This book is a reprint of a book first published in 1944 utilizing personnel on active duty to put the book togeather. I do not see where the Publisher can claim Copyright on the contents, because the personnel who worked on the book were paid by the Military. In addition, this Group was not known as " The Jolly Rogers " until after July 8, 1943 when Col. Rogers first assumed command, and an enlisted man came up with the designation. The hype about the publicity starting in September 1942 is incorrect and detracts from the real value of the book. In fact, the first combat missions by this group were made in November of 1942. September and October of that year were spent in Hawaii in training and intensive long range patrols, which resulted in no Combat with enemy forces. If those discrepancies were cleared up, then I think any purchasers would indeed be fully satisfied.

My dad was in the 90th bomb group and contributed some material to this publication...he painted the nose art on the "DUDE" which is pictured in the book....it also covers a lot on the B-24 which often took a back seat to the B-17 in recognition....

I can't deny the truth of the review below, but this book didn't help me because it is too analytical. Verbs are listed by the root, and since in Athabaskan one root may make many verbs, it's hard to find a form on those 3, 4 or maybe more pages of examples. The grammar is also rather analytical than practical. It is true there is a lot of great nonlinguistic information. The dialect described is toneless. BTW Jette was not a good phonetitian, a modern native speaker corrected his k into k, k', kk(=q), kk', g, gg. This dictionary has the full correct pronunciation.

During his many years with the Koyukon, Father Jules Jette, one of the few missionaries to learn an Athabaskan language well, made prodigious linguistic and ethnographic notes. This material has been edited and re-organized, and much added, by a distinguished group of linguists, including Eliza Jones, a fluent native speaker of Koyukon. The result is one of the most comprehensive dictionaries ever published for any native language. In part because Jette was able to record so much while elements of the traditional culture now lost were still in place, the ethnographic information is unusually detailed. The dictionary contains hundreds of sketches and photographs. It is in effect not merely a dictionary but an encyclopaedia as well.

This is a very good adventure book. Captain Grant is lost at sea, and nobody knows where. From a partial, damaged message, his children and friends try to figure out where he may be. This takes them first to South America, the remote parts of Argentina and Chile. They experience wild adventures, but can't find him. Ultimately, they go to Australia and New Zealand, adventure after adventure. Though not one the most famous classics by Verne, this is a very good book, interesting to read, and fun. It is a pity English-speaking youths can not enjoy it.

I was searching this title for my son. As for myself, I read this book more than 20 years ago. A fascinating adventure, the Grant children searching for their father, lost at sea, with only a partly damaged message found in a bottle as a mean to find where he is. Verne takes us throughout the different parts of the world in an exciting journey, which makes one oblivious of satellites, GPS, radio, and all that, but revives the not so lost instinct of the explorer and adventurer in each of us. But this is an old memory of a book from my childhood. And the surprise, well...It seems that I can't find this book in English.

If I was to initiate anyone into the world of Superintendant Jules Maigret, 1931's 'The Yellow Dog' (a.k.a. 'Face for a Clue') is the book I would recommend. The story is set in the Breton harbour town of Concarneau, and begins with the non-fatal shooting of a prominent citizen one stormy night. His friends, card-playing regulars in the Admiral Hotel cafe, fear they will be next, and sure enough strychnine is soon found in their pernods. Escalating fear in the town is accompanied by a mysterious giant's footsteps and a yellow dog always present at the crime scenes. The Mayor who has sent for Maigret becomes exasperated when the policeman seems casually indifferent to the case, allowing further crimes to occur.

'Yellow Dog' is model Maigret for a number of reasons. It crystallises the Maigret detective method, rejecting Holmesian deduction or modish scientific procedures, the Inspector preferring to silently absorb the atmosphere of a place, the charactetrs and faces of its people. The progress Maigret makes with this infinite patience he keeps to himself, exasperating superiors, colleagues, citizens, even the reader. In these books, crime isn't static, a thing of the past to be frozen and endlessly analysed, as in Agatha Christie et al, but a fluid, ongoing part of the social fabric. The book introduces the young Inspector Leroy, who, throughout the series will become Maigret's most trusted ally. The narrative plays variations on Simenon's favourite themes, most especially the different levels of vice and transgression in French communities, hypocritically categorised by class. His charting the development of public fear into the violence of mob panic is terrifying and prescient.

