This book literally got me through the three weeks between my diagnosis and surgery. Dr. Joseph is a caring, intelligent woman whose personal experience and ability to articulate it are extraordinary. She covers standard and alternative therapies in a non-threatening and easy to understand way. The story of her spritual journey was remarkable.

This books is more than about breast cancer. It deals with working with doctors, emotional wellbeing and nutrition. It is how every woman should treat herself all the time, not just when faced with a life threateing disease. Very informative and easy to understand

The stories describe life in the opium dens, dealing with the Federal Narcotics Farms (Texas & Kentucky)and dealing with the pressures applied in the Anslinger era. It's a telling exposé of how little progress has been made in Drug Control Policy.

From the Heart of the Crow Country is a unique book by Joseph Medicine Crow, oral historian of the tribe. Filled with stories, observations, biographical portraits, accounts of hunting, warring and religious practices, and even examples of Crow Indian humour, From the Heart of Crow Country is a valuable compilation enriched by many black and white historic photos of Crow Indians, including the author's own parents and family. Convincing cultural and religious parallels are drawn such as between Jesus' fasting for 40 days and a Sun Dancer's fasting for 4 days. In this vein a good definition is given of a holy man: "This special person is the product of three factors coming into conjunction: First is the event or situation at hand; second is a man with capability and intelligence; and third is this man's definition of the situation, which leads to the solution's becoming a reality. The result of the successful conjunction of these three factors is the emergence of a new leader, who brings about the final release of the people from their predicament (p.55)." A chronology of Crow history is included that highlights major events of Absarokee History from ca.1500 to 1962. From The Heart Of The Crow Country is a fully authentic work that has value and appeal to both scholars and general readers, elegantly voiced, and easily read.

Nancy Lorraine, Reviewer

Collaboratively edited by Tamia A. Burt, Joseph D. Thomas, and Marsha L. McCabe, Moby-Dick: A Picture Voyage is an abridged edition of a classic work of American literature by Herman Melville which is lavishly illustrated with both black-and-white and color photographs of relevant places, original artworks, images of the whaling industry and much, much more. A superbly presented and very highly recommended supplementary edition to Melville's masterpiece, Moby-Dick: A Picture Voyage features imagery on every page that draws the reader into Melville's evocative world and would make an especially welcome choice for any school or community library's Memorial Fund acquisition.

A great book to have if you have kids or spend time with kids. Has great activities for children of all ages (and even adults). Not only have I gotten great ideas for things to do with my young son from this book, I have also learned alot myself. Every parent and teacher on my shopping list is going to get a copy of this book for Christmas this year.

This 8" by 11" volume contains illustrations of drawings by two extremely talented artists who were among the Fort Marion prisoners from 1875-1878; Making Medicine, a 33 year old Cheyenne and Zotom, a 24 year old Kiowa. The drawings are a full page size and the colors are beautiful and intense. The drawings combined with the commentary by Joe and George Horse Capture provide wonderful insights into the history of these two native nations as well as a better understanding of the Indians' experiences at Fort Marion. It also provides further awareness of the factors that motivated Col. Pratt to establish the Indian school at Carlisle.

a good history of the nex pierce
this work could have been stronger if the author would had defined the nez pierce relationships with the other indian tribes better and whther or not the nez pierce became indian scouts themselves

The new version has 366 pages. My 1963 edition has 374. Either way, you will get your money's worth from I Will Fight No More Forever. This is one of the best books I have found on the Nez Perce history or on Chief Joseph. Merrill Beal goes deep into the entire situation surrounding the Nez Perce at the time. He uses the first three chapters to cover the Nez Perce history and culture, setting the stage for the action that followed.

I will give Beal credit. For a white man writing about Native American issues during a time when they were still considered second-class citizens, he did a remarkable job of portraying them as a peaceful, agricultural people. He seems supportive of them and even quite respectful of their accomplishments.

One thing that I particularly like about this book is the use of frequent quotes from both sides, especially from little-known military documents. As you read the book, you start to feel the turmoil of some of the troops that were forced to pursue this tribe, a tribe that had always welcomed and befriended the whites.

This is one book that will rip your heart out! You cannot read it and remain untouched. It is the story of a peaceful people chased from their land, forced to abandon most of their belonging. A few men that were able to fight were trying to protect the women, children, and elderly as they fled to reach the safety of the Canadian border. Of the 450 Natives, only 150 were able to fight. They had more than 5,000 head of half-wild livestock to herd along. Their belongings were piled upon the little Appaloosas, making their going extremely difficult.

For 11 weeks, from 11 June to 5 October, 1877, these tough Natives traveled almost 1700 miles, zig-zagging across the worst terrain in this country. They fought to a stand still or defeated the 10 best commands in the U.S. Army in 13 battles. Their tired, heavily laden, half-starved little Appaloosas consistently out-maneuvered the Army's fresh, well-fed remounts.

The Army used every dirty trick in the book. They even violated flags of truce. They killed women, children, elderly, and the wounded. They went so far as to allow their scouts to scalp the dead. It is a horrendous story. It sickens you that it is a true story and that these were crimes perpetrated by Americans on American soil, not in a foreign, third world country by "uncivilized" people.

The Army wasted $931,329.02 chasing down a group of people that only wanted to leave the country. This entire ordeal was brought about by the government's desire to teach the Native Americans a lesson and to use the Nez Perce as examples. The cost in human lives was 127 soldiers killed and 147 wounded, 50 civilians killed, and 122 Nez Perce killed with 93 wounded. But these numbers reflect only the casualties of the actual "war." More than half of the "apprehended" Nez Perce died in military custody or under direct military supervision, long after the fighting ended.

