Park Books

What a delightful, touching story...it celebrates Park City in all its funky glory - dogs, dogs and STETSON.
I thought I'd seen him wandering around town.

This simple children's story is presented on a beautiful back drop of excellent, clever, and detailed, illustrations: authentic true-to-life Park City Utah spots. Children's illustrator Kristina Skarstedt captures the magic of this old-mining-turned-skiing town, its turn of the century charm, its rough but elegant architecture and distinctive tradition. The coldness of winter is felt in the snowy landscapes and icy rooftops of Park City, and more than just your child will understand the loneliness of needing a friend. Stetson the street dog is characterized so sweetly one can't help falling in love with him and one cheers for his kind and heroic rescuer. An incredible Utah Mountain sunset in spectacular full color accents this must-own children's book for the Mountain West collector; and the warmth of a friend and a cozy fire in a mountain cabin closes this pleasant experience in art and US Mountain West history. I would recommend it to anyone interested in US Mountain West History, puppies, skiing, Utah, and/or Park City. It's great for adults and children alike.

I visited Silver Dollar City many times as I was growing up, and this book provides a nice taste of what it was like way back when.

Two caveats: First, this is apparently an official history with SDC Inc.'s imprimatur, so missteps are glossed over or more frequently ignored. Second, perhaps in a related note, the history section of the book pretty much stops at 1983; it describes additions to the park almost bulding-by-building through the mid-60s, a little about major additions through the mid-70s, how the park is "now" (1997-1999), but precious little about how the park evolved between 1980 and now.

Having said all that, I enjoyed the heck out of this book. Great historic photos greet every turn of the page. Favorites: B&W photo showing current town square being used as the parking lot; map of park in mid-60s, pre-Flooded Mine; and a full 1980 souvenir map. It left me wanting much more. What ever happened to the Outpost near Leasburg? Why was the innovative Rube Dugan's Diving Bell removed? (Misspelled "Duggin" in the book's brief mention.) What was the story behind Wally Welch, forever immortalized in a View-Master reel? How about maps showing exactly how and when the park expanded? It seems like it would be easy to write a book twice this long, but I'm thankful for what I've got.

As an aficionado of Silver Dollar City I very much enjoyed this concise history of one of America's premier theme parks, located near Branson, Missouri. Author Crystal Payton presents the history of S.D.C. in an interesting and easy to read style with plenty of great illustrations, from it's humble beginnings near the entrance to Marble Cave (now Marvel Cave) to the present time. The book itself is a large format paperback of high quality. The theme of S.D.C., in case you don't know, centers around the 1880's, most everything there has a flavor of that time, even the roller coasters and other rides. Payton also covers in detail attractions at today's S.D.C., including food, crafts, festivals, music, and of course rides, etc.. I especially liked the text and pictures about when "The Beverly Hillbillies" filmed on location at S.D.C. in 1969, I think that show is one of the best ever! "You've Got A Great Past Ahead Of You" (one of the slogans of S.D.C.) describes this park perfectly, this book is well worth the money.

This book provides very helpful and practical information on the art and science of strabismus management. Written by well-known ophthalmologist, it covers all major topics in this field in a concise format. I found it is particularly beneficial to learn the opinions through the comment among authors and contributions by Dr. Parks and Dr. von Noorden. It is a joyful learning experience to read this book.

Great book on strabismus. To the point .Practical .Up to date. Specially interesting the different points of view on every important subject made by authorities in the field.

