Tom Daniels provides this concise yet detailed description of several land use based agriculture preservation tools including, TDR's, PDR's, conservation easements, ag zoning, urban growth boundaries, and local right-to-farm laws. There are model documents provided in the appendices which give a detailed view of specific preservation measures.

As a county planner, I found this book provided me with a basis of knowledge to promote responsible land use decisions in my county. This book should be national standard reading for land use professionals.

This Holocaust survivor account is unlike any other in that it chronicles the fate of the Greek Jews in detail. Daniel's narrative is orderly and factual, bringing forth important items of history I have not seen in other studies. The description of the deadly cattle car ride to Auschwitz is broken out in great detail, to the degree that Daniel and the author place the reader in the midst of the un-imaginable dehumanizing experiences told there. The day-to-day tasks of the Sonderkommando are told in a slightly different light than one would read in Filip Mueller's "Eyewitness-Auschwitz", yet they are instructional from Daniel's point of view. His life was saved in some of the deadliest circumstances in what I believe was Divine intervention. One part of the book I especially enjoyed from a historical aspect was the fate of the ss officer Otto Moll, who I read of in other Holocaust literature (several survivors write extensively on this person-no morbid fascination with him, however). There is one account in the book that is a black cloud over an otherwise fine work, and that is the treatment the Greek Sephardic Jews were given by the European Ashkenazic Jews---the Greek Jewish people were looked down upon and reviled as "whores" and "cholera" by their fellow inmates. I highly recommend this work to any serious student of history, and I wish that I could meet Daniel Bennahmias someday. God bless you, sir!

A great book for a lay person to read who is trying to get a handle on how sermons work. Actually a book for the about-to-be-preacher, Karl Barth provides parameters to the form, function and contents of sermons from the perspective of his own theology. For Barth, the best sermon is part of the liturgy - not an aside - serving sacramentally to join the congregation in communion with God's word. If you are tring to determine what distinguishes a good speaker from a good preacher, Barth may provide some guidleines you find useful.

Images of America: Hopedale is another winner in this delightful series. It depicts Hopedale from its utopian inception through the Draper heydays. Rich in black and white photographs of excellent quality, this work gives the reader a glimpse into the history of this small experimental commune turned company town. The book is well organized with the beginning chapters devoted to history and subsequent chapters dealing with other aspects of the town including architecture, employment and more. While not a comprehensive history of Hopedale, this volume will give the reader an excellent overview of life in Hopedale through the years. A must read for anyone interested in developing a feel for small town America.

I am proud to review Daniel Cohen's 'Horror In the Movies'.
This unique book, found in the children's section at libraries all around the world, portrays the horror genre in films with a different darkness. Some of the movies featured in this exciting book are
The Excorcist, The Omen, and Carrie. It also contains some classics like The Cabinet of Dr. Calagari, and several other silent films.

Daniel Cohen has a way of detailing the fine art of horror in the movies with his upfront approach to writing. You won't see any pictures of corny monsters like in other books. This head on approach to confronting the horror in film, which everyone has enjoyed at one time, opens a new door to the reality of how horror classics like Rosemary's Baby and Dawn of the Dead have spawned other cult classics dealing with the paranormal world of ghosts, demons, and witchcraft.

I highly recommend Horror in the Movies to anyone with an interest in the Macob!

As a horse crazy youngster, summer riding camp was one of my favourite things. A whole glorious week, away from the city. Nothing but trees, as far as the eye can see.

But what to do in the middle of a snowy Canadian winter, when camp seemed a million miles away? Well, I did the next best thing to camp, I pulled out my book about camp!

Virginia Vail's "Horseback Summer" was one of my favourites. I only owned the first and the fourth of the Horse Crazy series, to this day, I don't know how the story ends.

I made good use of that book though, I read it over, and over and over...I could probably quote the whole thing right now! It's a wonderful story, about Emily Jordan's summer at Webster's Country Horse Camp.

Emily was supposed to be going with her best friend, Judy, but Judy fell out of a tree while trying to rescue her cat and broke her leg. Emily felt lost with out Judy, they had been friends since they were three and had done everything together, even get chicken pox's!!

Emily feels better after arriving at camp, and talking to Marie, one of the owners of the camp. Marie tells her about the first time she went to camp without her twin sister. It doesn't take Emily long to adjust to camp, who couldn't with all those beautiful horses around?

But camp isn't all fun, Caroline Lescaux is used to getting all she wants, And what she wants is Emily's horse!! Emily is not a fighter, but she will do anything to keep Joker!

Find out what happens to Emily In this exciting book, Horseback Summer by Virginia Vail. It will bring those wonderful memories of summer camp rushing back to you.

This must be the best book on the Civil War written by a woman! The layout is incredible. Every one should read this book

The prime suspect was a sleepwalker. For the second time in her life Clancy Jones had awakened at a murder scene-this time with the murder weapon in her hand. Without recall, she insisted she was innocent, framed and the real killer after her. To the untrained eye, she looked mighty guilty. But to private investigator Jake Hawkins, she still looked pretty darn good.

Desire for Clancy had always burned inside Jake; so had anger. Ten years ago Clancy sleepwalked onto another crime scene and her testimony had put Jake's father behind bars. Now Jake didn't know if he wanted to prove his seductive client's innocence-or guilt.

I have rated this book as a five star special only because I guess it was written for a very specific reader.

First, the book is divided into three main sections, by month, from October to December, and based on the title, it's Paris 1941, during the German occupation.

The main characters, Simone and Nicole, two young Parisienne women who are being kept by men for their own distinct resons and wants. Nicole is single and is having an affair with Bernard Duchene, the husband of Simone, while Simone is having affairs with a never ending litany of German soldiers....neither of the women know each other. The oddest thing is that these two women are doing the 'horizontal two step' only because they really really like it, not because of any greater good for the resistance or money or fear or basically anything except that they really really like it!

Why is this book odd, well, first I'd be highly surprised to learn that the author is anything but a true blue German. The book is written with meticulous, and I mean meticulous care in describing exactly what we see, where we are, what the characters are wearing, and abnormal descriptive detail to the exact loaction of hands and body parts. For every scene and even the auther takes a page or two to describe exactly what we see...

Simone has a thing, and I mean a big thing, for German uniforms and leather boots, and I thnk that if you were wearing one of these uniforms she'd be open to do anything, particularily if you keep the uniform on. Simone also has numerous mastubatory experiences on a soldiers boot, dreaming of Hitler ... and so on

That brings us to the second main thing in that the book contains a full and detailed description of at least 10 pages of all the German military uniforms.... ranks and insignias. To make matters even better, Simones' husband, Bernard, has a factory that, can ya believe it, wants to manufacture German uniforms, and, since Bernard is sleeping with Nicole, heck he doesn't even know his wife has a thing for the uniforms .... WOW

What concerns me the most is that I actually finished this book, HMMMMM, but, all that notwitshtanding this book are not what I would generally read but it is so specifically wierd (in my mind that is) that it deserves five stars for those of you that may be into it ....

This book is one of many in the "I Love Math" series. Unlike a typical math textbook, these books take math into the realm of everyday life with a variety of activities, situations,stories, and puzzles. Your kids will be doing math and loving it without even realizing it. Speaking as an elementary teacher and a parent, I think these books are a great addition to the home library.