Patty Hearst" in conjuction with the movie by the same name). Beyond this the books seemed to stop in mid to late 1970's so excluding Hearst's autobiography, the first book in a quarter century on the SLA. Opinions on the SLA and Hearst have often been politically charged with the strongest opinions often held by those who have limited knowlege of the subject.

Sharon Darby Hendry, like myself, is a very long term Minnesota resident. We were both here back in the 1970's. Quite frankly, the SLA wasn't a significant Minnesota story in the 1970's. Even though I lived among the lefties in Dinkeytown all during the 1970's, and even though I had a loose connnection to SLA member Cammillia Hall I had to take a crash course in the SLA after the June 1999 arrest of Kathlenn Soliah here in Minnesota. I followed the case since the June 1999 Soliah arrest through my website ... reading more than a dozen old books on the SLA. Most are rare and unavailable so the first part of the book SoLiAh is a good primer on this era. It upsets the romantic view of the SLA by including the unpleasant realities, such as the assasination of Oakland's first Black School Superitendent Marcus Foster by the SLA, which, ironically, preached an anti-racism credo.

The portion of SoLiAh dealing with the June 16, 1999 arrest and aftermath explained the dramatic events and they unfolded from a Minnesota perspective. With nine trial delays, at least five lawyer changes and the plea "flip-flops" the book had to follow events as they were unfolding. The last dramatic event was the January 2002 arrests in the Myrna Opsahl murder (the "Harris's" and Borton have since made bail, Soliah-Olson is serving time for the LA plea). Is they story and the book SoLiAh open ended?

Absolutely! It looks like the Opsahl murder trial won't start before 2003 at the soonest. Has justice been done and will it be done? That is for the reader to decide but they can better ponder it with information and background on the case. The Opsahl murder was long considered unprosecutable even though it was obvious that the SLA did it. Just getting the January 2002 indictments is one of the greatest cold case revivals in modern history. Reading SoLiAh with an open mind will help the reader, especially those, not "there", or with a romantacized view of the old far left to understand it and to also understand the roots of the domestic terrorism threat facing the USA now.

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Soliah captures the in-depth history of the 60's and 70's and wraps the story around Kathleen Soliah. It is difficult to understand how this woman could create a false identy for herself. Particularly because she lied to her three daughters about her name, age, and her deceitful past. She activily participated in the events of the SLA and should pay the price for her criminal actions. I would recommend this novel to the true-crime seekers and everyone who lived in this time era. Also, to the younger generation who are interested in the Patty Hearst / SLA saga.

Yes, technically it's a book. But it's really a self-teaching, self-study PFC guide. Picture taking a PFC class without actually going to one - that's what this book gives you.

It starts out with PFC basics, then leads you step by step in building a PFC application. I was impressed with the use of real examples. It seems the author's philosophy is teaching by example - rather than by description. After you build a PFC application, the services are added one by one. Bob Hendry does a great job explaining each service in easy to understand language. Something the PowerBuilder PFC documentation does not offer. Section Four is a non-technical discussion ion PFC development and management issues. In the last section, you are led through two working examples on how to extend the PFC. This chapter was a bit confusing and took a bit of work on my part to understand.

On the downside, the table of contents is a bit weak. It really needs to be beefed up.

All in all a great piece of work. Don't expect to read this book on the train. It is a companion manual to actual PFC development and really requires you to be at your computer to use the book. If you are a PFC beginner, this is for you.

I knew very little about the PFC. This manual did an excellent job of explaining each service and its functions. This manual is much better than the PFC information that comes on the PB disks. This manual is not reference manual, it is a LEARNING GUIDE. I highly recommend this for someone not familiar with PB and wants to learn the PFC.

I have been programming in PowerBuilder for about three years now. I have been frustrated with the documentation that has shipped with the PFC. This book takes a step by step approach to building PFC applications. It's almost like you are learning in 'slow motion'! Only one topic at a time is covered, and you must finish that topic before you can go on to the next. The book is divided into five sections; each section focuses on a different part of PFC development. They are easy to follow and very well written. I especially like the attention to actual code examples. This is a 'How to' book, not a theory or reference book. Because of this book, I learned more about the PFC in 3 days than I have learned in 3 weeks at my project. I do agree with the author that this book is for beginner/intermediate PFC developers. It was a great place for me to start - and I didn't have to pay for the class.

As Hendry points out in the afterword, it is becoming more and more common in anthropology today to ground your observations and anecdotes in personal experience to give the reader the ability to judge your work based on your deductions. This, however, is the first time that I have seen an anthropologist turn his or her work into what is essentially a "My Year in Japan" book. Previously mainly the realm of travel writers and JET participants, her work shows her year - and her methodology - through the eyes of someone formally trained to observe Japan.

