This is the do-it-yourself book that got me started on that sweet rite of spring -- making my own maple syrup. The author's emphasis is on how to do it efficiently and very cheaply, using easy-to-find materials you can scrounge yourself. If you have the trees to tap, by all means get this book! (Hint: they don't have to be the sugar maple species. Try other maples as well. I get great syrup from box elders, which I considered "trash trees" until I learned they are in the maple family. Now I treasure them like gold.)

My own sugaring set-up is total simplicity: just some old refrigerator grates set on top of cinder blocks, heated with odd scraps of wood that others have thrown away at construction sites, etc. The sap is boiled down in flat baking pans, then finished off on the stove inside. Except for the initial expense to buy some professional spiles for tapping (you can make those, too, but I'm a failure as a tinsmith), I have spent ABSOLUTELY NOTHING for the 3-4 gallons of syrup we make each year. Not a bad return for a book that I cost me less than ten bucks!

This book has an overarching philosophy - keep it simple and keep it cheap! The authors describe everything you need to know and stress not having to pay for anything you can get for free. This quest for free stuff that works well is one of the pleasures of hobby sugaring. Well written descriptions of all the processes. Lots of photos. Reading it makes you wish the sap would start flowing NOW! Highly recommended

I had the great privilage of winning a copy in a silent auction. I can honestly say I am in awe. Both author and illustrator were blessed with great gifts that they improved by intense study and practice.

I read the book in other language, i.e. Korean, and with other
illustration. However, this is a really beautiful story whatever language it is written in. There is an wolf who has been captured by men and put into a zoo. When he was caught, his one eye was injured, but he didn't mind because he decided that one eye is sufficient to see the sad, miserable world of men-to his eye, men are as sad and miserable as the captured animals in the zoo. There is a boy from Africa who stands in front of the wolf and look at him directly in his one remaining eye. He himself has been through a lat of sad incidents all over the Africa - in yellow, grey, and green ones. What do they see each other's eyes ? How does the wolf change his mind and accept there are something even in this miserable world worth watching with two eyes ? It's a so beautiful and poignant story (and I don't want to spoil your chance to find it^^), worth reading over and over again.

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 gently draws us into the life of Thea Woolf and into the world of this Jewish nurse who lived and worked in Alexandria, Egypt during World War II. She was born in Germany and trained to be a nurse there. She then served as a nurse in the Jewish hospital in Alexandria for many years. Being in Egypt before and during the war years not only saved her life but also thrust her into a leading role of helping Jewish refugees who came to or through Egypt in their attempt to escape the holocaust.

She relates several stories of people who took part in this fight to save so many lives. These stories are both tragic and uplifting. We discover that Muslims as well as Jews worked together for this cause, that for these caring people human life was more important to them than any religious differences.

THIS BOOK IS THE BE ALL/END ALL FOR THOSE INTERESTED IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF THE BIKE CLUB. THIS BOOK LAYS OUT, IN GREAT DETAIL, WHAT BECOMMING A MEMBER OF AN OUTLAW CLUB ENTAILS. GOING THROUGH EACH STEP OF THE PROCESS, WOLF IS ACCUTELY AWARE OF HIS SUBJECTS' MOTIVATION, NEEDS, DEDICATION, LOYALTIES, AND LOVE OF BROTHER AND BIKE. THIS BOOK BRINGS YOU INTO THAT PROCESS. READ THIS BOOK AND DECIDE IF YOU CAN HANDLE IT. READ THIS BOOK AND GAIN INSIGHTFUL INFORMATION ABOUT THESE MEN WHO CHOSE TO LIVE ON THE FRINGE OF SOCIETY YET MUST LEARN TO INTERACT WITH IT IN ORDER TO MAINTAIN THEIR WAY OF LIFE. I HAVE READ THIS BOOK TWICE, HIGHLIGHTED THROUGHOUT ITS CONTENTS, AND LOOK FORWARD TO MY NEXT READING. ABSOLUTLEY INVALUABLE! AN IMPORTANT BOOK.

This book on cache coherence and shared memory multi-processor systems should be on every OS developer's desk; in fact, it should be well worn and marked up with lots of highlighting, underlining, and phrases of "Oh so THAT's how it works!" written in the margins.

The authors do a wonderful job describing the principles of cache coherence and the difference between message passing (or distributed) systems and shared memory systems. The rest of the book, of course, is spent on the latter, and the authors delve into such topics as: memory latency (and how to reduce/hide latency), NUMA and COMA architectures (and different interconnect networks), memory prefetch, memory bandwidth, various cache consistency models, and a lot of examples of various applications and the cache invalidation patterns those applications exhibit. And that's all just in the first 3 chapters of the book!

