It gives a very complete biography of the life of Margaret Sanger in a way that is very fair to her and the Planned Parenthood Organization she started.

This is a must read for anyone in health care, religion or politics.

I believe that "Barren Lives" could never be fully understood by any foreigner. I mean foreigner as someone who has not lived and grown up in Brazil. "Barren Lives" deals with the essence of human souls, when there is nothing left to believe in, nothing left to look foward to, nothing to relish, nothing to praise, when it all comes down not to being humans, as we're not, but to being animals. It sounds and looks very deep and poetic, but the strenght of this novel comes from its veracity. It is a a story that has happened to several families of people in Brasil. It doesn't make us, readers, wonder about our fragility or our values. It wants to sting us with the indignation of living our mediocre lives. It exposes human mediocrity. Far beyond social critic, it is a social attack. Ramos is dry: he saves up words, writing solely what's essential. He would condense it even more, to short sentences, litlle phrases, single words. He wouldn't even write, if he had the chance. A real genius of literature who has captured sentiments with completely detachment, subverting his own magistral reasoning. A book that MUST be read, although I couldn't trust an English version of it

The book can be divided into two parts. The first part covers the Pine Barren's . It starts with its ecological history (soil, climate,etc.) followed by utilitarian and development uses(from mining of iron ore to cranberry farming), then its historic sites and folklore (from Smithville to Batsto to the infamous Jersey Devil) and finally, it touches upon current and future uses and preservation.

The presentation in the first part is short, straightforeward, fact-based essays taking up less than the first 100 pages.

The next 300 pages or so serve as the Golden Book/Peterson Field Guide to the plants, mammals, birds, reptiles/amphibians, fishes and arthorpods/insects of the Pine Barrens, respectively. There is a plethora of illustrations accompanying the text, and although lacking the ID markings of the Peterson Field Guides, are excellent nontheless and seem to cover nearly all (if not all) of the species presented here.

In addition, there are plenty of footnotes and references for those with a bent towards the scinece part of nature, as well as a decent index with both latin and common names.

I also recommend a Natural History of Trees, Peterson's Field Guide to Ecology and the Tracker, by Tom Brown, Jr.

The stories here include:
Feelings, where a greedy Lawyer learns empathy the hard way.
Tenants, which finds an escaped killer hiding out with an old man
and his VERY unusual boarders.
Faces, a different spin on the serial killer tale, concerning a
hideously deformed girl who kills beautiful people in a
truly gruesome manner. (These three stories all take place
in the town of Monroe, and tie in with Wilson's Adversary
Cycle, which began in The Keep.)
A Day In The Life features the return of Repairman Jack, and will
be a real treat for Jack's legions of fans. No
supernatural stuff, just straightforward action/adventure.
The Tenth Toe, a humorous take on black magic in the old west,
starring Doc Holiday and featuring Wyatt Earp.
Slasher is a crackerjack revenge yarn with a jaw-dropper of an
ending.
Definitive Therapy features DC Comic's Batman villain The Joker.
No Batman, no action, just The Joker and his new
shrink exploring the depths of madness in Arkham Asylum.
Wilson delivers another killer twist at the end.
Topsy is a short tale of gluttony revolving around a morbidly
obese man hospitalized after a fall at home. Any EC
Comics fan will see the end coming, but it's a fun read
nonetheless.
Rockabilly features Dick Tracy and his coolest rogues gallery
member, Mumbles. "Kz maz, kpr!!" Loads of fun, as Mumbles
tries to become the next Elvis.
Bob Dylan, Troy Johnson, and the Speed Queen is the tale of a
time-traveller who goes back to the sixties to "create"
some classic rock tunes. Sci-fi isn't my cup of tea, but
Wilson did a good job of holding my interest here.
Pelts is Wilson's goriest tale, which is clearly an anti-fur
screed, but also works as grand-guignol. There's some real
stomach-churners in this story...
Wilson also includes the scripts for the aborted stage
adaptation of Pelts (Which would have been a sight to
see!) and Glim-Glim, an alien-invasion tale that was
produced for the TV series Monsters. Wilson prefaces each
story with a short introduction, and these alone are
worth the purchase price. My only quibble with the book is
that it didn't include some of his other Repairman Jack
short stories, such as The Last Rakosh, which are almost
impossible to find.