This is definitely a 'must have' book for all X-Files fans! Every person, place, company name, historical reference or 'you name it' ever mentioned in seasons 1-4 is covered here! Also serves as an episode guide! Mine stays right next to me whenever I am watching the reruns! Get it...now!

This is so packed with details that I am always searching for. It's awesome, it's so cool. It has everything that you need to know about the X-files, I have nothing but praise for the author. I love the fact that it told so much about all of the characters and stuff, and it's just so great that I recommend if you're as obsessed as I am about the show, to go and buy it. It's definitely worth the price. Again, really great book!!!

I thought that the book had alot to give and I realy liked it. If any one has a good X-files book tell me what it is called

I am a survivor of Tony Leyva's crimes and was not mentioned in the book. My experience with him was in the early 70's. I have first hand knowledge of how he operated and can truly say Mr. Echols' report on Leyva is completely thorough and accurate. Relatively few people will work to expose this type of behavior. Echols is to be congratulated. A must-read for parents.

Mike Echols does an outstanding job of chronicling the history of abuse "Brother" Tony, an evangelical itinerant preacher, inflicts upon the children of families who came to look up to him and trust him with their sons. Brother Tony is clearly a psychopathic predator who took advantage of hundreds and hundreds of boys during his roving ministry. Echols well illustrates that pederasty has not just been a problem in the Catholic Clery but in the fabric of many who betrayed the sacredness of the trust that was bestowed upon them in a number of arenas. While Brother Tony eventually gets jailed, it's fairly clear that it's far too little, too late. Brother Tony will be back in action within the next few years and parents need to look out for their kids.

Brother Tony's Boys illustrates again the importance of parents talking forthrightly to their children about potential predators who might be as close as relatives or as trusted as men of God. A sad story which chronicles a tremendous betrayal and the damage that these young people will need to come to grips with as their lives progress. An excellent edition to books dealing with similar issues in differing settings: "Scouts Honor" chronicling the sad story of abuse in the boy scouts, Jason Berry's outstanding book on Catholic Clergy, "Lead Us Not Into Temptation" Parents might read these along with some of the books on averting and treating some of these issues, i.e., author Mic Hunter is among the treatment pioneers in this field and his books are available on Amazon.com. A frightening subject -- yet not one to simply be ignored. Parents and educators need to be proactive about these kinds of predators! Highly Recommended! Daniel J. Maloney

Good book I guess but you can not truelly investigate Namblaa until you have made a list of alll government members all the way up to the whitehouse who are actual members of nambla until you expose them you will never be able to truelly battle Nambla

An excellent tool for teachers. Easy to follow step by step instructions guide you through the lessons. Obtaining materials needed, such as plastic eggs (available around easter) and plastic oviparous animals may be time consuming, but it is well worth the effort. My students loved the lessons! I highly recommend this teachers guide.

The activities and curriculum ideas in this book are terrific! I wish there was a book like this for all North American animals!

This well-documented account of Janis's life delves deeper into her bisexuality, her insecurities, and her brassy persona than previous biographies. Ms. Echols has captured Janis without the usual condescension or idolization to which other biographers have resorted. Janis is shown as a person here --- not as "Janis Joplin, megastar." Included is a chapter of "Where Are They Now," which gives the reader an update on the lives of key players in Janis's life. Also included is a discography, as well as copious notes and sources. In all, this is the best biography of Janis and her times to come along in a while. It is well worth the read.

This book was such an interesting read that I had a hard time putting it down. Ms. Echols delves into Port Arthur in a way that is very similar to that of Mary Karr. She also looks at aspects of Janis that have not been well-contructed before this. The milieu of San Francisco and the 1960's music scene there is shown in an open and matter-of-fact way. The beginnings of the bands were more haphazard than I ever realized.One cannot understand a person unless they understand the politics and atmosphere, as with this remarkable musician.
On the personal side, Janis was a woman who wanted what we all want- to love and be loved. Echols defines where many of us let one another down by not being honest with others when they are in too deep.
As Janis wrote "It's so sad to be alone."

I highly recommend this biography to fans and people who are interested in the culture of the times.

How truly thrilling to read a biography of Janis Joplin from a radical feminist historian. The research is impeccable, the writing clear and engaging, but best of all is that for the first time a story of the 60s has been successfully conceived and narrated. Everyone from the 60s generation as well as young people today, particularly young feminists must read this book.

"Between Pit and Pedestal" offers a fascinating in-depth look into the daily lives of women during the middle ages. Authors Marty Newman Williams and Anne Echols present a well-rounded overview of what life for women from various stations of life was like during this era (information on rich and poor, religious women, and scholars is provided). The book is divided into well-researched chapters that offer commentaries on every day life, personal relationships and sexual mores, religion, politics and law as it pertained to women, culture, work, and literature and art. No stone is left unturned, and the authors provide many interesting biographies of medieval women whenever possible to reinforce their research.

The book is fascinating, and reads easily. Extremely well researched, the book includes helpful notes and citations, an excellent bibliography for further reading and a glossary. You will come away with a clear idea of what life was like for women in the Middle Ages, as well as knowledge regarding politics, community life, morals, and religious thought of the time.

