First of all, I can't get enought of Lewis and Clark or, for that matter, Stephen Ambrose. Having said that, I thought that this would merely be a rehashing of his Undauted Courage with pictures; no more than a nice coffee table book. But, I was pleasantly surprised.

The mixture of breathtaking photographs, Ambrose's great style of writing and the wonderful story that is Lewis and Clark would have been enough for me. However, with the addition of his writings of his family and friend's adventures along the Lewis and Clark Trail, this book brings the expedition into the 20th century. You now feel the cold, slap at the mosquitoes, and see the mist of the Great Falls with them. Above all, you finally realize just how strong and courageous those great adventurers were.

Wow! I love this book. I also love Ambrose's writing. He instills so much energy into this tale. Anyone who has seen Ken Burns' Lewis and Clark-The Journey of the Corps of Discovery, will remember how strong a presence he had in that film. He is truly dynamic. The history teacher I never had. I've been reading this book in conjunction with the journals and it really makes a great combo. When I'm a little confused as to what's happening in the journals, this book helps fill in the blanks. Maps and archival photos are also a real nice touch. Oh, and the landscape photos are beautiful too. I also have to disagree with a previous reviewer who mentioned that the addition of Ambrose's family experiences were annoying. I find them enjoyable and they really help give me a sense of what many of the L & C places are like in the present. I've always wondered about that. This book is A MUST for L & C admirers.

This book is about the author Stephen Ambrose retracing the Lewis and Clark expidition with his family. The author goes from the present to the past at each point of the journey. He tells of his experiences at that location then he describes the events of Lewis and Clark at that time.

I was impressed by the details that Lewis and Clark made in their journal. The book contains excerps from their journal. Each animal they encounter was drawn and described in accurate details. Many of these animals, such as the bison and the prairie dog, were seen for the first time by white men.

I purchased the delux leather bound edition through National Geographic. The photographs were of typical National Geographic high quality.

In colonial Newbury, New England, Catherine Williams earns a living as a midwife and general healer. Catherine visits old man Isaac Powell to tend his festering wound caused by a bite on his hand. A few days later, someone murders Powell and the deceased's apprentice, Thomas of Barbados, is missing.

The local residents believe that Catherine's assistant, a non-converted Indian Massaquoit, killed Powell. Though he never became a Catholic, Catherine knows her helper and believes he is innocent. As she works with her patients, Catherine begins to make inquiries into the murder of Isaac even if it places her in danger from a culprit who will do anything to keep secrets hidden.

THE BLIND IN DARKNESS is an excellent Colonial mystery filled with tidbits of the era. The story line is exciting as the who-done-it takes the audience on several twists and turns before revealing the killer's identity. The characters make Colonial New England seem vividly alive, especially amateur sleuth Catherine and her Indian assistant. Stephen Lewis provides sub-genre fans with a triumphant tale that will leave readers clamoring for more novels starring Catherine et al.

Harriet Klausner

When Catherine Williams' neighbor, old man Powell turns up dead, minus his scalp, suspicion quickly settles on her Indian servant, Massaquoit. The strong-willed Catherine will not bow to such accusations and maintains Massaquoit's innocence, even when it means that she herself will be chastised for it. Determined to uncover the real murderer and clear Massaquoit's name, Catherine and her faithful accomplice set out on a dangerous path strewn with deception. The Blind In Darkness is an enlightening piece of historical fiction which authentically deals with such intriguing issues of Colonial Society as law and order, crime and punishment, town government, prejudice, and even midwifery. With exciting, well-orchestrated twists and turns of plot, Stephen Lewis takes the reader on a bumpy, but exciting ride through Colonial Massachusetts. Both Massaquoit and Catherine present as well-crafted characters, fitting of their time, yet with enough admirable characteristics to give them modern appeal. Midwife Catherine Williams is endowed of great strength and courage--reminiscent of the factual person of Anne Hutchinson. Massaquoit has a quiet pride that effectively invokes sympathy from the reader. Although I am a fan of historical mysteries, I expected to find this book somewhat duller than some mysteries because of its Puritan setting, but instead found it to be a colorful and lively story of suspense. I can only attribute this to extensive research on the part of Lewis to bring depth and detail to the Puritan setting and to find a shocking, but believable resolution. Although I missed the first novel of Stephen Lewis' Trilogy, The Dumb Shall Sing, I look forward to picking up a copy and embarking on another sojourn to the 17th century realm of the Puritans. The Blind In Darkness lacked the heroic romance I usually crave in my reading and yet it proved a fascinating read. I must give it a nine out of ten, because of its chilling, challenging mystery and its extremely authentic feel.

