Spanning the globe from Asia to Antarctica to Alaska to New Guinea, this wonderful book is a must for any mountain lover--including those of the armchair variety. The illustrations are heartpounding, while about a few dozen short narratives are wholly satisfying. This book is a wee bit pricey, and, tho' I am a poor boy, I don't feel one bit robbed. This may be the best picture book/narrative mtn. book I own.

It's got such fantastic photography, the hardcover is well worth the investment.

Great photographs in this book - largely by John Cleare one of the world's greatest mountain photographers. Thank you John for yet more stunning photographs!

I bought this book back in 1992 when I first became a Queen fanatic. There are some great pictures and quotes, along with kind of an abbreviated history of the band. It concludes with a list of all of Queen's music releases up until 1992. It is a beautiful book that is well worth the money. You will look at it again and again.

This Queen book is absolutely fabulous! It is perfect in nearly every way. It is basically a visual timeline of the band, from its subtle beginnings to its flashy end (or is it?). The pictures alone are worth the price, but the ingenius quotes from band members simply makes this one of the best Queen books available. Look for Freddie in his Superman shirt!

This book brings you right along side the band and their legendary music. If you like queen, this is a must have for your library!

A Clam Named Sam seems to appeal to all young children (and quite a few adults too!) My grandson's copy is tattered and dog-eared, and my daughter has taken to giving this book to all her friends' children on birthdays and holidays. I hope DeVitt is working on a sequel!

SAM THE CLAM is a lovely book and well received by lots of children who sing his song and enjoy his antics on the Vineyard.
Colorful illustrations bring this whimsical tale to life for kids of all ages. Younger children find this a favorite for Grandma or Grandpa to read to them and older children find this a good first book to read to themselves.

I use this book everytime I go hikin

Recipes are elegant and simple: Bananas in Cream, Grand Marnier French Toast, and Chris' wonderful creations are showcased in this wonderful book. Too, the Newcastle Inn is a treasure if you ever get the chance to visit!

I found this book really intresting and usefull

This book is written by journalist and British Member of Parliment Chris Mullin and deals with the notorious Birmingham Six case. Mullin was for long in the forefront of those calling for the case to be reopened and arguably did more to procure their eventual release than any lawyer did.

This book is a tale of human error, skulduggery, and incompetence on the part of police, prosecutors, forensic experts and judges at every level and on such a scale that it almost beggars belief. It shows how the appeal process all too often can become a sham with the court not being open-minded to the receipt of new evidence.

Mullin mercilessly exposes how prosecution-minded and malign appellate judges can be when they have a mind not to do something. Attempts to bring a civil action against West Midlands Police for assaults upon the men while in custody provoked the notorious off-the-cuff, but all the more revealing for that, remark by Lord Denning: "Just consider the course of events if this action is allowed to proceed to trial. If the six men fail, it will mean that much time and money will have been expended by many people for no good purpose. If the six men win, it will mean that the police were guilty of perjury, that they were guilty of violence and threats, that the confessions were involuntary and were improperly admitted in evidence and that the convictions were erroneous. That would mean the Home Secretary would either have to recommend they be pardoned or he would have to remit the case to the Court of Appeal. This is such an appalling vista that every sensible person in the land would say: It cannot be right these actions should go any further."

Luckily for the Birmingham Six, Lord Denning's "appalling vista" was eventually realized when all the wrong doing was eventually accepted as having happened.

This detailed economic history of modern Sichuan Province is a balanced, illuminating lesson about the pros and cons of planning as a development strategy for very poor areas. Despite the cheerleading sounding title, Bramall is very fairminded about assessing the record of the Maoist state. He largely assumes the analytical framework of Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen, and his work on entitlements and related statistics, as a measure of economic security. This is not to say GNP and agricultural output issues are ignored, on the contrary, they are given thorough analysis. Included is a long chapter on the 'Great Leap Forward' famine in Sichuan, the province hardest hit by this catastrophe. The devastation wrought by the GLF is clearly the major con side of the Maoist strategy. The "In Praise of..." comes from Bramall's findings about the rapid industrialization that occured, and the level of heath/vital stats, which are far in excess of other countries at Sichuan's development level. Bramall concludes that these two factors laid an essential foundation for the even more rapid growth that occured in the reform period (1979- ).

