I was thrilled to read this book to my daughter. Using a magic mirror fanatsy, it tells the story of a young Jewish girl as they were expelling the Jews from Spain, Thereby telling "Heather" the story of her ancestors. As a woman of Sephardic Jewish Heritage, this story was a pleasant surprise. It tells an story not only of Jewish history, but of the strength of a young girl. A great way for girls to see what they can be, either through fantasy or reality.

"Viva, Heather" is a book that entertains while it educates about the Jewish faith. The reader is quickly drawn in by Heather's realistic feelings about her family and her faith. At the beginning of the book, Heather is embarrased by the visible signs of her faith as her family celebrates the Passover. All she can think about is the matzoh (unleavened bread/cracker) her peanut butter and jelly sandwich will be on for her school lunch. Heather is then morified when her grandmother invites her friends to the seder, and hopes that they won't accept. How will they understand the long stories and strange food?

Through the magic of the mirror, Heather dons a gypsy outfit and is transported to the Alhambra castle in Spain. She quickly finds herself on the run and hiding her Jewish faith. She, and other Jewish people, must escape Spain or face death because King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella want Spain to be unified in one Catholic faith. Faced with such an intense experience where she had to deny her faith while hanging onto it, Heather learns that there are plenty of reasons to be proud of who she is and where her family has come from. Sharing the seder with her friends becomes something more meaningful to her.

"Viva, Heather!" is my favorite book in the Magic Attic Club series because it tells the story of early persecution of the Jewish people in Spain at the beginning of the Inquisition. Based on information from a person who has interviewed the author, it is also the author's favorite book in the series because it is a part of her own family history. She has made this book something that children can relate to by adding the identifiable character of Christopher Columbus, which will anchor children to the place and time period. The author's expression of Judiasm and Heather's experience of it is something that children will also be able to identify with and find a positive feeling about. By the end of the story, Heather understands herself and her family traditions a lot better, and she gives the reader something valuable to ponder.

I got this book from my local library and read it from cover to cover. It was informative, clear and made the process managable for non-painter types (like me). I had to have the book!

I read this book from cover to cover. I am not a painter and have never attempted anything like this before. I wanted to be sure that I was getting all the information I needed to be prepared in painting my first floorcloth. This book is a must have for anyone that wants to start painting floorcloths. The information is very detailed with step by step instructions for many projects. I learned so much about the differences in canvas,paints,techniques,what different tools to have and what they can do. You must check out kathy coopers website. It's great. She has given me the confidence and the background information to enhance my skills as a crafter and artist.

As a former Navy carrier pilot flying F4U Corsairs during the Korean "police action" years, I was particularly interested in Paul L.Cooper's detailed story about being pulled in from reserve inactive duty to suddenly find himself aboard a just-activated carrier, the USS Princeton (CV-37) -- with an almost completely reservist ship's crew, and in a completely-reservist Corsair squadron, VF-871. Based on his personal diary, and extensive research, Cooper brings to life the personal considerations and the doubts and fears about being thrust into a combat zone, and the turmoil of leaving his home and family for an undefined period, and then watching pilots he knew get killed flying missions over Korea. Cooper was not a pilot or aircrewman, but performed one of the many essential tasks provided by the large contingent of enlisted personal that are required to allow the pilots and their planes to fly. Written in plain, uncluttered, easy-reading language, yet filled with incredible detail that pulls the reader into a you-are-there experience, Cooper is to be complimented on his bringing perspective to the "forgotten war" that was so costly in over 50,000 lives during the early 1950s. He describes lessons that SHOULD have been learned, but were later ignored and repeated in the Vietnam War. I recommend this book to anyone interested in the Korean War, and to all who wonder what life aboard a carrier at sea in a combat area is like.

The author, an enlisted man, was activated with his California Bay Area Naval Reserve comrades in 1951 and served with a very active F4U-4 Corsair squadron aboard a demothballed aircraft carrier in the Korean War.
Cooper's work details Navy life in the 1950's, with the minutia of everyday life as well as the more exciting shipboard and aviation action. His descriptions of Navy life, with photos and some historical background, will give readers of the future a good look into the times. Readers wishing to follow the missions of the squadron will have to furnish their own maps.

(The "score" rating is an ineradicable feature of the page. This reviewer does not "score' books."

