'Titanic : James Cameron's Illustrated Screenplay' is an excellent book! A must-have for any movie buff, Titanic fan, etc. The information and reference material in this book is wondorous! You get the *entire* script, even the deleted scenes, with many little notes, additions, rewrittem scenes, explainations, an extensive and exclusive interview with James Cameron, and over three hundred pictures, most of which are very original and not often printed! The appearance of this book makes it very desirable and collectible! The cover is beautiful and made from quality paper. The text, fonts, colors, and pictures inside this book set the mood and make this book very unique and precious. Buy this book, it's a must-have!!!!

This book is absolutely fantastic! It is beautifully put together, especially with the pictures in it, many which I have not seen before. The most interesting thing about this book is the fact that it also includes the scenes that were deleted from the movie. I recommend this book to any Titanic fan and to people who are in love with the movie, like me. I am 20 years old and I have seen the movie three times in the cinema, and also got the video from amazon.com, and watched it several times already. You just have to buy this book!

This is the most awesome book for anyone who is a Titanic movie fanatic!! It is the script in entirety, with the dialogue, the actions, the cutting from one scene to another. It includes a great deal of things "deleted" from the script, changes made, etc. And it has the most beautiful collection of photographs in any book I have seen. 300 to be exact! I can't say enough about this one....If you can't get enough of the movie...Get this book!!

Having grown up watching the TV series based on this 1956 novel, this reviewer had always intended to someday read the book. I now can certainly see what all the furor was about. Metalious engaged in some very risky writing for that quieter, more conservative time. While anything in this novel seens tame to innocuous by today's standards, after the steamy potboilers of Jackie Collins and Danielle Steel, the author's insights into the makeup and less bucolic underpinings of small-town life ring as true as ever. The characters of Alison MacKenzie and her mother, Constance, are vividly alive and resonate with grace and humanity long after the book is through. Metalious' style is often overblown and purple prose abounds, but it is all rather fun and refreshing after much of the bleakness of contemporary fiction.

Typically, the Kirkus review above pompously dismisses this as not being an "important" novel and decries its defender from academe as "puffery." Kirkus is well-known for such arrogant historionics and should be promptly ignored by the reading public.

I don't want to judge whether Peyton Place and its sequel is a good or great novel or not, as it is rather pointless. People mostly use their own subjective standards for such judgment. However, I do enjoy reading this book thoroughly. As to the sexual explicitness, I can imagine that it would be "groundbreaking" in the fifties as far as it being on printed pages; they otherwise did not seem overly dramatized.

The book gives me a sense of what a New England small town life is like. Of course, I don't, for a minute, believe that the events are typical. I enjoyed all of the characters Grace Metalious sculpted, and I also liked the plot very much. Grace Metalious constructed a perfect web of links between the characters to tell her story. At the center was the evolving relationship between Constance, her husband Tom (Mike) and her daughter, Allison. The other characters, such as Selena Cross, and the Harringtons added important sidelights. The sequel was quite well done and provided a welcome sense of closure, although it is not as riveting as the original.

Yea. I think you will enjoy this book, too.

THE bestselling novel of the 1950s, Peyton Place is an unfortunately under-appreciated classic, the book that paved the way for many women writers and practically invented an entire genre. The story is familiar: the secrets and scandals of a small New England town. But it's presented with an energy and verve that's unstoppable. The characters are unforgettable: frigid single mother Constance MacKenzie and her dreaming daughter Allison; Allison's troubled best friend Selena Cross; and playboy around town Rodney Harrington. If you don't think this book has relevence today, realise that Dawson's Creek is basically an updated version of Peyton Place.

I have never recomended a book more than this one, I tell all my friends about it! I have regained my health only because of the powerful information in this book. After four months of being swollen from head to toe (which caused severe body aches, fatigue, and powerful headaches) seeing several doctors and specialists, having more tests run than I care to remember, all with no results, it was this book that changed everything. In just three months I now feel great, have abundent energy, no longer slave to addictions of sweets or coffee, have lost 26 pounds, and all the swelling! I also haven't had the typical monthly mood swings or cramping (first time ever) and have had the best sleep in my memory (which also seems to have improved)! Haas's common sense approach to food and food sensitivities changed my life. This one book combined several other ideas that seemed incomplete on health and diets into one comprehensive plan with different levels that can meet the needs of anyone--it put the pieces together in a way that made real sense. I used to believe that I could eat anything with no problems...I was unaware that I was sensitive to foods that I ate and drank almost every day. Cleansing the toxins from my body and elimitating the sensitivities from my diet was the incredibly simple answer that all the other doctors couldn't find. Read and use this book you too could improve your health, loose the bloating that sensitivites cause, and feel great!

