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Francesca Vierling, columnist for the St. Louis City Gazette is on a hot story again. She's at the Hearts Desire Strip Club, doing "A Day In The Life Of A Stripper."

Since her idiot boss, Charlie didn't specifically say what kind of stripper she was to follow around, Francesca has chosen Jack Hogenbaum, AKA Leo D. Nardo - Your Titanic Lover.

Francesca finds she really likes Jack, who's thirty and only wants to get married and become a house husband, taking care of the home and children for his wife. So she is startled to find out that Jack has disappeared and that she was actually one of the last people to see him alive, talking to an grey haired lady in the parking lot after work.

But this story isn't as important as Georgia, her mentor at the paper. Georgia has been diagnosed with breast cancer and Francesca is taking her to and from her doctor's and chemo appointments. Georgia doesn't want anyone to know about the cancer, since people tend to steal all your stuff and take over your desk at the paper if they even suspect you're ill.

Francesca had settled Georgia into the waiting room at the hospital while she goes to make a call to see if the missing Jack has show up. She's stunned when she gets back to find the receptionist shot dead at her desk and a therapist and Dr. Brentmoor shot dead in one of the rooms. Unbelievably, Georgia is still alive, hiding in the waiting room. She didn't see anything, just heard the shots and never got a good look at the killer.

Over the next few weeks, more doctors are killed and Francesca starts investigating. What is common thread between these people. Her first thoughts, that they were killed because they were rude and obnoxious to the patients was wrong, when Dr. Jolley (who was a nice as his name) turns up dead.

Francesca is determined to find out who is killing these people and find out what happened to Jack, who she is also sure is dead.

Highlights:

The mystery. This is the best one so far.

Leo D. Nardo, the stripper and Officer Friendly who he shares a dressing room with. They are both nice guys and Leo is sincere in his wish to be a house husband and Officer Friendly, has a secret that would ruin his career if it came out.

Francesca's friends, Georgia, who for the first time in this series does more than just tell her to shut up and don't make waves at the paper. Cut-Up Katie the medical examiner who has been entertaining throughout this series and of course, Marlene, the waitress at Uncle Bob's Pancake House.
Once again, humor runs through this book, which can be very difficult when you're dealing with cancer and death.

For the first time, Francesca actually solves the crime.

Lowlights:

Francesca hasn't seen Lyle since their breakup in the last book. Why no one has suggested therapy to this woman is beyond me.

The staff at the paper.

Overall a very good entry in this series. Makes me look forward to the next one.

What a delightful read. I don't fancy myself a huge mystery fan. But, this book is a cleverly written, highly entertaining look at a pretty serious subject... medical malpractice and inattention to the terminally ill. Viets makes you feel right at home where SHE is obviously most at home... in St. Louis. I couldn't put this book down. Viets weaves a compelling plot that takes you down tangents... just to get you thinking. I thoroughly enjoyed Doc in the Box and can't wait to read the others in the series.

I don't know St. Louis, but Elaine sure does. She took me on the 'Grand Tour' through her books. She knows St. Louis like Laura Lippman knows Baltimore. I have lived in Detroit and Baltimore; and can really relate to the neighborhoods of St. Louis that Ms. Viets describes so well. Combine that with a good mystery with well developed plot lines and realistic characters and ya got a fantastic page-turning read. Highly recommended. ENJOY!

When you live in St. Louis and share Ms. Viets's fascination with the South Side, naturally you are immeditely drawn to her Francesca Vierling novels. But just as I started thinking all of her books would be uniform, along came the pleasant surprise of Doc-in-the-Box. This book is great entertainment, and manages to make a statement about American health care at the same time. Anyone who has been through an illness or has helped someone through it will definitely see themselves here. She has such a grasp on that, and of course on St. Louis, and I am always expecting to run into Francesca at Hampton Village.

Her father cheated on her mother usually with someone they knew. Finally, her mother could not take anymore. She murdered him and killed herself. Their daughter, St. Louis Gazette columnist Francesca Vierlong, is afraid of marriage. When her boyfriend Lyle proposes, she turns him down even though she loves him. To keep the pain of losing him at bay, she buries herself at work by covering two stories at the same time. One story involves a missing stripper while the other concerns a serial killer.

Francesca profiles the Heart Desire's Night Club gorgeous stripper Jack "Leo Ds Nardo" Hegenbaum for one of her columns. To her surprise, Francesca has a good time feasting her eyes on the stud muffin. When she calls him to ask a few remaining questions, she learns he has vanished. The last person to apparently have seen Jack was a homeless elderly lady. While she cannot help Jack, Francesca begins an active search to uncover the identity of the DOC IN THE BOX KILLER. In spite of her frantic activity, Francesca cannot remove Lyle from her heart.

