This was a riveting read. very insightful and helpful in understanding cultural differences. I read it to learn more about american culture and found it helpful. I also learnt about many other cultures too.

As president of a cross-cultural training and consulting company, I have found this text extremely useful for providing our clients, corporate managers and executives, a quick, easy-to-read overview of the types of communication challenges that can arise in daily cross-cultural conversations. Typically, the reaction we get is "That just happened to me, but I didn't know what was going on at the time." At ERUdyne, we use the text on a regular basis. We recommend it to all our clients who are new to the global business environment, and to those who want to fine tune their skills for picking up the real message behind the words.

I teach in a community college in a small town near the Mexican border and discovered in Storti's book insights that enabled me to avoid small cultural differences that can interfere with communication. My advanced composition class studies the topic of cross-cultural communication world wide, and Storti's book is one of the major resources I make available to them in the college library. The students are fascinated by this segment of the class and like Storti's dialogues a lot.

Throughout my many years of preparing Mexican meals, whether cooking for my family or to please guests entertaining, I've found this book indispensable. I've been using this book for twenty plus years and continue to this day to use it for quick reference. The recipes are authentic, equisite and often exotic culinary delights explained in simple text with instructions that any novice cook can follow. If you like to create your own recipes this is a good springboard to follow one's own inclinations as well. The book is divided into three sections. Part one gives an informative tour of the ingredients and procedures used in Mexican cooking, complete with historical background and identifying drawings and photographs. Part two is the corazon(heart) of the book with all the delicious recipes from way down south. Part three is the conclusion and it includes information on sources and a pronuncaition guide. I have found part one to be particularly interesting and helpful especially when it comes to the use of the lesser known herbs. Some of the ingredients are nearly impossible to find and there are no satisfactory replacements. This is where I learned about huitlacoche, a fungas that forms on the ears of corn that makes for a delicious soup or filling for quesadillas. I've sampled this dish on both sides of the border but never found the fungas at local markets. Another simple treat is squash blossoms used for a filling in quesadillas The recipes are easy to follow and when several stages are involved it is explained perfectly. After travelling in the interior of Mexico I longed for some of the dishes I sampled and this book has allowed me to prepare the dishes north of the border. Have some broth left from the frijole(bean) pot, tortillas, some chicken leftovers and tomatoes or tomato soup? If you do then you have the basis for Sopa Tarasca which will warm you up on a winter day. Sopa Tarasca, a meal in itself, is an example that is easy enough to prepare and well worth the effort. There are countless recipes that employ ingredients that may be thrown out rather than eat the same thing. The colored photgraphs and drawings are a nice touch, but this isn't a cook book with glossy perfection on each page, the recipes are what counts here. Diana Kennedy is a world renowned expert on the cuisines of Mexico and has been decorated with the order of the Aztec Eagle, the highest honor given to foreigners. She is the high priestess of Mexican cooking and her book is a tresure that belongs in any kitchen that prepares authentic Mexican cuisine.

I love this cookbook! After receiving Diana Kennedy's wonderful book I am now able to cook all those great recipes my husband remembers from his home. With all the extra information she gives about the foods and techniques, it will give me a leg up on those dishes he remembers form his grandmother's kitchen!

It's the only Mexican cookbook I brought back with me to Mexico. The texts lively and thoughtful - as complex and as entertaining as a Mexican market itself. - Ron Mader, El Planeta Platica journal

Craig Shaw Gardner spins another winning tale in the first part of the Wuntvor trilogy, sequel to the Ebenezum trilogy. Old characters return and new ones pop up as Wuntvor desperately tries to save the world from the Netherhells, with the help of an oaf with a magic club, an amorous unicorn, a trio of demons, a talkative brownie, a Dragon and a Damsel, and a ferret.

After the events of "Night in the Netherhells," Wuntvor and Co. are safe. At first. Then it's discovered that Ebenezum's allergy to magic has spread to every wizard in Vushta. To make matters worse, Guxx Unfunfadoo has been deposed as Grand Hoohah, and soon the world will be Conquered by Committee. As the wizards puzzle out what to do, Wuntvor tries to deal with the animosity of some very large, angry apprentice wizards and the affections of dancing damsel Alea and jealous witch Norei. (Also the unicorn, who lusts after "Wuntie"'s lap.)

