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Couples who know how to give each other extreme intimate pleasure enjoy plenty of other benefits, including reduced stress and increased closeness. In this hands-on guide to getting it right, behavioral scientists Steve and Vera Bodansky describe how to give and receive remarkable orgasms, taking the experience of sex to a new level of enjoyment. Focusing primarily on women but addressing the needs of men as well, they cover anatomy in detail, address inhibitions and fears, suggest useful exercises, recommend the best positions, and most of all offer insightful advice for every technique covered. While the authors include emotional and psychological components of a relationship, they focus on how and where to touch a partner to produce the most pleasure. No matter how long a couple has been together, it's never too late - or too early - to greatly enhance sexual response.
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almost too much to handle.......2006-05-23
Forgive me if this review is incoherent but since mastering the techniques in this book I have been either in the midst of a massively explosive shooting forth of love snot from my lust cannon or recuperating in a pile of my own sweat in a post orgasmic stupor. This book will make you spurt more than a knight in a monty python dismemberment scene. I really can't speak for your lover, as my senses have been so overwhelmed by the intensity of my orgasms that I can't really tell where I am or what's going on or who is gasping for air under the weight of my wang.....
This book was great! For me!
Informative but the Title Is Misleading.......2005-02-01
On page one, Dr. Steve Bodansky says that his first words to his wife were, "My name is Steve, and I'd love to do you."
Now don't anyone tell me Steve wasn't trying to make people like me laugh just so he could say, "Hey, man, if you think that's funny it's only because you're out of harmony with your own sexuality." I'm not complaining though. If that's the attitude it takes to write a 200-page book on the details of sex that few people ever talk about but everyone wishes they knew, so be it. I don't care who you are, you will learn some helpful things from this book. It explains in detail the purpose and function of all those parts of the genitalia that leave most members of the opposite sex (whatever that happens to be) kind of confused.
The book's one major flaw is that the authors define orgasm to mean any heightened state of sexual arousal, not just climax. So they make it sound like they have discovered some forbidden secret when they claim orgasms can last for hours, but all they really mean is that it is possible to stay turned on for a really long time. The term "Extended Massive Orgasm" is just a marketing gimic, but the book is still very worthwhile.
I'm not sure how useful gays or lesbians will find this book, since its main value is in helping people understand how the other sex's plumbing system works.
Real "HOW-TO" Not a thin read for the toliet or airplane!.......2004-02-28
A Gentleman's take on EMO:
Every book has negative reviews. But the ones in here for this book must come from people who definitely did NOT READ THE BOOK!
If you are looking for a smut book, this is not it. If you are looking for some magical gimmick, there are none in life.
The Bodansky's put out their first book on ESO, (now EMO), back in the early 80s. I thank god for it! Otherwise I would have never known all these years what a couple could earn if they are willing to learn. It is so sad that so few have any idea what Great Sex really means.
This is not a book that is going to give you some quick gimmicks to quick orgasms; or some 'new position' that will light you on fire. (It's so funny to hear when some people equate the mystery of great sex to some mystery position).
One caveat: If your partner isn't likely to try something like this, you'll simply need to upgrade to a newer and more versatile model. For the most part, the benefits of this book require the full participation of both parties, (not one).
In summary: This book goes into the physiology & psychology of intimacy, (trust building exercises to how to control and enhance the partners level of arousal). This newer edition expands greatly on the first!
If only this book was distributed like books of faith, most of our world's problems and pains would be gone.
Not for a guy to know.......2004-01-23
Only about female self-stimulation!
Women Empowerment.......2003-10-29
This book is an instrumental source towards female liberation in the greatest sense. The Bodanskys crumble patriarchy with their emphasis on female pleasure and orgasm. Pleasure is a broad term that transfers from the bedroom to positively influence every other aspect of life. It teaches people in a very compassionate and empathetic manner to love yourself first, communicate and live from and out of your truest desires...which are all possible! Let's leave the puritanical work ethic behind--why not work and live life with joy, PLEASURE, and lots and lots of love! Who could ask for anything more--well perhaps abundance, which the Bondanskys are also no shame about--lots and lots of orgasms or just one long one and lots and lots of pleasure! Hey, time to take our pleasure seriously (in a fun sort of way). This not only boosts women's moral, confidence, and feelings, but also that of men--as they say, when men center their attention on female pleasure, women take men to places they never ever could have gone alone! Althoug this book, techniques they share, and the beliefs they purport are critical to female liberation, there is no second guessing that when women are free, men and children as well as society/governments also receive the flow of excitment and joy that women are born to live from and express! Enjoy! Let's change society, relationships, ourselves by giving ourselves a chance to experience joy--Men are you along for the ride? You'll miss out if you aren't...and we don't want that to happen, now do we.
