This book has really helped in my writing skills. It encourages great handwriting and also encourages reading skills for a young growing mind.

If you have any space left on your coffee-table, this is the perfect art book for you! Rarely do you ever find a more complete presentation of Dali's works, both popular and private, in a single volume. This collection presents both the whimsy and the nightmares that are characteristic of his work, giving an accurate depiction of his range. If you thought Dali was just another haunted artist, the paintings in this book will reveal his gift for humor as well. Filled with insightful comments by Lubar, this book is a great compilation for anyone interested in Dali.

This book is a collection of letters centering about an amazing, actual woman who moved to Chicago one hundred years ago to attend the School of The Art Institute and to become a painter. Much to her chagrin, artist/writer, Jane Heap, is made to return to her small town in Kansas to support her family only AFTER she has fallen in love with another writer/artist, of greater wealth and urbanity, whom she has met in Chicago. The earlier part of the book is comprised of unabashed, remarkable, sensitive lesbian love letters, full of magic and art and passion. Later, Heap lives back in Chicago and also in New York and in Paris, and publishes the famous "Little Review" (first to publish Joyce's Ulysses) with some of the more interesting political activists, feminists and lesbians of the century, to wit, Emma Goldman, Jack Reed, Djuna Barnes, Gertrude Stein, Janet Flanner, Hemingway, Tristan Tzara, and countless other artists. It's a great read not only because Jane Heap writes well, but because she is recording a history of the last century's greats from the view of an artist and lesbian. Specific audience, extremely inspiring.

What if the only defect in a long life lived well was a few months in the far past?
What if you had the chance to kill it?
What if you did?

This book actually explores at length that very question, although, in the current (October, 2001) patriotic fervor it may not be the most popular of answers. It remains unclear whether this is actually a work of fiction or not: it feels too true not to be real.
If you are interested an unorhtodox solution to composing a life, you will not be disappointed in this novella. If you love the canyons of the american Southwest, you will love its long explorations into the hidden details of the spaces therein.
Highly recommended.

Let's Begin By Saying I'm A Great SCI-FI Fan For Many Years.

Unfortunately, I'm Finding Myself In The Latest Years Finding Less And Less Good Reading Material, And I Find Myself Ditching Or Skimming The Books I Try To Read.

One Of The Exceptions Were "Chasm City" And "Diamond Dogs / Turquoise Days" By Alastair Reynolds.

The Reasons For That I Think Are 3.

1. Alastair Reynolds Is A Good Writer, Nor The "SCI-FI Fan" Type, Nor "The Scientist That Like To Expand Our Knowledge" Type , Or The "I'm A Failure Writing Fiction Stories, So I Will Write SCI-FI Instead" Type, But Actual Writer.
2. Alastair Reynolds Knows How To Tell A story That Will Entice You, The Reader, Like Stephan King Does.
3. Alastair Reynolds Can Still Imagine And Innovate In This Almost Dead And Berried Genre.

This 2 Stories Are A Great Example Of It's Complex Work : They Are All Happen In Is Chasm City Universe - The First "Diamond
Dogs" Is Sort Of "The CUBE" Movie Style Plot Combined With Biomechanical And Advanced SCI-FI Technology.
The Other Is More Related To Is Chasm City, And Tells A Story About The Mysterious Pattern Jugglers.

One Of The Uniqueness About Reinolds Creation Is It Ability To Create A Very Rich Universe In Which Everything Is In Big Proportions, And Every Thing Is Posible : Advanced Technology, Aliens, Mutations, hundred Of Space ships, Ghotic And Gigantic Cities, Killing Dieseases, Endless Chases, Secrets Waiting To Be Explored Below Ground, Below Oceans, In Space, In Remote Planets, Really Every Thing Can Happen In Every Given Moment, And Whole Is Woven TiTightly In A Convincing Way.

I Think This Is Worthwhile Purchase, And It Is Also Come In Hard Cover !
I Also Believe That Reinolds Is Very Talented Writer, And We Will Hear More About Him In The Future !

Dirty Stories 2 is just what the the title implies: Dirty Stories. ...The stories are mostly humorous, and some of them are really hilarious; Among the funniest are Johnny Ryan's "A Day in the Life of Long-Dong Silver" and Ivan Brunetti's "10,000 Mile Long Schlong". Tasteless? Yeah. Funny? Yeah. There is also a pair of truly tasteless "Maakies" stories from Tony "Sock Monkey" Millionaire, and a couple of dead-on parodies of old-school Marvel Comics. (The Spider-Man parody is hilarious!) If you're feeling adventurous, and you're not easily offended, step right up!

Earth Times Two is a parable about a parallel-universe United States. A boy with low-grade telepathy is transported to a different dimension when he meets his mysterious cousin. He discovers a world dominated by telepaths with the technology of the mid-Industrial Revolution. The nominal democracy in the US is a police state; he helps his new friends on the path to freedom while trying to return to our world.

I first read this book when I was in fourth grade; it is appropriate for readers in grades 3-7.

At first glance this might seem a technical treatise - and in fact those who study internal combustion engines will find sufficient detail to fascinate them. It is, however, a biography which covers the technical, business and personal life of a man whose contributions to transportation technology are far more widespread than his fame. The descendant of families accomplished in architecture and the arts, Ricardo was Cambridge educated at a time when most engineers in Britain learned from apprenticeship. His career spanned nearly seven decades, and his technological innovations found their way into motorcars, trucks, railroad engines and aircraft. John Reynolds pens a good read, and it will appeal to all with an interest in transportation history.

As a heterosexual but experimental woman, I hoped to find in "Erotica" sexual writing for a variety of tastes. However, what I actually found was an overwhelming tendency toward lesbian eroticism. Regardless, the writing was interesting, erotic, and broad-based, though the modern writers emphasized more homosexuality than heterosexuality. Overall, the book is a great introduction to feminine erotica, and empowering to those women who feel timid about their sexuality.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is a group of scientific police. There are about 6,000 members total, and this book is about the history of the FBI.
The founder, J. (John) Edgar Hoover, was a lawyer. In 1921 his employer, a police officer, asked him to start a group of "scientific police".
Men wanting to apply for a job working for the FBI had to go through very tough tests. For months they would train in finger-printing, riflery, and many seemingly unimportant tasks such as how to tell human blood from animal blood. These would be very useful later on.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation, or FBI, as we know it today, was established in 1924 and is still serving us well.