This dictionary lacks countless words and does a poor job of cross referencing to much needed synonyms.

This dictionary is extremely useful. It includes loads of idiomatic expressions-for example, if you look up "term" you you also find out how to say "during his term of office","in the short/long term","name your own terms," and so on.

In addition, the user has no trouble finding information such as genetive and plural endings and even a list of 113 irregular German verbs.

My only complaint is that the pronunciation key seems a little whacky sometimes; perhaps if I spoke British English, I would find the key to be more accurate.

The reasonable price also makes this dictionary a good choice.

This is a boxed set and are abridged versions of the old favorites.

This book is positively jam packed with adventure. It keeps you happily entertained with seven wonderful stories. you'll enjoy this book all the way from tom sawyer to robinson crusoe. There's mischief, romance, and a lot of action. It isn't like a readers digest where theres one good story but you paid for seven. these are ALL timeless classics which everyone can and will enjoy.

i have enjoyed this series because of ms holts characters but i found the puzzle was simplistic and and easy to solve...i much prefer agatha christie for a more challanging puzzle

The 4th book in the Retirement Mysteries by Corinne Holt Sawyer finds the ladies from Camden-sur-Mer at it again. Friends Angela Benbow and Caledonia Wingate investigate the death of Alexander Lightfoot, who was engaged to one of the residents at their retirement community. (not a nursing home!) Even though these two are in their 80's, no one dares to tell them that they are too old to investigate murders, and when they find out the victim was healthy and not suicidal, they immediately decide it was murder. When a second murder victim is found, Angela and Caledonia dig deeper to help Lt. Martinez solve this case, and find out no one (not even the victim) is as they would seem.

I enjoyed the latest book in this series about the irrepressible Angela and Caledonia. Playing a larger part in this book is Tom Brighton, another resident in the community, and his cheerful demeanor in the midst of hip pain adds to the notion that the elderly are adventurous in many ways. I like the spunk and determination of the characters in this series, and I found myself laughing aloud at their antics.

This book shows that retirement does not mean "out to pasture" and shows how valuable the elderly are (to those that, unfortunately, need a reminder!). This was a delightful look at a feisty group of retirement residents that work together to help the police solve a murder. The characters grow with each book in the series and this book was a great addition to the first three. Great for all ages!

The first book in this series is "The J Alfred Prufrock Murders". Enjoy!

This book picks up right after the hallaballo has died down from Tom and Huck's triumphal return. Tom kinda craves notoriety as he competes for the unofficial title of Hannibal's First Traveler. Kidnapped by a mad inventor Tom, Huck and Jim
find themselves sailing in a hot-air balloon. They eventually realize that they are alone over the Atlantic, but when they sight land, it is not Europe! This first-person story is narrated with youthful zest and slangy vocabulary by an admiring Huck, so that he can praise Tom's leadership skills and power of argument.

The three unprepared argonauts finally understand that they are floating over the vast Sahara Desert, where they experience a variety of adventures--interspersed with juvenile deductions and lively debate. Their challenges are right out of the Arabian Nights: no magic lamp or genies, but Twain serves up caravans, lions, mirages, warring Bedouin tribes, and a devastating sand storm. All this action is spiced with his wry humor, as he slips in snide remarks about more serious social issues (spoken through the mouths of babes). Although this tale is Plot Lite, there's plenty of lively dialogue, as the boys argue using kid logic, while indulging in youthful dreams of sudden fortune. A fun read with sly social criticism. But really, Mark Twain--tigers--in Africa?

I was surprised to discover the existance of these two books: Tom Sawyer Abroad and Tom Sawyer Detective. Apparently, they were both very popular back when they were first published, in the late 1890s, but have become mostly forgotten. They're more novellas than anything; Detective isn't even 100 pages long. The illustrations are really good, and I plan on buying the other volumes in the Mark Twain Library, each of which include the original illustrations that were present in the first editions. Both Abroad and Detective are entertaining, but they're not in the mold of the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. You know how in Huckleberry Finn, Huck goes through all these little misadventures, all the while growing up and gaining all kinds of wisdom, and then in the end, the book takes a harsh turn and goes back to the juvenile exploits of Tom Sawyer, when he and Huck try to free Jim? It's like the end of the book really doesn't have much to do with the rest of it, it's just Huck and Tom doing dumb, yet funny, kid stuff. Well, both Abroad and Detective are like that; only very occasionally do you get any of Huck's unique flashes of insight. Jim himself only appears in Abroad, which is a fantasy tale in which he, Tom, and Huck happen to be kidnapped onto a high-tech balloon (!) and go across the Atlantic to Africa. There's really not much of a plot or resolution, they just float along over the desert, Tom tells them about the Arabian Nights, and Jim gets stranded on the head of the Sphinx for a little while. Abroad picks up not long after the events in the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and apparently Detective picks up not long after Abroad, though the events that transpired in Abroad are never mentioned in Tom Sawyer, Detective. Maybe Twain considered Abroad more of a whimsical tale, something that never really happened. Who knows...but I think Detective was the better of the two, even though Jim doesn't even appear in the book, and it's more of a mystery novel than anything. Huck basically plays the role of the reporter in Detective, just relating all of the incidents he witnessed in an unusual murder/crime, and describing Tom Sawyer's scene-stealing exploits in the trial that follows. Many of the characters that appeared in the last half of Adv. of Huck Finn make a return appearance in Detective. But anyway, both books are enjoyable to read, especially considering that both are written in the 1st person, from Huck's perspective, yet don't read them expecting the depth and emotion that are found in the Adv. of Huck Finn. I think these books were written for a younger audience, and that's how they read. But, for a frustrating, yet very interesting look into what might have been, had Twain finished his other two planned sequels to Huckleberry Finn, you should check out the book "Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer Among the Indians," which contains two unfinished sequels that are both heads and tails better than Abroad and Detective: Among the Indians and Tom Sawyer's Conspiracy. But that's all I have to say about that.

