Bates Books

Autumn and Winter have often been analogized with the fading of life and approach of death. "Graced by the Seasons: Fall and Winter in the Northwoods" by John Bates seeks to disprove that analogy. Looking at animal kind and its habits during this cooler months, it's an eye opening account of how much life goes into these two seasons. The habits are intriguing and interesting, sure to please the nature lover in everyone. "Graced by the Seasons" is a unique nature book, not simply dismissing winter for hibernation or migration.

I love this book. Told as a story, GRANDMA ELEPHANT'S IN CHARGE emphasizes the elephant social structure and it also packs in a lot of zoological information about elephant characteristics and habitat. Two fonts are used to distinguish the main story from the labels or added information. The illustrations are warm blue and earth tone paintings. There is an additional paragraph "About Elephants" at the end of the book as well as an index. Karen Woodworth-Roman, Children's Science Book Review

"This collection of thirteen captivating tales by Irish authors illustrates both traditional and modern approaches to the Celtic art of storytelling. Spanning two centuries, it features stories by Maria Edgeworth and William Carleton from the beginning of Irish prose fiction in English; retellings of traditional tales by Lady Gregory and Standish O'Grady from the great age of the Irish Literary Revival; and contributions from many of the twentieth century's most significant writers, including William Butler Yeats, James Stephens, James Joyce, Seumas O'Kelly, and Liam O'Flaherty."--eCAMPUS

I really enjoyed this collection of Flash stories. For one, I really don't get to read much Golden Age Flash stories with the Archives being so expensive. And two, I think the stories that were picked were some of the best and were enjoyable. My only complaint is that it isn't longer, because I would have kept reading.

For any beginning practioner this book can't be beat. It is easy to use and understand. It shows how to do all aspects of a physical exam, along with taking a complete and accurate history.

Yes, I must confess that I have read this book. It contains excellent information for those who practice the art of heat treatment. I found the topics on quenchant analysis techniques valuable for testing our quench media

This book is a priceless collection helping us remember the Harford County of old. I find something new in the photos each and everytime I look. A must have for residents current and from the past

Gave this as a gift to my brother who recently moved there. It is a beautiful place. I believe he really liked it. Nice little coffeee table book

I read this book as part of my research on a parenting presentation on Sibling Rivalry and Jealousy. It had some good components to it with practical advice on dealing with fighting dilemmas. As an educational consultant and parent of three fighting boys this book gave insight on why kids rival and fight as well as strategies to help deal with it and minimize it. A great resource to use. -Straightforward Parenting and Consultation.

I teach several university courses on South Asia, and this new survey is proving extremely popular with students. The simple reason, I think, is that it is very intuitively structured.

An introductory chapter lays out key aspects of South Asia's richly diverse and multi-layered society and culture, managing to offer anthropological as well as historical perspectives without either overwhelming or patronising the general reader. This is a considerable achievement given the complexity of the subject matter, and it is accomplished without shying-away from contentious aspects of South Asian life and history - instead treating them sensitively and refreshingly straightforwardly.

The bulk of the book then takes the reader from the last decades of the Mughal Empire, through the period of British colonial rule, movements of resistance, Independence, partition and post-colonial India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka - all the way into the present century. Part of the book's mission is to tease out the role of ordinary people in South Asian history, particularly where resistance to colonial rule - and then to some of the less successful forms of post-colonial rule - is concerned. This has been a central concern in South Asian scholarship for quite a while now but a general survey that carries on through 1947 and Independence rather than making it an ending or starting point is valuable indeed - not least since so many of South Asia's current political and social challanges have important origins or catalysts in the pre-colonial and colonial periods.

A book of this scope has to make sacrifices, and specialists may feel that their own areas have been short-changed in places or that small, isolated incidents of resistance are given too much space in a book that needs to cover a great deal of ground. But the author moves very well from such areas, which are still heavily under-represented in histories of the anti-colonial movement and need to be aired, to aspects of South Asian history - Gandhi, Nehru and the rest - that are more familiar. The result is an account of events and processes that coheres very well.

Its rich thematic bibliography - 45 pages long - is a major asset for the book, while one of the advantages of the main text is that it introduces shifts in the historiography in the course of dealing with the history itself. This is clearly of great use to students and to general readers interested in how academic as well as political perceptions about South Asia have shifted over time, often in relation to new events on the sub-continent.