Kitty City : A Feline Book of Hours

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The Perfect Gift.......2005-10-08

When I gave this as a gift to cat-loving friends I knew I was doing the right thing. It has been received with great appreciation, not only for the subject matter, but for the beautiful way it was written and illustrated. Judy Chicago is a master at what she does.

An Intimate Look.......2005-06-14

Kitty City: A Feline Book of Hours caught my attention because of the author's name, Judy Chicago. I have always admired her work in the world of fine arts. This book is a wonderful surprise. It is beautifully illustrated and truly influenced by the illuminated Book of Hours treasured during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. The pleasing illustrations are enhanced by the use of gold and vellum.

To my delight, the reader is allowed a very intimate look at the life of the artist with her husband and their feline family. The day-to-day joys as well as life's harsh reality in the loss of a loved one.

Kitty City makes a great gift for anyone that has ever loved an animal or is interested in feline history and feline facts of life. Little known tidbits about cats and their place in the world add to the uniqueness of this book.

An artist's perspective of Kitty City.......2005-06-13

As an artist and an animal person, I treasure this exquisite book. Not only is it beautifully painted (in the challenging medium of water color no less!) but it has a rich feel of the Medieval with its purples, golds and parchment divider pages. Hence the sub-title, "A Feline Book of Hours." I share my home with several cats as I have my whole life. This book honors cats by not just showing one's daily routine with them, but also shows the dignity, courage and humor cats possess. It also shows, from the artist's perspective, the joys of daily life in the companionship of cats and the tragedy of inevitable loss.
It is a joy to see cats represented as the unique creatures that they are by one of the most gifted and brilliant artists of our time.

Judy Chicago - Another Winner!!!.......2005-06-13

This book is exquisite: well-researched, superbly-written, and the art is incredible! I love cats and love art - she has done a masterful job capturing the feline essence, and the relationships she and Donald have with their cats.

I've been sharing my life with cats for twenty years, and thought I knew feline behavior and physiology pretty well. She taught me things I never knew before.

I plan to give this as a gift to many of my friends. I am proud to have it as a part of my personal library. It is a true treasure that I will always cherish. Every time I open it, I find something new to marvel at. Her feline companions are very lucky to have found her; her love of, and understanding of, those she has made a part of her family, shine through on every page.

Bravo, Judy!

Judy Chicago again shows her creative versatility.......2005-06-09

If you are familiar with Judy Chicago's work, you know that endless hours of research precedes each project, and this one continues in that tradition. The text is lively and informative, and the illustrations prove once again what a fine artist Judy Chicago is. Her sense of color is just amazing. Even if you're not a cat lover, this book is a treasure.

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Kitty City: A Feline Book of Hours
Judy Chicago
Manufacturer: Collins Design
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OF5BV4

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Mike Mignola returns with his first new Hellboy collection since 2002's Conqueror Worm. After leaving the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense, Hellboy's travels take him briefly to Africa, then for a two-year stint at the bottom of the ocean. An ancient witch doctor, a giant fish woman and keeper of the secret history of the universe force Hellboy to either accept his role in the coming apocalypse, or have that role stolen from him. Weird undersea creatures and talking lions populate this turning-point adventure, which reveals secrets buried since Hellboy's very creation. This volume collects Harvey-and-Eisner-award winner Mike Mignola's Hellboy series The Third Wish and The Island with over a dozen unused pages and a new epilogue.

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Mignola's Hellboy at his very best.......2007-09-07

Hellboy is one of the stalwarts of comics today - since its creation in the early 1990s, Mignola's work on the book, from his witty, well-researched writing to his deceptively simplistic, blocky artwork, has never dipped in quality. Indeed, in this sixth volume of Hellboy, Strange Places, we find Mignola at the very height of his narrative and artistic powers.

Having left the BPRD (Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense), Hellboy travels to Africa, where he eventually ends up in the depths of the sea and runs afoul of the Bog Roosh, a dreaded sea monster, and three mermaids, and is made prisoner. After achieving his freedom (I won't tell you how), Hellboy washes ashore on an island that has become a ship's graveyard and holds a castle harboring dark secrets - secrets related not only to the occult origins of the earth, but also something very close to Hellboy.