The wizards decide to send Wuntvor on a journey to the Eastern kingdoms, where giants reportedly eat people, and which is ruled by Mother Duck. (Yes, Mother Duck -- Gardner ventures into fairy-tale territory in this one) He's soon being confronted by Death, who announces that he is the "Eternal Apprentice" -- he'll reincarnate a thousand times as the quintessential apprentice, but Death can claim him if he is ever alone. The problem for Death is, Wuntvor has more than enough company: the exiled Guxx and Brax, the irritating Brownie, Snarks the truthful demon, Hendrek and his club, overamorous Alea and her singing dragon, and the pushy unicorn. Can Wuntvor keep from being claimed by death -- either by being alone, or by being eaten on pumpernickel?

Gardner's golden touch is turning to platinum in this book. His talents for kooky characters and overcomplicated conversations are getting better as time goes on. Perhaps the biggest problem with "Difficulty With Dwarves" is that it ends with a "to be continued." (The dwarves mentioned in the title are the "seven OTHER dwarves," including but not limited to Sickly, Nasty, Spacey, Smarmy... you get the idea)

Poor Wuntvor is still trying to keep up with events around him, and Ebenezum is trying to decide what to do (he makes another appearance inside a giant shoe). To really understand the cast of characters (oh yes, Cuthbert the cowardly sword appears as well) you have to read the Ebenezum trilogy. It's complex and outstandingly funny, with plenty of jumbled dialogue that never trips over itself. Ever seen a bumbling, inexplicably attractive hero defeat a giant with a magical toothpick? That's what you'll see here.

Fans of fantasy and fairy tales will enjoy seeing the staples of both being relentlessly spoofed in "Difficulty with Dwarves," and will be left bouncing with anticipation for the next book.

I love this series. It's witty, entertaining, and a wonderful silly adventure.

In Vushta, city of a thousand forbidden pleasures, there is something wrong. Every wizard there now sneezes when near magic! They all cought this cold when trying to cure their fellow wizard, Ebenezum, greatest mage in the Westerm Kingdoms! It seems like another quest is in the offerings, for, in the meantime, the demons in the Neatherhells, after failing to conquer the surface world, have settled on something new, something more horrifing then the Grand Hoohah, (don't ask!) Conquest by comittee. So, boldly, Ebenezum's appentice, Wuntvor, must set off alone, to try to talk the great and horrifing ruler of the Eastern Kingdom, Mother Duck, into helping them. At first the bold lad is alone upon his quest, (all his companions from the last quest were too busy arguing who shoud go and who shouldn't come), which is exactly the way someone, or rather, something wants him. Death Itself appears to Wuntvor, and reveals that the lad is only the latest reincarnation of the Eternal Apprentice, forever destined to aid true heros in his bumbling, inept way, with the help of any number of magical companions. And since he is forever being reincarnated if he dies, he is forever beyound Death's grasp, (something that drives the specter wild) unless he's alone. Well, Wuntvor happens to be alone at that moment. But before Death can take him to his kingdom, several unexpected companions arive. First there is one of Wunt's 500 magical ferrets. (He conjured it with a magic hat.) Then Tap the Brownie arrives, just in time to scare Death off. Two deamons, Gruxx Unfufadoo, former enemy of Wunt and former Grand Hoohah (don't ask)! and Braxx, traveling Salesdemon join up. Then the vadville act of dasmel and dragon show up. There is also the Warrior Hendrek, and the truthtelling deamon Snarks, as well as a unicorn that longs after Wunt's lap. But they soon learn that Mother Duck has made a pact with the Neatherhells, and intends to take them all to the Storybook, (they would have prefered being baked into bread!) Is this the end? I really love this book, but had to get it from a Z-shop. I recommend it to everyone and everything with a sense of humor!

I was in Somalia as a member of the Army's 10th Mountain Division and bar none, I can't imagine any book that could be better written about the situation in Somalia in 1993 than this one. I've bought copies for everyone in my family because by reading it, they will know what I went through.
"Blackhawk Down" was brilliantly done, but it was only about a 2 day battle in Mogadishu in October, 1993. "Doorway To Hell" is about the whole operation and it is so accurate, I had flashbacks when I read about the horrific conditions which I lived through.
It is a book that will be appreciated especially by anyone who was in country, and will be hated by those who made the policy decisions that caused the U.S. to be there in the first place.
I was especially impressed by the breadth and scope of the narrative. It ranges from the policies in the United Nations, White House and Pentagon regarding Somalia; to the experiences of the common soldier who went head to head with Somalian warlord gunmen.
Brigadier General Wheeler and LTC Roberts have done a great service to every one of the 80,000 American veterans who served there and each one of them should get a copy of this book.