This would seem to be OK. Nicely printed with attractive line-drawings that give a good overall picture of what the plant looks like (not quite one for every species, also somewhat short on botanical detail) and distribution maps (one for every species). A separate section with pretty decent color photographs (39 total).

The downside is that this is a guide for North and Central California, with the occasional South Californian species thrown in, which makes it a compromise. Also I don't really like the size: I would have preferred a bigger page size in a less chunky volume. But good value for money overall.

This is a wonderful reference book for more serious California native plant enthusiasts. It has detailed drawings of most referenced plants and also shows a map illustrating the native range of every specimen (which I find particularly interesting). Although I have found some missing species -- I really value this book. It is a great companion to the Sunset Western Garden Book (I go back and forth between the two). It also provides information on non-native plants that have long naturalized in the Golden State.

"Plots Limited" would be a more apt title. There is not that great a variety, unless you want to limit yourself to the cliched, the hackneyed, the predictable, or the downright silly.

I've been through this book several times and have yet to find it useful. What I find instead is that I can actually name the TV movies, miniseries, and bad TV shows where these plots have already appeared. (And time has not made them any more palatable.) This makes it more of a trivia game than a writer's reference.

However, if you're looking for a nostalgic journey through The Worst of 1970s and '80s Television, this book is for you.

This is a good book for writers who are stuck on a dead-end plot point and need a nudge in the right direction. A previous reviewer complained about the book's ineffective qualities with science fiction, but it's the writer's job to manipulate the basic conflict situations provided in the book. This book will not give you EXACT PLOTS for your story. But it WILL offer suggestions on directions you could take with your story. On Page 126, the second part of "Conflict Situation - #953" reads, "Jack, wanting peace and quiet, assumes a false identity and finds a distant retreat." The retreat could be a dilapidated apartment in Queens, a rural farm in Montana, or a distant planet in the Andromeda Galaxy. Those creative souls who look at the contents of this book in LITERAL terms will find nothing useful because it's only intended to spark the writer's imagination, NOT provide easy plots for lazy writers. I think this is a wonderful resource, and I recommend it to any aspiring, or professional writer out there who needs a little nudge to get their story moving.

The problem with this book is that each of the plots lead to odd endings. I have a hard time findig a good story line that could be used for fantasy or SF. I don't see any chance for horror writers. The plots also use a lot of cultural stereo-typing. The use of the word primitive is primitive. I still find the book useful as a springboard for non-cliche ideas.

Meryl Sawyer is probably my favorite romance author, and I was so happy to get this, her first book--but I was in for a big disappointment. It's the worst book I've ever read, bar none. The heroine is absurdly idealized--she's gorgeous, smart, a successful businesswoman-turned-bestselling author/screenwriter-turned gifted actress--completely unbelievable. Even worse is the heroine's lack of judgement and backbone; her demeanor is like a throwback to romances of the 1970's, where the naive heroines accepted shabby treatment as their due. Add into it an absurd plot and unconvincing romance--ugh. Read most any of Sawyer's other books, especially "Half Moon Bay," "The Hideaway," "Unforgettable" or "Last Night" for truly great romance; avoid this one.

I've always been a Meryl Sawyer fan. I looked for this--her first book--for a long time. It's out of print. It wasn't as strong a plot as some of her books, but I loved the settings. I've been to Cabo San Lucas and she must have as well. London was supurb as was the Sudan. Anyone familiar with the politics there will realize how accurate this was at the time it was written, over ten years ago.
The romance was gripping and the heroine truly unique. It could easily have been made a movie.

Kingsley Amis, David Lodge, Malcolm Bradbury and Robertson Davies have all done fine "campus" novels. Jacobson's is mediocre and rarely funny. There are so many great books to read- don't waste your time with this one!

Howard Jacobson's "Coming from Behind" is not only the funniest "campus" novel ever written, it is one of the great comic novels of the past half century. Because it is closely based on his own experiences as a Mancunian Jew in High Church Cambridge and as a neophyte lecturer at Wolverhampton polytechnic, Jacobson's satire is far more acute and therefore side-splitingly funny than anything written by Bradbury, Lodge or Amis.

This book was published in 1996. To give you and idea of how that translates in terms of book content, the big game of that time was Doom 2. They were still waiting for Quake! Obviously, the industry has changed markedly since then leaving this book in the dust.
If you can get this book REALLY cheap then you might want to consider it, but otherwise move on.

For anybody interested in game programming, this book is a great place to start. But be warned-- you won't find the latest coding tricks in this book, or any code for that matter. This book deals with story development, employment, starting your own business, hiring, how to get employed, how to decide what to program and for what platforms, how to work on within a budget and more!

The area reviewed is one of the most beautiful in Wisconsin. However the book had no pictures. Maps would help orient one to where they actually are in the area. Descriptions of places ommitted important information. An example was the description of Hotel Chequamagon - the book ommitted the fact that this hotel is located right on the shores of Lake Superior. Price ranges for all lodging, eateries, etc. would be a help. There were no website addresses. With some updating this would be a much better reference for this lovely place.