This is a terrific instructional text for the beginning sailor and racer, and graphically updates the expert on the ISAF Racing Rules of Sailing new for the 2001 quadrennium. The heart of this manual is Willis taking you around the race course in a separate chapter for each stage, from before the start, around the marks, and to post race protests. Each stage is quite thoroughly explored, illustrating in clear diagrams many likely situations of potential conflict between boats. For each situation Willis puts you in each boat in turn and tells you, with a touch of humor, what you each can (or must not) do, in order to avoid collision or protest. He points out that knowing the rules of sailing gives you the advantage against someone less certain of their applicability.

My copy has 111 pages and is from Fernhurst Books, U.K. It is written in a succinct, clear, and engaging manner. One fault is that the signal flags are not shown in color. And of course Willis' interpretations are not officially sanctioned! Some say this is the best instruction in the Racing Rules of Sailing (whose official text appears only at the end). Or if your only contact with competitive sailing is to watch the America's Cup on TV, this book is like a spectator's manual for appreciating the basic or fine points of the tactical maneuvering you witness.

Cable modem, ISDN or LAN connections all give FM radio quality to web audio. But putting shielded speakers next to the monitor will protect screen images against electromagnetic fields. Browsing web world class design and graphics is pretty in a 17" monitor with 1280 x 1024 resolution and 24 bit true color depth. But browsing entire web sites offline will need drives with 8 gigabytes of storage. The software regularly works with 16 megabytes of random access memory, but running 2+ programs at once will need 32 or 64 megabytes. Tempting though it may be, with all the quality web sites like Amazon, to get into RUNNING MICROSOFT INTERNET EXPLORER 5 for 14+ hours every day, the service contract print probably frowns on it and you may get an excessive use warning if you internet 10-12+ hours at a stretch. Author Bryan Pfaffenberger also warns that explorers should check in with the Windows Update each month: the latest software version will always be the safest and most stable programs against any bugs or security risks lurking out in the web. As usual the author has come up with a superbly illustrated and organized book. It is useful to pool all his information with Steven A Schwartz's INTERNET EXPLORER 5 FOR WINDOWS.

In Sacred Text, Secular Times: The Hebrew Bible In The Modern World, editors Leonard J. Greenspoon and Bryan F. LeBeau have effectively collaborated to gathered together fourteen papers which combine to present the reader with a rich, scholarly, and varied exploration of the ways in which the Hebrew bible has influenced the modern world, and the ways in which the modern world has influenced how we read and interpret those sacred writings. From Andrew Skinner's "The Influence Of The Hebrew Bible on the Founders of the American Republic" to Archie C. C. Lee's "Weaving a Humanistic Vision: Reading the Hebrew bible in Asian Religio-Cultural Context", Sacred Text, Secular Times will prove a fascinating, informative, challenging, impressive, and scholarly contribution for students of biblical criticism, sacred text interpretation, Judaic studies, and contemporary culture.

My kids (Age:7&10) and I all enjoyed this book very muchsince we received in the mail from Amazon. Every night, we take turnreading to each other -- usually I go first and then the kids. Thekids enjoy all the funny ones and the wonderful drawings that Ashley had created. This is a really great book. My daughter even recognized a few of these poems as her teacher had shared with her class early this year.

Herbie Taylor writes that he has a wonderful book that Pen's mom (Mrs. Louis Farr) gave him for Christmas some years ago written by Suzanne O'Bryan (pen name O'Beyan?). Title is SAUNTERING -One Woman's Life In the Country. It is about her animals and birth and death. Really a woman's book, but he enjoyed it greatly. Dan Loftin, Kenny Mann, and other Reagan County folks mentioned. In fact, Kenny took the photographs that are on the cover and back of the book. Well worth reading for lovers of west Texas ranch lore. It will bring tears to your eyes.

This book contains a wealth of good writing advice for any legal document that nonlawyers must read. It may be focused on SEC disclosure documents, but no lawyer could go wrong adopting the suggestions here. It covers document design, type, paragraphs, sentences, words, and legal-drafting conventions. And it covers all that in a text that is as readable and accessible as a good disclosure document should be. So you can follow the advice and mimic the text.

Great journal. Perfect ot place in your retro trailer. Keep close. Great phots inside and nice alumiunm outside binding. Wonderful!!

The book taught me so much about myself. It revealed to me the way that I am called to serve, just as Christ served. Thank you Dr. Rick Ferguson, I think your a GREAT preacher too!

accomplished contribution, adding new insights to the well worked field, at times relentlessly funny, ...idiosyncratic, and deeply felt. an absolute must-read!

This is my favorite and in my opinion the best cinderella story and the only one worth reading or watching. Prince Edward actually has name and his life is an important part of the story. Cinderella loses her slipper of course, but when Edward finds her, they find out that love cannot always have its way. The fairy godmother is hilarious. One scene you see her house and she had souveneirs from Robin and Maid Marian, William Tell, the ugly duckling, and other legendary characters. I also love this movie because its adult humor is clean and funny. The music score was written by the Sherman brothers who did a fantastic job! If you are a Richard Chamberlain fan you like it even better - he's the prince. The book is full of pictures from the movie. It is a great shame thats its no longer in print.