Hank the Cowdog doesn't like cats until he meets the haystack kitties. Hank also finds himself in a runway truck!! Through his adventure Hank runs into a bull named Crash, but thanks to the kittens Hank was spared!!!

Hank the Cowdog is a series of books. Its main cracters are Hank and his side-kick Drover.They protect a farm from coyoties and other villans. Read the series Hank The Cowdog.

I love Hank and this one of his best!!!!!!! Jake S

This book would be good for 3rd and 4th graders who like funny stores with dogs. I thought it was a great book it was really funny book. It's a really exiting book because you never know what will happen next. There is a funny little boy who is trying to take care of uncle when his uncle gets sick. It's a great book for the whole family.

This amazing book is about two cowdogs, a family of four, and a cowboy named Slim. Hank seems to get in a lot of troublem, but it looks like nothing will get hem out of it this time. Slim's sick in bed , Alfred's destroying the house, Drover is liying in the utility room, and Hank can't do anythang about it.
To methis book has thrills,cills,and more action than you can stick on a tooth pick. This book is great for the family.

This book is great for kids of all ages and hillaious humor by John R. Erickson so If I where you I would buy it today !

In COVERED WAGON WOMEN, the diaries & letters of three mature women on the journeys of their lifetime, record their trek west into the sun; across oceans, towns, rivers, farms, forests, prairies & deserts; friendly & hostile Indian territories until, at last they reach their journeys' ends.

As you listen to actors Georgia Goodwin & Jane Merrifield-Beecher read the thoughts, observations & feelings of these three mother ancestors, you catch glimpses of how we used to live. They take us through springs of ground-level thunderstorms & sudden floods, summers of dust, mosquitos & enervating heat, & autumns of mild beauty & the biggest harvests they've ever seen. We learn of broken wagons, dying companions, days of endless trudging & nights of immense beauty. Over mountains, through rivers & down defiles, these intrepid women take us there with their simple, evocative words.

COVERED WAGON WOMEN is truly a record of an adventure that shaped our nation & our psyche. The only thing missing are sound effects!

This is a treat to listen to in the car on the way to work. An extraordinary story - women, migration, inner strength. I shared this with four other librarians who all enjoyed the tapes and proclaimed this one of the best audio books they had ever listened to.

The latest release in the "Living Voices of the Past" series, Covered Wagon Women 1851 is drawn from the diaries and letters of women who experienced the travails of the wagon trails west in 1851. Edited and compiled by Kenneth L. Holms and used with the permission of the University of Nebraska Press, we are treated to excerpts from the diary of Lucia Williams and the epilogue of Esther Lockhart (superbly narrated by Jane Merrifield-Beecher) describing their trip from Ohio to Oregon. Also featured are excerpts (dramatically narrated by Georgia Goodwin) from the diary of Jean Rio Baker, a Mormon who traveled from Liverpool by Windjammer and to Salt Lake City by Prairie Schooner. Surviving exposure to attacks from Native Americans, the scourge of cholera and smallpox, and the many hardships and deprivations of a pioneer excursion in a covered wagon, Covered Wagon Women 1851 is an outstanding "living history" audio recording and strongly recommended for personal, school, and community library collections.

This book covers all the important manuscripts of the early Church. This volume excells in its coverage of the earliest Church documents. The only draw back is the lack of Justin Martyr's Apologies. Other than that this book is an excellent source for reading about the Apostolic Fathers.

Being both a neophyte in the faith of Christianity and the history of the Church, my hunger for reading both the Bible and other early Christian manuscripts has flourished. How does one come to the truth in a faith that is so full of opinion in doctrine, and misunderstood tradition? I guess if I knew that answer, I wouldn't be so involved in searching these texts. Regardless, I do trust that the truth is there, and that the Spirit has both lead and will lead me to it.

This book has been one of those occasions in which I feel that the Spirit and God's timing were working in me. At a time when all of the negative parts of the Church were bringing me down, this text has helped me to focus on what is really important in my faith, my walk with Christ.

To begin, the works of such early martyrs such as Polycarp, help one to see just what was going on in the mind of a man of faith who knows that he will be honored to recieve the same persecutions as his Lord. In this day and age, the idea or desire of such a sacrifice is alien to the majority of Christians, and other than 2 Maccabees, is only hinted at in the Bible.

