Very interesting and informative. The International Reading Association first place award winner. Covers all major medical advancements through the first half of the century.Even though this book is for children and young people, adults will be surprized that they also enjoy it and may learn something. I gave my doctor a copy.

I HAVE READ THIS BOOK SO MANY TIMES THAT I AM NOW ON MY SECOND COPY!! I WILL CERTAINLY LOOK FOR HER OTHER BOOKS ALONG THE SAME LINES. A DEFINITE WINNER!! I FEEL SO SEXY AFTER READING THIS BOOK, THAT MY HUSBAND WANTS ME TO READ IT ALL THE TIME!

Legacy : War of Ages, while pretty much based on Highlander, okay is based on highlander is still a cool game. The it's easy to play and fun and even without it being highlander you can still play like it is. I highly recommend this game and give it 5 stars.

STUNNING STORY. Deep dark plot. You won't be able to put it down

This book provides an excellent look at the current social andcultural aspects of Russian society as well as some historical background. The manner in which the well-researched information is presented is outstanding. For me, understanding the Russian culture was rather like being in a dark room. This book turned on the lights in that room. After reading Modern Russia, I felt very well informed about Russian society, past and present. I found the book to be a treasure of information.

Giselle is your ultimate rich, beautiful, party animal and she likes it that way. Her sister Genevieve is the responsible one who is about to be promoted to guild master of one of the seven major guilds and gain access to the spirit of the founder of her guild (a magical spirit who has seen just about everything).

All Giselle wants to do is party. All Genevieve wants is her sister to show up for the promotion and not embarass her. Someone or something else wants to shake up the world before it's too late. So suddenly Giselle has all the power of the seven guild spirits, the former guildmasters after her life, more power than she can handle and a heck of a lot more responsibility than she ever wanted. It does make life interesting, while she can keep it.

The color quality and other production values are excellent. The art is very good (the monsters look monstrous, the beautiful women look beautiful, etc). The story is dramatic and compelling.

The greatest tribute paid to a book of history is to reprint it several times; to honor its scholarship, judgment, and lasting contribution. Few books merit that tribute more than this one. Updated information may conflict with some of the author's details and certain of his generalizations, yet this work stands virtually unchallenged as the only true and complete biography of William Sherely Williams. Favour, an amateur historian, died in 1939, three years after the publication of Old Bill Williams, the only book he ever wrote. Favour can be proud of his achievement which ranks with the best of the fur trade books.

Williams was born in North Carolina in 1787, moved to the Missouri frontier, and began trapping while in his teens. He served in the War of 1812, was in Indian trader, an itinerant preacher, scout, explorer, and mountain man. Williams, as Favour points out, was the most noteworthy of the hundreds of mountain men in the Missouri River Country. Equally important is the revealing portrait of the mountain men and their lives. In Bill Williams, the author found those unique traits possessed by this singular group of men who led a young nation through uncharted lands to a rendezvous with the Pacific.

Bill Williams' image was unlike that of the typical hero. He was a study in contrasts. Williams was tall and redheaded, dirty and disheveled, had a knowledge of Greek, Latin, and comparative religion, and ate primitive frontier food including raw calf legs. Physical strength, ability to endure thirst, scanty rations, and fatigue counted for little unless a mountain man also had determination, courage, and fortitude. Williams and a few others possessed all of these traits yet the majority of mountain men, including Williams, died of disease, hunger, Indians, or exposure.

Williams emulated Indians in dress, deportment, speech, and conduct. If being taken for an Indian was the highest compliment a trapper could receive, it wasn't such for Old Bill Williams. Whether it was lifting a scalp, hunting buffalo, or stalking an enemy, Williams did it better than any Indian and was pround of his sobriquet - Master Trapper. Williams stood out from his contemporaries regardless of the method of comparison: bringing in the most fur, outfighting and outdrinking anyone, or simply living past his 61st birthday.

Williams' six decades of life spanned the fur trade era and through his eyes the author presents that adventurous time with clarity and understanding. Williams traversed the West, battled the Ute, Apache, and Blackfeet, wandered the great mountains and parks of Arizona and Colorado, and blazed new trails. His horse stealing excursions were a legitimate enterprise by fur trappers' standards. He excelled in this field and stole hundreds of horses from California to Mexico, including horses owned by unfriendly Indians.

As a guide to Fremont's fourth expedition, which sought a railroad route through the Southern Rockies. Williams' place in history is circumscribed. After this expedition, Fremont castigated Williams, blaming him for the failure to cross the Rockies in midwinter. Williams had warned Fremont that a crossing in winter was dangerous yet went with him anyway. Eleven men froze to death. Favour tends to whitewash Williams in this incident but any blame is needless as nature wouldn't permit a crossing by anyone that winter.

After that disaster, Williams continued to guide parties across the frontier. In March 1849, Williams and Benjamin Kern were murdered by Utes evidently seeking revenge for a previous attack on their village by a contingent of the U. S. Army. When the Utes discovered they had killed Old Bill, they gave him a chief's burial.

Old Bill's death was denied by many Indians. For years they told tales of a majestic mountain Elk, with a slash of red across its crown, serenely grazing in Colorado's South Park, stopping from time to time to gaze intently toward the Southwest - toward its namesake Arizona's Bill Williams Peak which stands alone on the skyline along the western boundary of a frontier long past.

This Book is still one of a kind. Since it was published in 1970, it is still the only reliable Book which gives the complete Text of three Wayang Kulit (Javanese Shadow Puppet) Lakon (Plays). "The Reincanation of Rama" from the Ramayana and "Irawan's Wedding" and "The Death of Karna" from the Mahabharata. The Book begins with a fine introduction to Wayang, the Plays, Performance and Translation. The translation from Javanese was rendered by Pandam Guritno, one of the froemost Javanese Wayang Scholars of all time, whom I knew personally. Next follow the texts of the three Plays, which include 143 illustrations. James Brandon has also included descriptions of the action that takes place and the musical pieces that are played. The reader can thus review three performances through reading. At the end of the Book are useful Appendices, Notes on Sources, a good Glossary and a now outdated Bibliography. This Book is useful for those who are interested in Wayang, Javanese Culture, Theater Arts, Sanskrit Literature and many other subjects. That is what makes Wayang so wonderful. It is many things in one.

Well, i'll tell you this...Prima's guide is ten times better than the Brady games guide, and that's something that doesn't happen often. First off, the maps...The prima games guide has maps that actually resemble what the game looks like. The maps have all the details that are in the game, and point out where everything is...the brady games guide looks like the maps were drawn with a big marker...they just show the outline of the levels, with no details really. The prima games guide gives enough information to get you through the game without walking you step by step through the game...this alows the guide to be effective without spoiling the story. The one complaint with this is that it doesn't have a answer section to the treasure box puzzles...these puzzles force you to look around for 4 sets of these books that give you the answer to the puzzle box. If this guide had just given the answers to these puzzle boxes, you would just be able to get the item in the box without having to perform the annoying task of finding the code and then backtracking to the box. Otherwise, this is a great Guide, one of Prima's best.

Almost thirty quilt projects presented by seven quilters pairing some unusual designs with the interests of quilters who gain their inspiration from a variety of traditions, from Amish to Danish, in Patchwork And Quilting Book # 3. Color photos of quilts and sections accompany clear instructions, from materials needed to cutting out and assembling the blocks. A gorgeous, diverse project guide.