WACK!!?? The author could of told more about him then ,rather what the man then did in his life !! But dont get me wrong it wont so bad . But the author should try again.

I'm out...... Rashawnna

Edward Chiera presented wonderful information on his research of ancient civilizations. Very easy to read for Jr. High students. However, his personal comments on religion(s) was just that, his personal comments, nothing factual. Recommeded reading for students with religious chapters omitted.

George Cassidy was the alias Butch was using when he was arrested for horse theft. His actual name was Robert LeRoy Parker.

How can one trust a book that can't even get the name of Butch Cassidy correct. Robert Leroy Parker is the real thing using George only perpetuates the untruths and casts doubt on the rest of the work.

The review written in April 1999 from Cleveland Utah, was confusing. Was the writer saying the Author was incorrect in stating that Butch did not use the name George? If that be the case then I would refer the reviewer to an indictment issued on July 4th 1894 in Laramie that lists one George Cassidy as a defendant in horse theft. Prison records also indicate that George "Butch" Cassidy was incarcerated at the Wyoming State Prison on 7-15-94. Did I mis-read the review, or did the reviewer mis-read history?

Don't waste your money! There is nothing of value in this so called "book!" Anyone reading it should be PAID to do so.

This cd...does not even have lablel on.... The cd has a user interface that uses web browser inside it to go trough the pages. It is really slow to first start up, and then to roll to next page even with 1mb/sec. internet connection. You can not bookmark or copy information from the pages. The CD prevents you to see the urls of the sites you are looking trough the links, so although it is addvertised as a "good finding tool" you are not able to find what you saw later. It does keep absolute track on where you were so if you browse trough a site and click on 10 pictures you will have to walk backwards trough every click you made. The CD also goes back to first page if you click on "home" and it takes you 5 pages to get to the main menu page after that. The pictures are low quality. There are no new projects in this book, just links to ones people have given freely in the net. The text in so bright and messy backround that it is really hard for eyes to read. The only thing new in these pages are the "featured artist" "galleries" that have both about 20 low quality pictures. On the links there are some links that are repeated over and over, sometimes inside the same category.... Also many of the pages have describtions that are refering to other site than the one the link gets you....

I'm new to polymer clay. I found some intresting polymer clay sites in this book. Learned a lot, too.

Save your money on this one. Nothing new or exciting. Even the most basic books will give you more hints on how to handle clay than this CD. And the fact that you need a computer makes it even more like work and less like fun. One star was generous.

...Not only was there nothing new, or very inspiring about the polymer 'tips', but the material on the cd-rom would not have filled 10 pages in book format. The presentation was simplistic and the projects looked amateurish...

This CD/Book is totally useless. The small amount of information that is on it, plus a whole lot more, can be found online for FREE! ([...] is a wealth of free infomation) Not even beginners can benefit from this CD. All it contains are some bad photos of molded pieces that have been painted (polymer clay is seldom painted by people who us it because the clay comes in a rainbow of colors so it's not necessary) There are no secrets in this book as the title implies. However, among the questionable tips you'll find some miss-information. Forget it! Look through Amazon.com for a legitimate polymer clay book, or get the wonderful "Tips and Techniques" booklet from the National Polymer Clay Guild, or go online to [...], a non commercial site. Don't throw your money away on this dreadful publication.

This book isn't worth it. It's not even a book. It's more of a craft phamplet, about 4 - 6 pages long. There are about 6 different shapes used and the same styles are repeated over and over until they accumulate to 90 pieces. For example, there is a simple moon shape and a simple cat shape that are painted differently according to holiday themes, i.e. a cat with a green sweater for St. Patricks Day and a cat with a red sweater for Christmas, you get the idea. Unfortunately, the author didn't seem to have too many ideas and now I am stuck with a booklet I hate that isn't even worth returning, because the shipping was more than the book because it was special ordered, and will be even more to return it. DON'T BOTHER! It is a shame and I feel this book is mis-representation of it's title.

This book is a total waste of money & with shipping, it isn't even worth returning the book. I paid [price], I think, for the book plus shipping and no way is there 90 different designs. The book is more of a phamplet and is about 5 pages long. The author uses the same basic designs, about 5 basic shapes and paints them differently for holidays, etc. to get to her "90" designs. She uses crescent moons and circles to make cats, which have green paint for St. Patricks day and red for Christmas, etc. Don't even bother.

