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Motorcycling Through History During The Golden Age Of Postcards
Jerry Hooker
Motorcycle Memories
757 Brushwood, Walled Lake, MI 48390
0974860808 $39.95 www.motorcycle-memories.com
Enthusiastically recommended, Motorcycling Through History During The Golden Age Of
Postcards is a un ique and specialized book that will have enormous appeal for postcard
collectors, motorcycle enthusiasts, and students of 20th century American popular culture.
Presenting more than 700 full color images, the postcard celebrations of motorcyles is arranged in
chapters devoted to American cycles; European cycles; racing cycles; motorcycle sidecars;
motorcycle advertising; holidays; military motorcycles; and humorous motorcycle themed cards.
Jerry Hooker is to complimented on his years of effort which have resulted in a coffettable
hardcover tribute to a bygone era of motorcycling as reflected through the unusual medium of the
postcard.
A Storm To Remember
Edward C. Robinson
iUniverse.com, Inc.
2021 Pine Lake Road, #100, Lincoln, NE 68512
0595183543 $22.95 1-877-823-9235 www.iuniverse.com
Based upon a true event, A Storm To Remember: Mimosa's Story by Edward C. Robinson is
about being caught on a lonely Pennsylvania country road at night during a terrifying and deadly
blizzard in 1896. This is the story of Mimosa and the Robertson family, their faith and their
courage, caught up in a desperate situation roughly 25 miles from their home in a horse-drawn
wagon. This was a time predating all of the traveler resources from AAA to cell phones we take
for granted today, and where weather forecasting was as much a novelty as electric lighting.
Exceptionally well written, A Storm To Remember is original and enthusiastically recommended
reading.
CyberGod
Mark Wirtz
Behler Publications
26 Greenbriar Road, Turnersville, NJ 08012
0974896209 $14.95 1-866-684-5355 www.behlerpublications.com
To put it simply, CyberGod by stand-up comedian in Hollywood is a very unusual book! God is a
member of a chat room, as are Mother Nature and Satan. Chat room language is used as the
discussion threads range across the very core of human existence, spirituality, and the foundations
of love with droll humour and comedic deftness with a total disregard for conventional political
correctness. Unique and very highly recommended reading regardless of your denominational
affiliation or theological orientation, CyberGod is as funny and engaging as it is thoughtful and
thought provoking.
A First Course In Atmospheric Radiation
Grant W. Petty
Sundog Publishing
PMB 111, 1360 Regent Street, Madison, WI 53715
0972903305 $46.00 www.sundogpublishing.com/AtmosRad.htm
A First Course In Atmospheric Radiation is a scholarly textbook especially for meteorology and
climatology students at the undergraduate and beginning graduate level. Offering a basic
introduction to the principles and practical realities of atmospheric radiation, A First Course In
Atmospheric Radiation covers the quantum properties of radiation, the electromagnetic spectrum,
radiative properies of natural surfaces, thermal emission, atmospheric emission, scattering and
absorption by particles, and much more. A solid knowledge of calculus is of course required to
understant the principles and expressions, which directly apply scientific ideas to real-world
situations. Sample problems help the reader test his or her own knowledge, in this studious and
solidly written resource.
A Hundred Years, A Million Laughs
Barry Dougherty
Emmis Books
1700 Madison Road, Cincinaati, OH 45206
1578601614 $30.00 www.emmisbooks.com
The Friars Club is a showbusiness icon and a legendary entertainment organization principally
known for its Friars Club Roasts, Friars Club Testimonials, and Friars Club Frolics where the best
names of 20th Century American entertainment regularly engaged in ribald comedy and musical
merry-making. A Hundred Years, A Million Laughs : A Centennial Celebration Of The Friars
Club by Barry Dougherty will serve to introduce a whole new generation of readers to this
famously secretive organizations's "monastery" located in midtown Manhattan, as it reveals the
group's colorful history from its humble beginnings in 1904 down to its present day worldwide
popularity. Enhanced with almost 200 photographs and timeless Al Hirschfeld caricatures, A
Hundred years, A Millions Laughs is a unique masterpiece of American humor, show biz, and pop
culture history that would embellish any personal, academic, or community library collection.
History: Fiction Or Science?
Anatoly T. Fomenko
Delamere Publishing
c/o Mithec Distribution Services
30 Amberwood Parkway, Ashland, OH 44805
2913621058 $34.95 1-419-281-1802 fax 419-281-6883
History: Fiction Or Science? is a quite scholarly expose of the extreme limitations of our
understanding of human history. So few physical records have survived hundreds, let alone
thousands of years that it casts even the most conventional understanding of what really happened
into doubt. Chapters address the problems of historical chronology in general, astronomical
datings, astronomy in the Old Testament, methods of dating ancient events via mathematical
statistics, the construction of a global chronological map, the Dark Ages, and much more.
Black-and-white illustrations add a vivid touch to this scholarly work that may appear
controversial yet deals with a very serious issue directly affecting humanity's comprehension of its
own past.
Baby Boomer Bachelorette
Patsy Stagner
JPS Publishing Company
PO Box 540272, Grand Prairie, TX 75054-0272
0966492447 $16.95 1-972-291-3944 www.jpspublishing.com
Dating and sex are not just anxiety generating issues for pubescent adolescents newly aware of the
opposite gender. They are continuing problems for widowed, divorced, and chronically single
baby boomers as well. In an age of machismo and media hype, men tend to suffer from
performance anxiety while women are often leery of being seen naked. These concerns are clear
impediments for men and women to get together (sober, anyhow), yet they are nonetheless drawn
together out of a mutual fear of growing old and dying alone. Enter Baby boomer Bachelorette
or, How To Have Sex At Least Once Before You Die by Patsy Stagner who offers hope and
solutions to age-related dating problems and sexual relationship issues. Fun, informative, Baby
Boomer Bachelorette is a "must read" for anyone who has ever looked at themselves in a mirror
and gone to a singles bar and wondered if there were any hope!
World War II B-24 "Snoopers"
Stephen M. Perrone
NJSG
PO Box 100, Somerdale, NJ 08083
188754402X $19.95 1-856-783-1271 www.ww2b24snoopers.us
World War II B-24 "Snoopers" is the story of the 63rd and 868th Squadron low level
anti-shipping radar night bombers that operated in the Pacific Theater during the turbulent years
of the second world war. Drawn from obscure and almost forgotten records, as well as his own
eyewitness experiences, Stephen M. Perrone (himself a former member of a Snooper aircrew who
flew 37 combat missions) provides an accurate history of two B0-24 Heavy Bombardment
Squadrons who sank hundreds of thousands of tons of Japanese warships, troop carriers, and
supply ships with precision from an altitude of 1000 to 1500 feet in all kinds of weather
conditions. World War II B-24 "Snoopers" is a superbly written and enthusiastically welcome
addition to World War II Military Studies collections and highly recommended reading for
military aviation enthusiasts and history buffs.