Also, to have a glimpse of what was happening in the church shortly after the demise of the apostles, is very enlightening. Although the scraps that make up quotations of the lost letters of Papias are less than adequate, one finds that early after the distribution of Revelation, the argument over a millenial kingdom raged. Since Papias was under the tutilage of John (the elder, or the apostle, I won't argue that one) in Ephesis, his point of veiw on this matter should not be ignored, though he was proclaimed a heretic later on.

Finally, the most important aspects of this text is the concern that these early Church leaders had in the direction that the Church was leading. Questions that popped up at these times were and still are very important to the understanding of how one walks in the faith after one has come to it. These texts are strong in explaining the importance of a life of good works and the importance of unity amongst the congregations.

Also, we get a glimpse of what was happening at that troublesome Church in Corinth after the apostles were no longer an influence. In a way, some of the most practical instruction has been written because of this Church, and they didn't stop in needing more after Paul's demise.

This book is a must-have for any Christian who wants to know the historical and theological roots of his/her faith. It shows that many "recent controversies" in the church were present from the very beginning--and answered effectively by men steeped in the Old Testament and the Gospel.

Today I am brewing beer, because eight yaers ago I read Dave's book. This tome got me started quickly and successfully into the fine art of brewing. In reading only the first two chapters, I had begun my first batch, and I have refered to it ever since. I have read many books on brewing, but I always rely on this one when I need to go back to the basics or cure a problem. Whether you have brewed a thousand batches, or are contemplating your first, I highly recommend this book.

~Miller has written a book that covers ALOT of info about brewing and the science thereof. For anyone weaned on Pappazian's books, this is the next logical step. Every aspect of the science of brewing beer is covered.~ sometimes funny style, but that doesn't detract from the excellent layout of this book, which leads from simple partial-mash brewing to all-grain mashing via a logical and step-by step progression of ideas and metho

I own four beer brewing books. Three of them are inadequate, inaccurate and cater to brewers who take the short-cut of extract brewing - one would actually be better off without them. Dave Miller's book is the fourth and indispensable one. It describes in detail the equipment, ingredients, science, procedures and recipes. Although Dave Miller prefers, as he should, to take the brewer down the path of mashing, the extract brewer can by-pass these steps and still follow a sub-set of the book's directions and recipes. There is enough theory which can either be read in detail or in conclusion to make the home brewer understand what he/she is doing or should have been doing. The recipes are more than enough for a life-time of brewing and cater to both ale and lager lovers, English ale addicts or German beer buffs. And if 55 recipes are not enough, then the book provides base information and calculation tables for recipe development without having to shoot in the dark.
There may be other good brewing books available, but if you were to have only one beer brewing book, this could be the one. It takes you from being a mere amateur to being a real microbrewer.

For researchers of the period when romantic love was being invented in spite of a period of brutality and passionate Crusading, this gives some insight into the life and times of an ordinary point of view. The language could be richer and a sense of the history deeper, but I still found my used version of this which I got from Amazon a worthwhile addition to my research.

Tons of citations, tons of primary-source documentation. It's a gorgeous book, full of information about life in a very specific time-period. This isn't a general "medieval" resource -- it is a resource about London and Paris of the years 1150-1200 and that.. is.. it. I wish it went into more detail in places (such as how women lived), but one can't argue that it's probably the best book of its kind concerning this time period. There are recipes, instructions for planting gardens, herbalism and medicine notes, information on how ironsmiths and goldsmiths worked, architectural notes, and loads of tidbits about how students lived (since the book's primary source is a 12th-century student's writings), stuff about jousts.. you name it, just about. The author sounds like he might have lived there, he's so familiar with his material. Effortlessly, he spins his stories, and his writing style is quite pleasant to read. I'd certainly and without reservations consider this book a must-have for anybody interested in this time period. I just wonder that it took me so long to find it -- it was written in the 50s!

This book also comes out in softcover from Wisconsin Press and is currently in print.

