JACKIE THE CLOTHES OF CAMELOT is a work of perfection from the very first page (when you open the book there are some gorgeous "extra" photos of Jackie to the very last page where there's a very touching picture of Jackie taken a few days before her death...looking peaceful, serene and beautiful.

I've read all three of the books that have recently come out on this subject and, while they all are good, this one is the BEST BY FAR. Jacqueline Kennedy the White House Years, the official catalogue, is just that, a catalogue, and not a book and it doesn't include MOST of the clothes that Jackie wore during her time in the White House. What's even more confusing is that the book doesn't include all of the interesting documentation about her work in the White House that is included in the exhibit at the Met. Why is that I wonder? And Jackie Style is a stylish book, but a little to flip for my taste and it barely skims the surface of Jackie's extraordinary life and has a sparse set of photographs, although some of them are rarely seen, it's because they frankly aren't that good...

But this book is wonderful...dozens and dozens of wonderful photographs, with vivid color and including her entire White House years, a look at her early years and the fashion influences that helped shape her style. It also includes a section on her post-Camelot years where we can see Jackie age so gracefully...

Then there are the stories of her life, and her remarkable contributions to American culture and history. These stories are so interesting, written with wit, insight and a lot of inside information.

This book is a WINNER!

This book is WONDERFUL, a really in depth look at the "look" of Camelot and it's queen, Jacqueline Kennedy. An impressive array of photographs, so many of them I've never seen before, illustrating many different aspects of the former First Lady's tenure in the White House...

Plus, there are a lot of interesting stories about the clothes, where they came from, why she chose them and what was happening when she wore them. It's like you are transported back to those magic days and given an insider's pass to all the backstage stories.

It's a beautiful book, one I am proud to own, and one affordable enough for me to give as a gift too (my mother, a real Jackie fan, will LOVE it!).

I really enjoyed this book. It is jam packed with wonderful photographs that cover the whole range of Jackie Kennedy's White House life - from the most formal of evening gowns to the most casual of Capri pants and T-shirts - you really get a look at the whole woman's life of style. What a life it was!

The stories and captions that go along with the hundreds of photos are fun and informative. It's like history with wit and verve. There are pictures everyplace, from the cover to the inside cover to each and every page and many of them I've never seen before.

It's an amusing, informative look at one shining aspect of the life of America's Queen, Jacqueline Kennedy.

The depth of this novel amazed me ... I cannot imagine the torment that Sensei felt, keeping his secret to himself until the very end of his life. Orphaned at a young age, betrayed by his uncle over money, betrayer of his best friend over love, cause of his friend's suicide ... I can only hope that the narrator got as much out of Sensei's story as I did.

The last part, Sensei's confession, was clearly at the heart of Soseki's novel. I believe I read that actually, Sensei's Testament was the first part Soseki wrote originally (which would, to a degree, explain the "unfinished" abrupt ending). Also, during the first two parts "I" refers several times to Sensei's death, which would make sense chronologically if the last part was actually the first part.

In any event, reading this book was a joy, even if it was a sad tale. Soseki's prose was akin to poetry, something I think was lost a bit in the translation (which is nearly fifty years old now). Even in the translation, however, I think the poetic power that Soseki writes with is apparent. Kokoro is a classic for the ages.

If I possesed the grasp of words that both Soseki and his translator did in this novel, I could better convey the emotions that poured out of me as I read this book. If I told you that this book was of loneliness as a result of the modern era in trun of the Centruy Japan, you would see Soseki as a reactionary against change. He was not, though but rather comfortable with modern conveniences. If I told you that never have I read a story with characters of such depth, you would pass it off as a complicated classic. It is not but rather simple to read. It is this style that makes the intense and profound truth so hard hitting. Imagine living in a country where, in one lifetime, modernization that took Europe centuries occurs. People from a set hierarchy spanning millenia come to ride the same train together and with the traditional age goes the moral values associated with it. This lack of identification with your own country men creates such a deep loneliness that only one's closest friends can fill. And when something comes between one and ones'friend at least the Emperor, which began this era is alive and unchanging. When the Emperor dies, what meaning does ones' existence have anymore. This modern age which took your friends, distanced you from your wife has no more things that link you to it. Why live?

