Dr. McShea's book is an excellent review of the field and is a very good resource for students and graduate level literature discussion classes. I highly recommend it for anyone working in population biology or conservation ecology.

At last I found a replacement for "pie" (Snow White's Apple Pie: A Little Look-Look Book) That is what my 2 year old daughter Alexis Nicole calls her favorite book that doesn't have big purple dinosaur running around. Alexis never gets tired of pointing at the big colorful block style artwork or the animated faces on the dwarves and Snow White and trying to read along.

When the book started to fall apart, from being thrust into our hands over and over by Alexis, my wife remarked we had better find a replacement fast!

Then a funny thing began happening; she started counting along with the book as it manages to repeat the numbers over and over. Alexis doesn't mind, in fact she is having fun learning. The story line also manages to work in some lessons on teamwork, not giving up, and humor. Can Alexis wait until my package arrives with "pie?" What can we distract her with? "Barney's Book of Hugs" seems to always make her giggle and also gets her wanting to have long big hugs. Maybe I'll be selfish and have Snow White shipped by barge via the Panama Canal, but then if she ever fails a math test I'll feel guilty... Learning should always be this much fun!

Now - this kind of manuals are few and far between, so get one before they run out.

I learned 2 "new" moves thanks to this book, and I think, that this is one of the better whitewater kayaking manuals around.
I would recommend it for anyone, who's serious about his/hers stuff, be it squirt- or playboating.

The lingo can be difficult at first, if you are not one of the baptised, but facts are hard nevertheless.
Instruction as a whole makes sense, but sometimes one needs the detailed illustrations, some of which will knot your brains while you try to figure what's going on.
Some of the moves can be hard to understand at first,especially if you're new in the sport, but it's worth it.

This is an excellent book for beginning to intermediate squirt boaters or intermediate playboaters as many of the same techniques and principles apply to both. Learn about flow dynamics and how they relate to play/squirt moves. If you can find one of these in print, Buy It!

Suite 3505 was the two-room office in New York City that spawned a revolution in American politics. Out of that office, Cliff White and a single assistant coordinated the volunteer effort that won Barry Goldwater the 1964 Republican nomination for President. It's astonishing enough that a group of volunteers accomplished this feat; it's miraculous when you realize they did it in the face of the self-financed campaign of Nelson Rockefeller, the ridicule of the national press, the obstruction and goofs of Goldwater's "professional" staff, and the initial obstinate refusals by Goldwater to run.

In this book, Cliff White meticulously records the entire process -- beginning with Nixon's loss in 1960, and culminating with the GOP National Convention at the Cow Palace in San Francisco. White paints a fascinating picture of how he and an initial group of 33 activists changed America. Goldwater's victory was the beginnings of electoral successes of the modern conservative movement, first Nixon, and then Reagan. White's efforts paved the way for these future victories; the activists who were introduced into politics by the Draft Goldwater movement were the leaders of the 1976 and 1980 Reagan campaigns. The donor mailing list was the seed corn that raised hundreds of millions of dollars for Reagan, for other conservative candidates, and for conservative organizations like the Heritage Foundation.And most importantly, Barry Goldwater himself galvanized an entire generation of conservatives, giving a voice to their beliefs and giving them a reason to get involved.

If you have any interest in political history or the history of the conservative movement, you ought to read this book.

Outstanding! If you really want to know how the thing works, read this. It is not a coffee book table. More detail in the action and wood types wood have been nice, but I learned alot from this book.

