Thsi book contains a reprint of several works by William Bourne, which are astronmical almanacs and tide tables from Elizabethan England, just as the science of Navigation was being differentiated from Astrology, and demonstates interesting relationships to both. It is all the more interesting in that Bourne intended this book as an instruction for all seamen in proactical navigational techniques, which up to that point was the rather closely guarded province of ships pilots. Bourne is also at a crossroads in the English language, at a time of great transition, and the authors language model and writing style noticeably evolves to a more modern syntax and standardized spelling over just a decade. This is very fascinating to follow. I find this book eminently worth the money, and encourage the reader to seek out more Hakluyt Society reprints, as well, as I have never been disappointed by a single one.

Sedra is one of the lowest ranking members, and is attacked by her pack. She escapes and learns to live a new life of her own. Being the lowest member has made her strong and she is able to start a new pack of her own. Sedra and her new mate, Jasper, soon take on the job of parenting and learn to become alpha wolves themselves. It's a great book that shows a wolf's life isn't easy. I only wish it were a little longer.

I got this book for fiction read aloud for my seven year oldson. I'm glad that I read it my self first. This book has several cuss words in it and the kids in the book do not behave very well at all.

Belinda and Joe, two feuding classmates, become unlikely allies when they are named caretakers of a sheep. Not just any sheep, but a hulking, obstinate sheep named Agnes. It all begins when they are assigned to visit a local "pioneer." Bored at first with the assignment, they soon find that the life of Mrs. Carpenter was anything but ordinary. In the often-humorous episodes that follow, everyone learns a little about life.

This 1991 Esther Glen Award winner alternates between pleasant and disturbing events to keep the reader guessing. Just when the book is almost finished, the author adds some surprises to the ending. The fate of Agnes might be unsettling to people (especially children) who love animals, but the book overall is enjoyable.

Agnes the sheep is a very good book. I am very glad I read it to myself rather than reading it to a parent. The reason is that it has lots of cuss words, and I mean lots! I would recommend you read the book. It's a very good book. Agnes the Sheep is about an old lady named Mrs. Carpenter. Anyways, these kids get assigned an old person to take care of for a week. About a day after they were assigned to Mrs. Carpenter, she died. But before she died she said for the kids to take care of her pet sheep Agnes. Agnes is very vicious and stubborn. When some of Mrs. Carpenter's relatives show up and try to take Agnes away, but you know Agnes, she didn't let them! So when the relatives finally gave up the two kids gave Agnes to one of their best-grown up friends and then she gained full custody of Agnes the Sheep!

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I love my computer! My eight to twelve hour working day is spent in front of it. Much of my home time is too. But when I read a book I don"t want it to be about computers. Thats why "The Web Page Design Cookbook" really filled the bill for me.

My web page has been under construction for more months than I care to mention. Too busy to learn html, too mind boggled to read a technical book, my page was a constant reminder of my procrastination. This book and the CD that comes with it provided the incentive. Want music, animation, video on your web page - its all here. With easy to use templates and examples its a cinch. This one is a winner!

Started off OK but soon deteriorated into the realms of utter absurdity. The presence of William Desmond Taylor would have been much more effective if it had merely been implied . When the present day cop started to argue with Taylor's ghost - particularly so early in the book it all became a bit silly and I quickly lost interest. Would have been much better to have simply "Dropped Hints" to suggest the great man's presence and then brought him into the foreground action much further into the book. An interesting idea ruined by shortening the suspense.

