I personally feel Benton's book leaves an abundant more it be answered. The book does have such good points like as to the photo's and diagrams presented in the text, but the book is written with a higher learning in mind that might leave the common reader wondering what they just read. I have read far better books than this one , and I recommend it only for students of paleology or seasoned veterans in the field.

I thought this book was one of the best Dinosuar books I have ever read.......this book had lots of really neat info about the different kinds of dinosuars and how to be a paleontologist in your own time. I give this excellent dino book four stars!!!!

Great, fantastic book for general knowlege of fossilation and geology back ground. highly reccomend

In Cat Scratch fever we learn about the psycic links between the colonists and the animals and the promise to the cats. Tsia's guide link unfortunately is to the cats. Cataract takes place ten years later, she has avoided using her link but now the mercenaries she has been hiding out among are in trouble and her link to the cats is helpful, plus has been useful to one of the cats in giving her the ability to help it. I can't wait for the third installment to the cat series.

A great bok Tara really puts her heart and soul into her writing. Keeps you curious the whole time.

Unless you've read previous books in her "cat" series, it's difficult to grasp what's going on [I haven't read any by her except for all of the Wolf books]. Otherwise, detail abounds and the *telepathy* theme is marvelous [as well as the Ixia, which I didn't fully understand at first...read the book]

This is very good book and excellent too as you can find the exact things what you want along with some additional gifts

I would've given this 5 stars if it weren't for the fact that the abbreviations key is difficult to read. The key is printed on deep blue endpapers. The abbreviations are in white text and that's OK, but their meanings are printed in black and therefore nearly impossible to read without a strong light and a magnifier. Otherwise, an excellent dictionary.

I stood in a bookstore reference section and compared 4 different Spanish/English dictionaries for about 15 minutes before buying this one. It is easy to use, updated with current words, has very good information on what they call Language Building Supplements, such as how to do correspondence, using the telephone, translation tips, conjugating verbs, etc.. This dictionary would be good for a college freshman, senior, or someone like me who is just working on trying to learn the language.

What a man Ms Judson created in Jed..... I loved this book. It made me laugh with all its wonderful characters and it made me cry.....the relationship between Annie & Jed. The quilts were an extra bonus.... I could picture every one of them in my imagination. Suzanne Judson has a wonderful way with words. I hated to say goodbye to everyone. I hope she's working on another story for us.

Annie makes quilts, Jed writes books, author Suzanne Judson builds layers ... and layers in a love story that starts with a violent action that seems at first glance out-of-place in a romance novel. After the startling opening, Ms. Judson simply lets the tale of the writer and the emotionally scarred quilter looking for some peace unfold in the North Carolina mountains. She builds characters and story the way Annie creates one of her magnificent quilts. A piece of the mystery solved here, a little of the warmth builds here, a scrap of humor and sensuality here until the story has wrapped itself around you like a warm shawl on a cool day.

If you're looking for wild sex and fast repartee, go find another book. If you're looking for a well developed plot and poignant characterizations, this is one for you. By the time the story ends, you'll have gained an appreciation for the constant unravelling of life, the choices people make and how they can sometimes lead to laughter, love, tears and incredible joy.

This one is well-written. I can't wait for Ms. Judson's next book.

Nicholas Sparks set the love story in THE NOTEBOOK in the beautiful coastal landscape of North Carolina. Now we have another memorable love story set in North Carolina. In this tale, romance is found in a small town in the hills of this beautiful state.

This multi-layered novel is not just a woman's romance book. It is a tale of redemption and pursuing goals even when life throws gigantic roadblocks in your path. The textural flavor of the book is as vivid as the heroine's quilts. This book about the restorative power of love is one to savor on those cold and chilly nights when one feels all alone in the world. Even though this is a fictional tale of a strong woman who meets challenges with strength and grace, it should stimulate timid readers in pursuing their own dreams. The reader can only cheer when the heroine, Annie Taylor, starts her life over, meets new unexpected challenges, and also wins love and romance along the way. This story shows us that love affects us all and effects fundamental changes.

Like Anna Quindlen's BLACK AND BLUE, this book is a tale of overcoming spousal abuse. However, abuse is not the predominant theme in the book. This is a book of hope in the redemptive spirit within us all. The challenge for the reader is to learn how to be like the protagonist and tap into it.