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In this fully illustrated book by sex workshop leaders Steve and Vera Bodansky, readers delve deeper than ever before into the actual techniques for prolonged orgasm. Written for men and women, straight and gay, the book graphically, playfully, and sensually discusses the best hand and body positions, the enticements of teasing and begging, and the subtle intricacies of peaking and coming down. It also reveals little-known erogenous zones, giving specific information on the sensitivity of each area. While Extended Massive Orgasm focused on female pleasure, the authors have devoted 50 percent of this book to techniques for men. The book includes a Q&A section along with the extensive drawings and photographs.
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A Must-Have Reference Book.......2007-08-29
When you add it all together: the illustrations, the genius of Drs. Steve and Vera Bodanky and what they have to say, and the ease with which you can learn about and practice what they teach about how to give more pleasure, this book is a sure-fire win! Run, don't walk, to buy this book for your permanent reference library.
impressive.......2006-08-12
This is an amazing book. I have taken workshops in this area before and paid a lot of money for them; and the illustrated guide makes it accessible to anyone for only a few dollars. With the great illustrations that show you exactly how to hold your hand and how to sit and specific instructions on what to do and how to talk to your partner when having sex, it makes a difficult subject seem so functional and fun. The book takes you from step one on teasing and lubricating to really advanced techniques such as extending the peaks and how to insert with your second hand that i did not know before. There is no fat here only solid meat. The book does not go into detail discussing interecourse or oral sex but the authors explain why and if you want a book on intercourse then look elsewhere but if you want a book on great techniques and insights and expertise in creating pleasure then buy it.
it really works.......2006-07-30
i am writing this review because this book and the work of the Bodanskys has made a huge difference in my life. Although many of the reviews are positive I do not understand some of the negative ones that dismiss this book as fluff etc. as the information is the most advanced and useful out there. These people obviously never did the work that is necessary to change their limited sex lives. Using ones hands sexually is obviously not the only way but to create pleasure but to learn how to use them properly and sensually takes time and will benefit all of one's sexual activities. i am forever grateful for having received this knowledge.
Full of Fluff.......2006-07-22
This is a great book to buy anyone first learning about sex, but if you are looking to further your relationship, this is not the book.
The entire book could have been written in 10 pages, but the authors found a way to fill over 225 pages with fluff.
If you are looking for something to expand your horizon, read Clint Arthur.
rolls royce of sex books.......2006-06-15
the illustrated guide to extended massive orgasm is by far the best sex book that i have ever read. It is filled with useful information such as how to seduce your partner into bed, and what to do with them to give them the most explosive and fantastic time once you get there. I really loved this book, the illustrations are also terrific,to the point, and very professional and this book is a classic.
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- an excellent introduction
- Insufficient as a stand-alone textbook
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Ever since James Watson and Francis Crick proposed their double-helical structure of DNA in 1953, biology has been in the throes of a revolution in knowledge at the molecular level. This Schaum's Outline was written to help bring order and understanding to this rapidly expanding field. As a succinct overview of the subject, it will supplement any molecular biology course or provide the foundation needed for advanced courses. The text material is presented in a question and answer format; each concept is explained as an answer to a specific question. At the end of each chapter are objective questions of several kinds; multiple choice, true-false, fill-ins, and matching. These objective questions can be used to evaluate the extent to which the text material has been mastered, while also preparing the student for this kind of examination format.
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an excellent introduction.......2007-10-15
I am a Macromolecular crystallographer and have never formally attended any courses on molecular biology or biochemistry. I find these Schaum series books to be very useful. They are very concise, and provide all the information one needs to achieve a good understanding of the basic concepts and terminology. Another advantage is that they are paperbacks and easier to read compared to the heavier and more detailed texts like Stryer or Lehninger.
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SCHAUM'S OUTLINES MOLECULAR AND CELL BIOLOGY.......2000-04-23
I consider molecular and cell biology an excellent review book for people who want an introduction of the field. Also it can help readers who want to refresh their knowledge. It is well organized, in fourteen different chapters, with multilple review questions and answers in each of them. I found the coverage of each chapter comprehensive. Objective questions at the end of each chapter helped to assess your level of understanding. I certainly recommend this book to people who study biological related sciences.
