CatCalendar 2007: 365 Days of Cats
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Fantastic Kliban Cats
  • Essential Kliban
CatCalendar 2007: 365 Days of Cats

Manufacturer: Pomegranate Communications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Calendar

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ASIN: 0764934228

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Fantastic Kliban Cats.......2007-05-07

With a humorous, artistic, colorful and different cat drawing to start each day...this is a terrific choice for a daily calendar.

5 out of 5 stars Essential Kliban.......2006-08-18

This is a decadent essential for B.Kliban fans, featuring the classic tabby etchings, each with their gloriously lunatic attitude. Every flip of the calendar page is a quirky delight. The fearlessly intrepid cats leap into adventures that would cause less resolute felines to hiss and flee. From the singing of "nibbling on they little [mousie] toes" to snorkeling, napping, sumo wrestling, and great lashings of the tail, these kitties never cease to divert and amuse.

Each weekday bears a single full color reproduction of one of B. Kliban's famous drawings. Saturdays and Sundays share a semi-rampant tabby bearing a banner with such observations as `Gone Fishing', `Napping', `In Hiding' or `Star Gazing'.

I have ordered one of these calendars each year for about a decade now and wouldn't dream of starting my year without the latest edition. It is a marvelous gift for any cat fancier, and should bring a broad smile to those who have enjoyed Kliban since way back in the heyday of the `70's and 80's.
Catcalendar 2005 Calendar
Average customer rating: 1 out of 5 stars
  • Cat Calendar 2005
Catcalendar 2005 Calendar
B. Kliban
Manufacturer: Pomegranate
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Calendar

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ASIN: 0764926764

Customer Reviews:

1 out of 5 stars Cat Calendar 2005.......2006-02-25

I returned this item. When I bought it I originally ordered, or thought I ordered, the 2006 Calendar, but I received a 2005 calendar. If I could get the 2006 Calendar that would be great, but was told it was unavailable. I have always loved anything by B. Kliban.
thanks,

Clara
CatCalendar 2006: 365 Days of Cats
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • From the Publisher
CatCalendar 2006: 365 Days of Cats

Manufacturer: Pomegranate Communications
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ASIN: 0764930249

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars From the Publisher.......2005-11-04

"This 324-page, 313-image desk calendar (Saturdays and Sundays share a page) reveals the hopes, dreams, aspirations, frustrations, and frivolous occupations of Kliban's gluttonous but sometimes altruistic Cat gang in the bright colors Cats adore. They slink, strut, steal, and play trombones; they quietly contemplate the Tao of the ham sandwich and take to the ocean, talent scouts for up-and-coming sushi. In short: all Cat, all year, wall to wall and day to day.

"365-day padded tear-off calendar with plastic base. All illustrations are in full color. Size: 6 1/4 x 5 1/4" (box is 7 x 6"). ISBN 0-7649-3024-9 . . . Other calendars: weekly engagement, wall, and mini-wall. Additional items available in our Kliban Cat Gallery."--© Pomegranate
Catcalendar 366 Days of Cats 2008 Calendar
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • The Cat is back again for 2008
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ASIN: 0764938665

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars The Cat is back again for 2008.......2007-09-22

The Kliban Cat Calendars have been an institution for years. I'm delighted to have the desk calendar all in color and in a sturdier stand, but I miss the wall calendar with planning spaces, its large cartoons suitable for framing and endearing graphic footnotes. I hope the wall version will be available closer to Christmas.

The Cat has lost none of its charm despite the fact that Kliban has left us.

Catcalendar B. Kliban 2004 Calendar (Wall Calendar)
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Delightful art and whimsy!
  • Kliban at his best
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B. Kliban
Manufacturer: Pomegranate Communications
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ASIN: 0764923323

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Delightful art and whimsy!.......2001-01-01

A delightful assortment of Kliban's excellent, witty and whimsical art featuring cats! Essential for cat lovers and fans of light, cheerful art. Cats indulging in various human activities but with a unique cat-style approach.

