This book, is suitable for both adults as well as youngsters to delve into the world of an explorer. The reader will be bombarded with information and detailed illustrations of past exploration routes and techniques used by these adventurers. Fans of explorer Ernest Shackleton will enjoy this book's historical references as well as be enlightened by other explorers of interest in the polar regions.

It is an easy read and very suitable for children. Share the life of this remarkable person with them.

This book includes chapters by several authors exploring the connection between mentoring in organizations and diversity. Theory, research and practical experiences are revealed in this timely discussion of two key issues facing organizations today and in the future. Clearly the editors have stumbled upon a critical aspect of "best practice" within organizations - the role of diversified developmental relationships.

This book deals with many of the problems people face in their prayer lives. It covers several important questions many ask;What's the purpose of prayer? Why hasn't God answered my prayer yet? It also tells how to get results in prayer. One of the key thoughts is if we take care of God's needs, He will take care of ours. This book also tells how to reach out to others through prayer, and make a difference in the community for God. The main thing that led me to reccomend this book to you is the inspirational stories and illustrations that accompany every chapter. Although there are a few ideas I don't agree with, I strongly reccomend this book for you to read. This book has had a powerful impact on my personal prayer life, and I'm sure that if you read it, open to the voice of the Holy Spirit, you will also be deeply blessed by it.

This imaginative book includes several short stories from a preteends literary repertoire--all of which are great!

I approached The Hollow Man with the knowledge that it would be a less than glowing review of the life of Bing Crosby. In that respect, I got what I expected. What I didn't expect however, and what drove me to distraction, was the constant substantiating by the authors of every statement that they made that they felt might suffer some criticism. I became annoyed with the lengthy explanations of the logic they used to come to their conclusions. And the way they used quotes from obscure players to back up their assertions reminded me of the tabloids. Another major drawback is that while they review Bing's early performing days quite extensively, they then skip through huge chunks of his life with hardly a mention. A thoroughly dissatisfying read.

When BING CROSBY became a superstar in the early thirties with records and movies,it was the JAZZ age.BING made a lot of money,alienated a few friends on his way to stardom,married DIXIE LEE,had many affairs with other women on the cover,and then after winning a battle with the bottle continued to neglect his wife who became an alcoolic and died from cancer in the early fifties.Many aspects of this biography will disappoint the CROSBY fans who thought he was a saint.The authors i think tried simply to tell the truth about the man and his complexity.You'll learn many things about him if you read that book,not only the negative side of course.

I found this book to be a very sincere and well researched look at one of the world's most famous crooner's. Crosby's well documented selfishness and mistreatment of his own sons and first wife was documented by Dixie (Crosby's first wife, who died of cancer), all 4 of his sons by Dixie. Only one son remains living, and the other 3 all committed suicide by gunshot. Crosby was an ill tempered and mean drunkard, which was substantiated not only by the authors, but by co-workers and studio heads. The authors seemed to have gone to great lengths to establish facts of Crosby's early years with his beginnings with the Rhythmn Boys Trio back in the late 1920's. Crosby's early years near Spokane, Washington, where he grew up are very well documented. I found this to be a very insightful read. The authors intentions to me did not seem to be that of trying to be vindictive or hateful, just factual.Authors show that just because Bing was an alchoholic, didn't mean he wasn't likeable.An enjoyeable read!

Susan Crosby fans, beware! Aside from her name on the cover and title page, nothing about this book suggests that it was written by the same imaginative, distinctive author who produced so many other memorable Silhouette Desire titles, such as "Wedding Fever" and "His Seductive Revenge." Susan Crosby is my absolute favorite author in this genre and publication of her novels is something for which I am always impatient. "Groom's Revenge" was a terrible disappointment, as it is formulaic, flat, stale, and just plain boring. Susan Crosby's usual characterizations are multidimensional and fascinating, but the characters of Gray and Mollie are lackluster and uninteresting. Her plots are always dynamic and unpredictable, but this storyline is undeveloped and incomplete. If you are new to Susan Crosby's work, I give my highest recommendation to all of her other books, many of which are available from amazon.com.

I loved this story and I loved Mollie and Gray's romance------be fearless!!! Imagine what we could all accomplish if we approached life and love with a "be fearless" attitude. A very uplifting and postive book.

The Groom's Revenge is a very enjoyable story which continues the miniseries about the Fortunes. I especially liked the character development of Gray McGuire, the male protagonist. He and Mollie Shaw complement each other very well because they have similar familial problems but solve them in different ways.

David Crosby and co-writer David Bender want us to believe that commitment to just causes is worth the effort; it may not change things immediately, but there may be a knock on or ripple effect. "We can all change the world in ways we never realize," Pete Seeger once wrote and these authors echo that belief. The writing is uneven, however, and sometimes in downright bad taste. The Vietnam War was not simply a "f***ing meatgrinder", it was an act of horror during which some 80 million tonnes of bombs were dropped on a peasant nation. Crosby decries political agendas but if we perpetuate a system that is rotten to the core, good intentions will not be enough. In part this book is the authors' efforts to pat their friends, who happen to be big stars, on the back. Having said this, I am glad the book was published and I hope it inspires people to get involved and change the world.

