Montana Books

Absolutely delightful sayings and quotes. A must for all your "cowgirl pals"-they will love it and so will you!!

Charming little book full of delightful sayings that epitomize the philosophy of cowgirl friendship. There is the added bonus of a colorful dust jacket depicting cowgirls of yesteryear, and there are pencil sketches throughout the book. I have bought several copies of this delightful book to give to my special Cowgirl Saddle Pals plus I ordered one for me to treasure. To quote from the book "Everything is better shared."

I'm hooked, Peter Bowen has made the characters real for me, he's given them life. He shares his knowledge of what it is like to live in rural Montana, the lifestyle, the love of the land, the selfish way the locals take care of their own and the country.

"Coyote Wind" is a darn near perfect specimen of a mixed-genre mystery cum western. Gabriel Du Pré is laconic, honorable, and wise to the ways of the Big Sky Country---a throwback to the noble cowboy-hero of Zane Grey's novels. He is a vulnerable hero, a Métis descendant of the French Voyageurs and Plains Indians. He has problems with his teenage daughter, who has shaved off part of her hair and dyed the rest of it a weird color. His mistress won't marry him because in the eyes of the Church, she is still married to the sleaze who deserted her many years past. He is plagued throughout the book by an alcoholic Métis prophet.

Du Pré's voice is unique, and perfect for this story. His dialogue is short, punchy, flicked with mordant barbs---an arrow in your eye when you are least expecting it. Two chapters into the book, found myself talking, thinking like Du Pré.

The mystery of who killed whom in "Coyote Wind" is fairly easy to unravel once you get to know and care about the characters. It almost had to occur, considering the people involved. It becomes more important to see if Du Pré can help a friend stop drinking, rather than to figure out who murdered his friend's brother. As Du Pré keeps telling everyone who will listen: "I ain't a cop...I am a [brand inspector]."

Nevertheless, it is Du Pré who is tapped to solve a thirty-year-old murder. He goes about it in a style that is perfectly tuned to his character. Not a single false note from Du Pré or his fiddle.

"Coyote Wind" is a very satisfying read.

Roland Cheek is the ultimate story teller! I have just reread this book.... it is that good! This well-written autobiography gets you from the first hello, and you can't put it down! Roland tells the stories of their lives, the valley and mountain-top experiences, how they went from making a living to building a beautiful life together...... showing others how to get the most out of life.

Very well written. Lots of humor. An outdoorsman's dream come true, and a product of alot of hard work.

Digging Dinosaurs written by John R. Horner et.al. is a book that covers the search that unraveled the mystery of baby dinosaurs. Honer has dedication, insight, and a sharp eye, but good luck is always nice to have when searching for the past in Western Montana on the Eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains.

At the time of writing this book Horner had spent six years digging at Egg Mountain and the surrounding area. His finds are rocking the knowledge base for nestings, babies and herd research.Whether you like to read about dinosaurs or are a dinosaur buff, reding this book gives you an appreciation for being a paleontologist. Also, you get to read about and see how they reexamine their venerable theeories.

The remarkable discoveries found in this book are interesting and they are advancing new hypotheses about dinosaur behavior and ecology... also, how did dinosaurs interact between species is new ground covered within these pages. Clever detective work while uncovering the past bodes well for future knowledge obtained.

Some of that knowledge coming from this large find of dinosaur remains is that duckbills probably moved like birds, with their heads bobbing forward and back. They did not look like the dinosaurs that have their tails dragging on the ground; the tails of most dinosaurs, not only duckbilld but also the sauropods,were held out straight behind them. The duckbills' tails were reinforced by rigid, ossified tendons that we can still see in many fossil skeletons.

Bipedal dinosaurs were built the same way, when a duckbill walked it bobbed its neck to get a fluid gait. Duckbills lived in herds and one of their major defenses against predators was their running ability, herding instinct, and a solid kick with the hind legs.

Reading this book was a delight as the narrative was engrossing and kept my interest. Horner has a easy-going style that will captivate the reader and the next thing you know you've reached the end and you what to know more about these denizens of the past. An interesting book that questions conventional interpretations, making for an enjoyable, educational read.

Digging Dinosaurs, by John Horner, is a firsthand account of the discovery of fossilized Dinosaur eggs that led to extensive discoveries of nesting sites in Montana. The book describes the geology of the area, the discovery of the nesting sites, their excavation, and the changes in paleontology that ensued. The book was made all the more fascinating by the fact that you can visit the actual site, called egg mountain. The Museum of the Rockies, in Choteau, Montana sponsors tours. On a recent trip to Montana, my wife and I took the tour and met John Horner, digging up more dinosaurs.

Too bad Wings has some books out of print, because she is a delight to read. If you read her books chronologically, you can see her phenomenal growth as a writer. Her characters live and breathe on the page, and as she writes more her elements become more rounded and subtly shaded. In Divine Victim she does not disappoint. This more serious effort deals with more difficult issues. Who else could bring together Montana, Lesbian issues, and Catholicism in such a readable book? No one but Mary Wings. I always count on her to show me what I cannot always experience for myself. For my sake I hope she delves lesser known entities as well, such as a Lesbian Southern Baptist, or Baha'i, for example.

Mary Wings is the author of the witty and entertaining Emma Victor series. With Divine Victim, Wings achieves higher and succeds. It is a dark, haunting story that links, surprisingly, lesbianism and the Roman Catholic faith. Other components of the story include art, art history and cloistered life.
The narrator's girlfriend Maryam inherits a house and a considerable fortune from her aunt Rebecca, on the condition that she has to live in the house one year. In Rebecca's house the narrator comes accross strange objects such as a nun's habit and a box full of red human hair. She become's interested in Rebecca's life and the secret that her house seams to hide. Meanwhile, someone is after the narrator, and it is not only the traumatic memories from her past, of her former lover Ilona and of their nightmarish trip to Italy.

