Outstanding

This is another in the long line of hornbooks from West publishing. It is an excellent source to supplement and even embellish the law of Civil Procedure contained in whichever casebook you are using. Since most Civil Procedure courses are a year long, I would strongly recommend investing in this hornbook, it is very handy to have when outlining and preparing for finals.

The "book description" above belongs to a different book: this hornbook is not part of the "Black Letter Series," its author is not Professor Clermont, and it doesn't come with a handy computer disk.

It is, however, an extremely helpful hornbook to have and use during your first-year course on Civil Procedure. If you're a One-L, buy this early and use it often; it'll go with pretty much whatever casebook you happen to be using (mine was Yeazell). It's extremely well-designed and its discussions are clear and sound.

If you're looking around in order to decide whether you need a hornbook at all, the answer is: yes, you probably do. There may be students who can squeeze a profitable education out of the "casebook" approach, but I'm not one of them and you probably aren't either.

During your first semester, it will be tempting to spend a lot of time briefing cases. Don't let me talk you out of doing so, or you'll be really mad at me the first time you get called on unprepared. But you'll probably be better off spending a little less time briefing and a little more time reading this hornbook first.

This is the most helpful study aid available for Civil Procedure! The text is very easy to understand and it is orgainized to follow the progression of the law school course. The authors do an excellent job of explaining the development of personal jurisdiction and subject matter jurisdiction to the present day. It also does a fine job of explaining the federal rules (and includes an index of each FRCP and where it is cited).

Writer Lisa Jardine has written a very interesting book about Sir Christopher Wren and the extraordinary 91 years of life he lead. Even when you allow for the nearly century long life of this man it is still amazing the scope of what he accomplished, and how much more of his work we would enjoy today if it had been finished. Sir Wren served a variety of Monarchs, all who wanted to place their own mark upon London, and this often lead to his projects being delayed, stopped in the midst of their development or never getting off the pages he created them upon.

This book is not a traditional biography that focuses exclusively on the primary individual and only touches on his peers when appropriate. Lisa Jardine explores in varying detail, at times very carefully, the lives of the men that were contemporaries of Sir Wren. These detours will be welcome by those who already are well educated as to who Sir Wren was and what he did. If you are picking up this book for an in depth view of this man alone, this book will not satisfy your goal. An example that literally illustrates my point is the 16 color plates that are to be found in the book. Only 3 pages are dedicated to his architectural drawings, as many are dedicated to documents that bear only his signature, and more are dedicated to portraits of the royal heads of state he served together with portraits of their children. The same can be said for many of the black and white reproductions throughout the book, they are primarily of his peers, friends, and at times his adversaries. There are contemporary photographs of some of the churches he reconstructed with mention of the architectural sleights of hand that were used to make the buildings appear to the eye differently than they actually sat on the site. But the details are not shown, simply the building, I wanted the details.

The author also spends a great deal of time on the order of The Knights of the Garter. This is a fascinating subject and group of people that has catalyzed entire books on its own. In this work it again occupies color plates that I would have like to have seen occupied by Sir Wren's work, I did not need to see the front page of a book about the society that was not even written by Sir Wren. There was also a style employed by the author that at times, while very accurate, was redundant. Lisa Jardine would describe an event, for example between Sir Wren and a friend; she would then place the original letter that would once again explain what she had just told the reader. Now reading the original source material is interesting, but in a 483 page book that purports to cover the 91 year life of one of History's noted personages, once this additional material is subtracted together with all the photos and images that are not of Sir Wren and his work, the amount of the book dedicated to the man and his work is substantially less than the whole.

I enjoyed the book but it is not a book that after a reader completes it, will set it down and feel they have a good understanding of the marvels he created for London and its Royal Families. His life was too long, too complex, and too varied in its pursuits to crowd his story with so much material on others. There is no reason the 16 pages of color plates could not have been devoted to his work, I did not need to see the children of kings and queens. I wanted to see his buildings and his architectural drawings that are beautiful art by themselves.

By all means read and enjoy this book, it will certainly cause you too seek out more reading on one of the ore remarkable men to have even inhabited London, and to have placed his mark on History.

"reader if you require a monument, look around you" (inscription of the plaque at Wren's tomb)

Sir Christopher Wren was born to a life of privilege that evaporated when Charles I was deposed. His father was Order of the Garter. Suddenly his family was in danger of losing life as well as property. These were Wren's student years. During this period Wren became pragmatic, and he survived.

