This is definately the best modern Italian dictionary on the market today. Not a travelling book. It is HUGE. I used this book for a big translation project and did not need anything else for the Italian portion. A definate must for the professional translator or student of Italian.

Has tons of words! Many Italian idiomatic expressions and past, present, and future tenses with examples. I bought and returned several others prior to this one. The only downside, it's a little on the expensive side but for the quality, in retrospect, it's worth it!

The chemistry behind the two main characters Palmer and Sonja Blue is incredible. Both characters help each other get through their personal pain while going on a joyride through hell and back. This book is definitely a page turner for Sonja Blue fans.

This is an absolutely roaring high-paced page turner with the one and only Sonja Blue! Sonja is a vampire for the feminist within any female reader. This is no sultry seduction-artist kind of babe vampire; she's badder than bad, tough as nails mentally and physically, and yet has an admirable code of personal honor at her core.

I first met Sonja in "Sunglasses After Dark", which is excellent. "In the Blood" is even better! Vampire and private eye team up when Sonja meets Palmer, a P.I. with "the sight". Love and partnership build, blossom, and morph into various flavors as the action relentlessly continues. With Palmers help, Sonja continues her hunt for her roots - the vampire who callously created her, and her human parents as well.

A great vampire book, with a flavor all its own.

.........this collection of almost fifty international recipes that are chock full of garlic is simply wonderful so far. Many of the recipes are accompanied by mouth watering photos that will make any garlic lover eager to start whipping up a few dishes immediately! Just a few of the recipes that we've enjoyed in my kitchen so far include: Roasted Garlic, Bruschetta Con Pomodori, Garlic Soup, Chicken with 40 Cloves of Garlic, Lamb and Spinach Curry, Mushrooms Sautéed with Garlic and Parsley and Braised Cauliflower with Indian Spices.

We are also eager to try: Garlic Shrimp, Thai Noodle Salad, North Beach Cioppino, Thai Grilled Garlic Chicken, Indian Garlic Beef with Peas, and much more.

There is a minor disappointment with this cookbook. For those familiar with "The Best of......" cookbook series, some of these recipes will look familiar. I can tell you that I own "The Best of Mexico" and that numerous, albeit very delicious, recipes (Arroz Mexicana, Salsa Verde, Mexican Garlic Black Bean Soup, Grilled Achiote Shrimp, Mole Poblano de Guajolote, Pozole Rojo) from this cookbook now turn up in "The International Garlic Cookbook". The only modification made to each of these recipes is that the amount of garlic has been increased. I felt a bit "ripped off" by the re-use of these recipes, and due to the fact that each was perfectly fine when originally published containing less garlic. Had the authors not done this, I would be eager to give this cookbook five stars.

This cookbook also includes a brief section on cooking with garlic and on the history of cooking with garlic throughout the world. It is a most enjoyable cookbook, which I recommend for its many excellent recipes despite the "re-invention" of previous recipes.

I've cooked with garlic all my life but never knew there were so many other delicious ways to cook and use garlic. Love this book and highly recommend for the beginner as well as a seasoned cook. The recipes are from all over the world and photos alone are enough to motivate you to create these unforgettable crowd pleasures.

I always like it when a book is a fast, breezy read, yet still has a lot of meat to it. That's certainly the case here: the stories in this collection are all fast-paced, entertaining mystery thrillers, but these "tall tales" are also laced with lots of authentic period description and accurate biographical details about the true-life crime, crime-fighting, or celebrity figures depicted. It was especially interesting to read about Nate Heller's "true encounter" with Eliot Ness, where we learn that Ness wasn't quite the white-bread hero depicted in Brian De Palma's admittedly terrific "The Untouchables". All in all, a vastly entertaining and informative read.

I've been a fan of Max Allan Collins' Nate Heller stories for years now, well more than a decade. Some time ago, in addition to the novels, Collins released Dying in the Postwar World, which was billed as a casebook. The current volume is a second one, and they're basically short story collections, though both times the author wrote a novella to round out the volumes. In this book, the novella provides the title.

If you've read my reviews of other Heller books, you know the drill. His big drawback is that you must accept this detective being involved in basically every significant crime in the 30s 40s and 50s, with the possibility that he'll carry it further. The last of the stories in this book takes place in the early 60s. Given that you can make the suspension of disbelief, this is a very fun series, and the stories are well-written. I especially enjoyed this second casebook, which includes several cases that I thought were interesting, and was especially well-written.

Heller gets involved in cases with Marilyn Monroe, Thelma Todd, Bill Veeck, Mickey Cohen, and so forth. Frankly, the characters he pulls out of obscurity are endlessly interesting, and I thoroughly enjoyed this collection, so I won't ruin it for you by telling you anything more about what's in the book. Suffice to say, the author has a solution for every mystery in the book, and they're all plausible, as far as I can see.

To reiterate, this is a wonderful book. I enjoyed it thoroughly.

This book is worth finding. Not a name you're going to hear thrown around a coffee house, but definately worth discovering and sharing. Collins short stories are rich, dynamic and interesting. One is handed a photograph of words in which the people of Ireland, and their culture, are placed in facinating situations. Not may know of this work, so be one of the few who do.

Michael Collins' stories are not for the faint of heart, nor for the simple of mind. They are emotionally complex without being stylistically opaque. He finds good compromises between writerly and readerly concerns, between brutality and deftness, between sensitivity and senselessness. A wonderful collection from a fine writer whose work should receive the attention here in the U.S. that it has abroad.

Midsummer Snowballs. The very idea puts a smile on your face. If that doesn't, then a few photographs of this Summer 2000 exhibition by Andy Goldsworthy will.