This well-researched murder mystery reminds me of Jack Finney's wonderful pair of time travel fantasy-mysteries, From Time to Time, and Time and Again. Peeples' book does not have the romantic charm of Finney's books---the protagonist here is more into the physical aspect of love---but the time travel theme is similar. While Finney used an elaborate deliberate scheme to effect time travel, Peeples chooses to make the ultimate trip an accident.
In The Man Who Died Twice, a 1970's Los Angeles Police detective travels back to 1922 Los Angeles, and inhabits the body of William Desmond Taylor, a Hollywood producer who was murdered in real-life Hollywood in February 1922. The LA detective, Ernie Carter, has the advantage of knowing lots of details about the case, from having read the police files, and just living in the Hollywood/LA area all his life. Carter, with Taylor's personality serving as a kind of alter ego, tries to prevent Taylor (and himself!) from being murdered.
Along the way, Taylor/Carter encounters many legendary Hollywood figures, including D.W. Griffith, William Randolph Hearst, John Barrymore, Mabel Normand, and Rudolf Valentino. It is sobering to read about the sad and/or untimely end of many of these stars, and to contemplate how little Hollywood has changed since, to wit Judy Garland, Marilyn Monroe, John Belushi, Tony Perkins, and many many others.
Peeples brings Hollywood in 1922 to vibrant life, transporting the reader to the silent era with great skill. He seemingly mentions all of the possible murderers, and keeps the reader guessing as to which one he will use as the actual shooter. In real life, the case was never solved, but Peeples' murderer is convincing.
An old science fiction story once had a time traveller in the age of dinosaurs walking along a special path, from which he could not stray. He could not pick flowers, kill any of the animals, or leave any evidence of his visit. If he did, all of the ensuing history of the world would change, subtly in the time of dinosaurs, massively in his own 20th century. I am reminded of that story when I read a book like this. I will leave it to you, if you read this book, to discover if Peeples adheres to the tenets of the SF story.

There are two phases to preparing for an exam: learning the basic material first and getting an overall picture of the subject, then intense review. I would recommend this book only for the first phase. I would use Exam Cram or something else for the intense review phase. This book appears to have been written as a textbook and looks like it would actually make a pretty good textbook. It has case studies which might be good for thinking through how NT actually would be integrated into an enterprise, and I saw only a few errors. I did not read all the case studies though. I felt one study did not teach good practices; the "right" answer called for creating a peer network of 40 workstations, which is twice the maximum size I've seen recommended anywhere else.

It's a good book. Only thing I don't like about this book is it doesn't have answers for review questions. This book will be good for somebody tracking an MCSE course and tired of Sybex's.

This book on Shakespeare is the obvious result of a lot research from an author who knows his subject as well as anyone. Yet it is a disappointing book as Taylor is simply at war with himself. After a lifetime studying Shakespeare, he attempts to remove from the center of the Canon- with a capital C. He fails. It is a closely argued book, but quite often during the course of it you felt that you were hearing only one side of the debate.

He quotes every whine or weaze at Shakespeare that he can find. For example, he quotes Tolstoy and his famous dislike of the bard. Not mentioning that he hated Lear because he could see direct parallels in his own life. He quotes Shaw, but does not mention that he hated Shakespeare, partly, because he was considered to be the better playwright. Something Shaw could not abide.

Taylor in his desperation to attack Shakespeare uses any weapon at his disposal, including a motley collection of post modern whines and textual gripes.

No one is allowed to be great anymore and while modern English Literature criticism is hell bent on destroying the pleasure of reading and watching Shakespeare, people will continue to do so as academics like Taylor become more and more remote from what they are writing about. Read this and then Bloom for some sensible writing about Shakespeare.

Taylor is at war with himself, and it is a mess of a book.

Taylor's survey of Shakespearean adaptations and performance is engagingly written, filled with little revealing details, and opinionated without being biased. It's certainly NOT a Bard-bashing book, though it's not reverent in its discussions of Shakespeare. It's the place to start if you're interested in a one-volume history of Shakespearean adaptation. The last section of the book, on contemporary Shakespeare and written in an arch tone, isn't as interesting, at least to a non-academic. And one might argue that the book is rather Euro-centric: see Dennis Kennedy's Foreign Shakespeare as a good supplement. Even so, it's an essential book for any person interested in Shakespeare and cultural change. You'll think differently about Shakespeare after reading it.

Seeking enlightenment? Seek somewhere else? This "update" to the classic is a classic waste of time. Unlike the original, you will give it to your library to write it off on your taxes.