Burt is 6th grader waking up to his sexuality at the same time his older brother is dying from leukemia. His brother works for their attorney father by serving subpoenas on people. Burt sometimes accompanies him. Bob falls in love with Marion Hirsch a kind of free spirit who cannot return his love. The novel follows a year using the title of a book of poems Burt receives as its theme. Aunt Ida reads the poems to Burt eveery day. Slowly Burt begins to put the memories together. When he realizes his brother is dying, he tries to hold on to sensations, descriptions, feelings. The novel ends suddenly. It is almost as if someone did not include a few more pages. This suddenness leaves the reader with a sense of unfinished business. This contrasts with the careful way Bernard Cooper had been approaching this final scene. Yet the novel is full of memories of the people and friends Burt lives with and the seemingly mundane events of their lives.

I hate when a book this good comes out in 1993 and I don't even hear about it until 1999!

Mr. Cooper is a masterful writer. A Year of Rhymes is funny without being silly, poignant without being sappy, and generally well done: I feel I haven't read a book this good all year. Mr. Cooper joins superb technique with touching insight to his characters, and strokes of poetry lace the book.

Great fun and substantial, too.

Stephen King's "The Dark Half" takes the reader on a roller coaster ride of dual identity...and what happens when you choose to "kill" your other half...

Thad Beaumont, a professor and author of many books, mainly written under his pseudonym George Stark, is unexpectedly accused of murder...fingerprints, blood type, all left at the scene, but no Thad Beaumont anywhere at the scene of the crime...not only that, but just recently Beaumont comes out to announce that he is George Stark, and Thad has put him to rest...or has he?

This book did not rate too well with me...King definitely does not lose his knack of describing the brutal deaths in this novel...but it's one of the books that seems to drag on, as in Needful Things...and if you have read The Dark Half or Needful Things, you will recognize a correlation between the two novels...other novels do exist with this correlation...and if you are a King fan like I am, you will soon know what I am talking about...

All I can say is, you won't be too disappointed...I'm never really disappointed with King's novels, except when they drag on...but then again, I'm only one person...so you decide...

I will be back with a new review soon...Stephen King's "Pet Sematary"...until then...

In many ways, it's very hard to understand how Stephen King, a decent family man and a law-abiding citizen, can come up with stories that have, in addition to remarkable characterization and wonderful prose, unbelievably gruesome and violent scenes a common reader would never have imagined on his own. This novel is an endeavor King makes to shade some light on the cognitive processes inside his brain.

For that end he tells the story of Thad Beaumont, a bestseller author - only thanks to his pseudonym, George Stark. King illustrates a creepy tale about Beaumont's dark half / twin brother that comes to life and wears a devilish form when "his" other half decides to terminate his fictional existence. This is a brilliant means in demonstrating the duality of King's personality, which stands on even a higher ground as King himself has had a nom de plume - Richard Bachman - and evidently he writes from a first-rate experience.

If you want to know how some people can write about things that are completely detached from their world - try King's explanation.

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By and large, this book is a fast read. There is a certain amount of depth to it, but much less than what his fans would expect; the best way to describe it is to call it "a psyichological action novel with a few horror twists". The major events are set in a scope of two to three days and as a result the rhythm is quick and leaves little room for thorough character development; I have almost zero information about the major events in Thad's childhood that shaped him as a man, not to speak about a better and fuller characterization of his wife, father and mother, not to mention the Sheriff that was an integral part of the story. In other novels, King has demonstrated his talent to orchestrate complicated creations that had it all - they have been a lot longer, but it was always worth the extra reading effort.

Strange enough, the mysterious character the pseudonym author in book created strikes me as a very interesting, but sadly it is the least developed character of them all. The good news, however, is that King has borrowed this character from the novel "Dead City" by Shane Stevens to pay tribute to this author, so anyone can read more about the notorious Alexis Machine...

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In the past I was told that this book is one of King's scariest. It could have been the case for me - had I read it a few years ago - but it is certainly not the case today. Maybe I got so used to King's style that he can't really get under my skin as he used to - I guess I grew up.

Yet, now that the horror he tries to create is not so horrifying anymore, I can pay a closer attention to his language; the man really knows how to describe things. King's admirable ability to put what he sees and feels into words is a wonderful way for the reader to learn and improve his own means of expression.

For that and for the above positive points I recommend this book as a pastime and a light read.

