Following the Louisiana Purchase, Jeferson sent out expeditions to explore what the United States had bought. Pike's Arkansas Expedition was concerned more with the southern extent of the purchase than was that of Lewis and Clark, but it was not less important. Pike reported directly to Gen. Wilkinson whose reputation as a double agent involved in the Aaron Burr conspiracy, lends spice to an otherwise ordinary expedition. It is a good beginning for further study on the subject of Mexican/American relations in the first decade of the 19th century, and an inducement to read other books about Zebulon Pike as explorer.

This goes beyond the barely credible 'Strangers Among Us'. There is so much in here that settles in the unconscious mind - but on the surface, too much appears beyond credibility. Surely, as much as we want it to be true, how can it be. More supporting evidence would ease the disbelief. Ruth, expand on your thoughts and give us more hope. Unfortunately, with hindsight, many of the millennium predictions are still to occur, maybe they are late, but it doesn't help credibility. More reference to pure UFOlogy is also required, but don't let this put you off. If just for thought provoking UFOlogical reading it is another must - read it and wonder!

They walk among us, some with honorable intent, some with evil intent. Ruth Montgomery claims to channel the wisdom of those who wish to help this society come to terms with some of its most puzzling questions, challenges and mysteries. Why are we here? What is our purpose? Why is there pain? Why is there beauty? There are those who believe that the garden of Eden was a genetic experiment. (I am one of them.) Where do we go from there, from here, with what we have learned since then?

the author says that aliens are here to help us from killing ourselves, and constantly takes the help of some spirits called 'The guides'. Decent book overall.

R.A. Montogmery could never equal the mastery of the "Choose Your Own Adventure" genre that Edward Packard did. Too often his books were preachy and overly arbitrary. This book may be his best effort, however, telling a fairly gripping series of adventures of your search for the lost city of Atlantis. The series was new and fresh at this point, and many of its best books were among its first nine.

In my opinion I would like to recommend this book to anyone who hates reading.

This book takes place in the deep Atlantic in the lost city of Atlantis. In this book you are the character. What happens in the book is that you are an underwater explorer. This is your biggest mission. You must find the lost city of Atlantis.

Journey Under the Sea is one of the classic Choose Your Own Adventure books, and among the best ever written. Combining the elements of the unknown with that of high-adventure, the book involves the reader from the start and, depending on your "fate-altering" decisions, will end with a wallop. Find the Lost City of Atlantis, or explore the other mysterious locales of the ocean. But no matter where you turn, danger awaites you in this exciting multi-path quest of never-ending suprise and suspense.

This is a worthwhile book only if you aren't very concerned about historical authenticity or the material culture of the fur trade period. If you want to make gear with greater historical authenticity you are better off studying the Book of Buckskinning series by Scurlock. The Scurlock series is based on evolving scholarship, and has improved with every volume as historical and material culture research has revealed more knowledge to students of that period in history.

This book is full of information from fire-making to tanning hides to making coon skin hats. This would be a good book for camping to. This is exactly the book I've been looking for!

This book is really great! I found it at the library and now I am going to buy it because it is so full of information I want to keep it handy.

A book such as this is somewhat valuable, but I was disappointed by the narrowness of the people included. It's as if only Leftists in universities had any experience of the Cold War, and since we know this to be false, why not call this book "Leftist Academics and The Cold War University" or something? What about the old guys reading Latin texts in their offices who thought the world was going mad? What about old-fashioned Liberals who were profoundly ambivilent towards both the American Right and the Stalinist (and post-Stalinist)American Left? The editor was more interested, I suppose, in gathering lefty celebs with high name recognition than he was in getting a ground level view, and that mention of Studs Terkel in the above editorial comments made me yearn for some of Terkel's interest in the folks who are usually overlooked in the rush to sign up the people who've already had their say. Until a good oral history of that sort comes around, I guess this will have to do.

Viewing a political era from a particular point of view, from a subjective perspective can often manage to shed light on much more. The experiences reported by the individuals in this book are extremely well written stories that transcend the bounds of what at first seems a narrow topic. Still, if you have a particular interest in education and the politics of universities and colleges, you will find this book even more intriguing.

I find it very disturbing that people consider these professors as "Marxist Zealots". By your comment, A READER FROM THE USA, you demonstrate who is really misleading the public. Noam Chomsky is NOT a Marxist, he is an Anarchist. Get your facts straight. And to say that these people thought Pol Pot was a "great guy" only shows to which degree you are willing to fabricate lies in order to advance your own political bias. These people are against all forms of genocide and oppression, whether it be Stalin, Pol Pot or JFK and Richard Nixon.

