Agatha Christie A to Z is a pretty thorough and comprehensive guide to the works and life of the world's greatest and most enduring mystery writer ever. Everything is here from Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple to the most obscure characters. This is a must for Christie fans and for all mystery lovers.

Many books have been written concerning the life and writing of Agatha Christie, but, so far, this book must take the prize for being the most comprehensive, well-informed and accurate guide to the work of this remarkable author. This is not a critical appraisal of Christie's works, but rather the sort of book you need at hand when reading a Christie title. Dawn B. Sova has compiled an outstanding array of knowledge on Agatha Christie's books, with all sorts of information which should further any devoted reader's enjoyment of Mrs Christie's work. An excellent achievement.

This book I found that it kept your taste buds wanting more. The more I read The more I wanted to read more. He is a very talented writer and I would highly recommend this book if you enjoy action!!

Packed full of outstanding historical photos and wonderfully written text this fascinating biography clearly illlustrates the life of one of the greatest inventors in America - a man who was always searching for ways to help his fellow men. A wonderful addition to any library.

This book is best described by "Trial Impressions," a 30-part poem which dominates the middle of the book. The first part of the poem reprints, verbatim, a short piece by the English poet John Dowland. The rest of the poems in the sequence rewrite this poem, each in a different way: as sestina, as Mallarmean sonnet, as contemporary plea ("Up to Date"), as an Oulipo "N+7" exercise (using two different dictionaries), as a detective riddle, as a palindrome, as Chinese imagism ("The Wang Way."), etc. The closest precedent to this amazing poem is Raymond Queneau's "Exercises in Style," another Oulipean tour de force. The poem is funny, touching, and maddening. There are other great works in the book, including the title piece (a very interesting faux "translation" of a nonexsistent prose precedent). And there is also "Histoire," perhaps the funniest sestina in the English language. This is a seduction narrative in which the repeated end-words are "Feminism," "Fascism," "Militarism," Marxism-Leninism," "Sexism," and "Racism." It's amazing to read this sestina and watch such words get drained of their meaning yet strangely re-energized.

Clio Mathews Wetmore's balanced account of the little known fate of several thousand American, British, Australian, Canadian and other Allied civilians trapped in the Philippines in 1941 is the best of any account I have read. She draws us into camp, making the experience as real as if we were actually there. If I could own just one title about this experience, this book would be my choice. Clio Mathews was 28 when arrested by the Japanese military in Manila on 5 January 1941. She was placed in charge of a room of over 100 women prisoners, slept for 37 months on a hard table top crowded next to two other women, and did her best to maintain order in the crowded room. The story line describes vividly the weakness, fatigue, and memory loss that accompanied the final five months of virtual starvation from October 1944 to 3 February 1945 when the camp was finally liberated. It's good history and top-notch narrative.

"The Bible's ABCs are the fastest, easiest way to get familiar with the Bible I've ever found, and the "Memory Tips" graphics in each book make it fun. I was able to cover a lot of material quickly in school using Cliff's Notes summaries, and this is the same principle. Outstanding!"

It's full of designs that are interesting yet not so complex that you lose detail when reducing to mini (1:12) scale. Many can be done on 40 or 48 ct fabric without changing the design at all

a classic. a comedy of manners that gradually interconnects a milieu of upper middle class americans -- the most seemingly straightforward and accessible of mathews' novels.

The articles in collection are very readable - a great deal of care seems to have been made in the editing process. Various authors give summaries of different parts of the area of computer music. Some of the articles I particularly like include the following: i) several articles by different authors on synthesis of the singing voice; ii) the article by Mathews and Pierce on the Bohlen-Pierce scale, a non-octave-based scale of odd harmonics, with 3:5:7 and 5:7:9 chords; iii) Risset's article on paradoxical sounds; iv) Schottstaedt's article on automatic counterpoint. The subject is moving very rapidly, so some of the information is outdated, but most is not.