The value of a one-stop Greek and Hebrew research tool is enormous. W. E. Vine and company have made an easy-to-use publication that will track many of the more asked-about words and phrases as read from the King James Version of the Bible. It is not exhaustive, but the material it contains for the words it does cover more than makes up for the price. It will perhaps surprise many students to discover that the way they traditionally view the word's meaning may be incorrect. Vine wanted to trace the word's original meaning and then examine how people changed it through time (such as the word "stauros" meaning "stake," not "cross," "Hallelujah" actually having the meaning of "Praise ye Jah," etc.). Since it is keyed into the Strong's Numbering System for tracking original word usage in the Bible's ancient manuscripts, it makes this fun and easy to use for the occasional student while powerful enough for the advanced user. This work definitely deserves a place on any Bible Student's shelves

This lovely book, published at the time of the 200th anniversary of the occupation of the White House, consists of a compilation of essays written by a panel of distinguished writer-historians. It contains over 100 illustrations, including the earliest photos, taken in the 1840s.

The introduction, entitled "Like No Other House" says it all!The White House is unique: a "private" family home, the hub of our government, a tourist attraction, and a place of ceremony. It has been the scene of some of history's most important events and some of history's most important figures have stayed under its roof.

The White House has survived: from the burning by the British only 14 years after John and Abigail Adams moved in through many periods of neglect and mismanagement.

The book focuses more on personalities than on politics, especially the First ladies, who are given great credit by many of the essayists.

Beginning with John and Abigail Adams' short residency, the first essay follows Abigail on her long journey from Massachusetts to the "marshlands of the Potomac", where she found a barely furnished house with no wood to heat it, an unfinished staircase, and plaster walls that were still damp.

Dolley Madison managed to combine simplicity with high style with the help of architect Benjamin Latrobe. The Madison's tenure was cut short when the British burned the Executive Mansion, as it was called, in 1814.

The house was rebuilt as a national symbol, but by the time the Lincolns moved in over 100 years later, it was a shabby place. The once-elegant public rooms had threadbare rugs, dirty upholstery, faded draperies, and few amenities. Mary Lincoln immediately took upon herself the transformation of the President's house, traveling to New York and Philadelphia during wartime to look for rugs, wallpaper, china, and crystal and having much of the furniture restored. Despite her efforts, during public events, people actually cut off pieces of the wallpaper, rugs, and curtains for souvenirs.

Theodore Roosevelt "remade the presidency and reinvented the White House and his models for both have lasted a century" according to the essayist who wrote the section about him. He changed the name from the Executive Mansion to the White House and added the West Wing for executive offices. Unfortunately, the renovation was finished too fast and was mainly cosmetic. Only 50 years later, a massive structural rebuilding had to be undertaken.

I learned much more about those who have occupied the White House, but will control myself and not go into any more of that here! Believe me, this is a book that you will learn from, even if you think you know American history fairly well.

I loved it for many reasons. One is that the author is a cousin of mine whom i am very proud to say that he is family. He is a good person and a great writer. I recommend to all to check out Mr. Appels' other works.Easy to find thru amazon Love ya Billy. Keep it up.

If you are planning to kayak (or even raft) any of the Southeastern Rivers, you will want to have this hilarious handwritten Nealy guide. (For those not familiar with Nealy, this book is not meant to be a technical river guide). Although some of the rapids he highlights have been significantly altered by mother nature over the last 20 years, the reader still gets a humorous look at the "hydro-namics" of the various rapids on the rivers he describes. In addition to his commentary on the rapids of each river, Nealy also includes his trademark comical sketches which have helped make his books so popular.

Like his other classic kayaking books, this is a comic book river guide for the Southeast Rivers. (Rivers included are the Cheat, Chatahoochee, Chatooga, French Broad, Gauley, Haw, Hiawasee, Locust Fork, Nantahala, New River Gorge, Nolichucky, Savage and Youghiogheny.) Paddlers will appreciate the descriptions of the rivers, some b/w photos and the comical sketches of the major rapids of each river. In addition he also includes a funny glossary section of river and paddling terminology with his highly opinionated sociocultural paddling commentary offered throughout.

As paddlesports are becoming increasingly popular and thus "more commercially marketable" in the US, Nealy's books and commentary are becoming even more funny, more meaningful and somewhat prophetic.