First, I would like to set the author info straight, Harry Stephens was NOT the Editor of this work, but the AUTHOR.

I received this as a gift and it took me a long time to listen to it. After months, while on a camping trip, I finally popped it into the tape player in our car (what more perfect time for a ghost story!) It was shorter than most audiobooks and the family enjoyed the format, more like a radio show than a book reading.

Since listening to it, I have passed it on to friends to enjoy. I would definitely recommend this audiobook for family and friends. A perfect gift for the holidays, no matter when you decide to celebrate!

This story is so heart-warming. You will enjoy it as well as your family. Sit around the Christmas tree on Christmas Eve and listen to it. It will touch your heart and bring a tear to your eye! This is truly one of those "FEEL GOOD" stories anyone would enjoy at any time of the year.

This is a wonderful Christmastime ghost story and completely different from anything I have heard before. Instead of being used as objects to incite fear or horror, these ghosts are portrayed with gentleness and compassion, and used to beautifully illustrate the need for love and companionship in every human family, and the longing for closure after a tragedy. At only 90 minutes, it is easy to listen to in one sitting, and it has just the right balance of mystery and action to keep you interested without being frustrated. So get comfortable, turn off the phone, and enjoy this wonderful book.

Worth every penny!! Used this as my main reference to study for the hand examination.

This book is wonderful.It was worth every penny. This is my main resource that I use when I have a question on any hand problems. The book is very thorough and informative.It is a "must have" for any hand therapist.

I doubt anyone can pass the CHT exam without this book. If I only could read one on the list, this would be it.

I purchased this book, obviously, for a class,and I thought it was actually interesting. I had many texts that literally put me to sleep, but this one is different. It makes you think about the penal system in this country, and introduces issues to make you think about things other than locking up the bad guys and throwing away the key. My husband even wanted to read it when I finished my class!!! Recommend highly!!!!

Wow! What a great and interesting textbook. I think this is the first time I've actually been "current" in the reading required for a college course. I'd like to add that the study guide that you can purchase to accompany this textbook is excellent as well. I'd recommend a course that uses this book to anyone with an interest in criminal justice or corrections.

I am using this textbook in a class and it is a whopper. Wonderful pictures, easy to read, clear colors and understandable. I've been working in prisons for 5 years and this book makes a lot of sense. You ought to read their sections on women in prison and on probation. I loved the parts on geriatric prisoners (old cons) and the death penalty. And it is easy to read. More!

Latessa and Allen have provided an excellent resource for students of Criminal Justice, and professors alike. This text is concise, very readable, and extremely current, while offering a depth and breadth of information regarding the role and importance of Community Corrections throughout history and today. Many thanks to both authors!

I am a 3rd year Criminal Justice student and I must say that this is probably the best text that I have ever had. It is interesting, easy to read and very scholastic. It is actually a pleasure to read this book.

As an adjunct professor at the University of Central Florida, I use this text to supplement my Community-Based Corrections class (it was too late in the semester to order it for the main text). It is very readable, written in a good continuim of information, and includes review questions, key terms, and recommended readings. The instructor's guide includes a test bank disk and an overview of each chapter. Student objectives, instructor's aides, and test questions (essay, short-answer, multiple-choice, and true/false) are included (with correct answer, of course!) My students generate a lot of floor discussion with the topics in this book.

By no means am I an expert on children's book, but this is one I would gladly read to my children (if I had any). This was a fun book to read and is assuredly a fun book for children to read. The book follows a young girl getting ready for kindergarten. She does not know how to tie her own shoes, and as everybody knows, the number one rule of kindergarten is that you must know how to tie your own shoes and you can't ask anyone. Ever. The illustrations in this book are perfect as the little girl addresses the reader directly. This should engage any children reading the book. Even better, the book uses humor to tell the story as the little girl tries to learn and get out of learning how to tie her own shoes.

This is a fun book and is perfect for children

This text deals with the fears an incoming Kindergarten student has about a skill she hasn't yet developed. As a preschool teacher, I use this to open a discussion about what my students are anticipating when they begin Kindergarten. It uses humor to open a dialogue about a big step in a little person's life. The large bright illustrations are inviting and gives ample opportunity for prediction.