The subject matter of this charming Japanese novel by one of the dozen or so greatest writers of the 20th century, is the loneliness spanning two generations of Japanese men. A story within a story, it begins with an exposition of the profound influence one man, Sensei, has on a young friend (the narrator) and in particular, the devastating consequences that Sensei's cataclysmic decision has on the narrator's life. Later in the book we hear Sensei's own story in which he describes the devastating consequences had on his own life by a cataclysmic decision made by one of the people he valued most. The book is deceptively simple but floods with lyrical beauty. It is a book that lives on in your mind for a long time, and taps into the inevitable feeling that we all have from time to time that we are alone, swallowed by the "silence of the whirlpool". Awesome. Read it and never regret it.

Murakami's stories, like his novels, take place on an earthly plane just slightly askew from the one the rest of us inhabit. His view of the world is consistently unique and fresh. I think that's what makes his work so compelling to read. After The Quake is no different.

The six stories contained in this slim volume are thematically bound by 1995's Kobe earthquake. While there is a mention or two to the event in each story, these stories primarily deal with larger, more emotional issues. From beach bonfires to superhero frogs, Murakami never fails to dazzle. This collection is excellent.

This rather sober collection of six stories is thematically linked to the devastating 1995 Kobe earthquake, although none is set in Kobe or directly deals with it. The earthquake seems to act more as a lurking idea that nothing is safe or certain in modern Japan. I've not read any other Murakami, but what's immediately striking is how detached all his characters are from any larger sense of community. Indeed, many of the protagonists fulfill stereotypes of the Japanese national character'non-confrontational, repressed, emotionally stunted, and to a certain extent solitary.

In the first story, a salesman is left by his wife because he is a shallow person. His response is to take a vacation, in which he discovers he's given away his soul. The second story is more or less a contrast between aimless youth and an older man, as they sit around a bonfire drinking. Then comes the life of a young man born to a religious nut, and his halfhearted attempt to track down his father. Next is the quasi-mystical tale of a middle-aged divorcée doctor seeking to restore herself and lose the bitterness that has built up within her. The fifth story is a wild, phantasmagorical episode where a mouse of a bank clerk is called upon by a superhero frog to journey beneath the earth to do prevent an evil worm from causing an earthquake that will destroy Tokyo. The most conventional story is the the last, in which a gentle, bookish man goes through life longing for his best friend's girl. Although all three were close in college, he was too shy to make his move, and lost her to his more charismatic friend. Given the rest of the stories, it's surprisingly sweet and it's placement at the end seems to hint at a belief by Murakami that sometimes (although, rarely) things work out in the end.

As a whole the writing is universally excellent'simple and elegant'however there's a certain detachment throughout them. They are moving, but very, very subtly so'and in that sense, the book is perhaps best read in bits and pieces, and twice to receive its full impact. Note: these stories were originally published in GQ, Granta, Harper's, The New Yorker, and Ploughshares.

For a long long time now, I'd been wanting to read
this new book by one of my Favorite writers and when I
did I was beyond elation...

Haruki Murakami is a genius. He is the master of
telling a story and is the best in his genre -
whatever that may be. The six stories in this gem of a
book revolve around people's lives before and after
the Earthquake that shook Kobe in 1995.

The Psychological shock and collective grief are
beautifully depicted through Murakami's words and
prose. An electronic salesman rethinks and knows
himself after his wife disappears one day - and he has
to deliver a package. A Giant frog visits a Bank
employee seeking help to save the World. A man builds
bonfires to live and relive his life over and over
again. Such stories and more are what make this book a
true genius.