It was the Restoration of Charles II to the throne of England that restored the fortunes of the Wren family. Too late for the father, but at precisely the right moment for the son. Charles II restored the monarchy, and restored the fortunes of Wren. The Restoration was an extraordinary period.

Wren was a Renaissance man, best known for his architecture, in particular St. Paul's Cathedral. But Wren also "mapped moons and the trajectories of comets" He "pursued astronomy and medicine during two civil wars."

This is a scholarly biography, and not light beach reading. Lisa Jardine's 85 pages of notes and an eighteen page bibliography may give some insight into how seriously she has taken her subject. On a Grander Scale is a detailed report on a fascinating time in England's history and one of the men that made it so. It is well done, accurate, and intellectually stimulating.

Christopher Wren, didn't he rebuild St. Paul's after the Great Fire. Yes, he did that--and rebuilt all those parish churches too. We all know that.

But, who knew that is father was the Dean of St. George's Chapel, Windsor, and, in that capacity hid the records of the Order of the Garter during the Cromwell period?

Who knew that he helped to found the Royal Society (for the advancement of science)? That he was at one time a professor of astronomy.

In an age where half those born did not reach their first birthday, Christopher Wren, lived to be 91 years old. His achievements were monumental (pun intended) but they want far beyond the architecture we know about (which in his old age he referred to as "rubbish").

His was an astounding life. This book is well researched and superbly written. After reading this one, I went out and bought the author's life of Jane Austen (of course from Amazon).

Kudo's to the author and you all go out and buy (and read) this one!

As other reviews have indicated, this book may be very good for many people who might be interested in this title. I think it gives some great tips for amateur photographers on lighting, composing pictures, etc., and the tips can be applied to a wide range of pets -- not just cats & dogs, but birds, other small mammals, reptiles, etc. If you're not sure that you "have an eye" for photography, but you know a good picture when you see one, you may be very pleased with this book. However, I think it should be emphasized that the tips are very much oriented towards photographing your own pet, or possibly a pet with its owner -- not so much "pet pictures" in general.

Let me explain: I'm very happy with the pictures I get of my dog, and in general I have a reasonably good eye for photography. However, I've been volunteering at a local animal shelter, and I'm trying to get pictures of the animals there. Some of my dog photography skills transfer, but the cats can be a problem. I was hoping that this book would provide some specific technigues for getting your subjects to relax, catching their attention long enough to get a good shot of their faces, etc.

Basically, I need an approach that's more "Sears portrait studio" than "downtown art gallery". Instead, the author's first two tips on animal behavior are to start them young so they get used to being photographed, and to study their individual behavior (from the book): "Wildlife photographers spend weeks, months, and sometimes even years observing their subjects in pursuit of elusive images." This is very good advice for someone looking to get pictures of their own pet, but neither of these is really an option in my circumstances.

As I've said, for many people, this may be just the book they're looking for. However, if I find a title which better meets my criteria, I will try to add it to the "recommends instead of" field of this record. Happy photographing!

I've taken pictures of my pets nearly all my life, but until I read "How to Take Great Pet Pictures," too many of my pictures never captured the true spirit of my pets. After spending just a short time reading this beautifully-illustrated, well-written book, I now feel like I can finally take those great pet pictures I've always wanted, but never managed to create. Thanks, Ron, for the wonderful tips and the great inspiration!

I can't wait to get my copy of Ron's latest book. I'm sure it will be every bit as good as his earlier book on photographing children, which I loved and used as gifts for expectant parents and grandparents.

As a proud owner of seven pets and being married to a veterinarian, I have plenty of opportunities to take unique and unusual pictures of animals, including mountain lions, bears, snakes, and even a bald eagle that my husband has treated. Now I'll know how to best capture those moments to be remembered and shared for years to come.

Thanks, Ron!

It is a very good book for the beginning sculpturist, but I found it lacking in technically challenging designs & creations. The Design Gallery at the end is good.

I have reviewed this book by Paul Jackson. The book shows step by step to create projects that show in the book. The book provides many information about equipments and techniques required to do paper sculpture. I have read others paper sculpture books and this book is my first choice. I have created projects using techniques provide in this book.

This is a book for junior activists! It lists many, many undergraduate and graduate schools that are strong in social activism. This book is a first-of-its-kind. There is no other college guide like this one, except maybe "Lisa Birnbach's New and Improved College Book" by Lisa Birnbach. Besides these two, there are no other guide books out on the market that tell the prospective college students and their parents about the political leaning and activism atmosphere of the colleges and universities.