I hate giving bad reviews, but I love telling the truth. This book is full of techniques that any practicing Occultist will have mastered long ago. It's nothing new or interesting, nor anything particularly innovative. The only use I can find for this book is as a self-teaching tool for those with no experience in energy working. If you've worked energy succesfully before, just skip over this one and go for a more useful book.

I have read quite a few books on psychic skills and energy work but this is by far the best book on the subject. If you are interested in learning how to develop and control the energy that resides in all of us, this book will help. It includes basic exercises to help you feel and control this energy. It gets an A+ in my book.

I have never found any guide to energy work as practical, easy to understand and use as this one. Step by step exercises and inhanced photography will impress even the most skeptical readers. I've found it an invaluable teaching resource.

I am a long-time reader of Georgette Heyer and, unfortunately, this is one of her few books that completely failed to draw me in. Perhaps it was because I was expecting a Regency and ended up with a mystery novel, but the book failed to evoke my interest, much less, perhaps, than some of her other mysteries, and I never managed to finish it. Some people will like the idea of a Regency/mystery, but I prefer them separated- it's something to keep in mind before purchasing this book.

I am an unabashed "Heyer" fan and own almost everything she has ever written but I believe that this is one of her best as far as humor and wit are concerned. These "characters" all grab your heart, make you both laugh and cry ... sometimes all at once! One of my favorites that I have read and re-read many times over. Enjoy!

Georgette Heyer is noted as a writer of Regency romances (she established the genre) and of murder mysteries. In this book she integrates the two into a seamless whole, producing an mystery that is inseparable from a romance (and which is set during the Regency). This sounds an unlikely juxtaposition, but Heyer pulls it off without a jarring note.

Captain John Staple, at a loose end now that the war against Napoleon is over, stumbles across an anomaly: an unattended tollgate. He takes shelter for the night, and in the morning finds a reason to stay in the area: Miss Stornaway. The two turn out connected, which is not to the Captain's liking, and he finds it necessary to disentangle them before he can let justice take its course.

Though this book is filled with Xena Warrior Princess web sites, I feel that it is very overrated for the price. It is actually a small booklet, certainly not worth the $10.00 cover price. If, however, you aren't one of the hardcore surfers that want to search for each XWP website, and read the summaries of each one, then this book is certainly for you. I, personally, was disappointed that it cost so much for a mere pamphlet. I give it 3 stars only for the amount of websites that it contains.

I loved this guide! If you are any kind of Xena fan and would like to check out the Warrior Princess online, then this is your bible. A guide to all things Xena, from sites to sounds. I can only ask why someone hasn't done this earlier!

IT CLEARLY HAS ALL THE SITES WELL ALMOST ALL OF THEM.AND THIS IS A MUST,TO OWN IF YOUR A TRUE XENA FAN, THIS IS A MUST TO HAVE AROUND OR JUST FOR YOUR COLLECTION.

I have been involved in the investigative field for 12 years. I have worked in uniformed management, white collar crime, undercover, insurance defense, etc. I found the book to be written more for a personal reference of the author. Section one was quite helpful (Working Your Case), but the remainder was almost exclusively for California agents.

The author showed a good knowledge of the history of bail agents, and did provide some good cases for reference.

Overall the book was OK as a reference point for Bail Enforcement Agents, but I personally believe that the claim of "The Bible" for the profession is a bit much.

I bought this book when I first thought about the field of fugitive recovery. After reading the material, I then went on to Mr. Harper's training classes. The classes went far beyond the book, but like any training, it was helpful reading the manual before the classes. The book also really laid out the laws and procedures for a novice in this field to understand. It isn't a glory book of war stories like I've seen in other books of this nature. A good beginning manual if your interested in this field.

I bought this dictionary because I love the French one, but I was disappointed with this one. It has most of the words I look up but in the english to spanish section it doesn't tell you the gender of the word, so you have to look it up in the spanish section. I assume that the author expected the user to know, or be able to figure out the gender, but speaking more french than spanish, I am never sure. Otherwise, a nice little dictionary that nearly replaces a bigger one.

I am a Spanish native speaker. I have used this dictionary for about 10 years when I travel. It has a lot of expressions besides the definitions.

Of course this doesn't substitute a big one for your desk (like Oxford's), but it is a very good pocket-size one.

