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James Herriot writes of his various experiences as a country vet. Laugh with his humorous mishaps, and share the joy and fulfillment of his career.

"Jungle Tales of Tarzan" is the sixth volume in the Tarzan series by Edgar Rice Burroughs and pretty much goes back to the beginning for a collection of short stories set in the time when Tarzan still lived among the great apes. Tarzan has learned how to read from the books he has found and it is opening his young mind to new questions, like where do dreams come from and where he can confront Goro, the supreme being that is the moon. There is also the love triangle between Tarzan, his first love Teeka, and their rival Taug, as well as his adventures tormenting the people of the local Mbonga tribe. "Jungle Tales of Tarzan" is actually a nice companion volume to the original "Tarzan of the Apes," provide more depth and detail to the early years of the Lord of the Jungle. It also marks a coda to what we would now consider the original story arc of the Tarzan novels. Burroughs would write another 21 Tarzan novels but they would become increasingly formulaic. In many ways this is the last time we would see the original Tarzan; you can think of "Jungle Tales of Tarzan" as sort of being the "deleted scenes" from the original "Tarzan of the Apes" novel.

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I was delighted, pretty much, with the three long stories or short novels in this collection of Holmes pastiches.
Rubino really nails Watson's literary style, a very difficult trick that very few writers bring off even approximately.

In the first and most routine adventure, Holmes tackles the vanishing under strange circumstances of a priceless necklace. This was the least satisfying of the stories for me, not only because of echoes from "Naval Treaty," but also because it introduces characters like the odious Col. Moran prematurely as far as the Doylean Canon is concerned.

Far more interesting is the second tale, in which the staunchly Victorian Holmes must deal with a murder and disappearance involving London's most notorious abortionist and midwife, and his investigation uncovers a genuine monster, the "abominable Merridew." In the third tale, Holmes must locate a missing heiress, but the real question is why this unknown girl is to be the inheritor of a huge fortune, when the dying man has a wife and son who are being essentially disinherited by a very strange will. And just who is Holmes' client, anyway? Holmes reaches a solution just in time to forestall a cold-blooded murder.

The common theme of all three cases is that the villain is never brought to justice within the legal system, for one reason or another. And each case is based on a very brief mention within the Doylean Canon, often a single name with no context.

I hope this is not the last pastiche from Jane Rubino. As Holmes himself would say, "Well done."

What a hidden gem. This threesome of short novels by a contemporary mystery writer achieves a tone so close to the language of the original Sherlock Holmes stories that you will think they are written by Conan Doyle himself. This interesting compilation has stories that are very different in character - one involves stolen gems and has some romantic overtones, one is a dark tale about a Victorian abortionist, and one is a suspense tale about a missing heiress. Each has a nice twist at the end, and all do an fine job of reviving the authentic character and language of the original Conan Doyle body of work. Highly recommended.

The American accent is truly the very prerequisite of coolness these days: to "nativize" oneself in the rich American popular culture requires a considerable mastery of that peculiar pronunciation, and such mastery is not that easy to attain unless one is prepared to spend countless hours through immersion in movies and songs, or better yet, through a stay in the US.

Aspiring for coolness might be one possible motivation, an addition to the repertoire of accents to impress friends and relatives might be another; the average student should find this book a required material whatever the drive for the endeavor. I actually used the book as a self-study, and I found it tremendously helpful especially after the jargon-laden introductory books on phonetics baffled me to no ends. There is something very pleasing to the analytical mind: logical explanations, instead of reliance on learning through repetition, are given in places they are warranted.

The authors decided not to adopt the full IPA transcription for the sounds, a choice which at times bothered me, as it is hard to switch between one system of transcription to another when using another book. Schwa (mid central rounded) and carat (open-mid back unrounded) are not distinguished, probably on a wise consideration that such distinctions are not phonemic and only unnecessarily complicating.

I go an used copy of this book in the year 1988 when I was an English teacher for TOEFL in Taipei. As I taught "listening comprehension," which was the weakest area for Chinese students, I tried hard to finding as much relevant reference as possible. Unlike a lot of difficult/academic TESOL books, among the dozen reference books I got, Manual of American English Pronunciation proved to be the easiest to comprehend, most practical and most resourceful. This manual was organized in such a logical and easy-to-understand way that most English teachers and students alike would find it easy to absorb and put into daily use. As its title suggested, it should be used as a manual instead of a book.

The best part that helped me most was "Lesson 16, The Sandhi of Spoken English." In this chapter, the authors introduced the various forms of Sandhi-forms of English that were commonly seen, for example, reduction of unstressed function words, the disappearing of "t" and palatalization. I saw WOWs in most of my students' eyes when such knowledge was revealed to them. "No wonder I simply couldn't understand spoken English, " I guessed that was their feeling and I was glad to help them decode the mystery.

I got on Amazon to see if there's an updated version I can buy. I look forward to its fifth edition.

