Great read, one all golfers will want to make, as Nicklaus suggests in the modern edition foreward.

Why return to an outdated time of wood shafts and limitef flight balls? One finds it in this read, the character and strength of this great amateur.

What impressed this reviewer was Jones' humbleness, and love for the game. He wasn't really into all the winning, which in fact caused him anxiety. Moreover he was into the challenge against Ole Man Par and himself. He relished the comradre with his fellow competitors and is most quick to give them praise rather than discuss what he didn't have in his game that round.

Neat to realize that his prized trophy was the first, which he thought was improperly awarded to him, while Alexa Sterling should have won it, no question. This is what golf is about, not slugging it 300+ yds. to screaming fans playing for millions.

Takes us back to what the game is and should remain. It's become far too commercialized.

Will take a honored position in my growing golf book collection to be fondly recalled and reread.

Bobby Jones shares his perspective on winning, losing, and his life-long battle against "Old Man Par". This is a must read for any serious student of golf history and tradition.

If you not only enjoy playing golf but also cherish the game's traditions and values, and if you could purchase only one book about golf, this is it. Whether or not Jones is the greatest golfer ever is a judgment I eagerly entrust to those foolish enough to debate it. Suffice to say that he was among the greatest players and among the finest gentlemen ever associated with golf. Published in 1927 when Jones was just 25, three years before he won what has since been designated "The Grand Slam", this is a book in which Jones (in collaboration with Keeler) invites his reader to accompany him "down the fairway" of a life as well as a game. The first eleven chapters review the competitive process until what he characterizes as his "Biggest Year." In the final chapter of Part One, Jones observes that, "I started the year 1926 with one glorious licking and closed it with another. And it was the biggest golf-year I'll ever have." Or so he then thought. In that year, we're told, "Walter Hagen gave me the first drubbing, and of all the workmanlike washings-up I have experienced, this was far and away the most complete" and later, "George [von Elm] was too much for me....He simply outplayed me. It was coming to him....It was George's turn. So the biggest Year ended, as it began, with a beating. Still, I'll always feel kindly toward 1926."

In Part Two, Jones shares just about everything he has learned (to that point) about the mental as well as physical skills needed to play golf well. What struck me, throughout the book, is Jones's candor. For example, "There are times when I feel I know less about what I am doing than anybody else in the world." He discusses putting ("a game within a game"), the pitch shot ("a mystery"), iron play ("I like it"), "the heavy artillery" (woods), miscellaneous shots ("and trouble"), and in the final chapter "Tournament Golf." The reader is provided with a generous selection of photographs, many of which I (at least) had not seen previously. "Early in this little book I made the statement that there were two kinds of golf -- golf, and tournament golf; and that they were not at all the same." When concluding this book, Jones acknowledges that he's been "awfully lucky. Maybe I'll win another championship, some day. I love championship competition, after all -- win or lose." What will it feel like when he days of tournament competition have ended? "It's going to be queer." Then he confides, as his "little book" ends: "But there's always one thing to look forward to -- the round with Dad and [other kindred spirits]; the Sunday morning round at old East Lake, with nothing to worry about, when championships are done." Three years after sharing these thoughts and feelings, Jones won the Grand Slam and then retired from tournament competition. Some people have expressed their preferences for those with whom they would like to share a "fantasy dinner." Were it possible, I would like to share a "fantasy round of golf" with Bob Jones, Walter Hagen, and Harvey Penick. Given the impossibility of that, I must seek their companionship in books such as this.

I love her simplicity and down to earth attitude.

I've read Ms. Dewey's column for years in the Valley Journal and recently heard her speak at my MOPS meeting. This book reads easy and is very informative. I now understand the many uses of the herbs and remedies she lists in her book. The next time I get a cold or the flu I will reach for this book first. The quick refernce is also very helpful in the back of the book.

"The Humorous Herbalist" lives up toits name. Most herb books, unfortunately, are BORING, BORING, BORING. Not this one. It makes you laugh and wish you had discovered herbal medicine years ago. Dewey's practical, down-to-earth writing style makes you feel as if she were talking to you directly. Rumor has it Dewey is putting together a TV series based on this and her next book, which I heard is called "PlantPower." I hope this rumor is true, because I'll be the first to tune in!

