The Great White Shark is by far the best investment I have made to date. I picked up the book while working on a Co-op work term from school and could not put the book down. Every aspect of the oceans most respected predator is covered with many dynamic pictures and illustrations (done by Ellis). From learning about it's biology to investigating why we can't keep white pointers in captivity, this book is a must for anyone interested in reading about the king of the sea.

I found GREAT WHITE SHARK by RICHARD ELLIS to be one of the best books about GREAT WHITES ever written. I can see why STEVE ALTEN the author of MEG recommendeds it. It talks about the GREAT WHITE'S hunting instincts, swimming instincts and breeding instincts with more information about GREAT WHITE'S, like no other book before it. I admit that when I started reading it I thought I would be bored with it quickly, how wrong I was. The book was fascinating and informative, I felt that the author had really done a lot of research about GREAT WHITE SHARKS before writing it. He even goes into the remote possibility of the GREAT WHITE SHARK'S ancestor. The CHARCHRADON MEGLADON"S existence in the modern era. I felt he also researched those sharks greatly as well. All in all this book gives you a greater appreciation of these maginificent creatures and the importance of thier continued survival. If you love sharks this book is definitley a must read.

Richard Ellis does a wonderful job treating his subject with respect, revealing the Great White Shark as a predator whose reputation is largely undeserved. The book reveals many facets to a powerful animal that can be extremely dangerous to people who intrude upon its domain. But there is no malice toward humans on the shark's behalf, and the book tells it like it is with text that is comprehensive and fun to read. Great White Shark biology is featured in detail, and shark attacks and the reasons behind them (they aren't what most people would think!) are researched with great attention to detail.

The photographs and paintings (done by the author) are superb. Two of the most fascinating sections of the book feature the study of the extinct Charcaradon Megalodon (a massive relative to the Great White whose only earthly remains are fossilized teeth) and the thus-far unsuccessful attempts to keep Great Whites in captivity. The story of "Sandy," a female Great White who was released following an ill-fated tenure in a public aquarium, is actually very touching. It shows how many in the public wished to see the shark's best interests served, while others spoke out against it, seeing only an evil monster.

A wonderful volume on one of nature's most beautiful and infamous creatures.

We know that the stock market is the place to go with our investment dollars. What we don't always know is how to proceed. In plain language, Ellis Traub leads us through the process. He teaches us how to seek out companies of high quality, how to determine a reasonable price at which to purchase them, and how to follow them up after purchase. Peter Lynch told us that we can do this. Ellis Traub tells us how to do it with step by step instructions that will be of immediate value to novice and advanced investor alike. Take Stock is a must read for anybody interested in accumulating wealth safely through investing in the common stocks of fundamentally sound growth companies for the long term.

Ellis Traub makes investing 'doable' for the novice. Take Stock is a well written, informative book for the beginner, intermediate or advanced investor. Anyone reading this book will benefit in their investing decisons. Mr. Traub makes what may be 'simple' to some people understandable for the rest of us. I felt I was listening to him speak and seeing him draw diagrams rather than reading a book. Learning to invest can be painful, this book is 'medicine' to heal the pocketbook as well as the mind.

I absolutely think this book is a must read if you want to learn how to have a financial future. I have gained a great deal of insight into the entire study of stocks from the book. I have already bought 5 copies to give out and recommend it highly. Buy it for anyone you care about, they will thank you. Ellis Traub just make stock analysis clearer than anything I have read before. Thanks for writing the book.

Ellis Traub has reduced the complexity of stock market investing to simply how to identify good companies worthy of purchase and then how to buy them at an appropriate price. He explains in simple and easy to understand terms what constitutes a good company and good value. He starts very basically by listing mistakes he has made so others can avoid duplicating these and in short order how to become a more successful stock market investor. I wish Take Stock had been available to read before making my first investment.

I especially liked his new investing term "technamental" which applies technical graphic methods to fundamental analysis. Simply stated he uses the pictorial aspects of graphics to enable easily identifying how to recognize aspects of good companies and good value.

