I found the breif account of Hank's life to be one of the most accurate in modern times of overhype sensationalism. It shows and tells about the real down on earth Hank who was all too familar with pain and sorrow as well as love and joy. Like many other Greats, Hanks' life was not a very easy one. It shows Hank as just a regular guy who enjoyed doing his Thing... MUSIC!!!

If you've always wanted to know what it was like back in the day's when steam engines ruled the rails, this is thee book for you.

Goerge Williams takes you on a lovingly painted pictorial of his Father Buddy Williams, a C&NW engineer. Follow his career from it's humble start as a fireman to humiliating the deisel at the end of his career and the steam locomotive itself.

You will find yourself rereading parts of it again and again.

If you have need to know about the management of your pond or lake, this book is a must have. It will more than pay back its cost.

Middleton has spoiled us with quality books, and "Manhattan Gateway" is no exception.

This book contains a well-balanced selection of how and why this beautiful structure came to life, as well as the incredible engineering that made Penn Station possible.

I am not a New Yorker or an American at all.. I live in Rome, Italy and the similarities with the baths of Diocletian and Caracalla is daunting.

Middleton focuses on technical as well as architectural details and I strongly recommend this book to whoever is interested in either subject.

Also noteworthy are the captions of how the Hell's Gate Bridge was constructed and how the "new" Pennsylvania Station will look like, returning this New York terminal to some of the architectural magnificence intended by the great architects Mc Kim, Meade and White (designers of the original station).

If you like New York, especially for what was lost menially in this great city.. you will love this book.

This is a great book once you get used to Mark Twain's diolect. From the very beging to when they fill the prize frog with Buck Shot so he couldn't jump as high. Anouther A+ short story by Mark Twain

Emmett William's Mr Fluxus is a collective portrait of the founder of the Fluxus group. Maciunas was a typographer, visual designer, teacher and organizer. He was a constant source of ideas, and worked tirelessly to produce them. At various times now famous artists such as Beuyes, Ono and Paik joined a loose band of others. They participated in FluxFests, produced FluxGames and objects and sold them in FluxShops. His FluxHouses were among the seeds of today's SOHO. Among the ironies of his life , is that many of his ideas have led to financial success for others, while he lived a spartan life and suffered financial disasters. The book is a collective of anonymous quotes as Fluxus was a collective. The quotes are attributed at the end, but the form si sometimes confusing. Williams and Ay-O have produced a valuable document for scholars and art lovers. They had the advantage of being insiders with access to many who might not choose to cooperate, and to know many others who might be too obscure. They also spoke to artists while they were still alive about Fluxus. Al Hansen, Dick Higgins, Peter Moore and Dieter Roth are no longer available to us. The book presents George Maciunas in all of his complexity. Fluxus has had a role in the genesis of Performance art and Conceptual art. This book will help us remember him in his context.

Multicultural Mathematics is a fantastic book. Here is a way to expand any classroom's or individual child's learning. I recommend this book to any parent or educator.

Young Indiana Jones is on a two-year lecture tour with his mother and father and they stop in Oxford to pick up his privit toture Miss Semore and they head to Egypt, the first country of the lecture tour. while there indy meets T.E. Larence or ned and uncovers a mummy and solvs a murder.

Donald Ault is an inspiring and unique mind. No boundaries, for they are always re-examined, as he does here with a response and re-thinking of his own arguments towards William Blake and his responses to the Newtonian Universe. Donald Ault is a mind stretched as it should be--lobes in literature, lobes in Disney, lobes in Coca-Cola. His books do not yet show his utter vastness, but I hope one day his thoughts on Donald Duck will come to the bibliography.

William Justice, a Protestant minister with a curiosity about the paranormal, searched for spiritual truth within and beyond traditional beliefs. His memoir of his explorations, Outposts of the Spirit, has now been posthumously published by Hampton Roads. In the Editor's Introduction, they explain that they published a book written nearly twenty years ago because the need to look at the paranormal in a way "that accomodates prior beliefs, doubts, and natural skepticism" still exists and that "William Justice provides this masterfully, in a manner both cordial and fair, clear and incisive."

Justice himself was not a psychic and had only three brief experiences that could be described as paranormal. He did, however, have an open mind, and he had the ability to convince others to discuss their experiences. He met and talked with Edgar Cayce, and other noteworthy spiritualists of his day. He was also a researcher who studied the writings of men like Socrates, Abraham Lincoln, and Charles Lindbergh. He says that "instances of spirit guides such as those who directed Lindbergh and Socrates are more numerous than many might imagine. In fact, many of the world's great owe their places in history to the influence of spirit agency."

He also investigated the ouija board, astral projection and the nature of life after death.

After a challenge by a friend, Justice began studying the Bible, looking for instances of paranormal experiences within it. He cites the particular example of Jesus talking with Moses and Elijah as described in Luke 9:28-36 as communication with the spirit world by a living being. He came to regard the Bible as "probably the most psychically oriented book in the world," adding that "the early church was built on the fact of spirit phenomena; without it, Christianity would never have come into being."

In his forward, George Ritchie writes that "Justice has shown that the Holy Spirit of God that lives in Jesus is still in contact with us every day in ways that go beyond our five physical senses." Readers who heretofore haven't been able to reconcile their religious beliefs with the metaphysical will find the answers they seek in Outposts of the Spirit.