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Wooden spaceships was the 'second' book in the series.Toller is killed in it,so I doubt there is a third book,but you never know. The ragged Astronauts is the first in the series.

What seems to have been lost in the previous reviews is any kind of synopsis. These three books give a detailed insight into a finely wrought alien world with deadly floating plants, timber harder than steel and the fantastic notion of being able to loft a balloon to the LaGrange point between two intertwined planets and launch primitive ships into space. Brilliant and beautifully realized. An awesome trilogy that deserves far greater recognition, as does its sadly deceased author.

A diamond in the rough. Two planets are in such a close orbit that their atmospheres touch and men in "wooden spaceships" travel from one planet to the other. Supposed to be the first in a series of three books. The second was published as "Ragged Astronauts". This reviewer never found the third book in the series

Just to set things straight- "The Wooden Spaceships" is the 2nd in a trilogy all of which were indeed published in the late 1980s. The first volume is "The Ragged Astronauts" which introduces Toller, his planet Land and the growing problem that leads to the great migration to Overland. The 3rd book is "The Fugitive Worlds" whose main character is one of Toller's descendants returning to see what has become of Land and Overland.

This book provides concrete examples of how grassroots social change organizations are either successful or unsuccessful in reaching their goals. Case studies of actual campaigns are presented and particular strategies are analyzed in various fields of activism. Legislative strategy, ballot initiatives, direct action and dealing with the media are all presented. Compelling reading and very rewarding, this book is also the activism Bible of the adult adoptee-rights organization Bastard Nation.

Good advice especially re: dealing with the press, lawyers, and applying strategy. Would have liked to see a lot more about getting social change organizations to really involve their members in running the organization- its still "Tales of the Super Organizer" a model activists need to outgrow and are already outgrowing.

This book is absolutely essential reading for any activist. The author, who is a successful activist himself, covers everthing you need to know to get your cause "out there" where people (and especially decision-makers) will see the importance of your issue and choose to do something about it.

If you are an activist that wants to be both efficennt and effective, I would highly suggest reading this book

"Aleutians, Gilberts and Marshalls" is another in Samuel Eliot Morison's History of Naval Operations in World War II. First published in 1951, the scholarship is now a bit dated, but Morison's narrative power and his closeness to the events make this volume and his series still worthwhile reading.

The battle for the Aleutian Island has fallen badly off the radar screen for historians of the Second World War, despite it being one of the few instances where the Japanese captured U.S. Territory and were subsequently forcibly removed. The weather, sea, and terrain conditions in the Aleutians were horrendous for both sides. The naval aspects of the campaign are largely limited to amphibious operations against the Japanese-held islands of Attu and Kiska, and the indecisive surface Battle of the Komandorski Islands.

The Gilberts campaign is largely about "bloody Tarawa", as naval planners misjudged the tides around the atoll and intelligence personnel underestimated the depth of potential enemy resistance. The result was a slow, painful slogging match ending in an expensive U.S. victory.

The Marshalls campaign features assaults on a number of islands and atolls, and the learning curve from the Gilberts is visible in more efficient and more effective operations. The success of these campaigns positioned U.S. forces for further assaults through Japanese defenses into the heart of its empire.

This volume, and others like it in the series, are highly recommended to scholars of U.S. Naval operations in the Second World War.

This volume is outstanding, and brings the war in the central and north Pacific during the second half of 1942, all of 1943, and the first half of 1944 into clear and exciting focus. Admiral Morison, a distinguished scholar and a true man of the sea has given us the opportunity to live through the horror, fear, and victories of the Navy during our drive to defeat the Japanese. This book is truly a masterpiece, and is almost impossible to put down! I recommend it to all Americans who are living through our current crises.

Following the defeat of the Japanese at Midway and Guadalcanal, the United States launched a campaign to reclaim the two islands in the Aleutians which were occupied by the Japanese during the Midway operation, while also attacking the Japanese bases in Micronesia (Gilberts and Marshalls). Attu and Kiska were occupied by the Japanese and the thought of them on American soil outraged many Americans back home. Thus, a campaign was launched to retake them. After some hard fighting, the islands were recaptured, but the Japanese managed to evacuate their garrison from Kiska right under our noses, much the same way they did at Guadalcanal.

