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This book gives very concise and complete directions to the locations of the places listed. Not only was I able to find every location that I wanted to see and with little or no problem, but also there were good places to eat and other things to do along the way.The accuracy in the distances from the starting points to the destinations is so good that with care there is almost no chance of getting lost. Obviously the authors took great care to be accurate in their discriptions and directions and have written a book that is a real joy to use. I look forward to using other guides by the same authors as I know the will be correct in their information.

This is the best series of travel books about New England that I have found. It is easy to read with information I haven't found in other travel books. The New Hampshire book didn't disappoint. It is up to the standard I expect from this series.

This book gives very concise and complete directions to the locations of the places listed. Not only was I able to find every location that I wanted to see and with little or no problem, but also there were good places to eat and other things to do alone the way.The accuracy in the distances from the starting points to the destinations is so good that with care there is almost no chance of getting lost. Obviously the authors took great care to be accurate in their discriptions and directions and have written a book that is a real joy to use. I look forward to using other guides by the same authors as I know the will be correct in their information.

Spent a week in the White Mtns and used the book extensively. Most interesting was "discovering" the old Mineral Springs resort in Conway. Book was well written, concise maps and directions were very clear. This book, combined with a good road map and a general guidebook make touring NH very enjoyable.

No one doubts that the supply chain world is in the midst of its largest transformation ever. Around the globe, companies' leadership are realizing that their approach to the "buy-side" of their businesses is a critical element of their competitiveness. This relevant dialogue helps sourcing professionals not only participate in this change, but to lead their company's efforts toward lower costs and higher profits. From how engineering and suppliers collaborate on new product ideas and designs, to how IT systems work to support spend management analysis, to how product management, finance, manufacturing, and sales all collaborate to coordinate demand and supply plans, this plain-spoken, fact-laden narrative illustrates to company leaders the power and value that others are enjoying from a keen focus on supply management. I found this to be a book for "now", with ideas, strategies and techniques assembled in a clear way and in touch with how world-class sourcing efforts take place. This is a definite read for any business leader who wants to make an impact in their supply chain and wants to know how others in the real world are getting the job done!

On-demand Supply Management is a well conceived and written book that details the software technology necessary for todays procurement demands and illustrates them with interesting case studies.

The book also makes an extremely strong case for Procurement profesionals be slotted at a high level in the corporate structure.

Make space in your credenza for this important book.

This book is a very practical set of guideposts for meshing technology with Supply Management. If only we had this book when implementing our complex supply management processes we could have gone much faster with far fewer serious missteps. Not only does it hit the strategic choices that must be made ahead of time, but it also deals with implementation and provides alerts for common mistakes. The verbal examples are excellent and underscore the groundings in real life experiences of companies struggling with key issues.

Just finished "Straight to the Botton Line" and "On Demand Supply Management". Wonderful books! "Straight to the Botton Line" helped to crystallize my thinking on Supply Management. "On Demand Supply Management" was a great update and overview of the technology that is radically changing our work. Both provided a good framework for thinking on the topics and excellent insights. Congratulations to the authors on a job very well done!

Dr. Chinen has written several books that address tales relating to different stages of life. This particular book addresses midlife. As described in the two former reviews, it's simply a delight to read, highly informative and valuable psychologically and otherwise. I've also read "Beyond the Hero" which addresses an earlier period in life, and I recently bought (from Amazon.Com) "In the Ever After" which addresses a later period of life. So far, it's a wonderful trilogy. But, maybe there will be more of them...one can hope!

I wasted time attempting to find the book at a retailer and the local library (so I eventually bought it used through Amazon.com). What a read! The author, a pschyiatrist schooled in Jungian theory, shares (and analyzes) numerous "Middle Tales" (as opposed to fairy or elder tales). Middle tales desribe life beyond the "...and they lived happily ever after" of fairy tales. The "ah-ha" quoitient, especially for those of us who are living the "middle years", is close to 100! Dr. Chinen's insights bring one closer to the belief that there is a collective unconscious. (Or Not!) Definitely worth the search.

