Arthur Lewis give readers an unflinching glimpse of the world of carneys. His descriptions of the shows and showmen of the late 60's tell the story of a bygone era in carnival history that may never come again. Girl Shows, Freaks, Minstrels and a host of now politically incorrect attractions once were the crown jewels in any big traveling carnival. Lewis interviews the people who made the carnival what it was and what it has become today. A good read.

I traveled with Arthur Lewis as a carny while he did his research for Carnival. He has done a very good job of presenting the carny life as he saw it. He focused on different people and their part of the carnival community. I was the Purdue senior who worked on the Water Balloon Race Game. He stays with facts but makes some chapters of the book funny. I liked the story about William Durks - The man with three (3) eyes. I knew Mr. Durks and he was ugly. I would reccomend this book and if you are or were in the business (with it) a must

I read this series when I was 12, and absolutely _loved_ it. However, this, the second book in the series, was probably the least well-written and exciting. I mean, what was with the space-military-police, anyway?!?!

I read the book in 1988, and I was in love with it then and I am in love with it now.

The story of a third generation Jovian colonist and his first and only visit he could make to earth.

As usual Clarke is a master at the tech side of Science Fiction. Very imagative when it comes to technology but kind of slow sometimes boring when it comes to an interesting story. The title is decieving and has very little to do with any Empire. Worth reading mostly because of the future innovations Clark imagines.

A very well written novel about a 3rd generation colonist from Titan. He attends the Quincitennial in Washington. While there he finds a lost love and reveales her secrets. He also decides to carry on the family line.

Clarke does an excellent job depicting the future in this brilliant novel. Personally I loved it.

Back in prehistoric times when records were brittle things and only came in one speed, 78 RPM's, one of my mother's favorite albums was "H.M.S. Pinafore." She played it frequently. Too young to understand the satire, I was attracted by the catchy music. I loved to hear the captain sing "I am the Captain of the Pinafore," immediately followed by the response of the chorus. This plus "Poor Little Buttercup" and "The Ruler of the Queen's Navee" made a fan of me for life.

Several years later, and after having attended performances of several of these comic operas, I began to read Gilbert's lyrics. I must confess that I got much greater enjoyment out of reading lyrics that were from Gilbert and Sullivan performances that I had attended. I think that must be because neither the words nor the music are nearly as enjoyable in the absence of the other.

I have read that Gilbert and Sullivan had a very stormy relationship. I'm glad that they managed to work together as often as they did because they really complemented one another. What they accomplished as a team speaks for itself in the continued performance of so many of their works over a hundred years after they were first performed.

I have an older hardback of THE COMPLETE PLAYS and I found some humor in the following which may have been corrected in later copies. The book starts off with Chronological Biographies of each man. In Gilbert's it states< "first meeting with Arthur Sullivan autumn of 1870." In Sullivan's we find the following. "Met W. S. Gilbert 1871." Something metaphysical afoot perhaps.

In summary, in my opinion, the works in this book, while certainly enjoyable reading, were really meant to be performed in order to give maximum enjoyment. Others may very well disagree with this opinion and I see nothing wrong with that.

This book is full of musical plays and the scripts are worded well for possible performance. The only problem is that the sheet music is missing and from experience it is a headache to find but other than that it is a good book that stimulates the imagination.

This is, as billed, a comprehensive book. So much so that it becomes repetitive. Nevertheless, it omits some important information, and IMHO gets other information wrong. It is also a blatant, and oft-repeated commercial for the author's GPS road map series and more.

The book spends a great deal of time describing the MGRS (old) Grid, but fails to prove that it's better than the far more widely used UTM grid. It also never explains what the MGRS (new) Grid is, why it was developed, or why one should use the (old) system. One gets the impression that the author developed the grid at the time of the Gulf War, built it into his road map series, and doesn't want us to know about its successor.

It's hard to trust an author who recommends the lensatic compass over the modern protractor compass (e.g., Silva). The lensatic requires the user to orient the map in order to to use the compass, and to carry a protractor to transfer azimuths from the compass to the map and vice versa. This is exactly what the protractor compass was designed to avoid!

If you don't know how to use a map and compass, there are better books than this to learn it from.

There is no discussion of GPS problems and how to cope with them. It's not unusual for a GPS receiver to report that you are 2 feet from a waypoint, and then report the waypoint 100 feet away. This is probably the result of another problem with the book: it was written before the government increased the precision of GPS from 100 meters to 10 meters.

