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As a Montanan cowgirl myself, I found Chip of the Flying U truthful and entertaining. The characters are real and the story is innocent. B.M. Bower knew the characters she created and it shows.

This book is just a cute little book definately from a time gone by. Easier read than a Lamour, but still a pretty solid western, even by today's standards.

This is a terrific escape book, one that deserves a "10" rating for its entertainment value. The characters are appealing, the language is incredibly clean by today's standards, and there is much laugh-aloud humor. "Chip of the Flying U" is tremendous fun!

The Colloidal Domain by Evans and Wennerstrom is a comprehensive guided tour into the realm of colloidal behavior. Every chapter opens with a summary of key concepts (concept map) that one must commit oneself to learn through the development, through theory and examples, presented in that chapter. The authors have chosen to title every sub-section with a sentence or a phrase that summarizes the ideas developed and demonstrated there. The text is written in a style that makes it an excellent textbook for use in both undergraduate and graduate classes.

The typical examples come from the field of surfactants, from the behavior of bilayers and micelles. Hence the text first describes the self-assembly of amphiphilic molecules, introducing key thermodynamic principles that guide it, including the role of surfaces and surface tension; and the kinetic processes that control it. These concepts come handy later when the behavior of micelles, bilayers and emulsions in general is discussed. I really enjoyed the chapter on forces relevant to the colloidal domain, which presents the essential expressions and concepts in a very useful and concise fashion. The development on forces in colloids paves way for equally illustrative discussion of the phase behavior and the kinetic and thermodynamic factors that contribute to the stability of colloids. In this context, Gouy-Chapman theory, Debye-Huckel theory and DLVO theory, are presented, and role of dissolved ions and polymers is demonstrated in a very insightful fashion.

I recommend the text on Colloidal Dispersions by Russel, Saville and Schowalter to readers interested in learning more about colloidal dispersions based on particulate matter, and the text by Morrison & Ross for them who have more interest in foams. Most soft matter texts (say by Hamley, or R. A. L. Jones or Ron Larson) include discussion on colloidal dispersions, and one may wish to consult them to see how the knowledge of colloidal behavior provides good starting point for learning about polymers, gels and liquid crystals.

I highly recommend this textbook for beginners, teachers, students and researchers. I hope more and more texts will follow this text in its lucid and comprehensive presentation of fundamental concepts.

this is a great text for the undergraduate and graduate student as well as researcher in the colloids, polymers, and surface science field. It has the math that gives you the insight to apply to industrial or lab experiments and provides as a good reference for the experienced scientist/engineer. Excellent buy and worth every dollar.

Note: writing below review based on my perusing the first edition, which is not significantly different than the second, except for the aforementioned added chapter, IMO.

Particularly liked the "Concept Map" at the beginning of each chapter - this tells me what I can find in each chapter and gives me a good overview of where to find what (more than any Table of Contents can).

Could have done with a chapter on various analytical and experimental tools used to study colloids. This is done briefly in the chapter on bilayers but the spectrum of available tools in studying colloids, micelles, and other structures in this domain would serve the reader well and complete the book, so to speak. In any case, this is one of the books I'd like to buy soon.

I have read this particular volume which is just one of many sequels on the Holt family saga spanning at last two centuries from the pioneering days of the New World. The stories are amazingly credible. While the stories are fiction, the framework is firmly anchored on historical facts. While the sequels have varied plots and settings, the stories revolve around the Holts and the pioneers of various enthnicities whose courage, honor, selflessness and industry have carved the great nation of America. The wagons west stories are all very fascinating - adventure, humor, pathos, suspense, romance, and drama are all there, presented by the author with sensitivity and good taste that has made the wagons west book series wholesome and knowledge-enriching. The stories have very positive impact on the reader because the author has successfully kept the virtues highlighted while still realistically showing the dark side of men. The stories are universally inspirational in the sense that wagons west glorifies the good attributes of the characters as human persons regardless of their color and creed. The wagons west stories do not only tell the readers how the West was won (as there are so many stories written on this already), but conveys to readers a message that love and justice has no boundaries and out of these virtues - great men and achievements are made. Dana Fuller Ross is a patriot in writing these books. America should thank him for making people appreciate more the value of the American history and its legacy-one that has shaped America's role as the world's leading champion of freedom and justice. I have actually read at least twenty of the Wagons West volumes and still completing the set. My high recommenation, therefore for this particular volume applies to the rest of the series. I have great admiration for the author for being a very responsible writer. The story presentation has been very efective in advocacy, too!