_The Covenant_ was published in 1995, and won the Romance Writers of American Rita award for best Paranormal Romance. I enjoyed it quite a bit. Besides the romance element, there is a contemporary suspense story, and a link with an historical story. The various strands of the story are well integrated, with the romance arising naturally as part of the story, rather than driving the story, and with the resolution of the book being more closely tied to the characters' solving their personal problems than to the culmination of their romance.

The plot involves Megan McIntyre Hudson, a recently widowed daughter of a U. S. Senator. She has returned to rural Pitchlyn County, Oklahoma, to occupy a house her husband had owned, and to come to terms with her reactions to his death and the death of his sister, and to her own mistreatment, in a South American country they had been visiting for political reasons. Her emotions are complex, because her marriage was mostly a sham, and because her father has betrayed her in his politically-motivated response to the atrocities she witnessed in South America, and because she is only now coming to terms with a lonely emotional life. Unbeknownst to her, her onetime brother-in-law, the estranged husband of her husband's now dead sister, lives in a neighboring house. This man, Jake Kenyon, is a former DEA agent, then local sheriff, who has considerable issues with the current law enforcement officials of Pitchlyn County.

One night Jake hears signs of a struggle at Megan's house, and bursts in to rescue her from an illegal search conducted by the thuggish local sheriff. Thus Jake and Megan, who don't know each other despite being almost in-laws, are thrown together. Soon they find themselves, against their will, forced to try to figure out why people seem to be prowling about their two properties, and why the local police seem to be unduly interested as well.

At the same time, Megan, perhaps as a result of her psychiatrist's urging her to record her thoughts, begins to seemingly "channel" a young woman who lived in Pitchlyn County in the 1870s. Lydia was a white woman in the then Choctaw Nation, in love with a half-Choctaw ex-Ranger named Sam Hooker. Sam has angered an outlaw gang who then kidnap Lydia and rape her serially for several days until Sam can rescue her. This horrifying event scars her permanently, essentially ruining her relationship with Sam, which is already harmed by her hypocritical father's refusal to countenance her marriage to an Indian. Over time, Megan learns more and more of Lydia's story, and the half-parallels between her story and Megan's own story illuminate the contemporary plotline without being a slavish repetition.

The novel works itself out with a solid and suspenseful resolution to the story of Jake and Megan, as they fall in love, and also figure out the mysterious doings on their property, which turn out to have connections to both Jake's past and Megan's past, and perhaps even to the story of Sam and Lydia. The latter story is nicely revealed as well, and is effectively emotionally wrenching. The backdrop of the Oklahoma landscape is also well-evoked. The characters are convincing, and the love story is believable. This is a good example of what a "romance novel" really should be, in my opinion: a good novel on its own that has a solid romance story as a significant thread, as opposed to a contrived romance that drives the plot willy nilly (which I've seen too often elsewhere). Definitely worthy of reprinting.

Two sets of lovers intersect at the same location in the rugged rural corner of Arkansas where it meets Oklahoma and Texas, in what was once the Choctaw Nation. Both couples are overloaded with troublesome baggage--emotional and physical--as they are hunted by villains who are searching for cocaine and treasure. The treasure is a payroll of gold captured in a train robbery more than a century ago. One couple lives in the present, the other in 1872. As this complex, sprawling novel plays out, Megan McIntyre Hudson, today's heroine, meets Jake Kenyon. Megan's husband Peter and Jake's wife Helen are brother and sister, and while on a charitable mission to South American, were both murdered in front of Megan. She returns to the States, and the house that Helen has bequeathed to her, to recuperate far away from the intrusive media and flash bulbs of Washington, where her father is one of the senators from Oklahoma.

Jake is on leave from the DEA, recuperating from wounds suffered in a drug-bust gone wrong. His house is just up the secluded roadway from that of his sister; both occupy land where the tumultuous events of 1872 have left their happy spirits.

Although Megan sees and hears Lydia Tanner and Sam Hooker, as well as Liddie's brother Peter, Jake hears only Sam's thoughts, which at first he thinks are only his own longings for Megan. The two stories eerily parallel each other, with their damaged heroines, and unlikely heroes. This is not an easy book to get into, but for the reader who persists, the rewards are more than fulfilling.

(Note: This book was awarded the RITA [from the Romance Writers of America] for best Paranormal Book in 1996.)