by Site Owner | Mar 23, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Nature, Outdoors & Animals, Reference, Sports & Recreation
By Henry Gilbey, DK Publishing, 352 pages – Everything Your Father Wanted You To Know About Fishing – When it comes to something with a lot of information, a nice reference book can be great. The Complete Fishing Manual is a one-stop reference manual for...
by Site Owner | Feb 9, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Reference
by Nancy Ragno Writer’s Digest Books, $14.00, 216 pages No longer is the simple misspelled word the monarch of errors in writing. After a couple decades of being spell check-oholics, people have made the misused word the new champion of writing mistakes. Have...
by Site Owner | Feb 7, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Reference
By Arthur Plotnik, Viva Editions, 280 pages Arthur Plotnik’s book, Better Than Great: A Plenitudinous Compendium of Wallopingly Fresh Superlatives, aside from being possessed of the best title I have read in a long while, is also a pneumatic (page 180) thesaurus and...
by Site Owner | Jan 17, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Reference
Dan Roam Portfolio, $29.95, 341 pages Sometimes it helps to think visually. Blah Blah Blah looks at how we have lost the ability to use visual grammar, relying instead on pure verbiage. The author asserts that although some forms of graphic information exist, such as...
by Site Owner | Dec 29, 2011 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Reference
by Glenn O’Brien Rizzoli, $24.95, 302 pages It would be great if life came with instructions. How to Be A Man is a step in the right direction. A wide variety of topics are discussed, ranging from how to wear a tie to the pluses and minuses of chivalry. The...
by Site Owner | Nov 7, 2011 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Reference
by Mignon Fogarty St. Martin’s Press, $5.99, 123 pages Learning new vocabulary is easiest when lessons come in bite-sized bits. Never again be caught confusing one word for another (affect versus effect or purposely versus purposefully). Learn the difference...