The score is free of any errors and is VERY easy to read. Large binding for PIT's three greatest symphonies. Highly reccomended for classroom study, personal study, and professional use.

I fell in love with these works when I played the finale to #5 in a local youth symphony, the following year in college I played #4. This score is easy to follow and ideal for classroom settings, if I ever have a professor that requires it, it will be ready. If nothing else, this is a good reference that should be in everyone's library.

My first encounter with Tchaikovsky was when I transcribed the 4th symphony out by long hand. What a joy it is to see the ebb and flow of all 3 of these great masterpieces. Tchaikovsky's writing for strings is surpassed by no one. Seeing all 3 of these works in one book makes following along with the music so much easier.

Albeniz, Bach, Sor, Giuliani, Scarlatti, the big names are all there, plus many many others -- for ten dollars! A guitarist need know all the material in this book alone and be a world-class virtuoso -- all for 10 dollars! This really is the one book a classical guitarist needs for performance or practice material -- and it is only 10 dollars!

David Nadal has put together a volume of high quality music for the classical guitar. Included are standard pieces, but also some rarely published gems- my favorite among them being his impressive transcription of a Vivaldi Violin Concerto for solo guitar. This piece alone is well worth the money!

This is a must-have for classical guitarists. There are advanced, standard-repertoire pieces suitable for performance as well as approachable pieces for study - all spanning from the Medieval to the Romantic era. Best of all, the editing and fingerings make the music approachable every level of ability. It does not get better than this.

For many years my passion has been to seek out hidden things: organisms and entities usually invisible to human sight; knowledge ignored by the mainstream or hidden by conspiracy; ideas and objects so large or so much a part of our perception of the world that they are hidden before our very eyes. The occult, the obscure, and the invisible fascinate me.

Accordingly, I was pleased when I stumbled across this book some years ago; it promised to tells how to build hiding places in one's home or office, and I bought it instantly, read it in one sitting, and emerged at the end full of ideas for hidden places in our own abodes. I think that the idea I like best in this book is the idea that modern American houses are hollow, waiting for an enterprising mind to fill them up with all things forbidden or easily stolen: "jewels, money, appliances, grass, pornography, whips", as the author David Krotz states in the introduction. He provides inspiration to the suspicious, the cautious, the wealthy and the protective. Now I am incapable of entering a house without wondering what lurks behind the walls, wondering if the floor or ceiling holds some dark secret the owner wishes to conceal (and knowing my friends, there is a good possibility that this is the case!)

Three-fourths of the book is useful information on how to construct hiding places; the rest is light but entertaining filler: an account of what led the author to set out on his unique career, accounts of the people he had met, and an appendix on how to hide everything from an affair to a house. The tone throughout is tongue in cheek, but the instructions are valuable.

I have myself used these designs to construct a few "hidey-holes," as the author likes to call them, and I can therefore say that the instructions in this book are sound and worth considering. We all have something to hide; most of us sleep better at night knowing that our secrets are hidden safely away. This book can help you achieve that sense of security.

I checked this book out of a library when I was in the military at a particularly boring base. I kept checking it out again and again. Its a really FUN book for anyone to read. Now that we have a house of our own, and some property worth worrying about, I want to find this book again to have on my shelf (and make some use of).

How to Hide Almost Anything is a primer/manual for anyone with simple craft skills. It uses illustrations and text to describe literally dozens of places around the home that can be modified or created to hide 'almost anything.' The author has actually done these things, so his advice on fasteners, hinges, camouflage, diversion, and construction are exact and invaluable. Hollowed-out door moldings, fake basement drains, unexpected spaces in walls, stairways, hidden empty spaces behind a wide variety of things you will find or can build and how to disguise them so no one will find them. I've looked for years and haven't found anything like this book. There are a few other books for kids hiding places, but nothing else that could be used for valuable items. The piece-de-resistance is a method for hiding an entire house!