This is must reading for both the new investors as well as the investor who may wish to improve their investment batting average. His easy to understand step by step methods should enable all investors to improve their investing performance.

Very similar in content and structure to Ortho's Complete Guide to Vegtables. The difference comes in the experience the writer has growing and maitaining the various plants. I find using both books gives different perspectives for growing and caretaking of plants but conatins the same basic information. For instance the Ortho book has better Garden Setup and maintenance data, and raw data on the various gardening aspects like fertilizer and pest eradiction. The Burpee book focuses on plant and cultivar details a little better. The book is filled with plenty high quality pictures of plants and their fruits using multiple pictures of various cultivars within plant families.
The book is geared for both beginners in gardening and the handy do it yourselfer types. Chapters progress you through the steps from site selection and plant selection to harvesting, crop rotating and soil conditioning over winter and indoor greenhouse seed starting. The book also contains references to various cultivars within vegtable species, so a beginner gardener could not only successfully select and grow well know vegtables, but could also grow and use the odd often hard to find fresh herbs.
I consistently flip between both this book and Ortho's book. I find using them in this manner makes the information extracted complimentary and thorough.

Burpee's "The Complete Vegetable and Herb Gardener: A Guide to Growing Your Garden Organically" is fantastic. In addition to what Burpee lists on the back cover of what is inside the book, there are also many easy-reading tables that contain excellent information such as the vitamin(s) that each vegetable contains, different cultivars, plant PH needs, watering needs per week, crop yields, etc. Many interesting tidbits.

The layout is so wonderful, one does not feel overwhelmed with all of the information that is in the book!

This book could easily be worth $50 and it would be worth the investment. I've been a gardener for a number of years, and out of the entire bookshelf of gardening books that i own, this book, hands down, is far more comprehensive than all of them put together. The first section of the book, a complete book in intself, will teach you just about everything you ever wanted to know about almost every aspect of gardening, and is comprehensive enough that if you learned it all you would be well on your way to becoming a master gardener. The second section, the plant portraits, gives you more information about each vegatable and herb in your garden than you could ever dream of knowing about, and more information than you would even be able to find. Like tomatoes? there are almost eight pages dedicated to them alone. The entire book is filled with beautiful color photographs, and it is packed with tons of hard-core information. Not like the "fluff" and tons of meaningless words without any content that practically all the other books are filled with. Recently i have moved to all hydroponics, and most of the rest of my gardening books are now about worthless to me, however this book is still prooving to be an invaluable source of information. The only thing this book does not cover very well is insects and plant diseases, although it still does quite a bit better than most gardening books do. Of course, if it did, this book would probably be over 700 pages long, "complete vegatable and herb gardener" style. The book "The organic gardeners handbook of natural insect and disease control" is a very good book on this subject. Spend the money and get both of these books. You wont need anything else.

I'm a fund raising coordinator for a national charity. I used "The Celebrity Address Directory" to contact celebrities for an autograph donation for our annual celebrity auction. We had a wonderful time and the event was a great success. Many signed items sold for more than the anticipated price. Mr. Ellis was a help to us by provided updated addresses and he was professional, fast and courtesy with all his replies. I would highly recommend this book to all fundraisers because the book is well organized by celebrity category and makes sending out requests very easy.

I'm a fund-raiser coordinator for a national charity. I used "The Celebrity Address Directory" to contact celebrities for an autograph donation for our annual celebrity auction. We had a wonderful time and the event was a great success. Many signed items sold for more than the anticipated price. Mr. Ellis was a help to us by providing updated addresses. He was professional, fast and courtesy with all his replies. I would highly recommend this book to all fund-raisers because the book is well organized by celebrity category and makes sending out requests very easy.

When I received my copy of this book I was surprised. It has many top name celebrities and a lot more! I like the lists he has in this book - celebrity birthdays, celebrity charities, celebrity hobbies, top paid entertainers, Rock' Roll Hall of Famers, Nobel Prize winners, places to get in person autographs and via venues -places to send a request where a celebrity is performing. I haven't seen these features in any other celebrity book. Got to go, I have letters to write.

