After years of working for other people, I began to dream of owning my own restaurant. I searched the Internet for information about start-up costs, marketing and locations, and anything else I could find about opening a restaurant. Eventually, I came across Start and Run a Profitable Restaurant and most of the answers I was looking for was in this book! It's not easy opening a restaurant but this book helped make it a little easier with all its good advice. Each chapter is packed full of great advice--Design and Renovation; Employees; Start-up Practicalities; and most important are the two chapters on Business Planning. This book has given me a clearer vision of being a restaurant owner and my dream is becoming a reality.

This is laid out much like a "Restaurant for Dummies" book but it's more anecdotal and specific. You can jump in for certain hints and references or read it through for stories that will make any restaurateur smile.

My friend mentioned that she wished she had this book when writing a business plan for a college course last year. She had not come across anything like it in her search for a format.

We can tell by the practical examples given in this personalized book that the authors lived these experiences themselves and are willing to share their foibles for our benefit. It's easy for me to verify this since one of the co-authors, Brian Cooper, is my dad.

"Tuskegee's Heroes" is one of several books which have recently evolved in tribute to the achievements of the all-black 332nd Fighter Group during World War II. Unfortunately, compared to many current titles on this subject, including "Red-Tailed Angels" and "Red Tails: Black Wings", this one rates rather low in comparison. While the research is well documented, the writing style itself leaves something to be desired, being most dampened by the author's excessive use of exclamation points. Most discouragingly, the book contains a selective and misleading appendix on the Tuskegee pilots who became POW's, summarized with statements, like, "In chronicling the heroism of the Tuskegee Airmen, we must remember those who faced the added horror of being held as Prisoners of War!", and attributing their "minimally" humane treatment to efforts of the Red Cross. In reality, the Tuskegee Airmen(5 of whom I've personally spoken to on this topic) recounted the irony of being subjected to better treatment at the hands of their Luftwaffe captors than by the air force in which they served. However, this book does feature a valuable assortment of photographs, statistics, and paintings by aviation artist Roy LaGrone. This is a good read, but there are better compilations already available on this overlooked chapter of aviation history.

The Coopers do a fine job of taking a participant of a neglected portion of history and combining it with the facts. As a primarily visual person I enjoyed the combination of Mr LeGrone's art with the author's descriptions of the historical events. It was a rewarding read and a great book to leave out for friends to see - keeps them in touch.

To expand your view on the book, the title was also made into a film in 1970. It starred David Hemmings & Douglas Wilmer & Carolyn Seymour, Director I think David McKenzie. It was considered by some to be comparable to 'If'. It was filmed, in part, at St David's College, Llandudno, North Wales, UK where I was a 15 year old schoolboy at the time.

This is a highly original, captivating, and thought provoking radio play.

The plot concerns a class of English boys who inform their new professor that they murdered his predecessor and that he'd better follow their desires, or suffer the consequences.

This play is especially reccommended to those who are interested in existentialist and absurdist drama.

Cooper wrote the play as an attempt to challenge the view, as presented in the novel "Lord of the Flies," that mankind is inherently evil. What has emerged in this play is a very undogmatic, and entertaining, presentation of evil as contrivance.

Please read this play, don't let it be forgotten.

"Writing the Civil War" is the best analysis of the historiography of the major topics researched by most Civil War scholars today. Every essay is written by a leader in the field of study covered in it. This allows the reader to look back from the leading edge of study. I found this book to be an excellent source for new ideas about how to look at the war, and its historiography, and hopefully it will improve my own writing on the Civil War.

A well polished collection of essays on the schools of thought within a variety of American Civil War topics. Politics, economics, tactics, the role of women, blacks, and volunteers are covered by outlining the trends of the past 30 years in these fields and others. Read with Pressely's 'Americans Interpret Their Civil War' and Guelzo's 'Crisis of the American Republic' a solid foundation in Civil War historiography would be gained by the serious student of the American Civil War. 'Writing the Civil War' is written in such a fashion that a general familiarity with Civil War bibliography of the past 30 years is required; this book is probably not for the general undergraduate student or the Civil War military buff.

When I read this book, I was transported back to those free and wonderful feelings of childhood. I chuckled out loud at the memories and my day to day worries melted away with the abandonment of being a kid. A good read for a good reminder of the joy of childhood.

This book is an A-Z listing of Dr. Cooper's recommendations for vitamins, minerals, specific foods, supplemental foods, disease conditions, and related items. For each item, Cooper gives the following: Basic Nutritional Therapy, Extra Scientific Information, Special Food Sources, Therapy Recommendations, and Cross-References to related entries.

The information is presented in an easy to understand format. A table of context gives the page numbers for each entry. However, it is hard to find items by flipping though the pages as the publisher did not put identifying markers at the top of each page, like the item or letter covered on the page. So one has to keep turning pages to where the next entry begins to find out where in the alphabet you are. And flipping back and forth to the table of contents is tedious.

But these format problems aside, the information presented is rather good. Cooper provides sound recommendations on each of the items. And the scientific research given enables the reader to decide for yourself if Cooper's recommendations are correct. In fact, this research is so helpful that I cite some of it in my book "Creationist Diet: Nutrition and God-given Foods According to the Bible." I also have referred back to Cooper's book many times for personal information.

For instance, I have multiple allergies. And I have read in several "natural healing" sources that licorice is good for allergies. But I am glad I read Cooper's entry on licorice before trying it. He cites evidence that taking licorice for prolonged periods in the amounts I've seen recommended can raise one's blood pressure. As a result, Cooper recommends, "that everyone stay away from it" (p.273). And I think I will head this advice. I don't need high blood pressure on top of my allergies!

You will find Arthur Lydiard (running to the top) arguing but the Cooper program is easily understood.

I for one have no time for 100 mile weeks of running.

This book is an excellent choice for engineers trying to design and model air pollution control plants, equipment and processes.It also gives useful details on installation and operational costs.

The popular author Diana Cooper has here provided a practical workbook for working with the angel archetypes. The text is interspersed wit exercises and lessons plus the experiences of various people with what they believed to be th intercession of angels. The first part deals with inter alia guardian angels, miracles, angelic assistance, and angels and children. Part Two discusses the hierarchy of higher powers, archangels and then specific beings such as Michael, Jhphiel, Chamuel, Gabriel, Raphael, Uriel and Zadkiel. Part Three consists of meditations and exercises, including the practice of invocation and a series of angel meditations for each of the 8 chakras (energy points) in the human body. The information here isn't new, nor is it meant for the student of the esoteric arts. Rather, this is a workbook for ordinary people who wish to solve their problems and improve their lives. As such, it serves it purpose very well.

In common with most people, I like to be inspired when I write down new contacts' names. With this address book, I am able to do so in an encouraging way, making pleasant connections between new acquaintances and the "angel" that their name happens to correspond to. "Inimitable" Idi Amin, for example, and "Generous" Genghis Khan. The book loses a star for forcing me to make an unwelcome, faintly erotic connection with Deng Xiaoping.