This charming book will leave you laughing so hard you cry. Jeanne's anecdotes brighten your day while giving you creative ideas. It will also make you think and help you reevaluate everyday things in your own life. It's a must-read and is definitely "chicken soup for the soul". You'll love it!

This is an easy to read, easy to implement little book chocked full of creativity and wisdom. Should be quickly read in its entirity and strategiclly placed by your bed to be read at the beginning of each day. What a great New Years gift to give a woman of any age.

This is a great little book to curl up with when you've had "one of those days." Jeanne can make you laugh at youself and everyone else. There are also items that will make you think.

Greg Fallis knows all about murder. He spent more than ten years as a private detective before turning to writing about murder. He's also a criminology instructor. His latest book is A Murder: From the Chalk Outline to the Execution Chamber, in which he "examines murder as a process--a series of actions, events, and operations conducing toward an end."

He starts with the observation that people are both repelled and fascinated by murder. While we generally regard the taking of someone's life as the most serious of all crimes, we've also incorporated murder into our entertainment. Fallis notes that "films, televison programs, novels, theatrical plays, computer games, even board games revolve around murder."

Fallis starts with a murder--a man rapes and kills a woman, then hides the body. He uses this to kick off the discussion of the kinds of murder, such as manslaughter and the reasons why people kill one another. The remainder of the book follows this pattern--a fictionalized case used to illustrate the common elements of all murders.

In addition to providing information on how and why murder happens, and how the murderer is apprehended and punished, Fallis reminds readers to "periodically remind yourself of the enormity of the act. To kill another person is an act of tremendous presumption."

Readers, whether repelled or fascinated by murder, will find that A Murder is an excellent reference that answers all their questions about what happens when one person kills another.

Greg Fallis knows all about murder. He spent more than ten years as a private detective before turning to writing about murder. He's also a criminology instructor. His latest book is A Murder: From The Chalk Outline To The Execution Chamber, in which he "examines murder as a process--a series of actions, events, and operations conducing toward an end." He starts with the observation that people are both repelled and fascinated by murder. While we generally regard the taking of someone's life as the most serious of all crimes, we've also incorporated murder into our entertainment. Fallis notes that "films, televison programs, novels, theatrical plays, computer games, even board games revolve around murder." The book is divided into five sections: what constitutes murder; how murders are investigated, including the arrest process; how the defense system works; the trial and jury deliberations; and the punishment, which includes a description of exactly what happens to a body when it's subjected to execution. Fallis starts with a murder--a man rapes and kills a woman, then hides the body. He uses this to kickoff the discussion of the kinds of murder, such as manslaughter and the reasons why people kill one another. The remainder of the book follows this pattern--a fictionalized case used to illustrate the common elements of all murders. In addition to providing information on how and why murder happens, and how the murderer is apprehended and punished, Fallis reminds readers to "periodically remind yourself of the enormity of the act. To kill another person is an act of tremendous presumption." Readers, whether repelled or fascinated by murder, will find that A Murder is an excellent reference that answers all their questions about what happens when one person kills another.

Sandra I. Smith, Reviewer

An excellent virtual walk through from the crime scene up to the execution. Greg does an excellent job of keeping the readers attention without lacking the detail.....

For anyone who struggled to understand why the nephron concentrates, then dilutes, then concentrates again the urine, this book will do much to ease your pain. Since medical school I've purchased Editions 1, 3, & 5, just so that I could keep up with my interns & residents. Here's how he does it:
#1: short book, (you know how intimidating those tomes can be)
#2: lots of diagrams
#3: end-of-chapter questions (with answers & explanations)

If you want to understand the Kidney, no matter where you are in your studies or practice, I wholeheartedly recommend this text.

