this is an old fashioned horse book. the school edition has beautiful illustrations. it's probably not progressive enough for some of todays more modern young teenagers, but for night time reading to girls in the 5-9 range, it is great. young girl has a bad fall, stops riding, meets an abused horse that needs tlc, and the two of them bond. a real "happy ending" and very sweet. highly recommend it.

This is one of those stories that has stayed with me into adulthood. I've thought of this story often during my work with equine rescue. It's definately a "reach for your dreams" type of story.

This book of short stories is an excellent compilation giving a full treatment to various subjects related to war. It looks from different perspectives both during and after the war. In addition to being thought provoking, it is a fun read, and some images will stick in your head for years! Donald Anderson teaches Creative Writing at the Academy (I took his class!) and I look forward to more work from him.

This is an excellent collection of short stories that take on the meaning of the war in a way you've never experienced.

This is an excellent book and can be used as a continuation of Introduction to Flight by the same author. This book focuses on airplane design and performance, but also gives a very clear introduction to propulsion and aerodynamics of airplanes. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in airplane design, as well as Daniel Raymer's book Aircraft Design: A Conceptual Approach. Both books I found to be extremely interesting and written in clear, easy to understand language.

This book was used in an upper level Aircraft Performance and Dynamics class that I recently took. I also found this book very helpful in my Aircraft Design class and my Aircraft Propulsion class. In short, a student of aeronautical engineering couldn't ask for a more well rounded book on aircraft design--covering all the aforementioned topics.

If only all engineering textbooks were so well written!

This is just an announcement from the Author. This book is now available. Feb. 16, 1999.

Anderson provides an enlightening and accessible look at the multitude of changes taking place today that are usually characterized by the word 'globalization'. As he so clearly points out, these changes are not merely economic, although such changes are important, but also political, cultural and biological. This broader framework is likely to be important to those who would better understand (and perhaps alter) the course of globalization.

Anderson notes that nations are increasingly losing their closed character (and becoming more open), a development exemplified by the demolition of the Berlin Wall in 1989. In consequence of this, individual nations have less control over their economic, political, cultural and biological dimensions, and there is an increased need for associations of nations. It should be noted, however, that Anderson is skeptical about the likelihood of the emergence of global government.

A particularly useful part of Anderson's book is the classification of attitudes toward globalization that he presents in Chapter 12 ("Global Visions and Divisions"). They are: the globalist right; the globalist left; the antiglobalist right; and the antiglobalist left. With this classification in hand, one can better grasp the discomfort many people feel with the process of globalization, as well as why some people are working so hard to advance it.

What Anderson does, therefore, is develop a more nuanced view of what globalization is and a more nuanced view of individual responses to globalization. He makes globalization more complex, but it is surely not something to be addressed in a simple-minded fashion.

The day I read the title of this book, my fears of the last 30 years were gone. It was stating the obvious, so obvious that not many managed to grasp it. Since humankind started to record history 5500 years ago and maybe long before, we are living in the First Global Civilisation. A civilisation that spans the planet and already goes beyond with human space missions, satellites, probes and robots.

It started with Columbus and global travel. Then this new civilisation which was born thanks to long distance communication (telegraph in the 19th century, later phone, telex, fax, internet) is reshaping our lives in different ways: at home, in cities, in our workplace, in our environment, in our information, in our bio-information, in the perception we have from ourselves.

In this perspective one understands the meaning of the 20th century, a transition between a set of civilisations gradually conquered by the West that took their independance but that remained connected into a global civilisation with multiple centers influencing each other.

We are a sentient specie (author calls us a global animal) rather than an American, an European, a Japanese and our problems are not national problems but global or human problems.

Global civilisation because it allows us to have a global vision of our planet (remember this picture taken from the Moon in 1969 showing Earth as a blue oasis in the middle of nowhere), to realize we have an ecosystem to which our survival is attached, to see the multiplicity of our beliefs and religions, the interraction of cultures, those who accept an open society and take ideas from abroad and those who refuse and fight against it. Sometimes the same people but on different subjects.

Global civilisation does not only have states (more than 200 ranging from tiny Monaco or Vatican to US, Canada, Russia, India and China), NGOs (US Aid, Red Cross, ... ) but 400 international organisations including the UN, NATO, ASEAN, the Arab League and the European Union, 38,000 transnational or global corporations (global because because they adapted to the environment faster than others), non-state actors (billionaires, drugs lords, terrorists), religions (many with the biggest being Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Taoism all calling for more than 1 billion members), citizens as individuals or organised in communities and organisations. All those interract to form our present world.

It does have an informal governance, a reunion of different spheres of the global civilisation but no global government (note: civilisations with multiple polities and no centralized government are numerous in the past: Mesopotamia, Greece, Mayan civilisation, Western Europe, India and China for some periods of their history).

This global civilisation triggers reactions, vision and divisions: anti-globalization, environment movements, labour movements, etc...

Although some author opinions will not be shared by everybody, it is concise, clear, well-written, easy to understand and easy to make its own opinion about the event we are all living today. Vision about life, job, travel, environment, foreign relations will be changed for ever. A true paradigm shift that makes sense of the last decades and removes the anguish felt by many in front of this changing and sometimes crual society. Once read, you feel just like a kid which became familiar to his new house. And more, you are astonished you did not realize it earlier while it was so obvious.

