Although not being completely satisfied with the "succeed" part of the title, I have no problem giving this book a 5-star (or perhaps a 4.5-star to be strict) rating. It is a tell-all book for artists at any level.

The book covers basically all the phases in the development of an artist's career life; from training to becoming famous and wealthy. The author does a thorough job discussing the pro's and con's of each solution to the needs of the artists to obtain training, as well as to market their work. For instance, comparisons are made between getting a formal training (art degree) at Universities and other options such as participating in workshops, continuing study programs, correspondence classes, and self-teaching using art instruction books and videocassettes. Using the same approach, the author moves on to discussion on the benefits and drawbacks of renting a studio vs. having a studio at home, along with other issues such as studio safety and insurance. Other issues such as exhibiting one's work, framing, shipping artworks, how to get involved in art clubs, how to overcome mental blocks and seek artistic inspiration, success stories, etc. are also discussed in great detail. In addition, a nice appendix including information about art dealers and art supplies stores at the end of the book makes the book complete.

In closing, this is the book that every artist will find something "hits home" when reading it. The only thing that I might complain about the book is that the appendix does not provide internet addresses of the stores/dealers cited, considering a lot of these stores do have internet sites, some of which I am a regular client of.

This book describes the work of an extensive survey into the feelings of adolsecents. 1634 teenagers (aged between 13.5 and 14.5 years) filled in questionnaries. This was a project of the Health Promotion Department, Greater Glascow Health Board.

If you are looking for solutions - a 'how to do this' type book - this may not be the book for you. What this book does is openly reveal the feelings of teenagers. Significantly this is done using the words of teenagers.

The book provides invaluable background information for teachers (what's really going on in the heads of those we teach) and parents.

The survey used to collect the information is included as an appendix at the back of the book.

This text covers the basis of human evolution. It is written and presented well. This is a very controversial topic, but after reading the text the reader finds that there is an abundant amount of evidence for evolution. It puts any controversy to rest

This is the "director's cut" of a book that was first published in 1994 in a very different form. Here is the blurb from the back of the new -- and, by me, vastly preferred -- edition.

Please accept no substitutes!

-- John Grant

The story begins several million years ago, when sentient machines from an alien civilization build a Dyson Sphere around the sun's Red Dwarf companion star (which is why we've never seen it) and seed the Sphere with Neanderthals . . .

Or maybe it begins in the future, after terrestrial humanity has discovered the Sphere (now called the Big Dunkin Donut), colonized it, and enslaved the natives.

Whatever ... the Donut is in peril.

Atheist fundamentalist preachers - Rev Rick "The Man" Hamfist and Rev Bo "No Messin" Fingers - inspired by dastardly Dennis the Complete Bloody Sadist, are waging an evangelical war there with the aim of destroying the local, very real, goddess LoChi.

Using a matter transmitter, Earth sends holochips of two plucky adventurers to sort this out: heavy-weapons-toting xeno-anthropologist and scantily clad babe Petula McTavish; and by-the-rules supercop Dave Knuckle. But Knuckle's holochip is accidentally shattered on arrival into one hundred fragments, which are reconstituted to form one hundred lethally diverse partial versions of the supercop.

McTavish now has a hundredfold problem to solve. Actually a one-hundred-and-one-fold problem, but that wouldn't have made as good a title.

And that's before she falls in love . . .

The Hundredfold Problem is that rarest of things - a gloriously funny romp, populated by outrageous, larger-than-life characters, that's also an extremely imaginative, challenging sf novel.

Ruth Grant has written a book that challenges many of the beliefs that have given form to our most important political debates. Grant defines a hypocrite as "a person who pretends to be morally better than he is for the sake of some advantage to himself." She starts by claiming there has been a failure by contemporary scholars to take hypocrisy in politics seriously. Why has this happened? Because part of the liberal project is to make politics "honest", reasoned, and transparent.

To be fair, Grant is not opposed to honesty and rationality. The point is that we demand too much rationality in politics by insisting that political debate and portrayal of issues and candidates is nothing more than information. Such rationalism is itself unreasonable, and creates pressures that promote lying and misrepresentation.

I Hate School is a very down to earth, practical and easy to read book. Jim Grant has some difficult but very important things to say that parents and educators must consider carefully. Not only is elementary school a foundation in a child's education, but also the forming years of that person's entire life. I wish we'd known these things when I was growing up! I think it could have saved me a whole lot of grief for a whole lot of years. Today my mom and I are both educators and we regularly share this book and its concept with parents.

This is the best volume on South Texas history ever. Full of first-hand quotes, the lives of the people of this region from 1750 through the early 1900's is witnessed. It should interest people who don't even live in Texas, so much American history is intertwined with this region. Especially great is the civil war section.

This book highlights some of the detail of the creation and formation of the railroad. It shows the dedication of some of the founders and the troubles encountered by the many people involved. It has shown the resoucefulness that the IC has possesed and the financial troubles to overcome.

This book provides the best overall technical discussion of the use of satellite imagery and radar data in weather forecasting. For the weather enthusiast this book may at times be difficult to understand;however, there still is plenty of easy to understand information pertaining to visible, infrared, and water vapor imagery interpretation. The book is richly appointed with color and black and white figures with concise discussions of the meteorological conditions that produce the weather described in the figure. I would especially recommend this book for the serious student of meteorology.

I refuse to give away of this novel's excellent story. Needless to say, for those familiar with Grant's work at least, the characters are as haunted by their own emotions as they are by the supernatural. And the title should be taken literally. Now go out and read it.