This book explains how a political systems works. Democratic and non-democratic political systems are analysed deeply in their structures, processes, forms and institutions, and afterwards are compared in order to check the main diferences between them. A fantastic book!

A lovely ramble with a fascinating old gentleman, quaint, charming, sunny and a true picture of one aspect of a bygone age and of the way our great-great grandfathers talked and lived. The fishing lore and natural history are hopelessly out of date but who cares? Has been in print for centuries and deservedly so.

This is a great book for those who are on a spiritual path. It brings forth many new and exciting concepts and introduces the reader to new levels of information regarding our place in the Universe. It can be a humbling experience, for often, just when we think we have found THE truth, a book like this comes along and we discover that we have to throw a whole lot out of the window, unlearn certain things that we were "so sure" about and start all over again. This book challenges you to take what you think is truth and stretch it into a greater truth. It's not a fast read, but it is captivating.

“Coyote Wind” is a darn near perfect specimen of a mixed-genre mystery ... western. Gabriel Du Pré is laconic, honorable, and wise to the ways of the Big Sky Country---a throwback to the noble cowboy-hero of Zane Grey’s novels. He is a vulnerable hero, a Métis descendant of the French Voyageurs and Plains Indians. He has problems with his teenage daughter, who has shaved off part of her hair and dyed the rest of it a weird color. His mistress won’t marry him because in the eyes of the Church, she is still married to the sleaze who deserted her many years past. He is plagued throughout the book by an alcoholic Métis prophet.

Du Pré’s voice is unique, and perfect for this story. His dialogue is short, punchy, flicked with mordant barbs---an arrow in your heart when you are least expecting it. Two chapters into the book, found myself talking, thinking like Du Pré. Sounds like this:

“Du Pré knelt, looked, crossed himself. Some days he didn’t believe in God, but he did believe in crossing himself.

“Maybe this let you sleep now,” said Du Pré. He picked up the white skull, the color of the giant puffball mushrooms that came up in pastures in the wet years. The mushrooms were bigger, and startling in the green.

“’Now I got someone’s head in my hands, I thinking on frying mushrooms,’ Du Pré said aloud. ‘Dumb bastard’.”

The mystery of who killed whom in “Coyote Wind” is fairly easy to unravel once you get to know and care about the characters. It almost had to occur, considering the people involved. It becomes more important to see if Du Pré can help a friend stop drinking, rather than to figure out who murdered his friend’s brother. As Du Pré keeps telling everyone who will listen: “I ain’t a cop…I am a [brand inspector].”

Nevertheless, it is Du Pré who is tapped to solve a thirty-year-old murder. He goes about it in a style that is perfectly tuned to his character. Not a single false note from Du Pré or his fiddle.

“Coyote Wind” is a very satisfying read.

I am an 8 year old boy who just loves Crustaceans! I read Secrets of the Animal World Crustaceans Armored Omnivores and found it amazing! I learned facts I didn't know and secrets about different crustaceans. It provides information about fossils, molting, self defense and more. I even got to take a look inside a lobster!

I would recommend this book for any kid who likes crustaceans.

Ably translated into English by Denise Asfar and Gabriel Asfar, Cuban Music: From Son And Rumba To The Buena Vista Social Club And Timaba Cubana by Cuban music expert Maya Roy is an information packed history of Cuba's musical heritage. Individual chapters address ritual music, the rumba, "carnival" celebration music, music since the revolution, and a great deal more in this broad-reaching, nicely organized survey of the unique and lively musical voice of a nation. A superb addition to any personal or academic "World Music History" reference collection or supplemental reading list, Maya Roy's Cuban Music is also available in hardcover (1558762817...).

I bought this book for my husband who loves the work of Rossetti -- I found this book after scouring five different bookstores for collections and being disappointed with every other one I found.

This book has full-page prints of almost every painting he has ever done with detailed background information on the opposite page. The preface is facsinating -- it details his life as well as the evolution of his style. It is thorough and well-written; although it can't replace a complete biography on Rossetti, it comes close. It includes some of the sketches he had done as preliminary work as well.

The other books we found either reprinted his paintings as small pictures in the text (which of course limits your enjoyment and examination of them) or they only had a few of his pictures or the text was hopelessly stuffy and academic.

My husband loved the book... and so will you!

Next to the glory of his paintings, it's easy to forget that Dante Gabriel Rossetti was a talented poet as well. It's easy to overlook his written work, even such classics as "Jenny" and "The Blessed Damozel", and the sonnets.

In this lovely anthology, Jan Marsh -- the foremost authority on the Pre-Raphaelite circle -- has collected and arranged Rossetti's writings. Buy this book, and sample the elegance of Victorian literature, and the genius of Rossetti.

I have searched and searched for the just the right books for my kindergartner. This series of books have been perfect. This book has a very good story, which has been hard to find in beginning reader books. It also has a reward for reading the book, evey time you read it you put a gold star (which are provided with the book) on the inside front cover. This has been a great incentive for my son to read the book and read it again. The words are just on the level of a beginning reader but it also has a very good story.

If you recognise that title then you are probably already girding your loins for another wild ride with Gabriel Devlin Kessler, and you won't be disappointed. Should I say right up front that this is an NC-17 kind of book? Lots of violence, torture, and brutality. But, that's familiar territory for Kessler's readers.

What is different in this novel is the nature of the evil that threatens the existence of virtually every character. From the chillingly vivid portrayal of the Irish Famine to the life of one Harvey Katz, evil is present in every possible incarnation.

And evil wears a multitude of repulsive masks in DEVIL'S SOUL. Seeing behind those masks is the only hope, and perhaps the only consolation for those who meet up with the Devil.