I never thought I would find a source for detailed IL stats from the teens and twenties--not even the IL itself was able to help me. But here they all are! The stats are laid out similarly to the Neft/Cohen/Neft "Sports Encyclopedia: Baseball" book, in an easy-to-read, team-by-team fashion. If you are interested in baseball history, and need old IL stats, this is the ticket!

The Language Of The Civil War compiled by journalist John D. Wright is an impressive reference (accessibly organized in the style of a dictionary) of slang, nicknames, military jargon, idioms, colloquialisms, and other words that originated in or were commonly used during era the American Civil War. Meticulous in its comprehensive attention to detail, The Language Of The Civil War is an essential addition to Civil War reference collections, and sheds considerable linguistic comprehension and background on the language and terminology endemic to virtually all primary sources and first-person accounts of America's bloodiest war. In addition to being invaluable for academia in general and Civil War buffs in particular, The Language Of The Civil War is also an ideal resource for writers of historical fiction set in the Civil War era and seeking authenticity and realism in their work.

This book was one of my favorites as a child! The story is captivating, the characters are loveable, and the photography is exquisite! I felt that I could jump right into each page and play with Edith and Little Bear--in fact, I wished I could have. I have searched for a recent edition of this book, as well as other books in the Lonely Doll series, since before my first daughter was born 13 years ago. My own edition has been a treasure to me, and I only wish I could have found a copy that my daughters could call their own. This book is timeless--I feel any young girl would find it as enchanting today as I did as a child.

As a 20-year old young lady, born and raised in Sikeston, Missouri (the subject of the book), I am thankful that someone has finally seen fit to make sure Mr. Wright's life wasn't in vain. This book is a scholarly, yet stomach-turning account of vigilante "justice", sociological cause and effect, and old-fashioned racism. Properly put into historical context, the tragedy is made painfully clear. May we continue to learn from our mistakes.

When I first read this book, I was not familiar with Wright's work. The eroticism of her works are sandwiched and juxtaposted by a syntax that pushes language and body out into an open space. The "Girlfriend" poems are particular telling of this mixing and distorting of syntax of English and the syntaxx of the body. Admittedly, this book is not for everyone; but poetry never is. If you enjoy sensual poets like Diane Di Prima or intensely intellectual poets like John Ashberry, Bin Ranke, and Wallace Stevens; Wright's words will surely speak to you. Their is a diversity of culture and of technique, but a unity of vision that any poet can benefit from. I can only wish more poets were like her.

It is funny, easy to read, makes you feel smart and not dumb, and teaches all the basics and more. I really want to find this book. I keep borrowing it from the school library. I hated stats, but I love reading and doing the easy excercises in this book. I highly reccommend it to all who also hate statistics or are afraid of them. It uses true to life college scenarios and situations to which all students can relate. Hilarious!

As a child I found these books mysterious and enjoyable. Now I love to share them with my children. I was so excited when another book in the series was re-printed last year "Edith and Mr. Bear". I am informed that another will be re-printed in the fall of 2001, "a Gift From the Lonely Doll," it's a nice Christmas story. I hope to see them all back in print.

My father died 1 month after my 6th birthday. He used to pick me up from nursery school on his lunch break the year before, and take me to the public library. I still remember those happy moments! While searching through the library shelves recently I happened upon "The Lonely Doll". In an instant I remembered my father and those wonderful trips to the library! I had loved the book but had completely forgotten about it . Seeing the book brought back such a rush of happiness and joy. It was like finding a piece of my "daddy" in that discovery. This is a touching story of loneliness and friendship. the pictures are still so engaging, even for a 40 year old like me! I'm placing my order right now and giving this special book to my daughter for her 5th birthday.

I first discovered this book when I was six and attending a saturday story time at our school library. So enchanted was I by Edith and the bears that I never noticed the lights going out in the library or the click of the lock as I was being locked in. I was found a short time later and left happily with this delightful book. Edith is such a lovely doll and the bears so cute that even a preschooler will enjoy the photographic illustrations. The story is well written and the mischievous Edith is sure to make you smile. This is a true favorite from my childhood and now a favorite of my own kids.

While this book helped me self-diagnose my earliest menopausal symptoms, I think the authors deserve a real thumbs up for the information on how to find the best doctor - and how to talk to this doctor once you find him or her. Talking to my gyno about the change proved VERY frustrating - but this book made me feel like I wasn't alone and gave tips on how to get referred to a specialist in hormonal issues. What a difference! Thanks Drs Teaff and Wiley!