Operation "Galvanic", the invasion of the Gilbert islands, got underway in November, 1943. The main objective was the island of Tarawa. The island is completely surrounded by a dangerous coral reef, and the tides are very unpredictable as well. It was against these obstacles as well as a dug in enemy that the Americans made their attack. As fate would have it, it happened to be low tide when the Americans attacked, thus exposing the coral reef and forcing the landing craft to unload much further from the shore as was preferred. The Marines had to wade as much as 800 yards to the beach under horrific fire from the Japanese. The bombardment by the Americans did little to the well-fortified Japanese defenses, and they made the landings extremely costly for the Americans. Although Tarawa was secured in less than a week, the Americans suffered terrible losses which shocked the folks back home. However, the Americans now possessed an excellent air base to further their operations.

After the capture of Tarawa, the Americans moved to attack the Marshall islands, with the main objectives being Kwajalein and Eniwetok. The lessons of Tarawa had been well-learned. Both of these islands were subjected to a murderous bombardment by the American fleet and air forces, so the Japanese resistance; although spirited; was less effective here. The Americans managed to capture these islands in under a week and were now a step closer to Tokyo.

As with previous volumes of this excellent series, Mr. Morison has included numerous maps and photographs to expand upon the text. There are some good personal narratives in this volume as well. I recommend this volume along with the others of this series. It gives an excellent first-hand account of one of the early amphibious assaults by the Marines.

This book ought to interest a wider audience, who are concerned about civil liberties and abuses by government agencies. In this case, Clay Shaw was hounded by Jim Garrison, who announced when indicting Shaw that he Garrison had no case, but he expected Shaw to commit suicide, thus proving his guilt. Shaw did not. Shaw was found innocent in less than an hour by a jury. On the Monday following, Garrison indicted Shaw again for perjury, Garrison had a crowd picture showing Shaw and someone else whom Shaw had declared under oath he didn't know. Garrison produced a picture in which the two appeared. but were not talking to one another! It took another 2 years and an order from a federal judge to Garrison to stop harassing Shaw. Shaw died broke from all the court costs. .... Yes, this book should be reprinted and have the wider audience it deserves.

In the late 60's, New Orleans district attorney, Jim Garrison (played by Kevin Costner in the Oliver Stone move, "JFK") indicted businessman Clay Shaw for his alleged participation in a plot to assassinate President John F. Kennedy. A true and bizarre story told by a reporter covering the daily happenings of the trial. Although the author's bias is evident due to his personal liking for the defendant, nonetheless, his insightfulness into the legal wranglings is incredibly interesting. This book may have limited appeal to only those keenly interested in the details and history of the Kennedy assassination. If that is the case, you won't be disappointed.

This book should be considered a novel of fiction rather than non-fiction. It is a very interesting book if one has never done a full study of the Garrison investigation. Much of the information contained in this book is inaccurate, and when reading at the very beginning, he tells which side he is on, and rather than bring about the truth, he only brings forth evidence in which will side with the defense, leaving out very pertinent information. This book is in the category of "plot or Politics" By Rosemary James, and "False Witness" By Patricia Lambert, whom all attack Jim Garrison. One must look at the sources in which they use, and when you look, you see that the sources in which they use is reworded to fit their account of the investigation. Don't take this book seriously if you are seeking the truth!

I found it quite useful to gather the necessay skills to start Mathematica, though it is rapidly becoming outdated and certainly lacks any in depth commands.

I've been using this book since 1995. I use version 4.2 of Mathematica now and the fact that Shaw and Tigg wrote it for 2.2 doesn't matter. It teaches ways of thinking about problems in Mathematica that most other books don't even try. I use Mathematica almost daily in my professional life. If I run into a problem with applying Mathematica I invariably end up using Shaw and Tigg(I have 6 or 7 other references) rather than any others. I highly recommend this book. My only regret is that they haven't written a book in applying Mathematica to Boundary Value Problems in Physics. As they are both theoretical physicists I'm sure they would do a great job.

This book is rather strong on data analysis. (linear regression, scattergram, etc.) It also explains various methods (both 2D and 3D) to graphically present such analyses. (e.g. fourier filtering, graphs with lots of interesting diagrams, etc.) I am sure social science people will enjoy this book. Plenty of examples to let you get on track quickly. However, rather weak on explaining theoretical bits (which makes it leave out certain important options and so on.)

N.B. For Mathematica 2.1 or lower.

I loved this picture counting book because it uses the numbers from one to twenty to introduce various aspects of the game of baseball,with full-color realistic paintings. Children who love the game would love this book. It would be great to use for storytelling or for a math or sports unit in the classroom.

