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The Urban Treasure Hunter: A Practical Handbook for Beginners

Michael Chaplan

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Total reviews: 13 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Best book for new treasure hunters 5 out of 5 stars.
13 of 13 people found this review helpful.

I am just beginning my hobby with a metal detector. I purchased several books on treasure hunting and this is by far the best. It has a broad range of extremely useful information. By all means start with this book if you too are a beginner. Most of the other books I bought had a lot of fluff. This book has a ton of useful information and guidance.

The metal detectors guide book 5 out of 5 stars.
5 of 6 people found this review helpful.

This book is an invaluable resource for the beginner and even the intermediate detectorist. It has filled me with new ideas of where and how to search for lost valuables and coins. The tidbits on history and archeology were most interesting.

Great book with lots of tips 5 out of 5 stars.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful.

No matter what your treasure, be it coins, bottles, or somethisg else, this book has great tips on where and how to find it. I originally bought a copy for my son and was so impressed that I bought another copy for myself.

Hoping for more 3 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

I was hoping for a little more technical stuff with this book. It talks
about old buildings, privies, new construction sites, and etc. to look for
things. I wanted techniques in the handling of the detector. Not so much as
where to go. To me, it's a book about common sense. Overall, I would
recommend it. It is helpful in a few areas.

Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories

Chuck Palahniuk

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Total reviews: 25 Average rating: 3.5 of 5

Some stories are slow, but overall worth it. 4 out of 5 stars.
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Many other reviewers have noted that some of the stories in this book are slow and dry. The drawn out descriptions of the castle builders immediately comes to mind, as does the personal story of Juliette Lewis. But overall this is a worthwhile look into the mind and life of one of the best authors of our time. I feel like I know Chuck Palahniuk on a more personal level now, and that's what I was hoping for. I find him a fascinating man, someone I would love to sit down for coffee with. With that desire in mind, I am very happy I waded through this book.

Editorial Review:

Chuck Palahniuk’s world has always been, well, different from yours and mine. In his first collection of nonfiction, Chuck Palahniuk brings us into this world, and gives us a glimpse of what inspires his fiction.

At the Rock Creek Lodge Testicle Festival in Missoula, Montana, average people perform public sex acts on an outdoor stage. In a mansion once occupied by The Rolling Stones, Marilyn Manson reads his own Tarot cards and talks sweetly to his beautiful actress girlfriend. Across the country, men build their own full-size castles and rocketships that will send them into space. Palahniuk himself experiments with steroids, works on an assembly line by day and as a hospice volunteer by night, and experiences the brutal murder of his father by a white supremacist. With this new direction, Chuck Palahniuk has proven he can do anything.

Two Knotty Boys Showing You The Ropes: A Step-by-Step, Illustrated Guide for Tying Sensual and Decorative Rope Bondage

Two Knotty Boys

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Total reviews: 45 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Tried and tied and loved it 5 out of 5 stars.
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A great book on Shibari. Well illustrated and photographed. The knots are delightful and fun to tie on my special someone.

Editorial Review:

When Two Knotty Boys, Dan and J. D., began teaching rope bondage together in 1999, they discovered that most people learn best when they're shown — close up, step by step, and repeatedly — how to tie basic knots and combine them into bondage techniques. It is this learning process that they duplicate in this book. With the help of world-renowned photographer Larry Utley, they use over 750 photos and captions to explicate the soup-to-nuts techniques for turning great knots into great bondage that is safe, sensual, attractive, and effective. Readers can learn at their own pace, review whole techniques at a single glance, or even lay it flat on the table (beside their blindfolded partner) and follow along as they tie. Two Knotty Boys Showing You the Ropes appeals to those interested in improving the quality of their sex lives, not to mention aficionados of bondage and discipline/sadomasochism (BDSM), both curious newcomers and serious players alike.

How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization

Franklin Foer

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Total reviews: 81 Average rating: 3.5 of 5

this BOOK should be "relegated" (hope you know the term) 1 out of 5 stars.
4 of 7 people found this review helpful.