5 out of 5 stars Kliban at his best.......2001-01-01

we're so lucky to be able to further enjoy more of Kliban's wonderful cats...this engagement calendar is an entertaining coffee table book and inspires a few smiles every time you pick it up
Catcalendar Cats
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    Catcalendar Cats
    B. Kliban
    Manufacturer: Workman Publishing
    ProductGroup: Book
    Binding: Paperback

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    ASIN: 0894802232
    Catcalendar Cats 9.95
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      Catcalendar Cats 9.95
      B. Kliban
      Manufacturer: Random House Value Publishing
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      Binding: Paperback
      ASIN: 5551190315
      Catcalendar Cats: The complete collection
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        B Kliban
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        ASIN: 0894801694
        CatCalendar: 2006
        Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
        • for any cat lover
        • Kliban captures the both the wisdom and mischief of cats
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        • mousie dung
        • Twenty-seven Years and Still Purring
        CatCalendar: 2006
        Judith Kamman Kliban
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        ASIN: 0764930494

        Book Description

        Sporting a 16-page color insert of calendar art and a fresh new full-color jacket, here is the lovingly prepared 17th Anniversary Edition of the mother of all cat books, the one that gave new meaning to wacka-wacka and forever redefined it.

        Cat is the classic that started it all. It gave a voice to catmaniacs around the country, launched an entire genre in publishing and licensing, and made everyone go cat crazy. Selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club. 985,000 copies in print.

        Customer Reviews:

        5 out of 5 stars for any cat lover.......2007-01-09

        I love this book! I may buy more for friends. It arrived on time in excellent condition.

        5 out of 5 stars Kliban captures the both the wisdom and mischief of cats.......2006-06-16

        Alas, Bernard "Hap" Kliban is gone, but his genius lives on in "Cat", a book of cartoons that captures the personality of the cat as seen by cat lovers. Strangely enough, Kliban was a cartoonist for "Playboy", contributing cartoons for that publication until his death. The cat cartoons were discovered by a "Playboy" editor and the 1975 book "Cat" was born.

        Kliban's cats are rotund bug-eyed creatures with a smile on their faces that says the joke is on you. The cartoons include the cats doing nonsensical things as well as performing deeds that you always suspected they might be guilty of as they interact with dogs, mice, people, and in some cases impersonate people. Included among the cartoons is a cat playing a banjo singing a tune of his own making with the lyrics "Love to eat them mousies. Mousie's what I love to eat...". For those that can remember the days when a television was a heat emanating device that invariably attracted napping cats there is a cartoon of a couple sitting in front of a television with a transparent cat standing in front of the screen. Their comments: "We enjoy the television set now that we got ourselves a transparent cat!". Interspersed among the "Kliban cats" are truly beautiful and elegant drawings of Kliban's own real-life cats, to whom he dedicated this book.

        If you enjoyed Gary Larson's "Far Side" series and you are a cat lover I'm sure you'll enjoy this book. I highly recommend it.

        5 out of 5 stars From the Publisher.......2005-11-05

        ENGAGEMENT CALENDAR
        "Get ready for a year of Cat gluttony and sloth, mayhem and misadventure, and--as always--a fine disregard for the law. (Laws governing physics and animal behavior come in for especially vigorous abuse from these feckless felines, as well as the law Thou Shalt Not Swipe Thy Neighbor's Sushi and that other law, Don't Juggle With Kittens.) ¶ Now in their third decade of worldwide popularity, the Cats show not the slightest sign of starting to behave like adults. Or like small-c cats, either. They will do whatever it takes to send you through 2006 with a smile on your face. Even if it means hugging a big, smug fish. Even if it means taking a bath. Even if it means missing a meal. Well, perhaps not that last one. ¶ 112 page, spiral-bound weekly engagement calendar with 53 reproductions, and clear plastic covers. Size: 6 5/8 by 8". Calendar features 53 weekly grids and full-page 2006 and 2007 yearly grids. Includes international holidays and a page for notes. ISBN 0-7649-3049-4 . . . Other calendars: wall, mini-wall, and 365-day. Additional publications available in our Kliban Gallery."--© Pomegranate

        WALL CALENDAR
        "The debauch continues. Cats have a go at Abstract Expressionism (and simultaneous inadvertent body art), feed a wild variety of birds from a park bench with nary a thought to their own nominally predatory nature, doze in the soporific vapors of a plate of pasta, and pop furtively and in sizeable numbers from the tall grass at the rustle of a sandwich being unwrapped. Other hi- and low-jinx take place as well. ¶ 13 x 12" wall calendar (opens to 13 x 24") with twelve full-color reproductions. ISBN: 0-7649-3053-2 . . . Other calendars: weekly engagement, mini-wall, and 365-day.Related items available in Kliban Cat Gallery."--© Pomegranate

