Michigan Books

Eric Sharp's Fishing Michigan is one of the most enjoyable books I've read in some time. Besides giving great advice on fishing for a variety of species, Sharp masterfully captures the essence of fishing, and its allure for all ages. He obviously loves the sport in all its iterations, and his life-long pursuit of it fills this volume with uncommon widsom. If you enjoy books on fishing, this one is a keeper. I'm sure I'll read it again.

This is a wonderful former dissertation that became a good book, especially important now as we witness the ruin of the US auto industry, with the full complicity of its inmates. Notably, the last people to jump the sinking ship will be the UAW leadership, not the Ford or GM bosses. The UAW bosses need to preserve their pensions, while the Big Auto bosses know they are not in business to make cars, but money. How US auto came to its zombie like state now is, of course, rooted in its past, and Meyer does a fine job getting us in at the start. From Taylor, who sought to strip the mind of the worker on the job and to replace that mind with the mind of the boss, to the Christian benevolent societies that sought to Improve the Foreigners by destroying their culture---and the carrots and sticks that made that possible---all of that is here in the text. And the finger story is worth the price of admission alone.

Outstanding book!
So impressed, I contacted the author because my son's school built in 1929 has Flint Faience Tiles in it.
The Author wished he knew of my son's school (Stiles) aka Oakland Steiner -- when he wrote the book
Both the book and the author have a wealth of information on these tiles -- Just facinating..
BUY THIS BOOK
An amazing piece of history & Amazing photos - beautifly done

Simply this is a picture book of Flint's past. My mother is 80 and I got the book for her. She remarked that it was a snap shot of the glory days of Flint. Note, after 1960 life gets a lot harder in Flint for everybody. The race riots of the 1960s hits Flint hard. Now Flint is rated as one of the top ten worst cities in the USA.

This book captures Flint in the prime of its life. The pictures are in very good condition. The captions of the pictures give a short write of of what item, event, or building is mentioned in the picture. The dates on the pictures are well researched.

This is a good picture book and is a fair value for the money.

This book was written for my grandchildren. I am the daughter of a lighthouse keeper and there are not many left who lived when the Lighthouse Service was active. This book tells of my life as a child. It is a story of the beauty and dangers of Lake Superior. At a time when lighthouses and foghorns were very important. when the faithfulness of Lighthouse Keepers saved lives and prevented tragedies. It is a story of freedom and adventure, sand dunes in summer and winter, lady slippers and arbutus, skipping rocks and finding agates, of hiking to places yet untouched by civilization. Memories of life lived as a Lighthouse Keeper's daughter.

Our son just moved to the Grand Rapids area. The map has become a necessity even with his GPS. We used it when while we visited. It was accurate and concise.

These essays -- by a roster of accomplished contemporary scholars of Russian Studies -- are wonderfully accesible and informative. Readers with interests in folk culture and history, Russian studies (history, literature, whatever) and/or culinary history will feel like they've struck gold. The thirteen scholarly pieces, some with a few illustrations, cover a wealth of topics (see table of contents above)-- consistently well. It's anything but dry; Pamela Chester's article on the relationship between (state-) tormented poets Marina Tsvetaeva and Osip Mandelstam (and their uses of food as symbol and, tragically, their deprivation of it, later) is heartbreaking. Peasantry, the gentry, and the Eastern Orthodox church; brilliant fussbudget Tolstoy's vegetarianism is in here; the uses of food in the writing of Dostoyevsky; fasting and food fashions; Catherine the Great (hardly any tastebuds; hearty interest in 'presentation'); the new Soviet state with its ambitious dreams for the citizenry, and the ultimate cynical mess that resulted. Food as power, class marker, moral symbol, and solace. The roots of asceticism (Orthodox church).Unfortunately, Jewish life and gulag life has been omitted, and a careful list of the prices of foodstuffs in St. Petersburg in Catherine's time is all rubles and kopeks... so I couldn't tell what I might have been able to afford.. What's here, though, is very good. I'll look for Volume 2.

This book is a wonderful book in many ways. It is the result of intensive anthropological fieldwork among the Seltaman, a remote hunter/horticulturalist people living in the highland rainforest of Papua New Guinea. Food sharing becomes a window into their entire culture. But I think it also becomes a window into a potential for a different type of society, one in which sharing, particularly of food, underlies a strong ethics of generosity. Many traditional societies have had this basis. Harriet Whitehead does not "hype" the implications of her careful and intellectually very honest study. But wide implications are there. We need to pursue the study of traditional "sharing societies" as a way of understanding the underpinnings of human societies in general. I think they are potentially key to a new comparative ethics and economics (as well as anthropology).

I like this textbook because it is quite different from other textbooks for ESL students. This textbook is full of cultural information. In each chapter there is a story that is written in first-person form, like "When I first came to the United States, ...". I find this style very good because students will be really involved in it. The author of this book really knows how ESL students will feel in various situations.

The story itself is interesting as well as instructive. After the story, there are some questions about its main idea and details. Also, there are multiple choice questions concerning the story. Next, some questions are presented for students to discuss. In the end, some vocabulary and grammar exercise.

If you are an ESL teacher, you will surely feel inclined to use it at your class. At all events you must buy this one. There is no alternative to this.

I found this book to be very good as are all Ford R Bryan's books.