Holmes and Holmes (1994) do a great job of outlining a truly complex phenomenon, homicide. While homicide is not a subject matter we enjoy scrutinizing, it is a subject matter we enjoy as entertainment. However, once homicide is understood at any level, it can then be appreciated as the ugly crime that it is. Holmes and Holmes outline the different degrees and types of homicide in such a manner that is logical and understandable. They then break down the phenomenon by types and report specific characteristics and statistics regarding that particular area. The only flaw that I encountered was the out-of-date statistics. Although, it must be said that this has nothing to do with the authors themselves, but rather the fact that the book was published some six years ago. Overall, Holmes and Holmes do a good job of putting homicide into perspective.

I've attended a class (and probably will attend another) that uses this textbook (Which happens to be taught by Ronald Holmes). This book serves as a good textbook for classes, it has good reading text, not awkward. Also serves as a good reference for those interested in the subject with its statistical charts.

In short, one of the more interesting books used in school.

These gems from just after WWII include stories from the last year of Basil Rathbone's tenure as Sherlock Holmes. While the stories are somewhat contrived, and the list of suspects nearly always amounts to 3 people (the reasons for the 4 out of 5 stars), the charm, the wit, the joie de vivre of the cast and scripts I find disarming and irresistable. To hear again that incredible baritone of Rathbone and the charming slur of Nigel Bruce come through my stereo from ages ago transports me to simpler times and more polite civilization. I cannot recommend these enough - and encourage all fans of the Great Detective and those who enjoy Old Time Radio to purchase this collection. You cannot go wrong ... and if you find yourself smiling or even with a tear in your eye, you too will understand why this set is important and wonderful.

Nigel Bruce's Watson is a loveable bumbler--quite a contrast to Conan Doyle's capable but unimaginative Watson. The stories tend to be somewhat contrived and suffer in comparison to the BBC productions of original Doyle stories in which Clive Merrison starred as Holmes. The organ music gets monotonous, and if I weren't already a teetotaler, the wine commercials would make me take the temperance pledge. Despite all that, the productions are wonderful. The chemistry between Bruce and Rathbone is perfect, and the simple stories move swiftly to their satisfying (if sometimes obvious) conclusions. Although Holmes purists tend to hate Nigel Bruce's Watson, I found him to be irresistably likeable. I'd want Doyle's Watson guarding my back in a tight spot, but I'd rather sit by the fireplace and swap stories with Bruce's Watson. I particularly liked the host's introductory visits with Watson in which Watson sets the stage for the mysteries.

Simon & Schuster originally published these plays as single cassettes. Later they collected the plays into six "gift sets" containing four cassettes and eight plays each. This collection contains all the stories from the first three volumes of the "gift sets" and the first two stories from the fourth volume.

So the potential purchaser won't fall into the mistake of buying duplicate stories, here is a list of all the stories along with my individual ratings: ("Conanical" stories are based on actual Conan Doyle plots. Apocryphal stories give the details of mysteries only alluded to in the "Conanical" stories)

"The Unfortunate Tobacconist" *****; Very well plotted.
"The Paradol Chamber" **; Contrived.
"The Viennese Strangler" *****; Good plot.
"The Notorious Canary Trainer" ***; One of the apocryphal adventures.
"The April Fool's Day Adventure" **; Holmes & Moriarty meet for the first time.
"The Uneasy Easy Chair" ****; Murder most ingenious.
"The Demon Barber" *****; Death stalks the production of a famous play.
"The Headless Monk" ***; Contrived, but entertaining nonetheless.
"The Amateur Mendicant Society" ****; Another apocryphal adventure.
"The Vanishing White Elephant" ****; Holmes & Watson in India.
"The Girl with the Gazelle" ***; A locked room theft.
"The Limping Ghost" ****; Moans and chains in a drafty castle.
"The Out of Date Murder" *****; A corpse that couldn't be.
"The Waltz of Death" ****; A serial killer attacks dancers in Vienna.
"Col. Warburton's Madness" ***; Another apocryphal adventure with a gaping hole in the plot.
"The Iron Box" *****; A new year's story for the new year.
"A Scandal in Bohemia" *****; One of the few "Conanical" adventures in the collection.
"The Second Generation" ****; Irene Adler's daughter matches wits with the Great Detective.
"In Flanders Field" ****; A WWI story for a WWII audience.
"The Eyes of Mr. Leyton" ****; Here's looking at you.
"The Tell Tale Pigeon Feathers" ****; Holmes performs a virtuoso feat of observation and deduction.
"The Indiscretion of Mr. Edwards" ****; The fate of the Empire depends on keeping Mr. Edwards out of trouble.
"The Problem of Thor Bridge" *****; Another "Conanical" story. I believe it's one of Conan Doyle's best.
"The Double Zero" ****; It's a gamble.
"Murder in the Casbah" *****; One of Holmes' rare ventures outside England.