I've read hundreds of books on healthy eating. The False Fat Diet offers the best explanations on how food allergies affect the body, inside and out, and how to deal with them practically. I especially like the alternatives offered in each section. The advice is direct and easy to follow.

After 15 years of dealing with PMS, the authors have provided the first complete explanation of how food allergies, hormones and immune system all figure in. I suspected this for years, but could find no health practioner to put the pieces together for me.

The only think I don't like about the book is the title, but I understand in world of publishing it's diet books that sell. However, this is really a book about getting down to the nitty gritty of chronic health problems. The simple, down-to-earth approach outlined in The False Fat Diet is a winner.

I have been touting this book to EVERY one I know...but especially the women. Dr. Haas explains SO much with regard to some of the difficulties we all deal with and have assumed were "just the way things are". It's NOT just the way things are! You CAN get rid of those "extra pounds"...you CAN have more energy again...you CAN minimize the aches and pains, pangs and twinges that seem to have accumulated over the years. It's all in the FOOD! My husband had been eating antacids like candy for over a year and refused to go to a doctor. I was terrified that he had stomach cancer or something of the sort. I read 'The False Fat Diet', put us both on the limited ellimination diet for a week and discovered that sugar was his "culprit" food. We BOTH lost 10 pounds, he has not had to take an antacid since AND we both have our energy back! I recommend this book to ANY one suffering from lack of energy, physical discomforts, difficulty with focusing, etc.
THANK YOU, Dr. Haas for putting it all so simply! You're AWESOME!

I say women's lit, because that's what HUNGER POINT, by Jillian Medoff is. Definitely not chick-lit, and so much better. HUNGER POINT is moving, charming, disturbing, captivating and real. Very few authors succeed at creating characters that are so rich with life and infused with emotion that they literally jump off the pages of a novel. However, author Jillian Medoff has gone above and beyond in her creation of Franny, the main character. Franny is a perfectly imperfect 26-year old woman standing at the brink of indecision and uncertainty in life. She is lazy yet ambitious, intelligent yet naïve, clingy yet distant. As the book opens, Franny has just moved back in with her parents after being laid off from her office job. Things at home are a bit uneasy; her relationship with her perfectionist mother is difficult at best; her father is distant; worst of all, her sister Shelly is in a mental hospital, trying to recover from anorexia. Franny is half-heartedly looking for a job while working as a waitress at night. Life for Franny is okay, but it seems to be balancing on a thin tightrope that could snap at any given time. As Franny's sister is released from the hospital and their grandfather comes to live with the family, things tentatively get a little better, although Franny is unwittingly jealous of the attention her seemingly recovered sister is receiving from their family. Suddenly tragedy strikes the family painfully, and things plummet into disaster. Shelly inexplicably loses her battle with anorexia nervosa, and the family is thrown into mourning, each handling it in their own way. Franny seems to go off the deep end, her mother distances herself from the family, and her father blocks everything out.

The modern family portrayed in HUNGER POINT is both charming and a little disturbing. Jillian Medoff weaves a silken web of sadness, hope, occasional laugh-out-loud moments, real-life emotion and startling clarity in this brilliant novel. Readers will be spellbound as they watch this family try to pull themselves together and move on. Franny slowly goes through the many stages of mourning for her sister, sometimes appearing to take one step forward and three steps back.

There are some tough subjects addressed in the novel, and they are all handled admirably and skillfully by the author, and they are portrayed realistically. You will not find the sugarcoating of anything in this book; everything is honestly told, almost painfully so.

HUNGER POINT is a stunning portrayal of one modern family's struggle to beat the odds of society and life, and one girl's plight to recover from her sister's tragic death. A fantastic debut novel. Highly recommended!