this books give one an excellant felling for the hardship of the time. Also give us a deeper respect for our older family members who went through the ordeal

Dana Fuller Ross' panoramic saga of America's great expansion into the western territories is some of the most intelligent, well written historic fiction I have read. "Colorado" is Book 7 in a series of 24 novels which truly bring history to life during one of the United States' most important and fascinating periods.

In 1858, some eight years after the beginning of the California Gold Rush, gold was discovered in the Colorado country. Once again, it was boom or bust as hoards of gold-hungry men swarmed to Colorado, bringing with them many of the same problems that had plagued California before it became a US territory. The North and South were drifting further apart, endangering the Union. The issues went far beyond free vs. slave states. The increasingly industrialized North and the predominantly agricultural South had been developing opposing views on almost every aspect of what constituted US society.

General Leland Blake, a veteran of the first wagon train to blaze the Oregon Trail, was called to Washington by President Buchanan. The gold, discovered by southerners from Georgia, was found in the wilderness of Colorado, a place claimed by no state or territory. Geological reports favored finding considerable gold within the next year. The President wanted to secure Colorado country for the Union. He also needed to know approximately how much gold was available. If Civil War broke out, the gold would be of great value to finance the conflict and help to secure a Union victory. Buchanan sends Blake to Colorado with a geologist, both men's wives, and a lawyer. Since the southerners are not to know of the presidential mission, it is to be kept absolutely secret. Blake is to pose as a retired General. His group is supposed to be on a financial expedition to assess Colorado's mineral wealth for future investment.

Many of the characters from the first six books appear in "Colorado" and new ones, both historical and fictitious, are introduced. The author gives these characters tremendous depth and illustrates how life in the new land, along with new responsibilities, changes them and effects their relationships. Chet Harris, another wagon train veteran, goes to Colorado along with his partner Wong Ke, to see if they can repeat the mining success they had in California, where they made their fortune. They join with newspaper publisher Wade Fulton, of the Colorado Tribune, to form a voluntary citizen's constabulary to provide law and order. Colorado promised to be as bad as California was, in terms of violence, crime and murder. Lovely Susanna Fulton, Wade's daughter and newspaper editor, solves the mystery of the "Grey Ghost bandit." Lt. Andrew Brandon, son of the Oregon Trail wagon train master Sam Brandon, and many others also have a part to play in "Colorado."

The history, characters, plot and subplots in this novel are some of the most exciting and dynamic so far. I love history, and while I have read and studied this period in America's development, I have learned so much from reading these seven "Wagons West" books. I plan to continue until I read them all. A wonderful reading experience.
JANA

Having read several Cameron Judd stories I feel as if I can tell you, yes read it, and you will want to read more of Judd's books. This particular book sends an 18 yr. old boy, from a small Wyoming ranch, scouting the Southeastern territory of Montana in search of his older brother to bring him home to see his dying father. During this adventure he meets a wonderfull girl, sees men killed, is nearly killed himself, almost gets hung and finally --- THE END

There is a lot going on in this story. Plot twists galore...you never know what is going to happen next. It explores Tuck's feelings toward his family in a way that let's us all feel his emotions. It is also filled with action. Love stories are included as well. In my opinion, this book has it all.

Those familiar with Cameron Judd's work will not be surprised by the well developed characters and intricate plot twists. For anyone who is not acquainted with the author, Corrigan will serve as a good introduction. The book is short (roughly 180 pages) and it's populated by three-dimensional individuals. With the right mixture of suspense, romance, tragedy, and inspiration, Corrigan leaves you with a good feeling. Anyone who is leery about picking up an unfamiliar author for fear of encountering gratuitous sex, violence, or profanity, can rest assured Corrigan--like all of Judd's books that I have read so far--proves that it is very possible to tell an adult story without any of the above.

