Boone Books

Stephen Aron's "How the West Was Lost" is the standard work on Kentucky in the frontier and early-statehood eras. He provides cultural, social, political, and economic aspects of the settlement of the state and its transformation from a "good poor man's country" to the slave-holding, aristocratic-led state of Henry Clay in the early nineteenth century. "How the West Was Lost" combines sound analysis and comprehensive research to create a work that will influence scholars for years to come and that provides a road map for future researchers interested in almost any topic in that era of Kentucky history. Complementing the amazing amount of information on early Kentucky, Johns Hopkins Press allowed Aron to include fifty pages of footnotes, which address the historiography and identify key works in addition to providing citations for sources quoted.
Aron is one of the best scholars of western/frontier history currently in the field. He presents an even-handed view of America's westward expansion that lies somewhere between Frederick Jackson Turner's triumphalism and the New Western History's demonizing of white settlement.

Stephen Aron's book depicts the two conflicting ideals of how Kentucky is to go down into history by pioneer Daniel Boone and then, the powerful Henry Clay. A very good book answering all the questions of historical Trans-Appalacha. I feel as if Aron could have shortened the book and still be able to get the point across of the two opposing sides.

This was assigned reading in my Kentucky History class. It covers the founding and settlement of Kentucky. What makes the book is the brief glimpses it gives of the Forgotten Kentuckies:

-- Free Kentucky. When the land was a giant game reserve for Native Americans, full of trees and animals, but devoid of people. Where the buffalo literally roamed until white hunters brought about their extinction in just a matter of a few years.
-- Pioneer Kentucky. When small families lived in the middle of nowhere, battling Mother Nature and Indians. A world where some Native American tribes tried to assimilate captured white settlers, and some missionaries tried to lead converted Indians.
-- Chaotic Kentucky. When the lawyers and land speculators showed up, driving free-thinking spirits such as Daniel Boone away.
-- the Bluegrass Era of Henry Clay. When wild Kentucky transformed into a mini version of the Old Dominion with its slavery and aristocratic living.
-- Outlaw Kentucky. When the Green River and other parts of the state tried and failed to rebel against the establishment.
-- The Great Revival. When evengelical religious fervor swept the state, bringing the Shakers among others.

All in all, there's a little something here for everybody. It can be read on many levels. As an account of early Kentucky, a look at the worlds of Daniel Boone and Henry Clay, a case study on frontier expansion, or for just pure enjoyment.

The book isn't bad... a little dry, but fairly easy to understand and gives you some good tips about financial planning, etc.

I payed for a 3 bus. days shipping and did not get it in that time. That didn't help my first week of school. The book said New, it was not even shrunk wraped. The new books come with a workbook, makes me wonder how new this book is.

This is an excellent book for anyone who wants to learn basic principles about money management including estate planning and retirement.

PLANNING FOR YOUR FINANCIAL FUTURE is well organized, easy to read and understand! The authors explain and illustrate good examples of worksheets for each topic; the book also includes additional blank worksheets in the back of the book.

Other topics include: housing, insurance (car, life, and medical), stock market, transportation, retirement, estate planning, etc.

A disk is included with sample template files to enable the user to prepare numerous worksheets using EXCEL. Examples of templates: budget, income statement, balance sheets, future value of money, loan payments, estate planning.

My students (Ages 17 and up--even older adults)love this book because of its importance to their personal lives and their financial future. They never return this book to the bookstore during "buyback"; they tell me that they will keep it as a great resource. I AGREE!

An Amos Walker Mystery. After reading a rare Estleman clunker (Stress (Detroit Crime Series #5) - skip it), this is a welcome return to the quality of writing one expects from Mr. Estleman, almost a classic.

Tight plot, no wasted words or actions in 200 pages of paperback that would be 400 pages in any other private eye mystery writer's hands, or a 1,000 page 20-hour miniseries for James Michener if he were a private eye mystery writer.