This is a book that should be read by everyone in a policymaking position in Washington down to a Marine or soldier in a frontline unit. It covers the Somalia operation from the strategic to the tactical to the impact on the individual. The reader will have a hard time putting this down and there will be times when reading it, the reader will be angry at the incompetence of decisionmakers, sad to the point of tears with regard to the horror and heartache that our troops were exposed to, and extremely proud of the work that our American soldiers and Marines did to help save a starving nation. I am buying copies of this book for presents but only for those who are intelligent enough to understand how complex and challenging was Somalia.

General Wheeler and Colonel Roberts have put together a blockbuster that exposes what happens when US troops are placed under United Nations command (foreign officers), and are subject to ill-defined missions then progress in "mission creep" to such fiascos as depicted in the movie "Blackhawk Down." More importantly, they show the REAL reasons our troops were sent to Somalia that include the economic (oil) and strategic (Somalia guards the entrance to the Red Sea and is across from Yemen). One also finds that Osama bin Ladin's "al Qaida" is responsible for training and equpping the Somalis, and still exist there in training camps on the Horn of Africa. A must read, before it's too late and we end up in another quagmire like this one.

I've read this book twice, and I intend to read it again. This is simply the best organised, straight-forward, most scholarly account on the nature and purpose of life that I have ever read. Yet, at no time did I feel that I was being "sold" a particular dogma. There was nothing that I had to sit down and struggle to accept or rationalise;it just simply had the ring of truth. One look at the table of contents reveals the clear, logical organization of the book- there is no fuzzy minded pseudo- mysticism here. Everything from the nature and purpose of pre-earth life, life on earth, and post-earth life is right here. You find definate information on everything from angels, bewildered spirits, pets; to the big questions like the purpose of life and the nature of suffering. If you've been told that you can't possibly understand the great mystery of God's will, try reading this book- it gives some satisfying and comforting answers in clear and simple language.

This book was great so good that i ordered a total of six so i could give one to each of my family members. i recieved great service also.

This is the best book I've read in years. It's beyond inspirational. It's life-changing. Read this before Oprah's suggested book by Gary Zukav, "Seat of the Soul". If you already read that, you'll love this. It's proof.

This book is a powerful transforming word. I have come to understand more clearly why relationship with God the Father is an imperative. WOW!!

This book has been a God sent, it has totally impacted my life. Through much prayer and reading many scriptures in The Father Revealed, I have come to know my Heavenly Father in a more intimate way and have received the Fathers Heart. My life has been transformed. I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants a more deeper relationship with God the Father it will inspire you to go higher in the things of God.

This book had a major spiritual impact on my life. What a timely word for a fatherless generation. I want to encourage people to not only read this book, but to purchase additional copies and give them to hurting people.

We bought this book to prepare our four year old for a tonsillectomy. This book was the most up to date and accurate book we have read. It helped very much to ease her uncertainty. She still reads it for a storybook a year later.
I would highly recommend it!

... [It] is a perfect book for a child facing a tosillectomy. My 5 year old nephew, a child with a tendency to internalize all his emotions, was actually able to talk about his upcoming operation without being reduced to tears after his mom read him this book. It is very straight forward, honest, and written from a child's perspective. I highly recommend this book to parents and ENT's everywhere!

When I searched for kids books on tonsillectomies, I was surprised to have such a small selection. Luckily, this book more than met my need! My 4 1/2 year old daughter received the book last night, and has already asked for two readings and has "read it" to herself repeatedly. It provided the perfect experience for talking about her upcoming operation. She uses the pictures to identify questions she has and things she is worried about. I don't know if she will need an IV, but after looking at the one in the picture, I think she will be more than prepared to accept it. My daughter immediately identified with Juliana and is interested in the things Juliana did to get over her fears (talk to people who had their tonsils out, read books, play with doctor's masks). I think that I may now be required to provide a cake that says Goodbye Tonsils, just like on the cover, but that is a small enough price to pay for my daughter's peace of mind! The professional reviews criticize the quality of the pictures -- and I pooh-pooh this. The last thing this book needs is "artistic flair." The pictures are clear and detailed -- down to the medicine cup of cherry liquid (a sedative), the gas mask, and the IV. They are completely appropriate for the purpose of this book. If your small child is facing a tonsillectomy, I highly recommend that you purchase this book. And if you are an ENT, (or know one), I recommend this for your waiting room.