I would also like to add that I am not your typical western fan. With the exception of Cameron Judd's book, I have probably only read three or four westerns.

Alice, Peter, Dorothy, the Wardrobe, half-magic . . . all on quests in magical places. But this one is the best and the most meaningful. Alone, Griselda is be-friended by magical creatures--not unlike imaginary friends--until she finds strength within herself and her real world. This old book never gained the notariety of others, but is far more enchanting, well-written, and touching than those that became more fashionable. It is a book that many readers claim changed their lives. It entertains and touches the hearts of young and old.

This is one of the most magical & imaginative children's books I have ever read, I first read it as a child and have never forgotten it! Buy it for your children....

than "The Cuckoo Clock" to an imaginative child of the proper age! While its tales-within-tales were lovely, what really caught me were the evocative details of the little heroine's surroundings. I realize my love for potpourri, nodding "Mandarin" porcelains, and yes, even cuckoo clocks were formed as I read this book.

Kelton's novel has some of the ingredients of pulp western fiction - big ranchers against the little guys, justice at the end of a rope, an honorable hero wearing a sheriff's badge - but he brings a great deal of insight, experience, and historical background to the task of telling this story. It is enjoyable and full of well-drawn characters and unexpected turns of plot from beginning (a squabble over the brand on a cow) to the end (a gripping courtroom drama).

The title suggests that the book might be a more light-hearted story that focuses on the cowboy strike of 1883, but Kelton's aim is to explore the more complex psychology of the men who live by the Code of the West. The ill-fated strike is over before we are well into the book, and the author focuses on the unexpected and far-reaching results of its aftermath. Like many books about the West, this one is about loss and the passing of an era. The cowboy way of the open rangeland is quickly disappearing as settlers move in and towns spring up, the cattle business falls under the influence of venture capital from the East, and rough justice must give way to law and order.

Most enjoyable for this reader is the characterization of its main character, Hitch, a single cowboy in his thirties for whom circumstance, loyalty, and honor lead him out of a job he loves and into harm's way, until he reluctantly assumes a role of no small responsibility and risk in the new social order on the Texas plains. Not the fearless hero of standard cowboy fiction, Hitch has a good many conflicting feelings,he's more diplomatic than quick with a gun, and his actions require considerable courage.

Kelton's rural Texas background and knowledge of frontier history clearly come through in the many details that enrich the tale he tells. He notes a horse's dislike for flapping laundry on a clothesline. The cowboys drink more strong coffee than whiskey. He realistically describes a man's slow, painful recovery from being pistol-whipped. A man angrily observes the terror of a cowboy who wet his britches as he was being hanged for thievery. And there is much about managing cattle on the open range and the complicated, neverending process of ensuring their ownership.

I highly recommend this book to anyone with an interest in the historical West, cowboys, roundups and branding, frontier social history, the landscape of the plains, frontier justice, the Code of the West, and the struggle for political power and shifting alliances in changing times. Kelton's book is well-written, with memorable characters, and a fair share of suspense.

"The Day the Cowboys Quit" goes down as a red letter day for western fans! This Spur Award winner by Elmer Kelton is one of his all-time best. His hero, Hugh Hitchcock, is caught between the cowboys he ramrods and the rancher he admires. But when the local cattle barons lay down their own brand of range law by refusing to permit working cowboys to own their own cattle, a strike ensues. The result is a gritty and honest story of real men in desperate times that ranks in the Top 10 westerns ever penned. If you like your westerns confrontational where justice is served in unpredictable fashion, you will love "The Day the Cowboys Quit!"

