I just love this book. A friend loand it to my and I just had to buy one for myself! This was the first equine book I ever got and I won't ever forget it. It has helped me emensely thourghout my riding career.

This book is an absolute nessecity for the child rider. It covers grooming, showing, tack, clothing and many safety matters. The equitation chapters are full of pictures demonstrating each and every movement, from the basics to the advanced. It's written in a clear, common sense manner that children find humorous and easy to understand. It's also great as a refresher course after a lesson (kids-and adults!- often find it hard to remember how to execute movements if they're exposed to them infrequently.) Parents and kids alike, this is a wonderful investment you will use for years to come!

Certainly, one of the better books in the Portable MBA series. Each chapter offer useful insights applicable to understanding the competitive environment and the factors that influence that environment. The book was easy to comprehend for the non-economist.

I thought this was a very good book. It was easy to read, relevant and included applications of economics, some of which have already helped me in the stock market. It included examples and numerical data/graphs, where necessary. Note that besides basic college and HS courses (years ago), I have no background in economics; someone with a more extensive background in economics may have thought differently of this book, as this is definitely an intro. to economics. My only complaint is the book could have been longer, as I've noticed most of the other books in the "Portable MBA" series are significantly longer.

I can now quite honestly say with conviction that others observe us in far different but still similar yet thought provoking, light-shedding manner. Wim Mertens, I believe, has done just that. Man oh man, I love nothing more than digging into a good chapter of this book. Always insightful, Mertens very colorfully relates the cause, themes, and application of "American 'minimalist' music" in a straight foward and entertaining way. A "way" that most American authors I believe have yet to go.

"Celebration" is the right word.
Wilkinson and Ingpen portray the world's ceremonies of development (from birth to death), surviving (hunting and harvesting, eating and drinking, healing), socializing (initiation, gift-giving, dispute-settlement), and aspects of spirituality in this clearly written, beautifully illustrated work.
The ceremonial dress from all areas of the world is particularly striking, and the reader begins to see the universality of human experience beneath the colorful variations of cultural expressions; "perfect symbols of the unity of the family of mankind".
With a Calendar of Customs, suggestions for further reading, and an excellent index, this well produced, generously sized work would make an excellent gift for children as well as adults. Highly recommended.

(The "score" rating is an ineradicable feature of the page. This reviewer does not "score" books.)

As an adult who wanted to learn how to play the recorder, I wasn't sure how (or where) begin. This book is set up from very easy tunes to increasingly difficult (although it never gets too hard.) If a tune involves a new technique (examples: new time signatures, sharps and flats, etc.) the author explains these new things simply and to the point. The best thing about this book is that there are a variety of songs, most of which are recognizable (some Xmas tunes, classical pieces, folk songs, etc.) I wish there were more exercises to increase your technique, but that's being picky. I would recommend this book to both children and adults.

I purchased this book in the badlands of Alberta, where Phil Currie works, and was immediately inspired by his arguments for the connections between several lineages of dinosaurs and the evolution of birds. Following the introductory text, in one spectacular portrait after another, is a wonderful exhibition of the great variety of mesozoic bird fossils, reconstructed by illustrator Jan Sovak. The book is a bargain for the color reproductions alone, with the cogent writing of Dr. Currie adding the flesh and bone commentary on the fossil record.

The first half of the book develops a picture of the characteristics of flying animals, and, in particular, flying reptiles (pterosaurs), taking their story into full profusion of types and habitats. Over a dozen species are put into the spotlight, accompanied by Sovak's dramatic and vivid full-page illustrations for each species. After a brief review of the branching of dinosaur families, using the up-to-date cladistic approach, the full panoply of fossil birds is set forth in the last half of the book. The familiar one is here, Archaeopteryx, but then so many more, toothed and toothless, winged and flightless. The examples of early diving birds, from 80 million years ago in Kansas, with teeth in their beaks, are a startling reminder of how old the cormorant really is. The story ends with examples of more recent fossil birds, moa or less, and their life styles, including a "living fossil", the hoatzin, whose young have claws on the leading edge of their wings, like the feathered Archaeopteryx of 100 million years before.

The connection between birds and specific dinosaur families is well-presented, but the level of controversy is played down. More recent debate, for example in Audubon magazine, March 1997, is better balanced but also shows even more solid bird/dino evidence. Currie's Flying Dinosaurs now looks like it was 10 years ahead of its time.

I have two heroes in paleontology: Jack Horner in Montana and Phil Currie, just north of the border, in Alberta. Both are active in the here and now, and both dwell in the Cretaceous. For the lives of dinosaurs and their geologic setting, read Horner's Digging Dinosaurs, and for a complete and concise setting for the origin of birds, read this book, The Flying Dinosaurs. And don't forget to admire the imaginative illustrations.

Potter's book will be best appreciated by those with a much better understanding of music theory than I. However, I learned something about the personal and musical history of so-called "minimalism." (Potter falls prey to some extent to the problem of reifying an abstraction -- having first grouped some things together into a category, then searching for the true meaning of the category.) Is there a torch passed, so to speak, from Young to Riley to Reich to Glass? Glass is the only one to adamantly deny it, but Potter documents the basis for seeing it just that way (including Reich's influence on Glass). One aspect I am keen to know more about, but which Potter doesn't stress overly much, is the striking confluence of non-Western influences. Young and Riley are both disciples of the North Indian master singer, Pandit Pran Nath, who passed on in 1996. Reich studied both African drumming as well as the gamelan music of Bali. Glass studied Indian music, after being immersed in serialism if I've got the order correct. With the European "classical" tradition at an impasse at the turn of the millennium, it seems only natural that the future would lie in creative fusions and combinations with other traditions. (Not a very original idea, I realize, as evidenced by the recent emphasis of the Kronos Quartet among others.) Minimalism seems by now to be another style that passed into history and critical assessments -- is there an opening there that is being missed?

I was completely blown away by this book! I thought I would find a "coffee table" book of photos, instead I found a work of literature and art.

This tells the history of the park and course. There arewhole chapters of incredible anecdotes,

The poem "The Day Buffalo Jack Played the Black" deserves to be posted in the golf hall of fame.

I can't wait to read this again and will definitely read anything he writes in the future!

TO HELP MARGARET HERBEST FRIEND GO BACK TO TOBAGO.

Although, this book was written for children 9-12 yrs. I found it to be a very interesting and informative book for any age. This was my first book to read to get general background information on my Italian ancestors. I would recommend it to anyone wanting a general overview of the Italian history timeline.