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This is a facsimile of the 1859 Report presented by the Army, Corps of topographical engineers.

three books...one that is only "index"
of the Names in the book's....which is a good thing.....
One is on the Durbin's and the next is half of the Logsdon.
The Images from the photographs displayed are very pore:
And are the images of map's ect..
I have found that some of the photo's have mixt info....and
no infomation about them!
Did not carefully put it together......
There is however a lot of infomation in which i believe;
was year's of study.
There are other people who gave information of there line.
to put in this book.
Perhaps if one is looking for his or here line........ they may fine it here....

This book is worth the price for the excellent illustrations, but beware: it is mis-titled. According to the Introduction, it should have been titled: Holarctic Embrizinae - for example no Passerina bunting is included (Indigo, Lazuli, etc.) since they are Cardinalinae. It only shows 110 species, none tropical or from the southern hemisphere. It also uses Sibley & Monro taxonomy, so completely lacks the following expected species: seed-eaters, grassquits, brush-finches, etc. The accounts and illiustrations get a 10; the misleading title gets a 1. Did Houghton-Mifflin add the title for marketing reasons? Only the authors know . . .

This book purports to capture the fire and spirit of the famed 1950 "Whiz Kids". If it did it would be a welcome addition to the definative story of the "Kids" told by Robin Roberts and Paul Rogers. Unfortunately it is little more than an elongated term paper. Anyone with an adequate amount of research time and a microfiche of Philadelphia newspapers from the period could have produced the same, perhaps better, results.

The author chronicles the season from begining to end but in the interim, his narrative is sadly unable to capture either the drama of the season or the personality of the team. There is no effort to get behind the headlines and boxscores to the real story within the story.

Save your time and money or, better yet, spend it on the Roberts/Rogers version of the Whiz Kids historic season. Their book is a page turner that will not disappoint you.

Fire & Spirit is poorly written. It contains many grammatical errors, is poorly edited, lacks fresh material, and is frequently not objective. After reading Paul Rogers' "Whiz Kids," I was disappointed that this author had done so little original research, particularly interviews and first person accounts of those involved. While readers with no previous knowledge of the 1950 team may glean a cursory familiarity, they should not expect a book of either literary quality or balanced reporting.

I found this book thoroughly enjoyable and really felt like I was part of the team and their quest for the National League pennant. While the book doesn't break any ground it does feed the baseball fanatic with statistics......one of my favorite things about the game.

I bought the EA1 edition through Foyles bookstore. Unfortunately the EA1 edition is massively out of sync with the current FCS version of the software, and the Cd didn't contain the examples (or at least not where the book said they were).

So I ended up downloading the examples. The build.xml files in the download are laughably different from the book, and several steps need to be taken which the book mentions nothing of.

It's a major shame since the book looked very good. But I completely wasted my £38 and have wound up using the (confusing) online tutorial.

Apparently a FCS version of the book is coming out in several months. Wait for it. Assuming that they haven't changed version yet again it should be a good book. Right now it is a waste of money.

I feel sorry for sun: they have to give away so much for java to succeed, and their direct java revenue must come from J2ee licensees, JCP membership fees and books. This book is a dead-tree of the online JWSDP tutorial, with the benefit that you can read it while off line, the disadvantage that you pay for the privilege. Either way, I dont think it is that good a tutorial; it covers the Sun way of thinking, but doesnt get into the details of interop problems, maybe because SUNW dont seem to be participating in the SoapBuilders interop fests. Interoperability is the bane of and key to the success of web services, and if all you are doing is taking existing EJB beans and turning them into web services, you arent building a real web service. If you are using the Axis framework, there are better books, like the SAMS press one. No doubt something great will come along for the Sun product, but this is not, yet, it.

This book is basically a packaging of Java XML EAE packages of what you can download from the Sun's JavaSoft site.
After skimping thru it briefly, it appears to be very terse and I'm not sure if it can be said as a helpful "tutorial" as such for any beginning/intermediate Java Web Service learner other than showing what EAE(Early Access Edition) is all about.
This book in my opinion needs to be evolved into 3 volumes:
1) Basic XML parsing(SAX, JDOM)
2) XML Schema & Java mappings
3) Java Web Services implementation framework(HTTP, Servlet,RMI,etc).

