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Stuarts description of trails is to the tee. I am an avid hiker amongst the islands and have looked and used several books on hiking Hawaii, and none compare to Stuart's. I hiked Ko'olau Summit Trail in early September, I had Stuart's book to guide me. The book starts the trail off on the La'ie Trail which intersects with the summit trail. In his notes he states that one can hike the trail from Pupukea, but it is very overgrown and muddy. Haa, I thought . I have hiked some overgrown trails in my day, how bad can this be. Let me tell how bad it is! It was just about the worst hike I have ever been on. From Pupukea to the La'ie Trail junction was some of the worst trail conditions I have ever encountered. What little trail there was, was overgrown so badly that it took us two full days (16 hours) to hike approximately 15 miles. Needless to say once we got past the La'ie Trail junction, his book led us effortlessly to the Schofield-Waikane Trail. I actually thougt about going to Kipapa Ridge. whew! If Stuart says its overgrown it is, if he says it is beautiful it is. His book is easy to read, follow, and understand. I would highly recommend both his hiking books over all books covering trails on the Hawaiin Islands

I tried to like this book. But the more I tried, the more disappointed I was.

I've gone back and forth with myself over whether this book ought to describe more trails. After all, ten backpacking trips, four of which are in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, seems a bit spare. I decided not to give this book a lower rating since I did buy it because it says "backpackers" in the title, and looking at other guide books and maps has convinced me that there are probably a limited number of multi-day trips available on the islands. Nonetheless, you should keep in mind that it's a bit thin for its price tag. Looking at similarly priced titles on my bookshelf, I would expect twice as many trips and more descriptions of branch trails and day hikes beyond the destination campsites.

The trail descriptions themselves are good. The overviews are enjoyable and include major landmarks along the way. The overviews are then followed by overly detailed route descriptions. They go so far as to tell you to "Pass a mango tree on the right," and they count the number of switchbacks you ascend or descend. This is useful for unmarked or unmaintained trails, such as the dayhike to Pu'u 'O'o, but unnecessary filler for many of the other trails.

Most disappointing were the maps. The book has island-level locator maps that show you the general area each trip can be found. But there are no overview maps to give you a feel for what each trip looks like from start to finish. And the detail maps are themselves problematic. They have no color coding, so the reader is left to decipher a map showing gray text on top of gray topographical features on top of gray contour lines. And like a AAA trip planner, the maps are oriented so that the trail runs up-and-down the page without regard for the cardinal directions. For the Mauna Loa trip, North rotates over four maps from the bottom left of the page to the top of the page.

The book's one saving grace is it's photography. 16 pages of beautiful pictures will help you decide which trails appeal to you. Halape, on the beach in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, looks like heaven on earth. And after looking at the pictures, I'm pretty sure that I'd like to dayhike the barren Mauna Loa or Haleakala, but I don't want to camp there.

I have taken this book (or photocopies of relavant information) on all my backpackings throughout the Hawaiian islands. This includes hikes and backpackings on Oahu, Kauai, Maui, and Hawaii and have hiked in parks such as Kokee, Kalalau, Haleakala, and Hawaii Volcanoes National Parks. Fabulous information regarding trail routes, how to get to the trailheads, and what permit and important information any experienced backpacker needs to know. I've led backpacking groups, too, with this information. Stuart Ball has been there and knows his stuff. Highly recommended by the Backyard Oahu website!!

Anyone thinking of overnight stays in the Hawaii backcountry should have this book. In it is info about getting to the trailhead, negotiating the trail itself, and more. I've used it for trips across Haleakala, to Halape, and up Mauna Loa. Don't leave home without it. [g]

Very good book. If your interested in football (i.e. soccer) this covers everything. There are some slow parts but not that many and that could be attributed to not growing up with the sport. Great read but I think only if your really into football.

I've read a lot of books about sports in my relatively short time on this planet and while I have really enjoyed many of them and reread a few multiple times, this was definitely the first sports-related book I have ever NOT wanted to finish. Based on my rating, you can tell I mean this in a completely positive way: this book was easily one of the most informative and engaging texts I have ever had the pleasure of reading.