While Hellboy is, without question, a sort of postmodern horror comic, Strange Places is especially powerful in its ability to merge and re-interpret fairytale and folk motifs (mermaids, etc.) as well as literary influences (Mignola notes that the latter parts of the volume were inspired by famed horror author William Hope Hodgson). It is by turns moody and jovial, light and heavy, violent and spirited. Not to be missed.

Graphic SF Reader.......2007-09-04

The final Hellboy volume is the weakest of them, so far. It is split into two longer stories. In the first, Hellboy has some submarine work to do, as a seawitch tries to get some mermaids to given him a direct infusion of iron via his cranium.

The second takes him to Africa to deal with a witch doctor.

A little more is seen about his background, as well.

Anung Un Rama - The Key and the Crown .......2007-07-24

Anyone familiar with Hellboy knows he has been fighting Nazis and demons and other, more bizarre, beasts since his inception back in WW II. The problem with all those battles is that they really had no personal meaning because, in the end, they never really addressed the truth that Hellboy fought inside. He has collided with Rasputin and stopped what Rasputin thought was the end-all, sure, and he has turned aside the temptation to take the world and pave the sky with blood. Still, there are the inner demons within the demon that even he does not understand; the hand and the key, Anung Un Rama/ Sancti Abjura - the true name he wears, Ogdru Eb Jurhad - the seven crawling in their abyssal skyline, and all the fights he has fought do not address the fact that demons keep talking about his future and that he was made - not born. In this lifetime he has been walking in a man's world, too, doing a man's deeds and hoping this was enough to redeem the humankind. He has even been filing his horns and courting the dominion of love, hoping beyond hope that these things could be his. Still, he is no man no matter what he wants and the other books have explained that as they have battled little evils and bigger demons while expunging answers in the aftermaths. Now, it has come to see the broader strokes and this book starts setting up that sight.

The Third Wish
In The Third Wish, Hellboy find himself in Africa seeking answers as to why he exists. He seeks council from a holyman, and in the process he finds himself ensnared in another battled that seeks to claim his soul and, respectively, his hand. This leads him into the depths with three Merfolk, all wanting a wish from a seahag called the Bog Roosh, and it is here, in the cave of the Bog Roosh, that Hellboy finds out how the things he has seen and the other things, Hecate and Baba Yaga amongst those, play out as pieces in a game that can undo the world - and more.

In The Island even more is uncovered, explaining everything that Hellboy is and even more in an attempt to bring fans up to the place they need to be so they can see the coming tide. This is possibly the one story that covers every angle that could be covered with Hellboy, telling of the dragon and the hand and the things that came before. While I cannot say much on the subject without giving something beautifully-conceived away, I can say that this is one of the most important stories made that covers what Hellboy is and what the prophecy is all about.
It also shows that Mignola wants to make things move; he has made things and he has contorted reality and now he is taking the three major stories he has produced and begin the motion of a clock he has always meant to tick.

For anyone that notices something different about this book, it is because there is something starkly different. This book isn't the same "Nazi-fighting" that Hellboy normally finds himself in but is instead the beginning of something new, heralding "the something" coming. While it didn't seem like it at the time, a new series has appeared to continue this, Darkness Calls, and shows that Mignola isn't becoming tired of Hellboy or that he wants to try something different that involves a new character. Mignola has simply been doing other things and has, for some time now, been trying to build Hellboy up to where an audience understands his plight and how much he has at risk. Without his strides into the realm of mortality we wouldn't know about his friendship with Abe or his kinship with other people in the B.P.R.D., or the fact that he really does love Liz Sherman. That took a lot of Nazi-bashing and a lot of demons mentioning who he was to get through to us all, droning at the fact that Hellboy is meant for something bigger.
And now something bigger is at the door, knocking.

For fans of Mignola, you know what you want and you know how Mignola tells a story. He builds pieces upon pieces, hiding things in the open as he layers around them, and he likes to use fairytales to make things seem timeless and beautiful. That was what the Bog Roosh was, and that was something of what The Island reflected. Moreso, however, it was all build, wanting to see how things are set into motion.
For anyone keeping score, Mignola doesn't disappoint and this comes HIGHLY recommended because it really does serve a purpose aside from the stories themselves.

