Terrific ABC Book for children who want to see the inside of airplanes. Colorful photos of real airplanes. Great information for junior pilots. Best ABC book I have ever seen!

This is an excellent collection of Toasts (Afro-American oral folk poetry), as transcribed by one of the authors.

Reading "The Lightning and The Storm" was a day well spent. I found myself completely lost in the book (which is hard to do) and absolutely loved the characters! Especially that of Charlotte. I have fallen in love with the author and hope to find more books written by her. Marsha, Im from Utah as well...great job, I hope to someday be as good of an author as you...VeryFancy@aol.com a.k.a Marcie ...SLC Utah

This is a collection of personal essays from linguists who have done fieldwork all over the world. I found the content to be very accessible, enjoyable to read, and very helpful (I am preparing to begin linguistic fieldwork this fall). In the introduction, the editors state that the goal of the book is to a) convey the intellectual excitement of lingistic fieldwork and b) give a realistic picture of the complexities involved in describing a language as it is used by actual speakers in natural settings. They have definitely succeeded in achieving this goal. Topics covered include: the pros and cons of doing monolingual fieldwork, escaping Eurocentrism, phonetic fieldwork, text collection vs. elicitation, finding consultants, and a number of other practical tips for carrying out fieldwork from experienced fieldworkers. Contributors include: Larry Hyman, Marianne Mithun, Gerrit Dimmendaal, Ken Hale, David Gil, Nancy Dorian, and many others.

I picked this book up to give to a friend of mine for her birthday. Unfortunately...since I read it, I don't want to give it away now. ha ha. I think I will have to buy another copy of it to keep for myself. These kids are insightful, and funny. I definitely recommend this book!

This book really captures the essence of "butch" . I laughed out loud or smiled through each and every page. It also is a great read aloud book for lovers. If you love a good butch this book will put your feelings into words, if you are a good butch you will see yourself. Just like great lesbian humor ? You will love this book.

Young Wild West aficionados will thrill to the constant twists and turns of plot in this "Choose Your Own Adventure" staple. You are a bold young deputy sheriff keeping the West safe from robbers, outlaws and other stagecoach predators. Choose a course of action - wear the deputy's badge and ride with the posse or stay at home hiding behind the saloon doors. The choice will be a matter of life or death, perhaps your own! Highly recommended for readers aged 8-14.

The quaintly punctuated title of Cardinal Newman's first novel, LOSS AND GAIN; OR, THE STORY OF A CONVERT says much. Nineteenth Century England abounded in conversion novels and Newman's stands head and shoulders above all the rest. That, at least, was the opinion of Harvard history professor Robert Lee Wolff in his monumental 1977 GAINS AND LOSSES: NOVELS OF FAITH AND DOUBT IN VICTORIAN ENGLAND.
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John Henry Newman (1801-1890) deserves a far wider non-specialist readership than he now enjoys. Once England hung on his every word: whether sermon, philosophy, church history, poetry, apologetics, satire or controversy. He does not lack for professional readers who take up formidable masterpieces such as APOLOGIA PRO VITA SUA, THE IDEA OF A UNIVERSITY, ARIANS OF THE FOURTH CENTURY or A GRAMMAR OF ASSENT.
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LOSS AND GAIN may well be the easiest and best place for non-specialists to begin with myriad-minded John Henry Newman. It is a novel about Oxford and fleshes out Newman's belief that students form their deepest convictions from their discussions with one another and not from teachers. It is also a novel very much like a Platonic dialog that presents and wrestles with various theories of why intelligent young men are either content to stay with their inherited personal faith or are moved to seek another.
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LOSS AND GAIN covers six years in the life of Charles Reding (pronounced READing) and his interactions with family, teachers, tutors and fellow students of various Oxford University colleges about which of the Christian denominations and trends in England of the 1840s had greatest claim to be taken seriously and to teach the truth. Problems debated are perennial since the Reformation: is there a visible church? Does it have authority to teach definitively? What is faith? What is reason's role in reaching faith? Who needs a Pope?
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A tutor's systematic lectures on the 39 Articles of the established Church of England, interpreted by the hero as mere 16th Century "articles of peace," a doctrinal hodgepodge of Roman Catholicism, Zwingli, Luther and Calvin, leaves an increasingly troubled Reding shaken in his inherited trust in his clergyman father's simple faith in the Church of England. Some of his Anglo-Catholic friends play at re-establishing Catholic practices without the Roman Catholic beliefs behind them. Others move towards rationalism and Unitarianism. Others yet are caught up in the emotional but action-oriented and society-transforming Evangelicalism of the age.
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In the end Charles (like Newman after a 12 year struggle) opted to become Roman Catholic, thereby losing his right to take an Oxford degree, and alienating friends and family alike. He gained, he judged, truth and peace.
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The debates of Oxford in the 1840s go on today in America and elsewhere. Recently converted himself to the Church of Rome, Newman pokes fun at the frequent shallowness and selfish career seeking that an Establishment of (the wrong) religion inevitably promotes. He also lovingly enlivens a bygone time at Oxford University where until very recently he had himself been the foremost leader of the Oxford Movement to reform the Church of England in a Catholic but non-Papal direction. Had he persuaded in TRACTS FOR THE TIMES # 90 even one Anglican bishop of the correctness of his Catholic interpretation of the 39 Articles, very likely neither Newman nor hundreds of others would have so suddenly gone over to Rome.
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The book has color, humor, religious insight and respect for individual consciences. Charles Reding exemplifies Newman's belief that God leads each person of good will at an individual, unforced, respectful pace from his or her inherited religion toward ever closer union with Himself. He who first tastes Newman through reading LOSS AND GAIN will not be disappointed and will reach out for more and more of his works, both verse and prose.

I feel funny writing this review, as the book was published 6 years ago, is out of print, and I am a contributor. I'm just very sad the book did not receive more attention; it is a beautifully-compiled collection of pieces which represent the broadest range of human connections with people with AIDS. Reading it is akin to wandering through an exhibition of the Names Project quilt--one is overwhelmed by the diversity of sufferers and their loved ones, and especially by the personal details which define each and every one of the now-missing. I hope if anyone reads this you might get your hands on the book. Leslea Newman is to be commended for the fact that she managed to edit a book about the dead and infuse every page with LIFE.

great story line-outstanding character development- scenes set with clarity and powerful action sequences - i was truly held in suspense until the end-insightful fantasy trip thru the nether world of time travel blasting full throttle into the real world of dangerous villians with death and mayhem -can't wait for the sequel- great buy well worth the price and time investment