Includes an excellent short story "The Anniversary Waltz" at the end.

Loren Estleman's Amos Walker private eye series is one of the best of the genre. Novels like "Sugartown" and "The Glass Highway" are among the best P.I. novels ever. With "Silent Thunder," Walker stays true to form. He's as quick with his guns and hit wit as ever. He continues to run into dangeorus thugs and corrupt policemen. And he remains as uncorruptable as ever. In this installment, Walker takes on some crazy gun dealers and a powerful businessman on behalf of a client who's about to go on trial for murdering her husband. Its the type of case that Walker specializes in, helping the little person in a battle against the larger forces trying to extinguish them. Unfortunately in this book, Estleman allows plausibility to get taken for a ride. He stretches both the corrupt cop and the crazy gun nut angles way too far. Not to mention the fact that this is the first Walker novel in which the hero begins to seem a bit stale. Estleman has not allowed Walker to grow as a character the way Lawrence Block has with Matthew Scudder or Andrew Vachss has with his Burke charcter. And by this, the ninth novel in the series, Walker is beginning to get a little tired. Perhaps that is why Estleman took a seven year break from writing Walker adventures after the novel that follows this one. Overall, Walker novels are never bad but they are usually better than this.

Amos Walker is solidly in the tradition of the American private eye as established by such masters as Chandler,Hammett and MacDonald.He is white,middle aged,and partial to the twin vices of nicotine and alcohol.As a one man operation in an insecure profession he is no stranger to an existence just a step or two away from the poverty line.He is quick with a one liner and has an outlook on life that tempers a bruised romanticism with a relaxed tolerance and understanding.A good friend and bar room companion methinks.
His beat is Detroit,a city Estleman makes very much a character in its own right-decaying,violence ridden,corrupt and a place -as the writer is quick to point out-that has its history and culture very much tied to the gun.
In this book Walker is hired to prove the innocence of a wealthy widow,Constance Thayer,who is pleading self defence on a charge of shooting her late husband ,an abusive drunk.The late unlamented's father is seeking to prove cold blooded murder as he wishes to gain custody of her child and train him to take over the family business.
Walker becomes entangled in the arms trade as he seeks to find evidence that will exonerate Constance,and it is this which forms the real meat and potatoes of the book.Clearing Constance is relatively easy but the arms dealers are another and more vicious proposition entirely especially when very large sums of money are at stake,as is the case here.This aspect of the book does tend to strike a false note or two for me ,with a bad guy,a vietnam veteran, who seems to have strayed in from a Bond movie,what with his dreams of blackmailing an African government over mineral rights.It just sits oddly with the rest of the book which is a solid well crafted traditional private eye yarn.
Still,all in all ,its neatly and economically told,with compassion and heart not to mention a mordauntly cynical view of law enforcement.Just a pity about the plot going a tad awry towards the end
Still worth reading if you like the private eye genre.

Unfortunately, many so-called "rock journalists" are nothing more than sociology majors who let their devotion to an artists or group cloud their vision of unbiased criticism. In this case, we get a bit of that from the contributing writers as well as a bias toward progressive "rock," which is in most cases nothing more than classical music composer wannabees who don't want to miss out on the fabled rock lifestyle. Perhaps "Understanding Irrevalent Prog Rock" would have been a better title. And why would anyone analyze a four-minute song in 20 pages? Does any true rock song need more than a couple of paragraphs? This ain't Mahler, y'know!

This is a great book for anyone who has always suspected that there is more to rock music than just 3 chords, tough-guy posturing, and stories of wild lifestyles. As a working musician for over 20 years, I've seen first-hand how much skill goes into making even the simplest-sounding records. I especially liked the chapters on Yes and the Beach Boys. Let's have more of this kind of writing!!

