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You cannot judge a book by its cover, or title for that matter.

The Gun Digest Book of Sporting Shotguns

Manufacturer: Krause Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0896891739

Book Description

This sure-fire hit is tailored to the specific needs and interests of shotgun hunters, shooters and enthusiasts. Gun Digest(r) Book of Sporting Shotguns offers a range of articles covering today's hottest shooting topics, and a fully up-to-date catalog of currently available shotguns and accessories.

Sixteen in-depth articles will aid shooters and hunters in improving their performance, covering topics such as: tips and tactics for dampening recoil; why sporting clays are worth the effort; patterning shotguns for waterfowl; turkey and upland birds; hunting optics; non-toxic loads; do-it-yourself shotgun makeovers; shooting schools and more. The catalog section offers information on the shotguns and accessories currently on the market, with pricing. No shotgun enthusiast should go without this essential reference, with the most comprehensive information available.

-Sixteen in-depth articles covering today's hottest sporting shotguns -Complete catalog section on available sporting shotguns and accessories

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You cannot judge a book by its cover, or title for that matter........2006-08-25

I would have rated this book lower but there is no option to do so.

"-Sixteen in-depth articles covering today's hottest sporting shotguns -Complete catalog section on available sporting shotguns and accessories". Right.

This book is NOT a review of sporting shotguns as the title and description would lead you to believe. It is a series of nine (not sixteen) stories written by M.D. Johnson about incidents in his shooting life. He devotes an entire chapter to "why the 16 gauge isn't dead." He waxes long about the shotgun he received as a child and still uses.

The digest section is nothing more than a list of shotguns with the manufacturers description. Even that is flawed. Several pages are reprints of the same information. Corrected pages are stuffed in the book.

If you are looking for a "Book of Sporting Shotguns offers a range of articles covering today's hottest shooting topics, and a fully up-to-date catalog of currently available shotguns and accessories." My advice is to keep looking.

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The new edition of Toward Speaking Excellence addresses the recent changes to the Test of Spoken English (TSE®). The text introduces readers to the format of the new TSE®, typical questions, and scoring criteria. The second edition of Toward Speaking Excellence includes actual student responses that are used or modified to highlight specific characteristics of effective communication. Two complete sample TSE®-like tests are included for further practice. Also provided are practice with some of the skills that, while no longer tested on the TSE®, are key to sounding more native-like and fluent.

Toward Speaking Excellence may be used as an individual study tool or as a course text. While the material is directed toward the TSE® and SPEAK® tests, the communication strategies presented will prepare students for other types of oral exams (including the TAST®, interviews, and performance tests. Toward Speaking Excellence is a course book but may also be used for individual test-preparation/self-study.

Dean Papajohn is a Specialist in Education at the Center for Teaching Excellence, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign..

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Very helpful.......2007-09-07

arrived before the expected date, in a great condition and it helped me a lot.

Lots of practice material.......2007-06-09

Very nice book and lot of practice material. But sad side is that it doesn't have CD.

Toward Speaking Excellence (2nd ed.): The Michigan Guide to Maximizing Your Performance on TSE.......2007-03-09

This book is an indispensable tool for ESL/EFL instructors implementing speaking courses as well as tutoring for TSE test. It is really focused on enhancing non-native speakers' English communication skills.

Hopeless book.......2006-06-06

This is one of the useless book i have come across...the TSE exam which you will encounter is totally different than what they tell you in the book, furthermore, this book does not have good examples to practice... the authors should understand that TSE is about speaking and not writing or reading so by just reading this book there is no way anyone will understand how to speak in TSE.. I would not recommend this book to anyone

This is a very bad book.......2006-05-28

I can only assume that the authors are the ones that wrote the other reveiws. Half of the book has pictures for oral exercies, but it has no explaination or examples about how to speak correctly. The other half has exercises without explaination or answers. How can I learn if the book does not provide correct speaking examples. It may work for an instructor, but it is definately not a self study book. It might be an okay book if it contained a CD, but it does not so the book is really useless. I know this is a harsh review, but I don't want anyone else to waste their money.

