Wise and Chisholm's book is a must-have for the scores of Canadians who make the pilgrimage down to Florida each year. For all those tired of fast food mega-chains whose inexorable advertising campaigns litter the sides of US interstate highways, this book is for you. Driving to Florida does not mean 2 days of indigestion anymore. There is good cuisine for everybody if you just know where to look.

Although this book offers a complete breakdown of the description of the palms in only a way that a scientist or botanist could enjoy, the pictures and the notes are outstanding. The only thing missing is the low temps that the palms will endure. But that is something we'll have to aquire and grow on our own to find out that answer. I borrowed this book but it is now on my short list for Christmas.

This book is the cutest, funniest humor book I've ever seen. I love all the funny one-liners and plays on words.
I just happened upon it years ago in the bookstore, and after laughing in the aisle for a while, bought two copies and gave one to a friend.
I would highly recommend it and wish I could find the sequel!

I would like to know where the book tells about Chubby's other family living in Georgia and Florida. He had a wife before Rossy and she was no stupid farmgirl. He also had a daughter that loved her father more than anything. Where in the book does it talk about them. It does not say a single word because of one women could not stand to have anything to do with his other family. If women would leave married men alone (this goes both ways), maybe the right family would be in the book. The picture of Chubby's step-grandson is a slap in the face to my husband. He is the bloodline of Chubby Wise. I feel my husband's family deserves a right to tell the unknown years of what really happened and how Rossy became Mrs. Wise. I enjoy knowing Chubby was my husband's grandfather, but on the other hand, I get really upset when I hear how much pain and greif was caused by this piece of history.

I am proud to know that Ervin has finally been recognized for his raw genious in playing the fiddle, composing music, performing for us when I was growing up, and telling about many of the episodes written about in the Orange Blossom Boys. Rany Noles did his research and answered questions which needed to be made known about the life of Ervin, Gordon, his siblings and the joy they brought to many as they sang and made music with the best of Artist, including Johnny Cash. I learned more than we ever knew, as I sat, spellbound, reading the book. Now, I can say I have read the book through and through several times. It is wonderful. I was born April 28,1929 and was privileged to record the Rouse's music when they visited my home. It is my hope that a Documentary will be forthcoming. Ervin ranks right up there with Bill Monroe, The Carter Family, Flatt and Scruggs,Doc Watson, Roy Acuff, etc. He is an Icon in Blue Grass, and respected by the best of them in the business. The Orange Blossom Special is likened to The Star Spangled Banner by me and my relatives. Audrey W. Hartsoe, 24 Scott Place, Clinton, N.
C.28328 PS I did speak with Randy Noles upon receipt of the book; it is wonderful!

What a wonderful job Mr. Noles does in telling the story and interweaving the lives of these two unfortunate souls against a backdrop of old Florida. He is able to convert his massive research into such an interesting read; I had difficulty putting it down!

Branch Rickey brought Jackie Robinson into the major league, breaking the color barrier. And that wasn't the only barrier he broke during his 60 years in baseball. A terrible player and unsuccessful major league manager, he excelled in spotting talent and teaching players how to play and live. He single-handedly invented the modern farm system for developing talent. A notorious cheapskate, he inspired tremendous loyalty. This book contains his own words, extracted from over a hundred boxes of his writings that are archived at the Library of Congress. I'm giving it as an end of the season present to my assistant coaches on my little league team.

This book proves why one's words are a window into one's soul. None of the several works I've read about Rickey show his personality so clearly as this, or make him appear as interesting. To read this is to know Rickey the humorist, Rickey the parsimonious paternalist, Rickey the wise man, Rickey the businessman and Rickey the talent. The quotes by him and about him show why Rickey would have been an immense success in whatever field he chose. Thank God it was baseball.

Follow our holier-than-thou hiker hero through the trail as he looks down his nose at Christians, carnivores, tourists, hunters, Southerners, European settlers (typical PC liberal dogma) and, interestingly, fellow thru-hikers. But particularly disdainful to this ego-maniac are the lazy "weekend warriors." Hint - that's you and me - the 4 MILLION plus users that ruin it for the hundreds of thru-studs. Day hikers are good for two things: 1. bumming food and rides from and 2. asking stupid questions. And of course, our hero has to be the fastest thing on the trail! We're constantly bombarded with how strong he feels as he pours on the mileage and blows past fellow hikers (incredibly, only one other character reaches Katahdin before him, and that is of course because he is laid up in the hospital for a week.) The arbitrary lines he draws that prove that he does the trail correctly, while others do it wrong are incredible. It's OK for him to cut a corner in a town, but not for a fellow hiker to take a "blue blaze" shortcut around a peak, even if the view is better! Heck, Mr. Illig, you're all walking from Georgia to Maine -- get over it! I did have some favorite parts, though. The book opens with a self effacing hiker who hikes in sneakers and carries ridiculous provisions (canned tomatoes, snowshoes,an abdominizer, etc.) He humbly pokes fun at himself, and if he could have carried this character through the adventure, the book would have been a fine read. Unfortunately, the Mr. Hyde ego-man emerges too soon. One curious section is on pg. 155, where the author mentions his future in-laws, and makes them sound like complete morons. The reader (who's fed up by now) can only smile at the real life fun around the next family Thanksgiving tofu-turkey. But my favorite part is on pg 129, where he leaves a small Pennsylvania town and "Some kids in a car drove by and yelled 'Asshole!' " My only thought was "how did they know?"

