Search this site    The Gangs of New York An Informal History of the Underworld Author: Asbury, Herbert / Borges, Jorge Luis ISBN: 1-56025-275-8 Pages: 420 Format: Paperback Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press Published: October 10, 2001 Condition: Price: USD $2.49 From Library Journal: Journalist Asbury pulled this book together from several official sources, including police records as well as unofficial ones such as the rough memories of criminals. True to the title, the book is a history of crime both organized and not that permeated the dirty underbelly of New York City and its boroughs in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Some of these gangs were so vicious they would post signs warning police to stay out of their neighborhoods or else! The 1927 volume is the basis of Martin Scorsese's forthcoming film of the same name starring Daniel Day-Lewis and Titanic heartthrob Leonardo DiCaprio, so make sure to have at least one copy on hand. This edition contains numerous illustrations and a foreword by Jorge Luis Borges. Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. The New York Review: "Gangs is one of the essential works of the city, as deserving of a permanent place on the shelf . . ." The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang Author: Ayto, John / Simpson, John ISBN: 0-19-866181-9 Pages: 312 Format: Hardcover Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA Published: November 19, 1992 Condition: Price: USD $2.29 Book Description: From ambulance chaser to zoot suit, this is the most authoritative and up-to-date dictionary of twentieth century slang. Drawing on the resources of the Oxford English Dictionary, and packed with illustrative quotations, ranging from John Lennon to Woody Allen, it is a comprehensive and entertaining collection of over 5,000 slang words and phrases. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Giant Book of Mensa Mind Challenges Author: Fernandez, J.J. Mendoza / Poniachik, Jaime / Sole, Tim              Marshall, Rod / Richards, Karen C. ISBN: 1-4027-1049-6 Pages: 384 Format: Paperback Publisher: Main Street Published: July 1, 2003 Condition: Price: USD $3.99 Book Description: Take the Mensa challenge! These extraordinarily entertaining puzzles can confound even those with high IQs-and that's what makes them such delightfully tricky fun. A few can be solved relatively quickly, but the hardest may seem nearly impossible to crack. Give your skills a real workout on numerical conundrums, word games, lateral thinking problems, and riddles. Brainteasers, arranged in order of difficulty, train the mind and provide a good time all at once. The most complex bafflers include chess, logic, and spatial puzzles. Here's a small sampler of what's inside! · A farmer has twenty sheep, ten pigs, and ten cows. If we call the pigs cows, how many cows will he have? · Which three boys' names are anagrams of one another? Answers: 1. Ten cows. We can call the pigs cows, but that doesn't make them cows. 2. Arnold, Roland, and Ronald. Special Agent My Life On the Front Lines as Woman in the FBI Author: DeLong, Candice / Petrini, Elisa ISBN: 0-7868-6707-8 Pages: 303 Format: Hardcover Publisher: Hyperion Published: May 1, 2001 Condition: Price: USD $2.69 Amazon.com: Readers may well find themselves looking nervously over their shoulders after finishing this memoir by Candice DeLong, who met a lot of Hannibal Lecter's soul mates during her 20 years as an FBI agent. An early practitioner of profiling, the analysis of crime data for what it reveals about the perpetrator, DeLong handled such ugly cases that she and her partner at one point were known as "the Gruesome Twosome." Her arrests included child molesters, rapists, and serial killers; among the book's useful features are her tips on what to do if you or your child is attacked. (Yell "Fire!" rather than "Help!" she advises; it attracts more attention.) Not that human nature's darker side was a surprise to DeLong, who came to the FBI from a job as head nurse in a maximum security psychiatric ward, where a violent paranoid schizophrenic crooned at her, "You better pray I never get out of these [restraints]. I could cut your head off. Or do you want me to tear your heart out?" The frank, conversational text ably captures the forceful personality of a female pioneer. The bureau had only been accepting women for eight years when DeLong joined in 1980, and her training at Quantico included brutal harassment by instructors determined to "wash out" any female applicant. Yet she had the toughness to survive and the good sense to know when to ignore her male colleagues' barbed jokes and