I am not sure how I ever received a copy of this book. I know that I have had it for a very long time and that when I first read it I couldn't have been older than seven years old. Astral projection, OBE's and other things of that nature fascinated me long before I knew how to refer to them. This book allowed me to identify things like the jolt I sometimes felt as I fell asleep or the sound I hear behind other sounds. The best thing about the book is the fact that Barthe Declements and Christopher Greimes used Philip and Faith to explain simple techniques to young readers. Knowing that there was another world to explore and a culture of people who explored it enchanted me and still does. The combination of the descriptions of the twins' 'special powers' and the relatively engaging plot was a smashing combination and the only reason why I was tempted to deny the book of it's fifth star is because I realize more and more everytime I read it that it is more of a guide than a story. The thing is, though, that the guide's masquerade as a story is what makes it so special.

Double Trouble by Barthe DeClements and Christopher Greimes is a wonderful book. The twins Phillip and Faith are separated from each other, but they have a special way to communicate with each other. While Faith live with Aunt Linda, Phillip got adopted by the Wangsleys. They both got into serious trouble because of their special power. Can they help each other to solve the problems? I strongly recommend it to the readers who are interest in psychic abilities. The book also dealing a lot with the feeling that the twins have for being separated apart. It is a very touching story!

I really liked the way Faith and Phillip communicated with each other.Most books you read are about siblings who always argue and never get along.The problems and the plot is really good.Although,I think Phillip should've talked to his case worker sooner.Other than that the book was awesome.I find myself wishing that a sequel would be written!

If you like football and Emit Smith than On The Field With Emmit Smith is a great book for you. It also tells Emmit's life story. It tells where he went to collage and about when he became pro. I like the book because I want to be like Emit. I think it is a good book for people who like sports.

This book is really really good. Its dot life facts about him there all real, the records he set. All about his life and how hard he tried to make it to the N.F.L. and made it. I think its a really good book read it sometime.

I choose this book because I like the Dallas Cowboys. The book listed facts about Emmitt's career, and a little about his life. I think this book is similar to the book The Amazing Bo Jackson.

....about enchanted places and enchanted childhood favorites.

Winnie the Pooh, Piglet and all their friends have been family friends of us for a long time, and it was a treat to find this book about Christopher Robin, and be able to read about what it was like to be him. Did he really have a bear named Winniw the Pooh, did the Hundred Acre Wood excist, did he and Pooh play on Poohstick Bridge? What a fantastic childhood he must have had?

Of course the imagination in my mind was not all correct, at least not the fantastic childhood part. In this book Christopher Milne tells us from his heart how it was to be the son of A.A.Milne, the creator of all our childhood friends. The book is written with alot of charm, but we can also read between the lines about the negative effects of being a "famous" child, a boy with a childhood who belonged to, and still belong to the whole world.

If you know Winnie the Pooh, and who doesn't, this book is a little diamond, a book full of great details, a book which gives a unique view of the Christopher Robin myth.

Britt Arnhild Lindland

...as was reading the rest of the trilogy when it was in print. (I got the whole trilogy through a friend in England, but I'd never heard that Mr. Milne had written a fourth volume.) I'm glad to see that excerpts of all his memoirs are available in one volume, BEYOND THE WORLD OF POOH, because Mr. Milne was indeed a gifted and sensitive man.

I have a special interest in this book because Christopher Robin, of all the characters, was my favorite -- indeed, my alter ego. I knew from an early age that there was a real boy behind the fictional character, and I sensed the three of us were a lot alike. It was a delight to find out just how right my intuition was.

Despite tales of Christopher Milne's bitterness over being forced into the spotlight by his father's tales of Pooh, this comming-to-terms-with-it-all autobiography is filled with wonderful memories of Christopher's childhood and his relationship with his father, his nanny and his mother. He addresses with much warmth and humor the question "What was it like to be Christopher Robin," and, as it goes into much detail about the real enchanted places in Ashdown Forest in England, it's a must read for anyone making an "expotition" to the real-life haunts of Pooh and friends

This is a great book, almost a respite from the culture war histrionics that dominate media and academic discourse. In it Clausen talks about "post-culturalism," yet another insipid term for which he apologizes at the book's beginning. It's just gotta be like that, I guess. As a good explanation of his thesis, I'll describe the cover:

People are going about their business outside a small restaurant, everything's normal. The restaurant is called "Log Cabin Pizza" and specializes in burgers, tacos, and italian beef. The specials are corned beef sandwiches and Cantonese stirfry. Next to the Log Cabin is a store specializing in religious artifacts and trinkets, of "all religions." Heterogeneity and homogeneity have become the same thing.

