Too bad this is out of print! It was one of my favorites when I was a baby. Our family's copy is so old and beat up from being read thousands of times, I can't give it to my daughter. I wish it were in print! My dad actually photocopied the pages and had it bound at Kinko's so my daughter could have a copy of this book. It's bulky and awkward, but she loves it as much as my brother and I did.

This is such a wonderful book, and I'm only hoping I can find it for my daughter, as it's out of print. This was my favorite book when I was little, and the melodic prose is as as memorable as the beautiful illustrations by Eloise Wilkin. Here it is thirty years later and I can still quote the beginning: "These are the things that baby hears when he listens hard with his little ears." A wonderful book for bedtime.

My one-year-old son loves this book. AND, he even loved it as a 5-month-old. Unfortunately, he's torn it to shreds and I have to get a new one!

This book teaches shapes by recounting the story of Mickey who has lost his ball and is trying to find it. Along the way he finds shapes which correspond to his friends' toys until he finds his ball. My 15 month old child loves the story. It is written in simple English which he understands, unlike the various fairytales which I tried to read to him. Each time I read him the book, I have to read it 3 times before he is satisfied. He has not learned any shapes yet, though.

This book provides an insider look at the trials, tribulations, successes and failures involved in unmanned space exploration during the 1970s. I'd recommend it to anyone interested in space, project management, policy, technology and history.

Kraemer, the former director of NASA's plantary exploration program, has an easy-reading style, but he doesn't skimp on details. The book is well-organized, discussing each probe and its history in turn. He also provides diagrams and charts, including one very striking and effective 'balanced approach' chart that all program managers should study and modify for their own use. The center section of the hardcover version also includes some beautiful color plates of some of the planets and their moons.

This book will give you an appreciation of the extreme technical, social and political difficulties that need to be overcome to study our solar system in depth. If you liked Donna Shirley's "Managing Martians," you'll like this book as well.

During the period from 1971 through 1978, NASA launched twelve space probes to explore the planets and the sun and achieved many firsts, such as, the first planetary orbiter, the first planetary lander, the first spacecraft to visit the outer planets and the first spacecraft to use the gravity assist. While a good portion of these stories is presented in the first person, such as the budget battles the author had to fight, this is not his autobiography.

The book is divided into chapters covering each planetary or solar probe and also includes an introductory and closing chapter. Each chapter presents the organization of the spacecraft management team, the determination the science objects, hardware development problems, the budget (and sometimes budget problems), the problems encountered from launch to the arrival, and finally a summary of the important discoveries of each planetary encounter. Each chapter also presents a detailed drawing or two of the spacecraft and a few photographs. Detailed findings from each mission are presented, since these would be books in themselves.

One of the most interesting chapters covers the joint German-US solar probe Helios. This was the first major joint space project. This spacecraft orbited the sun at a distance of less than 30 million miles, which closer to the sun than the planet Mercury and returned valuable data on the nature of the sun.

While I found all the chapters in this book very interesting, I think the final chapter of the book was by far and away the best. The author summarizes what he learned over his many years in the upper management of NASA and his dealings with Congress. In this position, he learned two things. 1) Do not let politics dictate technical decisions and, 2) Do not lie to Congress. These are two concepts that our current NASA administrator should embrace. If he did, I believe more of our country's space projects would funded and succeed.

I read this book some 25 years ago. Several times in fact. I am delighted to find that it is back in print! The trials and triumphs described are great lessons for experienced as well as novice falconers. A good object lesson for analyzing the personal preparations for handling such a large and powerful raptor.

Sam Barnes deserves our utmost respect for the huge efforts he made to bring a Berkut Golden Eagle from behind the iron curtain to the county side of wales. Once he received her his "battles" had just begun. He had to tame a raptor that could easily kill him with her talons as she had killed wolves in the wild. Mr. Barnes discribes the sad treatment Atalanta recieved by her cruel captors, the tender affection she showed for an "adopted" owlet and the savagery which always lurked just below the surface of this beautiful creature. If you love animals, raptors or a good story about a person who wanted to make a difference using will, love and patience do not miss this book. At the end you will want it to go on and on.

I could only read a chapter or two each time I had the chance to sit down and take the time. I was captivated by each chapter and was anticipating the next chapter(s). I live in the Valley that the story is set in. It was fun to realize "I know that spot (setting)" Leon is describing. Each time I started to read a chapter I was transported to that spot as if I was watching the events first hand. It is a fun read. If Leon writes another book I will have a first printing copy in my house.

As Leon's former publisher on MaderaOnline.com I was skeptical when I heard he was going to write the great American novel. Then I got a hold of an early edition and wow!