this book takes place on the plains of Texas. And shows a passage between the "good ol' days" and the new times ahead. Cowboys are pitted against ranch owners, who start to consider the cowboys more like machines then people. The ranchers post a series of "written rules", that in effect greatly angers the cowboys. Most of the Cowboys in response quit or leave their ranch, to join up in a stike. The stike fails to acomplish it immediate goals, but in the long run, creates a ripple that will change everything. This book was well written, and is able to capture the essence of being a cowboy. this book is based on an actual stike that took place in Texas at a similar time. But since the history books only show brief accounts of the strike, and only that of the ranchers view. The Author based the book "loosely" on the facts, so that he could create a more objective view. This is a fantasic book, I recomend you buy it

This is the sixth book in the Cassidy McCabe series. In this book
Cassidy, who is a psychotherapist, ends up feeling in need of therapy
herself when she opens the paper to read her own obituary. This happens
on the anniversary of a tragic event in her past that she realizes she is
going to have to face and tell her husband Zach about. As Cassidy faces
her own past, fears and guilt, an e stalker begins threatening the lives
of those she loves. Together Zach and Cassidy track down the stalker and
grow closer through this crisis.

I enjoyed this book with its twists and turns, but especially enjoyed the
relationships. Cassidy's intelligent and full of life grandmother has
been a favorite of mine since the first book I read in this series...

"Deathýs Domain" is Alex Matthewsý latest Cassidy McCabe mystery. Cassidy reads her own obituary, on the anniversary of a traumatic event from the past. As events unfold, she knows she is going to have to face the earlier tragedy and tell her husband about it.

When untraceable e-mails threatening her family flood her computer, she is compelled to find the potential murdererbefore her family is killed. As a psychotherapist, Cassidy is used to dealing with people in crisis. When the crisis is hers, she discovers her own fears take over her life. She quickly realizes she is dealing with a very clever and dangerous character.

"Deathýs Domain" is a compelling book. The characters are well conceived, and the story is compelling. She must call upon all her training as a therapist to discover the potential killer. The startling discovery of the real miscreant and the motive behind the terrorizing threats is a satisfying end to this mystery.

I highly recommend this book to mystery lovers. It is a MUST for cat lovers.

Janet B. Fudala, Ph.D., CEO, Educational Solutions

Psychotherapist Cassidy McCabe faces the fear of losing that which she holds most dear when the past catches up to the present. For years Cassidy has blamed herself for Barbara's death. She had come home unexpectedly, finding her best friend inebriated and in bed with her first husband. Outraged, Cassidy kicked Barbara out. Unfortunately, the drunken Barbara died on the way home, leaving Cassidy with guilt and a disintegrating marriage.

Years later, on the anniversary of Barbara's death, a stalker promises retribution. An obituary appears in the local paper featuring Cassidy. Soon the ominous tone of the obituary continues with threatening email and an attempt on husband Zach's life. Determined to find answers, Cassidy and her husband set out to uncover the secrets of the past who still holds Cassidy responsible for Barbara's unfortunate death.

DEATH'S DOMAIN, the sixth Cassidy McCabe mystery, brings back a fabulous cast. Indeed, cozy mystery author Alex Matthews continues to dazzle readers with the irrepressible Cassidy, reporter husband Zach, and her mischievous calico Starshine. Cassidy's spunky grandmother and meddlesome mother likewise make their appearances, bringing wit and humor wherever they appear. As always, Mathews provides lots of action, a well-structured plot and plenty of twists to keep the pages turning. Although I enjoy hundreds of books a year, including many mysteries, Cassidy McCabe has managed to capture and hold my heart through the years like no other heroine. DEATH'S DOMAIN comes very highly recommended.

This is a great book! I already own DNS and BIND, but that book is specifically for BIND. As a technical consultant on Microsoft networks (...) I regularly deal with DNS. With this book I'm learning a great deal about the special Microsoft differences with the Internet standard of DNS.

DNS isn't easy. Especially in dial-up and e-mail configurations, you must implement certain settings. This book really answers those questions. There's a whole chapter on configuring DNS for e-mail servers.