when to kid them right back. Ultimately, she made friends and got ahead. As well as chronicling a stream of fascinating (and often deeply disturbing) high-profile cases such as the Unabomber, DeLong's narrative portrays a changing FBI, now valuing the special perspective contributed by female and African American agents it once scorned. --Wendy Smith From Publishers Weekly: DeLong offers a lively account of a single mother's 20 years in America's most conservative federal law enforcement agency. She was a registered nurse, seasoned by work in locked psychiatric wards, when a romance with a veteran agent led her to apply to the FBI. Her initiation in 1980 at the Quantico training academy was a grueling process of "flush[ing] out the weak," at a time when the old guard and even many younger agents remained openly hostile to the notion of female agents. DeLong shrewdly addresses such gender issues, depicting how the first women agents forced a sea change to a more integrated FBI. She reminisces acidly about institutional sexism ("Somehow fathers who placed themselves in physical jeopardy were deemed valiant... while mothers were considered irresponsible"), and her work tracking sexual predators has left her highly aware of "the evil that men do." DeLong initially performed research and telephone work, notably on the 1982 Tylenol murders, and won the loyalty and friendship of forward-thinking male peers. She at last moved on to undercover work on major cases including long-term surveillance of a terrorist bombing cell, the Chicago-based FALN (members' sentences were recently commuted by President Clinton) and the Unabomber and provides gripping accounts of these events. She also became an early proponent of "profiling" a technique scorned early on by many cops until its worth was proved and it was made famous by agent John Douglas (Mindhunter, etc.). Primarily a personal memoir, with DeLong contemplating her transformations as a woman and mother, this is a valuable look at the procedures and rituals of a notoriously cloistered organization. DeLong also brings to her reminiscences a lightness and humor rarely associated with the "Feebies." (May)Forecast: A 10-city author tour and national radio satellite touro should capitalize on a national fascination with crime and the FBI. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc. Italian Dictionary Author: Rosso, Renata ISBN: 0-609-80295-X Pages: 224 Format: Paperback Publisher: Living Language Published: April 28, 1998 Condition: Price: USD $1.99 Book Description: This dictionary includes more than 15,000 of the most frequently used Italian words. You'll find more than simple definitions: Phrases, sentences, and idiomatic expressions show how the words are used in everyday Italian conversation. More than 1,000 of the most essential words are capitalized to make them easy to find. The Living Language Italian Dictionary has been revised and updated to reflect modern usage and features new entries related to business, technology, and the media. The dictionary is included in the complete Living Language Italian Complete Course, the best-selling home-study program available on cassette and compact disc. Thousands of Phrases and Idiomatic Expressions Included  * Over 15,000 Words  * 1,000 Essential Words  * Highlighted for Easy Reference Guinness World Records 2005 Special 50th Anniversary Edition Author: Guinness World Records ISBN: 1-892051-22-2 Pages: 288 Format: Hardcover Publisher: Guinness Published: August 23, 2004 Condition: Price: USD $7.49 Book Description: Discover the answers to countless burning questions with Guinness World Records 2005! This special, 50th anniversary edition includes astonishing, full-color photographs, unique profiles of record holders, a look back at the most amazing record holders over the past fifty years, plus all the newest and most exciting records to date. You'll discover: - The fastest car in the world - The most successful recording artist of all time - The world's smelliest flower - The world's biggest pizza - And more! With a beautiful gold, holographic cover, this engrossing volume will be a family favorite. Is There a Bermuda Triangle? Science & Sea Mysteries Author: Cusack, Michael J ISBN: 0-671-32783-6 Pages: 126 Format: Hardcover Publisher: J. Messner Published: 1976 Condition: Price: USD $1.69 Card catalog description: Re-creates some famous ship and plane disappearances explaining most of them meteorologically and oceanographically. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Animal Scam The Beastly Abuse of Human Rights Author: Marquardt, Kathleen Levine, Herbert M. Larochelle, Mark ISBN: 0-89526-498-6 Pages: 221 Format: Hardcover Publisher: Regnery Publishing Published: October 1993 Condition: Price: USD $1.99 From Library Journal: Marquardt is the founder of Putting People First, a nonprofit organization that promotes human rights and animal welfare and opposes animal rights extremism. Her book is an expose of the animal rights movement, especially the more violent activist groups. According to the author, the animal rightists are dangerous and try to gain support by presenting false evidence. Despite the sometimes childish tone of her book, Marquardt supports her opinions with well-documented evidence, including direct quotes from animal activists and descriptions of specific terrorist events. The arguments are convincing, although a committed animal rightist would probably not be swayed. Appendixes provide a wealth of useful information, including lists of organizations, a chronology of animal rights extremism, an overview of the benefits derived from animal research, and suggestions for appropriate action. Libraries with animal rights collections should balance their inventories by purchasing this book. - Deborah Emerson, Monroe Community Coll. Lib., Rochester, N.Y. Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Booklist: The ecology movement's outer fringe, as both critics and sympathizers of green thinking will agree, lies with groups like Earth First! and PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals). Believing humanity to be a scourge on the planet, they occasionally carry out their convictions with outright criminality, applauding, though perhaps not perpetrating, the arson, bombing, and maiming of scientists using animals for research. On the fuzzy side, they plead for animal rights on bus placards, in the media, and in primary schools. It was in a school, in fact, where Montana ranch mom Marquardt's kids learned from a PETA person that she was a murderer because she hunts for food. Marquardt culled all the news reports about PETA, organized her own group (Putting People First), and wrote this manifesto. It gleefully repeats the weirder public statements made by animal rightists, chastises their fund-raising tactics, and praises the medical benefits of animal experimentation. Especially in rural areas and in the West, where people interact frequently with animals, this energetic polemic is apt to receive nodding support and perhaps recruit new members for Marquardt's group. Gilbert Taylor 1996 Handbook of United States Coins Dealer Buying Prices - 53rd Edition Author: Yeoman, R.S. (Editor) ISBN: 0-307-19900-2 Pages: 200 Format: Paperback Publisher: Golden Press Published: August 1995 Condition: Price: USD $1.69 Foundation Course in Spanish Author: Turk, Laurel H./ Sole Jr., Carlos A. / Espinosa, Aurelio M. ISBN: 0-669-00491-X Pages: 460 Format: Hardcover Publisher: Heath Published: 1978 Condition: Price: USD $2.49 Book Description: This introductory program presents the fundamentals of the Spanish language with emphasis on communicative competence and contemporary culture. The text's wide range of structured and open-ended activities build all four skills. Computer Study Modules offer additional practice of vocabulary, grammar, and reading comprehension. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Shakespeare The Invention of the Human Author: Bloom, Harold ISBN: 1-57322-120-1 Pages: 745 Format: Hardcover Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover Published: October 26, 1998 Condition: Price: USD $3.49 Amazon.com: "Personality, in our sense, is a Shakespearean invention, and is not only Shakespeare's greatest originality but also the authentic cause of his perpetual pervasiveness." So Harold Bloom opines in his outrageously ambitious Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human. This is a titanic claim. But then this is a titanic book, wrought by a latter-day critical colossus--and before Bloom is done with us, he has made us wonder whether his vision of Shakespeare's influence on the whole of our lives might not be simply the sober truth. Shakespeare is a feast of arguments and insights, written with engaging frankness and affecting immediacy. Bloom ranges through the Bard's plays in the probable order of their composition, relating play to play and character to character, maintaining all the while a shrewd grasp of Shakespeare's own burgeoning sensibility. It is a long and fascinating itinerary, and one littered with thousands of sharp insights. Listen to Bloom on Romeo and Juliet: "The Nurse and Mercutio, both of them audience favorites, are nevertheless bad news, in different but complementary ways." On The Merchant of Venice: "To reduce