It was really boring and I didn't like how the author rambled on and on about nothing important at all. It was the most awful book I have ever read.

This book is a marvelously comprehensive collection of Doisneau's work. The photographs are beautifully reproduced, and reflect the character of a city and its people with humor, pathos, and great dignity. The text is clear, concise, and extremely insightful, with some extraordinary quotes and commentary from not only Doisneau himself, but other gifted artists of his time. A book to treasure!

Delightful photographs in fine reproduction with interesting and readable insight into the man behind the camera.

I read Among the Elephants by Iain Douglas and Oria Hamilton, and I give it six stars (if I could). Among the Elephants was all about elephants. Battle for the elephants is all about humans killing elephants. All my favorite characters (who are all elephants) are dead in this book. It's like watching a movie, loving the movie, and developing a love for all the characters. Then, the sequel comes out, you are very excited, and you find out that all the main characters you saw in the last movie have been killed by the villian (the poachers) who you thought had been "taken care of." Then the narrarator spends the whole movie explaining how all the good-guys are murdered.

The Douglas-Hamiltons tell an amazing story of their work on the ground and flying across every African country hosting elephants, to document the status of and threats to the species. The story and writing style is captivating; a constantly exciting adventure, hard to put down. This is a beautiful and incredibly informative account of the slaughter of elephants that went on and on for 20 years while conservationists stood by, bickered, and asked for more information. Eye-opening, heart-breaking, but ultimately the efforts of this heroic couple were essential in bringing Africa's elephants into the 21st century. The description of the vast wild landscapes and flying across Africa are wonderful. This story will capture your imagination. Highly recommended.

This book is what I call a very good Harlequin; very well-paced & well-written; the characters were interesting & I finished it in one night!

I just love this story. The plot is great; the characters are believable, (well, OK, somewhat believable) and I love the fact that they had a relationship all those years ago & just couldn't get over each other. Perfect!

plot:jethro has loved alissa the first day they've met and now she needs his help. she needed a husband in order to inherit an estate and thinking that jethro has no money, alissa offered to pay him money in exchange for a husband. what she didnt know, was that jethro is a ruthless millionaire business man. its a good read but like i said, its not something that i wouldnt read twice. it didnt just appeal to me. the hero and heroine doesnt have much chemistry and the plot was kind of weak.

BOUGHT: ONE HUSBAND isn't one of those intensifying reads where you have to know what's going to happen next. The story is lukewarm at best and the characters are really shuffling their feet more than they are doing something.

Jethro was helping his nanny's husband by washing windows. The nanny's huband has a business of washing windows and he became sick so Jethro comes in to help him. When Allie sees what's he doing, she assumes that Jethro is poor. She proposes a marriage to Jethro because she's in need of a husband to help her out. In return, he'll get a big check if he agrees. She thinks he'll accept because he's poor, when in actuality he's terribly rich but Jethro marries her, anyway, because he's in love with her. From that point on, it's really a matter of thought.

I chose to read this book because the plot seemed interesting and intense. It wasn't. The timing that made everything worthwhile was off and there weren't enough descriptions in the story to make the characters real. Although I do admire Allie's loyalty to her mom but this book is one of the type where you can read on and off and not care.

this story gave me a feeling that even during this time alot of troubles befalls us.

Sara Stanley is reading a juicy melodrama to her King cousins about the evil Lord Doom and his dastardly deeds when Digger runs out into the night with the children in hot pursuit. Little do they know that as they chase Digger to the lighthouse where Gus Pike lives that they are about to get deeply involved in a real life melodrama. Gus meets the beautiful and mysterious Amanda Stone, and when she gives him not only a bag of valuable jewels to hid but a passionate kiss, he is completely smitten and will do absolutely anything for her. This includes standing up to the equally mysterious Robert Rutherford, who will apparently stop at nothing to get back the jewels or Amanda or both. Meanwhile, Felicity is, in the words of Felix, "conceived with jealousy" at the attention Gus is paying to the beautiful stranger.

Gail Hamilton writes the novelization of her own "Avonlea" teleplay or "A Dark and Stormy Night," which was notable for the performance of Christopher Reeve as the dark and dangerous Robert Rutherford. Although the adventure is not actually based on anything Lucy Maud Montgomery wrote about in "The Story Girl" and "Chronicles of Avonlea" volumes, at the heart of the episode is the budding romance between Felicity and Gus. It was made quite clear in "The Golden Road" that the high and mighty Felicity King was not going to marry some handsome, rich stranger, but the lowly stable boy she so disdained. On "Avonlea" the original stable boy is replaced by the character of Gus Pike and the fun of this particular story is how Felicity is too proud to admit to any feelings for Gus whatsoever. Of course, what is going on is perfectly plain to Sara. So while Miss Stone and Mr. Rutherford engage in their theatrical feud, it is this early chapter on the road to love that is going to strike a chord with young readers. I know wanting to see Felicity finally admit her feelings to Gus was why I kept subscribing to Disney, just to watch this series.