"The Tankerville Club" *****; Another apocryphal adventure in which Holmes confronts Col. Moran.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle invented Sherlock Holmes, but Edith Meiser translated him to radio and wrote many, many more Holmes stories than Conan Doyle. She took a hiatus from writing Holmes radio plays during the WWII years, and the duties devolved upon Dennis Green and Anthony Boucher. Green and Boucher wrote the best radio plays up until the coming of the BBC series with Clive Merrison. The Merrison productions have to date only been "Conanical" stories, but beginning in January/February of 2002, the BBC will air all new Holmes stories. It remains to be seen if they will top the Boucher-Green team's stories.

Robert Holmes has put together a wonderful collection of essays on the topic of nonviolence. Topics range from religious and philosophical foundations, to the nonviolent philosophies of Gandhi, Tolstoy, and King, Jr., to women and violence, pacifism, and case studies. The whole is prefaced by a very good Introduction in which Holmes analyzes the different meanings of "nonviolence," and is ended with a decent bibliography of relevant works on nonviolence.

For the beginner, Holmes' anthology admirably makes three essential points about nonviolence: first, pacifism is one form of nonviolence, but is not identical to nonviolence; second, nonviolence isn't merely abstinence from physical violence; third, violence is not the same as force. Nonviolent resistance, for example, is clearly an exercise of force. Keeping points such as these in mind constitutes a good counterweight to the conventional assumption that proponents of nonviolence are quietistic, passive types who suffer any and all injustice.

If I have any reservations about this excellent collection, it's that Holmes doesn't do justice to the religious foundations of nonviolence, particularly when it comes to Christianity and Buddhism. Moreover, his inclusion of parts of Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience" is rather perplexing. Thoreau (as Holmes admits) was not an advocate of nonviolence.

Still, no book can do everything, and this one does much. Highly recommended.

This is a wonderful textbook for any course in the history or philosophy of nonviolence. Not only is it a complete overview of the history or nonviolence, but it includes some very unexpected contributors, in addition to the obvious. one of the most remarkable theories presented is an essay by A.A. Milne, more popularly known for his winnie the pooh books than for serious philosophical theorizing. and his proposed solution to war is so gloriously simple! He makes brilliant metaphors concerning war as a poison or a medicine, and a brilliant domestic analogy, but really, read the whole thing for yourself.

Este libro muestra con claridad las diferencias pero sobre todo las profundas semejanzas entre la obra de Guénon y Evola, tanto en el plano doctrinal como en el plano de los propósitos de las obras de ambos autores. Se nos muestra así dos esfuerzos loables y en cierta medida paralelos de reviviscencia de la Tradición Unánime, un intento (el de Guénon) que Evola juzga más teórico que el suyo, que califica más bien de índole más práctica. Justamente Evola echa de menos en Guénon la ausencia de indicaciones referidas a la realización espiritual de sus lectores, indicando que más bien los remite a tradiciones constituidas de difícil acceso en el Occidente actual.

This short essay is a brief sketch of the ideas of Rene Guenon, the traditionalist author and anti-modernist. Rene Guenon as understood by his interpreter the Italian intellectual Julius Evola, stands out as the authoritative proponent of integralist Traditionalism. Evola traces the origins of Guenon's ideas and his views against modernity through his life and work. The development and unfolding a true traditionalist outlook is expressed fully in the writings of Guenon. This essay provides an excellent introduction to both of the thinkers: Rene Guenon and Julius Evola.

So everyone thought he was dead, murdered at the hands of Professor Moriarty. Not so of course (although Conan Doyle had intended to cease writing about Holmes - but a public outcry forced him to reconsider). In this highly affordable collection Holmes and Watson continue to pit their highly developed intellect against the not so refined minds of the criminal underworld - although Holmes does give them due credit for their duplicity. The only problem I find with Conan Doyle's writing is that it is a bit lacking in decent female characterisation - rather a sign of the times than a fault in his writing however.

After his apparent death at the hands of Professor Moriarty, Doyle brought Holmes back for another installment of short stories (only because of public outcry, however). "The Adventure of The Empty House" is the first adventure that the newly returned Holmes embarks on, and it is one of the best. The way Doyle explains his survival actually seems real, not the usual cheap and cliched "surivival of the hero" stuff. Other good short stories in this collection include "The Adventure of the Dancing Men" and "The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter".

The Holmes F. Crouch books that I've read are very detailed and really look at things hard from a taxation and accounting basis. The book doesn't deal with "soft" issues like marketing your business and such...it deals with the hard financial stuff. If you have a head for this stuff, this book can be invalueable. It has the best information I've yet seen in helping a person try to come up with a REASONABLE price for their business...one that is based in solid financial reality rather than pie-in-the-sky pricing...which is what one often sees.

Crouch does not write for entertainment. There aren't cute anecdotes or easy to digest case studies. But if you are NOT a dabbler and are serious about the subject, this book is really a must have.

This book gives an outstanding overview of every aspect of selling a business. It covers evaluation issues (oftentimes overlooked by sellers) tax and legal issues. Of great interest is the tax problem(s) that the author presents and can save an owner's financial neck. If you are even considering buying or selling a business, this is the one book you absolutely must have!