I was duly impressed with Jillian Medoff's Good Girls Gone Bad, and so I didn't hesitate to pick up this book. Hunger Point is a poignant novel about a young woman's struggles with the unraveling of her family.

Frannie Hunter, unable to sustain a job and an apartment of her own, moves back with her parents. As she tries to get her life in order, she witnesses her sister's battle with Anorexia, her mother's two-timing behavior, and her father's career woes. As a former anorexic, I can relate to the hardships the protagonist and the other characters go through.

The subject matters that Medoff addresses in Hunger Point -- eating disorders, depression, grief, etc. -- are mixed with poignancy and humor. Medoff is as witty as she is insightful. I laughed out loud in many occasions. Her work is similar to Anna Maxtet's; however, Jillian Medoff has a particular brand of comic timing and keen storytelling all her own. She is one of the best new authors out there and I look forward to reading more of her work in the future.

Hunger Point is a hearbreaking story following the life of Fran, a sarcastic and funny character whose mother is obsessed with food, sister is bullimic and in a hospital, and father is sort of out-of-it...Well, anyways, Fran has to find a job (she's a waitress, but she's looking for a serious job). She keeps getting distracted, though. Shelly (her sister) dies unexpectedly from a drug overdose, her mom is cracking up, her parents are fighting, her grandpa is dying...and she falls in love. She is baffled by her sister's death, and finds herself searching for answers, sometimes getting ones she doesn't understand. I've read this book (listened to, whatever) twice, and each time was very satisfying

I read the Wonderful Fight to the Mushroom Planet by Eleanor Cameron. It takes place in Chuck and David hometown and on Basidium. This is a book about 2 boys, David and Chuck. David finds an ad in the newspaper looking for a ship and 2 kids. They make a ship and they fly to Basidium. They bring along Mrs. Pennyfeather. She is a chicken. I liked this book because it interesting. Do they return? Read to find out!

The book I read was The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet by Eleanor Cameron. Most of the story took place in Basidium. Two boys named Chuck and David, answer an ad to save the Basidiumites. Do they figure out the problem and save the Basidiumites? Read more to find out!!! I liked this story because I like stuff to do with outer space.

I first read "The Wonderful Flight To The Mushroom Planet" more years ago than I care to remember.
I loved it then and my grandchildren love it now!
This story about 2 ordinary kids who encounter a mysterious scientist and build a spaceship is sure to enchant readers of all ages.
Can David and Chuck save the endangered Musroom Planet?
Will they make it back to Earth?
Just exactly who is Mr. Bass?
You'll just have to read this wonderful book to find out!

You do not need to be an artist in the sense of a gifted painter, sculptor, writer, musician, etc. to enjoy this book. We are all artists in that each of us designs, creates and shapes our own future. We make the choices that will determine where our paths will lead. The only limitations we have are those we place on ourselves.

Julia Cameron makes the journey a little smoother by helping us rid ourselves of life's negative emotions - fear, jealousy, guilt, limited beliefs, etc. While the book makes interesting and insightful reading, I think it is important to be committed to completing all the exercises for maximum benefit. The author does touch on spirituality and makes reference to God in several instances; however, whatever your own personal beliefs, the reader can easily adapt the material written here to any spiritual belief, regardless of what "Higher Power" you believe in.

Two other books which I highly recommend are "You Can Heal Your Life" by Louise L. Hay, and "What's Next: Women Redefining Their Dreams in the Prime of Life", by Rena Pederson. Both are excellent books.

This 229-page book is actually a course to free your creativity. The entire course is based upon the principle that the artist must have faith to be creative. It is the author's conviction that the Creator encourages creativity in all people.

The book is broken down into twelve weekly lessons. There are several miscellaneous sections. Each weekly lesson has tasks and exercises to be completed. Sidebars provide quotes and tidbits of information to uplift the soul. The divisions of the manual are as follow:

In the introduction, the author explains how she began teaching and eventually developed her seminars and lectures into a book.

Spiritual Electricity: The Basic Principles defines the ten spiritual principles, gives directions for using this course, and tells the reader what to expect from the course.

