The late Lee Wulff was one of the world's foremost salmon anglers, as well as a skilled airplane pilot and explorer. Bush Pilot Angler is his extraordinary memoir that shares the story of the years in which Lee pioneered the salmon and brook trout fishers on the remote coast of northeastern Newfoundland and Labrador. Having established outpost camps by boat, he quickly learned that getting clients and supplies in and out would require a plane. Through the 1940s and early 50s, Wulff ferried anglers into isolated lakes and rivers by flying them in with a J3 Cub on floats. The fishing in this wild and remote venues exceeded his clientele's most fervent expectations. Bush Pilot Angler is a superbly presented, highly recommended autobiography of courage, love, flying, and fishing.

Bush Pilot Angler, by Lee Wulff is an amazing storie about Lee's adventures in Newfoundland. He was an pioneer who set out to open the Newfoundland back country for tourism industry .In this book Lee uses his Yellowbird plane to explore the unfished rivers and ponds, where the salmon will take a fly evry cast and it is only common to catch a ten pound salmon. The book will capture you and you will be sadened when your finished the book because you'll want to read MORE!! The stories he talks of are what every flyfisherman or woman dreams of. This book is a must read if you are a fisherman or a Lee Wulff fan.* -J.Goodwin-

The Busines of May Next is easily the best book I have ever read on James Madison's intellectual journey from his dismay over the ineffectiveness of the Articles of Confederation to his draft of the Virginia Plan, which was the underlying foundation of our Constitution.

The title is taken from a letter Madison wrote in which he discussed the "business" of the upcoming Constitutional Convention (in May of 1789), of which Madison--along with Alexander Hamiltion--was the prime mover.

Miller's book expertly and eloquently explores the influences on Madison's thinking, from his reading of David Hume's essays on the ideal conditions for a republic, to his correspondence with Washington, Jefferson and many others in which he fleshed out his ideas of how to turn the weak, ineffectual Articles into a government that had both power and staying power.

As Miller points out, Madison's genius was his understanding of human behavior, and his awareness that any government must be shaped in ways that take advantage of the "better angels of our nature," but also (more important) minimize, or at least accommodate, the darker side of our nature.

By fashioning a government with limited and shared powers; by holding frequent elections in which the leaders are held accountable; by ensuring that the people possess certain rights that no government can threaten (on pain of being altered or abolished), Madison was the first among equals in the creation of a truly representative government that has lasted more than 200 years and shows no signs of dying out.

Miller himself is one of the few (William Manchester is another) historians whose thorough research is matched by his delightful writing style. I have two copies of the book--a hardcopy for reading and a paperback for underlining.

This is a very good discussion of Madison's role in the development of the Consitution. Very readabl

This book is so fabulous! When my first brother was little I used to read it to him all the time. And, it was the first book that he learned to read. He took it everywhere with him, and now there is only one page, and the cover left. I found one copy used for him for Christmas, and now want five more, one for each of my other 3 brothers, one for my mom, and one for me. The poetry describing all the "busy machines" working is great, and the illustrations are wonderful too.

I remember reading this book to my baby brother eons ago, and it was his very favorite! Now my own daughter is into "big trucks" and nothing currently out there comes close to comparing with this book. It had all the machines from loaders and backhoes to graders and pavers. It tells you what each machine does in a catchy, rhyming way. Now if I could only find a copy of it...

This book was a Godsend to me as I completed chemotherapy for breast cancer 4 years ago.This book touches on all the issues faced by cancer survivors on several levels - emotional, social, legal, etc. Only a cancer survivor knows what it is like to be a member of this special club of ours - a club whose members share the same renewed vision of life. The road to that renewed vision is not an easy one, and this book will help pave the way! I can't believe that it is out of print! My life has been enriched because of it. Thank you, Susan and Judith!

You thought getting your cancer cured took care of the matter? Dream on. There are a lot of issues in survivorhood. Your dates drop you, your insurance company drops you, your employer eases you out, your family doesn't want to hear about it anymore, and your adrenaline surges with every cough, twinge and hiccup that your now untrustworthy body produces. Here are some people who understand. Fellow survivors Nessim and Ellis walk you through every issue, offering sound advice and words of encouragement. Their chapter on the insurance obstacle is excellent. You might take a mind to joining one of the Cancervive chapters, if there is one in your area, or availing yourself of their over-the-phone counseling.

Will appeal to: survivors and their family and friends.

This book is outstanding in the presentations, photos and explanations of the topics of relevance to 9 year olds and preteens. It is well worth reading to the child and giving any additional information that may be necessary. This book has the ability to make a pre-teen feel comfortable about all of the changes about to occur in their bodies.

I really liked this book because it lets you know all about puburty and explains that there may be times where you want to run and hide in a closet but there is nothing to be afraid of.