Renal physiology can be very difficult to truly understand, and yet an understanding of it is essential to understanding so many aspects of physiology, pathology, and pharmacology. Studying diuretics for cardio pharm is nightmarish unless you understand the physiology of the loop of Henle. Vander takes this difficult yet important subject and makes it easy to understand. The book reads extremely quickly, and the flow-charts and diagrams are amazing. I never even opened Berne & Levy for renal phys--I read Vander's book (which is no longer than B&L's renal chapters) and cruised through renal phys. I am writing this review now, a year after I took physiology, because I am now studying for the USMLE Step 1. I have not looked at Vander's book in a year, but I still remember renal phys, and reviewing it now is the easiest part of my studying (the only easy part, in fact). That is because, thanks to Vander, I actually understand renal physiology. A great book!!

For any medical student that needs a comprehensive, but easily understood explanation of the structure and function of kidneys, I highly recommend Renal Physiology by Vander. It is very well written, and covers all the basic principles that you will need to know to understand pathologies associated with the kidneys.

THE STAR CHAMBER is a very interesting book on several levels. It is most obviously an expose of the workings of the Office of Independent Counsel during the Clinton years. We learn about the horrors of the politics of personal destruction and such related issues as the need to read all newspapers with a large amount of skepticism.

John Wilkes is a pseudonym used by Stephen Smith. The author possesses a broad background in politics, academia and the law. As a result, he is able to shower the reader with original insights into a wide variety of people, events and situations.

If the reader looks carefully THE STAR CHAMBER can also be read as a love story and partly because of this the book often manages to maintain an optimistic tone.

Every American that cares about our Democracy needs to understand what is behind the Independent Counsel's investigation of our President. The Star Chamber helped me put the investigation in the proper perspective. This "Insider's Account", while written as fiction, rings true and places people and events in an understandable, and believable, context.

Insider John Wilkes, nom de plume of Whitewater figure Stephen Smith, takes a bitingly witty, albeit incredulous and occasionally bitter, view of political scandal. Set in the state of Alabama, the scandal involves a former governor subsequently elected President and a real estate venture gone wrong. Initially an investigation of presidential culpability by a truly independent council, an opportunistic takeover by a seasoned politico cum prosecutor turns the whole mess into a vengeful bloodbath. Only the blood that gets spilled is that of the innocent.

John Wilkes participation as a part of the independent council's legal team puts him in historic civil rights territory, Birmingham, Alabama. The story is laced with Alabama political figures that bring the story to life and aid in the reader's suspension of disbelief. While Wilkes, in the "Forewarning" comments, assures the reader that the book "is pure political parody" and that he "made it all up," my personal experiences in Republican politics in Alabama often paralleled events in the book. Like Miss Eudora and Beth Henley in Mississippi, or Flannery O'Connor in Georgia, John Wilkes AKA Smith knows his southerners and can tell their stories. Like Henley, Wilkes does not tell jokes, but the scenes he depicts range from the patently heart-rending to uproariously funny.

Unlike his fellow Southern writers, Wilkes also knows his politicians, having been one himself in his other identity as Stephen Smith. Besides being a duly elected legislator, Smith also served as an appointee of then-Governor of Arkansas, Bill Clinton. Readers, Wilkes' assurances aside, will read fiction strongly resembling what Wilkes often refers to as the fiction of current political news stories.

What gives this book extra value is Smith's understanding of the legal processes and the liberal (no pun intended) smattering of legalistic analyses peppered with Latin bon mots. Given the context of today's news, this book is a page-turner that no observer of American politics will want to miss. The denouement blends just the right tone of optimism and pessimism to reflect the reality in today's news.

Both the hero and the heroine have ulterior motives, but their passion leads them to come up with a perfect solution. I hope Will Shakespeare will rewrite the Taming of the Shrew when he reads this book!

In "Taming Angelica," Ms. Chambers delivers a thoroughly modern heroine set in Victorian times. Angelica is quick witted and funny, and a delight to follow. The relationship she has with the hero, Will, is most appealing, as their business arrangement turns into much more.