Quick-paced crime thriller: That's the best description of this magnificent novel. Located of course in Maine, this time in Castle Rock. Both this book, and 'Needful Things' have several characters in common. Unlike another pair of novels, 'The Regulators' and 'Desperation', the characters in question preserve their personality and biographies throughout the novels. Although after finishing 'The Dark Half' you may have an impression that all is well that ends well, read its sibling novel to get to know that this isn't so at all. I have found the 'Half' colorful and enchanting. This novel bound me to itself, so that I felt compelled to finish reading at one shot. Chances are you will too. King often utilizes one writer's trick of emphasizing character's persistent thoughts in separated lines or special type. In 'Carrie' it was for instance "dirtypillows", in 'The Shining' it was "redrum", and here it's "the sparrows are flying again". These mantras remain rooted long after reading the book in question. The writing technique is very convincing, serving as a complement to sequential presentation of words spoken and thought. How many times a day you use one expression in your head's voice and quite another goes out of your mouth? Coming back to the main plot of the book, one can imagine how much pissed off King must have been when his Bachman pseudonym was revealed to the public. On the other hand, the book suggests that he had some bitter thoughts observing the divergence of the volume of sales of his Bachman books and the ones written under his proper name, respectively. Well, all is well that ends well at least in this respect. Years later, in 1995, he exhumed his Bachman pseudo to write a companion novel to 'Desperation'. It was very handy and King used it in a brilliant way, indeed. Hence, reading 'The Dark Half' in 2000, one can look at the bitter writer's experiences with some perspective. As for the book itself, I claim that few writers have King's talent to write books you can't put down, and at the same time be able to amaze the reader with both descriptions and dialogues. Let me use a cliché: we don't read King for blood or any other feature like this. We read him because virtually each book of his carries the stigma of good literature and uniqueness. We read his books because He wrote them, no matter what the book is about. Don't we? So what? Well, LONG LIVE THE KING!

As noted in the "Caution" box on the bottom of page 254, this chapter, among others, appears to be written about the beta version of FrontPage 98, not the released version. The layouts of dialog boxes which are refered to in the book are different in the released version: Figure 15.1, page 252, has the "Clip art in this category:" below the "Magnify" check box (refered to in the text, too), while the actual location is just below the "Clip Art" notebook tab at the top of the dialog box. These differences are minor, but still annoying. The instructions on how to remove the underlining of hyperlinks works in the FP 98 Editor's Preview mode, but not in the finished, published web page. This is really annoying since the author makes an excellent argument against the distraction of underlined, highlighted text -- the highlighting is sufficient. An excellent book, but with the discrepencies, it's annoying at times. I recommend it to anyone trying to get a handle on FrontPage 98.

FrontPage 98 Unleashed is recommended reading from Amazon and Microsoft help desk! It has everything you need to go to the extreme with FrontPage 98. This was one of the rare books that I actually enjoyed reading. I learned so much from this one book is has paid for itself many times over.

I ordered extra copies to use in in-house training. I don't see how you can get by without it. Buy it! You won't regret the decision.

1200 pages of excellent information! When I compared this book to others I was appalled at the enormous disparity. FrontPage 98 Unleashed was the only FrontPage book that actually covered all features and tools included with FrontPage 98.

FrontPage 98 Unleashed covers every feature of the FrontPage Explorer and Editor. These are the main tools for publishing and the text was excellent. I didn't find any errors and the book was obviously written with the final release of FrontPage 98. Some of the other books I checked had screens that didn't match anything to what my computer showed. This wasn't the case with FrontPage 98 Unleashed.

FrontPage 98 Unleashed has awesome coverage of Image Composer. There's like 8 massive chapters on graphics! I saw an entire book on Image Composer that didn't cover as much or as well.

The book also covers Microsoft GIF Animator and it was the only book I checked that did so. The GIF Animator is included with FrontPage 98 and it is userful.

You know this book is the only tell all and be all for FrontPage 98 when you get to the last 10 chapters. These chapters have in depth of using FrontPage with Web servers and advanced development. FrontPage 98 Unleashed was the only book to cover the FrontPage Server Extension Resource Kit in complete detail. You'll find lots of great details for remote administration, using server extensions with other types of servers. The book also covers the FrontPage Developer's Kit in complete detail and again was the only FrontPage book I looked at to do so!

With so much good things to say about FrontPage 98 Unleashed it is no wonder the book was recommened to me by the Microsoft help desk. I am very happy. Buy it you won't be disappointed.

Stephen Booth's first novel, Black Dog, reminded me of two of my favorite mystery novelists, P.D. James (Adam Dagliesh) and Martha Grimes (her early Richard Jury/Melrose Plant books).

