The first book I've read by Cathy Criscuolo, but it won't be the last. A perfect read while laying on the beach or recovering from surgery. sparkle hayter

Astounding, awesome, fantastic, incredible... there are only some of the adjectives that occurs to you while you see this book. Ruth Thorne-Thomsen is without doubt one of the best contemporary photographers, her imaginary landscapes don't have equal. If you like the millenarian ruins... imaginary landscapes... the disturbing beauty... the dreamed photographies...this is your book.

Again, one of the best photographers of the history. Few photographers can make feel the some Ruth makes you feel. An incomparable photographer. An incomparable book

You may be as surprised by this book as I was - I bought it thinking that I OUGHT to read it to learn more about a river-running legend, but I didn't expect to enjoy it all that much. I was wrong. Author Richard Westwood engagingly tells the story of Georgie White Clark and how she came to be one of the most celebrated pioneers of Western United State river-running, especially on the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. In surprising detail (including the names of many of her passengers and boatmen) this book describes the trips, travails, and triumphs of Georgie's long career here in the United State and elsewhere. The book gives brief details of Georgie's early years, but focuses on her river-running years starting in 1945 when she and Harry Aleson swam from Diamond Creek to Lake Mead, through 1992 when she died.

To the author's credit he does not dodge the controversies that have marred Georgie's legend. Westwood frankly acknowledges and, in some instances, documents the validity of some of the criticisms leveled at Georgie over the years. He states what he knows or what his considerable research revealed, and leaves the conclusions up to the reader.

Through this book you will get an unvarnished portrait of a unique individual, someone who left her imprint on a sport that largely didn't exist when she started and was a multi-million dollar industry when she died. You'll learn about an incredibly complex person: alternately engaging or aloof, compassionate or driven -- but always a pioneer. This very readable book includes over 50 photographs and maps that bring to life much of what is written, and give the reader a glimpse of Georgie's world.

This book is fun and educational at the same time. It shows the lives of different women ocean explorers. I loved this book especially, because I want to be just like those women. The ocean is probably my favorite thing in the whole world. I advise all to read this amazing book!

This is the best factual reference book I've seen on the Vietnam War. Not only are the entries concise and PREcise, some of them are humorous as well. The author's personality shines though the entries even though they are treated with respect and...pride. Highly recommended for authors, researchers, and Vietnam veterans.

A triumph of editing, proving that what might seem to be a dry subject in the hands of the right editor can be as absorbing as a first-class novel!

I love this book! It has a great combination of illustrations and photgraphs of different objects that I'm teaching my son (he's 22 months). He loves pointing to the colorful images! I just bought copies for six of my friends with little kids for Christmas!

This is the BEST guide to using the Internet/WWW for students, people new to the Web, and anyone who wants to understand what the www really is and does. ANYONE who uses the Internet NEEDS to have THIS BOOK as a ready reference. Carol Lea Clark has opened the door on understanding the web in a book that can be read in under two hours and understood just as fast. Get this book if you cannot afford anything else.

Simply put, Nan Clark's The World's Greatest Star Trek Quiz completely lives up to its title and would be a most welcome holiday gift for legions of Star Trek fans from 8 to 80! And every quiz and puzzle comes complete with the answers!

The write way home is the latest book of this prominent Cuban-American poet and literary critic. It belongs to a most popular genre among Latino and Latin American writers living in the U.S: the autobiography (with varying degrees of fictionalization). Indeed, the genre has produced some of the most beautiful, most important, and politically controversial pieces of Latino writing: Bless Me Ultima (by Rodolfo Anaza), City of Night (by John Rechy), Down these mean streets (by Piri Thomas), La vida loca (by Luis Rodriguez), and the much-discussed Hunger of Memory (by Richard Rodriguez), among many other possible examples. The reason is simple: in "minority" writing, as Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari cleverly perceived in their volume Kafka, the personal narrative, no matter how egotistic or detached from History it may seems, is immediately political, and it embodies the history of the whole community.
Emilio Bejel's autobiography, the story of a small-town Cuban boy who worked through his sexual, political and personal riddles on both sides of the Florida Strait, is no exception. On the one hand, he personally participated in some of the most important political events in Cuban and Cuban-American history of the last forty-odd years: the initial struggles for the definition (communist or otherwise) that the Revolution would take, the massive exodus from Cuba to Florida and New York, the Diálogo of the late seventies between exiles and the Cuban government, and the heated (sometimes vicious) debates within the Cuban-American community, which reached a particular intensity during the Reagan years. On the other hand, his life embodies the many contradictions and (unresolved) searches essential to Cuban and Cuban-American identity: the intersection between politics and family life; the collision between sexual preference and radical politics; fatherhood, friendship and national solidarity.
The Write Way Home, a unique blend of personal narrative, poetry, and essay (in the tradition of the great Latin American essay) stands out among other representatives of the genre because it avoids the two main pitfalls that endanger it: either the triumphal narrative of "becoming American" à la Richard Rodriguez or the (falsely) nostalgic and dismissive narratives à la Gloria Anzaldua.
Thus, Bejel addresses the paradoxes of being a Cuban-American in a way that never betrays the meaning of politics when it comes to writing: to propose questions without giving the answers, or to give the reader the opportunity to look for them in her/his own life experiences. Also, the text does so without forgetting one basic truth, much forgotten among academics: that there is nothing more political than a zest for life, love and liberty.
In a completely different register, this is a natural and worthy continuation of Bejel's groundbreaking Gay Cuban Nation (an exploration of the pervasiveness of a queer political unconscious in the definition of Cuba as an imagined community). Here Bejel drives home the problems he addressed theoretically in the previous volume, putting flesh and blood to the current academic debates.