If you never read any other book about Native Americans, read this one. It will illuminate why the Nez Perce are held in such high regard by other tribes and viewed as role models for all to follow. It also explains why the Appaloosa became the most desired horse in America. Of over 1100 horses taken, 870 were shot under the order of General Sherman (a man of some claim to fame as an arsonist in Atlanta, Georgia). Sherman desired to "make sure" that the Nez Perce could never repeat their performance during this horrendous flight for freedom.

I cannot recommend this book strongly enough. It should be required reading during high school. It is an outstanding book of literary and historical value. It is simply the best reading to be found anywhere! Get a copy today.

Reprinted from Gotta Write Network Online

This book is gut-wrenching and difficult to read at times. It is packed with so much emotion. The book also helped me in understanding more about the Indian Wars and how they were fought on the Western Frontier. Good Book!

This is the story of Herman and George Brown and the engineering and construction firm, Brown & Root, they founded. From humble origins in Central Texas building roads with a team of mules to much larger projects such as damns, military installations, ship building, offshore platforms and industrial plants. The book is not about the history of Brown and Root, but rather focuses on the lives of both brothers and their political and philanthropic activities. The book shows the relationship between the brothers and an up and coming Congressman from Texas in the 1930's, Lyndon Johnson. The book chronciles the parallel rise of both the Brown brothers' company and Lyndon Johnson in the national and international scene. The book shows the Brown brothers as movers and shakers in Houston politics and how they helped shape the growing city in the 1940's and 50's. A good book for anyone interested in construction as well as the history and poltics of Texas.

herman wrote a somewhat slender but information packed book. The reading style is easy and if you have an interest in this time period you will find it an enjoyable read. Herman like other conservative revisionist historians blames Roy Cohn and Dave Schine for McCarthy's downfall.That is somewhat like blaming Paula Jones for Clinton's impeachment.Herman makes a powerful case that Owen Lattimore was a Soviet agent . This is important because Herman himself points out that Lattimore coined the term McCarthyism so anything that impinges on Lattimore's credibility gores a long way in exonerating MCCarthy. Herman refuses to go to the next level in totally exonerating MCcarthy. This left the reader in wondering what Herman's point is. It could be that exonerating McCarthy is for the liberal establisment likesaying the earth is flat.Herman a University professor might note what happened to Ron Radosh after he wrote the Rosenberg File pulls his punches in exonerating MCCarthy. The book is an important counterwight to the more lurid anti MCCarthy mythology out there.I noticed one mispelling in the first name of one of the Rosenberg co conspirators but in spite of such mistakes I recommend liberals and conservatives to buy this book Liberals would be made to think about thier complicity in supporting Stalinism and conservatives will get powerful ammunition.

Most of us non specialists, I guess, have gleaned our knowledge of McCarthy from movies such as Citizen Cohn and from a succession of negative biographies. Although Herman is well aware of the senator's failings - naive trust in Roy Cohn and David Schine who brought him down, awesome tactlessness, alcoholism - the author has done an excellent job in giving us a more balanced portrait. The book is perhaps less a biography than an incisive analysis of McCarthy in the US political whirlwind of the 1940s and early 1950s. Chapter 17 on his legacy is quite brilliant. The senator emerges as a man who was rightly concerned with communist infiltration in government, but lacked the overall political skills to avoid being damned in the longer term. Herman's detailed grasp of recently released primary sources, on Alger Hiss for example, is convincingly used. And where there are still legal doubts - on the odd case of Annie Lee Moss for instance - Herman deftly shows us McCarthy was on the right track after all. This reviewer would have liked a spot more attention to players such as Judge Kaufman, Cardinal Spellman and even FBI director Hoover, but Herman has written a brilliant revisionist tract.

This is an extremely interesting and well-written book. The premise is that, despite his faults-and there were many, Senator Joseph McCarthy was correct in his underlying premise: that the Roosevelt and Truman Administrations were riddled with active Communist spies, knowing Communist sympathizers and Russian dupes. Making perhaps the single greatest marshaling of facts to date on this subject, Herman demonstrates that these spies and fellow travelers damaged the foreign policy interests of the United States in a variety of ways. Worse still, he demonstrates conclusively that high ranking members of the two administrations knew or should have known about the Soviet infiltration and did nothing about it. Herman, whose fact-dense writing clearly shows his background as a professional historian assembles proof from many sources, but relies heavily on the more recently declassified information and the materials released after the fall of the Soviet Union. Not a fact is stated that is not supported by an original source, all of which are documented in the book's extensive end notes. If you've ever been in an argument with anyone over whether or not Alger Hiss was a Communist spy, you need this book to settle it once and for all.

Rather than trying to rehabilitate McCarthy, Herman is at pains to demonstrate McCarthy's mendacity, sloppiness in making allegations and his many other flaws on nearly every page. Nonetheless, Herman points out that since the liberal establishment could not disprove McCarthy's allegations and , in fact, was mortally embarrassed by them, it diverted attention from the charges by attacking McCarthy himself. The effect of this was to obscure the underlying truth of what McCarthy was saying and of what had really occurred. This "crust" around the issue has lasted for nearly fifty years so that as soon as anyone starts to discuss Communists in the government during the 40's and 50's, liberals deride them using McCarthy's name.

I highly recommend this excellent book to anyone with an interest in the era or in the liberal-conservative dialogue in the U.S. since World War II.