After reading this book and putting in practice what I learned, I felt I had to come back here and post a comment on it. Let me tell you that this book became my Bible on golf. I have shown it to some of my golf friends and ALL of them ordered one. Even my brother who is handicap 2 and a golf fanatic ordered one. Mike covers ALL aspects of the golf swing: grip, stance, movement, etc. The comparison of the Classic and Modern swings is very well done and his tips, believe me, help a lot! If you had many golf professionals teaching you different things, you need a reference. I made this book my own.

I've been playing golf for over 25 years and this book has had THE most profound impact on my game. Coverage of the fundamentals is strong, but the parts that really made a difference were the chapters on the short game, including pitching, chipping, putting, and sand. The pitching and chipping techniques presented here are simple to learn and easy to remember. Best of all they helped me shave many strokes from my score!

I first saw this book in 1982, and even after 20 years of being a "fan" of how the mind works, this one stands out as unique. Interestingly, he looks at all the different mind mysteries (from Yaqui sorcerers to est (now Landmark) to Aldous Huxley to floating in a sensory deprivation tank) as being different applications of the same "secret ingredients", and seeks the commonalities as clues to what's really going on under the surface.

I learned a lot, and his analysis has stood the test of time.

This book changed my life. It gave me a new perspective on the human ability to function in harmony with, as opposed to at odds with, his environment. This new outlook has allowed me to approach each day with renewed optomism and expectation for success instead of disappointment. If there was a way for me to personally express my gratitude to this author I would certainly do so.

The word biodiversity often conjures up visions of tropical rain forests, and for good reason. They contain more species than anywhere else in the world. But, as this lavishly illustrated and well written book attests there is a great deal of biodiversity in the U.S. In fact, U.S. is the richest country in terms of numbers of species for several groups inclulding freshwater mussels and crayfishes. The authors take us through the groups of plants and animals in the U.S. with a combination of natural history descriptions, photographs, maps, and when appropriate, data summaries. The maps are really noteworthy, because they add a great deal to the book both visually and in terms of understanding the patterns. The book is well worthy the cost just for the photos and maps. Later chapters address the patterns of rarity, threats, and protection strategies. In terms of style and content, it rests between David Wilcove's, The Condor's Shadow and Terrestrial Ecoregions of North America: A Conservation Assessment by Taylor Ricketts et al. Precious Heritage belongs on the bookshelves of everyone interested in and concerned about biodiversity in the U.S.

This book should be on the shelf of environmentalist interested in biodiversity as well as professional conservation biologists. The authors provide a well written introduction to our understanding of biodiversity and the ways that we measure it. They also provide overviews of the geographic trends in biodiversity, the current threats to this diversity, and offer a perspective on the ways that we proactively maintain this "precious heritage". The book also provides a perspective that allows professional conservation biologists to see their work in a large scale biogeographic framework, and provides some of the data needed to allow scientists to move from writing epitaphs for dying species to proactively conserving diversity.

The authors have done a very good job in integrating the words in real-life context.

When I first got this audio book, I was a little nervous that it was going to be overwhelming and littered with obscure, little-used words. What a surprise to find a plethora of words I thought I already knew plus a prodigious amount of words I didn't--and always wondered what they meant! If you're looking for something that's easy to digest, learn, and recall later, buy this book. You won't be disappointed and you can't help but learn something new.

This was the recommended textbook for my undergraduate program in civil engineering in Pakistan for the course titled, guess what "Properties of Concrete". I am now a practising water and wastewater engineer, and my main focus is not concrete. However, I have very good memories of the ease with which I could follow the text even at the undergraduate level, and also how the book was comprehensive enough to give almost all the answers as far as I was concerned. Excellent book, and very well written.

I'm a graduate student now and my field is creep and shrinkage of concrete.with those books which written by Prof.Neville,I've begun my graduate study and made some progress.These books are really a big help to me

Loved the unknown case format. Classic and atypical presentations of high-yield psychiatry diagnoses are reviewed. Answers cover important info and give you a feel for differential diagnoses and how to distinguish among similar conditions (e.g., schizophreniform, schizophrenia, schizoid and schizotypal disorders). Quick read written in easy-to-understand language, with terms explained well. Definitely recommend!

I don't like psychiatry, but I didn't want to miss any easy points on the exam, so I wanted a quick review of the topic. I used this book in conjunction with First Aid and got all the info I needed to do well on the psych questions on the boards. Cases are presented as unknown in a format similar to my exam. Great explanations cover all related info including differential diagnosis pearls and other high-yield info.

Quiller, creation of Adam Hall (Elleston Trevor's non de plume) is a secret agent's secret agent. He is offered missions all over the world and he executes them. He shares all his fears and thoughts with us. Hall has a unique way of building suspense with hiss use of sentence structure. Marvelous books of which Quiller Barracuda is a good example.

No one, not Fleming, not Clancy, no one does it better than Adam Hall. His entire Quiller series is far and away THE BEST of the genre`.

Search through used bookstores to find his earlier works. They are worth the time and effort.

