I have not read this book yet !!

I can not find on your web page where to order it, I would like to know how !!

The author enthusiastically (perhaps too much so) the hard working appetites of the pioneers. I mush enjoyed the descriptions of the "stick to your ribs" food enjoyed by many cultures comming together on the frontier. However, the bulk of the book seemed to be made of depictions of feasts and picnics, rather than everyday fare. There was some material on the origin of the various dishes (for example, the "Boilermaker" with its origins in the "Sean O'Farrell"), but not enough for my tastes. For those searching for the origin of common dietary staples, I would instead recommend "The Potaro".

This Young Reader's PictureBook of Tar Heel Authors has a somewhat misleading title. There is a small (about 2 inches by 2 inches) photo on each page. Each author profile takes up one page, and those photos are the only "pictures" in this book! Parents expecting a picturebook a la Dr. Seuss are going to be disappointed.

The text of each profile is doubtless accurate, having been compiled by the expert Richard Walser. The book is dated though, having been published in 1966. No authors with North Carolina roots who have made their mark primarily since then are included (Gloria Houston, Patricia Cornwell, Rick Boyer, Elizabeth Daniels Squire, Charles Frazier to name a few).

This book looks like it would excite very few young readers, but, to paraphrase Abraham Lincoln, folks who go in for this sort of thing will go in for this.

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I'd never had any accounting courses before. This textbook was required for my financial accounting course in an MBA program. The book does a good job of logically explaining all the important topics. Unfortunately, it takes a Herculean effort to sit down and study the material due to the dry subject matter.

The authors did a good job of using examples from real firms, which, I think, makes it more interesting. I've decided to keep this book after the course for a reference.

Many people get this book wrong. This is a book for graduate students, not for undergraduates. It introduces the concepts of financial accounting in a condensed way, which does require more time and patient to understand it, like the way we study in MBA program. Since this book assumes its reader as future statement readers, it introduces finanical statements, including balance sheet, income statement, and cash flow statement,in the first few chapters to let student understand the linkage among them. It is usually very difficult to understand for those without background, though. Plus, given the fact that this book is required by most of top MBA programs, like Chicago, Columbia, and NYU, I'd like to say that accounting professors have told us the quality of this book. For those who have a hard time on this, I would also recommend its accompanied study guide and solution manuals (used one available on amazon website ISBN 0030269695& ASIN: 0030182697; make sure get the right edition!!). After all, this is a good book, but requires more practices. Good luck.

I recently used this book for an accounting class. I am not really an "accounting head", having come from a computing background, and I had to do the course as a graduate degree requirement. I found the book to be very thorough and well written. The authors took their time to explain every new term throughout. The book also has numerous exercises [maybe too many]. I do not expect to "do accounting" in the future, but if I have to, I'll get a copy of this book again. In reading this book, I found my professor's advice quite handy: 1. start off with the learning objectives for each chapter; 2. read the chapter summary; 3. check all the diagrams in the chapter; 4. read the text; 5. practice as many exercises as you can; 6. finally, review your work. I did this and smashed the course [B+--not bad for a "non-accounting head"]. I found the accompanying study guide [By LeBronne Harris and James Moon] invaluable also. This is probably the best book out there on Financial Accounting.

This book is a waste of money. As it comprises only 32 pages (no, that isn't a typo),including the index, it covers nothing of the 1940s-1950s in depth. If you are interested in 40s-50s fashion, buy the outstanding Blueprints of Fashion series, instead. These two books were money well spent.

"The 40'S & 50's : Utility to New Look" was not as good as "1900-02: Linen & Lace" and "The 20s & 30s: Flappers & Vamps," as it didn't give much information on the clothing, but more of what events occurred during the era, but it was still interesting. I "sorta" recommend.

I felt like I was back in the 50's while going through this marvelous archive.. a great detailed history of fashion and how it shook the American culture in the 50's ...

