One of the best books around is Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie . I would rate this book 5 stars out of 5 stars! The story is about a girl named Hattie Cambell, her family wants to go to Oregon but they can't afford it untill her uncle dies. They come across some trouble, but not alot in fact she falls in love, and she fins a new best friend. As I said in the begining this is the best book in the world!

This book tells, in diary format, the story of Hattie Campbell and her family on the Oregon Trail. It starts out in Booneville, Missouri at Hattie's birthday. They travel by steamboat to Independence, and go west. Along the way, Hattie meets and makes friends with Pepper and Wade, who are twins, Gideon, and Mrs. Bigg. She also encounters a thief. The trail is filled with many dangers, including food poisoning, deaths, rivers, mountains, etc. You have to read the book to find out what happens to Hattie and her friends and family. I would recommend this book to anybody who is interested in pioneers, excitement, and dangers, or who is a fan of Kristiana Gregory's work or a fan of the Dear America series. This book is one of the best in the Dear America series, as Kristiana Gregory has once again done a superb job in the research and writing.

Hattie Campbell, her parent's, her aunt and uncle, and her two younger brothers leave their home to join a wagon train on the Oregon Trail. Hattie meets a girl named Pepper, and they become good friends. There are surprises along the way such as marriages, but there were also hardships like deaths, food poisoning, and robberies. Also, if you're the type of person who want's to know what happens after the end, this book has an epilogue (tells what happens after the end).

I purchased Jacks book when it first came out in 1995. It reads easy and makes doll making simple. Jack is a master doll maker and marketer and it shows in this book. I highly recommend it as a must in your library.

We have read all three of Jack Johnston's sculpting books and find them all to be wonderful. He is one of the most sharing people in the doll world. If you have a chance you must purchase his books and videos. His new video on artdolls gives all dollmakers a leg up in making polymer dolls. Eventhough he uses only ProSculpt clay he explains how to use all of the polymer clays. He is true educator and "fine artist".

This book is great! If you know nothing about making a doll out of polymer clay, this is the book for you. I learned how to make a doll face, hands, feet, shoes, and a soft body. Jack Johnston is one of the world's greatest doll artists, and I'm so glad he has decided to share his trade secrets instead of keeping them to himself.

I never really used baking soda, until I've read how every day things could be harmful, from soap to household cleaners. This book is so informative, who knew that you could use baking soda as deoderant or that it could be a fabric softner, and a drain cleaner?

I've tried many of the suggestions on this book and they work, they really work! Baking soda is not only for baking but for cleaning so many things. Baking soda works great as a fabric softener, I've tried it and my clothes came out very soft and much cleaner!

Very informative, this book is small about 100 something pages, but filled with so many tips, its worth the money. Using baking soda as a cleaner is frugal and much more better for your health and the environment.

Many household cleaners now contain chemicals that are toxic to the body; and baking soda is very environmental friendly, frugal, and fun to use, and it really works as a cleaner.

This book gives fabulous tips on cleaning with baking soda! I must reference this book weekly. It is exciting to use these tips - they're cost efficient and inexpensive. Highly recommended!

I absolutely loved this book! I am searching for ways to live frugally while also saving time and this book offers many, many useful tips on ways to use Baking Soda for products I usually spent a fortune on. My favorite is the recipe for automatic dishwasher soap. I went from spending approximately .08 a load when detergent was on sale cheap to less than a penny a load. This is the kind of information I need. If you are wanting to cut costs in running your house, the savings from cleaning solutions alone will pay for the book several times over!

This great book is a requirement for completing the BTLS course (Basic Trauma Life Support). It's written in a simple language, with full explanation of the pathophysiology of the life-threatening and the potential life-threatening diseases occuring during accidents. It teaches you first the knowledge and then the skills needed to perform certain procedures.
It has numerous colored diagrams, pictures, and tables.

The BTLS Course is about 2 days long; the test is on the form of MCQs (choose the best answer) which is much better than True/ False questions.