This is my fourth of the Quiller series and I loved it! There is a plot to kill Gorbachev and destroy any chance at unification in Germany. Quiller is called in by the KGB to help find the very powerful opposition. As usual, you get a full view of Quiller's thoughts and conversations he has with himself while running a dangerous mission. His field back up is not the usual Ferris, but a 'well mannered' Director named Cone, who tries in vain to assist Quiller but remains at attention if needed. The plot twists around and teems with suspense, even though you know how it will end...

It was a bit hard to get into the first little bit but it took offand went out of sight. You never knew what was coming next. Hall is amaster at letting the reader think exactly what Quiller is thinking and planning. Simply marvelous.

Quiller, the shadow executive for a British undercover agency is sent on a mission to Berlin that requires him to uncover the plans of Phoenix, a Nazi group. Quiller is beaten and battered but finally uncovers several planned exercises in terror. The novel is a synthesis of a James Bond novel with the best of Len Deighton. There is plenty of action for the Bond fan, but taut believable plots for the more serious spy aficionado. No supervillains, but a shadowy ominous realistic group of villains. Quiller Memorandum gives you the best of both worlds.

When it was first published as The Berlin Memorandum in 1966, this novel won Elleston Trevor the Edgar Award for mystery fiction. Trevor, whose other literary credits include The Flight of the Phoenix and Bury Him Among Kings, was spurred by his success to write a nineteen-book series about Quiller's further missions under the pseudonym of Adam Hall. Although the books have had a loyal following, especially in Britain, none has received the acclaim which greeted this first novel in the series. A bestseller on both sides of the Atlantic, it was eventually filmed as The Quiller Memorandum with George Segal and Alec Guiness. Quiller is a "shadow executive" for an officially unavowed British intelligence agency known only as "the Bureau". The novel opens in post-war Berlin where he has been working with the Z police, a German agency devoted to the prosecution of war criminals. War-weary from an undercover assignment at a concentration camp during WW II, Quiller is due to return home. The Bureau convinces him to stay, however, by revealing to him that a forming neo-Nazi movement in Berlin may be headed by Zossen, the commandant of the concentration camp from which Quiller had helped Jews escape. Working alone in a faceless city which presents hidden threats at every turn, Quiller accepts the assigment that has already left one agent dead -- stepping into, as his field director puts it, a gap between two mobilizing armies which cannot see one another in the fog. Hall's writing is consistently terse and compelling. He is at his best in evoking the tension of working for a manipulative secret beaurocracy whose motivations remain obscure, but whose local culture seems vitally real and believable. Quiller is a soldier at work for an army that he knows only from the ranks, whose generals are shrouded in shadow. It is in evoking this culture that Hall's writing transcends the genre, exploring complex themes of loyalty and disillusionment, and the specifically 20th century Kafka-esque relationship of an individual to the beaurocracies that determine his fate. But the real strength of the novel lies in its pure ability to entertain. Hall manages to maintain a level of tension and suspense worthy of comparison to any of espionage fiction's masterpieces, from The Spy Who Came in from the Cold to The Ipcress File. If some of the writing now seems cliche, that is because to a large extent THE QUILLER MEMORANDUM created the cliches. It has had hundreds of imitators both in print an on the screen since its publication, but anyone going back to the original (even thirty years later) will likely agree with the New York Times Book Review that "no one writes better espionage than Adam Hall."

The deceitful Jenuaq, Zenu, seeks revenge on Queen Romey and Sam for the death of her wicked sister (in the previous book). She transforms herself and an accomplice into perfect mirror images of Romey and Sam, then replace the real characters in the castle.

Molly and Netty are summoned in hopes of rewriting the awful things that have taken place. However, good and evil forces battle in their own realm, as well as, within Rairarubia and Zzyukka. Because of this, not all the two girls write actually happens! Worse, Romey's clone, Yemor, is quickly figuring out how to teleport between dimensions!

***** This one is loaded with twists! Just when you believe you have it all figured out - ZAP! - another twist pops up. A delightful story that will keep you reading and reading to see what happens next! *****

Seeking revenge for the death of her wicked sister Janu, the deceitful Jenuaq, Zenu tries to seize control of the magical realm of Rairarubia. Transforming herself an accomplice into duplicates of Queen Romey and her companion Sam, the two imposters replace the rightful rulers and begin a cruel reign. Sixth-grader Molly Doogan and her reluctant best friend, Netty, respond to a desperate plea for help. The girls must rewrite the story in just one night if they hope to save Rairarubia, but they soon find themselves caught in a struggle between forces much larger and stronger than they are. With the aid of a mysterious cloaked figure, they learn a lesson in honesty, and discover the true power of their thoughts to influence both good and evil. Raid On Rairarubia is a superbly written and original fantasy for young readers that continues the "Rairarubia Tales" series under the gifted authorship of Royce Adams. The two earlier, and highly recommended, titles in this outstanding series from Lost Coast Press include Rairarubia (1999) and Return To Rairarubia (2000).