_Conundrum_ by M.L. Holle does something one just doesn't see every day in the world of mystery. It lets a _nurse_ be the sleuth and not the doctor. Written with obvious expertise in the field of medicine (and probably nursing specifically), this book serves up a fascinating story made all the more credible by the true-to-life goings on of a modern hospital. My hat is off to M.L. Holle for raising nurses up to a long-deserved position! Not only are the heroines of this book dedicated medical professionals, but they are also sharp, intuitive and darn-good amateur detectives! Brava! Can't wait for another installment!!

Imagine walking four miles to school and four miles home from school. That's what Bessie Coleman did a hundred years ago. She wanted to be somebody-like Harriet Tubman and Bookier T. Washington. She knew that with schooling she could be. She worked hard, picking cotton, walking miles to collect laundry, and learning her numbers. When she was twenty-three, she moved to Chicago. There she became a manicurist. She read the newspaper, and listened when customers told tales about French lady pilots in World War I. She wanted to be a lady pilot. She boldly went to Publisher Robert Abbot who told her to earn some money and learn French. He would help her find a flying school. In 1920, she went to France,learned to fly, and became the first African American to fly. When she became a stunt pilot she spread her message, "You can be somebody. You can fly high, just like me." This colorful, beautiful, simply written book shows how Bessie Coleman was an inspiration. Her determination and hard work made her dreams come true! Read and find out the sad ending to this courageous woman's story!

How can you not love a book that practically devotes a whole chapter to dehen, or rendered lamb fat? This book is different from most Middle Eastern cookbooks, and focuses closely on one area and culture. Many of the recipes are unusual, surprisingly easy, and authentic. It provides a window on Lebanese (Druze?) culture in both the U.S. and the old country. The recipe for chicken with sumac in this book, may be for the limited time, effort and money required to put it together, one of the world's greatest dishes, and it deserves to be better known.

The term music psychology has been over used since Seashore. The current hodgepodge of topics included in music psychology is astonishing as well as disappointing. Sarafine was the first to separate out Cognition as a "subset" of music psychology fllowed later by Slaboda's "Generative Process" and others. Any one interested in music psychology can get a focused if somewhat limited view from this text. Most is Sarafine's own work.

This wonderful book is the second in the now-classic survey of historic New Orleans architecture. Distinguished by the same painstaking attention to detail as the other volumes, this book concentrates on the sections of the city now known as the Central Busisness District (or CBD) and the Warehouse/Arts District. Given the dramatic changes this section has undergone since the 19th century, this volume is both more valuable historically and perhaps a bit less interesting to the casual reader.

One section of the book is fortunately out of date. A special section highlights the row houses on Julia Street in the Warehouse District, then in sad disrepair, but now gems in that area's redevelopment.

Despite the towering skyscrapers lining Poydras Street and the gleaming hotel towers down by the river, this book calls our attention to what remains: the exuberant architectural display of a Victorian bank building or the shockingly vibrant facade of a Canal Street storefront. Through its thoughtful scholarship and careful display of maps, historic images and contemporary photograph, this book (likes its sisters in the series) is an inviting glimpse into the past for the careful reader.

A great book for reports and gardening. I like it and I am 12! Adults I have given it to also have liked it

This book contains many great activities to do with children who have phonological processing disorders. It is aimed at SLPs and offers activities that can be used with a variety of methods (cycles, minimal pairs, etc). The activities are fun and many do not require a lot of materials. The book also includes sample parent letters, probe lists, illustrations and the stories to be used with particular activities. This book takes away some of the hassles of figuring out what to do with your pre-schoolers.

This is a wonderful resource, clear, simple, but with great depth. It is very valuable in bringing to mind many female biblical characters who are often forgotten. I use it in my daily private prayers but it would also be extremely useful as a liturgical resource in many settings. Mary Louise Bringle's hymns are beautiful and can easily be set to well-known hymn tunes. I would love to find a larger collection of her texts. My gratitude goes to both Ms. Bringle and J. Frank Henderson for compiling and publishing this volume. I hope they do more.

Seattle Job Source is a professional job hunter's guide to careers int he Seattle area, featuring listings and contacts for over 3,000 employers in just about every field imaginable. The majority of this guide is simply a cover-to-cover listing of addresses, phone numbers, and websites. Seattle Job Source is a very nicely organized, "user friendly", and highly recommended reference for any Seattle-area job-hunter.

Ms Kete has written an academic work of great interest to those of us wanting a better understanding of the Victorian frame of mind toward death and mourning. It is easy to view the rituals of mourning from this era as silly, unnecessary and contrived but with the aid of this book I have come to view them with a different eye. I now understand that our era deals with death and mourning a loss in a far too frivolous manner. I think sometimes that we believe ourselves and our time to be the pinnacle of civilization. However, Ms Kete has handily pointed out that we have perhaps thrown the baby out with the bath water. I will mind my passage through this life with greater attention from now on. This modern discourse of rituals and literature is an excellent source of profile information for a time which we truly do not understand but should.