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Books to read if you're planning a vacation in "Charles", sorted by average review score:
David Bowie
Published in Paperback by Plexus Publishing (September, 1994)
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Bowiefile Muso-journo's fail to fawn over rock god! (almost)
The Definitive Guide on BowieThe book is the size of a record album. Of all my Bowie books, it has held up the best (no pages falling out after all these years) and is as fresh, information-wise, as the day I purchased it. It contains giant size, full-color pictures of Bowie during many stages, up until about the late seventies. It comes complete with discography, and many pictures of international albums he has produced. It is THE definitive guide on Mr. Bowie.
The Daylight Limited (Great Railway Adventures. Series 1, Adventure 1)
Published in Hardcover by Friedman/Fairfax Pub (June, 1998)
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Buy the whole series!If you have a train-loving tot like I do, you will be thrilled by these books and trains. My 3.5 yo has been Thomas the Tank crazy since before he was two. He got his first Railway Adventure book, The Torpedo Run, last Christmas when he was 2.5. That is the 3rd book in the series, so we have bought the other two since.
The series starts with the storey of Tuck and Billy (girl) at their home in San Luis Obisbo, CA. The Daylight Limited goes by their house daily, and the whole family stops what they are doing to watch it go by. Tuck dreams up an idea for a train car, and the Holden family enters it into "The invention of tomorrow" contest in the 1939 World Fair. This starts the adventure that has Tuck and Billy riding on the Daylight Limited, the President Washington, and finally, the Torpedo.
The trains all existed, and there are pictures of the actual engines. The text is much more than I normally read for my 3.5 yo, but he has been captivated since he was 2.5. Now, he has started asking me questions, and these books have really grown with him.
In addition, Learning curve with Lionel has created toy replicas of the engines that run on batteries and are compatible with the TTT or Brio track and trains. We have all 3 engines.
appeals to all agesI was surprised to see the age level of this book to be 9-12 years. Technically, I would agree, but I read it to my 3 and 5 year olds several times the first day and they were engrossed. We purchased it in a museum gift shop as a gift set incl. tape and toy train - look for it. Train lovers of all ages will be delighted.
Delphi Programming Unleashed/Book and Disk
Published in Paperback by Sams (June, 1995)
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A Book to Really Learn Delphi!It's a very good book to read and go through the various examples, covering since the simplest of a Delphi Project to the most interesting and powerful about Creating Components. It's a Must Have Book! Congratulations Charles
The easy way to master Delphi.How many times did you read a book, follow the examples and run it in the computer, and at end of it you can't write a program by yourself?
Delphi Unleashed is different! Just in the initial chapters you'll be learning the best way: experimenting.
While some books are introductory, others are for the experts, to be used as reference material. There are books that try conciliate both things, but few succeed. This one does it.
Charles Calvert, with your soft writing style and some sense of humour, leads you to explore the language from the beginnings to the most advanced topics, in a soft and pleasant way. He emphasises the most important points, even repeating some fundamental concepts, and pointing the trickiest subjects. Everything is minutely explained. It is impossible to not understand.
The examples are well formulated and are all reproduced on the accompanying CD, which carries too a bunch of tools and libraries.
The coverage of the book is fantastic. From the structure of a Delphi program, to variables and looping. From the use of functions, to strings and pointers. The object programming and client server techniques are explored in depth, as well as OLE, SQL and multimedia subjects.
The didactic is impeccable. An excellent book !
Desert Survival Handbook
Published in Paperback by Primer Pub (February, 1990)
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Not just for the desert!This book is a basic necessity regardless of where you live. It contains practical ways of dealing with and preparing for critical situations, and makes you realize just how easy it would be to find yourself in those situations. If you are going to leave your house, have it in your car. If you are going to go to the park, have it in your lunch bag. And, for goodness sake, if you are going to venture out more than a few minutes from the general population - car, foot or bike - have it close at hand.
A Must Have Book!This is it, the original desert survival book, written by the man who did all the field research himself. Buy it, read it, and keep a copy in your car. It's full of useful information which may save your life.
Diagnostic Strategies for Internal Medicine: A Case-Based Approach
Published in Paperback by Mosby (15 January, 1996)
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The bestIt's the best book about case studies I have ever read. It was very useful for practicing my skills.
The perfect resident's companionGreat clinical resource...Finally a book to read cover to cover...Very practical and concise...Great differential diagnosis of common problems...Written in the style of NEJM clinical prblem solving cases...Perfect for medical students and residents
Discover Debate
Published in Paperback by Language Solutions Inc (06 December, 1999)
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Discover DebateI teach at a University in Japan. I saw this book at the TESOL 2000 conference in Vancouver and picked it up on a whim. It turned out to be great for my students bound for U.S. universities. It teaches listening and note taking, but what I like most about it is that it teaches the structures of logical argumentation in a very simple, down to earth way. It also has a clear sense of direction lacking in many classroom texts. Starting out with Just opinion exchange activities, the book ends with a full blown debate. I believe that Discover Debate will not only help my students present their ideas verbally in class, but will help them write more effectively out of class. This is one of the best books I have found for preparing students for an overseas college experience.