Through the process of reading The Straight Path, one cannot help but notice the degree to which Katz becomes increasingly assimilated into Fijian culture. Obviously, such full immersion as that represented by this book is beneficial if one is to ever "truly" understand another culture, especially in terms of dialogical hermeneutics. In fact Katz's experience, in many ways, reflects the ultimate embodiment of dialogical hermeneutics, a type of "research" where the ethnographer attempts to understand another culture from that other culture's perspective, utilizing a methodology based on discourse. Of course, the ideal way to achieve this understanding is to actually "experience" that culture, seeing it through unfiltered eyes. The problem is that one cannot ever completely succeed in this objective because one cannot ever fully separate his or her cultural views from his or her cultural background. In short, one's ideas will always be shaped according to one's own experiences. However, Katz comes close -- very close.
Accordingly, reading The Straight Path almost ineluctably leads the readers to one central question: How much can a foreigner actually "become" another culture? Unfortunately, an empirical answer to this question is more or less impossible to produce, but we can, with certainty, assert that immersion can lead to profound and enduring personal recodings of thoughts and culture. In other words, a person absolutely can, as Katz demonstrates, incorporate certain essences of a foreign culture into his or her horizon of understanding.
Take the goal of Katz's The Straigh Path as an example: No longer was his goal to explain the Fijian culture to others in a way that fit his previous cultural understanding; instead, he holds desperately to an ideal of relating his tale in terms of a Fijian concept of "Straight Path," a concept he had previously been unexposed to. However, through time, discourse, repeated discourse, and almost absolute immersion, he begins to understand how the Fijian's view the "Straight Path" because, ultimately, their view becomes his view. In short, no longer was he seeing the book in strict accordance to his prior cultural codes; instead he saw it through Fijian eyes.
His success should give all anthropologists hope.

Katz offers much compassion and insight into both the Fijian healing arts as well as the Fijian soul. Great reading for anyone interested in learning more about Fiji. The connection between the land and the culture is especially valuable, since it shows the need for tribal land ownership and sustainability. This very concept is vital for the survival of the Fijians.

I must say I bought this book based on the list of enterpreneurial recommendations given by Mr. Keng. At that time, it was only at 11 $ used.

First the book is written from the perspective and background of two influential authors who worked for the US army. The methos is right down to the point, that it will be compulsory to evaluate all your ventures by it. Only if you tackle a complex project will you go to the complete SAVE approach.

I have seen some of the books Mr. Keng recommends, those ou-of-print and almost at 200 $. If you are looking for a structures methos to see if your venture project is solid, this book is what you are looking for.

This is an excellent guide-book for project managers. It contains very highly organised techniques for measuring the success potential of virtually any project decision.

It been written by two eminently qualified authors - one, trained as an engineer & the other, an architect, but both had worked as principal economists & management consultants & involved in myriad project feasibility studies & new venture evaluations.

Of all the books I have in my personal library over the years that relate to project feasibility studies & new venture evaluations, this one is my personal favourite. It is also the most comprehensive & yet indepth! It has assisted my professional work while I was working in the corporate world.

In a nut shell, this book has a very practical, well-structured & clearly-defined numerical rating system, ranging from rough processing to full evaluation, to help you in your exploration & evaluation, covering:

four (4) broad facets, namely:

- your product/service/activity (in terms of prospective performance, salability, defensibility);
- yourself or your company (in terms of personal traits & relative strengths/weaknesses);
- your environment (in terms of possible effects);
- your venture (in terms of investment considerations & strategic possibilities;

These are broken down into:

- thirteen (13) general aspects;

These are further broken down into:

- sixty nine (69) individual factors;

The authors coin the acronym 'SAVE' (hence the book title, Strategic Analysis Venture Evaluation) to sum up their wonderful model. The model approach will definitely save you from potential failure.

Packed with forms, checklists, questions, it will compel your careful attention to all the factors involved in a new venture, thus preventing dangerous blindspots. It also help to prevent over-valueing a few dominant factors that tend to distort decision/judgement.

As the authors contend in the inside cover of this book: "This is the only book that provide you with immediate answers to such complex questions as, How attractive is this proposed venture, to this company, organisation or individual, at this time, and under this set of conditions."

I highly recommend this book to all project managers!

I have used this book for several Freshman comp classes and find it very useful. This book focuses, as the title suggests, on paragraphs: topic sentences, secondary support, coherence and others. The exercises at the end of each section are well conceived, easy to use, and effective.

This is not a book for the English 101 honor class. Nor is it for the regular ESL class. It is for people who can write decent sentences but have trouble getting paragraphs in shape.