Tarot ReVisioned
Leigh J. McCloskey
Olandar Press, Ltd.
2222 Parview Road, Middleton, WI 53562
0972950206 $85.00 1-6087-831-1222 www.leighmccloskey.com
Tarot ReVisioned by actor, artist, author, and independent scholar Leigh J. McCloskey is an
impressively presented 295-page treatise on the tarot which was seventeen years in the making
and a consequence of McCloskey's personal exploration of the psyche through art. Far more than
just another descriptive or instructional title in the metaphysical aspects of tarot cards and tarot
card reading, Tarot ReVisioneds is a creativey and imaginative exploration into the archetypal
mysticism and knowledge embedded within tarot's imagery. Twenty-two original drawings
illustrate McCloskey's presentation of a heiroglyphic story reviving the Renaissance tardition of
the "mutus liber" (silent book). Much in the tradition of William Blake, McCloskey reveals the
depth and beauty in a much maligned and often misunderstood metaphysical tradition. Also
available in a hardcover edition (0972950222, $125.00), Tarot ReVisioned is enthusiastically
recommended to the attention of tarot enthusiastis, as well as the non-specialist general reader
with an interest in contemporary explorations of an ancient tradition.
The Reverse Mortgage Handbook
T. E. Ballman
Jawbone Publishing Corporation
2907 Paddington Way, Kissimmee, FL 34747
1590940555 $12.95 1-407-396-4245 www.jawbonepublishing.com
Written specifically for older citizens but of immense value to adult children seeking to secure
their aging parents home residences when income revenues are restricted or minimal, The Reverse
Mortgage Handbook: A Consumer's Guide For Senior Homeowners by mortgage specialist T. E.
Ballman provides the reader with detailed, accessible, comprehensive information on three
popular reverse mortgage products. Specific illustrative examples are provided along with
definitions of all specialized terminology. Virtually unique, The Reverse Mortgage Handbook is
also available in a large print edition (1590940563, $14.95) and covers eligibility requirements,
fund disbursement options, consumer safeguards, reverse mortgage associated costs and product
profiles. Highly recommended!
The Health/Medicine Shelf
Aquatic Therapy
Luis G. Vargas, Ph.D, P.T.
Idyll Arbor, Inc.
PO Box 720, Ravensdale, WA 98051
1882883543 $60.00
Written by one of the world's top practitioners and teachers of aquatic therapy, Aquatic Therapy
offers the comprehensive Diagnostic Aquatic Systems Integration approach to understanding and
applying aquatic therapy for healthful benefit. Covering basic aquatic therapy, the Bad Ragaz Ring
Method, Watsu, the Halliwick Method, Clinical Wassertanzen, and Cardiquatics, Aquatic Therapy
uses black-and-white diagrams and photographs as well as extensive and technical text to cover
everything from water dynamics and physics to physical guidelines for undertaking or coaching
aquatic therapy to the particulars of various techniques, clinical applications, and much more. A
superb scholarly and instructional text especially for physical therapy students and professionals,
focusing upon a valuable and often-overlooked means for recovery, fitness, and
improvement.
Cancer's Best Medicine
Mauris L. Emeka
Apollo Publishing International
PO Box 1937, Port Orchard, WA 98366
0964012537 $6.00 1-360-876-5376 emekam@silverlink.net
Cancer's Best Medicine: A Self-Help And Wellness Guide is a straightforward self-help guide to
adopting eating habits that allow one's body to better resist cancer. Modern surgery and medicine
can with some degree of success remove or kill cancer tumors, but what of the bodily
environment that allowed those tumors to form in the first place? Cancer's Best Medicine claims
that tumors are more likely to form when the body is too acidic and/or deficient in digestive and
pancreatic enzymes, oxygen-starved, and receiving insufficient physical exercise. To counter this,
Cancer's Best Medicine recommends diet and lifestyle changes that include drinking more water,
learning how to breathe deeply, exercising regularly even if just walking, and avoiding acidic,
low-enzyme foods such as cooked meat in favor of high-enzyme foods such as deep green leafy
vegetables (which can be juiced) and whole foods. Cancer's Best Medicine is enthusiastically
recommended as a supplementary resource for those seeking to treat or prevent cancer - it cannot
take the place of medical supervision or treatment, but its positive message for taking charge of
one's own health is not to be missed.
Healing Our Village
Lenore T. Coleman & James R. Gavin III
Healing Our Village Publishing
7217 Lockport Place, #108, Lorton, VA 22079
0974694800 $19.95 1-800-788-0941 www.healingourvillage.org
Written by a pair of international experts in the skill of diabetes management, Healing Our
Village: A Self-Care Guide To Diabetes Control is a straightforward guide for the lay reader
covering basic issues needed for proper health when treating and maintaining one's own diabetes
condition. From basic nutritional concerns, to blood tests, taking proper care of one's feet,
avoiding and coping with diabetes complications, a handy chart of diabetes control guidelines, and
much more, Healing Our Village condenses the "need-to-know" information and puts it at the
fingertips of those who need it most. An excellent resource for anyone who has diabetes or a
diabetic family member.
Laugh It Off!
Katie Namrevo
Ablaze Publishing
2800 - 122nd Place, NE, Bellevue, WA 98005
0974342599 $29.95 www.laugh-it-off.com
Enhanced with an accompanying CD, Laugh It Off!: Weight Loss For The Fun Of It by Katie
Namrevo is a unique weight loss guide that emphasis the role of humor and laughter in achieving
and maintaining good health for weight-challenged people. Readers will learn how to overcome
the urge to eat when they re not hungry; how to turn inevitable stress events into calorie-burning
moves; how to make slimming meals that range from time-limited "quickies" to special occasion
gourmet dining; and, perhaps best of all, how to never again be a crabby, hungry, frustrated,
stress-out, "yo-yo" dieter again! With its combination of sound weight loss and weight control
advice, delicious "dieter friendly" recipes, and "anyone can do them" exercises, Laugh It Off! is
enthusiastically recommended to anyone who is struggling to achieve a healthy weight for
themselves or a loved one.
Aging In Stride
Christine Himes, et al.
