It is a very helpful book in my opinion. This is one of three climbing books I own. It doesn't focus on things like place pro, building anchors but it is designed to improve the climber both mentally and physically. A huge chunk of the book focusses on helpful mental techniques which I believe most climbers need to work on rather than getting stronger, but it does give a chapter on strength training and diet and nutrition. Best book on self improvement I have seen.

This is the best and most complete book about rock climbing I have ever read. It focus not only on technique and training, but also on diets, treatments for injuries and also on strategy for accomplishing goals. It definitely is a must buy for any serious rock climber.

This is the only training book in my climbing library - probably because I don't need anything else. The amount of knowledge passed on by top climbers is large and complete: including in- depth topics on diet, muscle physiology, and mental techniques. This book can help beginners avoid common training pitfalls and intermediate + advanced climbers look for new ways to push past their current limits. Excellent.

Jed is fourth in the Rock Creek Series. The order is: Reese, Sullivan, Rico, Jed, Nate, and Cash.

Jed certainly lives up to the rest, as new characters are introduced and old favorites return.

A former soldier, Pinkerton detective, and one of the original gunmen known as the Rock Creek Six, Jed meets his match in Hanna. She's a fiesty plantation owner who has traveled west to help save her worthless brother-in-law, who's in the Rock Creek jail facing a murder charge. Since Jed was formerly involved with the dead man's widow, he finds himself between a rock and a hard place when he returns to Rock Creek with Hanna!

I really enjoyed this book and absolutely love this series! I'd recommend the Rock Creek Six any time. They're worth keeping and reading again and again.

I love the ROCKCREEK SIX series.They are my favorite all time romance books.I think other readers of romance will enjoy them also,

This is one of the Rock Creek Series and they are really terrific books. Try and read them consecutively, beginning with Reese. The romance is terrific, the plot has substance and I stayed up late one night finishing it. You can't miss this series...

Jimi Hendrix was undoubtedly one of the most distinguished and most talented guitarists ever to walk the planet. His life started out in the gutter: no mother, a father overseas, and nothing to rely on but himself. Soon however, he found his true calling, the guitar. One of his father's friends had an old Stratocaster and one night while he was drunk, he sold it to Jimi for hardly anything. From this point on, his life changed drastically; he took his guitar with him everywhere he went, even going as far as sleeping with it. His guitar took him all over the country, to England and back, and then back to London. On his last visit to London, he passed away. Jimi Hendrix was and will always be one of the best guitarists ever.

This book on legendary guitarist Jimi Hendrix takes an unusual turn, gathering eyewitness recollections of his life through the words of his admirers, friends and close observers. From his childhood experiences through adulthood, this uses quotes from documentaries, books, newspapers, TV and Internet sites as well as new interviews to provide a well-rounded view of the man and his career.

This book opens the wounds of Jimi's death anew. The author pieces together, as best he can, with recollections from family, band mates, and contemporaries the crushing price fame held for Jimi Hendrix. One can feel the pain, and I actually felt rage against all who seemed out to destroy him. True, he had his own demons, but there seemed noone who was really there to care about the "person" Jimi, only what they could get out of him. Of all books out, this one seemed most objective, if that is possible.

EXTRA CUIDADOSAS CON ESE FUTURO QUE TIENEN EN LA CUNA !
Lleno de tips excelentes y originales A FAVOR DEL BEBÉ !

even if you are not :
A mother
A woman
It's a complete "Owner's Manual "

THAT HELPS MOTHERS TO CARE FOR THEIR BABIES...
My wife is still in love with it and using it..
Yes, Ladies: You are the hand that rocks...the world !

For anyone who has a modist size Zeppelin collection of live recordings this book is a must, It has an incredible breakdown of hundreds of shows including track lists and commentary on the play quality as well as remarks on Robert Plants witty comentary between songs. I found myself going back and listening to many of my bootlegs to see how the author's opinion of concerts compared to mine. It was also nice because It helped straighten out some of the songs from the compelation discs I have, correcting the perpatraitors generally incorrect slipsheets and liner notes.