Good Hellboy right here..........2007-07-03

Ok...I just finished this one "and it is good" - a quote from Spinal Tap (If you don't know what Spinal Tap is, get a life and buy it) Mingnola has done a great job and continues to please the masses with his quality comics and movies...If you have not read this and are a fan of "Hellboy" comics get this...it is a trip to say the least.

Mignola Tiring of Hellboy?.......2006-10-12

I adore the artwork of Micheal Mignola, one of the rare current artists whose work, IMHO, puts him in the pantheon of classic comic-book graphic artists. I also get a huge kick out of his Cthulhu-mythos-inspired character, Hellboy. However the horror-action-adventure fun doesn't automatically put Hellboy in the category of great graphic novel, and this outing is not nearly, IMHO, on the level of masterworks like CONQUEROR WORM or WAKE THE DEVIL. The tales here ramble A LOT and the thrust of the earlier stories, where Hellboy struggled against his 'destiny' to determine his own fate, is severely weakened. Nevertheless the art is the usual great stuff!

Having quit the BPRD Hellboy finds himself in Africa with a sympathetic shaman (shades of Solomon Kane!) However a decidedly UNsympathetic sea witch has designs on our hero and sics a trio of dim mermaids on him. The Otherworld weighs in once again to add some additional gloom to the darkness of the deep.

In chapter II Hellboy surfaces to find himself on a cursed island and is faced with a new problem person: an undead (and long-winded) priest of the Ogdru Jahad who lays out the prehistory of our boy's dark destiny.

Mignola finishes up this trade paperback with unfinished artwork for the original version of part II, which was originally somewhat more inspired by parts of the William Hope Hodgson tale, the "Boats of Glen Carrig." It's a nice view of how a comic story is developed visually.

If you're new to Hellboy, don't start here!

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Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Shoots and Scores (Uncle John's Series)
Bathroom Readers' Institute
Manufacturer: Portable Press
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This collection of slap shots, high sticks, and toothless grins offers fans everything they love about hockey: its colorful history, legendary players, and enough hard-hitting trivia to occupy even the most avid stat head. The latest title in the new Uncle John’s series dedicated to the wide (and weird!) world of sports, Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Shoots and Scores shares the origins of the "Coolest Game on Earth," the greatest teams in hockey history, the best (and worst) hockey movies of all time, the Incredible Exploding Zamboni (and those who lived to tell the tale), a rap sheet of hockey arrests, goalies' superstitions (Patrick Roy's conversations with goal posts; Glenn Hall's pre-game gastric cleansing), and much, much more.

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Bathroom Reader Institute Staff
Manufacturer: Raincoast Book Distribution
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000K6IKTM

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The Three Colours Trilogy by Krzysztof Kieslowski (1941-1996) is generally regarded as a major triumph of European cinema. An examination of how the ideals of the French Revolution--liberty, equality and fraternity--have meaning in modern life, the trilogy combines visual elegance, narrative complexity, and virtuoso performances to extraordinary effect.
In this highly personal appreciation of the trilogy, Geoff Andrew analyzes how Kieslowski used his command of the cinema to open up the inner lives of his characters and to chart the way in which these lives are ruled by unseen forces. For Andrew, the trilogy is a poignant, thrilling hymn to the resilience of compassion in the face of adversity. Tracing the links between the trilogy and Kieslowski's earlier work, he argues that Blue (1993), White, and Red (both 1994) are the summation of Kieslowski's art. This book, which concludes with one of the last interviews Kieslowski ever gave, is a tribute to an exceptional filmmaker.

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A Concise Guide to One of the Greatest Films.......2006-08-02

To comprehend Kieslowski the film-maker is an intellectually arduous task, and those who are interested in how his Polish identity manifested itself in his non-Polish films might make better use of Emma Wilson's 'Memory and Survival: the French Cinema of Krzysztof Kieslowski' (Oxford, 2000). It is fairly correct to say that Geoff Andrew was not interested in that. Publishing his book for the first time in 1998, only two years after Kieslowski's death, Andrew's main purpose was to offer his insight, as a film critic, to Kieslowski's tour-de-force, especially in the light of uneven critical reception of the trilogy.