Given his subject matter and his position within Pop Culture, there was no way David Crosby could have avoided a certain amount of name-dropping, but I still gave the book four stars on this account. Some of it seemed gratuitous.

That said, I recommend this book to anyone who lived through the Sixties, no matter what your musical, political, or philosophical bent was at the time. You will understand your experiences of that time in a new and fresh way.

For those younger folks who might be tempted by the siren calls of the Far-Right, this book will help you understand what they are about. If your philosophy has not yet been fixed, this book will help you reason through the important decisions of your life. Even if you lean to the right and ultimately vote that way, you will understand the true nature of Compassion, not the insincere, sound-bite version spooned up by the Bush Administration. You will also have a better feel for the duties you owe your fellow man. Selfishness is not an inevitable part of American Life. The spirit of the Sixties is alive and well, and Crosby shows us how we can still contribute to a better nation.

Stand and Be Counted by David Crosby and David Bender has become my favorite book. It is about how music has influenced and changed the world. Including views from many popular artists from the 1960's and 70's to the present day. It tells about how musical activists effected major events in history, such as the civil rights movement, and the antiwar movement, and the efforts that are continuing today. It is also about how anyone, and everyone, can make a difference, even if they are not huge political figures. It is about normal, everyday people expressing what they believe in, and not giving into injustice, because "that's just the way things are". It is about the people making the world a better and more peaceful place to live, and how music helps tie it all together. Everyone relates to music. It has this way of making people aware of issues, and gaining attention to those issues.

This book has helped inspire me not to sit back and watch the world go by. I know that I too have a voice, even if it's not a singing one, I can help make the world just a little happier. I can not stand for injustice, and people not excepting difference. I would recommend this book to anyone who truly love music, and what it is about. I would recommend it to anyone who believes, or wants to believe that there is good in every person.

Sophia Vanderwahl is the beautiful yet empty-headed heroine of this novel, who, after discovering her fiance's philandering tendencies, concocts an ill-thought out plan to confront him with the aid of an adventurer she doesn't know, one Jack MacAuley. And that is just about the sum of this puerile plotline.

Sophie manages to irritate the reader throughout the novel with her foolish behaviour, which the authour tries unsuccessfully to convince us is for the sole purpose of the heroine freeing herself from the societal strictures imposed upon her. She also has a propensity for causing stupid accidents - the scene where she manages to fire the ship's cannon into the air only to land safely by going through her stacked chests of clothes stretches the limits of credulity.

Jack MacAuley's words to her early on sum up her character succinctly when he tells her "you're a spoiled rotton brat used to getting your own damned way", yet this promising sign of intelligence from him quickly fades as physical desire becomes synonymous with love in his head. However, to be fair to a hero who is not given much of an opportunity to develop in this story, his mental faculties would certainly be called into question if he came to desire her intellect, or more accurately, lack of, as well as her physical form.

If you must read this novel, do yourself a favour, borrow it from the library, and imagine a more fitting ending, one which includes a plank-walking scene, perhaps...

Not much to say in regards to this book except that it contained many unhappy characters. The unhappiest character was the hero, wohm was depressed and cynical. Jack MacAuley, the supposedly hero, was a botanist/scientist whom had submitted his research findings and theories to a wealthy philanthropist by the name of Vanderwah, with dreams of receiving a reserach grant from Vanderwahl's board of directors. However, Jack's theoretical research had been stolen and submitted by his partner, H.H. Penn IIII, whom received the grant to travel to Mexico. Penn also decided to become engaged to Vanderwahl's daughter, the beautiful but insecure and sometimes foolish, Sophia.

When Sophia was made aware of her fiance's fiasco's while wasting her father's money, she decided to travel to Mexico and personally break their engagement. (What a waste of time and money - when she could have asked her father to immediately stop funding the project and send a letter - beter yet, a telegram, notifying him of the broken engagement). Sophia hired Jack MacAuley for transportation and as a guide. The rest is left up to your imagination. Sophia and Jack fell in love within one week while traveling to Mexico on his 'piece of a junk' ship.

I could not connect with either the hero or heroine and felt that both were unsuited for each other. Jack was strong and of course being a captain exhibited leadership qualities, however, he viewed Sophia about as inept as a toddler. He wasn't overbearing with Sophia but he also wasn't very protective, leaving her to natural elements of the sea after she unwittingly put a whole in the room of her room. I just could not picture these two people living happily ever after, digging up fossils in Mexico and South America. But you read it to judge yourself!

I loved this book, was kind of skeptical of it - from the plot outline & the back cover. It turned out to be great though! I loved Sophie, she was the perfect heroine. A little insecure, afraid and unsure of things around herself after being brought up as a 'perfect' lady. But she was also very brave & strong when it needed to be. This book struck a chord with me because I like Sophie hate trying to live my life perfectly as people or society see it and just want to do something for myself - follow my passion. Jack was also a great character, he was an archeologist and thankfully he wasn't puffed up into being a stereotypical super-strong hero, since that would be too unrealistic. Their erotic scenes were just completely sizzling! And the plot was very interesting and unique. I've read most of Tanya Anne Crosby's book and I just love them all. This is another one I have to add to my growing lists of favorites. Also recommended are "Once Upon A Kiss" and "The MacKinnon's Bride".