This is a sweet book and the kids I know really enjoy it. What is great is that the adults all love it too! There are great details (especially with Puddy the kitty... he jogs, he skateboards and best of all, he meows his sympathy) and the drawings are delightful.

This book is sweet and very funny!

Clearly, logically organised with the best illustrations and supporting, explanatory text. Worth every cent. A masterpiece!

I'm a power plant operator. I've had to take basic electricity courses for job promotions, (after taking a written test). This is the only book written (that my co-workers and I have had to study) that you can learn from on your own. The other books seemed to be written for a classroom setting, with an instructor.

Suited for study of basic electricity. The book provides excellent illustrations. Have written competency based individualized lessons for major portions of the book.

You would gain maximum benefit from this book if you go slow as you read this book and finish all of the quiz questions. Please don't jump around between various chapters - just go slow and steady from chapter 1 to chapter 2 and so on!

This book does an excellent job of explaining basics/theory of electronics [almost]. The quiz questions are formatted in such a way that they make you think - and I liked that! My favourite subject area was the chapters 3 & 4 where author explains the workings of a transistor.

I recommend this book for beginners and intermediate level students of electronics who are looking forward to strengthen their understanding of the workings of electronic components.

Regards,
Shaukat

I have been through a number of "intro to transistors" books. This is clearly the best I've read. Starts with review of basic DC theory, then it takes you step by step through the calculations of determining the current and voltage in simple transistor circuits. It progresses to circuits with multiple transistors; each step is accompanied with a schematic and example of math formula and method. The end of each chapter has review questions (with answers). Also has a chapter on basic AC theory and one on filters, resonance, etc. An extremely informative, and useful real world book without the heavy classroom theory! A welcome addition to my collection of actively used technical reference books.

Although written as a self-teaching guide, I used this book (1979 edition) to instruct a basic electronics course. It is easy to follow, and chock-full of experiments to demonstrate many basic principles and types of circuits.

There are questions and problems on every page followed immediately with answers and explanations. It is not necessary to be constantly referring to an appendix at the back of the book.

Math is confined to first-year algebra, and the question and answer approach moves logically through simple concepts into the world of diodes, capacitors, inductors and transistors.

I first encountered this book in the Readers Digest. I spent alot of time trying to find out how to get the book itself as the excerpt in the Digest was wonderful. I finally tracked down the publisher, told them how badly I wanted this book, paid over the phone & received the book. Autographed by the author himself!!! ( I was thrilled!) This book is written in a very frank manner. Harry does not build himself up to be any kind of hero, just tells it the way it happened. But, the telling is done so well that it's a hard book to put down. I have since read it at least three times. I admire the part he and others played in the Resistance. All Americans can be proud of the part Harry played in the war. I highly reccomend this book for collectors of WWII history books.

This book was brought to my attention by my great aunt, whose family - my family, helped the downed pilot Harry. My great grandmother's bother and relatives, the Vissers, helped to hide the American pilot from the Nazi's throughout war-torn Holland. As I read page after page, it was amazing to see my family, worlds and time apart from me, help the Americans win the war with small acts of kindness while risking their own lives in the process. My great grandmother, a Visser, had married a Niekerk and immigrated to the U.S. in the early 1900s but helped the war effort and her fellow Dutchman from her new home in Middlebury, CT. My great aunt and my grandfather remember helping their mother send packages of cloths, medical supplies and other items back to family, friends and even people she didn't even know in Holland. Even though I never met Harry or my great relatives, I still feel a deep family connection and a sense of pride as an American whose past helped shape two countries. This story does not require a linked history to enjoy; it is an action-packed story of war, kindness, history, love and one man whose journey touched many lives - including mine. This book has helped me to learn more about my family and our past. Thank you Harry.

I first read this in abridged form in Reader's Digest,1995 and finally found it on this site and have now read the original. What a treat! I could not put it down. Part of the attraction was the fact that I was a 31/2 going on 4yrs old in Ternaerd, Friesland, the very place where the author was hidden by one of my Dad's best friends (though no one knew of it then), in the middle of the village less than 1/2 city block away, facing the same village green, and churchyard, and with the Hotel Pel between us (next to our house) where the Germans had their local Headquarters. I can recall the sentries walking up and down in front. My Dad was the local barber and had a small tobacco and confections shop though most things were in short supply by that winter (1944-45).We also had an evader (Dutch) posing as a barber's apprentice and several evacuees from Arnhem and Amsterdam. The story was most vivid and suspenseful. The more, as my Dad's memoirs also deal with this period. It was interesting to see the country and people through American eyes, which were most observant. I'm sorry I never had the chance to meet Mr. Dolph, for I would have loved to speak with him. But I am glad he wrote of his experiences. I would say this is a must read for anyone interested in WWI and the occupation of the Netherlands.