The Basic Tools introduces the two primary tools of the course: the morning pages and the artist date. The morning pages are three handwritten pages, penned in stream-of-consciousness, without looking back at the previous pages. The artist date is time set aside to be spent with your inner artist. There is even a creativity contract.

Week 1: Recovering a Sense of Safety deals with realizing what negative beliefs and hurts from the past are blocking or restricting your creativity and replacing them with positive affirmations.

Week 2: Recovering a Sense of Identity begins with a section called "Going Sane." It deals with the people you surround yourself with in life and how they exert negative influence over your creativity.

Week 3: Recovering a Sense of Power leaps right into anger management, shame, and dealing with criticism. It examines how most people are afraid that there is a God watching everything we do.

Week 4: Recovering a Sense of Integrity is about learning to distinguish between the mask you wear for the public and your real inner feelings. There are exercises in learning what you really want from life and in sensory deprivation.

Week 5: Recovering a Sense of Possibility begins with the following sentence: "One of the chief barriers to accepting God's generosity is our limited notion of what we are in fact able to accomplish." This lesson teaches us to break through those barriers.

Week 6: Recovering a Sense of Abundance will have you tossing out clothing and gathering rocks. It teaches us that there is abundance in our lives and that our creativity requires its own portion of luxury.

Week 7: Recovering a Sense of Connection covers jealousy, perfectionism, risk, and learning to listen to our inner artist.

Week 8: Recovering a Sense of Strength teaches us to turn loss into gain by metabolizing the pain into energy. There is an exercise to help the artist break out of the early patterning; to overcome the negativity of childhood.

Week 9: Recovering a Sense of Compassion deals with avoiding self-defeat and learning to logically deal with fears.

Week 10: Recovering a Sense of Self-Protection enlightens us about the spiritual demons we create to battle our creativity: workaholism, fame, competition, and drought.

Week 11: Recovering a Sense of Autonomy focuses on how to handle success, how to nurture the inner artist, and the connection between nurturing the inner artist and self-respect.

Week 12: Recovering a Sense of Faith reminds us of the pitfalls to our creativity and helps us learn to have faith.

The book ends with sections on questions and answers, creativity clusters, and forming a sacred circle.

Every artist should own a copy of this book and utilize it religiously! It is the kind of manual that can be used over and over again for continual growth. I highly recommend it and feel it is a vital tool for personal creative expansion.

"The Artist's Way" is a book that will help to free and activate your creative energy. Author Julia Cameron outlines a twelve-week program to clear away the self defeating "editor" that sits on your shoulder, whispering in your ear, reinforcing all the doubts and fears that inhibit your creativity. After reading this book you will feel energised to write, paint, sew, sculpt, dance, sing or to follow whichever path your creative spirit chooses. This is a very spiritual book in a non denominational way! I personally like the way the author connects creativity to spirit. I have always believed that ideas and inspiration and intuition are spirit and that spirit propels us to create. The activities in this book will free you from the self defeating thoughts that hold back the flow of your creativity. The rewards are great. The act of creating connects you with your innermost feelings. If this sounds too "fuzzy-warm" for you, consider that allowing yourself time to be creative is very healthy. It's probably the best thing you can do for yourself. It will relax you and transcend all stress and worry. The author has written a valuable book. Consider reading it. It will strengthen and enrich you.

...and if you've read the fairly extensive backlog of available Billy Wilder bios and interviews(two other books were out within the past ten years, I think)---you won't mind plowing through the familiar ,oft-told Wilder anecdotes in search of fresh material.It's there because Cameron Crowe asks a number of very specific questions,and Billy's obliged to search his memory,rather than falling back on the glib stories that have made up his(admittedly entertaining)reportory for lo these many years.Crowe's observations of Wilder's daily routines are illuminating----there is a downside to being the oldest living legend in town.The guy's obviously had about all the accolades and fawning attention he can reasonably endure.Reading this book cured me of my one-time desire to actually meet the great man--- I think we'd both be dissappointed,but hell,I don't blame him.How many times do you want to hear how great you are when you're 96 and all you want to do is cross the street to the corner lunch counter unmolested?Crowe gives us a vivid picture of a Hollywood luminary who has outlived virtually everyone he ever worked with----must be quite a sensation--- I only hope I live long enough to experience a similar one.