This is a great book by an author I've never heard of. It's set in Victorian London and tells the story of two people who start out to use each other for selfish purposes and end up falling in love. The love scenes sizzle.

I'll definitely look for more books by this author.

I have tried over 50% of the dishes in this book. This book was recommended to me by my friend. What I find most useful here is that there is such a variety that I can even keep my kids' interest in vegetarian cooking alive. As a family we can hardly wait for a follow up on this most useful book!!!

I would like to thank the author for publishing her new cookbook, "Usha Meister's Vegetarian Kitchen". I have been waiting for a book such as this that combines great vegetarian recipes with low-fat cooking practices. I especially like the use of Eastern flavors and aromas that enhance my cooking enormously. I have been seeking recipes that are mindful of fat and cholesterol and this book meets my needs beautifully without compromising flavor. Two favorites I've already found include the "Baked Falafel" which is divine in a whole wheat pita bread sandwich, and the "Cranberry Chutney" which is so aromatic and flavorful that I intend to use it for presents. I highly recommend this book for anyone who wants to improve their eating habits while maintaining their love for food and, at the same time, expanding their exposure to multi-national cuisines.

My son choose to become a vegetarian, and like most parents in those circumstances, we were very concerned about him eating nutritionally when he moved out on his own. We gave him a copy of the book to aid in his meal preparation. He found the book clear and easy to use with many quick to prepare meals which he enjoys making. His favorites include Andulusian Salad, baked Falafel, Hummus, Vegetable Biriyani, and vegetarian chili. The Corn Bread is the lightest I have ever had. This is a different cookbook with very tasty "Epicurean Delights".

The pictures are what I loved the most. The text explaining the museum exhibit give insight and history that lend the photos and illustrations more weight out of context. I enjoyed this book, as have people I've lent it to.

Even though this book was produced to accompany a 1984 Smithsonian exhibition, it truly holds up as a worthy work in its own right. I can't recall seeing the subject of past speculation on the future handled better. It is done in a manner that is both scholarly and interesting. You get a balance of both the popular fictional conception of the future, as well as, more "official" versions from government and corporate think tanks.

The real strength of the book is it's vast number of both color and black and white illustrations. You have everything from ink engravings from 19th century illustrated newspapers and penny dreadfuls, to the glorious 4 color covers of 1930's pulp magazines, to film stills of the "modern era" (Star Wars, Blade Runner, and Road Warrior.)

I found the ideas in the insightful text most interesting. It is pointed out that the popular image of the past changes and evolves through time. The Victorians and Edwardians seem to assumed that the future would be much like their heirarchical and elite present, just with bigger buildings and more complex machines. The first half of the 20th century was driven largely by an utopian, often socialist, vision of a better future for all. However, the vision that seems to dominate the later half of the century is a grim, corporate, cyberpunk nightmare.

As Arthur C. Clark points out in the text, the future isn't what it used to be.

Enormous skyscrapers will house residents and workers who happily go "for weeks" without setting foot on the ground. Streamlined, "hurricane-proof" houses will pivot on their foundations like weather vanes. The family car will turn into an airplane so easily that "a woman can do it in five minutes." Our wars will be fought by robots. And our living room furniture--waterproof, of course--will clean up with a squirt from the garden hose. In Yesterday's Tomorrows Joseph J. Corn and Brian Horrigan explore the future as Americans earlier in this century expected it to happen. Filled with vivid color images and lively text, the book is eloquent testimony to the confidence--and, at times, the naive faith--Americans have had in science and technology. The future that emerges here, the authors conclude, is one in which technology changes, but society and politics usually do not.The authors draw on a wide variety of sources--popular-science magazines, science fiction, world fair exhibits, films, advertisements, and plans for things only dreamed of. From Jules Verne to the Jetsons, from a 500-passenger flying wing to an anti-aircraft flying buzz-saw, the vision of the future as seen through the eyes of the past demonstrates the play of the American imagination on the canvas of the future.