This book is for all women to read and pass down on to their daughters. We never "really" learn or hear about the injustice to women or what they had to go through in our history books. This book shows you both sides of living from the very poor to the very upper class women and how they all struggled to live in a male dominanted society. Even thought today we still don't live in as strict as a society for women, there are still a lot of parrells forn the Middle Ages until now that this book presents. It also has neat tibits of history that you won't ever find in regular history books and are so fascinating that they leave you spellbound, espeically when you know it's all fact.

I can feel the sense of lost and love that Steven Stayner felt cause I too was molested at the age of 5 to 15 by my stepfather and he took away that childhood innocence that i had and i will never trust no one else. It was harder for steven cause he was taken away from his family and his father couldnt deal with the fact that this man got off after taking seven years of his sons life i really feel sorry for his family and kids and him especially for not knowing the love of his parents and his brother and sister god bless all of them this book and movie was excellent on informing parents that they should watch their children closer as stangers dont care who they take

I am the mother of several sons and I first became aware of the story of the kidnapping of Steven Stayner when I saw the premiere of the NBC Television miniseries "I Know My First Name Is Steven" in May of 1989. The miniseries was not only well written (author Mike Echols is credited with writing the story for the script) but received rave reviews by television critics at the time it was televised.

Then two years later the book of the same title by Mike Echols on which the miniseries was based was published and I bought and read it. It has tremendously more background information about Steven Stayner's kidnapping and his kidnapper, Ken Parnell's, psychological background including quotes and information from this evil man's extensive psychiatric medical records. And striking to me was hearing in his own words Steven Stayner's descriptions of his sexual assaults by Parnell: This was the first time that I had ever read something like this and I found it both necessarily informative and disturbing in that I finally realized the great harm that is visited on child rape victims.

Truly, along with Ernie Allen, the head of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, I would rate this book as being brilliantly written and a necessary book for parents to read to learn how to protect their children...

Now Mike Echols has written and had published a new edition of "I Know My First Name Is Steven" with a new chapter about Steven's older brother, Cary Stayner, who has been arrested and has confessed to being the Yosemite serial killer of two teen girls, the mother of one of the girls, and a nature teacher. Of course, Steven is in no way responsible for his older brother's crimes, but the story makes for an interesting comparison of these two brothers' lives.

This book is truly a must read both as a true crime book as well as a valuable book to help parents to protect their sons!

I recently started reading the book "I Know My First Name Is Steven" and I found it to be very interesting. I also saw the movie by the same title and thought that was good too. After reading the book that John Walsh wrote about his son's kidnapping and murder, I realized that I wanted to know more about Steven Stayner who was kidnapped and raped for seven long years by Ken Parnell. Steven risked his own life to escape his captor and save not only his life but the life of young Timmy White who was also kidnapped by Ken Parnell. It's a shame that Steven's life ended so tragically because he did a lot of good by telling others about what he went through after he was kidnapped. Steven helped a lot of people with his story and his legacy and memory will live on forever.

This dictionary is a big disappointment. There is no information on indonesian grammer. It does have a pronounciation guide but it lacks many things that you expect a dictionary to have. I'm sending my copy back.

We spent two years in Indonesia and lived by this volume (and its companion Indonesian-English volume). There is simply no comparison with any other dictionary in publication.

Along with its companion Kamus Inggris-Bahasa Indonesia, the best and most comprehensive I've seen. This is not a grammar. Try Malcom Mintz' A Student's Grammar of Malay and Indonesian for that.

I thouroughly enjoy this book. The book focuses on the butterfly, it's anatomy, diet, and particulary how it protects itself in the wild.I teach first grade and the book is appropriate for their age level and very hands-on. The students love flying their butterflies to their flowers and then hiding the butterflies so the birds don't eat them.

Based on the earlier reviews, I though this is a good book to read. But I was wrong. I think all earlier reviewers (other than one review that rated it one star) probably do not know how to use help in Visual Basic. If you want to use PCs for monitoring project, just read VB help for comm port control. This book is full of examples and not much explaination about understanding of serial communication. I totally agree with review of December 9, 1999 that any one who has any knowledge of VB should not buy this. Reading this book was a total waste of time and money.

I am surprised at some of the negative reviews of this book. This book contains some very useful material especially the TCP/IP and Parser Class topics. The only reason that I didn't give it five stars is because of the space wasted on a review of the Visual Basic Language. I used some of the ideas in this book in a VB Human Machine Interface (HMI) application that I developed. The source code is available at ....

If you want to study Visual Basic with this book, it may not be a right choice. However, if you want to do automation with VB, this is a right book. Several topics in this book are very useful to me. 1)Communication methods with VB. One of the foundamental thing in automatic control of devices/instrument is to establish the communication between computer and devices/instrument. Several useful methods are covered. They are Dynamic Data Exchange(DDE), RS232(computer serial communication), and TCP/IP. This book will not enable you to understand in deep details what's really going on in RS232 or TCP/IP communications, but this book will definitely enable you to implement these methods. Actually, in most cases if not all, we do not need to know what's really going on in RS232 or TCP/IP communications at all. 2)Device control and data handling. This part covers how to handle the data transferred in communication--parsing, and control multiple devices/instrument. 3)Graphic interfaces, which will enable developers to build a friendly interface between the control system and end users. Please do not overlook this, it is most probably that the users' commends on your system depend a lot on this interface, because this is what they can see and handle with.

This book is one of the valuable books on my shelf, and I would like to recomment to other people. Anyway, all depends on what you need and what you expect. This is just my 2 cents.

Good luck in finding a book valuable for your use.