It's wonderful to know that there are more opportunities and forums to encourage new poets of all ages to be published and heard. In our super-sonic paced society so few of us take time out to read poetry anymore or even listen to each others words....New words, new thoughts, new ideas...new ways to understand each other. Our ever changing world has changed again, just when we were getting comfortable. We face many uncertainties, war, unemployment,....art, music,poetry can be a tonic for some of this confusion. New books celebrating new poets, afford us the chance to listen to those who may share our thoughts and through the dialoge of poetry help us find our own inner balance in this unbalanced world we all share.

This book was very well researched and written. I started reading it three days ago and could not put it down. After finishing it in 3 days I find myself very eager for Volume 2.
I strongly recomend this book to anyone with any remote interest in the civil war.

I have read both books by the author W. Allen Mulholland. They are sci/fi with a romantic thread woven through each novel. I have to say they were two of the most delightful books I have ever had the honor to read. Highly interesting, great story lines, delightfully romantic. I cannot say enough good things about these books and I can hardly wait for his third novel to come out.

One of the sad realities of growing older is that you realize what is being lost daily, and that unless we educate younger people they will not miss these things because they will not know they ever existed. For instance, says Allen Lacy in his book FURTHER AFIELD, the wild Cyclamens of Greece and Turkey are systematically dug up and shipped to unsuspecting buyers in the U.K. and the U.S. Lacy's friend Nancy Godwin of Montrose nursery in NC has worked hard over the past few decades to ensure that Cyclamens grown from seed will reach American consumers and hopefully undercut the trade in endangered bulbs.

In addition to his Montrose visit, Lacy reports on gardening activities in Costa Rica, Monticello, and many other locations where the dedicated are working hard to preserve our botanical heritage. His travels take him far from New Jersey, but he also includes many essays on shorter excursions, some into his own yard where Hosta and Gloriosa Lilies, Ailanthus, Bouncing Bet, Sedum and Sempervivums bloom. He reports that the Tigridia or Mexican shell flower is photogenic and although the Fritillaries are numerous, he grows the native of Northern Europe known as snake's head lily or guinea-hen flower.

Until his retirement, Lacy was a professor of philosophy who wrote a garden column as a sideline. He retired and kept on writing about the subject (and editing lots of good garden books). This book is a little older, but like the timeless tales of other great gardener writers who were also students of life relevant for our current lives. Reading Lacy is an uplifting experience for anyone with the winter blahs. Although he shares his concerns about things that should concern us, he also shares the victories he observes. His writing is reminiscent of Thoreau who made excursions abroad, usually to Waldon Pond, but sometimes further afield.

This book is a wonderful introduction to the more advanced ideas of control theory. But it is written with emphasis on classical control and transfer functions (which makes for a good introduction). The problem is that this book is no longer in print. However, the copyright has reverted back to the authors. And they have kindly decided to make the book available for free! Simply do a google search for "Feedback Control Theory", and you will find it.

Ann Taylor Allen has contributed greatly to our understanding of the role of women in 19th Century Germany. Her Feminism and Motherhood in Germany 1800-1914 offers tremendous insight into the mother-child relationships of that time. This information is of special value to those of us who are involved in researching the beginnings of the Kindergarten. As we find ourselves in the year 2000, it is important that we not loose sight of the centuries which have recently passed. Thanks to the work of Ann Taylor Allen, we are reminded of those times in a detailed and delightful way.

I read this book when it was a doctoral dissertation and then went back and read it again as a finished book. It is a wonderful, all-encompassing study of the evolution of the femme fatale, in literature and painting. It's truly a massive undertaking that required a massive understanding on the part of the author. This book was foundational in my coming to understand the 19th century and the psychological and artistic environment from which the femme fatales of early Hollywood came. My own book, COMPLICATED WOMEN, would have been somewhat different -- somewhat thinner -- if I didn't have Allen's research to inform it. If Ms. Allen is out there, I'd love to thank her personally for a brilliant piece of work.

She's an expert on Ireland and serves up some great, authentic food.

There are many remarkable men, and women, who have passed into history with little lasting note of the life they lived, some of them, because of a lack of source material, but some for inexplicable reasons. Ethan Allen Hitchcock is one of these persons. This book reviews the life of one of the greatest military thinkers America has developed. It contains the edited near daily diaries and correspondence of Major-General Ethan Allen Hitchcock, an American hero.

The book begins with the early American history of New England, and proceeds through the personal history of this most remarkable man. General Hitchcock entered West Point Military Academy, in 1814, at the age of 16 years. The grandson of General Ethan Allen the American Revolution war hero, Hitchcock, begins his search for the true meaning of life, God, and the American army with his first diary of 1818.

These diaries commence on his 20th birthday, shortly after graduation from West Point. Hitchcock's diaries detail his meetings, his involvement in momentous events of his day, and his summations and opinions of those events, up to his death in 1870. Hitchcock served his army, and our country, with honor, integrity and distinction in many roles.

He was at various times Inspector General, Commandant of Cadets at West Point, and personal military advisor to President Lincoln and the Secretary of War during the US Civil war. Many of the successful decisions in the use of manpower and equipment during this period were from the head, heart and hand of Major-General Hitchcock.

After reading this book, I am compelled to read the complete and unedited personal diaries. I feel that many historical works in print need to be changed in light of these first hand accounts and observations herein given personal attention by Major-General Hitchcock.

The National Tribune was a post-war newspaper that catered to Civil War veterans. Former soldiers were encouraged to submit articles describing their wartime experiences and thousands of these personal accounts were published. Contributors, primarily Union veterans, ranged in rank from privates to generals, and their material covered a wide array of topics. Gettysburg was an especially popular theme. Scores of men who saw action in that epic battle used the National Tribune as a forum to explain their parts in the battle or the roles of their regiments. These writings were often detailed accounts and included material not found elsewhere. Frequently, debates erupted that ran their course through several issues of the paper. Included in this compilation are 142 of the best articles that appeared in the National Tribune. They encompass the entire campaign, from Ewell's success at Winchester to Lee's recrossing of the Potomac. This book presents the battle of Gettysburg through the eyes of the men who were there. From the accounts of these participants, today's readers can more fully appreciate and understand the men who fought and the events that transpired during those three, crucial, deadly days in July 1863.