I bought the cookbook being a big fan of coffeehouses and of Kansas City but this book did not do either justice. I tried several of the recipes, following exactly, and they simply were nothing that a coffeehouse could serve and retain customers! Some good information and references, but disappointing recipes and/or editing of the recipes.

Spans 1821 to 1980, chronicling shipwrecks on the eastern shore of southern Lake Michigan. A well-researched narrative which contains numerous excerpts from the actual newspaper accounts of these maritime disasters. Some of these stories are harrowing! Also contains a few photos.

However, the author's narrative was rather dry, uninspired, and was poorly proofread.

No typical tourist guide is this. Emy Thomas provides a refreshingly frank account of life in St. Croix. She deals directly with the pleasant ' the beaches, the people, the pace of life ' and the sometimes unpleasant ' hurricanes, and occasional crime.

Emy Thomas has found her own way to enjoy this island paradise. Hers is no superficial experience. She enjoys St. Croix in all its richness. Not for her an imposing mini castle in an expatriate enclave. She goes out of her way to live modestly yet comfortably. She knows some creole, and is deeply involved in local social initiatives. She seems to blend and integrate with the majority West Indian population much better than could be expected of the stereotypical New Yorker. She joins the locals in laughing off the perpetual Government inefficiencies, rather than getting upset. But her journalist background is not entirely forgotten. She still manages to take a few swipes at local politicians.

If you know St. Croix already, you will readily identify with Emy Thomas' perspectives and sense of humor. If you ever wondered what a Caribbean retirement would be like - read this before you decide. It will prepare your mind, and most likely will make you want to do it even more.

This is a helpful and honest reference book for anyone wishing to move to Traverse City, MI. It helped me and now I'm moving there! Only fault I found was that some of the phone numbers given had changed. But this is common to reference materials of this nature. I enjoyed the history information given in the book.

Yes, I understand that college textbooks are not your average books and that they contain a wealth of information, but honestly...$47?? How do these people sleep at night? I can't understand a price that high for a 320 page soft cover book regardless of the information it contains.

Lord Avery's Legacy is far from unique with it's family in finacial ruin combined with unwanted attention from a 'gentleman' plot line. It wasn't as fast-paced or well-written as the better romance novels I've read. Even so, it was an amusing read.

Enter into a world where women are men's objects for sexual desire and exploitation. Renay, a gifted and artistic woman decides to leave this world of abuse. Leaving with her young daughter she goes into the sanctuary of her lover for safety and wholeness.

The trials and tribulations that she endures is the essence of this novel coupled with her own unique background. For you see, Renay is Black and a lesbian. Her lover, Terry is white. Two lesbians of different backgrounds and races defy the sexual and racial mores of their time. What a wonderful tale full of possibilities.

Those possibilities never blossom. All of the characters are predictable in their dialogue and come across as one dimensional. Renay's spurned husband is the stereotypical misoganist with a deep hatred for lesbians. Renay come across as a passive woman needing to find salvation in her white lover's sanctum. Even Terry's love making with Renay comes across as a mechanical exercise in exploring new sexual techniques.

This novel had the seeds within it to explore the relationships of interracial lesbian couples. Instead, it comes across as a boring tome guarenteed to put anyone to sleep. It is a failed classic that could have offered so much more.

Mad Monks on the Road (the first book by perennially-traveling self-published magazinists and soulmates Michael Land and Jim Crotty) is one of those books I just didn't know what to do with when I finished; unlike any other book I've read recently, it had a weird disposible quality (I was half-expecting recycling instructions on the back cover)...yet it's, well, neat to have around.

The story is by turns delightfully whimsical and maddeningly wispy. (Mike's hippie-ish and Jim's a Buddhist and both have an admirable sense of what's campy--and they run right at it.) The authors' habit of introducing each person they meet by zodiac sign made me cringe after a while, but perhaps that's just my personal bias. I've previously read The Mad Monks' Guide to California and Michael Lane's Pink Highways, and was really surprised by the sharp contrast in style (over so few years, no less). On the Road is a much less-tempered flight of fancy ("The Monks and How They Got That Way," kinda) which shares with Pink Highways only the nagging question of how much the reader can expect to be true (because it may well all COULD be, but it's hard to fathom living in the same world as these characters and not knowing it). Given the tone of the book, it isn't really surprising that even though their macrojourney is ostensibly from San Francisco to New York, they spend a large chunk of the book going from east to west.

I would almost say it's worth reading just to be able to discuss the ambiguous relationship between the authors--Michael Monk is gay and Jim Monk is probably everything else--but that's really the least satisfying element of the book. Then again, maybe I'm just envious: the Monks have such funky friends and unfathomable (mis)adventures, if you've got the travel bug this book will only feed it.

This book is a great complement to the training guide but some chapters include some information unnecesary foir the exam like how to reboot tje computer cally runddll32 to setup API and similar ones. It has some tipos but information on monitoring optimization and conectivity is superb, and very clearly explained. I've passed my exam with 900 and have bought the Wks version...so good overall choice

Going back and forth to school in Brooklyn, and then later working in one of the neighborhoods devastated by the desegragation canard, made me an urban historian with a book in my head that still remains to be written. Also, doing some family geneology and ethnic geneology of Brooklyn and New York County led me to do some urban exploration which, EARLY, on a Sunday morning would find me creeping around 150 year old churches, examining statues honoring the war dead of WW1, the Kings County armory etc. I wanted to know more about how the finest neighborhoods in the world circa 1880-1949 were so completely, and utterly destroyed in a 20 year period. I looked for books on race rioting, desegregation, blockbusting, integration, etc., and the only one I have found thus far that was on target was the 'Destruction of Franklin K. Lane'.

The author, a teacher at Lane through the 60's, chronicles the events that led to decent people vacating the neighborhood, rioting, looting, assaults on teachers including setting one on fire after shooting flammable fluids on him, that otherwise put one more coffin into East New York. Surprisingly enough, a colation of 'social activists' 'black panthers', a 'corrupt mayoralty' and a zoning irregularity resulted in the destruction of a school that was already desegregated proir to Court decisions mandating busing and desegregation. Author Saltzman is also honest as he too, at the time anyway, supported integration if same was done properly. Therefore I believe his book deserves extra credence.

The book is problematic because it is not chronological and refers to the same event by different nicknames. Some chapters appear to go over the same set of events from different perspectives, but this takes place throughout the book making the entire picture somewhat difficult to grasp.

What you do get with this book is an honest man's grounded view of school beaurocracy, police, the mayor, the teacher's unions, and various revolutionary groups who were laughing all the way. You get gems of urban history that the useless teacher's unions forget to mention when they hail the education revolution of the 60's, like the fact that Lane High School's rifle team stopped race rioting Lane students from destroying and looting Cypress Hills by firing their rifles at them. When do hear that repeated by . . . .

As always, real history is stranger than fiction, and any urban historian or honest cultural critic should have this book on their shelf, and then go drive to Bushwick, East New York, Bedford Stuyvesant, etc., and see the brickwork, the stained glass in the churches, the architecture, and then contemplate how much of America's finest places have been ruined, perhaps for good. The area in Brooklyn by the Interboro spilloff is full of these things, and they are worth a look!