I probably have 50 herbal medicine books on my shelf but I have NEVER read a book that was as comprehensive as "Plant Power." I really love this book and refer to it on a regular basis. The author, Laurel Dewey, has obviously put a great deal of time and thought into each chapter. Her hands-on knowledge of medicinal plants is amazing and she is able to breathe new life into a subject that is often dull or too complicated. This is the kind of book I wish all herb writers would write. It's cleverly done, well laid out, easy to follow and simple to understand. I purchased two additional copies for my sister and cousin for Christmas presents. It will be the kind of gift that keeps giving for a long time to come. Well done!!!

This is a great book for both novice and experienced herbalists. Dewey describes 30 herbs in depth, with information about how to recognize the plants, how to grow and gather them (none of those applicable to a current Manhattanite!) and, more to my purpose, how to use them. Her advice is very helpful, often describing ways in which the herbs can be used which can't be easily found in other herb books (and we have many of them!). My only regret is that there are only 30 herbs discussed -- I don't have a great resource for the ones not included!

After years of research, writing and editing, Laurel Dewey, The Humorous Herbalist, has released her second book, Plant Power. This is not a continuation of her first book. This one is 415 pages and in a nutshell, includes three major sections: The Basics covers growing a medicinal herb garden, including what to grow, how to grow and in which soils, harvesting, dying and seed collecting of herbs. The Ethics chapter discusses the art of "valid crafting", an old term for an herbalist or nature lover who walks the fields in search of wild plants. She discusses the character and life of the herbs, as well as the ethics involved in gathering, offering readers much food for thought on how to behave in the wild. In the Herbs section, Dewey covers in-depth 30 useful medicinal herbs from alfalfa to yellow dock, including their character, where they can be found, and how to grow, harvest and use them. In her introdcution, Dewey writes, "There seemed to be a desire by many practitioners in alternative medicine to create an aura of mystery when discussing the use of herbs." In this book, Dewey makes great strides in breaking down those barriers. Excerpted from a review in The Glenwood Post, Colorado, 7/9/1999

Astonishing. An indispensable user's guide to anyone who seek for the abject concept and its applications particularly on the aesthethics issues, from Bataille to Kristeva.

O guia definitivo do conceito de abjeto e suas manifestações na arte contemporânea. Indispensável para diletantes na abjeção, de Bataille a Kristeva.

Exact details, detailed information and graphics that lead you from beginning to end. Anyone can build from this guide. It rates a big 10 on a scale of 1 to 10.

This book is a complete, detailed, and accurate guide to professional house framing, leaving nothing to guesswork or doubt. Gives complete coverage and provides sketches, drawings, and photos of details. On a scale of 1 to 10, I rate this a hefty 10.

As a builder, this book is a must for my how-to shelf.

John D.

Five years after the end of the American Civil War Jefferson Pickett has the courage to visit the woman he inadvertently made a widow. He fought for the Confederate Army, her husband for the Union and the dying man asked him to take his gold watch to his wife and tell her he cared.

On arrival at the ranch, north of San Antonio in Texas,the Widow, Clara, gives him no time to explain his presence, but launches into a job offer of taking her and the women who have found refuge with her on a cattle drive to Abilene. It is the only way she can save the ranch from the rapacious demands of neighbor Medder.

An encounter with Medder fires up Jeff's quixotic nature and he agrees to boss the cattle drive. He, thirteen women and one lad set off to herd about 2,500 steers across Texas and on to Kansas on the Chisholm Trail. All of the women, with the exception of one are themselves widows and have dramas and traumas in their pasts. Their stories are gently teased out in the narrative, whilst they strive to equip themselves not only to become effective cowboys, but also to defend against Indians, marauding thieves, rapists and the wildlife. The indigenous species being rattlesnakes, scorpions, lethal water snakes and extremes of weather. The perils of the journey draw the women closer together and Jeff realises he will never see a woman again as being 'weak'. He also falls deeply in love.

