This book is a well-organized and convincing look at Grandmothers. Told through the voices of well-known authors, it is an engaging, funny, and poignant mix of fiction and personal experience. The role of Grandmother as both disciplinarian and comforter shines through brilliantly, serving to portray the women in all their complexity. There are many more essays and stories than poems, however, and readers who want more poetry may not find it to their liking. In my opinion, the poems provide strong insight and solid transition from one theme to another. As with all good writing, the themes are not explicitly stated. This allows the reader to draw their own conclusions and reflect on their own experiences. Even as discipline and disagreements are discussed, respect and love for older women is evident throughout. Although this is a fairly good book for teens fourteen and up, adults may find it speaks more fully to their experience and perspective.

This massive size hardbound book is one of the few vintage books on the history of Grand National Stock Car Racing. The photos in the book are spectacular. The book measures 12 1/2 inches tall and 9 1/4 inches wide. It is now out of print in any form and has become quite a sought after piece of stock car racing memorabilia.

I found this book to be an excellent source of detailed information on the vickers machine-gun in all its variations. It covers accessories and items of interest that are not usually included in books of this sort. For the buying and selling of guns and accessories it is being used as THE definitive reference work, The Bible for collectors all over the world.I would rate it as a must have for any collector or enthusiast.

This is a great, very well organized and researched book.

The theaters described cover Texas and provide a guide to the culture and history of the State.

The photos are majestic, with a haunting quality that makes me want to take my son on a cross-state trip to see the theaters and learn about his Texas heritage.

I wish the book had more detail about the fascinating photos. Some are not dated.

I would give this book five stars as it shows a unique insight into the psycology of some of the best known opera composers and how events and attitudes in their lives affected their most famous works. This book is not written by a musicologist, but a psycologist who has a deep interest in music - allowing us to see some of these operas in a new light. I would certainly recommend this book for those who would like to explore what influenced the creation of some famous works like "Carmen", "Faust", "Fidelo", "Tosca", and more. A must read for those interested in opera!

I could not put this book down until I had finished it. A moving psychological study of mind control and the evil of a perverted religious cult. At the beginning I felt compelled to read on to find out why the main character was acting in such a vicious, vindictive manner but as the story unfolded I began to understand and sympathise with her. She is a victim who was mentally, physically and sexually abused but manages to survive against all odds. I rejoiced with her as she learned to put the past behind her and went on to live life to its fullest. The descriptions of her abuse are in explicit detail and they are unsettling, but in retrospect they are balanced by the beauty of the erotic scenes she experiences with the man who becomes her soul mate. A Great read!

While not the sort of book that lends itself to being read cover-to-cover, it is exceedingly well organized, so looking up just about any Formula One statistic is a snap. It contains the full results of every World Championship race from 1950-1997 (and not just the points winners). Also included are profiles and results for every driver and constructor.

The book consists of two parts: a development/race history of the Grand Prix Bugattis, and an extremely detailed technical description of the cars (you could almost build one given the description here...).

Who is this guy, David Wiltse? I started with his thrillers, which are simply the best, then read Doubles, a play, a very very funny play, then came to Grand Romance, another play and entirely different from any of the other works. It is a very touching memory play, extremely romantic and perfect for a smallish cast and simple set, I would think, but all it has in common with his other works is its excellence. Is there anything he can't write? Why doesn't the world know more about this man--or am I simply late to discover what everyone else knows?

I read The Grand Scribe's Records vol. 7 with immense pleasure, having worked on translations of several Shiji Memoirs in the past, finally defeated by the immensity of the task and the overwhelming number of obscure historical, geographical and literary references. This is where Nienhauser and his team have excelled: their translations extend beyond the basic text to the abundant notes and commentary generated by centuries of Chinese scholarship on this important work of history. The footnotes cross-reference every name and event that appears in the text to other parts of the Shiji and to other pre-Han texts.

The Shiji or Historical Records (Records of the Historian, Grand Scribe's Records) is the most impressive work of history of its time, on par with the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, and with far less speculation than Herodotus. It was a heroic attempt to recover and explain the first millenia of the Chinese world from the scattered remains of documents destroyed by the First Emperor of China. Scholars agree its influence on later Chinese historical writing is profound. The Memoirs translated in this volume are the most readable section of the work, presenting more than a hundred memorable characters in brief thematic biographies.

Nienhauser and his colleagues present a highly readable translation, but offer much more to the general reader and student by explaining obscure references to sacrifices, dating, names, official posts, customs, etc.; by discussing doubtful readings and alternate translations; by identifying place-names and locating them in Tan Qixiang's The Historical Atlas of China; and by identifying passages that have parallels in other contemporary texts. These notes, plus a table of weights and measures, an enlightening discussion of chronology, an excellent bibliography and index, make their work vastly superior to the otherwise excellent English renderings of the Shiji and Zuozhuan [Tso Chuan] by Burton Watson, or of the Zhanguoce [Intrigues of the Warring States] by Crump, or of Lu Buwei's Annals by Knoblock. Only James Legge's translations of the Chinese classics demonstrate a similar commitment to explicating the text, though without the benefit of recent scholarship and archaeological discovery. When all nine volumes are complete, this work will be a classic and an essential text in any historian's library.

[My only complaint: shame on the copy editors for missing two misspellings in the first sentence of the first memoir!]