Ginger Adair has cleverly and insightfully adapted Proverbs 31 for elementary aged girls in this little book. Specific verses from Proverbs 31 are printed in small type at the bottom of the pages to facilitate memorization of this Bible chapter. The paraprased text is in very large print for the young reader.

The illustrations are adorable, black-line drawings suitable for coloring with fine-tipped colored pencils. The pictures show children sewing, shopping, gardening, cleaning house, reading the Bible, and taking care of family members (dog and cat.)

Ginger has presented adult truths on a child's level. It's very cute. I have my own copy, but intend to purchase more for use in Bible classes at church.

William Adair Bernoudy, Architect will hold special significance for the residents of St. Louis as well as for any following the architectural legacy of Frank Lloyd Wright: it provides almost 300 color photos and almost thirty floor plans exploring the work of William Bernoudy, a leading advocate of Wright's style. An outstanding collection of examples.

This book really helped me when I was first opening up to the idea that our thoughts and beliefs create our reality. It explains everything in such a clear way. Reading it was like having a life couch to give me guidance and faith (in print.) Now, over a decade later, I still refer back to it from time to time when I need some inspiration and reinforcement about my path, how to view difficult situations, or decision-making. I have read many, many spiritual-based books that contain these principles, but this is one of the few that really stands out. It has lots of really creative exercises for those who like them, but even if you don't do any of them, the book is just as valuable. Personally, I do not understand why this book never became "big."

For anyone seeking this type of material, I also highly recommend The Power of Now and the Sanaya Roman books (specifically Creating Money, Spiritual Growth, and Personal Power Through Awareness.)

i think aaron is a great author! he really showed me how to better my life. his struggles made me see that my life isnt so bad. the lord has blessed him, and he has blessed me by sharing his story with me. aaron is a man who has really found himself, and in doing this, he will impact the country with his story.

In just 28 seconds, Flight 427 went from normal flight to impact. This book tells the story of the years of detective work that followed. Excellent account of the personalities involved in a NTSB investigation with the added hook of trying to solve the unanswered question of why-did-it-happen. This one investigation may have solved two crashes -- flight 427 itself and a crash of another 737 many years earlier.

Not too technical and not too graphic either, two big pluses for the general reader.

This book is a must read for any commercial aviation enthusiast. It details the investigation of USAir Flight 427 which crashed on approach into Pittsburgh in September 1994. The crash claimed the lives of 132 passengers and crew. The book humanizes the passengers and crew, the victim's families and the investigators themselves as they undertake the longest aviation investigation in aviation history.

The book follows path of the investigation from the moment the passengers board the ill-fated 737-300 until the final report is released by the NTSB five years later. It documents what the victim's families went through dealing with USAir, the lawyers and the government. It reads more like a fiction novel rather than a non-fiction piece. I read the entire book in 6 hours and could not put it down. It is the best piece of work on the crash of Flight 427 I have seen, and I have read them all. I definitely recommend to anyone interested in air safety.

The idea of a book about an airline crash and the following investigation is not new. There have been plenty of books using this formula. But this one is special. Very readable. As an airline pilot who has taken (but thankfully never had to use) crash site courses the technical aspects are pitch perfect, and as a reader of tons of aviation books, the writing is engaging and accessible. Just about anybody could read, understand, and become involved in this text.

The epic story of the world's most popular jet with an unknown fleeting flaw is the story. Adair avoids the clichés of the Airplane! genre, but the whole book smoothly reads like a novel. He seemed to have interviewed everybody involved in the 737 investigations. And as a professional journalist he knew how and what to ask. Balanced without preaching. It is clear the 737 was safe, but had a fatal flaw. Thanks to folks at the NTSB that never gave up, and people like Adair who track and report on the detective story, airline flying becomes even safer.

If you want to know what it is really like inside a crash investigation, without the hyperbole, but with all the smells and politics, this is a super book to start with.

