It's the first book I've seen that truly captures the spirit of the Canyon. The photography is superb; the text is readable and informative.

If you are looking for a tasty sampling of writings about the Grand Canyon this may be your book. In its 253+ pages you get the flavor of writings by dozens of authors, and enough of each flavor for you to decide whether you've had enough with that one taste, or if you need to digest that author's entire work. The writings range from serious to the silly, from inspirational to scary, and from experiential to philosophical. There's probably something here for everyone - a vast variety of perspectives and experiences from canyon rim to beyond the river's edge. None of the selections are over 16 pages (and many far shorter) so even if you're less than delighted with any of them you're quickly on to the next. This is a surprisingly quick and delightful read, and you'll probably get to the end wishing for more.

This book is designed to give you enough interest in the Grand Canyon from an armchair perspective to induce you to actually go there. Accordingly there are 14 pages of information devoted to The Next Step - what you need to know to visit and safely enjoy the real Grand Canyon.

Read the book and then go!

I was on a flight from London to SF, bored, and saw a copy of Business Week on the plane. I read about this book, and immediately thought of a buddy of mine who loves Grand Central Station and decided to get it for his birthday. I read it when I bought it, was blown away, its a great read, historically, architecturally, socially, etc. I kept the copy I had bought him and bought another one from Amazon.com. Great book, if you have any interest in not only NYC history, but American cultural icons, and architecture, this is your book. Well, well worth it.

After some sixty to eighty years after they were first printed in the pages of the fabled pulp magazine "Adventure," these stirring tales by Harold Lamb of swordplay and strife in the wildest parts of medieval Asia are being re-issued. It has been too long. Congrats to the publisher for doing this. Now if we can only get the Khlit/Kirdy novels - White Falcon, Kirdy: the Way Out of the World and the Mighty Manslayer - out in print! Harold Lamb was one of the great early masters of historical fiction, his best single work is the novel "Durandal: A Crusader with the Horde" (Grant Books has printed part of this novel in two deluxe volumes - "Durandal" and "Sea of the Ravens," without completing the set). His "historical" non-fiction - Babur the Tiger, Nur Mahal, Omar Khayyam - is really good too!

I was a student of Milton Kessler's back in the late 80s, and he was quite possibly the best teacher I ever had. Many, many other former students share this opinion (including Camille Paglia). This collection of his poems, already ten years old, is an interesting mix of lyric jewels and objectivist verse.The poet's influences (e.g., Charles Reznikoff and Walt Whitman, to name just two) show through, but make no mistake: This poetry is fresh, inventive, and original. Sadly, Kessler passed away in 2000. One can only hope that this greatly underrated poet will one day achieve the recognition (albeit posthumous) he deserves.

While many teachers, and schools buy into basils because they are idiot-proof, simple to instruct, as well as simple to evaluate, many teachers are becoming aware that while many students succeed on standardized tests, they lack problem-solving, critical-thinking skills. Since these skills cannot be tested on current standardized tests, they are often overlooked or pushed aside. However, for students to succeed in careers, as well as life, that require innovative, creative, and "outside the box" solutions, we need to foster such thinking early in life. How can we teachers help our students become independent thinkers? Eeds and Peterson (1990) suggest using dialogue and conversations in the classroom. Dialogue opens the door for individualized learning. This allows all students the ability to participate in conversations. Dialogue allows all students to achieve and grow using skills that are difficult for textbooks to accomplish. The ability for all students to participate, and the freedom to respond without the fear of being wrong can lead the students to begin to look deeper. This can lead into what we all want our students to become: independent.

I'm in Bosnia, and if it is possible to send money just by some bank , I'll bee happy!

This timely book captures the present situation and how it developed, written in an enjoyable style and understandable language. More important, it offers practical solutions to the crisis in the socioeconomics of health care delivery.

This book gives the history of how feminist ideas have influenced housing development. The book focuses on both the physical design of housing and the ideas behind those designs for the last two centuries in America. I was surprised to find how we have again and again forgotten what our foremothers (and forefathers) came up with as solutions to the perennial women's issue of combining childcare, housework, and food preparation with working outside the home. Approaches that we think of as new, like co-housing, have been done in the past. We don't always have to invent a new solution, we just have to know better what was tried (successfully or unsuccessfully) before.

A must read for those involved in the development of housing and city planning.

Born Princess Elizabeth of Hesse, she married a Russian Grand Duke and converted to Orthodoxy. When her husband was assassinated, she founded the Martha and Mary Convent, took the veil, and devoted her life to the service of the poor. She rejected the efforts of her foreign royal relations to rescue her from Russia during the Revolution, feeling that she was needed in Russia and could not leave her work among the poor, and was murdered in 1918.

This book is a fascinating recounting of the Grand Duchess' life, and includes dozens of her letters-- to her grandmother, Queen Victoria; to her brother, the last Grand Duke of Hesse; and to several friends. The author relied on unpublished sources in two countries and published sources in four languages. The scholarship and passion the author put into researching her subject shows. The religious content of the work, considering the religious nature of the Grand Duchess and the central role religion played in her life, is entirely appropriate and even necessary. In any case, it is nowhere near as militant as the subtitle ("new martyr of the Communist yoke") might indicate. Quite simply, this is a well-researched and affectionate portrait of a fascinating and complex woman, one of the best biographies of her I have read.