When I turned 40 and started experiencing depression, feelings of loss and confusion, I read every book I could get my hands on regarding the midlife crisis. "Once Upon a Midlife" was absolutely the only book that put midlife into perspective and gave me insight into this developmental stage in the context of an entire life - throughout time and many cultures. I have given this book to every one of my friends turning 40. Not only is it reassuring, wise and insightful, it is also a heck of lot more fun to read than a psychology self-help book!

Chinen brings insight into the middle years of life with his delightful look at fairy tales from around the world that focus on the middle years. The simple tales are rich with psychological meaning and demonstrate the psychological tasks that must be achieved in the middle years to provide a sense of well being and balance. Move over Snow White and youthful princes--there is life after the hero!

This book is a wonderful example of SF at its best. It is a fascinating story in its own right with a very interesting and well-conceived protagonist but it also gives insight into an important philosophical question: just what does it mean to be "human"?
Previous reviewer Rob Sawyer (one of the favorite SF writers and one of the VERY few I buy in hardback!) has commented on this being a book with interesting psychological interactions (a quality I find very well represented in his own books). The most prominent of these is the protagonist's struggle as an African-American with the lack of acceptance of the Neandertals in Africa. However, men to whom I have recommended this book have resonated especially to the protagonist's relationship with her husband, which is tested in an extraordinary way in the course of this book.
This is a book I have recommended highly to non-science-fiction readers with excellent response. For SF fans, this is a great way to convince your friends that SF is more than space ships and invading aliens!

Like Harry Turtledove's "A different Flesh" this superb book by Roger MacBride Allen takes as its starting point the survival of an early race of hominids and the enormous moral problems which might arise if humanity discovered a race of creatures which are human enough that we have to accept them as people but primitive enough that we cannot pretend even as a legal fiction that they are our equals.

The story starts when a paleontologist, who is an American of colour, is staying with her family, who have done well enough that they now own the plantation where their ancestors were once slaves. She finds some records indicating that the original owner had imported as slave labour a group of creatures who her ancestor described as apes. Intrigued she organises an archaological dig to try to find out what kind of ape could have been used in this way. She was not expecting what she finds ...

An example of one of the thought provoking ideas in the book - a journalist asks a distinguished scientist what question he would ask an Australopithicus, and he replies that he would ask "What is a person?" Later in the story he actually does get to meet a hominid closely related to Australopithecus, and on a whim he does ask her this question.

On the last page of the book we get her answer and, although of limited use as a wider definition, it would be completely convincing. If you want to know what it is, you'll have to read the book.

The year this book came out, my friends passed it around until the copies we had were tattered. We all thought Allen deserved to win the Campbell award for best new writer. I still have a "circulation" copy for others to read because it's so good.

The basic story line takes you from Africa to the Smithsonian Institue in Washington, DC, then to a startling discovery in the Southern States (remains of prehistoric man are found that only date back to the 1800's). The main character is a black woman, who's point of view is so convincing, I initially thought Allen was a pseudonym for a woman. She's not only dealing with an anthropological mystery, but also with everyday life and marital problems.

The anthropology and basic science presented in the story helps move the plot along, rather than interfering. In fact, by the end of the book, I found myself believing the events depicted really could happen!

I finished reading this book a few days ago, and find myself constantly bringing it up in conversation with my wife and other people. It's extremely good: paleoanthropologically accurate, but also dead-on in its human psychology. More: it's one of those books that happens to be packaged as science fiction that could be read, and thoroughly enjoyed, by any thoughtful reader. Indeed, I used to say that no SF book would ever have a chance of being an Oprah's Book Club pick, but this one just might. Its soaring humanity, fascinating look at the concept of slavery (through the distorting lens of a group of African-American slaves having actually burried australopithecines who had been forced to work alongside them in the fields), and finely detailed (and completely believable) African-American female protagonist would make it a natural choice for Oprah. But it also should satisfy anyone who IS a science-fiction reader. It certainly satisfied this lifelong fan. I've written my own paleoanthropologically themed SF (HOMINIDS, from Tor Books), and deliberately waited until I'd finished before I started Allen's book, so as not to be influenced by it. Now that I have read it, it impressed the heck out of me. Five stars.