Technical depth is quite good. Good enough for most environments anyway. This book will not answer every technical bit, but than you would need a 1500+ pages book. In all other circumstances: GET THIS BOOK! Readability is excellent, and this book will certainly last another 5 years.

You will be vary satisfied with this book. I am.

If you know nothing about DNS this book can help get you started in addition to providing very specific info on administering DNS under Win2k. This is about as easy as DNS under Win2k is going to get so it winds up highlighting just how confusing and sometimes byzantine Micro$oft's implementation of DNS can be.
It's best to use this book BEFORE you create a DNS server but in my case it helped me sort out a mess left behind by consultants, particularly the wild and wooly realm of reverse DNS entries. :)

We needed to set up a Windows DNS server for our network, and all of my experience was with UNIX and BIND. This book has it all! What DNS is, how to plan your DNS structure, install a DNS server on Windows 2000, add forward/reverse zones, add additional DNS servers, and Active Directory integration!
I highly recomend this book to anyone who needs to set up a DNS server on a windows 2000 server!

Patrick R. Newell gives us super-James Bond-style action, lots of hard scientific exposition, and interplanetary political intrigue. It's a bit weak in character development; the scene descriptions are pretty spare; you might find yourself a bit disoriented by a few abrupt scene changes, and there are a few minor gaffes that should have been caught by a proof reader (e.g., he uses "entomology" when he meant "etymology"). But if you like pure, hard-core SCIENCE fiction and don't mind an occasional physics lecture you'll enjoy this book and maybe even learn a few things.

I'd like to see some pop science from Mr. Newell! Perhaps an explanation of the puzzles in the world of quantum physics?

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This novel is about 153 Kindle pages, and reads
quickly. The author doesn't spend time describing
clothes, or open with a weather report. In fact here
is the start:

Dr. Moreau was caught one hundred meters from ground
zero in a nuclear explosion, thereby absorbing 5000
rem. It didn't kill him. Of course there was a trick
involved. Later he was shot, clubbed, then
disemboweled. Most folks believe that finally did him
in, but strictly speaking it didn't. Life and (after
a fashion) leaving it wouldn't have been so
complicated if there hadn't been two women involved.
Neither of the women who made life difficult for
Moreau was Atalanta Schöntod. That was hardly her
fault. Schöntod's gift was to make men suffer, and
she tended to her calling with enterprise. She
provides as good a place to begin as any...

The novel is about a misunderstood and mistrusted
outsider thrust into a position where his actions have
enormous consequences. Here is a scientist channeling
his angry inner young man, who believes some people
need killing and doesn't mind doing it. (The title of
my review is from the line "I come to kick rear and
chew bubble gum. I'm all out of bubble gum.")
Occasionally the author's other passion, science,
slows the book with exposition. There is a fair
amount of hard science, with more versimultude than
your typical science fiction book can muster. The
author seems less interested in the more speculative
(say wormholes) or often altogether made up science
than most sci-fi is. The book is set in an era when
the inner solar system has been colonized, with no
faster than light travel. But the consequences of
science that is likely to be real one day soon
fascinates. For example Neandertal DNA has been
sequenced, so why won't someone someday bring them
back? Or for that matter, clone Einstein, whose DNA
is in a known location? The possibilities and
controversies in genetic enhancements of humans is
another area explored. Essentially the novel follows
an attempt by those virulently against genetic
enhancement (with the twist that the defender of the
genetically enhanced is a superagent, the Dr. Moreau
of the opening paragraph, who is himself genetically
standard human).
The story may not be complicated, but it is a good
read, with emphasis on action, especially personal
combat.

The novel mainly follows Adam Moreau, a superagent fighting to save the genetically enhanced settlers of a terraformed Venus. Since he is old Terran stock, he is a mistrusted outsider on his own world. There is a lot of action, mostly combat of one type or another. There is a lot of hard science too (the author is a scientist). I was a little worried early on about the number of characters, but the book quickly settled down, and mainly follows the main character. Some of the personalities involved are quite interesting. I particularly liked the ending, which was appropriately climatic.