Caresource Healthcare Communictions
Natonal Book Network, dist.
426 Yale Avenue North, Seattle, WA 98109
1878866249 $24.95 1-800-448-5213 www.carsource.com
Next year the number of Americans over the age of 55 will rise to more than 66 million. As the
babyboom generation continues to age into senior citizen status, the impact will be nothing short
of profound on the healthcare systems currently in place. The need for individuals to plan in
advance for their own health, independence, and well-being as the age (including issues of diet
and exercise) must be undertaken. That's where the very highly recommended "what to do & how
to do it" Aging In Stride: Plan Ahead, Stay Connected, Keep Moving comes so timely into play.
The collaborative work of Chris Himes (a family physician and geriatrician at Group Health
Cooperative in Seattle, Washington), Elizabeth N. Oettinger (a medical ethics expert and the
Senior Minister, First Congregational United Church of Christ, Corvallis, Oregon), Dennis E.
Kenny (an expert in the legal and financial aspects of aging and eldercare, and Co-founder and
President of Caresource Healthcare Communications, Seattle, Washington) effectively collaborate
to create a thoroughly "user friendly", informed and informative manual of practical information
including 45 specific aging issues discussed in practical, accessible terms; strategies for planning
the future and making healthy choices; 26 forms to help develop and organize a personal plan of
action; online and community resource references; even an online reader support center for extra
copies of forms and direct click-through to online resources.
My Story
Amelia Davis
Demos Medical Publishing
386 Park Avenue South, Suite 201, New York, NY
1932603018 $19.95 1-800-532-8663
My Story: A Photographic Essay On Life With Multiple Sclerosis is comprised of a series of
engaging essays and illustrative photographs by San Francisco-based photographer Amelia Davis
on what it is like to live the medical condition of multiple sclerosis (MS), a disease affecting about
350,000 Americans and whose origins are still speculative. What is portrayed are the lives of 32
men and women from seventeen to seventy, and of diverse ethnicities and socio-economic
backgrounds. Accompanying each informed and informative essay are commentaries provided by
family members and friends that express their personal feelings and experiences of living with
loved one having to deal with MS. Inspiring and at times quite moving, My Story is strongly
recommended to the attention of anyone diagnosed with MS, and those who love them.
Faces Of Home Care
Gail Gilkey, PT, MS
Windy Hill Press
22 Hilltop Avenue, Barrington, RI 02806
0966298357 $14.95 1-401-247-2707 www.windyhillpress.net
Compiled by physical therapist Gail Gilkey, Faces Of Home Care: Stories Of The Rehabilitation
Process presents the stories of twenty patients, each with a different medical diagnosis, but who
receive physical therapy in the home care setting. While the patients are involved in the
rehabilitation process, interesting and touching parts of their respective lives are revealed. Faces
Of Home Care will enable non-specialist general readers to learn about the home care
environment -- as well as afford them invaluable treatment tips. Informed and informative, Faces
Of Home Care is warmly recommended to the attention of anyone (as well as their friends and
family members) who is about to engage in a program of home-based physical therapy.
The Self-Help Shelf
Get Out Of Your Boxx!
Mary Jo Fay
Out of the Boxs Inc.
9311 East Pioneer Drive, Parker, CO 80138
097435046X $19.99 www.outoftheboxx.com
Get Out Of Your Boxx! And Live The Life You Really Want! is a self-help guide written by
single mother with a diverse career background in nursing, management, sales, and advertising.
Teaching the reader how to escape the "boxx", i.e. free themselves from a harmful behavioral
pattern that limits what they can do or achieve in life, Get Out Of The Boxx covers the process of
weaning oneself from bad habits including excessive perfectionism, denial, subservience to the
expectations of others, narcissism, and much more. A strong, positive message and a must-read
motivational for anyone looking to make a change.
Unclutter Your Life
Katherine Gibson
Beyond Words Publishing
20827 NW Cornell Road, Suite 500, Hillsboro, OR 97124
1582701156 $14.95 www.beyondword.com
Unclutter Your Life: Transforming Your Physical, Mental, And Emotional Space is an absolute
must-read self-help book for the ever-looming, ever-confusing, and ever-demanding twenty-first
century. It directly addresses how to take control of one's space, possions, priorities,
relationships, and free time in order secure that which is most precious - the opportunity to focus
on achieving one's goals and dreams. From learning to distinguish true friendships from toxic or
parasitic relationships and disentangling oneself from the latter, to limiting the physical clutter of
needless consumerism and consumption of knickknacks, to setting aside time for oneself despite
the ever-present encroach of technology that blurs the distinction between work and home, and
much more, Unclutter Your Life offers the best possible advice to reasonably become better
organized and accomplish more with less mess.
Accept The Challenge
William P. Abram
Longstreet Press
2974 Hardman Court, Atlanta, GA 30305
1563527219 $19.95 1-770-447-8666
Simply put, Accept The Challenge: 101 Strategies For Personal Success is 204 pages of positive,
practical tactics and strategies to provide the reader with inspiration, ideas, and the motivational
tools to achieve ever higher levels of success in their personal and professional lives. Easy to read,
Accept The Challenge is enhanced with a profusion of sayings, proverbs, and succinctly expressed
advice ranging from a citation from Plato (...a society cultivates whatever is honored there...) to
President Ronald Regan (We must never lose the sense of adventure that thirst for knowledge or
that determination to explore the outer limits of our own abilities.) are perfect augmentations to
author William Abram's informed and informative text. Accept The Challenge is a remarkable title
that is strongly commended to the attention of anyone who is determined to improve the quality
of their lives and enhance the degree of success in their chosen endeavors.
How To Love & Inspire Your Man After Prison
Michael B. Jackson
JointFX Press
74 Trinity Turn, Willingboro, NJ 08046
0970743629 $14.95 1-609-877-8071 www.jointfx.com
Every month thousands of men are released from jails, prisons and penitentiaries back into the
community and back into the lives of their families and loved ones. With its wealth of insights,
advice, and inspiration, How To Love And Inspire Your Man After Prison by Michael B. Jackson
(author, motivational speaker, and founder of the www.Jointfx.com website devoted to helping
convicts and their families) is a unique and definitive guide for women in relationship with men
involved in the criminal justice system and covers such vitally important issues as how to help a
man prepare for life after prison while he is still incarcerated; how to help him after he is released
from prison (and usually on parole); how to prepare and protect yourself while trying to help an
ex-convict; parole and probation issues; and what resources and directories are available to assist
them. If you have a loved one or family member returning home after incarceration, then give
How To Love And Inspire Your Man After Prison a careful reading -- it could mean all the
difference between success and failure.