I HAVE NOT READ THIS BOOK YET BUT I AM SURE I WILL SOON. I HAVE ORDERED THIS BOOK AND AS SOON AS THE WHOLE FAMILY FINISHES IT I WILL GET MY CHANCE, TOO! THE AUTHOR, MY UNCLE, IS GOING TO BE ONE OF A FEW SUCCESFUL WRITERS IN OUR FAMILY. OUR FAMILY WAS VERY PLEASED TO SEE THIS BOOK ON LINE AND I WOULD SUGGEST FOR EVERYONE TO READ THIS AND RECCOMEND IT TO OTHER PEOPLE IF YOU ENJOYED IT,WHICH I AM SURE YOU WILL. I CAN'T WAIT TO READ IT EVEN IF AGE 11 IS TO YOUNG FOR THIS MATERIAL!

This book came highly recommended, and is well worth the read! It it a real page-turner, and kept me up until 3am the night I started to read it at 10pm. I thought I would read for an hour or so, but couldn't put it down! A suspenseful thriller that will keep the pages turning effortlessly!

This book is a real page turner; I started it one morning and finished it that night! At one point I had to put it down and walk away from it because I couldn't stand the suspense another minute! It grabs your attention from the very first page. The character development is great, the plot is original and the writing is excellent. A great read from beginning to end. If you are a fan of Cornwall, Higgins-Clark, etc. you'll love this one!

A friend of mine who knows the author recommended this book--she knows I'm a big fan of thrillers. I took it on the plane with me during my last business trip and once I started it I couldn't put it down. I stayed up until two o'clock in the morning reading it in my hotel room--two or three scenes had me checking the locks on my door. It's not the usual characters, but it is nice to see a woman as the main character and some plot twists and turns I never expected. I'd recommend this for anyone looking for some good writing, original characters, and a plot with a surprise along the way. And once you finish it you'll appreciate the title.

I got this book and read all of it today, and found it to be a fine and enjoyable to read introduction to Piracy, focusing on European and Colonial American piracy between 1660 and 1730. The author does point out in his introduction that pirates always have, and always will exist, simply in different forms with different tactics. The author also discusses the fine line between legal or semi-legal privateers, and then the truly criminal pirates, as well the as the roles of women and black sailors. The book discusses the following topics:
The Pirate Crew (composition, motivation and dress)
Pirate Warfare (tactics)
Pirate Dens
Pirate Plunder
Pirate Captains and Characters (brief descriptions of 9 piratical careers)
Pirate ships (inlcuding sloops, schooners, brigantines, and square-riggers)
Pirate Codes
Pirate Flags
Pirate Justice
Biblography, plate commentary, and index
The book also has 12 pages of full-color paintings by the incomparable Angus McBride, depicting the pirates themselves along with their weapons, victims, flags, and executioners.

This is an Osprey book, so you need to think in terms of an adult version of the Eyewitness picture books. You shouldn't expect an exhaustively comprehensive treatment of the subject, after all they tend to be only 1/4 inch thick.

So, with expectations aligned, this is a fairly well done treatment of the subject of pirates from the Golden Age of Piracy. There are quite a few pictures to compliment the text and the topics covered include their origins, dress, tactics, flags, ports and ships. Konstam gives us some brief biographies of a few of the famous names like Teach, Bonny, Reade, Rackam, Vane, Every, Bonnet, Kidd and the Dread Pirate Roberts.

An excellent overview suitable for adolescents and adults, for more detail on William Kidd I suggest Richard Zacks' The Pirate Hunter, for more of an overview of piracy through the ages I suggest Konstam's The History of Pirates.

This is a great book to anyone interested on this period and in piracy.Angus Konstam's text is both concise and accurate,while Angus McBride's illustrations are certainly some of the best I have ever seen.The book is mostly about British pirates which should be expected,since Osprey is from Great Britain,and British sailors were always inclined towards piratical activities.The sections on pirate warfare and pirate codes are particularly nice,and you get biographies on such pirates as Blackbeard and Captain Kidd as well.The only thing I miss is a color cut-away illustration of a pirate ship.Even though,I must say It's an A+ job from front to back cover.

