Radio Spirits previously published "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes," a collection of radio plays from the time after Nigel Bruce and Basil Rathbone left the series. This collection consists of twenty more plays from that same era. The publication of these new stories was welcome news to this Holmes-aholic. Alfred Shirley and John Stanley don't quite have the same charisma as Bruce and Rathbone, but they turn in above average performances.

To most Holmes fans, "The Woman" in Holmes' life was Irene Adler, the adventuress from "A Scandal in Bohemia." Edith Meiser, the author of these radio plays, was far more important to Holmes' legacy than Irene Adler. She wrote more Sherlock Holmes than Holmes' creator. She didn't write as well as Conan Doyle, or even as well as Anthony Boucher and David Green, but she turned in workmanlike efforts. Her rewrites of the original Holmes stories (seven of which are reproduced here) are excellent. When she writes her own stories, she can be very good.

In the spirit of David Letterman, I give my Top Five radio portrayals of Holmes:
[1] The BBC productions starring Clive Merrison.
[2] The MBS productions starring Bruce and Rathbone.
[3] The post-Rathbone productions starring Shirley and Stanley.
[4] The post-Rathbone productions starring Nigel Bruce and Tom Conway.
[5] The BBC productions starring John Gielgud.

I read this book as a nine-year=old. As I remember, Robert Frost, Alfred, Lord Tennyson and Joel Barlow were my favorites. I misplaced this book throughout my careless adolescence. If you can find the copy I had, it will have a blue cover. Happy Reading!

The stories are really fun. We love the "King Kong and King Kind" story, "Scary Gary"- all of them! It helps my kids relate (and grow) through different situations in their days. I use it regularly in our family devotional times -- Great fun!-- And in my part-time job as a preschool teacher. The kids really like it. The illustrations are wonderful. Night Light Tales is truly a delightful book. I recommend it to everyone I meet.

This is the best guide book in the history of the universe. These guys are the alpha and omega of the tourism-with-an-attitude/solidarity of the Sandinista years. From photos of the Clash to Omar Cabezas throwing baseballs, "Tricky Dick" Nixon and advice to carry your own rum to Corn Island, this book freezes a moment in time better than any other publication out there--at least until I finish my novel about the ex-pat hallucinating that he was Daniel Ortega's bodyguard, the campesino joining the contras because the FSLN introduced too many acronyms into society, and Elliott Abrams sticking pins into his Miguel D'Escoto obea doll . . . mandatory for any Central America-phile.

NURSE'S POCKET COMPANION contains a great amount of important stuff that nurses often need to access quickly on the job. The material is presented in an interesting manner. The book is written well enough that a person interested in nursing or a medical field could pick it up and enjoy reading it during coffee breaks. The topics are logically arranged, the illustrations are clear, and the tables are useful. I like this reference book.

This was an excellent book especially how it gave you codes that was useful in other areas. This book was used as a reference for me in my Data Structures' class. The book that my professor used never explained itself. With this book I was able to understand the codes and was able to interpret it.

Well oreganized and easy to read. Being of micmac heritage, I was able to really enjoy the old stories and visit the old places and hear the old voices. Excellant research efforts by authors. This is one of those books I plan on passing along to my kids! Lionel Little Eagle 3/1/99

First published in 1944, Old World Wisconsin by Fred L. Holmes is an "armchair tour" of historical vistas throughout the Dairy State, and offering the reader an involving, informative look at key Wisconsin traditions, historically significant sites, and the progression of Wisconsin's cultural history itself. Old World Wisconsin is enthusiastically recommended and intrinsically engaging read for anyone with an interest in the background behind the many ethnic groups of settlers that have made Wisconsin their home.

According to Gibian, two oral practices flourished in antebellum America: the lecture (or sermon) and the conversation. Lectures, such as Emerson's "The American Scholar" and sermons, such as the abolitionist sermons of Henry Ward Beecher, are well-known examples of this hyper-speechifying, Chataqua-inspired heavy, Second Great Awakening era. But it was also known as the Golden Age of Conversation, and its greatest practitioner was generally agreed to be Oliver Wendell Holmes, Senior.