Neither a technical how to, nor a deep, introspective philosophical exercise, as are most books of this genre, Trail Ways Path Wise is a refreshing, "Hey, come along and try this with me" story. If you want to know what it's REALLY like to through-hike the A.T., this is THE book you must read. It's too bad the trail isn't another thousand miles longer so that our walk, and the book, might be longer too. Thanks for letting me walk along with you John.

This book made both my wife and myself laugh out loud. Illig and his book are very down to earth. The profusion of typos is distracting, but if you can ignore that, this is a sometimes hilarious, definite pageturner of a trail book that will entertain and make you want to get out and hike. But did Illig marry his girlfriend? This book could use an Afterword. Highly recommended.

If you like self-help books, this one will appeal to you. It has all the usual checklists, self-assessments, and affirmations. The book is useful in picking apart what's at work in a one-on-one situation of "road rage." However, I disagree with Larsen's notion that otherwise well-adjusted people just turn into monsters when they are behind the wheel. The author needs to write another book in which he probes more deeply into the life situations of road-ragers. He has also proposed, in this book, a "report card" system for drivers, that has postively Orwellian overtones. On balance, the book is well written, with lots of real life examples to keep it readable. One of these examples contains a glaring omission on the author's part; see if you can find it.

This book appears to be a revision of "Steering Clear of Highway Madness..." I sense Dr. Larson's desire to put in new information that he did not include before, and perhaps there are few things in life that are more enjoyable than getting a second chance at writing a first edition. This book should be a secondary curriculum to any type of driving instruction, the first, of course, being your local driver's manual or your assigned driver's training material.

"Road Rage..." deals with the psychological treatment of losing self-control behind the wheel. It is probably the best book on the subject so far. I cannot give five stars, only because there are some important parts missing about physiological factors to aggressive driving, factors which have a direct link to the psyche, as well as spiritual consequences. But do not consider these complaints. This book really is indispensable if you, yourself, are having trouble dealing with other drivers, no matter what they do. Dr. Larson points out throughout the text that the burden is sometimes unfairly placed on you to deal with the mistakes of others.

The book is well-organized into specific chapters that deal with different driving personalities, such as The Aggressor, The Passive-Aggressor, and the Vigilante (like the earlier version). The book will help you to understand that if you have a temperament problem behind the wheel, you are lacking an understanding about human behavior (especially the fighting instinct) that can help you to avoid stressful driving encounters. Dr. Larson wrote about exactly what he felt. When in doubt, slow down, and re-evaluate. Don't taunt other drivers. Don't go after other drivers. Realize if you can that other drivers are people, not invisible objects inside the shell of the car.

If you don't have this book, then buy it soon. Surely all motorists today stand to benefit from knowing more about why some people behave the way they do when they are encased in a potentially dangerous, rolling "shell." Highly recommended for both new and seasoned drivers.

I sure hope so, this book was great and helpful. As a third year law student writing a paper examining road rage this was a great first step towards understanding road rage...this book led to other sources as well, but all in all a great starting place to create a good foundation for a paper.
I also learned a few things while reading the book!
Thanks!!
The only problem that I see is that people who are "road ragers" will not have the sense to sit down and read this book.

This recording cannot compare with Musical Heritage Society's Treasury of 19th Century English Poets (MHC 312505Z). The readings (with some exceptions - "Jabberwocky" is delightful and "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" is well done - are dull and unengaging. The music is intrusive and unevenly recorded. Not at all the quality I would have expected from BBC, which has released really wonderful renditions of Shakespeare.

Some of the best actors in England reading some of the best poetry in the English language -- any poetry lover cannot go wrong with this version. I especially rejoiced to finally hear the delightful "To His Coy Mistress" read in the spirit in which is was intended (every other reader seems intent on declaiming as if it were "Hamlet" -- yuck). But the other poems are equally wonderful. ("Jabberwocky" is also not to be missed.)

This collection is by far the best available! Emma Fielding is exquisite! "Lady of Shallot", and "Marina" are especially well done! I enjoyed listening to it so much, and would highly recommend it to the poetry lovers.

If you are looking for a title to quickly review your basic and clinical concepts in endocrinology and better focus your studies, then you will be glad to put your hands on this book. It even recommends you some review articles on each subject at the end of the chapters.

This book deftly examines several strands of dense cultural, philosophical, social, and technology studies theory--articulating useful connections and providing concise synopses of bodies of work that would take months to read. For that reason alone this book will be cited often in years to come. But the book does so much more that is interesting. Building on Kant and Hegel, Wise develops a definition of modernist epistemology and shows how our understanding of and relationships with technology are freighted with this epistemology. Drawing on Donna Harraway's cyborg writings, he pushes towards an amodern epistemology which attributes agency to both humans and other cultural/technological actors, blurring the lines, as Harraway would have it, between organism and technology. His work also strongly depends on the work of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari to articulate a two-pronged agency: corpreal agency which is manifested in technology, and incorporeal agency which is manifested in language. This amodern description of agency both in terms of technology and language is an important move that should be of great interest to scholars of the rhetoric of science, cultural studies, and philosophy of science. He recasts a dozen or so theories in ways that will have the reader scribbling ideas in the margins.