This is an excellent book for martial artists who desire to understand the role of weapons in the totality of combat. This book goes beyond merely learning the techniques of these weapons; indeed, it stresses the need to develop an "iron will" and fighting spirit to win in battle.

It quotes the famous swordsman, Miyamoto Musashi, several times to emphasize its lessons. In my own system( Bushi Satori Ryu) we teach 16 martial art weapons in our training classes. This is the reason this book appeals to me. If one is truly a martial artist, than weapons should be part of the total combat arts curriculum.

I especially related to the section on Heiho, which is a word Musashi used to explain "the path to enlightenment that must be followed by anyone who practices Bushido, the way of the warrior."

This text is broken down into three areas: One deals with the Weapon Fighting Secrets, which is essential to master if one is to be a true warrior. Part two covers the weapons of Okinawa. Part three explains the weapons of Japan.

This is an excellent book that every martial artist will find interesting and informative.

I am a Math Phobic person and for me this book is practically My Laboratory Math Bible. This book alone helped me, a Math Phobic, to finally understand laboratory math. The Campbell's are truly gifted when it comes to making things understandable to the nonmathematically inclined Labortorian.

This book has almost every imaginable formula that you could possibly need in the clinical lab. There's tons of examples and exercises coupled with clear concise explanations throughout. This is the best book on the market for Laboratory Science students and for those who need a brush up on lab math.

Fay Kaynor's book is detailed in its research, exacting in its detail, many times poetic in its descriptions, and a surprising contemporaneous look at the life of a brilliant woman struggling to make something of herself in sometimes hostile and always challenging mid-19th century America.

Have we heard of Lisle Lester? No. Would we know her by her real name? No. Does she magnificently represent the struggle of the self-made woman in any time, any place? Very well indeed. Deciding on what to compromise, plowing ahead in several careers when gender obstacles were offensively common, and wrestling with the ways in which she could improve not only her lot but those of other women and the world around her -- Lisle Lester wrote it all down for us, left us the account in her own words.

A fascinating journey of a small woman's life made big, though she died lonely and unrecognized, or so she thought.

The book I read was The Last Lap by William Campbell Gault. The genre weas fiction. I thought it was a great book. It had lots of action and kept me on the edge of my seat at all times. I can't wait to read more of his books. The book is about a kid that is about twenty-three years old. He starts racing cars at fairgrounds but he gets in a crash on the last lap and is knocked unconscious for twenty-three hours. Later when he wakes up he starts recing nascar (National Association of Stock Car Racing).he and his Uncle Luke love racing cars. His Uncle Luke races the first half of the race and then he races the other half. Icant tell you the end because if i did then you wouldn't want to read it. I would recommend this book to anyone that likes books with cars in it.

_Laurence Sterne: A Life_ (Oxford University Press), by Ian Campbell Ross, is a dandy new biography which I will tell you about. But the only real reason to be reading about Sterne is to increase appreciation of his wonderful book, _The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman_, which has been making people laugh for almost two and a half centuries. So let me make the recommendation first of that book to you, if you have never read it. Go read it, and when you finish, I'll be right here.

There! What did I tell you? Intelligent, chaotic, witty amusement, with some bawdiness thrown in. I don't need to tell you of the thousand odd attractions of the book. It is one of the most fun of the classics. Now to the fine book at hand. Sterne was, Ross shows, just as peculiar as his book, and had as chaotic a life. Sterne lived only eight years after bursting onto the scene with _Tristram Shandy_, and to Ross's credit, he has made Sterne's pre-Shandy years interesting. Sterne had led a modest, impecunious life of a vicar in Yorkshire. He did a bit of political writing, but nothing that would have prepared anyone for his comic masterpiece. He had an unhappy marriage, and a remarkable interest in adultery.

Then in 1759, the first two of the nine volumes of _Tristram Shandy_ were published, and caused a sensation. The reviews were very good, and if readers were puzzled by the extraordinary digressions and puzzles in the book, they laughed at them, and they bought them up. Then Sterne appeared in London, and was delighted to wear his black ministerial garments everywhere. This brought his book notoriety as well as fame; reviewers changed tone from praising the book's hilarity to criticizing the vicar for writing "downright gross and obscene expressions." Sterne became a hot ticket at dinners and salons. The zany mixture of adventures and accidents, farcical and sad, reflected the life of the author.

This was an odd man, to be sure, who produced an odd book. Ross's elegant and thorough biography brings Sterne to life for our age. The gregarious James Boswell wrote that Sterne was "the best companion I ever knew," and those who find him to be a good companion in the form of his famous book will find him an even better one after reading this illuminating biography.

This collection of letters between North Carolina-born Elaine Goolsby, and Liverpool-born Graham Campbell is not merely a collection of letters that they sent back and forth, spanning a 50-year period in their lives. It is a view into their day-to-day lives as well as a view into their very minds, hearts, and souls. In "Letter In A Bottle," the reader is invited to look over the shoulders of these two people who grew up in incredibly different worlds. The reader journies with the letter-writers from the tobacco fields of rural North Carolina to the Liverpool docks, from their seperate spouses, jobs, and family lives to their eventual face-to-face meeting in London's Gatwick Airport in the early 1980s. It is an absolutely irresistable read - pick it up and you won't be able to put it back down!

This high-caliber collection was singled out for praise in Harold Bloom's "The Western Canon" as a Great Book. Roy Campbell is a miraculous translator. Included here are Calderon's "Life is a Dream," Lope de Vega's "Fuente Ovejuna," and Tirso de Molina's "Don Juan"--masterpieces one and all. Don't deny yourself this book, and if you like this, look for David Johnston's translations of Lope de Vega's "Madness in Valencia" and "The Gentleman from Olmedo," Edwin Honig's superb translation "Calderon: Six Plays," Paul Whitworth's translation of Tirso de Molina's "Revenge of Tamar," and Laurence Boswell's translation of Molina's "Don Gil of the Green Breeches" and "Damned for Despair." Fair warning: once you start reading these, you won't be able to stop!

Living Freight is a very good book. I liked reading about Emma and how she faced her hardships. I found it interesting that Emma went from living on the streets of Manchester to a good home overseas, where she found quite a surprise!

The collaborative effort of civil war enthusiasts George Skoch and Mark W. Perkins, Lone Star Confederate: A Gallant And Good Soldier Of The Fifth Texas Infantry is a collection of letters penned by a Confederate solider. Eyewitness accounts of bloodshed, aftermath, long marches, starvation and much worse fill the pages of this riveting firsthand testimony of the front lines of America's deadliest war. Lone Star Confederate is a welcome and strongly recommended addition to Civil War collections and reading lists.

Tom Clark got his BA degree in two years and his law degree in one year. Then he went on to become the Attorney General and after that an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. This gem of a book covers highlights from Clark's public career and in doing so nicely reviews the recent history of the Supreme Court. Most of us vaguely realize that real power these days has left the congress, the people, and the executive branch to reside in the bureaucracy and the courts and that important political questions that can't be resolved, more or less, eventually end up in the hands of the courts. If you don't remember Mapp v. Ohio, or Miranda v. Arizona, or Brown I&II v. Topeka, or if you can't explain what the Establishment Clause is, then you might profit from reading this book and discover how and why our legal system came to defend liberty with as much rigor and absolute fairness as it defends life. The author's style is simple and direct but colored by a youthful enthusiasm because, after all, the idea, much of the research, and the writing occurred while the author was still a high school student at Tom C. Clark High School in San Antonio. Great books like this one, produced at an early age, are no accident and indicate greater books to come.