This book was teriffic for these reasons:
1.The magnificent fires, the victims being the yellow sports sedan, and the Sleuth.
2.The plot of the story.
3.The action and fighting.
4.The threats are really unpredictable and neat.
Those are my reasons. If you read them, you're sure to understand why I liked this book like a billion dollars.

Tic-Tac Terror is a great book. After developing film from a beach trip, they find six men they have never seen before. It turns out they are all the same person! He is a terrorist wishing to defect to the government, but the terrorist group is keen on preventing it. There is a neat trick they use playing virtual tic-tac-toe over the phone, with different points in the city being used as squares. the winning square was the meeting point.

this was one of the best hardy boys books ever! the ending was soooooooooooo cool! by combining tom swift with the hardy boys, the author has created one of the best books of all time! science meets detective in this totally awesome book!
i recommend it to anyone who loves the hardy boys! you'll love it!

This is one of the best books I have ever read! In this book Tom Swift And the hardys team up to stop a mad man called the Black Dragon, from making a time storm that could cause the end of the world. Tom goes back in time to when the dinosaurs ruled the earth, Fenton Hardy goes back in time to the 30's and Frank and Joe have to go and save him and this is the greatest aventure they have ever had! Certainly my favorite!

I'm not sure how to express my admiration for Merrell-Wolff's work beyond giving this book a "10". Cutting through the unfounded assertions of the major Western philosophical schools, while acknowledging some of their possibly valid assertions, Merrell-Wolff clearly establishes the potential of a third way of knowledge. This way Kant and his successors failed to fully elucidate. Merrell-Wolff was clearly inspired and writing from a direct experience of an extralogical recognition that lent itself to elaborate formulations of exhilirating beauty.

The experience of enlightenment, or of an unitive awareness beyond subject-object dualisms has often been basic for mysticisms in all traditions. It has also been vigorously debated by philosophers with a general consensus reached during the Enlightenment that reason or logic was the unique quality of consciousness. Even today reductionisms attempt to limit consciousness to some energetic metaphor. Merrell-Wolff's experience is all the more important for he comes out of a rigorous mathematical and philosophical background. When confronted with this nondualistic consciousness and its transformative effects, Merrell-Wolff was hard put to explain it. Taking on Kant's mirror dependencies of consciousness, being contingent upon perception and conception, Merrell-Wolff formulated important accounts all based experientially upon his own illuminate nondual consciousness. His most important work, and least known is Introceptualism where he sets out a formal epistemology and metaphysics for this basic transcendent consciousness. He also modifies some of his earlier statements, attempting to clarify his account of mysticism as well as placing his idealism into juxtaposition to modernist naturalism, realism, idealism and pragmatism. These books reflect a life time effort to formulate an adequate philosophy that can include such radical nondual consciousness as a present reality and possibility. Somewhat reclusive during his long life, he refused to guide or instruct others in what he felt was a natural condition of human consciousness when left to its own nature. In many ways these books provide a place where critical philosophy is strictly mystical. Highly recommended

I have always been fascinated by Benjamin Franklin, but never really knew a lot about him. Reading Snyder's book helped me get to know him in a whole new light. I particularly enjoyed his virtues (p. 39).

One interesting technique the author used was to blend dreams and past lives into day-to-day living. At first, I didn't understand why she was bringing in so much about the personal life of Carol Byrd. But then, I started to see the connection between her own history and the history of long ago. She seems to suggest that when you find yourself drawn to something from the past, it's probably because there's a gift for you to use in the present. Consider the possibilities! By the time I finished reading the book, I felt as if I had made two new friends--Franklin and Carol Byrd!

Being one who is a lover of history and at the same time an avid student of spiritual truths, I was delighted to read, The Truth About Benjamin Franklin. Joyce Snyder, has successfully blended the historical with the spiritual. Imagine becoming aware of an historical figure such as Benjamin Franklin in your life, having conversations with him about his life and times, and as a result discerning things about him that haven't been taught in history books. Also imagine becoming aware of universal spiritual truths along the way. The author has also woven a love story between the folds of the tale. Her writing is crisp, clean, honest and to the point. The Truth About Benjamin Franklin is a fascinating read; a page turner that sparked my imagination. The book was a fascinating journey that I gladly followed to the end. Highly recommended

This a very usefull and handy book for a quick reference for O&G ultrasound. It contains a lot of diseases, most of them with the corresponding images.It also gives quick and easy tables for reviewing the diseases. Worth the price.

