This book really gives the reader an opportunity to see what life is like in the world of teaching. Especially in the larger school systems. The author ,through his experience, let's the reader see how politics and the outside world of the students make it difficult at times to actually teach. The beginnings of the alternative school, Yonkers Prep, was inspirational to read. They kept it going through many ups and downs. The author's love of teaching is really brought out in this book,although he did go through many difficult times. I think this is good reading for anyone. Especially for teachers and those who would like to be teachers.

This guidebook by the Lonely Planet was an excellent companion on my recent trip to India. The information was up-to-date and informative, yet never too wordy or boring. The "text-box" inserts were very entertaining while at the same time useful.

This guide is perfect for those traveling on a budget or those who want to take a "first-class" trip across northern India.

The maps in the book are very useful, as is the information about how not to get ripped off as a tourist. Highly recommended to everyone (of Indian origin or not) if you are contemplating a trip to India.

Fresh out of prison, Boyd has had 8 yrs. to work out his plan of revenge and payback - if the town thought the rape he had been convicted of had been bad, they haven't seen anything yet! This is a believable book with lots of tense suspense, nerve twisting horror, and brutal violence towards those on his "list" - hard to put down. It's easy to get involved with this story - it's written well and it's just one of those books that keep you on the edge of your seat. Worth reading more than once.

The Long Road South narrates the travels of writer Joe Yogerst from northern Mexico to the tip of southern Argentina along the Inter American Highway. Yogerst traveled on and off with National Geographic photographers Susie Post and Melissa Farlow for several months in 1998 to make this book.

The book contains five parts and follows Yogerst's travels southward. The Inter American Highway crosses a very diverse set of lands and peoples. The books starts at the border between America and Mexico, where armed guards monitor the highly charged crossing. It ends with a pink sky above the bluish ice riddled land at the tip of Argentina. Along the way the book shows the Sonoran cowboys of Mexico, the serenely blue Lago de Atitlan in Guatemala, glue sniffing children in the slums of Colombia and tango dancers in Argentina. To their credit, the three collaborators don't gloss over things. The book broaches some of the political problems endemic to the countries along the road.

Yogerst chose to chronicle his journey in first person. This changes the hue of the book from traditional reportage toward a subjective storytelling approach. If this aspect adds life to the writing, it also means that the writing focuses as much upon the author's individual experiences as it does upon the countries along the highway. I'll leave it to you to decide how you feel about this -- it depends mainly on how you take your travel writing.

In the spirit of most of the National Geographic Society's publications, the photography is special. In this case, the photography is of a level associated with the Society's magazine coverage. That makes sense, though, because both photographers have worked for National Geographic magazine in the past. In this collaboration, Melissa Farlow covers Mexico, Peru, Ecuador and Chile while Susie Post photographs Central America, Colombia and Argentina.

People interested in photography, travel, and Latin American culture will all find a lot in this book to interest them.

The photographs from this book earned several national awards including several places in the 1999 Pictures of the Year Contest for individual photographs and a national travel writers award for the book as a whole.

Wecshberg, a Czech violinist, writes of his experiences bumming around Europe and on cruise ships as an itinerant musician and opera fan during the 1930s. This is a book to treasure for decades. I re-read it often.

A one of a kind book. It is a detailed account of the Los Angeles Dodgers, it's organization, players, and fans. A must have for any Dodger fanatic. It's not only Dodger history it's baseball history at it's finest. The finest organization in baseball now has a book equal to the true Dodger legacy. Read it!

Anyone who lives in Southern California should own this book. And even if you don't live in Southern California, this is a wonderful companion for a vist to the Southland. Everyone goes to Disneyland and to the Getty, why not visit some of the lesser known but very interesting spots?

It is masterfully organized geographically to easily help you select a place to visit. Ms. Pomeroy's descriptions are witty and entertaining and entice you to want to visit every single place.

What a wonderful book!!

This book was really good. It had a lot of action and suspense. I will be using this book in the classroom in a Desert Unit.

While I am interested in architecture in general, the Crystal Palace is the reason why I'm so interested in learning more about it. Truly a 19th century megaproject, mostly forgotten, except in books like these.

Think of this - it is a gigantic glass-and-iron building that's longer than Toronto's CN Tower is tall - using nearly a million square feet of glass, for all the walls and the cielings. It was also one of the first prefabricated modular buildings. Nothing of such a gigantic scale like that had been accomplished before that time - with a huge grand 3-storey tall hallway through the length of the building approximately 60 feet wide by 60 feet high stretching more than 1800 feet long.... Not only this, there was a huge arched transept in the centre that housed some large trees. Even more amazing, this building was built in a scant 4 months, a technical achievement of victorian times.

Although this books cover mainly architecture, it helps to remember that The Crystal Palace was built for a great purpose: the purpose of peace, as the first world's fair, to showcase all the nations' products, early technologies, and cultures. Some of the early "innovations" - such as Jacquard's automated loom - and Otis' safety elevator brake demoed in public - relates to today's technologies! Without the Internet, without the Telephone, and without many of the communications technologies - this world fair had a huge impact in communicating these innovations to other nations. It is not surprising that it helped accelerate the pace of inventions over the decades, at a time when communications is nowhere nearly as prevalent as today, and travel was a time consuming affair was often by sail, steam, or horse power. Despite these difficulties, the Great Exhibition of 1851 was a spetacular success, earned profit, and attracted huge numbers of people despite difficult travel. It is generally considered to be more successful than even all of the 20th century world's fair. All this in itself, makes the Crystal Palace building more fascinating. This is the definitive, original Crystal Palace - not the smaller copycats that popped up in other nations.

It is not easy to find books that relates to the Crystal Palace architecture still in print and available for purchase online.

This beautifully written and illustrated book renewed my interest in the history and beauty of the plantations on river road. I have lived in the New Orleans area my entire life and until I read this book I had no interest in visiting the homes. Now I do! This book invoked the history and mystery of these majestic homes. If you can't visit these homes in person, buy this book, and it will be as if you had.