This is a great book that tells all about fossils

I'm rarely so impressed by a book that I write a review. This one, however, is special. The authors are able to convey a great deal of difficult to understand information in a way that is not only straightforward and easy to understand, but also fun and humorous! It explains evolutionary concepts as it guides you through fossil-finding techniques. It is sprinkled with simple experiments to deepen understanding of each concept. My five-year-old sat through the first 50 pages, then protested when I had to stop to cook dinner. I'm with him. We were both learning and loving it.

I enjoyed this book. We all hear about tough issues, but this book goes further and offers insightful opinions and sound advice. The format of the book makes it very easy to read. It's an interesting peek into the tough little realities that lurk inside data warehousing projects.

I love the format. This format is very powerful because I can go right to the problems that are relavent to my company and review the suggested solutions. The suggested solutions are based on a lot of experience in the Data Warehouse field from a number of experts, not just one person. You can glean many good ideas from this book.

I have found this Sid Adelman book to be just as useful as his first book,"Data Warehouse Project Management", written with Lorissa Moss.

The Captain's Wife is about a woman who travels to sea with her husband. As a way of staying busy she learns to use the sextant. That turns out to be fortuitous because on a voyage from New York to San Francisco--the voyage upon which the story centers around--her husband falls ill and is confined to his cabin in a comatose state. The first mate is unavailable (I won't spoil it) and the second mate doesn't know how to navigate. It's up to her to get the ship around the horn and on to San Fran. It's a good story and a quick read.

The book isn't as technical as other historical novels or non-fiction maritime narratives, but you still get a good feel for how clippers were sailed. I enjoyed the new perspective as most narratives are from that of the sailor or capitain but rarely of the captain's wife.

This book gives the reader a real feel for life aboard a clipper ship during the 1850's. It also shows the devotion the captain's young, newly pregnant wife, Mary Patten, holds for her husband, Joshua, after he falls ill and the ship is threatened by a mutinous crew. With the help of Timothy Hare, a young, illiterate sailor, she rallies the crew to complete their treacherous journey from New York to San Francisco round Cape Horn.

Douglas Kelley obviously enjoyed the years of research he spent in order to tell this story of a wife's devotion. His language is lively and lovely, two qualities necessary for a love story at sea.

I won't soon forget The Captain's Wife, or the amazing, larger-than-life, pregnant heroine, Mary Patten. I can only imagine the intensive research required to write such a memorable novel--yet none of it interferes with the drama, fear, and danger this determined young woman experiences as, threatened by mutiny, and against all odds, she finds herself steering an enormous clipper ship through the most treacherous seas known to man. I found it very difficult to put this book down. Every page was an adventure. I eagerly await this author's next endeavour.