A young boy has to move out West and is worried that all the things he has heard about Western life are true.......

"Out West I'll look silly all the time. I'll have to wear chaps and spurs and a bandanna and a hat so big that nobody can find me underneath it. And I'll have to ride a horse to school every day and I don't know how."

Marjorie Weinman Sharmat deals with anxiety about change and stereotypes in a light and humorous manner along with Barton's earth tone illustrations. What a great way to help children learn about stereotyping. A subject that can do a lot of harm to our society if left to mature into an adult mind.

Although geared for a bit older children (5yrs. and up), all ages will get a kick out of following the young boy out West to see if gila monsters really do meet you at the airport!

"Gila Monsters" has to be one of my favorite children's books. It addresses the fear of a young boy from New York, whos "parents are moving out west." His friend told him that "Gila Monsters Meet You at the Airport," and he knows it's true, because he read it in a book.

When he finally arrives at the airport, he meets another young boy who is moving to New York and filled with fears, because there are alligators in the sewers. He knows it's true, because he read it in a book.

This book is a great way to defuse a child's fear of an upcoming move. And it's a fun read for adults as well!

The rousing history of the Ghurkas & their wonderful achievements are meat & drink for an author like Farwell & he certainly doesn't disappoint here. Good mix of general military history together with plenty of first hand, personal accounts of Ghurka bravery & quirkiness. These are a special people & this is a fascinating story of how their 200+ years of loyal service to the British Crown's Armed Forces came about &, sadly, ended on pretty poor terms. Recommended!

This book was well written and very informative in all areas pertaining to those durable soldiers, the Gurkhas. I couldn't put it down and was so enthralled with it that I had to take off from a day of work to finish it. This book has taught me of a warrior tradition I only knew from conversations. It has inspired me to find out more and more of this story. A must read for any military enthusiast

The Life of Byron James is an encapsulated view of sex, drugs and rock'n'roll. And, in my opinion, an response to members of the Jim Morrison Cult who want to believe that he isn't really dead. Its the happy(?) "Well, what if it went this way . . ." ending to an otherwise tragic life. Kuntsler's knowledge of rock'n'roll comes through on every page. I've read it more than once. And I'm always sorry that it ends. . .

i love this book. it went out of print far too quickly. i first found it almost two decades ago in a a used-book store in winnipeg. it is an amazing trip through the long, slow, devouring of innocence that was the 1960's. (side note here, it is very hard sometimes for me to believe that my childhood times are now a recognized historical period. i have always taken pride in that fact that my birth coincided with both john glenn's flight & the freedom riders setting out to mississipi.) much of the literature about that time is dated, or just plain bad, but, this book holds up. written over a decade after the sixties ended, kunstler has enough perspective to veiw the times with a clear eye. the basic plot, (the reason that i got it, for it is a story that has always haunted me.) is that jim morrison-here called byron jaynes-really did fake his death, & went on to create a new identity & life for himself. (in case you didn't know-this has been a legend for the past thirty years.) usually, i avoid roman-ala-clefs, because you keep pausing in your head, or, in my case, keeping a chart of who is supposed to be who, in any case, it is very distracting. (i read mostly sf/f, & they have a sub-genre called alternate-history, where the use the real names & peoples, just how things might have been different, & it goes from there.) however, this book just grabs you by the throat, & doesn't let go. it helps one make sense of this that crazy, wonderful, insane time, even though it began & ended in violence. i don't miss the worst parts of that time,(ie: vietnam, the assasinations, the civil rights murders, altamont, the manson family, triumph snatched from stopping at the moon, not going back or carrying on outward,-dammit, we could have a colony on mars now!) but, i sure resent the world now. there are times, hearing a piece of music from that time, or, lying awake at night, not being able to sleep, i think of all that wasted potential, the shocking waste of life, both in 'nam, & stateside. it all turned out so [darn] differently from the way it was supposed to, didn't it? reading this book is like having time machine. someday, i wish someone would make a terrific movie of this wonderful book, just so we could have a soundtrack with phil ochs & tim buckley predominant. there are times when i get somewhat bitter about life & the world as it is, but, this book helps. this is an important book, & it should be much more widely available. i desparetly hope it goes back into print & never goes out.

This book is valuable in that it proposes an overview of the field of medical anthropology and also proposes a literary approach. At the same time, its quality is its weakness: it does not look at the political economy side.

