.....the graphics, pictorials, and mirage of color blend into one great reading experience. A standing ovation to the Editor, Designer, and all the fans who contributed their experience in words. "caution....do not attempt to read this book without listening to the stones"

Marilou worked on this book for several years, and I think her patience, time, and Tender Loving Care shows in this wonderful piece of work. The book contains stories about the Rolling Stones written by fans from all over the world. To go with these interesting stories are photographs that have never published before, and pictures of memorabilia from some of the biggest Stones collectors in the world. From the Sixties to the present, this book is for every die-hard fan of the Rolling Stones. I cannot tell you how many times I have looked at this book. From what I was told, even the Rolling Stones themselves were impressed with this one. It's a must.

This is just a wonderful book. One that is unique in that it is written by the hard core fans of the Rolling Stones and not by some hired gun writing for the Rock Star of the year.

Have you ever sat around with a bunch of old friends reminiscing about the good ole days? Sure you have! This book is not unlike that. It's packed with one great story after another. Not to mention some killer pictures. If your a Stones Fan, or even just a fan of Rock n Roll you must have this book!

Malu's Wolf is an exiting story about a girl who with the help of a fellow companion (her wolf) fulfills a her wish of being a warrior. I recommend this book to people who like adventures, and love animals, because that's what this story is mostly about. This is one of my favorite books in the whole world. Read it to find out the rest!

Malu's Wolf is about a girl who is basically a tom boy because she wants to hunt with spears!! Unfortunately, she's a girl and is only allowed to kill birds and rodents.One day she finds a wolf, Kono. When Kono hurts someone, Malu is banished from the clan!!!! Read to find out about Malu's and Kono's adventure. Catherine Hinchliff

I loved this tale of Malu and her cliff dwelling clan. It combines an accurate picture of the life of Cro Magnon man and the compelling story of a young girl growing up during this primitive time. I was especially impressed with Malu's desires to hunt and train her beloved wolf puppy, Kono. This story will bring the Stone Age to life. It is a good companion to Maroo of the Winter Caves by Turnbull and Wolf Woman by Sherryl Jordan.

Teachers and history buffs will love this thrilling recount of the settling of California, Nevada, Utah and Colorado. From the sleepy times of Californios to the non-stop action of the gold rush, this book brings to life the rich history of the Wild West. I have used this book as a basis for many social study lesson plans, and the kids are amazed by the colorful and interesting stories.

From the forts and settlements along the Missouri River to the loss of most of the Donners going into California, Men to Match My Mountains captivates the heart and brings you along as a partaker in an experience never to happen again.

Irvine Stone has created in this book an intriguing look into the discovery, exploration and settlement of California, Nevada, Utah and Colorado. He colorfully introduces you to the people, events and geography that affected the development of these states. It is well-documented and sourced, and provides a great list of other, similar works.

This is a straight reprint of the original...they actually photographed the pages instead of having it re-typeset, thank god...and all the David Stone Martin illustrations are intact.

This is THE classic on jazz music and writing. Crazy stories, crazy times, with the unbelievable spinner of tales Jelly Roll holding the floor. Lomax could have just printed Jelly's comments verbatim and this would've been great, but he went to the trouble of tracking down a bunch of people who knew Jelly or were otherwise around New Orleans in the early daze, and this added detail spices the pot considerably. Alan Lomax's own commentary and observations are witty, charming, and spot on.

This edition is made definitive by a scholarly afterword bringing the reader fully up-to-date on modern Jelly Roll research. Quite a few pertinent details are now known that weren't when Lomax was writing this.

Up there with Mezz Mezzrow's "Really the Blues" as essential an text in the American music pantheon.

This is one of the rare books for it can be enjoyed by just about anyone who picks it up. Its the amazing account of the life of Jelly Roll Morton, one of the best jazz pianists of all time. Though a braggart and troubled man, he created some of the very best pieces of jazz. The book goes into his life from his childhood and his time working at Storyville to the very troubled end in the early forties. You learn about his family, his troubled relationships with Anita and Mabel and how he went from being wildly successful to dying virtually forgotten. Voodoo, New Orleans, jazz and Creole culture, its all here.

Written with flair and never boring, Mr. Jelly Roll is a book that you will read more than once. Its a look at a legend and a glimpse into a world we can only know of through books and music. Get this if you want a good read and a look at Mr. Morton's life. A true classic.

Alan Lomax interviewed Jelly Roll while doing an extensive set of recordings shortly before Morton's death. He followed up with a number of interviews with people who knew Jelly Roll. Lomax did a fabulous job of keeping himself out of the way while letting the often colorful information from the interviews tell the story of Jelly's part in the birth of jazz, a story with triumphs, massive ego and ultimate decline. I read a library copy and am buying a copy for a present.