The book contains a great many illustrations, most of which are of no use at all. Photos of many different GPS receivers, all now obsolete; photos of outdoor scenes, etc. Many are in full color, and increase the cost of publication.

Finally, one misses a clear, organized description of each feature that can be found on a modern GPS receiver, and what is desireable in each. What screen options do you need? How good must the screen resolution be? What will you need to transfer information to and from a PC? How can one maximize battery life? How does a track differ from a route? When should you use one or the other?

One might be better off to find a compact, more recent reference that is well organized.

Excellent land nav. review for the trained navigator. Concise unbiased info regarding the use of GPS with land nav. skills. Highly recommended.

I loved how the author Arthur Howard described the different kinds of dogs, and what they can do. His pictures are really great to, it helps you understand more about what he is trying to tell you.

Having talked to his buddy the cat, Cosmo the dog takes a nap under a nearby tree wishing he was good at something. Suddenly, a mailbox zooms by, and then a bike. Cosmo has curled up on a skateboard. Instead of being scared, Cosmo figures out how to ride the skateboard...sort of.

This is absolutely a delightful children's book, especially for those days when your youngster is feeling a bit blue. The illustrations are eye catching and full of life. A good book, all the way through.

With nuclear war impending, a brilliant inventor creates the Bellingham Capsule, which will save the most precious art, music, and literature of our civilization. A few men in suspended animation will safeguard the capsule for the next thousand years, when it will automatically release them.

But when an earthquake finally breaks the capsule, Philip Lee Talbot and Edward Magnus emerge into a world far stranger than they had bargained for. Has it been a thousand years . . . or much, much longer?

For Mankind no longer rules this Earth . . .

Five centuries after atomic war destroyed most of the Earth, survivors have clawed their way back to civilization . . . And their eyes have turned to the stars. What of the colonists who fled Earth in its last days? Might they still be alive on other planets in our solar system?

Roy Bentley and Chris Hartridge set out to learn the truth. And their first stop is Mercury, the planet next door to the sun . . . for wonders await them as they discover Earth's long lost children!

This was one of my favorite books as a child - it shows that the values of life have less to do with environment and social standing and more to do with the human connections we make. The book is written from the point of view of Arthur, a 16 year old privileged suburban youth whose most meaningful human relationships develop only after he is transformed into a dog. Very appropriate even in the 90's, and a satisfying, not so tidy ending.

This is definitely worth reading if you can find a copy. A teenaged boy offends a practicer of black magic, who subsequently turns him into a dog to "teach him a lesson." Arthur's adventures lost in New York City as a mangy, ownerless dog are heartfelt and intriguing. Unpredictable and very original -- I loved this book as a child!

This is by far the most insightful and innovative look into various aspects of Christianity. It is a combination of C.S. Lewis and Francis Schaeffer but surprisingly full of innovative thinking of which I have never read. I would easily say that these papers (all 60) are must reading for any Christian after the bible. Combining immaculate scholarship, exhaustively researched scientific corroboration, within the framework of a highly biblical environment, it is simply astounding reading of the likes which will transform your thinking.

this is what good christian lit is - or should be - like. to taste of custance from the books in print, read "sovereignty of grace." daniel thompson

Outdated - even for Sculley and Woods - who also authored their own B2B book before this collection. The title is not correct. There is little "evolution" here - this is a great book if you just want to learn about public net market models; and not how they have evolved. To a few of us, these are now "past it" in that they are no longer "where it's at". Defining how to make public models work is reasonably simple and clear; what is missing here, and what most B2B leaders crave is knowledge concerning the real evolution - that from Public to Private and then to distributed P2P business models. That is where the game will be played out.

Good if you need stuff on public, centralizing models. Pretty poor if you want to read up on the evolution of e-markets.

While it appears that the stock market has lost faith with B2B pure-plays, this book highlights the power of new B2B business models. It's clear that there's more to come in B2B... even if Dot-coms don't capture all of the ultimate value.

I particulary enjoyed the section by Tempkin at Forrester Research. It provided a powerful look at how the Internet would ultimately impact businesses. While I'm not totaly convinced that the Internet will completely change how big, established businesses operate, his chapter was extremely thought provoking and should probably be read by any business executive thinking about what eBusiness will mean to them.