The main point of this text is the history of soccer (or football, whichever you may prefer - I'm an American, so soccer it is), which is clear from the subtitle on the cover. Yet there is so, so, so much more contained within the roughly 900 pages that span the book's binding. You have a lot of politics, great human successes and failures, stories of survival and disaster, as well as small passages that set you in a certain time and space where Goldblatt takes you to a scene important to the chapter or section.

For a well-read fan of the game, the importance of this book lies in the first half of it, as Goldblatt starts from the very beginning, discussing ball games of the ancient world, moving to the late 19th century and the creation of the English FA and the FA Cup, the development of professionalism (both accepted and hidden) versus amateurism, and while he obviously takes the history all the way to the present, the first half of the book opens up a history of the sport that many know absolutely nothing about. Soccer in the first half of the 20th century is not a well-known history, one Goldblatt marvelously elucidates.

For those who like the sport but know little about it, the book shows you how much there was to soccer before the advent of the Premier League, corporate sponsorship, and 32 teams in the World Cup. Goldblatt does a tremendous job of really digging into the social and political implications and uses of the sport in various countries, from the first world to the third.

Perhaps the most impressive part is that this text is all-inclusive. You don't just get a history of European soccer with a decent bit about South America and occasional mentions or anecdotes from Africa, North America, Australia, or Asia. Goldblatt delves into every continent's history and relationship to the game, truly showing how soccer really is the global game. All in all, this is a fantastic read and I highly recommend it to anyone.

This is amazing, wide ranging work that tells the story of football (soccer) and places it in the social context of the times. It is a dense and scholarly work which covers a lot of world history and social class because football does not stand on it's own as simply a game but it is much more important than life and death(to paraphrase Bill Shankly's famous quote).
Goldblatt is a very good writer who had me reaching for the Dictionary, who is able to synthesize the rich history of world football into a readable account. I appreciate the match accounts from great matches.
I see this book as an companion to the excellent History of Football BBC series. The only drawback with this book is that it should have more photos

I found this book to be phenomenal. I must admit that I am a rather new prosylyte to "futbol" or soccer as we call it here in the States. I really new nothing about the history of the sport and very little about modern rules or teams or leagues. That having been said, I found the book to be very informative. Goldblatt begins with the "pre-history" of soccer, exposing many nationalist myths about soccer's origins and placing it firmly into the realm of a Celtic game taken up by elite public school boys in Victorian England.

The chapters dealt with specific subjects and I actually found the book to be extremely well organized. Time periods are gone through and after World War I, Goldblatt begins seperating chapters by region (Latin America from 1934-1954, Europe from 1934-1954, Africa from 1900-1974, Latin America from 1955-1974, etc.).

Having said all of that, what made this book especially interesting to me was the placing of soccer within a much larger context. He takes the narrative of soccer and places it within the meta-narrative of world history, economics, sociology, and anthropology. Soccer serves as the thread through which modern history is successfully traced. The writing is brilliant, at times incredibly deep, but always readable and always urging the reader to continue. Each chapter contains a reflection on a notable match of that time period. These are written in a completely different style than the rest of the book and are absolutely incredible. The writing is brilliant and the imagery is transportive.

All in all, more than deserving of five stars. This soccer "newbie" has become a seasoned vet in a span of less than one thousand pages.

