This book was pretty good. Definently worth buying if you like Serial Killers.

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Definitly a book for adults only, this is the tale of a furniture delivery man named John Wayne Nance who is confirmed as having killed four and possibly eight people in a twelve year period up until his death in 1986. He attacked a couple in their home who fought back and killed him. My heart went out to the victims and their families, in particular three orphaned children. John Nance must have been SICK to do the revolting crimes he did and to hell he can go!! The book is a moving account of what happened and also very graphic. Two of the victims remain unidentified to this day. May those who died rest in peace.

How would you like to visit Venice with your own personal professional tour guide walking next to you and pointing out the magnificent art and history of this ancient city?

Robert Wayne has authored, as part of his European series, a fascinating book entitled Venice in Context: The Independent Traveler's Guide To Venice offering an entirely new concept in travel guidebooks.

With the aid of a CD that is included with the book, the visitor to Venice can now listen to the voice of Dateline NBC announcer Joel Godard, pointing the way to most of the major attractions of Venice.
It is similar to audio tours you purchase in some of the most important world museums, where patrons explore the masterpieces on display.

The book, together with the CD, divides itself into 12 tours exploring Venice in the context of its wonderful art and history.
The reader will be able to listen and learn about St. Marks' Square and Basilica, Doge's Palace, Gate of Paper, Bell Tower of St. Mark, Venice's Mint, Royal Gardens, Bridge of Sighs, the waterfront, Church of Zacharias, Church of Pieta, School of St. George of the Dalmatians, Church of St. George Major, Church of St. Mary in Glory of the Brothers, Story of the Gondola, Square and Church of St. James and Rialto, Church of St. Mary of Health, Venice's Customhouse, and the Square and Church of Saints John and Paul.
Interwoven with these tours are the narrator's interesting comments concerning famous artists, musicians, historical figures, famous gondolas, and the Vaporetti System.

Moreover, the book's vibrant color photos, maps, historical timeline, web sites addresses, glossary, meticulous research and museum information, all enhance its effectiveness.

What is most practical about the guidebook and the CD is that the traveler can now visit these sights at his or her own pace without having to rush off with some tour group.
You can re-visit or pause, while visiting any place of interest as many times as your heart desires, and always have at your beck and call the narrative comments of Joel Goddard.
No longer do you have to strain yourself to hear and understand the guide, who very often has a tendency to ramble monotonously, and half of the time putting you to sleep.
You don't even have to take notes, as the combination of the written and spoken words will always be at your fingertips, either for pre-arrival or post arrival use.
As the author states: "this guide has been designed primarily for independent travelers who prefer to enjoy a city on their own terms while making the most of their precious time."

Travelers, who like to linger at each destination, will probably have the most to gain from this well organized and researched guidebook.

This certainly is an excellent addition to the many guidebooks available concerning the historic cities of Europe. I look forward to the next one in the series pertaining to London.

Compiled and written by Robert Wayne, Venice In Context is a very different kind of travel guide -- one that comes with its own audio CD offering detailed tours of Venice narrated by Joel Godard, along with an informative text enhanced with a profusion of full-color photographs showcasing Venetian landmarks and beautiful artwork. Venice In Context is an evocative and superbly conceptualized travel and tourist guide, not just for the practical realities of planning one's trip, but also for those armchair travelers, as well as destination-undecided vacationers who would like to see and hear a grand portrait of this illustrious city before committing themselves. While the principle recommended is as a travel guide, Venice In Context is also a unique and welcome supplement for studies of Venetian history, art, and architecture.

Great book about nature and how humans impact their environment. It tells of Jonathan London's kayaking trips around the world, and of all the animals he has come acrossed on the way. He gives each animal a mind of its own. I would definatly recommend this book.

The message the story subtly tells is wonderful and my campers loved the personalities of the animals. This is a wonderful book to start off a lesson about the delicacy of nature and our relationship to it.