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This riveting debut novelprobes murder, pretension, and conspiracy in the halls of Harvard Universitys famed graduate program.When the dean of the department summons him to a hastily called and unscheduled meeting, young assistant professor Wim Vermeer fears that his career has come to an abrupt end. But instead of terminating his contract, the dean hands him a sensitive assignment. The previous night, Eric McInnes, the second son of a fantastically wealthy family, drowned. While the death appears to be an accident, his family has some questions about the safety and lack of supervision on campus--and so do the police. The dean asks Vermeer to assist the family and work closely with the police, keeping a close eye on the schools interests all the while. But it isnt long before Vermeer realizes hes been set up as the fall guy for a very nasty coverup. Not only does the university want a heinous financial scheme hidden, but theres a faculty member whos been keeping some career-ending secrets as well. Embroiled in the middle of conspiracy and deception, Vermeer turns to Boston PD Captain Barbara Brouillard for help, and together the pair must discover a way to find the truth about McInnes death--without destroying Vermeers career.

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Pleasant Diversion, but Not Much More.......2006-08-15

Jeffrey Cruikshank is a good writer, but in the end I found MURDER AT THE B-SCHOOL to be rather flat. My major problem with the novel is the rather bland characterization. In particular, I found the lead character, Professor Wim Vermeer, to be a remarkably colorless individual. I also found the plot somewhat slow-moving, with very little suspense until the last 50 or so pages.

Also, I would not buy this novel if you're interested in the Harvard Business School and its inner workings. This book actually has very little to do with the school or business in general. It is instead a straighforward whodunit that happens to take place at Harvard. Most of the action in this novel takes place off-campus.

In the end, I can't recommend this book because I think there are far superior mysteries out there. In particular, I recommend the work of William Kent Krueger, Jacqueline Winspear, and Michael Connelly.

Not bad but it could have been much better.......2006-01-06

When a student from a wealthy family, think Rockefeller or Vanderbilt, is found dead in a campus hot tub, the dean of the Harvard Business School asks an untenured finance professor to provide assistance to the student's family. At the same time, a Boston police detective investigates the death and finds evidence of foul play. The detective and professor team up to determine what happened.

I'm a fan of the mystery genre, particularly mysteries where the detective isn't a police officer. I also have a graduate degree in finance, so I expected to love this novel. Unfortunately, I was disappointed. The book's description is misleading in that it implies the professor will solve the case. In truth, the police detective does most of the work. I'd hoped to be given more insight into the inner world of a top tier B-school. Instead, Harvard serves merely as the setting for a stock mystery. This could have just as easily been Murder at Harvard or Murder in Cambridge. The professor didn't seem authentic for a tenure track finance professor at Harvard. He's lackadaisical while I suspect most of them are very intelligent and ambitious. I also expected him to use his unique skills to solve the mystery, similar to how Michael Connelly used a biotech engineer's skills of logic and reasoning to solve a mystery in Chasing the Dime, but that wasn't the case. When John Grisham writes about a lawyer or Michael Crichton writes about a doctor solving a mystery, it's clear they've been there and know what they're talking about. It's obvious this author hasn't been to B-school. He's probably walked across Harvard's campus but that's about it. That's as much of Harvard Business School as you'll get from this story.

On the whole, the book was a pleasant enough experience. The plot flowed smoothly and created enough interest to keep me reading. The protagonists made decent companions for a month's worth of commutes on the train but I don't think I'd be apt to look for a sequel or read anything else by this author. Don't pay retail for this but if you see it in the library or in a bargain bin and like a pleasant mystery that doesn't ask too much from you, then this is worth the read.

Murderer or Dupe.......2005-09-24

The prestigues Harvard Business School does not deal well with students dying. Eric had everything, why would he take his own life or - was he murdered. An out of favor professor is appointed to work with Eric's family and the police. As the clues roll in The professor's search for truth takes on new meaning when he becomes the lead suspect. Cruikshank use authentic dialogue, non-stop action and multi dimensional characters to move readers through the pages of the book.
Found this to be an enjoyable read with the mystery holding you captive to the very end.
Beverly J Scott, author of Ruth Fever, Righteous Revenge and Jena's Choice

Murder Shocks Harvard Business School.......2005-01-26

Harvard Business School student Eric MacInnes is found drowned in a hot tub in the recreation center of the Harvard Business School. The discovery of Eric's body launches a series of questions. How did he gain access to the building? Was his death an accident or murder? Will Eric's death ruin the relationship that Harvard has with his super-rich family?

The Harvard Business School Dean assigns one of his junior faculty members, finance professor Wim Vermeer, to return Eric's belongings to the family. In the process, Prof. Vermeer finds himself sucked into the school and family politics surrounding Eric's death, and ultimately he ends up working with the Boston Police Captain investigating the death, Captain Barbara Brouillard. Author Cruikshank has penned a terrific character in Prof. Wim Vermeer....a "not-quite-good-enough-for Harvard" professor who is basically a good guy.

