My daughter borrowed this book from the library without even looking at the cover. She just pulled it from the shelf and ran for the checkout counter. What a gem! She loves it and it's the first book her 17 month old brother has ever taken an interest in. Maybe it's because I read it with a cornpone accent. But whatever it is, he never tires of reading it. I read it to him 4 times in one day and he was still begging for it at bedtime. The illustrations are fun and complement the writing beautifully. I had a hoot reading it!

No Question about this book, kids are going to love this one and this is A WESTERN BOOK??!!!

I heard of that book and loved Whitefish Will Rides Again!

Sheriff Whitefish Will is so strong that he can lift up a horse. One day Jesse James came to town. Will was so good at rassling rustlers that soon theres no more left and the townsfolk put poor Whitefish Will out to pasture.

So heck, what was this guy supossed to do all day? He raised roosters, rode in the rodeo on his horse to rope a calf and at his lovely rio rancho in the hills Whitefish Will played the harmonica.

The bad people took all their horses.

The barber is so scared of the bad guy named Bart he laughs and yells, "Go Ahead, Take The Friggen Horses, We'll walk."

B - Y - R - D B - I - R - D The barber laughs at and is scared of it and it makes him think of Tracy Byrd.

Bird.

I purchased this book for my 5 year-old step-son and not only does he enjoy it, but so does my 2 year-old daughter. The illistrations are spectactular and colorful, and the exciting story is written so that any parent can speak as if they were from the West. My daughter and step-son really get a kick out of how I sound when I'm reading this book to them. The use of out-of-the-ordinary words such as "varmit" and "gosh, dang dingle darn it" make reading this book a delight. I give this book my best recommendation.

This is the one to read. I even gave it to my husband to read. Easy to read. I read it in 2 hours. This book gave me the reasons people act the way they do. Then it gave me a way to talk to those kinds of people.

I initially bought this book for my husband, who was having a difficult time at work with his boss. My husband has huge praises for the book and now that I have finished reading it, I've come to understand why. Arthur and Dayle have managed to consolidate and present strategies on how to deal with difficult people in a handy and easy-to-read book. Even if you don't find time to read, you can easily read some pages on the way to work in the train. A questionaire helps you to identify what type of person you are, and explains the different personality types, helping you to see why yome people react in certain ways. You will realise eventually why you seem to always clash with a certain personality group. This book gives you tips on how you can handle 'difficult' people and helps you to have a clearer picture of yourself. For all you know you may be the S.O.P. (Source Of Pain) that others are experiencing!!

I picked up this book because of the title and price. Excellent source of support for managing projects with cross functional teams. I am planning on buying for the team as a team building session. Quick and easy to read with helps tremendously....

I love this book! It is my all time favorite. This is a book you'll want to read and pass on to all your loved ones. It shows God's love and his willingness to meet his people all the way. It gives hope and renews faith. This book is a must for every library.

I found myself in that book. It was the only book where I could totally see myself in a character. Everything she went through mirrored my life. And to know she was still loved filled me with hope. IT CHANGED MY LIFE!!! PLEASE READ IT YOU WON'T BE DISAPPOINTED

This was one of the most exciting books I've ever read. I bought it to read on an overnight train trip, and I couldn't put it down. I read it straight through because I just had to know what was going to happen next. It's a beautiful love story of what it truly means to love your wife as Christ loved the church. Recommend it for all adults.

Once upon a time (I was about 8), a family friend handed down his Collier's Junior Classic series to me - each volume is a glorious hodgepodge of short stories from here, there, and everywhere. I got to be very fond of Greek mythology, especially "The Chimaera" and "The Miraculous Pitcher", since the Collier retellings of their respective legends were much more lively than the ordinary.

Alas, I forgot the name of the author of "The Chimaera", and even that my favourite versions of the myths were all written by the same person. Some talented guy writing for the series, no doubt, I would have said, if I'd thought about it. A couple of years ago, I started browsing through an impressive-looking illustrated volume of mythology in a bookstore (which you now see before you). Whoa. "Scarlet Letter" Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote *THESE*?

His retellings of Greek myths were originally spread over 2 volumes (the other being _Tanglewood Tales_), but they can be obtained in a single volume these days. I can personally do without the gang of Tanglewood kids providing the official audience for the stories-within-a-story, or the defense against critics put into the mouth of the storyteller Eustace Bright, but then I want more space for more myths. :) Each myth in _A Wonder Book_ has an Introductory and After the Story section where the storyteller leads up to the tale, then fends off any awkward questions from his young audience.

"The Gorgon's Head" - The story of Perseus, from his infancy through the quest for Medusa's head. Hawthorne skates delicately past the question of who put Perseus and his mother, Danae, in a chest and abandoned them on the sea, let alone why (toned down for kids, and all that), and of course doesn't go into detail about what mischief Polydectes might intend if Perseus can be got out of the way.