A book not fully appreciated without a first hand knowledge of the Albemarle region of North Carolina, Mr. Durrill certainly delves into the (sometimes remote) interests of social historians. The author chose as the location for his study, a small town inside a very rural county in North Carolina. The town, Plymouth, located in Washington County, was not only a military objective of two opposing armies, but a focus of division between many economic classes. Mr Durrill presents the county very accurately as a region of very rich and very poor struggling for political and social power during the period immediately prior and during the 1861-1865 war. Presented as a war within a war, the book documents many conflicts betweeen planters and yeoman farmers, between civilians and soldiers, and not most inconsequentially, between armies. Tracing the removal of the planters' slave labor forces from the Albemarle region behind Confederate lines and showing the effects of a social upheaval, the author has shown the importance of all classes of people in maintaining the inequities of the Southern agricultural antebellum economy. Wayne Durrill has presented the economic ideals that each social group manipulated in their own interests through the war years, and shown how ideals changed with each advance or retreat of a military force.

I found this to be the best civil war documentation so far for this region. My own research turned up a great great uncle who fought for the Union Army after my great great grandfather was imprisoned. The Unionist side has never been told as well as Durrill's studies have brought it to light. Too much time has been spent studying the great battles, but the Battle of Plymouth ranks right up there in importance. How many yankees think that all southerners agreed and fought for the south, only God knows. They should read this one.

Wayne Goddard's name would be instantly recognized by knife collectors as one of the premier voices in bladesmithing. A long-time contributor to Blade magazine, Goddard has compiled the best of decades of forging experience to start the beginning bladesmith off.

Lots of masterful, practical advice, money-saving tips and knifemaking shortcuts, told in easy to understand language, refreshingly free of knife jargon that clutters so many other books on blademaking. There are plenty of handy hints on sourcing for steel and handle materials, building a homemade forge and equiping a basic workshop. For people who have always had the yearning to hammer steel and coke coal, but didn't have the means to build a fully equipped shop, this book is for you.

I got this book last night and have read it cover to cover. Wayne gives great confidence to the beginner. Just the simple fact that you don't have to go broke to make knives is very fullfilling. Some great shop tips and good ways of looking at shop problems.

Buy this book and David Boye's book, and you are well on your way.

When I challenged a Christian minister that Mormonism had as much proof as Christianity, he gave me a copy of this book. He was right. Mormonism never looked the same to me after reading it. (I wish I had seen a similar book on Christianity then!) This book is an excellent short summary of arguments against the assertions of Mormons. For those interested in origins or a possible sequence of events explaining how Mormonism came about, this book provides an excellent foundation. Davis' central theory that the BOM (Book of Mormon) was adapted from a manuscript stolen from Solomon Spaulding has been rejected for poor reasons by many researchers, and is often not even mentioned by other authors. I found this book comparable to the single book best analyzing the origin of Judaism written by Sigmund Frued, Moses and Monotheism; or the one best book on the origins of Christianity, The Dead Sea Scrolls, by John Allegro.

Compare this book with The God Makers, by Ed Decker and Dave Hunt. Their book is mingled with much pro-Christianity proselytizing. Davis, Scales and Cowdry give plenty of specifics which can be checked, and in a short book outline enough information to give people locked into Mormon beliefs solid points to begin breaking away, without advancing the cause of a competing religion. This book would make an excellent gift to an individual or a library. Now out of print, if enough orders come in, it would be an excellent candidate for reprinting, perhaps as a series of specific debunkings of major religions. It would fit in well with Ibn Warraq's recently published volume on Islam.

I have been studying with Mormons for the past eight months. It was very hard at first to see through the "armor" of their beliefs. "Who Really Wrote the Book of Mormon" is a great book which gives undeniable evidence to the origin of the Book of Mormon. Mormon claims and the inability to supply sufficent evidence to back up those claims is easily understood after reading this book. You might also like to read, "Mormons, How to Witness to Them", by John Farkas & David Reed. Please continue to pray for the Mormon believers that they will seek the truth.

I went in search of this out-of-print book after seeing a biography about Dr. Hendren on our local "Chronicle" television program. This is a stimulating and thought-provoking book for those interested in the "art" of surgery, particularly pediatric surgery, as well as the medical profession. Dr. Hendren is a generous philanthropist, sharing his medical talent with children facing medical challenges around the world. It is a fair and balanced portrait of one surgeon's life at the outstanding Children's Hospital in Boston.

I highly recommend this book which tells the story of Dr Hendern,American child surgery and Boston Children Hospital. It is very well written and beautifully describes one of the hardest working men in the US.Mr Miller deserves a medal for a job well done .