The book describes the architectures of several of the scalable shared memory systems that existed in the mid-90's, and then it goes on to describe a system called DASH that was implemented by the authors and folks at Stanford. At first I thought I was going to be put off by the focus on DASH, but it actually had the opposite effect. The chapters on DASH did a great job of going through all the details and clearly showing me how all this works "in practice."

I'm a software guy, and this book was recommended to me by a hardware guy, and I think it's a must for anyone doing software development for large complex multi-processor systems.

The writing is very clear and straight-forward, though it's not something I can read while the television is on (in other words, I've got to concentrate while reading this book).

Not only would this book be useful as a college CS Architecture textbook, but it's proving to be highly useful in the workplace!

Mandy Hope loves animals and she knows a lot about them, too, since her parents are vets. She is sad when, Prince, a pony she knows is sold and even more sad when she finds out his new owner is Susan Collins, the most stuck snob in the whole school! Susan is entering Prince in a contest and Mandy realizes that Prince is ill and not fit to take part in the contest. Can she and James save Prince's life?

I find this to be a really great book. Mandy and James have to try and save Susan Collins' horse, before she enters him in the jumping competition and causes him to become sick.

I didn't finish this book but its really good. It is about a pony named prince. He has to get sold and Mandy is sad.She meats this new girl in school.Her name is susan collins and she got a new pony. she is really snobby and Mandy doesn't like her.Susan's dad invited Mandy and James for dinner. When Mandy excepts Mandy wants to see who susan's Pony is, and it turns out to be prince!

a cute tale of a wolf pack as they play and come to observe humans on christmas

Daniel tells a simple story; Jills illustrates it with silly wolf antics, straight from real life. This family of wolves I love. The night was fine, and they went out to spy on the humans. The end was . . . perfect. Read it and see.

This book is poorly written and slow going, but offers just enough interesting information to keep you reading. Apparently this guy spent a number of years hanging out with and gaining the trust of this local biker gang and then, with their permission, used them as the subject of his anthropology thesis. The book seems to be a quick re-formatted/re-write of his thesis and as such often contains boring socialogical analysis and an overall plodding style. In many chapters he makes a single point and then bangs it into the ground for 10 or 12 pages as if he was getting extra credit for the number of pages instead of the quality of the content. Additionally, he repeats himself several times, with the same quotes and anecdotes popping up over and over in the book.

In spite of the tedious and shoddy writing style though, the book does offer enough genuine first-hand observations about biker club life to reward your patience, but they are few and far between.

Additionally, for those interested in learning about organized crime aspects of biker gangs this book contains no information on that aspect, since the club the author was riding with apparently did not engage in these types of activities.

If you are interested to find out what the day-to-day lifestyle of your average outlaw biker is like, then this book provides some honest, unsensationalized info.

Canadaian anthropology student and motorcyclist Daniel R. Wolf fascinated with the biker lifestyle chose the Rebels MC of Edmonton as his subject in his incredibly thorough study of the outlaw motorcycle club subculture. After attempting to prospect ('strike', in Canada) undercover with the Rebels MC to write this book, he re-thought his plan and came clean with his intentions to the club members after feeling the love and respect of his brothers one can only acquire in a tight-knit motorcycle club. Much to his surprise, they allowed themselves to become the subject of his antropological study, and revealed never before known facts about this incredibly secretive society known as 'one-percenters'. With most the emphasis on the positive aspect of belonging to a motorcycle club, you feel tremendous admiration for the members, and wish ALL bikers could give the respect and honor to each other as the outlaw clubs do amongst their members. Unfortunately, this is the real world in which that could never be. This is the very reason clubs are formed, and membership requirements are so stringent. An extremely well written documentary of the inner workings of a typical motorcycle club, this is a must read for anyone who has ever fantasized about or had the notion of joining one. Fabulous quotes and references which are useful to bikers and citizens alike. Well documented observations of actual events, all categorized and properly footnoted with extensive biliography.

Daniel Wolf's look at the dynamics of an outlaw biker group is bar none the most comprehensive and well-written analysis I have found to date. He is refreshingly objective even though he shares many of the same characteristics and drives of his brother bikers. I am a Harley rider and a biker at heart, though not a one-percenter in reality; Mr. Wolf's book has provided me with as close and detailed an experience of riding with the one-percenter crowd as I'll probably ever get.

Note, some of the concepts and conclusions presented by Mr. Wolf may seem too abstract or unimportant to a reader not intersted in the study of human behavior. One can tell that he wrote the main chapters of this book as his dissertation and that his intended audience were fellow scholars.

Overall, this is a fantastic book, even if one skips some of the more technical portions.

Five stars and a strong recommendation!!