Hawthorne is otherwise thorough about details: he even includes the Three Gray Women, who share the use of a single eye, who had to be persuaded to reveal the location of the monsters whose gaze turns living creatures to stone.

"The Golden Touch" - The Midas legend, of how a king, blinded by a love of gold, foolishly asked Apollo that he be given the gift of turning things into gold with a touch. Be careful what you ask for...

"The Paradise of Children" - The story of Pandora's box. Hawthorne's version, much as I like his other mythological tales, has been prettified a little too much: everyone in the world was a child who never grew up, before the box arrived.

"The Three Golden Apples" - The 11th labour of Hercules, wherein the king sent him to fetch the apples of the Hesperides. The tale begins with Hercules meeting a band of nymphs, who hear his account (only briefly summarized, alas) of his preceding labours before directing him to the one person who can direct him to the garden: the Old Man of the Sea...

"The Miraculous Pitcher" - Philemon and his wife Bauchis have grown old together - the only kindly folk living for a good way around a prosperous village, whose inhabitants delight in tormenting vagabonds (although they'll fawn on wealthy-looking strangers). Then one day a ragged youth called Quicksilver and a taciturn man with an appearance of great wisdom are driven out of the village...

"The Chimaera" - Bellerophon's pursuit of Pegasus, whom he seeks because only in the air does he have a chance of killing the monstrous chimaera. Bellerophon's long wait beside the fountain of Pirene, where Pegasus descends to drink, is enlivened by several characters living round about: an old man who can't even remember his glory days, an overly timid maiden who'd run from anything unusual, a yokel who only appreciates plowhorses, and a little boy (the only one who really believes in Pegasus).

One day last week, I could not, even after hours of deliberation (the snow had made engagements scarce), decide what book to read next. I finally came upon this little volume on the end of my parent's bookshelf and decided to give it try. How could I have known what charms were in store? I felt like a little girl again, and as Eustace Bright, the ambitious college student who narrates these tales, held his little auditors in awe, my eyes, too, were wide with wonder. It truly is a "wonder book," full of high fantasy, thrilling action, and the inimitable imagery of a master. Though geared towards "boys and girls," Hawthorne explains in his introduction that "children possess an unestimated sensibility to whatever is deep or high, in imagination or feeling, so long as it is simple . . . It is only the artificial and complex that bewilder them." Indeed; the book hardly condescends, and so will gently stretch the middle-grader's vocabulary. But readers -- or listeners -- of all ages will delight in this collection of tales, for I was equally, if not more, entertained by the introductories and postludes to each story, which relate the antics and dialogue of Eustace and the little children he entertains. These interludes also expand the stories by slipping in commentary and interpretation.

Don't pass this one by; it will truly win your heart, whoever you may be!

Hawthorne's gentle, charming collection of classic myths retold for the children of his day is a neglected classic. Addressing the reader in personable Victorian fashion, his prose is clear and beautiful. Consider this sample:

"Within the verge of the wood there were columbines, looking more pale than red, because they were so modest, and had thought proper to seclude themselves too anxiously from the sun. There were wild geraniums, too, and a thousand white blossoms of the strawberry. The trailing arbutus was not yet quite out of bloom; but it hid its precious flowers under the last year's withered forest-leaves, as carefully as a mother-bird hides its little young ones."

But Hawthorne is also equal to the task of less genteel, more vigorous images:

"At this sound the three heads reared themselves erect, and belched out great flashes of flame. Before Bellerophon had time to consider what to do next, the monster flung itself out of the cavern and sprung straight toward him, with its immense claws extended, and its snaky tail twisting itself venomously behind."

Adding to the pleasure of these retold tales is the gorgeous art of Arthur Rackham, both in black-and-white drawings and full-color plates, which captures the unearthly beauty and the unexpectedly surprising humor of Hawthorne's work. Highly recommended!

Even a close examination of the 1943 edition of Yankee Lawyer does not readily reveal that the Autobiography of Ephriam Tutt is a work of fiction.

Train cleverly repackages his pre-war Saturday Evening Post stories, adding a touch of judicial gloss and a sprinkling of genuine citation to reported appellate court authority. The result is a capitivating portrait of law practice in the first half of the last century.

As Tutt himself might have noted, Train's fiction contains more truth than do the facts deducible from the admissible evidence.

Mr. Tutt's critical musings on the nature of law and the future of justice are prophetic, presaging much of what the law indeed has become.

I am the person who wrote the review earlier this summer. I have just finished reading Train's book, My Life in Court (1939). His comments about his invented character Mr. Tutt seemed odd until it dawned on me that Yankee Lawyer (first published in 1943) is not an autobiography at all - it is another of Train's novels about his invented character! The irony is that as I read My Life in Court, I kept thinking that Tutt was so much better a writer than Train! I still recommend the book, although knowing it is a novel takes a bit of edge off the enjoyment.