There are a few plot weaknesses, especially towards the end; however, the story overall was really enjoyable. I hope Mr. Cruikshank writes a second novel featuring the further adventures of Prof. Vermeer and Capt. Brouillard.

Face-paced debut.......2004-12-18

Jeffrey Cruikshank's Murder at the B-School is an enjoyable and well paced debut set in the financial and academic worlds.

When a wealthy student at Harvard Business School dies under mysterious circumstances, Prof. Wim Vermeer is asked to represent the college and act as liaison with the young man's family.

The powerful MacInnes clan, predictably, shuts Vermeer out. But he soon teams up with a captain on the Boston police force to jointly pursue their investigation. The professor's involvement, along with the detective's willingness to accept his participation, are just two holes in the plot

Fortunately, Cruikshank's characters are interesting, and his descriptions of the internecine battles of academia are well-done. If the story isn't quite as compelling as it could be, at least the author has the skill to keep it moving.

Kill the Messenger/Northern Light/Murder at the B-School/The Queen of the Big Time (Reader's Digest Select Editions, Volume 3: 2005)

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Popular, if not necessarily today's top fiction--

Kill the Messenger/Northern Light/Murder at the B-School/The Queen of the Big Time (Reader's Digest Select Editions, Volume 3: 2005)
Tami Hoag , Jennifer Donnelly , Jeffrey L. Cruikshank , and Adriana Trigiani
Manufacturer: Reader's Digest Association
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
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Popular, if not necessarily today's top fiction--.......2005-09-29

I'm sure many millions of Americans and Canadians remember fondly those little Reader's Digest Condensed Books, which held sway in mostly hardback form in millions of home libraries until fairly recently. This kind of book is now called "Select Editions," but it retains the old idea of four books condensed into one thickish (600 page) tome.

But times have changed, the public's taste has changed, and the new book adheres more closely to the modern preference for genre fiction like sleuth or "chick-lit" tellings instead of fiction that claimed -- not always successfully -- to have some claim on posterity. I notice that my parent's bookshelf holds a Condensed Book from 1960--three novels and Booker T. Washington's memoirs. That would not happen today because the Washington bio is non-fiction and because it is too serious--possibly too challenging.

The first book in Volume 279 (2005) has elements both of chick-lit and of whodunit: Tami Hoag's KILL THE MESSENGER. An innocent bicycle messenger is threatened and drawn into a conspiracy against his will. To his help come a police dept. neophyte Abby Lowell, and a grizzled detective, Kev Parker. The plot is suitably fun and jiggy, but the relationship between the two leads is a little on the routine side. Still, the Los Angeles locales are well rendered here; it's that kind of local detail that often gets left out of substantially abridged tomes like this one.

THE QUEEN OF THE BIG TIME by Adriana Trigiani is truly an epic: it follows a lonely prairie woman from 1927 to 1966, her travails, her relationships and loves. Perhaps a little more self-consciously "sprawling" than it needs to be, but the author's heartfelt admiration of her pioneering character comes through.

MURDER AT THE B-SCHOOL by Jeffrey Cruikshank was probably the most successful book of the four in its original full-length release. It is essentially a 21st-Century "cozy" set in New England. When a Harvard Business School instructor is ordered to help a family whose son was just murdered(?) on campus, he finds out the family live in baronial splendor and he isn't able to "help" the way he was ordered to. The mystery holds up pretty well, but I suspect the shape of this classic whodunit worked better in the original. There are, however, sincere attempts to capture the ambience of Harvard and of downtown Boston.

Jennifer Connely's A NORTHERN LIGHT is classic "chick-lit" if ever I saw one. Mattie, a deserving young woman from a poor background has as her chief desire in life the ability to attend college. But [here I borrow from the jacket], [W]hen tragedy strikes at the lakeside hotel where she works, Mattie discovers just how powerful words--and dreams--can be." Not really my cup of tea, but Mattie's voice remains passionate and intelligent, and she stays in character.

A discerning shopper can get some real deals from Amazon. My copy of Select Editions -- in paperback!-- cost $26.00 by the time I paid tax and S&H. By contrast, new and relatively recent examples of this series can be had on Amazon at less than half that price, perhaps a tenth for a used paperback.