I loved Ola'Wake as it brought me back in time to my own fond memories as a child. While reading with my two daughters, we laughed and cried feeling closer to one another as we related to characters in the story.

B.J. Stone writes with so much feeling and enthusiam she touches each and everyone of us in our hearts. We arelooking forward to her next novel.

Reading this book is like visiting my Aunt Ola in the Ozarks! It's all there...the sounds, the sights, the smells, the adventurous spirit. From the overnight trip up into the mountains, to the rusty milkcan by the cabin door, to the scent of my aunt's perfume and facial powder---this brief novel registers authentic. But its greatest strength is the way it conveys her joy of life, surprisingly, in a book named for her wake. One neat by-product, for young and old, is that this adventure motivates us to think of the meaning of death and life.

B.J. Stone did such a wonderful job keeping the story exciting and ending each chapter with intriguing thoughts that made me want to keep reading. I enjoyed the book so much! I cried and laughed at the descriptions, knowing and seeing and remembering so many things. What a deep-deep, dig into your heart and soul, moving thought B.J.'s ending phrase was! Everybody who reads it will be able to relate. I know I did....

Page after page there is scripture that lets you know the words of wisdom written are true! Bishop Dwayne Stone knows Order and if you wish to obtain that, you need to read and let the knowledge sink in. This book is filled with very vital information and a step by step process to help keep you in the process. Excellent Teaching-Read this Book!!

I read this book in only 4 days, one hour a day and started using its context within the first. Thank God for this book and for Bishop Stone. This book makes sense. Try it out, you won't be misled.

Since there are many books on "living a successful life", this book may be overlooked. But this book is easier to read and to "put into practice" than most other books on this subject.

Stone writes this book for people who are interested in implementing public policy, not merely studying it as an academic exercise. She takes us beyond the methodological self-satisfaction of too many academics and points out how applied policy arenas, from the simplest of settings like the school yard to the most complex of arenas such as national defense or social welfare policies, are characterized by the phenomenon of policy paradox.

It's not easy to find a find a profound book in the area of policy analysis. The typical book, as a rule, is analytically sharp, but isn't usually notable for the insight it yields. Stone argues that it is wholly inadequate to ground decision-making for a wide range of policy issues and contexts, characterized by policy paradox, in conventional rationalist terms.

Like Alberto Guerreiro Ramos, Stone finds what she calls the "rationality project" or "calculative rationality" at once typically characteristic of the discipline of policy analysis and inadequate as means/method for analyzing a broad range of contemporary public policy issues. Her analysis suggests that this inadequacy becomes increasingly transparent, the closer one gets to the concrete challenges of implementation. While in some ways she doesn't go as far as Ramos in analyzing and articulating alternative political theoretical grounds for policy analysis, she is notably clear and remarkably articulate as far as she goes, revealing among other things, how the very movement from policy analysis at large toward implementation analysis in particular is likely to bring to the surface, what may otherwise remain hidden paradoxes of public policy.

In the face of the phenomenon of policy paradox, Stone grounds the enlargered policy analytic framework she offers in the specifically interactive context of political theory. Politics may unfold in higher or lower forms (differentiated by Ramos and others) and which Raghavan Iyer portrays diagramatically through interlocking ascending and descending triangles in his book Parapolitics. While Stone doesn't make this differentiation explicit, nevertheless, she compactly interweaves this kind of political understanding with an understanding of literary theory, drawing upon a deep understanding of the often covert role of metaphor in language. Throughout her text, she brings this kind of fundamental rhetorical insight to the surface and reveals the use of metaphor in processes of reasoning, notably including "calculative rationality." Stone's interweaving of insights from political theory and rhetorical theory in turn, suggests an analytic means for penetrating the obscurantist or covert "cognitive politics" that she, like Ramos, appears to believe, too often masquerade in semi-imperial fashion, as "rational" solutions to policy problems.

At bottom, Stone contrasts the "calculative rationality" which she finds characteristic of much of the policy analysis field with a broader notion of political reason that she grounds in the reciprocal interplay between facts and values within each individual and in such deliberation across communities of persons within the "polis." For Stone, the dignity amidst the messiness of politics and its creative import lies in the extent to which people may, through meaningful deliberation, constructively engage the pursuit of common and diverse ends and means in ways that constructively and concretely address particular problems of social significance.