First, a correction. Mr. Tutt's autobiography (first published in 1943) was not written by Arthur Train, but by Ephraim Tutt. The attribution to Train might be based on his having used Tutt's name in several of his books of fiction - even in their titles. They were colleagues as young lawyers (in the office of the District Attorney of New York), and friends for life.

According to the publisher's blurb on my copy of the book (1943), Tutt was the best known American lawyer of his time. He had a varied career as a country lawyer, a prosecutor in New York, and a litigator in a large New York firm. His book is warm and wise, as is the man.

John A. Garraty's "1,001 Things Everybody Show Know About American History" is an interesting combination of strengths and weaknesses. Each of the eight parts is arranged chronologically, which is useful to both teachers and students who are using this as a supplemental reference book in a history class. What is arguably the strongest section, dealing with Politics, comes first and offers a nice array of nicknames, slogans, laws, court decisions and other items of political importance. The part on People looks at famous families, but wisely expands the idea from political families such as the Adams and the Roosevelts to include anybody of note named Johnson, Jones or Smith. The sub-section of "Famous Indiscretions" is interesting, especially when it tosses in harry Truman's letter to music Critic Paul Hume along with the Fugitive Slave Act and Watergate.

The "weakest" section is on Presidents, which consists entirely of quotations about each man, and not always flattering ones; Jefferson, Franklin and Hamilton have trouble finding anything nice to say about John Adams, for example. If you want to find out anything more substantial about any of the Presidents you need to go to the index to see where such things are scattered throughout the book. The quotes are certainly interesting and may even be of use in a history paper, but one of the "1001 Things Everybody Should Know About American History" is not that Roscoe Conkling through the Arthur Administration was not heroic. However, I have to admit that biographical capsules of all the Presidents are readily available elsewhere and these quotes are certainly different way of approaching this topic.

The section on Military Matters provides some nice, concise summations of various battles and rebellions as does the final section on Matters Economic and Otherwise in terms of anonymous inventors, strikes and fiascos. On balance, one of these things that speaks well for Garraty's book is how it balances the good and the bad. What "Everybody Should Know About American History" covers the entire spectrum and no matter how much you already know, or think you know, you will learn a thing or too. Yes, the title is pure hyperbole, but given the increasingly narrow focus on most high school history textbooks this is an excellent supplemental text that gives teachers some concise, pertinent facts to throw into each and every unit throughout the year.

"1001 Things Everyone Should Know about American HIstory" is a quick, breezy reference work that covers such diverse topics as famous families, famous and significant Americans, key military events, important legislation, and notable sppeches. At roughly 200 pages, this book contains a wide range of American history that will be especially valuable to high school and college students. Even if you're a regular reader of American history, you'll find this book is a quick and easy-to use source for answers to to recurring questions about the American saga. It's much easier to consult this book's summary of great American speeches than spend hours as the library looking for the comparisons and contrasts between Lincoln's "House Divided" speech and his "Gettysburg Address." The book also contains an abundance of contemporary sketches and photographs. Highly recommended.

100 Cigarettes And A Bottle Of Vodka: A Memoir is the true story of the life of a young Jewish boy in Nazi-occupied Poland, when the reward for turning in a Jew was indeed 100 cigarettes and a bottle of vodka. Arthur Schaller lost his mother to the Nazi extermination camps, and was forced to embark on a long odyssey, hiding and passing as a Catholic orphan, to escape annihilation. A powerful story of faith in dark times, and coming of age in a world no child should ever have to live in, 100 Cigarettes And A Bottle Of Vodka is a singularly compelling life remembrance and a welcome contribution to the growing library of eye-witness Holocaust Studies.

I read this book the summer i was fourteen. I had just begin to become interested in the Holocaust and WWII. Well, it's a year later, and I still vividly remember how interesting this book was. This is an incredible memoir. I won't spoil it or say too much, but Schaller tells us of the events of his young life as a Jew in Warsaw when the war broke out. I found myself marveling at the fact that when the story begins, he is around my age, and how courageous he is stunned me. This book really set off my fascination for what happened to those 6+ million during that dark time for humanity. Well, it's a great book, just see for yourself.

You are an ESL student or a non-native speaker of English?

You want to improve your American English vocabulary?

You also want to avoid the verbose academic methods?

Stop here! You get it!

I've just finished "504..." today and frankly, I'm fully satisfied. Murray, Julius and Arthur have set up a very intuitive and captivating course: a set of 42 lessons cut up in 7 sessions, each session separated by a review.

How does a typical lesson work?

