This book is very informative, don't try and plant without it! Everything from working soil and crop rotation to container gardening and pest control. Plus great information on how to plant specific vegetables. Our neighbors dog got to mine and I had to get another right away!

I'm a new resident in the South and gardening is a lot different than where I came from. I needed tons of advice. This book was extremely substantive and a covered a multitude of topics. Had to buy one for my Mom, too. This book will become my major vegetable gardening reference.

I got alot of good advise from this book. With charts on frost dates and when to plant what there is no way to go wrong when gardening year round in the south. I have fresh veggies all year now because of the helpful points and advise.

Where other reporters are afraid of letting their opinions be known, Adam Parfrey, in his exploration of the fringes of society, is fearless. At times he does seem a bit mean, but come on, he is printing what everyone is thinking! Included in this collection are tongue-in-cheek reports on women sexually obsessed with Elvis, the history of big-eyed waif velvet paintings, the Unarians (who prophesized that the Space Brothers would land in their UFOs and save the world in 2000 -- are they still around?), Bo Gritz (the man who Rambo is based upon) and, yes, a group that encourages the empowerment of the handicapped through sex. There are other articles on various charlatans and conspiracy theories,including an excellent one on Waco (Fact: did you know that every ATF agent killed at Waco worked as security for Bill Clinton while he was governor?!?). My personal favourite is an interview with Shelby Downard, my all-time favourite "paranoid" (I can't wait until his collected works are released in 2002 by Feral House!).

I am David Brandenburger. My (deceased now) wife & I are the sources/subjects of "May I Touch Your Scar", in this book. Parfey makes some stuff up, takes things people said, either out of context, or alters their words to suit his own pervertions of thought. While sex INSTRUCTION was a small part of what we taught people (adults only), it was NOT our main focus. To refer to us as, "a sex cult for cripples" is ludicrious. Please contact me for further information if anyone is interested. E-mail to irhp@phonl.com a Thank you.

One of the best things about Adam Parfrey's articles are the subtle sarcasm that abounds. While one man recounts his ardour for Russian mail-order brides, Parfrey, without shame reveals his opinion of this man as a travesty. Not all the subjects in this collection of articles are treated as rudely though. Parfrey investigates anything weird from millenialists to congenital human oddities with an open-mind. Photographs adorn the articles, making this book more alive in the reality of the strange.

Finally, a fantasy novel that treats the reader as an intelligent person!

Marczyk's characters are not flat cut-outs but have a real sense of identity, and as a reader I actually felt I was living their lives rather than just watching from a distance. Marczyk provides a believable world peopled with realistic characters and, as in life, there is no sharp division between good and evil.

In short, the characters are interesting, the plot is gripping, and Marczyk's turn of phrase is very engaging.

I would highly recommend this book to anyone looking for something a little bit different in a fantasy novel. I hope that at some point in the future Marczyk has the time - and inclination - to put together another book showing the events from another perspective, much in the manner of Piers Anthony's Incarnations of Immortality series (although I cringe at Anthony's rather patronising style of writing!)

Dark Heart combines the ambitions of the evil god Vraxor with the daily lives of extraordinary people. Traditional romance is interwoven with blood sacrifice, knights of a mysterious and magical order, and magicians powerful enough to permanently change the landscape. The characters are well-rounded, not just stick figures jammed in to perform the deeds necessary to the plot. If you hate fantasy, you'll enjoy the descriptions, people, and romance. If you hate romance, you'll love the wars between gods and the striving for some balance between good and evil. All in all, a very satisfying novel.

From beginning to end this book had me spell-bound. I couldn't pull myself away until it was done. The characters are well rounded and very easy to identify with. The story does not drop off or get boring at any time. I haven't had the joy and privelege of reading a book this good in a very long time. I look forward to reading more by this author. My personal recommendation...read this book, share it with your friends..it's good and it's worth your time.