Andrew's fascination with `Three Colours' definitely makes his book an engaging and illuminating reading. At the same time, this book cannot be passed for yet another summary of the films' plots, simply because it goes well beyond that. It is probably useful to remind oneself of the difference between a plot and a story and of the fact that the story (i.e. what happens) tells relatively little about its author's potential; it is the plot ('how' the story is happening), together with authorial structure and style that does. Taking `Three Colours: Blue' for example, its story is very simple: a woman who lost her husband and child in a car crash, is trying to rebuild her life. The work begins when we ask, who the woman is, who her husband was, how she may rebuild her life, how she is actually rebuilding it, etc. The fact that all this is told in connection with ideas of liberation and freedom (because the French 'liberte' carries both meanings) adds further complexity to the story.

As one knows, most films reviews seldom answer questions like these, simply because they require attention to detail that 500 words do not allow for. This, however, is possible in a book. Andrew painstakingly collects scattered details, to tell us, what sort of character Julie is. He also studies the dead husband, whose character is easy to ignore altogether. We are told early on that Julie's husband was a famous composer, but when I was watching the film I noticed the same point, upon which Andrew remarks in his study: it looks kind of strange that a classical composer so effortlessly produces a marketable piece of music, commemorating the unification of Europe. If anything, it does raise questions as to how serious a composer he is; and a suggestion that he could have been helped in writing his music seems therefore all the more valid. Andrew pays attention to this episode, which in a way is pivotal for Julie's `awakening'. This very detail, however, continues to elude some critics, despite its overall importance. Without it, Julie's own musical talent is hugely underplayed, whereas the theme of love as liberation and a creative source (but also as a realm of delusion) does not resonate as much, as Kieslowski certainly intended.

What Andrew is doing therefore is plucking out these `elusive' details, in order to show us, how truly genuine were Kieslowski's last films. One may say, of course, that such purpose did not require a book, but one should also admit that most viewers will only pick upon the majority of details, if they sit through the films at least three times. And since we are discussing a film, then the story evidently unravels not only in words, but in frames, colours and sounds, which further complicate its grasping. In the chapter on `White', Andrew studies the different and often ambiguous use of the white colour, to illustrate how it corresponds with different ideas that Kieslowski communicated in this film. The use of music is central for `Blue', while `Red' is visually and intellectually impressive for its camerawork and direction of photography, which does require a viewer to check on their attention. Andrew rightly suggests that `Red' is the sum total of all three films, which is why it is both so remarkable and so complex.

This book is indeed a summary, but of a kind that many films could only wish to have. It is intelligent, fairly easy to read (especially if the reader has seen the films) and helps to systematise Kieslowski's technique and ideas, as they emerged for the last time in his career. As Andrew indicated in the Preface, his was `an "auteurist" study', and not an investigation into prices and individuals, let alone into the "politics" of `Three Colours'. This is one of the reasons for why he draws continuous parallels between this trilogy and `Decalogue', as there are many recurrent topics, ideas and even techniques that make `Three Colours' belong to the realm of ethics, rather than politics. Andrew also specifies that Kieslowski himself was adamant that his understanding of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity must be seen as personal, and not politically infused. What we have, therefore, is an indispensable systematisation of one the greatest works in film history, a gateway for further research into Kieslowski's work, as well as a good example of an in-depth, yet concise, film study.

Three colours: grey.......2002-05-27

Even at the time of its release (1993-94), Kieslowski's 'Three Colours' trilogy (in which the ideals of liberty, equality and fraternity embodied in the French flag are ironically applied to such dilemmas in modern life as grief, communication in a media-saturated culture and post-communist capitalism) was seen as the last gasp of a 'world cinema' auteur tradition that had flourished in the 1950s and 60s, but had become virtually moribund by the 1980s. At the time, however, reviews were mixed: some critics were in raptures at the rare, spiritual power of these films, treasuring their exploration of inner lives, and holding them as a Fine Art stick with which to beat the commercial inanities of modern Hollywood; others decried Kieslowski's rejection of a political cinema, his retreat into a self-indulgent, decorative, bourgeois-currying aesthetic of the individual.