Gibian is out to revise and enhance Holmes' current reputation on the basis of a new critical reading. Holmes was considered an important American writer until the 1920s when he was excised from the American canon by the modernists. They depicted him as willfully provincial (because he named Boston the "Hub" of the world), and elitist (he invented the term "Boston Brahmin"). Gibian attempts a rescue by noting that it one of Holmes' characters, a provincial, town booster named "Little Boston" in the "Autocrat of the Breakfast Table" who dubbed Boston the Hub. Gibian suggests that Boston Brahmin was an appellation meant to poke fun of the contemplative, upper class, pedigreed Bostonian who self-consciously removed himself from the hurly-burly of the common run. But much more than placing the "Hub" and "Boston Brahmin" in context, Gibian attempts to show that Holmes encouraged democratic conversation. That unlike his more elitist friends in the Saturday Club, he was a democrat, or a true republican, perhaps.

He does this by suggesting that Holmes' was equal parts house-breaker as house-keeper, invoking Mikhail Bakhtin's theory of the carnival as appropriate to Holmes' comic, celebratory, and democratic view of American conversation as an open, free-wheeling discourse where anyone could join the Autocrat at his table (as long as they played by his conversation-enlivening rules, one of which seems to be to play the devil's advocate at all times). Gibian elaborates on those rules at some length, noting philosopher Richard Rorty's views on how a true dialogue can take place follows many of the same basic rules.

In his detailed examination of Holmes's "The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table." Gibian shows Holmes was attracted to levity (levitation, lightness) through his mother, perhaps as a reaction to his Puritan Minister father's gravity (grave, gravitas). His portrait of Holmes' early life (he could never stop talking as a boy), his description of Holmes' early readings and re-readings of early Renaissance humorists such as Rabelais, his continual search for bon mots and mot justes in those old texts, his eminent position as the only French-trained doctor in America (whose first paper on puerperal fever is an acknowledged medical classic), help us understand how Holmes came to be able to converse with everyone. The last of the generalists, in the time just before specialization in science arose, he was able to enter into conversations on any subject, draw knowledge from one to inform the other. And, he would take any side in any conversation, to try it on for size, refusing to stick with any position, believing that consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds, a trait that might make him the first multi-perspectivist.

Conversation is dead now, and its slow passing happened concomitantly with the rise of America's power and industrial prowess, and, of course, the TV, which brings us the great sermons of the happy earthly life of consumption. There are some who say the Internet is bringing back the conversation. But for everyone who says that, there is another expert who tells us of its corrupting power. Meanwhile, the American breakfast and dinner table hears a few spectral conversations around it on the holidays, and the dining room still lingers in the American home. But it is no longer a performance space. Talking just doesn't seem all that important anymore. For Holmes and his generation there was some urgency in conversation: they were trying to invent a democratic discourse, after all. It was a time when talking, joining clubs and associations, and sharing ideas seemed greatly to matter. After all, the great experiment had only recently begun. And space and race, the two quintessentially American topics, intimately intertwined, were critical issues needing resolution. Eventually, this a conversation that was conducted using different , and deadly, means.

One Country, Two Systems of Hong Kong in the coming year of 2003!
No doubt, it is the very good concept to maintain Hong Kong to have the good demo structure after back to China since 1997.

However, Hong Kong has been changed rapidly in these five years even in political, economical or financial climates. If you are the Hong Kong People, how do you think and run in the next decade. China and Hong Kong are the co-competitor in business and financial development after the WTO and Globalization in 2002.

Hong Kong is still have the business chances or models to compete with Shanghai or other Pearl River Delta (PRD) Regions ? That is the major concerns for every citizens in Hong Kong.

Hong Kong is not the same as before... Don't play back your minds to 1990's.

Thinking on your future, Looking for your new fashions of business models or even need to re-fresh your minds.

Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau and China is the Great China Business Region! But how to join them into the one country and four systems business zones, reckon it is also the major question for every business people in globe.

No doubt, Hong Kong is facing the deepest deflation in 2002. And How the Hong Kong People can stand up again in the coming decade? And Can the Hong Kong SAR Government help their citizens to solve all economic crisis in coming Five years?

Hong Kong's major concerns are Freedom, Human Rights and Laws.
Hong Kong is not the China's System. They are standing at the sytem of Capitalism.

Hope Hong Kong's citizens can work hard on every day.
Forget all the past crisis..
Thinking more on positive development in 2003.

Don't be afraid and keep up your warmer's hearts.
Reckon Hong Kong can be lighted up again in Globe and even better than the history in 1990...