It has been a half century now since the United States government made its initial commitment to the space program. As a result of our involvement in space the lives of average Americans have been changed considerably over the past five decades. Fantastic new technologies that were simply unimaginable 50 years ago are now a part of our everyday lives. And people are living longer, healthier lives as a result of the medical advances spawned by the space race. To try to help put all of this in some kind of perspective Michael D'Antonio has come up with a terrific new book. Like an episode of the popular old TV series "Time Tunnel", "A Ball, A Dog, And A Monkey" carries us back to the year 1957 when it all began. It proves to be an fascinating and eye opening journey.
In "A Ball, A Dog, And A Monkey: 1957 - The Space Race Begins" Michael D'Antonio introduces us to many of the major players who were there at the very beginning of this fantastic voyage. Perhaps no one is more interesting or more controversial than one Wehrner von Braun. As a young boy growing up in Prussia, von Braun was obsessed with the notion of space travel. And as a young man, von Braun would become one of Nazi Germany's premier rocket experts. At the conclusion of World War II the United States recruited von Braun and a number of other German scientists to aid in the development of the U.S. space program. In addition, we also meet key people like James Van Allen, General J. Bruce Medaris and presidential advisor Herbert York who all made significant contributions to the cause in the earliest days of the space race. There is also quite a bit of information of the politics of outer space. You will learn who stepped up to support space exploration and who was skeptical. It was also a lot of fun to discover how veteran NBC news space corresepondant Jay Barbree came to be involved in covering the space program. As an upstart young reporter he was there at the very beginning and as far as I know is still covering the space program for NBC News to this day! D'Antonio also reveals what life was like for those who worked at Cape Canaveral in those early years. Many hardships were endured by those pioneering souls who toiled at the Cape back then and the families of these people had to make numerous sacrifices as well. We should all be very grateful! Finally, I was stunned to discover that the first satellite launched into space by the United States was a ball weighing just four pounds! Can you believe it?
"A Ball, A Dog, And A Monkey: 1957 - The Space Race Begins" grabbed my attention immediately and held it to the very end. Michael D'Antonio is a gifted writer who gives an honest assessment of just what was going on in this nation some fifty years ago. One of the more interesting books I have read in 2007. Highly recommended!

So now it had begun. The conquest of space, for which the prophets, Tsiolkovskij, Oberth, von Braun, Clarke, Gatland, Ley, Gartmann, Burgess and others had argued so long and so eloquently. Of course it was slightly disturbing that the Soviets were the first, after all, we had been waiting for Vanguard for a couple of years now. Floods of words have inundated the sea of printed pages since then. One might wonder what new there would be to be found in yet another book on the beginning of the Space Race.
Well, for anyone who lived through those years,it's nice to remember, and to partake of the reflections of others on those times. For those, the majority of readers, to whom all this is ancient history, it will be an illumination of the sentiments of a bygone age. It was really an quaint and different age, with different values, most of which we, tankfully, have left behind, an age that should stay bygone, and good riddance. Mr D'Antonio presents the actual events, as they happened, well, most of that is to be found elsewhere. Much of the reminiscenses also have been published before. So what then? There is, of course the possibility of aquiring all those books and articles, if you have the inclination, the means to do so - and the shelf room to accomodate it all. Here you have a representative digest of all that stuff, spiced with interwiews by the author, not to be found elsewhere, in all comprising a synthesis you won't find anywhere else. Interspaced with the luminaries and main actors of the drama we meet those so-called "ordinary" - more often than not not-so-ordinary - people, whose lifes were touched by all the strange things going on.
Sadly, we miss those stories that are still awaiting to be uncovered on the Soviet side, and the general world-picture is typically North American bipolar: US and "them others", i.e. people living beyond the sea. Still, it's a good read, you can feel the suspence, the dissappointment and the feeling of triumph, even though your own memories, or the history books, have given away the punch-lines of the story. I had to pause for sleep but got myself a scalding for bringing the book to table. It was all worth it.

I was in 9th grade for Vanguard and Explorer, but I would later come to work on Gemini and Apollo as an engineer at Kennedy. I remember studying the IGY in school.

This book does a great job of bring the fascinating history of the beginning of the space race alive, and I hated to put it down. There are a few factual/historical errors and typos, but nothing that seriously detracts from the content.

I really enjoyed the book, and learned quite a bit of new information. All in all, a very good read with fewer errors than I notice in most space histories.