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Depends Upon Why You Like Poirot
the A.B.C. murders
Harsh review, based on the greatness of her writing as a whole
Poirot and Hastings "Hunt Together" Again
predictable ending, but good read

The A.B.C. Murders
Agatha Christie
Manufacturer: Tandem Library
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: School & Library Binding

British Detectives | Mystery | Mystery & Thrillers | Subjects | Books

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ASIN: 0785799281

Book Description

Alice Ascher from Andover is the first victim. Next to her corpse is a spellbinding clue. It seems that a killer is knocking off his victims one-by-one, A through Z. Alphabetically speaking, Hercule Poirot fears that it's a matter of one down, twenty-five to go.

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Depends Upon Why You Like Poirot.......2007-04-15

The ABC Murders is something between a lengthy short-story and a full-on novel.

Christie's genius is that she has created, in Poirot, a man who is incredibly proud, incredibly justified in his pride, and yet, somehow, incredibly endearing. Thus, if you love Poirot mysteries because you enjoy the company of M. Poirot and Captain Hastings, this one will leave you smiling, but looking to the next one on your shelf.

However, if your preferences lay in following the mechanism of his searching, pensive, relentless investigations, you will likely enjoy this one.

the A.B.C. murders .......2006-12-11

This book is probably one of Agatha Christie's finestest books, but due its lack of fine detail and because I just didn't really like it.
This book is for anyone who likes a good mystery and a surprising turn of events.
In this book, Hwexulw Poirot receives letters of murder to occur soon. After a long time of fearful angxiety, Poirot solve the case before the E murder.
Agatha Christie is a great writer and I would recommend any of her 100 book to read.

Harsh review, based on the greatness of her writing as a whole.......2006-09-11

I love Agatha Christie, she is definately one of my favorites and definately is the reason that we have quality mystery movies and books today. The low rateing i gave this book is not because it is a bad book, in relation to most mysteries this one would be rated highly, but when put up against other Agatha Christie books its pretty crappy.

I get the idea of the plot, the numerous murders keep the action going throught the novel to lead the reader on, which was a good thing to try because i know the most common complaint with agatha christie is the boaring investigative part in the middle. My problem with the book is with the way it is constructed, several interludes happen in the book that come from the (so called) killer. This makes the reader feel like they already know the answer to the problem and makes the reader wonder why the book continues.

So after i got half way through the book i was wondering, why should i continue with this book if i already know who did it, i think that kind of takes away from the story. Although the ending comes togeather and is pretty good (not her best). I think this uncharactoristic give to the reader, in the middle of the book is what really hurts the story in the end.

Id say read the book for sure, but dont let the interludes push u to lose interest, its never as simple as she leads you to believe

Poirot and Hastings "Hunt Together" Again.......2006-09-06

THE A.B.C. MURDERS is not only one of the finest of the "Hercule Poirot" stories and one of the most memorable works in the Agatha Christie canon, it is also one of the greatest of all detective stories; it ranks right alongside Conan Doyle's THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES and Christie's own THE MURDER OF ROGER ACKROYD. The plotting is even more ingenious than is usual for Christie; the story itself is a wonderful human drama about a lonely epileptic who is suspected of being a serial murderer. Also highly recommended, for those who have finished the novel: the superb made-for-TV version of THE A.B.C. MURDERS, starring David Suchet as Poirot and available on DVD from Amazon.com.

predictable ending, but good read.......2006-08-15

agatha christie ventures into somewhat uncharted territory - the this time, poirot is on the trail of a homicidal maniac. Christie fans will see the ending coming. the characters are a bit bland. Poirot comes up with the solution, but in the end any number of other solutions could have been equally plausible, so it is not clear why he went with this particular one.

Still, it is an Agatha Christie book, so even when it is bad, it is good.

Julie and Romeo Get Lucky/Murder at the B-School (Reader's Digest Select Editions in Large Type, Volume 143: 2006)

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Julie and Romeo Get Lucky/Murder at the B-School (Reader's Digest Select Editions in Large Type, Volume 143: 2006)
Jeanne Ray , and Jeffrey Cruikshank
Manufacturer: Reader's Digest Association
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: B000LPCC1E

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2 NOVELS IN ONE BOOK! LARGE SOFT COVER - LARGE PRINT BY READER'S DIGEST PARTNERS FOR SIGHT FOUNDATION

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Kill the Messenger/A Northern Light/Murder at the B-School/The Queen of the Big Time (Reader's Digest Select Editions, Volume 3: 2005)

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Kill the Messenger/A Northern Light/Murder at the B-School/The Queen of the Big Time (Reader's Digest Select Editions, Volume 3: 2005)
Tami Hoag , Jennifer Donnelly , Jeffrey L. Cruikshank , and Adriana Trigiani
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000H13Z7M

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