MY KIDS ADORED THIS BOOK, AFTER ABOUT THREE READINGS THEY HAD MEMORIZED THE RHYMES AND WERE NOT AT ALL BORED BY COUNTING TO 20.WE WORE OUT THE LIBRARY'S COPY AND ORDERED OUR OWN. I LEARNED A BIT ABOUT BASEBALL AS WELL. NOT THE USUAL DULL COUNT OF CRITTERS OR OBJECTS, THIS BOOK TELLS A STORY BETWEEN THE RHYMES.

Even the youngest readers can get ready to play ball with this zippy verse filled book that teaches counting from one ball to twenty baseball cards. A helpful glossary of baseball terms is also included.

In 2003 I got this book and enhanced my English 30% right after I read it.
this time I got it to my wife who really love it so much.
I recommend any beginner student to have it.

I purchased this book for my Korean friend. He found it very useful. At first it looks very basic as there are alot of pictures but it has alot of good exercises. He has learned alot from it and is eager to move onto the next book.

I would reccommend this book to anyone who hasn't been to language school and wants to learn English at home.

Good value as well at $19.80

Examples of usage for 1200 of the most common English vocabulary. Each chapter is two pages, one page for explanations and examples, another for exercises. Most sentences are simple. A sentence is offered for each usage of the same word. Illustrations are tiny, but numerous and easy to understand. Simple design, easy to use. Excellent for beginners. - ESL Book Review

I love this book!! This is an excellent book on how to beat a check, and also a little "beating the world around you" if you read into it properly! I put it right up there with gaslighting! I also met the author once...great mind/great person! Would recommend 100%!! Happy reading!

Come on... read this book, who wouldnt like a book that gives you very good instructions on how to eat for free... I am very acomplished in this skill, but i got banned from all of the Pizza huts in my area (which is pretty bad because i live in wichita, KS, where the first Pizza hut was) because i found a sure fire way of getting free pizzas! (all you do is tell them you have a credit for a large pizza with the toppings you want) What are you waiting for! go buy this book now!

Oh the fun you'll have and stories you'll tell. Here's a book written by an insider (viz. waiter) about how to get free meals from restaurants. By 'free' of course, I mean 'stolen', but what's the difference? Particularly charming is the section on getting the whole family involved--using your children as pawns in a gambit to acquire that elusive free Bloomin' Onion. A fun read, but I don't have the balls or desire to go to jail to actually do this stuff.

Do you like hockey? Well if you do then the book Brady, Brady and The Runaway Goalie by Mary Shaw and Chuck Temple is a great book for you. I chose to read the book because it had an interesting title and it was a hockey book. It is about a boy named Brady and another boy named Chester. They love hockey they play for a team called the Ice Hogs. They are playing against nasty team called the Dragoons. The whole team was in the locker room right before the game and guess what they were missing? Chester their goalie. I think you should never be scared and always do your best. Did they find Chester and did they win? Well you have to read the book to find out what happened.

The Dragoons were the chippiest players in the league. While most teams practiced very hard and tried to win by being good, the Dragoons won games by hitting their opponents while the referee's back was turned or spraying snow in the goalie's face. No one liked to play against the Dragoons.

It's no wonder that when the Icehogs were scheduled to play against the un defeated Dragoons, they were nervous. No one wanted to get hurt. Everyone just wanted to have fun and play some good hockey.

Of all the Icehogs, Chester the goalie was the most nervous. He knew how the Dragoons played and wanted the Icehogs to win. But in order to beat the Dragoons, they'd have to have a great goalie. Chester wasn't so sure that he could do the job.

If you have a young hockey fan in your house, this Canadian children's book series is charming. Best for kids preschool to early elementary, these are simple stories about a little boy who's so crazy about hockey that they have to say his name twice to get his attention. While the adventures all involve his youth hockey team, the Icehogs, they are really about friendship, teamwork, and the everyday troubles of typical grade school kids - Brady Brady always seems to have just the right solution for his team mates. Even though they aren't great literature, my 4 and 5 year old love them and want to hear them over and over.

The book is interesting and easy to read. Even if is not dealing the Customer Experience in all its global and strategic facts it deepens the emotional aspects meeting the reader expectations.