A must for anyone in the field of sonograph

Giant 370-page technical book for the professional repairman. Picks up where the "SCREWDRIVER EXPERT'S" GUIDE leaves off. Includes circuit descriptions & troubleshooting guide for 23- & 40-Ch., crystal & PLL, solid-state & tube, AM, FM, SSB, CW,
American & export models. Covers test equipment (& where to find it), transistor basics, synthesizers, receivers, transmitters, power supplies, T/R switching, antennas, interference, parts & accessory sources. Over 350 illustrations including schematics, charts, and photos. Huge subject index also lets you look up
repairs by symptoms. "Must" reading for the serious CB technician!

Wow! Couldn't believe all the info here. This is packed with great CB theory and practical troubleshooting tips. And hundreds of schematics. I'm an electronics student at a small community college, and couldn't find any book on the tech. side of CB radios even up at Stanford! BTW, don't be misled by the 1988 publishing date; in my repair experience, CBs have made VERY FEW technological changes since then, so this book could be considered perfectly topical. This guy is definitely my CB "guru."

F.D. Reeve is one of the finest, most underappreciated poets now at work in this country. For thirty-some-odd years he has been producing work of stunning power and relevance, work that reminds one all at once of the prophetic voice of Yeats, the piercing, crystalline sensibilities of Stevens, and the wild winds and fur pelts of a Siberian shaman. Unfortunately, the cultural spirit of the times, in its myopia, hasn't been able to keep up with him. It's true that Reeve has sometimes had a weakness for doggerelesque flourishes, but why so many critics focus on those while ignoring the overwhelming power of the rest of the work is a mystery.

Although "The Urban Stampede" of the title is an oratorio written for performance and perhaps doesn't stand up as well on the page, the short poems included in this collection are, as the previous reviewer stated, monumentally good. Simply quoting lines from these poems will not do them justice, will not show how they cohere, but some of the lines are simply astounding. From "The Side Show Uprising": "Praying for what they had nothing of/the homeless died one by one on the cold stones/unable to bear the grotesques of love" From "Still Life": "Real are the apples of Sodom, which when you touch them/dissolve in smoke and ashes on the table" From "Highgate Easter": "Old Believers gone, the words lie on the stones:/ No life is true but dying makes it fair" From "Bones in a Landscape": "the zodiac came alive;/a holy man at the door/arrested the unfaithful stars" From "Looking Ahead": "Neither was nor will be, the Great Attractor,/black moon, pangalactic draw,/something from nothing, the secret dies./Nowhere to go--we breed where we are--consumed in natural law."

I could cite many more, but best just to get this book and read the poems, as well as Reeve's previous work. Long after today's Poets of the Hour have been forgotten, there will be many of us still reading his poetry, for its beauty, its timelessness and prophetic daring, its metaphysical grandeur, and its raw, hungry energy.