The previous reviewer was clearly expecting something that would be a bit more like music journalism. In reality, this is a true scholarly work, designed for mostly graduate students and professionals in the musicological fields. The title clearly implies a more academic nature because of the "musical analysis" tag. Some of these articles are more geared towards recording practices, some are more music theory, some ethnomusicological, and others in the greater scheme of music history. The previous reviewer commented "this ain't Mahler, y'know," but the point is that these essays are designed for people who do want to use the traditional studies used for the classics of music to apply to current rock too.

This is a great resource for anyone trying to get a sense of how one can write about rock music. It is also an excellent sourcebook with a typically accurate and extensive bibliography for rock scholarship. The field of rock and pop studies in music academia is growing, from Beatles to Beach Boys to Tori Amos to Radiohead. This is a great survey study on a number of broad aspects of music scholarship.

Set in 90's northern California, over the "hill" yet vaguely linked to Sillicon Valley, this story of three school boys in a hick town holds the reader's interest--even if you are only kids at heart. The plot revolves loosely around the efforts of the soccer team to earn money for a trip to Australia, while on the serious side, adults cope with the issue of recurring arson.
The conscientious author revives the world of the 60's for his young audience--a world of hippies, drugs, anti-war protest and civil disobedience. One wonders if he is reliving his own frustrated teenage/college years, or making sure that the lessons of that turbulent era will not be forgotten or ignored
by another generation of young thinkers, for these three boys
want answers and reasons for general world order.

Boone Barnaby comes of age that school year, as several town buildings burn down and the team comes up with an ingenious fundraiser. But when he needs to escape his problems, his favorite perch proves a high branch in a tall redwood, where he can overlook the distant valley, his own little town and even the local prison. And ponder why little birds fly in flocks...But what do the mighty redwoods and the mini dragonfly have in common?

Boone's underprivileged best pal, Danny, often challenges the traditional view of honesty with his selfish coping mechanism. Then the new kid, Babcock, is included in their tight friendship-providing new opportunities for lessons in loyalty. Struggling for decreasing parental surveillance, the young protagonist evaluates the actions of his father in the past, as well as his attitudes in the present. He struggles to understand the erratic and misanthropic behavior of both the town miser and the town drunk. How can a kid justify doing right in a world gone wrong, where few adults seem to play by the rules? Both boys learn to respect Babcock's House Rules, but how can they be modified for practical life in the big world? An interesting story despite the threads of many themes packaged along with it.

Adventures of Boone Barnaby is a classic for boys and girls alike. Boone and his friends trying to raise money for the their soccer team to go to the champianship by holding a Trashathon was the funniest part. The quick whit of the characters and the creative twist of events left my class wondering if it was wrong to think unkindly about the old miser in the story. A great tool for discussions about fairness, truth, and justice. I read this to my sixth graders and they ALL recommended it to the fifth grade class!

The book arrived in excellent condition and several days before it was expected. Great service. The book is required reading material for my Marketing class.

Good book for school. very basic examples.
might be to basic if you have work experience.

Anne Wolff
ADED 5610 - Planning and Evaluation of Instruction
Book Review #1
Due Feb 19, 2006