We had the pleasure to meet one of the book authors, Ms. Donna Hastings from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. According to her, this book is gonna be published in Arabic language in the future.

This book comes in 364 pages, published in 2000 by the Prentice Hall, 4th edition.

Chapters inlcude: Scene size-up, Assessment & initial management of the trauma patient, Patient assessment skills, Initial airway management, Aiway Management skills, Thoracic trauma, Thoracic trauma skills, Shock evaluation & management, Fluid resuscitation, Head trauma, Spunal trauma, Spnal trauma, Spine management, Spine management skills, Abdominal trauma, Extremity trauma, Extremity trauma skills, Burns, Trauma in children, Trauma in elederly, Trauma in pregnancy, Patients under the influence of alcohol or drugs, The trauma cardiopulomnary arrest, Blood and body fluid precautions in the prehospital setting.

Appendices include: Optional skills, Radio communications, Documentation: The written report, Trauma care in the cold, Role of the air medical helicopter, Trauma scoring in the prehospital care setting, Drowning Barotrauma & decompression injury, Injury prevention and the role of the EMS provider, Multi-casualty incidents & triage, Glossary, Index.

Recommended for Paramedics and every health care worker.

Now a compulsory part of US paramedic certification, this book is an excellent addition to the shelf of anyone interested in prehospital care, be they nurse, paramedic, EMT, First Responder, physician, or even First Aider.

It logically and systematically lays out the skills and knowledge required to handle trauma effectively in the field, taking a system by system approach to underline the conditions and pitfalls commonly associated with certain injuries.

For me, this was one of the most entertaining courses I have taken in my EMS career. I would definitely recommend this book to all prehospital care providers at every level.

This is great text for all Paramedics to own. It entails the most up-to-date information on trauma assessment, patient care, patient packaging, ALS interventions, and transport methods and considerations.

This text is easy to read and learn from, intergrating lecture material with the practical material.

A must for the serious Paramedic.

This is the best non-fiction I have ever seen. The liberal use of personal histories and stories along with illustrations from periodicals reporting the situation make this compelling and fascinating.

The potato blight that struck Ireland in the mid 1800s produced a nation-wide famine, resulting in "one million dead and two million who fled" to other countries, predominately the US and Canada. Countless other Irishmen, with no food, money or homes, simply disappeared. Susan Campbell Bartoletti's "Black Potatoes" recreates the era year by year from haunting contemporary newspaper illustrations, government records and first hand survivor stories, told to their children and grandchildren.

Bartoletti provides a balanced account of the economic, political and social repercussions of the blight and the ensuing famine. Food was available but the poor did not have the means to acquire it. The British government was slow to react to the devastation. Irish government officials, landowners, and shopkeepers worked to protect their own interests but, finally, in the end, contributed the greatest amount of financial support to the poor. The Friends Church, operating local soup kitchens, and American relatives, sending millions of dollars in financial support, were allies of the Irish poor during these times.

This book is a wonderful historical recounting of the time and is compelling reading for those of all ages interested in their Irish heritage. Bartoletti brings the horrors of famine and poverty to life. The 150-year old drawings, originally published in the "Illustrated London News", will stay with the reader long after the book is finished. The six-page narrative bibliography is as interesting as the story itself, and provides students and researchers with numerous sources for further study.

Susan Campbell Bartoletti, already well known for her award-winning fiction and nonfiction, has reached new heights with this book. It is clearly impeccably researched, yet never reads like a dry compilation of facts. It is by turns moving, horrifying, hopeful, and depressing. Although she points out the general indifference and (often) hostility of some government officials who could have provided some relief, she never falls into the easy trap of making anyone the villain of the terrible story of the Irish potato famine. Instead, she details the general ignorance of the cause of the blight and the sometimes well-meaning but misguided attempts of different people to remedy the situation.

Most importantly, the reader leaves feeling that this is not some strange thing that happened to unknown people a long time ago. The feeling of immediacy, and the way the reader is led to empathize with the sufferers, make it fresh and real.