Selecting a college is very much like finding a marriage partner. It takes a lot of effort to find a right match. Too often, students and parents are attracted to the selectivity and rankings put out by US News & World Report, thinking that these numbers mean academic excellence. No, they are not. Selectivity means how good the students are at a particular school. It doesn't mean that the school teaches well. It just means that the students are good. There is no ranking of how well the professors teach. US News & World Report never has such a ranking. Nor is there a ranking of how well the graduates of a particular college or university perform on job after they leave the school. Such a ranking would be the most useful, for it reveals the real and genuine transformation work that a school has done for the students. But no, US News & World Report does not have such a ranking.

This book offers a very unique view into the colleges not seen in other guide books -- which ones are socially and politically active and are doing their best to cultivate activists for social change?

This book is useful to both liberals and conservatives alike. Conservative students and parents can use this guide to avoid the schools listed here. Liberal students and parents can use it to look into and apply to these schools.

Not all schools listed in this guide are of the same degrees or in the same areas of activism. Indeed, some schools are very active and some are very mild in their activism. Also, different schools are active in different areas.

There are two reasons why I give it 4 stars. One is that I think the grammar and the writing style can be better. Another is that I suspect that some schools are not listed. For example, the famous UC Berkeley is not, nor is Macalester College.

I wrote this guide for those of you out there who want to use your education to make a better world. The book features lots of unusual colleges and hard to find graduate programs - filled with hands-on experiential education, community-based learning, meaningful, relevant, career-oriented majors and more. You'll never learn about most of these colleges from your counselor or other guides. Do you want to go to an alternative college? THey're all here. A green college? A college concerned with peace or social justice? Little colleges on islands or innovative state colleges? These places offer exciting educational opportunities, a supportive atmosphere for someone who wants to make a difference. Most of them are friendly places for minority and gay students. Lots of outdoor based recreation too. Parents, these are just great colleges. Many of them are small, and so very good places to send your B or C students. These are character building places, with value-based education. There are Buddhist, Catholic, Presbyterian and other religiously affiliated colleges. Looking for a graduate program? This book includes programs from environmental law to community based medicine, non-profit management to sustainable development. It also lists the Peace Corps Masters Internationalist Programs. Introductory essays from Jeremy Rifkin, AmeriCorps, Marty Nemko (Cool Careers for Dummies) David Orr and more.

Rita Buchanan seems to have achieved her goal of inspiring me to "dig up part of your yard and plant a garden there." As a librarian, I purchased the book for my library. When it arrived, I took it home, and now I'm spending my a bit of my meager income to order a copy for myself. Experienced gardeners probably will find this too basic for their needs, but those of us who are timid but aspiring may find just the help we need. This is a very attractive book, with numerous color illustrations and photographs, and the text is both encouraging and stimulating. The try-it-you'll-like-it philosophy pervades and we are encouraged to take a deep breath, start small, but START and do SOMETHING!

I checked this book out of the library and could have kept it for 4 weeks at a time -- but I liked it so much, I decided to order it. The writing is very good, and it's so full of art and pictures, it's really fun to read. I already have truckloads of dense, verbose garden books (which I seldom actually read!) but this one is more fun than the rest. It doesn't replace the voluminous garden library we all want to have, but it is definitely worth its place on the shelf!

Fabulous book. Great examples. Educational for all those in business as well as very entertaining. Heard that the authors are sponsoring an essay contest during June 1998 for all our good service experiences.

I agree. I'm in sales. The book is educational and entertaining. I heard about the contest too. All fans of Knock Your Socks Off Service should enter.

I fell in love with Northern California and its regional cuisine (including the romantic world class Highland Inn of Carmel, which has two recipes in this book) and could not wait to try cooking it on my own when I bought this book. Indeed, it delivers what it promises - recipes from the best places - but it is by no means simple. As would be expected, recipes of restaurant caliber like these call for special and expensive ingredients that you would not readily have on hand or may not be easily available. For example, the lemon french toast mentioned in another review calls for country style bread and lemon curd. This is not a book for a busy mom looking for fast and easy weekday meal. It is, however, perfect for preparing a romantic dinner on a weekend.

I fell in love with Northern California and its regional cuisine (including the romantic world class Highland Inn of Carmel, which has two recipes in this book) and could not wait to try cooking it on my own when I bought this book. Indeed, it delivers what it promises - recipes from the best places - but it is by no means simple. As would be expected, recipes of restaurant caliber like these call for special and expensive ingredients that you would not readily have on hand or may not be easily available. For example, the lemon french toast mentioned in another review calls for country style bread and lemon curd. This is not a book for a busy mom looking for fast and easy weekday meal. It is, however, perfect for preparing a romantic dinner on a weekend.