I may be biased towards Murakami but he is the best!!
These stories in the true sense portray everything
that humans have to offer. From love to loneliness to
jeaulosy to tragic.

"Honey Pie" is probably my favorite piece of the
collection. "There's at least one good thing to tell
about even the most ordinary bear," Junpei tells the
little girl who is listening to his tale of the two
bears. This fairy tale and the main story are
interwoven in such a way that we become the little
child listening to the narrator as we read. Of all the
pieces, it is the one that, I think, most perfectly
captures the delicate balance in the relationship
between the self and the world. As the author writes,
it is "about people who dream and wait for the night
to end, who long for the light so they can hold the
ones they love."

A great great read!!

I get the sense that there is a classic inside this author. This is the second book I've read by Phillip Margolin, and I found the same strengths and weaknesses in both. Margolin is a fine writer, and his pacing and characterizations are first-rate. In both this novel and "Gone, But Not Forgotten" he begins with a confusing melee of scenarios and people which only gradually cohere, but this gives the reader an immediate sense of vertiginous excitement. What is less forgivable is the lack of any real depth to otherwise vibrant characters. We get plenty of history but never any motive or exploration of people's thinking. Granted, this is not a psychological thriller, but no one ever even wonders why any of these people do what they do, let alone try to explain it. There is some hint of the seductive thrall of evil and a sentence or two about wanting to make sure no innocent man is convicted, but they fall short.

Advertising for this book is sloppy, emphasizing the protagonist David Nash's 'Ice Man' reputation, even though that aspect of his persona is never referred to after the introductory pages. Advertising also attests to Nash's unswerving belief in his new client's innocence, but that isn't really the case in the book. The marketers didn't even read the book.

I would read a Margolin novel any day. They are exciting and fun -- excellent page-turning thrillers. But I am waiting for something more, and I hope he has it in him.

The Last Innocent Man is a thought provoking thriller that gives Margolin an opportunity to present the moral debate that defense attorneys must go through in defending people accused of indefensible crimes and antisocial behavior. David Nash is a defense attorney who is suffering burn out when he meets a mysterious young woman at a party and takes her back to his house. The next day when he realizes that he wants to see her again, she is no where to be found, surfacing only when her husband is accused of killing a policewoman who was posing as a prostitute. The wife swears that her husband was with her at the time the crime took place, and David agrees to take the defense in spite of his reservations about their involvement. All the while he is trying to come to grips with having successfully defended some guilty clients who will undoubtedly hurt others again as soon as they are free. My review is not nearly as gripping as the book was to read. This is my second book by Phillip Margolin and I am looking forward to my third which will be "Gone But Not Forgotten." In a world full of good legal thriller authors, he is one of the best in my opinion.

I have to admit that I read this AFTER reading the INCREDIBLE 'Gone, But Not Forgotten' and 'After Dark' mostly because I was SO impressed with the other two that I simply HAD to find something else by Mr. Margolin. What I found was a novel which in many respects reminded me of 'Gone, But Not Forgotten'...It seems to me that 'The Last Innocent Man' was sort of the proving grounds for Margolin as he prepared for his true masterpiece, 'GBNF'. That in NO WAY diminishes how much I truly enjoyed this book. I have said it before, and I'll say it again, Margolin makes Grisham look like a law school drop-out. I think Margolin's true talent lies in his ability to pace his books like an Indy race. You can't help but be swept up into the story and how scenes change almost as fast as you can turn the pages. He paces his books less as chapters, and more like a few paragraphs in between different plot-lines. If you want a book that is ALWAYS moving from one scene to another, and a courtroom battle which will stay with you long after you finish this book than do NOT pass up 'The Last Innocent Man' by Phillip Margolin, it's another home run from one of the genre's best authors.

I cannot wait to start my business. This book gave a world of ideas in how to market my product. It is very relevant to both marketing tangible products, as well as, service. The only shortcoming was the fact that certain issues were pretty outdated. This is to be expected considering the book was published in 1998. On the whole.....[the price of this book]is certainly not too much to spend to increase your sales substantially.