Clausen has an excellent critique of multiculturalism's theoretical permutations, and its significance for our society. He sort of downplays the idea of any sort of genuine "culture war," however, saying that cultures --and the very term culture-- are just methods to conveniently construct the present, and genuinely signify little in America. He is rather scathing talking about some of the Indian (he insists on calling them Indians) reconstructions of the past to "preserve their culture." All in all a great book for people interested in understanding the paths of American social development, and for those looking for a critique of the culture-vulture flame wars.

Another nice thing is that the book is short. It is not some plodding monstrosity of an author's effort to demonstrate he is well read. Instead, Clausen has written a clear and concise book that does not fall into the short book trap of polemics.

This book is one of the best I've read since college on American "culture" and the so-called "culture wars". Clausen defines what he means by culture and post-culture, then shows that America no longer has a culture. What is called "multiculturalism" is just racial/racist/victimology pandering manufactured for political use. America today, and increasingly the rest of world, are monocultural.

Post-cultural society is one without authority, either as persons or ideals. But it is also a society of conformist, pseudo-individualists, dominated by narcissism: rejection of fact and rational thought, historically illiterate. What's left of real historical cultures in America has been cannibalized for commercial, political, or academic purposes. Clausen takes an especially fascinating and decisive look at the anthropological concept of "culture", why it applies only to isolated primitive societies, and why cultural "relativism" never made any sense.

Our state, outlined by Clausen, was prophesied over a century ago by Tocqueville and Nietzsche, as the "tyranny of the majority" or the mentally enfeebled "last man". It's here, and it's the way we live now, like it or not. It does not bode well for individual freedom or democratic self-government.

Faded Mosaic considers modern American culture, presented by the author as the first post-cultural society existing after the death of culture: after defining the state of post-culturalism, Clausen argues that its effects are transforming American life and creating conformist individuals who don't believe in outer authority figures. Both causes and effects of these culture wars receive intimate analysis in a title recommended for college-level students of sociology.

I am actually the author's daughter. And although he and I have not always gotten along, I was delighted to hear that my dad had finally decided to write and publish this story. As I was only six years old when he went on this particular field trip, his recounts of all the wacky and wild mishaps, misadventures, and downright silliness he encountered in Africa became favourite bedtime stories for my brother and I for years afterwards. His book preserves the tongue-in-cheek feeling of the early retellings that so delighted us as kids... and also his own personal joy at confronting both the scientific and physical challenges of this type of fieldwork.

I can totally recommend this book not only for a glimpse into the life of an earth scientist, but also as a source of inspiration (or amusing tales) for younger readers. You wouldn't think geophysics could be so much fun!

Once I started this book, I could not put it down. I finished it in just one evening. The other reviews posted here explain the content of the story, so I will just comment on the readability of the book. And thoroughly readable it is; the author writes a personal story in a manner that makes you feel like you were there. After finishing the book I felt depressed, because I knew I would never get to personally experience an adventure such as this one.