Contents:
Trouble with Water - H. L. Gold
Nothing in the Rules - L. Sprague de Camp
Fruit of Knowledge - C. L. Moore
Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius - Jorge Luis Borges
The Compleat Werewolf - Anthony Boucher
The Small Assassin - Ray Bradbury
The Lottery - Shirley Jackson
Our Fair City - Robert A. Heinlein
There Shall Be No Darkness - James Blish
The Loom of Darkness - Jack Vance
The Man Who Sold Rope to the Gnoles - Margaret St. Clair
The Silken-Swift - Theodore Sturgeon
The Golem - Avram Davidson
Operation Afreet - Poul Anderson
That Hell-Bound Train - Robert Bloch
The Bazaar of the Bizarre - Fritz Leiber
Come Lady Death - Peter S. Beagle
The Drowned Giant - J. G. Ballard
Narrow Valley - R. A. Lafferty
Faith of Our Fathers - Philip K. Dick
The Ghost of a Model T - Clifford D. Simak
The Demoness - Tanith Lee
Jeffty Is Five - Harlan Ellison
The Detective of Dreams - Gene Wolfe
Unicorn Variations - Roger Zelazny
Basileus - Robert Silverberg
The Jaguar Hunter - Lucius Shepard
Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight - Ursula K. Le Guin
Bears Discover Fire - Terry Bisson
Tower of Babylon - Ted Chiang

Most are classics. Some of them are otherwise hard to find. This book has again to be reprinted.
Highlights:
Trouble with Water - H. L. Gold
Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius - Jorge Luis Borges
That Hell-Bound Train - Robert Bloch
The Bazaar of the Bizarre - Fritz Leiber
And many more. Classic writers; the best of these writers.
If you can find it, buy it immediately.
Too bad there is only one story of each writer. I would love to have seen more of Tanith Lee. Her short stories are_very_hard to come by.
I think this is the best F anthology ever printed. These are multi-functional stories; elements of H too. Very good atmosphere. Fritz Leiber story will......you. Leiber is so good!
Happy hunting!

"The Fantasy Hall of Fame" fills an enormous hole in the fantasy world. While many of the best works in the genre are short stories, short stories rarely stay in print for long. This anthology presents the finest tales ever written in the genre; with rare exception, almost any reader's favorites can be found here. Robert Silverberg hasn't done many anthologies in recent years, but he used to put out one every year, and he hasn't lost his touch. Any young reader of fantasy novels looking for a new chunk of his favorite reading material will be ecstatic; any long-time reader will be overjoyed to greet old friends once more. The list of stories included is too long to be included here (which in itself is a good sign!), but my favorites include Robert Bloch's "That Hell-Bound Train" and Anthony Boucher's "Compleat Werewolf." A first-rate collection!

Each and everyone of these stories is a landmark. If you are a fantasy reader, Its the best place to investigate the roots of almost each and everyone of your beloved stories. If you are a beginner, there isnt a better place to start your exploration in this field!

This is a great book for those who want to carry a concise reference on fishing. The book is easy to read and locating information is no problem.
I try to not leave home without a copy!

"Golden Books" were great for my children and grandchildren, and now their "Fishing", "A Guide To Fresh and Salt-water", book helps me with salt-water fish identification and tackle preparation. I have recently relocated to the S.C. coast and do a lot of salt-water fishing. With all of the rules and regulations relative to fish size and limits, "Fishing" comes in handy in identifying the fish caught so as not to run afoul of the "man" by having the wrong fish in the creel.

A powerful, pocket-sized introduction to the wide world of fishing. Excellent, extensive illustrations. I loved this book when I was a kid, and it still holds up well. I recommend it for anyone, child or adult, who is new to the angling arts.