This book provides a fascinating and comprehensive glimpse into the daily lives of pre-contact California Indians. It is laid out in easy to use chapters that provide just enough information to be complete, but still include local examples and myths to add flavor to the narrative. My only complaint is that some of the skills are a bit complicated and are confusing to read. I guess you just have to go out to the wilderness and try it out! This is a must-read for anyone interested in California Indians and their history.

Pual Campbell's Survival Skills Of Native California is an impressive, scholarly, exhaustive, detailed compendium surveying more than 2000 California-based Native American tribal skills. Survival Skills Of Native California is superbly enhanced for readers, students, researchers, and scholars with almost one thousand instructional illustrations. Included are informative sections on all the basic survival skills, the tools of gathering and food preparation, the implements of household and personal necessity, as well as the arts of hunting and fishing. Survival Skills Of Native California offers the reader comprehensive, authentic, detailed information and instruction on how to live off the land and capably employ all of the varied resources of earth's bounty that enabled the survival of California's native population for millennia. Survival Skills Of Native California is a unique and invaluable acquisition for personal, academic, and community library Native American studies collections reference collections.

In his historical series the Kent Chronicles author John Jakes wrote about the Battle of the Alamo (in "The Furies" I believe) from the perspective of a fictional woman who survives, but is lost to history. In "Susanna of the Alamo: A True Story" he revisits this story in fictional form again, but this time telling the story of Susanna Dickinson, the wife of Alamo defender Almeron Dickinson, who actually did survive the battle along with their 15-month-old daughter Elizabeth. The story Jakes tells spends as much time on the aftermath of the battle and what happened to the Dickinsons, which is significant because usually the story most students read in juvenile histories about the Alamo skip to the victory at the Battle of San Jacinto where San Houston's troop yelled "Remember the Alamo!" Jakes tries to avoid the legends that still exist about the story of the Alamo and stay faithful to the historical record, but admits gaps exist and some "facts" exist in different versions. Jakes tells of Susanna Dickinson's recovery in the hospital, her meeting with Santa Anna and the message he had her carry to Sam Houston in Gonzales. She tells the leader of the Texan army what happened to her husband and the other defenders of the Alamo. It is from that conversation that Jakes crafts a compelling idea that Susanna Dickinson played an important role in the quest for Texas independence. The book is designed and illustrated by Paul Bacon, whose pen and watercolor pictures capture the times and tenor of the tale. This is not the first book a student should read if they want to know about the Alamo, but once they have learned the basic history of these events they will find this version by John Jakes adds something to their understanding. Furthermore, I would suggest that adults interested in the Alamo would find this book of great interest as well. Susanna Dickinson remarried and never spoke of the Alamo again until late in her life and lived until 1883. In his talent hands, Jakes makes this woman more than a footnote to history. This book is what we would call a grace note.

Susanna of the Alamo is an excellent book that enables children to place themselves within a historical event. Susanna of the Alamo focuses on the only survivor of the tragic Alamo fight, Susanna Dickinson and her infant daughter. THe story is told from her point of view which gives the children today the ability to understand the fight as it was unfolding. I teach 5th graders and every year the book has brouight a tear to an eye and a solemn calm to my room. The children are able to place themselves in theat time period through Jakes work and not only understand what the Texas settlers felt but how they felt also. It is an excellent book with which to teach about the Alamo- I couldn't do it without it!

This is perhaps the best non-fiction book I have ever read. If you are serious about learning how to get what you want (or need) at your advantage - read this book!

This is absolutely the best book ever written in the field of negotiating. Paul Wineman is a winner in business and in negotiating. If you listen to him and read this book you can become an expert in negotiating too.

I was lucky enough to be introduced to Diel by a French friend. Diel doesn't hold anything back: by page 7 he reveals the meaning of life ("harmonius satisfaction of multiple desires"). Diel's intended audience was probably students of psychology, but writers bored of the hackneyed "mythic structure" instilled by the popularity of application of Joseph Cambell's work to screenwriting will revel in what Diel has to offer. But more than improving my writing, I feel reading Diel has made me a better person--and for that, I rank this as one of the most important books an adult person can read.

Furthering the steps of Joseph Campbell, deeper than J. P. Vernant, less poetic but more rigorous than Mircea Eliad, not as structurally biased as C. Levy Strauss, more versatile than Freud's Totem and Taboo, Paul Diel's work supplies an analysis which applies to any religious story or any myth at any period in time in any geographical region. This is a book for a lifetime. Confronting Paul Diel's enlightments with Rene Girard's analysis offers a path for anyone interested in getting wiser. Hard to read but more than worth deciphering.

The authors take a detailed look at the Kirland, Nauvoo and Salt Lake City temples and discuss the architecture of each building and the symbolism of various designs in each of the temples. The book is well organized and easy to read. There are good illustrations to help the reader visualize what the authors are discussing. The book has good footnotes and a bibliography for further study. A great plus for the book is that it avoids wierd interpretations of various things like the Saturn stones that were supposed to be put on the Salt Lake Temple but weren't.

I have found this book to be very interesting/intriquing. It has pictures of symbols found on the early Mormon temples and explains what their meanings are.

I have read this book in a course of study about the tabernacle. We have a copy in our church library and the book is always overdue. The one copy is never available in the library more than a week and then it stays and stays and stays. I know anyone who is interested in the Exodus and other OT books and how they relate to the New Testament will really enjoy this book.