Half of the excitement of embarking on an earth sciences degree is the opportunity to do hands-on science. The vast majority of new students relish the chance to find it all out for themselves-make their own observations and measurements, test their own hypotheses-in the best of all work environments, the field. Even those who lack motivation in the classroom often find new levels of determination when faced with the reality of a particularly gripping outcrop. There is a downside to all this delirium. Budding geologists must learn to put up with harsh conditions during the many field classes that are run in the vacations outside the summer months. In Britain, they receive precious little support from their local education authorities, despite losing valuable opportunities to earn money during holidays and terms with part-time jobs. And they also have to equip themselves for the field by buying expensive weatherproof clothing and tools. All in all, though, the experience of fieldwork is not just enjoyable and an excellent foundation in scientific experimental design. It is also good for a students future career. "Hardly any universities support the concept of fieldwork nowadays." Even if only a very few go on to become professional geologists, the benefits for students of learning to think on their feet, both literally and metaphorically, and of operating in harsh conditions while developing self-motivation and teamwork, make good highlights on CVs. Certainly, my students fare well in the graduate employment cattle market. The trouble is that, although many explorers seem increasingly to realize the benefits of a strong field experience, the whole exercise is under more and more pressure. I'm sure that this arises largely from a deep misunderstanding of what fieldwork actually involves. And the misunderstanding also extends deep into the scientific community-even within those disciplines that have, like the earth sciences, a strong traditional fieldwork. What triggers this odd perception? In a word, image. Fieldwork is often portrayed as an exercise in random data collection- a chance to potter about on your own, just looking around. The geological community hasn't helped itself much here: modern role models and good, clear presentations of excellence in fieldwork are few and far between. Curiously, other sciences have greatly benefited from fieldwork. Take astronomy, for example. How much of the interest in this science in the latter part of the 20th century was launched with the NASA lunar landing, the most expensive fieldwork ever undertaken? Indeed, the solution to the recent hot potato of life on Mars can only really be addressed through another batch of fieldwork-on the Red Planet itself. Meanwhile, back on planet Earth, a new book by Christopher Scholz offers a number of important insights into earth sciences fieldwork. It is true that Fieldwork: A Geologist's Memoir of the Kalahari hardly touches on scientific issue as important as the physical and biological evolution of the Solar System. It is nevertheless a gripping account of a small research programme directed at understanding how continents rift apart. Scholz's story recounts the activities of an expedition to collect geophysical data in Botswana. His research brief was to get a handle on earthquake hazards in and around the Okavango river delta in the Kalahari. So the book contains two currents: the narrative of the scientific investigative approach running alongside the human story-the personal excitement and frustration of life in the field. Scholz's concurrent adventures make for a thrilling read. Attempted robberies, arrests, drinking sessions and expeditions to find a decent hamburger are intertwined with the conditions a geologists needs to receive good signals with seismometers. Scholz graphically describes the difficulties inherent in carrying out seismological experiments in hostile terrain, the hassles, with local, petty bureaucracies, the difficulties of working together in teams and living alongside heards of elephant and rhino. But this is much more than a Boy's Own account of African adventures. As with most good science, Scholz's Okavango project arose by chance. The United Nations Development Programme runs a project on the Okavango delta, and its researchers wanted some idea of the earthquake hazard in the area. This delta, sited in the heart of the Kalahari desert, is a delicately balanced environment whose rivers are banked by extremely low ridges. If the ridges were formed by active faults, slip on the faults, manifested as earthquakes, could disrupt drainage in the region. This would cause massive ecological changes. The UNDP approached Scholz and asked him to be its local "earthquake consultant". He, in contrast, was interested in the more general problem of how faults and earthquakes work, particularly in response to rifting in the continents. After a bout of detective work involving global earthquake records and satellite images, Scholz realized that the Okavango area lay on a possible continuation of the rift valleys of eastern Africa. If so, the little faults in the Okavango represented an early stage of rifting, something that is extraordinarily difficult to observe elsewhere on Earth. The problem for Scholz lay in testing his ideas-hence his interest in the project to collect detailed data on small earthquakes by recording them directly in the Okavango area. So Scholz's expedition was a marriage of convenience, satisfying the interests of the UNDP in managing the ecology of the Okavango and, at the same time, allowing him to investigate, as he puts it, "a basic scientific problem". I particularly enjoyed Scholz's description of the important early parts of his scientific expedition, the different motivations for the study and the groundwork needed when designing the experiment. These are the elements that are often missing from popular accounts of scientific expeditions. As a consequence, it is easy to lose sight of the motivations of the scientists themselves once they become embroiled in the challenges of a particularly exotic location. Or the technology gets in the way of the story- an all-too-common occurrence. By avoiding these pitfalls, Fieldwork makes an exciting read for crusty old geologists, students in search of role models and all those wanting insight into the processes of scientific discovery. And it illustrates why fieldwork provides such an excellent training environment. This should have left me feeling optimistic. Here I have a book that I can recommend to my students as a role model for their own studies. Of course, this type of expedition is unlike anything they might do themselves while studying, but there are useful parallels. And I can recommend the book to my friends and family who think that fieldwork is just a question of getting a nice tan in an exotic corner of the world. The problem is that the pressure on scientific fieldwork by the organizations responsible for funding are very great indeed. Hardly any universities support the concept of fieldwork, requiring individual departments or, more commonly, the individual students to fund themselves. It is seen as a old-fashioned, unnecessary part of modern scientific endeavor, a bit of a luxury. It may already be too late to convince the skeptics. Academic fieldwork is being severely penalized even for postgraduates. Britain's Natural Environment Research Council has recently cut its support for fieldwork radically, even through students going on scientific cruises using the council's ships or working in its laboratories can use these facilities without charge. Ships and laboratory costs are underwritten yet there is no specific fund for fieldwork. So I fear that, notwithstanding the wishes of employers and the excellent general training that fieldwork provides, its days are numbered. Even excellent books like Scholz's may be too late to reverse the tide. Rob Butler teaches and researches at the University of Leads.

expose on several topics
not always an easy read if you are not familiar or itnerested in the particular subject that christopher is writing about