Imagine having nearly every career-related question you've ever conjured answered in one easy-to-read book. And, imagine this in a Q&A format with clearly defined chapters so you find the question AND the answer quickly and easily. That's the JIST (pun intended to the publisher of this book) of Career Choice, Change and Challenge.

Want to know how and if you might leave self-employment for the corporate world? How you might handle a micro-managing supervisor? Looking for the right approach to discussing salary before, during and after you've been hired? Want to understand and repond to age-related bias? Downsized and need to get refocused? Just look for the answers in this great book.

If you're not HAPPY at work, perhaps you're not in the right career for YOU! Ready to make some changes? Read on. And enjoy!

Deb Koen and Tony Lee are brilliant. In the slash and burn corporate climate we live in, this book is a must to have on your shelf, not IF but WHEN you are downsized. In the 2000's, we're all going to be FORCED to change careers several times, and this is THE handbook for those challenging times that we have ahead -- that will hit us when we least expect it.

This is one of the best books I've read on character and character building. This book has been a tremendous help to me.

Our usefulness to the Lord does depend on our character. This book is an excellent tool to allow the Lord to speak to us regarding our inward and outward person. I highly recommend it.

Get ready to give up your weekend because once you pick up this book you won't be able to put it down. Lee's dramatic descriptions cover the conflicts between historical Eastern and Western traditions woven into poignant family events. While his relatives and their antics seem quirky and particular, in fact they resonate with all families facing abrupt changes and adaptation --be they generational or cultural. For those who have read and loved China Boy and Honor and Duty, Chasing Hepburn gives us the pre-story we've all been wondering about.

In this remarkable memoir, Gus Lee presents a clear and compassionate picture of his parents, grandparents and their 'clans' set in turbulent times. He brings alive the social, historical, religious and cultural context which informs their actions and reactions making them comprehensible to a reader with a totally different cultural viewpoint. It reads like a multi-generational adventure novel where the characters play parts in or are impacted by major events, from the Taiping rebellion through the British opium trade to the civil wars that raged from the early twentieth century through the brutal Japanese occupation in WWII. It is a wild ride and a great read. Gus presents his forbears and related characters warts and all, but always with great compassion and subtlety. There are no cardboard characters. Readers of his novels, which have a strong autobiographical base, particularly 'China Boy', will know what a hard childhood he endured with a stern and distant father, a mother prone to 'magical' beliefs who died when he was five, and a rigid, vindictive step mother. In this memoir, Gus reveals to us what he subsequently discovered about his parents and he honors them both. Gus's own life has been a testament to using adversity to build strength. He has wasted no time blaming, or scoring points off his parents or using his experiences to excuse failings in his own life. There is no 'poor me' here. His story helped me understand a completely different belief system and cultural perspective. And it was at times moving, at other times funny, but always interesting.

Patterson's book is a true tour de force. It combines provocative insight with impressive scholarship, and is already a model for literary studies.

His is not always a highly legible book since there is so much going on, and occasionally one gets the feeling that Patterson has too much to tell us (the sheer number and volume of the footnotes are indicative of his erudition).

This is not the forum to get into a scholarly discussion of the pros and cons of this title, and a short review could never do justice to Patterson's range and command of discourse. Allow me to point out one tiny thing: Patterson, in choosing mottos for his chapters from Don DeLillo's "Libra," manages to show how Chaucer studies are indeed still relevant, how the works of an author (Patterson doesn't limit himself to the "Canterbury Tales"--see his discussion of "Anelida and Arcite") dead for hundreds of years still is meaningful, if one reads him carefully, not just but also against the grain.

Patterson's book remains the classic new historicist study of the Chaucerian corpus. Construing his argument around the emergence of the self-aware subject in the late Middle Ages, Patterson opens his study with a an eloquent explanation of the interrelatedness of modernity and subjectivity. Chapters 1 & 2 set forth the parameters of his main thesis, noting how the subject is always constructed through history, rather than in opposition to it (despite the claims of these subjects to the contrary). While chapter 3's examination of the Knight's Tale is perhaps overdetermined by the theoretical models of the first two chapters, the rest of the book, particularly chapters 6 and 8, demonstrates Patterson's thinking and writing at its best, especially in his riveting analysis of the relationship between te Pardoner's nihilism and the construction of his subjectivity. All in all, the book provides an illuminating new assessment of Chaucer's place in the historical development of the modern subject. It is still a standard in Chaucer studies and I recommend it wholeheartedly.

This is our favorite of the Cheerios books. The pictures are brightly colored, and all of the animals are simply drawn and easily identifiable. Aside from being fun to play with and eat, placing the Cheerios in the holes is also great for working on your child's fine motor skills.

What a great interactive book for toddlers! This book will help keep your toddlers attention because rather than just sitting and listening, they use cheerios to complete the illustrations on the pages. This is a very cute and entertaining book!