IN VIETNAM THEY KILLED AND SURVIVED, AND FOR TWO MONTANA POLICEMEN, IT'S COMBAT AGAIN. A TERRIFYING BOOK ABOUT COPS AND WAR. When police officers Ben and Barry are brutally worked over by drug dealers, they smell a setup. Now they're out for justice and revenge. When the hunt for the quarry they are after turns into savage slaughter, the ex-Green Beret and former Marine slip back into the GRAVEYARD RULES they learned too well in the blood drenched jungles of 'Nam, Kill Or Die...MORE THAN AN EXCITING CRIME NOVEL...A SHATTERING VIEW INTO THE MINDS OF VIETNAM COMBAT VETERANS. INTERESTING CHARACTERS, AND A PAGE TURNING PLOTLINE

This is a wonderful book! It is full of anecdotes, helpful hints and receipes, all wrapped up in her wonderful folksy humor. She is an old-fashioned country farm person who can tell you how to do everything from scratch. It is the kind of book to curl up with when feeling warm and cozy and have a need to cook something the old fashioned way for the family! I gave a copy to my daughter who also loves it! We both got new recipes and tons of information on how to cook many things not in popular cook books. Her commentaries on country life feed a certain requirement we all have for the "old days".

A very useful book for a Rail Fan. It offers information for beginners as well as seasoned readers.

What is amazing is that this book contains good color pictures, technical specifications and history for the locomotives that no longer are in operation. It also offers similar details about current locomotives.

The scope of this book is very wide. It covers steam, diesel and electric locomotives, operated by different railways all over the world.

A great book for serious readers.

If you want to make an impression at dinner, choose any recipe from this book! When I decided to make the formal "meal of the century" for my guests New Years Eve, this is the book I went to. The presentation of the food is as creative as the contents. Not for the beginner cook but the recipes are well worth the effort put into them. Perfect for the special occasions at home.

Fred J. Cook was an award-winning investigative journalist, a plain-speaking man of deep integrity. In this book, published in 1982, Cook exposes the rampant greed and corruption in the oil industry that robbed American consumers of billions of dollars in the 1970s and plunged us deeper into economic recession. I could wholeheartedly recommend this book as a sterling example of the kind of thoughtful, conscientious journalism that is so rare today, or as interesting history, but it is more than that. It is as timely as today's newspaper, and with so many oil men in charge (at the White House and Commerce, for example), perhaps more relevant than ever. Only last January, The Oregonian reported that BP Amoco created a tighter than necessary supply of oil on the West Coast by shipping a lot of Alaska crude to Asia. Well, this will be no surprise to readers of this book; merely part of a pattern that seemingly has no end. What disturbed me most in Cook's account was the weakness and even culpability of the Department of Energy when it came to investigating and cracking down on oil industry abuses. For example, files detailing Conoco's participation in the Daisy Chain scam lie around the Houston DOE office for 9 months, and then get spirited away just as a representative of the Dingell Committee arrives to investigate. Energy officials claim to be monitoring the oil industry, but later admit that they lack even the most elementary information on industry costs. The chief geologist, a man so eminent a mountain in Antarctica was named after him, is peremptorily fired after he estimated huge reserves of oil and gas in the gulf. Reports from Treasury revealing that there had never been an oil shortfall are deep-sixed and their authors isolated.

What surprised me most was the degree to which Al Gore is featured as one of the heroes in this story. At a time when most congressional figures were short on courage, and at least some govt officials seemed on the take, Gore led the way in exposing the Daisy Chain scam. As he put it in May 1979: "I think we may have stumbled on the greatest criminal conspiracy in American history".

How ironic that Gore was later portrayed by Nader supporters as a man who sold out to the oil industry because his family had been long-time holders of stock in Occidental Petroleum. Yet Gore's energetic defense of the consumer against oil industry machinations comes up on thirteen of Cook's pages, and Nader's name only once.

Cook may or may not have overestimated the size of world oil and gas reserves but his conclusion is sound and amply documented. He writes: "Spokesmen for the oil industry lied on virtually every major issue. They lied when they insisted their prices were purely cost-related-- only to have to admit to congressional investigators that their only principle was to charge whatever the traffic would bear; they lied in insisting that the "Iranian shortfall" had caused the 1979 gasoline "crisis". Government under Jimmy Carter was no better. DOE lied repeatedly in asserting it was monitoring heating oil prices... And what about Jimmy Carter himself? He occasionally grabbed headlines by jawboning about the iniquities of Big Oil, but the record shows that anyone in his administration who opposed Big Oil interests was either discredited or ousted."

If only Fred Cook were around to investigate energy policy and practice under the Bush Administration!

I've just finished a meal of "Lasagna of Squat Lobster with Herbs and Tomato" from the Great Food cookbook. Not only was it delicious, it was easy to make! I've also made some easy and delicious appetizers from the cookbook and I even pulled out my wok to make "Thai-Style Prawns with Lemon Grass." Preparing these dishes makes our family feel like we're traveling the world. I think we get a great sense of other cultures when we try the food from various places. It has become not only "dinner," but an education for the kids! We have greatly enjoyed GREAT FOOD!

As a speech professor, I have struggled to find a comprehensive edition of powerful speeches for my students' group projects. This is the edition to have. Although it's speeches are exclusive to the 20th Century, there is such a wide variety of speeches, that it really makes up for the lack of time. I also appreciate their inclusion of the occassion that the speech was written for, as it is the occassion that truely dictates speechwriting.

This book does exactly what it's supposed to, which is introduce to non-specialists the nature of Greek epigraphy. More than that though, it also serves as a nice introduction to the field for beginning students with ample, clear examples of Greek inscriptions given in photographs, then typed in Greek, and translated. The section on the Alphabet, with a table of regional variants, is a nice touch.

The references are great starting points for beginning students, and the Further Reading section at the end is concise but well selected. This is a simple, straightforward text that will help promising scholars begin to make sense of the field while allowing lay-people to understand the significance epigraphy has had on our understanding of Greek history.

Upon finishing this text, be sure to look into Woodhead's "The Study of Greek Inscriptions," which the authors, and I, recommend as "the indispensible textbook." Yet Woodhead, as good as it is, has not the examples or ease of this little paperback.

I purchased this at a grocery store when I first was married almost 30 years ago. It is alphabetical by herb or fresh garden vegetable or fruit. Every recipe became surprisingly a favorite. I soon realized that I could depend on these recipes and proceeded to harvest something and know that the recipe was going to bring out the best in the produce. I have moved to northwest Alaska and all my cookbooks are in storage. This is my all time favorite cookbook. I need a greenhouse here to extend the growing season. There are good instructions for growing edibles as well.

This is a very informative book on everything one needs to know about teaching the string instruments, i.e., in this case, violin, viola, cello, and bass. Susan has added extra information to the older edition by her father, Norman Lamb, especially on the current technological development. The explanation of the technical terms is in just right amount that it doen't get too dry and detailed. I especially find that the chapter of "Selecting Instruments, Bows, and Cases" be most useful for inexperienced string teachers. The book is not designed to really teach one to play an instrument, but rather one to provide information on teaching the string instruments. One word of caution to buyers: the printing of pictures in some recent books has bad quality as if they were photo copied directed from a machine. I hope the pulisher would correct that.