For a short book (177 pages) it sure contains a lot of action. So many unexpected events that I never even dreamed would happen.
This book made me really think about my children and what is really going on around the local schools. I now look around when I drive by a school or Recreational center and parks, just wondering if any of the people hanging around could be a drug dealer. I am also wondering if my child or my friends children know these kinds of people. I pray they don't!
I also understand there is a music CD that goes with this book, if anyone knows how to get this I would love to find out.
I am also happy to see Mr Wolford dedicated this book to the actor Carroll O'Connor, who tried to fight the drug problem.

When I was researching my thesis at Vanderbilt on O'Connor, Thomas Daniel Young, my advisor, recommended this book as the best book on O'Connor, and I can think of no better authority than Dr. Young. It was invaluable to my understanding of her work.

This is one of the best books my five year old daughter and I have ever read. We first got it out of the library, but I just ordered it because it's a book I know we'll re-read hundreds of times. Everybody knows the Grimm's story: twelve princesses escape every night to go dancing. Their father, the king, doesn't know where they go, only that that in the morning their dancing shoes are in tatters. He offers the hand of one of his daughers in marriage to any suitor who can discover their secrets.Many try, and finally one succeeds. There are two wonderful things about this version. One is that it's clear at the end of the book that the daughter who is chosen doesn't marry the man who figured out their secret. She chooses him „ and plans to keep right on dancing after she gets married! The second great thing about this book is the illustrations, which are so beautiful, you just want to look at them again and again. More important, the princesses are all beautiful, but in exotic and interesting ways. No one size fits all Disneyesque beauties here. Each face is unique. One even wears glasses! Terrific book.

Twentieth-Century American Architecture: The Buildings And Their Makers surveys the major figures, influential movements, and landmark buildings that have identified and defined the American architecture over the past century. Carter Wiseman's informative text is enhanced with photographs as he focuses on the architects whose personalities and abilities indelibly influenced architectural progress. These figures range from Louis Sullivan Frank Lloyd Wright, and Philip Johnson, to I.M. Pei, Robert Venturi, and Louis Kahan. Twentieth-Century American Architecture is an impressive, authoritative, narrative history that is "must" reading for students of architecture, and highly recommended, accessible reading for the non-specialist general reader with an interest in the development of American architectural trends and the men behind them.

This book presents beautiful specimens of the best typefamilies. Each section (Bodoni, Stone, Gill Sans, Garamond, etc.) opens with an experimental composition by a renowned grapphic designers such as Paula Scher, Louise Fili, Paul Rand, and Wolfgang Weingart. The authors' concise write-up on each typefamily provides the history and discusses its character and usage.

I cannot BELIEVE this is being re-released!! I've been searching for a copy of this book for every bit of fifteen years. This is the book responsible for awakening me to a lifelong appreciation of science fiction. It's on a par with the likes of the Barsoom books...Dune...the works of Isaac Asimov and Ray Bradbury. Many new science fiction writers flood the market these days, but virtually none of them can touch the sheer READABILITY and utter creativity of the Green Star story. It's a must-read. How exciting to see it's going to be available to readers again. I will be in LINE to buy this book. If you haven't read it...GO, GO, GO!! It's a wild, wonderful, fascinating read! Thank you so much, Mr. Carter, for giving such a wonderful world to me as a child....you opened the door of imagination in my mind and I've never allowed it to close since. Again, thank you!

This is a translation of 208 poems by Shotetsu, one of the greats of poetry from Japan's medival period (Muromachi, to be precise). The translator looked to pick up a cross-section of Shotetsu's poetry from across his life, and has picked up a good representative sample from what remains of the tens (hundreds?) of thousands of poems Shotetsu is said to have composed. The method for translation is not the standard, in order to bring out the "stops and pauses" in the original poems, but despite whether this was a success or not its nice to see someone trying something new. The footnotes and appendixes are full of usefull info and references, making this a nice book for someone looking to get started in Japanese poetry.

John Dickson Carr, who wrote also under the name Carter Dickson (as he did The Unicorn Murders) raised ingenuity to the level of genius, as Kingsley Amis once put it in an essy of the genre. Carr, with apologies to Christie and Queen, was, as to constructing a puzzling whodunnit, in a class by himself, a man without peer.

Whether his detective was Gideon Fell (in those mysteries he wrote under his own name of Carr) or Sir Henry Merrivale (Carter Dickson), he was the supreme master of the classic detective story, and The Unicorn Murders is Carter Dickson at his best.

He was adept at creating atmosphere and was expert at both high and low humor (See The Arabian Night's Murders), and he could pace a story with suspense like no one else (I defy anyone to read the first chapter of The Burning Court and say in all honesty he is not compelled to continue), but what he did that nobody achieved to the extent he did was write stories that dealt with impossible murders--either locked room or miracle murders that would later be reveled to have a rational explanation.

At his best, Carr/Dickson was so good that he usually had some other other characters give an explantion that sounded entirely plausible before Fell or H.M. shot it down and gave the real explanation. These wrong solutions would have been lesser writers meat and drink. Read the stuff in the '30's and '40's.

He also wrote a history in detective story fashion in the '30's, The Murder of Sir Edmund Godfrey, that is a masterpiece. Great history and great detection.

I came across the original edition of this fine book in the Cal Poly SLO library while doing other research, and knew I had to have it, so I got a used copy through abebooks.com. If you're anywhere nearly as obsessed with typography as I am, then you'll be happy to hear it's back in print again.

The text is very good (and much more scholarly than, say, Jan Tschichold's treatement of the field), but what makes the book truly magnificent are the beautiful specimen sheets. You'll find all the usual ones, including Gutenberg's bibles, Conrad Berner's classic Garamond sheet, and Bembo's De Aetna, but also some rare and illuminating ones, such as the Le Be that graces the cover of this reprint. Assuming Princeton Architectural Press hasn't to screw up the reproductions, you'll find this edition to be one of the most prized in your typography collection.

This was an awesome book, with many accurate pictures for this rising star. The book is very imformative.