The charm behind this novel is the heroine's inquiries into her two opposite type cases. One is a bit of fluff while the other is a deadly criminal investigative piece. Both share the need for Francesca to bury her aching heart. Although the quality of her previous works is quite high, Elaine Viets seems to improve as a writer who can create a unique, effervescent synergy that freshens up the amateur sleuth mystery genre.

Harriet Klausner

My Dora fan loves this one too and cannot destroy it since it is a board book!

I really love to learn all about jobs. I really love rescue animals. I thought it was funny when Baby Jaguar licked Dora's cousin Diego on the cheek on page 8. When I grow up, I'll be an archaeologist. I really love learning about archaeology. Well, I've never actually studied arcaeology. It will be fun. I've never seen a real archaeologist.

I ordered this box set of Dora books for my 2 year old daughter. She loves them! Not only does she enjoy reading the books but she also likes to play with loading them into the carrying box. An excellent buy!

I was disappointed by the books in this collection. They're abridged versions of these titles. For instance, Day at the Beach (a book we were replacing because it was lost) was missing at least 2 or 3 pages! How many pages are there in one of these books anyway...10? That's a lot of pages to remove, so I think this is a ripoff, pretty uncool of the publisher, and the titles should be labelled as "abridged". Not recommended.

These stories are nice and short. I am 2 years old and they are the perfect length. I love Dora and am enjoying learning Spanish while my mom and dad read them to me every night before bed. The set is all board books so they are very sturdy and have held up to my throwing and bending.

Hate to say but D&D is about as much fun as AD&D. In other words for those that don't know what I'm talking about: D&D=Dungeons & Dragons (very basic) AD&D=Advanced Dugeons & Dragons (very complecated)

Buyers Beware! This is NOT the ADVANCED Dungeons & Dragons manual, as is stated in the title description above. It is in fact a very simplified version of the BASIC Dungeons & Dragons manual. It is not in hardbacked book form, but comes in a box with some flimsy paper rulebooks. Which is all OK, but note that these rules are clearly aimed at people - children, in fact - completely new to D&D, indeed to the whole idea of roleplaying games. If, like me, you were looking to start generating your own characters with some new players, you won't find those rules in here. All the characters are pre-generated and are somewhat middle-of-the-(ancient cobblestone)-road. Still, it found some use: for my two younger siblings (six and nine), who found it was a fun starting point!

This is an awesome beginning to the D&D game. I have been playing for five years now and it always seemed to complicated to play quickly and for fun. This "resets" how the game is played, and is extremely easy for anyone to understand.

This is AD&D at the spot where it all started. Remember the old basic, advanced, and experts rulebooks back from '79? Remember First Quest? The package does have its flaws ( minor, at their worst - after all, if this is your first experience with AD&D, you won't even take notice), but since this deserves a very warm place in every AD&Der's heart, it deserves enough stars to go through the roof ( 5,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 trillion should suffice).

Oh, right, what is AD&D. AD&D stands for Advanced Dungeons and Dragons - dragons for the greatest creatures to ever roam our fantasies and dungeons where all sorts of fantasy games started( and where this particular package puts you). The game is played as a sort of collective fantasy - role playing. You make a character, someone prepairs your adventures and you explore. You can't possibly run out of ideas for the game - if you noticed Amazon carries some 700 items on the topic. TSR turned to the place where it cannot possibly fail - release its greatest classic all over again. Let's hope they succeed.

My only gripe? Paul Jaquay's picture on the front of the box is trimmed too much.

This box set is a great way to introduce new players to the game. It is particularly good for younger players. Drawbacks, there's a few. A Dungoen Master's screen is included, but it is rather small and you will soon find that you need a larger screen. And the included adventures, though very much fun, start the player characters at level 2. Personnally I prefer to start at the begining. Which may require a little thought, or some on-line probing, to come up with good first level adventures.

However, this does provide everything you need to begin a life time of adventure, and includes 4 very good adventures, so it easily earns 4 stars.

Enjoy the choas, adventure, and joyful insanity that role-playing in the AD&D universe will bring you!

this book came in on plenty of time. it is a good book. has everything i need with it to help me with my class.

This is a very well written and easy to understand book. It is very similar to

Biology: Concepts & Connections with Student CD-ROM (5th Edition)

in content but it has clearer pictures in my opinion. What this one is not, it is not the 'lab manual' even though its reffered to it as such because it does not contain the experiment excercises the companion book by the same title contains. This is just a paperback textbook.