I could write another BOOK as to why this tome should NEVER have been written.
For all those who understand my title caption of the review,no more needs to say. For the USian uninitiated to world football, you can look up the concept of 'relegation' on internet, no problem and you will understand what I mean by this title.

1st , a side note, if you really want an educated and informed story of the HISTORY of futebol* (*fútbol, calcio, fussball....PLEASE no call it 'soccer', hahahahaha!), read the englishman David Goldblatt's remarkable book "the Ball is Round" (or as we say , "A bola é redonda"!).

Em Breve, Mr Foer is a newcomer to the beautiful game, and has NO historical background for it.

Mr Foer writing a book on futebol can only be equalled as a supremo absurdo , if , por ex. Madonna (the singer) wrote a book on Cabala (Jewish numerical mysticisms that she experimented , and well documented by the USA "news" media, ih!!).

Or Michael jackson writing a manual on, say " how to romance women in ten easy (moonwalk) steps" would be another humorous(?) way to view this ???

Either way, Mr Foer has not the background , even with the research he did (and I commend him for that), he has no "muscle memory" regarding great moments of futebol both distant and recent past.


How can he describe how ,ex.~ in 1982 , Rossi's THREE gols destroyed one of the best seleção brasil even appeared on a pitch, what it meant to Rossi personally in his life,italia and brasil em geral...How can he know, futebol did not even exist for him in 1993, alone 1982!

He can research it, but can he feel this in his bones , not only as an italian or brasilian can, but almost ANY longtime football fanzaço do/did?? I am STILL torn between my admiration for the seleção and my beloved Azzurri of the impact of Rossi's momentary brilliant light that Copa!

NO, because he is from USA where futebol is STILL out of favour, even if milliards and milliards of immigrants and children of soccer moms play futebol daily at their neighborhood pitch, the sport gets minimal press, and is denigrated regualr basis by these sportstalks show idiotas, more/less!

A note-- Mr Foer is editor of a center-right journal in USA.

I had hoped this would have minimal influence on his "new love for the game" when he writes this book (which for reason unknown, is found in the POLITICAL SCIENCE section of local book stores!!!???)

,That this book is in the Poli Science section seems to denegrate political science discourse, as Mr Foer's book is a "lightweight" and more belongs to ficcion than poli-sciences.

Mr Foer's futebol "worldview" seems to be that of a partisan right winger/ super patriot (pun intended, obvious I mean his political preference), and this premeates the book perspective.



The first chapter, he rehashes what he has READ from futebol books written in Engleesh,after this "lesson" about futebol, he is to make right wing politics out of each passing chapter, including a chapter where he berates "soccer moms" as being "left wing" and goes on the attack! (??)

Personally,it seems that most USian "mammas" become very CONSERVATIVE after having children, and I make a guess more than a few these women voted BUSH as for the "opposition", no??

(I think there is even a study-report that "liberal" people become more conservative in USA once with child/children, no??)

If I remember, and I believe it so as it got me quite angry at time I read this book, Mr.Foer also attacks liberal parents in the book,I not impressed by that at all to publish derogatory comments about one's famiglia.

Sad sad, as I see it.

Again, Mr Goldblatt's book is poesia (or romantic prosa), a loving and THOROUGH history of the beautiful game as well as very non partisan overview of the world as applies to each country he "visits".

Mr Foer's book, sacanagem puro!

He cannot possible show how "soccer explains the world", futebol does NOT "explain" the world, but is an integral part of it (as , again, Mr Goldblatt's wonderful book indicates).



To sum, Mt Foer has an axe to grind, I have seen some of his political writing, and it is even worse than what is contained in this book.
As David Zirin has written, Mr Foer seems a proponent of the Freidman school of globalisation, and this is BAD BAD for everyone on the planeta, save the few elitistas in USA who profit from this arrangement.

In Italian football terms, this book is barely "C-2" division as a football book, as a political book, it not worth to use the pages to wrap fishbones..