The swallows are here again. They have come south looking for summer. Did they fly over my country? Did they see my mum amd dad? Did they see my little yellow canary?

Nam-Huong cries lots of onion tears...It's only when she laens to smile inside, andd finally laugh, that her tears fall like drops of dew.

I attempted to use this book as an intervention for a foster care child whose parental figures terminated parental rights as it was what I could find in the Muncie Public Library. This book has the potential for helping a child in Foster Care cope with his or her tragic situation. However, this book is fairly long and probably best read by the child instead of read to the child. So, the child needs to be higher functioning. Also, the setting of the story may be hard for a child in North America to relate to (a Vietnamese war orphan in Austrailia who spends sometime working in the restaurant owned by the foster parent.) Last, this story may be more appropriate for a girl to read or listen to. Nevertheless, it is a potential intervention that could be considered for kids who are either orphaned or legally orphaned to address bereavement.

I loved this book; it shows a girl of great courage coping with grief. Even though it is sad in parts, it is about healing and is immensely positive. I highly recommend it.

Back in its heyday, the "Choose Your Own Adventure" series was one of the best, most exciting series for kids there was. Especially good were the ones by Edward Packard. His colleague R.A. Montgomery wrote less successful efforts. This one displays his fondness for negative and often arbitrary endings, as well as for a sort of new agey bizarreness. Ace illustrator Grainger is always good, though I wonder to think that anyone would ever pay for a hardcover of this light text, when a paperback would do.

The Abominable Snowman is a great book.You have to find a yeti to proove that he really exists.On your way you'll find a friend to come along.But you never know what will happen next.You have to choose your own advenure.You could find the yeti and become rich and famous, or you find a city you will live in.Or you get scared before you even find the yeti and return back home.

"The Glass Menagerie" by Tennessee Williams was very well written. Williams did an excellent job of portraying life-like characters. They were so well written, that they seemed real, like us at certain points in our lives. At one time, we were all like the mother, Amanda, who seems to live in the past, and be kind of overbearing at times, for example when Laura only went to three days of her business class that she was sort of forced into going to. Laura, the shy character, also is very life like in the fact that we all were a bit like her too. Everyone, at one point in their life was really shy and just wanted to stay locked up in their room. Tom, the son, is the narrator in the story. He constantly tries to escape reality by going outside and to the movies. He's the sort of person who just needs to constantly escape from life. The main theme of "The Glass Menagerie" is just that. Trying to escape from the sometimes-disappointing reality called life. The plot was simple, yet very effective. A reason for the simplicity I think is that this book is meant for us to realize that even though things may have been better in the past, not to live in it, but rather to live in the present, because we may be missing something even better than what we had that is right in front of us, waiting for us to notice it, but we're so enthralled in the what has happened in the past we don't see it. Basically what "The Glass Menagerie" is trying to tell us is that we need to live in the future and if we don't, then we will miss out on all the un-lived life that lies right in front of us, waiting for us to discover it.

I really enjoyed the play "The Glass Menagerie", by Tennessee Williams. It was very well written and at times you felt as though you were a part of the cast. The way Williams has made Tom the narrator and character is unique and interesting. The characters are very real and you are able to see each of their faults, which enables you to relate more to each character. The thing I most enjoyed about the play was that it was a pretty easy read, and it had an important underlying meaning. As you read, you realize that there are many things you miss out on in life while living in an "imaginary" world; you have to take time to come back to reality and see what you're missing.
One thing in particular that I didn't like about the play was the fact that the characters were so engaged in their fantasies that they could not snap back to reality.The mother, Amanda, is so consumed with controlling the lives or her children and attempting to make their lives what she wants them to be, that she has missed out on living her own life. Laura and Tom allow themselves to be whisked away into her world and they become stranded on their own island of fantasy in her fantasy world. Tom walks away leaving the entire situation behind him, but is never really able to forgive himself for not finding a way to save his sister.
Overall, the play is engaging and fun to read and even more interesting to see on stage. I would recommend it whether you've never read a play or read one hundred plays ,it will definitely keep your attention.

