This is a sweet and gentle book that makes children stop and think about what giving means. The pictures are pretty and colorful, with charming little "treats" here and there (a mouse under a chair, a ladybug on a leaf) that kids will enjoy discovering. The vocabulary isn't watered down, and the writing flows well. This book is great if you're looking for a wholesome, positive experience for smaller children.

In line with much of the new non-fiction surveys and studies, the book, in short essays gives the picture on much information that I have not seen before on the Gold Rush and the aftermath. In particular it gives a reader a chance to compare the Internet investment frenzy with the Gold Mine stocks frenzy in the 1860s & 70s.

The information is concise and beautifully and fascinatingly written.

There are many opinions and contradicting 'first hand accounts' about Brian Jones life and death. The only choice a serious fan has is to compare and contrast a good sample of the books available. While Bill Wyman's book may be more detailed, 'Golden Stone' is many steps above the average teeny-bopper fare available on Jones, and is a necessary additon for any real B.J. enthusiast.

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This is an excellent book of high caliber.It is about two boys linkd together and sharing the same feelings, pain, and restlessness.A story full of adventure and sure to get you hooked.For me this series of books is one fo the best that I have come upon.It is a shame that this is the last book and that there is no more.

When BJ Gray roared up Cal Mixall's driveway, wrapped in form-fitting black leather, and crashed her motorcycle into his greenhouse, he was enchanted...and bent to kiss the shaken lady as the prince had awakened Sleeping Beauty! She responed to his kisses like delectable dynamite, but BJ was stunned that she'd reacted so wildly to Cal's potent lips - this was the man she'd hated since girlhood, the heartless boy who'd laughed at her less-that-perfect teenage body and face. Now he found her alluring, impossibly attractive-and she couldn't believe he accepted the beautiful illusion she'd become. Had she for years hated a man who never existed, remembered a boy's careless joke and ignored complex, intriguing artist Cal had become? Filled with longing BJ craved the heat of this body, the hunger in his eyes, but she feared he'd remember the secret of her past. Could Cal teach her to see herself as he did, and set her free to soar?

A prismatic collection of stories that chronicles the spiritual jouney of one woman, moving from Catholic high school to the convent and back to the 'world'. An extraordinary piece of work, the truth of which will speak to any spiritual woman, no matter her tradition.

This was a key text on a Unversity course, and should be required reading for all engineering, science, history and politics students.

Napoleon's army in Egypt roasted chickens using solar power, solar energy was the main source of hot water in the southern US before the first world war and solar powered electricity generation had also been achieved on an industrial large scale.

Today oil is a major cause of political instability. We have lost a hundred years of technological evolution because of our love affair with oil. Read this book, and you will know Greenpeace's plans are actually small scale and global warming is easily solved with appropriate technology.

Do we prefer a conflict ridden, polluted, unequal world?

I found this in a used bookstore while I was on the road throughout California installing solar drinking water distillers that a bitter, old curmugeon and I built. He was apparently wrecked emotionally by the fact that no one was interested in solar thermal technology in the eighties. I was fascinated by the fact that, as we worked and philosophized, we caught the play-by-play of the Gulf War on television. An American Solar Energy Society editorial lamented that US foreign aid to Israel was building "California Ranch Style" homes on the West Bank complete with solar water heaters while California refused to even subsidize research let alone tax incentives for such energy conservation measures which is what wrecked the American solar thermal industry.

Long before glass, construction was perfected that offered comfortable housing based upon proper site orientation and architectural principles apparently long since forgotten.

Photos of early Los Angeles with Day & Night brand solar + natural gas water heaters on roof after roof.

This is a book for honest to goodness leaders to ponder and then roll up their sleeves and start changing the world.

English lyrical poetry is among the world's finest poetry. Many years ago Francis Turner Palgrave, a professor of poetry at Oxford, compiled a highly respected anthology of English lyrical poetry.

I clearly recall my excitement in my first reading of Palgrave's collection. I have since become familiar with several other good anthologies, but Palgrave's remains my favorite.

Palgrave's remarkable anthology of English lyrical poetry is found with various titles: "The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language", or "Palgrave's Golden Treasury from Shakespeare to the Present", or "Palgrave's Golden Treasury", or simply "The Golden Treasury". Sometimes one title is found on the book cover and another on the title page.

Palgrave's "The Golden Treasury" has remained continuously in print since 1861, with Oxford University Press editions in 1907, 1909, 1929, 1940, 1964 (Section V added), and 1994 (Section V1 added). New printings occur every few years.

Today this remarkable anthology is now nearly 700 pages. The font size is large and easy to read.

Palgrave's somewhat sparse footnotes are only available for Sections I-IV. Many readers may need a good dictionary for occasional archaic words and unfamiliar references to Greek and Roman mythology. I have found it quite helpful and entertaining to have a copy of Bulfinch's The Age of Fable nearby. Whichever edition and printing that you acquire, I hope you enjoy Palgrave's selections as much as I did. Cheers.