Burnett Books

this was an exquisite book to read 3 times. i have yet to find a book as descriptive and that has lated so many years without being forgotten. i am very proud of this author. i would like to say thank you to this extrordinary woman for writing this book.

The Secret Garden was written by Frances Hodgson Burnett and it is a book about a girl named Mary Lennox who was born in India and had servants to take care of her. She was always mean and never treated anyone nicely. Then her parents died and she moves to England to live with her uncle in his big dark mansion. She meets two boys named Dickon and Colin and they discover a secret garden that's been locked up for ten years. Colin is always in bed and thinks he is ill and going to die so he treats people like he was a king and they were his servants. Mary and Colin are two very mean and spoiled children but because of Dickon and the secret garden, they become great friends.
I liked the book because the author described everything and made it sound like it was real. When she described the garden and the way the children looked and the weather in England, you could imagine it. One thing I didn't like about the book was when some of the characters talked in Yorkshire. It was very hard to understand what they were saying. I would recommend this book because I learned that people can change the way they act and discoverer new things.

while reading it you can plan what to read later, which subjects to think, desiding update movements, etc.

This book had got me taken totally back from the very first time I read it to the 5th time! It is just as exciting and heart breaking the whole way through and be prepared to shed a tear or so! It is definately a book to read for all ages.

If you see an orange covered book above, this review does not pertain to it, but to an old, out of print, gold covered edition. Amazon has copied this old review to this revised edition of Burnett's work and my comments below are no longer completely accurate. Please see the other listing for this book for an updated review.

This book is typical of pretty much any other introductory level survey of Buddhist doctrine and history. Burnett shows that he is familiar with good primary and secondary sources, and has spent a fair amount of time thinking through Buddhist thought. There are many concise and accurate discussions of various aspects of Buddhist belief and philosophy. The work, however, is subtitled "A Christian Perspective on Buddhist Thought," and, while it is nice to see he has taken the time to accurately grasp what Buddhists believe, there really isn't much Christian perspective about it. Other than a chapter on how Christian missions impacted the Buddhist world, there's very little in this book you wouldn't find in an equivalent work by a non-Christian; and it doesn't come near substituting for an introduction like Harvey's. Given the differences between these two faiths, one would naturally expect some interesting philosophical fencing, but none of it appears here. Still, if all you want is a good introductory survey and, for whatever reason, you think you need to get it from a Christian anthropologist, this is your book.

Many books claim to be revised, but when you look into them it turns out that little has changed. This is not so with the second edition of Burnett's work. Much of the text has been completely rewritten and there are numerous additions adding both extra and updated material. It also now functions more as a textbook, giving learning objectives, topics for dialogue, and both extended reference material (glossary, recommended reading lists) and web resources. If you saw my review of the first edition, you know that I was disappointed that the book was subtitled "A Christian perspective on Buddhist thought" when there was comparatively little interaction and the book seemed like a repetition of many standard introductory surveys already available. However, this has changed. Burnett now engages Buddhism from his particular perspective at a number of points and brings up interesting ideas and comparisons. With all of these improvements, this second edition of the book is well worth anyone's time who wants to examine a sensible and irenic examination of Buddhism by someone who is a Christian and professional anthropologist.

I bought this book as a companion for the first three DVD sets, it's got just about anything you'd want in that regard.
You'll find cast biographies, and character info (even a listing of birthdays for the cast and their characters- not always the same ages),background information on the series, a lot of details.
I liked the listings for each season, they're episode by episode with original broadcast dates. Each has several subcategories for bits of information you might want such as who directed or guest starred, trivia, highlights, mistakes. It can be a little too extensive at times- I had to read through more than once to find a bit I was looking for.
If you're a fan of Alias, epsecially if you have the DVD sets, you should get this book.

I work in company with network combined of Win NT/2000, MacIntosh and Unix/Linux computers. This book helped in many ways in integrating Win and Unix platforms. Not only it helped in enabling Apache to handle ASP using Pearl modules and running Pearl on Windows (Python and Tcl/Tk are also covered) but it also helped in every day job (administration, backup, etc.). In many things book starts from the beginning and guide the reader to the end. Most important, book gives solutions to the real life problems. If you are beginner examples can be little confusing. Overall good book, recomendable to everyone working in mixed enviroment.

Like many guys my age, I spent some time growing up watching that testosterone-driven soap opera known as "professional wrestling". It's been years since I've watched a show on TV, but when I saw the book Wrestling's Greatest Stories: Inside Stories About Cage Matches, Royal Rumbles, Smackdowns & Wrestlemania by Colin Burnett at the library, I had to pick it up. Most of the entertainers and matches he covers were the ones I fondly remember, and it was interesting reading about some of the inside stories of what went down to pull the match off.