The deliberation Stone conceives and observes accounts at once for individual notions of self-interest and some notion of a common good through which persons are bound into a larger community or political whole. For Stone, this whole is neither merely the laissiz-faire sum of its individual parts, nor some super-whole lording over individual parts, but rather -- as it was for Mary Parker Follett -- a creative "whole-a-making;" Stone takes her notion of community seriously as the foundational notion of political association, just as the exchange of individual self-interest constitutes for her the foundation of economic assocation. A reductive interpretation of human association in either this fundamental economic or this fundamental political direction is for Stone, inadmissable. Real social problems are confronted and political economic life is lived between these tensions. For Stone, it is through interactive processes of deliberation within and across communities that means are employed/discovered to reconcile or otherwise engage the phenomena of "policy paradox."

Policy Paradox is one of those handful of texts that is a particularly good investment in that it is worth reading and re-reading. It is a text in which you are likely to find something more with each re-read as you progress in your studies and/or professional work. Stone's book contains insightful material throughout, written simply. Highly recommended for anyone concerned with reciprocally bridging theory and practice in the policy analytic field and/or for those reflective practitioners concerned with more effectually addressing critical issues in the practical art and challenge of policy implementation.

A most useful book, full of insightful theories that are backed up by realistic analysis and applications. Highly recommended and would very likely be delightful to anybody who is not a die-hard ideologue.

This scholar not only shares her understanding of complex patterns and interconnections of policy decision-making but also writes so readably! She captures what used to be in my mind as a very messy business. After I completed the book, I have much clearer concept of how and why political decision-making happens. I thought James G. March was the father of decision-making theory. Deborah Stone has become the dominant mother.

an excellent collection of rock photos from rolling stone
beautiful work

This is one of the best photographic books I have ever seen. The photographers who took these photos really captured the feeling and emotions of the artists at the time. All the classic and famous personalities of music are here, from Ike and Tina to Bob Dylan; from Elvis to Bowie to Nirvana; from The Beatles and Stones to Alice Cooper and all that lies between (too too many to list here). An excellent array of both black and white and colour shots. The close ups allow you to see into the sometimes troubled, sometimes happy, but ever changing eyes of these rock icons. The broader shots show some of these bands and performers in their most comfortable and bizarre surrounds. A worthwhile purchase, that allows you to ponder each and every photo for hours and hours. In the back is a complete copy (small version) of the photos together with a who is who. Buy the hardcover; not only is it worth the price, but it will last forever. This is easily the greatest and most comprehensive collection of rock and roll pictures in one publication!

the best part was courtney love on the cover, and nirvana on the last page.

The promise that author Stone showed in The Low End of Nowhere is delivered in this second book of the series. While a key plot point is telegraphed fairly early on, the author uses this to his advantage and delivers some nicely unexpected twists. This time out, the characters stand solid in their own right and in the climactic scenes of this book Stone lets his sense of humor loose, with the result that there are some hilarious, laugh-out-loud moments. It's always rewarding when a writer finds his stride and takes off. I'm looking forward to the other books in the series--which are already waiting for me in the small mountain of bedside reading.
Highly recommended.

This book (and the rest of the Streeter Mysteries) are captivating with a rough appeal. The rawness of the lead character, Streeter, makes you scared of him, yet leaves you wanting to now more about him. Stone does an excellent job with the story line that will keep you in suspense until the very end. Can't wait for more of them. If you love a good mystery, look no further.

The first 2 sentences of this book hooked me. "Merton"Buddy" Hinckley wouldn't tell you the truth if you set his hair on fire. As a small- time contractor, he treated his customers like lice, and he had more process servers after him than both Clintons combined." Move over, Raymond Chandler. Read this in one sitting. Even though I hated the ex-girl friend and hoped she'd get iced or at least didn't care, Stone makes you care about the story. It moves fast and has interesting characters. The final "show-down" is hilarious; this should be a movie. I plan to read all the Streeter books.

If you follow the tales of Morgan Mercenaries's you will love this addition to your collection.
Dane is a man in need of learning a lesson of life and Maya's just the woman to teach it to him....while finding herself in need of one as well!
As for the choppers and women in black....you'll just have to buy the book to get *those* answers!

This time, it's Capt. Maya Stevenson and Major Dane York's turn, and it's one of the best yet. The adventure in this book kept me totally glued, yet the powerful and realistic love story truly moved my heart. As usual, Ms. McKenna gives us the best of both worlds, illustrating what romantic adventure is all about. It was wonderful reading about a strong, dynamic woman, and a man willing to become all that he can be...two people I would definitely want to know in reality, and have on my side! I'm looking forward to the next set of stories featuring the women of the Black Jaguar Squadron...NONE of them should be missed!

Highest recommendation---5 stars.

I've been a fan of Morgan's Mercenaries, and this book was NOT a dissapointment!! Definitely hard to put down. As far as I'm concerned, this is a great investment!