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While reading this book, it became clear the author has a lot of good knowledge about the film editing process, plus years of experience he could share. Unfortunately, his writing style, organization, and grammar could all use some work. I couldn't make much sense of the way the chapters are organized, and the contents of chapters often seemed somewhat random. The result is that you often don't get what you're expecting from each chapter, and then valuable bits of advice will pop up in unexpected parts of the book.

As a guide to getting the most from Premiere, I don't think this book is very successful. It's too scattershot and, well, not big enough. However, it definitely contains some good information for those willing to search for it.

R. Wright Campbell develops a very deep metaphoric story of a man's last wish before dying and a bird's struggle with life during a flight home. Anyone who trains or even likes birds, would enjoy this story much more than I, but it is a story with a very deep meaning and can be looked upon in several different ways from any perspective.

The story focuses on a young boy, Hugh, who faces a struggle with a very beloved grandfather who becomes ill. Hugh also is worried about his cherished bird "Dickens" who is his number one bird. Dickens is many miles away, making his way back home. Hugh, the young boy is faced with being separated with the two most important things in his life at the same time, and learns to cope the best that a ten-year old boy knows how. Hugh realizes the similarity of his grandfather to his beloved pigeon; he sees that both just want to be back in their own bed. The story is easy to follow and can be enjoyed by any age group.

On the Go with Baby contains many amusing anecdotes about Lutz's travels with her daughter. However, as someone who resides overseas, and has already traveled to Hong Kong, Bali, and back and forth across the Pacific with an eight month old I was looking for more specific information. Her book did not even contain something as simple and helpful as a travel checklist of items to bring for around town or for out of town trips--I found that on the Babies R Us website and modified it to my needs. As someone who has, an will continue to take long flights with a little one I was also looking for ingenious ways to keep the little guy entertained on long hauls--no such luck. The strategies for eating out are common sense and ones you are probably doing already. There is really nothing new or enlightening in this book.

I bought this book for my wife upon the birth of our child. We travel often and were hoping for some actual information that would help us TRAVEL with our baby, we already knew what to pack when visiting our neighbor. We were bored out of our minds listening to stories about the author's 'little junior'- don't waist your money on this one! We are still looking for a book with REAL information concerning the technicalities of traveling with our baby.

Cross Erma Bombeck with Vicki Iovine and add a touch of tongue-in-cheek West Coast friendly irony and you've got "On the Go with Baby." In my social circle, this has become a favorite shower/new baby gift.

No, this isn't your standard Fodor's type guidebook that gives prices (which change) and hotel suggestions (which also change). I'd suggest Fodors for that. BUT! If you want something quirky and very useful, get this book. It's such a great book for raising the spirits of frustrated new parents. The information in here is *real* child care information. The author is has been here, there, and everywhere with her child and stepkids and it shows. Want to start a home business with a baby around? Want to know how to order in a cafe with a baby around? Want to go camping or overseas? It's all here. A great tip book, especially for sleep deprived and stressed new parents -- that would be all of us.

this book has nothing to do with checkers but is othello. I don't play the game so I couldn't say if its good or not. But I have a book on it now and minus $ii.95

The book is not so bad for a Basic starting point on how to play Go. My review is of the uneducated review calling the game of Go Othello. You have never played Go or Othello if you would make such an absurd remark.

With profound apologies to the reader who first reviewed this classic work; the game is certainly not checkers, but neither is it Othello. It is the classic game of Go. For those wishing a superb literary explanation of the game, see The Master of Go by Yasunari Kawabata. For those looking for a superb introduction to a game that most checkers lovers will find to be enthralling, see this book, but more importantly, play the game. It is addicting.

Fortunately, I didn't buy this book. I flipped through it in the library. While I didn't spend a lot of time going through it (not much to go through anyway), I can tell you that, in terms of content, this is a lightweight guide.

The information on Vancouver, in particular, is embarrassingly brief. Considering what the city has to offer, this guide will cheat you of a more fulfilling visit. There are less than half a dozen options each in terms of activities, restaurants, shopping, and sights.

Considering the options available to you, especially good free resources online, I would give this guide a miss.

Within the 130 pages of this book, about 80 describe the ports of call. The rest are the usual information about cruising, ships, and Alaska you'd find in any other book you probably already have.

The port information typically lists a few sightseeing, dining, and shopping opportunities for each port. I haven't been to these ports recently enough to know if they're complete.

There is a map of each port, locating the referenced establishments. Although the text tells where the ships dock, that location is not usually shown on the map, making it difficult to tell how far away things will be. You can figure this out on the ship, of course, as someone will know where the dock is.

Finally, any book with "for 1999" in the title ought to have Internet addresses for Alaska touring info, local information, and individual attractions, tour operators, and the like. There aren't any at all. It does have phone numbers.

All in all, I think the AAA TourBook for Alaska has as much information, and it's free to members.

This is the sort of guide for people who need a guide to walk out the front door of their house. The advice about money exchange is completely outdated now that ATM's are found nearly everywhere in the world. The guide misses several interesting areas of France, most notably the Ardeche region. It completely misses the mark on Vieux Nice by characterizing it as unsafe when in fact it is probably the most interesting part of the town. And if you follow the bar advice, you will normally end up in an Anglophile ersatz pub and miss the French cafe experience. If you are a traveller who likes to remain insulated from the French, buy this book.