Like Adam Dagliesh and Richard Jury, Ben Cooper is a complex human being who uses his intuition to solve crimes. He feels for the people involved in a criminal investigation and is an immediately likeable character. You want to see him succeed.

Ben's foil is Diane Fry, a brittle, ambitious, by-the-book female officer, who not knowing how to love, only aspires to succeed. Diane needs to learn to get in touch with her emotions and deal with her past. You sense that just maybe Ben is the man to teach her.

Also, like the aformentioned British crime novelists, Booth uses the small details of the day-to-day lives of the people involved in and on the periphery of the crime. And, a dastardly crime it is, too. But, as with a masterwork painting, Booth adds the layers with a fine hand, blending in the details, so that in the end you have a photorealistic look at the whole scene. What may have seemed extraneous detail becomes clear with the very satisfying conclusion. It's an "aha" moment.

As a reader, I can only hope that Mr. Booth is writing the next in this series. I would like to see what happens next to Ben and Diane, to see how they grow as partners and people.

Stephen Booth has created a very taut psychological thriller in his first novel, Black Dog; thereby establishing himself as an exciting new British mystery writer. This book is a dark mystery with many dark secrets--both of the parents of a murdered girl and the inhabitants of Peak District where they live.

Black Dog is the story of Detective Constable Ben Cooper, an English policeman who constantly worries that he will never equal his hero father. Diane Fry, an ambitious outsider, becomes his new partner, and they proceed to investigate the murder of a 15-year-old girl. Her parents, though, pose an obstacle. They are outsiders to the community and really do not seem anxious about finding the murderer of their daughter.

Ah, but then there is the old man and his black dog who found the body. He is closed mouth giving the impression he may know more. But does he? What is the real story. It is up Ben Cooper to find out.

This book is a great first mystery from Stephen Booth, and I look forward to reading more from him.

A body has been found in the Peak District in Northern England. It's the body of 15-year-old Laura Vernon. The only daughter of Graham and his wife, Charlotte Vernon. They're a rather odd couple, who live a life of luxury above the Village, in a big white house they call the Mount. They cause more questions in the investigation than they can answer. Add to that, Laura's rather angry and aggressive brother, Daniel, and you have the makings of a super exciting book, called Black Dog.

Ben Cooper is investigating Laura's murder when Detective Constable Diane Fry joins his team. Dealing with family problems of his own, and trying to make rank, the last thing Ben needs to deal with is this odd woman. Diane's out to prove herself, and holding back plenty of secrets of her own. Ben has no choice, they have to work together, he knows all the areas they have to investigate, and all the people they have to talk to, and Diane is new to the area.

While talking to retired miner, Harry Dickinson, who finds the body of Laura, while walking his black Labrador dog, on his property, Ben and Diane realize that Harry seems to be mocking them. This is only the beginning of a strange investigation that causes more suspicion in the people of the village than they care to deal with. Moving around the village, and talking to people Ben has known his whole life, leads him to question himself about whether he's ever really known them at all. It seems to him that the villagers are holding back secrets. He's at a loss as to what is going on, and where the few answers he has will lead him.

Black Dog is a really magnificent book! Mr. Booth sure knows how to tell a story. He delves so deeply into each character that you find yourself really getting to know, and care about, them. The scenic descriptions are beautifully written, and make you feel apart of the story.

I loved every minute of Black Dog, and enjoyed the ride around all the twist and turns that Mr. Booth took me. I had no idea who committed the murder of Laura Vernon, nor did I know why. Any author who can write such an in depth book, that holds your attention straight through, and doesn't let you see what's going to happen next, deserves big kudos'! Stephen Booth has definitely achieved this with Black Dog, and I can't wait to read more from this truly gifted author.

Dr. Robert Cooper is a neuroscience scientist who tries to convince us to take a vastly different view of human capacity and potential from that which we were taught when we were young. We were taught that we are beings of limits. There are limits to our capacity to learn, limits to our abilities and other limits that keep us from becoming what we want in life. The book provides practical and detailed methods to learn to excel in life. Dr. Cooper draws on the most recent research in neuroscience, psychology and other areas of science to provide the steps to start using the remaining 90% of your brain instead of just the 10% used by most people.

I've never been one to sit down and read, cover-to-cover, a "self-help" type of book. However, the first half of "The Other 90%" is truly inspirational. It really caused me to look at what I do, and how to do it differently, and I will take his lessons learned and practical applications and apply them to my daily rituals.

