I came accross this little gem right before I got pregnant with my son. Bored with traditional baby naming books, the title to this one caught my eye, and boy am I glad I found it. I already owned the first edition which is also great, but this one contains new sections such as president's surnames as first names, and regular words as names. I agree that some of the suggestions were silly at best, but some were intriguing as well. Are you a writer? How about Story for a girl?

I think that every first time parent should take a look at this book before making that final decision on what to name their baby. I used to work at a daycare where we had three girls named Jordan in the same class. I'm sure that their parents thought that it was a creative name and had never met another little girl with that name before, but a quick look at this book will let you know that it's one of the trendiest names around. A first time parent who's not around children very much most likely doesn't know what's hot and what's not and this book is invaluable. We had been considering Taylor for a girl before we read this because we thought it sounded unique. How wrong we were! Now, I still think it's a beautiful name, but if I ever do decide to use it at least I'll be prepared for the possiblity that she'll have a couple of other girls with the same name in her class.

This is THE book to look at if you want to make sure that you pick out a name you'll love. We decided to name our son William Noel (Will) after much deliberation. William, while popular, is a classic name that will never go out of style, and my grandfather's name was William, so it has special meaning to me. Noel, we just thought sounded good with the first name. Before we read this book, we thought that William was just too common, but the book helped us see that there is a difference between trendy and classic, something that you would never get with a traditional naming book. I am forever grateful to Rosenkrantz and Satran for this GREAT book.

This book was great! The way it divides the names up into seperate lists is great.... I was however a little disappoined to find my 2 year old daughters name on the "so far in they are out" list of names. But the book also gives great advice on how to choose names, such as the section on naming a sibling.... things that make a lot of sense, but I may not have thought of before. This book is a must have for anyone who is having a baby and needs some suggestions. I highly recommend it!

I have a weird name, Jinx... My husband has a weirder name, Croyus.... So you can see the dilema we were posed with in naming our first child... This book was so complete, right down to the meanings of names, names that movie stars have, old 86'ed names, unusual names and much more. I can not tell you how pleased I was with this book.. Even though we have our baby's name chosen now, we still like to pick up this book and read more about names.. This book is more than just lists, its explanations..

I wouldn't travel with Redmond O'Hanlon personally, although I'm quite happy to be a vicarious companion. And judging from O'Hanlon's opener here--where he tries to find someone to accompany him in his latest foray--it seem that my opinion is shared by O'Hanlon's friends. Except for one--who is shown to be under a mistaken impression about what a jaunt down the Amazon is like, not to mention having Redmond O'Hanlon planning the trip.

The title aptly describes the action. If you read O'Hanlon's Into the Heart of Borneo, this book follows without nary a break. While it doesn't have quite the originality of the first book, it doesn't fail to fulfill the promise of that book either. O'Hanlon's a little bit wiser, but still as trusting and stubborn. He presses on in circum- stances where most would have turned around--things like the fiercest tribe of natives in the world, torrential rainfall (not to be trifled with, especially on a river), and rapids in which he is dumped and unable to escape until a mile or so down river.

The best thing about O'Hanlon--although the amazing trips he takes are worthwhile in and of themselves--is the companions that he does manage to take. I'm not talking about the physical companions, who do provide humorous interludes, but the ones that are to be found in the books--the explorers who have traveled this route before. Rather than just supplying a bibliography, O'Hanlon uses them to annotate his own trip. An adventurer and a scholar, O'Hanlon's one of the best.

Good travel writing is as hard to find as good places to travel. Mr. O'Hanlon does a thoroughly enjoyable job of describing his misadventures in the miserable, bug-infested Amazon jungle. However, unless O'Hanlon is exaggerating, the trip could have easily ended in tragedy rather than comedy. As the book went on, I felt sympathy for his companions and guides who may have signed on to the trip assuming there was logic and sense to it. In the end, I hope O'Hanlon will stay home next time.