This novel, concerning the horrifying fall and decline of a proud and wealthy family, comes across as morbidly titillating. Spanning from the mid-1890s to 1945, this saga concerns the Hazeltines, who hold themselves aloof from the commonfolk in their small New England town. This isolation intensifies when Mr. Hazeltine, distraught over his fifth child's stillbirth and the failure of his horseless carriage business, commits suicide. Left behind is his fragile wife Olivia and their children: oldest child Francine, cold, sadistic Paul, and the two youngest, Margaret and Constance. As Olivia's mental state decreases(and her morphine use and drinking increases), Paul comes to dominate the household, cruelly lording his power over everyone, especially Francine, whom the adolescent Paul holds a most unnatural interest in. Fleeing this nightmare with a travelling peddlar, Francine makes her way to a big city, where she becomes swept up in the theater and becomes an actress of some reknown. Meanwhile, the years pass at the Hazeltine mansion, which has grown increasing decrepit. Olivia has died (and been deposited in the ice house by her thoughtful children)and Paul, Margaret, and Constance live like hermits. Still following their dead father's edict of non-fraternization with those that are "beneath" them, Paul, Margaret, and Constance take comfort only in (and with) each other, venturing forth occassionally to shop for groceries amid the sneers and whispers of the townspeople. But Francine has not forgotten her sisters. She promised them to come back, and she does. But the self-contained trio have some most unpleasant plans for her . . .

Some might compare this gothic sleazefest with V.C. Andrews' books, in a roundabout way. The sheer degree of degenerate and insane behavior is enough for a dozen of Andrews' books. The shocking scene in which the returned Francine is drugged and then violated by Paul makes one's skin crawl. She escapes, but will literally bear the scars of her encounter the rest of her life. And the eventual deaths of the three remaining Hazeltines, physically decaying like the mouldering tomb of a house in which they live, are both grotesquely sad and morbidly disturbing. Lewis makes great use of images that convey the moral and psychological decay of this family: cracked dishes, broken bed springs, sagging and dusty furniture, dining room tables heaped with years' accumulations of newspapers. Everything is coated with a patina of rottenness, but its impossible to look away from these three freaks masquerading as a civilized, proper family. Recommended if you like dark old house or gothic horror stories with a twisted of the perverted

This is really an interesting novel and I cannot believe no one has reviewed it before. It is horrifying and as good as some of the Clive Barker and Steve K. books, but without the supernatural. These are real people living a unholy life. This is a really evil story, but interesting. If the author reads this, I would like to hear from him.

Let me explain to everyone who says otherwise, the point of this book was NOT to make children think that stock marketing was the only way to get money. No, the book was just trying to teach children about stock marketing so they could understand it and could possibly use it no or when they get older. I think the book had great details and explained the stock market very accurately.

Gail Karlitz's Growing Money: A Complete Investing Guide For Kids is an exceptional investing guide in that it is written specifically to teach children (and adults!) how to make their money work for them. Covering savings in a bank, bods, stocks, and how to read the financial pages, Growing Money is a superb guide - and since it's written simply enough for a young person to learn from, it also makes excellent starter reading for adults who have never dabbled in investing before. The prose text is in large type and very straightforward, but does not talk down to the reader. Growing Money is a superior and highly recommended introductory guide, especially for the young people growing up in this brand new era of electronically transmitted investment capital.

Reviewed by Ted Lea, author of "When I Grow Up I'm Going to be a Millionaire (A Children's Guide to Mutual Funds)". Many adults wish they had started investing when they were younger. This book provides a good framework for children to start understanding the concepts of investing, which will serve them all through life. When your children grow up to be financially secure they can make a difference in society, hopefully by helping others or protecting natural areas. This book is easy to read and provides a great introduction.

Stephen Lewis, a teacher of memoir-writing, was raised during the 30s in a NY hotel where his father worked as general manager. In this gently amusing memoir, he recreates the experience for us, his readers, ushering us into a world in which everything was provided to the family by the hotel and its purveyors. Bathroom supplies were mysteriously restocked; meals arrived by room service; beds were made and floors swept; clothing was ordered by phone and appeared in drawers and closets.
Hotel Kid is a gentle and affectionate portrayal of New York's Time Square area as it once was, and of a very unusual childhood lived amid the then-splendor of the theater district. Very nice; an easy read.

