Ralph Nader: Battling for Democracy is a great story about this American icon, consumer advocate, and activist of the highest order. Ralph Nader has been working towards a better world since he was a young kid. Throughout the years, Nader has formed many organizations throughout America. Today, one cannot go anywhere without being affected by some of Nader's life long work. Ralph Nader: Battling for Democracy focuses almost exclusively on the work Nader accomplished between the years of 1960 and 2000. I definitely noticed how Kevin Graham (author) had glazed over Nader's childhood. When I read this book, it felt like Graham thought that where and how Nader grew up was not important to the book. But, I wanted to know more about the background of Ralph Nader, as well as his accomplishment.

Graham organized the book in chronological order, beginning with the motor safety trials in November 1965. This is followed by a brief description of Nader's childhood, and then the book goes into detail about Ralph Nader's other accomplishments. Due to the fact that the words that graham decided to use flow well, this book was an easy read. He kept all of the vocabulary simple and to the point. Overall, this book had many strengths and few weaknesses. One of the weaknesses that the book had was the length. With only 121 pages, I fell that Graham could have spent more time on the book. He could of added detail about Nader's childhood and family.

Nevertheless, these minor mistakes are not strong enough to detract from the quality of the book. Overall, this book rates about four stars as it was extremely interesting and it had great facts. But most of all, this book was an easy read. I would recommend this book anyone who is interested in the work of Ralph Nader and wants to work towards a more democratic society

This is one of the best biographies I have seen that is intended for all ages. Not only does it have the most ADORABLE pictures of young Ralph as a child and young man, but it offers a terrific tribute to Ralph's heroics over the years, with a much greater focus on American activist-hero than on election-spoiler. This book will be great to have around for myself and for my own kids in the future, and the best way I can think of to remember Ralph when he's gone. Read This!

Short and concise, this little book is an excellent introduction to the life of that rarest of modern American personages: a Statesman. Though never holding public office, Ralph Nader is unmatched in post-Martin Luther King, Jr. America in his influence on the public good, his consistant stand for principles, and his enduring and often lonely crusade for democracy. This book belongs in every school in the nation as proof that the Jeffersonian ideals are still alive in this country and American democracy need not be a lost cause. This book is filled with inspiration - only wish there was an expanded version for us older readers!

im 17 and had to write a paper on the lines of revival and this book is awesome. You can hardly put it down once u start reading it. I encourage ppl to get this.

When I sat down to read "Azusa Street" I expected extensive accounts of the Azusa Street revival meetings of 1906-1909. To my surprise, information about Azusa was not the focus of the book. It could have better been titled "The Adventures, Trials, and Opinions of Frank Bartleman." The book is essentially a journal of Bartleman's experiences in the early Pentecostal movement from 1904 to 1910, inclusive of his involvement in the Azusa Street Mission. Vinson Synan's introduction is informative and helpful in setting a framework for the rest of the book.

The book is an opportunity to view the life and mindset of this early 20th Century Pentecostal preacher. His life was not easy but it was greatly dependent upon God. Bartleman is a fascinating character. He is extremely opinionated, often critical and fanatical in his stands. At the same time his passion for the ministry, his simple yet unwavering faith, and his deep hunger for God are inspiring. I was moved by the sacrifice paid by this forerunner and challenged by his teaching on "death to the self-life." I recommend "Azusa Street" to those desiring a look inside early Pentecostalism.

This book really gives you a new look at revival. We usually think of big tents and lots of "healing", whether true or not. But this really opened my eyes to the way the Lord moves and just how powerful He can really be. It also shows the true power of prayer, fasting and just giving the Holy Spirit liberty to move. Even if you feel you don't know the Lord well enough for anything like this to happen in your life, this book will HELP you with that! It's a true story but reads like an action adventure. If you like reading the Left Behind series, or even just the Bible, you will TOTALLY love this book, and it's a great one to give as a gift ANYTIME!

Ralph Cotton writes what hopefully won't be the last book about Danille Strange and her twin brothers Jed and Ted. In doing so, Cotton has carried on the works started by Ralph Compton while not missing a hoofbeat. Compton must be smiling from his writing desk in the sky at the magnificiant job Ralph Cotton has done carring on his(Compton's) work. RIDERS OF JUDGEMENT is a must read for any western fan.

Once I started reading Riders of Judgment I couldn't put it down. I found myself reading into the wee hours of morning. Ralph Cotton puts the main characters in situations that are so suspenseful, you remain glued to the book. I didn't want to fall asleep without knowing what happened to Danny Duggin, Tim, Jed, and Marshal McCord.