The table of contents of this text indicate a wonderful range of topics, from resolution, abstraction to multi-level simulations and even the object-oriented paradigm. However, this text is simply too ambitious and none of these topics get covered in an real detail. (390 pages)

This team has put together a comprehensive collection on a topic that is so hard to keep up with. The reader can take in as little or as much as needed. "Distributed Simulation" is a good reference and important reading for anyone in the field.

Family Rivalry is one of the best episodes of Avonlea! But something about it doesn't work as a book.....I read the book years ago.......The story is basically about the childhood fued between Alec and His brother....Andrew Alec's nephew has a loyalty to both his father and uncle and try's to stay out of it! Trust me this is one you should just watch on TV!

Given the dominance of Hetty King over the King family, it is remarkable that Alec King is such a levelheaded fellow. In "Family Rivalry" we have the return of Roger King, the world-famous geologist. Hetty thinks the sun rises and sets with Roger, although I am surprised she would ever approve of anybody in her family moving away from the island. However, the old boyhood tension between Alec and Roger is not only revived by the return of the conquering hero, who is convinced he can modernize the King family farm, their antagonism is being rekindled in their songs, Felix and Andrew (edged on by another example of Hetty King's thoughtlessness). Meanwhile, Alec has volunteered to help a neighbor, Amos Spry, who is having financial difficulties. Alec is motivated by the simple principle that neighbors help each other, a principle completely foreign to Hetty King. It is disheartening to think that Alec is so unappreciated by his family and even though they come around in the end, they really should know better.

It is also interesting to me that while the first dozen "Road to Avonlea" novelizations focused primarily on Sara Stanley and her young King cousins, the second dozen is focusing much more on the adults. Certainly an interesting choice for a series that you would have presumed was geared towards young readers, in which case the romantic side of Hetty King is not necessarily all that big of an attraction. The "Family Rivalry" storybook is written by Gail Hamilton from Jerome McCann's script for the "Avonlea" series. Although this is not one of the better episodes focusing on my favorite character, Alec King, it is nice to see him be the focus on a story.

This hardcover version of The Federalist (papers) comes is a nice package so to speak. The end of the book contains both the Declartion of Indepenence and the Constitution. Unlike most other Federalist papers books which are written as paperbacks using cheap newsprint paper, this uses a higher quality and brighter paper. The nice part about this book, unlike alotof others is that it contains the dates for each paper... alot of reproductions don't have this.

After reading the book however, I became quite concerned
because I noticed immediately that the author (intentionally or unintentionally) changed many of the words in the The Federalist!! This annoys me to no end. It's extremely bad practice for purposes of history, to change words in historical documents, because those "translated" words might accidentally get passed to future generations without aknowledgement that that wasn't what the founding fathers actualy wrote. I noticed at least a dozen changed words... there are probably thousands of errors for all I know.. This is bad, bad, bad.

Heres an example from Federalist Paper #1: (pg. 3)
This book writes: "After a full experience of the insufficiency of the existing federal government, you are invited to deliberate upon a new Constitution for the United States of America..."

Every other book in existence writes: "AFTER an unequivocal experience of the inefficacy of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America...."

Notice the subtle, yet immensely importance difference in words.
Now what gives this dumb author the right as a scholarly academian to change the words of our founding fathers. In fact, I don't even know which version is truly correct?? (I assume the majority rules, so this book comes out the loser.)

And these errors continue right through Federalist paper #1, and several others that I noticed... Maybe even all of them!

Also, the author has a nasty habit of decapitalising words which should be capitalized in historical conext. Our founding fathers, as was customary grammar at the time, capitalized many words in the middle of the sentance. I don't fully understand the details of antiquated English, however, when I buy a book on historical figures, I expect, nay, I demand, that the reproduction be produced in exactly the manner in which it was presented by our founding fathers. It can be difficult to understand antiquated English, especially some of the stuff written by James Madison, however, I'd rather do the mental translation myself.

It's a nice book, but I cannot in good conscience give this
anything above 2 stars. In fact, I think it deserves no stars.

NOTE: After researching the matter a little bit, it occurs to me that there are actually two common distinct "translations" and this book presents just one of them.... so I take back blaming the editor. I'm not sure of the origin of these modern translations... but it does seem that this version is much less popular than what is presented in other Federalist Paper repros.
I still claim that this version is error.

