I am a student in 6th grade that is using this book in Spelling. This book is hard, but I am up for the challenge. It is a great book.

Explorations of women's relationship to the sea are rare - but growing. This book is a valuable foundation stone. I know this because of my involvement in women's maritime history, which has become a new and important sub-discipline of maritime history. It has a home at the Women and the Sea Network (which I co-ordinate), based at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich UK. Joan Druett's book was the first to explore women on whalers - who were there mainly as wives and daughters of captains. I especially enjoyed reading about 'gamming' - the way these women gossiped with each other when they met, being rowed over to each others ships, dressing up, taking tea, exchanging presents. I also enjoyed her novel Abigail (Macmillan New Zealand, 1988), which is about a very spirited woman, daughter of a whaling captain, and her connections with the whaling industry, incl whaling lovers. Reading both books in tandem gave me a very good picture of women in that branch of maritime industry. Thanks. I loved them both and look forward to reading Joan's new book Hen Frigates, about women on non-whaling ships.

Very good look into the life of one of golfings great professionals, man or woman. The book gives very good technical swing deescriptions and photographs along with an enjoyable to read story of Mickey Wright and her life on the tour.

The "first book written by a computer" won't win any awards for insight or style, but it certainly will make you smile.

Racter seems to have a predilection for lettuce, and for using a plethora of florid adjectives. Some of the jumps in logic (or are they disconnected ideas jammed together?) will have you scratching your head. His poetry is startling and full of gunshots of imagination. But don't blame him -- it's the way he was programmed.

Even so, Racter may make more sense than "Finnegans Wake"....

Computer-authored books and computer-composed music are in their infancy, but you can be sure there will be more (and better) to come.

After having read this book, I had no more idea on how to build a shed than I did before I had read it. However, I did now know what should be included in a shed. It would appear, that as a garden, the shed is as individualized as ones dreams. This book is a look into others dreams of perfection. It allowed me to peak into others imaginations just long enough to glimpse the very special places people go to be alone and create

I thoroughly enjoyed Poughkeepsie, NY: Halfway up the Hudson! Despite little detail about the last 40 years, it is an impressive pictoral history of an oft-maligned city. Existing in the shadows of New York City and Albany, Po-Town has earned its share of now documented historical importance; and this book.

A truly indispensable reference book to have on hand for whatever ails you. The remedies are simple and relatively inexpensive. Vitamin and herbal therapies are offered as cures for a wide range of illnesses and conditions. Sufficient scientific data is presented without weighing the reader down in statistics and numbers. Clearly and conversationally written, I found the book to be surprisingly comprehensive in discussing a wide range of ailments and remedies. Following even one of these remedies could save one hundreds of dollars wasted at the doctor's office and on prescription medications. Every home ought to have this book sitting on the shelf next to "The Joy of Cooking".

This book contains several helpful tips and guidelines for the librarian (or any professional) who is accepting their first role as supervisor. New supervisors are often too busy to pour over the time-honored management texts in order to learn the skills necessary to do their job effectively. This 117-page book provides practical information on each and every page. All aspects of supervision are covered in ten concise chapters, dealing with everything from interviewing to conducting effective meetings. A library professional with first hand knowledge of library middle management authored each chapter. The authors are primarily from the academic setting but their expertise ranges from library directors to head librarians of personnel and circulation.

This time tested guide is in its third edition and has added new chapters on time management, conflict resolution, and diversity in the workplace. The inclusion of checklists and current additional readings at the end of each chapter makes this handbook an especially helpful resource for any manager to have on his/her office shelves.

"A Prima Donna's Progress: The Autobiography of Joan Sutherland" is an interesting combination of scrapbook clippings and travel itinerary. Dame Joan waited until she had retired to write about her extraordinary career as the "Voice of the Century" and her fans have to wish she had not waited this long, because certainly they would be happier if the great soprano covered less in more detail. This autobiography does have the virtue of having actually been written by the subject, but it is rather devoid of the passion and artistry that defined her opera singing. For example, she mentions: "I paid a short visit to Noel Coward to check the Chalet Monet and met Charlie Chaplin and his wife Oona," and leaves it at that. Of course, readers are left to wonder about the meeting between the woman known around the world for her phenomenal singing voice and the world's greatest silent comedian. Time and time again she glosses over the sort of intimate details that one longs for when reading such a book. When Sutherland goes into her response to the famous reception she received during her debut performance of "Lucia di Lammermoor" at the Metropolitan Opera, that is the exception rather than the rule. I have to think that Sutherland would have benefited from either a ghostwriter or an editor who would have shaken her reliance on displaying an encyclopedic knowledge of which hotels she stayed in and where parties were after performances. But Sutherland clearly leaves it to her press clippings, her impressive list of recordings and our still vivid memories to recall the fire of her tremendous career. Still, this is the diva recalling her life in her own words and therefore a required read for her legion of fans.

This was a great book. Fast paced and easy to read. And the ending was superb.