Lots of pictures, but if they were in color it would have been better. This book was short (98 pages) and easy to read. She didn't go into too much detail, so it's a great book to read if you're thinking about going natural.

The author was very honest about her own experiences with her hair growing up. She also discussed the fact that black women try to fight with their hair only causing it to break, which makes it seem that the hair is not growing (which it always is growing).

She talks about relaxers, weaves, braids/extensions. She explains the difference between relaxers and texturizers.

In going back to natural hair we don't have to fight with our hair and it takes less time to care for. She not only explains about daily maintenance of natural hair, but she give step-by-step techniques on how to style your natual hair. She also gives tools and products to use on natural hair.

Betty tells it all -- the good, the bad, and the ugly about running estate sales for profit. Not to be confused with garage sales or flea markets, estate sales are selling the contents of another's dwelling. This book discusses everything from contracts and cleaning through pricing and publicity -- even how to handle rough customers. Great examples and witty illustrations make it an interesting, informative, and enjoyable book whether you are selling or shopping for treasure.

The books content was insightful and profound. The focus was on transitions that the author and many individuals experience.The words captured the sound and feel of intenese emotions.The passages seem to awaken parts of your soul as you not only read, but can visualize and feel the moments being described. The poetry is earthy and has a ring of honesty that seems to grab you.

I enjoyed reading it and loved how the author Shelia D. Bryant's vivid describtions created stirrings of intense emotions causing tears, smiles and laughs.The Foreword which was written by Fredia Carter was thought provoking.

A beautiful, historical account of a great naturalist's work. It is important to keep in mind that the book was written 129 years ago, though, since the use of the language would not be considered "politically correct" nowadays.

Darwin was someone "who viewed life on earth in terms of an evolutionary framework grounded in science and reason" (taken from the Introduction by H. James Birx). It is difficult to believe that an educated person would misinterpret his ideas as being sexist or racist. Only the ignorant (or a creationist in disguise) would attempt to discredit the work of one of the greatest minds of all times by giving it the wrong label. Reading Daniel C. Dennett's "Darwin Dangerous Idea" (highly recommended) might help to put it in the right context.

This book contains a wealth of facts, compiled during Darwin's life on matters which were highly controversial at the time. His prior book, Origin of Species, provided the scientific framework for thinking that mankind might, in some way, be a descent from the animal kingdom. For personal reasons, there was some doubt, at the time, whether it would ever be diplomatic to admit such a thing to the human beings themselves, right in their very faces. The title which Darwin placed on this book showed how easy it would be to imagine that the fundamental distinction was closely linked to the question of whom an individual might choose to have sex with, given the great parallels to a wide range of behavior in the animal kingdom. I have looked in this book for evidence that philosophy is a set of ideas adopted mainly in relation to sex, but the philosophy of the fittest for that kind of activity seems to be a bit more modern than Darwin. On a scale of stillborn to born with a brain, Darwin was definitely born with a brain, but it didn't make him crazy enough to suggest that which we may imply ourselves. There are a lot of facts in this book, compared to the number of suggestions, but it shows a considerable amount of thought.

Although there are many racist and sexist ideas, this was the climate in which Darwin wrote this book. Many of the details are grossly in error, but the book was written over 100 years ago. Many advances in knowledge have been made since then. The basic premise, and the fact that Darwin looked to the African apes as a point of origin for humans is the real beauty of the book. Darwin is many times falsely blamed for "Social Darwinism" which he never proposed nor advocated. Just because someone uses Darwin as a justification for negative ideas and or actions, does not mean that Darwin should be vilified for it. Descent was not a social commentary, but a scientific treatise, and should be treated as such.

This book contains an excellent history of football cards. Anyone collecting football cards should own a copy of this book. However, ignore the price guide at the back of the book. The book is several years old and the price guide is outdated. Do not expect to buy the cards listed in the price guide for those prices. Otherwise, an excellent history book of football cards.

It was great to hear from a guy who really know cards! I have enjoyed reading about the cards I have and the ones I want.