I used this guide while traveling in Paris and plan to use it in an upcoming trip through the Riviera. Their tips were insightful yet witty. With this book I found a really nice hotel which was quite cheap - 130 francs ($22) a day for a single room. Follow their advice and splurge on food, the French take their food very seriously. However, don't follow the advice on exchanging money at the American Express office. Their rate is horrible. A better suggestion would be to exchange US cash at one of the exchange bureaus on the street and compare rates. Their 'security suggestions' regarding places to use caution at night were a bit excessive according to my French friends from Paris. Their maps of Paris could have been more substantial as they only covered a few of the arrondissements in great detail. Otherwise a great guide to France.

This book is not worth the money spent. The questions are too easy and the flip book syle is immpossible to use! It is connected at the bottom-left corner with no regard to the bottom questions on each page. In many cases they are cut off and you can't read the question or the answer! They tried to make it compact; however, it is really not much smaller than a book with the same number of questions. Don't waste your time.

This book has all the nitty-gritty questions about movies, from past to present from the mundane to the utterly impossible! Made in a convenient, although sometimes annoying flip book style.

In case you've never heard of or seen this book, it's a compendium of bizarre and supposedly humorous ways that people have died. The book's cover is morbidly black, and the title has an exclamation mark after it. Aficionados of the Darwin Awards will be upset: almost all of the deaths in this book are rather tame, and not more than a handful are funny enough to justify the disrespect for the dead that their inclusion in this book implies. Overall, it simply isn't that funny, and I don't recommend it to anyone.

Interesting but macabre ways of how people have died in unusual ways over the centuries. Certainly not for the faint-hearted and not to be read all in one day.(or dinner won't be pleasant) If you ever moved to disagree with the adage "I could be run over by a bus tommorrow", think again!..

I was so excited to see this book -- I've been teaching my children Italian, so it seemed perfect. I was very disappointed to see the many mistakes not only in Italian -- but also such elementary grammatical mistakes in English as "it's" instead of "its." The story itself is episodic, without much compelling action, sense of place or character. The book could have been set in Spain or West Virginia without much change to the story or illustrations.

The other reviewer is correct in that there are many mistakes in the Italian and a few in the English. But you have to understand what is going on in the story.
The family in this story is an American family that goes to Italy for a year to perform. I get the feeling from the book that they are NOT Italian and are just trying to fumble their way through the language as best as they can. You have to remember that this is not an Italian language instructional guide. It's an autobiographical telling of a year of Ms. Potter's childhood. With that in mind, the other mistakes make sense too. I read the story again and found that the mistake the former reviewer mentions is contained in a section where young Giselle is writing in her journal. It is the writing of a child, hence the grammatical mistakes.
And the reviewer is also correct about there not being many captivating images of Italy, but I don't think Italy is supposed to be the star of the book. Ms. Potter wants us to learn from the lessons she learned as she traveled through that beautiful country. The most important lesson, I feel, is being able to support your family and find the joy in life even when things aren't going so well.
No, this isn't the book you should use if you are trying to teach Italian to your child, but if you just want a cute little book for your child to enjoy, this one will do just fine. My 2 daughters loved it - especially the thought of having a year off of school!

I bought this book expecting it would give practical advice about transitioning from breastfeeding at home while on maternity leave, to going back to work and pumping. But that was not the message at all. It turned out to be 200+ pages of "do whatever works for you and don't let anyone else make you feel bad about it." Not the worst advice ever but who needs to buy and read a whole book about that? I also felt patronized by the message that pumping at work would be too hard and I shouldn't bother trying. Helpful advice would have been information about employment laws regarding a woman's right to take breaks to express milk, information about which states ban public breastfeeding, reviews of different models of pumps and their advantages/drawbacks, etc. This sort of information was not in the book.

I read this book, and I didn't get from it the message that others did at all. I think that the book suggests that many women don't nurse at all because they know their employers will be unsupportive of pumping, and Dr. Wilkoff suggests that nursing for 3 months is better than none. I'm personally a round-the-clock sort of breastfeeding mom and nurse my children into toddlerhood, but I was not offended by this book. I think some of the reviewers of this book were choosing to focus only on the parts of it that they disagreed with. There's a lot of good in this book too: he condemns having formula samples in the house for new mothers as he rightly thinks it sabotages breastfeeding, he thinks nursing until babies start solids would be preferable, and he does indeed offer several suggestions for getting employers to be supportive of pumping. But he also acknowledges the sad reality that some employers will not make it feasible enough for women to nurse.

There's a lot of good in this book for women who want to breastfeed but know from the start that they won't do it long-term. I love the Sears and LLL books personally, but I'm also so strongly a believer in breastfeeding that I think 3 months of breastfeeding is better than none. If Dr. Wilkoff's book encourages some women to nurse for 3 months who otherwise wouldn't have nursed their babies at all, then I think it serves a useful function. I rated it only 4 stars though because I think the book makes nursing sound exhausting and in my experience it isn't. New motherhood is inherently exhausting whether you breastfeed or not.

I thought this book was very realistic. I don't feel as though it discouraged me from breastfeeding in the workplace but it did make me feel as though I would not be a failure if I decided not to. Yes, we all know breast is best, and it is best for the first year but it is also our CHOICE! And some breastmilk is better than no breastmilk. If you want to give breastfeeding your best possible shot and you are returning to work, I suggest this book. Don't be swayed by all of the negative reviews here, my guess is that they are mostly from women who feel as though formula is not an option.