THE URBAN STAMPEDE is spectacular. Reeve's contribution to American poetry, as I now see it, is to have made possible highly sensuous, fully embodied, musical thought--in a way, an improvement upon the (at times) mere rhetoric and abstraction of Stevens. Halfway between free and formal verse, the poems lean backwards in their echoes of poetry past all the while establishing new possibilities of complex expression--all the while negotiating a darkness that the mind (and a full life) can't exactly compensate for. I think "Barnyard" an immensely successful poem, the first stanza stunning in its metaphorical equivalences and formal balance. "Highgate Easter" seems to gather up and comment on any number of poems that want to see in nature some sign of redemption, trumping these poems with the line "Men in winter let their language go" (a subtle reworking, as I take it, of the argument in Stevens' "The Snow Man"). The last line of "Wild Life," in its evocation of nature's exasperating indifference, is MONUMENTALLY good: "and wild dogs shred the terrified sun." I can't think of a better line of poetry; it compresses an entire philosophical argument. What an image! The music of "Watersong" is impressive, beautiful. I like the way it recasts, in softer tones, the problem in previous poems. "Bones in a Landscape" is also very fine, the last line, again, particularly stunning: "a holy man at the door/ arrested the unfaithful stars." "Conventional" navigates similar poetic waters in a way that juxtaposes incommensurate perspectives--I LOVE "the infinite universe balloons/ in the cage of its own unused space." The tiny/immense paradox of contained expansion subtly becomes a metaphor for the mind's ambition. HOW CAN POETRY BE THIS GOOD??????? "The Grand Illusion" seems to walk new ground, at least with respect to its slightly more conversational voice and its presentation of a series of unanswered, unaswerable questions--questions that link religious "cathedral" and secular "casual eating place" in a tempting musical, miraculous hypothetical. "Open and Closed" reminds me of a poem Reeve wrote (a villanelle?) about a museum in Russia that was similarly "closed." In a SELECTED POEMS, these two would work very well together. The rhyme scheme itself seems to embody the poem's mischievous send up; the last line hits you like a ton of dirt on a coffin lid! Suddenly, you're on a ride to the afterlife and cannot get to the necessary station. (In an anthology, I'd juxtapose this poem with the old Em Dickinson standard: "Because I Could Not Stop For Death.") "The Instruction" is absolutely devastating (I wonder if he's sent it to Robert Pinsky?); it nicely offers a more genuine democracy of the spirit, one fleshed out in "The Urban Stampede." "Afterword" is a lovely ars poetica. I recommend to any true poetry lover this gorgeously sad but triumphant book. It's about time that some publisher issue a selected poems from this secret giant of American letters.

This is my second book by Mr. Leib. I find him to be a great author and holds not only the war,but America in context of the 60's. There is no doubt to any of us that lived through that era that the war, the country, and our people were surely at risk. America as we knew it had to change and luckily it did. Let us hope that history will not repeat that era. I will read all his books as his insight is great.

When read with it predecessor, Liebs "The Fire Dream", this book provides the best of worst of the Vietnam War in a moving account of the life of a soldier as seen through the eyes of a man who wants to live and let live yet is forced to kill. I have never read a more realistic account of what it was like to be there and am doubtful that I ever will.

Dreams. Visions. Wealth and Power. Within the pages of this book you will learn about the lives of 100 extraordinary people and their amazing accomplishments. Coming from all walks of life, many were brought forth with very little to their name, and yet each one has possessed an overwhelming desire to be the best. In many cases, they pursued a vision and achieved unimaginable success. Their empires and ideas have revolutionized society and their names will forever be etched in stone with their legacies. If you have ever been inclined to command wealth, here is where you will find out how it was done by those before you.

--Taking Notes

Let me start by saying that I would never have picked up a book on this topic were it not for the fact that one of its authors is my brother. I am so repelled by the "get rich" mentality that is exhibited by a certain segment of our population that I would have avoided the book for fear of being lumped in with them by anyone seeing it open in front of me. Before buying the book, I had prepared myself to dislike it, and had already fired off some ironic messages to my brother by electronic mail on the aspiring Rockefellers who I supposed would be flocking to buy it.

Finally, I got the book home, and, after drawing the shades and closing the blinds, furtively looked inside. A wealth, not of money, but of biographical detail, emerged immediately from the first few pages of text. It became immediately clear that, whatever its political slant, this was a profoundly well-written and researched work. What's more, it painted realistic and, in many cases, quite damning portraits of its 100 plutocratic subjects.

The book orders its collection of mini-biographies according to the wealth of their subjects. Still, the bite-sized pieces are too irresistable to be consumed in a linear manner, and so I found myself jumping from one disciple of mammon to another some chapters away, devouring several at a sitting over a period of many days. I remember the sense of mild surprise that I felt at the time that someone who I have known on a personal level for years had produced something that could truly be appreciated by the greater world (and evidently has been, from the reviews and interviews that have followed).

