I just finished this book. It was a quick read with lots of helpful insights. I will be buying some copies as stocking stuffers for my friends. I think whether you are looking for happiness or not, you will enjoy and benfit from this book.

I really enjoyed this book. I sat down and read it all the way through in my first setting. It was a common sense approach to happiness. Can't wait for the next book.

I loved this book. It was a great reminder of things I already knew about being happy. Of course I think good writers make you feel that way. It was easy reading. I highly recommend this book to any one who feels unhappy or just wants to smile. Great examples throughout the book on how to make the right choices. Thanks Terry and Ronnie

I have taken a look at this book in store. It's good and fundamental. The downer is the book doesn't use arrows to actually point out abnormalites on the leads. That's why I rate it three.

This book is written for medical students, nurses, paramedics - anyone who may be involved in interpreting ECGs in clinical practice and whom might not have the best knowledge of physics. It teaches interpretation without necessarily understanding all the physics involved. It is only a little book, yet covers a suprising amount. It helped me to understand ECGs better for my third year MBChB exams.

First of all, I would like to say this book saved me in my Clinical Medicine oral exam; I was asked every possible pattern, and it was in the book! one week before my exam I had the fortune of finding this book in the bookshelf of a bookshop. One good thing about this book is that it is read very quickly (and the cristal-clear language helps!), so it can save someone who needs urgently to get some solid ideas about ECG in the brain! The author simplifies the physics involved too much, so it may be hard to follow the line of thinking in case one doesn`t have strong foundations of cardiac electrophysiology...

Unfortunately this series, especially the second tape, assumes the listerner already has a basic knowledge of the history presented. Readings from the monarch's actual letters,etc., prove annoying on repeated listening. At the same time, Derek Jacobi's reading is wonderful and these tapes present an excellent, if occasionally mystifying, overview of the kings and queens of England and their triumphs, mistakes and tribulations. Worth repeated listenings with liberal use of the fast forward button.

Given a recording with a title like "1000 Years of English Royalty: William the Conqueror to Elizabeth II," one might expect several miles of tapes with a very fast talking narrator supplying the facts. Audio Partners, however, has done the next best thing and boiled it all down to 1 hour and 54 minutes with Derek Jacobi doing the honors with a small cast reading from the chronicles and other sources of the times.

Actually, it would help if you had a fairly good idea of English history to begin with and simply used this tape both as a refreshener and source of interesting extra details. Those plunging into the material cold will enjoy it but might easily get confused.

This abridgment, written and produced by Richard Hampton and Davis Weston, makes a set of Monarch Notes (no pun intended) seem complete. But what facts are included are well chosen, often very funny (i.e., the size of George IV's stomach),and never less than fascinating. Jacobi is the perfect narrator with his faultless diction and (to say the least) flair for the dramatic. This set helped to shorten a very boring drive I had to take recently; and I think I will play it all again in the next few weeks just to catch anything I might have missed. A lot of fun from Audio Partners.

if you like the show you like the book. Because this is one of the epiodes. it a very gogd one at that. it was good that they picked a good epiode to novelizes. oh by the way simon my fave one on the show.

I read the book and is was one of the best 7th heaven booksever I give this book a 10

Two beautiful stories done by Bo & Scott Hampton. The first story shows how the Batman solve a crime involving toxic waste which leads him to The Viking Prince who seem to live centuries ago. How? Well, you have to pick the book to find out.

The second story has a Vertigo feel into it. An accident leads Bruce Wayne into coma. From there on, he's been meeting with ghost & demons from his past and a meeting with his wife? Batman or is it Bruce Wayne has to overcome all this fears & hope to get back to the real world before his lifesigns fade out! Will he return to the real world which is bleak & gloom when there's someone to love him there in the other realm...?

This book consists of 2 separate stories:

'Destiny' is the first, and shortest, story. It involves the existence of a Batman-like character in Viking times. I couldn't really get into this one - the story or the art work. For me, one over shadows the other making it difficult to enjoy. The story swings back and forth between times too much, and the art swings back and forth between very good and very bad. Some of the art is very graphic (I like graphic) and some far too simplistic, especially the facial features, expressions, etc. The only art I like that's simplistic is Snoopy...

The second story is much better and almost worth the price of the book. I don't know if they've done facial expressions any better, but the art is much more consistent and compliments an excellent story. "The Sleeping" explores what happens to people in comas, namely Batman. Following a car crash Batman 'wakes' to find himself escorted to an 'other realm'. He's joined by other coma victims and together they must make their way thru many obstacles, including a 'Lake of Fire', to get back to their bodies. The actions & decisions they make here will determine what happens to them in the waking world. Quite simply, to die here is to die... We, also, get a glimpse into what Bruce Wayne's life would have been like if the Batman had never been 'born'. Don't be put off by the subject matter as the author added just the right touch of humor to keep it from being too dark. Overall, one of the best Batman short stories I've read to date. The only way they could have improved this one is to have made it longer...

Lots of good NC Restaurants are here. Book is a little dated, but still has great recipes. Just wish it was spiral binded. The crabcake recipe is wonderful. A must for the southern cook!

I have given this book to lots of friends. There is a pen-and-ink drawing and a brief history of each restaurant featured in the book. Each restaurant has submitted several recipes. Most of the restaurants featured are the top restaurants in the state. The author has also written other books for states throughout the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic. If you are a realtor, this would make a perfect housewarming gift for your clients who are new to the area!