The early history of the space race will probably seem a bit alien and strange for younger persons who know or remember only NASA's failures (amid some continuing triumphs). For anyone old enough to remember staring with wonder at Sputnik as it crossed the sky over their front yard shortly after October 4, 1957 (I was eleven years old and as it turns out, what we saw was its booster rocket behind the actual satellite), this book brings out the political and bureaucratic infighting in the U.S. military that occurred at the time, as well as the story of the Soviet engineers who pulled off the feat and who were carefully hidden from public view. This book is clearly written and is close to being a page turner. It combines narratives based on interviews with those who were involved in everything from getting U.S. rockets off the ground to those who scrambled to provide housing for those first coming to Cape Canaveral, with straight historical analysis and description of the era and just enough detail. Highly recommended whether you are old enough to remember Sputnik and want an account of what was going on you DIDN'T know about, or are younger and want a readable account of the early era of the "space race".

Ignore the offensive Introduction by Jon Murray. The bulk of the book consists of quotations in which God or his agents do evil things, among them exterminating entire populations and punishing persons for the crimes of others. Making the crucifixion of his own exemplary son the price for redeeming sinful mankind is something one might expect from a Caligula or a Nero, not a just deity.

Many factual contradictions in the Bible are also listed. The devout reader will realize that he had been conditioned to suspend all critical thinking in the course of religious activities.

I rated the book 5 stars despite of the fact that it could be improved by deleting much of it, because there is no other book like it.

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It's nice to see all the supposed errors of the King James Version laid out in one volume. Of course, pointing out mistakes in the KJV only shows that its translators made errors. Many of these errors are pretty trivial and many others turn out to be more symptomatic of the impoverished imaginations of those who dwell on such trivialities. Even if this book did refute the KJV, it wouldn't refute any other translation, nor would it make a dent in the ancient texts.

Still, this book is useful, not only for those looking to poke holes in what is one of the literary masterpieces of the English language, but for Christian apologists who try to explain such problems to unbelievers as why God's decision to drown the whole world was morally justified, while some man who wishes to imitate God by drowning a few of his morally depraved neighbors would not be morally justified in doing so.

The persistent ridiculing tone of the authors is distracting, but this book is a useful reference.

This book raises most of the right issues about the reliability of the Bible, especially regarding the problems surrounding the teaching and character of Jesus. Their comments on the fig tree story in Mark 11 are especially incisive. (I would add that Jesus could have miraculously made the fig tree produce fruit out of season, if he wanted figs that badly. And if the tree was someone's property, he committed an act of vandalism by killing it!)

The chapter that hasn't worn well, however, is the one where Foote and Ball describe all of what they considered "obscenities" in the Bible. Perhaps to their Victorian sensibilities (the book was originally published circa 1900 CE), descriptions of circumcisions, menstruation taboos, "goings in unto the harlot," and so forth were unseemly, but as a 21st Century CE Materialist I don't find them particularly offensive. The Old Testament writers are generally quite frank about the animal substrate in human nature, which New Testament writers try to ignore or "spiritualize" away as they were under the influence of Greek philosophical dualism. Not all Greek-inspired writers were that reticent to acknowledge the biological facts of human existence, however: The Roman Epicurean, Lucretius, is quite as open about bodily functions in his poem _De Rerum Natura_ as many of the Old Testament writers are.

No, I'm not offended by the Bible's acknowledgement of our animality. It just supports the Materialist position that we are products of this world, and not visitors from some "higher plane." The passages which offended Foote and Ball may be in bad taste, or present examples of conduct which wouldn't be wise to emulate, but I don't consider them specimens of biblical errancy per se.

Still, this book is a worthwhile addition to the skeptic's library, despited the compilers' outdated attitudes.

This book contains all the contradictions, absurdities and atrocities in the Christian Bible. The introduction is a lame piece of writing, and the book contains a lot of repetition, but there's no better way to prepare for a debate with a Christian. This book is a one-stop Bible buster.