I grabbed this book off the shelf at the library and have had to continuously return to check it out again and again, and again. I'm finally going to buy it.

The book's "chapters" are divided up by year, going chronologically from 1900 to 2000. Each year has newspaper articles and photos of events, styles, sports, politics, etc. It does a great job of re-creating the excitement of the times. It also puts certain things into perspective. For example, being born in the 70's, I had a hard time really understanding why racism was so prevelent. I was able to read about Jackie Robinson and other significant turning points--such as the first black actor on Broadway. I still find it difficult to believe how we could be so racist just a short time ago.

It's really riveting to read and see the events each year and how things change. Some inventions don't seem important at the time but turn out to be huge.

This book is a real page turner, but due to how it is divided up, can easily be something you slowly savor over the long-haul.

I strongly encourage you to pick up a copy and experience history, one news story at a time.

This is such a gorgeous book! I bought it as a birthday gift for my dad and was so impressed I went out and got one for my collection. Great pictures and a great buy!

Being a second year medical student, the only text that my instructors seem to know about is Robbins. Robbins is a nice text I do admit, but I find it lacking in clarity and compact to the point of confusion. Anderson's (while I admit, comes in 2 volumes and weighs 20 pounds it seems) explains all! It fills in all the gaps (which I much admit are large) which Robbins creates. A nice feature of this text is an abundance of gross pictures, simple charts that list different tumor locations and their incidences, and the highlights of molecular biology without telling minutiae like the particular part of a chromosome arm that a gene is located on. I'm only getting started! In summary, if you're a pathology resident or medical student who wishes to clear a great mist of confusion surrounding pathology, then get this text! Not only will you learn pathology, but you'll increase your upper body strength carrying around this great tome!

The best medical pathology text in the market. It is a complete text that is unsurpassed for pathology. Although it is large it is easy reading inside and gives you a full understanding. If you want to learn medicine, read it!

This one of our very favorite books ever! It not only has great pictures and opportunities for learning lots of animals, but it affirms that God made all the animals and the children too, and that they are special to Him and He loves them! It's a wonderful little book, and invariably gets giggles from my three kids. Be sure when you read it to seize the opportunity for a little tickling on the "Are tigers ticklish?" and "Are you ticklish?" lines! : )

This is a wonderful book that talks about everything that God created to children. It also asks them questions like "What color are these animals?" and "who lives in the woods" so children can identify the animals in the pictures. It has been one of my children's favorite books!

This book saved my cats life, I am ondebted to the authors

An easy reference book that helps you determine the cause of your pet's health symptoms caused by decorating products, indoor air, cleaning products, pesticides and other chemicals we use daily. A listing of symptoms for each hazard is included. A must if you have indoor or outdoor pets

Auxiliary Sail Vessel Operations For The Aspiring Professional Sailor by G. Andy Chase is a no-nonsense, technically comprehensive and detailed "how-to" instructional and reference manual that covers sail vessel operations in extensive depth and detail. Individual chapters instruct the reader in trim and balance, basic sail maneuvers, keeping the ship stable, rules and regulations, and much more. A core addition to any Nautical Studies reference collection, Auxiliary Sail Vessel Operations For The Aspiring Professional Sailor is especially recommended for anyone with a serious interest in sailing and seeking to improve their nautical skills and abilities.

Capt. Chase has used all his well founded resources to pull together and create a book inwhich any person who is involved in the Tall Ship industry should get their hands on! This book is well researched and laid out so the young sailor, hardened seasoned professional or the educator can use this book on a daily basis. I highly recommend this Book!

I own Anderson's entire Family Living in Pastoral Perspective series (Leaving Home, Becoming Married, Regarding Children, Promising Again, and Living Alone), and I refer to them frequently.

Each book focuses on a different transitional event and the family tasks that event brings into focus. Anderson and his co-authors deal sensitively with the pastoral issues involved.

Becoming Married explores the process of becoming married as more than just a wedding ceremony. Chapter one discusses how relationships must begin to be reordered before the wedding so that the couple's bond takes primacy over relationships with parents and friends. Chapter two introduces the genogram as a tool for exploring each person's family history in premarital counseling. Chapter three examines the wedding liturgy and ways to plan a meaningful wedding.

Chapter four covers several situations which can make the process of becoming married more complicated: interfaith marriages, interracial marriages, leftover or buried grief, living together before the wedding, and second marriages. Chapter five discusses post-wedding work and the nature of the marital bond. Finally, in chapter six the authors develop their theology of marriage.

All of the books are well-written and easy to read--no convoluted prose to parse here. The works have added texture from the many personal examples shared by the authors (both their own and examples others have shared with them).

Every book in the series deserves an honored place on any religious professional's shelf. Except, you may find them so valuable they rarely make it back to your shelf.

Herbert Anderson has some great approaches to pastoral ministry to those who intend on marrying! I am engaged and have learned so much about what it means to become married. I have given a copy to my pastor, and also to my mother! It is a book all should read. Anderson has some great pastoral excercises for pre-marriage work all pastors should read. It is a quick, easy to understand read!