I feel that The Velveteen Rabbit, was one of the most memorable books that my parents read to me. I will continue to pass it on to my children, in hope that they too will think that it if they respect their teddy bears and rabbits, and give them that extra care, that they too will come to life.

Every American lawyer ought to read Blackstone.

Not that the law he contains is still reliable, although much of it is. But for the big picture, the history of the development of the English common law, he remains an indispensible source.

The American founding fathers grew up with this stuff, and these four volumes were indispensible for a Colonial gentleman's education. In viewing them, you will gain a new understanding of the meaning of the Constitution of the United States. As Blackstone develops the law, he sets it against the backdrop of the British struggle against arbitrary rule by the King, the seventeenth century wars of religious fanaticism, and England's long battle to win free from the power of the papacy. To read Blackstone is to learn what the founding fathers thought and feared, and what they wrote the Constitution to guard against.

Emlyn William's play,"The Corn Is Green", set in the a Welsh mining town at the turn of the century, expresses the joys of teaching and learning in their purest form. Miss Moffet's instruction and inspiration provides the young, ignorant miner Morgan with the tools to satisfy his insatiable thirst and passion for knowledge. Morgan's resistance and foolish decisions along the way serve to test his determination, values, and belief in himself. Parallels may be drawn with films such as "Dead Poets Society" and "The Man Without A Face", as each inspirational teacher provides a boy with knowledge, confidence, and most importantly humanity. Also, the film version of "The Corn Is Green" with Katharine Hepburn is well acted and shot on location in Wales. For further reference regarding the film, Kate Hepburn discusses her personal reaction to the play in her book ME. Every individual who loves to learn and teach will savor the deliciously inspirational words of Ms. Williams. Although fairly abscure at present, this play would make exceptional reading material for high schools--promoting a positive approach to learning for the millenium.

i have to say that the book is pretty good. it tells you alot, the highlights of her career, where she was born,the hair cut which made her popular, the romeo's in her life, and the things she went through to achieve the success as a skater. it also talks about the ice capades, i never heard about that before, but i guess it must be those ice shows they did in the 70's and 80's. she is 5'3 inches tall, the book contains pictures. the book is well written, she has had up and downs, but the thing for me is touching. she is the lady who did the vioxx commercial in where she is skating and a little girl with blue eyes stares at her-admiring the ability and the olympian. she also did (when i was little if i remember correctly) a maxwell house commercial sipping coffee, she has done other things. good book! for the most part a big majority of these ice ladies have really nice bodies, oh man!

He writes a well formated tale, belivably told and very interesting. This is the type of story that you fall into head first and come out feeling that the covers are too close together.

Brilliant, terrific. A must for Gaddis fans, and any writers of criticism (including all you Amazon hacks)!

And after reading this book that's as much as I dare say.

This book throughly presents sustainable real estate development. It answers the basic questions of how, what, when, why and who with text and photos illustrating numerous case studies.

It is written for a wide and concerned audience, composed of real estate professionals, financiers and designers. This book is not technical. It is a conceptual book and guides the reader toward sustainable solutions.

This subject is very large and this book is necessarily a summary, which includes recent projects.

This book does not "preach to the choir". It addresses difficult obstacles to the sustainable development paradigm and provides workable solutions.

First off, I would like to say that I haven't read the collector's edition offered by this company. I own the original issues of this comic, in fact I own every issue.

I remember the first time I saw a copy of The Green Hornet #1, I laughed to myself. It looked ridiculous. Years later I found myself in a comic book shop and came across that same issue. When I looked at it then, it struck me differently, maybe I had matured, I'm still not sure. I bought that issue and loved every page of it. I went back the next day and bought every issue the store had.

The story by Ron Fortier was gripping. You became involved in the story and with the characters. I found myself feeling bad with what the characters were going through. His use of characterization was put to good use with this series. He was able to show a family heritage of crime fighting and make me believe it. I read comics on a regular basis and manage to keep them at arms length, but here, I believed.

The same goes for Jeff Butler's artwork. I had never seen his work before, but I have sought it out since. You can see the emotion on the character's faces. You know just what they're going through, because maybe you've been there. The way he drew the Black Beauty was incredible!

To sum it up, this series made me a fan of the Green Hornet for life. The story and art turned it all around for me. I already own all the issues, but I know that I'll be purchasing a copy of this book.

This classic children's book tells a wonderful story for little boys, and girls. The son of a poor farmer strikes out looking for work, and by using his brains, marries the rich farmer's daughter.

How often have you've heard the tales of gloom and doom regarding the deforestation of the tropics? Undoubtedly, the numbers are grim and the outlook for many forests is not good. This is why this story, wonderfully told by William Allen, a science writer at the ST. LOUIS DISPATCH, is particularly refreshing and guardedly optimistic.

Allen craftily weaves anecdote with history, real people with events to present a story that tells how a relatively small park in NW Costa Rica (Guanacaste National Park) developed into the Guanacaste Conservation Area, some 10 times larger than its original size. But the story is not limited to the success in creating a larger park. Rather, the author depicts the efforts of a determined group of Costa Rican and foreign scientists (led by Daniel Janzen) as they attempt to reverse the effects of deforestation and actually bring a substantial area back to some semblance of its original state.

The story delves quite a bit into Janzen's personality and raises the issue of a foreigner's role in a project such as this. Would it succeed without him? Just what would it take to restore non-virgin forest? Is this an idea that might work elsewhere? Just a few of the intriguing questions dealt with in this book.

I particularly enjoyed the beginning of each chapter, where the author introduces an anecdote upon which the rest of chapter usually builds. The anecdotal information is highly entertaining of itself, and when used as metafor, it is easier to remember the larger points made.

If you're into eco-whatever, this is great stuff...

paul e.