Hotel Kid is the story of the Lewis Family and the hotel Mr. Lewis managed back in the golden days of Times Square.

Living in a two room apartment might not have been that uncommon for many New York children but few of them also ate only room service or signed for snacks in the resturaunt in the lobby. It is an interesting tale about life in a gilded age now gone.

More than just the logistics of Steven Lewis' life were uniqe. He was more than just a kid hanging around the hotel. He was the Crown Prince of place as well. The most telling parts of the book reveal how he came to understand the borrowed athority he possesed or how even a child he could make the adults nervous. When a strike at the hotel pits managment and staff against each other you see the conflicting loyalites of the author. Scion of the boss he was still a friend to many on the picket line.

This book was an enjoyable read about a time so far away and yet not really that long ago. It was a quick read and well worth the time it took.

Lewis is the founder of a memoir writing workshop in New Mexico, and he follows his teachings and creates a sweet memoir that recreates a vanished Manhattan in the 1930s and 1940s, when he grew up in the now extinct Hotel Taft in midtown Manhattan. (I was cleaning out my closet while reading this book, and found a coat hanger from the Hotel Taft.) Reading his prose, you can feel the summer heat of Manhattan, the hot asphalt, the bright sunlight, and the cool large drinks offered at the hotel bar. His father was the general manager of the Taft Hotel for decades, at Seventh Avenue of West 50th Street (now a TGIF, Roy Rogers, and Michaelangelo hotel); and Stephen and his younger brother, Peter, played in the halls, ate at the grills, had their birthdays with the hotel's band leaders, and grew up in an environment where the porters and nannies were Irish and the elevators operators were Black. Outside was the depression, but inside the hotel, he, his brother and mother were royalty. Best parts... the real Barney Greengrass has a cameo; and while Stephen never became a Bar Mitzvah, his brother had one for the presents. The rabbi inveighed against the evils of Times Square, and the temptations a boy being raised in the neighborhood would face. The author's mother never returned to a synagogue, but his father did go to the Actor's Temple every Yom Kippur (where Toots Shor would always contribute a cool $2000). A great read for anyone who wants to be transported back to a different age (yet only 50 years ago)

I agree that the material is well presented and comprehensive but be aware that much of the derivation is first for bipolar circuits and only secondarily for CMOS, often with reference back to the development of the bipolar counterparts. So unless your interested in delving into bipolar circuits as well as CMOS you may prefer a text devoted to CMOS-only analog IC design.

This book goes into a lot of depth in the analysis and design of modern devices in Analog IC's. It does not assume anything and gives the reader insight on how all the models are derived (SPICE, HYBRID-PI etc). It goes into excellent detail for dealing with hand calculations which will give you a first order analysis of the circuit in question (with reasonable accuracy).

I got my original recommendation from other Amazon reviews (5-Star rating) and I whole-heartedly agree with them. If you are serious about Analog IC design, then this book is a MUST for you. It will not remain on your shelf, I promise!

If you are already familiar with the previous edition of this text, you'll love this edition. Paul Hurst and Steve Lewis have made significant contributions to the 4th Edition to expand the coverage of CMOS analog circuits with coverage of modern circuits used for bias reference circuits and op amps in this technology. An additional chapter was added that also covers the design of fully-differential op amps. The level of detail in intuitive explanation of circuit performance continues to make this book top-notch literature for this field of study. Another superb job by the Authors!

I didn't like Invisible Stanley because it didn't have enough action or character's thoughts and feelings. Flat Stanley is much better than Invisible Stanley.I like how Stanley gets flat by a bulletin board.

Would you like to be invisible and get shot? You will like this book, I did. I like this book because Stanly helps Arthur. He helps a little boy on a bicycle too. You will have a lot of fun going through the pages that Jeff Brown wrote. Stanley and Arthur always help each other. When you read this book, the author is telling you some thing, find out. Will Stanley be invisible forever? Find out in the book Invisible Stanley. The adventures are waiting to be discovered.

I like this book because the little boy gets invisible. He helps
his brothers do the magic tricks. then when the blittle boy is losing in the race but then stanley takes off his balloon and goes help the little kid.