        5 out of 5 stars mousie dung.......2003-06-14

        This book is my absolute favorite, I have recently decided. My B. Kliban legacy goes back, way back, to my grandmother (we call her "Darling") who fell in love with the Qats back in the seventies (now keep in mind this is not some frumpy old lady. At the time she was the coolest little activist hippie this side of South Street.) Then there's my mother, who, out in San Fransisco around the same time used to roll with laughter at the Cat cartoons with her zany friend.
        Enter me. As a kid, I never really understood Kliban--I also didn't have a cat yet. Then I did--first came Serena, then Zubi, and finally Torquil Hevoir James (AKA Booboo Kitty.) And so I loved B. Kliban. And this book is the most hilarious thing I've ever seen. Now that I'm going off to college, I think I'll frame some pages for my dorm room. And place them randomly around the campus. Most people I know who don't have cats really don't get it, but that's okay. I mean, the drawings are beautiful and whacky enough to get anyone. And the concepts--what was this guy on? Catnip, I believe. Whatever the inspiration, Cat is definitely the besties and the greaties.
        P.S. I don't actually have this particular edition of the book; I didn't even know it was still in print. I have Darling's hardcover copy from 1976, and I love the cover: "Cat" in huge red letters with two of Kliban's pen-and-ink cats looking at it from below. Beautiful, beautiful.

        5 out of 5 stars Twenty-seven Years and Still Purring.......2001-11-23

        I bought this book by accident. Well, not really, but I allowed another reviewer to seduce me into buying the new Kliban Cat Calendar and I saw this book listed as well on the calendar's detail page. I saw the words 'anniversary edition' and decided to order it. It was only after I received it that I discovered that seventeenth anniversary of "Cat" was in 1992, two years after Kliban's death. So 2002 is really the 27th anniversary. All that being said, I want to state that this little book would be fantastic no matter what it's age is, or what the age of it's reader is either. I love this book.

        There, I've said it, this crusty old man goes all soft hearted when he leafs through a 25 year old book of cat cartoons. As well he should! Kliban captures something entirely different from other feline cartoonists. They aren't kitten cute, nor are they wicked Garfields, as Art Spiegelman points out in his introduction. Instead they are the light hearted chubby denizens of a world of whimsical, good natured self-interest. They relax at the beach, dream of the stars, and steal cheese sandwiched with equal aplomb. They exchange traditional concepts of cat beauty for an enticing comfyness which only a cat lover could understand.

        Love is an important and operative word in this little volume. Not one of Kliban's cartoons is made at the expense of cats. Instead, each opens a door to the essential nature of our furry friends, and the non-judgmental affection that they display to those in their circle of trust. A snarl turns into a lick, a meow into a purr and then all is well. Kliban is the only artist I know who has managed to really capture the feline Mona Lisa smile. You know, the one that cats use to melt their owners. Cats forgive with a grace from which us humans could learn a great deal. And Kliban captures it all. Many of the cartoons are not really cartoons, but innocent studies of the artists own cats, drawn with genuine affection.

        Art Spiegelmann, artist and author of MAUS, provides a short and delightful introduction to the anniversary edition, and there are 16 pages of Kliban's color work for our further delectation. Everyone who likes cats needs to have this book around. Placed somewhere so that it will fall to hand in those irritating moments when we need to look at cats in order to remember what it is to be human.
        B. KLIBAN'S CATCALENDAR CATS
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          B. KLIBAN'S CATCALENDAR CATS

          Manufacturer: Workman pub.
          ProductGroup: Book
          Binding: Hardcover
          ASIN: B000GQ33HA

          Fodor's Great Britain 2006 (Fodor's Gold Guides)
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          • Lots to Learn
          Fodor's Great Britain 2006 (Fodor's Gold Guides)
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          Release Date: 2005-10-04

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          Sip a pint in a time-burnished London pub, go for baroque in the Thames Valley at a duke's stately home, hike by the sea along the cliffs of Cornwall, take in pomp and ceremony by the palace, or let loose at café-bars in a clubbing capital—Fodor's Great Britain 2006 offers all these experiences and more! Our local writers have traveled throughout the country to find the best hotels, restaurants, attractions and activities to prepare you for a journey of stunning variety. Before you leave for your trip be sure to pack your Fodor's guide to ensure you don't miss a thing.

          The San Francisco Chronicle sums it up best —"Fodor's guides are saturated with information."

          - We update our Great Britain guide every year. You won't find a more accurate, current guidebook anywhere.
          - Unlike other travel books, Fodor's guides rely heavily on local experts who know the territory best—so you know you're seeing the real Great Britain.
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          5 out of 5 stars Lots to Learn.......2006-08-22

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          Fodor's London 2006 (Fodor's Gold Guides)
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          Release Date: 2005-08-30

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          Take in pomp and ceremony by the palace, have tea and scones at the Queen's grocers', lift a pint in a time-burnished pub, or score at the top flea market in a noted antiques haunt— Fodor's London 2006 offers all these experiences and more! Our local writers have traveled throughout the city to find the best hotels, restaurants, attractions and activities to prepare you for a journey of stunning variety. Before you leave for your trip be sure to pack your Fodor's guide to ensure you don't miss a thing.