"In the mists before the Beginning, Fate and Chance cast lots to decide whose the Game should be." With that enticing opener, Lord Dunsany kicked off "The Gods of Pegana," an intriguing collection of heroes-and-gods tales that the Irish nobleman created.

It starts off by describing the creator of the gods, MANA-YOOD-SUSHAI (always in capitals), and how the gods created the worlds "to amuse Ourselves." And then Dunsany describes the lord of death Mung and his encounters with a poor man, the "chaunt of the priests," the God of Mirth, the rebellion of the Home Gods, prophets and cities and temples and finally the end of Pegana ("For at the last shall the thunder, fleeing to escape from the doom of the gods, roar horribly among the Worlds").

When it comes to fantasy, nobody has equalled the "fictional Bible" of J.R.R. Tolkien, the Silmarillion. But "The Gods of Pegana" (first published in 1905) got to that turf first, with the littler gods under an overseeing deity (MANA-YOOD-SUSHAI -- isn't that a great name?) who made all of them, the lush language and complex histories. It's not hard to see why Tolkien was a fan of Dunsany's.

Dunsany seems to have been having a good time creating his own myths and legends. But even so, there's a feeling of melancholy to "The Gods of Pegana," and the sense that even at the beginning of the world, things are headed straight for the apocalyptic end. There's little of Dunsany's humor and irony in these stories, though his semi-mythic, descriptive language is very much present ("... then shine the blue eyes of the gods like sunlight on the sea, where each god sits upon his mountain.")

Before the Silmarillion, there was "The Gods of Pegana." This enticing early fantasy is a wonderful example of the invented myth, and a good read for fans of the classic fantasies.

Herein the reader is introduced to MANA-YOOD-SUSHAI, who created all the lesser gods to play amongst the worlds. There is Kib, creator of all life, and Mung, who takes it away with but a signing of his hands. Meet Sish, the lord and master of Time, and Skarl the Drummer, whose beating can be heard throughout the heavens. Slid is also here, who frolics within the currents of countless rivers and rides the foam atop the waves of all the seas. There are also stories of the lesser home gods to be found, as well as the priests and prophets of Pegana.

Naturally, this isn't a book that presents a story with a beginning, middle, or end. It is really just snippets of history and gods of the land. You can't really read it one chapter at a time, it has to be read all the way through for the reader to get a complete sense of its grandeur. It stretches from the very beginning of time to its end and then back again. After you're done, you don't remember much of the details of the individual stories, but the sense of wonder remains.

This is the first installment of a five book cycle (followed by Time and the Gods, The Sword of Welleran, A Dreamer's Tale, and The Book of Wonder) concerning the fictional world of Pegana. Even though these stories were written nearly a century ago, they have had a great influence upon such well known writers as H.P. Lovecraft, J.R.R. Tolkien, and Neil Gaiman, as well as countless others. Dunsany's tales also rank up there with William Morris' and George MacDonald's for creating one of the first self-contained fantasy worlds and an accompanying imaginary mythology. (Although I've always hated the term "imaginary mythology." Aren't all mythologies imaginary to one degree or another? - not that that detracts from their power or legitimacy.)

Wildside Press has done a great service by reprinting most of the books in this series. I do wish, however, that a collected edition would be made available complete with annotations. (Not even Chaosium's "The Complete Pegana" reprints all the stories involved in the cycle.) As it stands now, readers will have to make do with these incredibly short individual volumes. This book, for instance, has 32 chapters, but is only 106 pages long. And that is using very large type and with a few pictures thrown in!

Nevertheless, it has often been said that some of the best things in life come in small packages. In this case, it is most definitely true.

Pegana's interlinked stories are perhaps the most underrated work of fantasy of all time.The poetic beauty and philosophical depth of Dunsany's stories are unmatched by any other writer and his skill with the english language borders on the scary.
This slim volume, as well as subsequent collections such as The Time and the Gods and Sword of Welleran, has more beauty, poetry and sense of wonder than the vast majority of "big fat" fantasy novels written nowadays.Don't missed it.