Sterling Reviews

I found this book to be very helpful on the manufacture and history of this style of silver jewelry. The price guide at the back of the book gives the collector a good reference of how much to pay at a flea market or antique shop. Many pictures, a few that are a bit fuzzy. The pictures are all in black and white. I thoroughly enjoyed this book.

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Don't feel comfortable with the planet your on? Change your body to cope with the environment! This book explores one possible future for humanity - better living through genetic engineering! Set against a backdrop of a seedy, corrupt, solar system, we are shown the survivalist nature of mankind at its best (and worst). sexy, explosive, witty and pure science-fiction, this highly underrated book is well worth a read!

B&B owner Brynn Sutherland handles stress in a unique manner by sleepwalking. She worries about getting too much nocturnal exercise in when her former lover Cade Hunter arrives at her B&B. Cade is working undercover to keep the woman he never stopped loving from harm as he and his superiors think she is a target of a serial killer.

When Brynn sleepwalks into his bed, Cade keeps her safe. He even suggests a cure that they visit their old hangouts so that she can resolve what is bothering her from the past. She agrees, desperate for anything that will let her remain in her bed for the night. That is what she felt she wanted but soon realizes her subconscious is not stressed, as her mind wants her body in Cade's bed permanently.

This heated tale is 95% contemporary romance and 5% serial killer suspense. The story line focuses on Brynn's sleeping disorder and Cade's efforts to use that to help keep her in his life with her safety taking a back seat to all else though hr rationalizes that his bed is her safest spot. The characters are a fine couple sharing a strange courtship, but fans need to know that the intrigue is a minor device to enable Cade to go to the B&B, something he could have just done without the impetus.

Harriet Klausner

As a biography, this is a well-written piece that covers Sterling's life and career from a pro-Sterling perspective. Larry Woody obviously has an affinity for Sterling and his family, which shines through. Providing a bold overview of his career, Woody shows Marlin as the tough, dedicated racer he is and the strong family man that he is, too!

I'd have liked to have read a bit more detail on Sterling's early career...Woody seems to sweep over the late 70's and early 80's in just a few short pages. Sterling's years at Morgan-McClure and Ganassi are given the most prominence. On the positive note, the book covers all the way through Sterling's injury at Kansas...you can't get much more up-to-date.

From a design/image perspective, the book is hit-and-miss. It features some awesome early photos of Sterling, both on and away from the track. Plenty of pics of him with the family and from his teen years, which are stellar.
The on-track shots leave a lot to be desired. Whoever designed the book did not get very high-res photos from the races, so many images of Sterling's rides are blurry, out-of-focus, or just plain awful. Plus, the book doesn't show images of his Sadler Racing or Stavola Bros. cars and barely any of the Sabco years images. The cover design could've been a bit more dynamic, too.

I haven't checked out the CD-ROM that's included yet. It's supposed to contain original music, screensavers, images, and stats.

This book is pretty essential for Sterling fans. We're not likely to get a tell-all like Junior's "Driver 8" or Tony Stewart's "True Speed" any time soon, so this is as comprehensive a book about Sterling Marlin as you could ask for.

This book is a great resource if you are looking for general descriptions of the hundreds of different types of sterling flatware pieces - it goes well beyond the standard place setting and serving pieces. However, it would be better if it had better photos of some details and the price guide is very general - it does not value specific patterns.

"Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar" is the fifth book in the Tarzan series and is generally considered one of the better of Edgar Rice Burrough's tales of the Lord of the Jungle. Tarzan once again returns to Opar, the source of the gold for lost colony of fabled Atlantis. Ever since Atlantis sank beneath the waves, the workers of Opar have continued to mine the gold. Tarzan follows a greedy Belgian and Arab into the jungle, where the evil pair manage to stumble upon the lost city, at which point our hero loses his memory after a fight. This is good news for La, the beautiful high priestess who serves the Flaming God, because she has had that big crush on the apeman since their first encounter. However, while his amnesia opens the door for her amorous advances, her high priests are vowing that Tarzan will not escape their sacrificial knives a second time. Meanwhile, Jane is in trouble back at their African homestead. As you read "Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar," you will pick up on the fact that Burroughs liked the character of La a lot more than he did that of Jane Clayton Greystoke (who he would attempt to kill off in a few books). Of course, this second visit to the land of Opar is not as exciting as the first and the amnesia bit is pretty old hat, even for Burroughs. This is definitely one of the author's pot-boilers and for the pulp fiction era it is pretty solid stuff. Things get a bit predictable, but the tension between Tarzan and La gives the book a bit of bite. You just need to make sure you go through the first four Tarzan books before you read this one, or you are going to be a bit lost.

This volume (which contains more than ten short stories, by the way) feels like a younger cousin to his earlier Unlikely Stories Mostly. Gray create intelligent stories that are sometimes odd, sometimes enigmatic, often subtle, and occasionally quite over the top. If you're familiar with Gray, this book continues in the spirit of his other work.

If you're not familiar with Gray, you should know that Gray writes, illustrates, and lays out his own books. He treats the book as a single physical artifact by paying attention to issues like pagination, layout, and integration of covers and title pages into the artistic whole of the book. If you like that kind of thing, he's worth looking at. If you like contemporary authors like William Gass or John Gardner, give him a try. For most readers Gray needs some easing into, and I would recommend you start with this book or Unlikely Stories Mostly.

With four contributors, including Neils jansen, this book of 160 pages and published in 1979 gives an excellent global overview of trucking.

The book is divided up into; Britain, North America, Australia, Western europe, Eastern europe, The Middle East, Africa, and latin America, Latin America. Eastern Europe is divided further into seven chapters, each chapter dedicated to one or two countries.

There is also a chapter entitled 'The Truck Hobby'

The book is a mix of colour and black and white photos, none of which appear to have been lifted from truck brochures. This makes the book refreshing and all the more interesting. The text appears to be reasonably accurate.

Recommended

I admit at the outset that I am not a wine-lover. I drink a glass of wine every evening because it is said to be healthful, and I don't sip wine while chewing gum, but, okay, usually I cannot distinguish one wine from another without reading the label. So I could probably write a more informed review of a book about toilet tissue. Still, I don't believe this book is altogether wasted on ignorant readers like me. Ms. Sterling's prose opens an appealing and beautiful window into the California Wine Country, as seen by someone who lives and works on a vineyard there. The reader comes to appreciate, and sympathize with, the labor-intensive nature of wine-making, and the countless and challenging factors of climate, weather, soil, parasites, barrels, farming decisions, and nearly endless intangibles that determine the volume and the quality of the yearly vintage. Even more important and more visible in this book is the love that accompanies the labor: love of the land and its seasons, love of the process, and especially love of the final product, with all its subtleties and nuances.

The text does provide information, but this is by no means a text in oenology. Instead it is a rhapsody on making of fine wines in the singular and fortunate environment of California. The accompanying photographs, which constitute more than half of the book, not only harmonize with the prose but also stand alone as superb examples of photographic art. The photographer (and co-author) is a master of light, skilled at achieving dramatic, evocative, and downright beautiful results even in conditions that are photographically marginal.

Quibbles: there were a few terms that my dictionary did not define; perhaps a short glossary would have been useful. And I wish the figure captions had been placed adjacent to the individual photographs rather than on a list at the back of the book.

In summary, this is essentially an art book, a coffee-table book, that can be enjoyed and savored like the wines it describes. It has certainly made me rethink, if not yet revise, my habit of wine-as-medicine.