But 'Yellow Dog' is especially notable for the clarity of what one might term Simenon's tripartite characterisation. First of all, there are the actual human characters, whom Maigret observes, and generously allows the freedom to reveal or hang themselves in their own words, waiting for them to play their petty charades and deceits, before breaking down to the truth. Though Simenon can be sentimental, on the whole, they are not a pretty bunch. Secondly, the meticulous evocation of place, with the vivid description of the harbour; the town divided into the Old, with its ancient, narrow, winding streets, and New, with its markets, gaudy hotels and the ever-recurring clock; the dingy tavern with its oppressive, aquarium-like windows; the persistant presence of dirt and trash, visible emblems of barely concealed social rottenness. And thirdly, the presence of the weather, mostly dark, windswept, beating rain, but breaking into festive plays of light. The story begins with a brilliantly atmospheric, cinematic panorama of the empty town in which the crime is almost incidental; the most forceful set-piece is literally cinematic, as Maigret and Leroy shiver on a roof, spectators looking down through a window-'screen' at a silent lovers' drama they can only partly comprehend.

Even if you dislike police novels, you have to read Maigret's novels (and others Simenon's non Maigret novels) because of the humanism and psychology in these novels. And more over, you have the pleasure to dive in the Simenon's atmosphere : close to impressionism (only few words to restitute an impression ...).
This novel, in particularly, is a good example of Simenon's art.

In the 18th and 19th centuries, captivity narratives were rather popular among those who lived to tell about their abduction by Indians, and Fanny Kelly's account is a good specimen of this type of writing. I was impressed by the rather harsh lifestyle that the plains Indians endured in their nomadic wanderings. This book neither praises nor belittles the Sioux, but paints a fair portrait of life among them. It's not an outstanding book, but it is good, instructive, and worth getting in the paperback edition.

I just finished reading a borrowed copy of Fanny Kelly's book and was fascinated by her account of her experiences. Her treatment by her Indian captors may give one a "politically incorrect" view of our native Americans, but her account is documented and proven true. It is well written, inspiring, and educational -- a book I must have as a permanent part of my library.

I knew it before receiving this book from my boyfriend: almost every story would deal not only with sex, but also with books and other intelectual issues. Could we expect anything different from Woody Allen? Besides of oral sex, homosexual sex and this sort of things, Neurotica contains philosophy, psiconalisis, art, literature etc. It couldn't be different. Jews are totally connected with studies and culture, and they show it always, because this aspect of their personality is much stronger than almost everything else on them.
The most interesting story was written by Thane Rosenbaum, about the Yortzeit of the main character's mother. (I don't know the original name, because I read it in portuguese.) The story is very well written and complete, revealing the talent and facility that the author has with words.
About Woody Allen's narrative, I just can say that it is SO Woody Allen, you understand? It's very easy to feel his personality on it, specially for those who have seen Deconstructing Harry.
I haven't read the whole book yet, but I'm almost finishing it. I recommend Neurotica to everyone who likes to conciliate sex and mind.

The last observation: the book should be called Jewish AMERICAN writers on sex. Everyone is american or lives in the USA; however, there are many other jewish writers around the world that could have given their rich contribution.

I am not sorry to say that I liked the book and start reading it again from page 1. I am a Jewish from Israel. so neurotica is in my blood, so to speak, however I gave the book to my non-Jewish girl friend and she was smiling page upon page. after the reading, she didn't put it down by the way, she went to Amazon web site to buy one for herself. Did she like the neurotica book? quiet right - she loved it very much. and later she ask me to forgive her for turn me off in the past. i told you, this is neurotica,,, You have to read the book in order to understand me, well, do it. this book will keep you out of trouble.

