Tracks Books

My son and I love this book! The illustrations are beautiful and wonderfully detailed. This book is on regular rotation in our Bedtime story book collection.

Wish there were more books from Mr. Nail!

This was an excellent book! The illustrations are bright and beautiful coupled with a magnificant story. Each set of footprints are shown in their natural environment and they are accompanied by a full page of clues that start hard and get easier before you are shown the animal that the clues are about. Here is an example. "I need to run fast because many animals hunt my kind. I will zig-zag to make it hard to catch me, then dash into the bushes to escape". Then there are more clues until finally the last clue is "My white, puffy tail is another clue to who I am." Of course by reading the clues you start to figure out by this time that you are talking about a Rabbit. This book really helped me to understand more about the eco-system I am surrounded by. When we go outside I am more observant and can even share show some of the tracks I learned to my sisters, Merlyn and Shirley. Be sure to get this book!

This is an excellent reference for the serious horse player. The appendix "Statistical Validation," which shows you how to determine how many races you need to test before you can have confidence in a new system, is worth the price of the book.

Bob Pitlak, nehandicappers.org

I should have included this book in my list of best handicapping books but it was out of print. This is not a simple book and the author assumes you are an adequate if not great handicapper. The most valuable information in this book is how to validate a handicapping method, how to create an objective value line among many other gems. The math is highschool math not Ziemba and Hausch math, although he covers the authors in this book too. I've gone back to this book many times for reference. It's a unique and valuable contribution to any handicapping library.

Dylan Alliata
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I am delighted to be a contributor to this anthology. While I was reading one of the stories, my husband announced that he was ready for our run - I asked him to wait so I could finish the story! Each story and poem is as beautiful as the book's gorgeous cover, and evokes empathy, tears, or cheers while fueling your running heart with inspiration. The heartfelt writings eloquently express why women run: comfort, joy, challenge, growth, and the fact that sometimes, there is no reason. I experienced moments and feelings of my past and present - and maybe even my future - while reading this book, and will enjoy it for many years to come. ~ CJ Lockman Hall, M.A.

This book will go proudly next to another great running book of a similar type, Running Forward- Looking Back by the author Lynn Seely. I also have the book First Marathons next to that one.

After so many years of searching for and hoping to find good, heart felt running stories that I can relate to, I am delighted to add this book, Women Runners to my top shelf. (Only the best of the best make it there!) Even though the Ms. Lynn T. Seely's book was the first book like this that I found, it is nice to know that others are being published too.

I really enjoyed the diversity of short stories that are found in all three books. After seeing the publishing world dominated by male writers / runners (and though they do a wonderful job of it, they are, after all, not women!) it is gratifying to read more from women that can "tell it like it is" and entertain, teach and motivate and inspire. It would be hard to say which of the three books inspired me the most! But it certainly is nice to have a few to pick from! Anyway, well done - enjoyable book!

Misconceptions about the Yaqui (Yoeme) people are widespread because the New Age movement has turned them into gurus. Carlos Castañeda has surely put this tribe on the map, but not in a way the Yaquis might have liked to see it. The one book which has been written from a Yaqui point of view (`Yaqui Deer Songs' by Felipe S. Molina) offers us a glimpse into a world which is, in many ways, very different from ours. You can read about the sacred deer and its meaning to the Yaquis, but I guess you have to be a Yaqui to grasp its full meaning. I would recommend this book to anyone who is truly interested in the world view of the Yaqui people.

The lyrics of the Yaqui Deer Songs are magical, moving poetry both in English translations and in the liquid sounds of the Yaqui originals. This book gives a sense of the true flavor of Yaqui culture and spirituality.

This book and its companion from the library of america, have everything that Hurston wrote - except some unedited manuscripts, and some articles and short stories.

Her interest in language, folklore and ritual, and the cult of local color comes through in all of her works. The personalities and struggles, failures and victories of all of her characters become real for the reader.

She is writing earlier in the 20th century, when people were starting to buy radios and automobiles -- she saw a lot of the south, and north, rapidly transform into the beginnings of the consumer culture we know today.

When I read Hurston, it is like I feel an anxiety to preserve. I sense a underlying insight, that she probably had, that within a couple of generations, the rhythm of life would radically change.

I think she saw that a lot of the folk traditions and rituals in North America would disappear, so she did what she could to demonstrate a vibrant african american cultural life, as she knew it, and interpreted it.

The two collections of Hurston's work show the span of her writing, over her lifetime. These pieces reveal how many of her imagination and many of her themes and character-types evolve over the years.

I recommend the two volumes.

The debate of whether Ms Hurston was a true Harlem Renaissance writer is does so little justice to her contributions to that scene that I spent an entire semester debating it. Of course she was and she was one of the writers who helped give it its significance. Just the scene in Jonah's Gourd where she is talking about the physical features of the male protagonist is important enough. Her "peope" are real and you wonder if she had interacted with them in real life because they are your neighbors, relatives and friends...they are just that touchable. Her pain in life comes through all her books but you are so busy savoring her prose that you only wonder about it after you are done. The best thing to do is to gather several authors from that period and read them all. She is among the genius of the era but you will see how far she stands out from the brilliant.

I touched myself for hours while reading this piece of literary genius. It was literally breathtaking.

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, Hollobaugh, uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

That's what I was yelling. I want to meet him in real life and show him what it's all about!

PS: Does he have a beard?

I picked up this book in a bookstore, started reading it, went back to work and shut my door to continue reading it throughout the afternoon! It's full of good advice for anyone who works for someone else - lots of motivating, common sense tactics to get along in the business world. Perpaps business schools should offer a course on "Real Business 101" and use this book as a text!

This is an amazing collection of photos and a heartfelt plea to preserve tigers in the wild. Our Independent Publisher Book Awards judges were dazzled by the photography and the creativity of the presentation. It's the kind of awareness-raising nature book we need more of to help save the planet's endangered wild animals.

An excellent history of the pursuit of the 4-minute mile. I thought it would bog in the middle as the numbers and times kepting piling on, but I actually found it compelling to read. Bryant did a good job of distinguishing between all the various runners from various eras (and the pictures in the book help a lot!). He seemed to ignore what was going on outside England at times (for instance, he'd spend a lot of time on certain new records, then barely give on off-hand sentence sometimes when an American set a new mile record. In the second half of the book, however, he did a good job of covering what was going on simultaneously in the 4-minute quest on three continents.

When you start reading this book, you can't stop before reaching the last page.
Very interesting book on the developement of the Automotive Art and the artists that creates those fantastic artworks.
"Road & Track" and Bill Motta are certainly the pioneers who opened new fields for the automobile and art amateurs.