Simply put, the interdisciplinary group of anthropologists, physicians, and others at Harvard have been doing some of the most important and far-reaching work in the area of medical anthropology ever. Byron Good's book, initially given as the Henry Louis Morgan Lectures at Rochester, is a beautifully written and accessible summation of much of the innovative thinking going on with his colleagues and former students --- most notably folks like MaryJo Delvecchio Good, Art Kleinman, Lawrence Cohen, Pete Guarnaccia, Carol Mattingly, and others. The major controversies facing anthropology and medicine have been legion, and the discipline has, indeed, been put to ethically-suspect use in service to imperialist ends before. However, as Good argues so effectively, there is still much use for medical anthropology to serve progressive ends in a democratically-ordered world.

This book represents an exciting tale of one man's journey to concur several demons in his life. Greg, the protagonist, is being hunted by an evil being with god-like abilities. The book takes us on Greg's journey to destroy the being. Greg teams up with several other characters in the book to battle the evil demon, and Greg tells them the story of the monster's creation throughout the book via flashbacks. On another level, the book deals with Greg's inner demon. Greg must come to understand that he is not the one responsible for this evil being, but must surrender his guilt to a higher power.

The book provides a great read. I found the plot believable and consistent throughout the book; however, I did see a couple areas of improvement. I found two of the characters lacked that vibrant spark which seems to make them come alive in other books. I also found the constant flashbacks a bit dizzying at times. Nonetheless, this is an excellent work for the author's first book.

I got this book not expecting to even get to it in my stack of "you gotta read this". When I got home I looked at the first page of the first chapter and I was hooked. The others would just need to stay on the night stand for a few more days.

I read this book in record time. I read it faster than most of the "best sellers" I have read and enjoyed it even more. I want to loan my book out to everyone I know so they can enjoy it as much as I did, but I am afraid I'll never get it back!

The plot line is excellent, the character development is great and Bufkin does a masterful job of making you turn the page to see what happens next! If you like action, suspense, evil villians, unsuspecting heros, or deeper truths, its all rapped up in Bufkin's first literary work. All in all a great read for anyone, anytime. I look forward to more!

The author manages to make his various topics (glaciers and their effects on our world here in Ohio, development of flora and fauna of the region through history, etc.)very accessible to the lay person. He has a sense of humour about nature and a beautifully descriptive eye.

Sherman's excellent book was recommended to me by a colleague while I was preparing to teach a college course in bioregional biographies, and it is clearly the best I've seen. His rendering of geological, botanical, and biological information is both lucid and lyrical, and--unlike David Raines Wallace, whose Klamath Knot is also a wonderful model of this sort of writing--Sherman needs no incidental narrative device to hold the layers of deep history together. Mr. Sherman is a gifted writer and naturalist, and A Place on the Glacial Till is clearly a classic of natural history writing.

A good book to explain the Radar to people with singal process / electronics background. From searching radar/tracking radar to modern weather applications etc. It also introduces many good DSP applications in RADAR technology, and also good in communication field.

This book is admirably suited to either a one-semester or two-semester course in radar principles and design. More than that, it contains a good deal of information that's useful even to those of us who have designed and worked with radars for many years.

The common faults of written material on radar are either to focus too narrowly on one aspect of the topic, or to omit material on the assumption that it must be classified when in fact it is not. Edde's book avoids both pitfalls. He gives thorough, comprehensive information on all sorts of radars, past and present, designed for various uses, and leaves the conscientious reader prepared to think clearly about where to start when confronted with a request for something new and different.

Suppose you were asked to sketch out an initial design for a radar whose purpose is to track bird migration on the Atlantic flyway. Where would you start? What criteria would you strive to meet? To what extent could you hope to distinguish between types of migrating birds? What help might you hope to provide for keeping track of individual flocks during migration? What design techniques might be useful? How much of what kind of signal processing would you expect to need?

I don't know about you, but left to my own devices I could stumble around for quite a while contemplating such questions. To avoid wasting time this way, I would sit down and rapidly skim Edde's book again, cover to cover, taking notes on what might be useful ideas and starting points.

If you are professionally concerned with radar, you need this book.

