Elliott Books

Half the book covers cases of helpful ghosts, half that of harmful ones. O'Donnell relates some personal experiences also, including that of his family's banshee, which he states was seen twice, the night before his father was murdered and the night before his mother died. He also states details about a phantom coach that visited his family home decades previously, including details of how the pet dogs were silent until the phenomena ceased, at which time they began to whine and moan.

Dangerous elementals are also covered, including the case of a rough sleeper found strangled by his braces after sleeping under a supposedly haunted tree. O'Donnell mentions that he experienced the feeling of attempted strangulation on two occasions while asleep. There's also the case of a murderer who was hanged, who returned to announce to the chaplain of a jail that although he did not experience physical pain, his soul was in darkness and that he was incapable of describing a ten-thousandth part of his anguish and despair at that time.

O'Donnell states that it appeared to him that if a person died mad, then the madness continues after death and that consequently it should not be assumed that the spirit world is a place of harmony.

This book sublimely inspired me as few others have done. In my own personal collection of greatest books on the environment, I'd put Silent Spring, Wilderness and the American Mind, Sand County Almanac, works of A. Lovins--and precious few others; I'd personally rank this book among these very best.

What this book does beautifully is to range across marine disciplines in a way that's at once understandable, quite managable, and also scientifically persuasive. We all presume to know know something of the environment from day to day living--but what we haven't been exposed to is the existence (and great importance of) global marine biological diversity in all it's facets. (Especially the wondrous curious biodiversity of deep seas). This book has opened my eyes to new ways of seeing how the sea around us works, and drawn me with great interest to the address the compelling biodiversity that Dr. Norse describes.

I consider this book "A Must read" for any academic courses on the topic, and highly recommend it to both practitioners and anyone interested in the diverse ways of the sea. In my own 20 year career in marine biodiversity, I can think of no more seminal book than this one: it insightfully and brilliantly opens the marine realm to readers as a timeless classic.

Bravo to Dr. Norse & the Marine Conservation Biology Institute!

Jack Myers is arguably the best poet writing in America today. His metaphors are extravagant and yet his voice always remains conversational. And here we have representative poems selected from books long out of print, as well as a generous sampling of new lyrics, which take his work in surprising zen-like directions. Every bookshelf should have a copy of this brilliant poet's work.

The Gods of Life was published in 1974 and continues to have great value in 2003. Anyone who has sat by the bedside of a terminally ill person will understand the meaning in this book. Others will have time to make informed decisions for their own lives. Few predicaments are so heartbreaking as a long painful death, but there are options to the helplessness and hopelessness in some of these case studies. Is the patient living or dead? You decide.

This is a great 'old' child's dictionary. Was wonderful in it's hay day as well. The pictorials are amusing and fun for the kids to look at to see how different then and also how similar things are now.

It's like a trip back in time and you can have loads of things to talk about with them.

This brilliant addition to your golf bag is a must! It's a good reference that explains the rules in a language that everyone can understand. Plus, it talks about many of the different betting games in golf. Witty and well-written! Well worth the money.

Great gift for a grandparent. My father in law loved this book and loves reading it to my son. What a great book to bond with & great father's day gift.

As I've stated in several other reviews, I used to read this series of books to my much-younger adopted sisters back when they were first in print in the 80s and early 90s. Now that I have a child of my own I have been re-collecting these books to read to him.

My sisters LOVED this book and my son also loves it as well. It is the first day of school for Grover, who is nervous about making new friends and not knowing anyone at his new school. After being a bit overwhelmed by the amount of kids in his new class, Grover starts to go way out of his way to be helpful and be popular with all the children. First he trades his new crayons for a beat up truck missing 3 wheels, then he misses cookie time after volunteering to clean up after the other kids. He keeps being nice to fault until Truman (who keeps offering him awful things for trade) swaps him for his jelly sandwich -- Grover can't say no because he is too afraid Truman will not like him. Grover can't take it anymore and starts to cry. It is only when he starts acting like himself that he makes friends -- Molly, who cheers him up after seeing him so upset, and Bill, who Grover says no to for a trade, but who also loves to play jacks, Grover's favorite game. A wonderful, affirming story about the value of friendship and how true friends like you for you.

This is the creme de la creme of this entire series and if you have a child who loves Sesame Street this is a must-own.

Elliott West has written a highly entertaining book packed with historical information about children's development in the American Far West. West chronicles how children had a different perspective about the West than their parents, how children's contributions allowed for the settling of the region, and how children were shaped by the West in ways that their parents, grounded in traditions from Back East or Europe, never achieved.

Chapters cover children's "First Impressions", their lives "At Home", "Child's Work" and "Child's Play', "Growing Up", "Family and Community", "A Great School House", "Suffer the Children", and "Children and the Frontier." In each, West gives extensive examples and quotations from primary sources left by children to illustrate his points. In "A Great School House," for example, the author describes the creation of educational facilities in the West to show how hungry western pioneers, both adults and children, were for this formal learning.

The conclusion, "Children and the Frontier", summarizes many of West's previous themes and makes broader conclusions about the children's experiences. Unlike parents, sons and daughters were bred for western conditions, whether raising livestock, planting crops, or prospecting for minerals. Their lives reflect the influence of the West on the new generation, as well as showing how the older influences of American life (home, culture, music, education, games) endured.

All in all, I would heartily recommend the book to anyone interested in the western frontier experience, as an antidote to the men-laden images of many western accounts.

This supplement is for a fantasy role playing game called GURPS which stands for "Generic Universal Role Playing" system. The concept is that GURPS can be used with ANY book, movie or play to create a fantasy role playing game. Some of the GURPS modules have been built around real, sacred places; time travel; noves like Scarlet Pimpernel, War of the Chtorr, Conan the Barbarian, Three Musketeers, etc.; space flight; supernatural horror; and more. GURPS allows extreme customization and modification to allow a balanced system of role playing game.

This supplement is all about the 1950's paranoia of atom bombs and the horrors that atomic energy can release. Movies such as "The Crawling Eye", "Tarantula", "Invaders From Mars", "Day of the Triffids", and others are right at home in this booklet - and every one of these films are recommended by the book as supplemental material suitable for gaming ideas.

If you're a fan of the popular PS2 games, "Destroy All Humans" and "Destroy All Humans 2", then you can create that sort of atmosphere with this supplement and the GURPS main sourcebook. Unlike Dungeons & Dragons, you don't need 3 or more core rulebooks to play - just the one GURPS sourcebook and a supplement like this, 3 six sided die, some paper, a pencil and you're off!

The book is well laid out and easy to follow. The artwork is excellent and the instructions are spot-on. This was a well done gaming supplement that any gaming master can make use of for a trip to the past.

If you're into Fantasy Role Playing Games as well as 1950's bad sci-fi movies, you'll enjoy the opportunity to make your own game or play a character from a particular movie.

Other GURPS supplements that go along well with this (at least on the ones I use anyway) are:

The Illuminati
Wharehouse 23

Those two can add a dimension of fun for your group as the Illuminati are the earth's puppet masters and Wharehouse 23 is the ultimate in hoarded, unusual and powerful items.

Other supplements that could go well with Atomic Horror include:

Secret Agent
High Tech
Space
Voodoo the Shadow War
Horror

Give GURPS a try!