Enrique from El Paso

I had to use this textbook for a class, which you probably do to. So you probably have to buy this one. It was okay, not hard to read, but I won't be keeping it as a reference work. The authors definitely have an agenda, promoting certain kinds of nutrition over others with very little reasoning, also seems to act like a lot of alternative medicine couldn't possible work even when there are studies to the contrary. I guess it handles the rudiments of biology okay. I will be selling this when I'm finished with this semester.

Oh, and there appears to be both a hardcover and a paperback. I bought the paperback used, and it seems to have matched perfectly with the hardcover. Never even used the CD.

I found this book to be a very easy read. It has great photos and diagrams which illustrate the different concepts. I used the CD rom quite a lot. It has short video clips and tests which are useful.

This book was very easy to read, I read the whole thing in a little over a week. Highly reccommended.

My husband and I travelled to Spain for our honeymoon knowing very little Spanish (cerveza, por favor and gracias were basically it). This book helped us to communicate with ease. The book is organized by situation to allow you to find stuff quickly, and also includes a small dictionary. Its small size made it easy to carry with us everywhere. We also carried the Living Language Spanish-English dictionary to help us translate specific words, but to put them in phrases that actually made sense we used this book. We will definitely buy other phrasebooks by Fodor's for our next trip.

I have this book and several other Spanish language books. This is the best of the lot. It has a dictionary of most common words, a useful phase section with pronunciation and useful information about Spain and Latin America. It is worth every bit of the price. Es muy bueno.

I picked this up before a trip to Guadalajara, and it really came in handy. It was simple to use and full of exactly the words I was looking for. I practiced with the cassettes on the plane, and then I brought the phrasebook everywhere - shopping, sightseeing, eating out, and (unfortunately) to the pharmacy for, um, an emergency. It even helped me there, although I wish the situation to test that particular area of usefulness hadn't come up. Really a great buy and a fantastic way to stretch those two years of high school Spanish I barely remember.

The audio with this book has useful phrases that would be great to learn before your trip, however the phrases are spoken to quickly for a beginner to learn. Also, the format is inconsistent. In the beginning they start off first giving you the word/phrases in english followed by spanish. Then, without any warning, it changes to giving you the spanish word first and then the english. This makes learning even more difficult. This is not a good program for beginners. Maybe if you have taken spanish classes and know some basic spanish vocabulary, grammer, and phonics then this would be a helpful review. If you are a beginner like me with one semester in college completed years ago this program is not for you.

I'll get straight to the point: Do NOT buy this unless you have a basic, solid knowledge of Spanish already.
This CD set is comprised of phrases, first said in Enlish, then repeated in Spanish. The Spanish pronunciation is difficult to understand without the book in front of you- which is confusing to follow.
This CD set does not teach grammar, pronouns, tenses, etc. It only teaches phrases- complete sentences.
In order to benefit from this set, you will need to already understand some basic verbs and pronouns (gender and formalities) or you will become lost very quickly.

This CD set is only good if you need to quickly memorize phrases for traveling- but remember, you will also need to UNDERSTAND what people say to you. It's better to learn the basic language skills than to memorize, "Where is the bus station?" and realize you have no idea what the response means!

I recommend starting with a "Teach Yourself Spanish" course first. That will give you a good foundation.

I have the 30 year old predecessor to this set and it was very useful then. It is very useful again since I have been teaching Chemistry to middle school students and investigated other model systems, but no other modeling system enables people to build models of double and triple bonds which represent the theoretical regions where the electrons are found. Thus, my students have been using the old kit and I have been buying more kits.

Essentially, for a single bond, you just connect the atoms with single tubing to represent the sigma bond. For a double bond, you build a framework above and below the single bond to represent the area where the second pair of electrons would be found in the pi bond. For a double bond, you build a second framework in front of and in back of the single bond for the second pi bond.

These bonds are #1 straight and #2&3 a square, but the electrons move around in a "cloud" around the straight or square tubing. When I demonstrated this with my students, I made "clouds" out of construction paper and attached them to the tubing to show the actual distribution, but it basically follows the tubing. You can't show the distinction between the sigma and pi bonds using any other modeling method that I have found.

Space-filling models don't show a nucleus, but the nucleus is obvious with this set: it is the "jack" where the tubes come together.

If you are serious about representing the actual relative sizes and bond shapes, this is the modeling set for you.

Shipped promptly. Received in excellent condition, and earlier than expected date. Packaging very secure. Model will work well with class. Highly recommend.

