My wife and I drive trucks in Alaska for a living. We've read just about every book there is about our great state but never have we read one with some much fun and strange information. I can't believe after 23 years there were still things I could learn, but this book taught me a bundle. And it was fun too.

If you have anything to do with Alaska, visiting or living here, you really should have this book. Oh and the map they provide online to find some of the stuff in the book is pretty cool too.

I bought a copy of this book primarily as a challenge. I've lived in Utah all my life and thought there's nothing a guidebook can teach me. Boy was I wrong! I learned something and I had fun reading it.
Something I think that's nice too is they put pictures of a lot of things they talk about. This is a really cool book.

Linda Levitz has written a wonderful book of poetry which, like her previous work, focuses on her memories and dreams. Unlike her last book, Trusting the Stones is more rooted in the suburban Jewish household Linda grew up in, and strays away from the animal and Native American poetry she touched on in the past. This book is more about the memories of a girl and a young woman. The path from her girlhood is marked with signposts which introduce us to her siblings and her grandmother, who figures in two of my favorite poems, GRANDMA'S HANDS and THE ONE GRANDMA PARADE. At once whimsical, lyric, defiant and sometimes sad, Trusting the Stones is an easy vacation read that I throughly enjoyed.

Ug just wants a better way to live his life, but the prehistoric boy genius can't figure out how. He invents the wheel but finds no purpose in it, he discovers fire can cook food - which other cave folk find a disgusting concept - and he longs for warm clothing. How can a boy genius survive among the primitives? A fun cartoon style lends to this zany tale and will invite even reluctant readers to learn.

Not only does this cookbook have some unique mousse recipes (cappuccino mousse, lemon mousse, grapefruit mousse, bellini mousse, pumpkin mousse, eggnog mousse, salmon mousse, tomato mousse, etc)., but the book itself is in the shape of a large moose (the animal, get it...). Mine is a great conversation piece as people see it among my "conventional" cookbooks.

I started reading Harold Robbins,while I was a Marine in Vietnam!"A Stone For Danny Fisher" was my first!I could not put the book down! I read it all in one night,while on R&R!It is my all time favorite book,and in my opinion,the best Harold Robbins ever wrote!Reading that book,I was Danny Fisher!I 've never had another book affect me,like "A Stone For Danny Fisher",did!I would highly recommend it to anyone!Reading at it's best!

If John Jay Chapman is remembered at all these days, it is as an eccentric who once thrust his left hand into a coal fire in penance for mistakenly beating up a friend. This is as if Vincent Van Gogh were to be remembered only for cutting off one of his ears.Chapman was, in fact a brilliant and passionate writer in many genres, an unrelenting foe of social injustice,and a penetrating critic of American philstinism and materialism.The last anthology of Chapmans writings appeared in the late nineteen fifties , and was edited by Jacques Barzun, who has supplied a fine ,judicious introduction to the present collection.A welcome feature of the present volume is a selection of Chapmans unpublished letters--some of the finest everwritten. One of them includes one of the most brilliant and succinct analyses of Lincolns life and character that I have ever read. One can only hope that a Chapman revival will take place, and that someone will eventually get around to doiing similar anthologies for Sydney Smith or Albert Jay Nock.

Understanding Stone Tools and Archaeological Sites balances a hands-on analysis of North American stone tools and prehistoric stone tool manufacturing with facts based on fieldwork, providing students of archaeology with a primer for understanding stone tools and site analysis proceedings. Essential for any student of American archaeological studies.

Peg Mullen is an Iowa farm wife whose son Michael was killed in Viet Nam. Her story was told by others in "Friendly Fire." This is HER side of the story and it's a powerful story at that. She documents in plain speak the terrible agony of a mother who not only has lost her firstborn, but who has to endure the obfuscation of the United States government in keeping her from the truth. It was Peg Mullen vs. The US Army and Mrs. Mullen won. Peg is a long-time activist and her crusade against war and other nonsense makes "can't stop" reading. There are incredible moments of pathos -- Peg's detached recitation of the day she learned of Michael's death -- and moments that cause your chest to swell with pride as when she toppled a candidate for a top defense post. Mrs. Mullen went up against the President of the United States and Mrs. Mullen won. You'll be better for reading this wonderfully moving, inspiring account of the tragedy of "Unfriendly Fire."