My verdict is this book is not worth its weight and price at the moment.

Only one fifth of the book is written by the authors, and this part of the book is very useful, and contains good advice.

The rest of the book contains profiles of professionals in healthcare administration. Most of these professionals are in very senior positions in the industry, and talk about the path they took to get there.

Before reading this book, my impression of professionals in the healthcare industry was that they are generally noble people who care about the well being of fellow humans. However, after reading the profiles in this book, I get the impression that these people are just as ruthless, career oriented, and money driven as people in any other profession.

The first part (which is only one-fifth of the book), is concise, informative, and very helpful.

The second part (which is the rest of the book), contains profiles of healthcare managers. These profiles are authored by the managers themselves. The book states that the profiles are diverse in every way, and are therefore truly representative of careers in healthcare management. But almost all the profiles are of people in senior level management positions, and the majority are of Vice Presidents and Presidents/CEOs.

A few of the contributors have gone to the trouble of giving good career advice.

However, the vast majority have taken up most of the space to tell us about the impressive job titles they have held, and the associations they belong to. Towards the end of their profiles, they have dedicated hardly a sentence or two to giving advice, which is mostly common sense (such as getting proper education, finding a mentor, volunteering, etc).

Looking at the profiles of these people, it is not surprising to note that most of them ended up either as VPs or Presidents/CEOs, given that most of them graduated from the top ranking universities in the country.

So if you have graduated (or expect to) from an Ivy League school, you stand a good chance of following the career path of one of the people in the profiles. But this book is definitely not a very useful guide for the rest of us.

This hodgepodge of anecdotes will undoubtedly prove fascinating to the legion of Carson worshippers, but for those who are somewhat less enamored of Carson, it will serve to confirm that most of Carson's guests were as stale, uninteresting, and boorish as the great Carson himself - this one is for rabid Carson groupies only.

"More Than Laughter" gives an insider's look at how guests were lined up in the early days of The Tonight Show. The author, Sy Kasoff, was the Head Talent Coordinator, and later Associate Producer for the first four years of Johnny Carson's reign, starting in 1962.

Kasoff's book is a collection of anecdotes of booking various guests and what they were really like. Henny Youngman was a nice guy, Bob Hope did not have an entourage, Tommy Smothers worked without a net, Buddy Hackett was surprisingly professional, and so on. Along the way, there are enough stories and reactions of Carson and McMahon as to provide personal perspectives on these men the drier ones offered by other biographies out there.

Why the three star rating? First, the book needs the help of an editor, as some things we may say verbally just don't work in print as sentence fragments. Second, it is of most interest to Carson fans and less so to outsiders. While it is not a deep, analytical work, it is a pleasant light read, and I do recommend to Carson/Tonight Show fans.

Decent book. It's what you would expect out of a pulp book. Easy to get through, okay story, cookie-cutter characters. Nothing explosive, thought provoking, or out of the ordinary imaginative. It's what it is.

Kit and his fellow trapper friends are on their way to the annual summer rendezvous, where mountain men throughout the frontier trade items and recieve money for the many animal pelts they have collected throughout the past year. Blackfoot Indians have eyes for this large bounty of animal pelts and decide to take them. They do, .... Go git 'em, Kit!

This is the first book I've read from Doug Hawkins and the Kit Carson series. I'd have to read one or two more to get a good feel of him, but judging from this book, the Kit Carson series appears ho-hum. Kit Carson, the way Hawkins writes his character, doesn't stand out. The most interesting character in this book was a loner mountain man named Petey. He's a slightly touched, contentious trapper whose best friend is a grizzly bear. He has spent so much time alone, trapping and fending for himself, people are an aggravation to him. I liked what Hawkins did with his character.

In any case, it's a quick read. You can pick the book up cheap and spend a day lost in a light adventure. Better than spending the day lost in TV's fast food fare.

Soldier in Buckskin is a good portral of the life of Kit Carson. However i think there are many more entertaining westerns out there. But still a good story.

oh, please.. do u expect to learn soccer? this book is sad even as a joke, burn it!