The first book in the collected Transmetropolitan comics, Back on the Street, covers the first three issues. This, the second book, covers issues 4-12. While the first is pounding with intensity, here Spider Jerusalem settles into his setting and is put through his paces. Having gotten Spider out of his mountain retreat and back to reporting, it seems writer Warren Ellis started casting about to find something for Spider to do. A few of the issues are slower than the insanity of the first three, possibly meant as quiet, sarcastic reflection on social issues. That the series is, if not strictly autobiographical, at least very close to Ellis's heart, is clear. I would hope that the comic could remain as intense, even when its protagonist is writing about somber topics. Then again, Spider's columns are what the comic is about, and if these issues aren't full of heart-pounding action, they are still very good. The issue in which Spider becomes TV is almost completely static (a full three pages, 18 frames, consist of nothing but a view of Spider sitting in his chair) but is still one of the best stories. The pace picks up again in the last three issues, a 3-part story that has Spider pursued around The City by a neatness cult carrying his ex-wife's head in a jar. Extra-spectacular is the death of the police dog.

TRANSMETROPOLITAN is "future shock" at it's very finest. It takes a no holds barred look at our society and way of life, but disguises it in a futuristic setting, making it easier for us to stomach, easier for us to say: "Wow, I'm glad I don't live there! Those people are disgusting!" What Warren Ellis has realized with this book is that, at the rate we are going, the road we are on right now, THIS WILL BE US. It may not be that farfetched, then, for one to assume that Ellis writes a little bit of his cynical self into the character of Spider Jerusalem. Just as Spider tries to communicate to the citizens of The City in his column, Ellis tries to warn us about the path we are choosing for ourselves every day of out lives. LUST FOR LIFE perfectly captures the bizarre, twisted essence of TRANSMET. The issue where Spider goes to the Religion Convention, the issue where people from our time are unfrozen in this unspecified but all too near future, and the issue where Spider visits the Reservations, are all devastatingly accurate depictions of what our society will(is) devolve(ing) into if we are not careful. Read this book, fear it, and set your bowel disruptor to "prolapse."

Probably the finest work of cynical writing I've ever encountered. Ellis amazingly takes this journalist Spider Jerusalem and makes him into the smartest, angriest, craziest champion of the truth the printed page has seen in forever. Read this, but if you find yourself singing its praises and writing one of these reviews online, you wonder if Ellis is having a laugh at you.

Every five years or so, it seems a new writer comes along and gives the genre a big push. Scott Turow and John Grisham turned the legal thriller upside down. James Ellroy drove the historical epic to the heights of literature. James Lee Burke breathed new life into the detective story. These are all well-known names. And Robert Ellis deserves to be set right beside them.

Access to Power is a political thriller unlike any I've ever read before. As one murder begets another, Ellis peels off layers of corruption in bits and pieces. The result is a haunting view of the world we live in. Politics as crime performed in real time from the inside out.

The novel unfolds in a straightforward manner. I found Ellis's writing to be colorful, if not poetic at times. Here's a brief sample, a short description of a minor character: "Zain's glasses were so thick, Frank had never been able to tell what color his eyes were. Fingerprint gray maybe, with a smudge of blue."

This kind of storytelling is like word candy. The track the story races down is fast and furious. And Access to Power is loaded with plenty of juice for the ride.

Damn that Robert Ellis! I read Access to Power on the recommendation of a friend, and I couldn't put the book down until I finished it. Which is great, except that it kept me up until 4 o'clock on a Monday morning, which made me useless for work that day. Access to Power is the best thriller I've read since the heyday of Robert Ludlum. The novel shows a real sophistication about Washington politics, and it's a first-rate murder mystery besides. Ellis writes in short, compelling chapters that make the book really easy to read -- and almost impossible to stop reading! This is a great book for a vacation or a long trip. If you like mysteries, it will hook you right from the start, and you'll enjoy a great roller-coast ride as the plot winds along to the surprise ending. A great beach book!