The title understates the greatness of the recipes included in the book. The authors took the time to make sure the recipes are as complete and simple as possible. From the lemon French toasts to the sesame encrusted shrimp, the meals are flavorful. The seasonings used add character to the item but do not overpower them.

I am eagerly awaiting the follow up to this book.

David Lebovitz' new title 'Ripe for Dessert' is a word play on his subject of fruits in dessert. The teacher and former pastry chef with Paul Bartoli and Alice Waters at Chez Panisse has done a book composed exclusively of dessert recipes, which include fruit in some fashion.

The chapters divide the recipes into a slightly quirky seven different types of fruit, where type is not determined by botany but by a combination of season (apples, pears, quinces), terroir (tropical), and preservation (dried). The seven chapters are:

Apples, Pears, Quince, and Rhubarb
Tropical Fruits
Citrus Fruits
Dried Fruits
Figs, Grapes, Melon, and Pomegranates
Stone Fruits
Berries

The most striking thing about the collection of recipes is that there seems to be not a single classic fruit recipe such as simple Apple Pie or Strawberry Shortcake or Peach Melba or Peach Cobbler. Almost every recipe is original with the author or based on a suggestion made to the author. Many are certainly based on classics, but each and every one has some modification. For example:

Apple Crisp becomes Gravenstein Apple and Blackberry Crisp
Tarte Tatin becomes Apple and Quince Tarte Tatin
Rhubarb Pie becomes Rhubarb Tart with Almond Nougatine
Key Lime Pie becomes Lime Marshmallow Pie
Linzertorte become Peanut Butter and Jelly Linzertorte
Peach Crisp becomes Peach and Amaretti Crisp

There is definitely a place on many bookshelves for this kind of book. But it is important to know that this is what the book is all about before buying it. The author is so fastidious as a baker that he does not use generic pastry crusts. Rather, the crusts are customized to the job at hand. I count this as a major plus in a serious work on baking, but his may not be your particular bowl of cherries. I can see this book being justly popular with people who entertain a lot and need something new for dessert once or twice a month, especially since the book is organized to make finding a particular type of dessert very easy. I can certainly see that this book should be popular with restaurants and caterers and all professional bakers.

One important fact to know about the recipes is that many ingredients are not restricted to their proper chapter titles. Shredded coconut, for example, is something like the grated Parmesan cheese of the dessert world. It gets sprinkled on lots of different recipes.

These recipes are all very good. But, they reminded me of a comment on a TV documentary on a pastry competition where a team lost out because their tastes were just too unfamiliar to the judges.

The few pictures in the book are competent. The style of the book is a bit garish. I would have been happier with a nice sedate Alfred A. Knopf treatment to the book design rather than the hot pink and orange colors they chose. I am always pleasantly surprised by a bibliography in cookbooks. This would have been just a little better done as footnotes. The double table of contents by fruit and by type (cakes, tarts, cookies, etc) is wonderful. More cookbooks should do this.

If I were looking for a good general-purpose book on desserts including fruit, I would go with Wayne Harley Brachman's new 'American Classics' volume. Highly professional treatment of familiar favorites.
This book is good for the right audience.

Mr. Lebovitz' first dessert cookbook was called ROOM FOR DESSERT. Now he has given us RIPE FOR DESSERT, a collection of 100 recipes with fruit in them. I have tried his Chocolate Cherry Fruitcake (pp. 132-133) and can testify that it is richly wonderful although I don't think it's really a fruit cake with dried cheeries soaked in kirsch as the only fruit involved. (There are almonds and chocolate chips, however.) His Date, Ginger and Candied Pineapple Fruitcake looks doable as well. I must say that I was hard put to find any other recipe I wanted to try. (This was not my experience in cookbook number 1.) It's all subjective on my part-- food always is I suppose-- but I think one can get too many flavors in a dessert if not careful. For example, I cannot imagine baking Prune, Coffe, Chocolate and Amaretto Tiramisu. Additionally, and once again this is just my personal bias, I enjoy baking cakes. There are few cakes included in this collection. Finally you don't four letter word with some classics. Key Lime Pie is one of them. Mr. Lebovitz for his lime pie does a "creamy homemade marshmallow topping and instructs the cook on how to make homemade marshmallow topping as well as homemade graham cracker crust. Does anybody on earth want to know how to make these two items from scratch? And do they have time?

