See the poetry of Brian D. Billings and other amateur poets in this touching antholoy.

This book of amateur poets is probably the best work of art published this year because it is such a wonderful compilation of poems by amateur poets from all over the country. The works selected show that these poets not only meet the expectations set by themselves, but indeed those set by the industry. The poems reflect the artistic heart of men and women of all ages in its purest form of expression, poetry. I highly recommend this book to everyone who dreams of "touching the sky."

Outstanding content and fun to read! Sports in general and golf specially are a microcosm of life and business. Using golf as a metaphor the traits of champions guides you through a dream round of golf with the help of an engaging and wise caddy and real life examples of some of history's finest golfers. The lessons are practical and insightful and sure to guide you to breaking par on the course, in business and in life.

This great book is a must for both Golf fans and Personal Development buffs.It teaches,inspires,and motivates.There are some great golf stories mixed in with tips and techniques on how to be a success in business,golf and life.There is alot of valuable information in this well written book by two great authors who know a great deal about success.

The introductory student of linguistics may be intimidated by the size of this book (over 600 pages) and the small font (probably 9 point). But within a few pages, their fears will almost certainly give way to relief and ultimately satisfaction with the book. Radford has the rare ability to build complex explanations gradually, using just the right balance of supporting quotes (from Chomsky, for example), real-world examples, and visual aids. The reader is carried through a broad range of subject matter by a book that is written in a refreshing and enlightening style. As the other reviewer mentioned, the book never reads as "dated" or "stodgy" - a real accomplishment given the task at hand.

This book has 10 chapters: 1)Goal; 2)Structure; 3)Phrase-markers; 4)Nonu Phrases; 5)Other Phrases; 6)Clauses; 7)The Lexicon; 8)Transformations; 9)WH movement; 10)Alpha Movement. The book has been considered one of the best introductory textbooks of generative grammar. Radford leads the reader to go through the field step by step. He shows the reader the test and evidence of such categories as NP, VP, AP, PP as well as X', which is very useful to the new hand in the study. After each chapter, there are some interesting and challenging excercises for the reader to think about. The book is a basic reading for readers who first come across the GB theory or the MP theory. The book is never too old to be consulted.

An epic storyline and awesome artwork make this a must have for any fan of the Generation One comics. Buy it!

This Transformers graphic novel collects Marvel comics US Transformers#75-#80! This comic books were written by fan British fan favorite writer, Simon Furman! The Artwork was also done by British fan favorites, Geoff Senior and Andrew Wildman! They were the creative team behind the success of the Marvel UK Transformers comic books series! Transformers#75 features stunning artwork by Geoff Senior! Unicron arrived to destroy Ceybertron! Many Autobots and Decepticons die! What happened to Thunderwing and the Creation Matrix?! How does Scroponok handle threat of the Chaos-Bringer, Unicron! How does Powermaster Optimus Prime ultimatly stop Unicron from destroying Cyberton?! The Next four issues lead to final issue, Transformers#80! The Civil War is over! But how do the Autobots stop the Decepticons Without their leader Optimus Prime to lead them? Who is the Last Autobot and how is he responsible for the destruction of Cybertron and Optimus Prime's ressurection?! Find out! Buy these wonderful Titan books! Highest Possible Recommendation!

Ted Andrews has taken me from thinking of unicorns as a mythical animal to a deep appreciation, respect and gratitude for them. Learning from his wise teachings allowed a depth of understanding that I never knew existed.

The author starts with a basic understanding and overview. Then leads the reader to undercover and explore the energies of the unicorn in more ways than imaginable. As with all of his writings, he uses many varied and different ways of working with these energies. Because of his vast knowledge in so many different techniques the reader can explore and find which method feels best to them, from meditating to dancing.

Learning to use these energies and techniques has helped facilitate much positive personal change in my life. It can do the same for you.

I must say, I was surprised when i did get this book, it contained more information than I had expecte. I have a few other of Ted Andrews book, and when i saw that he was the author of a unicorn book, I decided to go ahead and get it. I do believe it is the first of its kind I have ever seen, you dont see that many books on the magickal attributes of the unicorn that go so in depth. I appriciate this book being written, many books talk about the unicorn, but its nice to have so much in one place. This really was the book that I have wanted for a while now.