Dave Lewis and Simon Pallett have provided readers with a treasure: a look at every known live performance of the world's greatest rock band, Led Zeppelin. The book is full of reports of what, where, and when the band played, how good the concert was, concert facts, and many samples of the wisdom of Robert Plant. They even recommend the best bootlegs, perfect for us die-hard Zepp fans. The authors also include innumerable concert photos, many of which don't appear in other books. Any Zeppelin collection is incomplete without this book.

This book is a dream come true for any Zep fan. The set lists and descriptions of every Led Zeppelin performance are great. If you are not sure exactly when or where you saw that Zep concert, this book has the information you need. Loads of pictures of the band, venue posters, backstage passes and more. Looks great on the coffee table too.

This book contains several rarely seen pictures of the band. Some are action shots, while others are stills.. All in all, this book captures the G'N'R' attitude very well!

As a huge fan of gnr, i was anxious to get some kind of book about them. I had all the records and even some rare bootlegs, but i could not find any literature about them. When i stumbled across this book at this site, it was an instant buy. i was very impressed at the quality and depth of Robert John's photographs. I have happened to see GN'R live and Robert John's photos certainly capture their flare and stage presence. A very good book. If you are looking for a biography go buy "The most Dangerous band in the world" or"The True story" If you want a good book of photos spanning GN'R wildest days, i suggest you buy this.

This is the only GNR book I have. I have only started liking them 6 months ago and I'm surprised that book stores still have GNR material around. I'm positive that any fan would love this book. The book has GNR pictured from their early days in 1985 to almost the end in 1992. I love the fact that Robert John shows them from the beginning with their teased hair, and lipstick to a more mature look as they get older. The book has concert photos, backstage pics, GNR rehersing and even some more personel ones with Axl by himself. If you are looking for a biography of the band, then don't buy this one. On the bottom of the pictures Robert John tells you the place and year it was taken but otherwise it is strictly just a photo book, nothing else. I highly recomend it in any way.

Like the other reviewers said, I didn't so much buy this for the text (I probably know more about Courtney Love and Hole than the author does), but for the pictures. And there lots of them! There is a similar book by Nick Wise, which you should check out as well (but beware...in the very back of his book there are 2 really embarrassing "boob shots" of Courtney that are totally uncalled for. I put a strip of black electrical tape over them). If you want a REAL, authorized Courtney Love/Hole bio- check out the one by Poppy Z. Brite, or even the unauth. one by Melissa Rossi (it's kinda cheesy though), and while you're at it, read Ms. Brite's novels, too. They're awesome!

Unfortunately, Courtney Love recently announced that her band Hole has broken up, so this book is a testimony to a band that no longer exists. It may therefore be of interest to a collector.

This book is similar to Nick Wise's book COURTNEY LOVE in that it has a lot of great pictures, and the text really is incidental to the photos. The text is, well, not even necessary. This is a great compilation of pictures of Courtney and Hole, and it shows Hole in its very early days before Courtney's persona had overshadowed the band completely. Yes, there are even pictures of her before the nose job! :) (I think she looked cute with her original nose!)

This book has so many great pictures of Courtney Love and her band Hole! Many of the pictures I have never seen before. Almost all in color too which was great!

Jim Morgan gets most (but not all) of his facts straight, approaching his subjects with an affecting blend of humor, compassion, and both human and architectural insights. IF THESE WALLS HAD EARS: THE BIOGRAPHY OF A HOUSE offers up eight families' worth of bittersweet reminiscences, ruminations and recriminations comingled with the author's own personal reflections on this whale of a house. Portions of the book are uneven and a bit awkward as Morgan transitions between the families' and his own perceptions and his narration. But overall, it's an interesting and enjoyable read which should resonate truly with anyone who has ever experienced the mixed blessings of home ownership -- or found themselves haplessly ensnared by a four-walled moneypit.

Ed and Sheri Kramer: Chapter Ten

A house is an aggregate relic of all the people who have lived there, recording their improvements or their neglect. The author writes an interesting chronicle of the house's former inhabitants. It's disconcerting to reflect upon the fact that others owned our home before us, and we will leave it to others when we're gone. It's a reminder of how temporary our lives are, in our few hours upon the stage. Each generation, with all its hubris, is only a chapter, or a few pages, within the book of life.