Readers of "Nory Ryan's Song" who want to get the real history of this terrible time should be encouraged to read "Black Potatoes."

Let's face it. Who is the most likely reader of THE BOOK OF GREAT BOOKS by W. John Campbell? Probably the same people who buy Monarch Notes, Cliff's Notes, and the like. That is students in high school and college who doubt that they lack the time, inclination, or ability to plow through a series of novels, poems, plays, and essays. What Campbell's book does is to break down what seems an imposingly difficult work of literature so that after ten minutes a reader can get a sense of the 'big picture.' Campbell has chosen 100 of the generally accepted classics of English, American, European, and Greek and Roman works that have survived the test of time to be called that. Each work is divided into a plot summary, a handy picture that connects the major characters in terms of how they relate, the background, key characters, themes, symbols, style, structure, and critical overview.
The level of detail and the degree of analysis is just enough to permit the reader to follow the work and still retain the joy of reading the original. Nowhere does Campbell bog the reader down in detail sufficiently heavy to cause him to wonder why he bought TBGB in the first place. One of the problems that I had in reviewing this book is that Campbell makes no attempt to discuss exactly what a great book is and why he chose the one hundred that he did. I would have appreciated an introduction which could have clarified those two points. As it is, TBGB is simply a valuable addition to the bookshelf of anyone who likes to think that he is a reader of the classics.

FACT: Each book is summarized and analyzed by sections. The author summarizes the action in a chapter-by-chapter Plot Summary, which ends with a very useful Character Chart schematic thingie that makes character relationships crystal clear. (Why isn't anyone else using this kind of chart?) Background section covers type of work (epic poem, adventure novel, etc.), author's background, setting. Key Characters section gives a couple sentence overview of each. Main Themes & Ideas section has a paragraph on each theme, and in my opinion this is the most useful part in aiding understanding of each analysis. Main Symbols: self-explanatory. Style & Structure section analyzes and evaluates other literary elements of the work: language, tone, irony, figures of speech such as metaphor and simile, foreshadowing, plot and composition. Critical Overview covers the relationship of the work to the society and time from which it emerged or how critics and readers react to the work's main ideas. Each book critique is about 8 pages long. It addresses mostly the works of "classic" authors--shakespeare, conrad, virgil, homer, chaucer, miller, milton, dante, tolkien, hemingway, ibsen, dickens, swift, steinbeck, orwell, melville, austen, camus, c. bronte, hawthorne, shelley, twain, wharton--yet there are a few post-modern works too--Joy Luck Club, The Bluest Eye, Caged Bird Sings, Color Purple.
OPINION: This wonderful book deserves much more attention than it's gotten. More than just a plot summary, it's a very useful and fast guide to literary analysis and evaluation of some major Western Civlization literary works, and it would serve any high school or college student well. My sole complaint is that it only covers 100 Great Books. Desperate Comp. I and II students will love this (hint-hint!) The price was right, too.... The Main Themes & Ideas section is quite helpful in understanding the central message an author is trying to convey by his work, and it's made several hard-to-fathom plays and books easier for me to grasp. It's probably inevitable that it will be compared to Cliff Notes, yet the critiques are briefer, easier to read, more fun, and perhaps not so penetrating and comprehensive. This book ought to be on the shelf of everyone's personal library--along with a copy of How to Read a Book by Mortimer J. Adler. Happy reading!

This book is a must have for anyone in highschool, college, or just want to read as many books as possible in a limited time period. It takes you through many or the classic books and stories such as Jane Eyre, Animal Farm, The Lord of the Rings, and many of Shakespeare's works. This book gives you summaries of the stories, describes characters and symbols in the stories and much more. This is your best friend when it comes to writing book reports or understanding a story. I absolutely love this book. Also the price was fantastic. You could not buy the 100 books this book contains for the price of this book.

This book was like taking a trip into Africa and meeting people along the way who although from a compeletly different world than me taught me the amazing truths of my own ancestry.