The reason that this book "only" gets a nine (for me, a 10 would be reserved for a great classic like Howard Zinn's "People's History of the United States," and maybe one or two other titles), is my perception that it pulls its punches slightly on some of its more contemporary subjects. The facts are all there, but there is a sense that the kid gloves are on when examining the negative consequences of more recent fortunes, such as Sam Walton's, on the broader community. Walton's Wal-Mart stores, for example, have been criticized as vacuum pumps that suck money out of small communities, destroying local shops that pay decent wages and recycle their earnings to local economies, while offering only low-paying jobs and marginally lower prices in return. The book brushes this aside as "protests from small rivals," and says nothing more on the subject.

Despite these issues, the book remains one of the most informative and interesting ones that I have read. And if the authors' point of view seems to favor, or at least accept, the system that created these Matterhorns of money, that view isn't imposed upon the reader, and there are plenty of facts and figures from which to derive a competing perspective.

--Carl Gunther

Horatio Alger had nothing on J.C. Hall! Joyce C. Hall is remembered in his own words as he retells the story of his rise to success at Hallmark Greeting Cards.

Not only did Hall reach the pinnacle of success, but he came to know and be respected by the other giants of American industry in the twentieth century.

This book artfully blends text and image into a beautifully presented story covering the span of over 50 years. This story belong in the library of all who want to recapture the philosophies of business practice that made this country strong.

Highly recommended!

Joyce C. Hall's father left home when Hall was just nine. He was raised by his mother living in poverty and lacking any formal education. To help his mother he began selling perfume door-to-door at age nine.
In 1910, Hall dropped out of high school, jumped a train and headed to Kansas City to seek his fortune and make his mark in the business world. He arrived in Kansas City with two shoeboxes full of scenic picture postcards he hoped to sell to dealers throughout the Midwest. And he prospered.

He was a quiet, serious, highly sensitive young man. He went from jobbing postcards as a teenager to manufacturing and selling his own line in six years. A small room at the YMCA was where he lived and was what he used as his office. He had so little cash he couldn't afford to pay a horse-drawn cab to get him there. But, he had his dream and he had plans to make them happen. His plan...launching a mail-order program using the samples he stored under his bed at the Y. He printed invoices, and started mailing packages of a hundred postcards to dealers throughout the Midwest. Some dealers kept the cards and never paid. Some sent back the unsolicited cards with angry notes. But, about a third of the dealers mailed him a check. In just a few short months, the 18-year-old Hall had earned $200, enough to open a checking account for his promising new business.
In a matter of a few years, his postcard business had grown large enough that he asked his older brothers Rollie and Willliam to join him and open a specialty store, the Norfolk Post Card Company, selling both postcards and stationery. Although they were doing well, he worried that postcards were losing there appeal and thought that selling higher end greeting cards, Valentines and Christmas cards with envelopes might be more profitable. He decided to call the company Hallmark, a play on his name and the word for quality which dated back to the 1300's, where gold and silver were "marked" for quality at Goldsmith's Hall in London. Coins and other items of high quality received a "Hall mark."

In 1912 Hall added greeting cards and as business grew moved to larger facilities. In 1915, a fire destroyed the Hall Brothers' offices and all their cards. The company was left in debt. This did not stop Halls dreams. With a new engraving press, the Hall Brothers opened a new shop just down the street and began printing their own cards with the Hall Brothers insignia.
The first Hallmark card appeared in 1916. It featured the greeting "I'd like to be the kind of friend you are to me."
In 1923, Joyce C., and brothers Bill and Rollie Hall, along with their 120 employees, moved from tiny offices and rental space in four separate buildings into a brand new six-story plant. In 1936, Hall introduced display cases that allowed rows of cards to be displayed, that customers could easily browse on their own. Previously, cards were bought by asking a store clerk to choose an appropriate card for you.
The rest is history. Joyce C. Hall died at age 91 on October 29, 1982 leaving Kansas City a legacy of high quality. It is an old-fashioned success story. When Hall died, his company was worth $1.5 billion. Today, more than 10 million Hallmark cards are sold every year! They coined the phrase "when you care enough to send the very best" in greeting cards. They founded a quality television series know as the "Hallmark Hall of Fame."