Lucifer's Halo is the remarkable story of one man's spiritual battle with religion. Michael Joseph Lisner's striking art, incomparable symbolism and dialogue, provocative enough to startle, enhance the epic. Darrian Ashoka lives in a surrealistic New York City where the lower class is left to its plundering and filth by an elitist church who have moved to the city's outskirts. During a weekly Saturday night riot, Darrian is approached by Dawn, an enigmatic feminine deity, who invades his bed and provokes his intellect. On their next meeting, Dawn gives him Lucifer's Halo, remaining from his days as an angel. It is a dangerous bridge between Heaven and Hell and Darrian soon finds himself hounded by both sides in a bid for it. Darrian's fight to keep his gift is one of fright, confusion and reckoning. He must overcome fear and anger towards the other side and look deeply into his human soul for strength, truth and the right choice.

There are few graphic novels in my vast collection with such lush, visually appealing illustrations as JML's. Dawn is the most beautifully rendered (caucasian) vision of the Goddess ever captured on paper, and to quote the foreword, few artists have reflected such a love for his main character as Linsner. His hard rock/heavy metal heritage is plain to see throughout the book, but it does not diminish the fact that Dawn is alive in his mind and on the pages. The written story itself isn't as solid as it could have been, but Linsner's skills as a graphic storyteller more than compensate for any shortcomings one might find. Any serious lover of art, fantasy or mythology should own Lucifer's Halo. PAGANS RULE!

There are four gods above all others, Allah/Adonai/Yahweh the god of order, rigid and merciless; Lucifer the cast off angel who now commands chaos, mercurial and chaoitc; Dawn, the mother goddess of birth and rebirth; and her husband, the horned lord of the hunt and death, Cerennus. The story follows Dawn as she attempts to reawaken her lover to his divine nature, in his mortal incarnation of Darrian Ashkova. She gives him Lucifer's Halo so that he can see and interact with the people of Heaven and Hell, and learn his own place in the scheme of things. A definite must for anyone into great storytelling.

You can't tell a book by its cover nor its prologue. I almost did not read this book due to the poor prologue. Pages, or at least paragraphs, were missing between xi and xii, xiii and xix, and paragraps were repeated on xii and xiii. That said, Mr. Craig did a masterful job of describing the end of the Japanese war machine. Having spent four years in Japan and touring many of the cities discussed, including the Nagasaki peace park, I beleive Craig captured the the true complexity of the Jananese.

Insightful, in depth look of the Japanese government during it's last days of WW11. Not only does it give you an inside look of it's leadership, it also uncovers for the reader the psychological make-up of it's people and it's old world traditions, especially it's view of life and sucide. I first read this book 33 years ago, when I was in my early twentys. Today, the journey through it's pages are just as exciting.

William Craig is an excellent and in my view underappreciated military historian. His book "Enemy at the Gates," is an appalling account of the battle of Stalingrad that captures the abject horror of that campaign. In "The Fall of Japan," he gives us the end of World War Two from the perspective of both the Japanese and American belligerants. The writing is crisp and he brings the story alive through the eyes of those who lived it. Particularly well described is effect of the Atomic bombs and the decision by the Japanese emperor to overrule custom and insist that the war be ended. With this book, Craig deserves a place alongside such excellent military historians as John Toland and Stephen Ambrose.

I am not a beginner in Dreamweaver by any means, and I don't understand why the author insists on making you do everything by writing code. If I could write in code, I wouldn't need Dreamweaver. I think his reasoning is that entering the code in by hand will save you time, but I think this is a big mistake on his part. That's the whole point: to let Dreamweaver write the code for you.

You have to do things in hand code when there are perfectly easy features that do all of this for you. That's not necessary to learn Dreamweaver, and the author does not even teach you the features while you are entering in all this code.

It's too hard to make sure the code is written correctly when you do it yourself, leading to all kinds of errors that confused me while I was learning. I had to continually go back and forth between my case study and the example that was provided. And then their code does not match what they are telling me to put into my own case study. It turns out that the book is not written correctly, telling you to write in code that is in the wrong syntax. The only way I figured out the problem was to constantly check against the example, and I realized there was an error in the instructions. Also, on the web site there is no list of errata, so I don't know if they even know they've made mistakes.

If this is supposed to save you time, guess what: it doesn't. I would not recommend this book to anyone, especially if you are truly a beginner in Dreamweaver. Go to the H.O.T. book instead--it's much better than this.

This book is a MUST for those wanting to learn the first steps in how to truly use Dreamweaver to create a quality basic site. From layout and images, to CSS tutorials, right up to PHP and MySQL lessons. It's right on.

Experienced developers or programmers may want to pass on this book since it really is a beginner title... hence the Foundation premise. ;-)

This book is an excellent starting point for anyone who has only just got to grips with other dreamweaver versions. It gives clear but creative information in a way that is easy to follow. It's very well written and gives some good examples