To most modern people, Europe's Middle Ages consisted of jousting tournaments of knights, damsels in conical headgear awaiting rescue, and Arthur's Round Table. In fact, specific details of life for peasants, artisans, and even kings in the so-called Dark Ages from the 9th to the 15th centuries are relatively few, scarcer by far than those culled from the Athens of Pericles or the Rome of the Caesars. Of seeming necessity, most books about life in the days between Charlemagne and Henry VIII present facts about European life in the 9th century alongside details of life in the 14th, a method that is about as reliable as discussing commoners and lords in the reign of Elizabeth I by using anecdotes about France under Napoleon. Daily Living in the Twelfth Century by Urban Tigner Holmes, Jr. is a rare exception to this situation. It is an account of what Alexander Neckam, a cleric from Dunstable, England saw and experienced in the months of 1177-78 on a journey to Paris where he would study and teach for a number of years. While the author's technique is novelistic, he draws on materials dating from the time, notably observations written by Neckam himself. In the narrative, Neckam travels from Dunstble, 34 miles northwest of London, through that great bustling capital, and on to Dover where he sets sail across the channel and traverses crumbling Roman roads, visits minor barons, and copes with student housing in the great city of Paris. Holmes artfully weaves in details from water porters to straw-covered floors, presenting a you-are-there sensory experience that illuminates Neckam's bond with the modern reader as much as it illustrates their differences.

I read this book years ago and am still waiting for the next two! This is a really cute book, I like the characters, it moves along well and the heroine isn't an idiot. She seems like a normal teenager. Many teen books are too sickly sweet but this one is not. It is fun to read and I hope there are more to come in this series.

While the quality of the story is diluted by the fact that the author probably attempts to create too much background and too many characters for a book of that size (probably because of serial nature of the book), this is a fun little book. It reminds me of the Trixie Belden series in tone. While it wasn't perfect, I walked away from it wanting the next book, I think that is the highest compliment one can give a serial. The things I thought were problematic: Shelly's teen romance, her niceness with regard to her brother, some of her relationships with her friends.

Will Shelly Holmes follow her father's footsteps?
Of course, everybody knows her father,the great detective R. Sherlock Holmes. Will Shelly go into a detective career or will she take photography instead? She loves both detective work and photogaphy! But which one will she do? This is a great book if you love mystery like I do. It was a great page turning book! It was so good I couldn't stop reading it until the end! It was a great book and plan on reading Case #2! I hope it's as good as Case #1!

Another good book on a Disney classic. Full of wonderfull drawings, sketches and animation concepts and background designs. I always buy the "Art of" books Disney puts out on each of their new films. It's always a treat to see how concepts of characters and backgrounds changed as they went along. Sometimes for the better, and sometimes not. Being an artist myself, I always enjoy seeing the drawings of the rough animation and characters studies. It's nice that they included some photos of the original source material from China in the front of the book. This again shows how far Disney's team goes to research a subject. The information and research shows up on the screen. And besides, the books pretty cheap, so you can't go wrong. My only complaint is that it could have been a slightly bigger book page wise.

I think this book's art is quite nice and that the text is gratifyingly bold, which I like.

This children's storybook is a shortened version of the movie, packed between two hard covers. The wonderful pictures are in full color and relive the movie's magic. A great addition to the disney classic storybook collection that every Mulan fan should have.

This is a collection of the scripts from Season 12 of Doctor Who, Tom Baker's first season. When one encounters this sort of material, it's worthwhile to see how much value-added there is. Is this just a simple reproduction of the scripts, or is there a significant amount of additional material? I am pleased to report that there is. For starters, the scripts themselves indicate the changes between the camera scripts and what actually made it on the air. But besides that, there is a season overview that discusses the casting of Tom Baker, the addition of Harry Sullivan as a character, and how the season was planned.

Then, with the individual scripts, the book provides background along the lines of the DWM Archive features, covering the development of the scripts, the production team, the production details, and a brief critique.

There are also numerous footnotes associated with the scripts, and my chief complaint with the book is that these are stuck at the end of each episode rather than at the bottom of individual pages, necessitating either a lot of flipping back and forth or a good memory if you choose to wait until after reading the episode to see what the footnotes say.

However, that's basically a quibble on what is an excellent book and a significant addition to my Doctor Who collection.

Alot of people ask "why a script book?" I wondered myself until I got it.
It includes the complete shooting scripts including dialog & scenarios not used in the finished product.
It also gives behind the scenes insight to the filming of Tom Baker (Doctor #4's) First Season as the Doctor.
If you are a fan of the show, I would highly recommend it to you!