Edison Lone, DC's best code breaker, wonders if he should talk to the Center for International Information Control though he lacks evidence. Edison knows that someone is leaking sensitive information from the Internal Bureau of Information (IBI). However, he is set up to think it is IBI assistant Selena Silverwood, whose diary contains heated fantasies he believes hide a code that to his chagrin he cannot break.

The reason he cannot break her code is that there are no secret messages to decipher. Instead Selena is writing a novel using the office computer. Edison, who is already falling in love with her based on her passionate secrets, courts her to obtain her code. As Selena and Edison begin to forge a permanent relationship, there remain those individuals illegally releasing information and whose preference is to eliminate Edison anyway possible so they can freely leave the country when the time is right.

NIGHT PLEASURES is an enticing romantic suspense loaded with action but emphasizes the sexual tension between the lead characters that heat up the novel's pages. Edison and Selena are an ardent duet whose fervent desires burn through the plot of going undercover to find the information leak. The audience might question Edison's skills that he misreads Selena so badly in spite of the mole that sends him down the wrong path. Readers still will find NIGHT PLEASURES lives up to its title as Jule McBride purveys a fervid romantic suspense.

Harriet Klausner

Cryptologist Edison Lone's always has been more interested in what people don't say than what they do. He's been following classified ads that someone uses to make contact and sell information from the IBI. Before he can take his suspicions to the CIIC, Edison's reassigned to investigate Selena Silverwood. Surveillance cameras have recorded her working on a personal diary during work hours, leading to the possibility that she's encoding secrets into her prose, and then selling that information. Despite the attraction between them, Edison would never allow himself to fall for a traitor.

The contrast between Selena's outward shyness and her inward heated fantasies haunts Edison. When he invites her to dinner and she transforms from ugly duckling to stunning siren, Edison's hooked. He can't help wondering if she's ready to make her fantasies a reality. For a man who loves puzzles and secretive communications, reading Selena's fantasies provides the most stimulating puzzle he's ever had. The question remains if they can learn to share more than just night pleasures.

Fantasy rules the night in NIGHT PLEASURES by Jule McBride. This sensual romance makes the pages sizzle with its erotic delights. The characterizations are complex with a constant question as to loyalties. Further, the underlying plot of selling information lends the novel fascinating intrigue, keeping the tempo quick as new information is revealed. Moreover, the deft interweaving of the fantasy and reality through excerpts from the diary proves to be quite titillating. Scintillating and seductive, NIGHT PLEASURES comes very highly recommended.

The book told the story of a poor boy in early 20th century France who had a terrible family life. His mother was a distant character and the boys father was complex and distracted by his politics. The story shocked me due to the raw nature of his family and the depression that a boy at his age could endure. It was definately and inspired reading for those intrested in French culture.

Poil de Carotte is very well written, though most Americans may not understand the thoughts of Renard!

I am a pt student and I found this book in our school library. I think it is realy usefull for begining level students as me. It has reaaly usefull summaries of all topics related to subject as anatomy and other basic sciences after it discuss the subject and gives a directions

This is a must have for any rehab specialist, particularly the physical therapist. This is a great reference tool for the PT student and should be a required text for all.

This is the sequel to "From the Earth to the Moon." It was first published in 1870 and, although it contains many scientific errors, it also contains some accurate predictions as well. It is perhaps the very first novel to treat travel in space. It was surprisingly fun reading. However, care should be exercised. There are a number of very poor translations available. Make sure yours is fine. In the story, the travelers are unable to land on the moon. They see the "dark" side of the moon before they head back to Earth.

Alright, so, Verne was not exactly right (not even remotely close by any stretch of one's imagination) when it comes to the art and vocation of an astronaut or the techniques required to travel in space; so what; give the guy a break here! Jules Verne lived over 75 years before this art would even come to fruition and his story is filled with action, suspense and trepidation. The story in itself is very well developed and the main characters all seem very much alive and do not in any resemble the cardboard action hero. Read it; enjoy it; and please forget that it is not technically nor scientifically correct.