Being a female, I wasn't really into stuff like that. Until I was sent a free copy featuring the two infamous wide-eyed, gun-totin' chicks barely dressed in metallic bikini suits and high-heeled boots that the whole galaxy loves so much! Boy, was I really enthralled by Adam Warren's very skillful artwork depicting a very detailed, multi-layered futuristic world where the two girls live as well as a craftly spun-out science fiction tale with a MUCH DEEPER DEPTH than a comic book would ever dare go! Here in this story, our lovable heroines go on a talk show, become honor guests for their fan convention, go dancing, get attacked by Yuri's "bad girl" clone, chased by a gun-waving mechanical monster, and get lynched by their very own adoring fans! Such gorgeous pictures quite graced by luscious shots of the sexy, scantily clad young cuties as well as such eye-poppingly graphic violence and yes, lots of gore, mass destruction, and countless deaths. But you'd enjoy it all nevertheless!

Truly one of the most wonderfully psychotic science-fiction stories ever written, "Fatal But Not Serious" is widely regarded by Dirty Pairverts as the best of the eight(to date) "Dirty Pair" stories Adam Warren has published. Hysterically funny and bitingly saitirical, with loads of gratuitous cheesecake piled on for good measure. Not to mention that Kei and Yuri(and Yuri) cause more destruction in this story than in all of their other Warren-created adventures put together. The action builds and builds, and just when you think that the explosions couldn't get any bigger, and the carnage couldn't become any more chaotic, it does. Plus, in the tradition of Masamune Shirow, Adam Warren makes excellent use of eugenics and cybertechnology concepts.

Highly recommended to "Dirty Pair" fans, manga fans, anime fans, comic book fans, or just you cerebral hard-core science fiction types, like myself(it may be cheesecake, but it is incredibly well written cheesecake). I guarantee that the twist ending will have your jaw hanging, and you mumbling pitifully, "w-w-wha-WHAAAAAAT! "

This comic's real cool with Kei & Yuri(my fav character),the 2 cool and cute babes,and there's a lot of action and awesome weapons in it.Just don't call them the Dirty Pair,call'em Lovely Angels.

As a certified victim's advocate, I have worked with numerous ritual abuse survivors. There is little information available and even less training on this subject. Drawn swords has given me an understanding of the dynamics of this abuse and insight into the psychological trauma of these victims. This author also has a resource manual for agencies, but Drawn Swords adds a personal touch and a bit of inspiration to a horrific and almost unbelieveable crime.

I couldn't put this book down! This story of the author's childhood horror gives insight to real abuse and control some children face; a truth that many choose not to believe. It is educational and inspirational. Not only does it take the reader through a journey of real life terror and trauma, it also brings the reader hope, encouragement, spiritual enlightenment, and healing, despite the world of darkness.

Very informative and helpful. Jeanne candidly describes, in detail, her recovery and healing process from the incest and ritual abuse incurred as a child. It provides inspiration, hope and courage to those working through their own healing from similar abuse.

Loved it. Wished I read it before I saw the movie, that way I would have had a purer vision of the play.

This is a great modern play. I loved all the references and word games

I'm directing the play in The Netherlands. Never had to dig so deep as in this play. Did the play before, and now I did some completely new discoveries. What about this: I think Nick is the only true victim. May change that opinion the next rehearsel: 'Woolf' never stops amazing!

Now in a newly updated and expanded second edition, Electronic Democracy: Using The Internet To Transform American Politics by Graeme Browning (Editorial Director, Internet Policy Institute and Associate Editor for "Federal Computer Week", a key publication for technology news in the federal government) is a fascinating, authoritative, and informative guide to politics on the Internet. The issues and topics covered range from using the World Wide Web for grassroots organization to making one's email to Congress count, to the history and future of online voting and polling, to online campaign resources and projections for the future. Electronic Democracy is a compelling and very highly recommended read for motivated political citizens who want to better understand the profound impacts that the technology of today and tomorrow has upon our nation's government of, by, and for the people!

The Internet has taken on many important roles in recent years as a powerful communications and information medium. Apart from online marketing of businesses, perhaps no other part of our lives has been more influenced by the Internet than that of discussing politics and spiritual matters and making our particular points of view seen and heard by others.

