While most Americans know about Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Birthday being a national holiday and February being Black History Month, Faith Winchester explains there are several other holidays celebrated by African-Americans. This book will tell young readers about Malcolm X's Birthday (May 19), Juneteenth (the Saturday closest to June 19), Marcus Garvey's Birthday (August 17), Harambee (October 31), Junkanoo (December 26-January 1) and Kwanza (also December 26-January 1). Although this is a little book, with basically one page of text devoted to each holiday opposite a color photograph of a celebration, young readers will learn about the origins and practices of these various holidays. Some of these holidays have origins in slavery: slaves were not allowed to celebrate Christmas until December 26th, when Junkanoo began, while Juneteenth is when African Americans were freed from slavery in Teaxs. Others have more modern beginnings but all are explained in this informative little book. Students researching any of these holidays will find Winchester's book a helpful first place to look. "African-American Holidays" is part of the Read-And-Discover Ethnic Holidays series, which also has volumes on Asian, Hispanic and Muslin holidays.

The author really does a terrific job of keeping the action flowing. It was very fast-paced and exciting. I was more than halfway done with the book before I even looked up. Mr. Winchester does a particularly good job of giving his characters depth and emotion; especially the lead character, Bonnie Cole. Bonnie really is an interesting character. Pretty, smart, and very naive, all roled into one. I felt it was an especially good depiction of a young attorney, just getting started in life, and being thrust into the world of big time criminal law. I read on the cover where this book is supposed to be the first of a series and I really look forward to his next book!

Canfields well researched book covers all official Winchester longarms in US military service. It is a worthy addition to his other books about US martial arms but is definitly not the bible on this matter. Each Gun would have been worth a own book on itself as he did with the companion titles: "US Combat Shotguns" and "The M1 Garand and the M1 Carbine" Anyway, if you start a collection of Winchester martial arms, or if you are generally interested what Winchester Arms Company supplied to the US forces: this print is the best you can get.

I found this book to be exactly right. After looking at so many diabetic dessert books that have tons of artificial ingredients or little taste this book is the answer. All the recipes are easy to make and call for every day ingredients. The nutrition facts are easy to follow. A must have for any diabetic that enjoys dessert.

This is a book on Civil War grand strategy during the last year of the war. It assumes the reader is familiar with the campaigns and battles mentioned, and so is not for a Civil War novice. The book begins with a counterfactual depiction of Early's raid, and the resulting consequences. It then segues to the author's previously published arguments that the West was the decisive theatre, and that Grant should have stayed there or at least put Thomas in command. ... The book then concludes with a short defense of Lee's grand strategic thinking. I found the book so interesting, readable, and short, that I finished it in one four hour sitting. At times the arguments seemed a little overwrought, and I'm sure those who feel the East was the decisive theatre will have their counter arguments, but none of this prevented my enjoying the book.

This book was written in England but is useful in the U.S. as well. It covers different landscaping situations with "Problem Solver" articles and gives sample planting plans. Advice on specific plants is included.

A must read for anyone wondering what English nobility is like and how it exists in modern society. No matter your opinions on nobility, you will enjoy the concise, understandable, explanations of the peerage and the sometimes hilarious anectodes about life as a peer and those who come in contact with them.

There is plenty of descriptive information about peerage as well as educational data. Funnier and more enlightening than a read through an excyclopedia article, this book will give you a personal look into the lives of the peers and acquaint you with the class system still in place in the U.K.

At some points rather heavily written, the burdensom prose is punctuated with very comedic stories of the peers and their interaction with modern soceity.

For a funny, accurate and fairly objective consideration of the whole concept of English nobility, read "Their Noble Lordships." If nothing else, you will have a good time and know how to properly address a Duke or Baron should you ever meet one.

It's sometimes difficult for Americans to understand how the titled class in Great Britain manages to hang on and on, in what is supposed to be a democracy. In fact, under various Labour governments, Britain has been far more radically socialist than the United States -- but the dukes and earls and barons have always survived. Is it just the British love of tradition? Probably not. In fact, Winchester makes a very good argument, well supported by charts and tables, that class is still alive and well in the U.K. and that the upper class still controls the nation's land to a startling degree. A number of inquiries, even by the government, over the past century have been unable to nail down just how much land each peer controls, but the author estimates the total at something like four million acres -- not much to a large Texas rancher, perhaps, but that constitutes about one-third of all the land area of Britain. And it's in the hands of fewer than 1,500 families.

This is not something British aristocrats really want publicized and, in fact, they go to some lengths to at least obfuscate it. Winchester actually had finished this book in 1978, but his publishers came under assault by a number of titled persons who figured in it. The legal system in Britain pretty much allows individuals who are the subjects of books, no matter how much in the public eye they may be, to suppress such works before publication. It was only with the assistance of a few sympathetic specialist lawyers - especially Sir Iain Moncreiffe of that Ilk, the foremost authority on peerage lore in Britain -- that his work finally saw the light of day.

But this lively volume is far from being a dry socioeconomic study! Winchester went and visited as many dukes and earls as would talk to him (some did), as well as chatting up a broad sampling of the barons who constitute the lower rungs of the aristocracy. Some of these, such as the Duke of Devonshire and Baron Mowbray, he seems to approve of, more or less. In other cases, he lets the man's personality and opinions speak for themselves. And it's not a cliché that hunting, fishing, dining, and collecting account for the majority of interests of a great many of the titled. Winchester also describes at length the qualitative differences among the five ranks of the peerage: The special place of the dukes, who are far, far higher on the ladder than even the marquesses next below them; the fact that retiring prime ministers have traditionally been created viscounts; the peculiar inferiority complex of many among the ranks of the barons.

There are also some curious effects that follow enoblement."Those who carry a title as a consequence of their birth are not in one single case as distinguished in any field as was the first holder of the title; in every single case they are either as comfortably settled as was the first holder or are considerably more settled than was that first holder. . . . In short, the elevation to the peerage has brought the group firmly within the Palace gates of the Establishment, yet appears to have done little to increase their usefulness, as a group, to the society that honoured their forebears. Small wonder that most peers, of recent and of ancient creation, are reluctant to give up what privileges they have." So while the author has nothing personal against most of the peers he has observed, he does not think stripping the upper class of most of its acreage and the House of Lords of its remaining legislative powers would be a bad thing.

There's also a great deal of anecdotal history in this book (or it might have been considerably thinner), most of it fascinating and some of it hilarious. The heralds and pursuivants who make up the staff of the College of Heralds often do not approve of those to whom titles and arms are granted, for instance -- and you don't want to annoy someone with a title like Portcullis or Rouge Dragon!

This book by Arthur Pirkle should be in the collection of any true Winchester collector. It offers detailed information on all the parts of the 1886 and 1892 Winchester rifles and carbines. Pirkle describes each part in detail. The information in this book could be very helpful in determining the authenticity of any 1886 or 1892 Winchester. This book also has some production information and parts diagrams for both of these models. Unfortunately, there are few pictures of complete guns and there is little on the history of these guns. If you interested in collecting these models of Winchesters, or if you already do, then this book should prove invaluable to you. I would not advise this book to anyone not truly interested in collecting the 1886 or 1892 Winchesters.

This book is simply one of the best sources for accurate Winchester information I have ever read. The author himself is a wonderful source for knowledge but he also utilizes a number of reliable sources. If you are looking for history on Winchester Repeating Arms Co. This is the Book. If you are looking to find information on specific Winchester guns this book is a great start. The author also recommends additional titles for specific models of Winchester guns