This small book surprised me with its excellence. The short stories contained in it are all well written and fascinating to read. I would highly recommend this book to anyone interested in Scottish folk-tales!

The book is a quick read about the life of South Florida pioneer Ralph Munroe and his family. For me it is interesting because I live near Ralph Munroe's homestead, now a Florida state park called The Barnacle. But to others, the story of Ralph Munroe and his family appeals on a different level. The timeless values of the man and the way they have endured in his family are something of universal appeal. This book may also appeal to sailing afficionados interested in learning about Munroe, who was an early proponent and proliferator of the Sharpie style of sailboats, as well as being the Commodore of the Biscayne Yacht Club.

how many photograph are in the book?are they rare?is her husband talking about her habits as a housewife?

A very interesting and entertaining read through Miss Monroe's most memorable moments during her very brief life. Alphabetically indexed and illustrated with Marilyn's various movie stills and modeling photos you can actually imagine her speaking to the reader regarding the various topics that she encountered during her adolescence through her adult life. I found it an enjoyable and entertaining read. Well worth the price. This should be in every MM collector's library. It made a nice addition to my MM collection.

Author Brian A. Bennett uses many never before first person accounts on the activities and personalities of Monroe County's 140th New York Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War. A second edition of the book should be available in early Summer 1999 with additional photos and text that builds on the original. This is a very well written regimental history in a VERY readable style. This is a must for any Civil War buff, reenactor or anyone with a general interest in history. Read all about the unit's first commander, Irish-born Patrick H. O'Rorke -a graduate of West Point and a martyr on the crest of Little Round Top. Find out how and why the 140th was awarded its' zouave uniforms. Learn about the massacre of the unit on Saunders' Field during the Wilderness Campaign. A great read for everyone. Search for an original or hold out for the revised reprint!

This was a fun and entertaining book to sit back read to my children. It was funny and well illustrated.

This is one of those books that, although only the length of a rather thick magazine, seems like you have read volumes when you complete it. Not only does it provide you with detailed information (including helpful contrasts) regarding past and present performance practices, but they delve deeply into the controversial subject of Islamic-Christian patterns of influence in the medieval world. Medieval historians have long espoused the theory that the medieval European strophic song forms came directly from the Arabic tradition. Well, Monroe and Liu provide compelling evidence to show that the influence most likely went the other way...Read it to find out more.

Furthermore, this book is indispensible to performers of medieval music who wish to recreate the Iberian traditions with more historical accuracy than the current vogue of tossing in a few instrumental excerpts of a modern nouba and calling it quits. It almost reads like a how-to book that deals with medieval instrumentation, form, performance traditions, and even medieval vocal styles (my personal selling point of the book) which one would be hard-pressed to find in other books. He provides full transliterated and translated lyrics to ten medieval muwashshahat, the surviving fragments in the modern nouba, and the melodies to which they are sung in the modern oral tradition. Couple this with a detailed analysis of the poetic/melodic form, a history of the genre, and a portion of a 13th c. musical treatise by Al-Tifashi and you get an indispensible book for the shelves of any medievalist in whatever form.

This fabulous book, written by Marilyn Monroe's first husband, Jim Dougherty, is touching! It is sad and funny at the same time! Jim Dougherty has only the best things to say about Marilyn (then Norma Jeane).

This book is very detailed, and lets you get to know and understand the life of Norma Jeane better, so that you become very fascinated with her!

I've never read a better book written about either MM or NJ! If you don't have this, book, I highly recommend that you buy it!!!

The collection that the Masons have built out of a love of art, craftmanship and wood turns into a real gift to those who do not have the luxury to study these pieces first-hand. The photos of their home shows that their attraction with creation is not limited to wood but to light, paintings and melding life with art.

The photos display the pieces so well that some just seem to glow and brighten on the page. It makes it difficult to look at a tree or salad bowl without imagining the possiblities.

Want to find out what Marilyn's favorite colour was? Or how many movies she appeared in? What foods she ate? Who Marilyn's favorite Powerpuff Girl was? Chances are one'll find three of the four and much much more in The Unabridged Marilyn A-Z, which is an encyclopedia, a Marilyn matrix at one's fingertips.

The entry featuring lists are painstakingly detailed, thanks to the duo of Randall Riese and Neal Hitchens. Firsts, for example, lists that her first LIFE cover was the April 1952 one, that her first date was Jim Dougherty, later to become her first husband, or that her first screen test was on 19 July 1946.

Other entries range from individual movies, people who played parts in her life, be they crucial, trivial, or peripheral, such as photographers, directors, and other performers. For example, there's a short entry on Audrey Hepburn because the part of Breakfast At Tiffany's Holly Golightly was originally written by Truman Capote with MM in mind. Selected movie reviews, the coroner's report, LAPD police report, list of quotes, comprise other entries.

Peppered throughout the books are Marilyn related trivia questions, such as what plant she knocked over in The Seven Year Itch.

However, this book came out in 1987, and since that time, countless other books have been written on Marilyn, plus certain people, such as Yves Montand, Joe DiMaggio, and Susan Strasberg, have passed away. Earlier books have probably gone out-of-print as well. And of course, she finally got her own postage stamp in the U.S. A lot can indeed change in fifteen years.

Books like these serves as a focal point for devoted fans or mere students of the subject, but others may find something like this to be somewhat indulgent and exploitative. Marilyn, Elvis, James Dean, and John Wayne are probably a few who have had these kind of reference books written about them.

If you want to write a fictional work on Marilyn, find out all sorts of trivia on her, or just plain want to know about her, AND, you don't care that this came out in the late 1980's, this is a good place to start. Who knows, maybe you'll start feeling blonde all over.