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- Massive change
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Massive Change is a modern illustrated primer on the new inventions, technologies, and events that are affecting the human race worldwide. The book is a part of a broader research project by Bruce Mau Design intended to provoke debate and discussion about the future of design culture, broadly defined as the "familiar objects and techniques that are transforming our lives."In essays, interviews, and provocative imagery aimed at a broad audience, Massive Change explores the changing force of design in the contemporary world, and in doing so expands the definition of design to include the built environment, transportation technologies, revolutionary materials, energy and information systems, and living organisms. The book is divided into 11 heavily illustrated sections covering major areas of change in contemporary society #151; such as urbanism and architecture, the military, health and living, and wealth and politics. Each section intersperses intriguing documentary images with a general introductory essay, extended captions, and interviews with leading thinkers, including engineers, designers, philosophers, scientists, architects, artists, and writers. Concluding the book is a graphic timeline of significant inventions and world events from 10,000 B.C. to the present.
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Massive change.......2007-03-08
Excellent vision and unhappy scenarios are show us. How could we do this? It's time to change!
Robson Quinello
An optomistic view of mankind's future.......2007-01-13
An excellent look at the challenges and possible solutions facing the human race. My only complaint is that the book is a bit dated, but its perspective is future proof. The concept of the Institute without Boundaries is especially interesting.
For every dreamer...........2006-02-24
Bruce Mau is more than a designer. He is a futurist who has swapped fatalism for idealism. His vision of the future is based on facts, but you feel his undertone of optimisim. Massive Change is an utterly interesting read from cover to cover. The structure of the book and the writing style makes it a great resource of information. Massive Change is a necessity for the bookshelf of every intellect and every dreamer.
Missed opportunity.......2005-10-26
Bruce Mau's previous book - "Life Style" - was a pivotal publication that had something very fundamental to say about the practice of design. The argument woven into this survey of Bruce Mau Design's portfolio derived its edginess from an underlying, existential dilemma. On the one hand, Mau wanted to do justice to design's capacity to give "style" to sprawling, viral "life" (originally a very Nietzschean concept, later taken up and politicised by Foucault and Deleuze). On the other hand, there was the fear for the domestication of his practice to the status of banal, lifeless purveyor of images and artefacts - global capitalism's lingua franca. This tension between subversion and acquiescence turned "Life Style" into a poignant testimony.
Massive Change is, I am sorry to say, a much less compelling read. It takes its cue from Life Style's key idea - design is able to reformat the very principle of life - but dispels the darker, problematic side of the equation. Indeed, although Mau would like us to believe otherwise, the book's perspective is squarely utopian. In adopting as its motto theme "Now that we can do anything, what will we do?", it echoes the pragmatist voluntarism of the peer-to-peer movement. But the dissonances - P2P's paradoxical (symbiotic/parasitic) relationship with capitalism - have been filtered from the echo. What remains is the suave message that technological progress - shaped and harnessed by design - will be able to solve all our problems if we only want it to.
So, although Massive Change promises to bring us a "wildly unexpected view of the future", it really doesn't reach beyond the intellectual horizon of, say, a special issue of Scientific American on "Key Technologies for the 21st Century". The material is conventionally organised in sections that review the state of the art in urban planning, transportation, energy, information, material sciences, military technologies, biotech etc. Only two chapters discuss governance issues ("market economies" and "wealth and politics"). The relatively meager substance comes from short interviews with a series of "experts" in the disciplines surveyed. The selection is very US-centric and contains quite a few usual suspects (Dean Kamen, Stewart Brand, Lawrence Lessig, Jaime Lerner, Hazel Henderson etc).
By now we are also well acquainted with Mau's cinematic and fractured style in book design. "Massive Change" doesn't break any new ground compared to previous volumes (not only Life Style but also S,M,L,XL (with Rem Koolhaas) and the Zone series of books). What was once truly refreshing is becoming stale. By the way, the short interviews are printed on glaringly yellow pages, which I find positively ugly.
All of this is disappointing. I can think of two explanations for the intellectual and stylistic flaccidity exhibited in this volume. First, we are missing the incisiveness and depth that Mau's sparring partner Sanford Kwinter brought to "Life Style" (In my opinion, Kwinter's three-page lead essay was worth the price of that book). I am not sure what happened between Mau and Kwinter, but the latter is almost completely absent from this volume.