This is a book I've used in several classes, for students who are returing to college, some after many years of non-academic work. The exercises at the ends of the chapters offer a bridge between the reading and their own writing. I particularly like the chapter on coherence.

I managed to collect and read all three books in the series a few years ago, and when I saw only one review, I had to jump in if only to encourage others. As an avid Sci-fi reader, after a while, all apocalyptic societies can run together. Not this collection. This is a brooding, complex world full of rich detail and lots of thought - both by the author and as a result of the reading. You'll be amazed by the callousness that exists in this world where science and magic and delirium and art are on equal footing, jumbled together in a well paced, conceptually terrifying, and just downright amazing series.

I stumbled on Paul Park's three book in the "Starbridge trilogy" at my local public library, and since have read and re-read them a few times. They chronicle revolutionary times in a planetary culture ruled by decade-long seasons. The atmosphere is exotic and lush, yet shot through with extravagent morbid decedance.

The planet was apparently settled by a single human astronaut, but again that's not at all clear; you find that out only in bits and scraps. The most fascinating quality of the books is that they present a moment in the life of a culture, where you catch glimpses of distorted bits of the culture's origins. There is a certain amount of humor in this palimpsest -- a very dour, draconian state religion arises from misinterpretation of the human astronaut's psychotically erotic poetry.

While the book has obviously been inspired by the author's travels in India, the real India is but a starting point for Park's delightfully diseased imagination.

Park's book reminds me of both Nabakov's "Pale Fire" and Wallace's "Infinite Jest" in that the text on the page is only half the story; the other half is the blurred and corrupted text behind the text that the reader can infer from the primary text.

This book shows the history of Mount Rainier National Park, from Sunset to Paradise. The photos are great and the paragraphs are informative and don't run on. The book also goes into the history of the 14,411 foot Stratovolcano, and how 5,600 years ago, the peak was at 16,500 feet, but a major eruption caused a massive collapse and created the peak we know, love and cherish today.

The Sleeping Giant... The Mountain...Mount Rainier...

Years ago I hiked at Mt. Rainier, took pictures in its flower meadows, and slid in its summer snow. I thought someday I'd climb its glaciers to the summit, 14, 410 feet. That never happened. But this book brings back all the old impressions and delights-and adds to them. Lots of photos (280!). Lot of information, most of it new to me. Richard P. Kratz, M.D. Clinical Professor, Ophthalmology Univ. California, Irvine

I found the book, Tales and Doggerel of a Traveling Man by Daniel Parks to be an extremely beautiful collection of poetry, short stories, and articles about people, places, and incidents gathered from his life as he lived and traveled throughout the southern and western states of the U.S. I very much enjoyed the variety of topics that he writes about from the swamps of New Orleans to the western lore of Arizona. Mr. Parks artistically paints his scenes using lovely rhyme and tempo that is rare in these days of loose, unheeding verse. His poems have the soft sound of the past as stories of the harsh Sheriff Medina, the vengeful ghost of Ella Frazer or the most notable sea captain of all time, Captain Jaquish, are told as never before.

I give this book five stars and look forward to reading future works by Daniel Parks!

This is a great book containing poems and short stories. I found it entertaining,intriguing and sometimes even amusing. I like the authors use of rhyming poems to tell stories from his years of traveling the U.S.

I highly recommend this book to anyone that enjoys real poetry and unusual short stories. I also read a novel by Daniel Parks entitled, "Gold River Canyon's Dead," and was captivated by the adventure into the Rockies in search of a gold mining town.

Great books.

Melinda Dille's "Tales from the Dog Park" is extremely charming, but mostly it shows us how much we can learn from our dogs as we observe their behavior. I love my dog, and those who have left me, and I know that you will enjoy and come to love each chapter of this little book that is filled with warmth and love.

Dog -lovers unite!This is possibly the most thoughtful, dear, book about man's best friend. The short essays are insightful and humorous and the artwork is adorable. This is the perfect gift book for all dog lovers. I have purchased over twelve copies to date because it is the perfect gift for all of my friends who have a doggie. And every time I show it to someone, they want to know "where can I get this book?" Seriously.