I found this an extremely dull and stilted story with no sense of humour or appreciation of a child's wit at all. It read like a school book with its clinical political correctness. If you're looking for a picture book about divorce for young kids I would recommend a book like Babette Cole's The Un-Wedding (also published as "Two of Everything") or Emily Haughton's Rainy Day. Cole's book is full of humour and yet deals with serious issues - my 4 y.o. wanted me to read it for her again and again in the months after the separation. Haughton's book is more dreamy and has a double meaning that appeals more to me than to my 4 y.o. but has a far higher quality than this book.

I guess the point of this book was to get kids to identify with the lead character, know that their feelings around divorce are not unique, and help them to discuss how they are feeling. While it may succeed in those aims (if those were the aims), it manages to paint a rather bleak and depressing picture, and just made our family feel sad with very little positive to focus on. To give you an idea, the final words of the book are: "My mommy and my daddy love me too. Just not together."

If I were to read only one book in the whole world, I would choose "Mom and Dad Don't Live Together Anymore". I was a teenager when my parents divorced, and I felt devestated, like my heart was being ripped in half. I first read this book when I was in my late twenties. I felt so much healing from reading this book, the words on the page allowed me to cry and know that it was o.k. Then towards the end of the book the author gives you a positive way to think and act about your feelings. This book is truely inspirational and has changed my life

I was hoping this would be the sequel to the awesome beginners asp database book by John Kauffman. It was not even close. This book trys to cover so many platforms that it ends up not covering anything very well. The examples are terrible and confusion will set in after the second chapter. I have found that with Wrox books, if there is more than one person on the cover, then it will stink up the place.

My favorites were Section 5,7 and 8. The case studies were okay. Good cover on MTS and Novell Directory Services with ASP.

As a reviewer for this book I have read the book from cover to cover. The strong point about this book is that it covers many different aspects of data access. If you are somewhat new to ASP this book will show the ropes on ADO, XML and how to mix data from many different sources. If you are an experienced developer this book covers many areas that will interest you - data warehousing, the use of several different DB other than the very familiar SQL Server and non-realtional data sources. I have taken my copy of this book to work and everyone wants to borrow it.

I first saw this book at a black-owned bookstore in Maryland and wanted to know what the author was talking about. To my dismay, it was just another book blaming black women for the black man's problems. I refuse to put my money on books like these that do more harm than heal black men and women emotionally and spiritually. I read in the insert that the author was single and living with two dogs. With this typical behavior, he will have to live with two dogs until a real woman comes around the corner!

This is not an easy book to read. I was offended and infuriated several times by it but the author said some things that need to be discussed. I don't agree with everything in the book but the author was almost prophetic in several of his predictions about where black America was headed if certain trends were allowed to continue.

I read this book a few years ago, and I was very impressed. He really tapped into some true experiences that I related to. As a Black Male the book helps to enlighten and focus your personal experiences into working knowledge. I continue to re-read this book for time to time.

Terribly boring!!! I wanted to finally read a book about Burt that would share more about the man behind the image. Instead I found out more about the author. The author spent entirely too much time on sharing her feelings and what she did and how terribly important she was. Don't waste your time. If you want to read a good book about Burt, read his autobiography!

Typical "former employee" fare which leaves huge holes in the dragging story for obvious reasons and falls deeply into the "it's all about me" trap. Reynolds' own bio was more entertaining and more forthright.

A revealing, intelligent and entertaining book: Elaine Blake Hall was Reynolds'secretary for plenty of time, but what really counts here is the fact that, besides secretary, she was a mother and a best friend for Burt Reynolds. With an agile and simple narrative, Burt and Me is an excellent book and a great way to know more about this terrific celebrity: his problems with drugs, his turbulent divorce, his family, the friends who never abandoned him in the bad times (like Tammy Winette, Jon Voight, Martin Sheen, Ned Beatty, Ann Margret and Dinah Shore. The chapter about Shore is particularly touching and thrilling) and his films (like the shooting of Cop and a Half, a movie that had many troubles and set backs). The author demonstrates capacity and intelligence in condensing all her experience in this book, and she reveals to be a special, dedicated and kind-hearted woman, demonstrating that she cared (and still cares) for Burt Reynolds, not because he is a movie star, but because she knows that inside of him, there is a sad, unsecure, but kind child. Burt and Me tells the trajectory of Reynolds, but, parallelly, it traces a small biography for Elaine, a simple woman who faced great challenges...and came out triumphant! buy this book, you won't be sorry!

