great. but what is the 3rd book in the series???

"Learn Tennis in a Weekend" provides in one clear handbook a concentrated, highly structured program that shows the novice -- step by step, hour by hour, how tomaster the fundamental skills of tennis in one weekend. One the court, tennis training, get to grips, stance and control, basic ball sense, forehand stroke, backhand stroke, two-handed backhand, the serve, service return, forehand volley, backhand volley, lob defense, overhead smash, approach play, serve & volley, playing the game, playing doubles, advanced strokes.

Many get the terms legalization and decriminalization confused; although each term has many variations of definition, the denotation of each term has a definite political, moral, and/or social end -- and this is where the most profound difference lies between them. An important thing to remember is that legalizers want drugs to be legally regulated and accessible to citizens just as alcohol is available, whereas decriminalizers support a policy that does not punish drug users as criminals for carrying and/or using personal amounts of drugs for recreational purposes; nonetheless, they still favor the criminalization of drug producers and drug dealers. Even this dichotomy between legalizer and decriminalizer is oversimplified.

The complexities of drug policy and all the human aspects that are involved in policymaking are both fascinating and intimidating. Douglas Husak is an articulate arguer for the position of decriminalization. He attempts to clarify some of the legal complexities in this excellent, well reasoned argument. He addresses many basic tenets of criminal theory and applies them to how drug users are being treated in this country. Unlike those who embrace the rigid attitude: 'If you're not with us, you're against us,' (meaning good v. evil) a convenient dialectic you will most likely find informing the minds of the current 'drug warrior' regime leaders, you will not find this authoritarianism in Husak's treatise. If he cannot be categorized as a legalization proponent, he is like them in one respect, he is highly disturbed by the inane drug policies of this country and is part of an ever growing population of dissenters who see a need for change.

High recommendation; good start to understanding the issue as whole. An even higher recommendation goes to "Drug War Heresies: Learning from Other Vices, Times & Places" by Robert J. MacCoun and Peter Reuter (2001). This is an excellent, exhaustive, and disinterested study of drugs use in our society and is easy for those not well versed in the complexities of public policy issues (which is most of us)

The incredible history of the Oregon legislature emerges from this book. Readers learn of the early legislative bodies during Oregon's territorial days and the bitter partisan battles over issues such as slavery and citizenship to racial minorities. We learn of some of the important and often amusing political characters through Oregon's legislative history as well as the effects of such measures as the poll tax and other taxes designed to harm members of racial minorities.
19th century political power in Oregon rested with business leaders representing railroads, utilities, and banks. Readers learn the interesting historical fact that Republican legislative votes were for $4,000 per legislator while Democratic legislative votes went for $3,000 per legislator. As Republicans occupied a higher scale of living, they cost more to bribe.
Still, legislative action was not a given. One entire legislative session ended without a single bill passed.
Some more recent Oregon legislative tales will amuse readers, such as the time an Oregon legislator dropped a bottle of liquid from a railroad effluent line and let the smell fill the House chambers. In another instance, a sleeping legislator had his shoe laces tied to his desk and then was called upon by the Speaker to arise from his desk.
People wishing to learn about life in a state legislature will enjoy this book. It is good to see some people capturing these pieces of history. If we can't learn from the past, we can at least enjoy it, as readers will from this book.

Published in 1973, DKH tags along with Larry Mahan, to the Pendleton Round-Up, talking with folks like Phil Lyne, Gary Leffew, Don Gay, Chris LeDoux and many other great World Champions of this era. This book is about the blood, guts, glory, waking up in a bathtub (12 to a room), life of the rodeo cowboy. Has a few B&W photos.

This is essential reading for anyone interested on the bible. It is written from an anthropoligical point of view by one of the greatest anthropologists of our era. There is no claim here to biblical scholarship in its narrow sense. But the Book of Leviticus is shown to be much more than a boring list of sacrificial and purity rituals. The detailed poetic and thematic structures are described both as explanations of what the book is about religiously as well as from a literary point of view. This combination is really engaging. Although some of the associations and structures are forced and general rules are derived from single cases, although frankly I think she gets some things wrong, I have not been so stimulated by a book on the bible for a very long time. Even for someone totally familiar with traditional commentaries this will be an exciting read.

This book, written in Douglass' later years, not only lifted my spirits but did a great deal to reestablish my faith in humanity. This was a man who had every opportunity, and reason, to be bitter and/or vengeful. He, instead, chose to fight, with his intellect and his golden tongue, for what he, and others chained in slavery and social subservience, rightfully disserved as a member of our human race. He was a man of conviction and inner strength who taught himself to write with an elegance that I have never seen equaled. I strongly recommend this book.

Thisis an expensive outlay, but well worth it! Fifty eight illustrations from Padmasambhav's life, in those natural colour traditional paintings,bring the text to life. Many of the illustrations have see-through overlays explaining the various parts of the picture. Padmasambhava is a refreshing and often neglected figure in Tibetan Buddhism, a religion which in recent centuries has been dominated by a rather dry monastic flavour, and by rigorous but rather uninspiring philosophical and logical debates. This work stimulates and extends the imagination in ways which I haven't encountered in much of the other literature on Tibetan Buddhism. This two volume is truly a piece of art, produced with much love and devotion by the Nyingma sect's Dharma Publishing. Thoroughly recommended!

Fredrick Douglas was literally one of the greatest minds of all time. As a slave he wanted to be a free man. He was illiterate and learned to be literate. In the end, he shared his thoughts and his life with us all so that all men could be free and have freedom not only the slave. The greatest lesson this man could teach anyone is that the key to freedom is through education and learning. Any form of slavery can be freedom if you simply learn and educate yourself. If you choose to be a slave to what you are a slave of then you are a slave. If you wish to be free,learn and be free.