If you're fortunate enough to read this book, you'll begin to know the author. Her writing style is easy to read because it is so much like her. I read this book in it's first printing from South Africa some years after visiting the author and her family. I was able to visit a healer featured in this book and have a greater appreciation for a healer's art now that I understand more of their journey.

If ever you wondered what the life of a traditional healer REALLY is like, this book will surely give you a looking-glass to see through. The author has an impecible ability to "draw" the reader into learning about sacred ceremonies and traditional healing practices that few westerners would ever have a remote idea of, let alone the close and up-front personal encounters that are made available through these pages. Containing about a dozen or so personal stories of highly gifted healers who were "plucked" out of ordinary lives and pushed by the forces that guided them into being traditional healers, this book presents the reader with incredible real-life stories of being "called to heal."

Definately a one-sitting read, this book has a spirit of its own and truly cannot be put down once it is picked up. The author has an almost hypnotic ability to keep you reading through her highly entertaining story-telling style that makes you feel as though you're sitting 'round the campfire listening to old stories, wishing for "just one more." Not only are the healers' stories sometimes astonishing, but the amazing tale of how this author came to obtain these stories, plus the incredibly realistic view into the world of traditional African healing, is truly worth the read. In the end, one is left to ponder the gifts Africa has been holding for the rest of the world, as ancient tradition is brought to life through this modern glimpse into long held beliefs and practices.

Being a person myself who went through a drastic life change to answer a call right here in modern American life, the stories of these healers gave me an incredible reassurance that my path was not farfetched, while also revealing to me a deep inner connection to a world little known, and far away in Africa. This book was a confirmation that told me, answering a calling is an ancient practice that our souls have known long before the modern world existed.

Not only will this book change you, but surely it will effect the way you see "the call" in your own life. It is a must read, for sure!

Castle-on-the-Hill ends with mystery: who was the Ragdoll man? who lit the tower on the strange night years ago? why was the Castle of Tremannec abandoned and empty?

In "The Treasure of Tremannec" M. C. Campbell picks up the tale takes the reader from Gwenrande to Sant Malou -- around and across 15th century Brittany. A great read for all.

Adventure of this kind is good for any 10 to 90 year old reader - it involves kinship and friendship, youth & aged, good & bad, beauty and malevolence. When you let yourself fall into this fantasy you find yourself believing in "the Doom" and in solving the riddle: "No living man; no woman born / Shall enter here and live 'til morn."

This is a very creative and descriptive story. As the story unfolds, four children go on a great adventure as you follow them through Brittany many, many years ago. You are drawn into the ad venture as you go around France following the children, an old cobbler, and their newly found friends. I strongly recomend this book. You won't be able to put it down!

You can spend five minutes or five hours at a sitting with this gem. Even a casual browse through a few pages will teach you something you didn't know about Vikings. A must for anybody studying Norse culture, and a valuable addition to their collections.

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A cultural atlas presents its readers with a tremendous amount of information. Even a casual browsing through this work reveals enough information to provide the seeker of knowledge with a firm grasp on the history, geography, and culture of the efficient, effective "Warriors of the North" known as Vikings or Northmen.

This atlas explains and defines the Viking Age, beginning in the 8th century and ending in the 11th century with the creation of the Scandinavian nations of Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and Iceland. These tall, blonde, blue-eyed Vikings also left their mark on lands from North America, across Europe into Russia -- which was named for the Rus, a Swedish tribe -- and into the Byzantine Empire of Asia Minor and beyond. The Vikings endowed the Europeans who followed them with the Viking genes for bravery, impudence, physical beauty, and intelligence, genes which Viking warriors spread widely in the Northern Hemisphere.

The compilers of this work, edited by James Graham-Campbell, present the reader with a plethora of charts, maps, and captioned photographs illustrating and enriching cogent expository text.

Everyone on the planet, ... will recognize this book as a valuable tool in the study of a great European people.