          The San Francisco Chronicle sums it up best —"Fodor's guides are saturated with information."

          -New compact trim size make these guides even more portable
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          3 out of 5 stars Awful, limited, with prices in pounds not dollars.......2006-05-05

          This book has a limited number of hotels, every restaurant and hotelprice is listed in pounds, which means you have to read it with your calculator in hand. Bummer!

          Al-Kitaab fii Ta'allum al-'Arabiyya: A Textbook for Beginning Arabic, Part One
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          Al-Kitaab fii Ta'allum al-'Arabiyya: A Textbook for Beginning Arabic, Part One
          Kristen Brustad , Mahmoud Al-Batal , and Abbas Al-Tonsi
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          ASIN: 0878402918

          Customer Reviews:

          4 out of 5 stars This is the 1st edition.......2007-08-26

          There's enough said about this book, I just think people should realize that this is the 1st edition and they may have a hard time tracking down the audio that goes with it

          2 out of 5 stars Everyone knows it's awful - but there's no other choice.......2007-08-07

          The only reason these books sell is that for years, there was no other real option. My Arabic teacher made the best he could of this book in our course (and he had to try valiantly), and as a tutorial the book is a failure. What is so wrong?

          1. Terribly sophisticated vocab is introduced too early; you learn how to say "United Nations" before "chair." This might be forgiveable if they would only use that vocab once and tell you what it was... but no, you will need to remember these obscure words randomly later on in exercises five chapters later. Good textbooks / teachers / classes / education of any kind use repetition and a gradual increase in difficulty. This book does the opposite. Unforgiveable.

          2. Example texts are far too difficult. It is completely brain-numbing and demoralizing to look through an example that has dozens of times the text you need - filled with vocabulary you've never seen. Often, they give you an entire page of text and ask you to find the 4% of it - in a script you are still getting used to - that is relevant to the current lesson. This unforgiveable mistake wastes incredible amounts of time.

          3. Examples are given without translation, completely undermining the utility of the examples. Einstein once said "Example is not a good way to teach; it is the only way to teach." A book that makes examples difficult by using new concepts and obscure vocabulary - and incomprehensible by then not translating - is an embarassment. Translations are missing everywhere they should be - in complete sentences, in verb charts, and even in English explanations of grammar.

          4. The book has uses an Arabic linguist fetishist approach to introducing grammar, always using the Arabic word for tenses and concepts. I'm sorry, but when English-speaking students are struggling just to get concepts like the jussive, it only makes it harder if we have to learn the Arabic word for "jussive." OK, it isn't so bad to memorize the Arabic words for "masculine," "feminine," and "dual." But "Jussive," "verbal sentence," "nominal sentence," "case endings," "subjuntive," and "verb form?" Come on, we're still stuck on United Nations which you introduced in the first chapter.

          5. OK so this isn't a flaw, but just a good practice this book skips. There are lots of things that sound very similar in Arabic, such as the words for "fourth," "Arabic," and "spring." There should be special spelling / listening sections that allow for special practice of these words.

          6. One of the most basic concepts when writing a textbook of any kind (math, language, social sciences) is to introduce simple material and examples early, and then build upon them later on. This book does the opposite. In examples and exercises, it uses grammar you don't learn about until 100 pages later. All the worse, they don't translate anything for you so you don't even realize what is going on. When writing or editing a textbook, it is the job of the authors to make sure that advanced concepts are not included until after they have been explained. A good math textbook doesn't include division in examples that are meant to teach addition. This book does far worse, and it is not a difference of "teaching philosophy," it is just plain sloppy and lazy editing.

          7. It might seem that the integration of audio, video, and visual image material is a strength of this series. It isn't. These materials seem to have been thrown in there with no regard for the grammar and vocabulary that they contain compared to the grammar and vocabulary the students have been taught. Again lax quality control about what goes in there is to blame.

          1 out of 5 stars A horrible experience.......2006-04-29

          Looking through the many reviews of this book/series, it's clear that people either love it or hate it; very few see it as "so-so".