him to contemporary theatrical terms, Shylock would be an Arthur Miller protagonist displaced into a Cole Porter musical, Willy Loman wandering about in Kiss Me Kate." On As You Like It: "Rosalind is unique in Shakespeare, perhaps indeed in Western drama, because it is so difficult to achieve a perspective upon her that she herself does not anticipate and share." Bloom even offers some belated vocational counseling to Falstaff, identifying him as an Elizabethan Mr. Chips: "Falstaff is more than skeptical, but he is too much of a teacher (his true vocation, more than highwayman) to follow skepticism out to its nihilistic borders, as Hamlet does." In the end, it doesn't matter very much whether we agree with all or any of these ideas. What does matter is that Bloom's capacious book sends us hurrying back to some of the central texts of our civilization. "The ultimate use of Shakespeare," the author asserts, "is to let him teach you to think too well, to whatever truth you can sustain without perishing." Bloom himself has made excellent use of his hero's instruction, and now he teaches us all to do the same. --Daniel Hintzsche From Publishers Weekly: In some ways the crowning achievement of the controversial Yale critic's career (which has produced The Anxiety of Influence; The Book of J; etc.), this sweeping monograph devotes an essay to each of the plays, emphasizing their originality and their influence on subsequent literature, feeling and thought. The result is a series of brilliant, persuasive, highly idiosyncratic readings punctuated by attacks on current Shakespeare criticism and performance. The ratio of screed to reading is blessedly low; although Bloom has kept his common touch, one feels that he has ceased the play to the peanut gallery that made The Western Canon a cause c?l?bre. The leitmotif of Shakespeare's "invention of the human," i.e., of the changeable, individual human character, is a useful through-line to the essays but never highjacks them as Bloom's critical tropes sometimes do. Other extravagant claimsAthat Shakespeare wrote an early version of Hamlet between 1589 and '93, or that the playwright may have lived in physical terror of his street-tough rival MarloweAmay raise eyebrows, but they will not matter to readers who need this book. Those readers fall into two categories: performers and everyone who studies Shakespeare outside the academy. For the latter, Bloom is an ideal cicerone: a passionate, sensitive reader who tempers his irreverent common sense with an even-more-instructive stance of awe. And no criticAnot even Bloom's masters A.C. Bradley or Harold GoddardAwrites as well for actors and directors, or understands as clearly the performability of the plays. Indeed, it is a great pity that Bloom has not followed the example of Helen Vendler's recent edition of the sonnets and included a recording of his own recitations. BOMC main. Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. Suffer The Children Author: Saul, John  ISBN: 0-7394-0296-X Pages: Format: Hardcover Publisher: Published: Condition: Price: USD $2.29   Win at Backgammon Author: Hopper, Millard ISBN: 0-486-22894-0 Pages: 111 Format: Paperback Publisher: Dover Publications Published: June 1, 1972 Condition: Price: USD $1.69 Book Description: Author reveals his championship secrets for best opening and ending moves, as well as basic strategies of middle game play - running, blocking and back games. An excellent combination of instructions, hints, suggestions, diagrams and problems designed to help the beginner master the game. Everyone Is Entitled to My Opinion Author: Brinkley, David ISBN: 0-345-40952-3 Pages: 192 Format: Paperback Publisher: Ballantine Books Published: October 7, 1997 Condition: Price: USD $1.69 This is a selection of Mr. Brinkley's favorite short commentaries, compiled from those he delivered over the last 15 years as host of "This Week With David Brinkley." Brinkley brings his weighty bearing, rich tones, dark humor, and acerbic wit to bear on the problems of the day and editorializes on the political questions of Washington. He is often funny in his irreverent dismissal of politicians and his world-weary resigned attitude to intractable issues both large and small is curiously appealing. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From Publishers Weekly: Brinkley brings his bracing wit and journalistic acumen to this selection of his brief closing commentaries delivered over the last 15 years of his Sunday morning ABC-TV news program, This Week with David Brinkley. He skewers Washington's lingo of cover-up and denial, satirizes Clinton's defeated health care plan and blasts Japan for its resistance to imports. His rogues' gallery includes Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos, Libyan dictator Muammar Khadafy, Haiti's deposed Duvalier clan and North Korea's Kim Jong Il. Many of these 180 mini-essays, each a page in length or less, topple easy targets, such as lax airline safety standards or self-aggrandizing government bureaucracies. Other pieces comment amusingly on the annoyances of modern life or on the odd or the bizarre?e.g., castles for sale in East Germany, longhorn cattle bolting from a California rodeo to push into a bank's front door. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Digital Photography for Dummies A Quick Reference Author: Busch, David D. ISBN: 0-7645-0750-8 Pages: 224 Format: Paperback Publisher: For Dummies Published: August 1, 2000 Condition: Price: USD $2.69 Book Description: Learn about the latest equipment available, from cameras to printers, and how to use that equipment to compose better pictures, edit images, and inclue photos with your e-mail. Perfect for the beginning digital photographer, this easy-to-follow format helps anyone take the best picture possible. Book Info a quick reference guide to digital photography, for the inexperienced photographer. A concise reference with everything from using the latest equipment to sending photos in the e-mail. With convenient, lay-flat binding and compact, take-anywhere size, this guide is easy to take along on a photo shoot. Why America Doesn't Work Author: Colson, Charles / Eckerd, Jack ISBN: 0-8499-0873-6 Pages: 227 Format: Hardcover Publisher: W Pub Group Published: September 1991 Condition: Price: USD $1.99 Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-208) and index. Miss America By Day Author: Derbur, Marilyn Van ISBN: 0-9728298-4-9 Pages: 563 Format: Hardcover Publisher: Oak Hill Ridge Press Published: May 13, 2003 Condition: Price: USD $10.69 Cindy Tew - Charleston, SC: This book had such a profound impact on me, I flew from Charleston, SC to Denver, to thank Marilyn personally. Rocky Mountain News, June 2, 2003 ..written with emotional power - whether you're a survivor or a parent... Astronomy Sky maps & illustrations by Ching Sung Yü Author: Donald Howard Menzel / Ching Sung Yü ISBN: unknown Pages: 320 Format: Hardcover Publisher: Random House Published: 1970 Condition: Price: USD $2.29 "A Chanticleer Press edition." How Jefferson Made the Best of Bad Messes Author: Ens, Jack R. Van ISBN: 0-9701222-0-9 Pages: 125 Format: Paperback Publisher: Majesty Published: September 15, 2000 Condition: Price: USD $2.99 Jefferson's religion reads him well. To many, he seemed reserved in public. Privately, he kept no diary to reveal quiet intimacies of character. Jefferson cherished privacy. He wanted to keep his family and his faith from scandal and scrutiny in the press. What Jefferson tried to hide is revealed when we search his religious commitments. HOW JEFFERSON MADE THE BEST OF BAD MESSES shows how religious conviction helped him cope with life's everyday hassles. His religious genius inspired his mind, encouraged courageous judgment and cultivated a deep sense of public duty. From the Publisher: Why another book on Thomas Jefferson when readers feel buried under an avalanche of thick volumes about him? Most of what has been published revolves around the public Jefferson. He is either idolized or, as has been the custom in the past two decades, excoriated because he showed feet of clay. HOW JEFFERSON MADE THE BEST OF BAD MESSES cuts some new furrows in Jefferson scholarship as the personal, private Jefferson is explored. From salacious gossip to nasty fights, this book unpacks Jefferson's grit and gumption under fire. Anne Bonny Author: Gartner, Chloe ISBN: 0-688-03208-7 Pages: 239 Format: Publisher: Morrow Published: 1977 Condition: Price: USD $1.69 The White Goddess A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth Author: Graves, Robert ISBN: 0-374-50493-8 Pages: 512 Format: Paperback Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Published: January 1, 1966 Condition: Price: USD $3.99 Amazon.com: Robert Graves, the late British poet and novelist, was also known for his studies of the mythological and psychological sources of poetry. With The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth, Graves was able to combine many of his passions into one work. While the book is so poetically written that many of the passages amount to prose poems, it is also frequently plot driven enough to feel like a novel, and it is rich with scholarly insight into the deep wells of poetry. Especially fascinating is the chapter in which Graves explores the ancient and ongoing