For any one who knows of the vast badlands west of Fort Worth and east of the Caprock of Texas, for anyone who is interested in the daily life of the pioneers settling west Texas in the post Civil War period, or for any one who collects true stories,you must add this autobiography to your library. The thrill of the buffalo hunt, the beauty of hills of white lacy gypsum sandwiched in Permian red clay are described. Ella Elgar Bird Dumont shares the details of her years,the simple pleasures of family and friends, and the anguish of loneliness as a widow living on the rolling plains. Truly a unique feminine perspective, told with the openess and details of a true pioneer woman.

This is an extraordinarily thorough yet easily accessible survey of one of the world's most exhaustive recording careers. Aside from a few maddening typos (typical of all such books) you could not ask for a better-crafted discography. Perhaps an updated edition could include thumbnail images of the artwork -- at $[price] a pop, that seems like a reasonable request. Otherwise, this is essentially just a database that could be shifted to the web.

I am the author of For Women Who Live Alone and I want to encourage any woman who has lived alone, is now living alone or who knows someone that lives alone to invest in this book.

This is not a sales pitch, but it is a smart way to protect yourself from men who prey on women. It could be your next door neighbor or a co-worker on your job. Many men who prey on women don't necessary prey on them for sex, there have been instances where men seek out women who have been hurt and they prey on the pain that these women are dealing with. Yes, they are smooth operators and many women are taken by surprise. As a matter of fact they never know what hit them when these men take advantage of them

This book gives true accounts of women who have suffered just because they wanted to be nice. Being nice is not always smart. For Women Who Live Alone is a must have for all person who knows a woman that lives alone.

Thanks for reading this, Sincerely Yours Ella Patterson

Foreigners in the Union Army and Navy is an in-depth treatment of this little-explored topic. It concentrates mostly on the Army and foreign officers, since they left most of the personal accounts, but it gives insight to into the experiences of average immigrants new to the U.S. and foreigners looking for a war to be a part of. Buy it if you can get it (and afford it)!

This book is a departure from the ordinary. Yes, there is much about his art and work, but there is much more about the man himself. Any who wish to get a reading of Audubon's personality, his mind-set, his values, must read this work by Foshay. Our business is Audubon, and we feel this book is the best to come out in years. Like the images Audubon produced, this book has "life" in it - Audubon's life. It will make you feel that you know the man. - EZ, Princeton Audubon

My almost-4-yr.-old and his nursery class love this book. The words detail a meal of bugs and "puddle ink" to drink, but the pictures really capture all the fun of pond exploration. It's a quick read, yet the children go back to it by themselves to look at the illustrations more carefully.

This book gave a different point of view of the Indian Shoshone woman who traveled with Lewis & Clark's expedition. I've read several books regarding Sacagawea and just returned from the Montana to Idaho historical tour on Lewis & Clark's trail. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in Sacagawea.

George Ella Lyon has been inspiring writers and teachers for years. Her writing exercises and her lyrical way of talking about writing keep her in demand as a workshop leader and speaker at schools. At last we have this book! I have used her exercises for years in my writing workshops, always with results that far exceed the writing that students have have done up to that point. Those same exercises have led me into writing poems I didn't know were waiting to be written. No one is better at evoking the voices of real people or helping a new writer really see what she is trying to get on paper than Lyon. The exercises in this book are wonderful, but a close reading of Lyon's poems is perhaps the most rewarding part of Where I'm From writers and teachers alike. Highly recommended.

This is a wonderful book although it was stiched together by Smith almost 50 years after Wiswell created the raw material in her journal notes--because it simply has no competition. Ella Wiswell was John Embree's wife and co-ethnographer in Suye Mura in 1935-36. She returned to her original calling as a Professor of European languages after his death in 1951, just filing her notes and journals away until Smith came along and talked her into opening them up. This volume reveals a pre-war rural Japan of gossipy, lusty, and surprisinglyly independent women; flexible families, gobs of divorce and remarriage (initiated by women as well as men), independent and defiant youths of both sexes. It goes a good deal further than Embree's original monograph to make the ability of Japan to industrialize as early as it did understandable. These are not strong Confucian or samurai families extending from the past above to the future below, but horizontal families with sometimes comically permeable boundaries--weak families in the demands that can effectively be made on members, weak in their ability to retain even central members (like wives or husbands). And where family is weak, individuals are able to shine--and these people do.

I checked this particular book out of the our city library. Looks to me it was intented for a "queens" english audience, because all of the recipes measurements are in metric. This book has lots of unusual recipes that aren't in many other chinese cook books. I like it for this reason, I'm tried of every chinese cook book written for americans who only know items that have the prefix "sweet and sour". At times though, the directions are vauge and it seems that steps are missing. Sometimes are you left making assumptions about what steps to take next. If you are into dim-sum, I suggest the Eileen Lo book, its magic.