This book is not meant as a precise historical account of the journeys of Lewis & Clark, but a study of the Missouri River and its surrounding areas as the explorers saw them, vs. how these areas have changed since then. Also, the portion of the Lewis & Clark journey west of the Rockies is not included, as the book sticks to the Missouri River. The most blatant changes in these ecosystems are the straightening and channelization of the river itself, which has led to massive environmental (and economic) damage for a pathetically small amount of barge traffic; plus the conversion of vast prairies to farmland which has led to serious losses of native flora and fauna. The book becomes a messy mixture of travelogue, as Botkin describes how to reach key areas of the river, and musings on the environmental health of these areas. While Botkin has had well-deserved success in environmentalist circles, his attempts to draw up naturalist ethics and morality significantly weaken this book. A lack of focus and the squishy writing of a college freshman are also damaging. Botkin is prone to god-awful metaphors, starting the main narrative awkwardly with "Rocks are nature's books; minerals are its words" and populating the rest of the book with more groaners like "Rocks Tell Stories and Soils are Nature's Braille" (subtitle of chapter 25). His attempts to wax philosophical on mankind's modern lack of connection with nature, while correct in spirit, are also unsuccessful in the writing department. See the awkward comparison of a pelican's spiraling flight path to society's shifting concerns for the environment in chapter 6, or the predictable comparison of prairie dog towns with an ideal human society in chapter 32. This book had the potential to be a real winner as both a travelogue with a historical twist and as a treatise on environmental philosophy. Unfortunately it merely flirts with those two strengths without really nailing them, and is sunk overall by weak writing.

This is a fantastic book for anyone visiting the Missouri river.

Book has handy maps, illustrations and reference points for the person making a modern day trip. Notes by Stephen Ambrose and Robert Redford at beginning and end of book commend book as well!

If you are only mildly interested in Lewis and Clark before reading this book - afterwards you'll be completely astounded by their feats!!

Nothing is as constant as change on the unfettered Missouri River. Few stretches of the Missouri remain as Lewis & Clark observed them. The river, as Botkin observes, is "nature's landscape painter". The canvas is continually changing in response to the forces of a river draining one-sixth of the U.S.

Botkin presents us with the story of the first navigation of the river by Lewis and Clarke, through the river's channalization by the Army Corp of Engineers, to present efforts to restore and interpret the river.

But, this book is more than an inventory of facts and issues. It contains vivid illustrations of nature's interrelationships and wry observations on the irony of man "improving" nature.

This is a very practical, pragmatic, yet poetic book.

This is the third in a series set in pre-Colonial America and featuring Catherine Williams, midwife, and the Native American Massaquoit.

In this outing, Catherine takes in her father's friends' children, Jane and Roger Whitcomb. Immediately there is trouble when the two young adults refuse to dampen their Quaker enthusiasm before the town elders who are Puritan - each religion thinks the other to be wrong-minded.

The book opens with the discovery of the body of a sailor from one of Catherine's ships. After a series of events leads to the death of one of the central people in this drama, Catherine and Massaquoit must solve the murder lest an innocent be unfairly convicted.

This is one of the outstanding historical series around, and with each outing, the characters become more developed and the plots more complex. Always present is the history of the period - not interfering with the character development or the plot but certainly an important part of each book.

If you're just discovering the series, I'd recommend that you begin with the first book, THE DUMB SHALL SING, to familiarize yourself with how the unlikely pair of Catherine and Massaquoit meet and come to respect each other.

The only thing that concerns me is that 15 years have passed since the first book. Since Catherine was no youngster in the first book, she must be nearing elder stage by the day's standards. I don't want to think that Lewis will some day have Catherine leave this world and end the series.

In Newbury, New England, Indian Massaquoit finds sea gulls eating the remains of a dead man. The captain of the nearby ship Good Hope owned by local resident Catherine Williams, who is also Massaquoit's employer, identifies the corpse as a sailor. The townsfolk wonder if Billy Lockhart drowned from too much to drink or did one of those traveling Quakers kill him?

Attending the Puritan religious services are two Quaker siblings, Roger and Jane Whitcomb as guests of Catherine. During the service, Roger takes exception to a comment by Minister Davis. Soon, a glove his shoved down the visitor's throat leaving him choking to death. Massaquoit saves Roger's life. However, not long afterward, someone succeeds in killing Roger. Though she rejected his beliefs, Catherine takes it personally that someone murdered her guest. She begins her own inquiries.