...but definitely a keeper. Wayne composed these CD's from several eras in his quest for enlightenment. Be careful though, a lot of the ideas are duplicated on more than one CD but in a different event. Nevertheless, personally that helped me reinforce what I wanted to hear. If you are not familiar with your own quest to enlightenment, take smaller steps, start with reading the book "Your Erroneous Zones" and ease into the wonderful world of a reality that you are personally incharge of.

I own a lot of Wayne Dyer tapes and books -- actualy probably most of what he has published. This CD set is nice because there are individual programs on each CD. At least one of the CD's contains a whole program of short sayings and affirmation read by Dr. Dyer. These serve as a nice refresher or as an introduction to Wayne Dyer himself. Highly recommended.

This is a story about three friends aboard the Nautilus, a cantankerous submarine-like vessel that is commandeered by Captain Nemo, an elusive figure with a mind of steel and a impenetrable purpose in life. Captain Nemo has long ago turned his back on the world, building this vessel with the intent of making it his home, staffing it with the most loyal of crews, and arming it as though it were a fortress. And a fortress it is. Captain Nemo and his crew live beneath the sea in this fascinating underwater vehicle as solid as stone. They never touch land, and are prepared to spend the rest of their days living underwater. The world has learned of this vessel, but rumors of its nature abound. Most think it is a sea monster of sorts, and the great ship the Abraham Lincoln sets out on a voyage to find and destroy the Nautilus. On board are Professor Aronnax, underwater expert, his loyal subject Conseil, and a Canadian whale harpooner named Ned Land. These unfortunate characters are tossed into the sea while heavily engaged in a confrontation with the mighty Nautilus. Hours later, they are picked up by the Nautilus, having been clinging to it's topside for safety. They are held prisoner within, but never have prisoners of war had such luxury and freedom. What follows is Monsieur Aronnax' account of the adventures that abound as he travels around the world underwater, seeing sights never before seen, engaging in activities he once only dreamed of, and enjoying times never meant to be had by man. When his companion, Ned Land, becomes restless and wishes to escape the Nautilus, the story heats up. Throughout, Captain Nemo is a mystery you will wish revealed. The story has many dull parts too, and many unfamiliar words and expressions that may bore you. Nevertheless, it is a fascinating and marvelous classic - if you have not yet read this, you should.

This is Verne's classic novel about Captain Nemo and his submarine Nautilus. What really fascinated me when reading this story and other Verne novels was not only Verne's contributions to the science fiction genre, but his founding of a whole new genre, one that, as far as I know, he has never been given credit. I think Verne was the first to write the techno-novel, a work that is filled with technical details ala Tom Clancy. For this novel, Verne did considerable research to describe what was known as accurately as possible. Professor Arronax and his servant Conseil board a U. S. ship that is searching for a monster that has sunk a number of other ships. They discover that it isn't a monster at all but a submarine, captained by a mysterious man known only as Nemo (Verne will present readers with Nemo once again in "The Mysterious Island"). Arronax, Conseil, and an American harpooner named Ned Land travel with Nemo and see many wonderous things and have many adventures. Verne's "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" has gotten some very poor reviews over the decades since it first appeared in 1869. In many cases, it was because of the translation and not because of Verne. A number of the early translators inserted their own sections with their own ideas and opinions and deleted much of Verne's own words. So, readers should be aware of the translator. I read an excellent translation by Walter James Miller that was also annotated. Such an annotated volume can prove to be very helpful to teenagers getting acquainted with Nemo and his submarine.

This brilliantly crafted novel of epic proportions, tell of the adventures of Professor Pierre Aronnax, his servant Conseil, and Ned Land, a Canadian harpooner, as they are held captive aboard a submarine by a mysterious man who goes under the name Captain Nemo. Although they are in a sense prisoners, they are allowed to use all the facilities aboard the submarine. This submarine, powered by nuclear energy and christened the Nautilus, is one of Verne's many brilliant predictions of modern life made throughout many of his works. This like may others was correct. Through out the book, the reader gains a vast knowledge of marine life, and the lives of people in distant lands.

