This is a wonderful book. If you can still find it because it is out of print now,Read it.

In this famous story, the great Vet/Naturalist is at it again,this time starting a Post Office/Weather bureau for the animals with birds for postmen!I reccomend collectors read this one before packaging it. Fine story,but be aware of certain minor ethnic references.

This is definately an excellent book on how to live a healthy life and prevent the kind of life altering diseases that affect so many people at various stages of their lives. I've read a lot of books on the subject, but this one by far is the best books on actually "preventing disease". Very comprehensive in its scope.

This book is one of my favorite books of all, and I have read alot of books. Dr.Dolittle has a hard and wonderful life. Dr.Dolittle wants to learn how to speak to animals and he dose, and there are wild and crazy adventures, you will have to read the book to find out what happends.I gave it five stars because this is a great book.

This is a groundbreaking work from the medical editor of Mother Jones Magazine. It's a shame that it's out of print; I made the mistake of loaning out a great book, and because of this I'll probably never see it again. Drummond combines Marxism with Freud, with Darwinism to editorialize his personal experience practicing medicine in Free Market America. It's amazing how one can read so many different books on humanity and turn around and find a small gem tying it all together as efficient as Drummond's Spirited Guide has. Note to the wise: keep this book around as reference, but don't loan it out.

MacDiarmid's magnum opus begins in a bar. The opening lines, translated from the Scots dialect the poem is written in, go: "I'm not so much drunk as just dead tired; it's hard work upending glass after glass after glass. . . ."

The story: the speaker, drunk and trying to make his way home from the bar at the end of the night, falls down on a hilltop and rolls under a thistle bush, where he lies staring up at the moon and considering everything from Burns to Schoenberg to what his wife will say when he finally gets home. And what an adventure it is, alternately (and sometimes all at once) hilarious, moving, and profound, all the way up to the poem's mock-Hamlet ending: "Oh, I have silence left!"

"And well you might,/Or so Jean will say/After such a night."

No one who loves poetry should miss this incredible performance by MacDiarmid.

This book is a masterpiece! It covers early astronomy all around the world, not just all around the Medeterranean. The explainations are also excellent!

The typical economics primer is a weighty tome whose content is not noted for its ability to inspire its readers. In addition, by adhering to the time-worn principle of treating the subject as a "positive" science, the pretence that it has no political ramifications is carefully crafted. Most who choose to continue their study of economics are thus indoctrinated into the myth of market versus state, and the "impartiality" of economic "scientists". For example, not for a minute is the state's actual role in propping up the "market" given its due consideration -- that would overly complicate matters, and spoil the pretty theoretical models. Conventional economics' public relations work for our political economic system would also suffer.

For those interested in how the real world works, this book offers an introduction to economics like no other. The breadth of its coverage and depth of its discussions put the authors of other conventional texts to shame for their blasé treatments of intensely political issues they describe as "purely economic", as if there could be such a thing. This is Political Economy writ large, and the connectedness of the political and the economic forms the basis of Stretton's revision of the entire corpus of economics.

For an accessible, well-written, and wholly serious treatment of an essential subject, beginners and experienced alike would be hard put to find a better source of its kind.

If you were a young man growing up in NY, during the 1960's and 70's, and you were a Ranger fan, Eddie Giacomin was a hockey god to most of us. His popularity with the fans at Madison Square Garden during that era remains unmatched by any Ranger to this day[including Mark Messier]. This old-time fan can tell you not a home game went by, that the fans did not chant his name after making an acrobatic save or if he was nearing a shutout. His return to the Garden after the Rangers sold him to the last place Detroit Redwings in 1975 was and is one of the greatest moments in Ranger history. The crowd drowned out the national anthem chanting "Eddie, Eddie, Eddie", and they continued throughout the game as the Garden crowd turned on the rangers and rooted for Eddie and the Redwings. The Rangers pelted Giacomin with 46 Shots, but Giacomin walked away with a 6 to 4 victory and his pride intact. This is the story of Goalie from Sudbury Ontario who sharpened his skills playing in industrial leagues and spending several years in the minors[notably the Providence Reds], before making it to the pro's at the age of 25. Eddie Giacomin was elected to the HOF in June of 1987 and is only one of two players in Ranger history to have his number retired[Rod Gilbert is the other]. Eddie is the all-time Ranger leader in shutouts and is considered by most experts to be the greatest goalie in Ranger history. ... The book proves to be a wonderful read and a real profile in courage and determination that any young hockey fan would enjoy reading. To this day when I take in an occasional hockey game at the garden, I look up into the rafters and see #1 hanging proudly and fondly remember the chants of "Eddie,Eddie,Eddie".

This book is one of the best in the 'Edgar Cayce on' series and should be put back in print, on the bookstands, etc. Much of EC's prophecies will be seen as the millinnium unfolds and Mary Ellen's book 'EC on Prophecy' gave us a preview.