I became familiar with Mr.Hitchens' work through his Vanity Fair articles where I became intrigued that a publication that devotes much of its space to the ongoings in the Hamptons and the biceps of Tom Cruise would publish such a pungent and brilliant observer of monarchy, faith, Congress and the lies of the rich and famous.
In the meantime he has become quite a household name and I'm afraid some of the exposure, the networking and the various stints on not so objective and erudite Pol talkshows have somewhat mildened his capacity to irritate with truth. But this volume and "Prepared For The Worst" are topnotch and it's a pleasure to follow him to wherever his curiosity takes him. It is a rare man who can skewer the follies of the policies towards Nicaragua, the smug "humor" of the darling of the neo-con set P.K.O'Rourke and relish in the joys of uncensored boozing, cigarette smoking as a tool for thinking and pleasure( or in the least nobody else's business) and the merits of any pleasure that is private and not available through an ad or state sponsored through the family values crowd. These essays read like the work of a strong idealist who has the brain power and nerve to back up his findings.

Growing up in the 70s and 80s, I naturally learned a contempt for journalism as it is currently practiced. The great problem with journalists today, seems to me, is not their slavish conformity, their scandal-mongering, or even their sales-and-marketing obsession with the bottom line. It is their LACK OF IDEAS. They have little or no training in logic, history, aesthetics, or any of the other arts that are necessary if one is to continually shed light on the present.

Christopher Hitchens, by contrast, has all of these things. I bought this book three years ago and have read it through more times than I can remember. It makes intelligible sense of almost every major event that occurred during the late 80s and early 90s. To boot, it is witty and entertaining. If you feel suffocated by the evening news, NPR, the New York Times, and other demographically-tailored drivel, buy this book and everything else Hitchens has published.

This book is packed with very good, detailed information about colleges' use of early application options, particularly early decision. This book--more like a report--backs up what every good counselor knows: colleges admit applicants early that they may not otherwise admit. But this book is not an admissions process "how-to" guide. If you want that, try Allen's "College Admissions Trade Secrets." It's a very detailed and sometimes controversial book that reveals much of the same insider information that "Joining the Elite" reveals but in a more "how-to" format. Buy "Trade Secrets" with Princeton Review's "Best Colleges" and you'll have just about everything you'll need to tackle this process. Buy "Joining the Elite" if you need the fine details and justification for the things that Allen says.

This book is for those young people who have Ivy League dreams. Avery and his colleagues have written a guide for high school students and parents who don't know much about the game of early admissions. It's written in an accessible way. The authors bolster their advice with strong empirical evidence.

In the not-too-distant past, the college admissions process was fairly straightforward. It was not fair, but it was fairly straightforward. Some recent changes to the process have brought more fairness, some have brought more complexity, and some have reduced fairness while increasing complexity. A change that has both reduced fairness and increased complexity is the preponderance of "Early Admissions" (i.e., "Early Decision" and "Early Action") plans.

Whatever one's opinions on Early Action (EA) and Early Decision (ED), they are realities that present high school students, their parents, and their counselors with a dilemma: To EA/ED or not to EA/ED?

When looking for answers to this dilemma, students, parents, and counselors have had to rely on unclear messages, equivocal statements, anecdotes, and urban myths.

"The Early Admissions Game: Joining the Elite" shines a bright and needed light into the darkest recesses of a murky maze. The book combines irrefutable statistics and the words of high school students, college students, and admissions professionals to present a clear and readable picture of a complex, often hermetic issue.

I don't use the phrase "irrefutable statistics" loosely here. Statistics are too often used to "prove" a theory that looks a lot like the preconceived notion that the researcher brought to the research. However, in this case, the authors possess the objectivity to report their findings with clarity and without baggage. Also, their backgrounds in economics, public policy, and college admissions give them the qualifications and abilities to present a comprehensive and in-depth review of the subject.

"The Early Admissions Game" explains both how to play the game by the current rules and, at the same time, advocates for a better, fairer system for the future. Information for the debate on EA/ED and practical advice for those coping in the "Age of EA/ED" are well presented.

Whether you love EA/ED, hate it, or just want to better understand EA/ED and the rest of the admissions process, this is a great book to read.

Although not a polished historian or biographer, McGowan (a Canadian paleobiologist) has produced an enjoyable and breezy read on the foundations of modern paleontology and evolution. Imagine the excitement surrounding the first dinosaur finds! It's here. McGowan's emphasis is on the diverse personalities of the "fossilists" (a term I'd never encountered before). The timeline in the text is a little disorganized at times, but then McGowan is juggling quite a number of people across half the 19th century, and what an entertaining bunch they are: Catastrophe Cuvier, Diluvium Buckland, Uniformity Lyell, Iguana Mantell, Faker Hawkins, Deferential Darwin, and first of all Mary Anning. Perhaps their fascinating diversity is due in part to the diversity of education (or lack) described here, in a day before universal education on the Prussian industrial model. McGowan also supplies sufficient description of the fossils themselves to recognize the basic issues in the flaming debates that arose.

