Congratulations to Ms. McCart for having written a wonderful account that integrates Thompson's historical trips with what exists today.Highly accurate and fun to read and explore.
I highly recommend it!

This is the collection of tales edited by Stith Thompson, one half of the team responsible for the Aarne-Thompson classification system of folktales. Thompson pulls tales mostly from European sources and includes source and classification notes in the appendix. The tales are classics or often derivatives of well-known tales. They are also suitable for all ages. I have had this book for years and still pull it off my shelf on a regular basis.

A very readable book by a teacher who talks about the history of the places he rides through. This book, more than any other I've read, has made me want to ride my bike around the world - visiting people from all cultures and sharing in their views of the world. This was another of those books that you hope doesn't end

I have worked in technical theater for many years. Many of the kids I know were a little confused at what I do at work. This book is educational as well as fun for people of all ages. I used it to show my parents what technical theater is all about also. It teaches the children in our children's shows a little more respect for the people they are working with. I highly recommend it.

This is a very good textbook for subjects on optimal controls with management science applications. I have adopted this as a textbook and students love it. Illustrative figures and diagrams are sufficiently provided, and materials are carefully explained.
The use of the commonly available Excel program to solve TPBVPs at the end of Chapter 2 is suitable for the ever increasing demand of "multimedia teaching". I have not seen any other optimal control textbook include such a set of Excel instructions in such a simple and elegant way.
Moreover, the authors made a set of chapter-by-chapter power point files available on the web to supplement the text book for classroom teaching.
I am giving 5 stars to this book anytime.

It is a shame that this little gem is out of print and so rare or expensive to find. "Orwell's London" is full of photographs of places George Orwell lived, worked and ate in and around London, 115 pictures by my count. They are evenly divided between historical photos of life in London during Orwell's lifetime and ones taken in 1984, when the book was published. The photos are grouped chronologically according to the different phases of Orwell's life and are accompanied by brief biographical sketches that lend context. The final chapter, "No enemy to pleasure", shows restaurants Orwell frequented.

The most useful feature of the book is the addresses given for every place photographed. This is very handy for anyone visiting London who would like to see places where Orwell worked or lived. I made that trip myself in 1999 and can vouch for the accuracy of the references. Of particular interest are the offices of Victor Gollancz, 14 Henrietta St., WC2 (only shown from the inside in this book), Booklover's Corner, South End Green, NW3 (now a pizza shop with an Orwell plaque near the door), and the Senate House, Malet St., WC1 (rumored to be the model for the Ministry of Truth in "1984").

All in all worthwhile, snap this one up if you can find it.

Though it is difficult to locate in America, this collection of plays by Judith Thompson is well worth finding. Readers who appreciate Thompson's other work, like her play Lion in the Streets, are likely to connect with these works. Thompson uses compelling language to create resonant images and characters, (notably, many are female), who have strong voices. Some themes and images recur in her work, gender, class and race are examined in some of the material and images of birth and babies repeat. Two thumbs up real high.

Our Life Together, is a must for every couple, and it is a great Wedding and aniversary gift. It proves that it does take 3 for a happy lasting marriage. (Husband, Wife and God). It gives instuction for the husband and wife separatly and together. Showing each has a duty to do, for each other, and for a healthy marriage in unity, and if read and practiced through out the marriage you will have a joyious and prosperus spiritual life together, tell death do us part. The books instruction in marriage and family life brings health and happiness each year and Blessings no matter what challenges they face. It also brings a couple unity and peace with God in their lives. We thank God for His well planned part, in the writting of this book.

"Overexposures" is a work which strives to match the imagistic punch and musical flow of the best movies, and stirringly succeeds. The book is both a tribute to the pagan authority of Hollywood movies, with their overwhelming power to stimulate the senses, and a diatribe against their moral vacuity and tendency to deaden our more enriching emotions. The book spends entire chapters arguing against the flawed artistic dispensations of Hitchcock and Coppola; and, even though these artists are two of my idols, Thompson's reasonings make for compulsive reading. His chapters on L.A. are lush, provocative, and full of pleasurable revulsion with the duplicities and indulgences of Hollywood, as both location and state of mind. Most of all, perhaps, his chapter on Kubrick's "The Shining" is a manifesto for what he thinks of as a more Nabokovian cinema, a Looking-Glass world where imaginative surfaces can triumph over the banal realities of everyday life, without compromising our high hopes for human interconnection.

Let me just say that if you can read Latin, this is the essential way to read the fantastic works of Ovid. These selections from the Ars Amatoria and the Remedia Amoris are very fun to translate, as well as applicable to our modern society. The great thing about this book, though, is that there are vocabulary definitions ON THE SAME PAGE as the text itself, thereby eliminating the boredom of shuffling through a Latin dictionary, not to mention his notes on difficult to translate sections. There is also a pull out small dictionary at the back of the book, which contains every word that appears more than 10 times in the work. Therefore, this is the only book you'll need to translate, as opposed to a Latin dictionary. This takes the fun out and leaves only the pleasures of reading Latin literature.