An excellent resource for Japanese and other ESL studentsThis book is fantastic. For many ESL students it is not only the language of debate that is a challenge, but the concept itself. This book begins at the very beginning -- the first unit is titled "Have an Opinion"! It moves smoothly and sequentially from there.
Anyone interested in teaching debate, or using debate as a forum for teaching English conversation, should have this book on their shelf and encourage their students to buy it.
I have used some of the concepts with my senior high school Japanese students and they have "clicked" with them more than any other projects we have done so far. The students are motivated and enthusiastic to learn more.
Discovering the Rommel Murder: The Life and Death of the Desert Fox
Published in Hardcover by Stackpole Books (October, 1994)
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outstandingthe book is almost of the same caliber Rommel was. Do not waste your time.Entertaining, exciting, it flows so fast. Buy this book now and have an wonderful time!
Authorative Account of Rommel's Life and Military CareerCharles Marshall has done an excellent job in preparing a literary work that is, in my studied opinion, a complete overview of Rommel...as a man and military genius. Marshall's detailed account of Rommel's life is reinforced by information received during interviews with Rommel's widow as well as the letters Rommel sent her during the African campaigns. Further, Marshall, as a former Army Intelligence Officer during WWII, relies heavily on his own detailed diary enteries of interviews with German/Nazi officals in captivity prior to the end of the war. Marshall's work details Rommel's life from pre WWI through his untimely death, forced by Adolf Hitler, before the end of WWII. If there is only one true account of Rommel's life, "Discovering the Rommel Murder" is it.
Dishes to Die for: The Last Cookbook You Will Ever Need
Published in Paperback by Booklocker.com (August, 2002)
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You don't have to be a cook to enjoy this one!What a scrumptiously twisted romp through historical demises! While I haven't yet tried out any of the recipes this book offers up, I still found myself quite satisfied after devouring it. The idea of a book about recipes from last meals is intriguing in and of itself, but that unique approach turns out to be only the appetizer. Charles Ingram has served up a fascinating record not only of last meals, but of the events that led up to those meals for historical figures from Jessie James to Julius and Ethel Rosenberg to John Wayne Gacy. The research alone that must have gone into this book is staggering to imagine! As a history buff I would have enjoyed reading just that, but this book is presented in a delightfully unique and darkly humorous way that is sure to entertain all readers.
A clever and outrageously funny historical cookbookCharles Ingram's delightful new book, DISHES TO DIE FOR; The Last Cookbook You Will Ever Need, chronicles the last meals of America's most famous and infamous criminals. Ingram makes the reading of this unusual book more than palatable as recipes from John Wilkes Booth to John Wayne Gacy are served with extra helpings of wit, charm and DARK humor. Recipes such as 'Billy Bonny's Butter Beefsteak' (the last meal of Billy the Kid, outlaw gunman of the old west) or 'Governor Edmond G. 'Pat' Brown Gravy' (part of the last meal of the Red Light Bandit Caryl Chessman) are thoroughly researched and alive with fascinating and little-known details. Fast-paced and thoroughly captivating, this is one coffee table book that you will be hard pressed to put down once you start reading. My highest recommendation!
Django Reinhardt
Published in Paperback by DaCapo Press (April, 1988)
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The definitive book on Django ReinhardtCharles Delaunay's book covers everything you'd ever want to know about gypsy guitar legend Django Reinhardt in a captivating, readable form. Included anecdotes make you feel like you really got to know Django from the perspective of friends and fellow musicians. Many of them are quite funny too.
In addition to the exceptional story of Django and his music, Delaunay's book includes many pages full of rare Django Reinhardt photographs.