This book is only a 4 out of 5, because the second half of the book gets a bit hokey. Many of Robert Cooper's life stories began to make me think...this guy must have gotten his butt kicked as a little kid. Apparently, every conversation he ever had with anyone caused him to live his life differently, and search within himself to find his true calling. Inspirational, but borderline psychotic. Did he ever have a conversation with anyone about sports, the birds & the bees, or what they're planning to have for dinner?

Like I mentioned, the book truly has "nuggets" that I will take with me, and will influence my life in a positive way.

Cooper's grandfather once observed, "We only use about 10 percent of our potential in the course of a lifetime." The young grandson was strongly urged to seek out what the grandfather referred to as "the other 90%." Cooper cites studies which suggest that "we only use not one-tenth but one ten-thousanth [italics] of our capabilities!"

This book was written to suggest how to locate and then develop the vast underdeveloped potential which all of us have. The material is organized within four sections, each of which is a "Keystone" of human fulfillment: Trust, Energy, Farsightedness, and Nerve. No brief commentary such as this can do full justice to the scope and depth of the "journey" of self-exploration which Cooper urges his reader to take. However, it may be helpful if I share these brief but representative excerpts. First, Cooper asserts that each of us has three separate but interdependent "brains", each of which he analyzes. "From a practical standpoint, reaching the peak of your true potential depends on developing and apply an energizing, authentic level of intelligence and bringing it to everything you do. For this to happen, you must combine the perceptions and impressions of the gut, heart, and mind." To conclude his book, Cooper shares a poem he wrote for his and others' children:

"...To lead by example,
Love as if you will live forever,
Work as if you have no need for money,
Dream as if no one can say no,
Have fun as if you never have to grow up,

Sing as if no one else is listening,
Care as if everything depends on your caring,
And raise a banner where a banner never flew."

With both precision and eloquence, Cooper offers a variety of strategies and tactics to establish and then strengthen the four "Keystones" and, in process he suggests how to fulfill at least much (if not all) of the potential of each of the three "brains" (gut, heart, and mind). It remains for each reader to absorb and digest all this in ways and to the extent she or he deems appropriate. Ultimately, each reader must embark on what is certain to be a difficult journey to personal fulfillment. In some respects, it is inevitably a solitary journey. But in other respects, it will be guided and informed by what Cooper has so generously shared in this book. Those who share my high opinion of The Other 90% are urged to check out David Whyte's The Heart Aroused and David H. Maister's Practice What You Preach.

Cooper brings a lot of insight and practical ideas to software design in "The Inmates are Running the Asylum." He provides strong arguments for investing time and effort into good design. Unfortunately, his style isolates one of the primary groups who should read this book -- software developers.

As with so many designers, Cooper starts by bashing existing software and design. Part one points out that bad design of software can cause lots of things to fail. I can't agree with his thesis that adding a computer to anything makes it fail, but adding bad design certainly can cause failure. Software developers won't appreciate being to fall guy.

This antagonism muddies the message. Many readers will miss the premise and value of the book's message because of his insistence on placing blame. He very nearly comes across as "software would be so much better if we didn't have those pesky developers!" It's easier to hear criticism from a colleague. Unfortunately, Cooper fails to provide his bona fides (he has been in software developer for many years) before bashing, so a lot of technical readers will put down the book -- figuring he's some design crackpot who's never shipped a product -- and never pick it up again.

That's a shame. Cooper is a skillful guy, and he's got important things to say. His points on design are spot on, and he identifies the root cause of design problems well, and what keeps them around. He provides a much larger perspective than other books that focus on user interface design exclusively.

Part 2 explains why bad design cost businesses money, good will, and time. However, the supporting evidence is composed of qualitative examples, rather than more quantitative, financial evidence that some business readers might find more compelling. Although he claims that his goal for the book is to make this business case, it's only 40 pages - less than 1/6th of the book's complete text. Part 3 goes back to laying the blame at the feet of developers. The points he makes are valid, and his explanations of how we got to where we are well founded. His concept of "homo-logicus," though derisive, is insightful. However, the left-brainers out there will have to wear their thick skin to get full value out of this discussion.

Finally, in part 4, Cooper throws us a bone. We get some of the stuff that Cooper is really expert at: design. He describes several powerful techniques that people can use to address their real-world design problems. In part 5, Cooper integrates design back into the product development process. He advocates roles and responsibilities for designer in this process. It would be interesting to see his reaction and placement of the role of designer in one of the new agile methodologies.