To be charitable for Mr Foer's entusiasms for the world game,and a passable first chapter for all USian football "new boots", I allow the one star to be kind for a ZERO stars offering

o mundo gira é a bola rola

PS in the spriti of full disclosure, Eduardo Galeano's delightful (an partisan, so call me a hipocrite!) football book is translated inglés, "Football in Sun and shadow" , and takes a delightful PROGRESSIVE worldview, and of course,

Sinhô Galeano is an 'aplicado discipulo' of the world game since a boy in uruguai. A MUCH better choice also than this book, a "classic" of futebol literature.

Editorial Review:

Soccer is much more than a game, or even a way of life. It is a perfect window into the cross–currents of today's world, with all its joys and its sorrows. In this remarkably insightful, wide–ranging work of reportage, Franklin Foer takes us on a surprising tour through the world of soccer, shining a spotlight on the clash of civilizations, the international economy, and just about everything in between. How Soccer Explains the World is an utterly original book that makes sense of our troubled times.

The Beatles - Complete Scores

The Beatles

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Total reviews: 190 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

This Collection is Great 5 out of 5 stars.
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The Beatles Complete Scores really is a one of a kind collection. Sure, the highly trained eye will see simple mistakes here or there, but for those of us who aren't trained classical pianists and just like to play Beatles tunes, this book is amazing. The print is small, but not too small; complaining about the print is really being nitpicky. Plus, no other book gives you all of their recorded songs, and in the correct key. For example, this is the only book I've ever seen that finally puts Strawberry Fields in b flat instead of A major. This book is amazing, team this book with your own ear and you've hit the jackpot.

Editorial Review:

A fitting tribute to possibly the greatest pop band ever - The Beatles. This outstanding hard-cover edition features over 1100 pages with full scores and lyrics to all 210 titles recorded by The Beatles. Guitar and bass parts are in both standard notation and tablature. Also includes a full discography. Songs include: All You Need Is Love ¥ And I Love Her ¥ Baby YouÕre a Rich Man ¥ Back in the U.S.S.R. ¥ The Ballad of John and Yoko ¥ Blackbird ¥ CanÕt Buy Me Love ¥ Come Together ¥ Drive My Car ¥ Eleanor Rigby ¥ From Me to You ¥ Glass Onion ¥ A Hard DayÕs Night ¥ Help! ¥ Hey Jude ¥ I Saw Her Standing There ¥ I Want to Hold Your Hand ¥ Michelle ¥ Penny Lane ¥ She Loves You ¥ Twist and Shout ¥ Yesterday ¥ and many more! Book is packaged in its own protective box. A must-own for any serious Beatles fan or collector! 7-2/8Õ x 10-7/8Õ.

How to Ruin the United States of America

Ben Stein, Phil DeMuth

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Total reviews: 12 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

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On the heels of his very successful books, How to Ruin Your Life, How to Ruin Your Love Life, and How to Ruin Your Financial Life, Ben Stein, in collaboration with his pal Phil DeMuth, has tongue firmly in cheek once again as he comes up with surefire ways to ruin the greatest nation in the history of the human race.

Try a few of these on for size:

·       Trust the United Nations to protect us and our security.

·       Make it unlawful to worship God or even to show images of the Ten Commandments.

·       Convert our universities into fortresses of anti-Americanism, hatred of freedom, and centers of confusion and ignorance.

·       Encourage contempt for the family and for the community.

·       Allow Hollywood to brainwash us into believing that only suckers and criminals fight for their country.

·       Treat the military, the police, firefighters, and teachers as losers and pay them starvation wages.

Hey, does any of this sound familiar? Maybe that’s because it’s already happening! Ben and Phil give you all the information you’ll ever need in order to successfully ruin the USA even further! Sardonic, humorous, but also angrily emphatic, this is a book every old-fashioned patriot really needs to read!

Beatles: 2009 Wall Calendar

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Beatles 2009 Calendar 4 out of 5 stars.
4 of 4 people found this review helpful.