Hope & Encouragement
Hazel Mae Hoffman
GMA Publishing
PO Box 259, Stanford, IL 61774
1592680364 $19.00 1-812-480-0249 www.gmapublishing.com
Author Hazel Mae Hoffman knows something about adversity and the need for a positive attitude
to deal with the stresses that life has for all of us. Hoffman is 54 years old and has had cerebral
palsy since birth. It has been her relationship with God, a good attitude toward life, a sense of
humor, and her determined spirit that led her to succeed the many trials and tribulations that she
has had to endure and work her way through. The lessons she has learned are now shared with
others through the pages of Hope & Encouragement For The Overcomer. Easy to read, and
offering examples and precepts that will inspire and console, Hope & Encouragement is a
welcome and enthusiastically recommended addition to personal self-help and self-improvement
reading lists.
The ReFirement Workbook
James V. Gambone, et al.
Personnel Decisions International
2000 Plaza VII Tower, 45 South Seventh Street, Minneapolis, MN 55402-1608
0938529277 $17.95 1-800-633-4410 www.personneldecisions.com
James V. Gambone, Erica Whittlinger, and Debby Magnuson collaborated to create The
ReFirement Workbook to provide individuals with a powerful set of insights, enhanced with
real-life examples and exercises to take positive steps in their careers, finances, relationships,
personal health and spirituality. This compilation of do-it-yourself exercises will result in the
ability to crate smoother work-related or personal transitions through the application of
behavioral science-based insights and concepts. Working your way through this outstanding guide
is the next best thing to sitting front row center in a PDI (Personnel Decisions International)
motivational workshop seminar.
Invitation To Awaken
Tony Parsons
Inner Directions Publishing
PO Box 130070, Carlsbad, CA 92013
1878019201 $15.95 1-800-593-9673 www.InnerDirections.org
Invitation To Awaken: Embracing Our Natural State Of Presence is a compilation of talks that
Tony Parsons has given, calling for men and women to liberate themselves from the mistaken
belief that they exist as separate individuals, and not as individual parts of a greater, interactive,
comprehensive whole. Parsons lays out the pathway to lasting peace and enduring human
happiness in a series of dialogues recorded in Southern California that seek to awaken the reader
to a realization of life's true realities, and become emancipated from the ties of pleasures and pains
so intrinsically associated with our overt daily existence. Parsons maintains that once we awaken
to an awareness of our natural state and birthright of freedom, we will realize all that life truly has
to offer us -- and all that we have to offer ourselves.
After You
Roger Fritz
Inside Advantage Publications
1240 Iroquois Drive, Suite 406, Naperville, IL 60563
1893987159 $14.95 1-630-420-7673 www.rogerfritz.com
After You!: Can Humble People Prevail? by Roger Fritz is dedicated to the practical proposition
that a modest person can be a strong leader and that true humility makes a leader more effective
in and successful with respect to persuading and motivating people to greater and more effective
effort. After You! debunks several common myths about humility showing that humble people are
not wimps, not scared, do not lack confidence, are not weak, and are winners, not losers, on the
competitive playing fields of life. Indeed, it is the arrogant, vane, and overweeningly ambitious
that are the most vulnerable to failure for themselves and for those they are in a position to
influence. Indeed, Roger Fritz persuasively reveals that there are three primary reasons why
humble folk can prevail best over life's problems and vicissitudes: They are more appreciative for
what they have; They are not envious of what others have; and They are grateful for things most
people simply take for granted. A unique and inspiring read, After You! is enthusiastically
recommended reading and the kind of book that can change your life!
So, What's Normal
Rhonnie
Rhonnie & Company
PO Box 6219, Traverse City, MI 49696-6219
097443051X $22.00 1-231-929-3323 www.amazon.com
Also available in a hardcover edition (0974430501, $30.00), So, What's Normal: Life After
Pedophilia, Abuse And Neglect is the vividly recounted story of one woman's journey from the
horrors of childhood abuse and neglect, to eventual recovery and hope as an adult. Rhonnie's
autobiographical story is one of courageous example and reveals how she was able to break
through the cycles of abuse and achieve a personal compassion for other abused individuals
leading her to establish the non-profit foundation "Leaps and Bounds" with the dedicated mission
of extending hope and help to other abused children and adults by funding rehabilitative therapy.
So, What's Normal? is seriously recommended reading -- especially for survivors of childhood
abuse, and those who love them.
The Fiction Shelf
A Continent Adrift
Vladimir Chernozemsky
Triumvirate Publications
497 West Avenue 44, Los Angeles, CA 90065-3917
1932656006 $24.95 1-800-247-6553 www.atlasbooks.com
A Continent Adrift is a novel that features, of all unlikely protagonists, the Devil. After centuries
of lying, cheating, and tricking humankind, and fathering numerous progeny... the Devil has come
to question things as they are. Confronted by all too many humans who are becoming noticeably
more evil than he is, the Devil finds himself at a moral crossroads beyond morality - yet when a
meteroid storm threatens to destroy the Earth, the Devil seizes an opportunity save mankind.
After all, if there were no Earth, then the Devil would be out of work! A rolicking,
tongue-in-cheek fable of good, evil, and how easy the line between the two can blur, while
ordinary human beings caught up in the mess strive to get by as best they can.
Nobody's Perfect
Pat Ballard
Pearlsong Press
PO Box 58065, Nashville, TN 37205
0971324794 $13.95 www.pearlsong.com
Nobody's Perfect is an engaging novel about a marriage of convenience - or is it? A "plus-sized"
woman needs to keep her childhood home, and a fairly egotistical man has had it for relationships,
and just wants a mother for his son... a mother that, he hopes, he will not be physically attracted
to and with whom he will not be tempted to share a relationship. Or so he keeps telling himself,
but life and human hearts have unpredictable surprises in store, in this charming, witty, and tender
love story with a twist.
Thugs Are For Fun
J. Gail
Jazoli Publishing
PO Box 506, Lansdowne, PA 19050
0972697810 $14.00 1-888-715-9599 www.jazolipublishing.com
Thugs Are For Fun is the novel of a young black woman, who, despite her intelligence, inner
strength, and warm personality, gets drawn into one bad relationship after another with "thugs" -
disrespectful men who cannot be trusted at best and at worst are one step away from life behind
bars. She tells herself that "thugs are only good for a little fun", but cannot stop dating them. Her
latest involvement with a man leads to a situation where he wants things more permanent and she
doesn't, which can only put another twist on the endless conflicts of her romantic life. "Thugs Are
For Fun" is filled with street slang, drama, and pathos, as it tells the ups and downs of life and the
private heavens and hells of our own making.