Young writer-director Cameron Crowe begged legendary writer-director Billy Wilder to do a cameo in his film "Jerry McGuire." Wilder refused the role, but agreed to a series of interviews. The result, "Conversations With Billy Wilder," is a lively account of Wilder's amazing life and influential career. It also stands as an insightful lesson on filmmaking and film history. Wilder made classic films, including "Some Like It Hot," "The Apartment," "Double Indemnity" and "Sunset Blvd." Now in his 90s, Wilder hasn't made a movie for years. But he's consistently cited as an influence by such modern filmmakers as Steven Spielberg, Spike Lee and Crowe. Wilder is not given to biography or bragging, but Crowe (a former rock journalist) gets the old man talking about his films, his stars (Marilyn Monroe drove him crazy), his opinion of today's films (loved "Gump," hated "Titanic") and his early days in Berlin and Vienna. Wilder's wit and memory are sharp, which makes listening to him via these interviews a total joy. "Conservations" makes it clear that Wilder views himself as a writer who also directs. Wilder's careful attention to character and plot development is the reason his films remain vital, and why so many modern filmmakers emulate him. The book contains several side treats. One is the chance to see the friendship between Wilder, the old master, and Crowe, the young talent, develop and deepen. To use a movie comparison, it's a little like Luke and Yoda. It will be interesting to see how the friendship impacts Crowe's next film. Another treat is seeing the elderly, somewhat frail Wilder take great pleasure in having lunch, sipping a martini or betting on football. The book also contains numerous photos from Wilder's life and brief descriptions of all of his movies. Particularly given his reluctance for self-promotion, "Conversations with Billy Wilder" is a gift for anyone who loves movies.

I picked this up since I was familiar with Cameron Crowe's work both as a writer and filmmaker. While I was somewhat aware of Wilder's work (I've only seen "The Lost Weekend" and "Sunset Boulevard"), I'd recommend this book only to hardcore Wilder fans; much of the book Crowe spends time asking Wilder about why/how he got a certain shot, or how certain actors did or did not fit a certain role of a certain film (Wilder reiterates on several occasions that he always wanted Cary Grant in his pictures but couldn't get him) - this is all minutiae that the casual reader will not care much about. Still, Crowe makes ample use of his journalism expertise to get Wilder to open up (alas, we don't learn much about his life save for how he met his second wife and a bit about his time as a writer in Berlin before he immigrated to the U.S.) and it was nice to see how the Fan and Master became friends over the course of these interviews. Also, very nice graphic design, layout and photographs that complement the subject matter throughout the book. I plan to revisit "Converstaions with Wilder" once I've rented some more of Wilder's films, and I'm sure it will be a better read next time around.

This is the most amazing True Crime book I have ever read. The main character actually kidnaps a young woman with his young wife and baby in the car. The victim, Colleen, is immediately put into a box, and lives there 24 hours a day for months. She is kept as a sex and torture slave. After she is totally brainwashed, she continues to stay with this deranged couple and is free to work and walk around the neighborhood.One would wonder how this could be possible, and yet from the months and months of constant deprivation, you come to depend on your captor for simple survival. This book was shocking beyond belief and a very good read. Thank you

This book has been around for a few years now. I first read it about six years ago and have since read it again. It's just as good the second time round. A very shocking story of sex,brainwashing and sick perversions. Not for the easily disturbed. Very graphic details and very shocking in places. On reading the back of the book I almost laughed at the idea of someone being held captive for seven years and being brainwashed into staying. On reading the book however,you come to realise just how this can happen and how frighteningly real it was for the poor victim, Colleen Stan. All the way through I couldn't help but wonder why on earth Colleen's family didn't suss out that something was going on. I mean, hey, your daughter suddenly goes missing and when she finally turns up she is like a different person and totally controlled by two individuals that she normally wouldn't associate with. Surely someone must have thought that something was up? Really excellent read. Buy it,don't borrow it as you'll definitely want to read it again.Comes with quite a few photos too. Powerfull and compelling.

This book tells the story of Coleen Stan, the woman who was kidnapped and kept prisoner, most of the time in a coffin size wooden box, by a couple in California. Written by the woman who prosecuted this case the book spares none of the shocking details of the case while still not appearing sensationalistic. It's a riveting and mesmerizing look into the true depths of human evil as well as a testament to the power of the human psyche to survive. One of the best books of its kind I have read!