This set is the perfect set for any first year organic student. It gives a perfect representation of interatomic distances which is not possible or accounted for with other sets. It also allows for the compostion of cyclopropane and othe larger cyclic compounds. A great compliment to organic study

This is not a space filling molecular model set like the picture on the box implies. What you get is a set of jacks and plastic piping like the straws on juice boxes. A model built from this kit looks like a tinker toy. Still, I found the kit extremely enlightening.

The jacks represent the different geometric shapes that single bonded, double bonded, and triple bonded atoms configure into - tetrahedron shapes, bi-pyramidal shapes, and octahedron shapes. You have to cut the different coloured plastic tubes with an exacto-knife to given lengths which represent the radius of the atom you are working with - a black tube is cut to 1.67 inches to represent one radius of a single bonded carbon atom. This attaches to a jack, which is the connector, and you attach another length of tube to another prong on the jack for the atom which is bonded to that side of the carbon - it could be a red tube for oxygen.

The set required me to do research into advanced structural concepts of atomic bonding - i.e. - sp orbitals, sp2 orbitals, sp3 orbitals - and has lead me to an area which I can research in more depth later. In this way it has been very enlightening.

Although this set is not what I expected or wanted, I am glad that I ended up with it because it has revealed in a very simple way the complexity of moleculare structure and has taught me a lot about quantum mechanical structure of molecules.

I got this two days ago, which is not really long enough to effectively judge its usefulness to the course, but I already have some definite opinions. First, the picture given implies that this is a space-filling model kit, which it is not. You are given a series of tubes and connectors, representing bonds rather than atoms. This has potential to be very useful, but it was not quite what I was expecting. The tubes, are all one length, and must be cut to the appropriate size using the included scale. Double bonds are depicted only by bond length, not visible double bonds, which is rather confusing visually. Most annoying, though, is the metallic coating that represents carbon, nitrogen or oxygen bonded to hydrogen. These colors flaked off immediately when I built the first model, sticking to my hands and making my ethylene a model of impossibly bonded hydrogen, as it went from black to white. I'm ordering the Prentice Hall kit, though I am keeping this one should the rumors that this is the only way to build large cyclic molecules prove true.

Amazon didn't tell me what books were included in this box set. I took a gamble and ordered it anyway as a gift only to discover that my hubby already had 3 of the books. He had to send the box set back and order something different.

The books themselves are wonderful. They arrived in excellent condition. It would have just been helpful if I would have known exactly what books I was getting.

This is the one and only box set from Penguins Great Ideas Series. Each book is sold for either $8.95 or $10.00 in stores and a bit cheaper here on amazon. If you're like me and have to collect all 12 books in the first and second series (in the UK they have even more per series and an entirely new third series) than this box set is a must have. 6 books from the first series and at only $34 (which means free shipping) this box set is a steal. Six books for around $5.50 each is hard to pass up. Not only is the actual content of these books amazing so is the design of their covers. If you're looking for a book with introductions and extra material these aren't for you but if you want a smaller book that's great looking and isn't bulked up with textual extras than this is exactly what you need.

This small set of paperback books contains 6 delightful little books.

This is quite a sampling from the history of literature across the fields of philosophy, science, religion, and politics. If the books would have been larger and more reader friendly I would have given 5 stars for content and the for the excellent choice in the 6 books to include in the set. If you enjoy reading and learning, you will enjoy this set of classics. These books changed the world when they were written and continue to evoke thought and debate.

This set I ordered through this page is the Penguin Great Ideas box set 1. It comes with six of the slim Penguin Great Ideas editions:

1. Seneca- On the Shortness of Life
2. Marcus Aurelius- Meditations
3. Nietzsche- Why I am so Wise
4. Machiavelli- The Prince
5. George Orwell- Why I Write
6. Thomas Paine- On Common Sense

I had read the revious reviews and believed I was going to recieve a set of 12 volumes, but after doing some investigating at Penguin's website I predicted the set above is what I would receive. I don't mind, I paid 24 bucks total to a seller here, and although the box itself was a bit bent the inside volumes are in good shape. The works are in tact and I am ready to enjoy these classics. Due to the shape of the outside box I think this be my working copy, and I will later procure the full works of the volumes I don't already have.

I bought this book set through another company as a 24 piece set, when I recieved the box I thought that there had been a mistake because the box was just a about the size of a box for a pair of shoes to be shipped in. I opened the box and to my surprise there were 24 of the thinnest books I have ever seen. I opened them up and looked in the front cover and a majority of the books have been taken from larger volumes. I was a little disappointed because I wanted to read the entire works; but I should have been more careful when selecting the set.
Fair price for what you get, but if you want to read the entire works think about selecting books individually.

