Partner

With a Punny title like that, I expected a book with a little humor in it. I was wrong. This book is dark, depressing, and not very engaging. Robin Light is taking over her dead husband's pet store. He died, not from a nice heart attack, but from a cocaine overdose. That sort of sets the tone for the whole book. I know some people like their mysteries to explore the darker side of human nature, but I just want to be entertained. I finally gave up. I skipped ahead so I know whodunnit, but really, by then, I didn't care.

This book was the first Barbara Block book I read and it was very good. I could not believe who the killer was it was a total shock.

I found this book to be outdated and very basic. Seems to spend more time on how to buy the various types of surveillance equipment rather than looking for clues in your own house. Had no information on how to look for obvious things in your computer and various tracking devices that are available. This book could be helpful if updated. Kelly Squires could have offered some advise on how and where to seek counseling / marriage advice. I was somewhat disappointed and had hoped for a lot more out of this guide.

this book is good for general info on the electronic "gadgets" used in certain situations for surveillance. no info given on specific mailing addresses for sources for the "gadgets" though. techniques are spoken of, with stories of people who bought various "gadgets", etc, for their own "personal-use".

Mr. Jecks, in his own Amazon commentary, mentions doing research. I suggest he do some more. His understanding of medieval England and the realities of life therein would shock even the most dimwitted SCA'er.

Where to begin? The errors are so egregious that I'll start by saying that flat stomachs were NOT a feminine beauty ideal at the time, yet Jecks makes much of this and suggests that this flat stomach is part of a female character's sexual allure. Wrong; thank you for playing.

Wolves were rare in England by the time in which this novel is set; I suggest the author take a look at, say, _Man and the Natural World_ by Keith Thomas which states on p. 273 "Already at the beginning of the early modern period, England was distinctive among European countries because she had no wolves...the wolf seems to have survived on the North Yorkshire Moors and other high parts of England until the 15th c."

In writing about pre-industrial societies one should know at least a little about horses. I found myself startled that the writer did not know a trot from a canter (gaits with very different mechanics and speeds) and threw in "horsey" words like "pastern" where they simply didn't go. The most spectacular example of this occurs near the end of the story, where a runaway horse slips on some ice and breaks its leg, which, the author solemnly informs us, is hanging from the forelock. The forelock is part of the mane; it is that tuft that grows between the ears and usually lies along the forehead. Horses can hurt themselves in all sorts of amazing ways but I've never heard of one quite like this. :)

These may sound like pedantic quibbles, but they add up, and for the discerning reader such egregious errors are like repeatedly finding worms in one's salad.I think the author has some potential but he will have to do some more research, I'm afraid.

One, wintry morning, local midwife and "witch" Agatha Kyteler is found dead in a hedge at the edge of a field, her throat cut so viciously that her head is nearly severed. There seem to be no clues at all, until soon afterwards a youth - who recently boasted at how he felt the woman deserved death - flees the village of Wefford, seeming to confirm his guilt. All around are convinced that he is the culprit, but Sir Baldwin Furnshill, Keeper of the King's Peace, is not so sure...there are several niggling doubts, several things which the youth's guilt would leave unexplained. And Baldwin seems to be proved right when the runaway is captured once more, and soon after it is revealed that in fact has an alibi...Which means that Simon Puttock, bailiff of the area, is going to have to reassess his ideas and begin again...

As far as historical mysteries go, this one is much more satisfying than his first, THE LAST TEMPLAR, which left a bit to be desired. THE MERCHANT'S PARTNER is a much better book, full of intrigue, red-herrings, subtle historical detail (be it correct or not, I don't much mind), good characters and an adequate plot.

I don't think anyone will claim that it's full of action and excitement, but despite that this book is a page-turner because Jecks' writing really, really flows, leading us from one scene to the next with smooth ease. While in his first book the only characters who seemed real or developed were the two leads, this time around the development of his subsidiary characters is far more satisfactory, and the plot is a lot more interesting as well. Red herrings are laid expertly, taking the reader, and the investigators, completely down the wrong path, until the end when we finally see the light in what is an excellent solution to the mystery. If you're a fan of the historical mystery sub-genre, I would recommend you try Jecks...certainly, the rest of the series shows much promise indeed.