Then, although this is not be obvious at first sight, "Massive Change" is not really a Mau book. In fact, it has been largely put together by Jennifer Leonard, one of the students from the inaugural year of the Institute without Boundaries (a newly established postgraduate education programme whereby students spend a full year in the Mau studio). So, although Mau's name figures prominently on the cover, inside we learn that the Institute led the research, development, design and production of Massive Change.
I can't recommend this volume. "Massive Change" is a missed opportunity.
AWESOME.......2005-09-30
I can't stop opening up this book and reading it. It's my daily bible for information. I'm addicted!
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The eBook revolution is upon us. Now anyone with a computer can write and publish their own eBook. But writing a book that will sell is another story! Best-selling authors Jim Edwards and David Garfinkel take the mystery out of creating an online bestseller. The rules are different than for conventional in-print books, but they are easy to learn and profitable to follow. EBooks create credibility for the author and a steady residual income. Some authors receive thousands of dollars every month for their eBooks. Plus, they have avoided the hassles - and need to share profits - that come with traditional publishing. EBook author Stuart Lichtman raked in $61,662 in eBook sales in the first four-and-one-half weeks after publication, using the advice contained in eBook Secrets Exposed. He says: "This book is a godsend for anyone who writes or publishes books on the Web." If you have ever dreamed of becoming a best-selling author and doing so on your own terms, then eBook Secrets Exposed is the first book you should read!
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Overpriced For The Information.......2006-11-12
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Overpriced and short on specifics.......2006-10-06
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Ebook Secrets Were REally Exposed.......2006-08-03
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Whether you lust after it, loathe it, or feign apathy toward it, fame is in your face. Cintra Wilson gets to the heart of our humiliating fascination with celebrity and all its preposterous trappings in these hilarious, whip-smart, and subversive essays. Often radical and always a scream, Wilson takes on every sacred cow, toppling icons as diverse as Barbra Streisand, Ike Turner, Michael Jackson, and-for obvious reasons-Bruce Willis. She exposes events like the Oscars and even athletic jamborees as having grown a "tumescent aura of Otherness." Wilson's scathing and irresistible dissections of Las Vegas as "the Death Star of Entertainment," and Los Angeles as "a giant peach of a dream crawling with centipedes" pulse with her enlightened rejection of all things false and vain and egotistical. Written with her trademark zeal and intelligence, A Massive Swelling is the antidote for the fame virus that infects us all.
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The Definitive Snarky Pop-Culture Bible.......2006-08-07
If you have a love-hate relationship with our celebrity culture, this is a book you must read. Both grudgingly admiring and sharply critical, this book discusses our fascination with celebrities in an always hilarious and sometimes even enlightening way. Topics discussed include Michael Jackson, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, the allure of boybands, plastic surgery, eating disorders, drugs, Tina Turner, rock n roll, and Bruce Willis. Every chapter is funny and insightful. And come on, doesn't any book with the subtitle: "Celebrity Re-Examined as a Grotesque Crippling Disease" deserve your $10?
Highly recommended.
Spot-On Commentary on our celebrity-obsessed culture.......2005-10-11
This is a book that sorely needed to be written. It may be several years old, but it was new to me.
With a piercing wit and a sharp tongue, Cintra Wilson cuts down to size some of Hollywood's biggest celebrities. The result is both funny and sad at the same time. Funny, because it's always entertaining to see the rich and famous make fools of themselves in the pursuit of even greater fame, power and money.
And sad, because it's pathetic to see the extent to which some of these people are willing to debase themselves in order to maintain their status once they become rich and famous, especially those that have questionable talent to begin with. Even sadder is the fact that masses of people all over the world idolize them.
With their self-indulgent behavior often disguised from the public or cloaked under a veil of piousness (i.e, Ethan Hawke, Tom Hanks) Wilson reveals how some of liberal Hollywood's biggest names are about as morally bankrupt as the staunchest right-wing conservative.
What makes this book carry even more weight with me is the fact that it was written by someone who describes herself as being "about as liberal as they come". But Wilson's commentary is far and above the type of one-sided and one-dimensional whining about Hollywood and the "media elite" one gets from the likes of Rush Limbaugh, Bill Bennett, and other purveyors of right-wing bile.
[Aside: I once saw Bill Bennett walking in downtown Washington, DC; the man's belly was the size of three pregnant women combined. I mean, it was just enormous; someone needs to tell him that gluttony is no virtue (and neither is gambling, for that matter...he he :-)].