You have a list of 12 words in a yellow vignette, so you can see what you're gonna learn in a quick glance. The details appear on the right: for each of the words, you have: their standard pronunciation(s) (essential!), their definition(s) and 3 examples of common use. After that, a short article using all of them is presented. The coolest thing is you often meet in the example sentences and articles the words you learnt before. It's a good way to practice them again and test your learning. And you know what? Some articles can even teach you many things beyond English!

Then come 3 exercises. Two are repeated over the lessons: you have 12 sentences with blanks and you fill them in with one of the words. The second standard exercise is an illustration and you are encouraged to find which of the words is hidden behind.

The 3rd exercise varies, depending on the lesson. You can expect one of these:

* Make up your own 12 sentences,

* Find synonyms or antonyms,

* Find the words from their definition,

* Find among 12 phrases those which don't make sense.

Each lesson should not take you more than an hour, maybe even less. Besides, it happened from time to time that 1/2 hour was sufficient for me.

"Okay", I heard you say, "but I'm still not convinced. How did you do in practice?"

Well, generally, I tried to follow 5 lessons a week, i.e one after my workday.

I looked at the new words I had to learn and checked the pronunciation. I repeated each word 10 times aloud, even if I didn't know what it meant. Afterwards, I repeated all the list up and down as many times as needed (between 3 and 5 times) for my pronunciation to be a reflex. I didn't want to take bad habits of pronunciation by reading the definition first and realize half a minute later that my mouth and my tongue hadn't done their job correctly, you see. A word is like a girl's name. She likes to hear her name pronounced correctly. When a boy meet a damsel for the first time and plans to keep in touch with her, he longs to know her name and he'll carefully use it the next time. I think it's the same for a word. Try to be nice to it and name it correctly before living with it. You should do this for *all* the words: if pologamy is illegal, polywordy isn't ;)

So, as soon as I was at ease with the pronunciation, I read the examples *before* the definition. Why? Because I wanted to guess the meaning: I had noticed that a word is all the better memorized as you feel you already know it somehow. Finally, to check my guess, I read the definition and went to the next word. I repeated the process twice, just to be sure. Of course, the 2nd time was faster. Then, I did the exercises.

What if I already knew some of the words? In fact, out of these 504 essential words, I already knew 1/3 of them but I don't regret anything because I saw a great number of them used in contexts I would never have suspected :), so I felt richer anyway.

About the exercises, I told you you were asked sometimes to create your own 12 sentences. I confess I happened to find it not challenging enough. In that case, instead of 12 independant phrases, I wrote a little story using the 12 words, like in the article. It's a good way to develop their loyalty and challenge your creativity.

But it isn't the end yet! In case you'd be still afraid not to be trained enough, the 7 reviews in the yellow pages are here to reassure you. They are organized somewhat differently compared to the lessons.

Each review contains 7 exercises:

1) Choose the good word in phrases between two suggestions,

2) Find opposites,

3) Rebuild newspaper headlines,

4) Find words from their definitions,

5) Complete a letter with words from a list,

6) Find analogies,

7) Make sentences with words that do double-duty.

Of course, you'll find again the words of the immediately previous lessons but also a few more from even farther ones.

The exercise on analogies is tough sometimes, that's really my opinion. Words that do double-duty are very exciting because you learn that some words you have been taught as verbs for instance can also be considered as nouns or adjectives.

I needed 3 months to complete the method and I enjoyed it like a little kid.

So, if I convinced you, enjoy it too! :))

I use this book to teach school children and working adults and I find it a good book to use. There are 12 words to be learnt in each lesson with many examples to show how these words are used in sentences and stories. There are also exercises for the learners to practise using these words either in constructing sentences, filling in the blank, matching, etc....

Arthur Ide,one of the most prolific authors in the US,has written one of the most delicate,useful,human books about this subject.If you need a professional and human insight,this IS the book for you.

From herbal abortifacients found in home gardens and public parks to medical/clinical procedures that enable a woman to exercise her freedom of choice by not carrying an unwanted pregnancy to term, Dr.Ide's newest health study offers in simple language information that all women have an inalienable right to know. The author not only details the various steps to a safe abortion, but details the radical right's political action to deny woman freedom of choice over her body, an explicit expose' of the errors in the Silent Scream,and ingenious insights into the dangers both present to human freedom.

When used with the accompanying lab manual which includes useful audio tapes, this book is great for learning beginning Italian quickly and easily. I used this required textbook for both first and second semester Italian at UC Berkeley and as a student planning to study abraod in Italy next year I highly recommend this text.

I used this book after it was required both for first and second semester Italian at UC Berkeley. The appraoches to grammar and vocabulary are ecxellent. Important grammatical points are highlighted and are easy to find when needed to refer back to. As a student planning to study abroad in Italy next year I highly recommend this university level textbook.