This book is worth reading. Software engineers who can look past the tone will learn a lot. Unfortunately, there are few alternatives that contain such a valuable content, with a better tone. You can go back and read "Programming as if People Mattered", but picking the valuable insights out of that 1991 text is difficult. Other alternatives are Joel Spolsky's "User Interface Design for Programmers," but this text tends to focus on the nitty-gritty of user interface design rather than design as a whole. I look forward to his next book. Maybe he'll make developers a primary persona, and not the villain.

Why are ATMs, video recorders, personal computer software, and even vehicle keyless entry systems so hard to operate properly? Must high technology, by its nature, make us feel stupid -- when we're not and it is?

Alan Cooper, the inventor of Visual Basic (I don't hold it against him), answers the last question with a table-slamming "No!" He argues, with a snarky sense of persuasive humour, that technology CAN be both powerful and easy to use, but that the current system where programmers run the software development process sabotages any hope of true user-centred interaction design.

Like movies, Cooper writes, software should have a long pre-production and design phase, and only a short, intense programming phase -- decidedly the opposite of the current approach. Doing so makes software cheaper and more efficient to make, and better for real people to use. Products made that way are almost bound to beat their competitors.

Anyone involved in high-tech product design of any sort must read this book. Really. It changed my outlook on how software and hardware should be built -- and significantly lowered my tolerace for products that frustrate and confound me.

Beginning with the simple understanding that anything combined with a computer will result in a computer, Alan Cooper argues that it is time to break the engineer-centric design of computer hardware and software. As anyone who has had to deal with the sometimes-foreign logic of computer human interfaces would attest, what should be intuitive becomes unintuitive in practice, and clear interfaces and design are surrendered for engineering and coding. Cooper takes software and hardware designers and engineers to task and reminds them of the importance of designing for the rest of us.

While Copper's book appears to rankle the pride of professional software and hardware designers, his logic speaks to what may be the vast majority of computer users. Rather than a complex and technical argument directed to the professionals, Copper focuses on the human friendly aspects of computer equipment design: intuitiveness, politeness, usability, and control. While his argument's support is academically weak, his perspectives voices the concerns often heard within mainstream America about computer design. And while his evidence appears to be more antidotal, it is antidotes that are recognizable and experienced by the general population.

For the general population and non-professional, this book is thought provoking and refreshing. To the professional designers, however, this book does little more than show you the mirror and forces you to see what wrong with computer interfaces today.

Although I agree with Mr. Cooper's stategies, I would not recommend this as an initial book for someone looking for short-term trading strategies. The first few chapters are going to appear "greek" to someone who does not understand ADX or DI strategies since they are not explained.

A MUCH better recommendation would be "Street Smarts, High Probabilty Short Term Trading Strategies" by Laurence A Connors and Linda B Raschke. It costs a little bit more ($122.50 thru Amazon) but well worth it since it offers a bit more detail and better hand-holding for a beginner. They are obviously business associates since their trading strategies fall under the same names and Jeff Cooper had referred to Larry Connors in this book.

In "Street Smarts", there were also better examples of how they manipulated the software to conform to their strategies and the type of software packages they recommended!

"Hit and Run" would be a good follow-up and offer slightly new insights to the book "Street Smarts" once you understood the "lingo". But probably, overall not worth the money since there were many more "Street Smart" strategies that could be used and were better explained by Connors and Raschke.

When the book arrived and I saw that it was only 150 pages - with many of those pages consisting of charts, I wondered if it was worth $100. After finishing it two days later I would have gladly paid three times that amount. As a successful trader Mr. Cooper is straight and to the point using actual experience and very little theory. He doesn't waste your time. In fact, I immediately ordered his second book 'The 5 Day Momentum Method' and spent the next weekend entering all of his indicators into the Metastock Explorer. You really do need a computer to take full advantage of these trading strategies. Now, every evening Metastock automatically scans my stock database for the signals (a great time saver) and of my first four trades using this system, three were successful, including two short sales which I had never before attempted. If short term trading interests you, I would heartily recommend starting with this book.

I purchased Jeff's book and have found that it has improved my trading immensely! Cooper's strategies are easily applied and make money.

I use all the strategies in the book, but my favorite is Stepping In Front of Size, this is my bread and butter.

It is a must read for anyone trading, whether it be professional or for pleasure.