But back to my review...
In a few cases, Wilson details specific incidents of outrageous or attention-seeking behavior on the part of certain celebrities, identifying the person by name - Barbara Streisand, Keeanu Reeves, Cher, Courtney Love, Celine Dion, Michael Jackson (Dion and Jackson receive a particularly delicious skewering).
But in other instances, she refers to "a celebrity who shall remain nameless". For example, I would love to know the name of the ogre who for no reason at all drew a gun and shot someone's watch. I wondered why some of them were named while others not. (Threat of lawsuits would be my guess).
Predictably, some of the celebrities' bad behavior involves sexual improprieties. In fact, the book is filled with accounts of people who have literally prostituted themselves for fame.
My one (and very slight) criticism of "A Massive Swelling" has to do with Wilson's writing style, which can only be described as idiosyncratic. She has a tendency to write in run-on sentences, which require several re-readings to understand. However, this is a small complaint and it in no way diminishes the value--and timeliness--of this hilariously entertaining book.
Hip and hilarious prophecy.......2005-06-02
Hip and hilarious pop culture uber-critic, Cintra Wilson, traces the imagery of the last 25 years of American celebrity icons to illustrate the emotionally warping effects of the desire for fame. Wilson takes on Michael Jackson and the fading stars of the Vegas strip to show the disastrous consequences of an unbridled need for public attention and adulation. She compares the rock music of earlier generations to the fly-by-night pop stars of the last 20 years to illustrate how corporate marketing of the arts has drained them of their soul and genuine sexual potency in favor of product endorsement and marketability, however short-lived and disingenuous.
This obssession with appearances-over-content is most evident in Hollywood's current fervor for plastic surgery, now so ubiquitous it's hard to find examples of real bodies undergoing the real aging process. Naturally this affects women more than men as large-breasted supermodels are juxtaposed with petite, ever-virginal female athletic competitors and the spectre of the female form on display in beauty pageants.
However, this is not a feminist diatribe against objectification nor an intellectual's disgust with the banality of America's pop culture tastes (though Wilson is indisputably both a feminist and an intellectual). Wilson's voice serves as something of a moral prophet, condemning both the twisted values of the privileged and of their worshipful consumers. Narcissism and self-loathing (a combination Wilson epitomizes with the likes of Bruce Willis, Barbra Streisand, and Woody Allen) are the hubris of a culture in which one gets fame by being famous (i.e. marketable) rather than by having done anything noteworthy.
Wilson concludes by showing the negative influence of fame on the arts themselves. Since money now instills value and fame has become its own reason for existence, the traditional cathartic purposes of art have been lost almost completely. People seek simply to be entertained rather than to exorcise the truth of the human experience in the relative safety of artistic pursuits. The tragic result is what Wilson astutely calls an audience "now so empty and well trained and schlock-addicted that it is indeed moved by these fatty theatrical dry humps and keeps coming back".
like Tarantino swallowed the Oxford English Dictionary..........2005-04-01
this book is not without its faults. I must admit feeling like a pervert signing it out at the local library thanks to the title and cover picture. Wilson has talent--there's no debating that. At times her prose sparkles with brilliant wit and insight, the cumulative effect being a knife-job on her deserving targets. But she never digs deep enough to get really intimate, relying more on a cursory glance and quick synopsis of a plethora of topics within our diseased societal attraction to celebrity and other issues. Perhaps she knows the topic too well and the plastic world she surveys becomes a part of the style and substance of the story she describes.
The prose in spots is unbeatable but let me express one caveat: Wilson often indulges in description ad nauseam and there are enough capitalized words here to do serious damage to the trachea of a hippopotamus. Strunk and White would probably suffer immediate apoplexy upon reading three sentences. The ending goes into a self-help rant for those needing a final kick between the eyes to really get the message home. In short, 5 stars for the spots of great writing and originality; 3 stars for the bad writing (editor needed) and aftertaste.
One of the funniest, most biting books ever........2005-01-13
This is pure comedy. And pure satire. Cintra Wilson's writing is at once warm and cutting. Her plunge into celebrity culture is illuminating, disturbing and highly entertaining. This is great reading, and you'll want to return to it over and over again. Highly recommended.
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THE BIGGEST SUDOKU COLLECTION YET
Carol Vorderman, international Sudoku expert, has done it again!