This is a very nice edition of the Federalist's Papers. An idea which was inaugurated by James Hamilton to help abate the opposition which was expected toward the newly written constitution.

This Modern Library edition has several features which sets it apart from other editions. First, the editor's introduction (by Robert Scigliano of Boston College) is quite informative and helpful for those who are just getting started in their study and research of American history. And yet it is detailed enough to be informative for those who have a stronger background in American Revolutionary history. Second, the appendices include The Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation and the Constitution of the U.S. along with the amendments. Third, the book has a short but nice bibliography, as well as a nice and very useful index. All these features helped to set this particular edition apart from other editions that I have owned or read.

Of course, the Federalist writings are some of the key writings in American Revolutionary history. Every American should be required to read them since they were written with the intent of promoting the ratification of the constitution. These writings contain the ideas and development of the American system of government, the separation of powers, how congress is to be organized, and the positions of the executive, judicial, and legislative branches of government. This work provides its reader with the thoughts, inspirations, and brilliance behind the American Constitution and development of American government.
I highly recommend this edition of the Federalists.

If you like swashbuckling sci-fi, than this is the kind of novel you will like. With a lion like main character doing a samurai impersonation, the novel reads like some many other pseudo-pulp sci-fi novels.

If you want some entertaining but predictable reading, and can pick it up cheap, then do it.
The artwork on the cover is an early work of now world renowned cover artist Thomas Kidd.

This is the best book I have read-- ever. The leading supporting characters are strong and well developed, the plot is involving and intriguing, with enough twists to keep you going, and put together in a way that keeps you reading. _The Guardsman_ is easily read and re-read, and hard to put down.

An intresting subject ruinied by over doses of the authors observations and prose. This may be due to the outcome of the search. The book starts out with an intresting premise the search for two sunken ships said to contain gold. From this premise I was subjected to an overwhealming ardous discription of the "cast of chracters" and there problems, interspersed with descriptions of there mission. My favorite parts of this book were the descriptions of the two ships; there loss; and the effort to find them. I read this book in less than one day (as I scanned by the portions I felt trivilized the story.

This book is a breezy and rather chatty account written by a worldly and irreverent Englishman who accompanied a salvage expedition attempting to locate two WWII wrecks in the Atlantic, the Japanese sub I-52 and the British liner Aurelia. The former was sunk by the Americans and was known to be carrying gold to Germany, the latter was sunk by the Italians and possibly was carrying gold from South Africa to Britain.

The expedition members, based in the U.K., chartered a Russian ship, the Keldysh, which is the mothership to a pair of deep-sea manned submersibles that can dive to deeper depths than virtually any other craft on the planet. (This ship was involved in dives on the wrecks of the Titanic and Bismarck.) Unfortunately for Orca, the salvage expedition, the Keldysh is a research vessel, and it was only because the Russians were strapped for cash that they were willing to lease out their ship and crew. The crew, composed of oceanographic scientists, took a rather dim view of Orca's mercenary intent and was constantly trying to break out of the charter to wander off and examine black smokers and other exotic underwater sites in the mid-Atlantic.

The author deliberately focuses on the personalities and the human conflicts and cultural clashes between crew and expedition, rather than the technological details of the search. This may be because ultimately, the search turned out to be rather disappointing. (A separate American expedition found one of the targets after Orca had given up on it, although as of 1999 it had not recovered any gold.) While the portrayals are for the most part sympathetic, the expedition members come off as rather flawed, as does the chief Russian scientist.

The laidback tone of the book is occasionally interupted when the author feels an abrupt and jarring need to wax literary and to proffer untranslated epigrams in foreign languages as proof of his sophistication. He also gets a little too impressed with his fabulous globe-trotting adventures and general wonderfulness.

Those flaws aside, however, the book shows a side of salvage expeditions that is not often seen, and provides some details on the little-known Italian submarine campaigns of the war. For those who enjoy reading about the discovery of sunken wrecks, this would be an acceptable choice.

Oh, by the way, the Keldysh remains active to this day, although it seems to be devoting more of its time to money-making tourist charters for dives on famous wrecks rather than pure science. Somewhere, the author of this book is weeping.

"Within an hour we're under way again. The sun climbs; land falls astern and the wheeling seabirds thin to a couple of mournful die-hards following our wake. Barring the unpredicatable we shant's see land again for a least a month. We're off to give a wrecked submarine (1944) our undivided attention". Thus, Mr.Hamilton-Paterson launches the reader on an adventure that has something for everyone-lovers of lost treasure, students of science,biology, history and the dynamics of people of different nationalities, working toghether and against one another on an exploration ship bound for the coast of Africa. After finishing this one will no doubt want to read more by this author!