I read this book when it was first published in 1984 and recently read the Third Edition, curious to know how relevant Levinson's ideas have remained during the almost 20 years years since then. He has revised and updated the book to accommodate the emergence of the Internet, e-business, and globalization initiatives. To his credit, his Guerrilla principles remain valid and, if anything, are even more relevant and more valuable now than ever before. It is important to keep in mind that, as he explains in Guerrilla Creativity, creative marketing is not something that you do. "Instead, it's something that your prospects get." Guerrilla principles guide and inform initiatives by which to produce desired results, whatever those may be. Perhaps to create or increase demand for what one offers. (I use the word "offers" rather than "sells" because the same principles can also be invaluable, for example, to those seeking charitable contributions to a non-profit organization.) Perhaps to inform a prospect or reassure a client; in terms of a competitor, perhaps to create confusion, discomfort, and even despair.

Although the book's subtitle suggests that the "secrets" provided will help to make big profits from a small business, Levinson's principles can (as I have indicated) help to achieve a variety of other desired results which may include but are not limited to profits; moreover, his principles can be as helpful to a multinational corporation as they can to a local family-owned business.

The material is carefully organized within five sections: The Guerrilla Approach to Marketing -- Updated, Mini-Media Marketing, Maxi-Media Marketing, Nonmedia Marketing, and finally, Launching Your Guerrilla Marketing Attack. Levinson also provides an especially useful concluding section, "Information Arsenal for Guerrillas" (pages 363-372) which directs the reader to hundreds of resources such as a bibliography as well as information about relevant newsletters, periodicals, audiotapes, and videotapes.

I especially appreciate the fact Levinson includes marginal notes throughout his narrative. They make it so much easier to review key points which may not have been highlighted or underlined. Also, his Index is much more extensive than what authors of business books usually provide. This is in all respects a user-friendly volume whose material, if understood and then applied both effectively and (yes) appropriately, can be of substantial value to any decision-maker who seeks to create or increase demand for whatever her or his organization offers.

What sets Levinson's various "Guerrilla" books apart from most others is his consistent point of view. It has no doubt been influenced by Sun Tzu and especially by several of Sun Tzu's strategies such as when far away, seem near...or vice versa; when small, seem large...or vice versa; when exhausted, seem vigorous...or vice versa, etc. It was Sun Tzu who explained the importance of thorough preparation by asserting that every battle is won or lost before it is fought. Although we usually think of such strategies as being used only by "Davids," the same strategies (albeit with modifications) can also be used very effectively by "Goliaths."

In the first chapter, Levinson identifies 12 differences between Guerrilla marketing and traditional marketing. They are essentially differences of judgment, values, and priorities rather than of resources. I agree with Jason Jennings who suggests that it's not the large that eat the small...it's the fast that eat the slow. Size and speed are not mutually exclusive. Many successful organizations have both. However, Levinson is quite correct when stressing the importance (and benefits) of having an underdog mentality. Differing somewhat with Andrew Grove, I presume to suggest that not all survivors are paranoid...but most are. The Guerrilla mentality takes no one and nothing for granted. Ever.

For me, one of Levinson's most interesting ideas involves the Guerrilla's relationship with competition. He goes one step further than the Biblical David who wisely avoided physical contact with Goliath: "Guerrilla marketing asks you to forget about competition temporarily and to scout opportunities to cooperate with other businesses and support each other in a mutual quest for profits." That is to say, rather than facing Goliath in combat, Levinson's David would to go into partnership with those vendors who provide a variety of products and services to the Philistines. Goliath would be hired to handle accounts receivable. Eventually David would buy out his partners, then retain them on an outsource basis to continue servicing the Philistine account while he seeks new business opportunities elsewhere within and beyond the Middle East. Perhaps sell franchises in military provisions while remaining owner/CEO of a parent company which provides various services to its franchisees through subsidiaries such as Rent-a-Camel, Caravan Leasing, Goliath Security Services, Galleys Unlimited, etc.