North Of Texas
Tom Elkins
PublishAmerica
Phenix & Phenix (publicity)
PO Box 151, Frederick, MD 21705-0151
1413706207 $19.95 www.publishamerica.com
North Of Texas is a novel of historical fiction inspired by real-life hero Ed North, a San Antonio
deputy constable whose family lineage reflected the passion and the daring to do great deeds.
North of Texas traces the saga of a brave family through ten generations, from a pioneer who
immigrated to the New World in 1630 to a veteran of the American Revolution, a Civil War
soldier who moved his family to Texas, to an oil-funded millionaire who suddenly lost it all. A rich
and exciting saga of courage, compassion, and the drive to realize one's dream.
Reel And Rout
Robert A. G. Monks
Brook Street Press
200 Plantation Chase, Suite 11, Saint Simons Island, CA 31522
0972429522 $23.95 1-912-638-0264 fax 912-638-0265
Written by one of the world's leading shareholder activists, Reel And Rout is a novel is a story of
shady business dealings, boundless greed, ineptitude, and scandals such as those that have
plastered all-too-real daily newspaper headlines in the public consciousness. But in addition to the
corruption, abuse of the legal system, sex scandals, and ruthless scheming, there are a few public
servants who retain their principles and scruples. Reel And Rout pants a vivid picture of the war
between those intoxicated by lust for money and those struggling to uphold standards in a tense,
unforgettably sharp and real narrative style.
Welcome To Havana, Senor Hemingway
Alfredo Jose Estrada
Vista Publishing
Phenix & Phenix (publicity)
1201 Brickell Avenue, Suite 360, Miami, FL 33131
0974700401 $17.95 www.vistamagazine.com
Based upon Hemingway's unpublished letters and journals, as well as contemporary accounts of
his early years on the island of Cuba, novelist Alfredo Jose Estrada has developed an impressive
and entertaining story of a young Cuban-American journalist, whose grandmother shows him a
photograph of her husband posing alongside Hemingway and a giant marlin. The journalist then
sets out to learn the truth about his grandfather, Javier Lopez Angulo, who supposedly got into a
fistfight with Ernest Hemingway and knocked the famous author down. The journalist travels to
Havana and learns how his grandfather met Hemingway and why their friendship ended so
abruptly. Along the way, he discovers the myths, stories, and people involved in Hemingway's life
in Cuba during Havana's golden age in the 1930s. If Welcome To Havana, Senior Hemingway
were a film we would call it a "docudrama". Alfredo Estrada has done a masterful job of
recreating a yesteryear populated by memorable characters in an inherently fascinating, original,
and very highly recommended story.
The Assassination Of The Devil's Garden
L. Vernon Smith
Smith & Shah Publishing
Phenix & Phenix (publicity)
PO Box 2007, Southfield, MI 48037-2007
0972590900 $24.99 1-877-592-7129
Very highly recommended reading, The Assassination Of The Devil's Garden is the compelling
story of two college roommates over three decades as they become every more involved with the
world of organized crime. One of them is the son of a top mob assassin. But he fails at the job of
hitman despite the status of his mob family and access to the advice and experience of top
assassins. The college roommate (forced to join the organization following the murder of a close
friend) is the one who succeeds at being a career killer, winning the admiration of other mobsters
and the heart of the woman he loved. The Assassination Of The Devil's Garden is a very different
and original look at the world of mob politics and business practices where loyalty and obedience
are enforced at gunpoint.
Three Ships To Moji
Felix E. Goodson
Red Hen Press
PO Box 3537, Granada Hills, CA 91394
1888996773 $17.95 1-818-831-0649 www.redhen.org
When Bataan fell, the Japanese relocated the defeated American troops and their allies to Japan.
Three Ships To Moji by Felex Goodson is a novel based on that ignominious event in the early
years of World War II. The prisoners were starkly faced with death by starvation, disease, and
even "friendly fire" in the form of American planes bombing Japanese ships on the high seas.
Lonnie Rae is the novel's central character, a boy whose innocence is challenged by a hostile
environment that would prefer him dead. Lonnie learns the truly brave are those who maintain
their sense of humanity in spite of their desperation and despair. The characters created so deftly
and memorable by Goodson spend a great deal of their time discussing the value of religion and
philosophy while the food grows scarce and the weather grows colder. Thoughtful written, Three
Ships To Moji is a rather sophisticated novel that evokes thoughtful consideration even while
draws the reader into a very special and circumscribed world of American POWs on their way to
an unknown fate in a foreign and hostile land.
The Attraction
Douglas Clegg
Delirium Books
PO Box 338, North Webster, IN 46555
1929653581 $39.95 1-574-594-3200 www.deliriumbooks.com
Delirium Books has achieved a justifiable reputation as a publisher of superbly crafted science
fiction/horror fantasy titles for the true connoisseur of book that conjures nightmares to life! The
latest title offered to horror fantasy enthusiasts is Douglas Clegg's The Attraction. A desiccated
corpse from the Aztec era is displayed in a glass case for anyone to see. When it is deemed to be a
counterfeit, just the remains of a small child with some glued on fake fingernails, Griff says to his
friend Ziggy by way of a practical joke, "Let's feed it!". That's when the the horror awoke and the
Flesh-Scraper is loose! Douglas Clegg blends a unique and macabre imagination with a genuine
gift for developing his characters and presenting the reader with a vivid story that will separate the
timid from their sleep and the bold from their complacency whenever they next visit a sideshow or
museum mummy display!
The Basket Maker
Kate Niles
GreyCore Press
2646 New Prospect Road, Pine Bush , NY 12566
0974207403 $22.95 1-845-744-5081
The Basket Maker is a smoothly written and deftly woven story of Sarah Graves, a young woman
with a dark secret who encounters Trent, a boy at school who has suffered burns over most of his
body. With a memorable roster of supporting characters, this unique and compassionate novel is
presented with intelligence, delicacy, and reader-engaging passion set against the background of
the American southwest. Kate Niles is the recipient of the Colorado Council of the Arts Individual
Artist Fellowship for Creative Writing for 2003. An accomplished writer of essays and short
stories, The Basket Maker now documents her as having mastered the novel with a literary style
and elegance rarely achieved and never surpassed.