Bryon has Recessive Dystrophic Epidermolysis Bullosa... the same exact condition my son has. RDEB is a rare skin disorder where the skin is so fragile a minimum scratch causes 2nd degree burn-like wounds, it is a devastating condition with no cure that does not improve with age.
In this book Lillian describes in detail her life with Bryon from birth and beyond. It was a tough book to read because of the vivid images it brought to me, but a must to read for any EB parent and their loved ones.

"The heartwarming story of a small boy's rare courage and struggle with a rare skin disease that has caused pain and suffering for Bryon since birth. His story of strong faith in God's love is a lesson for all of us. His cheerful disposition is a tremendous contrast to the severity of his condition. When you read this story, you will realize that in the midst of sorrow, God alone can draw the sting out of every trouble and take the bitterness from every affliction." This is a wonderful book and you will be touched by it's story and how it will change your own outlook on life.

The trouble with a zombie collection is that zombies don't have quite the same depth of history as some of our old familiar monsters. So the interpretation of some of these authors as to what constitutes a zombie is a little in question. In the Anne Rice story (lifted pretty directly from the Witching Hour, I believe) a zombie is anyone who doesn't respond and is under a spell. In others we get the more classical Haitian zombie. In the Robert Silverberg story the zombies are what we become when we're inhabited by passengers from somewhere else. Many of the stories are meant to be comic or satirical, and those-- for me-- packed the weakest punch. Others, like "Emma's Daughter" (by Alan Rodgers) and "Though I Walk Through the Valley" are really impressive and inventive variations on the theme.

This is, obviously enough, a collection of zombie stories. I was kind of expecting to like some of these stories but then to find an equal number of just OK or bad stories. Instead I found a collection that just blew me away. Almost every story impacted me and became well liked. Definitely try this collection! Some of the stories with the biggest punch are listed below.

"Though I Walk Through The Valley" by S. P. Somtow - A boy helps his uncle love his son.

"Dead Right" by Geoffrey A. Landis - A professional boxer tries to defeat a zombie by using a new strategy.

"Passengers" by Robert Silverberg - Malicious zombies who can take people over at will.

"Larger Than Life" by Lawrence Watt-Evans - A producer gets some help to save his latest film.

"The Potable Zombie" by Larry Tritten - A malicious bartender plays a trick.

"Corruption In Office" by Don D'Ammussa - The President of the United States gets some special help.

"The Toddler Pit" by A. R. Morlan - A young woman remembers her past as a pre-school teacher's assistant.

"The Silent Majority" by Robert Weinberg - The silent majority make their presence known.

"The Dead Speaketh Not, They Just Grunt Now And Then" by Lionel Fenn - A reluctant Lord assists with some mysterious deaths.

Cain, one of several creature-feature-action-adventure novels by Huggins (also Leviathan, Hunter), is great if you love action films. I certainly enjoyed it. Plenty of action, nasty monster, superhuman good guy, all the standard clichés.
The problem, however, is the abundance of said clichés. With the exception of an interesting Jesuit priest, the story and characters are all run-of-the-mill stereotypes. All the action scenes are standard set pieces. The Biblical allusions are heavy-handed (the demonic Cain's previous incarnation was defeated by King David, Cain fights a character named Solomon, i.e. David's son). Character resolution is tied too neatly (Solomon loses his wife and daughter, then rescues a single mom and her daughter). Huggins overuses the same adjectives over and over again, like "volcanic" and "titanic." And apparently there are some inaccuracies in his use of biology and military facts, but see other reviews for more details. Still, entertaining, but check out "Leviathan" for a better monster and "Hunter" for a better book overall.

Most everyone else here basically out lined the story so there is no point in repeating myself here! I just wanted to comment because this book was excellent, and I think everyone who likes reading novels should read this book! It was incredible! It had amazing action and the characters in there all seemed so real. It was very, very good! Definitely the best book I had read so far! I am reading though another book called the Hunter again written by Huggins and it does have the makings of being better than Cain! I don't know I might like that better when I finish it, but I would definitely recommend reading all of his books!

After reading this book, I thought it would be a definite movie. First you got Cain who would easily be played by Van Disel (the guy from Pitch Black), Soloman played by Hugh Jackman (wolverine of x-men), but thats just my opinion. James Huggins is a brilliant writer who takes you on a jouney of good vs. evil and gives you every gruesome detail that makes it oh so much better to read.