          I'm in the "hate it" group. I used it for first-semester university Arabic, studied a great deal outside of class, got an A-plus for the first-semester course, and still didn't go on for the second semester despite having wanted to learn Arabic for years. Using this book, with its inane and kindergarten-esque exercises like "see if you can guess what ... means" and "count the instances of .... in this reading selection" was simply too frustrating to even contemplate suffering through another semester. The feelings of my classmates generally seemed to mirror my own, based on the complaints expressed both in and out of class; people dropped out like flies during the course of the semester. (The university went back to the old University of Michigan series the next year, and has reportedly vowed "never again" re Al-Kitaab.)

          Arabic is a very difficult, if fascinating, language, and given its cultural and geopolitical importance, it cries out for a good set of initial learning materials. This series (except for the initial book that teaches the sounds and alphabet) isn't it.

          5 out of 5 stars Absolutely Brilliant.......2005-10-22

          The book will teach brillant Arabic as long as you are not foolish enough to attempt the study of this language on your own. You should have either a native Arabic speaker (or a professor with a strong Arabic background) teaching you. First off, this is because a language is a means of communication and as such must be taught via communication. Secondly, it will insure you practice Arabic in a conversational manner in which you are constantly thinking about how to formulate sentences and ideas, not by just parroting a DVD. Also, the book is wonderful in the sense that it does not translate. You are not meant to speak Arabic while thinking in English (or any other language). Formulating your thoughts, ideas, words, and sentences in English first is a mark of a poor language-learner. You should switch to thinking in Arabic. You don't need to know the English words/transliteration for "taa marbutaa" or "shadda" "al-quamariyya/al-shamsiyya" because you can read and pronounce the Arabic. Thus, you must take the words in Arabic because they explain Arabic concepts in an Arabic style of thinking. What this book does, in conjunction with good teaching (if you are honestly serious about learning Arabic, by the way, you will go to a university where you can get the professors who wrote "al-kitaab" as your professors, as they will be the best teachers), is eliminates using English as a bridge into Arabic. You must jump the gap from English to Arabic yourself. Should you fall, either pull yourself out, or go find that easier path(which guarantees that while you may learn to speak and understand Arabic, you will never be more than a foreigner in Arab culture), or switch languages. Preferably to an ancient language, which deal only in translation and English equivalents.(Plus, it's enjoyable literature. I recommend Catullus and Ovid, personally).

          1 out of 5 stars Poor Quality.......2005-07-26

          This book is poorly written for those learning Arabic. The introduction of vocabulary is extremely sloppy, the drills need considerable improvement and some need to be eliminated because the difficulty level is too high, grammatical explanations are weak, later grammatical things are put into earlier chapters without explanation, and grammatical things are explained out of order. This book can only be used with heavy supplemental instruction and material from an instructor. I cannot express what a huge disappointment this book is. I will say that the authors' first book Alif Baa, which introduces the Arabic alphabet, is very useful. I would suggest going through Alif Baa, then going into Standard Arabic: An elementary-intermediate course by Schulz, Krahl and Reuschel. That book has very thorough grammatical explanations,good drills and can serve as a good reference grammar. A separate two-tape set can be purchased for it.
          Al-Kitaab Fii Ta Allum Al-Arabiyya, a Textbook for Beginning Arabic, Part One
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          Al-Kitaab Fii Ta Allum Al-Arabiyya, a Textbook for Beginning Arabic, Part One
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          5 out of 5 stars Excellent Series for learning Arabic.......2001-04-13

          As I was instructed by Kristen Brustad and Mahmoud Al-Batal (two of the authors), I may be slightly biased; However, this series of books and methodology are an excellent, comprehensive way to learn Arabic reading and writing, along with differences in dialects and cultures as well as a solid basis for learning the spoken language. The accompanying audio-tapes will add to the learning process for those who aren't immersed in an Arabic speaking environment. Of course, conversation practice and immersion are still the best way to truly learn the spoken language. I would highly recommend this book, as well as it's predecessor, Alif-Baa (an introduction to Arabic where you learn the alphabet and some basic vocabulary and grammar) to anyone wanting a good place to start learning Arabic. The books make learning Arabic fun and relatively easy, considering most "Westerners" initially find the language quite intimidating.
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          Answer Key to: Al-Kitaab fii Ta'allum al-'Arabiyya: A Textbook for Beginning Arabic, Part One
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          1 out of 5 stars Why is the price on this book inflated?.......2006-08-04

          The same book is available from the publisher for $4.95. Then why is the price on this book almost 10 times as high on Amazon??

          3 out of 5 stars Not helpful but..........2004-11-04

          ...if you email the pubisher, you can get it for free. It's really only the monologues (off the cd's) and doesn't give 99% of the answers to the exercises in the book. Even with the lowest of expectations, you'll be disapointed. If you actually pay for it, you'll be angry too.

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