Crescent Eagle
Joe Fontana
Companion Publications
8844 Monard Drive, Silver Springs, MD 20910
0966862619 $19.95 1-301-563-6435 www.allied-bethesda.com
Crescent Eagle is a novel of international intrigue and self-discover. Recovering from a failed love
affair, Keiran Hogan is a lawyer recently transferred to London by Kenton and Ward, his
Washington-based law firm. Then a bomb in a London restaurant kills more than forty people and
another goes off at the American embassy while Hogan is attending a meeting there. Then the
business agent for Kenton and Ward collapses and dies while he and Hogan are completing a
business arrangement on the island of Guernsey for Zoran Hemmrich, an enigmatic client. Caught
up in a intricate and hazardous web of deceits and secret agendas, Hogan enters the murky world
of arms dealing and murders. Crescent Eagle is a riveting read from first page to last -- this is the
kind of story that will leave the reader looking eagerly toward novelist Joe Fantana's next
title!
The Social Issues Shelf
We The People
Thom Hartmann
Coreway Media, Inc.
3110 SW Arnold Street, Portland, OR 97219
1882109384 $16.95 www.coreway.com
Impressively written by Thom Hartmann, nicely illustrated by Neil Cohen in a "reader friendly
"graphic novel" format, then collaboratively adapted and edited by Gene Latimer and Paul Burke,
We The People: A Call To Take Back America directly addresses the dangers of losing our
democratic liberties from a variety of corrosive influences including corporate special interest
groups who finance and exploit the fears and intolerance that so often separate the political right
from the political left. Only a "radical middle" can restore and defend the principals of fair and
democratic government against the growing temptations of fascism. If you are a social activist
committed to good government and the constitutional rules set out in order to promote "life,
liberty, and the pursuit of happiness", or simply someone who has become aware of, and
concerned about, the increasing political polarization of our country, the read We The People: A
Call To Take Back America.
Super Power America
Hugh Fincher
Synergy International of the Americas Ltd.
SBO 659, PO Box 025292, Miami, FL 33102
0966026217 $10.50
Now in a newly revised and expanded third edition, Super Power America: How The Military
Industrial Complex Defeated The American People by Hugh Fincher is a very highly highly
recommended insider's revelation of how elements of the American government ranging from the
Corporate Board Room, to the Pentagon, to the White House collaborated and conspired to
create, market, and impose a foreign policy that was hallmarked by military adventurism that
involved the American people into brutal conflicts around the world from Vietnam to Iraq. But
more than just another documentation of foreign policy gone horribly wrong down through a
series of both Democrat and Republican administrations, Super Power America also informs the
reader on what we can do as citizens to confront big money, big corporations, big military, and
big government vested interests in militarism as a core component of American foreign policies
and international relationships.
Blind Trust
Vamik D. Volkan
Pitchstone Publishing
1237 Amherts Avenue, Suite #6, Los Angeles, CA 90025
0972887539 $19.95 www.pitchstonepublishing.com
The capstone to almost thirty years of research and analysis into the most important
socio-political conflicts of today, psychoanalyst Vamik Volkan (Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry
and Founder of the Center for the Study of Mind and Human Interaction at the University of
Virginia), presents his findings with respect to the psychology of large groups and their leaders
within the framework of violence and unrest throughout Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. What
sets Blind Trust: Large Groups And Their Leaders In Times Of Crisis And Terror apart from
similar works is Professor Volkan's impressive ability to write in an easy, accessible style that is
ideal for the non-specialist general reader as well as students of psychology and political science.
Highly recommended reading, Blind Trust is also available in a hardcover edition (0972887520,
$29.95).
The New Wife
Susan Shapiro Barash
None The Less Press
20332 West 98th Street, Lenexa, KS 66220-2650
1932053085 $24.95 1-913-254-7266 www.nonethelesspress.com
In The New Wife: The Evolving Role Of The American Wife, author Susan Shapiro Barash
presents an historical survey on the changing concept and expectation of the role of the modern
wife from the 1950s down to the present day. Barash reveals the reasons why American women
over the past five decades have continued to want to marry and become wives, as well as their
disappointments, pretenses, and resolutions in that domestic role. Of particular interest are the
observations regarding how mothering affects marriage, why romance is deemed so important;
sexuality in marriage; how the workplace affects being a wife; the truth about egalitarian
marriages; the disappointed expectations of the baby boomer wife; infertility; marriage at ages
ranging from 25 to 70; and perhaps most important of all, why no universally accepted model
exists for being a wife today. The New Wife is an informatively written and unique contribution to
contemporary Women's Studies academic library reference collections and personal reading
lists.
The Poetry Shelf
Holding On For Dear Life
Thom Tammaro
Spoon River Poetry Press
PO Box 6, Granite Falls, MN 56241
0944024505 $12.95 1-507-537-6463
The poetry of Thom Tammaro explores his Italian roots, focusing on the relationships of a boy
and his village, a father and his son, one generation to the next. Original, memorable, imaginative,
and highly recommended, Tammaro's poems (including his prose poems) are both literate and
emotionally insightful. At The End Of The Day: After a hard day at work,/I come home.//I walk
to the edge of the road/To get the mail: letters, bills, magazines,/Flyers with the faces of dull
politicians.//Gray sky./When the evening comes on/It brings a few flakes with it./The Moon is up
and full./On the roof, a few broken limbs from/The Chinese Elm.//At the end of my day's journey/I
go in for the night./I hear the furnace click on/Deep below the house--/A voice deep within
another room.//Closing the door, I feel the sadness of the day/All around me.
A Poetry Break
Kay B. Day
Ocean Publishing
PO Box 1080, Flagler Beach, FL 32136
0971764107 $11.95 1-888-690-2455 www.ocean-publishing.com
A Poetry Break: Poetry For Your Pleasure showcases the wonderful ability of Kay B. Day to
present a full range of human emotions in her verse. Original, entertaining, at times inspirational,
the little volume of memorable poetry is very highly recommended. Toast: Simple construction of
bread and jelly/loses balance on a harried morning/to tumble into the lap/of a nine year old/who
dabs with a napkin,/smears her sleeve, then studies it/all day long at school.//Her mother sweeps
crumbs/clears nooks and crannies of dust,/every so often pausing/to study the paper heart/stuck to
the refrigerator door/with a piece of tape.