Geoff Andrew was, from the start, one of Kieslowski's most ardent acolytes, but his study of the trilogy is wholly inadequate as an analysis of Kieslowski's complex art. Film editor for listings rag Time Out, Andrew doesn't progress beyond the insights offered in original newspaper/magazine reviews, and his prose is littered with the kind of quotable hyperbole designed for snipping from articles and pasting on blurbs and posters: 'an extraordinarily affecting triptych', 'deft black comedy', 'Kieslowski's greatest achievement'. The whole point of this BFI Classics/Modern Classics series was surely to go beyond the platitudes of contemporary opinion, and put the works in some kind of context or framework.

Andrew's study is the kind of bland, untheoretical fanzine that used to pass for film criticism in the 60s - the films are treated as simply the poetic inspirations of a great auteur. There is no attempt, for instance, to see how issues such as finance might affect certain aesthetic decisions (casting, location etc.), or what the contributions of other personnel might be. Kieslowski's intellectual and cultural heritage as a Pole, a reader and a film-maker is ignored as if he was a singular genius who emanated from the ether, untouched by environment, circumstance or influence.

After a brief sketch of Kieslowski's pre-'Three Colours' career (which is extraordinarily reduced to the level of films anticipating the trilogy, rather than major works in their own right), the 'analyses' of the 3 movies are actually mere synopses, while the 'critical' chapters, charting thematic and formal connections, and links with Kieslowski's previous features, never gets beyond mere listing, never coheres into anything resembling an interpretation. The density of these playful, ambiguous, deeply ironic films is reduced to the trite, touchy-feely Disneyesque message 'Love conquers all'. Worse, the films themselves are discussed as if they were mere screenplays, in terms of plot and character, as if they were books; anyone who has seen a Kieslowski picture will know that these are the least interesting elements (or, at least, that they are undermined by various formal and narrative procedures), and to properly interpet Kieslowski, a detailed, informed account of his style is needed. On the DVDs of the films there are interviews with his editor Jacques Witta, and masterclasses from Kieslowski. These interviews show how profoundly meaning derived not from plot or character, but from complex decisions about editing, timing, rhythm, colour, texture, framing, sound etc., about how material that was shot but didn't work in the editing suite could be abandoned or rearranged. Anyone who wants to gain a greater understanding of these elusive films would do better to skip this book and get the DVDs instead.

amidst a slew of details, nothing really new.......1999-12-19

First, beware the cybershopper: this is an *extremely* slim volume. The contents make up a scant 80 pages. Thick, glossy paper quality, which showcases film stills extremely well, and a six-page interview with Kieslowski at the end, but the writing is less than satisfying. Andrew tends to run to extremes - most of the time his "analysis" consists of painstakingly assembled narrative details from the three films (expounded at length over individual synopses of the three films), and when he does take a shot at analysis, he tends to draw grand and general conclusions for which the evidence is found wanting. The author prefers to rhapsodize about the role of chance and destiny in the Trilogy, when an introductory discussion regarding the precise meaning of the *title* and how it is expressed in the film might have seemed more proper. In a sense he can't be blamed for this, since this is his own take on the trilogy and he is free to think whatever he thinks - in fact, he apologizes early on that this tome represents a non-definitive (meaning personal) take on the trilogy from the viewpoint of an "unrepentant admirer". However, in this sense each and every passionate viewer of Kieslowski could have written his or her own book, with no more and no less merit for publication than Andrew's. In sum, if you are already initiated into Kieslowski, there is nothing in this book that a good second (or third or fourth) viewing of the films will not give you (but to be on par with this author be prepared to hit the"pause" button every five minutes - gotta spot that portrait of Van Den Budenmayer's on the judge's desk!), and if you are a novice, this is not the book to start with. Watch the films again, carefully, and let your mind draw its own conclusions.

A great complement for any Three Colours enthusiast........1999-08-22

If anyone has reservations about delving into the "What does it mean...?", this book is a great safety net, or better yet, a guide. There are very thoughtful analyses of the movies on an individual basis as well as a single trilgoy.

The bio on Kieslowski is very brief, and there are few mentions about the actors and actresses themselves. But a small trifle...

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Included in these eighteen essays by Cone are his never-before-published essay, "The World of Opera and Its Inhabitants," the unabridged version of "Music: A View from Delft," an introduction to this collection by the author himself, and a complete bibliography of his published writings.

