Excellent book and excellent adventure book. I especially enjoyed the updates provided in the book which is a reprint by the Cook Society. I am only vaguely aware of the controversy because of a friend who is invloved in high arctic camping. No matter what, Dr. Cook and his Inuit friends are cut of exceptional cloth to have endured so much, almost casually. However, I will say that Dr. Cook appears to be a more pleasant person than Admiral Peary.

Although the Cook/Peary North Pole controversy still rages after over 90 years, I believe that this republication of Frederick A. Cook's My Attainment of the Pole should help immeasurably in eliminating all doubt about Cook's accomplishment.

The book not only is a faithful, easy-to-read republication of Cook's 1911 opus, it contains up-to-date data from well-established polar explorers and historians that validate Cook's original observations. It also confronts the Peary arguments (and what appear to be "dirty tricks") head-on, and emergesw victorious.

After reading the book, I was convinced that Cook was the first to attain the Pole and believe you will reach the same conclusion.

I found this book to be very insiteful and learned quite a bit! I highly recommend this book for all adults as you will gain valuable information and be prepared for the future!

My Parting Gift is a long over-due book that should be in every household. It is a treasure. It provides all the necessary information that a survivor needs at the time of the loss of a loved one. It is a perfect guide when a family crisis occurs. This book should be readily available in every bookstore through-out the country. Exceptionally done.

Sixteen-year-old Jenny Fowler has just moved to Rimrock with her parents, but she's soon on her own when her parents leave town for a couple weeks on business. In the meantime, Jenny has no problem making new friends and is invited on a scavenger hunt with a few other high school students. However, the event turns near-fatal when one of the teens falls off a cliff and ends up in a coma. Jenny can't believe it was accident, although everyone claims it was; she clearly remembers hearing an argument followed by a scream. Yet when she admits to hearing something, her friends are either skeptical or suspicious. She doesn't know which is worse: not having anyone believe her, or having everyone believe she pushed the girl off the ledge?

The incident is then complicated when Jenny starts receiving anonymous phone calls from a secret admirer, while at the same time, being harassed by someone else who wants her dead. Will she ever discover who either stranger is before the threats escalate to murder?

If you're a fan of Point thrillers, then you should definitely read this one. Recommended for ages 12 and up.

This is truly an outstanding book. I never read, and once I picked it up, I couldn't put it down. It is about a new girl in town, that has a secret admirer, but she also has just the opposite. Someone who is after her trying to scare her off. She is alone in her house for the weekend. Will she make it?

This book was amazing! It captured his personal side, tempered and loony along with the side that everyone was supposed to see, perfect, superior, Napoleon! Albert Marrin had EVERYTHING. This was the best book I have read in a long time....... It went through his ups and downs, his birth to his death. Napoleon was such a exiting political figure anything ABOUT him has to be exiting, but this was a VERY, VERY good book. I would give it 100,000 stars if it was possible!

The book is a shockingly detailed account of the Napoleon as a person and as a conqueror. It is fairly presented and allows the reader to form an unbiased opinion about Napoleon during one of the most confusing and frightening periods in history.

Yes, we all love Avedon, Bourke-White, Capa, Doisneau, etc. But do we all understand how photography evolved from gelatine and silver plates, to Man Ray and then Newton? If you want to have a general perpective of the history of photography, and access to wonderful pictures not previosly divulged to the general public, I would recommend this comprehensive and well organized book

This is a lot of book. A lot, a lot of book. It's essays are well written to be easily accessible, clearly showing that the contributors understand and are passionate about photography. Clever thematic content allows you to browse at topics that interest you rather than get lost in a strictly chronological rendition of photography's development. The essays deftly weave together the various influences on the medium as it mutated over time. But best of all are the hundreds of photos, many that neither I nor other professional photographers I know have ever seen published elsewhere. Serious photographers are interested in the development of photographic representation. This book is the ideal place to begin to get to grips with that whole fascinating topic. Highly recommended.

Information I just recieved; "The lymphatics are the most important part of the natural immune system. Like tubes, they rum paralel with the body's arteries. It's their job to wash, clean, and feed the cells. After "vacuming" the cells, they transport the cell food (oxygen) through the tubes using a glucose type substance. If one gets cancer, the lymphs stop transporting the oxygen and the glucose ferments. The cancer "feeds" on that fermented glucose, grows until it kills the patient. The only exercise that gets the lymphatics to working again and stops cancer growth, is "rebound". If this is true, and this writer believes it to be, anyone who uses the trampoline can avoid cancer, or maybe even heal it if one already has it, or if it's not too late and the decay hasn'lt yet reached the vital organs. I believe this book to be truly "futuristic" and a "must" for everyone who fears the dreaded killer, "cancer". I do not know the writer, but would like to meet him someday and share ideas. It's sad to watch folks suffer needlessly and die prematuraly because of a lack of free choice in medical care and because of the one philosophy medical system we have in America, and how it's become a monopoly,(without competition). The "choice" is in treatments. When we have cancer for instance, no matter how many doctors we see, they "all" treat us the same, with rediation and chemothrapy. For a free choice, we must be able to go to a doctor of a different philosophy who will give us different and safer treatments. A very viable second philosophy has existed for many dacdes in Europe, but it's not allowed in america. Why?

