Godfrey wrote the ultimate dive-guide to the Maldives. His book provides very useful informations to fact-seekers: Climate, water-temparature, marine life, wrecks and their history, current & tide, history of the maldives etc: It's all there. The information given about the islands is rather short, but precise. Anyhow, the book's best part is the description of the dive sites. A map shows precisly where to go, fotos give you an impression of the marine life to be found there, and the underwater photographer will appreciate the camera-sign that shows where it is worth taking the Nikons and motormarines down under. Especially on safari-boats a perfect aid to plan the day and the dive.

"The Viking Achievement" is an outstanding introduction to the culture and history of Viking Age Scandinavia. It includes information on laws, society, families, warfare, armor and weapons, archaeology, ships and trade, art, literature and poetry, religion and mythology. The information is carefully based on the scholarship provided by scientific archaeological research and modern literary analysis.

Beautifully written and illustrated! Fun to read for all ages. My 6 year old son says it's his favorite book.

This was an excellent historical record of probably the greatest American that ever lived. However, it has long, complex, diffcult to read wording that makes it somewhat labor-intensive reading. The content is great, but there are far easier to read (and understand) books about Lincoln.

interesting in that it was written from a british perspective. i have read several biographies on lincoln and would recommend this book as an introductory volume for those who want to study lincoln, but, as an important volume for those who study general presidential history, civil war, and general american history.

Though it is dated in some of its facts and assessments,Lord Charnwoods classic study of Lincoln remains one of the dozen or so greatest books ever written about our greatest President.What sets it apart from most other studies of the sixteenth President is the attention it gives the intellectual and spiritual underpinnings of Lincoln's life and actions. It is, in short a work of philosophical history, not a dry recitation of facts. Charnwood is interested in the moral meaning of democracy and the scope and limits of democratic leadership. He performs his task beautifully. I , for one , found his old-fashioned Victorian prose a joy to read, and a relief from the cliche' ridden jargon that too often passes for literate prose today. A great book by a foriegn observer of America, fully worthy of being placed beside Tocqueville and Bryce.

Fun science projects for kids with simple instructions. Areas covered include motion, forces, electricity, and magnetism. While the purchaser has to hunt around for a few items, a lot of good ones are already included -- magnets, pulley wheels and more.