Th3e calendar is nice;however, it leans too heavily towards the later years of the band and does not give a whole cross-section of their history.

1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die

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MOVE OUT OF THE 1960s, PLEASE. 3 out of 5 stars.
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Fun reading, covering the decades from the 1950s into the 21st century, but I have some serious disagreements with many of the LPs listed here.

The editors and authors are obviously baby-boomers who never got past the Summer of Love mentality. There are WAY TOO MANY releases from the late 60s that are fawned over. The Electric Prunes! Come On! And NOTHING by Ravi Shankar is a "must hear". Ravi's best release was the sperm that created Norah Jones.

However, I do have to make this sobering observation: I have listened to more of the 1950s releases than I have the 1990s releases.

Editorial Review:

1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die is a highly readable list of the best, the most important, and the most influential pop albums from 1955 through 2003. Carefully selected by a team of international critics, each album is a groundbreaking work seminal to the understanding and appreciation of music from the 1950s to the present. Included with each entry are production details and credits as well as reproductions of original album cover art. Perhaps most important of all, each album featured comes with an authoritative description of its importance and influence. Among the critics involved in selecting the list are some of the best known music reviewers and commentators, including Theunis Bates (music writer for Time and urban editor at worldpop.com), Jon Harrington (staff writer at MTV), Seth Jacobson (writer for Dazed & Confused), as well as many others.

Urban Dictionary: Fularious Street Slang Defined

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Total reviews: 18 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

a dictionary that knows how many beans make five 4 out of 5 stars.
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Clear, entertaining definitions and great examples, all of which make the book fun to read just for the heck of it.


But I am still searching for the reverse slang dictionary: i.e., the one that will give me slang definitions of ordinary words. Be able to look up fast different ways to say prison? Or find different names for drugs? Doing time? Cars? etc... As someone who translates fiction into English it is sometimes frustrating when you have the original "foreign" slang expression and can't for the life of you remmber what its anglo-saxon equivalent is.

Editorial Review:

Urbandictionary.com is a very successful site that encourages users to define the world with their own unique terms. In Urban Dictionary, site founder Aaron Peckham culls his more than 170,000 definitions for the funniest, wittiest, and most provocative phrases that define the modern slang scene.

Within urbandictionary.com's lively lexicon are:

business provocative -- Attire used to provoke sexual attention in the workplace.

compunicate -- To chat with someone in the same room via instant messaging service instead of in person.

dandruff -- A person who 'flakes out' and ditches their friends.

wingman -- A guy who takes one for the team by hooking up with a hot girl's ugly friend so his own friend can hook up with the hot girl.

Perfect for those who want to pick up some new slang and those who want to translate it, Urban Dictionary is a gritty and witty look at our ever-changing language.

Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles

Geoff Emerick, Howard Massey

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Editorial Review:

Geoff Emerick became an assistant engineer at the legendary Abbey Road Studios in 1962 at age fifteen, and was present as a new band called the Beatles recorded their first songs. He later worked with the Beatles as they recorded their singles "She Loves You" and "I Want to Hold Your Hand," the songs that would propel them to international superstardom. In 1964 he would witness the transformation of this young and playful group from Liverpool into professional, polished musicians as they put to tape classic songs such as "Eight Days A Week" and "I Feel Fine."

Then, in 1966, at age nineteen, Geoff Emerick became the Beatles’ chief engineer, the man responsible for their distinctive sound as they recorded the classic album Revolver, in which they pioneered innovative recording techniques that changed the course of rock history. Emerick would also engineer the monumental Sgt. Pepper and Abbey Road albums, considered by many the greatest rock recordings of all time. In Here, There and Everywhere he reveals the creative process of the band in the studio, and describes how he achieved the sounds on their most famous songs. Emerick also brings to light the personal dynamics of the band, from the relentless (and increasingly mean-spirited) competition between Lennon and McCartney to the infighting and frustration that eventually brought a bitter end to the greatest rock band the world has ever known.