Redmond O'Hanlon displays a tempered lunacy in his account of an extraordinary search for the infamously violent Yamamoni tribe. It all seems a little contrived at first. He deliberately searches London for a traveling companion, then selects the most inappropriate he can find - a nightclub owner. Simon, his foil among the insects, snakes and spiders of the Amazon, loses his marbles half way through the book. The strength of In Trouble Again, is that despite feeling total sympathy for the sane, you can not help but admire O'Hanlon's crazed doggedness. Everytime he has an excuse to turn back, he redoubles his efforts, dragging his guides onwards. To say that he survives is certainly not spoiling the ending, but it is an extraordinary read and enough to limit adverturous dreams to the Discovery Channel. It deserves a 10, but O'Hanlon is obsessed with birds. I, like Simon, have always thought a bird is just a bird. Which is why I'm staying at home.

There's not a lot I really have to comment about this book. It's a cute extension of the Bob videos. My 2 year old loves to watch the movies, and likewise loves to look through this book. Now granted, a two year old won't really take the time to let me actually read it to him at this point, but he loves to look at and point out what he calls the, "Big Trucks".

If your child loves the 'Bob' movies, they'll love thumbing through this book!

My son is 2 1/2 and a huge Bob the builder fan. Scoop is one of his favorite characters so this book was an instant hit. He gets so excited everytime we read it "can we rescue? yes we can" I would suggest this book for any young bob fan.

The book was very readable, I flew through the pages. The book presents a realistic picture of what living with the terminal illness of a loved one is like. There is hope then heartbreak and love and strength and courage.

The author was there and came out the other side. The book shows the reality of dealing with our bureaucratic medical system but still the humanity and decency of most of the individuals.

My title comes from the book of Job42:5 in which he describes his encounter with God. But now my eye sees You. I read this
book with much circumspection. Most recently my cousin has been
diagnosed with cancer and has gone into remission. A sister in
the church I go to lost her sister to cancer and I was able to
pass this on to her. Noone in this life makes it through without
heartache and sorrow. The hardest I've heard is to lose a child
as a parent. I can't personally say I've gone through this though
my in laws have as my wife passed away last year. For those that
have lost a spouse I would recommend the movie Shadowlands that
was done a few years back with Anthony Hopkins. It's the real
life story of the Christian author C.S.Lewis who loses his wife
to cancer. I have a tremendous amount of respect for those that
have gone through personal tragedy and as the posted review said
"have come out the other side". It's a painful and grievious process but as Barbara showed through her faith in God that He
alone can bring us through and now she's able to relate to us
this through her well written testimony. We are able to see many
insights into family dynamics and medical protocol in the hardest
battle of their lives. I believe that personal application ofthis
book would lead us to strengthening our faith and understanding
what heaven and eternal life is about to those who trust in the
living Savior and His word. Also I can see the improvement of patient-family- and doctor dialogue in the time of suffering through compassionate Biblical counseling provided through the
cooperation of the medical field and the churches. We know we
will see our loved ones in eternity for those who have believed
and that is our blessed assurance though we do need the comfort
of those trained in helping the grieving and testmonies such as
this one which can be used as a tool to help in the process.

For all those readers and reviewers who loved this book (and you are obviously in the majority), I recommend the works of W. H. Hudson, a 19th Century version of O'Hanlon in South America. I particularly recommend Hudson's Green Mansions as a starting point. There are differences in the writers (100 years, and two different continents to start off with). Further, Hudson is the more poetic and better writer in my opinion, but that's something for each reader to decide on his or her own.-In any case, they both belong to that peculiar English tradition of intrepid, eccentric explorers bumbling about in foreign regions full of lethal flora, fauna and humanity all the while making endearing and heroic fools of themselves to the natives and the readers. O'Hanlon's quest is particularly baroque: searching for a reported dinosaur in Lake Tele in the Congo basin, and one is only surprised that O'Hanlon's American companion Lary didn't make him sign his release note a hundred pages earlier: "I, Redmond, declare that I am going to the Lake Tele deathtrap of my own free will and I hereby forgive Lary his escape." O'Hanlon's attachment to the gorillla Bobo is undoubtedly the most touching part of the book (and one of the exceedingly few parts where the title does not apply.) I would say that it shows O'Hanlon's essential "humanity" except that, after O'Hanlon's discourse on the similarity of our two species, I'm not at all sure it's the appropriate term-O'Hanlon informs us that the Western Bantu word for "hero" comes from the verb meaning "to enter oblivion, to be lost, to become a spirit."-O'Hanlon has certainly proved himself a hero in this sense! One is tempted to exclaim "Good Show!" at the end of the book if only for this reason.-I only gave the book 4 stars because, as I said, Hudson's just a notch above him in my opinion.