Jones has a deft way of creating his characters with economy and a gift for description of scenery. There are no extraneous words, each is chosen with care and polished into place leading the reader into humour, pathos and sympathy with the ambitions of the cattle drive. It is without doubt, one of the best-structured novels I have read in some time. In addition, the research is impeccable.

A few years ago this reviewer was in Newton, on the Chisholm Trail. With a friend I stood in the middle of a railway crossing and she said, "Now, if you start walking that way, the nearest place to get some of your English tea is a thousand miles away." I looked at the flat plains stretching to infinity and wondered. Later, we were at a strip mall when dusk fell and the car park was full. No one was shopping, we were all looking at the sky, the long sky, and one of the most awe inspiring and beautiful sunsets I have ever seen. It filled the whole of the horizon and more, the vastness, the sense of space was overwhelming. What for me was so striking, was most must have been accustomed to this splendour, yet it still stopped them in their tracks. That is the Chisholm Trail.

The cattle drive was over a thousand miles, moving from one state to others. Here in UK if we travel the same distance, we could be in Gilbralter or Central Russia. True in the nineteenth century as today, with humanity, towns and cities in between. Between South Texas and Abilene, with the then tiny Fort Worth and minute settlements in between, there were barely a few hundred people. Self-reliance and neighbourliness was essential for mutual survival.

This Jones captures along with the basic decency of ordinary folk in contrast to the casual villainy and depravity flourishing where there is no law, in an endless wilderness.

Thoroughly recommended, with a guarantee you will not be disappointed. I hope we'll be seeing more of Jefferson Pickett, Lolita, Hank Pickett, Clara and Auntie. DIONE DOVER, BOOK REVIEWER...

It could have happened! Don't think of this as a "western". Think of it as an epic because that's what it is--a fast-paced, hard-hitting tale of adventure, love, heartbreaks, and sacrifices. It is the true west in the pioneer spirit and "can do" and "will do" regardless of what may come. The characters are alive and fascinating.

"Black Jack" Logan was perhaps the best of the "political" generals of the Union army.
His military service, from Forts Henry and Donelson, through Vicksburg and Atlanta and on to the Carolinas, demonstrated not only his own abilities and personal courage, but also was emblematic of the skilll and sacrifice of his "Egyptians" of southern Illinois generally. His political thought, too, illustrative of the times, reflected the shift in Illinois opinion from initial confusion and wavering, to near-solid support for Lincoln and his war policies.
In conjunction with this very readable biography, the reader might be also be interested in "Reminiscences of a Soldier's Wife", Mrs. Logan's memoirs, which cannot be regarded as entirely reliable but which are a valuable adjunct to Jones' biography and give a colorful insight into the times.

(The "score" rating is an ineradicable feature of the page. This reviewer does not 'score" books.)

All you need to know about room additions.

When I started contracting nearly 30 years ago this book was quite useful in moving me from trades person to business person, the required move to be successful. It's still here and just as good for introducing the basics of construction contracting.

This is vol 1 of a 2-vol work that takes the guess work out of estimating, designing, and planning a construction project. Whether building as a tradesman or contractor--or even as someone such as a homeowner wishing to contract the building of his house, this book is a must. I have been in the construction business for years and these two books are a must in my office and in my truck. I require all my key personnel to study them, a policy that saves money, time, and eliminates guesswork. On a scale of 1-10, I rate both a 10!

This book gets to the point with the basics showing how to do a job in detail with clear, concise instructions and drawings showing details that ensures professional performance. A must for a builder or tradesman engaged in the construction trades. I wouldn't start a job without it and I've been in the construction business for a good man years.

The style holds the reader; the story grasps the reader in a tale
that displays loyalty and love between a grandfather and a five-year-old granddaughter in a tense drama that reveals the best of us and the worst of us! (From a reader in LA,CA)

An exciting tale of love and compassion between an old man and his five-year-old graddaughter he raised from a baby. A gripping tale of survival against all odds. Written in the style of the best of authors---simple and to the point in a manner to keep you turning the pages!

I thought The Third Season was a remarkable story about a grandfather's devotion to his little granddaughter. It is a story to touch your heart. And it makes us all wish we had a grandfather like that! This novel will wind around your heart just like Poppi is wound around Spice's tiny finger. This is truly a story to stir your emotions.