I usually do not do reviews with Amazon but after reading the previous one of this book I simply had to.

I am a frequent reader of medieval mysteries and have read most of the "classics". With Michael Jecks series I found a new delightful author for myself.

Even if historical backround may not be researched thouroughly enough (I do not know enough to judge this) I liked the book immensely.

For me it was one of those books I simply cannot lay down. The mystery itself is surprising (even if the final solution is a bit aprupt and simple) and kept me guessing the whole book through. Furthermore I like the main characters - while defining the two major actors (bailiff and knight) in the first novel, other characters achieve more depths in this second story (e. g. the seargeant) - and their development from the previous book.

I for sure am looking forward to read the next novels (which I just ordered) and hope that the quality of the books continues to be good.

Just like all the other Donald Goines books I've read, the first chapter drew me in like a bee to a flower. But, unlike the other books, from chapter two on almost made me lose my desire to finish the book. To me, some of chapters lost connection from one chapter to the next. And, not to mention the detectives, they truly did not deserve the mention that they received. Anyone could have played those characters -- even without names. However, one bad apple does not spoil the whole bag and I will continue to read all the books written by Donald Goines.

CRIME PARTNERS IS ABOUT THE HIT MEN BILLY AND JACKIE.THEY MAKE A FEW HITS AND HOOK UP WITH KENYATTA,WHILE MESSING WITH KENYATTA THEY BOTH FIND WOMEN IN KENYATTA'S ORGANIZATION AND JACKIE EVEN STOPS DOING HEROIN CAUSE OF HIS NEW GIRL BUT AT THE END EVERYONE IN THAT GROUP GETS KILLED.THE BOOK WAS SHORT BUT IT IS THE START OF A SERIES,AND I THINK IT'S BAD FOR BILLY AND JACKIE GET LACED BEFORE THE REAL SERIES GETS STARTED.BUT THE BOOK WAS GOOD NOT THE BEST

THIS WAS ANOTHER BOOK ABOUT LOYALTY! I ENJOYED THIS BOOK! AT FIRST I WAS LIKE, HERE WE GO HE IS TRYING TO SAVE THE STREETS! WHEN I GOT INTO IT I COULD NOT STOP UNTIL I WAS DONE! CRIME PARTNERS WAS JUST WHAT THAT WERE UNTIL THE END. THEY DID CRIME TOGETHER, LIVED TOGETHER AND DIED TOGETHER! THIS IS A MUST READ! I LIKED THE BOOK!

Breaking Point centers more on the personal life of the characters than any of the other Net Force books. It also tells more about what's going on with the "bad guy" than any of the others. This book however does not mention much of Megan (Alex's daughter) or his ex-wife and of what is going on between Julio and Joanna. I enjoy the VR and in this one, very little is told of it; with Tyronne now throwing boomerangs and Jay with his girlfriend Sojo.

My book is about Alex Michaels who is the head of the net -force task force. Net - Force is part of the FBI in Washington DC. Michaels and the task force stop people from selling drugs on the internet. They also stop people from hacking into government files. During the time Michaels finds out about HAARP, a low frequency weapon which has the possibility drive a country insane. The U.S Air Force and the Navy were making the weapon.

I liked the characters because they were all suspicious in their own way. Alex and his wife divorce his wife and she went out with his Toni. There was an assassin who quit because he was getting old. He quit to become a body guard. I did not like the pace because it went fast and then slow. I also did not like the point of view because it changed between characters, which made it hard to follow.

I recommend this book to anyone who likes spy thrillers. The book was a great read I would recommend this to people who like a challenge.

The American Heritage Collegiate Dictionary defines foreshadowing as presenting an indication or event beforehand. If you use that definition, then Breaking Point is full of foreshadowing.
The first example that is evident of foreshadowing in this particular novel is in the prologue. In this particular portion, the narrator presents a character, an old man, who is a stock character, who is talking about his peaceful country, and then his thoughts drift. He begins to think about how much he loathes his family. How they are so cruel to him. His thoughts go as far as to murder. Then, very suddenly, one of his relatives comes out of the shack with a knife. The old man goes crazy, and kills everyone in the village. This ends with a man laughing over a machine. This particular event foreshadows the plotted mass destruction of the world with a machine that controls people's minds. So, this event essentially summarizes the entire work in just 6 pages. That is how critical the use of the literary device foreshadowing is to this novel. Without it, one would simply not know what on earth the doctor was doing with the HAARP device.
This event is just one of the many times the literary device foreshadowing appears in this novel. It is vital that the reader pick up on this hint. If one does, one can discover the key to this particular novel.