Redmond O'Hanlon's book is stunning. As funny as it is penetrating, he offers so much more than an incredible physical journey. He is expert at evoking the feel of the claustrophobic jungle of the Congo, plunging the reader knee deep in vines and choking on the smell of 3rd rate 3rd world motels. But more importantly, he credibly takes us into the minds of his Congolese guides and travlling companions. It is O'Hanlon's own struggle with his thoughts and fears as he undertakes his journey that provides the real meat of this narrative. And the writing here is distrubing and seductive. By recreating the hardship of life in the jungle for the reader, he effortlessly takes us into the head of someone faced with those experiences. The result is nothing less than mind altering. An incredible journey into a dangerous country and a slippery mind. Amazing.

Having lived in the Congo for ten years, I believe this is the first book I've read that accurately describes what life there is actually like, both for foreigners and for the Congolese. It makes you feel that you are there: the difficulty of daily living, the despair, fear of sorcery, unfailing good humor, poverty, and strong family obligations of the Congolese come through clearly and are on target. O'Hanlon is a quick learner - many foreigners stay there for years and never leave the European lifestyle; he depicts the side of life that is seen only by living with the people. If you want a taste of what life in Congo is like without actually going there, this is the book.

This is a competent, basic introduction to using Microsoft Excel in business and finance; however, its title is misleading in that the MBA student's needs in using Excel in 500-level Finance and Business classes are well beyond the scope of this book. The book is good to have on hand for a quick description of a function, but it adds little more than the F1 Help key does.

This well-written book is for the professional business user of Microsoft Excel. The topics cover a range of business uses of Excel, including modeling, statistics, break-even analysis, forecasting, and depreciation. Also included for new users to Excel are QuickPrimers, short tutorials on Excel's worksheet and graphics capability.

The design of The MBA's Guide to Microsoft Excel 2000 is clean and crisp and its contents speak to the user in a friendly yet knowledgeable voice. The book distinguishes itself from other Excel books by the inclusion of EasyRefreshers, a summary of business practices and processes, an additional benefit to the reader.

The MBA's Guide to Microsoft Excel 2000 helps you perform business spreadsheet tasks quickly and easily.

This book is a great primer: not only for the aspiring MBA, but also for the business type who needs a refresher on how to put together balance sheets and more.

This book is split into three parts: Quick Primers, Excel in Business and Starter Workbooks. With the Quick Primers, anyone can learn to be a pro on Excel. Excel in Business covers basic financial and statistical calculations. The Starter Workbooks provide templates for anyone in business to work out key financial statements and business plans.

The MBA's Guide to Microsoft Excel would also work well as a companion guide for anyone who is taking beginning / intermediate level courses in Accounting or Finance.

Peter Hoeg translates so well into English, but what must the original Danish be like! What a wonderful feast of language, exotic and strange characters, and locations. This is a very beautiful , heartwrenching exploration of the place of the misfit,the intelligent and sensitive outsider who somehow needs to reconcile her Greenlandic upbringing with a scientific,20th century northern European heritage and existence.Greenlanders in Denmark, like Aboriginals in Australia, are susceptible to alchohol and welfare dependency."Civilization" has ruined them by destroying their selfrespect and robbing them of ther language and skills. Smilla fights herself (she trusts nobody, and rightly so}, and she fights the system. The second half of the book becomes more of an action thriller and lacks the abstraction, mathematics and philosophy which made the first section absolutely seductive to me.However an excellent book, worth reading and re-reading.