Angus Konstam creates a vivid picture of the true history, but the illustrations of Angus McBride steal the show. While the book is full of historic sketches, paintings, and cuttings it is the color plates which capture the look and feel of the "Golden Age of Pirates". The book itself does a marvelous job of debunking some of the "Hollywood Myths" about pirates, but is not quite as thorough as it could be. Konstam's "The History of Pirates" is much more comprehensive as it covers all genres and era of piracy. Overall a terrific buy for anyone interested in the real stories of pirates. The plates are very useful for costume and prop design as well.

What is there not to love about chocolate, except when they are filled with a dab of nitrobenzene. This classic mystery from 1929 makes nearly every major list of the best of the best.
Roger Sheringham and his friends at the Detection Club are presented a stump-er by Scotland Yard. Each member presents their solution based on their insight into the murder, the characters, and the evidence. You will be turning the pages all night wondering who has their facts straight. This one contains all the elements that cozy mystery lovers enjoy in a read that is well paced and full of surprises.
I discovered my copy on the bottom of a "to read" pile, had forgotten buying it, but it goes near the top of my list of all-time favorites.
Writing as a Small BusinessSins of the Fathers: A Brewster County NovelQualifying Laps: A Brewster County NovelUnder the Liberty Oak

I read this book after seeing it mentioned over and over again on best-mysteries-of-all-time lists.

Berkeley's novel is built around a fictitious, famed detection club (no doubt based on a real club that had authors such as Christie, Sayers and Dickson Carr as members). The members of this illustrious club set out to solve a mystery revolving around a poisoned box of chocolates. Every sleuth turns in a seemingly plausible solution, each topping the previous person's explanation. Until the end, that is, when a less-than-likely member offers the most surprising (and probably correct) interpretation of the facts.

Not only is this a real puzzle of a book, but it gently and self-consciously tweaks the fair-play traditions and cliches of the ultra-British "Golden Age."

It's very clever, very funny, and reads like a shot. What else do you want from a mystery?

This is a very clever little mystery. It is easy to understand why Anthony Berkeley is considered to be the grandfather of the Golden Era of detective fiction. The book was written in 1929, but in spite of that date the mystery itself is not at all dated. The book is based on the premise of six amateur detectives given an unsolvable case by Scotland Yard. Each member of the Crime Club has to come up with a theory and point out the murderer. Each of the six come up with completely plausible solutions, but we don't actually find out the correct one until the last sleuth speaks. It is certainly a different take on "and then there was one". Berkeley certainly knew what he was about when he penned his detective stories! They are true gems.

It's British, it's amateurs solving a murder, the clues are all in front of you. What's better? And then on top of it all, this book gives us a crime club at which the members present their individual results and critique each other (with some dry wit at the expense of the genre). Great stuff.

Book was in good shape, delivery on time, and had a good price.

This book is priceless, abounding in love for the Lord Jesus Christ. Adrian Rogers' love for our Savior and his devotion to Him is a beauty that must be read. Every page, almost every paragraph is a gem. If you want to learn to love the Lord more, If you want a closer walk with the Christ who loves us so much that He gave His life for us, then I want to suggest this book for you. It will lift your heart in praise to Almighty God and what He has done and is doing for us. For Christ is King of kings, and Lord of lords, and greatly to be praised.

Since I read this book shortly after Dr. Rogers' passing (unfortunate for us for we lost a great man of God, but fortunate for him since he's in a much better place!!!), the book meant more to me.

The book's aim is to encourage and challenge the reader to not become comfortable and complacent in his/her spiritual walk and to grow into a deeper relationship with Jesus Christ. Much of the focus is on personal purity since Rogers states (and with biblical support) that God will not do great and mighty things through dirty vessels. Having had the pleasure of hearing Dr. Rogers preach a few times in person and many times over the tv and radio, I can attest that Dr. Rogers did not mean for personal purity to be the ultimate end. Doing so would need to an over-emphasis on self-introspection. Rather, Rogers was a very evangelistic preacher and dearly wanted to see readers allow God to work through pure vessels to draw others to Him.