I know Ralph Compton would be very proud of the work Ralph Cotton has done on his behalf. Thanks Ralph Cotton for carrying on the great work of Mr. Compton.

tHIS STORY IS A VERY GOOD READ. i FOUND IT TO BE INTERTAINING AND FUN. yES AS ONE READER MENTIONED THE AUTHOR DID ALWAYS SPELL OUT THE ENTIRE NAME EVERY TIME A CHACTER WAS MENTIONED AND YES IT SEEMED AS IF THE AUTHOR MR. SMITH WAS JUST TRYING TO FULLFILL HIS OBLIGATION FOR A CERTAIN NUMBER OF WORDS, BUT THE STORY IS GOOD. aFTER ALL DON'T WE READ FICTION FOR FUN, i DO.

Cave-In is a beautiful, rich, and disturbing book. Parents will want to read it themselves before passing it on to smaller children, as portions of it are quite scary. They also might want to read it first in case they want to hold onto this beautiful little object for themselves rather than letting their offspring get their grubby little mitts on it.

Parents looking for a more small child-appropriate wordless book should grab Lewis Trondheim's La Mouche, which sadly isn't available through Amazon. A toddler friend and I had a lot of fun reading it to each other recently.

Cave-in's a beautifully designed little story, elegantly told. Hopefully, Ralph's follow-up, Crumb-Bums, will be nearly as good.

Well this will probably be a biast review seeing as brian is my art teacher, but what ever, this book is really good. It was amazing how he can evoke emotions with no words. My 3rd favorite graphic novel after The crow and Alan Moore's From Hell

Mr. Ralph's work is drawn roughly, but not primitively; thestory is sweet, but not substanceless. Adults and children can enjoythis wordless graphic novel that is both lighthearted and poignant.

Sure, "War is bad" (platitude #1). However this message delivered repeatedly is a waste of paper and ink.

This sermon focuses on the nature of "the little man". This character is so-named because the Author is highly attuned to the nature of this character and blames him for all the ills of mankind. Thus, the little man is selfish, warlike, likes war movies, boxing-matches etc.

The didactic nature of this character can be completely contrasted by the natures of real people. The little man doesn't really exist outside of this book. Even the author's experience as a witness to the third reich doesn't justify most of the natures attributed to the little man.

Overall, the book is just unreadable. It is simply blase' to read a book which repremands an imaginary character for 125 pages.

I first read this book, as I recall, in the mid 60's. I'm now on my third copy; the previous copies were worn out from handling!"Listen Little Man" is a must read for thinking people who care about humanity, particularly in today's geo/political climate. The information is as relevant today (perhaps even more so!)as it was when first written. We just need to consider it, apply it to our own lives and spread the message--we must trust ourselves to be able to take care of ourselves rather than rely on any exernal force, particularly our leaders and governments.

You will love this little book, or hate it, but I don't see how anyone could read it and not be moved by the impassioned plea that we all assume responsibility for our lives and that we instill this responsibility for future generations. It was my first great inspiration to start thinking for myself (and this was after all the classroom teachings, college included)! I'm still inspired by it.

Wilhelm Reich was far ahead of his time. Like seemingly all visionaries, he was completely at odds with mainstream thought. By the time he wrote this book, he had been completely discredited, humiliated, and even imprisoned! Despite his ruin, he still had hope for mankind, as evident by the tone of this book. Inspirational, entertaining, and most of all, empowering.

A bulky reference book. Its useful if you want to refer something - but definitely not a cover-to-cover read as I thot it would be. To be fair, it has detailed info about all artists' materials, hardware etc - but just didn't suit my needs.

This is the Artist's classic, and the Artist's Bible of not only what materials are but when they came into use, how they are formulated and why. Want to learn how to make your own gesso for silverpoint? Want to cut a quill pen? Want to make your own pastels? Can't remember how to make your own sizing or gesso? Want to try your hand at encaustic or egg tempera painting? Want to know which colors in the spectrum are likely to fade (are fugitive colors) in watercolor and which are not? It's here.

it was a required book at a county college. once i got it i realized it was very informative. it has very good information and i refer to it all the time. the professor said it would be our "bible for art" and he was right. it has techniques such as how to do egg tempra, suggestions on types of paints, etc. i would highly recommend it.

I wonder why "The Curse of Lono" has gone out-of-print. This book is laugh-out-loud funny and is good journalism. No, it is great journalism. So says the experts too: the author's work has been elevated to the classics with one of his books being printed in an Everyman's Library hard-cover edition. So Hunter S. Thompson joins Oscar Wilde and other great writers.