Presumably Levinson agrees with me that it would be a mistake, indeed highly un-Guerrilla-like, to adopt all or even most of the strategies and tactics he offers in this book. First, do a rigorous analysis of your organization's needs and interests, of course, but also or its strengths and especially its weaknesses. (You can be sure your toughest competitors already know where you are most vulnerable. Do you?) Next, set the priorities for action (NOT discussion) and develop a cohesive and comprehensive plan to achieve the most important objectives. Then cherry-pick whichever of Levinson's proffered strategies and tactics will be most helpful to those efforts. There are more of them in this book than you can possibly use at any one time, anyway. However, priorities can change...often because of a competitor's initiatives. (If you did not see them coming, that's your fault. A Guerrilla always sleeps with one eye open.) When circumstances change, different strategies and tactics may be needed. Re-read Levinson's book. You'll probably find whatever you need.

Final point: A Guerrilla never trusts only one book for advice on marketing. Nor should you. Check out Levinson's bibliography. There are no glaring omissions other than Sun Tzu's The Art of War (Griffith translation) and Reis and Trout's Positioning. Among the dozens he cites, my own preferences are Beckwith's Selling the Invisible, Cohen's The Marketing Plan, Levitt's The Marketing Imagination, McKenna's Real Time, Reichheld and Teal's The Loyalty Effect, and Schmitt and Simonson's Marketing Aesthetics as well as Schmitt's subsequent Experiential Marketing.

This book is a great reference for any business owner seeking to really make the most out of their marketing budget. I used the data in this book and actually made miracles happen with it. The average industry expectations on marketing dollars is 5X the return invested. By applying the principles, strategies and bright ideas I learned in this book I managed to make a 12X return for every dollar invested, and that means a whole lot when you are a small business with not an unlimited budget! This book is very basic and useful, and the data Levinson provides is incredible. I learned so much about the actual nuts and bolts of the marketing industry with this text. It's brilliant, creative and imaginative. Expect to keep a pen and paper handy when you start to have all those bright ideas go off like church bells as you read. If you take this information and apply it to your business or activity, you can save yourself a great deal of experimentation and start out with the rocketing results first off.

Too much flying! Too little plot. This book just fills in some details missing from other books in the series. Fill. That's it. It was an enjoyable read, but only because I had read (and enjoyed, more or less) the other books in the series.

The Intruders follows Jake Grafton shortly after the end of Flight of the Intruder, to 1973 on a cruise on the U.S.S. Columbia flying A-6E Intruders. In this book Grafton flies with a Marine captain Bombadier/Navigator (BN) named "Flap" Le Beau, who is ex-Marine Recon, and has some very interesting jungle/guerilla warfare skills, as well as an assortment of custom-made slashing and thrownig knives ("What are you, a walking cutlery store?" Jake asks at one point). There is not too much action for the first while, just mainly a series of carrier accidents and mishaps, but there IS some action and plotting toward the last 80 or so pages where Le Beau is truly in his element, along with Grafton. A must-read for all fans of Stephen Coonts and carrier aviation

In this book Coonts concentrates on action on an aircraft carrier with plenty of naval aviation action. Naval Air being the long arm of American Foreign Policy is depicted here in action. Jake Grafton the main character is interesting and at times reflects upon himself to see whether or not to get out of the navy of not, marriage with his sweetheart Callie is on his mind. Flap Le beau his Bombardier/Nav. puts a bit of fun and flare into the story. Although I'm not a pilot but an enthusiast, Coonts puts a lot of emphasis on what the pilots are thinking of while in the cockpit, no matter at night or during the day, as a reader you get to feel what the pilot and his Navigator are really feeling at the time.