The snow...the ice...the cold...all are wonderfully described in this beautifully written novel. I bought this book in the summertime, but knowing it's winter Danish setting wisely held off from reading it till the winter -- reading this in summer heat just wouldn't be right!

At its most basic, this is a great whodunnit. Smilla, with her Greenlander ability to "read" tracks and forms in the snow (hence the title), knows that her little boy neighbour did not simply trip and fall from the snow-topped roof of their building...The tracks tell Smilla something more sinister, and she is determined to get to the root of it.

Smilla herself is a wonderful character, sometimes appearing sympathetic and warm, other times cold and distant. In other words, she is entirely convincing.

READ THIS BOOK! It had me on the edge of my seat and was a thrilling page turner.

Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow is a fascinating book. It's quite unjust that on Amazon at least, it seems barely known, while books of much lesser ambition and accomplishment are lauded.

The book is actually hard to describe. In plot terms: the heroine, a prickly loner, is drawn into a plot by a child's death. Sensing wrongdoing, she battles police, bureaucracy and sinister conspiracies to get to the truth, helped by a misfit band of characters, all while falling in love against her will with her main collaborator - or is he the enemy?

In the hands of most authors, this would just be another of the thousands of wannabe thrillers published each year. Peter Hoeg, with the setting, the character, and the originality of his writing, makes Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow something quite different.

The book is set in cold, cold climates, ranging from urban Copenhagen to the fjords & glaciers of Smilla's homeland of Greenland, to the seas off west Greenland that terrify even the hardest sailors - the 'Sea of Fog' and the 'Iceberg Cemetery'.

Smilla Jaspersen, of unusual parentage - her father a Danish medical specialist, her mother a Greenlandic traditional hunter - is a scientist, rationalist, mathematician and expert on snow and ice in all its forms. After her mother disappears on a hunting trip the child Smilla is taken to Denmark by her father - to a foreign land of boarding schools where no-one speaks her language, and people look down on the dark, uncouth Greenlanders.

As much as a thriller this is also a story of displacement and dispossession, of how irrevocably your homeland can shape you and remain in your heart. The well-meaning Danes colonise Greenland with the usual devastating effects on the native inhabitants - Smilla's own brother, the clan's supreme hunter, is reduced to sweeping docks and then suicide.

Smilla herself is educated and urbane enough to survive city life - she dresses elegantly, reads Euclid, understands bureaucracy. But the subversive misfit of her childhood is never far from the surface and she's a genuine rebel, in a way that the savvy, wisecracking heroines of US/UK stories somehow never are.

The language, while lyrically translated, is very unlike anything that would be written in native English, it's crammed indiscriminately with mundane details, philosphical musings, and a few wonderful insights. It's not for lightweight easy-reading fans - neither is the final revelation of the 'mystery' which, although implausibly stupid, somehow doesn't detract too much from the overall spell of the book. If you're bored with the standard murder mystery/thriller books, please - find and read this one.

Unlike most of the people who buy Beyond Jennifer & Jason, Madison & Montana and its companion books, I have never used this book to name an actual baby but use it instead to name characters in the stories I write. I have always found it far more helpful in choosing character names than most other baby name books.

I have always had a fascination with names, and this book gives better detail about how names actually function in our world.

The only thing I dislike about this book is the authors' sense of which names are too dated to use, but this may just be a generational response on my part (I tend to think of names like Dorothy, Phyllis, Walter, and Raymond as so far out they're in again, whereas they just think of them as dated ). But overall, this book is an excellent choice for anyone who needs to name anyone else.

This book does offer opinions about names -- which are trendy, which are outdated, which are coming into style -- and that's what makes it the best name book around! First-time parents have no other honest guide to these issues. This book is fun to read as well as being instructive and enlightening. If you really want to find the best name for your baby, this is the book for you!

