Seasons Books

I've "read" Mr. Cohen's book and think it is a timely treatment of the subject. There are a number of things about it that impressed me. First, it is comprehensive without being insufferably long. His detailed coverage of how to build a campfire in any kind of weather is something you don't see in other books on the subject. Second, it is very humorous in places---humor always perks up a non-fiction book. Third, and this is perhaps what I like most about the book, is the fact that he doesn't cut litterers any slack. Nearly every other publication I've read on this subject tends to treat people who trash places of natural beauty with kid gloves, or doesn't address the subject at all. Mr. Cohen bashes them harshly but logically. He gets his points across without anger, at the same time putting wilderness trashers in their proper place---near the bottom of the evolutionary scale of human mental development.

This book also sets the mood with nature sounds that are used as lead-in and fade-out for some of the chapters, which really goes a long way toward taking me away from that "insufferable commute"! The book has the unique quality of being valuable to both the novice and experienced camper. Everything in it guides the beginner toward his/her first trek with all of the necessary knowledge needed to ensure a safe and efficient outing, yet many of the things he talks about are also very useful to backpackers (like myself) with years of experience.

I give this one 5 stars!

Kevin Williams

My 3 year old loves all the Barbie movies and their books! She enjoyed using the stickers that came along with it too.

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the 2003 edition got me started. the 2004 edition has sold me on this book being a yearly purchase from now until i'm blind.
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this is a complete reference source. 463 pages of baseball bliss. commentary. subjective lists. team recaps. and more statistics than you can shake an aluminum bat at. full major league stats as well as minor league stats. stats for every player from every team. heaven.
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i could gush.gush.gush, but it's really a waste of everyone's time. this is an outstanding book. you get raw stats but also enough quality writing that you will hang onto the book. in terms of value, i sincerely don't think there is another baseball book out there where you get so much for such a reasonable cost.
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this is winwin no matter how you look at it.

Everything the folks at Baseball America touch is nothing short of fabulous. Quite simply...they ARE the best in the business

This book precisely gives easy access to players, teams and events of Baseball's 2006 season. The Minor Leagues, as well as College Baseball info is included, along with MUCH more. A bargan price at Amazon!

Having been a lifelong baseball fan, and living in the Washington DC area, I lived through the trauma of having baseball torn from my grasp. With the Nationals coming back into town, I was once more able to experience the joys of the Nation's Past Time with the Nationals.

Thanks to Jim Hartley, and his wonderful book...BASEBALL IS BACK...I'm once more enthralled with the game. Packed with great insights from a noted Washington baseball historian, this book completes the bridge between Washington's baseball past and now the future!

Reed Browning's "Baseball's Greatest Season, 1924" makes the assertion that, given the close pennant races in both leagues, the 1924 season is the greatest in history. I thought that 1908 was pretty good, maybe the best, but Browning does have some convincing arguments for 1924: it was a watershed year for baseball, after World War I, the lively ball, the rookies and near rookies who began then or were breaking in around that time, and the last major scandal involving the throwing of games. Plus, it had a very exciting World Series involving a first time league champion versus one that had just won its league for the fourth time in a row.

Browning constructed his book in an interesting way, alternating the happenings of the sixteen teams during the year with the off-the-field aspects of baseball during that time. It is an effective way of getting a well-rounded picture of the total baseball scene for 1924. For example, a chapter may cover the period from Memorial Day to the 4th of July, and the surges and failings of the pennant contenders and second division teams are outlined. The next chapter may be about the business of baseball in the mid-1920s: how the money was earned by each club, how it was spent, and how much might be spent on which items. There are some that may find this kind of information less interesting than pennant races, or a distraction to the flow of the book, but there are also those who find this information interesting and may enjoy this slight break in the 1924 season to get an overall view of baseball in that era.

Overall, it is most interesting book, one that has the drama of exciting pennant races, the joy of a national hero making his first World Series appearance, a seven-game contest between contrasting styles of play, extra inning dramatics several times during the Series, unexpected quirks of fate in the last game, and, as in all good plots, a surprising ending. It's definitely a good book to read.

I still don't understand why people didn't like this when this first issue of DK2 came out. Frank Miller did something so far outside of their expectations, that they immediately ascribed it to FM's knowingly and intentionally annoying his fans, hence the parody of this first issue's cover that made the rounds on the internet: Batman's fist maliciously turned into his gloved hand giving the world and comic fans and the reader the proverbial middle-finger (you know, the bird). But I took this first issue as Miller's way of doing something new and unique. He may have had some fun doing this series, but I did not then and do not now think he was doing something intentionally devious or mean-spirited. The first issue of DK2 lets us know that some of the most powerful and, to some degree least human, of the Justice League -- Superman, Wonder Woman, and Shazam -- have all been successfully blackmailed into being turned into their greatest enemy's -- that is, Lex Luthor's and Brainiac's -- slaves. At stake are the lives they hold most dear, and those lives don't reside for these heroes on Planet Earth. Batman at one point actually calls Superman "the puppet of dirtbags." All the other superheroes have been incarcerated in various ways. The Atom, for instance, has dropped and left to rot in a petri dish, and the Flash has been running a hamster-wheel-generator so the cities can have cheap electricity. And we know there are others out there, victims to a police state with an iron grip that only Jimmie Olsen speaks out against. We learn that the President is nothing but a computer-generated fake. And betraying all his foremost convictions and best friends, Superman, too, proves himself false. The result of his choices ultimately leads to the imprisonment of all the other superheroes. And this is why Batman hates him. It explains some of what began (Superman's serving the President's beck and call) in and some of what was left unsaid (Batman's not-quite-explained intention to demolish the man of steel) in The Dark Knight Returns. Batman chose to go underground instead of turning hypocrite. Superman stayed above ground and up above in the heavens and becomes the greatest weapon in the hands of ultimate evil. Batman implies he is more Kal-El (alien) than man; he undoubtedly believes he could have found another way. And so the story becomes a lesson in perspective, viewpoint, and the consequences thereof. The Atom chooses to fight to the death in his petri dish and thereby lives (just as Batman did in DK Returns). This issue revolves around the rescue of the Atom and Flash as well as highlighting intriguing chameos by the Question and the Green Arrow. Called a terrorist for breaking into government institutions and rescuing these heroes, Batman knows Superman will be provoked and commanded to attack him and bring him to so-called justice. Superman rumbles through the Batcave and summarily gets his omnipotent butt kicked. In closing, Frank Miller isn't creating a comic story here so much as he is a Superhero Philosophy. Caroline Keene Kelly (formerly Robin in Dark Knight Returns) is a mirror image of Batman in this book, and in a telling scene where a Batboy soldier kills a man claiming that he "had no choice" and the he can "break" her "in half," she disciplines him by breaking him symbolically and literally. And then we know what Batman, as self-appointed field commander of superheroes is dealing with: a discipline problem. And deal with it (in the next two issues), he will.

This is a Bear Facts book printed by Reader's Digest in 1988. It is a glossy, hardcover book. There are a series of Bear Facts books about science and nature for preschool children. This book is about the different seasons. The child will follow the earth's path as it circles around the sun. The seasons change from spring to summer to autumn to winter. There are colorful, pictures of the bear in space and on earth experiencing the different seasons. A child can learn a lot from this book. The other books in this series are Air, Day and Night, Earth, Fire and Rain.

This book is an old favorite and somewhere along the way, I lost my copy. It's good to have one back on the shelf.