Read and be challenged to continue to grow in the faith no matter how long you have been a Christian. If you are not a Christian, consider the book's claims on Who Jesus Christ is and what He did for us!

This is the type of book which explains alot, from faith, to your church to your household. I thought I knew alot about Faith but this book enlightened me to new ideas and new thoughts. Very Simple instructions, Dos and Donts. A really good book which gets addicting. So for anybody just wanting to know the spirit More and Just in general come closer to God, READ THIS BOOK!

This book is wonderful for ages 7 and up. Our family members are all becoming Presidential scholars. Can't stop reading it.

I am teaching a high school extra-curricular class this semester on the history of U.S. presidents and wives. This book has proven wonderful! Loads of information and each formatted the same for easy referencing. Great buy!

Quotes from Raiders of the Lost Ark aside, I recently became alot more interested in American history. I guess after years of complaining about politicians and where I stood on issues, I kind of wanted to know at least a little of what I was talking about. So I stumbled upon this book,and at a great price no less(cue audience going OOOOOHHHH with fake surprise)! Anyway, I eagerly awaited it and when I recieved it, couldn't believe how extensive it is. It covers every president up to Dubyah and basically reads like a school textbook-which I think it was. It is a very large book and not only focuses on the Presidents and their administrations, but important people behind the scenes and even family members. I learned alot that I didn't know(or couldn't retain from school) and it allowed me to view alot of these men in a different light. It is truly a fascinating read. The one drawback is the fact that it is basically a textbook makes the writing very dry and sort of fact by fact history. This really isn't too much of a problem though because i really wanted something unbiased and informative. This is by no means a way to become an expert on any on of these people, but a great way to get started by learning a little about all of them.

The price tag for The Presidents Fact Book: A Comprehensive Handbook To The Achievements, Events, People, Triumphs, And Tragedies Of Every President From George Washington To George W. Bush is a bargain for a weighty, sweeping survey of American presidential biographies as presented by Roger Matuz in over 700 pages of detail: any high school, college or general public library collection with an interest in Presidential history and biographies will appreciate this review of the lives and times of all the nation's presidents. Included are not only biographical sketches, but boxed details on key historical figures of their times, first ladies, and lesser-known presidential facts.

If any book deserves more than a five star rating this (as well as its sequel, "Reporting World War II Part Two: American Journalism 1944-1946") is it. Attractively bound, compact and very readable, this volume is Part One of a two-volume set which provides an incomparable overview of World War II, as it was experienced by our parents' and grandparents' generation.

This is not just another book about The War and the Big Names who create and control Events. It is above all a book about ordinary people and for ordinary people, who find themselves caught up in positions not of their choosing. Some are victims, some are heroes, some just watch and wait, but most are small pieces in a Big Picture they can barely comprehend.

Unlike the usual histories of World War II, which have been written long after the fact and with the benefit of hind-sight, this superb collection, arranged in chronological order and using newspapers, magazine articles, radio broadcasts, diaries and photographs from the great journalists of the day, allows us to follow the events - at home and abroad -- as they happened. We all know how events turned out, but this book takes us back to that time, with an immediacy, an uncertainty and an irony, to what it was like to be alive during this immense, all-consuming, mid-20th century, global conflict.

Beginning with William Shirer at the Munich Conference of 1938 which handed the Sudetenland over to Hitler, then in Berlin on September 1, 1939 reporting on the German Invasion of Poland, and later, at Compiegne for the surrender of France in 1940, these are some of the high-lights:
Sigrid Schultz in Berlin on Kristallnacht, November 9, 1938;
A J Leibling in Paris and Virginia Cowles fleeing Paris before the German advance;
Edward R Murrow broadcasting daily from London during the Blitz;
C L Sulzberger from Athens (also soon to fall) on the German invasion of Yugoslavia, April 1941; and
Margaret Bourke-White on the Russian Front in 1941;