Contemporary illustrations are many, varied and useful, many showing the actual original finds, as well as the fossilists. But how can a book on a geological science fail to have a single map? While I'm sure villages like Walton or Street are perfectly familiar to English folk, a map of towns and fossil locales would really help the rest of us. And there's no chronogical chart of the main geological strata mentioned (or see Winchester's The Map That Changed the World). And maybe a gallery of modern versions of the dinosaurs discussed here (no T-Rex, incidentally) would be in order. A selection of the "satirical cartoons" of De la Beche, only mentioned by McGowan, would be intriguing. But I'm just picking nits with a charming book. McGowan adds a personal final chapter, recounting the thrills of responsible modern fossiling in the mecca of Lyme Regis. Source notes, credits, and an index are included.

In the first half of the nineteenth century, the British intelligentsia were having to come to terms with the fossilized bones being dug up by quarrymen or exposed by the waves against the rocky cliffs. The strange creatures thus revealed posed enormous questions about creation, and the theologians quickly got into the debate. However, as the fossilists produced more specimens, and the geologists got acquainted with the enormous span of time required in their discipline, and the paleontologists were able to classify more of the ancient beasts, the pondering on creation came under the light of science rather than theology. Thus when the Theory of Evolution was announced in 1858, Britain was not completely unprepared for its revelations. The foot soldiers of this transformation were the fossilists themselves, and to tell their story, Christopher McGowan, senior curator of paleobiology at the Royal Ontario Museum, has written _The Dragon Seekers: How an Extraordinary Circle of Fossilists Discovered the Dinosaurs and Paved the Way for Darwin_ (Perseus Publishing). It is a fine description of the science versus religion battles of the time, and of how paleontology got started.

There is an eccentric cast of characters within these pages. Thomas Hawkins was a master at getting monstrous specimens displayed, but was really too good at it; he helped his displays with faked bones, a deception whose controversy was elevated to the House of Commons. Gideon Mantell had a hectic medical practice, but it was fossilizing that he loved, and because people thought he was too much of a fossilizer while not enough of a doctor, they stayed away from his practice. He also alienated his wife and family. Although he discovered and named the _Iguanodon_, fossils ruined him. But the most fascinating figure in the book, though, is Mary Anning. She has recognition now as a star discoverer of fossils, but the earliest recognition she got in her own time was, sadly, a eulogy at the Geographic Society. She had no advantages she did not make herself. She was poor, her family was low, and she was, of course, a woman. She was born in Lyme Regis, a seaside hamlet on the Dorset coast, and she got her living digging out the cliff's fossils and selling them to private collectors and to academics. She didn't just collect fossils, she analyzed them and compared them to contemporary animals. She had no access to a formal education, but studied the papers of the published experts, sometimes hand copying them with their drawings so that she could keep them for reference. It was, however, always the "clever men" who formally studied the specimens she discovered, and wrote them up, and named them, often without crediting her. None of her specimens bears her name.

The sensational finds described here sparked heated debates on many issues. Some who believed that God had created all, for instance, insisted that there could be no such thing as an extinction, for that would mean that God had produced some creatures mistakenly. The enormous and ancient beasts found by the fossilists meant that people had to start questioning the usefulness of the Bible as a guide to cosmology. In fact, most of the fossilists described in these pages believed strictly in the Bible, and were unconvinced when Lyell published on geology or Darwin on evolution. McGowan's entertaining book fits them within the social and intellectual history of the period, and shows that although they did not directly pave the way for Darwin, their discoveries put forth evidence to be argued about, and they fostered the learned debate that has resulted in our current understanding of geology and biology.

A facinating historical account of important fossil finds in nineteenth century England. Extensively researched and expertly presented. A great insight into a period when basic understanding of the fossil record was developing fast. Interesting notes on the role of contempory collectors and institutions. All in all a good read which will appeal to a wide range of readers. Certainly not your average fossil book.

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I didn't care about the red herrings the investigators were following. I just wanted to know what Boyce was really doing. So I read only those parts of the book. Those parts were quite interesting.

I picked this book up in a used book store, and read it in less than a day. I couldnot put it down! At first, I almost felt sorry for Christopher Boyce, but once he started robbing banks to support himself, forget about it. I wonder if today, in July of 2000, if he is still as bitter towards both the government and the CIA

Great! I am 15 and have just discovered this great book. My mother had owned it it was about my uncle Duke Smith. Duke his nick name. the book was great a must to read.