If nothing else, this book is fascinating. Colin Shaw has disected transactions into measurable steps based on the emotions agents evoke during an experience. He uses examples that anyone can relate to, such as going out to dinner, breaks the experience into steps in charts and graphs them. He makes measuring an experience as scientific as anything about emotions could possibly be.

At the surface, when he started talking about planned emotional responses during customer interactions, I though his ideas seemed manipulative but reading on, I got it. Customer interactions have a sequence that at any point breaks down into a good or bad emotional experience. Managers who need to train workers to make customers happy now have a step by step method to show where any breakdown in the process may occur so they can fix it.

I have all three of Colin Shaw's experience books. They are all different and I recommend them all. Customer experience is the next wave in marketing. There is nothing new in the idea of making customers feel happy, but this book is a fresh look with a new angle.

This book talks about the importance of creating a Customer Experience in very interesting and helpful ways. For example, Colin Shaw notes that each company has a unique Emotional Signature(tm), that is, the pattern of emotions your company and products create in the customer. Shaw notes that there are four clusters of emotions that are statistically significant in creating loyal customers. The author notes that his research shows that 50% of a customer's purchase experience is emotional. Other people claim that people purchase based on their emotions and use reason to justify their purchase. Whatever the fraction and balance of emotion and reasons, it is to your benefit to manage the emotions your customers feel as they walk in your door and after they take your product home.

Oh, and by the way, it is very important that you understand your customer segments, why they come to your store, and what they are using your products to get done. That way you can prepare the experience to handle them as they walk in the door rather than making them seek you out to get them what they think they want. You have a golden opportunity to show them you not only understand them, but have expertise in what they are trying to get done. This way you can not only push them to a higher emotional cluster, but possibly sell them additional items that improve their experience.

The first cluster includes the Value Destroying emotions. You drive customers away and prevent others from ever becoming customers when your policies, procedures, and staff make them feel stressed, neglected, unsatisfied, frustrated, disappointed, unhappy, hurried, and/or irritated. It may seem obvious to you that you don't want these emotions being caused in your customers. However, this doesn't mean you aren't doing it. One valuable exercise is to use your company as a regular customer would and see how it really works. You might be shocked. Another is to actually read your customer mail and talk to real customers about how your company makes them feel. It is probably a very different picture than the one you currently hold in your mind.

There are three clusters of positive emotions, the Attention, Recommendation, and Advocacy clusters. While they are separate statistically, it is hard to imagine that you can actually get to the level of advocacy without passing through and maintaining the attention and recommendation emotions in your customers.

The Attention emotions are also the ones most directly related to short term spending by your customers. If you want them to buy today make them feel stimulated, interested, exploratory, energetic, and indulgent. Makes sense right? These are also the emotions most closely associated with store openings and product launches. However, the effect is also short term. You must work harder to maintain these emotions as time goes on and be ready to cycle through other new products to keep the attention of your customers.

When you help your customers feel the emotions in the Recommendation cluster you are laying the foundation of customer loyalty. They are willing to talk about your company and its products when your friends ask them for a advice and recommendations. If your customers are doing this for you, it is because you make them feel valued, cared for, trusted, focused, and safe. Good going!

The customers who feel the Advocacy emotions (and there are only two) will actively promote you because you have made them feel happy and pleased. Happiness is a peak emotion that causes memories and when people have happy memories they treasure the places and people that were a part of it. They even want to take pictures. The author asks if your customers want to take pictures of their experiences with your company. It is a telling point, I think.

The author also talks about the Net Promoter Score. You ask customers to mark a scale from zero (not at all likely) to ten (very likely) in response to the question "how likely are you to recommend (place your company, a product, or the experience they had with you here) to a friend? Then, total ALL the responses. Then figure the percent of the responses of one through six and write this down. Ignore the responses of seven and eight. Then calculate the percentage of total responses that were marked nine or ten. You get the Net Promoter Score by subtracting the percentage of scores marked 1 to 6 from the percentage of scores 9 and 10. This is your advocacy score and you want to get that number as high as you can.

Obviously, I can't go through the whole book. I think its points are good. However, I do NOT like the metaphor of DNA. It is all wrong for what they are talking about. When you read the talk about spreading the DNA to others and similar comments, the author seems to be talking about a virus or some such, but never using the metaphor for what DNA really is. However, customer virus is an unattractive metaphor. But this is a small complaint. This is a good book on an important topic.

Reviewed by Craig Matteson, Ann Arbor, MI