THIS STORY WOULD MAKE A GREAT MOVIE about the life for an aviator living on an aircraft carrier, we have enough movies about the grunts on the ground,here is a chance to make a movie about aviators on aircraft carriers as they are America's long arm of Foreign Policy.

This book finally brings together the importance of food and exercise in relation to overall health. BODY CODE explains this in a manner everyone can understand and implement into their lives. This is not a diet but a life style change that if followed will improve every aspect of life. I too was taught by Jay Cooper the body code program. Proper exercise combined with proper foods for your genetic makeup will get you off the diet merry go round. Body Coding teaches us that we do not have to be a rocket scientist in order to understand proper food and proper exercise. Many of the DIET books are either impossible to understand or impossible to follow for the rest of your life. The key is knowing who you are and how your physical self reacts to different foods and exercise. Read the book, follow Jays' advice and your life will change for the better! Thanks Jay for a great book.

I never heard of Jay Cooper before I got this book - and I am not in the income bracket that allows for spa visits. I also can't weigh in on the Abravamel (sp) controversy, except to say that all diets seem to build on previous information. In general I am very leery of trying diet books - I feel that they are usually a waste of money. But a friend highly recommended this one, and after seeing how well she was doing I bought the book. I have found it to be a terrificly well organized and very livable plan that addresses all the issues of dieting, from exercise and energy level to body shape, food cravings and metabolism. I highly recommend it for those who, like me, have struggled with weight over the long haul and are burned out on fad diets. This is a well written and information packed blend of western and eastern research into what makes a body work, and how to fine tune it. More than just a diet - it is an easily followed road map to a healthier, and more energetic away of life - where weight loss is a natural event. Thank you Mr. Cooper and Ms. Lance!!

I was body typed by Jay in Green Valley, and I bought the book to keep up with the plan. I could never lose the "last 5 pounds" no matter how much I exercised or ate well. I finally lost those pounds when I followed my "Communicator" diet and cut out flour, sugar, etc... I highly reccomend this book and encourage everyone to look at the plans as a lifestyle and not just a temporary diet. Once you know your type, you will always be able to control your weight.

At last -- help, kindness, great science, wonderful reassurance, nice writing, and lots of smiles about the way so many of us sleep (yet so few of us admit to!!!). I've bought so many books about baby sleep, including two that deal a lot with the family bed, and this one is special. I loved every bit, from the incredible scientific reasons (complete with citations!) that the family bed is so good to the great advice on how to get a sound sleep (it really works!). I enjoy the gentle approach to a cuddly night of sleep with your favorite little munchkin, and even appreciate the fact that the authors included a couple of pages devoted to a kinder "sleep training" method for desperate parents who were at wits' end and about to resort to harsh "cry it out" methods. I showed it to a friend who had started "Ezzoizing" her baby, and she tried it successfully, and the baby is still in bed with them and everyone is sleeping better! (The authors seemed to hate to include the method, but I think my friend is glad they did, and I know her baby is, given the alternative.)

The book has everything a family bedder needs. From ways to sleep safely with a baby at your side to funny retorts to critics to ways to wean a child from bed when the time comes, if you decide to help them with what the authors call a "nurturing nudge." (The authors also support letting the child decide when he or she is ready to move on.) This book has a moderate and very funny voice, nothing radically to the "left" of parenting, if you know what I mean. With this approach, it will help so many parents and babies, not just the ones who will nurse for five or six years. No preaching to the parishioners here!

If a parent still needs extra assurance about their decision to do the family bed, just read the last chapter which has dozens of quotes from kids (really, adults mostly) who shared the family bed when younger. What a great bunch of people! I hope my three turn out so well. (So far so good!)

