In this book the author shows how he finds a place that gives him rest, hope, and reassurance. We all need this enlightenment in everyday life and in time of turmoil. This book is also about thinking and reflection. Some lyrics are more soft, other more intense, which all together creates a wonderful modern poetry book: thoughtful, pleasant, and enjoyable.

My 8 year old son loved this book! Written at a third grade reading level, this book contains an exciting drama and real-world police procedures. I hope that more books like this, and CHASE, are written soon!

Skye Henderson is a good-natured, loopy, fun-loving girl with a mad crush on a not-particularly-interested executive who's (uh-oh) relocating from London to Edinburgh. What to do? Overly optimistic Skye decides the only logical plan is to follow him to Scotland under the pretext of having gotten a job there herself. Now, the only problem is convincing serious Scotsman Lorimer Kingan, no-nonsense golf course architect, that she's the perfect temporary secretary. With her vast secretarial skills (none), knowledge of golf (none), sensible office attire (none), how can Lorimer say no? The odd and amusing path to true love will keep you very entertained as Skye finally learns who is the right kind of man for her.

This book has given my partner and I so much pleasure. It has been a continual source of inspiration for us. It has made me feel proud to be a lesbian. I would highly recommend this Almanac to any lesbian who wants to feel good about herself and her sister's herstory!

This book is about the factors that explain changes in international competitiveness between 1945 and the late 1980s in three industries -- steel, automobiles, and semiconductors -- in five countries: the United States, Japan, Britain, France, and Germany. It argues that the way in which countries organize themselves internally is the most important factor. Increases in competitiveness occurred in countries like Germany and Japan where there was cooperation between business and the state or between business and labor. Declines in competitiveness occurred in countries like the US and Britain where government, business or labor were dominant in the overall system and therefore did not cooperate with each other. The book argues further that increases in competitiveness occur in countries where the diffusion of new knowledge and technology is rapid and that such diffusion is easier in countries where business, government, and labor are able to work together.

I read that book many years ago while at VICTORIA,B.C.where my sister lives.I had pick it up at a local library.It was actually the first real account of RODGERS and HART and their collaboration of twenty-three years(1920-1943),apart from DICK RODGERS's autobiography published the year before.Several passages of this book are about LARRY HART and his bout with booze that finally killed him at age 47.The story of how the show I MARRIED AN ANGEL was created is really something to read.Apparently,LARRY wrote half the lyrics of that show in one single night.If you like RODGERS and HART,you'll enjoy reading that book.There is only one problem:it was never reedited.Local librarys or used book stores are your alternatives.

The title of this book doesn't do justice to Hart's analysis -- Hart has examined literary ownership, and pride in that ownership, from a variety of angles that relate to Samuel Johnson. (In email, when I asked Hart about the title, he as much said it was the publisher's idea. But Hart's concept is intricate, and not easily captured, so Cambridge can be forgiven.)

Hart examines the process of appropriating Johnson as property. For Boswell, this means separating Johnson's life from Johnson's writings. Once Boswell's "Life of Johnson" becomes a monument, it means the efforts of others to carve out a relevant position - - from the 18th C Croker edition of Boswell which interpolated all sorts of material to 'round out' Boswell's gaps; a later, more 'purist' edition by Fitzgerald; followed by the famous George Birkbeck Hill edition where the quantity of footnotes rivalled the quantity of Boswell. And once the Hill edition became sacred, it was up to Powell to keep it sacred in a later edition, by adding considerably, but ONLY in appendixes so as to not detract from the Hill text. So, in each round, property was carved out.

Hart also examines Boswell's parading of Johnson throguh Scotland, and how Boswell basked not just in Johnson's reflected glory, but basked also as the impresario who brought the English monument to Scotland. Other examinations of property include copyright and forgery, through discussions of law and Ossian.

Hart has a deft hand here, and turns quite a number of brilliant tricks. He makes clever connections of Boswell as Hamlet, and readings of Gibbon's words that have been lost in recent, popular editions. He discusses the British cultural significance of "Samuel Johnson," and why British prisoners of war in Germany (in WW II) were sent Boswell's "Life" rather than the actual writings by Johnson. All in all, this book rewards the attentive reader.

The price, however, (at around $60 currently) leaves something to be desired. I suppose there is something to a need to have Cambridge compensated for publishing an item that doesn't have broad appeal, but I don't see how a price like this will make its appeal broader.

Set in New York City in the 1850's, Scandal's Daughter by Mallory Dorn Hart is a vivacious and entertaining novel based on the life of Isaac Merritt Singer, developer of the sewing machine, and as told from the viewpoint of Gussie Singer, his fictional daughter. Filled with steamy romance, the power of new technology made available to the masses, and the imminent threat of the Civil War, Scandal's Daughter is an exciting and immersive read that fully captures the spirit of its time.

I had hoped that this would tell me more about the life of the author of my favorite children's books. It doesn't give details about her adult life, but each chapter gives a memory from her childhood, and they are engrossing in and of themselves: beautifully written, magical, and affectionate. (Even if you are NOT a fan already!)

This first ever translation in English from the original Italian is accompanied plates from Serlio's first editions. Thus it brings for the first time originals of Serlio's remarkable oeuvre to attention of the modern era. Through these five books Serlio had an enormous influence on the Renaissance and Baroque architecture of Northern Europe and the translators Hart and Hicks really bring this most self-effacing of Italian renaissance architects to life. A must for all those fascinated by the Italian renaissance!