"This selection of [Cone's] writings includes all the most incandescent and influential articles. We should have had such a book long ago."—Joseph Kerman, University of California at Berkeley

Winner of the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award for 1990

Music : A View from Delft. Selected Essays by Cone, Edward T.; Morgan, Robert

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Music : A View from Delft. Selected Essays by Cone, Edward T.; Morgan, Robert
Edward T. Cone; Editor-Robert P. Morgan
Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
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Not as Entertaining or as Informative as it Should Be

Classic tales and lessons that are still applicable today

You Can Always Learn From A Champion

Bobby Baldwin's Winning Poker Secrets (Great Champions of Poker)
Mike Caro
Manufacturer: Cardoza
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Binding: Paperback

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This is the fascinating account of former world champion Bobby Baldwin's early career playing poker in roadhouses and against other poker legends and his meteoric rise to the championship. It is interspersed with important lessons on what makes a great player tick and how he approaches the game. Mike Caro, a poker great himself, and Baldwin, both of whom are co-authors of the classic Doyle Brunson's Super System, cover the common mistakes average players make at seven poker variations and the dynamic winning concepts they must employ to win. Endorsed by poker legends and superstars Doyle Brunson and Amarillo Slim.

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Not as Entertaining or as Informative as it Should Be.......2007-04-20

This is a slightly re-worked version of Mr. Baldwin's book of the same title published shortly after he won the wold series of poker main event in '78. The forward indicates there was a big demand for an updated reprint, although I wonder why (see below).

The book consists of a memoir of Bobby's gambling and playing days, starting as a schoolboy and working through winning the main event. At key points in the story, when he encounters a new poker game for the first time or runs into a common gambling problem, it waxes pedantic and gives the reader advice on that particular game or issue.

The problem with this book, and the reason I give it such a poor rating, is that it's not really any good as a memoir or poker manual. It flops on both fronts.

The memoir side isn't particularly interesting. Instead of recounting gambling tales that would be interesting to the reader (as Doyle does in his excellent Wisdom of a Poker Champion), it covers events from his personal life that were important to him (ie. wooing his various girlfriends) but that are just plain boring for the reader. This pattern is repeated throughout the memoir with one exception: the tale of how a group of kidnappers/killers almost ended his life (and did kill several others) over a gambling fortune they thought Baldwin had was engrossing. But most of the rest is banal - him driving somewhere and almost running out of gas, stuff like that. Unfortunately, the writing is not particularly good, so getting through the slow parts is even more of a chore.

As a poker manual, the book is likewise poor. It gives about 2 pages of very general information about each of the poker games popular at the time, many of which aren't commonly played today. The advice is OK as far as it goes, but isn't detailed enough to comfortably sit in even the lowest limit versions of those games. In that sense it is far inferior to what you could learn by reading the Supersystem chapters on the same games (all of which appear in the original Supersystem, not Supersystem II). This book probably once filled a niche for a low cost, low-content book covering a range of games, back when Supersystem cost $100 (in 1980's money). But now Supersystem costs a fraction of that, the standards for poker instruction manuals have risen 100-fold, and this book is at the back of the pack.

There is one section of this book that I do feel is worth your time: Bobby goes into some depth on the perils of extending credit to your gambling opponents, and provides some good advice how to make sure you get paid if/when you do. Everything he says on the topic is spot-on, and I think that one section may be worth the price of the book for some readers. If you've got a lending-related leak, then I would say this is a 5-star book for you since one bad loan prevented would easily pay the cover price.

Unfortunately, one good section doens't make for a good book. In retrospect I wish I had spent my money on something else and that I could get a "refund" for the time spend reading the 90% that was neither interesting nor informative.

Classic tales and lessons that are still applicable today.......2004-12-03

Bobby Baldwin was a big-bet winner and was respected and feared by everyone we played, including all the "legends" like Doyle. The average or new fan to poker should note that this book went out of print for a long time and was very hard to get a hold of! There are no magic bullet secrets in this book (as it may imply) but the lessons taught about poker and life apply in Baldwin's time as it does now.