I discovered 20 years ago about the medical effects of rebound. I was diagnosed with lymphatic cancer,(hodgkins desease). My doctor informed me that I must have radiation and chemo. treatments after xrays. I refused the first step that I knew would lead me down the road to my doom. I stopped eating and went on a veggie and fruit juice fast for two months. All the swelling of my lympth nodes went down, but the soreness remained. My guarding angel led me to a German Homeopathic Doctor who, with one treatment, knocked it out. The cost was $42.00. I was not cured because there is no such word as "cure." Once the symptoms appear, it's already too late, I became symptom free. I changed my eating habits and got a small trampoline, and have not only remained symptom free since, but healthier at 72 than I was at twenty. I need no other exercise. Rebounding is the only exercise that keeps my lymphatics working as it should. This book is the best of it's kind and will in time, prove to be the "Bible of new age medicine!"

I'm not going to review Homer -- Homer gets ten stars. If you haven't read Homer, you're not an educated person.

If I had to rate the additional material in this edition on its own merits, I'd have to give it something less than five stars. Four, probably. The glossary is useful, and the "Backgrounds" (a brief excerpt each from Kirk and Nilsson and then snippets from various archaic authors commenting on Homer) are worthwhile and sometimes amusing. But the "map of probable locations for legendary places mentioned in The Odyssey", for instance, is silly. And the essays in the "Criticism" section seem randomly-themed and of hit and miss quality.

But the additional material is all just icing on a very good cake. Cook's translation is readable and delightful. He carefully maintains the repetitions and line units of the original, so a reader of the English translation can get some sense of what the Greek feels like. Well worth reading.

Albert Cook's is the only verse translation of the Odyssey to rival Lattimore's: slightly less literal, but also more readable.

Bond, James Bond. Say those words in my house and it's panic stations all around. This was the only book I could find on the James Bond movie series when they were little. It really is a well published book with over a hundred photographs with many in color. It is written with the younger reader in mind so it was just perfect. Timothy Dalton was just starting as James Bond so he's on the cover but it does cover each film up to "The Living Daylights." We still have it and read it (well, look at the pictures).

This is one of the best books on the James Bond series. Sally Hibban first issued this book to coincide with the Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the James Bond films and the introduction of Timothy Dalton as James Bond back in 1987. It is profusely illustrated with beautiful color photographs especially from DR. NO, FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE and OCTOPUSSY. Rather than being a critique of the Bond series, author Hibban dedicates a chapter to each film focusing on the highlights of each. Hibban's book is a tribute to the celebration of 25 years of James Bond on the screen. This is a very enjoyable and colorful book and is a good souvenir of the series. Albert R. Broccoli wrote the Introduction.

Alaine Polcz is the foremost child psychologist in postwar Hungary. After more than forty years of silence, she sat down one day and wrote these memoirs of her life as a young woman in Hungary during the war. The result is an extraordinary window into the decay of the German occupation of Hungary, and the "liberation" by the Soviet Red Army. There is no other book quite like this--ranking (with Agate Nesaule's Woman in Amber as one of the finest firsthand accounts of mass rape ever written.

This book is an autobiographic account of the experiences of a woman in the closing months of WWII. It had a huge effect on me: the inhumanity and cruelty made me both angry and sad but at the same time, the honest voice of the narrator touched me deeply. Even the most horrible details of rape and humiliation are told in a very straightforward manner and you often wish this whole story were only made up. But the fact that it's not what makes this book so remarkable. You get to know a woman who, despite all the terrible things, survived and not only survived but had the inner strength to face and, by telling her story, re-live her past. Before reading the English translation, I was a little bit skeptical because Hungarian literature doesn't translate easily into English (or any other languages for that matter). And then came my surprise: Mr. Tezla did a perfect job with the translation! I think people all around the world would find reading this book an unforgettable experience!

This book is very informative. It is a great way to find information about Albert Einstein. I wrote a wonderful report using the information in this book. It explains his theorys of relativity in a simple understandable way.

Mc Pherson's well written biography of Einstein is sure to please young readers in their quest for knowledge. Its photographs are excellent in content and placement, and the text is superb. A must-read for anyone with children who wants them to appreciate this great man, deemed TIME's "Person of the Century"