The series certainly has gone downhill since the glory days. "The Case of the Silk King" is among the best CYOA ever produced.

I don't know if Shannon Gilligan ever wrote another CYOA book, but this one rivals Edward Packard. It loosely takes the real-life story of Jim Thompson, an American silk magnate who disappeared in Thailand, and has the reader pretend to be a young detective asked to track down Thompson years later.

There no real reason tendered for why so many people don't want you to discover the truth, but this minor quibble never distracts from the general quality of the book. It takes the hoary conventions of CYOA books -- especially the use of the exotic locale -- and plays them to the hilt. If I recall correctly (I'm nineteen...it has been years...), you can get killed off by everything from a Bengal tiger to a flash flood if you make the wrong choice.

This is rather unique in the series, in that it takes off on an actual historical happening. CYOA doesn't get any better than this.

(P.S. -- Check out my review of "Your Code Name is Jonah" -- another classic CYOA book. E-mail me...we can talk about the strange hold this series has on the imagination...)

"We may well be grateful to Brown for this book on the condition of mankind as it appears to an erudite, clear-sighted, critically appraisng scientist...the latest phase of technical-scientific progress, with its fantastic increase of population, has created a situation fraught with problems of hitherto unknown dimensions, this objective work is of high value." Also recommended by Supreme Court Justice William Douglas, this is an early and still highly valuable contribution to "future shock"-type planning and anticipation, hmmm, hum a few bars.

Every now and then a Collected Poems by an auhtor whom one has only read in small volumes makes one sit up and really listen. Such a book is CHANGES, Keith Harrison's New & Collected Poems, gathered from forty years writing in America, England and Australia (the author's birthplace). The book is so full and varied that it's hard to give a brief outline of its 15 sections. What I liked most of all is that no matter where I turned I found the poems accessible. He can write satires, tiny poems. monologues, songs, performance poems. translations, and much else. I can think of few contemporary poets who covers such a range and whose poems are so immediately appealing and memorable.
The new poems which can be found at the beginning and the end of the book, show no falling away from the standard he set hiself with his first book, Points in a Journey which came out almost forty years ago. In fact, he seems to get better now that he is in his seventh decade. I strongly recommend this book to anyone who has an ear for poetry. Like Frost or Wallace Stevens, it is a book to keep beside the bed, to be dipped into for a long time.

It was a way of seeing thru the eyes of a Child of the Sacred Heart. Being a male I would never be able to experience what it would be like to attend a Convent of the Sacred Heart School. Beautiful mansions around the world that serve as boarding schools. V.V. brings life to the Society of the Sacred Heart, the nuns who educated the elite women in society to become leaders of justice and human rights. Its an interesting journey she takes you on from the traditional "Convent of the Sacred Heart school" that she attended,to the modern experience of both students and Sisters today, which has updated it self to the point of no traditons, as in the early days. Gone are the nuns in the beautiful habit, now you dont know if your talking to a nun or a lay person. They seldom use their honored title of Sister, and long gone are the days when they were known as "Mothers" in these beautiful mansion schools that educated the wealthy elite. Very interesting journey for any former Catholic school child or those interested in what a bording school experience- run by nuns was like. Great pictures from her days at Torresdale, Pa Convent of the Sacred Heart, and of the Mothers of the Sacred Heart in the elegant Traditional habit to the modified habit of the 60's to no habits. Pictures of other Mansions used as Convent schools around the world like the famous New York City school. The book takes the reader from the origins of the order by foundress St. Madeline Sophie Barat to the coming of America.

I need the book before I can review it. It won't be available until May. I wouyld like to use it at Victor Valley College, Ca to teach Marine Chemistry. Can I get some type of copy? Thank You Professor Phrosene Chimiklis

My friend found this book laying on the bottom of the floor of the PX at his army base.He still isn't sure why he bought it but it saved my life.My son,Marcus,had just past away and I was having a really hard time with his passing.I couldn't find any reason to stay here.I was going to go be with my son.Untill this book!!Chris sent me the book,but it took me over two weeks to pick it up,once I did I never put it down. I cried so hard while reading it.It made me realize that he was fine and that It wasn't my fault.Now 10 years later after that night,I'm happily married and were trying for a baby.This book IS a life saver.THANK-YOU.

Since no one else has written about Clarel, I thought I'd be nice to Melville and congratulate him on his epic poem. Although the poetry itself isn't always brilliant, I felt that the general tone of melancholic spirituality was powerful. Essentially, to me, Clarel was about a young man questioning his world, and searching for meaning in a seemingly meaningless existence. The book parallels Melville's own travels in Jeruseleum, and with this work, we get a glimpse into Melville's interpretation of spirituality. Highly recommended, considering that it is overshadowed by that other Melville work (Moby Dick, of course!).

As someone who as taken 4 Shakespeare courses over the past 3 years, this book has really helped me out with research papers. Granville-Barker is widely-known as one of the best critics to look to for information on Shakespeare. This book proves that. It's a great resource for any student of Shakespeare. If you can find a copy, buy it immediately! There's a reason it's out of print!

Juicy and fresh insights show a whole new realm of Nature where we all live in an ocean of interwoven continua. Parasitic memes swim through that ocean looking for bubbles of vacuum toward which they are sucked. They become those bubbles' occupants, from where they replicate to fill that part of the ocean that's in our minds, and learn to steer and control the body to which each mind belongs. The author starts with his new defense of evolution as the first cause of creation, and as a necessary ingredient of a complete understanding of the relationship between energy and time, with evolution as a necessary component of energy, and time as the impetus.
An extremely advanced thinker flies in the face of science, religion, and common conceptions to take off in a new direction with this subject. If you haven't read this book, and its companion Reality 101 ISBN 0-595-21834-2, you have not yet seen a full understanding of all the meanings of memetics, and have yet to learn all that it implies. The book is controversial to the extreme, yet practical and utilitarian in application.
I recommend also to read The Mad Poet Does Science, which can only be purchased directly from this author at lloydwhitling.com because it is self-published.

Harrision & Steven have prsented a written format with regard academic digital networking. They present issuse's such as, developmental policy, virtual classrom and electronic journals, to name a few. This is a must read/study for all graduate students persuing DE.