Boone, E.J., Safrit, R.D., and Jones, J. (2002). Developing programs in adult education, A Conceptual Programming Model, 2nd ed. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press, Inc.
I chose the book, Developing Programs in Adult Education, A Conceptual Programming Model for my first book review because it would give me an opportunity to study an alternative approach to planning in addition to Caffarella's interactive model of planning. Boone's conceptual programming model addresses programming in adult education from a holistic systems approach that encompasses three interdependent and connecting processes: planning; design and implementation; and evaluation and accountability. This nonlinear, conceptually focused holistic model of the programming process provides adult educators with a consistent framework for understanding and giving meaning to the many activities in which they engage when planning, designing, implementing, and evaluating adult education programs.
Boone's conceptual programming model was developed from work in community colleges and community based programs, university continuing education divisions, the Cooperative Extension Service, volunteer organizations, and public health units, and thus is grounded in practical applications. Recognizing that adult educators function in complex and rapidly changing organizational and societal contexts, no fixed or static programming model can adequately address the diverse adult learner population, their societal, cultural, economic, political, and technological contexts. This conceptual programming model is much like Caffarella's interactive programming model in its flexibility of application. Boone's conceptual programming model encourages the adult educator to stay abreast of the external environment in which both the adult education organization and its practicing adult educators function through continuous environmental scanning. Mapping and involvement of the public in collaborative needs identification, assessment, and the design and implementation of educational programs allows the programmer to respond to needs of the institution and the target audience. This model emphasizes ongoing, planned formative evaluation of all major decisions and actions taken during the implementation of the total programming process. Summative evaluation of the planned program outcomes and the determination of the planned programs holistic impact on societal change are also strongly emphasized.
The basic structural organization of the book begins with a description of the programming process which includes all of the planned and collaborative efforts and activities of adult educators, learners, and institutional leaders in designing and effecting educational strategies that culminate in behavioral change in individual adult learners, and collectively, the targeted learner system and subsequent alterations of the system itself. The book reviews thirteen recognized models of adult education programming with an emphasis on the context, scope, philosophy, perspective, and applicability of each. Then there is a presentation of Boone's conceptual programming process theoretical tenets and models.
In the conceptual programming model, planning begins with an analysis of the adult education organization's internal context with an emphasis on understanding its mission, philosophy, structure, goals, and mode of operation. The planner then links the organization with its targeted audience and learners. Using systems analysis, adult educators access and involve the public by identifying and interfacing with the leaders and spokespersons of significant "stakeholder" groups. The purpose of this linkage process is to collaborate with these leaders in identifying, assessing, and analyzing the educational needs within the public/learner systems.
The design and implementation of the planned program is a purposeful and planned educational response to the expressed needs discovered in the planning process. With knowledge of the content area in which the expressed need lies, the adult educator translates this into connecting, developmentally focused hierarchies of needs, objectives, change and learning strategies, and outcomes which constitute the planned program. Plans of action are developed, and implemented through action strategies which include mobilizing needed human and material resources, marketing, designing and using formative evaluation to alter ongoing activities.
Evaluation and accountability are the third aspect of this conceptual planning model. This includes making informed judgments about the results obtained from implementing the activities of the programming process as formative evaluation, attaining the program's intended outcomes and impact based on established criteria and observable evidence as summative evaluation, and accountability for the results achieved in implementing the planned program.
I feel the primary author, Boone, was very successful in his intent to present the philosophical and theoretical framework and practical application of his conceptual programming model to adult educators. The book was well organized, with each chapter's purpose and place in the conceptual programming model clearly stated. Besides presenting the model for programming with clear examples, I feel Boone challenges adult educators to examine, test, accept, reject, modify, and extend his conceptual programming model and to develop new individual approaches to programming in adult education. I like the way the author emphasizes the general nature of his conceptual programming model to all planning situations, not just adult education. As a course textbook, I would prefer Boone, Safrit, and Jones's Developing Programs in Adult Education, because of the didactic approach in the book and the more comprehensive treatment of the theory and review of other models of planning programs.
I feel this book would be very effective for anyone involved in program planning, at any level. Compared to the course textbook, Boone's book offers a much more comprehensive approach to planning from his emphasis on the philosophy and theory of the planning process at the beginning, to a review and evaluation of existing planning models, to a detailed development of how to implement his conceptual planning process. The disadvantage of such a comprehensive approach to the planning process, is that is makes for a much longer and more complex book. Caffarella's book is really more of a workbook, a practical guide, and thus is much more brief and to the point, with exercises and applications emphasizing the key points.

Be careful when ordering this book: I naturally went for the option of lowest-cost which happened to be a hardcover. The Amazon profile tends to treat the first and second editions as equivalent, but they are not. Note that the second edition is by Boone, Safritt, and Jones while the first is only by Boone. The editor review talks about the second edition, and while it says that it's in reference to the paperback at the end, it never says that the paperback and hardcover are two different editions.