I ordered the stationary refill because I adore Bantock's art and have enjoyed using the note cards based on "The Venetian's Wife". Though the stationary in the set is beautiful, I was disappointed that the set only included postcards attributed to Sabine. I wanted to see some of Griffin's work, but save a few of the envelopes, nothing attributed to Griffin was included.

I bought this set for my mother. Although she has e-mail access, she prefers the snail-mail method. There's nothing wrong with that.

Viewing this set online does not do it justice. It is quite lovely. As another reviewer stated, it includes pencils, decorative stamps, stationery and, of course, the lovely box.

I'm very glad I bought this. My mom loves the set and even once the stationery has been filled with family stories and sent off to far away destinations, you still have the decorative box to store new memories and letters from loved ones.

and wonderful, Mr. Bantock always creates the perfect compliment to his writings! I won several of these boxes.

I received this set as a gift, I love to write letters to friends while opening the box. Using the pencils, paper, and envelopes with stamps that are included, It makes me think that I am writing to a mysterious part of myself. Hmmm do you think we all have a little of Griffin & Sabine in all of us? The box is a wonderful gift to all who love to write the old fashioned way.

The ISBN number used and the advert on the site refer to this as a Stationery Refill set. However the advert goes on to say this is a great book with a fine duskjacket.

This is not a book - how can it have a dust jacket?

How can you advertise the incorrect product and ship it to a customer - who complains and returns the incorrect book (should be stationery refills)and you still advertise the incorrect product????

I borrowed this book from a library years ago and thought it was wonderful. Now I finally have my very own copy and I have read it again and will enjoy it many more times I am sure.

This was my favorite series as a teenager. I devoured each novel as it was published and waited impatiently for each sequel to come out. Phillips and Pella masterfully wove a plot that kept me on the edge of my seat, spellbound by the characters and the mystery. It is clear that the authors have researched Scottish history and culture. I learned more about that region through these books than from any history class. These books take the reader into the culture, allowing him or her to experience what it was like in that time, as well as into the heart and mind of each character. I became Margaret as I read.

The development of spiritual themes is well worked into the plot and appropriate for the audience for whom it is written. I recommend this series and the sequel "The Stonewycke Legacy" highly and without reservation.

I have read this series several times and will never get tired of it! The story that unfolds grasp your full attention from beginning to end. I hated to finish the last novel for fear of leaving the lives of Ian and Maggie! A great adventure to all!

I have a romance with Scotland. It's music, it's history, the land itself. My love for this land, and subsequently it's neighboring Ireland, first began as teenager when I read this trilogy. The story itself is simple....a young woman coming to maturity and her love for the land. The loss of a relationship with her father and the new love for a young man he despises. Her decision to leave her homeland and the tragic events that unfold. But, over the course of the series, God's providence in showing her a Father's love she couldn't imagine and being reunited with the one she loved and the land of her birth. The six books of the Stonewycke Trilogy and Stonewycke Legacy are a great beginning for historical fiction set in Scotland. Phillips' later Caledonia works show even greater writing skill and development (And a great introductory course to Scottish history). All good reading.

CAN ANYONE OUT THERE TELL ME: What happened to the stand-alone "Lady of Stonewyck", published in 1985? It is NOT the same story as the final section of this compilation! In "Lady", Maggie & Ian are reunited and return to claim Stonewyck as their rightful heritage. In the "Trilogy", the story skips from Maggie as a young "widow" in America down two generations to her granddaughter, snd substitutes a totally different story line for the intervening years. I feel saddened and cheated.

I needed the book for my gen ed bio class and it was so over priced at the bookstore on campus so i was happy to get this one

I have purchased new and used books on Amazon.com and I have been very pleased with my purchases. The used books look practically new and in great condition the shipping is also on time. I enjoy using amazon for all my books and will continue to use them always.

For any nursing students who needs help with Pathophysiology, I would recommend this book. It is a simplified version of what's in your Pathophysiology text book. It has charts of different diseases by body systems and their sign & symptoms, etiologies and treatment. It has been very helpful for myself and some of my classmates.

New book, exactly want I wanted for the course I was taking.
Explanations of material presented was clear.

I used this text for a pathology undergraduate course, along with a more complex text (Concise Pathology by Lange). The Mulvihill text did not solidify the concepts; rather, it skimmed over the topics in a cursory manner without giving each topic the attention it needs. A good book for someone with little background in the health sciences, but not enough for anyone who needs something more comprehensive. One plus in this book are the charts at the end of each chapter, which categorize diseases by signs and symptoms, treatment, etc.