It's a pleasure to see this book back in print. Although Ciment's analysis is a little heavy on the semiotic side, he does an interesting job of illuminating the various thematic threads in Kubrick's work. Profusely illustrated, the book juxtaposes various stills to show the recurrance of visual motifs in each and every one of Kubrick's films (though he manages to miss my absolute favorite -- the imaculate bathroom). There are roughly two essays in the book, one dealing with Kubrick the modernist and the other on Kubrick's use of the fantastic. However, the real gems of this tome are the various interviews, three conducted with the man himself (four if you count a Q&A conducted by mail) following the releases of Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon and The Shining. Somehow the author got Stan to open up in a way, that I've never seen him do in any other interview (the exception being the one for Playboy in '68). This edition also contains some fine interviews, some recently added, with Ken Adam, Jack Nicholson, Malcolm McDowell, Diane Johnson and Marisa Berenson. There is an added chapter on Eyes Wide Shut (which in part explains why it took him so long to do the film) and a memorial essay which gives a fine and tender goodbye to a great director and good friend.

I am glad Mr. Ciment waited until Kubrick's oeuvre was completed before updating what is, indeed, the very last word on this very unique artist's films. Everything is here from the first edition which was out-of-print for quite awhile plus the films that were made after. With Stanley Kubrick's death we now have the very best study of the themes, techniques and recurring visions of a very singular artist. Anyone who wants to understand the evolution of Stanley Kubrick can disregard all the other flawed books out there and put this one on the shelf as a keeper. With detailed analysis and tons of pictures, any serious fan of his films will appreciate this as only the subtitle says it is - the definitive edition.

I have this book. 5,6 years ago, I bought this at second hand book store. So book I have is second handed one, and Japanese special edition. As other reviewers say, it's very very great pity that this book is out of print now. I think some publisher had better make new edition title, added to a visualy wondeful film-Eyes Wide Shut!! If you have found it at bookstore and you are a Kubrician, you must take it, buy it, bring it your home, and enjoy these so many precious fotos or very important his interviews in this book. I have various books about Kubrick, but this Michel Ciment's Kubrick is the best book in published ones ever I think. Do your best for finding one!! All your efforts for this book would not be wasted, EVER!

This is a small book and my first by Cherry Adair; about Step-siblings. Cat Harris loves Luke, no blood-kin, and wants him to love and notice her as his sister. As Luke turns into the perfect brother for Cat, she discovers she is in love with him. He discovers he is attracted to her and trys to ignore the way he feels so he can be a "perfect" brother. The story is delightful and at times I literally laughed out loud. I fell-in-love with Cat and Luke as they SEAL their fate. And I fell in love with Cherry Adair's sensual,sexy, and warm writing style.

Oh, this was *such* a fun story!

Cherry Adair takes a faintly taboo subject - man/woman love towards your step-siblings - and makes a wonderful and sexy romp!

Cat Harris, daughter of a serial relationship mama, wants a family. A real family. One she gets in spades when her mama marries into the Van Buren family. Her mama doesn't stay married, but Cat remains close to her step dad and step brother. Luke isn't really nice to her and Cat spends years hoping for Luke to turn into a real big brother.

Unfortunately, by the time Luke turns into her dream big brother, she discovers she's helplessly in love with him.

After the death of Luke's father, whom she's been taking care of, Cat decides to join Luke in the "big city" and try to land her a husband - and she decides Luke is going to help her. She figures that Luke will realize she's there...and available...and he'll fall in love with her.

What follows is an absolute delight. And if you can keep from laughing during the opening scene of the book, you have more control than I do!!

Catherine Harris has loved Luke Van Buren since she was six years old, when her mother married his father, and he became her stepbrother. She's been in love with him since she was sixteen. But Luke knows how hurt Cat was by him when they were kids, and he's resolved to make it up to her, and put his desires on hold. But Cat has other ideas, and sets out to seduce him within an inch of her life. Little does she know that Luke doesn't need to be seduced, that he's been in love with her forever. However, a little persuasion can't hurt!
This book had me laughing out loud at some of Cat's antics. The beginning was hilarious. It's also a VERY sexy read. I'd recommend it to anyone!