The New York Herald Tribune prints Roosevelt's war message on December 8, 1941 as "America declares War";
Husband and wife team -- Melville Jacoby describes the Japanese attack on the Philippines, December 1941, "War Hits Manila", and Annalee Jacoby records the heroism of "Bataan Nurses" under fire;
Raymond Clapper provides a "Pearl Harbor Post-mortem";
Ernie Pyle is on the spot in London, North Africa, Sicily & the Italian campaign;
On Christmas Night 1941 Cecil Brown sends a cable from Singapore on the "Malay Jungle War";
Jack Belden describes "Stilwell's Retreat Through Burma", May 1942;
Brendan Gill is on the US Home Front in 1942, "Rationing";
"A Vast Slaughterhouse", a report of the extermination of Jews, appears in the New York Times, June 1942 - a harbinger of the horrors to come;
E B White follows Dorothy Lamour to Bangor, Maine for a "Bond Rally";
Roi Ottley, George Schuyler & Deton Brooks report separate incidents of racial discrimination including the murder of black soldiers in the US;
John Hersey is at Guadalcanal, October 1942;
John Steinbeck joins a troop ship to Salerno, September 1943;
Edward Kennedy reports on the infamous "Patton Slapping Case", November 1943;
Martha Gelhorn visits the RAF Burn Centre, 1943 in "the Price of Fire";
War correspondent Richard Tregaskis with the troops in Italy reports on himself getting shot; and
Gertrude Stein writing from Occupied France in 1944 is "Tired of Winter Tired of War."

This volume concludes in the spring of 1944 as the tide is turning in Allied favour.
I highly recommend this book and its sequel. Most of the articles are less than six pages in length, which makes them ideal reading for those time-wasting intervals of life - check-out lines, doctor's offices and waiting for buses. I guarantee the time will whiz right by!

Back before all news came filtered through a television lens, hard working men and women travelled to remote locations and put themselves in harm's way to write eyewitness accounts of history for newspaper and magazine readers. This fascinating book is full of such accounts, from William Shirer's account of the 1938 Munich Conference (including his brush with a swaggering Hitler) to fascinating reports of the fall of Paris by A. J. Liebling and Virginia Cowles, to Edward R. Murrow's descriptions of war-torn but defiant London to Ernie Pyle's moving tales of soldiers in the trenches of Africa and Sicily. This book offers a unique glimpse into World War II by the people who were there, who lived through the extraordinary as well as the ordinary moments of that war. Included in this volume are incredible snapshots of the American homefront, including a report from a Japanese internment camps, as well as a "report on mass murder" in German concerntration camps by Ed Murrow in 1942, long before most Americans had any idea of the true horror of the holocaust. This volume explores all aspects of the war, and, as such, is an incredible historical document as well as a fascinating read. Highly recommended!

I am so glad the Library of America put together these volumes of reporting from the Second World War. Sadly, all those who were living during those years are leaving us all to rapidly. Certainly, the living knowledge of the events and times is fading fast. While we value the books great authors give us, we should treasure even more the writing given us at the time. In volume one we have reporting from great journalists starting in 1938 Shirer's article on the Munich conference that gave Germany the Sudetenland.

We get to follow the rise of Anti-Semitism in Germany with Kristallnacht, the fall of Poland and Paris. The London Blitz is covered by Edward R. Murrow and more and more. The United States doe not even enter the war until page 241 with the Herald Tribune's reporting of Roosevelt's "War Message".

The reporting also takes us into the Pacific and gets us down with those doing the actual work of the war including Annalee Jacoby's account of nurses under fire in Bataan. We get early reporting on the Japanese Internment camps and the Holocaust with the NY Times reporting in 1942 that one million Jews reported slain.

There is a section of fine photos of the reporters included and others in the text including some aerial shots from a bomber's point of view. This first volume ends with the Mountain Campaign in Italy in 1944. The volume also supplies a short, but full chronology of the war, some excellent maps, biographies of the journalists, acknowledgements, notes on the texts, and a glossary of military terms.

A superb job.

You can read history books and watch all of the redigitalized DVD's (movies) of World War II stories but the "best of the best" is right here in this wonderful compilation of first hand accounts from reporters who were on the scene and reported back to their readership when the events were actually occurring. It is fascinating to read what was reported at that time in history. This compliation is well worth reading. It also contains a great general biographical summary of all of the reporters who's work appears in the book. These were interesting people in their own right. I will use their biographies as a valuable resource for other additional readings.