The book begins when Professor Pierre Aronnax, the narrator of the story, boards an American frigate commissioned to investigate a rash of attacks on international shipping by what is thought to be an amphibious monster. The supposed sea creature, which is actually the submarine Nautilus, sinks Aronnax's vessel and imprisons him along with his devoted servant Conseil and Ned Land, a temperamental harpooner. When they are returned to their senses, the find themselves inside a dark, gloomy, desolate, endless, predicament. They are locked in a cell. However they soon meet Captain Nemo who agrees to let them move about the ship freely on one condition. They must remain aboard the Nautilus. So begins a great adventure of a truly fantastic voyage from the pearl-laden waters of Ceylon to the icy dangers of the South Pole, as Captain Nemo, one of the greatest villains ever created, takes his revenge on all society.

The detail that Verne pours into this book is amazing. This is one of the few books that are capable of making the readers feel that they are actually there. His descriptions of how the Nautilus operates, how Nemo's crew harvests food and his account of hunting on Hawaii are excellent, and the plot never falters. The characters are wonderfully scripted; each one having their own unique personality, and they are weaved flawlessly into the awe filled spectacle.

This is the book that predicted that there would be submarines, and that submarines would eventually go to the South Pole. It predicted the development of the SCUBA suit; it even predicted nuclear powered ships. The technology used in this book makes it easy to understand even today. This book is widely recognized as a classic- in my view, correctly.

This book is excellent and is a must-read for anyone contemplating marriage, having marital trouble, or happily married wanting things to be even more perfect. The previous reviewer may have taken the "needs" too literally. Dr. Harley mentions 5 of the "top" needs, but it is not the same for everyone. As a matter of fact, in my marriage, I have a few of the "male" needs, and my husband has a few of the "female" needs. But it works for us.

We were literally on the brink of divorce - only needed to get a lawyer. This book totally changed our thinking. We thought we were meeting each other's needs, but we were really meeting our "own" needs, which are rarely applicable to the spouse. We learned so much from this book, and now give it out as wedding presents to hopefully spare couples from the trouble we experienced.

I *highly* recommend this book, and don't know what we would have done without this information. We periodically read it again for a refresher course - and it always works wonders. I have read the John Gray books, but found this book to be the most helpful for us. Our marriage is fabulous now!

I got this book from a friend and most of it i was very aware of anyway. But never had anyone to tell me or my wife . Now that we both have read it and both agree what we were doing wrong , our marriage has taken off like a sky rocket . We now communicate much better , have greater love and sex with each other . Men cheat a good woman out of a good marriage and women do the same to a good man. Men and women are different , but pleasing each other is easy indeed for most people. Everyone wants a good loving, fullfilliing , and wonderful marriage or a great romance . These basic concepts of understanding make a difference of night and day. AS wonderful as my wife was she was not making me happy, nor i making her happy.Now we openly talk about what and how to make each other happy , in all aspects of our marriage. Age and 28 years of marriage has changed both of us . But now we act totally different toward each other. I truely feel we may just stay together til our death. And be happy doing it. So men please understand all of your wifes needs and try to meet them the best you can. Women if you love your husband try to do the same thing. It will make a big difference in your happiness.And remember every man is different than the next guy. And everywomen is different from the next gal. Don't take anything for granted. Don't listen to gossip from any source. Talk about your needs , each being different and special . I have seen men cheat on their wives and this broke her heart . This could have been avoided if they just talked about each others needs and tried to fullfill them. Many women are unhappy in their marriage, and the husband has now idea why. Open up your brains and hearts if you want your marriage to last. If you don't , divorce is very expensive and you detroy each other so badly. Many 30 year marriages could have been 60 year marriages. I recommend reading this book to any adult male or female .

I probably read this book ten years ago for the first time (buying it today as a wedding gift). I have now been happily married for over fifteen years. I give credit to this book for some of the adjustments we made early in our marriage.

However, I must say, I clearly remember reading that a couple shouldn't do enjoyable things apart such as golfing, bowling or whatever. I, at that time, highly valued our separate evenings as a way of keeping our identities. After muling this thought over I began to clearly see that I didn't want my new husband to "do all his most favorite and enjoyable activities" without me. And vice versa.

Learning to be aware of how I have the power to lift his self-esteem seeing how this comes back to me is not humbling - it is rewarding.

Definitely a must read together to create a good starting point for a healthy marriage or "fixer upper" for a sick one.

Debbie