Johnson has a hard-hitting and incisive critique of the lax, hands-off approach Reagan took to handling the ills of his age. It's not news that the Iran-contra affair further soured respect for government, that economic policies designed to make the rich richer also made the poor much poorer, that a pattern of denial and deception in Reagan's staff was the standard approach to dealing with the media or the Congress. Johnson admits Reagan's power as a President, but is sharply critical of much of what he accomplished through that strength. Anyone strongly sympathetic with his legacy probably ought not to look at this book; it will anger you. Others who are interested should see it. You will not have the full story of the 80s by any means; Johnson is selective about what he discusses (neither Canada nor Lebanon are indexed at the end, and AIDS is discussed on one page). But on what he does cover, like the Iran-contra scandal, and junk bonds, Johnson is thorough. I picked up the book to review the Iran-contra affair, and its reporting satisfied me. Col. Oliver North had nothing but contempt for the members of Congress who challenged him on his lies and subterfuge; that contempt was validated by Reagan's own contempt for laws he did not like or wish to enforce. (Johnson points out that Reagan appointed individuals hostile to the intent of the agency they were overseeing if he disagreed with what the agency was doing, like the Dept. of Education or the EPA.) This book was published in early 1991, and it is worthwhile to consider the parallel problems that Clinton had with the Congress late in his administration, for very different reasons. Every president since Kennedy seems to have developed an undertow towards the end of his term or terms, one that damaged the premises of his presidency; Kennedy escaped his through his early death. One wonders what the upcoming administrations will do to try to counter that effect.

One should read Johnson's book as a history of the 80's, not as a book about Reagan. Johnson paints a fascinating view of how the person in the Precedency is irrelevant, it is those he chooses to advice him. The book also verifies, "man is not altruistic by nature." One needs only look at what happens when institutions are given free rein; the institution will use the freedom for its own benefit.

Johnson makes clear anyone can be successful, in business or politics, as long as they choose the right people to run things.

I simply could not put this book down! Ronald Reagan, the hate monger, racist, homophobic pathological liar. The one whose policies has affected all of us for generations to come. If you want to know why cynicism pervades American society, read this book. It amuses me to hear how the "preservatives" want to purchase a legacy for Reagan; Issue new currency; name buildings after him; rename airports, national parks,etc. Laws that protected us from disasters like the savings and loan crisis were simply not enforced because of reagan. Poverty increased because of Reagan.
Selling arms to enemies of the U.S.
(a.k.a. treason,an executable offense!)
Making hate and racism fashionable. (George Lincoln Rockwell-founder of the american nazi party- once said: "Any state that can elect Ronald Reagan as governor will be ready for me in three years")
This book will show anyone with an open mind that Ronald Reagan was as the worst yet most successful president in the history of the United States.

At first, the book appears to present its information in a fairly intelligent fashion, but when the reader wants to get beyond simple demo applications or the basic principles of socket programming, Ms. Bonner offers little practical advice.

Nice book in terms of content, probably one can learn much of the concepts, however it is too old. The examples could not be compiled anymore, without significant effort.

I found that this book very helpful for me to get a good practical foundation on TCP/IP Sockets. The book is well-organized as a tutorial covering from the basics to ftp & telnet protocol and implementation. The real fun is with the program examples which is manageable to get all the great feelings and fun. One note to make it work, as it is complied with Visual C++ v1.5. It will fail with fatal error during linkage. To make it work with Visual C++ v6, one needs to change: (1) #include "winsock.h" to #include "windows.h" (2) change link option (in Project | Setting | Link) from winsock.lib to ws2_32.lib. This is explained in "INFO: README for Win32 Software Development Kit, Part 1 of 2 ID: Q167799" of MSDN library.

This book is mostly a collection of previously published material either from Games Workshop's out of print supplements or White Dwarf magazine. If you have both the Restless Dead and Warhammer Companion supplements, you will probably find that most of material here is lifted from the two books. For the new converts to the game, the contents are interesting and the varied mix of articles (from new rules to short adventures) would make it useful to any player or GM.

What do you visualize when you think about India? Women with dots on their foreheads wearing flowing, silken saris? Ravi Shankar playing strange sounding melodies on the sitar? Beatle George Harrison sitting in the yoga lotus position in deep meditation while patchouli incense wafts through the air? Gentle Mother Teresa ministering to the poor? The language of love in the Kamasutra? Brahman cattle wandering the streets, free from facing the slaughterhouse? India paints a peaceful picture in your mind. In truth, the cattle are treated more humanely than the majority of people in India.