Naming The Stars
Joyce Sutphen
Holy Cow! Press
PO Box 3170, Mount Royal Station, Duluth, MN 55803
0930100050 $13.95 1-218-724-1653 www.holycowpress.org
Naming The Stars is prize winning poetess Joyce Sutphen's latest anthology of her lyrical, original
work and a continuing documentation of one of the best in the current generation of poets. The
Problem Was: The problem was a different sense of form./He was all couplets, heroic and
closed;/I always wanted to carry on, one line/into the next, never reaching an end,/or, if I did,
imagining it might be/the possible beginning to a different train/of thought, which might lead to
the exact opposite of what I was saying now.//The problem was we rhymed in various ways:/he
liked perfection; I preferred the wise/conjunction of nearly alike, almost/a match made in heaven,
both of us most/certain we knew where to take the next line./He loved his words the best, and I
loved mine.
One Thousand Years
Corinne Robins
Marsh Hawk Press
PO Box 206, East Rockaway, NY 11518
0972478566 $15.00 www.marshhawkpress.org
Poet, art critic, and educator Corinne Robins enhances her volume of poetry with occasional
black/white photographs that she took in Sweden and Denmark. One Thousand Years is her
fourth published collection and documents her abilities to craft memorable word images that come
alive in the reader's "theatre of the mind". Bringing Down The Sky: A gloved hand leads,/riding
the gauntlet,/talons her weapons,/a bead in the wind/hearing that whistle.../The wild one,
closed-eyed one/inside castles/where meat is mete to have/tucked late into the night/perching at
my lord's left wrist,/perching in a room of dark droppings.//Murderous love bound to his hand,/I
and my, beautiful feathers, curved beak/sharing blood and breathing space./Distance
increases./The day's air has a different weight./Released into the singeing wind,/the lure at liberty,
bright-eyed/peregrine having no mercy,/flies to that sound,/that trust beyond touch/making the
sky her reach./Rules waiting to plunge and carry,/wings wide, catch-as-catch-can gone beyond/flat
featureless speed --/razor-sharp heart's predator,/hunting partner, sky sailor/soars above the
hill.
The Fantasy/SciFi Shelf
Portal
George R. Mead
E-Cat Worlds
57744 Foothill Road, La Grande, OR 97850
0974197319 $19.95 www.ecatworlds.com
Portal is the debut volume of a planned series of fantasy titles the will explore the nature of life as
a unique sort of organism comprised of an amalgamation of individual minds and separate entities,
while simultaneously exploring the many diverse intellectual, emotional, and relationship problems
of its characters. When John Tinker of Grandeville, Oregon, took a single step through the Portal
and found himself in another world where their is amazing magic, ironic good, and twisted evil.
Some he encounters are human, others are not -- but there is treasure and the promise of
eventually being able to return home, back through the Portal from whence he came. George
Mead is a natural storyteller with a particular flair the the unique and the memorable, and a writes
with a great deal of wit and more than just a bit of wisdom too. Portal is recommended reading,
especially for fantasy fiction enthusiasts who like to follow series titles set in a world of
imagination and adventure!
The Damp Chamber
Frank Chigas
Medusa Press
PO Box 458, San Carolos, CA 94070
0972532404 $40.00 www.medusapress.com
The Damp Chamber And Other Bad Places showcases nineteen short stories by Frank Chigas, one
of the newest and best authors in the field of horror fantasy. Chigas writes with flair, style,
originality, and conjuring effectiveness. These are the kinds of tales that need to be read with all
the lights on! Very highly recommended reading for the horror fantasy enthusiast, the stories
comprising The Damp Chamber And Other Bad Places includes: The Space Between Two Walls;
The Return of the One; The House of August; And Darkness Slumbers; Yet Another God; She Is
a Picture in Black; The Copper Bell; The Fourth Column; A Face at the Window; The Stone and
the Hand That Touched It; In the Shadow Room; The Inheritors; Sunflowers; The Winter Tree;
The Girl in the Pipe; Devil Eyes on 61; Seven Returned; The People of Faces Beach; and the title
piece, The Damp Chamber.
The Biography Shelf
Rivers Of Wind
Gary Penley
Filter Press
PO Box 95, Palmer Lake, CO 80133
1589801970 $16.95 www.amazon.com
Rivers Of Wind: A Western Boyhood Remembered is the autobiographical story of how Gary
Penley's growing up on a ranch in the plains of Colorado, the influence and example of his
grandfather, his mother, and a yesteryear of ranch life that is gone now. Interwoven memories of
the people, the geography of the land, the animals, and the climate of the high western plains,
Rivers Of Wind is a kind of "window in time" that will engage the reader's rapt attention from first
page to last. A tribute to a time and place now found only in memory, Rivers Of Wind is unique
and enthusiastically recommended reading.
Southern Winds
W. Everett Beal
iUniverse.com, Inc.
2021 Pine Lake Road, #100, Lincoln, NE 68512
0595100813 $10.95 1-877-823-9235 www.iuniverse.com
W. Everett Beal was born and raised in Valdosta, Georgia, eventually moving to Griffin, Georgia
to practice pharmacy, and then retiring with his wife Judy to Sky Valley for 16 years only to
return once again to Griffin. Man and boy, Everett Beal was a southerner. Southern Winds is both
his autobiography and his eyewitness account of the deluge of changes that were to transform the
segregated and impoverished state of Georgia into what was to become known as the "New
South". Here is a compilation of stories, good and bad, of the early days of integration and a
profile of just how hard it was for many to give up their family and community tradition enforced
prejudices and customs. Southern Winds is a personal testament to the redeeming necessity to
ignore and overcome ingrained prejudices, and to strive for common unity, love and respect,
simply and honest compassion. That we must judge people by their character and personality, not
by the color of their skin. Exceptionally well written, Southern Winds is very strongly
recommended reading.
Way Back When
Jerry Harju
North Harbor Publishing
528 East Arch St., Marquette, MI 49855
0967020581 $12.95 1-877-906-3984
Way Back When: Nostalgic Essays of "Growing Up North" is a compilation of Jerry Harjus
newspaper columns originally published in Upper Michigan's largest newspaper, "Mining Journal",
and retelling anecdotal stories of his growing up in a time when kids could bring knives to school
but not marbles. Here are recorded Jerry's fond memories of 1940s radio commercials and
yesteryear Christmas celebrations. The Great Depression was a time of saving string and tinfoil
(long before the concept of "recycling" became a part of the social consciousness), and come
Halloween, "trick or treat" was a seriously proclaimed choice with consequences to follow. A
work of consummate humor and nostalgia, Way Back When is fun reading for those of us who
"remember when" and will prove entertaining and informative for folks of a younger generation
for whom these memories are simply stories from a time now long gone.