The book I read was Championship Ball, by Clair Bee. Championship Ball is about a high school basketball player named Chip. Chip is an extremely good athlete and is a starting basketball player for his high school. Everything was going great until something happened that would change Chips life forever. During a basketball game Chip got tripped up and hit the ground hard. As Chip was writhing in pain, the team trainer came out to assist him. As it turned out Chip had fractured his ankle in several places. It was pretty bad which would mean that he would have to watch the games from the team bench for the rest of the year most likely. As his team goes on without him, they are doing quite well. They are making a championship run, and they are doing quite well, and they eventually get there. Before the big championship game, Chip was begging his coach to let him play. Chip's coach is not sure if Chip is
ready to play just yet, but Chip is by far the best athlete on the team. Will Chip get to play in the big game, or will he have to spend yet another game spectating from the bench.
I really enjoyed the book because it is very suspenseful, and it is hard to put down. It is suspenseful because throughout the book the author does not tell you Chips condition in its entirety, and whether or not he will get to play in the up coming games. There was on thing that I did not like about the book and that is the repetitiveness. It seemed like every time a big game was about to unfold, the same thing happened on the court. Also every time Chip asked his coach to play, he always said no, so you kind of almost expect it.
My strongest reason for recommending this book is that it is very well put together. Also if you are into sports or you like suspense and action, then you will probably love this book because it has all of these aspects.

Championship Ball was a great book! It is mainly about a boy, named Chip Hilton, who goes through his junior year with a broken leg. When he breaks his leg he can't play basketball so, he becomes the team manager. At first, he thinks he will have a terrible year but, later he finds out that he has learned more about basketball with his broken leg than he ever will. He learns about friendships and coaching more in this basketball season than his whole junior year put together. Chip coaches the team all the way to the championship. That's where Chip gets the winning ball. His team tells him about what a great manager he was. That's when Chip finally realizes that he had been the greatest manager ever.
In my opinion Championship Ball rocked my court! Chip Hilton has a great group of friends. His friends never do anything bad and never put anyone down. This book has great tone. The author puts in a great sense of joy throughout the whole book. There are only about a few places that I can point out were the author has used bad tone. This is a great book for boys who want to learn about basketball and yet, there is many great examples of doing what is right. So I say, get it and see what happens to my favorite manager, Chip Hilton.

This fast paced sports book is jam-packed with action and has so many twists and turns that you won't want to stop reading. After losing their star center Chip Hilton, they are forced to use a rookie plus they only have 3 returning members, the Valley Falls Basketball team is sure to be an underdog.

Chip Hilton would normally be playing basketball but before this season he got hurt in a car crash and fractured his foot so he needed a brace. When the basketball season begins he still has the brace, therefore he is not allowed to play... so he becomes the team manager. During the season the team looses some players and is in danger of not making it into the playoffs.

This book reminded me of Matt Christopher's books. They are both series (Chip Hilton sports series). Matt Christopher's books are pretty straight forward, but this book has more twists so it was more fun to read.

An overall great sport fiction book that is suitable for many ages, if you like reading sports books. A great technique that the author uses is when he has the main character not be one of the players but the manager of the team. Overall I would recommend this book to anyone that wants a good fast paced sports story.

There's a good blend of the past and present in this book. In comparing it to the original, I like the updates that have been done without offending us older readers. The spirit of teamwork is still relevant to any age. I still get misty-eyed at the end.

My 7 yr old daughter has gotten attached to this series of books. The characters are her age, and all have a special power and an animal friend. She can read it by herself, which builds her confidence. Each story has a good moral.

Demetra trades a lock of her hair for a magic ball from a fourtune teller. Then trouble is melting white winterland!

This good book shows what can happen if you don't think about what you're doing first. Over all, I think everyone should read this book!

My 8 year old reads this series to her 6 year old sister and they both love it. The Princesses are strong role models for little girls and help them to learn to deal with problems in a positive light. Although some form of magic is involved, the Princesses show good leadership and strong values. They learn to face problems without fear. How nice for little girls!

Margaret Ball's DISAPPEARING ACT tells of a woman who borrows a rich stranger's identity - only to find the woman is supposed to be bionically enhanced with abilities and weapons she can't possess. Intrigue and action follow.

This is a really good action story by Margaret Ball. Those of her novels which I have previously read have been fantasy but this one is science fiction.