In any case, the content of the first edition is good and useful, but the presentation is very dry and hard to absorb. There are way too many lists of theories and assumptions and principles.

Look to this book for great examples of North America's most magnificent animals slaughtered for sport and the names of the people who did the slaughtering.

This book is a tremendous record of the insensitivity of man and calousness toward life. Just imagine the scene in the wild, as a hunter and companions come across a deer in the wild: "Wow, that is the most beautiful buck I have ever scene! Look at the rack on it--probably the largest in North America. Simply magnificent! I am going to snuff it's life out right now and claim it as a trophy and a book will brag about my accomplishment!"

The irony inherent throughout this book is staggering. The record of needless slaughter is appalling.

If sport hunting is to continue, wouldn't it make more sense to harvest the weakest and most decrepid animals, rather than promote slaughtering the the most healthy and magnificent creatures of each species?

I am certain that in the fullness of time, nearly every hunter listed in this book and celebrated for his record kills, will regret and be ashamed of the actions recorded here.

But as much as those of us who love animals and respect life may be inclined to hate these misguided hunters whose names are shamelessly recorded in these pages, we should somehow have compassion for them and their misguided ways, the kind of compassion we hope that in this life or another, they might show toward the beautiful animals God has graced us with in this world.

Often times books by the Boone and Crockett Club are just listings of records but that can be boring. I like this book because it has long and detailed chapters with plenty of historical photographs at the front of the book and I love the colored plates of illustrations by Guy Cohleach. This is a heavy book that is well-worth the pricetag. I counted a minimum of 300 photographs!! Great book for anyone who lives wild animals of North America. I bought this book with COLORADO'S BIGGEST BUCKS AND BULLS AND OTHER GREAT COLORADO BIG GAME, SECOND EDITION.

I am writing this review after visiting Peru, and using this book as a guide.

The book is very thick, but actually contains very little useful information. Most pages are simply full with senselessly long lists of restaurants, hotels, and other contact information. Such things are better found on the internet, or by simply walking around the city. Moreover, a lot of that information was already out of date a little more than 1 year after publication. So, about two thirds of the book is immediately utterly useless weight.

Instead, a good guide book,
1) would have a lot of pictures. There are none in this book!
2) would have a lot of maps. A few are available in this book, but are not sufficiently detailed, not well-prepared, not well-explained.
3) would talk about interesting things to do in A LOT more detail. Such information in this book is extremely limited, sometimes barely a sentence or two, and a short search on the internet would produce a lot more useful and insightful information. This leads me to question whether the writers even visited the places they are talking about. Given the recent news about how BBC's Lonely Planet Guides are being prepared, I'm going to have to say probably not..
4) would have the following important information: the flag of the country would be nice; the inflation and GDP per capita in the country in addition to money exchange rates, and estimates of average transportation, hotel and restaurant prices; the altitude, average temperatures and precipitation of each city (for instance, for Cusco some of these are quite important!). The climate of the country could be entirely discussed in one page in a few simple maps showing altitude, precipitation, and temperature; also population density.
5) would give prices in local money, instead of dollars. Just after a few months, all prices listed are already out of date, not just because of local inflation, but also because of the devaluation of the dollar.
6) would do a lot more justice to the history of the countries, and put the interesting things to see in a context.
7) would have some color. None in here, except the covers and a couple of pages. In other words, the guide should be more visual, and writing should be avoided when it can be. One picture is worth a thousand words or more..

Having said all this, I am not aware of a better guide book. So, I can only suggest to compare guides for yourself and then pick one, or just use information off the internet.

In short: out of the 120 or so pages on Peru, the useful information fills in about a third, and the rest is either out of date, useless, unrelated, or otherwise non-essential.

So: publishers, pay me half the money you paid these writers, and I will give you a guide that is 10 times better than this.