...but it doesn't come through here. First, this is a pretty hefty book-164 pages with long sections of unbroken text, small print, and narrow margins. About half is repetition, then there's the twenty-odd pages of kind of pointless anecdotes about friends and climbing areas, and a total of about five pages of reasons why you might not want to do the things the author prescribes. So what's in the remaining fifty-seven pages?

It starts with a physiology discussion that is either so oversimplified as to be meaningless, or just plain wrong (my favorite: 'VO2max [is] the maximum amount of air your lungs can hold') and which illustrates a fundamental misunderstanding of muscular vs. respitory function on the part of the author. In her defense, though, some of these concepts are extremely complicated, poorly documented, and in some cases virtually unique to climbing.

The book then goes into a bunch of tests to determine your weaknesses based on the grade you climb. Interesting in an 'I'll show you mine if you show me yours' kind of way, but it seems to me that anyone reading a book that uses the words 'creatine phosphate system', would already know their weaknesses. Having said that, the advice 'train your weaknesses, not your strengths' can't be stressed enough.

Then we get into specific movements on a campus board (a device you shouldn't get within ten feet of unless you consider .12a a warm-up grade) and a system board (something you probably won't ever run into unless you live in Boulder.) The prescribed workouts are kind of obvious-basically simple strategies to climb harder or longer or more (e.g.: climb a route until failure, then lower quickly to an easier section and get back on.) There's no discussion of how these individual workouts should be combined to create a coherent daily schedule.

The section on the extremely important concept of periodization is so convoluted that it confused even me-and I read the Journal of Applied Physiology for fun. The author finishes up with a discussion of individual moves (with photos,) a section on injury prevention that doesn't really go anywhere, extensive advice on motivating, a huge photo spread on stretching, bad advice on taping, a glossary that looks like it was copied out of an old textbook and doesn't seem to track back to what's been discussed (though I can't be sure because, inexplicably, there's no index), and so on.

As much as I hate to give a fellow climber a one star, I can't figure out why this book was written-it covers no new ground, and the ground it does cover is unclear, incomplete, and sometimes inaccurate. Maybe a lot of this results from the author trying to create a book that would speak equally to an unmotivated 5.9 climber and a .15a hopeful, I don't know.

My advice to you? If you're trying to go from 5.10 to 5.11: climb a lot and focus on your technique; you'll get there. 5.11 to 5.12: Buy Eric Horst's much more straight-forward 'How to Climb 5.12.' Beyond 5.12: Get Dale Goddard's 'Performance Rock Climbing.'

I was very disappointed in Ms. Reynolds-Sagar's volume. If you're not already climbing at very high levels of performance this is not the book for you. That her advice targets a small elite audience is hardly the only short-coming of her work. She is obviously an academic at heart. This is clear from her unnecessarily obscure language and tortured style of communications. So, if you're a PhD in exercise something or other and are pushing to improve from 5.12 to 5.13 snap up this work. Otherwise, save your money.

This book is a fairly decent guide to training for harder climbing. The best part about this book is the tests for grip strength, flexibility, shoulder power etc. it gives guidelines for each and for where a climber should be at various skill levels. if you fall below the recomended number in a certain category it gives you things to do to improve in that one category. all in all i'd go with the much superior "how to climb 5.12" or "flash training" both of which are also cheaper. this book has few pictures and diagrams and is fairly redundant, but the tests and charts are useful.