As a descendant of the Semmes family, I was thrilled to find this book to add to my family history knowledge. It is the most comprehensive book on the family I have seen. I was able to see photographs of my ancestors that I didn't know existed. Hats off to the authors (new family members!) for all their hard work!

This a wonderful book for anyone seeking information on Autism

It is so useful to guide the design work of the 500kV series capacitor project in China.

This is seven of Poul Anderson's best stories. The best one is set in a future where we are terraforming the Earth's Moon; Anderson is very good at designing planets.

Another goody features organized crime as part of America's establishment (insert joke of choice here).

Reviewer: A reader from New Zealand Peak of a climber's career

7 Summits Solo, (Summit, USA) by Robert Mads Anderson To Everest via Antarctica, Robert Mads Anderson Reviewed by Neil Nelson, The Evening Standard, Wellington, New Zealand Saturday, February 24, 1996

Having spent the past 20 years scaling some of the world's most difficult peaks, American-born Aucklander Robert Anderson set himself a new challenge: to climb the highest peak on each of the world's seven continents.

As an added challenge, he elected to climb them solo.

Ultimately, he failed in his bid, with Everest getting the better of him on two separate occasions. But failure to stand on the top of the world's highest peak doesn't diminish Anderson's achievement or the highly readable accounts he has written of his adventures.

As the price tags would suggest, the two books which have resulted from his seven summits project are totally different.

7 Summits Solo is a large-format, lavishly produced, 160-page volume which includes dozens of superb colour photographs taken by Joe Blackburn during the expedition (Note, nearly all photos in the book are Anderson's).

Anderson's account of the expedition is essentially a précis of the story he tells in To Everest via Antarctica. The 220 page Penguin book (Stackpole Books, USA) contains just a handful of photographs, but includes a far more detailed account of Anderson's adventures.

During the past decade or so, I've read numerous accounts of climbing expeditions: this one rates as one of the best.

Unlike some mountaineers, who feel compelled to describe in minute detail everything they did during the expedition, Anderson concentrates more on the adventures he had actually getting to the mountain.

He admits it is more of a travel book than a book about climbing and that he wrote it for a broader market.

Some chapters have little to do with climbing at all. Nowhere is this better illustrated than in Anderson's descriptions of his travels in Russia, late in 1992, after conquering Mt Elbrus, Europe's highest peak. With Elbrus out of the way, and three weeks left on his Russian visa, Anderson decided the opportunity to see some of Russia was too good an opportunity to miss.

With the Russia of old rapidly being split into a series of new countries, and new border crossings appearing at random, it was decided a large bus would be the easiest way of moving around. One was soon found and with several companions Anderson set off for a fascinating tour of parts of Russia which had seldom seen Western tourists. The tales he relates of his journey make for absorbing and humorous reading.

With a degree in writing and a career spent mainly in the advertising industry - the business he set up in New Zealand and subsequently sold helped fund his seven summits project - Anderson wastes few words. He has an economical, easy-to-read style and knows how to tell a good story.

While the price of 7 Summits Solo means it's unlikely to appear on best-seller lists, To Everest via Antarctica deserves to be. One of the most enjoyable books I read in 1995, I look forward to reading of Anderson's further adventures.

There is no way to do justice to this book in prose. Praising the beauty and craft of this work would require the kind of restrained grace and artfullness that Will Toedtman brings to bear on his subjects. There is great music in these pages. I hesitate to call this a work of formalism, because that suggests Toedtman is following forms and not his ear, which seems to be the guiding force throughout this book. If you seek those readerly shivers, read this book, and then read it again. If you seek to be made humble by the beauty of our languge, buy this book and never give it back.

If your ancestors left Norway for the USA in the Nineteenth Century, and if you want to know about their life in the 'old country' this book will tell you. Originally published in Norway in 1857, it is not fiction, it is real life, a study by a sociologist who went into rural Norway and wrote about the common people. There is nothing to compare to this information. The translation is excellent and very readable. Do not let the title mislead you, this book is not about sex, it is about life in rural Norway, what the people wore, what they ate, how they lived.

This is a fun adventure that should appeal to almost anyone, particularly those who like the "Fractured Fairytale" kind of humor. The "scathing satire" referred to on the back cover is genuinely funny. Conservative readers who think that the satire cuts entirely against political correctness should read the sections regarding Jack Crackback carefully.

An easy read that draws you in and holds you long after you've finished the book.This is the best study of David's life that I've ever read.It goes into depth on David from his youth to death not just his shining moment with Goliath and his dark one with Bathsheba, and holds a mirror up to our own lives as in relation to his.It makes David real to you and shows how much we can still learn from his example.And shows how the God who shaped David will shape you too.It's written from a christian perspective.It was fist released under the title "Finding the Heart to Go On."

I would strongly recommend this book for anyone who is interested in finding a Biblical approach to miracles and understanding how God operates. The only "problem" with the book is that it makes you think, which tends to slow down your rate of reading. However, it's worth it to read a book founded on Scripture which gives a great understanding into who God is and how the grace of Jesus Christ makes a difference for us now. If you like this book, you must check out everything else he has written.