I love this book. It has lots of maps and illustrations. Best of all it covers the entire gamut of the Viking universe. It is a wonderful resource for getting your head around the big picture of the Viking age. I have researched Viking Age history for years now and this is one of the BEST books I have ever found

i just recently been buying tradepaperbacks about 2 months ago. during these two months, a comic book store i go to on a regular basis for dvd's, mags and stuff, was having a monthly special on tpb's in juin, which was prolong in july.

danger girl turns out to be the first one i bought. i didnt read comics b4, except for tintin and asterix in french and comics found in the daily newspaper.

as my first real taste of what is a english comic book, with danger girl, it didnt disappoint. it was highly recommanded at the store, for someone who didnt read them b4 and didnt know what to like or dislike in a comic book series.

am sure there a some reviews detailing some of the story line or telling whats danger girl is about.

just gonna say about it is as my first experience reading that kind of comic, i was hooked from the beginning. no wonder its a classic and should be in everyone's comic book collection.

danger girl is a james bond type. the story is great and has excellent graphics and colors. no one should pass this one up and pick up a copy if not already.

Danger Girl is a blast of a comic book and this huge collection allows you to read the one and only real DG storyarc all together in one format.
DG's potent blender mix of 007, Charlie's Angels, VIP and Austin Powers makes for one of the most fun reads a comic lover could ask for.
Campbell's art is full of campy fun, loaded with gratuitous T&A shots and top-notch action sequences. DG was infamous for its lateness, and the fact that it took more than three years for this story to complete, you can see Campbell's art progress each issue.
This edition has a foreword by Bruce "Evil Dead" Campbell and features sketchbook and promo material in the back exclusive to this edition.

Comic fans, put this one in your shopping cart and prepare to have a ton of fun reading Danger Girl.

J. Scott Campbell no doubt has become one of the comic book world's most iconic artists, with his old school penchant for muscular men and most infamously of all, the ample babes whom 15-year olds have gawked at with every turn of a page. Campbell's most well-recognized work before Danger Girl was Gen 13, but as he said truthfully, spandex was not his preferred choice of costume for superheroes, and superheroines....

Well now comes Danger Girl, which no doubt is a delightful hybrid and homage of the Indiana Jones movies and Charlie's Angels. Comic fans have got to love Campbell's writing style, coming up with stylish one-liners and puns that have littered the guilty pleasures of action-adventure camp. It's also great to see every chapter start off in a splashy monotone spread shortening the story with hilarious summaries.

The story, if there actually is any, is about a roguish archaeologist babe (duh) named Abbey Chase. As we see early on, Chase has a habit of teaching men a lesson or two about what legs are REALLY meant for while she investigates historical findings before any other individual does.

Or so that's how it begins. Chase finds herself hired under the enigmatic and optimistic Deuce, who has hired a league of Danger Girls to stop the notorious crimes of a surviving Nazi faction known as The Hammers. The Hammers intend to steal the artifacts of the semi-angelic beings known as the Ubermensch, whom the Hammers claim descent. But there's no telling what kind of danger can be amounted once The Hammers find them, so it's the Danger Girls to the rescue... The Danger Girls also include the bullwhipping lassie Sydney Savage (who despite her Australian background doesn't seem to carry an accent) and Natalia Kassle, an ex-KGB agent with a sharp mind and even sharper knives. Things don't get any more relaxing for Abbey when some men get into the action, and what men. One is the cool and collected playboy Barracuda, who hopes he gets to kiss Sydney Savage right before he ever dies, and the puzzling Agent Zero, a masked ninja who may hold a past connection with Miss Chase.

The result is a wild crescendo of bullet-flying action and escapist chase sequences. Campbell's intentions for this comic were to make this feel like a movie, and for a medium not made out of film, the comic excels on pace and really has a momentum unprecedented by most other comic books. This speed makes Danger Girl definitely one of the best I've ever seen. And when I'm talking about movement, I'm not talking about a jiggle factor.