I agree with the previous reviewers comments; this is a must have CBT book. I use this book a great deal in my psychiatric practice to treat patients suffering from anxiety disorders. It has patient manuals which you can copy and give to patients to use in the clinical setting. This is a very popular book in Australia amongst psychologists, psychiatrists and other mental health professionals. We have access to the full range of international CBT books but anecdotaly this is the most popular book in use. This book's only weakness is it lacks a chapter on PTSD. It has a good chapter on "first aid" after a traumatic event but not for treating PTSD as such.

This is a great Australian book on the cognitive-behavioural treatment of anxiety disorders. It is comprehensive in the topics it covers on each disorder, and practical to boot! The initial chapters are on general issues in dealing with anxiety disorders. Subsequent chapters cover panic disorder and agoraphobia, social phobia, specific phobias, OCD, and generalised anxiety disorder. For each of these disorders there is a chapter on the syndrome (what it is), treatment, a clinicians guide to treating the disorder, and a patient treatment manual. The patient manual is particularly useful and can be photocopied from the book to be used in clinical settings. Well worth a look.

This book is, to say the least, well-written. It is concise, detailed, written with the same degree of passion for history that characterizes all of Hunt's work. I highly recommend the book to anyone interested in the response to the Vietnam War and its impact upon American society.

This remarkable account takes the American people inside the framework of one of the most spiritual and politically cutting-edge organizations founded within American boundaries during the entire Cold War, the Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW). "The Turning" by Andrew E. Hunt is a must-read for all serious students of the Vietnam War contemplating its profound effect on both American culture and the very veterans who were ordered to "pay any price and bear any burden" for the mistaken political and military policies of their nation's involvement in the Southeast Asian conflict. The book's account of the various veterans--from Bobby Muller, John Kerry, Barry Romo, Bill Ehrhart, just to name a few-- who so courageously faced down the entire nation by witnessing in repeated public demonstrations what was REALLY GOING ON in the war, is a stunning reminder to all Americans and the World that for democracy to last, it must have a strong, clear, core collective conscience. No other organization so poignantly and forcefully challenged U.S. policy in Indochina as did the Vietnam Veterans Against the War. Even today, all history texts pertaining to this period touch the subject of VVAW's presence as the cutting edge of the American anti-war movement, and indeed, of our national conscience at the time. It is not surprising to me that the veterans of VVAW, such as Mr. Bobby (USMC lst Lt. 1968-69), also launched the Vietnam Veterans of America (VVA) in 1979, which fought for the rights of the veterans of that conflict against an embarrassingly silent American government. Mr. Muller went on in his life to also found the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation (VVAF) in 1980 which dealt with the issues of war and its consequences. This remarkable veteran organized the first visit of VVA vets back to Hanoi during Christmas in 1981 and, in doing so, launched the entire process of reconciliation between veterans' groups and the governments of both America and Vietnam which culminated in the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two nations in July of 1995. While following this most courageous path of peace, VVAF--under Mr. Muller's leadership-- initiated rehabilitation and humanitarian clinics in both Vietnam and Cambodia in the early 90's, assisting the thousands of forgotten, innocent landmine victims suffering throughout Indochina. This effort lead to Mr. Muller's conception of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) in 1991 which received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997 and became a legally-binding international treaty in March of 1999. The core qualities of seeking justice and witnessing truth inherent in VVAW's spiritual influence on the veterans who belonged to it in the 60's, 70's and up to the present, can be evidenced today in the continued remarkable achievements of those vets like Mr. Bobby Muller. By understanding the organization VVAW--its orgins and evolution-- the reader will learn to appreciate how men,-- under heavy fire of both war and protest of war--, have carried within their souls the spark to enlighten and change the world and humanity for the better. Anyone with a conscience should read this book and be challenged by the information it contains. Thank you, Mr. Hunt, for taking the time to compile this vital history of a unique organization which helped the conscience of this nation turn towards sorely-needed enlightment.