This isn't a children's book, it's a Sunday-school tract.

I was hoping this book would have a few childrens tales based on older Japanese fairy tales, something fun for a child to read about Japanese history or culture. What I found instead disgusted me: a small series of trite and simple minded stories that only vaguely reflect Japanese culture.

This book is nothing more than a vehicle for shameless Christian recruitment devices with no deeper meaning. (One story is even titled "I Want To Be A Christian".)

The illustrations are passable, even interesting in their way, but the subject matter is just plain irritating. I feel that Amazon should have made a better effort to catalog and describe this book as a Christian text rather than as a children's book. Sadly, the religious content made it quite impossible for me to give the book to the child for whom it was purchased.

Since I did not read it in a timely fashion, I was unable to return it for refund (thus, I wasted my money).

I do not recommend this book to anyone unless you want to warp your child with Christian propoganda. You might as well pick up the Chick tracts. They're about the same reading level.

"Brighton Beauty" is a traditional "sweet" Regency romance published by Zebra of about 220 pages. The plot is not very convincing, spoilt Alayna blackmails poor schoolpal Chelsea Grant into taking her place at Lord Rathbone's country seat. Lord Rathbone is Alayna's fiance, an arranged affair, and Alayna has never met him as he lives in Honduras where he owns a plantation. Unexpectedly Lord Rathbone arrives to claim his fiancee at his country seat and Chelsea and he fall in love, while he thinks Chelsea is Alayna. The two main characters are cardboard cutout figures, Chelsea is sweet, young and dazzling beautiful "The Brighton Beauty". She agrees to marry Lord Rathbone, who has abandoned his estate in England and continues to abandon it (though it is rundown) in favour of his slave run plantation in Honduras, where he whisks Chelsea off to at the end of the book. No criticism by either he or Chelsea about slavery, he mentions he is kind to his slaves (no, he has no intention of freeing them). All very distasteful. Author has a historical note about slavery at the end of the book. Couldn't she have made the characters pro-Abolitionist since it was such a strong movement in Britain at the time?

Simply put, this book is awful. Without diving too deep into the wild assertions and contrived doctrine, the whole of the book could be refuted by a simple study of the Hebrew word for "north," which comes from a root meaning "obscurity" or "darkness." Mr. McConkie fails to see that the "lost 10 tribes" could quite possibly be in a SYMBOLIC north, and not a literal one. Some rabbinic, patristic, and even gnostic writings employ the usage of symbolic directions for spiritual meaning. For example, Christ is said to return to earth for his second advent "from the east," the name 'Benjamin' translates to "Son of the right hand" or "son of the covenant", etc. The uses of right/left hand and north/south/east/west in holy writ (whether LDS scripture or not) are sometimes to be taken literally, sometimes spiritually, or both. Mr. McConkie never adresses these issues extensively. Also, there are many scriptures which indicate that the lost tribes are scattered like leaven throughout the entire earth: Duet. 30, Amos 9, Zech. 7, Luke 21, Jacob 5, D&C 45, etc. Also, ask yourself the question: "Where was the tribe of Joseph (via Ephraim & Manasseh) prior to the restoration? Were they in outer space or in some icy northern land?" I doubt it...

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This profusely-illustrated book consists of approximately 120 mini-essays on a slew of topics that relate in some way to urban planning and urban geography, although there's quite a bit on rural geography as well. For some idea of the content, here are the first five of his essay headings, if they had been in alphabetical order: Abandoned farm/town, active zone (i.e., crime zone), air rights zone, airspace, annexation area, all the way to 'wreck site' at the end of the alphabet.

The essays are of uneven quality, and often seem a bit shallow. It's not entertaining enough to succeed as a popular book, and not analytical enough to succeed as a serious treatise. There's a niche for a book that would address topics of small-scale geography in the not-quite-rural but not-city-center places in which most of us spend our lives. Such a book might explain the different ingredients of suburban sprawl -- types of shopping centers, commercial strips, and housing developments, how they develop, how they affect the surrounding area, and how they age. Sadly, this book seemed pointed in that direction but fell short.