The central character is an young orphan called Maris who lives on a space station where the only life available to her is to work for the boss of a criminal gang. The gang boss orders her to tail a woman who has been asking too many questions. Then the woman is captured by the gang, turns out to be a government agent or "Diplomat" called Calandra Vissi with all sorts of special abilities, and walks out of an airlock to avoid being forced to tell what she's up to.

Noting some resemblance between Maris and Calandra, the gang boss decides to provide the police with a body which they could mistake for Calandra before they can take the station apart looking for her. So he has Calandra's ID gimmicked to match Maris, and plans to fake her accidental death. Realising what he's planning, Maris escapes by catching the Diplomatic shuttle which Calandra was due to take to the primitive world Kalapriya.

However, Maris's problems are only just beginning. She has no training in how to pass for a diplomat, none of the enhancements which a real diplomat would have, and she hasn't been on the planet of Kalapriya for half a day when one of the criminals who Calandra was coming to the planet to investigate tries to assassinate her.

But although she isn't a real diplomat, Maris turns out ot bemore resourceful than anyone, including herself, could possibly have expected.

Delightful story with all the humour and charm one can usually expect from Margaret Ball.

The one warning I would give to anyone thinking of buying this, is that the racket the bad guys are up to is not just evil but seriously disgusting, and parts of this novel are not for the squeamish. Apart from that I can very strongly recommend it.

Decent story about a teenage alley cat girl from a intersteller space station who is forced to masquerade as a "diplo" (sort of a far-future secret agent type), when she figures out her cohorts in crime intend to murder her and use her body in place of her virtual double, the diplo. So, using her new identity, she is able to get off the space station before she gets killed, and she is then forced to continue the masquerade on a strange planet, where she must ingage in all sorts of adventures in order to get by.

Drawbacks to the book are that there is no new SciFi technology introduced, and at times the story gets a bit too corny... especially the ending, which is almost "Disneyesque".

This is basically a very good sci-fi book. Set off-world in a distant, but familiar, future it is a story about power hungry people illegally trading bio-technology for arms. Those who accidentally unravel the organization are not necessarily motivated by good intentions. In their own way they plan to benefit from the illegal trade until the moral implications of the corruption disgust even them. Eventually, the would be good guys mend their selfish ways and overpower the bad guys for a happy ending. On the way questions are raised about the morality of colonization of new worlds, ethics of applying bio-enhancements to humans, and the acceptability of exposing advanced technology to developing societies. It had thought provoking moments even though it sometimes read like a coming of age romance. (After all, the lead character was 17 pretending to be 30.)

On the other hand, Disappearing Act was very poorly edited. The pacing was terrible. It took me 100 pages to figure out where the story was going. I could not tell if the title referred to one of the main characters, Calandra or Maris; or the political prisoners of Udara. There was too much detail, too much background on lesser characters, too many cultural observations... get on with the story already. And the names! I had a terrible time with the names of the characters and the places without a discussion of the meaning of the names. The last 100 pages was a bit of a "hurry up" ending. Details, so painstakingly included in the beginning, were suddenly skipped, and the time line became confusing. Even so, it was still a good read, a nice starting point for women reading science fiction.

This is a good one! I don't like it as much as some other ones, but it's good! I reccomend buying it. All I can really tell yu without spoiling it is that it's about when they fight the Ginyu force!

As an avid dragonball manga fan, I can safely say that this is perhaps the best dragonball [z] manga to date. The story, as anyone who read the summary will know, is when Son Goku lands on planet namek (after an intense training session in space), and then proceeds to save his friends and smack around the ginyu force. I won't go into to much detail, but the real prize of this manga is the accuracy of the dialogue. Since many American DBZ fans have only seen the pathetic, butchered, counterpart episodes on TV (Put out by our friends at FUNimation), this shows what Dragonball was intended to be. The language (while far and few between) is maintained, and all the frames are left undoctered (even a four-year old Son Gohan being smacked around by the evil Ricum).