This is the first book of Ms. Adair's that I have read and I am ready to start the next. I am always thrilled to find an author to put on my 'to read list'. What struck me first about this book was the humor. Marnie has just the right touch with Jake, a definite tough guy-loner. The book reads fast and is packed with just about anything a person might want--humor, action, strong characters, hot sex scenes and good dialogue. I hope Ms. Adair plans to write books on Marnie's brothers, they each sound interesting. There is an excerpt of her next work in the back and after reading it I can only hope it is out already, because I'm hooked.

After reading other favorable reviews of this author/book, I decided to give it a try, and I am so glad that I did!

If you love Linda Howard's secret agents and Suzanne Brockmann's Navy SEALs as much as I do, you should give Cherry Adair a shot. I think she'll hook you just as easily as she did me. She keeps things moving at a brisk pace, writes snappy dialogue, and gives us a strong but sweet hero (in the truest form of the word).

Plenty of adventure, action, humor, and honest affection for these characters. And (yea!) it looks like there could be a few sequels for them to pop up in in the future. I wish Cherry's next book was ready for purchase right now - I'm eagerly looking forward to it, and I will definitely buy anything with her name on the cover!

I love stories where the plot keeps you going, the romance is definitly in the forefront of the novel, and the characters are smart and well thought out.

Cherry Adair delivers all three.

Marnie is a real woman - with real flaws. She's also smart and clever. And head over heels in lust - love?? - with a guy she's just met. So she decides to seduce him. Only... he's not responding quite the way she'd like.

Jake is a romance hero - with romantic flaws. C'mon, let's face it - I don't know about you, but there haven't been too many "Spy Kings of the Universe" in my life :-). Barring that, he's a great hero. External scowl hiding his internal torment.

Jake was betrayed by his first love, and all of his remainding friends are dead. He's not overly trusting, but Marnie has a way of getting thru even his well fortified defenses.

This was a well written book. Lots of twists in the plot to keep you interested. Lots of humor to keep you lauging out loud. Lots of romance to keep you sighing with enjoyment.

A definite keeper!

...Chapter One (Getting Started) is a short, but important introduction to this concept of "buzzing." The author's voice is particular interesting. He sounds like he's just sitting around chatting with some friends. I find that makes a textbook like this much more enjoyable.

Chapter Two (Don't Read this workbook!) explains that Buzz Your Mp3 isn't a book to just read, you need to interact with it, try some of the ideas, and use it to brainstorm your own plans. It's an interactive book, basically. I think this is good advice for any self help book.

Chapter Three (Offline Buzz Tips) is where we really get into the meat of things. The author lists and explains over thirty tips for promoting music via gigs, radio air play, your local community, etc. Stuff in the real world, not on the Internet. I found these tips to be very helpful. A little more explanation and examples could have helped, but there is certainly enough information here to get you started.

Chapter Four (Online Buzz Tips) is a lot like chapter three, only the author focuses solely on promoting work online. A lot of good ideas. More examples would have been good, but this is a good starting point.

Chapter Five (The Buzz Plan) explains how to take the seventy or so tips in the previous chapters and build a game plan (steps you will follow to promote your music). Maybe you'll start by arranging gigs and giving out freebies and go from there. Or maybe you'll start by building a website and joining listserves. That kind of stuff. Very informative.

Chapter Six (Brainstorming) is a short chapter about brainstorming. The key, according to the author, is to brainstorm with a group of people, whether online or offline. I think he is right. Three minds are always much better than one. You'd be surprised what ideas you can come up with in a group that you'd never think of on your own.

Chapter Seven (Dos and Donts of Buzz) explains what not to do when promoting -- spamming and the like. Make sure you read this chapter before you do anything else!

Chapter Eight (Top Publicists give advice) is really neat, but I think it was originally meant for a book on promoting books. Nonetheless, their explanations of what they do is very illuminating. Well worth the cost of this book, actually.

Chapter Nine (Other Musicians Got Buzz) is one of the best chapters in the book! The author allows a lot of bands discuss their buzz plans and how they're promoting themselves. There are some really neat ideas here.

Chapter Ten (Now is Now) is one of my favorite chapters. The author obviously really likes this band and he walks you through how they got their self-released single played all over the world while spending very little money. The band is called NOW-is-NOW, by the way.