Electronic Democracy (2nd Edition, 2002) written by Graeme Browning offers readers amazing insight of the powerful role that the Internet has played in transforming American politics. At no other time in American history have so many people been able to discuss issues that matter to them the most and actually been able to do something about changing the course of the American political landscape.

Throughout the book readers are presented with actual events - names, dates, places, and circumstances that led other people to take action. Readers will learn about political parties, special interest groups, and common everyday folks who took action to express their points of view and to seek change. The book describes in vivid detail the roles that numerous Websites, discussion groups, and e-mail campaigns had in electing politicians, removing certain politicians from office, changing laws, and affecting other matters of public policy.

The book serves as an excellent guide for becoming politically active in the American political scene - or for that matter, in any country around the world. Readers will learn how to mount their own grassroots campaigns - right from home. They will learn how to organize campaigns, raise funds, present issues, contact people, influence legislation, and to get the word out about their own particular causes - responsibly. They will also learn about the dark side of online activism - the abuses that have taken place to disrupt American culture. As they will read, dirty tricks are still very much a part of politics.

This is one book I couldn't put down easily. It's highly informative, gripping, thought-provoking, and will surely motivate people of all backgrounds and persuasions to become more involved in shaping the direction America will head in. It's must reading for anyone desiring to become an agent of change in American society. This book will help you get started today!

Browning's book should be the first stop for on-line activists. There are so many authors out there proclaiming the internet to be the salvation of democracy that Browning is a voice of moderation. I would recommend this book as your starting point for internet activism.

Patricia Farmer, through her inspiration and insight into the Beauty that is God in everyday experience, invites the reader to take in her meditations slowly and gently, pondering each one for personal application and edification. These stories are not to be gluttonously consumed, but should be lingered over-like sipping a fine, aged brandy. Both will leave you feeling warm and satisfied. -Lucinda J. Woodbridge

Patricia Farmer's "Embracing a Beautiful God" is an invitation to experience beauty in the midst of your everyday life. In the spirit of the Native American saying, "with beauty all around me, I walk," this book will inspire you to see beauty in playing with a cat, walking along the seashore, looking at a sunset, washing dishes, meeting a child at the bus stop, or simply enjoying a cup of tea or bar of good chocolate. In the wake of 9/11, we are apt focus on fear and danger as if they are the primary realities of life. While Patricia Farmer does not deny the tragedy and pain of life, she affirms that we also live in a world of wonder, beauty, and love. Her book calls us to what Rabbi Joshua Heschel describes as "radical amazement."

Reading this book is a spiritual adventure and exercise in ordinary mysticism. It beckons the reader in the midst of her or his busy day to take a "beauty break," to see life more deeply, to discover God's presence and companionship. It reminds us that we can see ourselves and the world with new eyes - the eyes of beauty and appreciation.

This book will awaken the mystic, the artist, the adventurer,
and lover in you, and remind you that wherever you walk, you are on holy ground. The words itself transport you to a world of beauty in which divine creativity meets you around every corner.

If you have been inspired by Annie Dillard or Ann Lamott
or Anne Morrow Lindbergh, you will find this book a worthy spiritual companion.

Bruce Epperly is a professor, retreat leader and lecturer, and author of many books, including "God's Touch," "The Power of Affirmative Faith," and "Mending the World."

My car broke down on the way to work today. Thankfully my wife and I had read Patricia Farmner's Embracing a Beautiful God at the breakfast table a few moments earlier. Reverend Farmer identifies the beauty of the ordinary as a beacon of divinity searching for us in a chaotic world. Her every day examples of beauty help me see the extraordinary in the mundane.

For example, she uses the example of panning for gold to encourage us to search for the beauty in the common place. What was the gold been in my day today? A cell phone to call our AAA tow truck when my car died going to work, a bill for $214 to buy a fuel pump instead of a new car, people at work who genuinely care for me, a wife who still delights in me, eating popcorn after supper while sitting with her on the back deck swing.....thanks Reverend Farmer for joining me at my breakfast table and helping me see more beauty in each day.

Adams' poetry rocks! Anyone who can appreciate traditional forms and witty allusions but who also wants poetry to be to voice of the cultural moment will want to get Adams' first collection.