Recently, I was assigned to read "The Glass Menagerie" for my high school English course, and I absolutely loved it. While the play may not have the most suspenseful plot, the thing about "The Glass Menagerie" that most people don't realize is that it wasn't written to be an adventurous drama; it was written to say something important about life, namely that many people miss out on in by living through illusion and not reality. The first thing that the reader notices about the play is that the characters are so incredibly real. Most authors are usually reluctant to showcase a character's faults, but Tennessee Williams accentuates them so much that the reader might actually start mistaking them for people that he or she has met! The main fault of all of the characters in this play is that they live in illusory worlds that they cannot escape from. Amanda, the mother, is stuck in the past and has no real grasp of the family's present situation. Laura, the daughter, is afraid of the outside world and prefers to live in the company of her glass collection and record player. Tom, the narrator who is also a character, escapes reality by constantly going to the movies to satisfy his sense of adventure. None of the characters, however, realize their problems, and as a result, they never achieve satisfaction with life or with one another. Through the words and actions of these characters, though, Williams is making a profound statement. He parades the dangers of illusion and miscommunication right before our eyes and encourages us to sit up and take notice. The lesson of the play is to open your eyes wide and become aware of the situation that you are currently in without worrying about the past or the future. The play serves as an encouragement to live our lives fully and purposefully, avoiding the mistakes that are made in the play. By using a remarkable, well-crafted cast of characters, Williams conveys his message well. It is doubtful that I will ever forget the theme of this play or the memorable characters that so boldly executed the powerful story within "The Glass Menagerie."

I am amazed at the other reviews of this book. The reviewers must be close personal friends of the author. My conscience won't even let me give this book away.

This book is a bio of emotions on growing up gay. It is not a book about decorating dollhouses. The photography is blurred as it is only a back drop to accent the feelings that the writter is expressing.Buy it if you are a book collector, but not as an instruction manual. Ha

The photography is beautiful. But understand that this book is a
sort of bio of emotions about growing up gay, not about building and decorating dollhouses.

Unfortunately, there are only a few biographies of Eva Peron that I would recommend, and this is not one of them. As with many others, the only thing that is really interesting about this book are the pictures of Evita herself. The author didn't have much cultural sensitivity in writing this book, and also recounted many by now well-known myths as facts.

The over-all tone of the book is very "noir-ish." In other words, the author works to portray Evita as a "spooky" figure, rather than just recount her life as it was. The reason Evita can seem "spooky" in some ways is because of cultural misunderstandings. For example, the spectacle of her dramatized "dying in public" and her funeral falls well in line with the Hispanic preoccupation with death; in Hispanic culture, death is not something that is swept up under the rug. In Hispanic culture, death is often associated with a form of dignity. It is common in some Hispanic cultures, for example, for people to commemorate the death of loved ones by actually having picnics on their graves; this is not something you see in Anglo Saxon-based cultures. Without bridging the gap between the cultures, a biographer runs a risk of succumbing to what Robert D. Crassweller terms "the legacy of incomprehension," or "the inability of one ethos truly to understand another."

The first half of "Eva, Evita" deals with the life and death of Eva Duarte de Peron. Born into poverty, she left her family at age fourteen to pursue a theatrical career. She met Juan Peron, a widower colonel, and managed his political career and election to President of Argentina. She took from the rich to give to the poor working class (and to the richer - namely, herself and her closest friends) who worshipped her as a saint. Evita died of ovarian cancer.

The second half of the book illustrates just how strong Evita's power was. Juan, a pedophile, shopped for mistresses in the school system. He was unable to control his staff, and the people revolted. His hold over the Argentine people was released, and he was forced into exile.

There are many books about Eva Peron. This book paints a better picture than others I have read; it also casts Juan Peron in a more unfavorable light. "Eva, Evita" goes into depth about the embalming and preservation of Evita's corpse, its theft, and the doctor who spent three years preserving her for posterity. These sections are incredibly morbid, but are important to the history of the legend of Eva Duarte de Peron. There was a bit more political background than I expected; however, this gave me a more broad view of everything surrounding the events that led to Juan Peron's election and fall from grace.

This is an interesting little book, especially amusing in its attention to events surrounding Eva Peron's dead body and the doctor who preserved it.

The Perons were merely opportunist thugs. They and their associates got into power by force, then systematically looted Argentina's wealth. Propaganda forced everyone to pretend to admire them, and force required that everyone obey them.

Evita's life, according to this book, generally follows the path portrayed in the Webber/Rice musical, but differed significantly along the way. The musical version integrated apochryphal information, legendary stories, rather than employing hard fact. A major example is "the first man to be of use to Eva Duarte." In the musical it was a popular tango singer named Augustin Migaldi -- as it was so in Evita's accepted local legend, since Migaldi was a relatively prominent performer. The real guy, though, was a second-tier fellow named Armani, who helped Eva settle in the big city then pretty much vanished from history.

I wish the book had delved into more detail regarding more of Eva's specific activities -- such as the mechanisms/laws enacted to take over all the British holdings in Argentina -- but it was a good overview, a good foundation for moving on to other explorations of that blonde thug's puny excuse for a life.