Here is that "Michigan reader" AGAIN...advertising his/her's friend Cody Jones book.

This little booklet (8" x 5" & 93 pages)is one of the best study guides on Proverbs for small groups I have seen. It makes a great supplement to a more in-depth commentary. Vinita Wright speaks clearly and is well organized and practical. She uses two top translations-the NIV and NRSV. 12 studies are offered and include suggestions for group leaders and members on how to get the most out of their study time together. For an in-depth companion commentary on Proverbs get THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO THE BOOK OF PROVERBS by Cody Jones. The comments are interesting and very readable and put things into a historical setting. It includes many historical drawings and photos to give you a sense of the culture of the time. There is a topical guide and 6 translations in parallel to aid understanding.

I'm a fan of David Brin's. I've liked pretty much everything I've read of his, and I've made a concerted effort to read it all. From the early short stories to the broad and sweeping Uplift Series/Uplift Storm, I've liked the worlds he's created. The Uplift everythings, I've read several times. My favorite was his collaboration with Gregory Benford in Heart of the Comet.

I saw this with some eagerness, listed both on Brin's website and then subsequently on Amazon.com. I preordered it some time ago and just got it over the weekend. I socked it away in less than an hour.

Not a bad story. There were similarities I think with ST:First Contact in the angle of inventor/developer of commonplace future technologies. The characters were well used and as an ensemble piece (which Star Trek usually is) its pretty good.

If I had a complaint, which I don't really, it only that Mr. Brin seems somewhat hemmed in when building stories in someone else's universe. I've come to expect him to push the envelope, to develop characters that I really like (Mr. Brin, I'd very much like the phone number of Athaclena...I would not have hesitated, Tymbrini or not...).

Its all there for the average author but I was a little let down.

A suggestion if I may...Mr. Brin, now that you've ventured into the world of graphic media, please adapt your other works, the ones that you've done such a wonderful job building and populating. I would love to see Heart or any/all of the Uplift series adapted as graphic novels.

A nice stand alone story that had me rivetted to finish it and to further explore the issues, hopefully, in subsequent editions.

For readers aquainted with philosophical jargon, this book makes sense; for the common reader, her dense prose requires at least a dictionary. Jean Hampton deconstructs naturalistic philosophy (the idea that moral claims should be explained using scientific method and logic) and asserts a moral objectivist position (that moral claims are objective in nature and external to the individual). Her ideas are interesting and provacative, especially because of the naturalistic trend prevalent in society right now. Most people would agree with Hampton's adversaries--that there are not external norms that dictate our morality--as moral claims are usually seen as a product of our relative upbringing or society. However, she persuasively writes against this common notion, though it is hard to grasp her entire point at times. I enjoyed the book, though it could have gone through a couple more revisions if she hadn't died before she was able to. Her early death is a deprivation, especially as a loss to the discussion of modern moral philosophy.

This book really lacks in the romance department. All of the intrigues against each person in the supposed couple are piled on, and the ending is so frantic and out of character as to be almost preposterous.

The start of the book is really difficult to get into due to some exceptionally poor writing and worse editing. Even taking into account attempts to make the characters speak in some semblance of medieval parlance, the book plods. Not as good as her first two by any means.

The heroine is so at odds with the hero that that happy ever after ending simply does not ring true. The end is also so rushed as to leave any romance reader feelling sadly disappointed.
The love scenes are repetitive and not at all convincing for two people so out of synch with each other. I liked the hero a lot more than the heroine, (who willingly becomes embroiled in a plot to murder him) but he does not get developed into anything more than a sex object, a real waste in my opinion. If this couple had a conversation with each other that was meaningful, all of the misunderstandings would be resolved. She would be in love with him, because he is actually a decent sort, and he would run a mile from her if he had a ounce of sense, no matter how pretty she was.

King John accepts the request of Sir Enguerran d'Oilly to marry one of his Highness' wards, Lady Amica de la Beres. Ami wants nothing to do with her odious hedonistic neighbor, but knows that she must obey the order of her guardian, yet refuses the king's request. The lass believes that Enguerran wants to use her to climb the social ladder and would gladly allow King John to treat her as his personal whore. Ami needs a plan and when she notices the chilly brute guarding the wards, she wonders if she could obtain the aid of Michel de Martigny.

Michel has desired Ami from the moment he first saw her, but knows a lowlife foreigner like himself is beneath the King's ward. Still he finds it extremely difficult to allow the abominable Enguerran to possess the feisty Ami. He needs a plan to save the woman he now loves.

Though there is a romantic theme throughout the tale, THE WARRIOR'S GAME reads more like a historical fiction than a medieval romance. The story line provides a deep look at the court of King John, but that turns into a double-edged sword. Readers obtain much insight into the era than usually found in a novel in which John plays a key secondary role. However, all that acumen makes the romance between the lead couple seem pale as the starring duo feels evanescent rather than fulfilling. Still Denise Hampton paints quite a portrait of thirteenth century England.

Harriet Klausner

This book is a great history lesson in addition to being a terrific love story. I learned a lot about the politics of the time with being overwhelmed by too much detail. I felt so bad for the hero and heroine getting caught up in a huge misunderstanding that keeps them apart, but I could see how this could happen in a world where ever glance and word mattered so much and could cost you your freedom or your life. It takes a while to get to the love scenes, but the payoff is worth it - very romantic! This is the first novel I have read by DH, but I will definitely go read her others.