"The Curse of Lono" made me laugh so hard that tears filled my eyes. Hunter S. Thompson was paid to cover a marathon race by Rolling Stone or some other magazine. While the race is the usual bore, the antics of the journalist are not. Having drunk gallons of beer and liquor and consumed various illegal drugs, Thompson and his traveling companion sit at the edge of the race and jeer on the racers. "He fatso. What's wrong? That hill is too steep for you?"

Flying on a jumbo jet to the race in Hawaii Thompson gets his arm stuck in a chemical toilet. He put his hand down there because his marijuana, cocaïne, or whatever falls into the toilet bowl. When he comes out of the head his arm and his shirt and stained bright blue. The airliner's crew know at once what has happened.

The funniest part of the book to me is what happens when Thompson goes fishing. The captain of the boat drinks a quart of vodka and then takes some mescaline or some other hallucinogenic drug. A the boat bobs precariously close to the cliffs along the island the captain lets go of the anchor line and it falls overboard. The captain then dons scuba gear in his tripping, hallucinating state and dives overboard to retrieve it. As Hunter S. Thompson puts it, "No self-respecting captain would return to port without his anchor" for fear of being laughed at.

All of this talk of drugs and drink might be pathetic or sad if it was not handled properly. But Thompson is the founder-and maybe only participant in-the style of writing and journalism that he calls "gonzo journalism". His style is truly unique. I became convinced of his genius after reading "Fear and Lothing in Las Vegas", another drunken, stoned adventure tale and a memoir that he wrote in "The New Yorker" magazine. His New Yorker article deviating from his usual tone-perhaps owing to it's presence in that hallowed forum--was a well-written and very interesting look at his days living in Puerto Rico as a journalist. I think his books on presidential politics are less interesting than these two books. I haven't yet read "Hells Angels" but plan to do so.

Considering that I have spent a great part of my life in Kona, it is intresting to read a book about it. I know everywhere he is and what it looks like. This is a hilarious book and is for anyone of intrest to Thompson. I think I would like to purchase a war club as well...

Hunter is the creator and king of gonzo journalism. Here is a quote from Thompson about what Gonzo journalism is:"My idea was to buy a fat notebook and record the whole thing as it happened, then send in the notebook for publication-- without editing. That way, I felt the eye and mind of the journalist would be functioning as a camera. The writing would be selective and necessarily interpretive - but once the image was written, the words would be final; in the same way that a Cartier-Bresson photograph is always (he says) the full-frame negative. No alterations in the darkroom, no cutting or cropping, no spotting . . . no editing.

This is a good book, full of funny moments and hard to believe stories. There is no slow build up or filler in the middle. The book grabs you from the beginning with the author's stories and keeps you laughing until the end.

This might not be a good first book to start with. Hunter's style and actions may be hard for some to read without getting offended. Sometimes Hunter will wander into side tangents before getting back on track with what is currently going on; this may annoy some people. I recommend starting with "Hells Angels" or "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" before paying the extra bucks for this out of print book.

The original must be an astonishing work! Fierce battles, passionate romance, stirring orations, even scenes of cosmic splendor succeed one another; there's the sense of real genius here, of an artist who is fulfilling his intention. This translation reads very, very well indeed. A remarkably satisfying book.

C. S. Lewis relished this epic poem -- see his essay "Tasso" in his book of essays on medieval and Renaissance literature. I wonder if Tolkien also had read it, as a number of scenes reminded me of the Siege of Minas Tirith, etc. For those who want to move on from the authors and works that everyone knows influenced and/or impressed Lewis (and Tolkien?) such as Chesterton, George MacDonald, et al., Tasso may be recommended. I wonder if Lewis didn't get the idea for the severed head, of the criminal Alcasan, who seems to speak, but is really manipulated by a devil, and which the heroine of That Hideous Strength sees in a dream, from Tasso, where a Fury from hell makes a severed head talk (deceivingly) in a dream to one of the Christian warriors. The gruesome descriptions are similar, and Lewis even calls Alcasan "the Saracen"; and Alcasan certainly could be the name of one of the Saracen knights in Tasso. Who knows...?

Most every reader of literature in English is familiar with Arthurian romance and legend, from Malory's medieval masterpiece "Mort d'Arthur" to Tennyson's "Idylls of the King" to contemporary writers like Mary Stewart and Marion Zimmer Bradley.

But how many of these readers are aware that there exists in Western literature another, parallel stream of myth and legend called Carolingian, which celebrates the exploits and heroes of the Age--not of Arthur--but of Charlemagne?

Carolingian epic and romance may safely be said to begin with "The Song of Roland" (available in W.S. Merwin's excellent translation in the Modern Library volume "Medieval Epics"), but the tradition includes scores if not hundreds of contributors--and three of these constitute together a magnificent achievement: Pulci's "Morgante," Ariosto's "Orlando Furioso," and Tasso's "Jerusalem Delivered."