An amazingly informative, helpful, and fun book, BJ&J is the best guide for parents who are new to the naming scene, and it's also great for name-pros like me. I love the upbeat, unusual style of the writing and format; so many other name books that have commentaries are kind of depressing in their negativity. This book is not judgmental, it's simply honest, and it gives you the plain truth about how people will see your child's name. Many of the recommended names are classic, and it's not hard to see that the authors like unusual classic names.

I also think all the lists are wonderful. The compelation of names in other countries is fabulous (especially the French and Greek names), and also the list of exotic/creative names. I recommend the larger edition, simply because the fonts are nicer and the format is overall more professional.

I adored this book. The story and characters Patrick Redmond created and how the story went was nothing short of amazing. I was a bit overwhelmed after reading 'Something Dangerous' in fact I was moved to tears and felt pyshically ill for a few days.
The ending took me by surprise and there is a part of me that wishes it had ended differently but another half still wishes to understand what really happened. Jonathan and Richard were my favorite characters. Jonathan, the boy who craves love and attention from his father and who had that boyish charm about him that would make anyone fall in love. Richard the disturbed, angry boy who grew up hating his father and refused to let anyone get closed to him after his mother died, that is until Jonathan came along.

It was very refreshing to read a novel like this because of the subtle hints it gives you to the deeper relationships of the characters. I only hope I can find another as amazing as this book.

Something Dangerous is an entralling quick read. The characters are very well developed and the plot really kept my interest. I could not wait for the climax. I felt empathy for all of the characters, even the one who seems purely evil on the surface. The only thing that I found lacking was the description and deveopment of the powers within the Ouija Board as reasoning for the school's troubles. These powers seem to enable the boys to see the skeletons in people's closets. I would have enjoyed a scene during which the skeltons were revealed to the players. The psychological control exhibited in the book is completely believable and made the little hairs on the back of my neck stand up on end. If you are thinking about reading this book, I would recommend doing so!

Having read Patrick Redmond's "Something Dangerous", I think I can say that the future of British horror writing is in more than capable hands.

Where this book scores is in way the horror arises from the interplay between characters, rather than - as is the case with King, Koontz, and Herbert - from the plot itself. There is something almost Orwellian about the sense of entrapment, of there being no escape for the the lead characters, that Redmond manages to evoke. I felt real empathy for Palmer and Scott.

In my experience as a dedicated fan of horror novels, this has got to be the scariest I've ever read. And having attended an English all-boys school myself, I know that Redmond has certainly done his research. This was a stunning read, and I would reccommend it to anyone.

Well done Patrick Redmond! I look forward to finishing his latest novel "The Puppet Show."

I liked most of the choices in this book. I found that there were good names that most people would probably consider, and I liked that they made it clear that certain names are just way too popular right now, and that they had positive things to say about lesser used names such as "Lisette" and "Rosamond."

I didn't like all the celebrity references or all the place-name references. I saw those entries as part of a new baby-naming trend and I'm not into trends, so those names didn't impress me.

If you're searching for a name, then this book is good, because there are reasonable suggestions in it. I would just have to say don't pay too much attention to the comments.

I was dissappointed with this book. After reading the reviews I don't really know what I was expecting, but what I got was almost entirely the authors' opinions. There are few entries with containing meanings and true origins, although they all have commentary on 'coolness'. If you just need an additional name resource then it's o.k., although there really aren't that many new names in it. But if you're looking for something with reference to a name's meaning and origins beyond a popular TV character or stars baby, then this books NOT for you.

I read in TV Guide that this book was supposed to appear on "Friends" to help Ross and Rachel name their baby -- makes sense because it's got that hip and down-to-earth sensibility! This book and the author's other one, Beyond Jennifer & Jason, Madison & Montana, are all I needed to pick the perfect name for my baby. I love these name writers -- if you're naming a baby, you've gotta get their books!!