This book really blew me away. I'm not one to sit down and read a book from cover to cover in one night, but I couldn't put it down. I was drawn into the story like no other book has ever done.

I highly recommend this to anyone interested in aviation, the Central Valley or just a good love story.

Bruce Lee was his own man.he had so much style&smoothness about him.this book highlights his world in front of the public&behind it.very detailed&very upfront.you get a very insightful look into his world&vision.a man who forever changed the world with his talent&craft.a man who was trying to make sense of his surroudings&the things that were in placed around him.He will never be forgotten.

What an intimate look at the man behind the image! The book is highly visual--the text is very limited--but the photos are like none that I've ever seen in other books on Lee. I'm talking about the baby pictures of Bruce and Brandon, photos of Lee from behind the scenes in his movies (a kind of spooky one of him and Sharon Tate from what must have been just before she was killed), and pictures of he and his wife just sitting on the couch at home. It makes you realize that there's a man and father behind the superhero that appears in his films. I loved it.

This collection provides a great introduction into d.a. levy's work. A poet who suffered through years of poverty, anonymity, and government persecution, levy is one of the great "undiscovered" voices of the American 1960s. His work is well represented here, with a great collection of both his poetry and his visual art (some in color). Mike Golden's introductory essay is smartly written, and provides the best commentary on levy available.

being an acquaintance of levy from back in cleveland around the mid 60s, i'd say it's about time that his soul resurrected itself from its long trip though the bardols and onto the runically papyrical pages of an exquisite book, so artfully texted by el guapo miguel d'oro. kudos to golden, and a toast to levy. a quick story: me and levy once wrote 5 pages of various interpretations of his initials (a feat that took me at least a 1/2 bottle of cheap port)...i remember some: de arcanum, double apertif, don atello, dreaded anomaly. he was funny and creative, in the way that all those committed to die soon become funny and creative.

My son enjoyed this book so often that the book is tattered and taped together. He would laugh out loud each time we read it, and soon he was reading it to me! He enjoyed the tricks that the animals played on each other!

It's Cats versus Mice in six rounds of all out fun! Who will win! The copy we have was mine as a child. Now, my son and I read it together, over and over. We never get tired of reading this book. It's seen so much wear and tear that we are looking for a new copy.

The 6hours contained on here are perfect to hear about the various ways that the christmas spirit can be spread besides watching all those boring TV specials or constantally listening to all the music. All so perfect way to have an advent calander with little kids by letting them listen to a prograam a day until that special day

Having a rough day? Tired of the daily grind? Want to feel the Christmas spirit all year long? Return to those thrilling days of yesteryear when radio was king. Enjoy 18 classic radio shows from radio's golden age in each set -- all with a Christmas theme. Highlights of Volume 1 include Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol; George Burns & Gracie Allen; Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy; Escape; Fibber McGee & Molly (1952 episode); The Great Gildersleeve; Gunsmoke; Jack Benny (1947 episode); The Life of Riley; The Lone Ranger (1948 episode); and The Whistler. Highlights of Volume 2 include Abbott & Costello; The Aldrich Family; Archie Andrews; Dragnet; Fibber McGee & Molly (1940 episode); Jack Benny (1949 episode); The Lone Ranger (1947 episode); Our Miss Brooks;; The Six Shooter (starring James Stewart); Suspense; and Tales of The Texas Rangers. These collections provide hours of enjoyment and are high quality recordings.

If Richard Bak was to write 10 books about the Detroit Tigers, I'm sure my top 10 favorite books on the team would be those books (with my appologies to Ernie Harwell). Unlike any other Detroit Tiger author, Bak puts you at the feet of the greats he talks about or interviews and makes you feel like you are at Tiger Stadium during the 1930s. He has just the right blend of personality and historical fact to each book he publishes. In Cobb Would've Caught It, Bak talks to several Tiger greats and not-so Tiger greats and puts you in the seat next to him while he interviews them. I almost catch myself wanting to ask questions to the players as each story continues on. When Bak writes a book about Detroit basball, I immediately buy it - and I am never upset. David Troppens

Mr. Bak outdoes himself on this spellbinding autobiography of 22 "greats" of Baseball Legends. Few writers can make the pictures and words come to life. Bak should be commended, as he does quite well at this. He not only gives the reader a sense of time and place, but prefaces players' interviews with a short history as well, and the paths the city and professional baseball took from the end of WWI through the early 50's. Beautiful and yet haunting pictures of the way baseball was. An extra bonus was the almost-forgotten Black professional teams as well. Good reading, and one you'll go back to read and reference time after time after time.