In Master Sudoku, she introduced America to the popular new number logic game, taking players from novice to expert in 200 puzzles. Now, she brings us Carol Vorderman’s Massive Book of Sudoku, the largest collection ever—containing more than 400 puzzles ranging from easy to super difficult, as well as several new, ultrachallenging kinds of Sudoku for you to try. Also included here are the rules of Sudoku and Carol’s insider tips, so that even a beginner can become a master. Carol Vorderman’s Massive Book of Sudoku is perfect for the already addicted Sudokuist or any puzzle lover just discovering the game that’s sweeping the world.
Customer Reviews:
Who are you calling an international Sudoku Expert.......2007-03-09
The book is good, not too expencive, a lot of puzzles for everybody... But what's with the times? I timed about half the puzzles I did and I scored the highest amount of points easely every time, and then the "Carol's time" that shows up every ten puzzles or so. I beat 'Carol' every time too and SHE has the title "Sudoku Expert". I'm sorry, but that just bugs me. If you're gonna give categories of what's good and what's not yet so good, make categories that will push people to be better.
Sudoku makers don't realise that there are people who aren't beginners anymore...
Besides that, the book's pretty okay
A good "carry-around" sudoku book.......2006-11-10
This is a great book for the sudoku addict to carry on vacation. Puzzles range from very laid-back to rather fiendish (including some jigsaw and giant). I recently survived a trip across the Atlantic by working on ever less demanding puzzles as my fatigue increased. I also used some of the really simple puzzles to answer "how on earth do those work?" during family visits. Even though I often work on super-difficult puzzles, this is not a boring book for me.
One of many Sudoku books.......2006-04-29
This book contains many puzzles with multiple skill levels. The author has other books and I find the puzzles very stimulating.
More from Carol Vorderman!.......2006-02-09
Of all the sudoku books I've bought, my favorite has been Master Sudoku by Carol Vorderman. Its hundreds of puzzles have kept me happily sudoku-ing since last summer, and it's nice to have 4 levels of difficulty to go back and forth between--sometimes you feel like a quick & easy one and sometimes you feel like one that will take some work and concentration to crack. She also has one of the best and lengthiest explanations of sudoku strategies to have yet appeared in any of the books.
Also, a diabolical innovation: suggested finishing times with a points-scoring system makes even the easiest ones challenging.
Massive Sudoku is more of the same, with some improvements. She reiterates the same strategies as she did in Master Sudoku; don't look here for more advanced ones, but what she lays out will get you through this book. Even a novice can start with this book without having tackled Master Sudoku first, although Master does work through puzzles of each level step by step and contain a bit more solving detail.
But if you already know how to solve and just want more, more, more! this is your book--400 puzzles, an interesting new variation where the sudoku blocks aren't perfect squares, and not only timed and points-scoring opportunities but every so often a puzzle has Carol's time posted for it. Who can help but want to pick up that thrown gauntlet?
I'm off for a vacation next week and bought this for it but I've already cheated and started playing with the puzzles in this. However, I've no doubt it will keep me happily puzzling through my vacation and beyond!
From the Board Games Editor at BellaOnline.com.......2005-12-13
This is a great follow-up to "Master Sudoku", Vorderman's first sudoku book. That book is an ideal starting point for both new and advanced sudoku-ers, and this book is no exception.
She re-covers most of her techniques in this book, so if you already own Master Sudoku, you'll find yourself skimming most of the introductory material, but she does go into some interesting discussion about the sudoku craze.
The best part of this book, though, is the bang for your buck value... 400 puzzles for only ten dollars (many puzzle books are 100 or 150 puzzles for the same price). And the quality of the puzzles is high, so it's a good investment all around.
Book Description
Massive Resistance brings together ten essays that critically assess southern white resistance to school desegregation. The collection examines in close detail the practice of massive resistance, revealing the ideological and tactical divisions that characterized the southern white response to civil rights protest as well as the illusion of the union of racial moderates and extremists in what has been called a solid white South. The essays also look at white resistance through gender issues, the wider context of international Cold War politics, the critical backlash against Brown, religious and theological bases of resistance, the events of Little Rock, private education as an alternative to desegregation, and the intellectual foundations of massive resistance.
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Science Fictions recounts the most notorious biomedical scandal of our times: the Robert Gallo affair. It is not, author John Crewdson says, "about AIDS. Nor is it really about science." Indeed. It is a tale of behavior most base in circles most rarified.