Charles Pellegrino's earlier book about the Titanic, "Her Name, Titanic," remains one of the better books on the subject. Instead of rewriting that book, Pellegrino chose to write what he suspects will be the second book of a Titanic trilogy (with a third volume planned for 10 to 12 years hence). Pellegrino has the advantage of knowing almost everyone involved in the discovery of and expeditions to the Titanic, including Robert Ballard and George Tulloch, formerly of Titanic International, and he actually accompanied the 1996 expedition. He also is close to Walter Lord and has interviewed a number of Titanic survivors. This puts Pellegrino in a particularly useful position to portray the Titanic disaster in 3 dimensions while banging no particular drum. Pellegrino is also something of a polymath. He's interested in everything, as readers of his previous books can attest. He's probably the closest thing going to Isaac Asimov since the late Dr. A passed away. Given this, there are some real irritants here. I'd like to see all of Pellegrino's quotations and information cited. At the very least I'd like his assurance that none of the dialogue, particularly dialogue supposed to have taken place aboard the Titanic, is invented. It's also startling to see him consistently misspelling the name of Lord Mersey, the jurist in charge of the British inquiry, and of the Leyland Line, owners of the Californian, throughout the book. I find it a little difficult to believe that Pellegrino apparently buys into James Cameron's line that the ship would have been even more badly damaged had it hit the iceberg headon. Frankly, I can't think of a case in which the rammer came off worse than the rammee. Also, Pellegrino's interest in everything occasionally detracts as he flits from subject to subject without, sometimes, completing his original thought. But these are minor irritants, and I only mention them with the hope that Pellegrino will see them and make corrections in future editions. This book is extremely valuable and brings absolutely new information to the public attention. Especially useful is Pellegrino's careful forensic analysis of the Californian controversy, and his similar treatment of the iceberg sighting. According to this new information, the iceberg was sighted when so close to the Titanic that the ship actually collided with it almost as soon as the officers began to react, rendering unimportant earlier arguments about the size of the ship's rudder. Also very interesting are the results of studies into the rusticle formations that are speedily consuming the ship. It's fascinating to learn that new insights into biology are coming from these studies. There's a lot of really good new data here, and I recommend this book with only the minor reservations noted above. Needless to say, I'll be waiting eagerly, in ten or so years, for Pellegrino's next book on this seemingly inexhaustable topic.

James Cameron asks in the Foreward to this book,"...Titanic ranks third on the list of events about which the mosthas been written, behind the life of Christ and the death of JFK...as I gaze over the rows of shelves stuffed full of my own research materials, what is there to say that hasn't been said? Plenty. And this book is proof."

Pellegrino takes the reader through the Titanic expeditions since his previous book, "Her Name, Titanic," including the 1996 RMS Titanic expedition the author participated in as biopaleontologist and marine archaeologist. He also introduces readers to more never before published survivor accounts, including Chief Baker Charles Joughin (whose survival despite more time spent in the water than any other survivor is still a mystery), Michel Navatril ("The Titanic Waif") and stoker Jim Mulolland (who reports on the fate of the ship's cat).

The reader is also treated to detailed pencil sketches of the wreck as he saw it, an archaeological map of the Stern debris field, the diagrams of the new consortial life form dubbed "Rusticalus Titanics" by Pellegrino and Cullimore on the '96 expedition, and for the first time anywhere, annotated drawings of the actual deck plans of the Titanic drawn in India ink (one of the many Titanic myths debunked by Pellegrino in this book is that the plans went down with Andrews - at the advice of their lawyers the White Star Line led authorities to believe that in order to shut down the design defect argument).