Get this book now! You won't be sorry :)
Informative book that brings Django's music to lifeAlthough I wouldn't necessarily call this book a literary classic, it's quite readable and certainly worthwhile for anyone who likes the music of Django Reinhardt and is interested in learning more about him as both a person and a musician, as well as the other musicians (such as Stephane Grappelli) of the Quintet of the Hot Club of France and others that played and recorded with him. There are plenty of anecdotes that bring their songs to life for me in a new way. Just to take one example, the first song on the first disk of the 5-CD set "Django Reinhardt: The Classic Early Recordings in Chronological Order" (which I'd highly recommend, by the way) is a popular song that was new at the time, called "I Saw Stars." It's a nice little tune, with some great solos by both Reinhardt and Grappelli, but I learned from this biography that the newly-formed quintet had never played it before. They were on their way to their first-ever recording, and were concerned that their music might not be commercial enough to be accepted, and Grappelli had just obtained a copy of the sheet music for "I Saw Stars" (which was a popular hit in the U.S. at the time). They went over it a couple of times in the taxi on the way to the studio, stopping along the way to pick up vocalist Bert Marshal, who Reinhardt thought might give the group a more commercial sound. (In later recordings, the QHCF rarely used vocalists.) To listen anew to the recording knowing now that they were just improvising on a song they'd never even played before just brings home all the more how intensely talented these musicians were. This biography is full of similar examples, as well as filling the reader in on Reinhardt's early background and musical studies while travelling on gypsy caravans as a boy, and on his teen years spent backing up "musette" dance musicians in Paris cabarets and so on. All in all, I'd say that if you're a fan of the great Django Reinhardt's music, this biography will enhance your appreciation of it all the more. (The author, Charles Delaunay, by the way, was a French music critc and contemporary of Reinhardt and Grappelli, who was instrumental in getting their professional careers started and who probably knew them and their music as well as or better than anyone. So this is as authoritative a biography of Django Reinhardt as there is ever likely to be.)
Don't Leave It to Chance: A Guide for Families of Problem Gamblers
Published in Paperback by New Harbinger Pubns (July, 2000)
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Don't miss this bookI found this book helpful, realistic, and compassionate. Don't Leave It To Chance explores myths and misconceptions about gambling, helps us identify the extent of the problem, and guides us through the emotional and financial impact of the disorder. The authors skillfully bring us to a place where we can build a meaningful dialogue with family members, work through anger, anxiety and loss of trust, and begin the process of regeneration with new momentum and understanding. The scope is comprehensive with a style that is personal, enjoyable and logically consistent. I was amazed with the depth of insight into motivation, emotional issues and relationships I was collecting along the way. Written with deep psychological understanding and genuine concern, Don't Leave It To Chance sorts through the difficult emotions of this complex issue, teaching skills for introspection and communication that will serve readers in all aspects of their lives.
Enlightening, Thorough, Extremely helpfulI thought this book was extremely enlightening and thorough in it coverage of the disease of compulsive gambling. It is an excellent resource for families of compulsive gamblers in 1) understanding the disease 2) guiding families and friends of gamblers in the actions they need to take in order to protect themselves as well as in helping the gambler move closer to recovery. In addition, this book provides treatment resource info and some evaluation as to the effectiveness of those type of treatments. This book is a comprehensive guide for the families of compulsive gamblers. Extremely helpful and easy to understand.. A++
This is, however, not a bad thing. Remember that Bowie himself spawned Icehouse, Bauhaus (and therfore 'the fields of the nephilm'- a gothic embarrasment from the UK that mass cringing couldn't drive away)and a whole gamut of pass the sick, or make up, bag 'artistes'.
The photos were a revelation, in terms of size and quality, when first published and it must have been obvious to Eel-Pie (Publisher owned by Pete Townsend) that sad spotty but 'different' - i.e. couldn't score chics - schoolkids like myself were going to buy two copies at a time. One for perusing and dripping saliva on and the other for the bedroom wall. Some of us particularly sad types bought three, as some pages had 'crucial' snaps on either side.
In fairness, up until then in the UK (or at least Scotland) there were about 20 unofficial Bowie books that you could buy. All of which had little of written interest and shared the same newsprint qualiy black and whites. Face it, the photos were all that really mattered. As soon as I had parted with my pocket money, the cellophane wrapping was aibourne and my mums scissors were gummed up with cellotape as I added the latest installement to the 'installation (conversation?)piece' that was my bedroom 'collage'.
Once I had bought my third copy and actually started to read the thing (only joking, I read the second one before I cut it up) I realised that this was not going to be the same old cliche ridden sychophantic drivel that I was used to swallowing so gratefully. When you are a young teenager and your mates periodically want to beat you up 'cos you listen to a poof', it can be quite comforting having some hack confirm to you in print that 'the chamelion of rock' is actually the second coming in mascarra. Like, it says so there so it must be true!
How refreshing then, to read a book that praises and ridicules Bowie in fairly equal measure, even though it's obvious that Carr & Murray love 95% of the music they are critiquing. I didn't agree with all of their observations and conclusions, but neither I or the authors should mind about that. This was then, the first music publication that for me, made reading it feel like an adult pursuit. Just before I cut it up and used it to cover every inch of my bedroom.
Two more things, 1. If you buy a copy, you will need a bigger coffee table 2. I wish I had kept one.