In 1983 Gallo, of the National Cancer Institute, and a group of scientists at Paris's Pasteur Institute announced their isolating of separate AIDS viruses. The stakes--moneyed prizes and patents, not to mention cures--were stratospheric. By 1985, the Pasteur Institute filed suit claiming that Gallo--whose discovery was actually a dead end--had appropriated "their" virus as his own. In 1992, the National Academy of Sciences agreed, accusing Gallo of "intellectual recklessness" and "essentially immoral" behavior.
This definitive, chilling book is also, unfortunately, a daunting one. Its sheer size--notes, glossary, and list of characters alone occupy 100 pages--and scientific complexity will defeat all but the most determined and scientifically informed reader. --H. O'Billovitch
Book Description
In this riveting, magisterial narrative, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist John Crewdson shows how one of America's star bioscientists falsely claimed to have been the first to isolate the AIDS virus, then garnered the resulting honors and riches at the expense of the true discoverers in Paris; how the Reagan and Bush administrations struggled to cover up the truth; and how it all finally came out anyway, at the expense of the reputations of celebrated scientists and important government officials. SCIENCE FICTIONS is an arresting tale of vanity, corruption, greed, mendacity, and cutthroat competition-an enthralling revelation of how big bioscience really works today.
Customer Reviews:
Still a classic.......2006-05-12
This book is still a classic in science history. Crewdson's work began as a series of newspaper articles in the Chicago Tribune. The other great book, although that author's premise is wrong, is "The River." These two books tell the scientific history of the AIDS epidemic in its early years. Along with "And the Band Played On" they are required reading to understand what happened. I relied on these books to write the chapter in my own history of medicine. "Science Fictions" is not only informative but it reads like a detective story.
AIDS industry professional says this is essential and vital reading........2006-03-27
John Crewdson's extraordinary investigation, unrivalled since Watergate, reveals the awful truth of the misappropriation of the French isolate of HIV by Dr Robert Gallo at his laboratory at the US National Institutes of Health, and exposes the cover-ups of this by the US Health Secretary and the directors of the US Department of Health and Human Services. Multi-millions of dollars were at stake, careers hung in the balance, and the political reverberations over ten years enmeshed Presidents Reagan and Clinton along with French PM Jacques Chirac. The greatest tragedy Crewdson reveals is that AIDS research was entirely derailed by these dark scientific acts and the political infighting caused HIV-infected blood to flood US's blood-banks because the US government refused to use the French HIV test, with the US test known to be fatally flawed, as Crewdson reveals. Crewdson deserves not only the Pulitzer but the Nobel for this painstakingly thorough masterpiece of investigative journalism. It also reveals the startling fact that publication in a scientific journal, which confers cachet to the researchers, involves personal prejudice, scientific wheeling-dealing and is a back-scratching nightmare designed to promote vested interests. As CEO of Positively Healthy, the world's longest-established gay men's holistic AIDS charity, I can not recommend this book highly enough. It is essential reading, not just for those who are HIV-positive or work in the industry, but for all those who enjoy a masterly detective story.
A riveting non-fiction thriller.......2004-06-29
This account of the discovery of the AIDS virus and the machinations and lies and trials and tribulations that followed was riveting. This book had me glued to my seat. Highly recommended.
Outstanding.......2003-02-16
Finally a book that puts all the pieces together. Having performed the initial flawed AIDS tests, I have always wondered at the political ramifications. And having worked as a Blood Banker for many years, I can only feel sadness knowing how the nation's blood supply was affected by the greed of one man. This book really needs to be made into a movie so that the public and politicians alike can understand how egos and politics can cause so much damage. I particularly like how the author intersperses true incidents where innocent victims contracted HIV because of the flawed Gallo AIDS test we were forced to use. This really drives Crewdson's point home. A job well done.
watch your back.......2002-08-18
What I found most interesting about the book is the description of the appalling research culture at the NIH. This is after all the world's best funded and perhaps the world's leading biomedical research institution at least in quantity of output if not in quality. The book makes it more than clear that the institution was aware, tolerated, and at times rewarded research ethics that stink to high heavens. The possibility that the likes of Gallo and his supervisors may have influenced a generation of scientists is truly appalling. Never having worked at the NIH itself I find it now much easier to comprehend the behavior and the social norms of my NIH trained colleagues. I therefore highly recommend to anybody planning to work at NIH or having to work with alumni of this institution.
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