THE SEA HATH SPOKEN is a tremendous Colonial mystery that deserves a wide readership. The story line is well written, as seventeenth century life in New England seems so vividly alive. The who-done-it is fun and Catherine is quite the heroine. With a powerful support cast augmenting the plot with an insider's look at the times, Stephen Lewis hath spoken and readers will appreciate this tale and other novels (see THE BLIND IN THE DARKNESS and THE DUMB SHALL SING) in this superb series.

Harriet Klausner

This is a fascinating book. Lewis and Slawson have weaved together an intricate web of ideas that refuse to be circumscribed by the traditional medical paradigm. Max, the protaganist in the novel, sees the world as we know it as "an unnecessary limitation" (p.41). Abandoning a highly successful medical practice, he begins a life-long exploration of the metaphysical implications of subtle energy techniques. Throughout the book Max reminds his "followers" that he can cure nothing; "I only direct your energy," he says (p.41).

A philisophical discussion of the practical implications of these ideas unfolds throughout the novel as Max and a handful of helpers work together to help those who ask for help. The essence of this philosophy is presented on p.85: "Spirit is energy...and energy is spirit....Thus all illness is spiritual, which is to say that all illness is energetic in nature. 'Dis-ease' is due to an individual's misalignment with the power of the spiritual energy....By realigning the individual to be in harmony with the spiritual force, the life-force, the subtle energetic matrix that makes up the entire universe--that individual's physical, emotional, and even spiritual ailments will disappear."

To gain the deepest insights one might need at this time, one should not approach this book in an analytical fashion. Neither should a person rush out to spend hard earned money. Rather, one might explore the possibility that the symbolism in this book may lead the inner self to find its own answers. And depending on the person's own inner development, perhaps that wisdom may lead one to become involved in the "therapy" of Lewis and Slawson. Of course, techniques do matter. The energetic imbalances in the various characters did not correct themselves. Outside intervention was necessary.

This book is worth the money. Whether the techniques work might depend in some fashion on the same principles that govern the efficacy of certain medications prescribed by medical doctors. Each person's attitudes and beliefs and the particular cycle of wellness v. illness he is in surely combine to effect the outcome of any treatment.

This is one of the most important books for humanity. It has helped transform the quality of my life, my health and well-being. This book is truly on the cutting edge where quantum physics and spirituality meet to create an efffective programme and service for humanity that has the potential to uplift, heal, & transform humanity into a higher quality of life on all levels of being. I highly recommend this book to all people who are seeking to heal their mind, body, & soul. Thank you Steven, and Max for all the Light and Grace you are bringing to this planet. May you be infinitely blessed for sharing this gift with humanity. Love, J. Fairchild

There are those who "have eyes to see and ears to hear" who will read this book and say, "yes, this totally resonates." So many powerful new technologies are evolving at this time in human history to assist us in coming to consciousness: Einstein theorizing E=mc2; Neils Bohr and the development of Quantum Physics; The New Thought Spirituality of Science of Mind; the notion of a holographic universe and the realization that we are each a hologram complete unto itself... within a larger hologram, the hologram of humanity; and the remarkable capacity today of computer technology to quantify energetic matrices.

Max, the hero of the novel, to whom the Sacrament of Energetic Balancing was revealed, teaches us the bottom line, that everything is energy and everything has a subtle-energy frequency. These frequencies can be measured and quantified using principles which blend spirituality and technology. Each human is a matrix of frequencies. When the frequencies of our matrix are out of phase, we have imbalance. With the focus of Energetic Balancing, we can bring those frequencies back into balance and achieve well being. We do it with our Higher Consciousness, that part of us which knows and intuits everything and which has our best interest at heart.

If this resonates with you, it will excite you with the possibilities. It excited me and thousands of others who decided, "If this is so, I have to know." I am participating in Energetic Balancing via the AIM Program that is featured in the last chapters of this novel and I am experiencing the miracle of balancing/healing myself. So are members of my family and so are many people who I know that are on the AIM Program.

While Sanctuary is a novel and the story is fiction, the spiritual technology that it educates us about is real and representative of a monumental quantum shift in Consciousness. As Herb Alpert quotes on the bookcover, "The future is here. Check it out."