Morgan has done here what every old house owner has dreamed of doing: answering the question "what history occurred here before we arrived?" In telling the rich stories of the people who preceded him as owners of this particular Craftsman bungalow in one old neighborhood of a single city, he spins a wonderful tale of our nations's history as well.

These are brilliant essays, many of them indeed discussing punk's effect on mainstream culture, but some of them trouble me. Marcus is original and insightful, but can be overly academic. That is, sometimes his thesis takes precedence to the truth, or even common sense.

It's normal to expect brilliant thinkers to be intuitive and obsessive. But Marcus tends to focus on one tiny wrinkle in a work, and to blow it up into an explanation for all the artist's motives, intentions, and finally the Western Dilemma itself. By the time he reaches the end of his inspired flight, we are miles away from the original subject.

One example is his interpretation of the album "Los Angeles" by the band X as a Raymond Chandler story set to music. This approach is clever, and gives him a chance to indulge in some retro literary criticism, but the two works really have nothing in common besides their L.A. low-lifes.

A more inexplicable example is his essay on the L.A. punk scene. In apparent (and inferior) imitation of a famous piece by Lester Bangs, he abandons all logic to portray the L.A. punks as proto-fascist. He describes the Black Flag song "White Minority" as racist, while ignoring the fact that the singer is Hispanic and the song clearly ironic. He describes a punk's hostility to "hippies" as master-race thuggery, when it's clear that by "hippies" the boy means the long-haired metal fans who preyed on the punk minority. Both these facts are explained in the film Marcus is describing. He seems to have overlooked them because they weakened his very New Yorkish, anti-West Coast thesis.

There are other examples, many of them explicable by the eccentricities of a powerful mind and the journalist's need to find an original "handle" on a subject. But if such a goal is pursued too far we get Yellow Journalism, which has caused physical harm in the past and will do so again.

A collection on punk and related matters from 1977 through 1992, including what was left out of Marcus' earlier book Lipstick Traces. In the author's own words, it's about "records, performances, twists of the radio dial." It moves from the Sex Pistols' "Anarchy" to Nirvana's "Nevermind" in this illumined golden thread. Marcus writes about what moved, scared and disgusted him and what made him feel so privileged to be part of the punk audience. His views of punk encompassed a wide horizon, to include the likes of Bruce Springsteen, early Prince, Laurie Anderson and David Lynch's film Blue Velvet. His point is that punk made wonderful things like Anderson's "Superman" possible even though Superman itself isn't punk. In other words, punk's liberating effect caused sea changes in the perception of pop. A major weakness of the book is that it ignores the entire New York scene, because, as he puts it, "most [New York] punks seemed to be auditioning for careers as something else." So no Patti Smith, no Richard Hell, a cursory mention of Talking Heads, but you WILL find Blondie here. Fascist Bathroom follows many avenues (The Clash, Sex Pistols, Elvis Costello) but maybe its most precious contribution is rescuing from obscurity some lower-profile such as Laura Logic, The Mekons, Marianne Faithfull. It's a joy to read, chronologically arranged and ending with Nirvana and grunge in the 90s. The text swarms with relevant quotes from rock lyrics and references to other rock journalists like Lester Bangs. For anyone with a passionate interest in rock/pop music and youth culture, it's required reading.

Long John (the lst reviewer of this book) hit the nail on the head. Marcus was a big part of my life in the 80's at the time I was in college. While I could go on about how wonderful this book is, the bottom line is, if you love music and challenging ideas, this is a must read. Highly recommended.

I really enjoyed this book because the author ( my uncle) made me feel like I was in Jordan during his childhood. My father was very happy whenever talking about or visiting Jordan. This book helps me understand how he felt.

I recommend this book of poems to everyone, especially the folks that grew up in the rural ares of this country. I guarentee that any one who has spent time in a small town in the thirties and forties in rural America will find many things in these poems that will bring back fond memories. These poems are so descriptive, I am sure the writer must have lived them.

Mr. Leuschen's poetry seems to capture the essence of growing up in Montana, which is certainly different than growing up anywhere else in our great country. Certainly a top rate collection from an (apparently) new poet. Highly recommended for poetry fans, or people (like me) that have always been a little in awe of the whole "Montana experience."