Robert Ellis's first novel is a wide open window into the inner workings of the political machine wrapped around a taut tale of murder, double crosses, and sex. From the Capitol to the monuments to the slums, Ellis shines a light into every corner of the campaign machine. It's obvious from his narrative that Ellis has spent his time in the trenches and he brings a strong realism to every page. Toss in a hit man bent on self improvement with a destroyed candidate bent on revenge, mix well with a Senator's wife who will do anything to win and you have the basis for a great story of politics in our time. Everyone wants to move to the top. Forget Monica, there are far worse doings in Access to Power. Ellis doesn't miss a beat. You'll look at political campaigns in a whole new light after reading this.

Orphan of Ellis Island is part fantasy and part historical fiction. The story is based on immigrants that came over from Italy to America for freedom and for families for orphans. This is a book filled with ongoing emotional events. We would recommend this book to people who like time travel and dramatic endings. So read Orphan of Ellis Island by Elvira Woodruff.

I'm a fifth grade teacher and our class reads this book during a unit on immigration. I've used it for two years and the students love it. Students who usually dislike reading moan with disapproval when I say "put away your books until tomorrow." It is exciting and is a great way to integrate instruction. Students who read about this time-traveling orphan express appreciation for their own families who are often taken for granted. Donna King, teacher on Long Island, NY

I rate this book five stars because it's adventurous,exciting,and it leaves you wondering what's going to happen next.I can only tell you a little because I can't spoil the book for you...but I can tell you this much.Well,it all begins when Dominic,an orphan,was on a class trip and he left the group...a boy named Salvatore died because of pits...when Dominic came off the boat at Ellis Island in 1908... Francesco used a pin to carve a ... Dominic found himself in the museum back in the year 1996. Sorry for skipping a lot of the story..but like I said at the beginning I can only tell you a little because I can't spoil the book for you. So you'll have to read the book to find out what parts of the story I did not tell you!

For a shoeless, candy eating, office leeching guy, Bob Waldstein is an am amazing author. I was absolutely amazed by how well these two authors both wrote an excellent depiction of their journeys across the country and made fun of themselves at the same time. I do not beleive anyone could have "hit the nail on the head" any better than these two have. I would like to meet these two great men at some point in my life. These men truly are college football gods. I can't wait to read the sequel. I would love to have a college basketball madness book in my library.

This book is truly amazing. what is better then reading a book about football, college and saturdays. a must read

This book does to college football what Pavarotti did to opera. The authors have captured the essence of tailgaiting, partying, and eating Chinese food in the back of a rundown limo. Reading this book is like being on tour with the authors...What's next? Movie? Play? Book on college tennis? I can't wait to read their next work.

I have in my short life have read maybe 200 or 300 self-help books. Thse books vary from "The Power of Positive Thinking" to "How to Win and Influence People." Throught all these books, I have never seen a real good method to be happy. TO be really happy.

This book is the excpetion. This book can help almost any person to be happy.

The basic idea of the book is this: People have certain beliefs about things. For example you might have the belief that you must be liked by everybody. Beliefs like this cause you to become very upset when you realized that this belief is being broken and twisted by the world in which you are living. For example, if you believe that the world should be fair, then anytime the world treats you unfairly, you will very depressed. Or if you believe that you must be liked by people, then anytime somebody insluts you, you might become depressed.

So point A= Our beliefs cause our distresses and emotional problems. Eg. if I want everybody to like me, I will feel depressed when someone doesn't

To stop these "irrational beliefs" you have to put in place of them "rational beliefs" such as "I want people to like but if they don't it's ok and I should rather accept myself as I am." When you have rational beliefs than you will not feel depressed at all.

The book talks about ways to refute your irrational beliefs and uses examples from case histories on how this can be done.

The point of the author is to make you understand these irrational beliefs and dispute them using various methods. Once you do that, then you'll be happy.

The authors, want you to be rational in your living.