A caste elite dominates India, totally monopolizing the nation's power and wealth. Members of the highest caste, the Brahmin caste, use their power to suppress dissent from those who are not members of their caste. We learn from incidents cited in this book that their suppression has included the use of unspeakable torture, racially based and religiously based exclusion from educational and economic opportunities, and an appalling inhumanity towards non-Hindus. In India, there is no social democracy for the lower castes and non-Hindus. This book repeatedly reinforces this theme.

Caste is a condition determined by birth. There are no social classes in India; there is only caste. In 1980, an appointed commission counted 3,743 castes composed of people who are socially and educationally deprived. Each caste is defined by their traits, such as dialect, and their occupation, such as leather workers or weavers. Over half of India's population are denied opportunities that Brahmins claim as exclusive to their caste.

When the British made India their colony, they assisted in legitimizing the Brahmin position by employing them and collaborating with them by using their existing power over the Muslim minority and the Shudra majority. When India gained its independence, the transfer of power went to the Brahmins, or from the "white" British to the "brown" British. But power over the lower castes had never left the Brahmin Hindus.

In 1938, Mohandas Gandhi, known as the Father of India, defended tradition in The Story of My Experiments with Truth. He did not want to upset the status quo too much, tending toward "separate, but equal" when talking about providing opportunities to Shudras and breaking down the barriers between Brahmins and untouchables. Gandhi saw caste as a natural division of labor. Although Gandhi had visions of a nonsectarian society for India, his words and ideas are largely forgotten in today's India.

At the same time, another leader named Bhim Rao Ambedkar emerged. An untouchable who was educated to the doctorate level in New York and London, Ambedkar called for the complete annihilation of caste. The culture of caste, he said, is "a four-storied building without a staircase." The ideas of another leader are also forgotten. Jawaharal Nehru preached Hindu secularism and called for a national government based upon truth and justice. He wrote: "There can be no equality of status and opportunity within the framework [of caste], nor can there be political democracy, and much less, economic democracy." His attempts to eliminate caste by forced economic development were ultimately a failure. Today, the government, the legal system and law enforcement represent the Hindu elite. Members of the lower castes cannot expect truth and justice from religious and racial bigots.

Statistics about India are staggering - slum and street dwellers account for one half of the main cities' population. This equates to 4.38 million people in Calcutta, 4.12 million in Bombay, 3.2 million in Delhi and 2.1 million in Madras. The top one percent of the people controls 14 percent of the wealth while the bottom fifty percent of the population accounts for seven percent of the monetary resources. In rural areas, only one out of a hundred girls who begin school will finish class twelve. Eighty percent of illnesses are caused by water-borne diseases. Out of 142 major cities, 72 have no sewage systems at all. In New Delhi, with a population of 9.4 million people, untreated wastewater, including 450 tons of solid waste, is dumped daily - directly into the Yumuna river. Unequal land distribution, social inequality, threats of disease, rampant illiteracy, alcoholism, and poverty seem like insurmountable problems when Democracy in India reveals the huge numbers of people affected by the problems.

The population of India is estimated to increase to one billion people by 2000 and 1.7 billion by 2025, but these projections are dependent upon changes in social policies that encourage education of females and improved health care vice sterilization. The government's sterilization efforts are viewed as anti-Hindu, particularly since Muslims may have several wives and many children.

This book brings the reader greater understanding about the institution of caste and how it causes social inequality. The economic health of India suffers because of the immense inequality. India's only hope is mass education, training and human resource development that reaches all of India's people, without regard to their caste, race, gender or religion. Until the population is educated, inequality will cause continued religious intolerance, racial and gender discrimination, and will result in further acts of violence. Although there is a slight editorial error (missing text between pages 133 and 135) in Democracy in India, the authors present a large amount of factual information and clearly interpret the information in the context of caste.

Australia: A wild, savage, recently discovered continent and an untamed, spirited woman with a passion for destructive love. The animal masculinity of his presence became even stronger. She tried to sustain her calm, but found it more difficult.