While Dragonball fans will certainly see the beauty of this wonderful manga, non-dragonball fans will appreciate it too, with excellent fight scenes on par with Ryoichi Ikegami's (Crying Freeman, Samurai Crusader) fight scenes[as far as clarity goes].

Any manga fan should buy this. It will not dissapoint.

This book was one of the best in the series. It fetures the battle with the goofy but strong ginyu force. If you enjoy the show you will love seeing it in its original Magna(Japanese comic) formate! Also this book is the first in the series to show Goku fight after his 100times Gravity trianing It is a must buy.

The seven wish-granting Dragon Balls are in the hands of evil emperor Freeza! To stop him from becoming immortal, Gohan and Kuririn and their unlikely ally Vegeta must defeat the remaining Ginyu Force, the four greatest fighters in the galaxy. But it doesn't look good. Once again, our outmatched heroes face incredible odds in a fight for dear life and their only hope is hurtling towards them on a spaceship with an interior pressure of 100 Gs! The mysterious and strangely changed Son Goku is on his way.

I knew nothing about gardeing with grasses but wanted to try some in my backyard so I referenced this book. So far, my garden's been a huge success, thanks to Martin's advice and photos.

This book covers grasses that grow in the Ontario area, but the information given is just as valid for me in California. The photos are excellent & the descriptions of each variety are extremely useful.

Despite the title, there's scant information on using grasses in the landscape. And many of the photos are of poor quality. For the money, there are better grass books on the market. For great photos and inspiration, I much prefer Nancy Ondra's "Grasses: Versatile Partners for Uncommon Garden Design."

I must start off by saying that I love ornamental grasses. I love the way they look, especially in winter when their long stalks and inflouresences sway in the wind against a backdrop of a snowy white blanket. Martin Quinn and Catherine Macleod have put together a great book showing how to use grasses in landscapes. They discuss forms and uses before giving details about 100 different species of grass. I've found several that I want to incorporate into my landscape, and even found some design suggestions in this book. Quinn is a renowned grass breeder in Canada, so he knows his grasses and includes many that are hardy for use in northern climates.

Entertaining biography of rock and roller Jerry Lee Lewis. It details his rise from the poverty of rural Louisiana to become a rock and roll legend. Told by his wife of thirteen years, Myra Lewis, the book recounts an insider's view of those early days of rock and roll and of the rise of Jerry Lee Lewis in the annals of rock and roll.

Jerry grew up with his first cousin, Jimmy Lee Swaggart, who in his own right achieved a measure of notoriety as a prominent preacher and televangelist. Lewis, however, a music lover from early childhood, wanted nothing more than to be a piano playing musician. A backwoods good ole boy, he shocked the country with his antics, topping it all off with his marriage to his thirteen year old cousin, Myra, an act which brought him unwelcome notoriety.

Known for his high energy performances, Jerry Lee Lewis lived hard, played hard, and worked hard at his music. His was a life of which legends are made. This book is an enjoyable, no holds barred narrative of that life.

Here's a writer who did his research for years...its factual, interesting and important!

This is the best book ever written about "The Killer." It is
well researched, factual, and brilliantly composed! It is a classic.

Entertaining biography of rock and roller Jerry Lee Lewis. It details his rise from the poverty of rural Louisiana to become a rock and roll legend. Told by his wife of thirteen years, Myra Lewis, the book recounts an insider's view of those early days of rock and roll and of the rise of Jerry Lee Lewis in the annals of rock and roll.

Jerry grew up with his first cousin, Jimmy Lee Swaggart, who in his own right achieved a measure of notoriety, as a prominent preacher and televangelist. Lewis, however, a music lover from early childhood, wanted nothing more than to be a piano playing musician. A backwoods good ole boy, he shocked the country with his antics, topping it all off with his marriage to his thirteen year old cousin, Myra, an act which brought him unwelcome notoriety.

Known for his high energy performances, Jerry Lee Lewis lived hard, played hard, and worked hard at his music. His was a life of which legends are made. This book is an enjoyable, no holds barred narrative of that life.