HELLO, my name is JIll Dalfonso. And yes Deborah is my mother. I really think that this book is great. And not just because she's my mom. My mother spent hours and hours trying to make a plain manuscript into a miraculous book. My mother's other books have been used as teaching guides in other colledges. Ithink that this book is just prefect for this. It has every quality that teachers should look for. I believe that it is intersting for every age and type of reader! Thank You!!!

With some interesting revelations about the family of along-beloved Oz character, a nice explanation for why everyone thinksSanta lives at the North Pole when Baum said he lives in the Laughing Valley, and some interesting plot twists, this book is highly enjoyable. Recommended.

Christmas in the Midwest! the very best of all! From Chicago's Miracle Mile with its myriad of gaily colored lights and its blazing store windows - to the small midwest cities with their downtown lampposts festooned with evergreen and silvery tinsel - to the small towns with their Season's Greetings bannered across the intersection of Main and Elm Streets - to the farm scenes with strings of red and green bulbs entwined round the spindly legs of long-unused windmills and the picture window curtains drawn back to let the tree lights gleam out over the new fallen snow.

And Christmas Eve in little frame and brick churches with "readings" and songs by the children - a decorated tree and some rosy-faced neighbor in a Santa Claus costume - Christmas mornings with families round the tree and the gaily wrapped gifts with their promises waiting to be unwrapped.

And then go over the hill to Grandma's house where all the aunts, uncles and cousins gathered for a gala Christmas feast!

These are images and recollections that M idwesterners and exiled Midwesterners share. You will find these memories and more in the pages of Christmas in the Midwest. Here is a rich assortment in poem, picture, and story, all done by the best of midwest writers and artists such as, Hamlin Garland, Bess Streeter Aldrich, James Whitcomb Riley, John Muir, Marjorie Holmes, Paul Engle, Hartzell Spence, Phil Stong and Susan Allen Toth. They share stories about the Midwest's very first Christmases, Christmases of the pioneers, and Christmases in this changing twenty-first century. Wether the stories and poems are real or imagined, or mixtures of memory and "might-have-been," this collection is guaranteed to stir heartwarming memories of Christmas in the Midwest, and the spirit of the season everywhere.

Wingate here provides the results of years of detailed resarch about conversions in South India. He examines people's given reasons for their or their parents' conversion and looks at secondary sources on the subject while also taking into account the expressed views of those not directly concerned and the current social status of the people involved. Wingate walks the happy middle line in that he neither says that no one would convert to Christianity or Islam out of religious conviction (as the saffron historians would have us believe) nor does he say that socio-economic considerations had no part in most conversions. He provides an excellent analysis of the much-neglected area of reversion/reconversion and raises not a few ethical and logical questions. In all, a very good and remarkably nonbiased book.

If you are an undergraduate first introduced to surgery then this is the book for you, being a pocket book it's easy to carry on with you and it was designed to fit in the pocket of the white coat. You can find any subject you need quickly, thanks to the amazing sorting and design of this book so your navigation will be both easy and amusing. Full of illustrations of operations techniques, straight to the point text. And also hints about the clinical picture and investigations to be performed. If you are a student or a post graduate don't hesitate. This book will be much more helpful than you ever thought besides being a great value for money. Get it NOW.

I loved this book. Anyone who wants to see great pix of crop circles, this is as far as you need to go.

My four year old daughter and I both love this book. The illustrations are colorful, funny and genuine. The book's theme that everyone deserves to belong, be loved, and be recognized for their accomplishments is very timely teaching for my preschooler. This is one I'll keep to read with my grandchildren!

The American city, too, trembles on its foundations. The "polis" of poetry shakes in the winds of Post-"Post". Answers are coming from across the oceans--from Agha Shahid Ali, who writes de-unified poems which cohere through form and technique, from Bei Dao, from American poets like Fanny Howe, Michael Palmer, Jean Valentine, and Jorie Graham who flirt with, tease, and engage the intersection (or interstice?) where once disparate poetics (formalism, new formalism, language, feminist, elliptical, post-, etc) are meeting.

Not only meeting but dancing.

Now another collection comes into English (courtesy of H.L. Hix). Alisanka's (mostly) small poems hinge line by line, word by word. At no moment will you know where you are. There are no red arrows and no maps. This is you in the labyrinth of language. This is you fabulously lost.

These days when I ask unnecessary questions like "why this?" or "how to do it?" or "what next?" I have another set of answers to turn to.

These poems are beyond "metaphysical"--they are both immediately "physical" and immediately "meta" at once. Consider it another lexicography--better than that, consider it one of the solution pages, or a prescription to keep filling--

This book is a coffee table-sized paperback. Printing and binding are good quality.

The design of the book is such that it can be used as an on-site tour guide to Civil War St. Louis. Current directions, locations, and street names are given along with War era descriptions of the sites. Significant places are described--what existed then as well as what is on the site now. Also the burial locations of important people from both sides are given with biographical information about them.

Now, if you're not planning a trip to St. Louis, it's still good reading. I enjoyed the narrative style and found much useful information. It also helped put in geographical perspective places I'd been reading about. Lots of good photos and maps. It's a well-done book. Indexed and footnoted.

This book contains many tales by Hans Christean Anderson that entertain children of all ages. My children did a play about Hans Christean Anderson and after reading the book they love his stories even more. It is a wonderful book that brang enjoyment to my whole family! I recommend it for your kids as well!