Jill Brody has captured the stark beauty of a vanishing way of life in her portrait of a western ranching community. The exquisite photography is complemented and enhanced by Ms. Brody's crisp factual prose. The "story" of Drummond is told in the ranchers' and townspeoples' own words which impart meaning and relavance to the photographs. This is not an art book, but more of an elegant lasting impresion of a rugged, changing way of life that is both satisfying and challanging.

At first glance this appears to be a beautiful, elegant photography book. It is, but read on. Jill Brody's journalism background makes this unsentimental look at small-town cattle ranching in modern America ring particularly true. Her portraits of the very real people living this life -- and their own words as they reflect on the values they've learned from living off the land -- grab you. As you close the book you are left with a feeling that you've just experienced something very special -- and that you have in your hands a testimonial to a way of life that is uniquely American -- and probably destined to disappear in your own lifetime. Worth adding to your bookshelves as both a reference, and a piece of art.

This is a perfect book to feed the amorous imagination; it is about good eating and good living. El Sabor de Colombia, is rich with wonderful recipes. It shows you how to prepare a dish step by step in a very simple way, and also provides you with information about the history of the region where the dish comes from. It's photography is a dream. You won't be disapointed.

Excellent presentation and well edited.
The cooking recipes have been well elaborated and easy to follow to prepare typicaL colombian dishes.To those interested in the culinary art will find this book very useful.

After writing the Red Room and several other wonderful books, Father is really one of Strindberg's most fantastic work. It is stunning how a person can describe human beings in the way Strindberg does, or did, since he past away over 80 years ago... Just buy it and read it.

Naturalistic fiction has never been so stripped,
a choking ibsenomaic portion;
precocial nautch that grows as it goes.
Strindberg's stronger wiccecræft stronger.

Worth witenagemot!©

VERY ENTERTAINING CONTAINS 20 TRACKS: 1] FREE TO BE...A FAMILY (THE MELODY MAKERS); 2] BOY MEETS GIRL...AGAIN (MEL BROOKS AND MARLO THOMAS); 3] SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE (MARLO THOMAS, KERMIT THE FROG & THE MUPPETS); 4] SOMETHINGS DON'T MAKE ANY SENSE AT ALL (STEVE MARTIN); 5] IT'S NOT MY FAULT (SOUL ASYLUM); 6] AND THAT'S THE TRUTH PART 1 (LILY TOMLIN); 7] I'M NEVER AFRAID TO SAY WHAT'S ON MY MIND (BONNIE RAITT); 8] DORIS KNOWS EVERYTHING (WHOOPI GOLDBERG); 9] JIMMY SAYS (PAT BENATAR); 10] THE DAY DAD MADE TOAST (ROBIN WILLIAMS); 11] THANK SOMEONE (AMY GRANT & JOHN HAITT); 12] YOURSELF BELONGS TO YOU (THE FAT BOYS); 13] AND SUPERBOY MAKES 3 (CHRISTOPHER REEVE, ELAINE MAY, MIKE NICHOLS & PHIL DONAHUE); 14] FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD (MARLO THOMAS); 15] CROWDED TUB (GILDA RADNER); 16} ON MY POND (KERMIT THE FROG & THE MUPPETS); 17] AND THAT'S THE TRUTH-PART 2 (LILY TOMLIN); 18] THAT STUPID SONG (LADYSMITH BLACK MAMBAZO); 19] ANOTHER CINDERELLA (MARLO THOMAS, BEA ARTHUR, JANE CURTAIN, & GILDA); 20] THE TURN OF THE TIDE (CARLY SIMON).

This is a superb children's album. One that I have been listening to for about 16 years now and I am still not sick of it! That is saying quite alot considering it is a childrens album! This album consists of fun songs and stories that teach diversity to children as well as family values and understanding of each family's differences, and all this coming from people such as Robin Williams, Whoopi Goldberg, Christopher Reeve, The Fat boys, Pat Benetar, and more! Do your kids a favor and consider finding this album! There is also a book and a video!

Homer Smith was a lecturer in renal physiology when I was a medical student at the NYU School of Medicine, 1959-1963. He was famous for his pioneering research in the field, and everone called him "Dr. Smith", even though he had no M.D. or PhD degree.
When we graduated, a pharmaceutical firm gave each member of my class a copy of Smith's book, "From Fish to Philosopher". Smith was an expert on the kidney, and in this book he described the evolution of the kidney. As I recollect, he told us how it had actually evolved more than once, in more than one primitive species.
However, Smith also pondered the evolution of consciousness and intelligence in the book. In his view, mentation is primarily involved with perceiving an planning motions in space. Therefore, creatures who can live without these activities, such as clams or jellyfish, don't have minds, and don't need them.
But once nature had discovered the game of predator/prey, then locomotion, and its planning became evolutionarily imperative.
Imagine then, the mental behaviors of the first big fish and the first little fish. This imagining is as heady as pondering the dimensions of outer space.
Years before Konrad Lorenz appeared in English, Homer Smith introduced a whole new way of humans looking at themselves.
This review was written by Bob Rose, M.D., 2505 Willowmere Trace, Kennesaw, GA 30144

Homer Smith was one of founding fathers of comparative physiology in the United States. In addition to a skilled anatomist and physiologist he was able to extend the principals he developed in his examinations of the evolution of kidneys in the animal kingdom to how Science is conducted. This book takes the reader along the journey that many scienstist have followed towards their own enlightenment. Very well written, just as his scientific papers were well written, and very enjoyable.