The Life & Art Of Murphy Anderson
R.C. Harvey & Murphy Anderson
TwoMorrows Publishing
10407 Bedfordtown Drive, Raleigh, NC 27614
1893905217 $17.95 1-919-449-0344 www.twomorrows.com
A very lavishly illustrated autobiographical memoir of Murphy Anderson's varied career in
cartooning, The Life & Art Of Murphy Anderson begins with his entry into the 1940s "Golden
Age" of comic books. Anderson's credentials include having produced the very popular syndicated
comic strip "Buck Rogers", as well as educational comics for the military services publication "PS
Magazine". Anderson is perhaps best known for his exceptional and ground-breaking work at DC
Comics in the 1960s and 70s on such superhero characters as Superman, Hawkman, Adam
Strange, The Atomic Knights, and so many others. It was his style that defined the DC look for a
generation of comic book fans. His anecdotal recollections are replete with insightful commentary
on the state of the art, as and includes behind-the-scenes stories about the other artist he has
encountered in the course of his long and successful career including Lou Fine, Will Eisner, Curt
Swan, Gil Kane, and others. Illustrated throughout with a generous examples of work drawn from
every phase of his career which also included Fiction House and Ziff-Davis, The Life And Art Of
Murphy Anderson is "must reading" for all dedicated comic book fans past and present!
Challenging Nature Photography
Angelo Sciulli
eBookstand
11700 Mukilteo Speedway, #201, Mukilteo, WA 98275
1589091876 $15.95 http://.scnature.com www.ebookstand.com/m/angelosciulli
An autobiographical account, Challenging Nature Photography is the story of Angelo Sciulli who
retired at the age of 50 to pursue a new career as a nature and wildlife photographer. Just as he
was beginning to achieve recognition for his photographic excellence, Angelo was diagnosed with
ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) commonly called Lou Gehrig's disease. After the diagnosis,
Angelo embarked upon a photography trip and details for the reader the mental, physical, and
spiritual challenges he faced as he continued to pursue his love of photography in the wilderness
in such diverse places as British Columbia, Alaska, Newfoundland, Montana, Ecuador, and
Kenya. Challenging Nature Photography is exceptionally well written and very highly
recommended reading.
The Business Shelf
The Free Agent Marketing Guide
Douglas Florzak
Logical Directions, Inc.
PO Box 19, Westmont, IL 60559
0967156505 $18.95 1-800-431-1579
In The Free Agent Marketing Guide: 100+ Marketing Tips For Free Agents, Independent
Consultants, And Freelancers, Doug Florzak (Certified Guerrilla Marketing Coach and Associate
Fellow of the Society for Technical Communication) provides 112 marketing tips thematically
appropriate for time-stressed and budget-challenged freelance agents. In addition to his own
impressive body of professional experience and expertise, Florzak also draws upon scores of
resources and interviews with free agents who successfully implemented their own marketing
strategies. To put it simply, The Free Agent Marketing can quite justifiably be considered as the
"bible" for freelancers, free agents, and independent consultants.
Customer Satisfaction
Craig Cochran
Paton Press
PO Box 44, Chico, CA 95927
0971323143 $24.95 patonpress.com
Strongly recommended reading, Customer Satisfaction: Tools, Techniques, And Formulas For
Success by Craig Cochran (Project Manager, Center for International Standards & Quality,
Georgia Tech Economic Development Institute) is a slim, 93-page compilation of observations,
advice, and techniques for proactively gauging customer perceptions and then aggressively acting
on the findings thereby acquiring a competitive advantage in today crowded and rapidly evolving
markets. Tools and specific instructions are laid out in a thoroughly "user friendly" manner and
range from the very basic to the rather sophisticated. Informed and informative, Customer
Satisfaction is one of those easily assimilated compilations that will rapidly translate to an
improved bottom line regardless of the nature of a businesses products or services.
The Shorter Encyclopedia Of Real Estate Terms
Damien Abbott
Delta Alpha Publishing
35 Ash Drive, Kimball, MI 48074
0966894618 $59.99 www.deltaalpha.com
Superbly enhanced with more than 1,000 citations (cases, statutes, and other authorities), 20,000
cross references, and more than 400 bibliographical references, The Shorter Encyclopedia Of Real
Estate Terms is a 975-page compendium presenting, defining, and explaining more than 7,500 real
estate terms. A combination reference book on real estate; a dictionary; a thesaurus; and an
encyclopedia, this comprehensive resource addresses every aspect of real estate from law,
economics, finance, and insurance, to investment, taxation, urban planning, appraisal, and
management. The Shorter Encyclopedia Of Real Estate Terms is an exhaustive work that is
confidently and strongly recommended for personal, professional, academic, corporate, and
community library reference collections.
The Judicial Studies Shelf
How You Can Avoid Legal Landmines
Joesph Lyles, Esq.
Access Publishing
PO Box 17736, Greenville, SC 29606
097440911 $13.99 1-888-529-5611 www.lyles-law.com
A quick and easy read, How You Can Avoid Legal Landmines: A Layman's Guide To The Law
was written by practicing attorney Joseph Lyles specifically for the use of non-specialist general
readers seeking to avoid the expense and anxiety of entanglements with legal problems. Here
presented is a body of sound, accessible, understandable advice on business partners, putting
transactions into writing; how consumer and business contracts differ; knowing the difference
between feeling you are right and proving you are right in a court of law; how to choose a lawyer;
and knowing when it is time to get a lawyer. How You Can Avoid Legal Landmines should be
available to as wide a public readership as possible, and would make an excellent addition to
business school and community library "Law & Justice" collections.
Common Sense Rules Of Advocacy For Lawyers
Keith Evans
TheCapitol.Net
PO Box 25706, Alexandria, VA 22313-5706
1587330059 $35.00 1-202-678-1600 www.TheCapitol.Net
The latest title in TheCapitol.Net "Communication Series", Common Sense Rules Of Advocacy
For Lawyers by author and lawyer focuses upon the advocacy role lawyers have in advancing or
defending their client's interests. After an informative introduction, specific chapters effectively
and accessibly address the dimensions of advocacy; the mandatory rules of advocacy; advocacy as
"theater"; the psychology of advocacy; the examination of witnesses; direct examination;
cross-examination; re-direct examination; final argument; written advocacy; and advocacy in the
age of high technology. Enhanced for the reader with a definitive conclusion, various appendices,
and a comprehensive index, Common Sense Rules Of Advocacy For Lawyers is a welcome
contribution to professional and law school libraries, and an invaluable candidate for use as a
principle curriculum textbook, or at the very least, an important addition to a law student's
supplemental reading list.
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