This book is a collection of a series of lectures Charles Taylor gave reflecting on the legacy of William James. In thinking about James' work, Taylor reflects on the tensions between private religous experience and public religious expression; the problem of belief and unbelief; and the implications our religious beliefs have for our political organization. It is almost impossible to do justice to the richness of Taylor's thought in a short review.

Taylor's first task is to situate James within his own religious context. James inherited the strand of religious belief that was quintessentially Protestant -- with an emphasis on private feeling as against public expression. For James, the ultimate religious experience is private and fundamentally individual. This precludes James from fully grasping the types of religious expression that are more communally-based.

Taylor's second task is to reflect on James personal struggle with the question of belief and unbelief. In James' day a strong argument was being made that religious belief is intellectually dishonest. Taylor offers a good summary of James' defense of belief as a viable choice.

Finally, Taylor integrates James' thought with the question of how our religious belief interacts with our political structures. Taylor offers an invaluable historical narrative of the variety of relationships between religion and state that we have seen in the past. In doing so, he makes our current dilemmas much clearer. We are moving from a country that has a broad consensus in some sort of belief, but which allows individuals to join whatever church best gives expression to that experience, to a country in which there is no such broad consensus. If there is no shared understanding of the sacred, we are forced to ground our political structures in the purely human. It is not yet clear whether the new project will succeed, but in his reflections on the tensions between belief and unbelief and their relationship to our political organization, Taylor can only enhance our discussions as we move forward into this virgin territory.

Taylor's book does presume that the reader has a fairly sophisticated historical sense. And he often makes reference to the situation in France, which can be a bit opaque to those who lack a basic familiarity with French culture. Indeed, he often quotes from French writers without offering a translation. Still, the book offers valuable insights, even to those without the background to fully grasp everything he writes.

This is a fascinating examination of the behaviour of the author's own and very special pack, which is mainly comprised of huskies, the domesticated dog closest to the root ancestors of all our canine pals - the wolf. But the owner of a Dachshund or even a Labrador (now America's number one pick) will find less of relevance to understanding their companion. We follow Thomas as she ingeniously follows her huskies on hundred mile jaunts in and around the "wilds" of Cambridge. Massachusetts. We listen with great interest but a sense, mainly, of the strange, not the familiar, as her huskies are allowed to recapitulate the lifeways of their feral relatives right in the suburban back yards and city streets. As other reviewers have commented, one is constantly distracted by the thought of how irresponsible the "experiment" is of giving such latitude to any pet, let alone a breed so notoriously unpredictable and aggressive. Do we really want quasi-wolves roaming at will? In the end, despite the high quality of the writing, I personally gathered very much less than I'd expected (from the title and liner notes) towards any new insights about my "Fido".

This book is interesting as one person's take on the behavior of her dogs; but certainly not a scientific study! What dog owner or pet owner isn't full of anecdotes regarding what their pet has done, or the many ways that our pets show us that they are thinking and feeling creatures? Plus, her background in studying wolves helped me to think more about the roots of the behavior of the dogs in my life. However, I disagree with her practice of letting the dogs roam free. Also, not spaying/neutering was just irresponsible, especially since she describes several unwanted pregnancies/litters; and there are literally millions of unwanted animals in this country alone. Regarding not using a leash, my own dog was roaming free in the park last year, suddenly got spooked, and ran onto a busy street and was hit by a car. The author was lucky that this did not happen to one of her dogs that she allowed to roam free. So, I tended to disagree with her practices, which I felt did not show enough concern for her animals; but her insights were interesting to consider.

I thought this book was a very enjoyable book to read. Thomas is a fascinating individual who does an excellent job of seeing right through dogs and making great observations. I especially loved following the lives of the dogs and the dog pack as a whole from when they are born to their emotional deaths. Those who commented that this book is lacking statistical information and scientific observations are really missing the point. If you want a boring book on dog pyschology get something else. But if you want an intriuging and fun book that really makes you think, get this. You'll love it.