This book is a photo essay and journal entries on the creation of this facinating exhibition. I was enticed by the photos, and then had to go back and read the journal to learn more about the creation of this display. A highly enjoyable, but light read by the artist. A great book to give to other people, since it's very unlikely they'd ever buy it for themselves.

What I love about this book is that Goldsworthy moved his art to the city streets, which gives it a totally different context and impact, but equally as imaginative and startling as his earlier work. The public's reaction, as documented in the many excellent photos, ranged from wonder to hilarity to indifference, and even one very satisfied dog. The final snowball was the best -- eerie and uncomfortable, yet beautiful, and was really what convinced me to buy the book. Take a look!

The book dives into history and give you a lot of details about Jacques, his father and his travels through life. A lot of the information is from other sources and it appears Jacques himself wasn't interested in being involved with the book. Each person contributing, of course, has their own ideas of Jacques, but if you can sift through all of that it is a great book. It really gives you a perspective of how somebody like Jacques, young and with a famous last name can break into the bigtime. Jeff Mulvihill, Jr.

Impressions of Jacques from key people involved in his life at every stage, from Canada through Italy, Monaco, Japan and the US. The unfortunate absence of input from JV serves to provide a reasonably objective account. Collings does not fawn over the young hero, but lets those who knew him at important points paint a rich background scene for the recent portrait we know so well.

This book does an excellent job of presenting the material in the complete Robbin's textbook in a very clear manner. It is written in a concise, outline form that allows for easy review of only the most important aspects of disease. While Pathologic Basis of Disease is the standard for the study of medical patholgy, this book is saves so much time that you can get in even more review. That is of infinite value!

This is one my pearl for all second year students preparing for the boards: This book is the gold standard for being properly prepared for the Boards. I memorized this book, Ganong's Physiology, Katzung's pharm review, Jawetz's Micro review. I also memorized Lippincot's Biochem, NMS Neuroscience, NMS Genetics. I broke 255 and am now a first year resident at my first choice for neurosurgery (and I only wanted the most prestigous programs).

If you have high aspirations, then you must memorize Robbins' pocket companion also. It is so much more thorough than the BRS and retains some element of succinctness. There are no path questions on the boards that you won't be able to get if you memorize this book from cover to cover.

That is the key. Memorize this book and the others mentioned above and you too can pick where you want to do your residency.

In addition to Allison's book on Kant's T.I., I recommend this work. While I think it is a bit too dogmatic in its defense of Kant, Collins has many points of merit. Off the bat, I appreciated the title, Possible Experience, as the fact that Kant defines a phenomenon as an object of possible experience, and not of subjective perception in a Berkeleian manner, seems to have been forgotten by most Kant critics. Collins' major argument is that Kant does not begin from a Cartesian skeptical stance on the existence of an outer world, but rather attempted to refute skepticism. In addition to refuting skepticism, Kant also attempted to refute its close friend, idealism. Collins attempts an interpretation of Kant which takes seriously Kant's claim that he opposed idealism and skepticism, and thus Collins' major task is to illustrate the differences between idealism and Kant's transcendental or "critical idealism." To a large degree, I think Collins succeeds, but he sometimes goes too far in defense of certain statements of Kant which are at least so absentminded that they deserve no defense. Overall though, a good readable work.

One of the great confusions of philosophic language is the term 'idealist', and one who suffers from it the most is the philosopher Kant. In a relatively brief and extremely clear commentary on the Critique of Pure Reason Collins attempts to set the record straight by an exposition of Kant's unique juxtaposition of 'transcendental idealism' and 'empirical realism'. This confusion began early, and has persisted, and one must wonder if the term 'transcendental idealism' can ever escape its history and find its real home in the language of 'possible experience'. One observes the many debates where the suggestions and insights of Kant might assist the clarification of issues gone metaphysically berserk, only to find discussion clipped by the muttering charges of 'idealism'. And that is a loss to the evolution of cultural thought, if it can be called that, as it endlessly recycles the elemenatary errors Kant was at pains to debrief. Hopefully, Collins' work can perform emergency ambulance service here in some aspiration to recover our own cultural belongings from oblivion.

i love to read jackie collins book's and i have liked everyone of them, but for some reason this book is really boaring to me. i expected better. This is book was not as enjoyable to read as her other books, so if this was your first jackie collins book and you didnt like it then i suggest you keep reading because this is her worst.

but it was still worth the read. Jackie Collins always knows how to write a fast paced book,and this certainly is no exception.

Hollywood Husbands main characters are: Jack Python, whose one hour weekly talk show is THE show to watch on tv; Howard Solomon is the head of Orpheus Studios and has a lot of power behind the camera; and Mannon Cable is an actor who is still in love with is ex wife Whitney, another super star in her own right. However, Mannon is currently married to a bimbo named Melanie-Shanna, who he married to make Whitney jealous.

The plotlines revolve around these characters, with a cast of many others including a dynamic character named Silver Anderson. Her storyline alone makes this book a good read!

I had a hard time getting into this book when I first started reading it. It wasn't that the pace was slow, but I couldn't figure out where the plot line was going. Too many characters to keep track of in the beginning, but I soon found myself immersed in the story lines.

This may not be my favorite Jackie Collins novel, but I hope those of you who chose Hollywood Husbands as your first Jackie Collins novel try one of her better books, such as the Lucky Santangelo novels, and you'll see why Jackie Collins' fans are hooked.

....book I ever read and I was hooked from that day! I love her way with words. She has a lot of talent and knows how to keep her readers faithful and hooked. I think the fact that she's spilling the beans on the real Hollywood is the real reason everyone loves her books so much. I was a fan the day I finished the last page of this book. HIGHLY recommend it.