Mr. Sesto's instructions turned me from a slovenly diletannte with an overactive imagination to a world-class French chef in two weeks. Now, I can be seen on Iron Chef and filling in for the one fat lady who died on that other cooking show, and I receive invitations to guest-cook at sporting events and stadium concerts on a daily basis. Without Sesto's book, I'd still be a Fabio groupie and a mouth-breather - thanks, Cameron!

I thought this screenplay was absolutely great. It was actually better than the movie even. I liked that Faith(portrayed by the superb Juliette Lewis in the film.) was used more in the book. She was my favorite out of everyone. I wish they had used more of the scenes she was in for the movie, it would have made it better.If you have seen the movie you should really read it, it will make you appriciate it more. If you are a fan of the movie or science fiction, I suggest you check this book out. It also includes really cool pictures from the movie!

This book is required reading for anyone who has used Julia's former books to actually create works of art! In this manual for creative flight she describes all the monsters that leap up in your face as you prepare to fly and the ones that try to wreck your creative projects. She speaks in a no nonsense, humor-filled tone--She cuts to the bone about those devils who tempt us to flirt with them instead of concentrating on our creative careers. Not only does she break them down into horrifying, simple catagories, but she teaches us how we can wave a magic wand and dispell the curse of these people. This book is a true gem for any creative artist. Buy it immediately.

I found That Kind of Money in a mystery bookstore and bought it for my young niece and nephew. Before passing the book along, I read a few pages, just to get a feel for the story, and the next thing I knew, it was nearly midnight and I'd finished it. How it compares with other juvenile fiction, I can't say, since I can't recall when I last read any, but I found the characters--both teen and adult--deftly drawn and completely convincing. There is a genuine mystery, with a believable solution, at the heart of of the novel; there is a certain amount of suspense and tension. But, mostly there is humor, in the situations portrayed, and in the rueful take the two adolescent protagonists--Woody and Steve--have on themselves and the other people in their small world. A few locutions (like "hydro" for "electricity" and "slivers" for "splinters") mark the characters as Canadian but this is a story that could take place anywhere there is snow at Christmas and Chambers of Commerce to sponsor seasonal decoration contests and teenagers who dream of being rock stars. A book well worth buying, in my opinion; I'll let you know what the niece and nephew have to say on the topic.

Very funny riddles and easy to read for beginnning readers. Would like to say that I hope that you get this book even if you aren't getting it for a child, get it for yourself, I did! =-)

It have everything you need to learn about contingent valuation, an sophisticated and controversial method to value public goods.

A new and welcomed direction for Ms.Cameron and Mr.Wheater. Thier new project introduces a practice called "Toning". This tape is refreshingly effective. Give it to everyone you know. We can all sing together.

Linguists, most of them scholars and academics, tend to accept that language is in a continuing state of evolution and change. They consider this the natural state of language, and that any attempt to stop change with a set of rigid grammatical rules and notions of standards is either counterproductive or simply wrong-headed.

Lined up against them is a more traditionalist army of grammarians, plain language enthusiasts, and keepers of "correct" usage, who feel that change is undesirable and that the laissez-faire attitude of linguists is an invitation to cultural chaos. These two groups have been at loggerheads for decades, each deeply suspicious of the other.

Along comes Deborah Cameron, a linguist at Strythclyde University (UK) who decides to take a more open-minded look at the attitudes of the traditionalists and offers her colleagues a number of insights meant to scale down the level of hostility between the two camps. Her central notion is there in the title: verbal hygiene.

She proposes that not only does language evolve; it generates its own "caregivers." These people look after its welfare, wrong-headed or not, and practice a kind of "hygiene" that counteracts the messiness of uncontrolled growth. The evolution of language, she says, is actually a dynamic between opposing forces of conservation and innovation. While there is no "right" or "wrong" way to use language, Cameron suggests that language is enlivened by the push and pull between these opposing ideas.

To challenge the idea that standard English exists apart from the people who use it, she provides an account for how it comes into being, at least as she sees it among UK writers. And she challenges the confident trust we might have in the use of dictionaries as a measure of "correctness." Reading her analysis, you realize that dictionaries are part of a circular process that both reflects and determines usage.

Cameron extends her discussion of language with insightful and entertaining analyses of "political correctness," communication between genders, and the types of politically-inspired public hysteria that spring up around the schools' perceived failure to teach correct grammar. She even takes to task our confident acceptance of George Orwell's dictums in his often cited essay, "Politics and the English Language."

This is a book for anyone fascinated by not only the language of politics but the politics of language. Its ideas are argued thoughtfully and with considerable insight. As companions to this book I'd also recommend the books of American linguist Deborah Tannen ("You Just Don't Understand") and Simon Winchester's account of the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary, "The Professor and the Madman."

The book review does not lie when it calls this book a major contribution. To political scientists interested in formal theory, the presidency, executive-legislative relations, or divided government, this book is one of the best to come along in years. Especially in presidential studies, this book is probably the best to come along since Light's "President's Agenda," and perhaps the best since 1960 and Neustadt's "Presidential Power." For formal theory people, this book is an exemplar of how good, rigorous theory and careful, skilled empirical analysis can work together to produce both a well-reasoned and well-supported picture of the veto and its affect on policy. For those who abhor formal theory, the rich case studies are informative reading, too. Overall, this book is what political science should be about.

Euan Cameron has written a very informed history of the Waldensian dissent, using a lot of prime source material in such a way that it is for scholar and lay persons interested in church history a delight to read. It is well written and makes delightful reading. It is anything but a dry summary of facts. Both from the perspective of faith and history, this is a good book. It gives good unbiased information about a very interesting group of people at a turbulent time in church history. I highly do recommend it.