I recommend this book to complete morons. Buy it!!! It'll keep you drowning in your idiocy. Great for parties with your paranoid friends!!!

Allegedly an investigation of Noam Chomsky's anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial, "Partners in Hate" relies on guilt by association to "prove" its case. The case itself is rather simple: in the late 1970s a professor - Robert Faurisson - of twentieth century French literature at the University of Lyon in France was fired for questioning the Holocaust publicly. In 1979, a French friend of Prof. Chomsky, Serge Thion, asked him to sign a petition supporting the freedom to express opinions without persecution (Faurisson had been harassed and beaten up for expressing his views.) Chomsky signed it, as did 500 others, but the French press called it "Chomsky's petition" and accused him of Holocaust denial. In response, Chomsky wrote an essay on the difference between freedom of speech and supporting someone's cause, giving Thion the right to print it wherever he saw fit. Thion made it the preface of Faurisson's 1980 book about his anti-Holocaust findings. This action put the nail in the coffin to people who had never read Chomsky (who has repeatedly called the Holocaust a crime against humanity and has never denied it happened.) During the whole affair, Chomsky never met Faurisson and claimed he never read any of the Frenchman's writings, writing in the essay that Faurisson was an "apolitical liberal." From 1980 this pseudo-debate rambled on, until Werner Cohn produced the now long out of print "Hidden Alliances of Noam Chomsky" in 1988 and then retitled it "Partners in Hate" in 1995. Whatever the title, this work claims that Chomsky is a crypto-Nazi based on the fact that he stood up for Faurisson, that he has alleged contacts with an French cypto-Nazi outfit called "The Old Mole" (La Vielle Taupe), that some of his books were sold by a pro-Nazi publishing company called "The Noontide Press" and that he is an anti-Semite for criticizing Israel. I checked Noontide Press; the only item of Chomsky's they were selling was a recording of one of his speeches, probably released by Alternative Tenticles, the only label which releases Chomsky material. Cohen's evidence concerning the Old Mole was in French with no translation; I don't read French, so it's useless. The Faurisson angle has been debunked, which only leaves the criticism of Israel, which is a simple case of "freedom of speech for those who say what we like." Like the endless investigation of President Clinton, Cohn piles on charge after charge, hoping that one will stick.

[Prior to writing this book,] Cohn was a professor of English at a Canadian university whose only non-Chomsky book was a small ethnographic study of the Rom (Gypsy) people written during the Nixon administration. Chomsky had over twenty books under his belt by the time Cohn came on the scene with "Hidden Alliances..." and the "controversy" was obscure enough so that somebody could latch on to it for their own purposes and promulgate their own version of what happened for American readers. Interestingly enough, this was Cohn's last book and apparently the only work printed by Avukah Press, named after a pre-WW II Left-Zionist organization long defunct (which Chomsky was a member of!)

Cohn seems to be himself a partner in hate, at least of Chomsky. When one needs to spend page after page attempting to link Chomsky and Faurisson, establishing nothing more significant than the fact that Cohn is long winded. The relationship is about as significant as saying Iran is a home for Al-Queda; so was the US, until the worst tragedy in US history. Now, no doubt Chomsky holds many views that disparage Israel, and perhaps he does favor too much the Palestinian cause. Yes, he does compare the Israel government (read: government does not equal people) with Hitler. It seems odd that Cohn would use Chomsky's comparing Hitler with the Israelis, in the Fateful Triangle. Wouldn't this, considering the supposed Neo-Nazi tendencies of Chomsky, correlate to his support of the Israeli government. Of course Cohn, much like the intelligence for the war in Iraq, distorts the information and uses it to meet his goal of slander. However, if Mr. Cohn is ever imprisoned or put on trial, as Faurisson was, I think Noam would be more than willing to support a petition denouncing his arrest. Unless support freedom of speech is more trouble than it is worth. Or is that Cohn's point?

