Gray Books

Another excellent Novel by Mrs. Massey. True to history. Keeps you in suspense until the end. You feel the hardships of the family through Ms. Massey's descriptions. I have tried to read everything she has written after reading The Burnt District. I also highly recommend all of her many novels, especially New Hope, Music of My Soul and Home is the Heart.

This is a 36 page fan magazine dedicated to the life and works of Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Contents of Issue 32 include: 1. "A Crowing Achievement: "Tarzan and the Golden Lion" by David A. Adams 2. Theories Come and Theories Go: Literary Theories by Phillip R. Burger 3. Tarzan the Ultimate Woodsman by Jed Fox 4. Picture of Tarzan and the Golden Lion by Boris Vallejo 5. Tarzan's Missing Cheetah by Richard G. Van Gelder 6. An Interview with Tom Yeates by Dennis Wilcutt 7. "Tarzan and the Golden Lion" movie poster 8. Bibliopgraher's Corner by Septimus Favonius 9. Letters to the Editor.

This is an excellent book. It details not only Mr. Gray's life, it also speaks about the struggle of an entire nation of people. I recommend this book to any and everyone who would like to have more information about the struggle of black people for their basic rights,ie to seat any where they please on a public bus, to vote, to an adequate education in your own state. I enjoyed the book immensely. I will continue to use it as a reference.

I treasure this "hard to find" book. If you are into strategic management, you would get an instant "easy to understand" presentation of the typologies. The knowledge base is amazing, with software support to enable user assess business units' strategic processes and explore virtual what-if scenarios. Undoubtedly, this is a book for discerning strategy educators and practitioners.

I was a member of the Class of 1942 at Morgan Park Military Academy, the first class to graduate during WW-II. At age 18 and a month before graduation, I became an Aviation Cadet in the U. S. Army Air Corps. The academic and military training, described in the book, was important to all of us in the Services during the war, and our post-war careers. Teachers such as Captain Gray, featured in the book, were dedicated men who instilled an educational discipline that lasted my entire life. This book is a good primer and support for military academies at the high school level. Unfortuantely, Morgan Park got rid of the ROTC program a few years after the war ended.

I couldn't help but laugh out loud while reading this book in a public place. Fast moving rib tickings and then, thought provoking and touching. A great read.

I'm an art teacher. I teach adult calligraphy clases. Bill Gray's book Calligraphy Tips is a wonderful teaching tool. I often recommend this book as a resource tool. I only wish this book would have been in print when I was in college. Hats off to Bill for such a great calligraphy book!

This is an eight-volume history of Africa that I can't recommend highly enough. Patiently working my way through it over the course of several months did more to reduce my ignorance of human history than anything else I have ever done. I found several discussions particularly helpful:

- the physical evidence for human origins in Africa south of the Sahara

- The colonization of Madagascar by voyagers from Malaysia, which introduced the banana and several other valuable food crops into Africa in classical times

- How the conquest of valley-dwelling, agricultural Hutu by hilltop-dwelling, cattle-herding Tutsi serendipitously benefited both cultures, since manure from Tutsi cattle enabled greater Hutu cultivation of the banana

- How the Iron Age came to Africa south of the Sahara (this was what led me to this work in the first place)

- The breadth and depth of Arab learning and philosophy at the height of the Muslim empires during Europe's Middle Ages

I did find the discussions of late-Christian Egypt and Arab civilization more difficult to follow than the rest, because these discussions make heavy use of italicized Egyptian and Arabic words without bothering to explain them to the non-expert reader. This forced me to keep going back and re-reading earlier passages as I figured out these terms' likely meanings from their context in later passages.

Overall, however, this is a work I would love to have on my own bookshelf, if it weren't so very costly to purchase. The copy I read belongs to the King County Library system. (Seattle and Redmond, Washington, are the best-known cities in King County.)

The stories are short and interesting - perfect for kids. Not scary but fun stuff about the west and the days of cowboys, indians, and wagon trains.

I used this book last year for a research paper and found that it contained all the information I needed about the Canadian health care system. It is a great perspective for considering the US system as well.