I am not a law student, but I want to feel secure in the legal aspects of my activities as a real estate investor. This book provides exactly that. It is easy to understand and very well organized. It may be missing a few examples for some complex points, but in general is a great book for anybody who want to really know the ins and outs of real estate law.

This treatise is the authoritative basis of a whole industry. Almost everyone in commercial IT now exploits RAID technology in their daily lives, indirectly if not directly, and yet precious few people actually understand what's going on under the hood. This is it!

This book is perhaps a little too mathematical for many readers over-all, but the text alone is very well written and accessible, even if the maths is taken on trust.

If taken with The RAID Book (6th ed, RAID Advisory Board, Paul Massiglia, Peer-to-Peer Press, 1997) all the implications of RAID become far clearer.

RAID isn't a panacea for storage issues, and when people read this book they'll surely be better off for having done so.

Highly recommended.

This book gives you step by step instructions - to the point of including samples of phone questionnaires, Request for Proposal letters, the agenda for the architect interview, etc. It tells you how to interview for an architect and a contractor, and what to expect at each stage of the remodeling process. It relies heavily on formal AIA procedures, but if you're investing a lot in a renovation and you're new to remodeling, the AIA procedures are probably the best way to go. If you read just one book about remodeling, I recommend this one! (Too bad it's out of print.) I also recommend Rusk's On Time On Budget for more good info (but Rusk does not give all the details that Gibson gives).

The Ghost of Ticonderoga - the Laird of Inverawe offers a hiding place to a man accused of manslaughter from a lynch mob...then discovers that the victim was his best friend...

Back There - Corrigan slips on the steps of the Potomac Club in the present, and gets to his feet on April 14, 1865...

Judgment Night - Curt Lanser finds himself a passenger on the freighter Queen of Glasgow, with no memory of how he got there, and a terrible premonition of the ship's fate...

The Curse of Seven Towers - the ghosts of Seven Towers only appear to signal the death of the owner. Can James Boyce escape by turning the house over to the Preservation League?

The Avenging Ghost - What does Lloyd Proctor's Great Dane see on Pleasant Farm on stormy nights?

Return from Oblivion - story of King Nine.

The House on the Square - a pair of ghostbusters finally get more than they bargained for....

Death's Masquerade - a New Orleans mask-maker sees more deeply into his Mardi Gras clients than they realize...

The Riddle of the Crypt - a family rents Cliff House for the summer, only to find that it was built on the site of a castle with a sinister reputation...

Dead Man's Chest - searching the Hudson River for one of Captain Kidd's caches.

I wonder why the discrimination (is it ignorance?) exists regarding James's first great work, "Roderick Hudson." Yes, it is early James, and yes, snobs, it is very "readable." It's a page turner, the sentences are short, and the clauses only interfere in the early chapters, as James revised this earliest work with woefully-advised insertions of his later style. Once you get past these early chapters, however, you will be carried along - there are a few laughs as colorless Rowland Mallet tries to rein in the wild, sensitive Roderick.

Much of the action takes place in Italy - and you get to meet the delicious Princess Casamassima (at this point, Judith Light), to boot.

A real winner - for me, second only to "Portrait of a Lady"---

This volume is a valuable literature on international relations with regard to understanding the complicated nature of arms control bargaining process. Authors examined growing threats of missile proliferation during 1980s and the emergence of the Missile Technology Control Regimes (MTCR) as well as Russia's missile export policy and its reluctance to involve the MTCR. This study well shows the U.S. efforts for preventing missile proliferation and how it persuaded Russia to participate and embrace the MTCR

This book is great!!! It's full of logical and practical advice for anyone who is feeling overwhelmed by thoughts about having to care for their aging parents and still having a life at the same time. This isn't a book of instructions - the authors actually "talk" to you and share experiences that you can relate to and apply to your own situation. My own mother's aging has been of concern to me lately and I feel much better and far more prepared since I read this book.

I highly recommend it!

This is one of the greatest books ever written on the subject of sense-perception. It's a masterpiece not just in psychology but in philosophy. Against the view that perception involves taking in raw data and then doing a lot of internal construction and inference to build up an internal image representing the world, Gibson defends a more Aristotelean, direct-realist view that our senses enable us to perceive directly the information that is available in the external world. Gibson calls this an "ecological" approach to perception. He's particularly interested in our perception of motion, and of our ability to perceive changes in our own position. This summary doesn't do justice to the richness of this book.

I had known from "Peter Pan" and "The Little Minister" that Barrie was a great author, but I think this is the best I've read of his, so far.

He manages to create one of those characters that you love despite (because of?) his faults, and he surrounds him with a great supporting cast and many subplots. I recommend this highly to anyone who likes Barrie's work (or as an introduction to it).

This book is a compilation of two original shadow stories. In the first story, A Quarter of Eight (originally published 10/1/45), the four quarters of an old Spanish piece of eight hold the key to a lost treasure, but someone is willing to kill to get all four pieces, and only The Shadow can stop him. In The Freak Show Murders (5/1/44), someone is willing to kill to gain the secret of Alumite (an incredibly light and strong new metal)--that someone dresses as a harlequin, can move about almost unseen, and kills without mercy. Linking The Harlequin to a traveling freak show, The Shadow and Margo Lane must penetrate the freak show and The Harlequin's secrets.

My father used to talk about listening to The Shadow on the radio when he was a kid, and I was thrilled to be able to hear it myself. Now, after some serious searching, I have been able to read some original Shadow pulp stories. Written when Walter Gibson was at his height, these stories are fascinating and well written. If you are a fan of The Shadow, then you should read this book. I give it two thumbs up!