Contents:
Introduction; A Brief History of Wrestling; The Irresistible Force, The Immovable Object; The Rivalry; A Flair for the Gold; Home Is Where The Hart Is; To Hell and Back; A Tribute Gripped By Tragedy; Glory Bound; Notes on Sources

This is a short book, only 167 pages of fairly large font type. So in terms of time commitment, we're talking at most a couple of hours. Burnett starts out with a history of how professional wrestling became the entertainment spectacle it is today. Carnivals used to have wrestlers who would offer to take on all comers for a cash prize. Even back then, scams and cons were the rule of the day. As people started to get more excited about the matches, certain names became celebrities. The promoters would often match up wrestlers and predetermine the outcome so as to milk the crowd for all they could get. Over time, this staged entertainment became the norm, and promoters and organizations kept trying to one-up each other. Each organization tended to have a certain niche or style. NWA had more atheletic and technical wrestlers, while the WWF/WWE went more for the huge body/gimmick route. But even though the outcomes were predetermined, there were classic matches that displayed incredible amounts of athleticism and stamina. April 1989 had a match between Rick Flair and Ricky Steamboat that is thought to be one of the best displays ever, each man dishing out high levels of pain and punishment to the other in order to entertain the crowd. Summer of 1998 had the classic Hell In The Cell match between Mick Foley and The Undertaker. Foley nearly killed himself a couple of times during the match in order to create an unforgettable matchup. While most of the bumps were planned (but still suicidal), some were not, such as when the roof of the cage collapsed and dropped Foley into the ring and knocked him out cold for two minutes. And then there was the Survivor Series match between Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels. Bret was going to be leaving the WWF, but didn't want to drop the title that night in front of his Canadian fans. Vince McMahon seemed to go along with this, and Bret thought he was going to win one last time. But McMahon and Michaels figured out a different ending, leaving Bret defeated, stunned, and extremely angry at the whole WWF organization. That led to some of the most memorable "anti-US" heel characters ever to work a mat...

Burnett does a nice job in digging past the "official" story and getting the actual feelings of the wrestlers who sacrificed themselves night after night. He doesn't hide the fact that the "sport" is rife with drug abuse that has caused many wrestlers to die far before their time. I found it a bit strange to have Burnett acknowledge it's all fake, but then to describe the match action as if some of the moves and injuries were actual. Granted, that's what you're supposed to think at the time, but having that "realism" side-by-side with the wrestlers saying they had to work the match to get that level of crowd involvement was difficult to reconcile at times.

If you happen to love wrestling, you'll enjoy the book. It's a walk down memory lane for those who were into it "back then". And if you just don't understand what professional wrestling is all about, then you might not find this to your liking. This really is targeted for those who are into it...

I generally lean toward old classics in selecting books to read to my precocious 6-yr old. This one is undoubtedly a classic, it is indeed very good literature, excellently written -- everything the other reviewers have said. Nevertheless, its story, its conflict, its central preoccupation revolves around a very British idea of class: one's "quality" as a person is determined by one's birth. This is antithetical to the very idea of America and will be much too hard to explain to a child. Yet if I wait until he is older, he will probably be turned off by the idealized, syrupy characterization.

I ordered this audio CD because I like childrens' classic literature and because I like to listen to audio books while on trips. When this audio CD arrived I was disappointed because on the cover it said MP3 CD. I do not have an MP3 player and have not been able to listen to the CD in the car like I planned. This product was advertised as an audiobook without mention of MP3 on your website.

Little Lord Fauntleroy is the fable of a young boy (Cedric) who is nothing short of saintly. His arrival in England as a new lord replacing his grandfather casts off the contrast of dark and light. The Earl is nothing short of a brute. Cedric is a saint. Cedric's charm, handsome looks and demeanor evolve the Uncle into a saint himself. That's the story. There really isn't a plot or some great cause and effect drama. The author's gift is the ability to tell a fable -- good can conquer evil.
The problem with Little Lord Fauntleroy is of course it's dated. Since contemporary themes were inserted into the tale and contemporary characters were inserted (unlike Secret Garden or Little Princess) that really crunches teeth together. Were this book published today as-is civil rights groups would be up in arms and I wouldn't blame them. Francis doesn't have King's English speak and some of the characters speak with their accent making it hard to understand.
Many have called the book sentimental and I didn't feel that. Too many stereotypes and too many shallow characters with not enough flavor made the book flat.
On the positive end the language is richer than expected and I liked that insertion and even politics and class warfare get the light of day.
Personally I liked the later reads better than this one.

The company's service was good, but the book itself was full of printing errors. A large speech was absent at the end, and I caught that only because I'd looked it up; the ending made no sense without it. There was also computer code on the pages here and there in the middle of text. I definitely don't recommend this publisher's version of the book.

This is an example of the difficulties of shopping online.
I had read the book several years ago and wanted to give a volume as a gift. This printing is unacceptable - unpleasant font, cramped pages and flimsy binding. You will do better with the purchase of a used hardcover volume