THIS IS AN EXCELLANT BOOK PERTAINING TO THE LIVESTOCK BUSINESS IN SOUTH DAKOTA. A STORY OF TWO MEN AND HOW THEY BUILT A GIANT ANGUS HERD AND EXTENSIVE LAND HOLDINGS.

This was an excellent read, Clayton Emery does it again! Flying ships, Jedit discovers his tribes true historic beginnings and becomes a tiger with a mission. The swashbuckling adventure of Adira, Hazezon and crew is some of the best I have read in a Magic, the Gathering setting. Hazezon beginning to learn how to planeshift shows there might be more stories after this one. If you want a good adventure read this book. If you haven't read the first two books in the Legends Cycle, grab them first. It will help you appreciate the characters much more.

and the only reason I do not give it five stars is that the ending should have been different (it was not who it should have been!!!). The characters were well drawn, with the protagonist, Merlini the Magician, the best of all. The tale takes place at a roving circus and there are plenty of potential suspects and very interesting characters. Most of them have motives and the plot moves very smoothly. In addition, the author obviously knows plenty about the circus as the story is filled with inside lingo and terms which are explained in footnotes that actually add to the story. A bit of humor (bumbling cops), and a few red herrings make this a page turner. However, the ending, while certainly plausible - and backed up with notations relating to previous pages in the narrative - somewhat came from left field. I would say more but it would ruin the end. Anyway, great characters, a great setting, lots of fun, this is a good read for any mystery lover....

This is a great little book for someone who is new to the world of old roses. I am responsible for a historic site (Historic Brattonsville) that is in the middle of restoring its 19th century pleasure garden. Roses were a foundation of such gardens and this book, along with many others, is helping me to restore them. While serious folk would probably find it lacking the depth they are looking for, there are still some juicy info tidbits that they would surely appreciate. The illustrations a beautiful. Of course that's a given in most all rose books! The thing I like best about this book is that it is perfect for gifting. Its small, concise, and inspiring. What more would someone want?

Covers the diagnosis of bottlenecks in the system. It's a little short on what to do about it if you are tuning a purchased application. If you're a developer, it's a good start a diagnosis what your program is doing to the system. The networking concepts need the most work. This is where it's most dated, simply because this discipline advances so quickly.

While the book contains a good view of British History, it is a very dry read. I used this book in a class on early British history and found it an excellent background source book, but not for the casual reader. One stunning aspect that the book contains that many do not is a section on pre-roman Britain. Most books start British History at the arivals of the Romans in Britain, yet this one gives a good account of the Beaker folk, those who built Stonehenge, and the rest of early England. I've tried to use this as a refrence book and have found it somewhat difficult to easily flip to sections that contained focused and collected information, but I do reconment it to those who need a better background to English history and events.

This book gives an excellent historical background to the history of Britain. It does not present any theories, views, or concentrations, and thus makes a good read for those looking for a thurough basis of British History. I have tried to use this book as a refrence book but often have difficulties as many topics are not focused enough in sections and tend to drag out over the whole chapter. While this makes an excellent scholastic book, I would not recomend it to casual readers.

Here is performance information for the pianist without apologies. There are numerous excellent books for organists and harpsichordists from which I have been forced to extrapolate to the piano. Badura-Skoda exhaustively covers all facets of Bach performance on the piano: rhythm, articulation, tempo, and that endless bug-a-boo, ORNAMENTS! He is fearless in expressing his insight and opinion on ornaments and their execution. Musical examples are plentiful, avoiding the need to fetch scores. Of particular interest is his section on the Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue, a short chapter on 18th c. organ-barrels(!), and a Gouldian Imaginary Interview on the "Urtext Problem". "Interpreting Bach" is an informative reference book reminiscent of Rosenblum's "Performance Practices" in scope and ease of use. Well worth the investment for the pianist knocking on Bach's door seeking entry. Badura-Skoda can help open it for you.

Having a heroine with extraordinary powers brings this story in line with Jo Claytons previous books on the adventures of Aleytys. Sold into slavery to insectoid owners, Aleytys discovers she is to serve as proxy-mother to the old Queens successor. In short being both the bearer and food source for the embryo she carried.

With her own enhanced abilities, and the added mystical strength of the diadem, the story of Aleytys' gives us a rousing adventure with unusual twists and turns. A tough, believable, swords and sorcery story to engage the imagination and satisfy the most ardent reader searching for fantasy and satisfaction.

Despite the unashamedly academic origins of this quite massive book, Clayton delivers a compelling and surprisingly accessible account of the impact of the arrival of European explorers, traders and settlers on Canada's Vancouver Island. He examines the records left by all parties: British, Spanish and, refreshingly, Native American, and reinterprets the perspectives of each. This book is more than history, however, as Clayton demonstrates that geography, like history, is an entirely subjective discipline and equally prone to manipulation by individuals and nation-states with their own political, imperial and commercial ambitions. The effects of these competing interests and selective interpretations of the 'truth' have come to shape not only the history of British Columbia and Canada as a whole, but much of the world as it is today. This makes me think that this book has a far wider relevance than its immediate focus on North America's Pacific coast would suggest.

Particularly interesting is how the author analyzes European attitudes towards and treatment of the indigenous populations of the region, whose status as eager trading partners was quickly reduced to virtual invisibility as politicians, traders and historians set about shaping the region into a form which suited their own particular interests. The consequences can be found reaching into Canada's law courts two centuries later. Well written in an affable style not common in heavyweight academic books, "Islands of Truth" has transformed the way I look at history and geography; a thoroughly rewarding book which deserves to be read more widely than the subject material would suggest.