Sherman Books

The only thing I don't really like about this book is the categorization. It discusses Napoleon, then skips to the industrial revolution, but then comes back to Napoleon again and the Bourbon restoration. In my opinion, history books should follow the chronology of history, and include everything from one time period in one section.

I have been using this plan for three years. I usually have to copy/paste tests and chapter questions because the font is a bit small. It is worth it because it has saved me from having to make up my own tests for every chapter. Good writing projects.

Bleakney, who is a retired marine biologist, provides an extensive examination of the process of dyking tidal marshland employed by the French settlers in Nova Scotia in the 17th and 18th centuries. The reclamation of salt marshes for agricultural use by the Acadians was unique to North America. As a biologist and observer of natural history who has spent his life in Nova Scotia, Bleakney offers a far more analytic and rigourous account of the Acadian colonial settlement than the historic record alone has provided. In particular his study of historic maps and modern aerial photography give a considerable understanding of the environment in which the Acadian settlers found themselves.

This book is a good Spanish workbook, I know because I have to use it at a school. All you teachers out there, if you are going to have some people learn Spanish, this is the book. All the students out there will appreciate it for its fun format, along with it's interesting captions and 'comics'. Have them study the countries as well! There's even a map!

I have NEVER quit reading a Star Trek book before the end until now. At page 150 I couldn't stand it any more. Three stories going on at the same time. Jumped all over the place and hard to follow. I would avoid this book at all costs. A waste of money in my opinion.

The first two books got me. Read them non-stop. Imagine the origins of not only Romulans but of Remans with a hint to the Watraii! But you can guess where this book goes immediately (I won't spoil it here) and not much else gets developed. Still worth it to complete the picture but not as good as #1 & 2. This three book series could have been done in two. Guess it was a money thing to get three books worth of cash out of us. It worked.

Whilst nothing spectacular, a solid piece showing the Jedi Trial of Anakin Skywalker, with further insites as to his eventual fall to the dark side, as well as some views as to how Corran Horn came to be.

I bought this book because it is organized well, and has lots of lists that make it easy to use. The chapters are timely, and offer good information on how everyone can work to eliminate stressors in their lives.

Charles Chestnutt (1858-1932)was a pioneering African-American short story writer, novelist and essayist. He wrote about the life of blacks during the reconstruction era and during slavery. He also wrote about turn-of-the century relationships between black people and white people and about the emerging black urban middle-class and its relationship to both poor rural black people and to educated white people.

Chestnutt wrote two volumes of stories, "The Conjure Woman" (1899) and "The Wife of his Youth and other Stories of the Color Line" (1899). This short, inexpensive book from the Dover Thrift series includes stories from each volume together with a useful introduction to Chestnutt by Joan Sherman.

There are five "Conjure Woman" stories in the brief volume. These stories take place in North Carolina just after the Civil War and they relate back to events and characters in the pre-Civil War period. The stories are told in a heavy dialect which takes some getting used to. The characters are a white Northern couple, John and Annie, who have moved to North Carolina, an aging black storyteller and former slave named Uncle Julius, and a "conjure woman" named Aunt Peggy. At critical moments during their stay in North Carolina, Uncle Julius tells John and Annie stories about the conjure woman which illuminate life in the slave South and which have a way of returning back to John and Annie as well. The stories are fun, creative, and outrageous.

The second group of five stories explore white black relationships subsequent to the Civil War as well as relationships between different types of black people. There are three stories which deal with highly educated black people and the ambivalence they feel towards the rural blacks in the post-Reconstruction south. These stories also show the difficulties faced by urban black people in the North at the turn-of-the century in gaining acceptance from their neighboors. (Chestnutt had first-hand experience of this situation.) There is also a story centering upon a lynching in a Sourthern town.

This is a short, inexpensive book which will introduce the reader to an early African-American writer who deserves to be better known.

I am limiting myself to four stars because I have only now ordered this book; why then, might you ask am I expressing the audacity to review a book I am only now ordering? Because this title is a collection of four related novels of which I have only ever read the fourth, but that fourth entry alone is a stunner.

The final story deals with a musical choreographer sent to an abandoned deep space station in the far far future, and the space station had been a bordello. Such themes are dealt with as the life of the prostitues, the conflict of a writer who wants to tell the truth, a harsh one, but who is under contract to paint it over into a musical comedy and a computer learning to appreciate aesthetics.

As usual this work is written in Resnick's deceptively easy to follow style wherein one is not hit over the head with his often poignent themes but rather do they sneak up with subtly haunting impact on one who thinks he is merely enjoying a fluff piece.

If the first three selections in the series are weak, and I have no reason to think they are, this collection is still worth the price of admission for the final novel

I enjoyed this work. Even though it was not an exhaustive report on General Sherman, (as it probably never was intended to be), it was interesting and thought provoking. I especially liked the somewhat fresh ideas on Sherman's treatment of the Carolinas after his well known march to the sea. Not all authors have the poetry and flow of a Carl Sandburg but Mark Coburn has a style that makes this work an enjoyable read as opposed to some that can lose you in details that are not important to the issue. If you can obtain a copy, I would recommend you do so.