Chapter Eleven (Rock Band Live's Fan Club) is a pretty long interview with the director of the fan club for the band Live (Lightning Crashes, I Alone, Selling the Drama, The Dolphin's Cry, Overcome). Lots of neat stuff here, especially if you are a Live fan. But this will show you what happens with any fan club or street team.

Chapter Twelve (The Art of Web Promotion) discusses promoting on the web in general. These is just the basics, but it is a good start.

Chapter Thirteen (Finals Thoughts) is a nice little chapter that ties everything up. There are also two appendixes that promote the Buzz message board and mailing list.

All in all, I have to say I enjoyed this little eBook. I hope there is a second edition with even more interviews and tips (my favorite parts of this book) and a print edition would be nice, too. I highly recommend Buzz Your Mp3. It is well worth the price. I wish there was a print version, but the ebook was very easy to work with and it runs via a free program you can download here at Amazon...

BUZZ YOUR MP3 really opened my eyes to the world of promoting music! I thought we could just send out CDs and do gigs and people would flock to our band. Wow, that really didn't work at all. We're good, but no one was buying our CD. So I downloaded Freeman's book, pretty much on a lark because I don't think eBooks are real books but he seemed like a cool, down to earth guy when I emailed him from his website, and I started to read. WOW! What a mind. This collection of tips and hints will really get you thinking about how to find YOUR TRUE AUDIENCE! We've lined up some new gigs for next months and we're going to use Freeman's tips to promote our stuff. I'll let you all know how it turns out, but I can already feel the good vibes. CHECK THIS BOOk out!

This is a nice little book. Maybe a little too short, but it has all these chapters: what buzz is, tips for promoting offline and online, an interview with Friends of Live the offical fan club for Live, brainstorming better (some tricks and tips), rules for promoting online and the best web promotion tricks, quick steps to starting your promotions, stories about bands that have made their names promoting via the web, a little story about the band nowisnow, and something from these NY publicists which felt like it was more for books but really worked for music, too.

I actually met the author once, and he's a pretty good guy. Probably can't play a guitar to save his life, but he knows how to promote stuff. Seriously. He started PR work when he was in high school and we all were screwing around with metal mag! He's worked for publishers and authors (and bands) and he designs cool websites and stuff like that. I would have hired him to promote my music if he wasn't so expensive but now I have his book! Ha!

The author sometimes posts free PR tips on his website and the last time I checked, one of them was about writing free articles to promote your music...

The book looks more like a proof of a concept (writing a novel without a single E) than anything else. Georges Perec was also fond of creating rebuses and crossword puzzles, and this book looks like one of those. It gives no more emotional pleasure than solving crossword in the morning newspaper, although one can be proud if the crossword was difficult. Well, this one probably was, but there is nothing more than a coldy executed technique of a brilliant author. One crucial ingredient - heart - appears to be missing, not just a certain vowel. The book can be admired, but liked? Probably, not...

In words that twist within a mighty bind, a dark void winds away to worlds known but not any I can show. In this book a constant hum runs just out of mind's ability to grasp. Although many draw nigh, no pilgrim grabs it's ring of brass. Will you?

A quandry; a missing part runs far within this book but is not shown. All talk, but say naught of this void. Oh longing, may this book fulfill. It has not any of a mainstay in our world. Try it on your own, The pain is worth it, so says I who has been through this hurt upon my own. It is truly amazing.

NOTE: Not to be included in this review!! This book is a murder mystery written entirely without the letter "e" (as is this feeble review). The translator is a true genius as much as the author. His rendering of Poe's "Raven" is by itself a literary achievement of significant note, not to mention the rest of the book. Although the language is necessarily tortured and convoluted, the story flows along brilliantly. Just as a character begins to get close to uncovering the reality of the missing letter, he is done away with. For those with the stamina, a truly worthwhile read

"A void" is Gilbert Adairs translation of Georges Perec's "La Disparation". The classic story tells the story of the disappearance of Anton Vowl and the sense of loss that comes because of this. And this book is without a single E. The letter, that is. The story is originally french, and was written without the letter E. This translation is remarkable in that Adair has managed to retell the story with the same limitations imposed by Perec.