This is a fascinating account of former world poker champion Bobby Baldwin's meteoric rise to the championship. Covers everything from his early days playing poker in dangerous roadhouses to his high-stakes poker games against other poker legends.

You Can Always Learn From A Champion.......2004-08-24

I enjoyed reading about Bobby Baldwin's rise to the WSOP Championship back in the 1970's. I don't want to tell you much because it defeats the purpose of getting the book other than this:

A. There is poker information in the book. Nowhere near as much detail as Super-System, Sklansky's books, or the Cloutier/McEvoy books. However, every bit of information from a World Champion who now runs the MGM Grand, The Mirage, Bellagio, etc. etc. etc. is useful.

B. Baldwin's life is pretty interesting, and you'll find that his road to becoming the WSOP Champion is quite surprising. I would never have suspected his life had so many twists and turns. It makes for a good read.

C. The book doesn't disclose much after he "retired" and went to work for Steve Wynn at the Golden Nugget other than to say he rose up the ranks quickly, worked at the Mirage, then the Bellagio, and Kirk Kerkorian kept him on when MGM bought everything up. Nor does it say what his motivation was for getting a job.

I think that would have been an interesting subject to cover considering Baldwin didn't need a "regular" job unless he had lost all desire for the game at that time. What were the motivations of a professional poker player to leave the game? I know Baldwin is rumored to play in high stakes side games from time to time still - I'm sure that's probably been part of his job to entertain clients, but why he left the poker scene is a question I'd like to see answered from a professional/personal viewpoint. That kind of insight could literally be applied to every session of poker: Knowing when to quit.

I gave it four stars because I enjoyed Baldwin's story and I felt it had quite a few pieces of useful poker information. Whether it's about bankroll, game theory, starting hands, etc.

There's enough in here that if you pay attention to what Baldwin went through (I.E. Pay attention to when Baldwin gives up betting on sports.) that you'll figure out how to become a better professional poker player in the long run.

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Bobby Baldwin's Winning Poker Secrets

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Binding: Paperback

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From the publisher: A poker breakthrough! Dynamic winning formulas for seven-stud, five-card draw, high-low split, hold em, draw lowball, five-stud, seven-card lowball, deuce-to-seven... Bobby Baldwin defines the action approach to winning... You learn how to build a bankroll and how to keep it.

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Bobby Baldwin's Winning Poker Secrets
Bobby Baldwin
Manufacturer: CARDOZA PUBLISHING U
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000K71LVA

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SPSS 13 Student version.......2006-11-03

I have tried for years a lot of demo, free and shareware related to statistics, econometric and data analysis software. It was good, tired, and finaly I choose SPSS, because has excelent tools, options and interfase to user. Not PC crashes, no unknown format files. If you no not have enough money, don't waste time and money, use SPSS Student version.

Perfect for small projects!.......2006-07-08

Note: SPSS 13.0 for Windows Student Version cannot open data files containing more than 50 variables or 1,500 cases. Having said that, if you have less than 50 variables and 1,500 cases to deal with then this is the software for you. It came with a (brief) 227-page users guide that was pretty comprehensive all by itself. Order the SPSS 13.0 Guide to Data Analysis to go with it, and you have just about everything you need to fiddle with and learn the basics of statistical analysis.

Excellent for SPSS and statistics students.......2006-03-10

I have used this product in a research methods class and found it to perform quite well. While it may not have all the features of the full SPSS package it is more than adequate and does not require the student to pay the hefty fee of the full version.

Very disappointed.......2006-03-02

Beware - if you buy the student version it is not big enough to run the files necessary that you work on in class. Nowhere did it indicate on the Amazon site that it had limits of file size. Wouldn't one assume that if you are selling a "student" verson, that it will be able to run your school files? Don't buy it if you are a college student and need this software to complete your projects. I wasted $80 plus dollars. Didn't learn of its limitations until AFTER I loaded it, and when it wouldn't work found the limitation statement in the manual. Very disappointed.

If your Statistics Class text uses SPSS and did not include it.......2005-12-18

SPSS Student is a dremendous value: over 75% off the retail version and nearly as powerful. It is limited, but is more than adequate for most cases you will encounter in class.
If you need a more advanced package, get SPSS Career Builder or SPSS Graduate Pack -- they include the full version of SPSS.

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