practice of poets' invoking the muse. Graves details the practice in both the Eastern and Western literary traditions, and shows specific similarities and differences among Greek, British, and Irish tales and myths about the muse. Graves has much to offer students of history and myth, but poetry lovers will also be fascinated with The White Goddess. The Silly Season Author: Holtzer, Susan ISBN: 0-312-20010-2 Pages: 261 Format: Hardcover Publisher: St. Martins Press Published: February 1999 Condition: Price: USD $1.69 From Publishers Weekly: Decades after the famed Ann Arbor UFO sightings of 1966, intrepid University of Michigan journalism student Zoe Kaplan is on hand to witness and report on a new batch of appearances, in this fizzy fifth installment of the mystery series featuring computer consultant Anneke Haagen. Much to the amazement and amusement of Zoe's friends, her mentor, Anneke, and Anneke's fiance, police lieutenant Karl Genesko, Zoe parlays her summer sports slot on the Michigan Daily into a position as a stringer for the Associated Press. But when the college town is invaded by hordes of UFO followers?including a psychic channeler, a history professor, a professional debunker and a government conspiracy buff?Zoe has all she can handle covering their various theories behind the sightings. After the history professor is found electrocuted in a charred field, UFO groupies announce that he was killed by intergalactic travelers, and Karl must step in to ferret out the truth. Anneke, using information she gathers on the Web, helps him to sort out the contentious relationships among the UFO factions in order to pinpoint who had the most compelling reason to murder the man. Rife with low-key humor, Holtzer's (Black Diamond) purposefully lighthearted book serves as an entr'acte between Anneke and Karl's courtship and marriage while delightfully highlighting the bizarre reasoning common to zealots?whether UFOlogists or news reporters. Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Library Journal: Several mass UFO sightings in the Ann Arbor, MI, area propel the city into the news?mostly as the target of good-natured ribbing. Working for the local weekly, student intern Zoe Kaplan investigates the story and finds herself assailed by both annoying proponents of alien life and obnoxious debunkers. The subsequent murder of a garrulous spotlight-grabber at an alleged UFO landing site creates a problem for Lt. Karl Genesco and fiancee Anneke Haagen (Black Diamond, St. Martin's, 1997). Could it be murder by alien? Mostly lighthearted and smoothly told; recommended for most collections. Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. Intruders The Incredible Visitations at Copley Woods Author: Hopkins, Budd ISBN: 0-394-56076-0 Pages: 223 Format: Hardcover Publisher: Random House Published: March 12, 1987 Condition: Price: USD $2.29 From Publishers Weekly: Hopkins, who uses hypnotism in interviewing UFO abduction claimants, argued in his first book, Missing Time, that UFO aliens had inserted implant devices in several children. Here, after researching 125 supposed abductions, he reports on "the apparent interbreeding of an alien species with our own." During hypnotic sessions, men have told of being raped by alien females and women have related experiences interpreted by Hopkins as ova-retrieval and artificial insemination. The book's key case involves Kathie Davis, a 28-year-old Indianapolis mother who described under hypnosis multiple abductions and gynecological operations, and the investigation here extends to the UFO experiences of her children, relatives and friends. Hopkins's disarming manner as he leads the reader through the steps of his research adds credibility to the science-fictional aspects of this account. True or not, the author's speculations equal the excitement generated by his earlier book. Book Description: "One comes to a tender regard for Hopkins's subjects. Their uniform similarities of description of their UFO abductions and of the aliens bear a faithful fact that could sway many an ironclad skeptic." THE KIRKUS REVIEWS: There have been tens of thousands of verified UFO sightings and landings. But it is the actual temporary abductions that are the most controversial and dramatic stories behind this phenomenon. In the summer of 1983, Kathie Davis was floated out of her room in rural Indianapolis, while she slept, then subjected to a physical examination inside a UFO. The story she told the world afterwards, and corroborated by specialists and hundreds of other victims all over the country, is not to be missed or dismissed lightly. Tongue Fu! Author: Horn, Sam ISBN: 0-312-15227-2 