The Life and Times Of John Wayne by David Hanna is a pretty good book. I liked this book because it listed all of the movies and shows John Wayne has ever appeared in. I also liked this book because it did a time line of his life and showed all of the obstacles he had to overcome.
I would recommend this book to people who enjoy western shows and movies. I also think farmers,ranchers and cow tenders would enjoy this book.
The book has a section listing quotes,and one of my favorites is,"I'm 53 years old and 6'4,I've had three wives,five children and three grandchildren.I love good whisky.I still don't understand women, and i don't think there is any man who does."

Good Showing is a very basic, introductory book for people new to the world of dog shows. It would be useful for show spectators (good manners at shows, understanding what is going on in the ring) or for someone just beginning to consider getting involved in dog showing. If you are already at the point of owning a show dog, you know (or certainly should know) everything this book can tell you. A lot of the material is common sense and common courtesy-be sure your dog is well trained and well groomed, clean up after your dog, dress properly for the ring, follow the judge's instructions. There is a chapter on the considerable costs of owning and showing a dog, which would be a helpful eye-opener to someone thinking of getting into the sport.

Caveat: Peggy Grayson is a British judge, and these books contain details specific to The Kennel Club. I enjoyed finding out about the British dog world and the KC system, but if you are not British, some sections of the books can be ignored, as they deal with how to fill out KC forms, specific KC regulations, and so forth.

Jesusgate warps time to bring the reader to the investigation of the death of Jesus as it would be done today (good and bad goverment officials plus journalists trying to beat each other to the scoop). Grayson Warren Brown uses his imagination to give a new slant on the Roman politics and the Jewish leaders at the time of Jesus. My only disappointment in the book is that the author did not give us a sense of what a Western world would be like if it had experienced all of the history up to the 20th century, but without having yet experienced Jesus.

Dr Stuart Grayson's book is the first I have read from the Metaphysical Movement. In the first few chapters I was struggling with the concepts he presented of subjectivity and objectivity. But he explains the premise thoroughly and eventually I felt that I had "gotten it". What I liked about the manual was that he said repeatedly that I have to find my own Way. That no one person, place, situation or thing can ultimately influence the choices of how I live. The manual or guide has been helpful,and provided me with an overview and steps that I can take to align my currently negatively affected life (eg.chronic anxiety, chronic pain and recurring depression) and by disiplined action in thought, word and deed i can find a way that will relieve me of these symptoms of my dis-ease. I would say in closing and I think this is what Dr Stuart grayson was also saying, that the book is a map that is a useful pointer and like any spiritual path must be taken carefully and thoughtfully as applied to my own life, not taken on Wholus Bolus as the be all and end all of spirtual attainment.

I was truly disappointed in this garden book. I was not inspired or intrigued by any of the gardens shown. I do admit that the book may appeal to someone with a very small urban courtyard and a preference for the avant garde style garden. The gardens were mostly minimalist with emphasis on huge graphic shapes imbedded in the lawn or piles of crushed glass layed out in pyramids. Really, an "aluminum garden"?? If there is no plant life, isn't it really just a patio and not a garden? The photography was less than stellar, with several photos out of focus. The two to three page spreads per design usually just had photographs of the same object from three different angles. I do not recommend this book for anyone who enjoys gardening with plants, discovering new plant varieties, or are looking for inspirations for plant combinations. The hardscape designs weren't very interesting either.

This is a wonderful book - and useful too, since it contains garden plans for each garden featured. Living in the Netherlands, we found that the definition of "small" according to this book does not apply to some of the really (!) small gardens here. Yet, we can adapt the plans, adopt just a few of the design solutions, or consider the sometimes unusual materials applied. Definitely worthwhile, if only for the beautiful photography.

When I bought this book I was looking for a source of "options" that I could apply to the design of my own Smart House. This is more of a coffee table book, not a useful reference. For some unknown reason the editor chose to print the text as white print on a black background, which I find almost as annoying as reading text that is entirely bold-face. On top of that the author chose to showcase several houses that are starkly contemporary and amazingly ugly in my opinion. In sum: this book has nothing much to offer the prospective home builder.

I am in the process, prolonged process, of building a house and wanted some pointers, some good ideas. I got them in pictures but not in details. For instance one of my favorite houses, Sund Olsen's Courtyard House is here in page after page of photos. Great but not one detail about what the specs are on all that glazing, what the R value is of the roof. The books also really slants to West Coast environments and doesn't bring a lot of relevance to the South (not that the South necessarily has a lot of relevance).

Buy this book if you have deep pockets and will indeed open your own bank. But again, if you have that kind of money, chances are that you are already familiar with the nuts-n-bolts of the banking industry, in which case the book will not be of much use. In my opinion this book would be most useful for the banking industry analysts...

This is a pretty empty book, despite the somewhat promising premise. It opens with 2 short essays on the design of museums, and the rest of the book is primarily composed of pictures of recently designed museums. Each building presented is prefaced with a short blurb on its design and/or interesting qualities and most of the buildings are also presented with miniature plans.

If anything, this is a coffee table book that fails in its attempts to address an issue that needs little, if any, addressing. The buildings presented have some interesting design ideas, and, judging from the pictures, provide an atmosphere that can be ideal for presenting art, art in itself, or something that might be described as "National Cafe Chain (starbucks, etc...)" Mid-90s Color Block and Graves' terrible denver library.

When you had read the original Ghost Rider, The Punisher and the others characters who had been "re-visited" or "re-make" by the Marvel Knights Series you feel it's not the same.. The plot is good, but the graphics presents the Ghost Rider like a cartoon very funny not like the Spirit of Vengeance that is...

Talks about a Johnny Blaze who works in a cubicle and wants to be free or the Ghost Rider...

If you are a Spirit of Vengeance, better buy "Ride of the Midnight Sons" or "Ghost Rider Resurrected"...

This book is deservedly out of print.
The material in this book has appeared elsewhere; it's pretty much a rote recitation of the minute-by-minute events of the featured "worst air crashes," with helpful cockpit voice transcripts, and some analysis of what went wrong.
The book would have somewhat benefited from an index; the lack of bibliography is interesting. Did the author want us to believe he gathered all this material first-hand?
The author (a military pilot in the 1940's and current private pilot) doesn't explain why, on the last page, he talks about the "infinitesimal number of fatalities considering the vast number of passengers," yet in the dedication of the book to his wife, he reveals that on family trips around the world, he and his wife _never_ (his emphasis) flew on the same plane until their son reached 21. If (as they are) the chances of a crash are "infinitesimal," why did his family go to such outrageous steps on the assumption there was a decent chance one of their planes would crash?