I also recommend that you read; Feeling Good, books by John Sarno, and books by Aaron T. Beck and other Cognitive Therapists.

Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy is perhaps the most effecient psychotherapy. This is a self-help book detailing the workings of REBT, and how to apply it to life. It isn't one of those psycho-babble books on how to feel happy in three days. This book helps you focus on what you're doing to upset and disturb yourself, and what you can do about it. This edition is a bit dated, but the new edition (titled A Guide to Rational Living, 1997) updates the excellent work by Ellis and Harper. I heartily recommend it to my clients, who frequently tote it around with them for a workbook.

In this classic book, Ellis and Harper provide a useful guide on how our irrational beliefs lead us to experience emotional disturbance and on how to change our irrational beliefs to more healthy ones. Although the book feels a little repetitive at times, this repitition helps to reinforce the authors' main points. The case examples given throughout the book hepfully demonstrate how the reader can learn to identify, dispute, and modify his or her irrational beliefs. If you think seriously about the advice in the Guide, it can have a positive impact on your life.

Lee J. Markowitz, Ph.D. student in Clinical Psychology

Three generations of Shepherd women, Marley, her mother Pam and her grandmother, Ma Grand, find out the real deal about faith, trust and love in Jamellah Ellis' first Christian fiction novel, That Faith, That Trust, That Love. None of the Shepherd women were very religious so for them to develop a relationship with God was a learning process.

Faith: All the Shepherd women went to church at some time in their life, but none really had experienced a relationship with God. Marley did not like going to church, found it to be pretentious, until she visited Gilead's Balm Church. The message Marley heard that Sunday was directed at her and she gave her life over to God.

Trust: In order to be in a relationship, you have to trust the other person. In your relationship with God, you have to trust that His word is true and if He promised you He would bless you, He will do it. Pam found this to be true as she battled a serious illness.

Love: The Shepherd women loved each other, but did not know how to show this love. Ma Grand did not display affection to her daughter, which made her feel unloved, and since she did not have a positive mothering example, Pam's relationship with Marley suffered. Marley thought herself in love with Gerrard, her ex-fiance, was able to discover true love once she met Lazarus.

This novel will make you think about putting your problems in God's hands and leaving them there. Marley saw her problematic situations change for the better; Pam experienced the healing virtues of God and Ma Grand learned it is okay to show love and affection to those close to her. I appreciated the author's practicality in writing about how the characters made progressive changes and mistakes in their Christian walk. There were good secondary characters that enhanced the main characters. I think people who enjoy Christian novels will enjoy this realistic rendition of newfound Christianity.

Jeanette
APOOO BookClub

"That Faith, That Trust, That Love" was ALL THAT... encouraging readers to increase your faith by trusting God to receive true love (of yourself and others)! I enjoyed reading this book because of its simplistic way of unraveling drama and smoothing it out with the peace of God.

At first, "That Faith..." appears to read like most fiction novels. However, you will sense the anointing as you read further. The author creatively takes you deeper (not just into the story but deeper into yourself). I was moved to tears of joy, pain, sorrow, and more joy!!

The characters are so real and down to earth (except the socialites:-) Ma Grand was truly grand with her hilariously cantankerous self! I especially loved the way Marley was transformed when she accepted Christ into her life. The author permits you to take an enjoyable walk of faith with Marley as she grows and shares with others.

I highlighted and bookmarked many pages because this was definitely an enjoyable and inspiring read!

This book couldn't have come at a better time in my life! Talk about God being right on time...He has used Jamellah in a MIGHTY way. I only hope that others will be brave enough to explore the questions, emotions, & reflections that Marney's or any of the characters' story stirs up. I smiled out loud, laughed out loud, and cried out loud with a convicted soul at reading this profound story; I couldn't put the book down & literally finished it in less than 24 hours! Jamillah has revealed God's availability to everyone in a REAL and "regular" way; you don't have to move to feel His presence as you become a part of this beautiful story. You will be truly Blessed if you take the time to read it!