As an exercise is research methods, this makes for a fascinating book. As an anthropology student studying Japan, I find it fascinating to study other people's approaches to the same thing. As a future researcher, I found the back-door into her creative process and her perspective on Japan to have interesting similarities and differences to mine. As someone with a continual curiosity about Japan, I found her observations on politeness and wrapping in Japanese society to have interesting and far-reaching implications for the way Westerners view Japan.

However, while her actual work on politeness and wrapping in Japanese society becomes something that she discusses researching and discovering, she never presents her finalized work. It would have been nice to see an article or two produced from her research added as an appendix to give the anthropologists reading the book a sense of how her creative process was synthesized into a final product.

This means that ultimately, I have to look at the book as a travelogue, too, since she seems to be casting a net for a wider audience here. In this, it comes up as well researched, but a little wanting as well. It is clear that her time in Japan is well spent, but she never dives into anything completely. In most cases, it is because her reason for being there is her research, and that is what gets her primary focus. However, she never seems to fully jump into her research for fear of losing the nonacademic reader. Even a little more frustrating from both points of view is that she frequently foreshadows important points in the beginning of the book (her eventual meetings with local temple priests and yakuza, for instance), while ultimately rushing through the encounters at the end of the book.

In the end, this book is left fishing for an audience. It seems to ultimately be most useful for the person studying methodology or the creative process. It is still a fascinating book - Hendry's extrapolation of the verbal and physical wrapping of Japanese culture is a point that should be discussed in greater depth by anthropologists today. Likewise, her narrative, if occasionally frustrating, is certainly enjoyable and comes from an apparently unique travelogue perspective. I would certainly recommend it unreservedly to the student studying Japan or anthropology. I might be a little more reticent on recommending it to the travel reader, though.

Joy Hendry's book, An Anthropologist in Japan, is a personal narrative o the authour's nine months of field work in 'Toyama' on the Boso peninsula. She states that her primary research interest in Japan is in the 'wrapping culture', and whereas in previous books she concentrated on the wrapping of gifts, she is now goes on to be observe 'speech levels', and as the field work progresses, she concentrates on the wrapping of of language with words, in the art of kiego. Unlike her previous works, this book gives the reader more of a glimse of the anthropologist herself and how fieldwork in a modern Japanese community is conducted. She has experiances with the housewife circle, childrens schooling and ceremonies, but also shares her experiances of her run-in's with the Yakuza, the mentally ill and a couple of esoteric artists. Although this book would be classified as an anthropological ethnography, it's enjoyability is definately not limited to those in academia, I used it to support an essay on polite language, then my retired mother borrowed it and found it very entertaining and informative. I would recommend this book to anyone who has visited Japan, is planning to work or visit in Japan, or who just has a healthy interest in the subject.

Benny Bensky is a big ol' dog with a problem. His family seems to be upset about their business: the suddenly failing Perogy Palace, where the perogies are sort of grey and taste funny. Worse, he's got himself enrolled in obedience school after happily digging through three potted plants in the livingroom. And eating the corners off the cushions. And chasing a cat onto a roof and... well, you get the idea.

He's a loveable mutt, and kids reading the tale will have a good laugh at the thought processes of this adorable mutt. There are some wonderfully classic "Only a Dog Could Think This Way" moments in this story, and the mystery of the suddenly-foul perogies is an uncomplicated plot for pure enjoyment.

Though done well, the secondary characters of Benny's family tend to pale to the antics of the dog, and that's just as well. Benny's the star of this show, and it's a fun show at that. Smiths Falls would be better for more mutts like Benny.

A book I've already put in my chest for my nephew and niece when they visit, "Benny Bensky and the Perogy Palace" is written in a format that would easily be read by an adult to kids younger than the 9-12 range, with likely wonderful results.

'Nathan

I felt like I was reading a re-make of Mary Poppin, except it has far less details, and did not put too much into building the characters of the book. It's good for a quick read.

Excellent for children though 'cause everything is laid out clearly.

It is really too bad that this book is out of print - I bought it last year for my-then-three-year-old and we both loved it. Hilda Crumm loves "junk" and fills her apartment with it. Until one day the neighbors complain. Hilda must get rid of the junk. The rest of the book is clever - fashion is just junk arranged in a creative way! If you ever can get your hands on a copy of this book (I guess I would suggest going to your local library, since this book is no longer being printed), make sure you read this. My daughter still loves this one even a year later.

I really liked this book. I wished it came with lanyard though. It came with good information. And, also, I learned how to make different lanyards.I recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn about lanyards. Lanyards are very fun, easy and cool to make and do!