Collaboratively written by The Silver Lake Editors, Life Insurance Made E-Z is a simple, practical, "user friendly" guide for people of all experience levels in financial matters. Written in unambiguous, easy-to-understand language for the non-specialist general reader, Life Insurance Made E-Z explains exactly what life insurance is, why it is useful, the difference between universal, variable, and group policies, tax issues, how coverage is priced, and much more. Anyone who is contemplating the purchase or revision of life insurance is wholeheartedly recommended Life Insurance Made E-Z; even a casual perusal of its solid advice can prevent many a financial headache!

The best thing I found about this book was the explanation of basic concepts of aquatic parameters and behaviors.After reading this book I found myself having hold on the topic and many other related topics. I would highly recommend this book to Environmental Engineering/Science students and specially whose focus of research is limnoecology. One interesting thing, that this is the only book with the title "Limnoecology". I congratulate lampert and Sommer for their great work.

Literary Chicago: A Book Lover's Tour Of The Windy City was designed specifically for bibliophiles in need of a fun and lively guidebook to the homes, haunts, and neighborhoods of Chicago's impressive literary figures ranging from Ernest Hemingway, Gwendolyn Brooks, David Mamet, and Carl Sandburg, to Ben Hecht, Mike Royko, Studs Terkel, Edna Ferber, and Saul Bellow. Literary Chicago is unique, user friendly, and a "must" for locals and out-of-towners wanting to explore Chicago's heritage of writers, journalists, poets, editors, publishers, and bookstores.

The vivid colorful pictures attracted me to this book and the nice story of the little fish looking for his mother kept us going back again and again. My daughter (2) loves to look for mother fish on each page. There is always a little part of mother fish to see - although little fish doesn't see her until the end. Sweet story and great pictures. One of our family favorites!

Short biographical sketch of the life of Dr. Livingstone. His very eventful trip up the Zambezi and Shire rivers and discovery of Lake Malawi.

His evangilizing the Africans to Christianity and establishing churches that still are active.

The account of slave trade as late as the 1920's as slaves were shipped across the lake to the east coast of Africa.

The account of the first naval battle of World War II which was fought on Lake Malawi.

I found Mr. Smith's memoirs insightful and interesting. A true icon among those who mastered life in both the public and private sectors, Mr. Smith left a legacy of character, pragmatic behavior and reconciliation with the apparent facts surrounding race relations in our country. Had I to attempt what he did at the time it was done, I am not certain that I could have performed as admirably as he did. It is a story that many should know.

As a parent of young children, I found this to be a well crafted piece of work. It blends an understanding and appreciation of nature with the joy of childhood discovery. Rich, warm illustrations really draw you into the story. Nicely packaged for a good read with your kids.

As a fan of Say's book "Grandfather's Journey", I am surprised that it took me so long to dip into Say's other wonderful books! "The Lost Lake" is a heartwarming tale of a father/son camping trip. Along the way the pair discover new things, both in nature and in one another. Say's well written story makes each of the son's emotions distinct and identifiable to readers of all ages: boredom, anticipation, excitement, disappointment, exhaustion and contentment. This book is an excellent read for children in the third grade and older. I plan to read it aloud to my fourth grade students to start an expedition-style math unit. I am certain it will become a popular book on our classroom book shelf!

This is a wonderful book 4 lowrider enthusiasts across the world.

In 1964, Luke Karamazov (then known as Ralph Searl) killed 5 men in cold blood. He was arrested, confessed, tried, convicted and sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole. In 1972, the Michigan Supreme Court reversed his sentence. While Ralph was awaiting retrial in Kalamazoo, 4 women were raped and murdered in the area -- and a few weeks later, Ralph's older brother, Tommy, was arrested for those crimes. Unlike Ralph, Tommy never confessed, but he too was convicted and sentenced to life in prison. Ralph accepted a plea agreement to avoid retrial and was again sentenced to life; as part of the plea, he was allowed to change his name to Luke Karamazov.

Conrad Hilberry was a Professor of English at Kalamazoo College at the time of these crimes and the resulting trials, and became interested in the story of two brothers who were both convicted of serial murders. "I began to wonder who these men were and how they got that way. I wondered if I could talk with them." (25) Talk with them he did, as well as with Julie, the woman who was married first to Tommy (before his crimes) and then to Ralph (while in prison). This book is largely a record of those conversations, along with Hilberry's observations and attempts to make sense of their personalities. Hilberry gives us long extracts from his recorded conversations -- mostly with Ralph and Julie, less with Tommy -- and largely allows the events to be told by them, in retrospect. This is not an attempt to reconstruct the crimes or the circumstances of the Searls' childhood, but an effort to understand who they are now, in prison, and who they may have been when they killed. Because Hilberry allows the Searls to tell much of their story in their own words, we obtain a unique insight into their thought processes and feelings.

Hilberry is not an investigative reporter, nor is he a psychologist, criminologist or lawyer. Some people might conclude that he is not qualified to write this book. Hilberry is, however, a poet, and he brings a poet's close observation and insight to his comments on these men. I found his perspective unique and fascinating, and his efforts to understand the Searls in the larger context of the human project -- balancing the assertion of the individual ego against the desire for transcendence -- persuasive. Highly recommended.