Not so much another retelling of a year of "Doctor Who" as the ultimate reference guide to Season 12 of the series, "Doctor Who: The Scripts, Tom Baker 1974/5" tells virtually everything you could want to know about the production and execution of "Doctor Who" in the first year of Tom Baker's tenure as the Doctor. Included here are the scripts (complete with changes made during shooting) for all 20 episodes across the 5 stories of the year, story histories, production notes, casting choices, transmission information, music notes, prop histories and inventories, scene sketches and maps, reproductions of newspaper clippings, notes on potential but unmade stories, changes made for American TV, audience reaction polls, and a ton of footnoting for just about every reason imaginable.

More than any other behind-the-scenes science fiction book I've read, this one really tells you what tough choices and concessions had to be made, why they chose person A over person B, what got cut for budgetary reasons (a common problem with Doctor Who) and what concessions (or lack thereof) were made for continuity. This book is a massive undertaking, and, indeed, authorship is spread between numerous people. If there is a question you want answered about Season 12 of Doctor Who, the odds are really good it's in here somewhere.

While I find it hard to recommend this book to the casual Doctor Who fan, it's invaluable to the die-hard Whovian or the student of film or TV production. This is simply the finest production book I've read and I dearly hope to see them tackle other seasons in the same way in the future.

Jasper Holmes could have chosen as his title the phrase his colleague Edwin T.
Layton used for his memoirs: 'And I Was There.' As a USN reservist returned to active duty at Pearl Harbor just months before the attack, Holmes was there at the start of the war. And he remained near the center of naval intelligence activities in the Pacific until the end.

My bigggest criticism of this book has nothing to do (directly) with Holmes himself. Like many memoirs written in the decades immediately after the war, this book is limited by the fact that much of the information Holmes would otherwise have been able to share was still officially secret. It would be for later researchers to say what Holmes couldn't.

The other complaint I have is that, based on what I've read elsewhere, Holmes modestly understates the important role he played in the events he describes. It's to his credit that he's eager to praise talented and dedicated cryptologists and analysts. But Holmes frequently makes himself sound like someone standing on the sidelines watching the varsity team play. In fact, he was one of the team's key players.

What could be a highly technical memoir is leavened by a light tone and entertaining asides, like his tales of trying to drive through Honolulu with darkened headlights (a feat he describes as probably a greater danger to the citizens of Honolulu than the Japanese attack was).

Any student of the war in the Pacific, and particularly of Naval Intelligence operations or the attack on Pearl Harbor, will find this an interesting and entertaining memoir.

"Jasper Holmes" was a member of the Inteligence Center, Pacific Ocean Area (ICPOA). This is his excellent account of his activities and the dramatic influence of intelligence on the outcome of the war. He also describes the conditions of war time Hawaii and the conflict between personal and military necessity. One of the things I noticed most is the reverence Holmes feels for Joseph Rochefort, commander of ICPOA. I drew heavily on this book for my honors project in college.

Any study of the World War II Pacific theater will involve at least a glimpse of the role that intelligence had in the conduct of U.S. operations. An in depth review of the intelligence operations will reveal that cryptography and radio intelligence (later to be called communications intelligence or signals intelligence) had a vital role in the planning of combat operations and the conduct of the war in the Pacific theater. Intelligence operations, by nature are classified and as such there are not many first person accounts of actual operations. Double Edged Secrets: U.S. Naval Intelligence Operations in the Pacific During World War II is an exception to that assumption. The author, Wilfred J. Holmes, Captain United States Navy (Retired) provides a look behind the fences and locked doors of one of the largest intelligence operations at that time.
Captain Holmes was not a career intelligence officer, but by chance found himself in one of the most vital areas of intelligence, cryptography. Originally medically retired prior to the attack at Pearl Harbor, Captain Holmes was recalled to active duty with the anticipation of hostilities in the Pacific. His original duties were loosely defined and he tasked himself with the tracking of merchant vessels in the Pacific. By using ship's weather reports to track locations, he began working closer and closer with the radio intelligence section within the Intelligence Center for the Pacific. As this relationship grew, while not initially allowed access to what mission the section was assigned, he became closely associated with the section and its operations. Through the course of the war, Captain Holmes and the officers and sailors he worked with provided some of the most valuable intelligence to leaders such as Admirals Nimitz and Halsey. Double Edged Secrets also supplies a point of view from a senior officer in how the use (and how the devaluing) of intelligence supported combat operations.