This is a workbook - *not* a guide!

If you are the partner of a sex addict looking for help, this book is a waste of your time. It is a workbook. There is no information in it to help you cope. If you are working through this book with a support group or therapist, it is probably great. If you are alone, find a book that can help you find immediate strategies for survival. This one isn't it.

This book is a MUST for partners of sex addicts who want to work a recovery program and try to reach a place where they break out of their OWN dysfunctional behavior patterns. Most of us in this situation are drawn to sex addicts for a reason -- this book, in conjunction with other codependency recovery materials, is EXTREMELY helpful in breaking through denial about OUR problems and coming to terms with the betrayal we face as partners of sex addicts. It helps us refocus on OUR lives and break out of our obsession with the sex addict(s) and all their garbage.

My one BIG complaint about this book is that it is written as though all partners of sex addicts are women. This is obviously not the case (other studies state that 4-6% of women are sex addicts; we KNOW some of them have male partners!). The author refers to the reader as female and talks about the reader's interactions with other women in recovery when it is really not necessary for him to have been gender specific. This book should be VERY helpful to both men and women co-sex addicts; just be warned that the language may be offensive because it is so unnecessarily gender-specific.

I recently purchased this book followed its instructions, and tried to file the correct paperwork with the courts when I was informed that the format is no longer acceptable as of 1/1/99. This book should not be sold anymore, being that it is not current. I then contacted Nolo Press, and they informed me that the new edition would not be out until June. THIS BOOK SHOULD NOT BE ON THE MARKET IF IT IS NOT CURRENT!

This book is wonderful for anyone who wants to adopt their spouse's child and has the consent of the other bio-parent (or other stipulation such as the death of the bio-parent, etc.). It not only provides needed forms, but also has word-by-word examples of the documents you will need to type yourself (for me, that was actually fun!) Additionally, if you live in Los Angeles as I did during the process, it gives you special instructions for filing in L.A. county - very helpful! I had to pay only a $700 assessment fee and 2 or 3 small filing fees and the whole process, from filing the initial petition to the final hearing (which is especially enjoyable) was completed in under 4 months! And the experience brought me even closer to our 5 year old little girl as well as my wife! A lawyer quoted me legal fees of "$2,500 to $3,000, not including filing and assessment fees" before I found this book. You will not only save money, but come away with an amazing sense of accomplishment and a renewed appreciation for your family. I highly recommend this book!

I used this book for 2 semesters of introductory biology in college. After the first month, I became frustrated with the poor explanations. I asked a few friends and they recommended Biology by Campbell. What a lifesaver!

I also continued to used this book and also found a number of errors in the pictures. This cost me a few points on tests and quizzes, so this added to my low opinion of this book. I also became hesitant to trust what it was telling me, particularly when there were differences between Campbell and this book.

It has a nice layout, and it breaks topics into meaningful chunks; the explanations were okay most times and simply inadequate too frequently for me. On a scale of 1 to 10, this book is about a 3 or 4 and Campbell is a 9. But reading Campbell also takes more time and effort.

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it's just rehashed, old and boring.....it is chest beating at it worst...It is like a glorified portfolio for the company.

For me, this book was a bust. It's not that the creative is terrible: it's just not terribly good.So why give it one star as opposed to, say, two or three? Because of the utter lack of originality that pervades much of the work. For example, the Elbow Beach Resort ads are a pale imitation of Goodby Silverstein's far superior NCL campaign. Likewise, the work for Bet Shira is a shameless ripoff of Fallon's lauded Espiscopal Church ads of the 1980s. And the cover? It seems like a swipe from Target. As a marketing ploy designed to raise the agency's profile and impress potential clients, the book is undeniably brilliant. As a collection of original and daring creative, however, it is sadly lacking.

"With Brain Darts, Turkel Schwartz & Partners helps people better understand how simple and magnificent creative thinking and problem solving can be. Bruce Turkel's illustrations make the complex and esoteric very clear. His style and humor make the process of learning a joy. Of course, you can't articulate this stuff so well and make it so real without walking the walk, and Bruce Turkel does that part with long strides and a nice bounce in his step. Highly recommended to anyone who wants to get the most out of this visit to the planet..."