I was tickled when I found this book while browsing for sleep books for the youngest of my five children, who is about to have a baby. Back when she and her siblings were babies, they shared a bed with my my husband and I, and our family ended up incredibly close. I'm not saying the closeness was because of what people now call the family bed but it was a vital part of our children's young lives, to be able to sleep next to their loved ones and not have to be alone in a crib somewhere else. My mother told me I shared the bed with my parents when I was a baby in Ireland, so on it goes. My other children who have children have all brought them into bed as babies. My youngest wants to, but she is getting alot of pressure from people in her future mom's class not to do this. So I got her this book and I read it first, and it's charming and so very helpful, kind, caring, funny, fully of tips I wish I'd had when they my own were little.

She read some of it while I was visiting and she laughed and underlined and gave me such a hard hug I thought I'd pop. She brought it to her future moms group and showed them the first chapter full of scientific evidence that shows the powerful positive effects of letting your baby sleep next to you. The teacher said she was going to have to get a copy. She said the chapter on safety was "worth the price of admission." Now that's saying something, considering how she is one of those Ferber people. The book isn't preachy, as someone else who wrote a review mentioned, and that and it's sense of humor will probably help it break through alot of barriers with people like my daughter's teacher.

If you're wondering, my children left our bed fairly easily when it was time for another baby to move in. They all loved sleeping in the same room together after that until they became old enough to separate the girls from the boys. It was like a big reward for them to get to sleep in the big kids room. The book Good Nights also has a whole chapter on the process of helping a child move out of your bed, and I think parents will find this very helpful, as I know it can be an issue.

I hope it was alright to mention my personal experiences with this topic in a review. I haven't done reviewing before, but I think that personal experience in my case as a reader of the book is very important to the review.
Thank you.

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Once again I gently suggested that she might want to try co-sleeping. Well it turns out she bought a copy of Good Nights, which I'd only heard about through the grape vine until then but recommended anyway from what I'd heard, and that night, she and her husband and daughter had the best night's sleep they'd ever had together. She was so happy. The change in her after two good nights of sleep was remarkable.

Of course, then I had to get a copy of this book, and it's nothing short of wonderful. My years of experience with the family bed (four kids, three have "graduated," as the authors of this book call it), have been sweet, warm, loving, fun, and fulfilling for my husband, myself, and our children. Sleeping in this way, as most humans have done since the beginning of humandom, has helped bring us closer as a family, and I truly think it gave our kids the start in life they needed to build the beautiful lives they each have.

With Good Nights, I finally have something I can show friends and new parents that says YES, you can have a good marriage and the family bed (how do they think we had time and desire to make all four kids? Thank goodness for the guest room bed!), NO, you don't have to choose between spouse and kids when you do the family bed, YES, you can get excellent sleep with the family bed, YES, there are solutions to problems that pop up, YES, there are ways to make the bed very safe, YES, there are ways to help children move into their own bed WELL before college. (In case any anti family bedders are reading, that's a joke. My kids all were in their room(s) before age 3 1/2. Before that they each moved to their own beds in our room.)

Babies don't need cry it out sleep training, as the book points out. In some other countries, making a baby cry it out alone in a crib is looked on as child abuse. The authors of Good Nights aren't adamant about the family bed being the only way, and they don't condemn people that really need sleep and resort to sleep training. But they make the best, most coherent, well-researched argument for the family bed I've ever seen. They've done their homework.

Dr. Gordon and Maria Goodavage get a big hug from my brood and me, and from the countless babies and families their super informative, entertaining, educational book will help in the future.

The GoLive 6 Magic book from New Riders looks like a miniature coffee table art book. It contains 244 pages and a CD. I was struck by the beautiful black & white photos of nature at the beginning of each chapter and the multitude of screen shots. The introduction states that Adobe® GoLive 6 is an extremely powerful and easy to use visual web authoring tool popular with high level designers and graphic artists while also empowering web novices and advanced users alike. The author assumes that the reader of this book probably already knows the basics of GoLive but wants to go on to the next level. You want to know about multimedia, creating actions and extensions, building dynamic web sites and coding for hand held devices and more. There are also many time saving tips, tricks, and real-world solutions in the book. More and more people are using hand held devices to access the web and so you have to take into consideration that particular i-Mode. You can test your site on different i-Mode devices (via emulation software) to render the graphical and text content.