I was recommended this book after having taken a Body Electric workshop a few weeks before. From the first page I began to re-live the entire bonding rituals that we had experienced over that weekend. How to connect, how to communicate, and how to intimately bond on a higher plane! Although some of the prose is repetitive, it helps instill a spiritual base on which the reader can pull from. A definite "must have" book for the gay tribe who would like to interact spiritually and emotionally!

Tonight, my partner and I read sections of Andrew Ramer's Two Flute Playing together. It was a moving experience for both of us to read a loud to ourselves, a chapter tittle A Ritual for Male Lovers. This chapters, like other chapters of this book, gives very poetic as well as practical ways of understanding, experiencing, and living a life of Gay Love.

I have read this diary and could not stop! Imagine being able to ask today's military bosses, such as Colin Powell, what they REALLY think - and get the straight answer? Of course, you would'nt be able to get it. What Gen Bandholtz writes here is how he really feels about things. No punches pulled. Readers 80 or 90 years from now will get to see how Gen Powell feels about things.
This book shows how a man, just doing his job, comes to see injustice and underhandedness from all directions. Gen Bandholtz died a few years after this, but I'll bet his experience in Budapest stuck with him every day.

This is well worth your time and money.

Woodrow Wilson promulgated an idealistic solution for the problems of Central Europe: the right of national self-determination. This apparently simple and self-evidently just doctrine ignored a host of psychological, historical, geographical, and above all, political complexities. Sure enough, in the Versailles peace process following WWI, the major powers and minor players pulled and twisted the doctrine to tatters in order to promote their own interests. Nowhere was the result as geographically dramatic as in the case of Hungary. Harry Hill Bandholtz, the American Allied representative in Budapest during some of the chaotic years between the armistice of 1918 and the Treaty of Trianon of 1921, witnessed the conniving, skullduggery, venality, and sometimes brutality of both his allied "bretheren" and all the local nationalities at first hand. He stood alone, at times, trying to enforce order and justice. Thanks to a stroke of luck that put him at the head of the Allied Commission in the nick of time, he single-handedly saved Budapest from a complete sacking by the Romanian forces who occupied it briefly. His diaries display a straightforward military man of honor who nonetheless relishes the ironies and absurdities of events around him as he struggles to see the right thing done. Not only is it a critical primary source for an obscure but important piece of history, but it is a moving and, at times, screamingly funny read.

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Well it's now 1998, and Bristol Computing has jumped on the growing Microsoft lawsuit pile with another claim that something is rotten in Redmond. The contentious arguments have now moved to the issue of the Win32 API, an issue Andrew Shulman first discussed in his investigative masterpiece, "Undocumented Windows".

If there is a Microsoft monopoly it is that they have total, proprietary, 100% control of the API to which the majority of computer applications are written. The 1992 publication of "Undocumented Windows" revealed for the first time that there was no "Chinese Wall" between Microsoft OS development, and Microsoft Application development. The playing field was indeed not level. Shulman also discovered the reprehensible methodology of using arbitrary changes to low level system calls, the "shared dll's", to spike the performance of competing applications.

As they used to say in Redmond, "Windows isn't done until Lotus won't run".

The Windows OS triumphed over the more sophisticated and capable Mac, and the powerful but balkanized UNIX environment, because of the vast selection of shrink wrapped applications offered.

The Microsoft strategy of providing an open platform GUI, promised both an open Hardware Reference and an open API.

Yes, the Win32 API was sold to eager third party developers as an open platform. Microsoft subsequently captured the mindshare and investment efforts of most third party developers by providing an effective access bridge to an highly competitive hardware development community. Shulman's work proved that while the hardware reference was open, the API was not.

Since then, investors and developers have come to realize that all opportunities on the Windows platform belong to Microsoft. It is just a matter of time, time which is measured by Microsoft first encouraging third party developers in their efforts to grow a new application category, then by their moving in to seize the opportunity once the category proves profitable.

Perhaps the most important aspect of Shulman's work is that he explains in detail his investigative methods. The book also comes with an API sniffer utility so that developers can prove for themselves the shenanigans they must contend with.

Undocumented Windows remains a good read and goes a long way towards explaining the two defining developments of technology in the 90's. The unstoppable (but most predictable) application dominance by Microsoft has come to pass. And, seeking opportunities elsewhere, the Internet gold rush of investors and developers in 1994.