This is an eye opening book that helps you understand the tabernacle. It wasn't just a worshiping place, it was a forshadowing of Christ. Without the right study tools you'll miss one of the best stories of the Bible. This is without a doubt the first book to read on the subject. If you can get a copy of this I would highly suggest it for your collection. BREATH TAKING!

Debt of Dishonour was the first Robert Goddard book I ever read -- I was hooked and read all the US-published titles. I ordered "Take No Farewell" and anxiously awaited reading it! I only read the first few pages when I realized it was, in fact, "Debt of Dishonour" -- published in England under another title! Alas . . . I'll just have to wait for Mr. Goddard to write another wonderful story!

Please recheck your sources. If you look at "Debt of Dishonor", you will notice that it is the same synopsis.

This is an awesome collection of Suspense thrillers! When I was a kid, my parents had a tape with "The House in Cypress Canyon," on it. Very scary! It still scares me to death! These are definately stories that you want to listen to in the dark! Highly recommended!

"The House on Cypress Canyon" is a genuinely creepy story, and I suggest listening to this one with the lights out, as there are parts of it that will make you jump out of your skin! The other stories are good too (especially the Cary Grant one). Another winner from the series.

If Elm City Estates had a Hotel near it or within its confines, the Hotel the Eagles brought us would fit nicely. This book does not push the famous envelope it turns it to confetti! Author Paul Rosner takes the idealized suburb, complete with its own Dr. Welby, and explores uniformity, groupthink, hypocrisy, and a host of other human traits. This work is spectacular in its politically incorrect satire, although Former President Clinton would have fit in and loved one of his hosts, and the Author deflowers every sacred cow.

This is a book that takes truths and appears to radically distort them, and in many cases the Author has done this. However if you have ever lived in a condominium, or planned development, or the latest new urbanism, take a look at the book of rules you are subjected to, and, 'The Talking Onion', seems a great deal less strange. The penalties for rule breaking may not be of the through the looking glass genre as this burb, but when the materials you can build with, the colors that are allowed, whether children are welcome, and how tidy your yard must be kept, are all dictated, it is a slippery slope. It's one small step until your dog can only be walked 10-11 and 4-6 on Sundays and Holidays. Go ahead and laugh, as the guard at your gated community refuses to let your guests in, as the proper notification was not given. Or forget your resident ID, and the temporary rent a guard will require a consensus vote of your gated compound to let you in, oh yeah and a DNA Test.

This is a hyper drive version of The Twilight Zone, for now, but like all great satire it has its basis in fact. Maybe it should have been called, 'A Modest Proposal By A Talking Onion'.

If those who make the rules have ever annoyed you, this book is for you. If you thought there should be a pill for moderating the negative effects of fluorescent lighting, grab a copy, and one for a friend. If the only Dove you have in your house is soap and not the type that flies out of your kitchen cabinet, immediately have ... this to your door. Finally, if you believe that people should live in harmony with the plants and animals that surround us, or have contemplated whether a head of lettuce might be painfully inconvenienced when ripped from the ground, get out the Platinum Card.

And if perchance you start hearing a neighbor or two humming or singing Pink Floyd's, 'Comfortably Numb', while walking their pet during allotted hours, run to your real estate agent and sell.

This fine novel by Paul Rosner is both funny and horrifying in its depiction of a moral man who finds himself caught in a society that thinks it is more important to pity criminals who have dangerous beliefs that ultimately kill our freedoms than to punish humankind for not following simple rules that are either outdated or make no sense. Mr. Rosner writes brilliantly varied fiction that is both intellectually challenging and fun (see his other recently re-published novels, "The Princess and the Goblin" and "Night Train to Rangoon" This is a short and compelling tale that is both funny and horrifying in its challenging people to think. Most of the characters in this novel are barren of intellect and ability to challenge their beliefs. They are machines who don't know it. I found this story as compelling today as when it was first published, perhaps even more so, considering our own country today and its naive and old fashioned politics that ask us to hate people who disagree with us. Probably not for everybody, "The Talking Onion" is well worth the time of intelligent readers.

Networking may seem like an obvious way to tell people about your business, but this book is full of wonderful details that help you build your business by cross-promoting and working with other entrepreneurs.

In their usual personal style, the authors define the various strategies for business arrangements, allowing you to choose the ones that are right for you.

You will learn the 10 effective ways of teaming up with others, how to find the right people to network with, business aspects of joint relationships, continuing the working relationship, and when to move on or stay on your chosen collaborative path.

A definite primer for networking, I recommend that any business owner, especially those in home business, learn the principles covered in Teaming Up.

The choice is no longer should you go into business for yourself but when. Eventually we will all be self employed. Current employment trends, as spelled out by Jeremy Rifkin in "The End of Work," show that within the next decade over 90 million of today's 124 million jobs are in danger of elimination due to technology. Countless articles have been written about developing your resume while you're still employed and how to act as if you are self-employed even while working for a corporation. Today, more than at any other time in our history, we are being faced with the probability of losing our job and having to find another or becoming self-employed. The strategies, techniques, self-tests, and advice contained in Teaming Up are absolutely essential for everyone who plans to continue working into the future. It is a must read for all of our members. Chris Hansen, President, The Home Based Business Council, Inc.