Among the forensic reconstructions in the book are a complete reconstruction on the sequence of events on the the Titanic and the Californian from eyewitness accounts, showing at each stage how the Californian was viewing the lights and distress rockets of the Titanic, and likewise the lifeboats on the Titanic were viewing the lights of the Californian. Pellegrino notes that even Captain Stanley Lord of The Californian finally admitted during his libel law suit against the account of his ship in "A Night To Remember," that it was the lights of the Titanic his crew saw that night of April 12th (its amazing that some authors *still* refer to the "mystery ship"). But Pellegrino further damns Captain Lord by showing that under the atmospheric conditions and due to the immutable laws of curvature of the earth, the lights observed on both sides bracket the distance between the ships as between 5 and 7.5 miles (instead of the 20 miles the captain claimed to american investigators or the 30 miles he later claimed to british investigators or the 40 miles he claimed to reporters after that), which meant the Californian could have reached the titanic, allowing for caution, less than one hour after seeing the first distress rockets, a time when lifeboats were still lowering, well in time to save hundreds at least from freezing to death in the cold waters, possibly all 1500! Pellegrino even adds a new indictment from Third Officer Groves of the Californian, during the brief search the Californian did that morning, Groves saw moving figures on the ice which he believed to be human beings, only to have this dismissed by the Captain as Seals as he ordered the ship to turn around and head for Boston!

Pellegrio also describes the scientific discoveries Pellegrino participated in on the '96 RMS Titanic expedition. He and microbiologist Roy Cullimore discovered that Bob Ballard's "Rusticles" are a new consortial life form, Rusticalus Titanicus, a 3.5 billion year evolutionary throwback that could provide new antibiotics and other medicines. Pellegrino and Cullimore also noted a tremendous increase in deep-ocean "sea snow" between Titanic expeditions which is evidence of "The Zooplankton Crisis," a massive bloom of animal plankton caused by reductions in the North Atlantic fish population, which threatens the phytoplankton population in the top few inches of the ocean, which are responsible for converting more far carbon dioxide in the atmosphere than rain forests. The reader is reminded of the warning Titanic survivor Eva Hart gives to Pellegrino in this book, "...if you scientists, engineers and industrial geniuses don't learn to temper arrogance with wisdom, and to pay very close attention, then I'm afraid there will be an even bigger Titanic in your future - for the whole world, maybe. And next time there may be no lifeboats - for anybody."

I'd rate this book as a great read for any reader interested in history or science, and a must-have for any true Titanic enthusiast, no matter how many books you own!

This book is the newest of my 59 title Titanic library. It had me absolutely glued to every word and I even had to take notes and tell my husband about the events as I read along. I am currently doing research for an article for, and am a mamber of the Titanic Historical Society. I have been reading and visting every museum and web site I can for the past three years. This book is the most interesting I have read so far. I would say that this is one of the most essential books one must have for their Titanic library! Charles Pelligrino truely knows how to blend perfectly, the threads of scientific ,archiological, historical, and humanistic truth of this puzzling and sad event. He tells of his intuitive thoughts and experiences, and backs each up with facts from Walter Lords research, eyewhitness accounts, scientific information from his diving to the wreck site,retrieval of artifats and mapping the debris field. He gives you every layer possible to this very complex story, from the rusticles that live on Titanic today,to the proof of looting on board that fateful night, to the unthinkible possibility that maybe some survivors were left behind on an ice flow. Truely an enthralling read!! Thank you Charles!

Tami Agnello Stickney

This "Bad Girl's Guide" book was just less than slightly entertaining - The title implies the book might be a helpful "guide", when in fact it is simply full of ridiculous lists. Some parts of the book were actually quite humorous, while the content was lacking - Just don't expect to get anything out of it except a couple of laughs.

I picked this book up in Vegas at the Hard Rock gift shop. I was a on trip there with my best girlfriend. We had a blast reading this book together and sharing secrets. The best chapter is how to get your bartenders attention. We'd tried a few of the lines out in Vegas and they worked real well. This book is more fun to share than to read by yourself.

I really do laugh out loud every time I open this book. It is packed with hilarious stuff. Crazy, witty, wild bad girl advice about managing your life, your career, your relationships--all with bad girl style. The kind of stuff that makes you pick up your phone and call your sister in Boston to read her an excerpt just to hear her laugh. It's a fun read cover to cover, and also great to leave lying around the house for those moments when you need a laugh. Since reading her books, I've given Cameron Tuttle's bad girl's guides (both this and the Bad Girl's Guide to the Open Road) as gifts to my mom (she loves it), my sister (ditto), and all of my bad girl friends. Do yourself a favor and buy this book!