Lonely planet is a great travelling guide - it gives you just enough information to get you by when you're in need, and leaves enough blanks for inspiration of your own.

I was very, very disappointed in this book and would have returned it but I had highlighted one article before looking at the book completely. This is probably a good book for a college student who will stay in hostels but as for a book to help find hotels and sightseeing places, it missed the mark completely.

Used this book for a three month trip through Peru, Bolivia, Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil. A friend who travelled with me had Footprint's guide to South America. While Lonely Planet had far and away the better maps, everything else about the Footprint book was better -- more information, more current information, and most importantly, broader coverage! There were many small towns that were not even included in the LP book. Even in the major cities, Footprint covered more sights and did so with more detail. If you are picking up a second book for a trip, by all means get the LP. But if you are only buying one, go with Footprint until LP seriously expands this edition.

This is a useful if flawed guide for backpackers and other budget travelers. This thick book (1,150 Pages) covers lodging, conditions, airports, regulations, and other vital information for 13 countries. The information is practical, useful, and substantial, and one can travel South America with this guide. But in trying to cover 13 countries the book is unavoidably limited on information for any one nation, city, or place, and the maps are at times less than adequate. There is also some out-of-date information (Argentina's Peso is NOT equal to one U.S. dollar) so travelers are advised to check other sources.

If you will be traveling to only a couple nations in South America you would be better advised to buy a travel guide for each country. However, if you will traverse through many countries in this fascinating continent, this book is still a valuable reference tool.

the book was just what i needed, but the shipping took too long, that was the only drawback. I waited too long to get a used one. Good buy.

This book gets very wordy on its introductions and then just leaps into problems without explaining or outlining the concepts that need to be learned. I am a chemistry major at Missouri State and I have come across a lot of scientific books that are difficult to understand. This one beats them all. Unless you have an instructor that is an amazing physics teacher, you will not be able to succeed in the class with this book. 'Most worthless book' award definitely goes to Walker.

This book is for a non-physics major physics class, which is mostly going to be biology majors and a few others who are required to take a year of physics but don't need the calculus-based physics. The concepts of physics are explained fairly well, nothing spectacular. The problem with this textbook is the inadequate explanations of the many and varied word problems encountered in a physics class. The homework in this book is a lot more complex than the simplistic explanations given in the chapter. The hardest questions, which invariably show up on the exams, rarely have step-by-step explanations on how to solve them. Physics professors like to talk about the concepts and how important they are to learn. I agree they are important, but when was the last time you saw a physics exam that wasn't 90-100% physics PROBLEMS. I may be odd but I find the concepts of physics fairly easy to understand and almost common sense. The math problems of physics, on the other hand, are long, complex and difficult to understand. The solutions manual isn't worth the money either. If this is a required book for your physics class I would definitely supplement it with a physics book with good explanations of the problems and practice practice practice doing the problems from many different approaches.

Of course, that may be because I didn't like the course all that much. I thought that the text was too wordy and did not present concepts well enough. The example problems are good to have and so are the chapter summaries. All in all, I thought the concepts could have been explained much better and with less words.

The better book lets you get ahead of the class by simply devoting your time on it, in some cases, you don't even need to attend lecture. This book, doesn't allow you that--your pace is limited to the pace of the class. (Students in my class don't rely on this book--only on the lecture--our prof doesn't even refer to the book!)

The worked out examples are too simple. I know what you're thinking...you just need to synthesize key concepts from simplier problems to solve the complicated ones...but imagine solving complicated assignments and the book doesn't even explain --at all-- how to approach that kind of problem?

The book should deal more with larger number of exercises with varying difficulty.

The book should extend key examples in like "what if scenarios," (i.e. if this variable is missing this is how to approach it; if that is missing, this is how you aproach that . . .)

The publisher should think about cutting more of the introductory section to each chapter and devote that to added worked out problems.

For $150 each, shouldn't the book at least come with a multimedia cd with more worked out problems? Come on!