GoLive 6 Magic was especially timely for me because our User Group web site is being remodeled. Two of the new features we want to incorporate are included in the book: collapsible DHTML menus using ID actions and creating an action to display random images. Collapsible menus afford you to display many items in a limited space. When you roll over a main menu item, it displays a sub-menu of more items with links.

The CD contains all the necessary files to perform the various customizable exercises as well as demo versions of related software. The CD opens by double-clicking. I tried the exercise to create collapsible DHTML menus with sub-menus using ID actions. Wow! It was so easy. The book walks you step by step through each project and also displays an accompanying screen shot. I set up the CSS files (Cascading Style Sheets) once and customized my font display. This is better than doing each link one at a time. I used a font family such as: Arial, Helvetica, Geneva and SunSans Regular. Although you can assign any font on your computer to a CSS style, your page's viewers can only see the fonts installed on their computers. You tailor your web page so that all the fonts look good on the page. If the viewer does not have Arial on his computer, it will default to Helvetica if installed and so on. A web designer stays with the fonts that most everyone has installed on both platforms. Well, the project turned out just as it was supposed to and it was easy besides. Besides tips there also were explanations for why you do a certain thing. I'm sold, this book is a definite winner!

Great book for Golive users who want to go to the next level.

Golive is a very powerful web authoring program and Golive 6 Magic is very good in showing some of the features that I might have never duscovered on my own.

Text macros, Quicktime and Flash sniffer techniques, creating Quicktime sprites and skins, cool DHTML projects (I like the online calender), authoring your own javascript actions, getting into the SDK, setting up your own Dynamic database content management system with PHP and MySQL are some of the 14 projects included.

There is a companion CD that has all the data for Golive 6 to use when you follow along with the book.

Some of the projects seemed a bit intimidating to an intermediate user like myself, but the book is layed out so clearly that it was fun to delve into the projects.

I have set up my own MySQL,PHP database for the first time thanks to Golive 6 magic ( a sample database is included).

This is a needed addition to the Golive library.

If you want to take GoLive a few steps further then this is the book for you. Though this book is not for the novice GoLive user, as somone who considers himself in the intermediate/advanced user category I found it very useful indeed. My biggest problem was installing the Dynamic Content Servers from the GoLive CD so that I could work through the "Building a Dynamic Content Management System using PHP and MySQL" Project!

Author Paul Vachier brings in "GoLive Superstars" such as Rob Keniger as contributors to great advantage.

I have really enjoyed working through the tutorials which are very well edited. Often I get frustrated with books like these because I find that the text does not always match up with the practical steps to be taken. However in GoLive 6 Magic they matched very well indeed. I actually had fun doing it. And now after working through "Creating Quicktime Sniffers" to "Displaying Random Images and URLs" to "Building Dynamic Content" and the other 11 tutorials I think that I am a much more skilled user. What more can I ask?

I bought this book based on the reivews in this site, and it is a really good one. The resumes have a wide variety of examples and are very high-powered/professional. But to my surpirse, there are 200 quick and lean job search tips in the back, and they're great. They helped out on interviewing, writing resumes and letters, working with headhunters and interviewing. This is a great value if you need a job search book.

I found this book to be very useful in helping me develop my resume. They have a lot of good examples and focus on matching the accomplishments of the job searcher with the needs of the employer. It's really strong. The job search tips were very value-added as well. It's worth the money.

This book is very good for several reasons: It gives the best variety of resumes (the best from the Professional Association of Resume Writers, over 1000 members), just enough how-to without overkill and 200 tips bulleted off in the back that are very information rich (see back cover copy). The resumes focus on positioning the candidate's skills and matching them to the employer needs. The book also includes sample cover letters that are more action-oriented than the typical ones I saw in other books. I found several resumes that I could emulate and use, particularly those on pages 56 and 118.