This book has helped me a lot - especially the part on how to tell the difference between PMS and perimenopause. The chapter on how to find the right doctor was also right on the money. I am in my mid-forties and trying to conceive. Dr. Teaff and Wiley have more information on middle age fertility and how to keep it going than any of the other dozens of books I've read on the topic.

This book is lying on my bedside table. I found the authors addressed the symptoms of perimenopause in an easy-to-read, and easy-to-relate to manner. They presented information about hormone therapy but didn't insist that it was the only way to go. I never got the sense they were trying to sell their readers on a particular treatment or point of view, just to rather lay out all the options.

I remember slogging through The Canterbury Tales in Middle English when I was in high school and although the language is beautiful, having to take time to decipher it all did diminish somewhat the enjoyment of a terrific collection of stories. Since most of us are more comfortable with modern English, a good translation makes all the difference, and Nevill Coghill's excellent translation does full version to Chaucer's book. Reading this version takes the work out of it and makes "The Canterbury Tales" a pure pleasure. Chaucer writes about everyman and his stories represent one of the motliest crews in English literature: the Wife of Bath who has put away five husbands and is looking for a sixth; the pardoner, the reeve, the clerk, the knight, and a host of others from all walks of life. There is something in here for everyone; my three favorite stories are the Pardoner's Tale; the Miller's Tale (reading this in Coghill's translation, I could see why it has been excised from the bowdlerized versions used in high school English classes; it's rude, crude and downright lewd, but it's so hysterical they had to sew my sides up again when I finally stopped laughing), and the Franklin's tale of the knight, the squire and the magician who outdo each other in chivalry. Antisemitism was commonplace in medieval Europe and Chaucer is no more free of it than anyone else of his time; but to say that The Canterbury Tales is not worth reading because Chaucer was true to his time is overstatement. One must accept that Chaucer was as human and imperfect as most of his peers; without compromising the fact that Chaucer was a literary genius who had a profound effect on English language and English literature.

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer is one of the first great works of literature in the English language and are good reading for a number of reasons. They are written in "old English", however, and read like a foreign language for most of us. Barbara Cohen's adapted translation gives us four of the tales in contemporary English and therefore provides an excellent introduction to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Cohen's tales retain Chaucer's colorful insight into fourteenth century England including life as a knight, the horror of the plague, and the religous hypocrisy of the age. The illustrations by Trina Schart Hyman are vivid and tell a story all by themselves. I use Cohen's book as a supplement to teaching medieval history and literature to 7th and 8th graders.

The biggest hurdle in reading Chaucer is the language. Trying to read his work in Middle English is impossible without really good footnotes, and some of the "translations" are even worse--they're written in a high-blown, pompous style that takes all the fun out of the stories.

All this being so, I was delighted to find the Puffin Classics version retold by Geraldine McCaughrean! The tales are told in an easy-to-read, flowing style that captures the bawdy humor of the originals, without being over-crass (this is a children's book, after all.) I found myself often laughing out loud, and wishing I'd found this version much sooner, because it makes Chaucer fun to read! I highly recommend it for anyone who wants to try Chaucer but feels intimidated by the scholarly-looking versions available in the "Literature and Classics" sections. You won't become expert in reading Middle English, but you WILL see why The Canterbury Tales has such a wonderful reputation!

With the 100th anniversary of the invention of the airplane coming up one can expect a surge of interest in the Wrights. Crouch's book was one of two biographies that came out at about the same time several years ago. Crouch did an admirable job in delving into the very tight-knit Wright family, and how its complex relationships molded the inventors. But the superior biography, the best one yet in my opinion, is "Wilbur and Orville" by Fred Howard. It is more technically informed and better written. However, for those with a real bug for the Wrights, by all means read both.

Many years ago, while in my early teens, I stood in the Smithsonian (this was before the Natl. Air and Space Museum was built) and gazed in awe at the first airplane, suspended in its place of honor. THE FIRST AIRPLANE! How remarkable that such a fabulous historical artifact has been preserved.

Despite the somewhat odd focusing on Wilbur's and Orville's father, this book gives a good account of the lives of two brothers who epitomized what we Americans have always liked to believe about ourselves: that we are imaginative, clever, industrious, persistent, tenacious, equal to any challenge. Certainly that description can't fit all of us; but certainly it did fit these two national heroes.

Hi. I've read this book from cover - to - cover so many times that it's actually falling apart. This book is fabulous and I would reccomend it to anyone iterested in flight!