Little Soup's Hayride is a quick, easy read for an established reader or a fun, friendly read for a struggling reader. The illlustrations numerous and are strongly related to the content of the page. The text has short sentences yet good vocabulary. Much of the language is decodable. The ending is surprisingly funny.

I was excited when I saw the advanced advertisements for this book and looked forward to its publication. I was not let down. The authors know their stuff and have put together a fine reference work on the 20th Century passenger service of "The Old Reliable".

This is not a novel or in-depth review of the subject so don't appoach it looking for any insight into the inner workings of a railroad. The extensive biliography gives plenty of sources to find that material. It is, however, a detailed overview of all aspects of L&N passenger service, from train equipment to dining car staffing. The writing is crisp and well paced with only a few dry spots. Many personal tales and anecdotes abound adding dimension to the topics.

My only complaints about the book are that the authors should have focused on each train such as the Hummingbird and Cresent in seperate, detailed sections rather then covering them in a chronological manner (which can be confusing and tedious for those not familiar with the railroads many routes). Also, more color photos would have been appreciated, especially for those of us who model L&N equipment in their model railroad layouts.

Again, a fine reference work put together by authors who definately love their subject.

Needs to be updated, infomation outdated, info on terminal operations needs to include container marking and labeling also desreption of labor needed to run operations in container yard and different discharge operations. Should have section on what a marine cargo specialist does. All the way from stow planning to direction of cargo operations.

My professor suggested this book and deemed it the "Bible on Evidence". I bought it and it is. A great book that will clear up many of your questions. If you don't understand what your law professor is saying, this book will make it clearer.

Long, long before the druids formed, there was (is) a race of blue people who came to earth from a distant star. They came as teachers and friends and helped those who dwelled in what is now England, to understand the Nature of Reality. Stonehenge was built as a landing platform for their ship. Stone was the only reliable, nonmagnetic material available. Decadence set in and they came no more. Thanks for your fascinating books. jamie

Party Organization and Activsim in the American South attempts to identify Democratic and Republican party-building activities in eleven Southern states. These activities include recruiting party activists, recruiting candidates, understanding the orientations of Southern partisans by religon, moralistic positions, and includes information on the roles played by county chairs and county committee persons.

The book is short on specifics on individual states, other than Mississippi and Alabama, that could be helpful to a partisan using this book as an objective guidepost on how to persue winning strategies.

A good buy, it allows partisans to better understand activist behavior from emperical data, rather than from conjecture.

PEN, INK, & EVIDENCE is a good companion volume to Nickell's DETECTING FORGERY: FORENSIC INVESTIGATION OF DOCUMENTS. Like that work, it is apparently targeted towards the beginner (me) and NOT the practicing professional. For example, when an analysis technique is mentioned (and not all techniques are covered) Nickell tends not to go into elaborate detail on the actual practices. The chapter notes serve as a bibliography and are valuable leaping off points for more indepth research and understanding.

This book is divided into five major sections: (I) Writing Instruments, (II) Ink, (III) Paper, (IV) Writing, and (V) Examining Documents. There are three appendices covering (1) Eighteenth Century Scripts, (2) Chronology of Writing and Writing Materials, and (3) Laboratory Identification of Pens, Inks, & Papers.

Nickell has access to a huge array of relevant materials which are profusely included in black and white photographs throughout the book. The photographs are of fair quality and I assume that higher quality photos would result in higher price (duh).

Overall, I found it interesting, useful, and satisfyingly broad in subject coverage. Nickell's writing style is accessible and clear. The ubiquitous use of anecdotes is essential and entertaining. E.g., "Of course, one approach to duplicating security watermarks -- like those placed in prescription blanks for alchohol during Prohibition ... -- was simply to dupe a legitimate paper company intor producing paper bearing watermarks." -pg 85. I want to know more about alcohol prescriptions during Prohibition!

Well how is that, according to the data provided the fourth edition appeared in 1920!

Pretty good. It's near Valentine's Day and everybody's in love. Even Janice Riker. Like the other ones though Rob always gets in trouble by listening to Soup. (By the way, did you know that Rob has the exact name as the author?)

I thought that Soup on Ice was a good book but there were some parts that got really boring. But overall I liked the book. I thought the beggining was good, middle was boring, and the end was fun. I liked the beggining when Soup made Rob shovel and was acting like he was a shoveling coach. The middle was kind of boring but I liked when they sang songs together. I liked the end when Soup, Rob, and Mr.Dubinski were on the sleigh. I liked it when they ran in to the Christmas tree, I thought that was funny. This book is good and it's one of those you don't want to put it down. I liked this book and would recomand it.