In "For Pandemonium," for example, Adams juxtaposes, or, perhaps more appropriately, appropriates, the primal post-lapserian (Miltonic?) city with/for both an urban (industrial?) love gone wrong and the limits of poetry itself.

Adams' poetry is smart and touching, often funny but always witty. I really enjoyed reading it. It is diffcult today to find a modern poet that writes both meaningful and fun poetry.

I recommend this one highly! It's formal without being snobbish (in fact, sometimes the form sneaks right past you, a subtlety which more poets should only be able to manage), but it has free verse too, for those of you who are fleeing in terror from any of the sneers which occasionally characterize the New Formalism. There are no sneers here. The book contains a number of love poems (not sentimental even at their most painful, though), and a number of "epistles" from the incarnate ET's of the Heaven's Gate cult (both poignant and funny), and a number of--I guess they'd be called "other poems." On a purely mundane level, this is certainly the book I'd reach for after a betrayal in love, but it's much more than that too.

My personal favorites are among the "others", with my all-time favorite being "Cerberus at the SPCA." I can't think of another poet who could combine the three-headed dog guarding the way to hell with the concrete and urine of the animal shelter, and it's an incredible combination; an appropriate treatment for people who abandon or negelct their pets might be to be tied up, preferably in the animal shelter, and have this poem read to them until they understand what they've done...Cerberus surveys the ranks of the damned in hell in just the way that visitors to the shelter look upon the caged animals, before he's caged there himself; that it's in Dante-esque terza rima only adds to the power of the poem. Cerberus says "I recognize that terror and that trust." So do readers of Adams' poems.

"Epistles from the Planet Photosynthesis" is masterful in its use of traditional and free verse forms. From Sapphic stanzas to sestinas, from sonnets of extraordinary beauty to a canzone whose repetitions reunite a splintered family, Mary Adams' poems demonstrate the ideal marriage of form and content. Confident and versatile, the poet is capable of heart-wrenching intensity ("What I Should Have Told You"), rare compassion, and genuine wit (see especially "Cerberus at the SPCA," a poem of humor, grace, and metrical virtuosity). Perhaps my favorite poem is one of the best villanelles of recent memory, "Queen of Grieve," in which form, image, and sound combine with unforgettable results: "She ruled a ruin, did the Queen of Grieve..." In all, a first book of singular vision and most impressive skill.

The "Everything Dog Book" actually sticks pretty much to the basics of dog care and training, but it presents this information in a highly readable and thought-provoking manner. Want a dog? This book asks YOU why, and what you are looking for in a dog. There are helpful worksheets to assess lifestyle and whether or not ANY dog should be in your future. I like that. At times, DeVito almost seems to be talking the reader out of getting a dog, and this is great, for so many people make such an important decision without seriously thinking of how it will change their lives.

There are some brief, but very accurate descriptions of some of the top breeds (don't look for a comprehensive listing). This will help those unfamiliar with breed profiles to narrow down their preferences in short order.

Many helpful hints abound in this book, too. Did you know that if you knick Fido's quick while clipping his nails, common cornstarch will make an effective clotting agent? Do you know ten great questions to ask a breeder? Web sites devoted to dog health issues? DeVito even includes a section of grieving the loss of a companion dog, something often neglected in such books.

Another strong point for this book is the presentation style. There are really nice line drawings and half-tone images, along with very interesting side-bars (one is on famous quotes about dogs) scattered throughout the pages. The writing style is breezy but to the point. This is a great book for those who want to get right to the useful information without a lot of digressions. This kind of writing will appeal to young adults as well as adults.

Overall, this book covers all the information you will initially need in your quest to obtain and care for a dog. The information is accurate, up to date, and clearly presented. DeVito advocates crate training (and tells why it is NOT a "cruel" technique), stresses the ways in which you incorporate a dog into your ongoing lifestyle, and laces this work with frequent humor. I highly recommend this book to get started, and then checking out "The Art of Raising a Puppy" by the Monks of New Skete.

This book is an excellent book for dog training. Our large dog has responded very well to the regimen suggested in this book. It also has lots of information on dog health and welfare.

I found this book great, for reviewing the different breeds