Maybe due to the hyper-popularity of Arthurian material, these three major authors and their respective masterpieces have a shockingly undistinguished and short list of english translations. Happily, Anthony Esolens has supplied us with a truly superb, vivid, and beautiful rendering of Tasso's neglected epic. It is so good, in fact, that I second the reviewer below in hoping for a future translation of Ariosto. For what it's worth, Bernard Knox wrote a highly favorable review of this edition in the New York Times Book Review, in which he called Esolen's work "a triumph." Don't hesitate.

I am just about to finish this translation of Tasso's venerable crusade and I just had to express how wonderful I think it is. I have to admit I experienced a slight bit of trepidation before beginning this work, but I was found to be foolish. Not only is the work readable, it loses none of its beauty in the translation. I have found myself reading page to page hungrily. Who needs mass market paperback best sellers when oen has such a unique and beautifully translated work at one's fingertips. I wholeheartedly recommend this translation.

This has got to be the worst autobiography that I have ever read. He makes excuse after excuse about why he couldn't perform up to his capabilities. He blames his managers, the front office, and of course his injuries for his lack of production. What a waste of paper! He ends the book by acting as if he's going to produce big time for the St. Louis Cardinals after he signs with them to close out the book. Well, he spent 2 seasons in St. Louis and didn't do much. I bet he's got an excuse for that also. Maybe it was Tony LaRussa's fault? I think he's courageous for battling cancer, but his excuses get old after you read one excuse after another.

This autobiography is the best book I have ever read. I have followed ED for the last fifteen years and I still cannot find a better role model to look up to (disregarding my parents). His strength and ability to overcome numerous injuries and colon cancer are still amazing to me. I'm only 22 years old and I highly doubt I will ever find a greater person to admire. His book talks about his love for family, God, and baseball. Please do not have any doubts concerning the content of this book. You will find no greater athlete to read about and be amazed by.

When I was 10 years old I went to a Mets/Reds Game at Shea Stadium. After the game was over I was standing outside the player's exit area and a new rookie named Eric Davis came out of the door. I could only tell he was a player and I had no clue what his name was. It was "bat day" that day and I asked this man to sign my bat. He signed it 'Eric Davis' and stopped to ask me some questions about myself which I wasn't thinking he would...I figured a bigshot ball player would sign their autograph quickly and move on. Being only 10 years old, I had never encountered any type of person in the public eye such as a celebrity or major league ball player. I then followed Eric everyday in the papers. When I met him, he was just up from the Minors and hadn't gotten any notice yet. I took such pleasure following him and seeing him excel in the game. My parents would mail me box scores of the Reds' games when I was in sleepaway camp over the summer. I still remember getting excited when following Eric in the summer of 87 when he was on fire.

This book gives the reader an idea of what a warm person Eric is. His courageous struggle through cancer and his triumphant return to the game are simply amazing. I hope that Eric reads this one day, and realizes that a fan from the age of 10 (27 now) still follows and admires him. From reading the book, I agree with one of the other reviewers that said that after reading the book, they weren't just a fan of Eric Davis, the baseball player, but they were a fan of the person.

In general, this book is rudimentary. I acquired most of the information from my Internet-based experience in a non-marketing role. It might be nice and well for people new to eBusiness, but for veterans it holds mostly "well, duh" information.

For anyone that wants some real insight without the clutter of basic Internet marketing mechanics, check out the book MindControlMarketing.com by Mark Joyner.

The author is obviously very knowledgeable and a good business consultant, but I found the book spent too much time telling the reader to make sure he/she had a unique selling proposition and unique business that wouldn't go against the big companies in the industry. I think this is useful information, but not for this book, I would have rather seen it appear in a basic "how to" business book for small companies.

He does give some very useful information about Internet marketing and talks about applying generally accepted marketing principles to the Internet, which are ok.

I think the title fits when it says "planning" strategy and helps the user to just that, but stops short of giving really concrete information to act on or execute the plan once it is done.

Overall I think the book was just average. Not terrible, but not really great either.

Too many Web marketing books focus on how to get your site listed in search engines and attract the masses without a good marketing and site development plan. Dr. Wilson's planning book is timely for those Web site owners who really want to be successful in doing business on the Web.

The following approaches are needed for a business to go online:
1. Define the purpose of building your Web site
2. Identify the target audience and competitors
3. Create a strategic marketing plan
4. Develop and promote the Web site according to your plan

Dr. Wilson's book covers all the essential elements in creating a successful marketing plan. It is based on his practical experience on the Web. Highly recommended!