Pages: 240 Format: Paperback Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin Published: March 15, 1997 Condition: Price: USD $3.29 From Library Journal: The purpose of Kung Fu, the Chinese art of self-defense, is to fend off physical attacks. According to professional speaker and consultant Horn, the purpose of Tongue Fu, a spoken form of self-defense, is to guard against psychological attacks. Dealing with difficult people is a part of everyday life. However, by focusing on real-life responses to verbal challenges instead of theories and platitudes, the author has delivered a convenient handbook for the mental martial art of verbal self-protection. Divided into four sections, the book offers techniques and skills for responding thoughtfully in conflicts, expressing honest feelings and goals, seeking cooperation in difficult situations, and living a life of value during trying times. Each of the 30 chapters offers examples that demonstrate the expected goals and acquired skills in action. Despite its suggestively prurient title, Horn's book is a lively, positive guide that can be returned to time and again. A popular title for all public library collections. David R. Johnson, Fayetteville P.L., Ark. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Midwest Book Review: Control how to respond to criticism and how to direct arguments and negative communications through Horn's deft explanations of the fine art of 'tongue fu'. This gives plenty of case history examples on how to deflect and defuse any verbal conflict, presenting 'action plans' for changing both individual and group communications patterns. An intriguing, positive approach. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. I'm Dysfunctional, You're Dysfunctional The Recovery Movement & Other Self-Help Fashions Author: Kaminer, Wendy ISBN: 0-201-57062-9 Pages: 600 Format: Hardcover Publisher: Perseus Books Published: June 1992 Condition: Price: USD $2.69 From Publishers Weekly: Kaminer takes potshots at the omnipresent 12-step self-help groups that are threatening to put psychotherapists out of work. She dismisses the rhetoric and religiosity of the programs, finds their intimacy manufactured and their emphasis on "higher power" authoritarian. TV talk shows with true confessions by commoners and celebrities further debase the New Age movement, the author contends in a funny chapter. She also takes aim at Norman Vincent Peale, Werner Erhard and Shirley MacLaine accusing them of a related "Don't Worry Be Happy" approach. Kaminer, lawyer, journalist and author of A Fearful Freedom , credibly portrays the sillier aspects of recovery groups and offers some good one-liners: "The Family that reveals together, congeals together." Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Library Journal: If you have been purchasing some of the many recent books on codependency, 12-step programs, or recovery, you should buy this strong critique of the self-help movement. Kaminer, a lawyer and journalist, does not address the effectiveness of such programs; she explores their social implications, arguing that they encourage passivity, social isolation, and emotionality, attitudes antithetical to democracy. A distinctive and highly recommended title. For other critiques of the self-help movement, see "Alternative Titles" in "Making Room for the Recovery Boom," LJ 5/1/92, p. 49-52.--Ed. - Mary Ann Hughes, Washington State Univ. Libs., Pullman Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. Shooting & Sharing Digital Photos for Dummies Author: King, Julie Adair ISBN: 0-7645-4359-8 Pages: 264 Format: Paperback Publisher: For Dummies Published: October 17, 2003 Condition: Price: USD $2.29 Book Description: Demystify your digital camera and start having fun! Find out about setting up shots, transferring photos, and making great prints Don't let that digital camera sit in its box another minute! This book is much easier to read than the manual. It'll help you decode the hieroglyphics on the buttons and cables, shoot the photos you want, and then get your pictures out of the camera and into the hands - or computers - of family and friends. The Dummies Way Explanations in plain English "Get in, get out" information Icons and other navigational aids Tear-out cheat sheet Top ten lists A dash of humor and fun Book Info Guide to taking great pictures with a digital camera and sharing them with friends. Shows how to set up shots, transfer photos, and make great prints. Softcover. Larry King Author: King, Larry / Yoffe, Emily ISBN: 0-671-41138-1 Pages: 207 Format: Hardcover Publisher: Simon & Schuster Published: August 1982 Condition: Price: USD $1.99