Bramall points out that the rapid industrialization is even more impressive, given the amount of resources that had to be diverted because of external military threats. The "third front" was the duplication of industry in the interior in expectation of American invasion of the Chinese mainland during Vietnam. It is now known that Mao was planning to send the PLA to North Vietnam if the Americans bombed the area of NV near the Chinese border. He felt that the Americans would retalitate by invading China itself, and the extensive third front economic strategy was preparation for this eventuality.

This is purely an economic study. For a more social-political side of the Mao strategy at the village level, Stephen Endicott's "Red Earth: Revolution in a Sichuan Village" would be a good companion to Bramall's technical study. Also books by Potter/Potter, Mobo Gao, Parish/Whyte, Selden/Friedman/Pickowicz, and Chan/Unger/Masden illuminate the Mao era social-political situation in areas outside of Sichuan.

This is quite possibly the most fair biography of Paul McCartney ever written. In fair I mean unbiased, unprejudiced, and truthful. The most musically talented member of the Beatles, (also the leader of the band Wings, and a man knighted by Queen Elizabeth,) is portrayed in this book neither as a hero or as a crook, which is really what most other biographies make him out to be. 'McCartney' is a wonderful book. It is written beautifully, leaving nothing in McCartney's life out, and tells McCartney's story clearly and with the appropriate amount of admiration and emotion. This is definitely a biography a McCartney fan should read. Paul himself would love it.

I'm a huge PSB fan, but given their recent lack of success in America, I have seen little of them. Reading this book was an excellent way for me to learn a little bit about the boys. The book is terribly funny. The Boys act like spoiled rock stars at times and at other times seem like the most normal chaps you could hope to meet. This schism is appropriate for a group that writes and performs such complex music. The book covers their tour during the "Introspective" CD ("It's Alright" was released as a single in Britain during this time).

The PSB were in their self-proclaimed "imperial period" when everything they did went to #1 in the UK (and top 10 in the US). However, it was clear that things were changing, especially with the emergence of English boy bands that would proliferate during the 1990's. They riff on a number of British and American pop stars, and the fun is not diminished by the fact that many of these acts are fairly unknown in the US, such as Bros. If anything, the fading of these untalented bands and the continuing (European) success of PSB documents that substance can win over style.

We also learn a great deal about their creative process. For example, I had always assumed that Chris wrote the music and Neil wrote the lyrics, but that is not the case. They seem to have equal say in the formation of songs. The Boys also seem surprisingly principled and unwilling to bend their artistic choices for the sake of popularity and record company approval. I greatly enjoyed this book and think that other PSB fans will also.

After years of being a devoted fan, Chris Heath's book changed my opinion of our Boys from the UK. "Literally" revealed the true side of the Pet Shop Boys.

In public, Neil is the verbal communicator and frontman while Chris is the silent mind behind the synthesizers! But in reality it's almost the opposite: Neil is quiet and reserve and Chris so outspoken, that he borderlines on being obnoxious!

The book reveals the Boys points of view on everything from their opinion of fans to what they think of Bryan Ferry.

The book was not as interesting as I thought it would be. A better book is the follow up book "Pet Shop Boys VS America.

As an obsessive Pet Shop Boys fan I had to have this book and found it to be a great gossipy read. Even for non-fans it's quite the page-turner and gives great insight into what successful musicians have to go through whilst touring. It's amazing the PSBs let someone enter their midst and catch them in such unguarded moments without knowing whether the book would be complimentary or condeming. Heath side-steps such touchy issues as Chris and Neil's sexual orientation, their opinion of other pop stars and celebrities. Some of the stories had me screaming with laughter they were so funny. Yes, Neil does come off a being a bit bossy and a bit of a control queen and Chris does sound a bit demanding, but then again you have to be to be successful on your own terms. Chris Heath's writting is very witty, engaging and crisp, very British and a refreshing blast of fresh air when compared with other pop star bios.