I have a suggestion for the author's next cookbook. He should all it READY FOR DESSERT and include only quick and easy recipes for those of us who are (a) very busy, (b lazy, (c) poor-- some of these recipes would cost bunches--(d) all of the above.

But if you are looking for very exotic recipes with lots of contrasting flavors, this cookbook is for you.

If you love fruit, this is the book for you. But I have to say, the chocolate brownies are truly the best I've ever had!!! Everything is yummy, and unusually for me, everything I made turned out great.

Highly recommended.

Pattern cycles show swing traders where to find consistent profits

Future trading is where you hold a position for 1-3 days and capitalize on cyclical swings in buying and selling behavior.

Master Morning gaps

Use multi-time frame Fibonacci retracements to locate turning points

Watch the market clock

New high generate greed carrying prices higher

Use math-based indicators to verify the price pattern

Buy at support and sell at resistence

Strong price movement pairs disciplined momentum strategy with preferred swing trading.

The swing trader checks the 60-minute chart for support-resistance but uses the 1-minute chart to time execution of the short-term flow of the market

Market insiders use the volatility of first-hour executions to fade clean trends and empty pockets

Time should activate exits on nonperforming trades

Decide how many bars must pass before a trade will be abandoned, regardless of gain or loss

Volume leader predicts price change. Volume reflects latent energy that releases itself through trend

Expect to stand aside, wait, and watch when the markets offer nothing to do

Constricting price bars, lowering volatility and range placement signal the end of one swing and the beginning of a new impulse
Oscillators measure this important guage through overbought-oversold polarity

Price acts differently at tops and bottoms

Breakouts and breakdowns attract many participants but require precise timeing to turn a profit

The highest profitability will come when entering a position at the end of a low-volatility period (contracting bar) and exiting on a volatility peak (expanding bar) just as the trend pulls back
Technical Analysis teaches traders to execute positions based on numbers, time and volume

As volume cranks up at 3:00pm don't expect anyone to change the channel

Big volume kills moves

The Commodity Channel Index (CCI) is a timing tool that works best with seasonal or cyclical contracts

RSI indicator is supposed to track price momentum

Sixty percent or more of total daily participation occurs during the first and last hours

Spend more time controlling losses than seeking gains

Every good analysis should validate current conditions through both forward (strength) oscillators and backward (momentum) indicators

Popular oscillating tools, such as RSI and Stochastics, identify overbought-oversold markets. Moving averages and MACD look back and measure momentum change. Or swing traders can just draw simple trendlines and channels in all time frames and use those instead as primary momentum tools

The lack of a simple linear relationship between volume and price change frustrates attempts to make accurate predictions

Don't fall into the complexity trap

Wow, this is a very good book. I don't understand why anyone would attack the language or the approach. If you want to read a comic book, head over to the grocery store. They have quite a lot of them.

The language and terminology used by the author adds greatly to the comprehension of the material. And there is an EXCELLENT glossary in the back of the book. I've also noticed that his terms are not grabbed out of "thin air". Most of these concepts originated in excellent studies on the futures markets done over the past 20 years. For example, "negative vs positive feedback" comes from research done by Raschke and others in the early 1990s. Farley just does a much better job explaining the complex ideas to the average trader, and telling them how to take swing trading positions based on their power.

This book is very original and not part of the cookie cutter garbage that passed for a "trading book" before the bear market started. It's SO appropriate that MST showed up just as tougher days hit the stock market. Farley's book offers a very effective way to deal with these choppy markets. And he does a fabulous job getting the message across. Reading the book does not take an advanced college degree. But it does require a commitment by the reader and a willingness to learn something new.

Highly recommended!

I found the text to be powerful, informative, and very helpful. Its not for everyone. It does requires the reader's attention but overall its an outstanding work. 5 Stars. This has become one of my favorite TA books without question. At the time I read it, it seemed to incorporate everything together. I have kept it close by my computer and have referred to it many times.

Farley is not for beginners by any means. And he has to be read carefully to be understood. But this is a a very, very good book - probably one of the best. There are many pages of in-depth strategies. Yes, the book should be written more clearly but reading it is absolutely worth your time.

I heard Farley in an interview state he purposely challenged traders by starting the book with topics that confused and frustrated them the most. He also said he left the noise level "high" in the charts because that was the real world that traders had to trade.

As for the one star ratings - I cannot understand how much they missed the brilliant content. Definitely not for everyone.